Spittin' Chiclets Episode 622: Featuring Kevin Bieksa, T.J. Oshie & Seth Jarvis' Friends

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gold medal with with the women's team so and very cool that like hillary knight becomes the the uh the all-time leading goal scorer uh for in women's for the olympics for for u.s for oh i yeah okay i thought it was uh i thought it was all time but i think that was all u.s women with her 15th goal tying it up and we were talking about the gold medal for the women's team and talking about how much how entertaining that hockey's been right and what was crazy is that i think they played a they play series against each other right like leading up and in one of them like u.s just trounced them and then we saw the round robin game where even you were like wow i think this is just the torch has completely been passed and then it was the perfect game plan and game play by canada throughout the entire game i mean they get a shorthanded goal on a beautiful beautiful uh individual move it was a two-on-one game and then they got a short-handed goal on a two-on-one and unfortunately there was a really kind of tough back check was it leila edwards on the back check there and she kind of had she had nothing left she had nothing left in the tank but they score that goal well what does she do she's on the ice when the goalie's pulled puts the perfect snapshot through and hillary knight tips it between her legs ties it up we go to ot and then chances back and forth yeah but oh my god was the the goal by keller just beautiful how about the back check on the breakaway oh i forgot about that the back check on the breakway at the beginning of overtime i don't remember who made that back check it was the girl who made that pass it was similar to taves on nature's college in the in the canada versus chechia game very similar but a little bit more of a strip i think he just still got a bit of a shot off i think canadians were a little upset because it was almost a kind of a stick lift slash at the hands i think when you let them play yeah let them play i agree i like that i respect that i actually thought the canadians got away with a few in regulation as far as what the calls were and i felt like hey i'm not going to let them play i'm not going to let them play i'm not going to let them play you know at that point you know i think we we'd seen enough i'd rather just it it let the ref stay out of the way and just let the girls figure it out but uh uh des bien the goaltender for canada she had an incredible game a lot of amazing saves i thought stacy number seven for canada was absolutely incredible probably blocking shots blocking shots she looked like one of their fastest players classic yeah yeah she was she would block one with her hand but uh yeah man it was it was a great great entertaining game and those are the two leading nations as far as the women are concerned and i think it was a great game and i think it was a great game and i think you're concerned and uh what else can you do man it's a kick in the dick for me but wait it's your 43rd birthday and um thank you thank you first of all happy birthday thank you very much i'm happy that you got the win on on your special day hey can we talk about two um the goaltend both goaltendings were incredible um but usa had a younger team right there in the first game they blow the doors off of canada and it just shows you how much having vets around can keep you in a game like that where on paper they're probably a better team usa being the better team but they take them to overtime shout out to all the ladies on the canadian team hard fought game it's just incredible but you're right keith in terms of like you get to the gold medal game and that's where the veterans and the leaders and the girls who've been there before and the game biz it was you you were saying an army was texting the group like this is exactly what they had to do you could not get to the front of the net against canada no they packed it in and they had a great forecheck and they had great backtracking and it was like oh my god are they gonna get shut out the u.s women but they stuck with it i heard they called ken danico and were like hey how do we shut this team down wesley and glenn wellesley yeah and and they did it they did a great job whatever they changed up shout out to their well they had mary phillip poulain in the lineup right to their captain and that'll calm things down but uh going back to the gameplay uh i would assume the strategy for canada is you know usa was bringing it i thought that the little plays they made in the defensive zone breaking out were unbelievable a lot of reverses and a lot of those like short little plays to the middle that you know they're not these big fancy you know stretch passes or whatever just great center support and i really think for for a lot of that game it was frustrating the u.s because they really couldn't keep the puck in the ozone they'd get it there they'd be forechecking but canada would find a way to get the thing out but no sustained pressure but ultimately i did think in that third period canada kind of kept hanging back a little too much and i think that's the thing that's the thing that's the thing that's and then you know eventually they get that big ozone draw win and then leila edwards over to hillary knight beautiful tip and good night that wasn't even off i was gonna bring it wasn't the it wasn't a face-off it was wasn't it off of a um a dump and it was the retrieval right so when you pull the goalie like i don't think people that didn't play notice how big the retrieval is of getting two to three in this case girls on the puck and then getting it off the wall because the longer the defensive team can keep it on the wall it's just that the clock's ticking away but they were able to get set up and then you were able to see d to d and the shot gets through but it was a great game i could have sworn it was after the the timeout that they called and uh they went to the benches and then they won that okay well maybe i'm wrong but i'm the winner so i'm not really that wrong and it's my birthday so we got a legend it's my birthday i can cry if i want but it's tears of joy today it's tears of joy so i hope moving forward one thing as good as the girls are getting somehow some way to to get some other countries that can compete yeah and it's it's amazing every year you know you got us canada gold medal game in the women's olympics but if you could get finland sweden to reach a different level i i read something that sweden after it might have been the 06 olympics they lost a lot of funding to their women's program because of um their performance and whoever was doing the funding didn't think that they were playing well enough to be earning or having this money go to swedish women's hockey and they were back in the semi-finals for the first time this year so you know what i'm saying you just want you want more countries to be good i mean we were saying it on the men's side and they got way more competitive teams but uh definitely need more funding there and and that was just great entertainment i think they're gonna have some uh money to give to the women's team when they fire the coach for teams oh that's right yeah yeah oh my god we'll get into that and so yeah so kind of an action-packed episode here for you we we had a lot of fun talking to juice so he's gonna come back on with us and go over canada go over their game talk about the semi-final game against finland oh she's been asking to come back on he's been calling out biz he says i want to get back on so he's gonna come on talk about us their big win against sweden and preview their game against slovakia and um who else i think we got jarvis's buddies so the maniacs the winnipeg maniacs are there and they drove in the winnebago they okay they did right yeah that's that's exactly they got a floating one um that they only make in winnipeg so we're gonna have those guys on soon um we've had a great week so far unreal so uh we've had three sandbags we've had a lot to do down here we landed here sunday yep we did the show we did we did the show together and then monday Do we kick things off with the Toronto Blue Jays? Yeah, so Ernie Clement, who we had. Schneider. Yeah, Davis Schneider, and we had Nathan Lucas. So awesome, guys. And this one got intense, to say the least. Lucky enough, the next day to drive to the Copperhead course, where they play the Valspar tournament, I think in about a month, PGA. We had the course to ourselves. It was crazy. Against John Gruden, teamed up with Patrick Maroon and Ryan McDonough. So five Stanley Cup rings and a Super Bowl ring for Gruden. Gruden, what you're hoping you might see from him, it exceeds it. I think if you could pay to have somebody be around you, I would give every single dollar I've ever made to have him around me from the time I got up. Not the time he got up, because I don't think he sleeps. But imagine just waking up and that guy just pissing vinegar all day. I bet there's not a dull moment in that guy's. His wife must be an absolute saint. He said she is. She's a ballroom dancer, too. He's like, you know that, man? I don't have any good moves, though, man. I'm a football guy, man. So I was interested going into that one. He's in the corner by the punch, working on the snap count. No, he says he just goes over the tape of her. He's like, click your feet here, man. Not good enough. Come on, man. She's like, I'm your wife. Should have gave her the windmill there. Escape the pressure. Is he the most as-advertised guy who is not trying to be anybody else? It's just. Him to an absolute core. And what a treat that guy. I wish that round was 19 hours long. Yep. And then we came to the East Coast, came right over here that night because we had a third one. Now, this one created some pissed off people. I should land on this grenade. I can. Yeah. Well, explain kind of what went down. Well, it's hard because we do these sandbaggers. And when we don't come out with sandbaggers, we have a lot of our fan base. When the fuck you guys doing sandbaggers? When you doing sandbaggers? Well, you guys have live. You guys have lives and wives and kids. And when we get together, we have to, you know, bank a bunch of them. So, this was planned probably about six weeks ago. Jans was kind enough to call out to his very nice course that he's a member at. And we scheduled the day. We scheduled the tee time. And we scheduled the people that we're going to play against. Bob does. They have busy schedules as well. So, the time that we could get the course was 11 o'clock. And it would probably be about a four-hour round, around to about 3 to 3.30. Well, it turns out it's when Canada's playing its quarterfinal matchup. And. Listen, we heard all you guys complaining, even though we were watching the overtime goal on our phones. Because you can watch hockey on your phones now. I don't know if you guys at home know that. Did I watch every minute? No, not while the game was going on. I watched the game last night. And then I watched again this morning at breakfast to see the entire. You actually have seen the game more than everyone who was watching live. Because you've watched it twice now. So, that and also you're not worried about live tweeting and kind of interacting with fans. So, any question that any fan would want to ask me about the game. I could break it down. I could tell you exactly who played the best, who I was most impressed with. The swings of the game. I know that the coach for Chechia was complaining about officiating after the game. I actually thought that Czech probably got away with more throughout that game. Do I think they had a couple soft ones called against them? Absolutely. I didn't like the Gudis one. I didn't like the one where everybody was cross-checking each other. McKinnon ended up scoring on that one in the corner. And then they ended up taking only the Czech player. I believe it was Michael. Is it Michael Kempi? Yeah. Yeah, Michael Kempi. I thought that that was a soft one. But then again, they missed a bad interference one on Crosby that we watched over and over. Yeah, that was insane. Before the injury. Before the injury, not the Gudis one. What was the other one they missed? They missed the high stick to Hegel. And, of course, the infamous six players on the ice for that goal. Now, we'll dive into the whole game. But going back to it, yeah. If you're disappointed in me and you want to keep ragging me online because I didn't watch live, I really think you need to get a fucking life. Don't Canadians only care about. Don't Canadians only care about gold medal games? The bronze you don't even. That's the other thing, too. So, like, we have a lot of jobs. We have a lot of things we do. They're like, oh, you guys knew about the game in advance. It's like, well, I was kind of the one that had to bite the bullet there because my team was playing. And the U.S. has constantly got the late games in this tournament. Yeah, like, if I can defend you for a minute, we knew, yeah, oh, shit, that's quarterfinal day. But today we had the podcast and we had the women's gold medal. So, it's like, all right, well, we can't really do the sandbagger on Thursday. The course couldn't even do it. So, oh, shit, we get the quarterfinals. And then we're kind of hoping at that point that if we're teeing off at 10, 30, 11, it's Finland. It's not Canada or U.S. You ended up being on the short end of that. Whatever, buddy, I could fucking take it. I get abused by you guys every show. And then on top of that, in order to get Bob Does, we have to return the favor. So, we're actually golfing Saturday for their channel. So, we're busy boys down here. We just banked an interview with Jeff O'Neill, one of our white whales. Once again, man, I don't really give a flying fuck about that. I don't care about the quarterfinals, even though it was an incredible game. I care about gold medals, and that's what we do. That's what we do. You guys are going to love Jeff O'Neill. I mean, he is exactly. And I think I told him about seven years now. People have been just saying, where's O-Dog? Can you get O-Dog? And he was great. So, everyone, I think you're going to love that one. I think James Duffy opened up the floodgates for that, though. I mean, he was electric on our pod. And I think we'd had him on even before that. And we fulfilled his birthday wish, which was, you know, one of the best reactions. Yeah, we'll save that one for you guys. And then for USA, which we'll get into with Osh, Quinn Hughes is not of this earth. He's not from this planet. He looks like he bags groceries. This guy's fucking dominating the hockey world. Every game, I think he played eight more minutes than the next defenseman on Team USA. So, he is the clear-cut number one there. Whenever he's on the ice, it seems like he has the puck. And his escapability and his skating, that goal was just so beautiful after creating. All these chances. He's tied for the team lead in scoring with, I think, Austin Matthews and him both have six points. And it's just been so cool to see what he's been able to do. And, you know, you kind of appreciate, like, wow, like, if they had him last year, maybe that game goes different. Obviously, I don't know. And hopefully, we get to see these two teams playing on Sunday in the gold medal game. But he has been a treat to watch. And that goal, that was nerve-wracking, man. This three-on-three overtime, whether it was the women today, whether it was Finland-Swiss, Canada-Japan, and then America deals with three of the four men's quarters go to three-on-three overtime. And it is a panic. Finland was down 2-0 with six minutes left against the Swiss. So a remarkable comeback. The big dogs getting it done in that one without Barkov in the lineup. You got Sebastian Ajo, Miro Haskin, and then Leckanen, the fucking puck hound. The puck hound mutant getting it done in overtime for them. But I think to summarize that whole day of hockey, you just have to look at Elliott Friedman's post. And it went down. It wasn't even any words spoken. It was a picture of him holding a cigarette. Yep. We had a lot of cigarettes this week. But certainly not as stressful as that situation for him. But a very funny tweet that ended up going viral. But should we just dive into the Canada game now? Okay, we're actually going to send this bad boy to Kevin Bieksa right now. Let's do it. Boom. And here he is, guys. Two in a row. So lucky to be joined again. Juice. Kevin Bieksa. He is in Milan. And oh my God, since we talked, has a lot happened, buddy. What a hockey game yesterday between the Czechias and Canada. And Juice, I have to say, I've had quite a few women DM me say, you need to make this guy a regular because they just think you're the most handsome man on the planet. They think you're the most handsome man on the planet. Don't even start. Don't even fuck. You're a large DMs, you? Why would you say that? You motherfucker. You, you're not, hey, don't worry. At least my sister's not. Your name's not Paul. My only question is, have you found a wine opener? Oh, oh shit. Candle is bringing home the gold. He took it from Jarvis's buddies. I was peer pressured into buying this. I went to the supermarket yesterday and I found one and it was, I think this was the only one in there. It was 15 euros. So that's like a hundred dollars Canadian biz, a hundred Canadian. And I bought it just so I could have one. I haven't used it yet, but I, at least I have my own corkscrew. You should charge a dollar every time somebody wants it. If you want to use it, you can make your money back. That's how biz sold his Abercrombie used just like that. Hey, hey, juice. Did you ever think that Elliot's cigarette tweet would go that viral? What a move. Great call by him post game. It was a, it was a great comment. And, uh, yeah, like he, and he loves that stuff too. Right. When it lives on forever. And he likes, he likes saying things that get a, sometimes a negative reaction. Like he is the least sensitive guy. Like when he says something, he'll react. He'll read the comments. And when someone actually carves him in the comments, he'll like laugh and he'll actually like it. He'll like somebody will be legitimately like making fun of them and he'll like the comment. So, but then he got like the positive stuff. Like it was a great comment. I think that's how, that's how everybody was feeling after that game. Like we, we came on after the game and Elliot's like, what a great game. I go, no, that was not a, nobody, nobody in Canada was like loving that game. It was like stressful and anxiety and nobody, nobody thought. I was going to be close, let alone three, two with seven minutes left. So, you know, although it took 14 checks on the ice to score the goal. So did you notice it? Did you see it live? No guys. No, nobody, nobody saw it. And there's a lot of really smart, intelligent hockey people and people on the TV technical side. The one thing is from like a TV standpoint is we just have the one universal feed. I feel like if it happened in hockey night in Canada or like when we have, if we had our own truck there, And we had all the different looks we would catch it but no no word of a lie until it came up on on twitter and instagram after nobody knew i walked by probably 20 minutes after the game i walked by gudis and a bunch of the checks and and some of the guys that i played with a guy on the team akasha and uh just talking to them they were obviously really down but said hey you guys played unbelievable but then we showed them like hey did you know you had six guys on the ice when you scored and they're like putting their head up to the phone like what what what like 20 minutes after the game they had no idea like that's how i flew uh under the radar even the way like the the like the what do you call it the lens like scan through it was hard to catch it and on top of that the checks have the red pants and the red shoulders and kind of the way they're skating hunched over it was just so much red so i feel like it was just hard to catch unless you like freeze the frame when the five guys were in it and then as soon as it panned there was only five guys in the frame like i again but obviously the one popped off the right side so you could clearly see it was six and then on top of that there were seven guys in the goal pile like they had seven it was like usa 1980 when the whole bench it was like they sent another guy out there to really confuse them like oh there's no way there were seven guys on the ice yeah like the seven in a pile i think if you're in that pile as a player you don't really should know yeah but you don't think like you're like oh maybe somebody was about to change that came off you know the plus minus thing and there's more people in the but uh like it's wild that nobody nobody really knew on the bench afterwards too like the guy who jumped off i don't know if it was pull out or not but the guy who jumped on you even think he really knew like it feels like nobody knew it was just a big oversight and it's i said earlier uh it's shocking that like coaches and players know it's like immediately usually like the whole bench starts flipping out six six six and like like like you said it was just one of those times that it flew under the radar and they actually fucking scored on it but uh i'm wondering what you what what did checks do so well to to make that that close of a game like what did you see in terms of their effort and shutting down this this offense that looked like unstoppable do you feel like they held the red line and the blue line really well early yeah they did um like like gudas jumped up and intercepted a couple passes and they did all the technical stuff that you try to do against the tight gap hold the blue line congest the neutral zone but i don't know like like canada scored that first the celebrating eagle it felt like it was going to be another romp but i don't know canada just didn't didn't quite execute the way they did the first three games like the way we saw them move the puck and fly through the neutral zone and i don't know if there was like some more nerve from the canadians it seemed like but they were they bobbled a couple pucks like mccarr ice the pot mccarr was great you know and he played 20 minutes and he was like oh my god i'm gonna win this game 26 minutes but he iced the puck early i remember thinking like wow like they're just they're just a little bit off and then it seemed like the czechs kind of their confidence grew and they saw canada was a little off they played a little harder they played a little tighter and uh you know the longer that game goes the more doubt there's going to be in canada right like they wanted it to be kind of a nice smooth easy game and then crosby goes down you know mckinnon's not mckinnon's not right like he's just not moving the right way he's not doing cutbacks so that kind of you know crept crept up a little bit and then the lines go in a blender i don't know if you guys were watching like i felt like i was so fascinated with the line the line uh decisions that cooper was making just to like what do you do he basically went three centers the rest of the game when sid went down he didn't even try to move a guy at the center like there was one shift with marshan wilson and i think hagel out there where there was not an actual centerman but for the rest of the game he played three centermen i guess we could probably go to suzuki i was pretty impressed with the game went the way he wasn't playing a ton uh he ends up missing that pretty much open net but then that third period after crosby had gone down like they start rolling him out there and that play he makes on on the tying goal like he had a few guys behind him changing and he said he realized that like that was probably a play a lot of guys might dump in going like one verse two he ends up fucking dumping it in going to get that own dumping and then end up being the uh the tip in front so how impressed were you by him and his ability to all of a sudden hop in and he's right in that one of the three centerman role i i just think when you watch him play the the people that wanted to push for him to be on the team watch him play center and watch them have a great start to the season at center and then you get him here and some guys can transition and play the wing and it's okay but he played on the wing with mckinnon and he never looked comfortable on the wing and he's just one of those guys maybe that he he can only play center he's got to be in the middle of the ice he doesn't love the wall for some of those like little board plays he's good down the middle of the ice he's got to be in the middle of the ice he's got to be in the middle low defending and as soon as he got to center his game just took off like that play on the goal it wasn't like anything special but it was it just shows you how hard he is on the puck how high percentage he is yet you're right he had two guys changing biz and in my like in his head i'm thinking he just wants to dump it in put a little token pressure yeah maybe get the puck back and then just buy some time for the other two new guys to come in then he's going to finish the change but he did such a good job rigging the puck that he kind of got possession and then once you know they get full time he's going to be in the middle of the ice and he's going to be in the full possession he's like oh i'm just going to go to the net quickly and then the beautiful tip so kind of like a showcase of like his hockey sense his iq how hard on the puck he was but now he goes from the guy like everybody was talking about him not being in the lineup i said it to you on sunday night yeah you guys said it like like most of canada was like oh he's the guy that's coming out for sure and then look how he turns into the hero yeah i thought it was cool too he ended up missing that empty net he hit the inside of the post like the inside of the far post and then coming off the end of the post he hit the inside of the post he hit the inside of the post and then coming off the second intermission i think i heard sid went in after he got undressed and and kind of did a speech or a little um pick up you guys might want to you might investigate a little bit there or whatever but i'm sure that helped i think guys like dowdy were really good at just keeping it light because you could tell there was some tension and and when they scored to tie the game like uh we're we're our panel is all the parents for whatever reason were were sat below us so you necessarily joy it was like oh thank god thank god we're back to a tie game and then when they scored the ot goal obviously like the celebration started but i don't know is that is this a good thing like in the in the tournament is scared like yeah if they if they romp the checks they get the fins they're not really that afraid of the fans and who knows that the fins were the team that upset now you're worried if you're a canadian if you're like wow we're not as good as maybe we thought like we got we can't win this game if we don't play our a game oh and the way that like the checks rallied together like i mean the the prime uh the prime suspect i just thought gudas like he was a fucking mutant that was the game of his life no like he must have killed six or seven guys he makes that play jumps up intercepts the pass that stone tries to throw cross ice and then he sets it up in the offensive zone like not to say it was planned but you know he gets that stick on and on sid ends up fucking that going down i felt that the game got a lot better than it actually went down like where all that cross checking was going down in the corner did you notice that yeah yeah i did i i gudas back to gudas is a gamer like uh when i you guys know when i got into the fight with him and it was kind of one of my like my superman punches that landed and after that fight a lot of guys in the league reached out to me that i didn't know and they were like great like thank god you finally got him thank god you finally got him because like his rep was always like he's he's a little bit dirty he's a little bit on the edge he's a little but then when you get to know him and you get to like talk to his teammates he's an actually an unbelievable guy like one of the best team at the ball time oh i like when he first got to anaheim yens i went out with him and another mutual friend for like a glass of wine and it's like instant it's no we're at a restaurant with multiple corkscrews so we had it's like instant when you know you like a guy it's like instant and now i see him all the time you know we were out for dinner just before the olympics he's an unbelievable guy and then you see how he plays he's a gamer he's gonna play hard you know that but they almost needed a guy like him to if they were gonna upset canada and they almost did it and one of the best family men i've ever played with too just an unbelievable dad but i wanted to ask you is in with you know all the talk about coming into into the tournament with the goaltending in bennington they get a breakaway at the you know net just gets a breakaway is there any guy in the league that you would want back there more than bennington because to me it just feels like he's one of those guys he's like give me this fucking breakaway like i want this i want to make this save yeah i think his attitude is a big reason why he's the starting goaltender for this team because his numbers aren't good he hasn't had a great season i you know i mentioned before he came to the tournament he hadn't won he's won one game in regulation since december 8th like he he was as ice cold as you get and then you hear john cooper after the first game oh he's been my starter 365 days, like I'd never even considered him not, because of his attitude because he has that that fu attitude he's like bring it on challenge me again he's been super contained uh emotionally this tournament if you guys notice he hasn't lost his cool guys bump him he's fine but man he's like he's turning kind of into the the mvp a little bit of the team where again another guy that everyone was questioning like is it thompson like thompson's a better goalie this year who knows about kemper maybe kemper and there's so many questions our whole pre-game show for the first game was about the goaltending and i'm like guys enough with the goaltending like we talk about goaltending so much like who cares right like who cares it's canada they're gonna outscore every team and now like i'm kind of regretting those words like the binnington decision might have been the one thing that gets them to the finals i was kind of gutted uh not only for sid but for canada and i i thought of the penguins right away i was like oh my god like you know not knowing how severe it was like all the season they're having but and even then the picture comes out after his dad's standing up kind of horrified his mom's got her her hand over her face just like oh my god like he's never he's never heard he's just like robocop and i don't know if you're hearing anything i don't know if any of the guys like after i know doughty spoke um it was pretty good actually talking about what he means to the country and all those guys but you know how tough was that for you to see and are you hearing anything yeah it sucks to see because you know i've said from the beginning of the tournament i want to just because i want to see the best on best and i want to see crosby in that game like i want to see the best players in the world play against each other and see see who wins um you know like i'm hearing a little bit here i think he's going to try to play i don't know if he's going to be able to but i think he's gonna he's gonna try so i think everyone who's seen the injury can kind of you know guess what they think it is and um and then guess you know like how hard it is to play with what he probably has and i think it's going to be a lot of fun i think it's going to be a lot of fun i think he's going to try i don't know like it might be one of those things where maybe he wakes up in the morning tomorrow and sees how he feels maybe he takes warm up and then you just see like i had a game once uh my first uh year in the playoffs it was game seven uh we were playing the dallas stars and in the game before i was shooting a puck out on the penalty kill and a player put a stick in the way and i shot through a stick and i tore three muscles in my abdominal i left that game and then we went back to vancouver for game seven and in the warm-up i got you know seven needles of tortle in my abdominal and like it didn't work it just froze my abdominal but didn't help that and before the game vino comes up to me and says um are you gonna play and i go yeah i'm in and he goes if you play the game though you better finish the game like i can't leave after one period and and in warm-up guys i couldn't even shoot the puck i could only flick it i couldn't rotate my torso and he goes so make this decision i was i'd rather play rory fitzpatrick we can't finish the game we can't play this game with 5d and i lied right through my teeth and i'm like i'm good i will finish this game in my head i'm like i got five shifts what'd you end up playing i've 27 minutes well well then yeah then sammy sallow got hurt we only had 5d and honestly guys i couldn't shoot the puck i just survived i flicked the puck out probably ended up playing like 20 minutes was that was that the series that game one went to triple overtime quadruple overtime yeah buddy hey that's a big reason why i think that i got my uh first night at tsn and i i said oh i hope uh whoever was down three two i hope they tie it up and bob mckenzie goes you shut your fucking mouth you know i didn't know the rules you learn that media quick right do not cheer for overtime yeah um if um if noel crosby um we always talk about the passing of the torch uh throughout that game like mcdavid was easily the most noticeable guy on the ice i think he set up like six or seven great a's he ended up having seven shots on net so i mean he's obviously taking things to another level and i would imagine that he's fucking gonna take it to an even bigger notch sorry to add on that coop said that if sid doesn't play they're gonna put the c on someone else i was kind of interested like surprised by that were you yeah i mean i don't know about do you think that from frank was that from frank cerebelli i think it's an olympic rule that you have to have a captain oh okay all right all right would you could you could you see them as putting the extra guy on the bench just being sid just there with the c a lot of respect but then you keep you keep it you give it to mcdavid i would think you give him the c and well how about this and i've had some people mention this like i thought naturally without sid you put you keep suzuki there with his line you have for that play center another one you have bennett come in as a centerman but somebody's like would you put celebrating at center now like he's he's playing well enough he might be able to carry his own line do you think about putting celebrating at center i would more just try to keep the chemistry between those top guys because they're like almost the guarantee line um between those two especially the way like celebrate that goal like the way that he kind of just like pushes it and how he gets it off so quick like i feel like these guys are doing things so much more different now just what a remarkable player um who were who were like the most other noticeable guys for uh i thought net just was unbelievable it was incredible he is so fast it's crazy natures is good he i thought he started the tournament a little bit slower too he actually started on a line with posture knock and it just didn't work and then he kind of got going um he seemed like yeah he was good gutis was good obviously for canada though like you're right connor's line was the only line that consistently created chances after that it was like after sid got hurt you didn't see stone and marner for eight minutes i didn't notice like i'm not trying to even knock on the guy like throughout the full 60 minutes there wasn't one time i 'm like oh marner just like made a really good play where they generated a chance but hey man big players come up with big moments and that three on three like him going one on three and getting that much leverage off that backhand and originally you thought and how do i pronounce the dostal yeah i i thought it was i thought he kind of had a bad angle on it but it re-watching it was just the perfect shot it was perfect backhand uh juice yeah he uh so when they came on everyone's like you know in between periods oh who are they going to start they got to start again and mcdavid and mccarr so they do and then it's funny and now it's like okay who's next because a lot of guys didn't play a lot because they really shortened the bench to kind of get to where it was so you know when when a guy's been sitting on the bench for like three quarters of the third period or even half the third period they're cold and you almost as a coach you kind of lose them you're like i don't really want to put him out now in this situation if he hasn't played in 30 minutes of real time so you start looking at the guys who you know are still on a easy one and then cassie campbell goes marner marner and celebrini would be good so they go out next with harley so now like i'm watching celebrini come off the bench and i'm like okay 19 year old kid overtime like tons of pressure like canada's in one and what does he do he skates off the bench and harley has the puck behind he skates right down and basically takes the puck off of harley give me the puck i'm 19 i'm gonna make some he skates up weaves his way through to marner and then marner does the rest but like celebrity just continues to to amaze you man like so that's so that's the reason why you would consider breaking them up because right now you just feel like he's the attitude where like i'm a dog i'm an alpha dog i'm going to drive my own my own my own play and and you would be willing to separate them in order to do that i'm just considering it i and it wasn't my idea it was somebody else's and originally i bought i barked back i'm like stupidest thing i've ever heard and then because it was probably my idea and then now i'm i'm starting to consider it i'm like well the center position is pretty important and you need a sentiment to drive the line and celebrating he's hounding the puck right now and i think he can handle it he's telling you about blowing cigarette smoke in your face but even we talked to oshi earlier and he said what you said like he's demanding the puck out there he wants it every shift like that's the type of guy for that young of a player like you don't see that that often like do you do you notice guys are even looking for him or he's just demanding it he's uh i i noticed the opposite i noticed guys that are kind of like when the games get big and there's and some guys i don't know everyone's different but some guys in their head they're like i don't want to be the guy that messes up and the guys are like kind of two touching pucks maybe and like they're a little bit nervous a little bit jittery with the puck and the two guys that haven't been or three guys i would say are mccarr mckinnon or sorry mccarr mcdavid and celebrini like those three guys have continued to have that mentality like i'm gonna go get the puck like it's like the michael jordan mentality like i want to be the guy that misses like i'll be if i miss that's fine but i'm taking the shot like i'm not even gonna hesitate i want this shot and all three of those guys have that mentality so when the rest of the team is kind of like a little nervous those three guys are just still bull by the horns i thought it was a pretty well officiated game um like where maybe there was a few mistakes on on both sides for the officials i don't know if i read wrong i feel like the the chechia coach came and said we felt like we were playing against another player out there like it was six on five kind of ironic that they scored a goal they have six guys out there but is that quote true that he said that and what did you feel about the officiating through that game i i'm not a big blame the referees guy me neither but i consider it like human error you know like if some games yeah they make some bad calls but that's like human error and that's part of the game i thought the campney call uh when he kind of remember when he gave it or mccann And yeah, like that was not the best call, but I don't know, like, I don't see. Same as the Gutis one. Exactly. Same as the Gutis, yeah. I thought it was pretty even overall. Like, I don't think the referee or the officiating favored one side. And it was two NHL guys. I think that's just a tough, tough excuse to make afterwards. I would never, I shouldn't say never, but I've never really been a blame the officials kind of guy. I was just shocked to hear it from their coach. Now, once again, like, this might have been a non-thing. No, no, that was legit. It was legit? Yeah, well, there you go. It was legit. And, buddy, you got the biggest break of the game. So, like, I think now he's probably regretting that comment by now, I think. On the U.S. side, Quinn Hughes is just, he looks like the best player. You know, McDavid's been incredible. He's right up there. He's playing, like, yesterday he played, like, 26 minutes, which is seven, eight more minutes more than the next guy. Same thing with Makar, with Canada. So, is that something that, like, listen, we got to figure out when Rontan is on the ice, we have Kale out there, or, like, Ajo. How are they going to figure out what they do against Finland in the semis? Yeah. Makar will play all the important minutes. And, you know what, they trust Taves just as much. He went out second in overtime. I don't know if he's psyched. Yeah, we noticed that. Yeah. So, those two guys, they trust them. You know, the ice time was interesting because then Harley was third, and then it really dropped off after that because they had seven. I think they made Harley third after he put it in the guy's shin pads. I think that was the nature's breakaway. What the fuck was he doing there? No, but. That was Taves, wasn't it? I think it was Harley. That was Harley. Oh, okay. The third is pretty good on that team. Yeah, you think? He's playing the third best minutes on the team. Thomas Harley, another guy. Oh, you think? I was just like, maybe I shouldn't have chirped him. I'm sorry. Well, he actually was struggling this year in Dallas, and he's been good. Yeah, I think he's been really good. Just calm and steady, and that's kind of what they need. They just need calm and steady. But Quinn, like, I watch Quinn, and he's. This is crazy, Juice. This is crazy. He takes long shifts, though, right? So, like, his ice time at 26 minutes, I don't know if that's necessarily the plan for the D coach, but he just takes. So, he goes out with McAvoy a lot, and then a lot of times, they'll just put Rinske out next, and he'll just take a two shifter, like in overtime. But, I mean, like, you can't argue it when he, like, scores the game winner, and he's, you know, he is, he brings a different element, because I think the U.S. D core is a little bit more, like, direct first pass, and he'll hold on to it, spin back, cut back, maintain possession, and then he'll, you know, throw a bomb up the middle on a guy's sticks, so I bet you the forwards love having him out there every 26 minutes. If you're a team Canada coach and you meet them, how do you plan to play against them? Run them. You got to run them. Run them, like, give them the Kachuk dry sidle treatment, just follow them around and, like, give them noogies and make ghost noises or whatever. I don't know. Go at them. You got to go at them. You know, he is a small guy, so if you look like you're going to finish your check on him every time, he will have to move the puck, quicker than he wants to. Have you ever seen a guy, especially at the stage that they're at right now, with all superstars on the team, just wave off the coach and say, no, no, no, I'm staying? Yeah, no, you don't see it too often, but, again, you know, the Celebrini talk, hey, you got to be your biggest fan. You got to believe in yourself in this game, like when everyone's trying to cut you down and doubt you, and you got to be your biggest fan and believe in yourself, and the best players have that. Well, it's been an incredible tournament, Juice, and you got your corkscrew. He's got some juice behind him. Yeah, exactly. What do you got there behind you? How nice is the wine over there without the hangovers? Just a little better for you. So this is like years ago, went to Tusk. I shouldn't even be doing this, but the Banffy, this is our favorite vineyard. So they sell these mini bottles in the grocery store, so I just got a bunch of mini bottles, and, you know, I'm a team guy. We come back after the show. Maybe we'll have like a drink or two and wind down and talk about, you know, how many men were on the ice. We're all the goals and all that. Did you rip a dart with Elliot? No, I didn't. I wasn't even around. So my wife came in yesterday, so Ellie and I were separated for the day. We've been attached by the hip, but we had almost a full day apart from each other. So, yeah. Wow, so your wife's in town. You still had time for us. You're the best. You're the best. Is your dad still there? He hit home. No, dad left. Dad had home. Yeah, he left. He went home. Wife came in. She's coming to the game tomorrow. So we got two big ones tomorrow. Sorry, it wasn't really comedy hour this one. It was more like hockey talk, right? I just want to warn you, we actually interviewed the O-Dog today. Jeff O'Neill. I saw that. He is a little jealous. Did he say he sent out a tweet or he wants to send out a tweet? Well, no, I'm going to give you the information. He said, you know, you could sit next to my panel guy, but his patented handshake, if he sees you give Duffy a handshake, you've got to do it. You're done, buddy. You're fucking done. Is that the old pinky tickler? The pinky tickle? He said he's flying to the studio and fighting you. No, it's the pineapple tickle. O-Dog's brother is an officer at the airport right outside the customs. So every time I go through customs on the weekend, the O-Dog's brother's right there patrolling. Nice. No way. I wish O-Dog was here. I've never worked with him. I've talked and met him a bunch of times. He's a classic. He's a beauty. He's got great stories. He was great. So are you, buddy. We're really thankful you're coming on with us. It's fun to catch up. And it's been great hockey. I mean, to get three overtime games in those quarterfinals makes it a little more fun for you to be that into the games and not have any blowouts there besides the Slovakia game. Can I ask one on the way out? Let's go. Your biggest concern about Finland. My biggest concern about Finland. I haven't really seen Rantan and Dominate a game yet. And that would scare me. Like, if Rantanen playing against Nate, playing against Makar, playing against Taves. Like, you saw, like, in playoffs when he played against his old team. He put it up a few notches, didn't he? And I'm wondering, is this the game where he just puts the team on his back? I don't know. That's the biggest scare for me. Ladies and gentlemen, Kevin BX, a couple clicks, boys. Legend. Hey, it's Witt's birthday if you want to say happy birthday. All right, Bruet, happy birthday. You're younger than me, Witt. Older. 43. No. Really? I'm 43. Damn, dude. You don't even have to do them like that on this burger. No, I thought he was younger. I thought he was, like, 39. Okay. Thank you, buddy. Thank you. I appreciate that. I just thought he retired because he had a really bad foot or something. I had really bad feet, and I also was very slow at that point. Foot fungus? You have bad foot fungus? Exactly. Exactly. But I'm still trying to get these warts off. It's my birthday, man. Be nice. All right, Juice. See you, buddy. Thanks, Juice. Thank you so much. Thank you so much to Juice. Awesome. And with that, we have another beauty, a guy who has a lot to say, I believe. And maybe we can really square away the possible bet between TJ Oshie and Paul Bissonnette. So here he is, Mr. Michelob Ultra TJ Oshie. What's up, bud? What's up, boys? How we doing? You guys are lounging, looking comfy. Oh, we're lounging. No, this is actually. This is actually. This is our psychiatry couch. They were just listening to me vent after that tough loss we just sustained. That was a big one for the U.S. Jans, you got a pillow over the lap there? Well, he was really. I have a chubby watching the U.S. game. You win gold and, you know. That's why I got the camera facing up here. Yeah. I'll move it for you. He's got the angry inch out. So, Osh, what an exciting day. You've been a part of these crazy nail biters in the Olympics, but this three-on-three, dude, is it not just panic or what? Yeah, I can't take it. I don't know how you guys are, but when I'm watching, I get butterflies in my stomach. I never got that feeling on the ice, ever. Not even Stanley Cup, nothing. But when I'm watching this three-on-three, it's like one toe pick or one wide shot. It's like the game could be over. I guess I don't know. It's definitely entertaining. I wish it was five-on-five for like a gold medal, personally. Feels a little more team stuff. I know I'm a shootout guy, and I love the shootout, but I think gold medal maybe should end in five-on-five. But, man, what a game. What a big game for the women. I mean, sorry, Biz, but like it's great. You guys always get the best of us, I feel like, more times than not. So, we got to enjoy this. It kind of seems like USA women's hockey. It's taking that step where Canada was, right? Like, we had the younger team going in. You show their dominance early in the tournament against Canada, and then you're able to, you know, squeeze out a crazy game in overtime. Like, do you see that shift, or have you talked to anyone like, you know, AJ Maleska or anyone? Have they seen something like that as well? Yeah, I think they feel it. And, I mean, the girls played four games against each other before the Olympics, right? US won all four, and then two in this tournament. So, like… It feels like that shift is happening, and you see these young girls, like Abby Murphy, like what she's doing out there. Who else was I… Like, they just… It looks like it's just like a different level that the Team USA has got. I think you definitely got to throw a lot of respect to the women that came before them, and like how much women's hockey has grown in the US. But, I mean, you love to see it. Now, honestly, I almost feel, obviously, we're not at like the medal round or anything. but like the men too like i feel like hockey's grown so much in the in the states and it's what's great to see because it doesn't happen overnight right this is years and years of development and and more programs um on each side and and more competition and obviously you're always chasing the canadians um but it looks like the women have gotten there and caught them and got got the job done oh i was gonna you mentioned the women who came before them i mean you talk about uh you know one who who just passed uh she just became the highest scorer uh in women's uh u.s hockey olympic history hillary knight captain of this team she ends up getting engaged i believe a day or two before the gold medal game wild move and then you know the offense is dry they can't get anything going they get that tv or the the timeout and then they snap one back and she tips it in front like have you ever spent any time with her what a moment in order to bring your team back from the dead yeah no a little bit um just through like team usa stuff i remember watching her live in sochi and i was like holy cow it was i don't know i guess i i just didn't you know i was so caught up in like my own game and what i was doing but she was kind of the first girl i saw that felt like she had like you know like the the toe curve with like the tape on the toe and like just had like some swagger and some style and um so happy for her uh you know who no i don't know if she's gonna go at it again um obviously she's been there plenty and getting older but uh well i mean what a week for them yeah two rings well god that takes balls i i engage i i got engaged with my wife right before we went to sochi because you know i i don't know i was i was leaving she's pregnant we were i i wanted to do it for a long time um and uh so that was kind of like i guess like i kind of did the same thing i don't know if i do it right before the gold medal game but you don't you don't got that sauce so if you want to be if you want to do something memorable in the olympics with team usa just get engaged like right before right before the game but uh back to the men um so i'm i'm watching how this tournament goes along and i'm kind of seeing people really dogging the u.s team a little bit after the game against germany which i mean maybe they didn't look at their best but in terms of like this tournament czech proved it against the united states it's just not that easy right like you're not always going to have your a game these teams are playing with so much pride for their own country that it's never going to be that easy and then we find out oh my god because sweden somehow finishes third we end up getting them in the quarterfinal so like definitely a little more nerve-wracking and in terms of like who everyone else is playing like definitely a tougher match-up it's probably the last team that was in the quarters you'd want to you'd want to play if you're finishing second in the entire tournament after the round but i i thought that they were great man i really did i think that their d is something else and what's been interesting is seeing how much quinn hughes is playing right so they've made it pretty clear that quinn hughes is the number one then they have mcavoy slaven wierenski and um who's the one i'm forgetting that's playing and yeah so sanderson and hannifin are playing less i think sanderson was about 10 minutes hannifin was about five so it seems like they've got their guys now but have you noticed the same thing in terms of how they're playing and how they're playing well they've gelled together and how hard they are to just you know basically score on yeah i'll come at this from a couple different angles one i it seems to me and i think the four nations had a lot to do with it that this american team is like super super tight and like close and love each other and uh i don't know something about like even just the reaction everyone loves like an overtime win right but um like just the way they were celebrating with each other um i don't know it and you see like the pulse jeremy swaven sent me a picture of the boys playing cards in the room like it just seems like a tight group um quinn hughes i've gotten to cover a couple of his games for the wild dude like it's i mean it's it's unbelievable and i i talked to uh i talked to heinz before one of the games interviewing i was like what's it like what's it been like i think it was like a month after you got there and i was worried about this for this team honestly going into it because you have to change your game because you're not used to one player holding the puck for that long like it's he always has it he almost said the wild had to like readjust instead of like always being in like a support position you almost have to get in scoring positions and just like he's fine like he'll he'll don't worry about him like when he has the puck like he's not gonna make a bad decision no one can catch him and so people had to learn how to play with him and i was worried i i assumed he'd be playing you know four i didn't think it was gonna be like 27 28 minutes but um i was worried that maybe it was gonna take too long because it took the wild a little bit to adjust to having someone have the puck that long uh but he i mean he's a special player i don't i don't have the balls to tell a coach like no no i'm good i know i didn't follow and i've never seen that maybe maybe i wouldn't do that to my dad if he was coaching like uh but uh honestly the story to me and something i think you'd love to see in this tournament not to drag on too long but i think i thought hellebuck was phenomenal in that game i think he was their best player um and that was one of the question marks coming in right he wasn't have the great start to the year uh you got two other great goaltenders swayman was so hot coming in uh i i love to see that because i think the goaltenders in these single elimination tournaments are the most important player we actually asked kevin bx i think it was wit who said who who has to step up for the u.s in order to get this thing done and you know we were expecting the jack eichel maybe austin matthews and he said one guy he's looking uh to see uh bring it is dylan larkin and then you see him with that big goal in that game you saw what he did at four nations and i think that the world especially like the american hockey fans are starting to see like what this guy can provide not only offensively but the way that he plays this 200 foot game so i don't know if what you have taken from playing against him all those years and just like what you make of him even now and how he's kind of continued to progress his game over the years yeah i was i was fortunate enough i covered two of their their games before the olympics and i got to talk to him i interviewed him during the game talked to him after the game uh it was in minnesota so they were out there caner was down there madonna was down there before he broke the record and i got to watch him a little more like when you're playing against the guy like i never really feared anyone so like if if anything i tried in my mind make them think that they suck so i didn't really think about it when i was playing but then you watch them and um and watching in this tournament like some guys have a way of uh almost like on the score sheet for sure coming up in big moments but almost like inspiring like being like a little bit of like a motivational like inspirational player with the way they play the game i think he's that guy and he seems to be able to rise up in big moments um in talking with him after the game in minnesota you could just see like i don't know like a sense of like pride and like hunger and like almost like adrenaline that he was on the team and just wanted to go like one of those guys that just wants to make a difference wants to make an impact on the game and uh i i think people should start paying more attention to him because he is a guy like you saw last game uh get him on the board early and like the just like a pat like you see how much he cares and his celebration was great on the quinn hughes winner um and i thought it was really cool uh jackie redmond did a great job actually talking to quinn hughes after and kind of asked about dylan larkin and and quinn made it pretty clear like this guy's been an important part of my life like almost like a little bit of an older brother type situation where he he said he met him um she did a good job of asking he's like oh i actually met him at a frat party i was 17 he was 20 and he's always kind of just like little things and one of them was like how to treat people i guess dylan larkin is just all about treating others the way you want to be treated and like a leader like you're saying and i i think like his offense is great it probably doesn't get enough credit but the defensive like awareness for him and you even see that stick check in overtime and he ended up creating a three on two or two on one and i think jack hughes um looked him off yeah he actually did look him off but then the celebration when quinn scores and hughes goes i mean uh larkin goes insane sprints across the ice and it you're you're right about this team there's something vibing now it seemed the same way right after the fights last year in the four nations and canada has a complete wagon but i was i was amazed at how well sweden played because they did not look good right and this coach i don't know if he's still gonna be their national team coach the guy scratches brat one game um and unfortunately we haven't even brought up victor headman he pulls his groin and warm-ups right so that's that was a huge loss he had to sit on the bench the entire time but sweden played man that was a for you watching i i felt like there was no time and space similar to the big games last year in four nations and and they brought it i mean they were right there they could have won that game easily and before you break it down what do you make of that coaching situation and like have you heard more about it uh kind of considering you've been talking amongst the people at the tournament yeah uh i've been talking with ace a bunch about it um he's the one that brought it to my attention that brat wasn't playing and like in my mind like that it just didn't make like that wasn't a good game but i think it was a good game and i think it was a good game it wasn't like an option yeah yeah because you have a you have a brain in my mind in my mind it was like i just must not notice him out there right maybe he's just not playing well Um, but I played against this guy and like, he creates so much, like, I haven't really paid attention enough to like speak to like the defensive side of the game, but when he has the puck, he just, he, he creates so much with like his quickness. It's, it's honestly like, he's probably one of the more like skilled, quick, like players in the league, I think that can like build something out of nothing. Um, and you saw in that game, and by the way, I, I would say, I would say if I had to lean one way on like the regulation, like I would maybe say that Sweden had like, like 51% or like over 50% of like the momentum of the game, which is why I think Hellebuck was the, well, in my opinion was a player of the game. But, um, I just don't know how you don't play brat. I just, not in this, not in this. Not in elimination games where you need a goal, you need offense, especially against a team like USA. Oh, also how about Raymond? I thought Lucas Raymond was, I mean, talk about Red Wings fans watching that game salivating. He was incredible the whole game. Dude, we had, so like we're, we're going on right after, after the game, we're doing post game. So we have to, when they tied, when the game's tied and it's going to overtime, we have to prepare for both sides. And all we had was a package on Raymond. And we had already. We had already done the same package the day before saying like these pads, he's like passes where he holds it on his forehand, looks off a goal, he holds them and then throws it backside. You see him do that to the brinkhead all the time. That's why the brinkhead scores so many goals on power play, but he's, he's so good. Not like the prettiest guy, like player, like he's not super flashy, but he just always makes like a really solid play. It almost seems like a theme with the Swedes, but, um, man, I was just such a good game. A lot. A lot of, um, maybe it was Swedish fans, some Canadian fans. Like I did not think that was a slew foot on, on Rasmus Darlene by Brady Kachok. It just like, seemed like kind of like he slipped a little bit tangled up, but it wasn't a slew foot certainly. And I, I, I think it was a correct non-call. Yeah, no, I don't think that was, I think if anything, it was just a bad, like the result was bad that he went back and hit his head. Yeah. Um, and I think that, I think the refs have, you know, the refs are the refs. Both ways. I think there's, you can, you can pick apart so many things about like what's going on. When I was in the waiting room there, hearing you guys talk about the Canada game, like that Michael Campany call, like never in a million years, should that be a call, but also bullshit. They should have never been up. Cause there's six guys on me. So do whatever you want, but like they're, they're not good. They're going to miss calls both ways. So I almost feel like, uh, well, maybe not for Canada, the, the competition might get a little bit easier for the United States going against Slovakia. These, these guys might disagree and say, Hey, keep your, your eye on the prize. What would your strategy from seeing what you've seen from Slovakia be? If you deny United States, like what would you, what adjustments would you make? Where would you try to expose them? What do you think that Slovakia brings? Maybe that, uh, Sweden didn't and, and, and how do you think they beat them? So what I think is there's in playoff hockey in, in my opinion is if you have a belief in like the guy next to you, that sounds super cliche, but like, if you have like a belief and you feel like you love the guy next to you and you're doing something special together, you're able to push yourself further than you would be able to push your own agenda, like what you want yourself. And so this Slovakia team, I think from the get-go, like they surprised everyone and they have this momentum. It's not like they didn't win. That was the only game that didn't go into overtime. Like they smoked them. Right. And so they didn't win. They didn't win. I would like, if I'm, if I'm team USA, I'm like, I'm like, boys, we have to have our, our best a game here. These guys are finding a way to get the job done. Um, and then like, also like against, against Sweden for team USA and against Czechia for Canadians, like, yeah, the, on the rosters, like these teams, they're like, they're giants, but it's still just, it's still a hockey game. You still have to play Canada. Look human. US look human. And so, uh, I just, I don't think there's a, an easy matchup per se, uh, on paper for sure. Like Finland's got some big dogs, um, and they could be a lot better with, uh, with Barky, but, um, I think these are going to be phenomenal games. It's been a great, like the quarterfinals, you know, the pool play, sometimes that gets out of hand and like some of the games aren't even like really that exciting cause there's so many goals going on. Um, but, uh. But, uh, this has been an exciting couple of days. Is, is there anyone on us that you would, you know, either like to see up their game a little bit or, you know, maybe a guy even play a little more, obviously they can't control it, but like even a guy like Tage Thompson, I feel like he hasn't gotten a ton of minutes, but like how big and how fast he is, I think in these next two games, you're going to need him to play more minutes and be more effective. Yeah, I think, I think we saw almost like a different level of play in us. his second game out of Jack Hughes. Like, almost like he got, like, this step in his game. I don't know if it was the success from game one that turned over. But he's going around, like, beaver-tailing like he wants the puck. And I think that's a guy that you can really ride. He, I don't know, like, when a guy like that gets hungry, he can make, like, such a big difference. Taze Thompson, I think he's one of the harder players I've ever played against. He's, like, so big. I know he's got a short stick, but, like, he just can't get the puck from him. And so you kind of want some, like, guys like that. Like, if you're going to go on being a depth team, you've got to use that depth and let these guys get in the game. I'd love to see a little bit more North American style out of the Americans tomorrow. I feel like some of these games have gotten away in the third period. Like, second half of the game, they just had the puck the whole time. And then you think that's what it's going to be like in the next game, which is why I think their starts haven't been very good. So. But I think the depth, like, the Larkins, Brock Nelson, Taze Thompson, like, these guys can score big goals. And, you know, you need Austin Matthews probably and Jack Eichel to be your best players. But I think these other guys, this depth, like, that's what you've got to use to your advantage. That's what was so nice about McAvoy in the game against Sweden. He ran over Eriksenek behind the net. And then he crushed. Who did he crush in front of the bench? That might have been Darlene, too. I don't remember exactly. But he's, I think you get him out there with Quinn Hughes against Slavkovski, right? And that guy is, he's Slovakia's best player. He has a ton of confidence right now. And it's like, if you could shut him down, I'm pretty confident that they leave with the W. So just put McAvoy on him. And then most of the time when McAvoy and Hughes are on the ice, Hughes has the puck the whole time anyways. So that could be a matchup. Maybe we're looking at maybe Larkin's line is matched up against Slavkovski as well. But like you said, it's a, it's a, it's a one. Game in elimination. It's like, I just don't, I can't look by it and say, oh, they're going to, they're going to beat Slovakia easy. It's this, this tournament is so weird. And for us to see three of the four quarterfinals games go to OT, it just kind of shows how, how not the teams aren't even, but once the game starts, it's like, like you said, it's a hockey game and anything can happen. Yeah. That's the hard thing about like the elimination games, like the single game elimination, because in the NHL, you have like at the start of the series, you're telling your guys like, Hey, we have, no matter how long this series goes, we're going to these first two, three games, we're going to push their D out of it. We're going to four check and we're going to hit anything that moves. That's why the first round is like the most unbelievable hockey you can watch. And, but that's what it is. You're going to push them out as the series goes on this game. I mean, you could out shoot, you know, the U S could out shoot them tomorrow, you know, 40 to 10 and they could have, you know, a couple of good balances and two tipping goals and it could be four, three Slovakia. So it's, it's, that's the importance on like every detail, every shift. I talk about this a lot. How every play matters, every, you saw like in the, in the girls game there, Layla Edwards tired on the back check on Canada's first goal in the two on one, she stops moving her feet for literally just one stride. And you don't know if it would have made a difference, but if you just make that one more stride, no matter how hard bad your legs are burning, like you just don't know, you don't know what play is going to decide the game. And these are the, that's why the single elimination or phone games to play in, like you're on the edge of your seat the whole time. Not to say you don't normally, but in those types of situations, are you making sure you're never getting caught out there because you're playing against the world-class players. So like you tend to maybe lean towards getting a, a 30 to 35 second shift as opposed to like a 45 50. Cause if you're one of those guys that gets hemmed in against these, these types of players and they all of a sudden throw McDavid and, and, you know, Celebrini and McKinnon against you, they're going to be fucking swarming. And you can, they're going to end up being out there for three minutes. Yeah. Yeah. Like in the NHL, like if you're out there against the fourth line and you're like a little tired, like, ah, you know what, I'll just, I can, I'll go an extra 20, 30 seconds. It'll be fine. Um, but here, like everyone's, every line's a first line, like every guy's a first liner. So you, you just, you can't do it. You, I don't want to say you play safe, but you, you make sure every shift that you're making an impact, not negatively. And so if you put yourself in a position like staying out there a little longer, or, you know, waiting on the offensive side of a play, cause you think that something might get turned over. Like those two shifts. that you could have had two uh two strides you could have had right there could be the difference of you getting back and breaking up a two-on-one or not and losing the game so that's what i mean on like the importance of every play like you're had like after these games and after playoffs like yeah your legs are tired because you push yourself to the absolute max but your mind is tired too because you're you have to be in it at all times yeah it's like there's a there's a very fine line between uh cheating and anticipation eh yeah big time uh osh before we let you go have you enjoyed it i mean long days right but uh you've done awesome the coverage has been great it's got to be a little bit more exciting like you said no now that the blowouts are done it's on to the to the big games and your suit game's been awesome unbelievable you look incredible so handsome you know you know what's awesome is like i do not i do not care about fashion i do not dress myself my 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fellas live from milan italy how you guys doing the six they're in a prison right now no they're not they're not good we're doing good okay so i think we kind of need the breakdown the news breaks that that seth gets added to the team and then you guys you have your whole trip kind of ruined and of course you didn't get insurance on your flights and we're thinking how are these guys going to get over so who came through in the clutch for you guys to get you to italy air canada honestly i mean hey first text was to biz seeing what biz could do for us but that was fucking nothing so uh i don't know i gotta other than talk about it on the biggest yeah i gotta have his back here i think if he doesn't mention sitting in raleigh by yourselves pulling on your weans yeah we should be we should be plugging biz here every time we plug air canada but no air canada helped us out uh they reached out to us and they've they've hooked us up with everything they've set us up in the best way possible and we're really only here because of them well hotel too yeah hotel airbnb and then uh they even helped us out get tickets to all the games here oh my god so they went really above and beyond now were your original flights booked to carolina but like through air canada no it was even it was united airlines well air canada can use any good publicity because usually they're just getting smoked but for for them to do that for you guys that's pretty special and then like when you came over right away were you able to see jarves or were you kind of on your own right i mean i imagine he's super busy with the team and stuff yeah by the time i mean that we flew in it was it was pretty much drop our stuff at the hotel and we went right to that france game so we caught him we caught him after that and we were like oh my god the france game got to catch up with him a bit there and then uh they had the day off after the france game so we got to hang out with them there go for dinner and do whatnot how cool is it just i mean obviously you guys are super proud of your buddy seth and just playing in the nhl living his dream and uh you know i got to see whit playing the nhl and then playing the olympics and that's just a different you know sense of pride that you have for somebody representing their country like how proud of him are you guys just have known him your whole life pretty much oh dude it's unreal really realize how crazy it actually is until you get here and then you see him step on the ice and it's it's cheesy but it's hard not to get emotional especially like at the end of the game there when they win and he's like pointing in the crowd smiling with the with the other fellas like laughing at us being idiots in the crowd but it's like you grow up playing mini sticks like fucking slinging the little ball and now you're here watching him play with the mcdavids with the crosbys with like the celebrities now it's absolutely insane well before we dive into the game against uh check you out like what what are the like what are the festive like what's it been like mingling with the other athletes and really just taking in probably what i would imagine your first ever olympic experience the first rule we get is don't speak to any athletes in this unless you're spoken to because i guess they learned from the four nations once you let us loose with a few drinks they're like guys please don't puke in this house please please yeah i just have to warn them all that we're coming i also i also heard some rumblings that you guys were reselling a bunch of the condoms they were giving out for free to pay for other beer money around town is is there any truth do you guys steal the rubbers and shipping them back to western on western and london ontario the university yeah that's just our one buddy he's just stashing them all so how many single guys out of the out of the six there's only two but it's a six now that's for sure oh just a bunch of weapons around town and what are the like the other like bars and restaurants like in like the the other areas in town because i'm hearing uh from bx of that you guys are about an hour and a half and a half and a half and a half and a half to maybe two hours removed from all the other sports so it's kind of like you're almost in like a hockey hub there there's one bar that apparently like got took over by canadians they hold a blue canal blue canal yeah we haven't been there yet but it's like shoulder to shoulder you're just they're watching events everyone's just hammered and apparently it's unreal but we haven't been able to get out there yet now have you guys been to every game are you going to the remaining games like how have the ticket situation worked yeah we've been so we have that canada france game the game yesterday and then same thing we're going to the game tomorrow and then hopefully all goes well and then we'll be at that uh that game sunday oh this is unbelievable we gotta ask him about that game boys you guys must have been pretty fucking nervous uh in the in the last 10 minutes going on there we were fucking sweating buckets fucker fuckered assholes that's for sure are you guys superstitious are you going to be doing the same thing you've been doing before every game drinking the same thing eating the same thing or it's just you know what we're here to have fun let the boys handle it they handle I mean I don't know if it's all superstition but then during the last game one of our buddies brought this loony and we threw it around we were rubbing this lucky loony and then literally five minutes after we did that they tied it up so when i went to overtime we're like we got to do it again so i mean that's about as superstitious as we get other than that it's just don't show up sober who's who's been the biggest beauty on the team other than jarves like who have you who have you guys buddy buddied with uh i'm sure you met a few of them at four nations but who's the guy who like just like oh i love jarves's buddy i want to go hang out with them rather than the team i think for us probably haggle because we got to hang out with haggle at four nations like we have to hang out with haggle his brother and his buddy so it's been it's been fun to see haggle's brother and his buddies and and get to get after it with them a bit so the the question i have is all you guys you know i grew up playing hockey together at any point was jarvis not the best player of all you seven guys did any of you guys ever have him whether it was six years old or was he always kind of heads and shoulders above you out of us absolutely no he can't it's like you put the best player on the line with the worst player and i was the worst player and it was the best i probably had about two goals and 70 assists just from flicking out of his own duo um and we we heard rumblings that this past summer that you guys got uh you guys got stuck helping him put up a fence in his parents backyard and that's what he had to pay to them to basically like for like boarding them it's it's anything he's making us do do whatever and we just get dragged along for the ride do you guys think at one point like you guys are honestly kind of getting bigger than him like at some point you're like you're gonna be like hey seth like we're kind of sick of having you around we were actually we went to uh like duomo i guess the downtown area in milan the other day and we all went as buddies and seth came with and uh there was people coming us to as a group they were stopping us asking us for pictures telling us how good seth played the other night and seth was literally standing right beside us suck on that yeah was was it taking the picture was it you guys leading the the old canada after that win too were you guys sick was it you guys i saw singing in maybe the the lobby of the rink yeah i think we were right in the mix there after a couple beers causing ruckus would you like i listen i know the four nations win was huge would you put though that quarterfinal win way above that and that feeling you guys had after the game i think like at walking out we were saying to each other that that like honestly the atmosphere especially with like those european chants it is nuts and then just walking out of that game like that tight it was it was crazy so i think i would put that over four nations just in terms of like the first game here when we where we got to like experience kind of like honestly like a soccer atmosphere so it was it was nuts who's the the most famous canadian you've ran into where you were like blown away like speechless i mean like i don't know when gretzky's been here yeah wow okay billy gene kang was here the other day like the tennis player that was pretty cool and i'm seeing here you guys actually it's the good old canadian boys on instagram over 40 000 followers now so i could see why why you are me but my question is do you guys have jobs like what did you tell work what did you tell work for this hey we'll see in a couple weeks they're canadian they don't care no we're all in school for the most part like okay the rest of us are in school so uh it actually worked out same as last year in boston like it's right over our reading week so we we didn't really miss much like a couple of us wrote an exam the day before the left we left a couple of us read an exam right when we get back but uh we don't really miss anything that important um the canadian curler i'm drawing a blank on the guy's name i believe he's this is his fourth olympics the cheater there's a lot of controversy going online have you guys seen him buzzing around and is he having to do so with extra security mark kennedy mark kennedy i mean he's publicly we got dave pornoid going after this guy i think he's trying to get like the you know the the national reserve on him or something like that i haven't i haven't noticed him we need we're saying we need name tags here because there's there's so many people here that you don't really know who's related to who you know if somebody even snuck in here sometimes you don't even know who the olympians are so name tags would definitely be helpful well boys thank you so much i don't know if you guys have anything else do you have a question for them or anything that you were wondering no i mean is there anything any crazy stories that have happened now between you guys and milan that you can tell we got scammed on our uber from the airport to our airbnb no what happened there canada yeah wait we uh we were walking out to our taxi and some guy met us right right before we got outside he said no no you know you gotta you gotta go upstairs taxis are upstairs so of course we we go upstairs and i get out there and we go fuck this is this is departures there's there's no taxis up here but there's some guy waiting upstairs for us it looks about 18 years old and next thing you know these two they're not going to be able to get out of there and nice cars roll up and by the time we get in the car and where they're they're ripping 170 down the highway they show us the price and it's like 250 euros each for the each car like oh and we realize it's the same guy that stopped us and told us to go upstairs we're like oh wow he told us you go upstairs and he ran up the other way and he had the hat on like he's fucking uh yeah lloyd from dumb and dumber fake mustache that is under delta flew you over there they went out of car service waiting for you don't let him start guys boys we're so happy for you guys and like you guys have been a fun little side story for us to follow and uh i mean canadians at home are loving it so bring the boys luck snap around that loony next game because there's there's gonna be no layups here from here on out and uh how are you guys feeling about the finland game we're confident i mean you know whether crosby plays or not i think he's gonna he's gonna play a massive role even if it's just maybe he suits up and he's just on the bench plays the power but uh there's so many guys in that group that can step up and they've they've been in situations where this has happened before last question for me uh you mentioned it was your reading week what have you read uh corona label about 100 times okay perfect yeah so that's the only beer in the rink right yeah crazy you think it would be peroni or something that's what we were saying that's one thing we wanted yeah and the corona zero cans look the exact same as coronas and they don't tell you which one's which you grab the corona zero and you'll walk out and you're getting rinsed 16 bucks for no alcohol oh my mystery pop that's bizarre well boys like honestly i think uh we've got to know seth a little bit just such a good guy great for the game character you know charismatic and obviously you guys are pretty special buddies to him you know he wants you everywhere he is and for us to get to talk to you it's been pretty cool so thank you for everything and congrats on getting over there thank you thanks for getting us showing us out on the pod there biz in the first place and getting that ball roll in fair canada all right anything for you boys let's bring home a gold day absolutely thank you very much to the good old canadian boys over 40 000 they're making beauties they're making their presence felt online so good dudes you could tell those two kids were so happy to be there and uh really good friends and one thing they didn't mention you know what university they're going to western no jarvard nice uh so in the world of the nhl i believe that we're kind of getting back into the swing of things guys are practicing again a lot of people have been skating throughout but i think the teams are now together and jeff skinner no longer a member of the san jose sharks and um i guess the the he was went through waivers wasn't cleared and then kind of the purpose of the contract being uh being ended and i don't know i don't know what it means i mean he hadn't been playing a lot does is he able to sign with another team does he look to go play overseas i i don't really know but i mean the guy had a great run and we made we made some jokes that like you know he hadn't made the playoffs forever and then edmonton made it and he got kind of scratched pretty quickly but fuck i remember when he came into the league i think he was a rookie taylor hall's rookie year just lit it up right away and i saw some clips going around online i i knew he started like learning hockey through figure skating i didn't know he competed i there was he's great he beat some like uh some legend figure skater at a time and he was like oh my god a very young age and obviously as his uh as he got older he ended up taking the hockey route but he's got some uh he's got some hardware as far as him uh figure skating is concerned and there was a crazy stat that came out about how many uh five on five goals that he has if he never played another game i think it might have been army who sent it to our group chat uh g's looking it up right now but hey listen like yeah like we made those those jokes about him finally playing in his first playoff game and then i think he got scratched the next one i don't think he's going to play in his first playoff if you're you're putting together a list of dogs playoff dogs he's going to be at the top of it but hey man he made a boatload of money he was a great teammate guys always loved having him around um very very kind to always like the the media and the staff around the rink and really always had a smile on his face so um you know a pro's pro and uh best of luck to him if that if that's the case and it's the end fuck man if i'm the leafs give him a fucking league minimum deal bring him over try to get something going i saw some people mention the kings after kevin fiala's injury at the olympics cheap replacement you know probably guy that knows the game and and for like i remember when he came into the league he was spinning he was doing the spinoramas and they were talking a lot about his uh you know figure skating background but a guy that he was undersized but wasn't afraid to go to the dirty areas played hard in front of the net he was a pest out there um unbelievable career but for me it's kind of it looks like san jose is looking at this tournament and they see macklin celebrini and for me outside looking in it's almost like they're like, oh, my God, we got to build something quick around this guy. So maybe they're freeing up some money to try to get some some players in there uh to make a run at the end of the season here who knows what mike greer is up to but uh at the end of the day great career if if that is the end of it for skinner and he was a hell of a play if jeff skinner never plays again he finishes his career with more even strength goals than pat lafontaine jeremy ronick bill garren daniel alfredson pavel beret alexi kovalev joe pavelski rick talkett john leclaire elia kovaltruk patrick eliash theo flurry and phil kessel that was actually posted from uh franck saravelli so that i'm not just kidding that's a that's an unbelievable crazy list i would print that out that tweet out and hang it in my bedroom i'd have it on a shirt and i'd wear it everywhere it's me big news out of edmonton guys this could be what we need roll the clip of me fucking a month or two ago yeah this could be what the oilers need paul coffee is back and i don't really know what had happened right i i'm not in the room not around the team don't know why he was not there to start this season but the d had had so much success and if you remember when he came over he told all those guys right away like you got to be making plays like this forward group they can't be getting the puck off the glass they cannot be dealing with that a lot of these guys need the puck in stride through the neutral zone tape to tape and you know they go back to back cup finals and then he's not there this year it's been kind of a mess defensively while he's back i don't know who i maybe daryl cates maybe that's right from the ownership right that could come come from up top but i think all those fans are happy to hear it because they were a different team uh with their defenseman and their puck moving when he was behind you know behind the bench for the defenseman so that's very exciting to see and we'll see that maybe that turns it around for him biz yeah i think that you guys have probably heard the same stuff that sometimes there's some uh a little bit of conflict as far as philosophy philosophy philosophies and how you want to coach guys and when you should you know push the right buttons or when you should ease off and from the rumblings i heard sometimes you know paul coffee and knob lock don't necessarily see eye to eye and maybe maybe that was part of the reason that he didn't come back this year maybe he was maybe paul coffee of accomplishing everything that he'd accomplished including jumping behind the bench again maybe he was a little tired and didn't really want to do anymore i don't like i don't fully know because i don't reach out to these guys and asking this type of stuff but i feel like some of that conflict was a reason that that pushed him away and why he wasn't back while you see how the team's done so far this year and compared to how they've done with him behind the bench i don't know whose call this was but it's for sure the right one and uh i i personally like i like knob lock do i feel like sometimes it's a little bit monotone and it would be nice to see a little bit of fire in certain situations where maybe he needs to push the right buttons to get more out of his team but i don't mean to sound hypocritical but i think in a you know i think listen listen this in championship rooms i've heard from some guys who have won cups there can be some fuck you matches going on those are healthy those are good conversations to have and then after that the cooler heads prevail but i hope that he adds that fire and spice to that group because if in fact the toronto maple leaves don't make playoffs i will 100 be rooting for conor mcdavid to win his first championship stanley cup and i also hope that it happens in a year that he also wins his first gold medal at the olympics i think it's a lot of it too and i remember when i had wayne as a coach and i don't know if wayne had it in him to be that bad cop you know what i mean and he brought in john muckler and i remember him telling telling us how hard mucks was to play for like he was bag skating them he was mean like he was showing them video he was tough on them but those winners know that you need something like that so i think on it sometimes yeah the the big the big dogs want it and uh i'm sure mcdavid haven't having a coffee back there a guy that's done everything i'm sure he's just as happy as the d on that group because he's affecting the entire team and it's hard too because when you're cough you can't be the guy to do that because now you're stepping on the coach's toes yeah he has the assistant for you're the assistant right you're you're going to handle the d you're going to make sure our guys engines are going and and we're making those plays and doing everything that we can to win you can't really you know undercut the head coach but let's hope they're able to to figure things out as they go they have the past couple years and even so a little bit more in order to get themselves over that hump but as it sits right now they might not have to go against the the big bad florida panthers yeah there's seven points out i'm hearing some are we allowed to talk about the other rumblings about how maybe you know marshall's not exactly the healthiest right now there's there's rumors that he might get shut down after the olympics who knows what's going to happen with barkov if that's the case like why would you why would you bring a guy back if you're on the outside looking in with coming back from an acl injury so this might end up being a season that the florida panthers end up punting but by no means is their stanley cup window done if anything it just gets in that little bit of extra rest and they're going to hit the ground running next year they're still very much in this window yeah they had that luxury right of taking a year off if they need to i my opinion it'll be they got i think they got to go what like 18 and 7 or whatever the numbers are they got to win a lot of games but if they come out after this olympic break and are flat they'll probably shut down marchie they'll probably shut down bark of for the rest of the year because what i'm hearing he's skating it looks like he could play at some point this season but if you're out of it in the next 10 games they're not going to force him to come back even though he's the type of guy that would want to play no matter what so they've earned that luxury they've won the last two years they've played a lot of hockey in the last three years where if they don't make the playoffs they'll just retool this summer and and be back uh ready to go for next year and going back to cough it's for people are like what's bringing them back and it's just the coach gonna do a lot the the the level of confidence that you can instill in players especially when he's with him right it's it but it you push the right buttons and confidence is a hell of a drug man once you get it and you start rolling that's all it needs to be it's a it's a it's a 90 mental game in the nhl and i think that paul coffee's gonna have those boys ready to go and if you're an edmonton fan you got to be so fired up with oh i love it i love it like if if someone came to you and said shippin 50k for a salary in order to go win a stanley cup would you have done it 50k 50 left it'd be a tough conversation with breed uh where'd the money go yeah so you gotta cancel that uh vacation we had planned for uh spring break but we got coughed out she's like who is there is there a better guy i mean he he was a defenseman with two of the best players three of the best players messier curry uh wayne obviously but is there a better guy to have in the back end to talk to men to play with two of the best players in the world yeah yeah kind of helping like almost he almost knows what they want how they want it based on the way that gretzky and that's experience is is is insanely valuable i said it i want to say like two months ago if i'm daryl cates given with what they make every single playoff game i would offer paul coffee eight million dollars to come back as an assistant coach and that might have been what happened who knows that's that's one playoff game at home yeah ching ching baby um so he's the highest paid coach in the league so cough's ready to go and there's another man ready to go who who rear admiral bring him in hello everybody and welcome to our race world here the spit and chiclets podcast shout out to the ladies of team usa megan keller incredible goal over time i'm still my adrenaline is through the roof and i couldn't be happier for i don't know if you remember biz a few years ago we had the pink whitney cup in new jersey uh which you know we had a bunch of little ladies there it was like a mishmash of all kinds of people and she's such a nice kid i couldn't be happier for her like we did the pink whitney cup and then a couple years ago they had the basically the year-end uh boston fleet party at the nights of columbus patio kind of a spur of the moment thing when she scored man i was like jumping through the i was just so happy for her she's such a great kid just an unreal game so it's awesome dude congrats all right i said i said it to whitney hands i shook their hand you guys earned it great team and really cool that you guys got well we all got to hang out a few years back in new jersey there and uh g's already got the post up flexing that they're friends playing tummy sticks over there champions we should get our champion that's we're champions yeah but uh congrats buddy and a good start to the weekend for you yeah she's like i said she's such a great kid too just a really nice person and it was crazy too busy 13 out of 30 times the canada u.s played whether it's uh olympics or world championships 13 out of the last 30 with uh overtime which is a pretty crazy stat i don't know it's a little a little wild but uh also too i don't be uh tj just said about like girls participation it's gone up 65 percent in the last 15 seasons like girls girls in the united states so great stuff there just an awesome game and you know shout out to the canadian ladies too you can see how despondent they were at the end and i couldn't believe what i mean you know as a gamble man what the odds were on there i mean usa canada plus three yeah so this was this was saying uh if canada wins it would be a bigger upset than if check had beat canada the day before i was exaggerating a tab oh okay okay uh yeah so he was exaggerated but but i i didn't have any idea the odds were that much because i i i jumped down his throat and then grinnelly looked it up i was shocked at that as well i mean based on them playing part of the olympics u.s winning every game in the round robin i kind of get it but the you had that game one what was it two minutes left to 220 left or whatever it was cash out the bat when when hillary knight scores and yeah exciting win it was awesome to see we got to watch the whole game here very exciting uh and happy for those girls because they're gonna have a hell of a time tonight and also for keller like that's a that's like one of those goals where like you dance the defender you go in backhand it's in the net like that's an iconic goal and oh yeah it'll forever be remembered in usa hockey history so what a way to do it and she assisted on the time goal as well and i actually had a i better for the first goal of the game which obviously didn't happen she was 60 to 1 so i was kind of in the area but didn't have it exactly right but uh jumping back i i know you guys already talked about the czech canada game the funniest part about the six men of the ice was the six guys celebrated like oh that's good the goal they threw another one on for another guy in ra seven guys were in that doggy pile it was ridiculous and it was hilarious but it was embarrassing but it's like like you know they had to notice wait a minute like none of these guys are the freaking goalie the six of us all hugging it out but hilarious stuff but anyways good good time the olympics have been awesome imagine five straight overtime games we had between yesterday and today these games been awesome good stuff going on but i do want to give a tribute to a guy uh pier edward bellamere he told reporters after the game france lost to germany five to one he said this is it uh he was an undrafted 40 year old ford he made his nhl debut for the flies at 29 played 10 nhl seasons for five teams 700 games played 85 on the playoffs played in two stanley cup finals spent several years in france and sweden prior to that but uh elliott said to you done he says you know i could still play in a few more years but you know i'm done my family i need to be around my kids my wife wants to have a career and elliott said he was the best person to cover to hear from so i just want to give a little congrats to him on a hell of a career wish you the best of retirement that's awesome so he never he never won one you said two stanley cup finals never got one right yeah i played in 18 with vegas and uh 22 with tampa bay lightning so yeah he didn't win one but yeah it was just a pretty nice thing everybody who wrote about him that had a lot of good things to say about him so yeah great checking forward really for your country it was it was i'm sure quite the quite the special way to go out you know just to make it to the nhl from france that's a huge accomplishment i'm sure he's gonna have his hands and a lot of younger kids coming up playing and hopefully making it to the nhl there haven't been many i i didn't realize antoine roussel was a guy who came from france too i thought he was quebec who are some other french players it was a goalie stefan da costa who played at merrimack and has dominated the khl for like 12 years now um he definitely played a little bit in the nhl i think with ottawa but uh has been just like a legit 50 point guy for 10 years and 12 years in the khl made a boatload of money was uh um christobal huet from from france am i crazy possible was he swiss i feel like that i think he was swiss but wasn't there a french goalie in the nhl you're the goalie guy all right um yeah i'm drawing a blank all right what'd you think of the france the france uh ice hockey kicking that defenseman out of the tournament well the one who fought wilson yeah um yeah he did look like he was trying to uh get a little skirmish going i guess he has a bit of a history too of like of uh pulling some bullshit during games so i in the team actually i think the team his own uh organization kicked them out not not even the olympic organization if i'm not mistaken like you know like they yeah i know i just all his teammates were like not happy about it it seemed like it was just for giving the whole code i thought he got the raw end of that yes i don't know the prior stuff what went down but based on his teammates at the olympics comments it was like this is kind of bullshit that if you kicked out of that game but the ioc or the ihf isn't doing anything like why is our team doing something to him so i thought it was a little interesting yeah i mean i guess that may be indicative of how they how they feel about him but uh how about big cat one of the all-time and i'm not usually a mush jinx whammy guy but big cat were one of the biggest mushes of all time when you guys run the other day like calling that's just big cat being big cat you should have heard him today on pmt like he's just like i don't know cat yeah he's just like he's just oh he's kind of a dick sometimes like you saw what he did to hank last week after the super bowl moving right along uh today in hockey history uh we got to give a happy 84th birthday to the absolute legend himself phyllis bazito uh he was born on this day in 1942 crazy friggin stat phyllis bazito scored his 50th goal of the season and he's the only one who's ever scored a goal in the history of hockey on his birthday on three separate occasions what that is fucking awesome yeah three separate times on his 50 i'm sorry on his birthday he scored his 50th goal 71 72 and 74 that's a wild stat and you should thank him for the uh nifty trade too because he wanted ken hodge on the on the rangers with him so you should be thanking him for getting nifty for all those years kate is that the like i mean i know there's been tons of huge trades in nhl history but have you three hall of famers in one trade in the history of hockey in the history of hockey in the history of i don't think that's ever happened before right brad pack not that i not that i can think of and and jean ratel and ratel man i he's one of my favorite bruins i think they got him when he was like 31 or 32 and he was putting up like over a point per game at that age too so crazy trade esposito it just seems like things like that happened to him i heard a story when they were naming the lightning they got the they got the tampa team approved and they were trying to think of a name and he was sitting out on his back patio and there was lightning out and he just said lightning yeah like out over the water out over the water and that's how the tampa bay lightning got their name so it just seems like like things just kind of fall in his lap so to speak you know yeah exactly exactly what happened because uh buchigrass did a book with him a few years ago his uh autobiography that but like buchigrass road farming yeah he did say he was andy asked the hard-hitting questions to to the o-dog in the uh draft meetings oh yeah do you like to golf well it's funny that so i i i didn't end up in the draft meetings i didn't end up in the draft meetings i ended up um continuing after that but when terry ryan did that that infamous interview with milbury esposito was the next team that he was interviewing with because he was going to be a first round draft pick probably in the top 15 picks and then esposito asked him about like what had happened in that room because there was obviously some chaos and esposito was just like laughing about it cracked him a beer and had a beer with him and did his meeting with him where once again he was not at he was asking you where do you fish you know where do you vacation what do you like to do with your spare time instead of grilling the guy that some of these some of the way these guys do before the espo also considering we're in the middle of the olympics and playing for your country a legendary speech to the citizens of canada before they went over to moscow for the final four games of the 72 summit series where he kind of showed and and made his disgust like out in the open like i can't believe you're booing us like we're trying so hard this is a good team and they go on to to get the wins in russia that they needed to get to get that series so um always has spoken his mind very colorful character and yeah i mean the stanley cups in boston and and then being a part of lightning ownership as that team came into the league he's had he's had quite the run so did you say 84 he still does some uh does he still do some radio or tv stuff with tampa i think he did radio color commentating for a while i believe he did that for a bit and he's got a statue out in front as well i mean he was you know like basically the founder of the team and he he was on at you know he was the founder of the team and he was the founder of the you know you just mentioned the summit series with not the biggest fan of russians uh for a long time but ironically his daughter ended up marrying a russian later in life so he kind of he kind of saw the stance on the ruskies later in life but either way espo uh we love you here in boston man i know if you're gonna hear this a lot but uh nothing but love for espo here i know things didn't end great for him in the city but uh happy birthday a couple clicks for espo absolutely we share a birthday yeah it's witt's birthday too just had that had that down here i was just gonna get that way how would you how old you 43 43 holy shit guy do you wait so you you're only 33 when when we started this shenanigans with the show yeah that's pretty crazy yeah that's what i think's crazy is we've been doing this show longer than i played in the nhl oh wow which is very weird to think about that is kind of insane but i know so that means i was what 43 holy shit man a few more years and and we've been doing this longer than i played pro like i played pro 12 years yep yeah i think i was 12 too yeah so we're coming up on uh on on beating our first career within the second one so yeah you've been there since the start crazy it was probably right around my birthday we did the first ever episode because i know it was right near the super bowl it was yeah it was right before the uh super bowl in uh 2016 it was like yeah wild stuff i mean i when when we met and we started this i was just retired not much going on and now married with three kids so it kind of shows how how much i love you life has changed and and how lucky i am so i appreciate it buddy yeah divorce with no kids so i'm a little a little yin and yang you're going backwards yeah no no no all right you're doing great you're doing good buddy we love you good man i've been like i said happy to be happy again oh a couple uh other leafs notes for you here visit now 1999 on this uh date february 20th the leafs hosted the habs in the first ever hockey game at the new air canada center the leafs won three two no t steve stumpy thomas with the game win a goal uh like do you remember when that opened like do you remember the transition of like maple leaf gardens to the air canada center like was it a big deal back then like what do you remember about that um i think i may have attended like one if not maybe two games in at the the old the old garden maple leaf gardens the thing the problem was though is tickets there were so expensive and like my you know my dad worked in a steel mill they actually used to give us uh sabers tickets at like the if we went to the the bank we used to be at the the palace credit union there and they used to give us so i never really went there when the air canada i think one of the first times i ever attended was when uh i finally got an agent like at a certain age and they brought me there and like i got to you know go up and eat in this like special room and like they had this buffet and i couldn't believe it i think it was la versus toronto so i got to experience it not uh it was probably probably about uh two or three years after it had finally opened so i was never there for like any of the open it's a building that's uh that's aged pretty well like because like i know the garden's done a pretty good job at like redoing things but it got old kind of quick right what did the garden open 96 uh the first season there was 95 96 yeah and like all of a sudden like a few years back it's like geez this place isn't that old where i feel like where the where the leafs play like that building i'm sure they've made some changes too but it's a it's it's quiet but it's a sick building it's got a yeah big concourse like sometimes those older buildings they got tight concourses though but i love i love to go watch a game there and the bees they they definitely have gussied it up the last few years they sort of blow up that wall that goes toward the causeway street side yeah got a little bit better you know they they basically had a shoehorned in where it is uh one last one on this date 1944 i've never heard of a perfect game in hockey but the leafs and blackhawks played the nhl's first ever perfect game goaltenders uh paul bebeau and mike karakis battled to a scolist high while no penalties were called during the game have you ever heard that like phrase before it no but those poor people who paid money to go to that game i mean no penalties no goals you're leaving there with your kid who's getting to go to one game his whole childhood it's like uh thanks dad yeah they should be refunded no no no wonder why i don't or you get to say you you attended the first ever perfect hockey but that's probably why but i think but i but i i don't want to call that the perfect hockey game yeah like that's not the worst yeah it's the worst hockey game that was oh we got a we got a flight to catch and the refs need to get some pops after the game or a train to catch then yeah that's true at work uh all right we're gonna bring back a couple a couple of at the night shift a couple all right hamilton questions we got a few here we haven't done this for a little bit favorite segment i got one uh ari this is from uh well at hoog hilltop tannis o'connell what are your top five rock bands of all time obviously the stones so i don't i won't include them everybody knows they're my number one but i gotta go petty zeppelin arrow smith you two and probably the black pros i think my top five rock bands would you guys who you guys chime in i would i would put ac dc okay it has to do with when i grew up and like what fired me up for hockey games and what i was bumping ac dc would be in there um led zeppelin for sure they got amazing stuff uh i would put metallica because i also grew up on them um you know who i would put and some people might say it's more like uh like rap slash art alternative limp biscuit no rage against the machine i i love they had a couple songs before a game and um and who's um give it away give it away give it away now red hot chili peppers not a big band guy but if i had to pick i'd probably go oasis are they a band oh yeah they're definitely a bad yeah oasis i'll do eric clapton i'll do um metallica because yeah i'll do metallica because of uh derek morris driving to the rink with him um banging my head off the steering wheel and then i will do black sabbath rest in peace to uh yeah ozzy osbourne ozzy osbourne can i throw in a canadian wild card on this one do whatever you want buddy actually i'll throw in two canadian wild cards tragically yeah yeah okay i'd sub one of the ones i put for tragically hip and then i would actually put uh um uh dallas green and uh alexis on fire so alexis on fire the guy ended up breaking off and doing kind of more of a solo act called city in color dallas green obviously one being a city one being a color they have a couple good songs city in color he's he's got a tremendous voice so why are you looking what's up over there g top five band of all time none of us have heard of him he likes him no but here's no no i've heard of him i've heard of him i wanted to give a special love to like the canadian side of it and i also think it's how it resonates with you like i actually like i don't give a what you like no it's yours yeah it's mine yeah i gotta add the i'm gonna i gotta add the killers to mine i like them and i caught a drumstick at their concert you guys you guys missed one i know we list a lot of them you missed one we missed a lot of them we got two ten fey they're not rock though no uh we were we were hot stoving in tampa r.a just in the room and i brought up how music's so cool to me because certain songs bring you to a moment in your life like it's just like you'll you hear a song and forever you'll think of maybe one specific moment or something you always did to that music so driving to hockey with my dad you too sunday bloody sunday and where the streets have no name like those songs were played before we got out of the car maybe the last two songs before every game so whenever i hear either one of those songs and a lot of you two i i kind of think back to those great memories so youtube's been my i've said they're my favorite band forever i just can't get it it just doesn't do it for me yeah no yeah some people for sure and and but yeah metallica was a good one biz and um but i just love the fact that no matter what you hear a song and it's like you you think of something you think of something so specific and and that's that's kind of what i love about it ted talk um you know biz i'm surprised that the hip wasn't more popular down in the states i don't know i don't know i never got that either yeah maybe maybe it was because it was before streaming they didn't tour didn't they get couldn't one of them not come to the u.s so they couldn't really get big because back then you had to come and tour to get big yeah i i'm pretty sure they did maybe not enough it just i i yeah it just wasn't something that americans caught on to i i i i put them in the same class as a band like uh oar where they just never really went mainstream gore downey's last concert like wasn't there 20 million canadians watching i bet you about around there yeah it was actually in his hometown of kingston yeah and it was outside i remember watching it i i was actually fortunate enough and um the tim quack sister he's the one who does all the car shows the barrett jackson and uh great guy and a box um at one of the shows in vancouver and i was able to attend that with them and uh actually uh the lead singer from um another rock band was with us in the box um uh chad kroger nice yeah yeah from uh you can nickelback right nickelback yeah nickelback i should put them because i'm technically in the band now yeah that's true yeah yeah so uh but uh great great question i actually just googled uh top 50 i mean i'm i'm shocked i didn't say oasis too because i grew up on that but like there's like there's so many good ones in here that you're just scrolling by you're like and they have no doubt with gwen stefani that was great growing up good run oh unbelievable green days in there yeah going back to the hip if you haven't seen it yet and even if you know nothing about the band they have an awesome uh docu-series it's just a like whole history of the band and you know how things you know how things ended like you just mentioned the last concert just a fantastic documentary series again you don't have to be a fan of the band it's just a awesome documentary because i i mean i know like maybe one or two of the songs and i always said this band is great man i just don't understand why they never like hit it off on here i i also uh listened uh 15 times over and over the greatest hits of the eagles and they have an incredible documentary that's out i think it's that documentary is awesome it's unbelievable because you know we're so young that we didn't really like you know we weren't around during their heydays and how they got together and no i was more into don henley like as the boys of summer that song and his single career um or when he was on his own and then i remember finding out oh my god he was in the he was in the eagles so yeah that's a good call tough to not mention queen either freddie mercury is like what a banger the beatles like what are we doing never have liked the beatles oh i love never have been a big fan of the beatles i was my wife was telling me she was driving one rider and his buddy home and he just wanted to listen to the yellow submarine he loved the beatles i was like i i don't know if i could have made that ride if i'm playing yellow submarine overall i think it's one of the worst songs ever made yeah it's not great giant beatles metallica like i don't know if you guys ever seen them well i saw them like the last summer fox pro one of the best concerts i've ever seen in my life just like i've been headbanging central i had a sore neck the next day from smacking my head all all night but we do got to give a shout out to the uh small town strip club we're gonna be talking about bands i've seen i've seen them ra on the first leg of their uh tour and then the last leg of their tour and they were equally as good both times metallica so they bring it no matter what whether it's the first concert or the last they are g's yeah there's a old vibe there's a lot of people that are going to be like oh my god i'm gonna be like oh my god i'm gonna be like oh my god i'm gonna be like oh my god i'm gonna be like oh my god i'm gonna be like there's a crazy clip of them playing and it's a european country um i wish i'd remember but it's on the probably like finland there's got to be a hundred thousand people just headbanging going crazy i think the one of the craziest rock shows of all time was metallica and russia okay that's what it is oh yeah it's like a million people right yeah it was nuts bro and and the bangers they have with the guitar that are just getting everybody headbanging uh so i i googled the top 50 of all time and and on this one i'm like oh my god i'm gonna be like oh my god i'm gonna be like this list the top five are queen um pink floyd who i don't think we mentioned the beatles is one yeah rolling stones is two led zeppelin yeah and then those other pink floyd and then queen So that's a, hey, great, great little riff there, boys. Definitely, if there's one band I wish I was, you know, could have saw live, it was definitely Zeppelin and Bob Marley. Those are like probably the two acts I wish I was a little bit younger, I should say older, to be able to see them. All right, last one, R.A. Hamilton here from Matthew Charles, Matt Charles, 21. We got your hat washing method, R.A. What is your foolproof way to get dog shit off your shoes? Kind of a weird question, but it happens. Throw them out. Throw them right in the garbage. Yeah, that's straight to the garbage. Go pick up some Nobles. Not all of us got 20 sheets in the bag, so for guys who can't buy new sneakers tomorrow, I don't know what. Power wash it? No. Honestly, if this puddle's out, just step in a puddle and then get a stick and fucking that's the best way to do it, man. I love this. Get a stick. I want to see R.A. on an infomercial getting shit off his shoes in a puddle. It hasn't happened in a long time. That is the most, that is the simplest answer you've ever given to anything. Like, yeah, hey, what do I do if I'm thirsty? Oh, there's a water bubbler over there. Go press the button. Your neighbor ever live shit on your lawn? You ever step on that shit on your lawn? Well, I got a solution for you. A puddle. And a stick. Or a neighbor's pool if you hate the neighbor. Above ground. Or you just throw in the dishwasher with your hat. The worst. Well, if you live in the city, it doesn't happen because you know to just look down because there's so many scumbag. Actually, Grinnelly, you said when you moved to Southie recently that that was one of your biggest complaints, right? Yeah, it's awful. Actually, Hoboken, where I used to live, just issued if you leave your dog shit on the sidewalk, it's a $2,500 fine because so many, once all the snow melted, it got so bad. So I hope Southie does something like that because I think it's bullshit. It's hard to catch them, though. I think that at certain HOA communities when you rent, I think you have to give a DNA sample of your dog. No way. I was just going to say that. You're 100%. No way. And they'll test it? They test it. Oh, buddy. Mark Pissek lived in one. We were walking his dog late one night, banged up, and he's looking to pick up the shit. I'm like, dude, just leave it. He's like, no. Well, it wasn't my dog. Pick up mine. I am my guy. But he was like, no, dude, they take a sample of your dog's fucking shit before, and then if there's anything out there, they test it. Oh, and the rookies in the HOA, they have to be the testers until another couple comes in. There's a group email that goes out. It's like, guys, some disturbing. Some disturbing news. That was actually human shit. Somebody took a shit. They're testing all the human shit. In the walkway of the apartment. We're asking everybody to supply DNA samples. And there's no puddles to clean it. Yeah. This is my own little all right, Hamilton, for the crew. When you croak, whether you go to heaven, hell, whatever gates are going to let you win, what questions from your life would you want answered? Like, unsolved mysteries. Like, who stole my bike when I was 10? Like, how did I get in when I was blacked out that night? Who had to crush me when I was young and didn't know? What mysteries? What in your life would you want answered? Like, when you die, do you go into heaven or hell? Shockingly, it would actually relate back to hockey. And I would have wondered if I ever would have stayed a defenseman, if I would have actually made the NHL as a defenseman and maybe had a longer playing career and played more ice and stuff like that. I think you'd still be playing. But then, like, obviously, this side of it happened as a result of just me kind of turning into a clown. But that would kind of maybe just, yeah. I don't know how I would get. I don't know how I would get to that answer. But that is. What happened to your draft suit? That would be a G out of the clouds. That is fucking good. That might have been the fucking off the top of the head coolest thing you've ever said, G. Yeah. What about you, Yance? One mystery question. You're like, oh, I don't remember what happened, but I want to know before I go to bed. Mine would probably, and it kind of just reminded me when Biz said about his, mine would probably be if I went to college, if I had ended up going the college route, if I would have made it. To the NHL. By, I mean, college. Well, he's saying he might have partied too hard. Well, all right. If I think if I would have went to college, I don't think I would have ever played pro because I learned those lessons my first two, three years pro of like getting into trouble, knowing what it's like to not live with a billet, have to be, you know, like, sure, there was curfew nights before games, but like, it's not like we were calling in, right? It was, you know, you had to kind of be a little bit more of a man on your own. And that was difficult for me anyway, for the first couple of years. That's a great question. I was deciding between two different surgeons before my left foot surgery and the guy mangled me. And I don't know, you know, if I went with the other guy, maybe I just love it because the foot is so messed up now that my knee is so messed up and my left hip is now so messed up. And it's like, I wonder if I chose that other guy. Mine might be who took all the corkscrews in Milan, Italy from Kevin BX. So he can't drink his wine. I'm also, yeah, maybe like what, you know, what would have happened if I didn't burn the lasagna that time? Yeah, that's true. Mine is going back to 2004. The first Stanley Cup party I crashed when the Tampa Bay won it. I left the arena and you leave an arena, you don't get back in. I was a fan. I didn't have a press pass. I have no idea how I got back in to the arena the night I crashed at the Tampa Bay Stanley Cup party in 2004. Long night, long day. But I definitely want to know like how I either bullshit somebody or like lied or just stuck in a door. I really don't know how I ended up back in that building. But if there's a, you could have, you could have like, that could have been like brick killed the guy. Like you could have killed the guy. You don't even know. Then I almost got fucking. They almost got arrested afterwards, but no way. That's one mystery. I definitely want to figure out, but here's my surprise first. Yeah. All right. A couple more here. My classic recommendation of the week. I'm not sure if you guys start. It's. Reservoir Dogs, 1992 Quentin Tarantino movie. What a movie. I mean, obviously he's one of the greatest directors of our lifetime, but if you haven't seen it, give it a whirl. It's a fantastic debut from Quentin Tarantino. And as far as my picks, man, guys, I'm a little bit of a dilemma here. I have a fucking Slovakia future at 80 to one right now. All right. I don't want to hear this shit right now. Are you serious? I don't want to hear this shit out of your mouth right now. You're wearing a USA hockey hat. We just talked about what the women did to hate hedge. I'm just going to say there's no real way to guarantee myself money. No, I'm buddy. I'm USA all the way, but I just. No, you do this. You don't touch anything. And then hopefully US wins and you hammer them in the gold medal game. And if they somehow lose to Slovakia, which would be heartbreaking, at least you can really hedge something then. Yeah. I mean, I'm a big let it ride guy. But yeah, I'm just curious. Wanted to pick your brain. So go USA all the way. Go ahead. All right. We're ending the show with this. Are you all done? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So I just wanted to bring something up because I figured you'd want to be involved. And just thoughts and prayers are going out to the Vetrano family right now. And Frankie's brother, Sam, he passed away. 43 years old. Father, husband, and cancer fucking sucks. And Frankie's such a good guy. His brother was a great hockey player at Babson. And just want to shout out their family. Just horrible news. So tough way to end the show, but I figured you'd want to be on there for that. You know, Frankie a little bit as well. I met his brother a few times, obviously playing with Frank and going to his wedding, hanging out with him and just a tremendous guy. And he was sick for four years. I talked to Frankie today. And when he originally got diagnosed, they told him he had 18 months and just fought and fought and lived four and a half years, you know, really showed his family what what fight means. And I think, you know, his legacy is going to live on and, you know, I know wit had shared some stories about talking to people. He was coaching youth hockey in Hingham, Mass. And just it just one of those guys you saw every day at the rink. And he was just a joy to see. So thoughts and prayers to the Vetrano family, an unbelievable family, just true blue collar. Awesome. Awesome family. And we're thinking of all you guys and we love you. Keith, you just mentioned the rink. And, you know, the rink is it's like people go there. It's a sanctimonious place. People go there to escape and have fun. And it was violated so bad. And Pataka, Rhode Island this week, you know, I know you guys posted online was so like deeply heartbroken and sad what happened at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena down in Pataka this week. And we extend our deepest sympathies, condolences to everybody affected by it. It's just, you know, this foolishness we've talked about on the show before that when this shit happens, it's just so frustrated and aggravating and awful. So, you know, to everybody affected by it, everyone here at Spit and Chick, let's send our deepest sympathies. Regrets and condolences. And we're so sorry it happened. And anything we could do for you guys, reach out. And we're just, you know, just sad we have to talk about this stuff again. So, I know it's tough to do, but we, you know, we need to acknowledge these things. Well said, R.A. And sorry about your guys' loss. And just, you know, great seeing your face though, R.A. We'll talk next. R.A., go USA, bud. Let's go, baby. Go USA. All right. See you later, buddy. We love you, buddy. All right. Love you, too. Love you, too. Love you, too. Love you, too. Thank you. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.