Spittin' Chiclets Episode 645: Featuring Rob Gronkowski & Jackson Blake

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The Minnesota wild stay alive and the Anaheim docs have some fun, some line, quack, quack, quack, that's three right there. So I don't know, bitch, how was your weekend? We have another guy coming on who just unnecessary. Just barely, just barely, just a middle of broadcast. He did a great hockey game and he's putting up your love life in your habits on hating apps. It is just like I loved it, but I was shocked. I mean, the Buffalo Sabers are trying to figure out the power play snapping at around out there. And they're not even showing it. They're just showing Rob Gronkowski being asked about your saber chug and then completely deflects. It's almost like you like paid. I know reflect because I saw that comment. I go, Jack is going to bring this up because he's, you know, he's a beer chug guy. He's a big dumb football play beer chug guy. And I'm like, oh, my God, he did, he just kind of forgot about me. I got a board high school girls too. I'm like, what is happening right now? I thought I was on the Epstein files for a fucking second there. I'm like Chris Hansen's like a bitch. Have a seat. It's like, where's Liam? It's Chris. Take, take a seat. It just, just crazy, crazy behavior. And like, I didn't realize that variable was in his teammates. So obviously I came out firing on social, where I'm like, this guy played for the New England Patriots. I mean, his 75 year old coach, who should be in the Hall of Fame first ballots date in a 25 year old. We got Tom Brady hanging out with Alex Earl. We got, we're not even going to get into that Hernandez stuff. We got fucking grunk, who I'm Eskimo Brothers with, where we fuck. Baby Joe, there's a laundry list of shit here, even variable, the Patriot way. I mean, the last one guy is old lady who's got a bun in the oven on a boat cruise. Basically, dating her for five years, it might even be Vrable's fucking kid here that we're talking about. And the one thing that you got a bone to pick about is me on a fucking dating app, matching with like, oh, what, 36 or 38 year old girl from Buffalo just because I'm trying to get my Buffalo wings sucked. What I'm in, who cares? Who gives a fuck? What is going on here? Hey, it just means you, you are the NHL. I just bringing that up. I, I was hoping for a good rant. That went above beyond expectation. The Patriot way. Hernandez got brought. Aaron, take that back. So I mean, I take it back, but I'm saying here is like, if you're a former Patriot, and you got the laundry list of stuff I just mentioned, a bone to pick with a, with a 41 year old man matching with a 36 or 38 year old girl from Buffalo on a dating app. I don't know. That's pretty fucking low on the list if you ask me. I'm not married. I don't have a girlfriend. It ain't none of your fucking business. Yeah, don't forget about the owner there. Bez, too. Oh, you mean Robert, Mr. Tug off craft. Like you take it, he's, he's, he's, I knew Murls was going to chime in there as the bills dude. Go ahead, this is one of the things he was, oh, you don't have any game. I don't have any game. You got a billionaire owner having to pay for tugs and I don't have game. Let's fucking walk this one back. And I'm just interested to hear what he has to say when we get him on here because I don't know. Maybe he had a crush on this girl. It never worked out. And like, he's got something going on with me personally, but like, sorry, buddy. I'm sorry. I fucking didn't sign your girlfriend's yearbook. I respect. I respect him. Come on. We'll chat with him in a little bit. Keith, how was the weekend, buddy? I got a kick out of you going to a game to watch party, Saber's Canadians with, I think it is 25 diehard Buffalo fans. And you had, I think, forget Hat Jersey pants. You had Canadian socks on you. I think you were just straight red. Yeah. Showed up with some Pooteen, a couple of shiny shows. Did it all a couple of Moulson Canadians? Yeah. I was decked out full because it is a little payback. We watched the Super Bowl together with those guys and they wore Buffalo bills gear. So it's just, it's part of my favorite game. Yeah, exactly. Like, at least I'm sharing for a team that's playing, but yeah, it's always fun to get under some Buffalo neon skin. But, but like you, like you said about them when you were up there with unbelievable people, they all took it and stride. They ate, they ate the loss with class too. Just really good people put out a nice spread for us. But another thing went to a nice Mother's Day brunch. Everyone doing pinkies up in the pictures. Yeah, it's everyone. And, I gotta be honest, I don't know if they're going to love this. When, when we found out that pinkies up was going to be it, I, it wasn't like right away. I was like, oh my God. Yes. I was kind of like, I like it, but I'm not sure. They knew, they knew exactly what they were doing. The team that decides on a way to market a drink because it's taken off. So back to pickies up and glad you brought that up. Murr, do you think it started with our commercial load? You think that's what really did it? I think it was that old woman in the pink jacket that you probably have seen since as well. If I'm going to be honest, but you went to high school with a groan. Bonnie. Uh, yeah, Bonnie was Bonnie. Yeah. The Bonnie. Bonnie. She was a honey blue too. The last year, the Barney blue stuff. That was that was another tough trick. It's moment. Murr, love that you're, love that you're with us again as a sabers guy. I mean, I'm going to start off. I got to be in Buffalo. I mentioned the fans. I mentioned the atmosphere. I also talked a lot about kind of loving this Montreal team. They're fun to watch play. Obviously, the crowd at the bell center in the playoffs is something that is unlike anywhere else. Maybe maybe Edmonton. I got to throw it out, but Montreal's in a league of its own, I think we'll say. Montreal's, uh, they are overwhelming. This team, Murr, they are bullying them. They're outscoring them 11 to three in the last two. It's the first time this playoffs. Murr, I was one, two in a row. And if I'm a sabers fan like you right now, I'm kind of panicked a little bit. Yeah. I'm definitely panicked. And in both games, we're kind of the same to me. There's no desperation from Buffalo. They came out Friday night. Just like, like, it was a normal game in February and at carried over to Sunday, you see them. You know, when coaches, they used to say like, you're there, but you're not there. Terry and said that a lot. That's kind of What happened? Celine on a couple of them was in front of the net, but he's there, but he's not like aggressively pick up the guy stick and move them out of there. Last night on the third goal, talk and Thompson are kind of back-checking. They're kind of there, but if they went as hard as they're supposed to be going as desperate as as Montreal is playing, they would have been there and they would have prevented that goal. They finally showed some desperation in the in the first half of the third period, but it was too late. I don't I think that brewing series was almost too easy for them compared to Montreal where it was just a dog fight every minute against Tampa Bay, and that's been the difference for me so far. Yeah, because in the in the one against Boston, they could take periods off where it didn't enough biting them in the ass, so it's almost like they didn't learn that lesson. But a few like kind of glaring things like five on five, obviously, it looks like the ice has tilted nonstop face offs. I've never really noticed like face off dominance like this. And I've always thought like I'll fit whatever, you know, face offs matter, but this is becoming crazy. Yeah, like, you know, I think it's about between 60 and 65%. You start seeing like how important like the to know ad was and getting him over from LA, like little, little guy like important pieces like that. But boys, like the sequence at the end of game two for me with greenway. And I were probably going to beat a dead horse here, but I do do immediately about this. They were down in the game, right? So you think when you're down that bad late in the game, the game's over. You're a fourth liner. And I'm not trying to hammer away on greenway here because I thought in game one, he was one of the best players on the ice. He had the goal. He was making plays, toe dragon in a neutral zone. He was physical. Oh, we gasped him up after game one. Yeah. Yeah. So we, we gasped him up. Like you saw him at the press conference. He had the leg crossed over like you would have thought he was MJ the way they how confident he was after that one. I'm like, Oh, this guy might go on a tear here. He threw the answer to Benson. Oh, I'm meant to say, oh, bye. I'm not the throw. You don't throw stuff to me. It press conferences. The confidence in that press conference, I would assume that Buffalo would have won that one that series in five games. And then to just see, like you said, Merle, the lack of fight and desperation in game two to where you think at the end of that game where now you have an opportunity as a fourth liner where this Anderson's been running around, running his mouth, being a bully essentially then starts bullying you. It's not like an embarrassment of a tap of the shin pads and a shimmy shake. It's a punch to the back of the head, cross check, cross check. Like he was begging him to fight. And green way is just smiling and wanted nothing to do with it. And I'm thinking, okay, maybe he's thinking this isn't the time. But if I'm him, I'm coming out in the first period in Montreal and I'm fucking set in the tone and I'm challenging him at the bell center, kind of like we saw with with what he go and could chuck. And nothing, nothing, I don't that if I'm a Buffalo sabers fan who after the whistle podcast, sent out a tweet after the game, they basically said, I better find out that Stanley and Greenway's hands are broken after the series for the lack of like answer in the bell, basically. And I'm not saying fighting's everything. But when you're going to call dealt like that in your own building and being like embarrassed, I don't know boys like, what do you say with what do you say, Yanns, especially from a fourth line role. Well, I think you're the guy who can speak to it the most like me and Whit weren't out there doing that. Murls, you know, was getting in the mock, but like, you got to realize if you're a fourth line or like there were times during the season, he was in and out of the lineup. Like you got to realize you had a really good game, game one and whatever shit's not going your game your way in game two, you might have to start some shit and get in the mock and get your team going that way, which will bleed into game three and game four and game five. So I think you can speak on it more than anyone because that's what you did, right? You knew how to get energy for your team. You knew if if you were in a position where you weren't playing well, you could go out and grab somebody and get momentum. But I think that it sets the precedent with where it's almost like Buffalo, despite being a bigger team, they they look a little bit intimidated. And that's why to me, it's so important to have a guy up front like Anderson who can not only play, but he'll handle business, but also Arbor Jack guy is such a massive key as a six D man on a team where he's a heavy weight. He'll go anyone. And I don't think Buffalo really has anybody who can come near him. No, and back to the instance with Greenway game two, I the tweet I said it was it was similar to March on to Sedine in the Cup finals in 11. If you remember jab, jab, jab, jab and Sedine, but it was a Hall of Famer. Greenway, like you said, it's on the fourth line. You're getting jumped and he's laughing almost like we're up five one buddy. Like take a hike. It's like, no, you're getting spanked at home to tie the series up. And there was just nothing there. I was like, wow, and granted is this what is that why Vancouver lost that series? No, I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is you go into game three. There's no sort of physicality for Buffalo at the beginning. Now they scored the first shift. So that was kind of Lindy Rufford mentioned. I'd love to quiet them out early. It was 50 seconds in Thompson scores after. And I think Taj Thompson is a straight up star. I love the guy. I love his game. He was his game too was that was like a Whitney blooper. He was with rock in the box. It was crazy. And but he scores all right. And then it's just nothing. Nothing the rest of the game. And I was like, wow, after that goal, like they at the end of the first, I was like, that was domination by the Canadians. And I'll go to the end of the game because you brought up Jacque. And this was Saber's fans are pretty pissed off about. Was it a sucker punch? I'm not really going to say it was a sucker punch because Carrick sitting there, he's not like punching him, but he's giving him like little kind of jabs and pushes to the face. It's like, you got to know who you're dealing with. Yeah. But Jacque is just like, okay, bink and he buckles them. I'm not here to fuck around. I'm going to do your little slow rubber. But if I if I was with Darian Hatcher in the playoffs and I started like pushing his shoulder and face, like, I'm going to be ready for him to just drop me. And Jacque is like, okay. And that's not a suspension in my mind. I'll tell you what could be a suspension is noris. What? And I don't think that's a suspension either. But what he did, at least that was a little fight in that melee. I think it was with Bull Duke. When somebody else was tied up with Bull Duke, but the Canadians now, Malenstein had a moment where I couldn't believe he didn't get kicked out of the game for that. There was no stopping. There was no turning. And he just ran over Dolby's. I also want to get your opinion. I was kind of surprised. And March, you're all lucky that a spotter didn't grab Dolby's because he just got completely rolled over buried. But he stayed in the game. Good for him. We'll get into his game. But yeah, the the physicality factor. I didn't think coming in that March, I'll be able to completely bully them. Although we did mention that Jacque has got to be playing. I think he said, Oh, he said, oh, game seven of the Tampa and Strubel was playing. And I just thought that like obviously Dobson is a game changer and a huge factor. Thought it was Ballsy to put him in a game seven. But you obviously understand why with this puck, moving abilities, how much ice time. And you got to get his feet wet at some point, right? What better way to do it then? But I feel like especially in this series, inserting Jacque, I was a no brainer and it's paid dividends. And yeah, you were going to touch on one thing yet. I was just going to say, I think Buffalo's got to put Shannon. I was just going to. Yeah. That's a guy that knows like even if he's he's playing seven minutes, like if he's out there on that graveyard shift at the end of a game, he's grabbing somebody. He might take a suspension, he might take a fine, but he knows what it means to go into the next game with some fight and not showing that your team that you're quitting or not that they're quitting. But like, that end of a game, if shit's not going your way, you can't just take punches in the face. And he's going to I would I would bet that he's going to be in the next game for Logan Stanley. He's six seven. He's not in there for his puck handling and his turn offers at the blue line. You're in there to throw some bodies around. And all those scrums are the biggest guy on the ice. Shed your mitts if you got in. Just start tossing guys around and get him away from him with a bunch in that game over the ref. Yeah. Yeah. So, so, uh, Murr, you seem to think that the game got a little bit out of hand with the calls on the Josh Don trip. Um, was it on Lane Hudson or Caulfield on Caulfield. You were not happy about that one. Now I've noticed a few times early in games as playoffs where something's called and then maybe the refs are playing catch up a little bit throughout the rest of the game, making sure they call it even where it's like, Oh, you're kind of getting in your own way. Now you thought that that was kind of the start of a little bit of nonsense. Yeah. I just think all these playoffs. There's been way too many penalties. That's how we grew up that there wasn't power play, especially now we're in the we're into the middle of the second round. I just thought it was weak. It's down in the offensive end. It's not a scoring chance. And you just knew that they were going to score on that type of goal. And of course, it's Caulfield. So now he's not, but I would like to see the rest put the whistles away both ways. And at the same time, yeah, I'm going a little crazy on Twitter because I'm a fan. I want to get one of those, um, what's what do we have for posh of the dilute the range fan? Delusional. Yeah. Yeah. He's an idiot that disclaimer. I'm trying to get a sabre's disclaimer made. So yeah, I'm a fan. And I didn't like that penalty call. Of course, they score on it. And that was it was pretty much lights out after that. Um, I want to show it one guy on much show. There's a bunch we can talk about, but Alex new hook boys. Oh, yeah. Like. He's the only guy in this series that's won a Stanley Cup. They you're calling everyone, I'm sorry, Byron on Montreal, I met he played 12 of 20 games that year, but just being around, I had four assists. I looked in the 12 games he played, but he was around a championship team. He's got a Stanley Cup ring. So I think some people are like, oh, what's he, what's going to do in Montreal? But all these moves Kent Hughes has made, they've worked out on Newhook's goal that tied it up 11, his four check that started that thing off. I don't remember who the defense was. He fucking ran him from the from the face off thought, limited the man from the puck and then he ends up back in front. He got a little lucky. I think it hit Timon's and went in, like a little bit of an own goal. But this guy, I mean, how many goals does he have in the last, it's a five goals already this year? And he's backed back two goal games, scored the game winner in game seven, too, right? Like, that's why you bring over a guy that has cup, you know, he's won a Stanley Cup. He knows what it takes. And he's also a younger enough guy to teach the younger guys, like the Demodovs, the Caught Fields. Like, so he's probably hanging around with those guys, but he also has the experience of a guy that's been around for a long time. Did you see the lineup card? No. Yeah. Oh, yeah, tarps off. Like, you could tell he's feeling it right now. I think the whole team is feeling it, man. I think it starts with St. Louis. And I think it was before game, was it game two where after they were mentioning like the pregame speech he gave was incredible. They're talking about it. And then St. Louis asked and he's like, it's not always about like firing them up. But I know this group, I think it's a coach's job to know the group and know when they need a little inspiration and know when they just need, like, go get them tonight, boys. And obviously, like his career as a player, he's figured out where the team is at before games. I mean, in particular, because now like that the vibe all around that team and Dolby's his interview after whether they're calling him like a god in Montreal, he's like, I'm not a hero. I'm just a goofy goalie that tries to save the puck. Like, I kind of love his energy. He's been excellent the entire time, but Caulfield was somebody who as a group in our chat were like, man, like this game is so different in the playoffs. Early in that game, he had that chance down low and he got a good shot. So it was a good save by Lion, and he kind of just kept backing up. I think this you, you were talking about it. Instead of like, I feel like regular season, maybe he's stopped and he's getting to the crease for a rebound. And it's like, oh my god, he just can't score right now. But thank God for Lane Hudson because that pass, he made now Lane Hudson. Would you guys agree? He was far and away the best player in this game. Yeah. He has been remarkable. He has bet. So they've played 10 games. I want to say seven of them. He's been the best player on the ice. But that assists, like the vision he has, he doesn't even look and he finds Caulfield and you can tell for Caulfield, it's like, that's part of the easiest goal he's ever scored. But thank God, because it just takes so much weight off. No, granted, that was a power play goal. But it's just like, if he gets going, now we're, Slav, Caulfield gets another one off off of another Hudson shot that was perfectly placed. And yeah, that team, they just look confident, they look more physical, they look faster than Buffalo. And I didn't see it coming the way it's looked so far, like pre-series with, they haven't lost back to back game since March 14th, March 15th, which is, I mean, for playoff going into playoffs, that's a huge step. But what I liked about Caulfield is that first goal that Buffalo scored, he had a bad turnover. Yeah. He tried to flip it out. But from then on, you saw him working a little bit harder away from the puck getting in the grind. And something like that, he was probably like, oh, shit, if we don't, if we lose this game one, nothing, I might get scratched. I haven't scored. So I think something kind of like switched in his brain, then he started getting to the net. He started getting over and started. Yeah, he was working hard and he gets rewarded. Like, when you work hard, you treat the game the way it's supposed to be treated. You get rewarded and he got a huge goal, obviously, with a great play by Hudson. Yeah, you could see his body language after the give away. He kind of, yeah, that flipper play to get in the neutral zone and just didn't get off the stick. Going back to Hudson too, like on that, on that assist he made, I think it was greenway who lost the stick and he went down like in that situation. You feel so vulnerable, especially going against, out against a guy like Hudson. But I want to say it was about 45 seconds before that. They were set up nice. They were snapping around and Demadov got one on as the flanker on that right side. And you know, when the guy sales one over the net at things normally getting out of the zone, Hudson read it and he fucking sprinted right to the blue line and he kept that alive at the blue line. So all of a sudden, those demon and those penalty killers, like they can't get a few more fresh bodies. So they got him hemmed in and then 45 minute later as they keep snapping around, that's when the breakdown eventually happens with greenway. So like even going to the effort on to keep that alive, like the little, the little plays that he's making to just fucking continue to, like you said, with to be the best player on the ice for the Canadians and going back to you said, there's a lot of tire pumps going around. Like we were talking about it in the group text, that bulldoke and what their depth guys have brought this playoffs between Kirby doc, taxi, bull, bulldoke, like these guys are fucking made, they're contributing a goal basically every game. I still can't believe that St. Louis got rid of him. Like, I don't understand that move. I never will. And I guess it goes back to Kent Hughes and just how he's he's kind of replenished this team with some things that they need and it's, it's, it's, it's fun to watch, man. What would you guys have done on that? Because I saw a lot of people saying greenway should have ran to the bench. Yeah. Bustled fans are furious. But it's, it's the second period. That's a long way to go. If it's your first or third period, you can go grab it because the bench is right there. The equipment guys lean and over, but second period, you can't take off. It's a 10 second five on three when you're not even like prepared for a five on three set wise, I agree with you on that. Go watch the Glenn Denning one in the Pittsburgh series with between Philly. The bench was literally right there. He ran and got it perfect timing. And next thing you know, it was in the back of his net. There's no way you look like a fucking moron if you go that long to get your stick. And then they just do a tap and backdoor five on three like you're going to be front page of the herald if that's going on. I'd honestly rather like be dating a girl that grunk went to high school and Buffalo with that's on Raya, then, then have to deal with Lane Hudson with no stick. Yeah. As you can tell, he was like, uh, he's on rollerblades and all of a sudden it's back of the net. Also on coffee, not only he had missed another complete tap in from Hudson before his goal, I think. Remember that play where it was. I don't know how he missed it. He just like redirected it wide. And that's when I was like, oh my god, like is it kind of in his own head now. But thank you. I think he's like, he's so skilled. But like, he's not quitting on plays either. And I think he's way stronger than he looks too because he doesn't get bumped off the puck that easy. I think you're referring to the play. He came inside the blue line on the bench side and he like eluded a few guys and then he went back door to somebody and basically freed him up for, for like a half break away. So, hey, I know he might be a little snake bitten, but he was definitely noticeable in game three. And yeah, he always use he brings it and he's good for the power play too, right? Like the plays, the plays don't die on his stick. The one thing if we're talking Dolby's two boys, that post game was so frickin cool. There's a video. We can't play the video like the raw one. I think we might be able to play the one where somebody recorded the jumbo tron, but then given him the ole, ole, ole, ole, before he can even speak here, it is right here. And then he came on, you mentioned the part about how like the super star and like a hero when he's like, I just go home and eat food and watch Game of Thrones, like I'm just going to go home and chill. I'm not in the hero or nothing. But pretty cool. And that's the type of fandom you see in Montreal, where the game's over in 10 minutes after the game. People aren't rushing to their cars. They want to appreciate their players that are come out and give them some love for the performance they had. So, stick taps to Dolby's. I just want to go back to Hudson quick and I know we talk about it all the time in the hockey IQ and people don't understand that, like what that means. That play that Biz is talking about when he goes to the shots coming from Demidov. He knows if that puck's going to miss high and maybe Demidov's known for that, I'm going to sprint to the blue line, know where it's going to be, get it. And also the mindset to know that a guy doesn't have his stick. I can get closer to him. Like if Greenway has his stick, he's not moving in as close to him as he did there. He can get in good body position, make him make a move. He dives so he can just walk around him and then make an unbelievable pass back door. So the hockey IQ and him is insane to me. How good it is. I'm real. Back to game two quickly, Murr, like I mentioned Thompson, just an off night and then after a reporter asked him, like, are you battling something? And he's like, that's none of your business, like he was pretty. It looks like he is though. I don't know. Super fans, we're kind of looking at when McAvoy, like kind of, I don't know if it was a slupper, but he got him in that. elimination game. I think it was a game six. I don't know. Do you think, yeah, based on him and Tuck on that one back check. And then if you even look at Kirby docks goal, I don't think it was Thompson, but nobody's coming back on that one either. Yeah. They stopped skating. I think they thought he had it. Yeah. And then the guys that did come back overskate it. They didn't stop in front. So kids at home, always stop in front of the goal line on the back check. I'm sure he's dealing with something like who isn't dealing with something at this point, but you know, like Bizz, I don't dig into my Buffalo sources about injuries. I dig in for other stuff like power plays and goal tending. And I think the goal 10 is got to change. I lions made unreal saves. But the goals that it go in, he's not even in the net half the time where they're squirting through. And they've done it all year. They've been bouncing back and forth goalies all year. This is the game. Put in put in the fin next game. And for some reason you do lose boom, you come back with lion, game five at home, the vibes guy at home and a must win. But I just don't like his last two games. There's too many ones squirting in. And then he's like he's on roller blades. He's not even in the net where you look at Dolby's. He's always in the net. Big long pads are on the ice. And that's just been a huge advantage for Montreal. Everything low. It's like Dolby's like the save on Byron where he stretches out. They just got to get it higher. I think he's got, like you just said, he's got the lower part of the net covered. I mean, Daliens goal was just, it was a perfectly placed shot with a great screen. That was actually sick. The behind Daliens view of that. But I, I don't know. Buffalo's got a lot of questions now. And they got to show up. I did, I did think UPL. Maybe you throw him in in that game. I would have done that. Get him used to the bell center. Get him used to the visuals. What it's like with red jerseys in the crowd. You got to think he's going back in. I thought that was a miss. Maybe they did it because the game was getting a little out of hand where they didn't want him like, you know, getting ran, you know, something like because like Dolby should already been ran. So maybe there was some retribution. Oh, we got our special guest. Okay. Hey, Chickles fans. We're going to take a quick break for a message from one of our partners. It's Fran from Chicks in the office. The weather is getting cooler. And Abercrombie's fall drop has everything I need for the season. The best selling A&F Sloan Taylor pant is a closet staple for me. I'm always wearing it to work events. Happy hour. Anytime I want to be a bit more dressed up. And the viral Dylan dress is easy, one and done perfection. 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Before you bring him in, I can say goodbye to you guys, but I want to tell you something. I'll see you tonight at 8 p.m. Spit and Chicklets YouTube live stream. You know, you know, I'll be reading all the ads, the pink Whitney power play, the Reese's two minutes. So I will see you guys tonight, eight o'clock Colorado Dallas. See you, my boy, my man. And now we have Brock, the man that just buried one of our coos on TNT. What's up, Brock? Hey guys, how you doing? Great. I've been I've been better. Well, how about you guys? Yeah. Any. Did that elbow drop from the top rope hurt? I was actually at Russell Mania two weeks ago. So I felt like, you know, I need to be a cage match a little bit. I thought that maybe we'd be wrestling in the next one, considering that cheap shot low blow from the pop ropes, although you'd I would we'd have to make it a handicap match. Maybe me with anions and I don't want to go. I don't want that smoke. I love this. But I'm early. Looks like in a speedo and knee pads. But what like what was that, buddy? All right. So so here we go. I'll give you the breakdown. And no, I wasn't at a massage parlor for five days of just laying there thinking of, Hey, what shirt can I throw at Paul? But here we go. So we go to the game. I'm from Buffalo. My brother has all his kids there and everything. And I was like, go, let's go to a Sabers game. We've always been Sabers fans. I mean, everyone probably says, I'm not because I'm not wearing my bruise jersey and lightning jersey in those two cities, respectively, respectively, because I'm friends with those players and coaches. But the Sabers been trash for 15 years. But really deep down, I've always been a Sabers fan because that's where we're from. And we played hockey growing up to the ninth grade. So I was like, they made the playoffs. Let's go to a game. So we get a suite at the game. I buy a suite at the game. I don't even get a free suite. Yeah, it was, it was, you know, some money, you know, they're charging up in Buffalo. How much did charge for a suite there? It was $7,000. That's it. That's pretty short money for a suite in a second. That's a front white for you, right? But it's Buffalo. It's Buffalo city of Buffalo. That's not, it's not a big money city. So we go. And then my brother, uh, his wife, uh, like basically, brother works for the Sabers and was like, Hey, TNT wants to interview in between periods. So I'm sitting in the suite. I'm like six beers deep and I turn to my friend. And this is what I always do. I always turn to my friends because they're always watching sports nonstop. They're always up to the, you know, power with the news. So I go, yo, I'm about to get interviewed. What should I say? Give me some good, give me some good topics. He goes, my, my friend, who, whose name is Mr. Buffalo, Jr. Uh, he looks at me and goes, yo, yo, he's just matched with our friend. We'll call her Rhonda. He's just matched with Rhonda on a dating app. I was like, Bullshit. That ain't true. He's like, yeah, he's like, bring it up. Sure, Pat. I'm telling you not no game. And I was like, I was like, how sure are you? He's like, I'm a hundred percent sure that he matched with Rhonda. And then he pulled up the text message with her and Rhonda sent a message to Mr. Buffalo Jr. Yo, tell Rob to put a good word in for me, you know, to biz. Okay. Okay. So we wrote back, we got something up our sleeve now. And that's what you came up with. That was the time I came up with. I think the worst part about it is you said matching with our high school friend and the people just took high school away from that. So I got people in the back at T and two studio studios looking at and he like, oh, like, yeah, like, that's a little bit young. And I'm like, no, no, no, no, his high school friends. He's like 38 years old. So maybe the wording on it wasn't great, but I guess now that I hear the backstory, it makes a lot more sense. Yeah. Hey, how's Rhonda? Yes. So Rhonda, it definitely wasn't right because she's more of a tinder and bumblech. No, I'm not on those. He doesn't do those. Oh, you're not. What are you on? Raya no grinder. Oh, she won't be on grind. No, it's raya. And I'm it when we will have to get a text from you, the actual name, but I don't know. I kind of love girls from Buffalo. Yeah. It's like, and we might be going back for chicklets cup for the ball hockey tournament. Maybe we could do like a like a wedding ceremony before puck drop. Yeah. Yeah. Actually, that's what I need. That's another thing I wanted to talk about is the ball hockey thing that you guys are doing up in Buffalo. How can I be a part of that, man? And when is it? Yeah. I mean, whatever you want. As long as you don't throw me on the bus again. And the only reason I threw you on your bus is because I knew you could handle it. And I love what you do. I love you. That's why, baby. You're the only one I'm at. That's it. I know that I could bring. I could say something like that too. And I knew you would appreciate it. Well, Grant, before you came on, I mentioned like, I kind of skated free because when you showed up, I'm like, I'm going to get crushed by this guy from my chug. So now I'll give you the chance. When you saw me with that sword, you must have as a beer chug buffalo onion. You must have been disgusted. I ain't actually haven't seen your chug yet. Oh, thank god. Okay. That's why I've seen it. I've heard about it like 20 different times about Ryan Whitney's chug was awful. blah, blah. Everyone was talking about it this week. Don't be like Whitney. And then it came along. And let me tell you, I'm the worst beer chugger out there. So I can't even throw any shots at you. You know, one on one at the chick. Let's call buddy. You'll look like fucking Ronnie Deutsch from bar stool after. But what did you think of the game in the atmosphere? I mean, kind of sucks. They didn't get a win for you there. But it's been a long time. Was was the crowd what you thought it would be? Yeah. The crowd was exactly how I thought I was going to be. And it was rough. Just, you know, how the Canadians came out and scored the first two goals of the game. So kind of just zapped us in our energy. But I kind of got the feel when we scored that one goal, I think we made a three to one. And it felt like the momentum was going to ship that they're in the building. Let me tell you, I never felt that type of electricity in the sabres. What is it? Keybank arena now. It used to be HSBC when I was going up. It's a key bank arena now. I never felt that type of energy and dopamine just going through the building like I did and just that goal. So I thought right there on the spot, we're going to, you know, turn it around and get the momentum And we had a lot of chances, we just couldn't put it away in game two versus the Canadians. And I added up not seeing the game last night. I heard there was the same thing in the third period there. We had plenty of chances, but we just couldn't score. And the Canadians ended up running away with the game as well. Well, one, if I'm Lindy Ruff, I probably call you up to throw you in the lineup because there's been a little bit of a lack of toughness for the Buffalo Sabers right now. Like they look a little bit soft and they've been challenged and there's not much of a pushback. But you said you didn't see the beer chug. Are you privy to the blade gang and what they've brought energy-wise to the Buffalo Sabers? Yes. I wouldn't expect anything else from Buffalo fans. They're kind of taking bills mafia and they're kind of turning it into the blade gang now. And I like the blade gang more. It's more apt of out there on the street. And it would be pretty cool. That would be something that would be fun to be a part of because we roller skated and played blade hockey our whole entire life growing up as kids. But I see what they're doing. And I don't expect anything else from Buffalo. Are you going to be in Buffalo when game five's going down? No, I won't. If they advance somehow, would you at one point put the roller blades on and join the blade gang? I was thinking about it already. My brother and I, we're, you know, shun a little promo at our store before the game actually, you know, with with a workout we were doing at my dad's store. And we were talking about like, hey, if they win this game, how can we kind of incorporate doing something with the blade gang? How can we get out there? So it might be a possibility if they make it raw, raw tackle in the, the dummy on the street, the UFC dummy. No, no, here is the thing though. I don't really got that much love in Buffalo. I really don't. I saw some of the comments on, you know, Instagram under my interview and everything that I did. And a lot of Buffalo is, you know, hate on me, which is fine, which is understandable. I'm basically, I just went to the, I just got inducted into the Patriots Hall of Fame first ballot. And it's probably because I played the Buffalo Bills 10 times in my career just a lot of low on my stats versus the Buffalo Bills. So I understand why they don't like me. So if anything, if I do join the blade gang, I can be that dummy and everyone just tries to come up to me and try to fucking deck me and I just lay everyone out and give them a way. When was saying like even after he got his shit for doing the beer check that the people were unbelievable to him. And so you don't get the same respect there because they're so mad. We're talking about their bills. I'm not threatening, you know, he beat him up for 15 years. Yes, you did. I would say about 75% of Buffalo fans I'm cool with, you know, definitely. And there's just a couple of towns that, you know, just come after me. And it all depends who I, who I'm walking by and I just got to keep my head on this level because if 75% of fans love you and 25% are coming at you and they do throw some comments at me all the time, which is understandable. I mean, I'm down for you. You know, I like action. So and I love chirps. Obviously, as you can tell, I was chirping you. But it's just, it's just, it is what it is. I was on the Patriots for so long and face the bills for so long. Well, I'm sure it didn't help that you showed up and they got worked for the series to get tied, but congrats on that Patriot Hall of Fame. But it's unreal. I mean, that was only a matter of time, but that's still going to be pretty sick. Is that they do that in the summer, right? Yeah. They do it on a Saturday before game. So it's kind of like fall. It's, yeah. So it's a Saturday the induction and then you go to the game on a Sunday. So there's no plan date or anything. Yeah. Because Edelman was Edelman inducted last year? Yes. Edelman was the first battle Hall of Fame last year. And now I just felt like I had a copy on this year. Edelman drunk sandbag or maybe soon guys with you. Yeah. You want to, you want to play some golf against us? I'm down. Hey, watch out. Cause Jules is a pretty good golfer. All right. So you need another guy too. We got three on three. And it's a scramble, right? Everyone hits the same shot. All right. I'm all, I'm all in for scrambles. And let me tell you, Jules can drive the ball about 330 yards when he gets to go on tap on that. I'm three. Sorry. I he can do, he can do 300 to 330. You know, depending on how well he hits it, you know, per drive. But if he gets a good piece of it, man, I've seen it before. It's ridiculous. It takes off like a rocket. It's pretty cool. All right. Well, what is the person who is it the efficient? Who does the wedding at the front? Like, who does the, is it the, I can't see? No, like when they're marrying two people. Oh, yeah. Yeah. If you were right, efficient. Yeah. If I end up marrying a girl from Buffalo, would you be the efficient at the wedding? Yeah. I will be there is no doubt about that. Hopefully it's to Ronda. That would be great. I got to, I got to find out who Ronda is. I just love that business. That's the mystery in this. You got to find out who it is. Okay. I got to find out. Okay. This was so bummed out. He's like, he buried me on national TV. But then you came on and said that she mentioned putting a good word for me. And now look at me. He's glowing with his NHL hat. I was just Googling the engagement rings. Who's your, who's your current favorite saber? Do you like that Benson kid, that little rat running around? Yeah. Benson's will get. I mean, I'm, I, I'm very impressed with Dave Thompson because he's six six and he's playing center. Like, that's incredible. I was, I'm six six. Like, I'm, I would never be a center. You know, I understand the skill set of hockey as well. So it's just incredible to have that skill set, you know, at that size and be able to do what he does. But he hasn't been playing well lately, you just need, he needs to pick it up along with rest of the team, though. And I, I feel like they'll put it together. They're just going through a rough patch right now. I think the last one I have for you is, is now you're on the media side of things. Are you, are you loving doing all the football like every, every, it's once a week too, which is awesome. So it's not too much on your schedule. Yeah, it's great. And that's why I love it. It is once a week. And you're part of the game still. I don't have to take those hits. And I'm still getting a paycheck. That's what's great about it. And also, I got legends around me. Dude, I got Michael Strayon, Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, Kurt Manifey around me. I mean, these guys are, are top of the top. They're cream with a crop, man. And, and they're so good at what they do. And Strayhand's not just great at football. He's just great at like, just being an anchor at, you know, anything in the world. Obviously, that's why he's, he's basically the number one host on Good Morning America. So just learning from those guys and being around them and showing up once a week and just talking ball, you can't ask for a better job. Strayhand's a machine, man. How did he even get into like that part of it where it's not even sports now? He's morning America. I mean, this guy can interview anyone at any given time. If it's the president, if it's the leader of Iran, if it's the label, if it's label, yeah, if it's label, if it's the, the game, the guy who scores a game winning goal for Team U.S. stay on the Olympics, it doesn't matter. He can interview anyone at any time. You know, with no given time for preparation either, he's just got such a talent and it's a blessing, man. And it's an honor to sit next to him. It's wow, how good he is. Grunk, would you ever want, I know a lot of hockey guys will stay in media just to stay involved in the game. Then, you know, hopefully maybe get into management or something like that. I don't know if the NFL guys do that at all. Would you ever be interested in being in the front office of a team? No, not really, man. There's not enough freedom. I like my freedom. I like being on my own schedule and being part of an organization, you know, front office or, you know, just even being a coach. I mean, that's, that's about 10, 12 hours a day. I like just doing what I do. I like, you know, working three, four, five hours a day and then being able to do whatever else I want to do. You do. I think we talked about it last time or maybe I saw it online. You make sure you do sprints every day. Not every, not every day, but majority of the day is about three, four times a week. You know, it makes you feel jacked like when you're done. It releases human growth hormone after you run about six, you know, 30 yard sprints full speed. And that's all you need about three minutes in between. It just loosens up the body and, you know, you feel good after you feel jacked. I only did a walk this morning with my dog. That's why I actually was running backwards right before I came on the show because he was he was knocking at the door. He was scratching at the door, but I love sprinting. It just makes the body feel diesel. Cronk, I saw a video of the kid Cadek from a bar stool squatting you on a stage in Vegas. Could you believe he was able to squat at it looked like he squatted you 10 times? Yeah. I mean, Cadek's a prior offence alignment for the Indiana Hoosers. And he's a young buck still. He's 24, 25 years old. So I would have been disappointed if he couldn't do it at that. You know, he's still got that juice. But what was funny is we're kind of going at it. Like a like I was offence line. And he was different to line me. We're going at the night before an arrest. And I wasn't feeling that good. Like, like, nothing was activated that night. And he was kind of pushing me backwards. And he we got done. And he goes, that's the best fucking blocker. Like in the NFL at the tight end position, he goes, not fucking impressed and walked away. It was the fly. It was the funniest shit. I've heard him say that throughout the time I've known him. So, Cadek, watch your back now. But watch your father do it. You had your night. You don't talk shit. I'm just one night. If you can do it consistently, you can talk shit. But he was talking shit on the first night. Well, he better watch his watch his back. What's MJ say? He's like, Oh, yeah, you're real big. If you talk shit when you're ahead, how about doing it when you're behind? That's that. There we go. The, you mentioned Indiana, Cuz Cadek went there. That kid who got drafted first overall, Mendoza. What a, what a special guy. Like, what do you think of him just kind of coming in and seems like he's going to dominate from the start? You know, what, what I really love about him. I don't know him at all. I never met him before. But what I really love about him is that he's a football player. It's like he, like these, there's these quarterbacks, you got quarterbacks, they just dropped back and they just throw the ball, read, read the defense and put the place to ball where it needs to go, which that's the quarterback position. But this guy plays the quarterback position as a football player. And that's why so many people, I love in a, in our intrigue watching him play the game. And that's why everyone's intrigued with how he's going to do in the NFL as well. Well, that translate to the NFL. I'm hoping it does because I love watching him play and the way that he plays his game, you know, Indiana, I'm hoping he has success, you know, in Vegas, in Vegas needs to start popping. I mean, they've had, I don't know, four down years since being in Las Vegas, it needs to get going. It would be great for the NFL. It will be great for Las Vegas as well. They need grudin back is what they fucking need and grudin, John Groot. Yeah, I know. I mean, that was like 2002, yeah, I know I'm saying they need him back. He's seven years ago, yeah, yeah, throwing on the boss kind of, right? Yeah, he did. He kind of, I mean, the Mendoza obviously don't know the man, but he seems a little bit nerdy. And for me, like outside looking at it, it's like, how is this guy going to, you know, appease to the masses of an NFL locker room with all these different, you know, where guys come from? Is that a thing where a quarterback like has to have everybody's respect or it's like, if he's just out there doing his job, it doesn't matter if he's a little nerdy. He can be as nerdy as can be dogly, he can be the biggest nerdy, he can be on jeopardy and get every answer right. But if you get the job done, that's all it fucking matters in the NFL. It doesn't matter what your personality is. If you're an asshole, I mean, depending on to what extent of an asshole, but if you're an asshole, if you're nerdy, if you're just a smart kid, no matter what it is, you're going to get the respect from your teammates if you show up and ball out every single day. And I feel like that's the type of player he is. Yes, he lets a little nerdy, but he's a tough S O B. It seems like, and he's going to gain his respect, you know, through, through, you know, through, through being on the field with his team. Oh, yeah. He said he wasn't going to go to the, he said he wasn't going to go to the White House because they have like OTA. Yeah. I'm not missing anything. No. He was like, I haven't proven anything. So a lot of respect for him. And also that was kind of like a, like a shady question a little bit because that's throwing it. You know, I'm going to pick overall, you know, kind of under the bus because how are you? That's not kind of a wit. That's a loose, loose situation kind of answering that question, you know? But I got to know that I know the question to the T. You couldn't have had a better answer there. I don't know who's coaching him, you know, with the PR over there, but he's doing well. That's for sure. Wrong. This is best, buddy. We're going to see you either at Chiklet's Coppen Buffalo or at Business Wedding to Toronto prior to WrestleMania next year. You're going bonkers, dude, this, my brother and I, we looked at it because the game's on in the suite on the TV, but you can't hear anything. And then they showed my interviewer then they went right to you after they showed like us in the ring, like as cartoon characters, that, that shit was so fun. Yeah. And then it came to you. And you were just pointing to the screen, yelling at me. And I was like, Oh, shit, do we actually piss them off? I was like, I was kind of worried for a second. Yeah. No, I mean, maybe a little bit because like my co-workers think I'm on the Epstein list now. But yeah, whatever, what are you going to do, right? Listen to the first 10 minutes of this, of this episode, you'll know how mad he was, so you came on. No, I don't. Mission accomplished. Yeah. We weren't allowed. Were we? Oh, fuck. That live show. I was like, yo, he already wants to fight you. Ruffin Rowdy, one on one. I was like, Oh, shit. I was like, Oh, I think I got into a skin that bad. Well, we're good, buddy. We're good. I appreciate. Tell Rhonda, I love her. I will. I'm going to show her. Listen to me right now. Yeah. Dude, buddy. Hey, thank you guys. Thanks for coming on. I love your guys. Love you, buddy. Love you guys. Take care. You're a guy. On a legend. I will say once he said that the girls I put in a good word for me, I was like, Oh, business is going to love that. All prior being upset, it's just immediately done that now he knows he's in. He's in once again with another woman from Buffalo. So congrats, biz. And I'm going to have her, like, if we get together, I'm legally going to have her change her name for Rhonda. Yeah. Yeah. I guess I'm actually like, I feel like Gronk could be the guy like, let's call her Rhonda, but it was actually her name. Yeah. You know. And like, that's a Buffalo woman's name, Rhonda, from Buffalo. How do you do? I'm calling it a sports radio. Just one name, not even a last name. Yeah. She's on sports radio around from Buffalo calling again. Yeah. You look at her Instagram. She's got the ketchup and mustard all over her face in one picture. You know, she's the one doing all the food prep for the, for the tailgate, too. Yeah. It's not even going to get eaten. It's just getting smushed all over her face. It's like, I'm still going to prep. Yeah. She probably took down half the old line, you know, this is your future wife, biz. Yeah. I know. She's human. Well, another guy that, that through game three at least, we got two games to talk about. Anaheim Vegas, but through game three, I wasn't sure if Mitch Marner was human. And even in game four, they lose, but he's got three assists. Biz, I can't help but think of you. And although you're not a leaf guy anymore, but all of Toronto, what this guy is doing. Oh, I believe he might have a Mitch Marner shirt on underneath this, or he's putting one on Vegas, he's still got the leaf thing behind. He said he was getting that one that's not going away, I believe it's the Wendell Clark aspect of it. Oh, you're right. But that should have to leave just because it's a jersey. It's kind of hard because we got to talk about both games. But after last night in my head, it's like, wow, Anaheim boys, Anaheim ties this thing up. They look amazing. But we do have to go back to game three. The first game in Anaheim of the series and a shit kicking from Vegas. And at this point, I was kind of like, I texted the group last night after Montreal Buffalo. I'm like, the second round has been a little bit of a, of a dud, like there weren't many great games. Game three included in turn of entertainment. It wasn't great unless you're a gold night's fan in which you're loving life. You're like, holy shit. Mitch Marner is dominant. He's leading the playoffs and scoring. We got Torrella out there saying like any narrative about him is a bunch of bull shit getting coached. This guy's a pleasure. Topiz, I don't know. Did you guys cover that game or no? Yeah. We had that game. Patrick. I think it was what a four or five point game for him, but buddy, like he's been unbelievable. Like I full, full glaze coming here. Like you go back to the Utah series. I felt after the first few games, I didn't notice them as much, but I believe it was game three. It was when he made a couple big plays along the wall, broke, broke, passes up, ended up setting teammates up, and since then, like every game you're looking like when there's a play that comes to his stick or needs to be made or or it's him disrupting something, he's just gotten it done. Whether it's on the penalty kill, which their penalty kill was, I believe after that game three, it was running at like over 96%. They finally gave up a penalty kill goal last game in game four to Anaheim, but I mean, he touches so many areas of the game. And I mean, points wise and execution wise and leading that team right now, like he deserves a full tire pump and has really shut up any narrative about him not being able to produce or come through in the clutch, come playoff time. Some some haters still want to say like, oh yeah, look at the competition compared to what he had to play in the East and going up against Florida, blah, blah, blah, but but he give the kid his flowers. He's gone there. He's found happiness. He's not dealing with media bullshit. I miss it. I was guilty of it too. I was ripping on him, mind you, I don't know what the exact numbers are. Was it like 21 or maybe 18 games, five through seven with the with the Toronto Maple Leafs in like clutch, close out game type situations. He had no goals in six assists. I think that as from a fan standpoint, boys like, I mean, that's the same thing as maybe like Euler's fans ripping on Darnell, like when you when you command, you know, $11 million and you're the one saying, I want to be paid like a superstar and in those type of situations, you're maybe not showing up on the score sheet, but the thing is with Mariner is it's not just about that. Like he kills penalties, he plays power play, he gets tough five on five matchups. So from an overall perspective and playing 20 minutes of game, he's a valuable player and I'll eat my words here. He's playing to a $12 million player right now. He is a $12 million player where maybe after I was bitter about his performances and clutch situations with the Leafs, I didn't see that and I was okay parting ways with them. He's obviously found grass that is greener on the other side and he makes other players, he makes other players better too, right? 100%. He's a full package. He's a full package. Now, do you, wait, like, is it, in the end, is it fair to say though, when you command the money and you don't come through in those situations, like there is somewhat of a point for a fan base to be upset at the fact that like, well, you commanded all this money and that was what we got in games five through seven in big situations for not just a few years here. We're talking about like five, six years in a row. Yeah, and I think that there was more that went to it, like being from Toronto is part of it. He took the brunt of it. He took that, that was, that was the main part of it. And when you say it was you, it wasn't, it was kind of everyone. It was the entire hockey media world, if you want to say, I'll take, I'll take accountability. I was on that frame. He was the, he was the guy that, that took most of it. And I think there were fans and I'm sure there was like family members of his, like, why, [BLANK_AUDIO] I believe that was also known. His dad was almost partly like, why is it all him? But when you're the local kid and you sat out, you would require, you know, you, now he ended up, he ended up just being the guy that was like, he was the scapegoat. And when you bring up Darnell, it's like, I just think the difference in that is that Mariner is so fucking good that yes, while he didn't perform up to what people expected in his pay in the playoffs, it was still a little different than Darnell. - No, I'm just saying as far as like, he seems to be the scapegoat 'cause he makes a lot of money and maybe, okay, maybe bad example to them. - I just, I just think that now that, and I think at the beginning of the year in Vegas, I believe that sports center, somebody did a story on him when Toronto was going out there and just mentioning like, it's still, it's a big adjustment, right? Like you're just, you're in such a different part of the world, you're in a different conference, get all these new teammates. I've been in one place for so long that I get it, takes a little while. And then now you see the team really start rolling at the end of round one and then they get into this round and it's like, obviously, Torreira loves them based on his quotes, how could you not the way he's playing? And then Carlson comes back, so he's able to go back to wing. And even in game four, what we'll get into that one, like that line is, that line of how Longer and Carlston, that, I mean, that's, it's just, I mean, I'm happy for the guy, and as a guy who's like ripped on him, it's like, you still want to see somebody, like love what they do and his skill is just so good. Even last night, like he makes players where the puck was going out of the offensive zone. So he's facing his goalie in the offensive zone. He gets this close to the puck leaving the offensive zone. He just throws a backhand sauce. I forget to the defense minute was flying down who got a chance. It's just, there's so much creativity there. And now to be out of the bubble, like, I guarantee this kid has never had more fun playing hockey because look at the difference in what he's feeling and how he looks being in Vegas. He looks way less tight. He looks like he's enjoying himself. He's got that same creativity come playoff time that he did in the regular season with the leaves. And you mentioned him playing center, like his teammates love him. Like anywhere you go, you talk to his teammates. They absolutely love the guy. And for him to like sacrifice, you know, part of the season, if not like majority of the season, having to fill in that role at center that maybe he's not comfortable with and like not bitch and moan and just do it for the betterment of the team. Like that speaks to everything that he is to his teammates and in his squad. And, you know, towards back them up and rightfully so. So I'll take the yellow on this one, boys. You know, I was part of the part of the people barking and he shoving it right up my hoop, no spit, no loop, sandpaper, finish hands. - Yeah, and I just think the biggest thing and you guys mentioned is he's having fun. They showed him in warmups before last game. He's doing the spin a ram as he's doing, but like he just has a smile on his face. He looks like he's going out there and it's game 30 of the regular season. So that's the biggest thing for me is when a guy gets away from a situation where things didn't end well. Like he's having fun and he's playing well. He's doing what he loves the most and that's playing hockey. And like you said, like his teammates are reaping the benefits. Howdons got how many goals now? Like these guys like any guy on that team back, oh my god, please put me with him. Please put me with him. He set up was it McNabb on the peak on the short hand to goal the other night. Like little things like that where superstars, not a lot of superstars in the league, kill penalties like that, make other players better, they kind of do it themselves. He gets everybody involved. He gets guys in his team having fun. You can even see him on the bench. Like he's hyping guys up. So he's he's one of those guys. I've always loved his game, loved what he brings to the game and you know, he easy got to root for for sure. I did get a kick out of that. The Leafs have drafted two players with playoff hat tricks. I'm not some country and Mitch Marner. Neither one of them were on the Leafs when they did it. That cracked me up. But that leads us into game four. And what could I, his hat trick? Second natural hat trick in playoffs by a goal the night. Do you know who the other one was? Marcioso. Yeah, Marcioso, who ended up winning the consmire. So where would you put Marner as far as consmire, the rating in the West right now, probably number one. McKinnon is is probably number one. I mean, after the first round, Lekolm's name was already engraved in it. But yeah, Marner's right up there. I think Ikels looked excellent as well. Yeah, there's a bunch of different options. You start, I don't really start talking consmire legitimately until like we get to the end of the third round. Are we starting to eliminate two two not when it's two two in the second round. Okay. Well, let's see if it's coming at me. You don't like that I brought the conversation up. I like that. I like that he's in the mix for it. But like you're acting like they've already got passed inheim. Okay. So that that is what leads me into game four. Now, and I just got off the flow with Blutman before this and there was zero panic in his voice too. I'm like, what's going on in Vegas? Everyone's drinking the walless. Cool. Well, I wanted to go to Biz a little bit and the biggest story for the series in six games. Yeah, that's what it seems like every Vegas fan going into this series and even now is like Anaheim. We're just way better than Anaheim now. Not way better. They just they're they're they're they're going to figure it out. I just I think that they have what if stones out. They don't have stone. I don't think well, who knows he could be back. But with all the injuries he's dealt with and this was another one of the injuries where I don't think anyone was around them, right? One of the non-contact ones. So say it's a muscle there, I will just be willing to say they're in trouble if stones not playing. Maybe not this round, but you're telling me that if stone was out, they would be able to win the Stanley Cup. That would be more difficult. I just have this feeling that they're just going to keep figuring things out. Like they have their special teams that's buttoned up and five on five, they're good. I think that I think that like the Colesaur hasn't been as effective as he was when they made their run and won the Stanley Cup last time. So the one slight issue I have like they when they won their Cup the last time, they looked like more like Carolina in a sense of the way they distributed their ice. That to me is what the one glaring thing and the only thing I have going against a Vegas. But another thing I have worries about for Anaheim is how much they're playing Truba and Lakom and Lakom as much as we were double-resting him, he there's been more like brainfarts in this series and they're like glaring mistakes and listen, when you're playing, we've talked about it all season with Bacardi Bush, when you're playing 25, 30 minutes, you're being put in every situation, top power play, top VK, like these types of things are going to happen. But the thing is against Edmonton, he was flawless, everything he used, everything he did turned a gold, even when he slid the one time and swung a stick around, he's breaking up two on ones. He looked like the fuck, he looked like Bobby Orn has goddamn prime just doing everything out there. But the fact that they're overloading him with ice in the competition is getting better per round. That to me is a concern for Anaheim moving forward. But I do like the lineup changes they made. To me, like, McTavish is such a wild card because sometimes I'm like, oh, man, that was an unbelievable shift. Like, that's the McTavish we need. And then the next one, you're like, holy fuck, that's something that I would have done out there. You know, so if they could get consistency from more of their younger guys and their guys up front, that's the only chance that they have alleviating pressure from a back end that I think is being like, like drastically, like, the ice to good is back. They need good. Is he hurt? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I thought he was more like, he was just like, dude, I was wondering the same thing too. Like, it's weird. But you talked about Vegas as PK, which it was, it was incredible, right? Anaheim finally game two, game two, they get two power play goals and part of having a great PK is, you can be that much more aggressive, that much more of a prick because you're like, we're going to kill this off. Like, you saw him now, but he could have three penalties, one shift, finally he got one at the end with the cross checking to go the A's back. But if, if Anaheim, which I believe they switched around their power play groups a little bit, Seneca got the first one, Colorn got the next one. I think that made it. That made it three two, the Colorn goal. But if you can get your power play going, then if I'm, I'm one of these Vegas fans, like Blopman and Bizz, I'm not sitting here like, yeah, we're, we're, don't worry, we're fine. We got these guys in six, also considering the first goal by heart, I thought that was weak. It was on the ice, right? Five hole, maybe a little bit of screen from up top. And then what was the other goal, Grandland's goal, which I want to give V, I want to give V.L. credit, the Puck booth, some, Hanuffin rimmed it around and Raspus Anderson missed it. And it went to V.L. on the wall. He made an, I'm sure Grandland was yelling for it, awesome little backhand dish to the middle. But I think it was deflected or it hit off the ice. I thought that one should have been saved. So every time, every time he's at a rough outing, though, hearts bounce back, he's, he's done a good job of coming, coming back. And Dostal, he's been hot cold, hot cold. So I mentioned, like game three, like, it is, it's congrats to Mariner on the hat trick. A few of those on my A buddy, we're the fuck you going here. I know you got the nice suits coming in, like you look like a hundred of fun quiz, but maybe stop one once in a while, get the beach balls out there. But would you agree on the ice time discrepancy on the back end? That's a one glaring thing that I'm worried about. Yeah, because you saw it at the end. Like, look, home had that bad turnover to Dorafia that they almost scored. It tied up with like two minutes left. Like, maybe it is one of those things where it's like, okay. If he's at 24 minutes, it's way better than 27 minutes. So yeah, that's why I think having good is back would. It just drops guys down a couple of minutes. You don't have to play him because that that that's six pair in the. Five, six pair in is like, you know, they're kind of being sheltered a little bit where, you know, him and Trua are going almost every other shift. So I think if, if, if good is can come in and can kind of solidify another pairing, it just takes away a couple of minutes from McComb and he can, he can get back to where he was against Edmonton. And watching that clip, the ends, you just sent to the group chat of stone, like non-contact injury, skating back. Yeah. Um, and he just, that, that looked exactly like the video when I was back checking in the A.H.L. And my L5 S1 went out like where you're just, you're just skating back and then, and then boom, you feel this pinch and it seizes up and all the muscles around it are trying to protect it. And it just, it's the worst pain. I was, I was sleeping on my back in pain for, for like a week. He's the one guy that you can say, like, look like me in a skating video. That's how I skate it. There's, there, he skate, like, he doesn't bend much. So it, it becomes very bearing on your, like, hips and back. And that's just, that's the mechanics. Um, I'm actually shocked and surprised that he can get away and get around the ice and, and do the things that he does with the way that he moves. Like, he's an anomaly. Like, he doesn't make sense. And he's a, he's an all-star and skates like Paul Bessonette. Uh, straight up. He's doing the chopstick dance out there. And while Bill Carlson, man, that guy, like, that play he made is so unreal. Okay. So you talk about Nicole for, I texted the group that it was like his controller kind of was unplugged on that goal. He's just like, stop coming back and it ends up going in front. But Carlson knew that Truba was coming. And Truba, of course, laid him out, but he took that hit and made that beautiful pass and how it scores there. I was like, Carlson's such a gamer and like, just having him back. That's the one thing that, like if he wasn't back and stones out, they could be dead. But just six months out, not playing and he come, he has not looked like he's been missing any time or any games. Like, I think it's so crazy when you miss that long and you come back and I don't know how long he's been skating and what level he's been skating at, but that guy is so good. He's just such a smart player. Some guys just have it, right? With that situation when the two deer coming down, you know, like usually hand off to your D partner, if the puck's going behind the net, it looked like they would just like a little hesitant on, all right, who's this going to be? I think Truba knew it was almost like Lakom didn't go hard back to the front. Like I'd be okay, okay, you have him. You're taking him around. He's going to run him over and then Lakom was just kind of chilling. And you didn't have this, like at least just have your stick there, right? Just in case the past does come out. I'm not trying to like, you think that that mariner should give me credit for his success though, considering I was helped run him out of town. Like I don't know if he gets to his situation. You don't know if he, yeah, you don't even know if he leaves. I'm just posing the question. So he, you, you put your hand up for some accountability and then five minutes later, bring it back. I'm just asking you on a pad on the back. I'm asking you guys. Well, this isn't a lie. So we can think, I do think you deserve to release it. We'll just cut this part. I do think you deserve some. Guys, Jack, Ikel, all right, he became the third US born skater. Okay. So he's got the third most points through 50 playoff games for US players. He's got 55 points and 50 games. Can you guys name the other two, the two men with more points through 50 playoff games from the United States? Brian Leach. Yes. And is it Kane? Nope. Oh, shit, hold on. Is he current? No. Kevin Stevens. Oh, Kevin. Wow. That's right. So Leach had 65 points through his first 50 playoff games and Kevin Stevens had 62 27 goals. So yeah, I can't wait to game five in this series because going back to Vegas, very interested to hear about Stone, because biz, I would actually think it's like, if it, if it's L5 S1, it's kind of almost maybe good news, right? Like, because that could be something where it's two, three days ton of treatment. Yeah, work on it every day all day. Right. So it might be a different point off your bone. It is might be like a different vertebrae and keep in mind, like people, some people hate when you speculate about injuries, like I don't give a fuck, suck my horn. Like it could be any of those vertebrae in there. That's what it, it, like, looks like to me because like when you're, it just, it's the amount of pain he is in so quickly and how he's keeled over and then he goes to the bench. Like, it was the same way that happened. I believe it was against Pittsburgh the last time he got injured in March where he missed time. Same thing. He, like, barely got touched and then boom. So let's hope he's all right. Seneca, pretty impressed with what he's been doing, especially in games where he's getting limited, I used still finding a way to contribute offensively. So yeah, they, anything else we need to cover from Anaheim? Oh, the one, I wanted to tire pump their fans in game three. They got smoked and there was five minutes left in the game and they were getting chances and obviously still still making a push, not quitting. And there was still plenty of people in the building and they were cheering on their rushes and they brought energy all the way to the end. So to the Anaheim Ducks fans who showed up to the pond and brought the energy all night despite your team getting worked. Bravo, man. That is an awesome, awesome fan base and you can see that they're just grateful that the team is back to their winning ways and bringing the energy and they're reciprocating it. So it's fucking awesome to see. So bravo to the fans. And the last one would be the, because we mentioned McTavish coming back in the lineup. Love Zellwig are back in the lineup, kid flies, kind of forgot how fast he was. His first shift, he took off, I was like, oh, whoa, I forgot about him, he hasn't played all playoff. And Ian Moore, man, like, he plays the first round as one of the most dominant fourth lines I've ever seen against Edmonton as a forward, obviously. Then he misses game comes back in as a defenseman and scores his first ever playoff goal. So kind of pretty cool and valuable for young people to see, like, there's not a lot of guys who's going to be able to play forward and D in the NHL, but to be that versatile, it's pretty impressive, Harvard, shout out Harvard. I wonder if it's a cue thing because remember Mark Pysek, he played forward with us and he was a demon, but he used to play forward. He got a hat trick one game, like playing for cue. So maybe it's one of his things where if you can just have a D that, you know, anyone can play forward. And did Buff play forward and D firm in Chicago? Oh, it was. Yeah, you're right. He's buffed only a forward in Chicago. No, no, no, he did both. Okay. So when will might see guys when he gets places and like, I can kind of see this guy doing both. It's obviously never going to be a top level D or a top level four, although Buff was both. But, but I mean, like, he probably sees guys like French guys like, all right, I could see this guy in fourth line wing or we could put him bottom pair D. So very, at least we got a tight series there, we got a guy coming on now, who that just has not been in a tight series yet. 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I know some people. have been asking us whether it's, you know, rust or rust or whatever they've been saying. But my opinion, I think it's, yeah, no, it's good though, it's, no, it's good to, I think it's good to get the rest. I mean, playoffs, I mean, even when you play only four games in a series, it's still, it's still tough on your body and stuff like that. So, um, you know, if we get the rest and the other teams are, you know, getting a little more banged up, I think that's advanced for us. And I think if there's one coach that would make sure that you guys don't get to complacent, you guys are probably still getting your workouts in. Practice is probably still very high pace. You guys are probably a well oiled machine and know exactly what's at stake. So you're not going to let this slip out of your fingers. Oh, I know you're right there. Roddy, but he plates all, you know, he knows exactly what we need. Um, I think that's one of the best parts about having a coach who played is he's been through it. He's done it all on, you know, he knows, he knows what we're going through for sure. So, but no, I actually, he gave us two days off right now, too. So very special. Um, boy, he's a cobb only fired up. Yeah, right. He's in the weight room at the gym right now. No, Jackson's in cobb. Well, yeah. Yeah. No, Roddy's probably in the, in the room, the weight room, like Whit said. I know. It feels like every playoffs, there's one line that like everyone's talking about how good that they're going the chemistry. And right now, it's you, Halsey in, in, in stan coven. It's, it's a special line to watch. I think you guys got 30 points. You yourself have four goals, seven assists. Like how fun is it just to go to the rank every day? The, you know, the, it just seems like you guys have been playing together for 10 years. And it, it's just a truly a blessing to watch you guys. For sure. I mean, Halsey obviously been around a little longer than me in stanks, but, um, no, I mean, it's been so much fun. Like he said, it's always good when you can go to the rank and, you know, want to be there and want to play. And, um, that's how I felt pretty much the whole year this year, and especially in the playoffs now. But no, those guys have been outstanding, um, stanks. He's just been a juggera dog out there. I mean, he's only whatever five might say five nine on that. I don't know. No way. Five seven, five eight. Yeah, with three pairs of thick socks and some stilettos. Yeah. Right. No. Um, but he, uh, he's unbelievable. Like, especially him making the transition to center, like, especially doing it in the national. That's not an easy thing to do at that height, too. And, um, his face offs have been off the charts for, for us and Halsey, too, just junkyard dog, too. Um, you know, I, I love the way that both those guys play and they make it a lot easier on me to play out there and, um, it's been a lot of fun. Well, I just think the speed that all you guys have and you said junkyard dog, you guys all play the same way aggressive in your face. And, uh, I was just gonna ask you, you said like stanky making the switch to center. Man, that's like so hard to do at the national hockey league level. And he's an undersized guy where you may be worried going to the deadline that possibly that that would maybe change your guys line up or change something up at the fact that he wasn't proven. It wasn't like his like offensive numbers were really like jumping out over the course of the season. Whit did mention he, he talked to his father over Olympic break and kind of something clicked, but were you kind of shocked at the fact that they even like gave him the opportunity and stuck with it going into playoffs? No, I wasn't shocked really at all. I mean, I've been playing with stanky the whole year except for maybe a couple of games in there. But, um, you know, you never know what's going to happen at the deadline though. We didn't know what we're going to do. And obviously didn't do a lot, but I think everyone was totally fine with that just because we knew our group was was something special. But, um, no, I mean, stank's because he's been pointing really good all year. I think, you know, just getting a little unlucky. The puck weren't really going in, you know, for us as a line, I would say, but, you know, for him too, he was going to unlock you. We're getting so many good chances. But, um, you know, now it feels like you just can't miss, right? Like the end of the season, I think he scored like 11 goals. And I don't even know what it was. There was something crazy. Um, but yeah, I mean, I, I didn't know what they're going to do, but I'm super pumped that they didn't do anything because I don't have a lot of fun right now. Um, so I, I got to play with Halsey's rookie year. We live together is such a good guy. And then a few years ago, when he's in Chicago, we all sat down with him and it was, you could tell, even talking to him, it was just exhausting. He's losing and now to see him like, I'm so happy for him because you can tell how much funny he's having. He didn't interview after talking about you and stank and it's weird to me to picture him as now. I think he's 34 as a veteran. Probably a guy you look up to a lot because it was so different as the young hot shot coming in. Like, what does he help you with your game? And, and how, how enjoyable is it to get to spend time with them? Because he's just a solid person, man. Oh, I mean, yeah, he's, he's the best. Um, you'd have no idea how old he is or anything. I feel like like that around the whole group, though, you know, we, we have a great culture in there and it's a lot of fun. Um, but now Halsey, I mean, he's been unbelievable. Like, the fact that we got to pick him up at the deadline last year. And I mean, to do what he's doing, um, it's super special. And for me and stank, being younger guys to play like a guy play with a guy like him, um, you know, he's always talking. He has advice for us. Um, and like you said, he's definitely a guy. I grew up watching and now to play with him. It's, you know, it's pretty surreal and, um, it's awesome. And Halsey was one of those guys too. Like, you talk about guys' progressions in their careers. Like, he was beaten guys one on one. He was taking the puck and now he's, he's getting you guys involved. He's making plays. He's really good defensively. Like, is that something that, when you come to Carolina, it's, you're checking your ego at the door. You're playing the right way. Rod's got everyone bought in to do everything the same. And you guys are just a well oiled machine with that. Yeah. I mean, I just, I think it's the buy-in with everyone. Um, you know, everyone's just bought in to, to what Rob wants us to do out there. And I mean, it works. So we all know that. And we're going to do it, you know, because we know it works. But, um, no, I, I agree with that, though. Um, Halsey is definitely one of the more skilled guys in the league, in my opinion, and, um, even thanks to, but we know that if we go, you know, forecheck, whatever 10, 10 pox as hard as we can, we're probably going to get a couple of those back. And then we'll use our skill and, um, use what we know we can do with the puck. But it's just the buy-in. I mean, Halsey's bought in, and so is everyone else. So it's been a lot of fun. I never really got a chance to see a play like at North Dakota. And I got I did. Okay. So this is your, this was your second full year in the NHL. I guess I didn't realize how much like rats, not the word, but you, you play with a certain intensity. You ain't back and down like you could be a big shit, the sturber. Did you always play like that? Or is that just kind of something you slowly progressed and added to your bag? Because, you know, you kind of have to play with that edge, especially if you want to be successful, come tough times, like playoffs. Yeah. I mean, I, I don't know if it was always as intense as it is now playing in the NHL, but, um, you know, I always tried to get on her guy's skin, not really with chirping, but just kind of, like, with, I don't know, forechecking or anything like that. Just the little things that can piss guys off a little bit. Um, but no, I think in, in training camp last year, obviously I was a fourth round peck. So I wasn't, you know, supposed to really make the team my first year after signing. So I just, you know, made a decision to, I'm just going to play as hard as I can. And that's kind of where I got that from, honestly, in college, I did it a little bit, but not as much as I do it now. Is, is that a conversation? Maybe you had with, with your dad going in, like you lean on him for a lot of that advice. And I'm sure he was huge in, in your development as a player, just being able to bounce back and forth off of, off a guy who played in the NHL for as long as he did. And he played that way. I played with your dad. He was, he was a pain in the ass to play against, like, similar to, to the way you go about things, I think. Yeah. For sure. I mean, he's been a, you know, big help. Obviously he's taught me pretty much everything I know in the game. Um, but yeah, I mean, I remember having a conversation with him during camp last year. And he just said, give them a reason not to, to send you down or whatever like that. And I, I just stock with it. And I think to me that just meant just don't work as hard as you can every day, whether it's a practice or whether it's a game, anything, any little thing. Just do it out of your best. And I just, I still think of that. And I try to do it now, even though it's my second year and, um, a little more comfortable. But, you know, just do, do that. And, um, you know, he's been a, he's been a huge help, though. Like you guys said, he's, he's done a lot, a lot of stuff for me, for sure. Were you one of those kids and we, uh, you know, me and Biz played with Shane Done and Josh would be in the locker room all the time. Just see even little things watching guys tape their sticks, just being a sponge in the locker room. And you see it with the Kachak boys and, uh, you know, even a guy like Tage Tom, like, who are around hockey rinks growing up, were you one of those kids just taking everything in, just being in there and loving it? Oh, for sure. I mean, I remember in Anaheim, I loved Bobby Ryan. Bobby Ryan was my guy. I mean, I was, I was really young, but, you know, here's the guy taking time to hang out with me and do little things with me. I remember, I think my dad hosted a team party or something and he come up, came upstairs and played like NHL with me, like, just little things like that that I remember. But, and then also, I never wanted to go watch the games, though, I always wanted to play Niaqy with the other kids, so my mom thought I was kind of a pain in the ass there a little bit, but uh, no I I Also, I have another story too. I remember the boys lost. I don't know if they were playing. And I went in the room. I wasn't even thinking. And then Bruce Brujo was just lighting them up. So F-bomb after F-bomb, and I was like a seven-year-old. I'm like, jeez, this is kind of scary. But no, I was always around it. I love going to the ring. You know, at that age, I didn't know that not everyone's dad played in the NHL. So I didn't really realize it until a little later. But super special. And I think it's a big reason why I'm where I am today. So when your dad retired, you guys moved to-- it was in Minnesota, because that's what I see all you-- So were you kind of like always pretty good? Like, I know your modest sky. But was it always pretty easy to you? And I mean, there had to be a time-- your exercise now, I'd say a little bit. You don't play that way. But what was it like for you at 12, 13, 14? Were you always one of the top players? And were your goals of reaching the NHL in your mind like always right there? I wouldn't say I was always a top player, honestly. I was always one of the better players on my team, I would say, for the most part. But no, I mean, at that age, you just expect you're going to play in the NHL, right? You don't know any differing. You just think, yeah, I'm going to play in the NHL. That's what I'm going to do. And then you grow up a little bit. And like you said, I was a late bloomer. I was always the smallest guy on my team. And honestly, I think that's a huge help to be a small guy growing up, because you learn how to play at that size and everyone else. When they're in puberty, you know, that's how they're going to be probably the rest of their career. So no, I was always one of the better guys. I wouldn't say I was always the best guy on my team. But I just think the work ethic and things like that, I knew I had it. And then as I grew up and realized that not everyone plays in the NHL, I just tried to work as hard as I could. And I know it's modest and it's simple, but that's the truth. I was just, I was looking because Jan's brought up development in Josh Done. He played with the Chicago Steel and Phantilly. Adam Phantilly was on that team. Matt Cornado, Josh Done was on that team. Ian Moore, I talked about an unreal place to go in the USHL to develop and like get everything going. Yeah, I mean, that was a special group. They did an unbelievable job with drafting guys there. And stuff like that. I was a junior in high school that year. So I played before my high school season with those guys and then finished. And I mean, we had an unbelievable group like my roommate. I live at the St. Bill House's Matt Cornado. I was always hanging out with Sean Farrell too. He was, I think you have the hundreds of points that year. This roster is fucking crazy. Yeah, our team wasn't, we had a special group. That was for sure. Sean, yeah, Matt Cornado, Josh Done, Ryan Ufko, I think he's Nashville now. Fantilly Semiskevich and Florida, Ian Moore, yourself, that's crazy, man, for the USHL to produce that. And his Quinn Finley, is that the kid that was? Oh, no, I was thinking of a Finley on the blue side. You mentioned that he's on Wiscoe. He was that kid lighting up for Wiscoe. Yeah, okay. Where you, like you mentioned, the high school element, were you able to go back and play in that high school tournament in Minnesota as well? Yeah, yeah, I played in that so my sophomore year. We lost in the championship. And then my junior year when I went back, it was COVID, but we ended up winning actually. So that's a special thing. I know many guys understand it, but maybe outside of many, you don't understand as well. That's like the coolest thing I ever is to win that tournament and do it with your buddies. But yeah, that's probably the most fun hockey I've ever played, just because you get to live at home and hang out with your buddies all day. And we didn't have to go to school because it was COVID. My junior year, so we're at the ring just hanging out after for like three or four hours. I think the JV practice, because they had always practiced after us. We would leave after them. Like we were sitting in the locker room all day. It was super special to win, but to experience high school hockey. That's awesome. It's unbelievable. They haven't lost the game in the playoffs this year and his high school hockey was the most fun. I love it. It's unbelievable. Minnesota high school. I love that. I love it. But just going back to your team right now, Freddie Anderson, like the way he's playing, you guys haven't given up more than two goals. Like it's like going and just knowing he's back there. And I know everyone knows about he's had his struggles. He's gotten hurt and playoffs and stuff like that. And just to see him and the work that he puts in. And he's, I don't know if people know him that well. He's one of the best guys in the world. Like such a cool dude, nice guy. But like easy got to roof for as well. Yeah, I mean, he's been unbelievable. He's a brick wall back there. And like you said, just such a nice guy. Like, oh, my gosh, he's unbelievable. One of the nicest guys I've ever met for sure. And to see what he's doing right now in the playoffs. It's, you know, it gives us so much confidence. And him and in our group that we know we have him back there. And, you know, some of the saves he's made. So I don't know how he, how he does it, honestly. It's, it's really impressive. But yeah, I can't give him enough credit. He's been unbelievable for us. One of the biggest reasons where we are. Why are you no? So, yeah, big, big credit to Freddie. I was going to go to Jordan's stall. What a leader. Witt actually played with him when he first got to the league as well. And Pittsburgh, he's a moose. He's a moose. What were you aware of that like that fight was going to go down? Or was that like in prom too? And what was the reaction? Maybe between periods after he'd led you guys to start things off in these playoffs with fight and Brady could chuck. Yeah, no, I had zero clue. That was going to happen. I don't know if anyone did. I'm pretty sure he just said, Brady just asked him to go right away. I think he knew he was going to maybe do it at some point in the series. But I don't think anyone knew there's going to be a couple seconds in. But I mean, you know, that's just the guy he is. Honestly, he's probably our team MVP. I mean, maybe not probably he is our team MVP. Like he's powerfully penalty kill, playing 15 some minutes every single night, showing down their top line like he's unbelievable and do it at his age. Like you'd have no idea. He's been, you know, rock saw for us. But no, I didn't, I didn't expect that. But that definitely got the boys going and to do it at home too. The crowd was, the crowd was going nuts. The bench was shaking. It was really special. But, you know, you expect nothing less from him just because that's the guy he is. And that's the leader he is. I would have put trip Tracy is number one for MVP. And then maybe Stahlsie at say, maybe his dog Frank and Frank Stahlsie third. Frankie. Frankie. Yeah, he's getting the trophy. Yeah. I just want to get get it. Get this out of the way now. Hey, chickens fans. Still blue coffees. New can lattes are here, crafted with 100% Colombian coffee. 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And I know he missed a lot of this season for you guys. Like, take us through like practicing against him. And I know he's skating is whatever one notices. But I guess I have no clue how he went in the fourth round, but playing against him and with him. And what's that like? Yeah. I mean, I don't love practicing against him. I mean, he's way too good. Like it's not even like he's, his stick is up here. And then the next, I mean, it's, it's unbelievable what he does. Even like when on the pk when they try to remit, like he'll just like bat it down and knock it down the ice. And that's just normal doing like no one else can do that in the league, I don't think. But yeah, I mean, he's, he's been unbelievable for us. I know he's been one of the top defensemen in the league for a long time now and definitely stock not having him at the start of the year. But you know, he's at 100% now and you can tell and I even think he's not talked about enough still like just the things he do, he does out there. He might not score a ton of goals or do it, but he does all the little things and, you know, our pk was unbelievable and he's, you know, one of the biggest pk's in the league. So he's been great, great mentor for me to love having him. He playing Chicago too, another guy college guy too. So, you know, he's been awesome, love him. I asked him, I asked him about like how he became so good defensively and always, we talk about how he leads with a stick and he said his sister from playing obviously women's hockey no contact. He always had to have your stick in the right place and in the lanes and he said his sister was the one who taught him all that well. So that was yeah, pretty, pretty remarkable, yeah, that's what he said on TNT when I asked him. He said that was the first thing she taught me, make sure it's always stick on pock, stick in the lanes. I mean, you can't be, you're running out and trying to murder guys every time, right? No, I know. Yeah, no, he's unbelievable with it. And another guy who, he looks like Slaven out there sometimes is Kyandre Miller and he's came over to you guys like he is fit in perfectly. It just looks like he was born to be a Carolina hurricane. Yeah, like Halsey. They're both like perfect system. I feel like yeah, no key. Oh my God. I don't he's unbelievable. Like it looks like he has a little like wand in his hand, but the sticks like seven feet long. Like it looks like he can just like whip it around all the time. Like he's another guy. I don't love practicing against because this stick is tap 20 feet long. But no, he's been unbelievable. Perfect fit for us. Like, you know, that's another guy who I don't know how he does it with his stick, but it's just unbelievable. Um, and I mean, I don't know how Tulski got him, but, you know, props, great job. Tulski master class, baby. Just ask the cany-axe online. What do you think? How would you describe what makes playing there so hard? Murls, our guy on the show has said it's a little bit of a smaller building. So it kind of adds to how loud it is. Like would you say that's part of it? Because we went to a regular season game there against Edmonton biz. I think when you were at North Dakota still, and even then you're like, Jesus Christ, the playoffs, it's just a different animal down there. I know. I don't know what it is, but it gets like it's louder than any building I've ever, ever been in. Um, I don't know. The fans are, they're always rowdy. Um, you know, they're tailgating that they take the cable gate before I even get to the rank for a game day. Like they're always out there. They're ready to go. But I don't know why it's so hard to play there. I think just because maybe it's a little bit of the way we play. And then we're playing at home too, um, but no, I, I mean, I love playing away team in a fucking shoebox. Yeah, well, that's how you got to do it. I feel like, right? It cranked the heat up in there. You got the little massage table in that shitty ass training room. It's got to be the worst away room in the in the league, right boys? Yeah, I think because Boston did. There's over the Boston's used to be horrible too. But yeah, even the skate across like you don't come out on the bench. The skate across everything about it. I hate, I hate playing in that rink. Well, there you go. You guys know, it's probably for you guys. Yeah, 100% what do you think you'll do with your couple days off here? Just kind of chill a little bit of the guys getting together at all. Uh, we golfed yesterday, but other than that, I don't know. We have today off probably just low key, hit the sticks a little bit. I don't know. That's that's probably all I will do. It's pretty nicer. They'll also get outside a little bit, but other than that, I don't know. Hit the sticks means playing video games. Yeah, yeah, I thought golf, no, I know it's the funniest thing. What do you think that might be playing video games again? I guess it can be golf to sticks, but no, I, yeah, Rainbow Six Siege. That's my game right now. I was like a war game. It's like a five V five, like kind of similar to cod, but it's good. It's fun. So you got your squad like you're playing with like buddies or whatever. I got my boys at home. Yeah, well, we'll play an unnormal amount for sure. So the text goes out. We hitting the sticks and the boys hop on and sticking from the cars. And I just sang question marks, question marks like we're going, let's go. What's the name of the group chat for the sticks boys? Just sticks. Just those are class sticks. Yeah. Well, buddy, you've been, uh, you've been beyond impressive so far through two rounds. Not one loss for you guys. You're light and up. We appreciate you coming on and, uh, continue to success, man. Good luck in the next round. Yeah. Thanks, guys. Anytime, anytime. Go Cains, baby. The guys and little breaking news happened during that, uh, that interview there, uh, from the Toronto Maple Leafs to, uh, the Toronto Maple Leafs have officially parted ways with Shane Done. It's over. It was gone. A shocking, shocking news there. Wow. Imagine a heat state. I'll say I'm a little bit. He stayed in business like, oh, oh, oh, hey, whoa. Okay. Jeff O'Neill calling. Yeah. Can you put it on? I tell you live to show. Are you willing to chat? He might be off the record right now. Jeff, we're recording the podcast. We're on live right now. So don't say anything too stupid. Uh, what's up? Is you have to fucking tell me something. Okay, but we're live on, we're live to tape. We're on, you're on the show. Tell him. I don't care. Okay. Why does Frank Fleming hate to mess so much? That's why I call you today. Tell him because they've never given a one thing to do finer. Uh, he, I think he likes being miserable with his sports teams. And if you watch him with the new, yeah. He's got to relax, like just let the season play out. He goes, I'm worried about that guy. He goes nuts every day coming from a Toronto fan. I, they are dog shit, but fuck, man. I, I think that hearing this and this coming out will help him. I think he needs to hear it from somebody of your stature. I don't think I would be able to get through to him. But I, I really appreciate your concern for him. And we're going to definitely pass this message along. I mean, tell the old dog, though, the, the, I think second highest pay roll. I love the mulch and say hi to the boys for me. I will. You're the best. Senator Stenberg. McKenna or Stenberg. Oh, Oh, McKenna or Stenberg? You know what this? I think after what they've been through the last 10 years with high end skill, Stenberg's a more well rounded player. Why not step around and think about something different? Wow. Hang up and listen. Okay. Okay. Wow. I mean, the shirts, the boys, the boys love your response. Oh, Oh, can we get you on in the next couple of weeks? I got to talk to my personal assistant to see if I have any free time. Okay. That's a no. The boys are love of that. I know you're busy, buddy, but we'll pass the information on a stew and then, uh, and, uh, and also Frank Fleming. We'll tell him the comment down. All right, brother. See you this summer for a sandbagger. Love you. All right. Wow. Okay. So a little bit to digest here. Uh, do you want to start with the McKenna Stenberg comment? The McKenna Stenberg comment is, um, I believe murals was the one to say that but Dard was the super flashy and he's going to be a hundred point player, right? But Carlson was maybe the more well rounded one. He went second. Now if you could do it over, would Chicago ever switch? I'm just throwing that question out there. I don't know. I think you would be crazy if you didn't. Okay. Nothing against Baudard and what his potential will be. But like, I think that, like, I think 75, I think I was asking Anson Carter. I said, what percentage of GM's you think if they had a redo and they had the first and second pick that year, what percentage of them would have picked Leo Carlson knowing what they know now compared to the Baudard. And I think he said between 75 and 80%. But what do you think Baudard's members would be on that Anaheim team? Exactly. That's another point. Here's the other part of it. I don't know. But what built what when Stanley cops like what type of players? I know, but Stenberg, if Stenberg's a center, then I think this is a big time discussion. But he's a wing or two, right? Now, granted Carlson and Baudard both center. So, but if Stenberg was a center and I'm the leaves, I'd be like, oh, fuck, like, to get that number one center in there, like that's one thing. But then you're also talking about another winger. Do you know what I'm saying? Like, in terms of, yeah, I agree with you. Now I would be fair to say that comparison would be, would you want Barnor or Rotten? Is that kind of what we're looking at here? Yeah. Besides Stenberg's number size, he's got him stu-til. That's that's kind of him. He stu-s more of a comparison, yeah, he's six foot. He's a skilled winger. He's very, he's a, he's good on both sides of the puck. Though I'd say a little bit better than than stu-til is. But I think what I said last but I think it remains true. And I got so much fucking shit from Leafs fans for this, but it's the safer pick. Like, it's one a one in one a and one is so much safer than the other. Like, we talked about how is he safer because he's been playing against men? Because because one, he's been playing against men in two. Gavin McKenna, he, he struggled the first half of the year. And then there's the argument he was second in the NCAA and points per game. You take away that eight point game where they won 11 to one against Ohio State. He's not in the top five. So it's like, I don't know. Like at the end of the day, I've seen McKenna play a lot. I, he, he doesn't stand out every single shift. We went to the regional. Max plant was by far a better player than Gavin McKenna was. I know it's the college game versus the NHL game, uh, McKenna's a year younger, McKenna can be this absolute goal scoring stud, but the safer pick is Ivar Stenberg. Yeah, no, I, I, I, I'm kind of like, I'm almost hoping that they don't because then he would be going to San Jose more than likely. And that's easy decision for me on who I'm hopping on as far as the wagon. I don't think he would miss. I think if he, I think he's fallen to Vancouver at that point. I just don't, I think they're going to take a defenseman or they're going to trade that pick. They don't need a Gavin McKenna. They, they, they, they have their will Smith and Mackleine, Michael Mose. Something here that we don't know, boys. I don't think G might have done some digging. Something biz does not do. You doing some digging G? I'm doing a little digging. I'm doing a little, I also, I, I also texted Judd the other day. This long response about why Connor McDavid should go to the Boston Bruins. Probably shouldn't have done that. So I'm, I'm digging, but I'm digging a little too much right now. Okay. Oh, you get, no, you get never dig too much, true. I'm never dig too much. It's got to be interesting. The other thing was donor. Oh, yeah, yeah, donor. I would say that that was kind of inevitable, but I was also getting concerned of how stupid I would have looked if like they patched things up and he stuck around. And then I went through all that and I got my foot. I was praying for that. I think don't work. I would just see just to see you have to go back. It would have just been amazing content. I'm rooting for content. We know that. I mean, we are looking to bury each other on the show. That's what it's turned into when someone fucks up. It's not like it's okay, but it's six on one. Chicklets chat just killing each other. Yeah. So it would have been very funny had donor and Chica come out to a press conference hand in hand and just seeing you and your cave smoking in joint being like, Oh, no, I think I think Mariner putting me in a blender and making me look like a pool and getting out of to the Epstein files was enough for one pod. I think that we can we can stop there. I think I've taken my my licks. Our whole podcast has been getting abused these playoffs. Like hands like I think that somebody just made a video of you with the canes about how you were doubting them and they, you know, they, they kind of fans want him dead for saying I don't want them in the finals. I don't, I don't, I don't even want them in the Eastern conference. We can talk about the series. Now I am turning the page into like the canes, like the kind of lecture now, I think. I read the, I read the funniest tweet in the history of spit and chickles the other day. It's it was, it was under the neat, the Carolina Hurricanes and one canes fan wrote, eat the candle would root for the Taliban, rather than rooting for the career. That's not true. In tears. That's the one thing that's not legit. That is what people are sure to start going at it with a summer bin Laden's fucking offspring center ice. Holy fuck. What is going on with the NHL man? This NHL is full, full fledged drama. You know, it was a bunch of bullshit was somebody videoing talk over a drink of both swept and buddy. That's that Jay Maroney guy. He's one of those flyers fans. That's a fucking lunatic. Flyers nation. There's like five or six accounts that have serious like, like they need to probably like put them in prison. Oh, like they're looking at just bury people. But he they're they're all over the flyers for every single decision they make. They want like it's crazy. It's crazy. I've never really seen it with a fan base be this moronic at the fact that you were supposed to be probably a top five to 10 worst team league and you went to the second round and the culture's been reset. You have all these young players coming in who were able to dip their toe and know what it's going to be. It was so good for all these young guys to get mixed into the playoff. They listen, they weren't going to beat Caroline. They weren't. There was no way they were beating Carolina for all those young players to be able to be inserted to go against Carolina to see what you have to do in order to take the next step to become even remotely relevant. And we're talking about a team here that's been bouncing the last two conference finals with sweeps. That's we're talking about getting to that level. And then there's another level. So the flyers organization and the stepstay took in order to like recreate and and get back to that the winning ways and reset the culture. I mean Bravo. Like we can write their obituary right now. But that was a major major plus seeing that quarter Mar tone. Quarter Mar tone, we talked about it. If Michigan state goes to the final four and they ended up winning it. Maybe that never even happened. So there was a lot of make playoffs, maybe. Maybe they don't make playoffs. There were a lot of blessings at the Philadelphia flyers were able to have this year. And for them to continue to try to hammer on the organization and decisions that they're making, it's absolutely fucking it's jokes. But they gave them they gave them their flowers during like the handshake line. They were cheering for them. So it might not be the masses. I think people realized that they they got further than everyone expected. And you know, I think that people realize this is the start of their rebuild. So I don't know if it's everyone. No, 100% and I I'm glad that you said that I my point was is like that the negativity online for how positive it was from a small minority is insane. But I'm glad you brought that up because Rod Brindamore when they were shaking hands with talk, you could tell he pointed up. And I guess he told me goes, what you guys have done here this year in a short period of time, like the goal flyers go chance. It's kind of like I mentioned with Anaheim. Like they're still there. They leave the go get their cars started up and get the fuck out of there and get home on time. They want to make sure that they show the love for for reestablishing the culture and bringing back flyers hockey. So shut out to everything that they were done. Jonesy, Briar, talk and of course, the players. Yeah, a good run. Mechkov Scratch. That's kind of a storyline for the summer. They have to sign zegrist. They have to sign Drizetale. But like you said, is like above and beyond all expectations. If you're a flyers fan and you're not a fan of talk it after this, you could say chicklets. Oh, they're blowing talk. Like I don't know. We got you to the second round. You beat your in-state rival when you weren't even supposed to get in the playoffs. I'm looking at it as a successful season. So we saved the Minnesota and staying alive against Colorado for R.A. and R.A.s world. The final thing I wanted to mention before we got to him. So the hurricane to the 15 ever to start the playoffs eight. No, all right. The 52 red wings did it. They won the cup. The 60 Canadians did it. They won the cup. The 85 oilers did. They won the cup. The 69 blues did. They didn't win the cup. But that was back in the day when the East Division. I don't know exactly what they call it. The East was the original six. The West were the blues. The Oakland seals. The flyers. The Minnesota noris stars. The L.A. Kings and the penguins. And that was back when whoever won that would get completely trounced by the winner of the original six. So it doesn't really count. Still a great run for the blues that year. But the hurricanes did it and let's see what happens. Let's see if they can become the fourth team to start eight known win it. Um, before we talk Minnesota and Dallas, we got to bring in our guy though. R.A. See how his weekend was and talk about the wild. Hello, everybody. Welcome to our raise world here in these spitton chicklets podcast boys. That Montreal atmosphere. I got the hat on right here. Absolutely nothing like it. Goosebumps. Montreal's done now. That's sacrilege. All right. That's pretty crazy to see you in a Canadians. Yeah, and we need you to take that off. That is like Jesus. That's like there's going to be some Bruins fans not happy with you. You see Patrick. Look at the flow in the back. Holy cow in bar in the back. Patrick, wild name, name on the back. They used to make these hats. I I scoffed us. I was either MSG or the forum where I boosted out a little back of the day when I was left. I was like, give me the Talsky clip. Clip the little clip. The maniac days back in the day. But no, man. I don't care who you roof or who you hate. But there's nothing like watching watching them on TV. Like you get goose bumps. I it seems like 98% of the crowd has a red like Canadian jersey on it's unbelievable. And no, what's great to see is Madam Bellevue Jean Bellevue's widow. She's 94 years old. Still going on to the game. She looks absolutely terrific. She's just like, you know, exudes sort of like class and elegance. It's always great when they show her good stuff. Alex Newhook, you mentioned him a few minutes ago. I actually went to his Stanley Cup party when I was out in Iraq, visiting Terry Ryan a few years ago. It happened. Yeah, happened to be the same time. I'm out of to the list. Yeah, I didn't know if you've been through now. I actually did have an invite for that one. I don't believe you boys mentioned it. But we've got to get a shout out to Mike Matheson for being a good NHL PA guy and protecting Zach Benson. And that that mad scrum and he kind of like, you know, like just basically kind of took a minute covered him up because all kinds of scaplates kind of in the area, man. It was just a, you know, you don't see that too too often. I'm sure it happens, you know, frequently. Well, maybe I'll frequently be here and there. But, you know, like you basically like looking out for a guy. I mean, we probably punch him the face two minutes ago because he's a little rat. But that was a little cool gesture for, you know, a guy who, you know, you guys are all brothers at the end of the day, even if you try to kill each other. So I want to give him a shout out there. Paging Dr. Sue Ben, Paging Dr. Sue Ben. Yeah, for him, though, man, he finished off that 10 million dollar donation. I think that is that is unreal. I mean, that PK made a lot of money, but fuck, 10 million dollars a lot of how much you made, man. That's incredible. A couple clicks for him on that one. And the fact that like he made that commitment and then like the next season, he ends up getting dealt out of there. So he goes to Nashville and then New Jersey, but then yet continued his promise and pretty remarkable. And it was cool on Mother's Day that they get the broadcast. And then his mother delivers him, delivers him that message and says, Hey, you've been such a great example and so good for the game. So I stick taps and clicks for PK Sue Ben. Great representation of our game. Yeah, guys, I actually, I don't know if you guys saw Matthew Schaefer just started a, I believe it's a foundation to help sit kids with cancer in a long Island team up with Northwell Health and in the Islanders. So we just launched this whole initiative on Mother's Day yesterday in honor of his mother. So shut up, Schaefer. as well for doing that, because it's a pretty cool initiative on the rail. Yeah, it was the Montreal Children's Hospital Foundation. But like, like last night in the broadcast, I was waiting for them to like go up to mess like, uh, turn to the left and cough. You know, like the doctors even do that anymore. Like these to grab you by the, by the fucking coin, the coin press and tell you to cough. I don't know if the mind does. But our names were on visits. Time is loose. But I, yeah, I do, uh, wait, you just say we're going to talk about the, uh, Minnesota series. So glad they won, you know, we hate to see a team go down three night. We like to see a lot of games are unbelievable performance. Capri's off the other night, goal to assist, just dominated over 23 minutes. And huge bounce back for walls that to play the awesome game. So yeah, I'd like love to see him tie it up, go six games. What would you like to take on it with? I thought that the big dogs just showed up and it was a game that like they had to take over. They needed Hughes. They needed favor and, and Baldi, I think he grabbed the empty netter. But, you know, I would say he's been their best player, him and Quinn Hughes, but it was Capri's off, like just grabbing that game, that goal was beautiful. I thought favor was incredible. I mean, I actually showed Ryder a clip of favor snapped it up. Or it got passed up to the winger and him just getting on his horse. And he ends up getting that goal. I think it deflected off of his pants and went in. And it just shows that how active he can be. It's not just Hughes jumping up into the play. It's him as well. And then the Quinn Hughes goal. Like the way he's pushing off the left foot with his hips open and the glide. Like he's gaining so much speed with that 10 and two look. And then that shot was a complete rocket. And, yeah, Minnesota, they just came ready to play. I think Felino had nine hits in that game. Oh, he was out to kill people after the McKinnon thing the aim before. Yes. Like people that like, obviously a couple of Minnesota homers, they were up three nothing many. And you see the shift where, where Felino ends up cross checking Millinsky, got away with it and then ran down and then hit. I thought they were got him for a boarding. It was interference. Do you think you deserved a penalty on that shift? Yes. Yeah. To me, it's, it's more about the moment. You got the game in hand, three nothing like you don't want to give them that power play right before the end of the second period. But aside from that, they were, yeah, it was the big dogs came to play and there was no holding them back. I think it was 20, 29 and a half minutes for Brock Faber and then 28 and a half for Quinn Hughes and between the both of them five points. Goal into assists for Faber, I believe, and then one and two for Quinn Hughes. But you said it, man. Like he knew, he knew that wedge would have lost his stick and just does that back pedal and hold it, hold it, hold it to snipe just an unreal performance from all their, their big boys. Like it's one thing to open up the ten and two and open up the hips and glide. He's pushing off the left foot while he's doing it and like, I never seen somebody do that and gain that much speed, like going lateral and then picks the corner. But I'd say the where he is for Colorado. You remember when McKinnon came on here and we asked him about the swimming and he didn't want to talk about it. That was something that was private to him and some Minnesota lunatic fan might have rented a room in that hotel just to get a camera on the pool and we saw, we saw the Matt Chican person of the no arms flipper kick getting the heart rate up without any impact. He's got the goggles on and all of a sudden this series flips now, what do you mean? That's what the wild fans are telling me on to what it is. Oh, okay. So they think that it was finally seen, nobody's ever seen it. You've just heard about the swimming routine, but you got to think he's at a public pool and like, people are looking, no, I'm just saying what the wild fans are saying that the series might. Yeah, but they also got a video of this game. They thought it was a delay a game flipping over the glass outside the offensive zone blue line. Yeah. Give a brother some privacy. Yeah. Oh, I agree with you already, but he got the same thing with the talk picture video. Yeah. Yeah. I was going to bring it up. Yeah. It's a private city. Exactly. Yeah. And three of the top six playoff score is a Minnesota while too, Banner's leading right now, but Carl's second with 14 points nine games, Quinn Hughes 13 to nine in the bowl, the 11 points in nine games. So good stuff there. Carolina, man. I know which is mentioned the first team that's not eight. No, since the 85 others. But I think the only thing hotter than Carolina right now is as Carolina's Twitter dude, they were playing the fly as man, like they've been on a heat or all playoffs. I don't know who's running running. Yeah. They always do, right? Aren't they known for having a good. Yeah. We got good admin. Like chirping teams. The best was when they used the always sunny font and it was like the gang goes to a cancun. Like after they beat Philly, like that was that was brilliant stuff, man. They've been absolutely on fire. I like this one. What is this from stormy their mascot? Oh, yeah. Pretty after my cousins. Yeah. Exactly. Pretty after beating the pens versus gritty after being swept. That's great. That crazy. I forget his name. That was good stuff too. But I do shadow Freddie and his man, 36 years old, eight, no, a 1.12 goals against 950, say, percentage, two shutouts playing out of his mind, also awesome to see at this stage of the game. He got his 54th win the other night. The third most in the NHL since he entered the league in 1314, only Vassie and Bob have more. And how about hot rod brinda boy? He's either played or coached in 94 out of 96 Keynes playoff games. That's that's one of the levels of banana stats. I think you've seen all playoff. Keith, I want to ask you, are there any potential drawbacks with like this layoff they've got to have. Obviously he's going to be like, yes, significant amount of time. Is there any potential drawback for a team being out of, you know, out of commission to play for that long? I don't think so with that group, like the way that they play, the way that they, I would assume the way that they practice, the way that rods got them all bought in. I can't imagine that it'll affect them too much. I just think that they're such a well-balanced team and what they do. They know what they're doing every single game. They're built off of speed. So I think they'll have obviously some tough practices getting ready and those are going to suck. But I don't think it will affect their play at all, unfortunately. There is no better feeling in the world than practices while even being hard while you're waiting for the next series in the playoffs. Like the year in Pittsburgh, when we had a run through the east, we didn't have days off and it's like, you go into the ring, then you're watching the games, the weather's nice. It's so awesome. So, yeah, it's a long time, they'd probably choose for Montreal now that they're up to one to end that quicker, right? Because no matter what they're going to have, I think, a week. Maybe it would be just under maybe eight days. So like, I would think that if you already guaranteed yourself six, seven days off, you're like, all right, let's get going after that as opposed to it going seven and then having 13 days off or whatever. But then when you see them going seven and they're beating each other up, then you're alive. So it's, you get the, they're, so it's a Buffalo wins game four, go seven, if Montreal wins game four, end it next game type of like, yeah, I'm fired up like I kind of like, I'm okay with Canadians winning now because I think that that means we get the Eastern series because it'll be Caroline and a Canadian team. I get Buffalo gets it. I think ESPN is going to take the conference finals. We got to go up to Montreal then. Oh, bye. See you, the craziest part about this is obviously Cainy acts or nuts, Bell Center will be nuts, but it just so happens, it's going to be during F1 in Montreal, like the F1, I don't even know if, I don't even know if TNT can get hotel rooms right now, it's going to be pandemonium in that city dealing with F1, yeah, and also the conference finals going on. So that would be a pretty special thing. I just want to be inside that building covering, imagine, imagine getting what three playoff games there. If it ends up going the distance or at least the game six, that would be so elector Edmonton was awesome. That would be, that would be at the top of my bucket list for sure. Another note quickly. Sorry, I read back to the mini Dallas thing is to the Falinos. They also started a, they raised over 200 grand to fund a new breast cancer research grant of the Masonic, Masonic Cancer Center and Minnesota. So pretty cool that they did that. And then in that note is, they're trying to become the second brothers to win the cup together. Do you guys know the first, the reshads, no, no, no, no, don't tell us, don't tell us. Can we get a clue? I thought you get the stalls, stalls in Carolina, or need of my ears, need of my ears. It's a crazy, you remember Scott need of my beat rob, need in the finals with Devils Anaheim when Jaguar won the cons, and then they, Scott went to Anaheim and they beat Ottawa together. So that's pretty cool. So I just wanted to mention that. What do I win? Those are great people, man. Wow. I do, I win. I thought I wouldn't, the reshads, you wouldn't, you wouldn't, a prize or anything with her. Just, you get wrong. I didn't get wrong. I didn't get wrong. I didn't get wrong. Hey, hats off to the flyers. I mean, you know, I know they got swept by great season for them. No one thought they were going to do much this year. So when a series and, you know, they, I mean, they were competitive, but, you know, they got some work to do. Shout out to Jonesy, what he's been doing there for a year. But as far as Philly, it was the first city in the big four sports history of the US to be swept in the playoffs and two sports on back to back nights. That's what had never happened before. So, yeah, a little ignominious, not the thing. Well, at least it wasn't 75% Cain's fans in the building when it happened, a little bit of a surprise. Maclin, Celebrini, not a hot trophy finalist, the finalist, come out, I think yesterday, the Nate Dogg, McDavid and Kutra up, but, oh, yeah, Ben, what's up, Ben, how'd you get that? I've been wanting one of those. I was hoping it was higher, saying MVP, and then they're admin, like DM'd me or something, and then, and then I was like, hey, do you mind if I get a Celebrini jersey and can he sign it? And I have a signed Celebrini jersey. Bro, they got to restrain it on me the way I've been pumping his tie as well as he's in the hell out of him, but that's a sweet jersey, but yeah, it was a little surprising. He wasn't a finalist there, but he wasn't a captain of the team candidate at the World Championship. It's a virus and O'Reilly will be the assistant. So picture with Tavares and O'Reilly next to him, you know, like unreal players, captains and leaders throughout their career, and then it's him in the middle, 20 years old. It's like, here we go, boys, this is, that's the sign right there, like passing at the guard a little bit within Canada. I mean, obviously, McDavid and Sid aren't there, but that's a, that's a, that's a hell of an honor. That's something where when you're up for the Ted Lindsey, the disappointment of not being up for the heart and then getting named captain of the team candidate, he's, he's doing fine. See, I think he's going to win the Ted Lindsey, because guys realize, and you see it in that photo, guys realize what he did on that team and to be that young and doing what he's doing. I think he's going to get the boats of the players. Interesting. Okay. I even know if we ever mentioned that the last night we did, the Amazon show is when he broke the record of points for one season for the sharks, what do you have four points that night to do? Yeah. Yeah. One points. Yeah, it was one 15 or, yeah, Joe gave him some love and, yeah, he made him an omelet member. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely treat to watch. He has a 19 year old, but I'm not sure if you saw the gym, no press comments. He said that team should be rewarded for winning the president's trophy, pointed out how high the regular season is, but this would be a good reward. Like what's like something you would, how would you reward a president's trophy winner? Like, quickly. Did you hear what he mentioned? And he's like, I don't know. It's obviously going to think of him. He seemed like he was rattled by the two, three matchup is what he was like. But he also said like to win the president's trophy. I think he, he muttered like, yeah, maybe you choose who you play. I've always said that, which would be the most electric thing of all time. That's the way the PWHL does it already. Yeah. Really? Yeah. You can't find that on ESPN.com though. It's tough. I don't think there's enough advantage to a team. I don't think Colorado gets enough advantage for winning the president's trophy. If you win the president's trophy or when you're division, what it is, I don't know what it is. Is it your opportunity to start where you want to start against a team? I don't know what what it is, but there's not enough emphasis on how hard the rigor season is. It is hard. It's appearing the league now, the travel within the league, every night is a battle. You guys are around the game all the time. It's a battle every night. If you're not, if you're not playing well and you go to the tennis, not good, you're not winning that night. It's just going to have the time around the league to make it a push for a change. We talked about it. I still know what it is. We always have internal discussions. What is it? I don't know what it is, but when the president's trophy, that's hard to do. So I think like one, they did get an advantage for winning the president's trophy. They got to play L.A. in the first round and they swept them. I think that his comments seem like they're more frustration about his situation, but he didn't want to come off as a homer to talk about the two, three matchup. But he has every right to be upset about because as I've said a million times on here, I get why Gary does what he does and the first round of playoffs is entertaining. It does sometimes. There is a drop off in the conference finals. And as we're seeing, maybe even sometimes in the second round as a result of it. But why the fuck are you playing 84 games to finish second overall to then play third overall? It doesn't make any sense to me. If I'm then, why won't you just rest your players the whole second half of the season? And even if you fall into like the four spot, like all of a sudden the players are going to stop maybe giving more of a shit in regular season. Like they should do more of the NBA mantra where they're just resting guys more. Take it back. Take it back. Right. But I'm saying is like, what the fuck are we doing here? Why are we playing 84 games? You couldn't be more dead on. I think that's 100% but what can they do? Like, what are, if you do win the Presence trophy, are you going to pick a team that you're not going to play like the Bulletin Board material, like the fire you're going to light under that other team's ass? I mean, I know it's you're going to set yourself up to have a better chance to win. But like, I'm just trying to think about what like the NHL guys would do. Yeah. Actually, in the P.W.H.L, the team that picked the team, they lost to that team. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Careful. All right. You should. All right. You know what? They probably would have chosen L.A. And then you might have your, your, your pick of L.A. might have come true. Yeah. They would have let that fire in their ass. Like he just mentioned. All right. What's your guys agree? And the fact that like Jim, no, it seems like he's, the reason, the other part of the reason why I say that is he's fine, his job ain't going nowhere. But if it's, if it's a guy who has had a little bit of playoff struggle over like three years from running into that similar situation in division, he could be losing his job along with a head coach because you can't get over that first round hump. There's such a stigma to like, oh, we haven't gotten out of the first round in three years with this guy. Like get rid of them. It's jobs are being lost because of it. It's because you want to try to make it more entertaining in the first round. I don't know that like you, you take that series and it's probably more entertaining than what every series in the second round so far. I think, I mean, Buffalo's been that that game, that was the games aren't super close yet. It's electric atmosphere. Yeah. Well, I thought the last game was unbelievable being up, up and down, incredible action. But it's, it's fine, but it ain't, it ain't Dallas and Minnesota going over time. Or double over time because the hockey so good because both teams are a wagon. That's kind of the discrepancy. I'm talking about. Okay. We can, we can get it. Actually, Bizz, look, look at this bad, bad boy. Old school. This, this is legit. Although in granelli, this is, this hat come up before they even had the official logo. Like they did. They didn't have anything designed. They just knew it was teal. I bought it. I just steal that one from. No, I actually paid, I paid for this one believe it or not. Okay. Over the assembly square mall. Yeah. Like before they even had the logo, I gotta, I gotta do my patent and hat wash method. It's obviously a little dirty. But hey, I want to say congratulations to Layla Anderson, the blue super fans. You graduate in high school this year going off to college in the fall. So, you know, obviously one of the most inspirational stories, the hockey world's had in the last decade or so. So congrats to Layla and good luck in college. Little classic recommendation. Haven't had one of these for a bit because we've been wrapped up in the playoffs, but things are thinning out. I'm going to go with the Royal Tenon Bombs, Wes Anderson's probably his best movie, but Gene Hackman and Jellick Houston, the Wilson brothers, Kenneth Paltrow, Ben Still, Bill Murray, Danny Glover. If you've any of you guys seen it, they'll want to come out. No, it's hilarious movie, Gene Hackman basically is just about this like crazy dysfunctional family and, you know, they're all cracking like bullshit each other, lying to each other. It's probably like I said, Wes Anderson, I think it's probably his best movie. He also did Rushmore fantastic, Mr. Fox, a phenomenal director. So two season two of running point, if any Netflix with that Kate Hudson, it's a fictional series. My kids want me really. Oh, yeah. It's about it's like Lucy, not even, no, it's already based on the lake as it's, you can tell it's been inspired by the lake is like Kate Hudson owns a basketball team and all like her shithead brothers have hands in it too, but it's a comedy. It's good shit, man. It's like I said season two hit Netflix, you can, you can breeze through it. It's a breezy comedy, but it's funny. It's pretty good stuff. Also, that Kevin hot roast, I don't know if you guys watched that yet, I want to watch that today. I saw clips from it. It seemed like there was some, some good moments, a little tension where Chelsea handler was kind of going at some of the like Radcliffe guy, like it seemed like those were personal shots. Did you feel that way? Finch Cliff. Yeah. Hinch Cliff. I didn't see the whole thing. I put the first 45 minutes on last night, but yeah, there's, you know, those people, I'm sure there's like a lot of like behind the scenes, beeps and ego shit that we don't even know about. But some of the shit they say, man, it's like, I mean, it is a roast, but I mean really come out. He did like, I mean, like probably like a solid five minutes of, I mean, I'm just, he probably people writing his jokes from, but yeah, I'm going to finish the rest of that. Williams coming out was shocking because he has, because of his prior hate for, for who's the midget. Kevin hot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, he gets his digs in on him too about it being a diddy paddies and shit. And I mentioned this show a bunch before, but the season finale was the other night on HBO that show Rooster. It's Steve Carellify. You're looking for a show to watch great. I like it. All right. Rooster. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It gets better each episode. It's, I think the best new comedy on like, you know, basically on stream on a TV right now. So give that a whirl. And let's see. A couple of all right, Hamilton's before we wrap up here. I got a few questions here. This is one. This dude asked me, uh, Craig O'Malley at Craig O'Malley, this guy, he's been a long time. You still have the shirt you made, remember I made the already animals insurance. He has to go and point. I was like, I ain't, I ain't telling him you could, you could try to tell him if you want. Yeah. I think I saw them all three of them. I took a bath on that. But I actually do have them in storage somewhere. way. I probably got like a couple hundred of them. I might have to donate them to charity or something. So that was kind of funny. I think we should do a content video going through your storage. Is what we should do. Oh my god. Yes. You might get a lot of basement. You mean that would be that that is my stories. I still have shit over there. So in other question, this is from Brad Perry. The first Stanley Cup final, you remember watching Keith, do you remember the first Stanley Cup final you watched? Oh, but he is just a question. I think the one that I remember most is the 93 Montreal one. Yeah. That might be the first one that I kind of remember. Yeah, they played LLA, right? They play. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think that that would probably be the one that would be the first that came to mind for me. Yeah, they like check this. The guy's stick the curve. Yeah, Maxwell. Yeah. Because it was geek, geek. I don't know like they knew on the bench and they and geek. I don't told Jack, they waited till the third period to get that power play. They were going to go to all. Yeah. I think if they lost that game. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. Huge cause. Do you remember you scored the game winner, Keith in OT? The fence man. Yeah. Was it match nighter? Oh, there is a day is our day is our day. He had to that night, didn't he? I remember he came down like the right like from the right point ripped one went nuts. Yeah. Great. The reason I remember that is because obviously that the high stick grad ski on Gilmore that one went to seven Bob McKenzie to piano on the back line and the fact that if if Toronto would have beat them, it would have been an all Canadian final. And I don't remember like when's the last time there was an all Canadian final in the NHL probably when it was like original six. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What would have been. Wait, Toronto's in the West. No, cause Calgary, Calgary in the Campbell Montreal. Yeah. And 89. Yeah. And 89 was the last one. Yeah. 89 Calgary, Montreal. Yeah. I mean, when do you think what? When do you think we'll ever see that again in all Canadian final? Never. Never, ever. Oh, yeah. Who knows. But I think the first one, I mean, probably I guess the 77 still got finalized. Like probably five when the bro one's Canadians back on the day, they lost them 77 78 and then 79 was in the semis. Oh, yeah. That's probably the first 90 because it was Bruins oilers. And I showed my dad flipping out. I don't remember what game. I don't remember what oilers goal it was or what missed the Bruins had. He was losing it. And I remember that pretty, pretty clearly. But then, yeah, Montreal LA is one that like I really, really can remember. Was that the lights out one when the lights were on. I don't remember the, I don't remember the penguins cups in 91 92. I don't remember watching it. I don't remember anything. Maybe there. Maybe there. Gee, gee, what about you? What's that? Do you remember if you got first company watched as a young tyke? Two ninth, two, uh, 2001. After 22 years, Raven Gork, I was, I was like, uh, I had like a problem as a kid. I wouldn't take you to fix it unless I was in a Ray Bork jersey. I was the biggest Ray Bork fan in the world. All my Christmas cards were me in a Ray Bork jersey. So when he won that one, it was my dad had this mission 16 W would wear for every game. It was, uh, it was really cool. So I algorithm had, uh, just popped up, uh, the goal sack X Gordon game seven came off the right like fake to slap shop, but then kept his stick close to the pocket, just snapped it over, but are they get made at three nothing that just popped up the other day. Yeah, because it wasn't even that close of a game. I don't think game. No. Yeah, I was, I was, I don't actually add a wedding down the cape and like, yeah, I mean, half the friggin wedding was watching. Uh, well, the Devils were up three, two at home and game six in that series. Yeah. Yeah. And I remember Bork's Gordon game six, yeah, walked the line and then they got it done. Yeah. That's a good one, Jay. I was getting loads in doorchester with Keith, brother. I remember, remember whose house just 30 packs, crushing beers. Devils could have closed it out in six at home. Yeah. And they were up in the game. I don't know if they were up in the game. I just know they were going home game six. And, uh, and that was the year that I think Bork and the avalanche, they had the mission 16 W was slogan, but then it turned out that the arena for the Devils was off exit 16 W. So everyone's like, Oh, shit. And then Pasha blew it. I actually, I actually went to, it was either game. Yeah, I think it was game three, though, the one, um, Colorado loss. Well, while I come out to play the pocket, he fucked it up and, um, Jersey ended up one in the game. Yeah, I drove down to get tickets with a buddy. That was a second Stanley Cup. I ever went to. Yeah. Uh, shout out to, uh, to the Stanley Cup. Oh, one last one. I get this guy asked me all the time boxes of briefs. I don't know. I'm just going to like satisfy him. So we'll stop asking. I don't know when he dudes who lay like, like, like, tidy, whiteies, I've been boxing for a while. Maybe if you got like the, the tight ones, but I think he that briefs like a tidy whiteies, what everybody, no, no, no, no, no, no, these are like, these are like the tighter fitted boxers. I know boxers is what you wear are a, which is like the loose. Those are, right? That are filthy. Yeah. But like, no, brief, well, briefs of all, I thought there was tidy whiteies, but they're out of the bark. Well, they're, I think this boxer briefs like they look, I don't you mean like they're almost like spandex kind of like, yeah, the boxes like, there's people that are still wearing tidy whiteies. I don't know. I haven't seen that are under the age of 65. I think the same amount of people that are wearing tidy whiteies, they're the same amount of people that are wearing boxers. Remember the wedgies you would get wearing. Oh, there's like the ones that are already wearing their round. Oh, my god. I'd rather wear a fucking. Alright, that's the original cloth box. Don't maybe stand up and show you. This is so blousey that this got to wear this than boxers. Yes. And well, this is I guess got a little bit of a grind. My guess one thing that's, you know, it's what come up the 250th anniversary of the United States of America this summer. And especially in Boston, like, wait, I can't believe the lack of like signage or just patriotism. Yeah, just things like, you know, I mean, I was only four during the bicentennial, but like, I still remember you couldn't like go two feet without seeing, you know, something about the bicentennial. Everything was going on. And like, I don't know. I mean, it's only like a couple of months away, July 4th that I just did. There's been like nothing. I'm just. The mayor is going to put a tax on you guys in order to pay for all the pay for all the whatever you need for your patriotism. Yeah. I bet it'll pick up once like the weather is I bet in like the good point though. Yeah, 150 years July 4th. All the only thing I've heard about is the UFC fight on the front yard of the White House. That's that's for the 250th anniversary, right? Yeah. It's just yeah. I'm just surprised. Especially here, you know, here on Boston. I mean, last, you know, this this place will be a zoo. I'm sure in a couple of months, but yeah, I just it just seems pretty muted compared to like a 50 years ago. So, uh, all right, man. Mayor, Mayor Wu ain't getting it done. Yeah. No, she hates the US more than she hates Boston. She hates Boston. Yeah, not a fan. To contrary to my belief, I, I did not pull a level far. So, uh, all right, boys, well, another, another fun week, another great week of playoffs. And I have hopefully you have all have a great weekend. I've streamed tonight. Yes, live stream game four. We will be on YouTube at eight o'clock for a wild, uh, first call. I don't can't wait for that. Um, should be a good one. What else? Any other sports stuff? I got one question. Why is biz have the, uh, the raw blow NFL just, he doesn't have a team. I'm a free agent, but okay. I can go away. You had two different jerseys on. So, so I'll bring it up now because you asked, um, I was going to think of a proposition for the Ottawa senators and their fans. Yes. What about joining that kids band and move into Wuhan with it? Oh, oh, buddy. It's all, it's all fair game. But I don't even know if they take you after the, the crown and just they would, they would take, they'd be attacking a heartbeat. They just want anybody on their wagon. But, but that's one where, like you, you know, you hop on a Brady's gone. But that's, that's, that's, that's the thing. I would have to have Brady sign off on it and we're going to have to think of a punishment in a sense of if I and a poppin on the wagon, the next thing, you know, he's gone. I should have the right to then hop off with no repercussions because that's the whole reason that I'm hitching my wagon to them. Yeah. So, so we'll think of a, we'll think of a set of rules and how long he has to stay till the end of his contract, at least with Ottawa. And then if he ends up walking after that, that's fine, but then I can walk. But if maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, you're like a college player now. It's just UFA every year transfer portal, baby. And I know. So, so, so all you Ottawa fans seem to think, oh, stop the rumors. He ain't going anywhere. He told us in the press. Okay. Well, then I'm on board, baby. Oh, I'll help you guys become the kings of Ontario. And I'll help stab Toronto in the back. The same way they stabbed Donor, huh? You should be the WWF piss. You cut me in Gronk or fight an WrestleMania. You kind of mean promo. He in Gronk or fight an WrestleMania next year. Iran versus Gronk. Hey, what do you got? Hey, you think Mintz, he's trying to, like, get on a check. Let's, uh, he's been tweeting. It's all about hockey. And like, I love how he always he'll put a tweet. And then he'll like, instead of including like the Twitter handle, he always puts it like the next week after a couple of he's like, he's tagged us in a couple. It's like, he's swabbing hockey's knob right now. I take any, anyone who has not been a hockey fan that is all of a sudden getting into it. You're welcome, you're welcome to be in a part of this world. I'm telling you, Mintcy doesn't matter who you are. If you weren't a hockey fan and something's happening in your life where you're being dragged in and you're watching, you're like, this is an incredible sport, an incredible product. What a thing they got going on the national ugly. Come on down. We will take anyone and everyone. That is what we're all boys. Mintcy does Montreal. Yeah, let's send him to Carolina. If you room with him, I'll room with Mintcy. If we'll bring him one game in Montreal, can you imagine how much Poutine would be all over his face? There'd be gravy in his hair, cheese in his mouth, cheese in his nose. Be electric. I think it would be a good opportunity for chicklets to extend the olive branch to Mintcy to bury the hatchet on all the other bullshit. I think it would be a bring everybody together and what better country to do it in than Canada. It's actually interesting. One, one, all right, Hamilton, I didn't use, uh, what's the worst part about new NHL fans that have started watching the game? And I'm like, you know, nothing, not exactly. I was like, that's why I didn't use it. I'm like, nothing. I mean, they're just the ones who, you know, shoot. Yeah, I would say, I would say maybe not a, like a bad part, but when they, they're like, oh, that's a suspension. You know, like, oh, yeah, it's kind of like, uh, maybe you're not really understanding yet. Like that this is like a very violent game. A lot of intimidation goes into the playoffs, but watch a whole beyond strong hit. You know what my biggest gripe is is, uh, and it has, I don't think it has any to do with the new ones. The whole like, uh, like when that, for instance, that clip came out of the Red Deer Rebels scout who's 85. And it's like, people were mad about, and it's like, it's like, this is hockey, this is hockey culture. It's like, oh, there's no other horny 85 year olds in the world that fucking look up. Fuck it. Like, you know what I'm saying? It was the age where I'm pretty sure like that's like, oh, that, that's Uncle Randy. Like the horny old grandpa. Yeah. What do you say? You're beautiful. Not the time or place. I think we can all be on that. And I feel bad for the girl if she feels uncomfortable, but yeah, it's a horny old grandpa. Yeah. She handled the, well, and I think I'm making sure she's fine for that. Or was that a fake tweet? No, I think they got chained. Yeah. Five thousand bucks. They find them. They find them two wooden nickels. Like, they got to go in his fucking talk. Try to get them. The funny thing is that every single person watching it is like, oh, wow, that girl was really pretty. Now you don't say it. I understand. Do you want a great job? But it's just like, he was a hundred. And it's like, and scouting the WHO since fucking link gates was running around there. And all the sudden, he's got his team find five thousand dollars. He looks 50 million miles on his car just from going to scouting these games. Alberta. It's a fucking Quebec. And like, give him a break. He's fucking teeth were wooden and every shade of yellow. Just like, you know, in old time. I'm pretty beautiful now. He's Abe Lincoln's brother. He's like, how's your tape to tape passes? I remember the hundredth anniversary of the United States of America. All right, guys, we will be back. I used to take the train to scout. I built the train tracks. I meant, I meant Mr. Plane view when there will be blood. I used to dig the holes with them. Six hours and 28 minutes. I'll be on you with dental damps for a thing. Need a machete. You got through those bushes. Thank you to everyone for tuning in. Thank you to Gronk. Thank you to Jackson Blake kids buzzing and all you people watch and live and listening later on. Thank you. And we'll be back to you Thursday game notes Wednesday, right? Game notes Wednesday at noon, us Thursday 11 a.m. But more importantly, us tonight game for wild apps. See if they can tie it up. Peace, Newton. [Music].