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

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Episode 645 of the Spit and Chicklet podcast. Halfway through the second round, what a weekend it was, a hockey. Pinky's up. They're everywhere. All over the map. Every sport. British Premier League pictures where a guy brought him from America and he's drinking them outside. Was it full of them or one of those teams? What? Yeah, it's crazy. It's everywhere. It's Pinky's up. It's Pink Whitney. It's going to be the summer of Pink Whitney. So shout out everyone. Go get a bottle of Pink Whitney. Pinky's up. Have a drink with us. Boys, I'll tell you right now, man, we got a lot to talk about today. Oh, yeah. And we're saving Carolina till later. Really? We got a very special who's turning into possibly a superstar. Jackson Blake coming on. That's going to be great to chat with him. They just, they took the flyers and they just shoved them away. They just flicked them away like a booger. We're talking about that later. That, the fact that that series is done, it's bizarre to me. Montreal, they look like a way better hockey club than the Buffalo Sabres. The Minnesota Wilds stay alive and the Anaheim Ducks have some fight 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 buried you just buried you in the middle of broadcast. He did a great hockey game and he's bringing up your love life and your habits on hating apps. It is just like, I loved it, but I was shocked. I mean, the Buffalo Sabres are trying to figure out the power play, snapping it 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 a deflect. Cause I saw that comment. I go, Jack's going to bring this up because he's a, 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. And then the word high school girls too. I'm like, what is happening right now? I thought I was on the Epstein files for a second there. I'm like, Chris Hanson's like, Hey, biz have a seat. It's like, where's Liam? It's Chris. Take a seat. It just, just crazy, crazy behavior. And like, I didn't realize that Vrable wasn't his teammate. 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 ballads 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 Gronk who I'm Eskimo brothers with where we fuck Bibi Joe. There's a laundry list of shit here. Even Vrable the Patriot way. I mean, you have a guy's old lady who's got a bun in the oven on a boat cruise, basically Daytona 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, a what 36 or 38 year old girl from Buffalo. Just cause I'm trying to get my Buffalo wings sucked what I'm in town. Who cares? Who gives a fuck? What is going on here? So it just means you, you are the NHL. I just bringing that up. I was hoping for a good rant. That went above beyond expectations. Patriot Hernandez. Aron Hernandez. I'm even alive. Take that back. Take that. 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, but I'm not married to. Oh, oh, you mean Robert Mr. Tugoff craft? Like you think I knew Merles was going to chime in there as the bills dude. Go ahead, but one of the things he was like, 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. Ron, and I'm just interested to hear what he has to say when we get them on here. Cause I don't know. Maybe he had a crush on this girl and it never worked out. And like he's got like 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 Sabres Canadians with I think it is 25 die hard Buffalo fans and you had, I think, forget hat jersey pants. You had Canadian socks on. I think you were just straight red. Yeah. Showed up with some poutine, a couple of shanty shows. Did it all couple of Molson 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, it's part of my thing when I game. Yeah, exactly. Like at least I'm sharing for a team that's playing, but yeah, always fun to get under some Buffalo and skin. But, but like you, like you said about them when you were up there with unbelievable people, they all took it in stride. They ate, they ate the loss with class too. Just really good people put on 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, 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. I'm glad you brought that up. Murr, you think it started with our commercial though? 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 wrong Bonnie. Yeah, Bonnie Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie blue, too. The last year, the Bonnie blue stuff. That was, that was another tough chicklets moment. Murr, love that you're, love that you're with us again as, as a Sabres 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, 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, 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, Montreal's one, two in a row. And if I'm a Sabres fan like you right now, I'm kind of panicked a little bit. Yeah, I'm definitely panicked. And, and both games were 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 Ed carried over till Sunday. You see them, you know, when coaches, they used to say, like, you're there, but you're not there. Terrian said that a lot. That's kind of what happened. And like Darlene 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's stick and move them out of there. Last night on the third goal, Tuck and Thompson are kind of back checking. They're, they're kind of there, but if they went as hard as they're supposed to be going as desperate as, as Montreal's 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 Bruins 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. Cause in the, in the one against Boston, they could take periods off where it didn't end up 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 is tilted nonstop. Face offs. I've never really noticed like face off dominance like this. And I've always thought like, Oh, whatever. I, 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, the, the no ad was and getting him over from LA, like little, little, little guy, like important pieces like that. But boys, like the, the sequence at the end of game two for me with Greenway and I, we're probably going to beat a dead horse here, but they're, 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. And I'm like, Oh, this guy might go on a tear here. He threw the answer to Benson though. And Benson say, Oh, boy, I'm not the throw the, you don't throw stuff to me at press conference. The confidence in that press conference. I would assume that Buffalo would have won that series in five games. And then to just see, like you said, Murrow, 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 greenways 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 setting the tone and I'm challenging them at the Bell center, kind of like we saw with, with what Hegel and Kachuk and nothing, nothing, nothing. I don't, that if I'm a Buffalo Sabres fan who after the whistle podcast sent out a tweet after the game, they basically said, I better find out that Stanley and greenways 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 it out like that in your own building and being like embarrassed, I don't know, boys, like, what do you say, Whit? 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, you know, me and Whit weren't out there doing that. Merle's, you know, was getting in the muck, but like, you got to realize if you're a fourth liner, 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 way in game two. You might have to start some shit and get in the muck 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. I think that it sets the precedent with where it's almost like Buffalo, despite being a bigger team, 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 sixth D-man on a team where he's a heavyweight, 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, a game two, I, the tweet I said, it was, it was similar to Marshawn to Sadeen in the cup finals in 11. If you remember, jab, jab, jab, jab and Sadeen, but it was a Hall of Famer. Greenway, like you said, it's on the fourth line. You're getting drummed 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 Ruffin mentioned, I loved to quiet them out early. It was 50 seconds in Thompson scores after, and I think Tage 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 Brock in the box. It was crazy. And, but so 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 jack. And this is with Sabres 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 here. Yeah. But jack guys just like, okay, bank and he buckles them. I'm not here to fuck around. I'm here to do your little slum rubber. Buddy, 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 jack guys like, okay, and that's not a suspension in my mind. I'll tell you what could be a suspension is Norris. 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 Malinstein 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 dobes. I also want to get your opinion. I was kind of surprised and Montreal's lucky that a spotter didn't grab dobes 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 physicality factor, I didn't think coming in that Montreal be able to completely bully them, although we did mention that jack guys got to be playing. I think he's shadow was a shadow game seven of the Tampa and screwball was playing. And I just thought that like obviously dobson is a game changer and a huge factor thought it was ballsy to put them in a game seven, but you obviously understand why with his puck moves, 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 jack guy was a no brainer and it's paid dividends. And yeah, you were going to touch on one thing, Jans. I was just going to say, I think Buffalo's got to put Shannon. I was just going to, yeah, yeah, that's a guy that knows like even if he's, if he's playing seven minutes, like if he's out there on that graveyard shift at the end of the 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 at 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 next game. So Merle Logan Stanley, he's six, seven, he's not in there for his puck handling and his turnovers 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, get away from him with that little punch in that game. Yeah, over the ref. Yeah. So Merle, you seem to think that the game got a little bit out of hand with the calls on the Josh Done trip. Was it on Lane Hudson or Caulfield? On 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 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. Now he's hot, but I would like to see the refs 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. What do we have for Pasha, the deranged fan? The delusional. Yeah, he's an idiot. The disclaimer. I'm trying to get a Saber'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 pretty much lights out after that. I want to show one guy on Montreal. There's a bunch we can talk about, but Alex Newhook, boys. Oh, yeah. Like he's the only guy in this series that's won a Stanley Cup. The year called. I'm sorry, Byron on Montreal. I meant 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 one, one 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, eliminated the man from the puck. And then he ends up back and front. He got a little lucky. I think it hit Timmons 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 he have five goals already this year? And he is back to back two goal games. Yeah, 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 Demidov's the Cauffields. 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. You know, the lineup card. No, yeah. Oh, yeah. Tarps off. Like you could tell he's feeling it right now. I think that whole team is feeling it, man. And I think it starts with St. Louis. And I think it was before game was a game to 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 and his team in particular, because now like that the vibe all around that team and dobes his interview after when they're, they're calling them 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 Cauffield 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. It was a good save by Lyon and he kind of just kept backing up. I think, because you, you were talking about it, instead of like, I feel like regular season, maybe he 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 was far and away the best player in this game? Yeah. Yeah. And 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. Yeah. But that assists like the vision he has, he doesn't even look and he finds coffee and you can tell for Cauffield. It's like, that's probably the easiest goal he's ever scored. But thank God, because it just takes so much weight off. Now, granted, that was a power play goal. But it's just like, if he gets going, now we're, so if Cauffield 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. Wait, 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 Cauffield is that first goal that Buffalo scored, he had a bad turnover. Yeah, pizza. 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. So I think 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 he 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, by, with a great play by Hudson. Yeah, you can see his body language after the giveaway. He kind of, yeah, that flipper play to get in the neutral zone, it just didn't get off the stick. Well, 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 Demidov 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 D men and those penalty killers, like they can't get a few more fresh bodies. So they got them hemmed in and then 45 a minute later, as they keep snapping it 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 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, Texier bulldoke, like these guys are fucking 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 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 and got a stick. 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 in over, but second period, he 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, he, 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 back door, 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 Gronk went to high school and Buffalo with that's on Raya, then, then have to deal with Lane Hudson with no stick. He was on roller blades and all of a sudden it's back in the net. Also on Caulfield, 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. Thank you for Lane Hudson. Once again, I thought Demodog was dancing around army gave me a little shit. He's like, well, look, it doesn't have a goal in the playoffs. But I was like, at the beginning of that game, man, he was guys up because he competes. He is like, he's so skilled, but like he's not quitting on plays either. And I think he's way stronger than he looks to 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 alluded a few guys and then he went back door to somebody and basically freed him up for for like a half breakaway. 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 dolish 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 Jumbotron but them giving them the ole ole ole before he can even speak here it is right here. At this point, you can hear the crowd outside. And this doesn't do it justice how they and he you know, and then he came on you mentioned the part about how like the superstar and like a hero and he's like, I just go home and and eat food and watch Game of Thrones. Like I'm just going to go home and chill. I'm not no hero or nothing, but pretty cool. And that's the type of fandom you see in Montreal where the games over and 10 minutes after the game, people aren't rushing to their cars. They want to appreciate their players that have come out and give them some love for the performance they had. So stick taps the dolish. I just want to go back to Hudson quick and I know we talk about it all the time in the hockey IQ and if 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 is going to miss high and maybe Demidov is 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 it if Greenway has his stick he's not moving in as close to him as he did there, but 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 backdoor. So the hockey IQ and him is insane to me how good it is. Unreal. Back to game two quickly, Mer. 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. Some Sabres fans were kind of looking at when McAvoy like kind of, I don't know if it was a slewfoot, 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 Dock's 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 over skated, they didn't stop in front. So kids at home always stop in front of the goal line on the back deck. I'm sure he's dealing with something like who isn't dealing with something at this point, but you know, like biz, 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 tending has got to change. I lion's made unreal saves, but the goals that go in, he's not even in the net half the time or 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 like he's on rollerblades. He's not even in the net where you look at Doe Bish. 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 Doe Bush, 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, Dahlien's goal was just, it was a perfectly played shot with a great screen. That was actually sick. The behind Dahlien 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 you PL maybe you throw them in in that game. I would have done that because then I used to the bell center, get him used to the visuals, what it's like with red jerseys in the crowd. I 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, cause like Doe Bish had already been ran. So maybe there was some retribution. Oh, we got our special guest. Okay. So before we get to our special guest, we got to talk quickly. Draft Kings, Preakness week is here. One of the biggest events of the year, the middle jewel of the triple crown. And when it comes to betting on the 151st Preakness stakes, draft Kings is your home for horse racing. Suit up for Baltimore and bring the race day energy, bold colors, stand out hats and all, because when those gates open, it's not just a race. It's the best sweat in sports and it's not over till it's over. Picking your horses, half the fun, name, jockey, number, colors, everyone's got a reason. 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I thought that maybe we'd be wrestling in the next one considering that cheap shot low blow from the top ropes. Although you'd we'd have to make it a handicap match, maybe me with any hands unless they don't want you guys don't want that smoke. I love Burnelli looks like an Aspido and knee pads. But what like, what was that, buddy? All right. So so here we go. I'll give you the breakdown. I know I wasn't at a massage parlor for five days. So 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 the Sabres game. We've always been Sabres fans. I mean, everyone probably says I'm not because I'm not wearing my brooms Jersey and lightening Jersey in those two cities respect respectfully, because I'm friends with those players and coaches. But the Sabres been trash for 15 years, but really deep down, I've always been a Sabres fan because that's where we're from. And we played hockey growing up to 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 they charge for a suite there? It was $7,000. That's it. That's pretty short money for a suite in the second round. That's a front white for you. But it's Buffalo. It's Buffalo. The city of Buffalo. That's not big. It's not a big money city. So we go and then my brother, his wife, like basically brother works for the Sabres. I 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 friend who's name is Mr. Buffalo, Jr. He looks at me and goes, Yo, yo, biz just matched with our friend. We'll call her Rhonda. Biz just matched with Rhonda on a dating app. I was like, Bullshit. I was like, bullshit. That ain't true. He's like, Yeah, he's like, bring it up, chirp at him. Don't not no game. And I was like, I was like, how sure are you? He's like, I'm 100% 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. So we wrote back, we got something up our sleeve now. And that's what you came up with. That was the time. I think the worst part about it is you said matching with our high school friend. And like people just took high school away from that. So I got people in the back at T and two studios looking at me like, Oh, like, oh, yeah, like that's a little bit young. And I'm like, 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. Hey, how's Rhonda? Yes. So Rhonda, it definitely wasn't right because she's more of a Tinder and bumble chip. Oh, I'm not on those. He doesn't do those. Oh, you're not. What are you on, Raya? No grinder. Oh, she would be on grinders Ronnie. No, it's Ryan. And I'm injured when we will have to get a text for you the actual name. But I don't know. I kind of love girls from Buffalo. Yes. Like, we might be going back for chicklets cup for the ball hockey tournament. Maybe we could do like, like a wedding ceremony before puck drop. Yes. Maybe 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, anything you want, as long as you don't throw me on the bus again. The only reason I threw you on the 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 on that desk and I know that I could bring I could say something like that too. And I knew you would appreciate it. Well, 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 as a beer chug buffalo, and you must be disgusted. I actually haven't seen your chug yet. Oh, thank God. Okay. That's why I haven't seen it. But 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 cup, buddy. You'll look like fucking Ronnie Deutsch from Barstool 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 with the crowd. What you thought it would be? Yeah, the crowd was exactly how I thought it 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 it three to one and it felt like the momentum was going to shift there in the building. Let me tell you, I never felt that type of electricity in the Sabres, what is it, key bank arena now used to be HSBC when I was growing 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 shift. And we had a lot of chances. We just couldn't put it away in game two versus Canadians. And I ended up not seeing the game last night, but 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 Sabres 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 Sabres? Yes, I wouldn't expect anything else from Buffalo fans. They're kind of taking Bill's mafia and they're kind of turning it into the blade gang now. And I like the blade gang more. It's more active 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 didn't expect anything else from Buffalo. Are you going to be in Buffalo when Game 5 is going down? No, I won't be. 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, she had 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 wrong. Wrong tackling the dummy on the street, the UFC dummy. No, no, here's 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 Buffalonians, 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 alone, 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 little bit. It's what was saying, like even after he got his shit for doing the beer truck that the people were unbelievable to him. And so you don't get the same respect there because they're so mad. He beat them 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 towns that, you know, just come after me. It all depends who I go. I'm walking by and I just got to keep my head on a swivel because if 75% of fans love you and then 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 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 faced 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 that'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 planned date or anything yet. Because I don't was Edelman inducted last year. Yes, I don't mean was the first Ball Hall of Famer last year. And now I just felt like I had to copy them this year. That's Edelman Gronk sandbag or maybe soon guys with you want to you want to play some golf against us? I'm down. Hey, watch out because Jules is a pretty good golfer. All right. So you need another guy to we got three on three. And it's a scramble, right? Everyone hits the same shot. All right, I'm all in for scramble. So let me tell you, Jules can drive the ball about 330 yards when he gets a cap on that. I'm sorry. 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 at the efficient who does the wedding at the front? Like who does the is it the like an MC? No, like when they're marrying two people, the priest. Oh, yeah. Yeah. If I end up marrying a girl from Buffalo, would you be the efficient at the wedding? Yes, I will be. There is no doubt about that. Hopefully it's to Rhonda. That would be great. I gotta I gotta find out who Rhonda is. I just love that. That's the mystery in this. You gotta find out who it is. Okay. You gotta 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 put in a good word for me and now look at me. He's glowing with his NHL. I was just googling that 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 legit. I mean, I'm I'm very impressed with Tage Thompson because he's six six and he's playing center. Like that's incredible. I was I'm six six. Like 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. He just needs to pick it up along with the rest of the team though. And 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 now you're on the media side of things. Are you love are you loving doing all the football like every every it's once a week to which is awesome. So it's not too much on your schedule. Yeah, it's great. And that's why I love 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 do I got Michael Strayham Terry Bradshaw Howie Long Kurt Manafee around me. I mean, these guys are top of the top. They're creamer the crop man. And they're so good at what they do. And Strayhams 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. Strayhams a machine man. How did he even get into like that part of it where it's not even sports now 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 if it's rabble yeah but it's rabble if it's the the game the guy who scores a game winning goal for Team USA 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 the next storm it's wild how good he is. Gronk 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 be 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 uh I love sprinting it just makes the body feel diesel. Gronk I saw a video of the kid Kadek from Barstool squatting you on a stage in Vegas could you believe he was able to squat it looked like he squatted you 10 times. Yeah I mean Kadek's a prior offensive lineman for the Indiana Hoosers and he's a young Buck Steele he's 24 25 years old so I would have been disappointed if he couldn't do it at that age you know he still got that juice but what was funny is we're kind of going at it like uh like I was offensive lineman he was defensive lineman we're going at the night before in a restaurant and I wasn't feeling that good like I like nothing was activated that night and he was kind of pushing me backwards and we got done he goes that 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 I've heard him say that throughout the time I've known him so Kadek watch your back now buddy watch your fucking you talk shit 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 watches 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 um the uh you mentioned Indiana because Kadek went there uh that that kid who got drafted first overall Mendoza what a what a special guy eh 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 drop back and they just throw the ball read read the defense and put the place the 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 and I and are intrigued watching him play the game and that's why everyone's intrigued with how he's going to do in the NFL as well will 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 at Indiana I'm hoping he has success you know in Vegas and Vegas needs to start popping I mean they 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 Gruden back is what they fucking need and Gruden John Gruden 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 he got thrown on the boss kind of right yeah he did he kind of I mean the Mendoz obviously don't know the man but he seems a little bit nerdy and for me like outside looking in it's like how is this guy gonna 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 oh he can be as nerdy as can be dog like he can be the biggest nerdy he can be on jeopardy and get every answer right but uh if you get the job done that's all it's like a 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 uh no matter what it is you're gonna get the respect from your teammates if you show up and ball out um every single day and I feel like that's the type of player he is yes he looks a little nerdy but he's a tough SOB it seems like and he's gonna gain his respect you know through through uh you know through being on the field with his team oh yeah he said he said he wasn't gonna go to the he said he wasn't gonna go to the White House because they have like OTA yeah he's like I'm not missing anything no he was like I haven't proven anything so that 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 were your first pick overall you know kind of under the bus because how are you that's not kind of a win that's a lose lose situation kind of answering that question you know but I gotta know I know the answer that question to the T you couldn't have had a better answer there I I don't know who's coaching him you know with the PR over there but he's doing well that's for sure rock uh this is best buddy we're gonna see you either at Chick-fil-T's Cup and Buffalo or at Biz's wedding to Rhonda prior to that no WrestleMania next year yeah WrestleMania hold on one yo you're going bonkers dude Biz my brother and I we looked at he said it because the game's on and the suite on the tv but you can't hear anything and then they showed my interview then they went right to you after they showed like us in the ring like as cartoon characters that that shit was so funny yeah and then it came to you and you were just pointing to the screen yelling at me and I was like oh shit did we actually piss him off I was like I was kind of worried for a second no I mean maybe a little bit because like my co-workers think I'm on the Epstein list now but yeah yeah whatever what are you gonna do right listen to the first 10 minutes of this uh of this episode you'll know how mad he was till you came on Mission accomplished yeah we weren't on live were we oh fuck he's a live show and then my boy was like yo he already wants to fight you rough and rowdy one on one I was like oh shit I was like oh the thing I got on you is skin that bad no we're good buddy we're good I appreciate how Rhonda I love her I will come in I'm sure she's listening right now dear buddy hey thank you guys thanks for coming along love you guys love you buddy love you guys take care of the guy what a legend I will say once he said that the girl's like put in a good word for me I was like oh biz is gonna love that all all prior uh being upset it's just immediately done that now he knows he's in he's in once again with another woman from Buffalo's congrats biz and I'm gonna have her like if we get together I'm legally gonna have her change her name to Rhonda yeah yeah I think it's gonna actually like I feel like Ron could be the guy like let's call her Rhonda but it was actually her name yeah you know and like above that's a Buffalo woman's name Rhonda from Buffalo how you doing just calling it sports radio just one name not even a last name either she didn't like Josh Allen's pick in the third quarter and she's on sports radio Rhonda 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 to yeah no one is not even gonna get eaten it's just getting smushed all over her face like I'm still gonna prep yeah she probably took down half the old line you know hey this is your future wife biz yeah I know but hey I mean he'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 still at three assists biz I can't help but think of you and and although if you're not a Leafs 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 Leafs thing behind he said he was getting that one that's not going away I believe it's the Wendell Clark aspect of it um oh you're right that should have to leave just because it's a jersey uh it's 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's been a little bit of a of a dud like there weren't many great games um game three included in turn of entertainment it wasn't great unless you're a Golden Knights 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 torturale out there saying like any narrative about him is a bunch of bullshit getting a coach this guy's a pleasure so biz I don't know did you guys cover that game or no yeah we had that game hat trick 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 uh was when he made a couple big plays along the wall broke broke uh 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 play off 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 you know 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 and listen I was guilty of it too like I was ripping on him mind you I I don't know what the exact numbers are was it like 21 or maybe 18 games five through seven um with the with the Toronto Maple Leafs in like clutch closeout game type situations he had no goals in six assist I think that as from a fan standpoint boys like I mean that's the same thing as maybe like Oilers fans ripping on Darnell like when you when you command you know 11 million dollars 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 Marner is it's not just about that like he kills penalties he plays power play he he gets tough five on five matchups so from an overall perspective and playing 20 minutes a game he's a valuable player and I'll eat my words here he's playing to a 12 million dollar player right now he is a 12 million dollar 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 him 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 a somewhat of a point for a fan base to be upset at the fact that like well you commanded all this money and and that was what we got in games five through seven in big situations for for not just a few years here we're talking about like five six years in a role yeah and I think that there was more that went to it I like being from Toronto is part of it and then he took the brunt of it he took 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 of I'll take I'll take accountability I was on that train 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 and 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 know you now he ended up he ended up just being the guy that was like he was the scapegoat and and when you bring up Darnell it's like I just think the difference in that is that he marner is so fucking good that yes well 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 like he seems to be the scapegoat because he makes a lot of money and maybe okay maybe maybe bad example too then I just I just think that now that and I think at the beginning of the year in Vegas um 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 you 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 Tornaval 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 even in game four we'll get into that one like that line is that line of Howard Larner and Carlson that I mean that it's just I mean I'm happy for the guy as a guy who's like ripped on him it's like you still want to see somebody like love what they do and and his skill is just so good even last night like he makes plays 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 the the puck leaving the offensive zone he just throws a backhand sauce I forget to the defenseman it 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 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 bitching moan and just do it for the betterment of the team like that speaks to everything that that that he is to his teammates and his squad and you know towards back them up and rightfully so so I'll take the L on this one boys you know I was part of the part of the people barking and he's shoving it right up my hoop no spit no lube sandpaper finish yance yeah and I just think the biggest thing and you guys mentioned is it's he's having fun just they showed him in warm-ups before last game he's doing the spin of 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 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 howden's got how many goals now like these guys like any guy on that team would be like oh my god please put me with him please put me with him he set up was it mcnab on the peak uh on the shorthand 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 uh loved what he brings to the game and you know easy guy to rue for for sure i i did get a kick out of that uh the Leafs have drafted two players with playoff hat tricks uh nazi khaji and mitch marner neither one of them were on the Leafs when they did it uh that cracked me up but that leads us into game four and um could i he his hat trick uh second natural hat trick in playoffs by a golden knight you know who the other one was marshes oh yeah archis oh who ended up winning the cons my oh where would you put marner as far as cons smith uh uh rating in the west right now probably number one mckinnon is is probably number one um i mean after the first round lakom's name was already engraved in it yeah but yeah marner's right up there i think ickels looked excellent as well um yeah there's a bunch of different options you start i i don't really start talking cons smith legitimately until like we get to the end of the third round and we start not the elimination not when it's two two not when it's two two in the second round okay well let's see if i have marner oh yeah yans is 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 past anaheim okay so that that is what leads me into game four now and i just got off the phone with blupman before this and there was zero panic in his voice too i'm like what's going on in vegas everyone's drinking the wall is kool-aid well i wanted to go to biz a little bit and and the biggest story for they're gonna win this series in six games the 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'll they're they're they're gonna figure it out i just i think that they have what if stones out exactly 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 i there i will just be willing to say they're in trouble if stone's not playing maybe not this round but you're telling me that if stone was out they they would be able to win the stand the cup that would be more difficult i just have this feeling that they're just gonna keep figuring things out like they have their special teams that's buttoned up and five on five they're good i think that uh i i think that like they the colesar hasn't been as effective as he was when they made their run and won the stand they cup last time so the one slight issue i have like 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 that to me is is what the one glaring thing and the only thing i have going against uh vegas but another thing i have um stories about for anaheim is how much they're playing truba and lakom and lakom as much as we were double-rissing him he there's been more like brain farts and in this series and they're like glaring mistakes and listen when you're playing we we've talked about it all season with bicardy 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 his stick around he's breaking up two on ones he looked like the fuck he looked like uh he looked like bob yore and his goddamn prime just doing everything out there but the fact that they're overloading him with ice and 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 they need gudis back they need gudis is he hurt yeah yeah it's oh i thought he was more like he was just like they i was wondering the same thing too like it's weird but you talked about vegas's pk which it was it was incredible right but 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 gonna kill this off like you saw mcnav he could have three penalties one shift finally he got one at the end with the cross check into gothie's back but if if anaheim which i believe they switched around their power play groups a little bit senica got the first one calorn got the next one i think that made it did that make it three two the calorn goal but if you can get your power play going then if i'm i'm one of these vegas fans like blotman and biz i'm not sitting here like i yeah we're we 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 full maybe a little bit of screen from up top and then what was the other goal grandland's goal which i want to give the i want to give vl credit the puck um who's someone hannah finn rimmed it around and raspas anderson missed it and it went to vl on the wall he made an i'm sure grand them was yelling for it awesome little backhand dish to the middle but i think it was deflected or it hit off the ice like i thought that one should have been saved so if every time every time he's at a rough outing though hearts bounce back 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 a is congrats to marner on the hatchery a few of those on my buddy where the fuck you going here i know you got the nice suits coming in like you look like a hundred fun quiz but maybe stop one once in a while get the beach balls out there um but uh would you agree on the ice timed 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 lakom had that bad turnover to dorofia that they almost scored to tie it 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 gudis back would it just drops guys down a couple minutes you don't have to play him because that that that's six pair and the five six pair and is like you know they're kind of being sheltered a little bit where you know him and true bra going almost every other shift so i think if if gudis can come in and can kind of solidify another pairing it just takes away a couple minutes from the comb and he can he can get back to where he was against admitton and watching that clip yans you just sent to the group chat of stone like non-contact injuries skating back yeah and he just that that looked exactly like the video when i was back checking in the a hl and my l5 s1 went out like where you're just you're really 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 like in a skating video like that's how i skate it there's he's 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 i'm actually shocked and surprised that he can get away and get around the ice and 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 he's like he's an all-star in skates like paul bisinat straight up i want to know he's doing the chopstick dance out there a wild bill carlson man that guy like that play he made is so unreal okay so you talk about the call first i texted the group that it was like his controller kind of was unplugged on that goal he's just like stops 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 howden 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 um what that that's situation when the two deer coming down you know like usually hand off to your d partner if the pucks going behind the net it looked like they were just like a little hesitant on all right who's this going to be no i think truba knew it was almost like lakom didn't go hard back to the front like 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 he didn't have this like at least just have your stick there right just in case the past does come out um i'm not trying to like you think that that barners 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 you you you put your hand up for some accountability and then five minutes later bring it back i'm just asking you want a pat on the back i'm asking you guys i do think you deserve we'll just cut this part i do think you deserve some um guys uh jack eichel 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 in 50 games can you guys name the other two the two men with more points through 50 playoff games from the united ryan leach yes and is it cane nope i was like my donno nope oh shit hold on is he current no kevin stephen's oh kevin's wow that's right so leach had 65 points through his first 50 playoff games and kevin stephen's had 62 27 goals um so yeah i can't i can't wait to game five in this series because uh going back to vegas very should to hear about stone because biz i would actually think it's like if it if it's l5s1 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 so it might be your groin off your bone his 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 uh like it could be any of those vertebrae in there that's what 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 uh 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 senica pretty impressed with what he's been doing especially in games where he's getting limited ice still finding a way to contribute offensively so uh 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 were 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 dux fans who showed up to the pond and and brought the energy all night despite your team getting worked bravo man that is an awesome awesome fan base and you could see that they're just grateful for that that the team is back to their winning ways and and and and and uh 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 uh love zell lager back in the lineup the kid flies kind of forgot how fast he was his first shift he took off i was like oh oh i forgot about him he hasn't played all playoff and ian moreman like he plays big gore he plays in 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 and valuable for 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 um harvard shout out harvard i wonder if it's a q thing because remember mark pisic he played forward with us and he was a d man but he used to play forward he got a hat trick one game like playing for q so maybe it's one of his things where if you can just have a d that you know anyone can play forward did buff play forward and deferment chicago it was buff only right it was buff only a forward in chicago no no no he did both okay so quenville 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 fringe guys like all right i could see this guy in fourth line weighing or we could put him bottom pair d so um very at least we got we got a tight series there we got a guy coming on now that just has not been in a tight series yet but before we get to him we got to talk body armor this episode is brought to you by body armor flash i v the playoffs are here they're buzzing there's no better rapid rehydration than body armor flash i v an official partner of the nhl flash i v is packed with electrolytes delivering faster longer lasting hydration without any artificial dyes flavors or sweeteners none of the none of the crap you don't need that stuff when you're rehydrating whether you're training traveling or just feeling the heat work hard and hydrate hard with body armor grab it today at a 7-eleven and athletic brewing 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rest get this you know these days off i know some people have been asking us whether it's you know rust or rest 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 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 advantage for us and i think if there's one coach that would make sure that you guys don't get too 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 no i know you're right there roddy but he played so 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 and you know he knows he knows what we're going through for sure so but no actually he gave us two days off right now too so very special um boys are probably fired up yeah right Jackson's in Kabul yeah yeah no roddy's probably in the in the room the weight room like witt said 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 and 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 rink every day you know the it just seems like you guys have been playing together for 10 years and it's just a truly a blessing a blessing to watch you guys for sure i mean halsey obviously been around a little longer than me and stanks but um no i mean it's been so much fun like you said it's always good when you can go to the rink 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 junkyard dog out there i mean he's only whatever five he might say five nine on there i don't know no way five seven five eight yeah with three pairs of thick socks on 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 like you said the 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 lineup 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 wit did mention 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 um no i wasn't shocked really at all i mean i've been playing with stanky the whole year except for maybe a couple games in there but um you know you never know what's gonna happen at the deadline though um we didn't know what we were gonna 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 stanky because he's been playing really good all year i think you know just getting a little unlucky the pucks weren't really going in you know for for us as a line i would say but you know for him too he was getting a little unlucky we were 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 it was something crazy um but yeah i mean i i didn't know what they're gonna do uh but i'm super pumped that they didn't do anything because i'm having a lot of fun right now uh so i i got to play with halsey's rookie year we live together he's 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 he 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 fun he's having he did an 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 hotshot coming in like what has he helped you with your game and and how enjoyable is it to get to spend time with him 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 though 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 no 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 stanks 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 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 into to what rod wants us to do out there and i mean it works so we all know that and we're gonna do it you know because we know it works but um no i i agree with that though um halsey's definitely one of the more skilled guys in the league in my opinion and um even stanks too but we know that if we go you know four check whatever 10 10 pox as hard as we can we're probably gonna 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 does everyone else so it's been a lot of fun i never really got a chance to see you play like at north dakota and like i did okay so this is your this was your second full year in the nhl i guess i didn't realize like how much like rats not the word but you you play with a certain intensity you ain't backing down like you could be a big shittesturber 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 under guy's skin not really with chirping but just kind of like what i don't know four checking 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 pick 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 gonna 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 now 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 and in your development as a player just being able to bounce back and forth off of 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 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 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 just stuck 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 at 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 i'm 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 doll 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 chain don and josh would be in the locker room all the time just even little things watching guys tape their sticks just being a sponge in the locker room and you see it with the kachuk boys and uh you know even a guy like tige 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 came 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 neocke with the other kids um so my mom thought i was kind of a pain in the ass there a little bit but uh no i i also have another story too i remember the boys lost i don't know 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 geez this is kind of scary but no i was i was always around and i love going to the rink um 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 um i think it's a big reason why i am where i am today so when your dad retired you guys moved to it was in minnesota because that's where i see all you so um were you kind of like uh always pretty good like i know you're mod of sky but was it always pretty easy to you and i mean there had to be a time you know you're undersized now i'd say a little bit you don't play that way but like 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 um i wouldn't say i was always a top player honestly um you know i was always one of the better players on my team i would say for the most part um but no i i mean at that age you just expect you're gonna play in the nhl right you don't you don't know any differing you just think yeah i'm gonna play in the nhl that's what i'm gonna do and then you grow up a little bit and like you said i was i was a late bloomer like i was always the smallest guy on my team and honestly i think that's a that's a huge help to be a small guy growing up because you learn how to play at that at that size and everyone else when they're hitting puberty you know that's how they're gonna be probably the rest of their career so um no i was you know i was always one of the better guys i wouldn't say i was always the best guy on my team but um i just think you know 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 um i just you know 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 uh cuz yans brought up development and josh don't he played with the chicago steel and fantilly adam fantilly was on that team matt cornauto josh don't was on that team ian more like talk about an unreal place to go in the ush l to develop and like get everything going yeah i mean we've 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 lived at the same bill house as matt cornauto um i was always hanging out with like shon ferrell too he was i think he had 100 some points that year this roster is fucking crazy yeah our team was in we had a special group that was for sure shon ferrell yeah matt cornauto josh josh don ryan uvco i think he's nashville now fantilly sam scevich in florida ian more yourself uh that's that's crazy man for the ush l to produce that and his quinn finley is that the kid that was oh no i was thinking of a finley on the blue sorry you mentioned that he's on the whisko he was that kid lightened up for whisko yeah okay where were 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 um we we lost in the championship and then my junior year when i went back it was cove it but we ended up winning actually um 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 ever is to win that tournament and do it with your buddies but yeah that's 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 cove it 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'd always practiced after us we would be we would leave after them like we were sitting in the mallock room all day it was super special to you know 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 i love that i'd love it but even 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 in 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 guy to root 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 um to see what he's doing right now in the playoffs it's you know it gives us so much confidence and him and and in our group that we know we have him back there and um you know some of the saves he's been he's been i don't even 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 um why we're in all so yeah big big credit to freddy um i was gonna go to uh to jordan stall uh what a leader whit actually played with him uh when he first got to the league as well um in pittsburgh um he's a moose he's a moose what were you aware of that like that that fight was gonna go down or was that like impromptu and what was the reaction maybe between periods after he led you guys to start things off in these playoffs with fight and brady kichuk yeah no i had zero clue that was gonna happen um 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 gonna maybe do it at some point in the series but i don't think anyone knew there's gonna be a couple seconds in but i mean you know that's just the guy he is honestly he's probably mvp i mean maybe not probably is our team mvp like he's power play penalty kill playing 15 some minutes every single night shutting 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 solid for us um but no i didn't i didn't expect that but that definitely got the boys going and um 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 as number one for mvp and then maybe stalls he at second or maybe his dog frank and thank you stalls you third franky franky yeah he's getting the trophy um yeah i just want to get get get this out of the way now rollback last question use code chiclet on rollback dot com for jenner's 20 percent off through the end of this week c h i c l e t s on r h o b a c k dot com 20 percent off polo's hoodies joggers and more so you mentioned you were a fourth rounder um another fourth rounder on your team jacob slaven kind of crazy that they had they have both you guys in the fourth round shout out the the the staff there got a talsky salad the uh the kachuk brothers podcast they were talking about him the other day and brady was saying he's got like the best stick in the league and i know he missed a lot of this season for you guys like take us through like practicing against him and i know his skating is what everyone notices but i i guess i have no clue how he went in the fourth round but playing against him and with him and well 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 rim it like he'll just like bat it down and knock it down the ice and that's just normal to him 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 um definitely stuck not having him at the start of the year and but you know he's at 100 now and you can tell and i even think he's talked about enough still like just the things he do he does out there he might not score a ton of goals or do but he does all the little things and you know our pk was unbelievable and he's you know one of the biggest pkers in the whole league so he's been great great mentor for me too um love having him he played in chicago too another guy college guy too so you know he's been awesome love him i i asked him i asked him about like uh how he became so good defensively and always we talk about how he leads with his stick and he said his sister from playing obviously women's hockey no contact you 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 wow so that was yeah pretty pretty remarkable yeah that's cool 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 can't be running out and trying to murder guys every time right no i know yeah no he's unbelievable with it another guy who he looks like slaving out there sometimes is kiondre miller and he's came over to you guys like he is fit in perfectly just looks like he was born to be a caroline hurricane yeah like halsey they're both like perfect right your 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 stick's 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 um 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 talski got him but you know props great job talski master class baby just ask the kaniacs online what do you think how would you describe what makes playing there so hard murals our 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 rink 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 at home you stuffed the away team in a fucking shoebox yeah well that's how you got to do it i feel like right just they crank 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 theirs 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 that's probably better than i thought 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 yeah hit the sticks a little bit i don't know that's that's probably all i will do it's pretty nice here though so get outside a little bit but other than that i don't know hit the sticks means playing video games yeah yeah it's the funniest thing i was yeah i thought golf no i know it's the funniest thing hit what are you doing that might be playing video games again i guess it could be golf two sticks but no i yeah rainbow six siege that's my game right now what is that war games or something it's like a five v five like kind of somewhat a cod but it's good it's fun so you got your squad like you're playing with like buddies at home or whatever i got my boys at home yeah we nice well we'll play an unnormal amount for sure so the text goes out we hitting the sticks and the boys hop on and i was on my way home from the course and i just signed 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 tall skiing master class sticks yeah well buddy you've been uh you've been beyond impressive so far for two rounds not one loss for you guys you're lighting it up we appreciate you coming on and uh continue to success man good luck in the next round yeah thanks guys anytime anytime go canes baby guys a little breaking news happened during that uh that interview there uh from the toronto maple leaves to uh the toronto maple leaves have officially parted ways with shane don't it's over it's gone shocking shocking news there shocking this imagine i'll say i'm a little bit better than i wanted to stay in business like oh oh oh hey whoa okay jeff o'neill calling yeah should i tell me why i tell me he's live to share are you willing to chat he might be off the record right 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 we're live to tape we're live to tape right you're on the show tell him i don't care okay why does frank flaming hate the mess so much that's why i called you today tell him because they've never given him one thing to report through finer uh he i think he likes being miserable with his sports teams and if you watch him with the the new yeah he's gotta 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 mean 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 gonna definitely pass this message a lot i mean tell the odd dog though that i think second highest payroll i love the mulch and say hi to the boys for me i will you're the best in our stanberg mcchennar stanberg oh mcchennar stanberg you know what is i think after what they've been through the last 10 years with the high end skill stanberg's a more well-rounded player why not sniff around and think about something different wow hang up and listen hey okay wow i mean i'm the shirts the boys the boys love your response oh odak can we get you on in the next couple weeks i gotta talk to my personal assistant to see if i have any free time okay that's a no the boys are in love with that i know you're busy buddy but we'll pass the information on to stew and then and and also frank fleming we'll tell him to calm it down all right brother see you this summer for a sandbagger love you all right wow okay so a little bit to to digest here uh do you want to start with the the mcchennar stanberg comment the mcchennar stanberg comment is um i believe murals was the one to say that badard was the super flashy and he's gonna be a hundred-point player right but carlsson 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 badard and what his potential will be but like i i think that like i think 75 i think i was asking anson carter i said what what percentage of gms 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 carlsson knowing what they know now compared to the badard and i think he said between 75 and 80 percent but what do you think badard's members would be on that anaheim team exactly that's another point here's the other part of it i don't know so what what built what when stanley cups like what type of players i know but stanberg if stanberg's a center then i think this is a big time discussion but he's a winger too right now granted carlsson and uh badard both centers so but if stanberg was a center and on 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 i agree i agree with you now i would it be fair to say the comparison would be would you want barnard or ron is that kind of what we're looking at here yeah besides stanberg's emberg's not that big is he him stu till that's that's kind of him he stues more of a comparison yeah he's six foot he's a skilled winger he's very he's uh he's good on both sides of the puck though i'd say a little bit better than than stu till is but i think what i said last spot i think it remains true and i got so much fucking shit from leaps 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 or because because one he's been playing against men in two gavin mackenna he he struggled the first half of the year and then there's the argument he was second in the nc double a and points per game you take away that eight point game where they won 11 to 1 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 mackenna play a lot i see he doesn't stand out every single shift we went to the regional cerebral max plant was by far a better player than gavin mackenna was i know it's the college game versus the nhl game uh mackenna is a year younger mackenna can be this absolute goal scoring stud but the safer pick is ivar stenberg yeah no i i i'm kind of i'm almost hoping that they don't because then he would be going to san ozay 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 bez i think if he i think he's fallen to vancouver at that point i just don't i think they're gonna take a defenseman or they're gonna trade that pick they don't need a gavin mackenna they they they have their will smith and maclin's celebrity and michael knows something here though we don't know boys sounds like 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 jud the other day this long response about why carter mc david should go to the boston ruins probably shouldn't have done that so i'm i'm digging but i'm digging a little too much right now okay well you know you can never dig too much true um never dig too much it's it's gonna be interesting the other thing was donor oh yeah yeah donor oh yeah 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 in my mouth and i was praying for that to i think don't work don't it don't it would have been a good guy he wouldn't have seen 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 we are looking to bury each other on this 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 chiclet's 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 a joint being like oh no i think i think marner put me in a blender and making me look like a fool and getting added 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 like i think that somebody just made a video of you with the canes about how you were delting them and they you know they kind of fans want him dead for saying i don't want him in the finals i don't i don't i don't even want him in the eastern conference so i we can talk about the series now i am turning the page into like the kane's electric now i think stop i read the i read the funniest tweet in the history of spitton chiclets the other day it's it was it was under the need the caroline hurricanes and one canes fan wrote beat yandle would root for the taliban rather than rooting for the caroline i was that's not true in tears dude that's the one thing out there that's not legit that is fucking people are born and going at it with usama bin laden's fucking offspring center ice holy fuck what is going on with the n h l man this n h n h l is full full fledged drama you know it was a bunch of bullshit was somebody videoing talk out for a drink after they got swept and buddy that's that jay moroni 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 buddy they're 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 ten worst team in the league and you went to the second round and the culture has 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 bounced in 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 steps they 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 porter martin porter martin 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 that the philadelphia flyers were able to to 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 biz 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 i don't know if it's everyone no hundred percent and i i'm glad that you said that i i i my point was is like the the the negativity online for how positive it was from a small minority is insane but i i'm glad you brought that up because rod brindlemore when they were shaking hands with talk you could tell he pointed up and i guess he told him he goes what you guys have done here this year in a short period of time like the gold flyers go chance it's kind of like i mentioned with anaheim like they're still there they didn't leave to 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 shout out to everything that they were done jonesy brayer talk and of course the players yeah a good run mech golf scratch that's kind of a storyline for the summer they have to sign zegrist they have to sign drysdale but like you said biz 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 out they're just 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 um we saved uh 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 uh the hurricanes are the fifth team ever to start the playoffs eight no all right the 52 red wings did it they won the cup the 60 canadiens 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 north stars the la 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 no and 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 race world here in these spitting chicklets podcast boys that Montreal atmosphere i got the hat on right here absolutely nothing like a goose bumps it Montreal's done now that's sacrilegious all right that's pretty crazy to see you in a canadian's live yeah we need you to take that off that is like Jesus that's like there's gonna be some Bruins fans not happy with you Patrick watch look at the flow in the back holy salad bar in the back Patrick Wilde name name on the back they used to make these hats i scoffed us i was either msg or the forum where i boosted it out a little back of the day when i was left all right like give me the tolskie club club though a little club though maniac day is back in the day but no man i i don't care who your roof or who you hate but there's nothing like watching watching that demo on tv like you get goose bumps i it seems like 98 percent of the crowd has a red like canadian's jersey on it's unbelievable i know what's great to see is um uh madame bellovo uh john bellovo's widow she's 94 years old they'll go into the game she 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 the rock visiting terry ryan a few years ago it happened no shit yeah it happened to be the same time added to the list yeah i didn't win it 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 gotta get a shout out to mike matheson for uh being a good nhlpa guy and protecting zack 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 there were all kinds of skate blades kind of in the area man it was just uh you know you don't see that too too often i'm sure it happens uh you know frequently well maybe not frequently but here in there but you know like you basically like looking out for a guy i mean he probably punched him the face two minutes ago because he's a little rat but that was a little cool uh cool gesture for you know a guy you know you guys are all brothers at the end of the day even if you're trying to kill each other so i want to give him a shout out there uh paging dr subin paging dr subin last night good for him though man he he finished off that ten million dollar donation i think it was amazing that is that is unreal i mean that pk made a lot of money but fuck a ten million dollars a lot for how much you made man that's incredible um 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 that message and says hey you've been such a great example and so good for the game so stick taps and clicks for pk subin great representation of our game yeah hey guys i actually i don't know if you guys saw uh matthew schaefer just started a uh i believe it's a foundation to help sick kids with cancer in uh on long island he teamed up with uh northwell health and uh in the islanders so we just launched this whole initiative on mother's day yesterday in honor of his mother so shout out schaefer as well for doing that because it's a pretty cool initiative unreal awesome yeah i was the obama tree all children's hospital foundation but i like last night in the broadcast i was waiting for him to like go up to mess like uh turn to the left and cough the doctors even do that anymore like they used to grab you by the by the fucking coin the coin press and tell you to cough i don't have to mind us but her name is ron visits time asus but i yeah you i wait you just said we're gonna talk about the uh minnesota series so glad they won you know hate to see a team go down three we like to see a lot of games so unbelievable performance capris off the other night goal to assist just dominated over 23 minutes a huge bounce back for walstead two played a awesome game so yeah it's like i like love to see him tied up go six games so would you i 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 hues they needed favor and and boldly i think he grabbed the empty netter but you know i would say he's been their best player him and quinn hues but it was capris off like just grabbing that game that goal was beautiful i thought favor was incredible i mean i actually showed rider 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 hues jumping up into the play it's him as well and then the quinn hues 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 2 look and then that shot was a complete rocket and um 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 day before yes like uh people like obviously a couple minnesota homers they were up three nothing mini and you see the shift where where felino ends up cross check in melinsky 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 he 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 uh 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 hues and between the both of them five points goal and two assists for faber i believe and then one and two for for quinn hues but you said it man like he knew he knew that wedzwood had lost his stick and just does that back pedal and hold it hold it to snipe just uh an unreal performance from all their their their big boys and there was no holding one thing to open up the 10 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 magic in 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 the series flips now oh come on what do you mean that's what the wildfans are telling me on twitter biz 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 gotta think he's at a public pool and like i people are looking i don't know i'm just saying what the wildfans are saying that the series might but they also thought it was a delay game they thought it was a delay a game flipping over the glass outside the offense's own blue line yeah give a brother some privacy yeah oh i agree with you all right buddy same thing with the talk picture video yeah i was gonna bring it up the pool thing like there's no more privacy exactly and three of the top six playoff scores are minnesota wild so obon is leading right now but carol's second with 14 points nine games quinhu's 13 and nine and boldly 11 points and nine games so uh good stuff there carolina man i know what just mentioned the first team that's not eight no since the 85 boilers but i think the only thing hotter than carolina right now is carolina's twitter dude they were flaying the flyers man like they've been on a heat roll playoffs i don't know who's running running game they always do right aren't they known for having a good yeah got good admin like chirpin teams the best was when they used the always sunny font and it was like the gang goes to cancun 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 is from stormy their mascot gritty after my cousin yeah exactly gritty after beating the pens versus gritty after being swept that was great i don't know that crazy muppet i forget his name though that right that was good stuff too but uh dude shadow freddy anderson man 36 years old eight no a 1.12 goals against 950 say percentage uh two shutouts playing out of his mind awesome to see at this stage of the game he got his 54th win the other night the third most uh in the nhl since he entered the league in 1314 only vassey and bob have more and how about raw hot rod brindlemore he's uh either played or coached in 94 out of 96 canes playoff games that's that's one of those banana stats i think we've seen all players but he's i want to ask you are there any potential drawbacks where like this layoff they're gonna have obviously is going to be like a significant amount of time is there any potential drawback for a team being out you know out of commission out of commission i don't 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 i can't imagine that it will affect them too much um i just think that they're such a well-balanced team and what they do they know what they're doing every single game uh they're built off a speed so i think they'll have obviously some tough practices getting ready and those are gonna suck but uh it it i don't think it will affect their play at all unfortunately there is no better feeling in the world um than practices while even being hard of 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 did have days off and it's like you're going to the rink then you're watching the games the weather's nice it's it's so awesome so yeah it's a long time they'd probably they'd probably choose for for Montreal now that they're up to one to end that quicker right because no matter what they're gonna 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 like oh this is beautiful so it's you get the they they're so it's so buffalo wins game four go seven if Montreal wins game four end it next game type yeah yeah i'm i'm fired up like i i kind of like i'm okay with canadiens winning now because i think then that means we get the eastern series because it'll be caroline and a canadian team like if buffalo gets it i think espn is going to take the conference finals um but we got to go up to montreal then oh by you see you the the craziest part about this is obviously cani actor nuts bell center will be nuts but it just so happens if it's going to be during f1 in montreal like the f1 we're not going to have anywhere to stay then i don't even know if uh i don't even know if tnt can get hotel rooms right yeah it's going to be pandemonium in that city dealing with f1 yeah and 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 electric Edmonton was awesome that would be that would be at the top of my bucket list for sure another note quickly sorry i read no back to the mini dallas thing is uh so the felinos they also started uh they raised the over 200 grand to fund the new breast cancer research grant off the masonic mass masonic cancer center in minnesota so pretty cool that they did that and then in that note is um they're trying to become the second brothers to win the cup together do you guys know the first um there was jads no no sotters no don't don't tell us don't tell us can we get a clue i thought was it the stalls stalls in caroline no need a mires need a mires oh yeah it was crazy right you remember uh scott need a mires beat rob need in the finals with devils anaheim when jager won the cons yes and then they scott went to anaheim and they beat otto together so that's pretty cool so uh 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 have any shots you want you wouldn't a lot of prize or anything wet or just oh i'm sorry i didn't get ronda phone number yeah you get ronda newt help me ronda help me ronda hey hey hats off to the flyers i mean uh you know i know they got swept by great season father no one thought they were gonna do much this year to win a series and you know like i mean they were competitive but you know they got some work to do but you know shout out to jonesy what what he's been doing there with priya but as far as philly the it was the first city and uh the big four sports history in the u.s to be swept in the playoffs in two sports on back-to-back nights that's that never happened before so you know a little ignominious not the least it wasn't 75 canes fans in the building when it happened um a little bit of a surprise maclin celerbrini not a hot trophy finalist uh the finalist come out i think uh yesterday the nat dog mc david and kutcher up but oh yeah bez wolf what's up man how'd you get that i've been wanting one of those i was pumping his tire saying mvp and then their admin like DM'd me or something and then and then i was like hey do you mind if i get a celerbrini jersey and can he sign it and i have a signed celerbrini jersey bro they they got to restrain it on it from on me the way i've been pumping his tire as well season and bet the hell out of him but oh that that's a sweet jersey but yeah i was a little surprised he he wasn't a finalist there but he was named captain of team canada at the world championship uh tivaris and orie will be the assistant so the picture with tivaris and orie 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 mc david and sit aren't there but um that that's a that's a hell of an arm that's something where when you're up for the ted linsey the disappointment are not being up for the heart and then getting named captain of team canada he's he's doing fine see i i think he's gonna win the ted linsey 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 gonna get the boats of the players interesting i don't even know if we ever mentioned that the last night we did um the amazon show is when he broke the record of of points for one season for the sharks what do you have four points that night to do yeah yeah four points what do you finish with i think once was 117 yeah it was 115 of or yeah jimbo joe gave him some love and yeah he made him an omelet member oh yeah absolute absolute treat to watch he has a 19 year old but uh i'm not sure if you saw the jim no uh press carmence he said that team should be rewarded more for winning the president's trophy pointed out how hard the regular season is but this would you it would be a good reward like what's like uh something you would how would you reward a president's trophy winner like quickly did you hear what he mentioned and then he's like i don't know it's it's obviously gotta seem like he was rattled by the two three match up is what he 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 that's the way the pwhl does it all yeah really yeah i want to see not you can't find that on espn dot com though it's tough i don't think there's enough advantage to a team i don't think color gets enough advantage for winning the president's trophy if you win the president's trophy or win your division what it is i don't know what it is is it your opportunity to start where you want to start against the team i don't know what what it is but there's not enough emphasis on how hard the regular season is it is hard it's the parody in the league now uh 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 melanie guillotin's not good you're not winning that night and it's just getting out the tight and around the league to make it so push for changes well we talked about it i still know what it is you know we always have internal discussions what is it i don't know what it is but there's you know doing the president trophy that's it's hard to do so i think like one um they did get an advantage for winning the president's trophy they got to play la in the first round they swept them um 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 f*** are you playing 84 games to finish second overall to then play third overall it doesn't make any sense to me why are the play like then then if i'm them why wouldn't you just rest your players the whole second half of the season and even if you fall into like the the fore spot like all of a sudden the players are going to stop maybe giving more of a s*** in regular season like they should do more of the n a n a mba mantra where they're just resting guys more take it back take it back right but i'm saying is like what the f*** are we doing here why are we playing 84 games i you couldn't be more dead on i think that's 100 but what what what can they do like what are if you do win the president's trophy are you gonna pick a team that you're not gonna play like the bulletin board material like the fire you're gonna light under that other team's ass i mean i know it you're gonna set yourself up to have a better chance to win but like i'm just trying to think of like what like the n a l guys we do right yeah yeah exactly years in the pwhl the team that picked the team they lost to that team no wow yeah careful we wish for it right all right you should all right you know what they probably would have chosen la and then you might have your your pick of la might have come true that they would have let that fire in other ass like he just mentioned i hey what if you guys agree in the fact that like jim 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 a 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 him it's jobs are being lost because of it just because you want to try to make it more entertaining in the first round i don't know that would like you take that series and it's probably more entertaining than what every series in the second round so far i think i mean much of buffalo has been that game that last games aren't super cool but it's electric it's electric atmospheres yeah i thought the last game was unbelievable man up up and down incredible action but well it's it's fine but it ain't it ain't dallas and minnesota going over time or double overtime 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 away from actually biz look look at this bad bad boy old school this this is legit it's all doing grinelli this is this hat come up before they even had the official logo like they didn't have anything designed they just knew it was teal i just steal that one from no i actually paid i did i paid for this one believe it or not uh over the assembly square mall i yeah basically before they even had their logo like i gotta i gotta do my patented hat washer method it's obviously a little dirty but uh hey i want to say uh congratulations to uh layla anderson the the blue super fans graduating high school this year going off to college uh in the fall so uh 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 uh good luck in college uh 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 gonna go with the royal tenon bombs uh west anderson's probably his best movie but uh gene hackman angelica houston the wilson brothers gwen apalchro ben stiller bill murray danie gleva have you any of you guys seen it the one that come out no dude it's a hilarious movie uh gene hackman basically it's just about this like crazy dysfunctional family and you know they're all kind of like bullshitting each other lying to each other uh probably like i said west anderson i think it's probably his best movie he also did rushmore fantastic mr fox uh phenomenal director uh also two season uh season two of running point of any on netflix with that kate hudson it's a fictional uh series my kids watch that really oh yeah it's about it's like loosely not even though it's not really based on the lake is 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 uh 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 uh also that kevin hot roast i don't know if you guys watch that yet um i want to watch that today i saw clips for a minute seemed like there was some uh some good moments a little tension where uh chelsea handler was kind of going at some of the like rad cliff guy like it seemed like those were personal shots did you feel that way hinge cliff yeah hinge cliff hinge cliff i i didn't see the whole thing i i put the front of me the first 45 minutes on last night but yeah this 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 bradie come out he did like i mean like like probably like a solid five minutes uh i mean obviously probably people writing his jokes from but yeah i'm gonna finish the rest of that hat williams coming out was was shocking because he has because of his prior hate for uh for who's the midge kevin hot yeah kevin hot yeah oh he gets his digs in on him too about being at diddy parties and shit uh and i mentioned this show a bunch before but the season finale was the other night on hpo that show rooster with steve karella fire you're looking for a show to watch great i like it all right rooster yeah three episodes in oh nice wet love to hear it yeah it gets better each episode it's i think the best new comedy um on like you know basically on streaming or tv right now so give that a whirl and um let's see oh do a couple all right hamiltons 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'mell this guy he's been a long time following do you still have the shirt you made the memory made the already hamilton shirts he has to go importantly was like i i ain't i ain't selling him you could you could try to sell him if you want yeah i think i sold about three of them i took a bath on that but i actually do have him in storage somewhere i probably got like a couple hundred of them i might have to donate it to charity or something so that was kind of funny i don't even know if they take them i would i i think i think we should do a content video going through your storage you is what we should do oh my god yes give me my in-laws basement you mean that would be no that's it that that is my storage i still have shit over there so uh another question this is from brad perry uh the first stanley cup final you remember watching pete do you remember the first stanley cup final you watched oh is this 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 but they played la right they play 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 mix well yeah because it was geek geek kavanaugh like they knew on the bench and they and geek kavanaugh told jack the male they waited till the third period to get that pow play tied the game we're gonna go down to oh yeah if they lost that game yeah absolutely yeah absolutely huge god you remember who scored the game winner keith in ot the fenceman yeah was it match knighter no erie zahdan day zahdan he had two that night didn't he remember he came down like the right like from the right point ripped one went nuts yeah the reason i remember that is because obviously that the high stick gratsky on gilmore that one went to seven uh bob mckenzie the 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 um yeah yeah what about wait toronto's in the west no because calgary calgary the camp montreal yeah in 89 yeah in 89 was the last one yeah 89 calgary montreal yeah um when do you think what what do you think we'll ever see that again in all canadian final never yeah never ever no one knows but i i think the first one i i mean probably i guess the 77 stand like up final i was like probably five when the broans canadians back on the day they lost them 77 78 and then 79 was in the semi so yeah that's probably the first i remember 90 because it was broons oilers and i just remember my dad flipping out i don't remember what game i don't remember what oilers goal it was or what missed the broons had he was losing it and i 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 when 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 me neither um gee gee what what about you what's uh do you remember the your first cup you watched as a young pike june 9th 2001 after 22 years raven gork i was i was like uh i had like a problem as a kid i i wouldn't take any pictures unless i was in a ray bork jersey i was the biggest ray bork fan in the world all my christmas cards were me and a ray bork jersey so when he won that one it was my dad had his shirt mission 16 w would wear for every game it was uh it was really cool so i remember my algorithm had uh just popped up uh the goal sack ex 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 brodera they get made it three nothing that just popped up the other day yeah because it wasn't even that close to the game i don't think now yeah i was i was at actually at a wedding down the cape and like you know i mean half the freaking wedding was watching uh well the devils were up three two at home in game six in that series yeah and i remember bork scored in game six yeah walk the line and then they got it done yeah that's a good one jay because i was getting loaded in doorchester with geith 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 yeah 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 poshah 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 walked about to play the pocket he fucked it up and jersey ended up winning the game i yeah i drove down good tickets with a buddy that was the second staley cup i ever went to yeah uh shout out to uh to the staley cup one last one i get this guy asked me all the time boxes or briefs i don't know i'm just gonna like satisfy him so we'll stop asking like i don't know any dudes who who lay like like tidy whitey's a liven boxes for a while maybe if you got like the the tight ones but i think he briefs like are tidy whitey's what everybody no no no briefs are like the tidier fitted boxers i thought boxers is what you wear are a which is like the loose cloth right that are like filthy yeah but like no brief well briefs of all i thought there was tidy whitey's but there are the box well there i think this boxer briefs like that i don't you mean like they almost like spandex kind of like yeah they're boxes like size there's people that are still wearing tidy whitey's 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 whitey's they're the same amount of people that are wearing boxers remember the wedgies you would get wearing boxers like the ones that are where they're running off oh my god i'd rather wear a fucking g-strap all right i have the flannel cloth boxer bro don't make me stand up and show you this so blocy they're disgusting i'd rather wear this than boxers yes and well this is i guess not a little bit of a grime like yes one thing that's you know it's we're coming up the 250th anniversary of the united states of america this summer and especially in boston like i wait i i can't believe the lack of like signage or or just patriotism yeah yeah just things like you know i i mean i was only four during the bison tenial but like i still remember you couldn't like go two feet without seeing you know something about the bison tenial everything was going on and like i don't know i mean it's it's only like a couple months away july 4th and i i just did there's been like nothing i'm just the mayor's gonna 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 250 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 yeah i'm just surprised especially here you know here in boston i mean last you know this this place will be a zoo i'm sure in a couple months but yeah i just it just seems pretty muted compared to like a uh 50 years ago so uh all right boys yeah mayor will wait get it done yeah no she hates the u.s more than she hates boston she hates boston yeah not a fan to the country of popular belief i i did not pull a lever far so uh all right boys well another another fun week another great week of playoffs and uh hopefully you all have a great weekend live stream tonight yes live stream game four we will be on youtube at eight o'clock for a wild uh verse colorado 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 rob low nfl just fan he doesn't have a team right now i'm a free agent buddy okay i can go away you had two different jerseys on but you're restricted so i'll bring it up now because you asked um i was gonna think of a proposition for the ottawa senators and their fans yes what about joining that kid's band and move into woohan 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 oh they would they would take they'd be begging for that sack and a heartbeat they just want anybody on their wagon but but that's one where like you you know you hop on and brady's gone buddy but that's that's that's the thing i would have to have brady sign off on it and we're gonna have to think of a punishment in a sense of if i end up hopping 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 you're like a college player now it's just ufa every transfer portal baby and i l so all you ottawa fans seem to think oh stop the rumors he ain't going anywhere he told us 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 trotto in the back the same way they stabbed donor you should be the wwf biz you cut in grok or fighting in wrestle mania you cut a mean promo he and grok are fighting in wrestle mania next year he ronda versus grok what do you got hey is you think mincey's trying to like get on a checklist so uh he's he's been tweeting nonsense about hockey and like he'll i love how he always he'll put a tweet and then i'll like instead of including like the the twitter handle he always puts it like the next tweet after a couple of these like he's tagged us in a couple it's like he's slob and hockey's knob right now i'll 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 mincey 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 hockey league come on down we will take anyone and everyone that is what we're all boys mincey does montreal you can send him to carolina if you room with him i'll room with mincey if if we'll bring him one game in montreal can you imagine how much poutine would it be all over his face there'd be gravy in his hair cheese in his mouth cheese in his nose be electric i think there would be a good opportunity for chiclets to extend the olive branch to mincey to bury the hatchet on all the other bullshit i think it would have been bring everybody together and what better country to do it in than canada oh it's actually interesting one one all right hamilton i didn't use uh so 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 i was like that's why i didn't use it i'm like nothing i mean they're just the ones who yell shoot yeah that's all right leave me out of this 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 cold be a strong hit you know what my biggest gripe is is uh it has i don't think it has anything to do with the new ones the whole like uh like when that for instance that clip came out of the red deer rebel scout who's 85 and it's like people were mad about and it's like it's like what's going on there sweet this is this is hawk this is hawk halki culture it's like oh there's no other horny 85 year olds in the world that fucking look up fuck it like you don't say use the age where i'm pretty sure like that's like oh that that's uncle randy like there he goes again the horny old grandpa yeah what do you say you're beautiful not the time or place i think we can all agree on that and i feel bad for the girl if she feels uncomfortable but like it's a horny old grandpa yeah and she she handled it well and i think i'm making chaker she they go fine for that or was that a fake tweet no i think they got ching ching like five thousand bucks bonk they find them they find them two wooden nickels like i had to go in his fucking talk trying to get them the funny thing is that every single person watching it is like oh wow that girl is really pretty now you don't say it i understand you're doing a great job but it's just like he was a hundred and it's like scouting the wh l since fucking link gates was running around there and all of a sudden he's getting his t fine five thousand dollars this guy's got 50 million miles on his car just from going to scout these games and alberta it's a fucking quabac and like give him a break his fucking teeth were wooden and every shade of yellow just so you go an old time oh i'm pretty beautiful now he's a blinkin's brother he's like how's your tape to tape passes he invented i remember the 100th anniversary of the united states of america all right guys we will be back i used to take the train to scout out i built the i built the train tracks i i met i met mr plain view when there will be blood i drink the milk cheese i used to dig the holes with them six hours and 28 minutes from now we'll be on youtube dental dams for a thing need a machete to get through those bushes thank you to everyone for tuning in thank you to groanck thank you to jackson blake kids buzzing and all you people watching 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 11am but more importantly us tonight game for wild out see if they get tired up peace it's going to happen again oh rural britain you've suffered 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