Bruins Lightning Stadium Series Was The GREATEST Outdoor Game Ever

Welcome to the Empty Netters Podcast. Can you believe what this has become? There was a full 48 hours right, felt like that was like literally Superman. Jambola was playing Fortnite, so... No, I hate you, you got it on the stick. Did TR show you the sauna cycle? It was not already. No, I invented that. Almost a year now that I haven't taken a body check. That's kind of nice. I finished my day with some chicken fingers and a few Guinnesses. Right into you guys. That's where this pod came to life. Ice is ready. And we are back with another episode of the Empty Netters Podcast brought to you by Bet MGM. We are remote. We are blown away because a lot of stuff is going on right now. I'm your host, Dan Powers, and over here, the newest member of the Empty Netters team. He's a penguins fan. He's an absolute riot. He's going to become your new best friend as fast as he did ours. Evan Watkins, welcome to the bench, buddy. How we feeling, boys? How was the flight back? The flight back was actually not bad at all. The green. We'll get into it. Before we get into it, we'll get into this guy over here. He's fully decked out. He's also so old and he's snoring so bad these days that he had to buy a special anti-snoring pillow. The guy's deteriorating before your eyes, Chris Powers. As always, also, doesn't work. Also, I thought it did work. No, doesn't work at all. Doesn't work at all. And I don't think I'm deteriorating though, according to you, Dan. Because I was like, oh, I think I snore now. And then you were like, no, you always snore when we were on the road. And I was like, oh, it's based on action. That's actually... No deterioration. That is fair. Like, you do snore and it's bad, but there is the reality that we're just like, oh, he always did that. Evan, I... Listen, guys, we got some great stuff to get into. We're going to get all into the stadium series. Spoiler alert, probably the greatest outdoor game of all time. Certainly the best one that we've ever been to cannot wait to talk about it. You asked about the flight and I just got to say just a quick shout out, quick plug. I know I'm late to the game, but I finally watched shrinking. I don't know if you've seen that. I ripped through all of season one on the flight and... Man, he did pump that, dude. That was crazy. Yeah, I watched the entire season. The second we were done recording this, I'm going to get under a blanket and continue watching the show because apparently season four has just come out. I don't know why I'm surprised because Bill Lawrence is maybe my favorite creator of all time, given how much I love Ted Lasso and everyone in that show is so fucking good and I just absolutely love it. It is so feel good. It's just great. It gave me every feeling that I've ever needed and I recommend. High recommend to the folks is what I'll say. I love the Harrison Ford on a TV series. This is fantastic. Never thought I'd see the day. Is it as is it done? Or how far into shrinking are we? I think season four just came out. So I've got fucking time to grind, baby. So we're humming along still. Yeah, big time. Big time, big time, big time. Speaking of big time, the hot ice is big time. We've got lots to get into, folks, so let's not waste any time. We're going to get into the stadium series in a little bit, but first and foremost, I had some breaking news. But even before that, Dan, even before that. Oh, I don't even want to do this, dude. You're going to bring up this rat scumbag again. Yes, I did. I did this last year. I know, dude. I just want Evan's take. Evan, happy groundhog day, man. Happy groundhog day. Oh, yeah. That's today. Yep. And unfortunately, punk Satani Philly saw a shadow. So we're fucked again. And I love that tone of voice. Evan doesn't give a shit about groundhog day. When you leave weather, which living in Southern California, you say goodbye to weather, you're like, who gives a fuck what's going on in punk Satani? I mean, other than the great movie, which is one of Bill Murray's, but Harold Raimus and Bill Murray's best films, yeah. We all know this is just a fucking hoax, right? It's a hoax, dude. So I've been saying it for years. Who is this other rat bastard that we found out last year? There's another one, Evan. Because I saw this. The names that Phil was described as the world's leading prognosticating rodent. And I was like, is there another one? Is he one of one? Hold on, let me go. Can we look it up, then? Yeah, it's like some random town. His name is ridiculous. Just Google it quick, Chris and say, who's the other ground, groundhog? Because his name is something nuts. I can't believe we're forgetting this. Actually, it makes sense that I'm forgetting it because I have such a disinterest in how to get in. There are a lot of them. Well, which one? You should remember the one. There's in there's Staten Island Chuck. Staten Island Chuck. There's Buck, there's Buck, I Chuck in Ohio. In Georgia, there's General Beauregard Lee. And where is he? He's here in Ohio. You're Georgia. Yeah, I don't like General Beauregard Lee sounds too Confederate for me. That's what I'm talking about. What's he predicting? It's problematic. Whatever. Yeah, great. We're out on that, dude. There's Flat Iron Freddy in Colorado. He's a yellow, bellied Marmot. And that's interesting. I don't hate him. Do they all predict how much winter we're getting? You're telling me that this is such a... There's so many jobs. No one can get jobs in this country. Who's telling the truth then? Who's telling the truth? We've got just droves of rodents and marsupials getting jobs predicting how much more winter we're going to get. And it's Staten Island Chuck, who's the maybe the biggest rat of all. I'm out on that, dude. There's a wood chuck in Michigan, who also predict six more weeks of winter. So at least they're aligned. They get together and they say, you know, we're going to sink on that. So I picture these rats. Like the... What is it? It's like the Senate in 300, those like old mutilated weirdos that Leonidas goes to you to ask if he can go to war and they say no because they've been paid off by zirxes. I picture them. They all meet right after New Year's and they huddle around and they munch on wood and they just... They go, we're going to just be scumbags and say there's more winter in depressed everyone every year. We said last year that right now it goes, if you see... If he doesn't see a shadow, summer's coming sooner. If he does see a shadow, more winter. And we were like, it should be two good things. So it's like if he doesn't see a shadow, summer's coming. If he does see a shadow, then today's a national holiday. No work. Everyone. Yeah. Work off. So then it becomes sick because you're like, dude, who gives a fuck? If you see... I said I would scare him back in. I'd pretend, hey Phil, fuck you. Scare him. Seize a shadow and then we all have work off. But you fucked up. Yeah. How do we know what the hell he's seeing? What is he doing? It's just it. I've also like never seen it. Like I don't know what... I've never seen it happen. Good point, Dan. We gotta go to punk's time. We gotta go to punk's time. Yeah, you might have to go to punk's time. It was negative two degrees in punk's atonny by the way. And they all stood out there to watch this fucker tell us winter was staying. Yeah, oh no shit. Winner's sick, winner's still here. Speaking of, it was cold in Tampa, right? Like, surprisingly. Cold. Yes, dude. It was very, very cold. That's wild. Listen, like I said, we're gonna get into stadium series. We're gonna get... We're all off fucking Groundhog Day. We're done. We've done that. We're in there. Let's get into the breaking news before we get into stadium series because we want to give a lot of love to stadium series, a lot of love to a lot of people. The big thing was Barry Trots. Barry Trots is going to be stepping away from his duties as GM of the Nashville Predators. He's staying on board until they find a successor. And had a little bit of a press conference today, talked about it, got a little emotional and that got me emotional because I think Barry Trots is great. Where do you stand on this CP? I think he's great. I think... I just can't tell. Like when Bill Bellichek steps down, I know that he's been fired, right? Like I know that there's conversations that were had that were like you can... Which were changing things that we want you to keep your dignity. And this reaked of that when I first heard this. It was like, Barry Trots stepping down. I was like, oh, okay. Yeah, that's great. But then I put these quotes in here that if anyone didn't see it, I just wanted to read this. It says, I've been in pro sports in some shape or form, probably 40 years now. And there comes a time when you realize that a lot of the stuff you've done and you've been immersed, you can't be sometimes present in both places. You can't be present in your job and can't be present at home. I just felt like there's an end date. There's a responsibility that I feel to my family. I think you see your kids grow up. I'm very proud of my kids. Now they're getting married. I've got green kids now. You're missing a lot of these dates, et cetera, et cetera. And then he goes, when I took this job, I said I didn't want it. I didn't want to do it to a point where I couldn't do the rest of the stuff. Have time for the rest of the stuff. In the back of my mind when I took the job, I was probably being fair and I was up front with everybody that will see where this goes. I wanted out of respect to the organization and ownership and everybody trying to build something collecting draft choices. But I wanted to be here to win the Stanley Cup. I don't know how long that long will be. I wanted to give them a defined date and it was clear on both sides. So it kind of did strike me a little bit as he was like, I actually just feel that I'm missing too much time with my family. And this job is stressful and this life is stressful. And I've accomplished so much in my career that I just kind of reached a breaking point to the point that I legitimately kind of believe now that he's stepping down on his own accord. I don't know. But I kind of run a little true to me. I think it totally rings true. I think I saw some, you know, some journal tweets and shit that was like, you know, if you're a good player, doesn't mean you're a good coach. If you're a good coach, doesn't mean you're a good GM with this, that the other. And I know a lot of people had a ton of high hopes for trots when he went there and took that role with Nashville. I did. Yep. I did. Same. But I love this man. The guy wants to spend time with his family. I will believe that as long as I fucking want because I think Barry Trotts is great. I think Nashville is great. It's a great town. It's a great team. And if my man wants to go kick it with the fam, I'm going to support that. And I can't wait to watch the search for the new one and watch Nashville rise back in the ranks. It's going to be exciting times. Do you think, I mean, I guess you've kind of always put them out, but I've really enjoyed this resurgence. And remember, he was like, I need more shit from these guys. Yeah. And they're 19, 11 and two since then. They're only four points back in the wild card. I've really enjoyed this run. They've been on. It's the only thing that's weird on the timing for me where I go, even if you are kind of missing your family, I'm like, dude, don't you just ride this year out and like see if you can get the boys and playoffs without any distractions? No. Because he's he wants to be with the fam, dude. Yeah. Like that. That's why you shouldn't think any of this is sketchy. Yeah. They're they're starting to buzz. And he's like, I got to step away. I got to go be with the fam. They can focus. They focus on them. That's when you know it's legit. Okay. I buy it. I buy it. The next one's next, Phil. I'm rooting for him. I hope he, you know, I know he's going to stay on and like, it advise, he won't, he won't be away from hockey and completely. He's too much of a hockey guy. He'll be around. Yeah, I think he'll be around and I think the new role will be great and I'm just excited, man, I'm excited about Smashville getting back on track. The question is, are they going to be sellers, like, are we going to see a big mix up, like we've kind of talked about, maybe they need that. I can't tell you. Yeah, I can't tell you. Me neither, me neither, me neither, me neither, but listen, it's. I want him to coach his grandkids team. I want him to fucking go nuclear and become like a serious coach of his grandkids hockey team. Bring them to 10 straight titles and that will be his new agenda now. Some kickin' in screaming, you hear? Yes, yeah. My dick got a kickin' over a kids team type thing here. That's pretty interesting. I like it. I need more shit from you guys. And they're like, I like it. And it's like, sir. It is tough. I will give it to Nashville. It's a tough time to try to find a new great GM. You go from a guy like Poil to a guy like Trots and you go, we hit the lottery. And now Trots is like, I gotta go. And it's, you know, we're through 55 games of the season and you're kinda like, fuck. What about, what if they offered it to you, Dan? What if you got an email that said, you've been offered the position of GM of the predators? You know, it's like, how much was Trots making? Like, it's millions of dollars a year. And then, do you take it or do you go out of respect to the franchise and my incompetence? I will turn this down. I promise you, like I swear to God, I would say, I would pull a Maximus Desimus Merides and I would say with all my heart and no. Really? Yeah. Because I just know that I couldn't, listen, I love this stuff. You know I love this stuff. I know. That's why I am, I am woefully underqualified for this type of job. I don't think I could handle the pressure. I don't think I would want the pressure. And I want better for the people of Nashville than me. I think you'd get, I think you'd get draft aid. I think you'd be the little bitch GM that's like fucking everything up. Yeah, you get in trouble. You fucking lose all your picks. Wow, draft day reference. That is a, we're gonna try to do that every week for the rest of the season. Really? Nice. So if we can just slide in a very authentic and organic draft day reference, that'd be great. I also, I do want to call, I want to sewer Chris. He was watching draft day in his hotel room last night before we, I was, I was, yeah. Oh yeah, I like draft day. I said it before. You liked that movie a lot, Dan. I like draft day. Because it feels like I'm playing GM mode. It's so ridiculous. It's ridiculous. You telling me I'm not gonna love some Kevin Costner and some Jen Garner. You're out of your mind. Did that movie have all the split screens? Yes, yes. Yeah, it's just watching some of transitions. Yeah, that's, I think that's what, that's what put me off. I don't like that. I'm like, if I want to read a comic book, I'll read the draft day comic book. Thank you. That actually would have slapped. That is very long. I would have liked that more. I think people forget this. Shout out, shout out our boy, RIP Chadwick in that movie too. Great in it. Great in it. Yeah. God, fucking love him. All right, well, listen, Nashville, it's, it'll be interesting to see what they do, but I've got high hopes, got high hopes and all the best of trots because again, hockey guy supreme. Let us dive into the icy tundra of Pampa and talk about this fucking stadium series. I don't even know where to begin. So CP, I'm gonna hand you the reins for a minute. Well, first and foremost, I want you to do your, your Sauron joke or your Sauron joke because it was so accurate, but just for reference, last year people were going, you guys, you guys know this scene? When Sauron has this like crooked little fingers atop that the, the, the orb that, that, that Pippin steals and he's just doing his thing. That was Gary. That was Gary this year, summoning the winter storms to both Miami and Tampa to somehow bring us unseasonably cold weather for the two outdoor games in Florida to make them both absolute bangers. And I don't know if you saw, they were literally heating the ice because it was too cold. That's how cold it is. You had to heat the ice because for those who don't know, an ice rink, if it gets too cold, it can crack, which is like obviously dangerous for the players, but it was that cold in Tampa. Dude, it's crazy. This is, we don't even put it on the run down anymore, but like in our episode doc, the title of our news thing is always hot ice because it's from rookie of the year when he's like, you heat up. Brigham, the ice cubes. It's the best of all worlds. And I could not believe, Dad, we were here, and they were like this, we are heating up the ice. Literally, and I was like, oh wow, we did it. Hot ice is officially hot ice. The top story in our hot ice is literally hot ice. Yeah. We can end this podcast permanently now. Fun to be believable. Listen, that was the most fun I've ever had in an outdoor game. Yep. And we've been to a bunch, but there are just so many people to shout out. And first and foremost, it's the North Kane team, and we're going to get all into them. But I do just want to take a quick second to tire pump the NHL. Yes. And I mean, this sincerely, Gary is on, speaking of hot ice, Gary is on the biggest heater I have ever seen. Fucking humming. Gary's on his way out, potentially maybe that's not, I'm, I'm, you know, Gary's an older guy. He's done an amazing job. I imagine he'll retire at some point. What if Barry Trots takes his job? Yeah. I'm like, there goes your fan, kiss your fucking family goodbye, dude. See you later. That's the busiest job on earth. They've barely replaced Gary. Yeah. But yeah, Gary Betman is just on a heater, the likes of which we have never seen with, I mean, it goes even further back, but four nations into this, everyone said you're crazy. The Miami Winter Classic was amazing. Now we've got Tampa Stadium series. The whole Shabang was just out of this world. And, you know, we got to spend some time with guys at Keith Washtel who's just like the fucking goat. Yeah. And there are just so many people at the NHL making shit like this happen. And I can't, I can't get over how great the setup was man. The, and I'm, we're gonna get deeper into it, but the, the pageantry of this stadium series with it being during Gasparilla. We're gonna, like, let's talk about Gasparilla for a second. Yeah. The pirate theme, the, the tarp and the designs all over the field surrounding the ice, the fucking pirate ship, the cannons, the light show before the game. The whole thing was such an eventized ordeal. And it's got me thinking two things. Number one, we got to be eventizing and putting more pageantry into hockey in general. I'm declaring this. I think once a week, we needed a, we need a, we need a pageant game once a week. It can be one random Saturday game, but we need themes. And I'm not talking gimmicks. I'm just talking fun. When the, when the B skies rolled out in the colonial uniforms, the bolts players came out in the box uniforms, that the boys are just having fun. I black on, beat, tukes and beanies whipping around in warmups, who says we can't do that once a week. And I'm not saying I need all this production. I just, I think a little bit of fun, a little bit of pageantry, maybe some costumes, stuff like that. Just add a little bit of zest into the game more. We need it. Dan, I would, I would say don't even be so hesitant because Vegas does this every game. Vegas does a literal fucking night slaying drag and show before the game every game. Literally. And I know if you go to a lot of Vegas games, you're like, oh, yeah, I've seen it. I've seen it, but don't sleep on that shit. That is really fucking cool. I couldn't believe the first time I went to a Vegas game. I was like, this is amazing. And why doesn't every team do that? It shouldn't be just Vegas. Do something sick before the game every fucking time. That's what I'm saying, man. I think once a week we need something like this. And a huge part of how fire, unbelievable this was. Ever, you aware of Gasparilla? It's like a pirate fest thing, right? Is that what it is? It is literally a pirate fest. It is, we showed up and people were like, hey, it's Gasparilla. And I obviously the NHL knew this. And that was part of why all of the pageantry and the design and the costumes were like this. But it was, I didn't know what it was. I thought it was just because they were playing in the Buck Stadium that they were doing a pirate thing. And I'm like, yeah, that makes sense. But now we're out here. We show up to the hotel and there's fucking Yoho and a hoi-mati banners everywhere. We got people walking around with peg legs and barretts left and right. I patches everywhere. I patches and I was just like, wait, what the hell is going on? So it's like, I was like, is this Mardi Gras? And they're like, it's not quite Mardi Gras. It's more of just like a party. And I'm talking about the NHL doing more pageantry. Right. Is there a world where we as society need more city-wide theme weekends on a regular basis? Outside of the NHL. You mean just like the NHL? Just that in the world. Yes. You're telling me, if us here in Los Angeles, if we, if in the entire city, they go blank weekend in April is medieval times weekend. You're telling me that wouldn't be fun. People would have it. We do have Santa Con. That is that Santa Con thing. But you're saying it more than just that one. Yeah, like I'm saying, let's do, why don't we do once a month? That's just like, it seems once a month and just have some fun at specific cities though, right? Or do you mean like across the entire country, it's blank weekend? Because I think it's cool that this is in Tampa. I think it's like, oh, sick. Go to Tampa. You just, you threw me a curveball there that I'm not, I'm not sure I can hit it. But I'll tell you this, there's part of me that loves the idea of their in specific cities because then you can travel. There's also part of me that thinks you would be pretty sick if it was just a nationwide medieval times weekend. You're in the end. What you're doing right now, Dan, is inventing holidays. You're inventing, you're going, this is weekend, is Thanksgiving. And then one day we celebrate the birth of Jesus. It's called Jesus' birthday. I think it's great. I think that they, I think regionality is probably more fun because then you have the chance to delve into like, the history of ex-life. We're boosting economies, Dan. Like, oh, I'm assuming there were pirates in Tampa Bay, right? They're not just seeking this. See, that's what I don't know, but they might. I don't know either. But it were in the rust or in the bay. You know, they were historically, but I'll tell you what, it's weird. Actually, maybe it's not weird. I was going to say it's weird because Tampa's on the west coast of Florida, but maybe that's exactly why it works because they're in the bay and they're in the Gulf. Yeah, they're easier to hide that way. So all those Caribbean pirates were swinging up in the Gulf, maybe is that possible? That's what I'm thinking too, because the Miami's too obvious. They're like, dude, I got to get, I got to get around. Get protected. Miami's too open. Yeah, there's, there's, it's too open. So there must have been, I, okay, regionality and maybe historical context could be more fun. Like we do colonial weekend in Boston, and everyone dresses like colonial soldiers. And that could be fun. But nothing involving like a rodent that predicts shit, because that's not, I was going to say, I was going to get a fuck that. Well, it's not too bad. So my only problem with, with every city, if, you know, ideally we get 52 weeks, and not ideally we get 52 weeks later, let's say ideally we pick 52 cities, and everyone gets a weekend, and they get to pick their style. The problem is this is too much travel. That's why, that's why I think they need to be, they need to be national weekends. So that everyone can enjoy. Yeah, I mean, 52 is a lot. It's still a lot to talk about. It could be 12, once a month, you know, you're like, oh, six. I don't know, this is what my, my larger point here is, gasp gorilla being a part of this stadium series, was so exciting. And I think a huge part of that was because, remember when we were in school, remember when you're in college, you got so fired up for a theme night. Oh, I love the theme party. Everyone got fired up. And I'm like, why did we stop doing that? So when I'm seeing all these cities, when you got Marty Grau, you got Southern decadence in New Orleans. We were there for bachelor parties. It was one of the most fun I've ever fucking had in my life. And now you got gasp gorilla. I'm like, this is, this is what I'm talking about. Are they doing this in the Southmore? Are we fucking dropping the ball in the North? I went to school in Savannah, Georgia, and the St. Patrick's Day there was like, probably behind Chicago and Boston, pretty fucking insane. Really? I didn't know that. I didn't know that. Savannah, Georgia, pop stuff. Yeah, that's cool. Some of our Minnesota listeners, like does Minneapolis St. Paul, Minneapolis St. Petersburg, do they have, do they have like a Viking weekend? Do they have, I mean, I know that I know that they do mid-Summer, but like mid-Summer's, you know, tons of cities do that because it is a sweet-a-chall. Yeah. And that's great. But like, they should have a Viking weekend where they just fucking drink out of horns and drink off-loving to, especially in the summer day. When you're on a boat anyway, you know, like it, it should be like, in the middle of the summer, there's a fight. Right, a village on the right of the weekend. Pillage. I think this was really cool because, yeah, 100% of this was planned. I felt like a happy accident, but usually stadium series is a little bit later in the year, but this year comes of the break. I get them being like, oh, we gotta move it up. Also, we wanna move it up so there's a chance it's colder in Tampa. And then it just landed on the pirate fest weekend where the stadium you're in is a pirate mascot. You know, and I was like, oh, this went really well. And I will say, some people at the league told us this weekend that Tampa, the lightning franchise leaned in harder than almost any team they've ever worked with on one of these. And I just gotta say massive tip of the old pirate cap to them on that because they took a chance on you, right? Like the league went, hey, we're gonna fucking throw an outdoor game in Tampa. You never thought you're gonna get that opportunity as the Tampa Bay lightning when you get it. Fucking go all in. Don't be resistant. Don't be a bearist about what, you know, just enjoy it, do the show. And I thought they did that so hard. And I hope they are, I hope and know they will be rewarded with much more after that because that was awesome. Definitely. It was awesome. So getting into the game, like we said at the top, we got linked up with the Norkaine team and we had this whole unbelievable watch unveiling their NHL specific watch, 1,917 of them made for the founding year of the NHL. All the details, if you didn't see it at our story, check out Norkaine's page, check out all the stuff that we did with them, but they literally have ground up pucks in the band of this watch. There are so many hockey elements to all of things, like things on the bezel on the second hand. It's all just fucking unbelievable. There may, this is, if you haven't seen the rollout that Norkaine has done with the NHL, with the hockey world working with guys like Sid, JJ Moser was down there, which was awesome because he's obviously playing for Tampa. He's a Swiss guy. They've got so much cool stuff going on. So we got linked up with them and just a massive shout out to Ben, to Matthew, to Emmanuel, to Mark Stryte, to tie like the whole fucking team. When we said at the top, this is the most fun I've ever had at the NHL event, it is, I would say 99% to them, because we just had such a sick crew. And then, rolling with those guys, because the event was incredible. We do a tour before anyone was there, tour the arena, see the watch, get a close-in person, we'll see the watch here, the whole speech isn't all that stuff. And then, we ripped a top golf day, team dinner, team, I just felt like the crew on the road. It was a lot of ways on time for everything. Yes, do we need to be there? We never miss it. We did, we did actually watch. I got, I'm not the official NHL one, but I do have an oracle on right now, and it's easily the best watch I own. It's fun and incredible. Yeah, dude, I was actually need that NHL one. Like I will, I don't deserve it though. Are you guys are watch guys? I love a watch, dude. I love a watch. I'm a sick watch. Oh, shit, dude. I am a watch guy, and now Chris is trying to be a watch guy, because he tries to do everything that I do. I was a watch guy before Dan ever was, because I was a watch guy at birth. I was born with a watch on, and my mom said it was brutal, but I had one on. It's wild. Yeah. If that is true, then I can't argue this. That's the best. Born with a watch on. No, but it was, it was just so fun. I love that we just said, C.P. It was just like, felt like we were on the road with the boys, with the team. And it was just, you know, everything we were doing was so fun. And I mentioned Keith from the NHL at the top, and we posted one of the stories during the unveiling of the new watch. He was talking about things that the NHL is doing, brands that they're trying to get linked up with, this one being one of them. And it's just, this whole thing had such a cool feeling of all the things the league is doing right. Just fun people that they're teaming with, great people that they're putting together to make awesome stuff happen. That's what this was. And the fact that it then led into one of the most electric games ever was hysterical. Like we just, the game starts, boom, hey, go, 11 seconds in, go. It was incredible, dude. I was like, what the place wet nuts? You immediately texted army. You're like, hey, pal. Kissing the butt. Yeah. But that's winter classic though. That's the different categories. He texted back. He's still. He goes, I'm the king. Or what do you say? He goes, uh, he goes, you're the prince of the stadium series, but I'm still the king of the class. And he's right. He's right. I love that. That was awesome. But the fucking snipe job. Like I was a nasty goal. Fucking the place was fired up. That was, it got louder later as we'll get to, but that was loud. That was really cool. You know, because I was easy into the, I was like, okay, here we go. And then it was like, that was a great one. It was, it was so loud. And then obviously how the Bruins go on a flurry of goal scoring. But it was just, man, when you go to a game like that, there were so many people from Boston who traveled down to Tampa for that game. And then so many Tampa fans, it was really cool. The North Kane team being in that we were, you know, sitting in the box watching the game and people were like, damn, Tampa has some fans. Like they were booing Boston so intensely. So that's just another tire pump for all the fans. In Florida, both of these teams, it's amazing. But it's, when you have a game like this, you have that vibe of, you want, you want to show, you want, you want the stars to show up. And it was just sick that like, Kooch had a nasty game and a disgusting one-time rule. Hagel had a nip. Geeky is fucking pumping in goals left and right. Pasta is dishing. Pasta and it's five star service all over the place. Sway makes fucking 40 plus saves. Like it was out of control. So Boston starts ringing it up. They get that lead. We get the scrum behind the net. So let's talk about it. Let's talk about it right now. Let's talk about the best moment of our dear friend's life. Jeremy Swaman finally gets his goal. He's been waking up every morning, praying for a fight. Literally literally, he wakes up every morning, fucking praying for a fight. The second he threw at Hagel and like Hagel pops him back and I see Sway get up Dan ran to the railing because he was like, Oh, I know it was about to happen. And I certainly feel like watch this, watch this. When I tell you, I almost fell out of the suite because I ran so fast to the edge of the window. Like I truly had to catch myself because the scrum was happening. We were like, oh, six, six, six, and then yeah, Sway throws that blocker at Hagel. And then I saw Vassy and I was like, oh my God. And then saw Sway see him and I was like, we're getting it. Like we're gonna get it. It's a stadium series. The rest won't break this one up. He's gonna fucking get it. And then it happened. It was unbelievable. Like smiling. They were smiling immediately. Like, like, kind of during the fight, but like right after they were just like, you were like, they just opened their Christmas morning gifts, you know? There was a part of me that was like, did they fucking plan this? Like they looked so happy about it that I was like, was this planned? But definitely not. And it was great. Sway was like, I did not want to fight the fucking biggest and toughest goalie in the NHL for my final fight, but I mean, there you go. But it was fucking great. They both got some good shots in. Stop Vassy got the takedown for sure, but they both got a couple good Lexin. That's great. And dude, it was so good because stick text to the refs because I don't know if this has been publicly said, but it's the facts that they, the league is like, do not let them fight. Do not let the go break it up every time. So stick to his refs. Cause they could have, and quote unquote, should have broken that up and they did not. So I actually give them a ton of credit for letting that go. It was a fucking perfect fight because we got a little taste of it. You really genuinely don't want any of them getting hurt. Obviously. So it was not like long enough or violent enough that something bad was gonna happen. The crowd went absolutely fucking apes shit. And yeah, oh my god. Like that was, I've never seen a goalie fight live. That was an all time, you know, remember it forever moment where I was like, oh my god. And the fact that it was sway made it even cooler, you know, we, I won't, whatever. It was just so funny talking to him and his family and everybody after, it's just an incredible moment, dude. Packed bar 80,000 people, two goalies going out at center ice. Like what more can you ask for from an outdoor game? It was truly, truly special stuff. I think, I think the Boston fans would get mad at us if we didn't discuss the eight minute five on three. Yep. It was, uh, listen, I have zero complaints about that game. I, you know, I, I, I maybe would have loved to see the Bruins win, but all I wanted was a good game. We got the game best game possible. And I, I, I forget who I saw say it. Maybe it was wet, but someone was like, one of those penalties was like a little soft, but otherwise like they were normal penalties. Like everyone stopped complaining. And I, I, I, I, I, I hand up, I haven't gone back and deeply analyzed every penalty call, which I'm not fucking going to, but I am going to say there is that element of a game where it's like, if you get a five on three and you just keep calling penalties on that team and being like, yeah, we're just going to keep, keep you guys in the box. There is a point where it's like, what are we doing here? Yep. And it eventually got to the point where it was seven straight calls against Boston in this outdoor event game. That that Tampa is getting killed in. Yeah. And it was a, so I get Boston fans being like, what the fuck, but at the same time, I don't know, man, it feels like, you know, both teams got, got a point and everyone hadn't seemed to have so much fun. But it was interesting seeing Charlie at the end of the game getting interviewed. Agreed, bro. And like someone asked him was like, when do things change in the game? And he was like, when they had a five on three for eight minutes. Like he was, and that was him being like, fuck off. Like, you know, that was, not obvious, right? Yeah, yeah. And I'm kind of like fair point. And then I loved pasta. I think it was in overtime when a hampist got called for that really soft hook or hold or whatever they called. Pasta was like clapping his neck at the ref and kind of followed him to center ice. And you got to imagine he wasn't saying the nicest thing in the world. But Dan, that one, that was one of the few we did get a replay on. And we were watching on that TV. And I was like, that looked like a hook. Like that one on my TV. It was. I thought it was a little soft. Like it wasn't agree just like it was a tie up. He got, he got in his hands. But at the same time, you called the fucking penalty on Boston in overtime. Yeah, right. Which is like, grow up. And then right as they kill it, well actually right before they kill it, Macabley gets blatantly tripped, no call. And then right as they kill it, he gets blatantly cross checked in the back while he's just like in the slot, trying to cover defensively. And like Macabley gets up and he's like, are you guys gonna fucking call anything? And then Hampus puts his stick anywhere near their hands and they were like, hang, yeah. And you're right Dan, it sucks. Or as a Bruins fan, I was like, oh, it sucks, the B's lost. But it did feel like at five one, because you did the, eh, the winner classic had the life sucked out of it by the Rangers just pummeling Florida, you know? Okay. And it did feel like you were one Bruins, one more Bruins go away from that place emptying and it being a could totally like forgotten day. And then it was like, goalie fight, lightning come back. And then it turned into the sickest game ever. So yeah, it sucked, but for the B's, but I was like, well, this was kind of awesome. Well, you did get to see them score a lot. So I mean, at least it wasn't like a three zero, you know what I mean? Like, yeah. And listen, like I said, I clearly, I thought some of the calls were interesting, but at the end of the day, the bolts guys have to score still and they did. And yeah, it was so rock star that they got that done in the second period. Because like Chris said, everyone would have fucking left. Like it was cold, it was getting late. It's in the broad already played, you know, like, there's nothing else to wait for. You know, so I was thrilled that they got that done. And then yeah, we get to go to OT, we get to get a shoot out and the bolts get a home ice win. They're two and a, and out in outdoor games now. It was just fucking, it was a 15 out of 10 across the board. Here's some, here's some highlights for me. The bear claw scratches on the Bruins pants. Cool. I thought that was awesome. That looked really sick. It looked like a monster energy drink a little bit. I thought that was definitely dead. You know what? I wish he hadn't said that because now I do think that. And I'm sorry. I won before I thought that, but that is cool. I once watched a video of a woman at a convention telling people that monster energy drink is satanic and she like gave all these reasons with like imagery and all this stuff. Did she make a good case in? She, listen, she said some stuff. And as we know everything you see on the internet with zero credibility and proof is true. So you should believe it wholeheartedly and just start going crazy about it. So yes, it is. So yeah, we'd correct. Yup, monster energy drink is satanic. Yes. Also, I can't wait to go on this far without talking about this. John Cooper's fit. Oh my God. Bro, thank fucking Christ. You did not let us move on without talking about this. I fucking loved it. I don't know if, like, I think this is kind of what the leaning into me was, you know, like the lightning were just, we're doing it. I loved it. But my, I want your guys take on it and I want your take on this. I feel like Cooper, part of the reason the lightning came back other than the penalties is Cooper must have said to them, boys, I cannot be wearing this if we are going to get to come in. Six, what? Like, you literally need to come back because I am about to be fucking humiliated because I'm wearing this. I guarantee he fucking said that. Like, steps literally. It's all he needed to do. Like, it's truly Peter Bretter in forgetting Sarah Marshall. He probably walked into that locker room just when I wish I wasn't wearing this fucking shirt. And look at this. Yeah, come on. And then they just went, okay, we got to step it up for our guy here. But then the fucking aura farming that that turned into, like he genuinely looked like the fucking coaching crooner. Just like, like an asshole on the bench when they were getting steamrolled. And then they come back and he looks like the biggest badass of all time. I was up against that. I'm like, give him the jack Adams right now. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. The pigs they had like Stogie's like, oh my God. Yeah, that's like our smoke. I was like, wow. It's saying, dude, I loved it. Did you guys hate it when you first saw it where you like, what the fuck are you doing? No, I absolutely love. I told you, I turned around to you because he threw up the fucking rock on shit too. Yeah. And like, that is another one of those things, man. I started this whole segment talking about how we need more pageantry and we need more fun. And I'm just, I want to fucking, as we've said, this year, Danny positivity. I just being but hurt about stuff is out. Like, let's just like have fun and be fucking positive and fight about shit. I completely agree. I totally agree. I thought it was fun. And also he probably planned that before he realized how cold it was gonna be because he was showing some chest. He was showing the little, you know. Those benches better have been heated because I don't know how he survived back there. I mean, that was fucking wack. Well, they looked like they were on about 10 pounds of cocaine and those out. Yeah, yeah, correct. God, what a fucking flex. That was amazing. And then I just, you had said, Dan, I'd never seen anything like this. And neither had I. That pasta, like penalty into game winning goal into just kidding, we call the penalty. Yeah. It was like one of the craziest sequences I've ever seen in the NHL game, especially like at that, not that it's just regular season game, but in that quote unquote magnitude of overtime of the greatest outdoor game ever. I do, I, I, I'm, I'm, I'm conflicted on that one because and yeah, then we'll move off of this game. That was, that was just the strangest play ever. People are saying that they didn't hear the whistle because it was so loud. Maybe that's true. But it did just feel like everyone, including the refs were, were continuing on with the play. And, you know, some people say that they think that the, the slash by pasta was like a definite slash. I thought it was, I thought it was a little soft. Yeah. If you're gonna call that no T, but like, if you're gonna call it, you're gonna call it and they called it. And it is what it is. But it was just weird. It was so crazy because we couldn't hear it either. And I have seen one replay where, I think it's Kuchu passes it over, someone gets slash and they kind of like sent it back towards Kuch. Yeah. In that replay, Kuchu very visibly stops. As soon as the Bruins fire picks it up, so like they must have blown it. Like you can see him hear something because he's like, oh, penalty. Yeah. So like 100% there was a whistle, but we couldn't hear it. So it looked so insane, because we were like, oh nice, two on one, pasta hammer, go on. We were like, let's go. And then everybody was like, actually penalty from fucking eight years ago. And I was like, what? Yeah. It, I mean, it, look, I'm not one to bash, refereeing at all, but it did feel like there was quite a lot stacking against the Bruins from their end on this. I mean, just if you look at it in that way, but you know, it's like, they're kind of like interpretive artists. I mean, if there was an AI referee who literally called every penalty that they could see, the game would be five hours long, right? So they have to pick and choose. And you know, sometimes you get that. They chose, they sure did. Yeah, they did. Yeah. Well, listen, end of the day, for me, for my money, best outdoor game of all time, possibly it's certainly up there. It's certainly the best one I've ever been to. And just massive, massive, it's pat on the back, sticktaps to the NHL, to Gary, the wizard. And most importantly to the Norkane team, just so much love for those guys, you're gonna, you're gonna be seeing a lot more of the Norkane brand and the team with stuff with us. Couldn't be happier to be linked up with those guys, but just truly amazing stuff. Let's take a quick out break. Then let's give them some college hockey. Okay, I would like you to picture this for a second. You bet on your favorite player in the big game to score the first touchdown, but his teammates, Skudor, is instead devastating. But unless, unless, with Bet MGM's second chance promotion, you get your stake back if your first touchdown score scores second instead. Unreal bet on any player to score the first touchdown in the big game. And if you're right, you win, bang, what a bet. And if your player scores second, you get your stake back in cash. That's a joke. How do you not take them up on this opportunity? If you haven't joined the Bet MGM family yet, use bonus code netters. 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And that was kind of a big swing when we were all like, oh shit, Penn State's kind of falling down, a little bit falling down the rankings. So this was such a moment to punch back, especially with that environment. And Michigan State beat some 6, 3 on Friday. And it went bad right away. Like Michigan State goes up three nothing in the first period. You just want to get ahead in those outdoor games, give the fans something to cheer about. Michigan State, three nothing first. Penn State ended up pulling it back to 4-3 at one point. But that was as close as they got. But then you still got Saturday. You still got Saturday to try to figure it out. And they end up dumping that one, two, five, four, and over time. McKenna was buzzing early in that game, had a goal into assist. Penn State's up three, two, he's got three points, looking incredible. Penn State even went up four, three. And then Michigan State tied in the third and then couldn't be denied it over time. So statement wins by Michigan State, because I am like, they might be fucking this, like they might be the best team in the world. They're so good. And listen, I hate it. I feel bad for Penn State because they put on a great show there with their outdoor game. And you always want to see at least the home team get one. Yeah. But listen, we talked about the fact that Michigan State had a little, you know, they had their slip ups. They swapped into the rankings with Michigan and they're trying to get back on the horse and at the same time Penn State and Gavin McKenna have been surging back up the charts like a fucking freight train. And this was an removable object and unstoppable force hitting each other. And Michigan State was just the bigger donkey and they fucking rolled on them and getting two wins like that with all the pageantry as we've been talking about, the pageantry, that's big stuff. So if I'm Michigan, I'm a little scared. I'm a little scared about Michigan State right now because those are two monster wins. And Michigan, we just said number one team, the country, they had Ohio State, they beat him six, four on Friday, three, two, and O.T. on Saturday in Columbus. That's great. But again, Ohio State, an unranked team, I know it's rivalry stuff, but if you're Michigan State, my point is, you're licking your chops a little bit. You're licking your chops being right on the boys heels. Totally agreed, Dan. Remember it was a little weekend of great rivalry. So we had BC, number 13 BC, they went to BU on Friday, beat him four, one. We've said enough about BU's challenges this year. I love this BC team and they look really great. There's gonna be a very fun game right now happening. A couple fun games tonight. We'll get to in a second, but we've seen that turn of Boston season around before and hopefully it does again. And then 11, number 11 Denver had number seven Duluth at home and Denver beat them four, three on Friday and one nothing at overtime on Saturday. Those are two great games, but Dan, for the first time all year, for the first time since like week two or three of the college season, I am wondering if Duluth got over hyped. They surged so early and I was ready to be like, oh my God, they are sneaky. One of the best top three teams in the country. Now I'm like, actually, you might not be that. You're the biggest Denver guy there is though. Like you can't say that a couple losses to Denver is making you think that. Agree, but they've slipped the last two weekends. They've, I think they've been like split split and then a tough place to play Denver's nasty, but I'm just like, you want to be the big dog. You got to be winning all these games. It's tough to go in what needs to be a bounce back weekend. It's tough to go into Denver and try to beat them. That's brutal. But you know, fuck. All right, Duluth, Duluth, maybe I'm a trouble. Yeah. Maybe I'm a fraud watch. We got number 10 Cornell. They go up against a good Yale team, beat them five to two at Yale on Friday and they beat Brown 4 to at Brown on Saturday. So a nice little IV road trip for the Cornell boys. They get two big wins. You love to see it. And number six, Quinnipiac beat St. Laura 7-0 on the road on Friday. They tied Clarkson 3-3 on the road on Saturday. You know I'm gonna say it. Yeah, I was waiting for this. Fucking Clarkson man. This Clarkson is the biggest trap game in the country, dude. Trapped, trapped city bitch when you play Clarkson. It's incredible. I even love it that dude. That's like a flag on my notifications every time. Like who's Clarkson got? Truly. Number three, Western Michigan. My Broncos, they beat Omaha 5-2 on Friday at home, but then they lost 4-1 at home on Saturday. Nothing to worry about, but first stumble in a long time for Western Michigan. They've been on an absolute scorcher. I know this. It does. And I don't think I'm gonna P.P. Wack them that bad because it's like, you know, it's, it's not not a good loss again on ranked team, but I'm not gonna go too hard on them. Dartmouth team we really like to have been slipping recently. They get a nice win against Union 4-2. Then they beat Rensley or 3-1 on Saturday. Dartmouth kind of getting back in it. And then Minnesota State, Mancato, they beat Ferris State 6-1 on the road on Friday and 4-3 on Saturday. There, I won't rule them out pretty much ever. Okay, I like that. Okay, then we go to Wisconsin. Number eight was constant. They lost to, what, oh yeah, dude, they lost to Minnesota in many 4-1 on Friday and eight 4-1 Saturday. This one is crazy to me Dan because it's a tough place to play obviously. But Minnesota is now, now makes me sad because they pupped the beginning of the year away. I thought they were coming back and I was watching, tracking them and Arizona State to be like, oh, you're gonna save your season. Then the last two weekends, I'm like, never mind your season is dead, leave me alone please. Then you do this to Wisconsin. And I'm like, just pick one, pick a lane, Minnesota. And then also, I'm now like Wisconsin tricked me too. Because Wisconsin for a stretch there, I was trying to get in the two seed. And now I'm like, wait, dude, you just get dumbied by Minnesota twice. Not even close games, really. So that's an alarming weekend for me. Yeah, not a big fan. So here's some of my favorite sleeper games. So we got number 20. I'm gonna roll through a bunch of these, Chris. Cause I love all these teams. Number 20 St. Cloud lost to Miami Ohio, 2 on at home, on Friday and 3 on Saturday. So like St. Cloud, this team that was kinda creeping up, I'm like, oh, there goes that top 20 rank. And see you later. And then my little Cinderella, St. Thomas, number 15 in the country, they beat number 19 Michigan Tech 4, 2 at home on Friday, but Michigan Tech then one, 4, 3 on Saturday. That's a good weekend. That's a good weekend to college. Probably not a lot of movement there. And then 16 Augustana. Winds at home against like Spirer 6, 1 on Friday, 4, 1 on Saturday. And I'm like, I love it. Like Augustana St. Cloud and St. Thomas. I'm just like these sleeper teams like in the top 20. Like no, it's paying attention to them. But they're just stacking up winds, dude. Stacking up the games that you gotta win. It's absolutely amazing to see because those, I like when those teams just go to war. And you know, they're like in the top, the back half of the top 20 rankings, but it's just fun to watch because it's too good squads. And you, I love a split, dude. I love a split. And go, Chucky, because everyone goes home happy and it's a good battle. Yeah. Okay. And then last one, we had number nine main beat number seven, or number nine provenance beat number 17, main three, two, and overtime on Saturday at main. That's a gritty win. Very hard to play up there. Providence, very good team. I'm loving it. Very gritty. Okay. Let's get into our rankings. Yep. They have to stay the same. One, two, one, two. They're gonna stay the same. Michigan, Michigan, state. Now it gets tricky. I'm willing to put no deck up. Okay. But I want Western Michigan still four. I, ah. All right. That's the current ranking. The current actual ranking is Michigan, Michigan, state, no deck, Western, Michigan. Do you want the exact same? Because I kind of want to give Quinnipiac a boost. Like I want to put Quinnipiac top four. Quinnipiac tied Clarkson. Yeah. Clarkson is literally the biggest trap game in the country, dude. You're lucky to come out of Clarkson alive. I can't believe you, well, I guess Western Michigan did lose. Yeah, both of the teams that you're talking about lost. No, North Dakota did. North Dakota didn't lose. Sorry. Um, fine. Quinnipiac, because I guess you don't want to reward Penn State. So we'll go no deck three. We're gonna go Quinnipiac for Western Michigan five. Five. Yeah. Then is a double loss in an outdoor game. Toasting weekend against the number two team in the country. You're gonna drop you lower than six for you. Maybe. Cause like, no, the question is do you think do you think providence, Denver, Cornell, BC are better than Penn State? Do you think any of those teams are better than Penn State? Hmm. Duluth. Like where's Duluth? Like Duluth? Yeah. How much trouble people? Duluth get in. I think Duluth's Pp act here. They might be out of the top 10. Correct. Let's go Penn State there. What do we have six? Six. Let's go Penn State at six. Okay. But then I could go, I could go Providence there. I like Providence here. I like Denver here. I personally, I love this Providence team. I think I have to, I think I would pick Denver over Providence. Let's go Denver Providence. Okay. Penn State six, Denver seven Providence eight. Okay. But then I'll tell you what, I'm going BC is in this. I agree. I want BC at 10. So we need our nine. And I think I want to go Cornell. I'm done. I Duluth deserves a little bit of a fucking facewalk. I'll share the way out. Duluth's out. Interesting. Okay. Cornell is out. Cornell nine BC 10. Well, maybe BC nine Cornell 10. BC's better than them. Yeah, BC's better than them. Well, you just rely BC nine Cornell 10. All right. Tell everybody about the game of the week. Game of the week. Well, this is actually a really fun time in college hockey because right now, as we speak, it is round one of the beanpot. The first round is Harvard versus Boston college and Northeast and versus Boston University. The winners of the winners play the losers play and the winners will be crowned the beanpot champion. So if you are listening to this, you've already missed the night's game, but I hope you're watching because you'll hear this on Tuesday morning, but they're playing right now. Then on Friday this weekend, we have number two Michigan state and number one Michigan. On Friday, it is in in Arbor and then on Saturday, it is the duel in the D at little ceasers. So in all time, one versus two absolute numby session in college hockey, that is going to be incredible appointment television. And then the following Monday, you get the beanpot final, which is such an iconic event in the sport and a appointment television thing if you are from Boston and you heard call wise men say that it turned their entire season around. So oh my God, if you are going to watch college hockey ever in your fucking life, watch Michigan, Michigan state Friday Saturday and then watch the beanpot final on Monday. Unbeatable that wraps up netters college punch crop. 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It's crazy. He might be right. He might be right. So so so hold on, hold on. So mountain time. So like if it's, if it's 5 p.m. here in Pacific time zone, it's 6 p.m. in mountain. Yes. Yes correct. And then it's 7 p.m. in central and it's 8 p.m. in eastern. Yeah. Fuck, he might be right. Here's, here's, you, you, you, you select son of a bitch. You might be right. Have you ever lived in mountain time, Evan? Absolutely not. So you've only done eastern and Pacific. Yeah, generally in my life, yeah. Yep. I, you know, I went, you too, I grew up in eastern and I thought, you know, that's, that's the way the world works, too. And, and this is sports watching only, but certainly part of the actual debate is, is, it is the way the world works as eastern time. Like, we're going to, you wake up here in California, the fucking entire universe has happened before we got and you're like, Jesus Christ. So growing up in eastern times zone, I was like, this is when sports are on, like you fucking do your day and you eat dinner and, or you, you know, like, you come home from work and whatever. And then the games begin. And so it made so much sense to me. And it took me a long time to adjust to Pacific. But then when you do, you get really addicted to that because I want that. I start itching at four o'clock when I'm home now and main. I'm like, where's the fucking Bruins game? And by dad's, oh, buddy, you got three hours. Yeah. Jesus Christ. Talk, okay, talk to me about mountain time, Evan. What are the, what, what state your case? He, okay, this is here. This is the evidence I'm going to put out. And this is mostly for weekdays because I feel like on the weekends, hopefully you can kind of make anything work and game times get crazy. Four o'clock for, for me to watch a hockey game is kind of hard because I'm still doing work. And I'm, like, even if I'm not doing work work, I'm like, rap and shit up. I'm doing whatever. If that game comes on at five, my time, like sometimes you're off work. Hey, it's five o'clock. Maybe you're, maybe you're going out for a happy hour drink. Also, you can miss the first hour or two, right? Yeah. Games on at four. I don't know, man, there's a good chance I'm not going to get to that to like the last period, the last little bit of it. And then the issue is on the east coast. If you, if you're watching it directly after work at seven or eight or whatever, and you want to catch a West Coast game, you got to be up to one, two a.m. Which I used to do when I was a kid and that was awesome. But now I'm like, you know, I'm in my 30s and I can't fucking stay awake past 11, 30 anymore, no matter what. So I think mountain time is ideal because you get the best of both worlds. Should you choose to, to, to go with that? You know, the only problem is, I don't know, you Colorado's cool. Oh, yeah. There's not a whole lot else living like where we're going to live. You know what I mean? Okay. Yes, Arizona, you know, I think. Fuck me. I think he's on to something here because I, my entire model, my entire stance in this area on this topic is based on the reality that I think anything that is too late is just sucks. You want more, don't we all just want more time in this life? That's what we all want. It's the, it's the, it's the, it's the one elastic variable then. It is the one thing that you can never get enough of to, to quote, Howard Stark, no amount of money ever bought a second of time. And that is true. So whether it be a dinner, if you come at me with an 8 30 PM dinner reservation, I say, how dare you count Dracula? Why are you staying up so late? I want to eat dinner at 5 30 because then we've got so much time left. We've got the rest of the night. There's an evening still left to be had. I love a matinee. We're going to the movies. Give me a matinee. Give me a 6 PM movie time because then we get out and you can, you know, get home. You have time to do stuff. So I was prepared to be like Pacific time zone is the answer because just everything is on earlier. We talk about football. When you wake up on Sunday and football starts at 10 a.m. And, and you just get to watch football right away. You get to watch it all day long and then Sunday night football starts 5 30 PM. And it's over at 8 30. Like you, you have a night, you can watch a movie after that. Sunday night football on these coasts is ending at midnight on a Sunday. That is insane. That's like, it's actually crazy. Why do we do this to ourselves? It's, it's insane. Seven. So I was prepared to be like Pacific is the goat, but I kind of forgot about little old mountain time. Yeah. It's hiding hiding. I do think central is still central's great, but it's just clown show. Central is for fucking clowns, dude. Central just feels a little too much like, you know, for example, Sunday night football. Central's like, oh, it ends at 11 PM. I'm like, that's still too late, dude. Like you got you, you guys are not fully committing one way or the other. What if you have OG? Yeah, right. Dead. You're dead. Call out sick. I'm not even going to watch the most exciting part of the game because you're like, well, I go to bed. Yep. Exactly. So I'm thinking mountain might be the winner because of what Evan said. It's like, yeah, hockey games starting at 4 PM on in the weekdays. It's a little crazy when you're at work. Like there's oftentimes you're like, wait, are the games on already? I'm missing a game. I'm missing a game right now. There's a pens game on right now and I've already missed an hour. And there you go. I do think that Pacific with weekday games like the four o'clock and 10 o'clock football. I know I'm a clown and still stay up, wait you late on Saturdays, which makes some Sunday morning's harder. But both of those things, they come too quickly. Like there's no time for me to do anything. Like when we are home on these coast, I don't mind at all that the paths are on it one. And I wake up and not early, but I have plenty of time to accomplish tasks before it's like football's on. Go drink with people. You know, here you wake up and they're like, where are we going to booze for the football game? I'm like, Jesus Christ, just woke up. God damn it. You're in it quick in the Pacific time zone. Yeah. That's true. You're asleep by the time the nighttime game comes on. Cause for dates, it's just it's a lot of the way. I think Ev is right here because yeah, you Pacific does. There's too many. There are too many examples where you can make the argument that Pacific is too early. But I don't think you're hearing that in the mountains. No, agree. Five o'clock, dude. It's five o'clock. That's the universal play in time. I think the mountain's are a good is the goat mountain time zone is the goldie locks of sports watching time zones. That's really interesting. Cause man, the the one thing that I find really frustrating is when there's no thing like put it this way. College football then I kind of liked when it was like the there's something on late. You know, it's like the eight it's eight clock and then there's like a sick game on. And sometimes your game would end here and then you're like, what? So what's happening? Nothing's on like it's all over. We're the last run of sports on the West Coast. You know, so it's like by the time of the games here over, which are on normal time, there's just nothing on. I liked that about the East Coast where I could always find something on till 2 a.m. when I'm insomnia, but you made a comment at the bar last night when we were sitting there. And it's like one, it's like 1 a.m. And the ducks are on ducks Vegas. And you're like, imagine if you are a ducks fan who grew up there and then moved to the East Coast for a job. So you're like the ducks, my favorite team. And I'm like, you just have to sit up till 1 30 watching ducks games 82 times. And I'm like, yeah, yes. That is fucking. I'm a vampire. Yeah. You're you're you're hello count Dracula. Fucking crazy. Oh, absolutely nuts. Mountain time. I'm time. Mountain times the winner. It's mountain time. All right. Let's take another quick ad break and then let's wrap things up guys with a beerly hotline and a blind ranking time for some movie talk from the completely unhinged mind of Gore for Binsky comes this years must see film. Good luck. Have fun. Don't die when a man from the future arrives at a Los Angeles diner. Chaos ensues as he recruits a group of unlikely heroes on a one night quest to save humanity. 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And this is one of those movies that you know, I don't watch trailers that much anymore because I just try to go in cold. But sometimes you're like, I don't know what this is about. And I just want to find out this one. These are what is this? Maybe I should watch the trailer and like 20 seconds into the trailer immediately shut it off because I realized how sick this was going to be. And I didn't want to spoil another frame of the movie. Cause I was like, oh my god dude, this is a perfect premise with a perfect actor. I am telling you folks, if you miss going to the movies, this is exactly why you do it. It's it's not another sequel, another reboot, a superhero movie. It's an original story with an amazing cast. If you're a fan of things like Ted Lasso, Atlanta, any prestige TV, you're going to love the cast of this movie. If you love Sam Rockwell, like we do, you're going to love this movie. It's just incredible. Think about a, I just a rag tag guy coming back to save. This would be like if the state of the hockey world was in jeopardy. And instead of sending Maclin, Celebrene from the future to save it, they sent me. Yeah. So you know, it's just going to be as chaotic as humanly possible. So good luck. Have fun. Don't die in theaters February 13th. Get tickets now. Cause this is going to be sold out everywhere. It will be the most fun you have in the theater in 2026. I promise you. Okay. Now it is time for everybody's favorite segment, the beer league hotline. Ev, I hope we got a doozy today. Let it rip. Been having attendance issues. And one night we only had seven skaters. Someone on the team invited a woman to play with us. She's good. Since then we ended up adding her boyfriend to the team full time. She is still in the group chat for subs. Sometimes she comes to the games and hangs in the locker room, even when she's not playing. She even tied her boyfriend skates once. The problem is one of our other guys can't play anymore. Because his girlfriend has an issue with the other gal being in the chat. And the locker room has made him quit the team. How do we handle? Jesus. There are so many layers here. Okay. What the hell? There are so many layers here. All right. First of all, I'm about to disappear from the screen because I'm going to get down on a knee and propose this. Agreed. We, this is like, I feel like this is, this is two of the last three or four weeks here. Where we've just had all a fame ladies in, in these beer league stories. So this gal is the shit. I'm a little disappointed in the team for adding her boyfriend. Why didn't you just add her like what the fuck? What made you ask me? I don't give a fuck. Adam both. She is for dude. You're in a time of need. And this gal shows up and she's great. Do you get seven seven is honest to be fair. It says she's good, specifically in this. Yeah. Right. Well, that's good enough for me though. You know, it's a beer league. Right. Come on. Yeah. Yeah. She's good. And also if she's showing up and hanging in the locker room, even on games where she's not playing, that's how we always say when it comes to beer league, you need to be good at something. You need to be good on the ice or you need to be good in the room. It sounds like she's good at both. So when the world are you not putting her on the roster, automatic. So that's that step number one. Bump this, bump this gal up from rotation to on the permanent roster. Her boyfriend can be on the roster too. That's fine. That's my number one thing. My number two thing I need can we need the ladies to support the ladies. Yeah. Right. Why is one of the other girlfriends upset that this, this girl is on the team. You got to support your ladies here, especially Dan, because the sub gals boyfriend is on the team. Like if sub gal was single and they were like, I'm pissed. I still wouldn't like it, but I would hear the logic of I'm pissed that there's this single lady who loves hockey who's in the locker room and on the chat. I don't like this. I don't like you being around that. I don't agree with that decision, but I see the logic. This girl is spoken for and he's on the team and he's have friends with everybody. Like what? What? Well, we've seen crazier things happen, but there should be nothing crazy happening in that situation because everyone is spoken for is present. Yeah. Jealousy is such a terrible disgusting thing. We've got to work on getting it out, getting it out of our lives. This what I'm seeing here is a family. I'm seeing a family and a squad and a unit and everyone needs to be supporting each other. So since she isn't though and she goes, you can't play no more to the dude. What do they do? Because if they keep this girl in the chat, then this guy's off the team permanently. How did they go? Is he good or is he so good? Yeah, right. That's such a, that is such a wrinkle, but this is where we need to put our morals first fellas. Okay. If we want to be, if we want to be giving out this type of good advice, if we want to to be a compass for good and for positivity, this is this guy's going to have get this figured out with his gal. This is an at home problem. This is an at home problem. This is, this is an at home problem because it sounds like everyone else in the locker room is, is happy and is loving what's going on. It's a shame that this is an issue for you and your partner, but you guys have to figure out those issues. Maybe they, maybe they double date, maybe they, maybe we set up a double date. We set up a double date. Go on a double, you never know you two might love each other. Boom, boom. You might, you might find a new best friend in all this. Maybe your wife swap, maybe you set up a wife swap. They get easy. What is wrong? You got to relax. I'm, I'm slowing options down. I'm exploring options to keep the team together. Dan, maybe we wife swap. If that would help, let's just do a caveat of, you know, if, if things get really dire, I mean, let's start slow here. We got a, you got to pump the brakes here. If you, so we double date first, I think, I think, I think, wife swap second. First of all, I think you go, buddy, this is a, this is a huge bummer, but the facts of the matter are this, this new gal and her boyfriend are great additions. They're great in the room. They're bringing up vibes. They're on the team. This is an issue you got to work out with your partner and we want you to work it out. Our solutions are, and we lay out the solutions to solution one solution one, double date, solution two until we come up with a better two is wife swap. We'll see if we can beat wife swap right now. That's that's two. Yeah. Just a coffee. Maybe a coffee, just a, you know, day date would be. I think, I think, I think a day date feels like we're slotting that in at three. And that feels like, okay, that's it. Yeah. I think maybe a, like a rotational basis on, you know, maybe you, maybe you play one week. Yeah. Yeah. But she's got to stay in the chat dude and she's going to stay in the locker room because she, she bailed you out when you only had seven and that is, that is an angel. That's a, that's a real angel. Sounds like she's a beauty on and off the ice. You can't lose that. You can't, we're that she tied her boyfriend's skates once. Yeah. I'm hanging up on that one too. I'm a, I think it's cute as hell. I mean, maybe he was, maybe, maybe, maybe they got their late and he was going to miss the start of the game and he had to tape his stick. So she tied his boots. Well, well, he was taping the, I might have, I might have, I might have, you could have passed it. Yeah, you could have passed it. Yeah, you could have passed it. Go ahead, back, back, back. So she shouldn't have planned it. This gal is a fucking absolute angel. She's an angel. We got to keep you an angel. She's an angel. Yes. So at the end of the day, we, we see a path here where everyone lives happily ever after we're going to work on that. Yep. I'm in. Okay. Now we are going to kick it to a Bauer hockey blind ranking. We love a blind ranking just as much as we love our friends at Bauer because they give us incredible tools to make our game better. They give us a skate sharpener, but Dan, they give us the pulse. They give us the fucking beating pulse of hockey, the greatest stick I've ever used. Go check out about our pulse and enjoy this blind ranking. We today are blind ranking the most exciting moments in an NHL game. So things that get the fans dead like absolutely off their feet, scream and howling. Like rise as one, you can tell something special's happening. Yeah. When we were at an NHL game. Yep. This is, this is Evbots inaugural blind ranking too. So let's see how this goes. Okay. Hit us with the first one. Mid game penalty shot. Ooh. Great because there's a pause, right? Like there's like a full stop and then the ref goes bang, points to the middle and they go, oh, yes, we're getting it. I think that's a factor. I think that's a real factor. I don't think this is that high for me. Okay. It cut me down. No, no, it's cut me in half Dan. Listen, it's cool. But I think the mid game is important here. It's like, well, they better than penalty shots at the end of the game. No one gives a fuck about that. Well, what if it's tied? No, no, I mean like the penalty shots at the end of the game. Like we go to a shootout and there's penalty shots. No one cares about that. I think a mid game penalty shot is probably more exciting than the shootout after over time. You're probably right because it's more like, oh shit. Yeah, it's special. It's a special thing that's happening. I'm still not going that high. I'm not going to go more than three here. I know we hate starting at three. We do it all the time. But that might be what you want to go for. You could talk me into a four here, honestly. Well, yeah, I mean, I could be talked into it. I feel like I'm going to get horny at a lot of these things. So going low doesn't like there's part of me that's like, are we going to hear that many that are that low? Yeah, maybe go for this one. Maybe this is a good one to go for. Let's go for. Let's go for. All right, four hat trick. Okay. I guess kind of depends on the goal. You know sometimes it's an empty netter. Sometimes. Like, or sometimes it's an empty netter. It's still cool, but it's like. Yeah, you know, you're an empty netter is objective. But like when hats go on the ice, that's all it's a moment. Yeah, it's a moment. You know what I'm trying to do here? You're right. You know what I'm trying to do here? Speaking of hats, I'm trying to put on my hat of if I'm actually at a game and I have brought someone who has never been to a hockey game before. Great. Great. Great things I would be most fired. I think seeing a hat trick, I'd be like, oh, sick. I'd be like, this is a hat trick. Yeah. And then they see all the hats go on the ice. Like, who I forget who we were with, but we were recently at a game where a hat trick was scored and the hats went on the ice. And the person was like, do they get their hats back? And we were like, no. So like that's an exciting moment. Yeah. So you actually swung me back around. I think three. Yeah, let's go three with that. Let's go three with that. Three goals, three on the list. Yeah. Nice. Golly fight. One. It has to be one, right? Like I don't think that there is a single thing that gets the people going like a provocative goalie fight. I mean, this is obviously very topical. But I think it's one. A goalie fight is, I mean, I think I think a lot of the highest ones here are going to be goalie related, but a goalie fight. Like I think a goalie fight is better than a goalie goal. And then a fight gets people like when there's a fight in an NHL game, the crowd rises. Like it's one crazy. Yeah. And a goalie fight is insane. Yeah, we got to go one. We got to go one. Time goal with the goalie pulled. Damn. Dude, I'm not- When this happens against you, it's the worst thing in the world. But think about the home crowd, the home crowd down a goal. Yeah. And it's like, you're singing around and that goes in. I think I actually think that's a comfortable to here considering what we have left. Because that is such every, your high five and strangers when that happens. I know I'm terrified now though that something electric is about to get the five spot. But this is something electric. I don't think that is an electric. That is out of fear. Evan, you better have your five locked. Don't you dare change it. As in like, as in your next one, you better have it locked. You can't change it no matter what we do. Okay. So here's the thing either because personally, Chris, if we go, to here, I think we currently have a perfect list. And then I kind of agree and we might get fucked. We are hoping something not that great comes up or we play it safe and put this five. We sewer this. Awesome is coming up. So do we sewer this or do we take the burden hand perfect list and hope things go out? I think we take the burden handed. This is such a fun moment. When you tie that game, you are like, yes, because you know you're going to win it over time, which you often don't, but I know, but in that moment, I know I will. I'll let you make the decision. I just think about some of the game tying ones I've had as a fan and they're fucking all time. I'm going to. I'm going to two. So our five last one is. Five is fuck over time winner. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. No, you know what though? You know what? If this is like regular season OT winner, it's not guaranteed to be crazy electric. Yeah. But like, no, penalty shot is bad. It's cheeks. Yeah. And I turn OT winner and like I just said the OT winner is worse than the game tying goal. Like the next goal, like you think the OT winner that comes after would be better. I'm actually, you know what the game time goal is pretty exciting. I was truly honestly, I actually think goalie pulled game tying goal and like the waiting seconds is more exciting than an OT winner. Yeah. So the winners are just like, oh, something happened. It's a three on oh and you know, game over. Yeah. Fuck. Not horrible. Not the worst. Not horrible. Not the best. If you're on the East Coast and the game is a West Coast game and it's midnight, the OT goal is like fuck finally. Yeah, yeah, yeah. True. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's good. Okay. Not the worst. Not the worst. Decent little list there. All right. Thank you boys. This is great, great stuff. Folks, we've got some fun guests coming in our third Thursday episode. We're going to be getting some really exciting things ramping up to the Olympics here. CP and I are headed out to Italy next week. Also, if you were in the LA area live show this Saturday, 6 p.m. CP, tell them where to tell them where it is. Westside comedy club, 5 p.m. Meet and greet. You come early as you get to merch. You meet the boys. Everybody's hanging out. We'll have a few pops and then we'll put on a show for the ages with a lot of fun. A lot of laughs, a lot of hockey nonsense. So folks, if you're in the LA area, you got some free time on Saturday. Come, grab some drinks, get a little pregame with us, meet and greet. Fun little episode. We're going to have a ton of fun segments then. We'll take it off to the night and have a great time. We would love to see you there. And until we see you there, until the rest of the cast of this week, there's one thing to do. It's great. Hard. 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