Is Draisaitl's Injury Good For The Oilers And Blue Jackets On A Heater

Welcome to the Empty Netters podcast. Can you believe what this has become? There was a full 48 hours where I felt like I was like literally Superman. Jumbo loves playing Fortnite so he gets on the sticks. Did TR show you the sauna cycle or was that already? No, I invented that. Almost a year now that I haven't taken a body check. That's kind of nice. So we are back. We are horned up and we are going deep. Finished tonight with some chicken fingers and a few Guinnesses. We're ending to you guys now. That's where this podcast came to light. Ice is ready and we are back with another episode of the Empty Netters podcast brought to you by BedMGM. I'm your host Dan Powers, another Thursday episode and another Sean Bafini citing. I'm back again. This is alternating between Evan and I. This is really lovely. You never see the two of us in the same room though. That is true. There are people who are starting to ask the question where does one start in the other end? It's gonna be like a Scooby-Doo moment a year from now where it just goes phew. That would be just phenomenal. If you unzip your skin like a suit and Evan walked out and then he did it and then you walked out and then it was a Russian doll situation. That would be special. That would be special. Speaking of someone who's not feeling special, we're not gonna kick him while he's down. Looks like we've got a St. Paddy's Day boy here, Chris Powers. That's always. Do you think that sometimes you have a tendency to overdo it? No. No? It's not a tendency. Oh. It's a lifestyle. It's a lifestyle. This is just you. I feel like the people of the lovely listeners in the network have seen you like this many times. Yeah, the unabomber look. Yeah. We've discussed this before. You're right. It is the unabomber look. That when we consider, I mean, that's pretty recognizable. Last episode he did this. A lot of the comments were like the unabomber. Yeah. Do we not give the unabomber enough grief for a pretty lazy costume? Also, why was he, if you were trying to be not conspicuous? Conspicuous. He walks on, what did the unabomber do? I should know that. He bombed airlines and universities. Oh, is that why he's called the unabomber? Ted Kaczynski. Yeah. Because it was Unis? Yeah. Interesting. I always thought it was one bomb. He was like one of the smartest people ever at Harvard University and he graduated as a teenager. Very, very intelligent person, but he was disgruntled about where the future of humanity was going with AI and everything else, long predating anything that we'd gotten to. This guy was sharp. His manifesto was called the Industrial Revolution and its consequences. He just wanted to reject basically modern society. He lived in the woods and he lived off the land, but then out of frustration where the direction of the world was going, he was sending bombs in the mail to harm innocent people. It's funny that you're like, do we give him enough grief? Do you think we're going too far thinking that he looks like that? Do you not think the unabomber went too far when he was making bombs? No, no. I think in Chris's interpretation, he did one bomb, the uni bomb. I thought it was because it was one bomb. Oh, yeah. That would be rough. Even if that one bomb is like everyone makes a mistake. I was like, dude, it's fine. You got a little worked up about the state of humanity. It's fine. Just don't do that again. Everyone. Yeah, you're allowed to have one mistake. But even if he did that, I would still say that's too much, Ted. Relax. And apparently now he was doing it all the time. He was doing it. Yeah, he did a few. Why was he and he was walking around like that? He's walking around like that. He had his hood and his big glasses and it's a good disguise in fairness. Well, it's a good disguise. I think it's so conspicuous. I don't know what he looks like. Do you think maybe it's noticeable now because of him? If someone was walking around like that pre-Ted, people would have been like this, oh, that guy had a tough night out. Tough night out. Yeah. Yeah. Nothing to look at. But now we see it and we're like, Jesus. This is kind of like what Hitler did with the mustache. I think you're right. I think more from being like the big Lebowski kind of hung over thing. True. A little bit of a vibe there into being the Inna Bomber. Isn't it? There's a very thin line. Chris is actively dead right now. Yeah, he's having a hard time. There's a very thin line with sunglasses where I think sometimes you put sunglasses on, you look really cool. But you add a couple more accessories and you look really spooky. Yeah. You put on a hood and a hat. Yeah. And now people are like, oh, I don't trust that guy. You get him out of here. You put on a mustache and maybe a fake nose, like a Groucho Marx thing. Fake nose. And now you look like Groucho. Yeah. What if you put on a ski mask? You grab and sunglasses. I'm terrified of you. Yeah. But I feel like if I saw someone wearing a ski mask and not on a ski mountain, I think I'm probably already, I don't need you to have sunglasses on for me to be spooked. In fact, it's kind of hilarious to put on a ski mask where only your eyes are showing and then cover you and then put on a sunglasses. Yes. Like why would you do that? What do you do? All right. Let's get into this episode. Wait, I did hear someone say that when they listened to Evan now they hear an Irish accent. I did see that. Did you just see that? I saw that. Yeah. They were like, I think it's a Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde thing where like they are the same person, but it's just like one of them is evil. I don't know which one. We've hired an incredible makeup team here at Almost Friday Media and we're just doing a full on change up of the person, but that's just the same voice in there. He's just trying to do an American accent. What people don't realize is that we're all three of us are just one person, including us. All four of us are one person. This is AI folks. LAI. Have you ever seen us in person? Probably not. Only the people who paid to go to the live show have. They know the secrets. They know the truth. They can confirm. Yeah. All right. Well, we've got some great hockey talk to get into. We've got some fun games to play today. We're going to talk about some holidays, all the good stuff. Let's get it going with the Leon Drysidle injury. Interesting stuff going on in Edmonton. Okay. We've got Leon getting shut down for the rest of the regular season. The question now is, is this a just what they needed situation where they're going to shut down Leon, let him get his mind right, his body right for a few weeks, and then he comes back fresh as lettuce? Or is this an at home situation where it's like he'll be back game one of playoffs, but then maybe he's not back to like round three. This I feel as though we are owed something here because he, here's what happened. Leon Drysidle gets hurt. He leaves. I go, uh-oh. I wonder if he's okay. Then he comes back to the game and I go, oh, he's fine. Plays two shifts, leaves again, does not return. I go, uh-oh. Then Knoblock goes, oh, the Doc saw him, said he's completely fine, but we were like, why push it today? Sure. Just take the rest of the game off. He is fine. He will be back tomorrow. I go, oh, okay. Then they go, he is out for the rest of the regular season. I go, uh-oh. Then I think to myself, this could be just what they needed. Then Stan Bowman comes out and goes, we feel this could be a blessing. Then I go, you stole that from us. He's officially listening to the pot. Fuck you. Because this could be just what they needed. If it's at home, it is not at all what they needed and they're dead. I do, listen. I think, I want to hope because we always like great players playing. I'd like to hope this is a precautionary, this team sees the state of the Pacific and they're like, we're going to make playoffs, we can get in even without Leon. Let's get Leon healthy. That's what I hope it is. If Leon is out for a while here and potentially going to miss the first round, I think that this might be tough, rough pumpkins for this team. They take off those sunglasses. I can't. You got it. I can't. Take off those sunglasses and that hood. Let the world see you. No. Come on. No. Come on. I think if the trouble then, the trouble is that team has always been very top heavy and it hasn't mattered. Like everybody loves, including us, everyone loves to make fun of their depth and then they go, we're in the fucking, we're in game six of the Stanley Cup final again because we have elite talent who can make that much of a difference in the playoffs. The problem with being that top heavy is if you lose one of those guys, it devastates your special teams, which they rely on heavily in the playoffs and it devastates your line matchup ability at all times, but certainly in playoffs. Where you go, okay, now team's empty to clip, just trying to stop Conner's line and then go, we can just beat the Oilers otherwise versus being like, fuck now we have to account for dry side on his line and when they double up and on the power play. If he's fine in playoffs though, this doesn't matter. I agree because they're getting in so easily. I agree. I wonder if let's say this is a Mrs. Round One, Mrs. Round Two. Yeah. Can they survive without it? Honestly, they'll. Like without Ekholm, I'm like, no, that's tough. That's probably your number one, number two. I mean, your number one defensive guy. You could probably survive because you still got the big boys up front. Can you survive two rounds of playoffs without Leon? They have the blessing, Dan. They have a blessing. It's called the Pacific Division. I know. And it's called the Playoff Format. I know. And they actually maybe could. If it's only two rounds, they maybe could get out of the Pacific. Right? Because you go, you go, what would it be right now? It would be Vegas. Okay. Yeah. I mean, like home ice. You beat Vegas and then you beat the Ducks for argument's sake. Yeah, I don't know. This is what I'm saying. I don't know. I don't know. But they've got two games. Hey, hey, wake up. Take the hood off at least. Step by step. Come to the base. Hold off. Hold off. No, please. No, please. The world needs to see you at least let Dan pick the glasses you're wearing. We have a whole props department. Oh, yeah. I'll wear different ones. I can't. I like the glasses. You have to turn the lights off or or these are fun. Take the hood off. I'm begging you. Come on. This is good. This is a good version of you. Here we go. We're gonna this is gonna be great. We're having a fun. So we're gonna keep our eyes peeled on Leon. They've got the thing with the Oilers is they've got two games in hand on the Ducks or excuse me, they've got two games extra played on the Ducks. So the Ducks have two games in hand and they're tied in points. So that's good for the Ducks. Vegas is one point back and the Kings and the Kraken are six points back and they both have those two extra games. So like and the King schedule we already talked about this. We talked about it. Kings are going 12 and four and they just got a big win. The Kings might actually catch the Oilers. They could absolutely this is this is going to be a dig deep situation. The Oilers are out. Well, no, the Oilers are on a two game win streak and they're six, three and one in their last 10. And now we know we yeah, but look what happened to the pens with no Sid. Yeah, which is a perfect time to talk about Sid's back. Sid's back playing his first game since the Olympic injury and the Penguins are as hot as a team can get. You know, a couple wins in a row, four, three and three in their last 10, but they've got good gritty wins and they're sitting pretty second in the Met and now Sid is back. I want to tell you something. Do you think playoffs are locked for the Penguins? Yes. Locked? They're in. Wow. That's a Gretel. Just they're in. I want to tell you something that I feel I don't even like saying this out loud, but I feel very vulnerable about this. Okay. Part of me wanted famously Ted Williams, last person to hit over 400 hit 406, I believe, famously. The last game of the season was maybe a double header. For some reason, I think it was a double header, but they had a game and the manager was like, you can sit out because you're hitting 404. Don't ruin this. Yeah, you can sit out and just be, no one's done this. And Ted was like, fuck that I'm playing and played and went two for four and then hit 406. And I was like, that's fucking awesome. And Sid, last year, broke Wayne's record, became the first person ever with 20 straight seasons of overpoint per game. And this year, he's at 59 points in 56 games. So he would be 21 straight. And when he got hurt, I was like, shut it down, just shut it down, just shut it down. Because he's not, there's not that much of a cushion. Like if it takes him a lot to get back into it here, I'm like, dude, don't break, don't lose that. We're shutting down too many players, but, but Sid is Ted. You know what I mean? Like Sid, he would never, he would never, he's just wants to play off and he's got, you know, what 13 some odd games, right? How many games are left for the pens? 15? They have played 67. They played 67 15 games left. So I need 12 points. Yep, he can do it. And he can do it. He's going to have two in his first game. He can do it. And he better do it. Dan, he better do it. So the pens are tied with the Islanders with 83 points. Islanders have one more game played. And the blue jackets are right there with 81. Everyone thinks the blue jackets are dead. They are very not dead. Well, we're going to get to them. Do you want to do them right now? Let's get it. Let's do them right now. Another perfect transition. Jackets up right now. Watch this. Copy, paste, boom, your fire end dude. Speaking of fire, it is hot as fuck in this studio. Are you feeling this? Let me go see if I can crank up. It's unbelievable. Is it bright? Is it bright in here? Is it bright in here though? Is everyone yelling? I felt this way last episode, Sean. I am sweating my butt cheeks off in here. It is so hot. I feel like I'm having hot flashes. Is it bright? Yeah, it's bright in here, pal. You're going to be okay. The blue jackets beat the Keynes 5-1 last night. They're on a 10 game point streak. A lot of OT losses, but they're on a 10 game point streak. They, Dan, last year, yeah, I said, oh my God, what a surprise the blue jackets are, which they were. Yeah. And they kind of, it was, it was, we had all, we had all said it was that team rallied around the tragedy that happened and they played so well and then they just ran out of steam down the stretch. Yeah. That was the fear. And I was like, man, that's not their fault. It's just such an emotional season and like whatever. And then this year it was like, fuck, but to start this year, it was like, fuck, they, what we saw at the end of last year is actually who they are. And I could tell that thinking is difficult for you right now. And then now, dude, they are going so hard that, unfortunately for them and frankly, unfortunately for the teams just above them too, they have now entered this. You have to get it. I don't think so. Yes, they are. No. You're trying to call it like playoff or bust. I don't think it's playoff or bust. It is. Because if you go, if you would miss now, you go like this, what was it all for? What is the point of anything? That's stop it. There's no way. Yeah. There's no way. There's no way it's that intense. They are definitely in a, there's no way about Ottawa, but they're definitely in a, okay, we are a playoff team. Like we are good enough. This slow start was a blip. This is who we are. Let's get it going here. And that's good. That's an exciting thing. But I don't think they're playoff or bust. They're going to be devastated if they don't get in. I don't think so because they haven't been in all year. But this run, you can't get this close. Like they're in right now, dude. No, they're not. They are, they'll have, if they win their game in hand, they have more points than Boston and Detroit in the same amount of games and would be tied with the, but they're not in right now. They got to win that game. I think it would be more devastating for a team like Pittsburgh or actually no perfect example, Detroit. Yeah. Because Detroit don't even fucking say that out loud, dude. What is wrong with you? I'm not, I don't, what is wrong with, what is wrong? I don't know what I'm saying. What is wrong with, I don't know what I'm saying. Yeah. You were blackout drunk right now. That was awful. Ready? Blue jackets, Rangers at home. Win, one and no, Kraken at home. They've been mediocre at home. Actually no, they've been great at home. Win, two and no, Islanders on the road. Lost. Two and one, Flyers on the road. Win, three and one, Habs on the road. Lost. Three and two, Sharks at home. Win. Sorry, Sharks. Four and two. Bruins at home. Lost. Four and three, Canes at home. Win. Five and three. They just did it. Canes on the road. Lost. Five and four. Jets at home. Win. Six and four. Wings on the road. Lost. I'm sorry. Six and five. Savers on the road. Lost. Six and six. Habs on the road. Lost. Win. Good split. Seven and six. Bs at home. Win. Eight and six. Caps at home. Win. Nine and six. They're out. This is it. Damn it. They missed playoffs. That is a pretty tough final stretch. They missed. Those are all tough games. I can't believe you kicked them out. I didn't do anything. What scares me is the real, if you want to get in, I mean the Habs aren't that and the clear, but if you want to get into it. Everyone in playoffs is so fun. I don't, I can't, I don't want to kick anyone out. I want to let them all in. What kills me is, I want to let them all in. The real fringe ones are pens, Islanders, wings, Bs, jackets. Yeah. And Ottawa's in the mix, but let's just live there. The ones of that group who will fight, will claw with their fingernails is everyone but the Bs. Like the wings. None of them can afford to lose. Like the Bs can afford to miss playoffs. Dude, the Bruins, the teams in the Atlantic and the East must look at the Bruins and how incredibly quick and effective they did their retool. And they must be so furious. Like Columbus, Ottawa, Detroit, the Islanders, frankly, Montreal, frankly, they must be looking at Boston being like, are you fuckers kidding me? How did you do this so fast? You were supposed to be out for like three, four years, but they're just right back in the mixer. They must be so mad at them. And that's what terrifies me. Yeah. Is that the Bs, like, just they, they have like a minor blip in the blue jackets. Yeah. Fucking knife fight them to death. Dude, it has been so fun watching this, we'll call it Montreal pit Islanders Boston, Detroit battle of like who's getting in and how sick is it that Columbus is like this? Excuse me. I would like a seat at the table, please. They have something to say. They just want a seat at the table. Can we do, can we do who do you want to do the pens or the senators? We can't keep doing this, this schedule. I want to do one more. No, no, we got what we got one, an episode. We get one episode and we just did ours. Let's get back into some some stuff going on because there's a very big, big piece of hot ice that I'm excited to get to eventually. Cooch got a hat and to assist five points, five points. Dude, I'm fucking 11 points. I told you. Or excuse me, 111 points in 62 games. Connor has 115 in 69. Do you think this is finally the year that our golden boy gets MVP? First of all, he is going to end up in Ross. Yeah, dude, which is so funny. Again, he's going to win it for the third year in a fucking row and go like this. Oh, and dude, he does this every fucking year where every year halfway through the season, he's not even fucking close. And then people are like, oh, there's, you know, Coochie's top 10. Yeah. And then the second half of the season, he goes, dude, I few things every week we talk about this. It's insane, dude. And I, I said this to you off air. I have few things where have been more fun in my life for a bet I didn't win with a bet that you and I made with Geary last year about Cooch winning MVP, which we were robbed of when he was going off like fucking 50 to one. And we, the three of us were sharp and we were like, I can't even think about, but by favorite part about that whole run was, was the chase when every game the three of us would tax and go need a four pointer from Cooch tonight. And then he would do it like we would look at the Tampa game and it'd be like this ping. We've just said check marks. Yeah. They're like point, point, point in today's NHL. It was literally down the stretch. It was a guarantee that Cooch would have four points a game. When he had three points, we were like, not a good enough night. Slow night at the office for Cooch. Three points. And like, I was just, I saw his game last night. I was thinking about you and we were robbed just being like, dang, we were robbed. They robbed us. Dude, he literally is going to, he's four points back. He's not going to make up the games obviously this time, but he is, he is going to win Art Ross in seven less games. And I'm like, this is a fucking clown show. It's, he is truly out. But I need, I need a dominant playoffs from him. I haven't had one in a while. Fair. So Cooch, if you're going to just keep doing this, maybe it was good he missed those games, the seven games. Could be just what they needed. It's going to turn right into a playoff series. Is it possible that we are hard on him because Barkoff was doing the same thing to Conor McDavid? Like we go, Cooch sucked and he goes, Barkoff gave his lunch. 100%. 100%. Because what is it? Two years in a row? Yeah. And I go, whoa, he's doing that to everybody. Yeah. I think I tweeted last year like, I was like, Nikita Kutraw has an Alexander Barkoff problem. And it turns out a lot of people have that problem. So yeah, right. It's a, it seems like it's a league wide issue. A league wide issue. Pretty much every team that comes against them, they're like, this guy is difficult. Why don't you check the bet MGM odds of MVP please. I'm going to check the bet MGM odds on MVP. Let's see. Right now, Dan, it says Nathan McKinnon, 62%. And Macklin's celebrating 23%. I mean, I've said it before, I'll say it again. If the sharks get in, Macklin is the MVP. Can I show you something? I'm looking at NHL stats and Scott Wedgwood is leading right now in goals against. Yep. Can you just quickly look at the thumbnail of Scott? He's going to be on the right side of my screen when I spin this to you. Does Scott Wedgwood in this player profile photo look a little bit like Gareth Bale? Yes. Pretty cool. Show the camera. Scott Wedgwood. So, hey, you have to take a picture of it. Somebody said the other day, they were like, every time you go show the camera, we can't see it. And you just put it. I'm going to copy this image and I'm going to send it to Evan. Or Sean, are you editing this episode? No, Evan. Send it to Evan. Oh my God, almighty. Dan, Cooch is the leading odds, our Oscar. Leading? Yeah, leading. That's special. That is huge. Dude, it's so fucking funny. You know the graphs, like remember the Michael B. Jordan graph where it's like, ding, like then Timmy's up here and it falls. Like the Cooch is like, the graph is like, fuck you. I want to get, I wish I had this graph from every year. Dude, it's insane. All right, folks, our last bit of hot ice. Second in the NHL, in goals. Ooh, this is actually good. With 40, Cole Cawfield. We did it. We did it. For those who are unaware, Sean, you might be unaware. I am unaware. There's a lad named Cole Cawfield, nicknamed Goal Cawfield, because he's such a great goal scorer. He plays for the Montreal Canadiens. Everyone has this joke about Cole, that he is the best 40 goal scorer to never score 40. It actually used to, before last year, he was the best 40 goal scorer to never score 30. He'd never even scored 30 goals and we were all like, when we were talking about the team there, Cole Cawfield, he's like a 40 goal guy, just saying that as like, he has the talent to do that. Yeah. And he just hadn't done it. He'd scored 20. So haters started being like, dude, he's never even scored 30. He's never even scored 40. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So last year, every time he scored, I tweeted all caps, Cole Cawfield is getting 40. And then when he would score again, I would quote, tweet it and say, Cole Cawfield. So I've done this 40 times, finding that tweet, quote, tweeting it and saying Cole Cawfield is getting 40. He had to score 37 last year. We got very close. God, something is in my throat. And he scored 40 last night. Nice. 40 goals. It felt great. Hey, firing off that tweet, I said, Cole Cawfield got 40. Nate has 45 goals and has decidedly slowed down. Yes. He's having a great season. I'm not chirping Nate at all. There was a period where I was like, Nate might have 200 points. I thought Nate was going to score 70 this year. And I was like, wow, that is going to be such a flex when he's like, I have 70 fucking goals. But dude, he has been passed by Koochie, he's been passed by Connor in points. And he very well-good with MVP this year. But he is extremely slowed down. Do you think there's a chance 15 games ish left, maybe 14 for the Habs that he could catch him? Is the rocket in play or is it over? Oh, Cole. I think so. I think it's in play too. I think it's definitely in play. That would be iconic. You've got, you know, what is he? He's got to get to like, 16 games. 16 16 games for 17 for Nate. Sorry, did the Habs have 16? Yeah. Okay, so he, he'd, I think maybe could do Cole miss again. I don't know. Cole has played 66 games. So I don't know. Well, I'll check the standings. Here's my question. 67. All right. To answer your question. Yes, I think you can do it. I think he's gonna get 50 though. Here's my question, which would be gas. We've got roughly, we'll call it on average, 15 games left in the season. Yep. Here are the people. What, how many goals do you think you need to have to be eligible for to get 40 with 15 games left? Say that question again. How many goals do you need to have right now with 15 games left for me to be like this? You could get 40. 30? Or is that too much? Like I'm asking you 30, you are asking a ton, but I think if you have 30 goals, it's possible. I need us to know that it's your debt. I think it's a tall task at this point. It is. If you have 30 at this point to ask you to get 10 more right now. You just ask me if it's possible though. If you have 30 goals, it's possible to get 10 and 15. I don't think so. Well, it is. I don't, I don't think so. I don't, I think if you are a player who through 66 ish games have 30 goals, I don't think you're scoring 10 in your next 15. I don't think you are. Well, that's the point of this exercise, you buffoon. Well, no, the point is, no, you're, you're answering a question. Can somebody score 10 goals in 15 games? The answer is yes to that. I'm with you. But I'm saying a person who has 30 in 66 is not, I don't think they can score 10 and 15. I guess it depends on the person to be honest. Because Hattie's dude, Hattie's changing. Let's call it 33 for the purposes of this exercise. Okay. Here are people with 33 goals or more that could get 40 this year. Dylan Gunther with 33. Debrinkit with 33. Skorofiev with 34. Morgan Geeky with 34. Kudra Gautier with 34. Tate Thompson with 34. Macklin Celebrating with 35. Leon Dryosidle dead, dead. Jason Robertson 36. Wyatt Johnston 37. Nikita Kutcher of 37. Connor 37. Matt Boldy 38. Karel Caprizan 38. Would you like to hear who's getting 40? Yeah. Karel, yes. Boldy, yes. Yes. McDavid, yes. Yes. Wyatt, yes. Wyatt, yes. Robo, yes. Leon, no. Mack, yes. God, I'd love that. Mack, just five more goals. Yep. Tage. I think, I think it would be really fun if Tage, I mean he had like 48 one year. Oh yeah, no, sorry. Tage is obviously perfectly capable. I think it'd be really fun if Morgan Geeky got 40. Me too, that'd be sick. I don't know if he is going to get 40. And I'd really like Kudra to do it too. I would love for Kudra. So Kudra, six more goals. I think Kudra, I think Tage, no. Kudra, yes. Morgan, no, unfortunately. Yeah. Skorofiev, no, unfortunately. Debrinkit, yes. Get seven. Finishes with 40 on the dot. That'd be sick. And that's it. No one else does it. Cole Coughfield scored 40 goals. Cole, I knew you could do it. I've been there the whole, I mean I've literally been there the whole ride, baby. Every single time. Dan, I think he's going to get 50. Sure, that would be so 50. I think he's going to score 50 electric. If he just fucking went and did it. I think he's been pretty hot. I think he is going to score 49 goals this year. And Cole is going to score 50 and win the rocket. That would be sick. Put your money on it. That'd be sick. God, that's so awesome. I love it. Let's take an ad break and then let's hear from the professors. The NHL is in full swing. We are so close to play off. I can taste it. And right now, BetMGM is running my favorite promotion. It's called the hat trick jackpot. All you have to do is bet on an anytime goal scorer and you get your share of 10 Gs in bonus bets, which is absolutely incredible. So what you do is you bet on an anytime goal scorer. If they win ping, you've won your bet. If they score three or more goals, ping, you get your share of 10 Gs and bonus bets, which is absolutely amazing. And if you haven't joined the BetMGM family yet, you do it now. You download the app, you use promo code netters. That's N E T T E R S. 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I think it's a headache, which means I've got a headache and the runs. That is myself. That's how I feel today. Correct. Correct. Correct. Christopher, tell everyone how we performed last week. Coming off a tremendous mega parlay from the week previous. This week we had a lot of shoes to fill. The results, docs, no. Fuck that. Fuck it. Bruins, yes. Good. Haves, no wild, no leaf snow. Sharks, yes. Root to run. Volts, no. Devils, yes. Isles, yes. Jackets, yes. Stars, yes. Mammoth, no. Sponk, yes, Sphene. Sponk, yes. Sponk, yes. Well done. Well done, Professor Sphene. Pulled it together. Eight and six. It's not our best, but not even close to our worst. We can always do worse. That's the beauty of it. Now, speaking of worse, life on the line, parlay. Sponk, yes. Wild, no. Kings, no. Haves, no. One and three. Absolutely terrible. One of the worst we've done. Students are relying on us. Some of the worst we've done in quite a long time. We need to lead by example. We need to lead by example. Students are relying on us. They're relying on these picks. Life on the line has been terrible. This was terrible. Lead by example. Lead by example. Do better. Absolutely correct. Do better. Now, where we do, do better. Always. Always. The Friday Fade continues to be the most reliable thing in this nation. It's absolutely ridiculous, but the Friday Fade, we were put to the test. Maybe our toughest test. Maybe the toughest test ever. We had the blues against the Oilers and they somehow did it in overtime, I believe. That's correct. The St. Louis Blues beat the Edmonton Oilers. It was remarkable. Absolutely remarkable. I received an SMS, no, what's the, an iMessage. I received an iMessage from my dear friend Matt, who attended Harvard, who you would not care for. We were Oxford men at Harvard Business School. And he said to me that the Friday Fade should get its own case at Harvard. This is great. He said agree. This needs to be studied by the top minds in the world. What is happening? I have, I am not sure how to explain what's going on with the Friday Fade because it is truly unbeatable. Now, we have several games this Friday. We have the Canes at the Leafs, the Devils at the Caps, the Avs at the Hawks, the Cats at the Flames, and the Ducks at Mammoth. I believe simply this is between two. Two, yes. The Canes at the Leafs and the Avs at the Hawks. And I, I would like to take because they've been so shit, there was no chance that the Leafs without, without a maths without Austin Matthews can stop this just dreadful, abysmal skid. They're trying to lose to get the top five pick, which is protected. They need it. They, it's protect trying to lead to that pick. There is no chance they can beat the top team in the Metropolitan. Therefore, we shall fade the Carolina Hurricanes and take the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, blowing in the wind Toronto Maple Leafs. Terrible, terrible Toronto Maple Leafs. I doubt the Hawks can win as well, but we must fade one. We must fade one. Toronto Maple Leafs. We are taking the Toronto Maple Leafs to be somehow victorious over the Canes. That is your Friday fade. The Saturday Selly. We said it would be goal Carfield. And of course, ping. He scored his 30th goal of the season. He did it. We did it. And he is officially, as we said, as our colleagues earlier in this episode said, uh, is a 40 goal scorer. So the Friday fade cash, the Saturday Selly cash, this Saturday, there are some candidates for celebration. This is absolutely correct. Celebrini at home versus the Flyers. I'm interested in it. Delicious. Absolutely delicious. Hooch and McDavid playing each other. You know, they will rise. They will rise. Interesting. Robo and Wyatt playing Boldy and Crittle. You know, they will rise. Someone then there will rise. I believe I'm tantalized by Matthew Boldy and Crittle Caprizov. However, that is a tough matchup. Yes, sir. Both directions. I'm not entirely sure I want to touch it because of that. We think that the sharks can smell playoffs. They desperately need it. They desperately need a win against the Philadelphia Flyers. And who is the man who continues to rise to the occasion for the sharks? Who also wants 40. He is a man who wants 40 goals as well. A young lad. We shall take McClane Celebrini versus the Flyers as our Saturday Selly. Rise by Sun. Rise again. Rise. McClane. Saturday Selly, McClane Celebrini. Sunday Hattrick Parley. We gave you the Oilers Moneyline and McDavid Point and over 5.5 in the final Diddy Bowl of the season. The Oilers won. McDavid had two points. It was the fucking under. But it was under. Why, why do I stray from the under? When I know it's always the under, I do not know why I stray because it just should be non-stray. Stay, stay, do not stray, stay. Don't stray, stay, smee. Nice strayed. Idiotic. And it feels like you're passionate about this, therefore you have a pick for us. It does feel to me looking at the Sunday Slay. What has your research found for this Sunday Hattrick Parley? Looking at the Sunday Slay, Jets at rags, avs, at caps, canes, at pens, Preds at hawks, jackets and aisles, Knights at stars, Bolts at flames, Sabres at ducks, Kings at mammoth. I was interested in the Tempe Bay lightning. And? Traveling to Calgary, winning the Moneyline. And staying under 6.5. And the mad scientist Nicky Takutraoff who has a five points every night will have a point. Tempe, under 6.5. Kutraoff point. Sunday Hattrick Parley. How are you? Now, Professor Feeney? Yes. Get prepared. I'm ready. You caught me right while I was mid-yarn, but I'm ready. The Saturday mega. Live on a beach. Live on a beach. Parley. Christopher, begin. I'll start with myself. Christopher, Jets at pens. I should take the pens. Crosby returns. Professor Feeney, Knights at Preds. Take the Knights. Daniel, Stars at wild. I would take the Stars. I hate it. I hate that game. Christopher, Sabres at Kings. What a game. The Sabres so hot. Kings need it though. Kings please. We're going out to Vota. Professor Feeney, Spunk at Blues. Spunk. Feeney Spunk. Daniel, Flyers at Sharks. I'll take the Sharks. Christopher, Isles at Habs. I'll take the Isles there on the road. Professor Feeney, Leafs at Sands. Sands. Daniel, Blues at Canucks. Oh wait, I put the Blues twice. Who is the Blues? Who is the Blues? I'm drunk. I told you. You're the Spunk in Blues. I told you this man. This man has been on the Struggle Bus. Spunk is always Spunk is playing the Blue Jackets. It's an honest mistake gentlemen. It's an honest mistake. That is very, very, very understandable. Honest mistake. So Daniel, you do have the Blues. Blues at Canucks. I will take the Blues. Wait, you have the Blues. Spunk is playing the Blue Jackets. Speney has the Spunk. I think Spunk either way. Speney has the Spunk over the Blue Jackets. Okay. Daniel, Blues at Canucks. I will take the Blues. What a toilet bowl matchup that game is. Feel terrible for anyone going. Christopher, Bruins at Wings. What a playoff matchup. Horrible. Give me the Wings. Yes sir. Bullies. Ed Feeney, Bolts at Oilers. Oilers. Oilers. What a matchup. No dry cycle. Incredible. Penguins, Knights, Stars, Kings, Sharks, Sponk, Isles, Sends, Blues, Wings, Oilers. Live on a beach. Live on a beach. Alright. So last week, the life on the line Parley did not go away. Humiliated. One and three. Our friends and family. As you said, people are counting on these peaks. Counting on these peaks. This is very important to be. Life is on the line. Life is on the line. Leigh Bikes, yep. Which order would you like to go in today? I was 0 and 2. So perhaps I start. Perhaps I might. Yeah. Perhaps. I think you should. Perhaps I begin. Begin sir. Perhaps I start. Alright. Life on the line. Leg number one. The Sabres are horny for their playoff selection. And so far, the Kings have been hopeless. But LA isn't phased by a strong erection. They prefer their buffalo boneless. Kings. Kings money line. Very good. Very good. Alternate. Yes sir. Yes sir. For my first. The Sharks have a chance. They want in on the dance. Can Willmack get the boys in? Philly is gritty. But sometimes they're shitty. They've still got life with a big win. But it's not cheesesteaks and Rocky. We're talking about hockey. And the Flyers will be golfing in a few weeks. Macklin's foot's on the gas. He wants that ass. Prepare for the Sharks to clap cheeks. And then any time gold score on why don't you? Why don't you? Sharks money line. Incredible. Incredible. Right. Right. Right. Right. All right. The next leg. The next leg. When Matthews demands a trade, the Leafs are all done. And their fans won't recover either. But don't blame Austin for wanting to run. He's not the first man to. Damn. No. I don't. I genuinely. I genuinely. Don't. Don't think we can air that. It's so bad. I actually don't think we can air that. That's awful. Just awful. Like, do you need to do that again? Oh, we can believe it. Yeah. I don't know what to do about that. That was so funny, but I don't know if we can say that. Oh, dear, sweet Lord. Yeah. A horrendous. You're a mad man. To round it out. For our last pick. Sid has come back and playoffs are on track. The Penguins feel like a team of fate. There's little hope in the peg. They don't have the legs. They're freezing to death like Leo and Kate. But these pens are Titanic, so no need to panic. The jets can only pray to heaven. There is no magic. This team is quite tragic. These are the worst jets since 9-11. Oh, no. Penguins money line. Penguins money line. Well, there you have it. There is our life on the line. Palais, we are heading to prison. Correct. This is absolutely horrendous. Hope you learned lots in class today. Brilliant stuff from the professors. 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We're back and CP is still on the struggle bus because of St. Patrick's Day. Sean? Yes. Do you love St. Patrick's Day? Or do you? Do I love it? You can be honest. I mean, it's your day. Do you not really care? As an Irishman, are you like? No, I care. I care. It kind of serves the same. It's like the Ireland Day. It's like 4th of July for Americans. It kind of takes place of our Independence Day because we don't really celebrate Independence Day. But yeah, it's like back home, it's like a bigger deal in that you get the day off work and you get to see your friends and stuff. It's pretty cool. Yeah. That's huge actually. When St. Patty's Day falls on a day during the work week, that must be awesome. Yeah, it's pretty great. You're like, fuck you. Is it such a big deal that, so for example, if 4th of July is on a Monday, we get the day off. But if it's on a Sunday, we get Monday off because they're like, hey, we are recognizing. Do you get a day off if St. Patrick's Day? That's a very good question. I can't remember. I would imagine in Ireland, people would be like, I know you guys are going to go hard on Sunday. We're going to give you a Monday off. I would say that in Europe, we just get a lot of time off, but it's not true. It's just in America, you get no time off. Yes. Now, would you ideally, if St. Patrick's Day falls on a Friday, huge long weekend, is it even better if it's a Thursday because you're getting that bank holiday on Thursday and then you're like, we're probably going to just do Friday off as well. Yeah, I think that's probably, I'd imagine there would be a lot of people calling in sick. If you were asked to work on Friday after a Thursday St. Patty's Day, that would be insane. You have to imagine most businesses would be like, just don't even bother. I'm always very curious about this as an Irishman. Do you like it or do you roll your eyes when you are here in the States during St. Patrick's Day, seeing how many people all of a sudden are running around claiming that they are so super Irish? No, I love it. I like that a lot. I don't see why. I know people who complain about it. I don't see what the point in complaining about it is. What are you trying to gatekeep here? It's like, I don't get it. It's so stupid. I really... Trying to gatekeep Irish blood. I think it's really cool that such a small country on the other side of the world is being celebrated by such a large country here. That's for once. I think that it doesn't really matter to me a whole bunch that people might not know exactly what the origins of the day is. I mean, to most Americans, it's just like, it's Ireland Day. You go out and drink because that's what Irish people do. You wear green because that's the color in the Irish flag. It's pretty how green took over. Orange got a bad pull there. Yeah, well, it's green as the Republican color. Our flag is green, white, and orange. The green is for the Republicans, and the orange would be for the Protestants Loyalists, the British. The white is supposed to be the piece in between them. It was, I think, designed by the Frenchmen, perhaps the Frenchmen who designed the French flag, which is probably why it's another tricolor-esque flag. That makes sense. I'd have to fact check myself on that. But yeah, and so our actual national color isn't green. It's blue. What? Yeah, Ireland's national color is blue. That's why, if you ever go to the President's house or anything else like that, our emblems, our crests, it's all blue. Blue is a big thing, but a lot of Irish people don't even know that because green is so synonymous with Ireland. This was incredibly informative. I also love this guy. I was not prepared for how much information was about to come from this guy who's a famous flag designer, and he goes like this, color, color, color, and they go, oh my god, do another one. He's done it. He goes, watch this. He goes, let me check this out, dude. Give me two years. I'll be back to you. I really love the idea of whoever did this was the guy who designed the Italian flag as well. He goes, I'm gonna change one color. Oh, like this. Oh, it's gonna confuse so many people when they're like, is that a faded red? I will say the US flag is a sick flag. It's so sick. I love flags. Flags is a special interest of mine. Oh yeah? Yeah. I watched this great Ted Talk on flags before, and now I've never been able to look at a flag the same way. The US city flags are designed very poorly. There's a lot of writing going on. There's a lot of overly ornate things. A lot of US city flags are just like the city emblem with all of the writing top and bottom, a very complicated thing. A good flag should be, a child can not only draw it, but can remember it to draw. It should have a great fucking call. It should be something that you can make if you were in wartime, you should be able to make it with the few resources around or an approximation of it. It should be visible, a simple enough pattern that you can identify it from like a kilometer away off the top of a sailboat. Sure. That's the whole point of what flags are supposed to be. I think the US flag is super sick at doing that. It feels like flags are kind of a special interest of yours as well. I have a lot of strong opinions on flags. I love this. I got all the tisms, from patriotism to autism. Yeah, we're talking about a spectrum, baby. That's the one we're on. I'm with you. I think Canada has an awesome flag. The Canadian flag is super sick. The Canadian flag rocks. Oh my god, dude. It's so good. Especially because of that color combination, the red and the white. It's like perfect. Yeah, really strong. I think we can't get into too much flag talk here. I love how Scandinavia, they're all the same pattern. They're unified together with different colors. I always thought that's cool, the Nordic flag. There is kind of a cool thing with the, as an Irishman, I'd hate to say it, the Union Jack being the countries of the Union layered on top of each other. Yes, dude. A lot of people don't know that. A lot of people are just like, oh, it's kind of a complicated flag, but I'm like, nope, the Union Jack is, I mean, that is unity. It's incredible. Yeah, it's a cool idea for a flag. God, I love me some flags. We're going to offline about this. Yeah. Oh, wait, best flag of all though. Last thing I'll say on the subject, Japanese flag is so sick. That is such a good flag. It's just so simple. They saw what everyone was doing. Child recognition, being able to draw. Yeah. Yeah, they saw what everyone was doing, using all these squares and rectangles, and they went, get fucked. How about this? Just a circle. That's the Japanese ingenuity. The French and Irish flag designer rolling over it is great. Oh, he's like, Jesus, what the fuck are you doing? God. All right. Well, it's all, we were talking about St. Patrick's Day. Let's get back into it. You, Chris. So our friend, shout out Marty, is a big Marty Dunovan. He's an Irishman. Anytime, whatever day St. Patrick's Day falls on, he, it doesn't matter what's going on. He's like, we will, we will drink Guinness and we will enjoy this day. And it was incredibly contagious. I was like, you know what? You're right. And I do love that we get to celebrate Ireland. And I get, I love that whenever you get a surprise, like, oh, let's have some fun today. Ooh. Little surprise, fun day, especially a guy like me who has such a routine during the week. All of a sudden being like, you know what? I am going to have a Guinness today. It's pretty sweet. So where do we rank non-federal holidays? Yeah. So like, obviously the big ones, Christmas, Thanksgiving, those, getting days off. Yeah. But the non-bank holidays. Non-bank holidays. I'm going to give you the list right now then. We're going to rank. Yes. And I, I'm going to be honest and Sean B do this with me. I think when you list them, we can, we can just eliminate a few off the rip. Okay. Here's the list. I'm just going to give the list quick. Yeah. And the list is, or the ones that I'm considering, Halloween, St. Paddy's, Mother's Day, Father's Day, April Fool's Day, Groundhog's Day, Valentine's Day, Flag Day, Earth Day, Cinco de Mayo. So I think flag day, flag day, Earth Day, dead. You're killing flag day. Of course. You have all people. Of course. Like, I thought you were going to rally for flag day. Dude, here's the thing. You don't even know what I do on flag day, brother. The one day you, you can truly be yourself. Oh yeah. I just, I think if we did more cool things on flag day, it'd be amazing, but we don't. And I think you, I don't even know if you know, I think people don't know. Like when is flag day? I don't know. When's Earth Day? I don't know. Don't know. So I think that's, that's a hit for those two. Flag day, Earth Day, dead. Dead. And then April Fool's Day, dead. April Fool's Day is incredible. I like the, April Fool's Day is great for the first two hours. Yeah. I think, I, April Fool's Day, April Fool's Day, get a little goofy. April Fool's Day terrifies me. I, well that's why, I, April Fool's Day packs a punch, dude. Whenever I meet a new person, one of the first thoughts that goes through my head is, I wonder if this person's a big April Fool person. Because I need to know if I need to fear that person. I would hate it. Keith Yandel is a big prank guy. I prank people terrifyingly. Yeah, yeah. I'm not, I don't, I don't ever want to be pranked. It's not getting pranked is so scary. And I don't, I don't, I don't want to be pranked. And I feel like if I, if I meet people and have people in my life that I am close with, who are like, oh I'm a big prank person, I'm like, fuck. I'm like, god damn it. I will stay away from that, as far away from that person as I can on April Fool's Day. April Fool's Day is legit, dude. It's just like, it's funny that it's even a thing. I know. Considering it's like, yeah, what? Earth Day, not important enough for you to remember. Yeah. Mother's Day, Father's Day, you know, celebrating people who raise you or who were very important figures in your life. And then we just have a day for fucking with people as well. Sure, we remember that. It's like the one day you can have like, like kind of do a douchey prank on somebody, but it's like, it will allow it today. I'm going to look up the origin. I just looked this up, damn it. Just typed this in. Did you? Yeah, it says. What did you find? Well, AI overview says, the exact origin of April Fool's Day is unknown, but is believed to have originated in Europe with traditions of trickery existing for centuries, while often tied to calendar reforms, the holiday likely evolved from a mix of ancient medieval and seasonal traditions. Makes sense. Those European tricksters, they were like, why don't we fuck with each other? I was like, okay, I think April Fool's Day is awesome. Okay, Mother's Day, Father's Day. Great. We just send a text. We all suck. Yeah. Well, it's different. So Father's Day, I think is the same in the U.S. and in Ireland, but Mother's Day is two different days. There's different. I believe Sunday was Mother's Day in the UK. Oh, yes. Because what's your day? Jesse Buckley said that. Yeah. He said that. That is pretty cool that there's multiple Mother's Days. I don't know. I don't like that. Why? It diminishes the importance of the day. Exactly. And that also feels like a weird one that we couldn't sync up on as a world. Who's gatekeeping Mother's Day? Being like, what? No, our Mother's Day is that like, why couldn't we have all gone collectively? Someone complained that it was too close to flag there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's for sure. Yeah. Okay, but for me, the big hitters here are St. Patrick's Day. Yep. Halloween. Yep. And St. Godet Mile. Yep. We don't like Groundhog's Day. We cannot waste any more time on this podcast talking about how much I hate Groundhog's Day. What about Valentine's Day? Valentine's Day is just a big ol' economy stretched. You're woke on a big, big hallmark. Yeah. It's big chocolate. Big chocolate, big hallmark. Celebrate your love the week before, the week after, and save a whole bunch of money and have a genuinely better time. Yeah. Like the worst thing is when you like book a reservation for a restaurant to do this big ol' fancy thing you go in, it's like pack your book six months in advance. It's a set menu, even though you're paying like out the nose for it. Set menu. And if you went there the night before, the night after, it would be like you get the full menu. Yeah. Can I, I'm gonna blow your mind right now. I'm gonna be a sap. I love Valentine's Day. Of course you do. Of course. But let me tell you why. You're big softy. I am a big softy. I think we should all, if we're in a relationship, which we all are, we should all be doing date nights more often. Agree, but not, that's what Sean's saying. But what we were saying about St. Patrick's Day, how when you do it like Marty does and you go, enjoy this day, I think it's good. We should look at Valentine's Day as a reminder to celebrate the love that you have. Don't get tricked by these restaurants going in and fixed menus and paying out the butthole. But be like, it's Valentine's Day, we're gonna have a lovely date night tonight. And let it be a reminder that we should do this more often. And if you're single, that's what we have Valentine's Day for. And Gallantines Day. You know, I've heard. So it can also be a reminder if you're single, you don't need to be in a relationship to enjoy Valentine's Day, make it your own thing. I've heard Gallantines Day a whole lot. I never heard anyone say Palantines Day. Buddy, we've had some big Palantines Day. Big Palantines Days. It's actually a wheel of a night, Sean, if you're single, because you go out and the only girls out are single because otherwise they'd be on a set menu date. Right. Yes. It is a wheel of a night. Everyone thinks, oh, it's Valentine's Day. I got to stay home, not in a relationship. I suppose Valentine's Day might be a good day to meet somebody. It's a great day to go find love. You know what they, so when I was in China, they have this park that you go to and like grandparents of like single grandchildren will have like printed out descriptions and like photos of their kids and they're trying to, and you like walk through the park and you're like, oh, I kind of like this person right here. And look, this is the money that they make. And this is where they were educated and everything else, all these details. And I was like, at first you're like, this is so strange, but it's actually the perfect setup. First of all, your grandparents, they're going to be pretty good salespeople for you. Yeah. Yeah. And then you have like, you're removed from the awkwardness of the initial interaction. And then by the time you meet that person, it's like, you already know, it's kind of like a dating app where you're like, well, I know this person's single and looking for somebody. I'm single and looking for somebody. So this is a great setup. I think we should bring that to the US and replace Valentine's Day with that or just do it on Valentine's Day. Just have lots of grandmothers in parks with like holding up like printed Facebook profiles. I love this. I think this is brilliant. I couldn't be more in that's amazing. I also, I left off this list. Kyle Clark is going to kill me. I left off this list March 14th, Valentine's Day, February 14th, March 14th is international Pi Day, 3.14. And you get to be irrational all day. You get to act irrational. And you go, sorry, it's international Pi Day. I suppose that's why I'm acting so irrational. Izzy told me on March 13th that it was almost Pi Day, which sounds like almost Friday. Yes, it sure does. So we need to turn that into a holiday. Yeah. Wow. The lobster fought, dude. Almost Pi Day. Almost Pi Day. That's the most irrational pictures we've ever seen. Dude, that is fucking gold. I, yeah, God, these, these holidays rock. Rank them. Rank them. Give me your top five. I think for me, I think Halloween has to be considered. I feel like everyone's going to say Halloween's one, but the interesting wrinkle is Halloween. You party that weekend. Like sometimes Halloween lands on the weekend, but you, if it's Halloween's on a Wednesday, you party that Saturday. St. Paddy's, you party that. Correct. St. Patrick's Day is my one. No question. I think everyone's just so happy. I appreciate that. I just think everyone's so happy on St. Patrick's Day. Cinco de Mayo is my two. Cinco de Drinco. I love Cinco de Mayo. We've, how many times do I need to say this? I'm a Mexican boy. Yeah. I love, love Mexican food. I love margaritas. I love mariachi bands. And we, listen, buddy, we're in Southern California. Yeah. Cinco de Mayo here rocks. Rocks. Some of the best Mexican food you'll ever have. Let's see, let's see, let's see, the rest of them, but think Cinco de Cuatro. They celebrate on May 4th. I think so, but that doesn't make sense. Correct. Cause yeah, but it is, I love Cinco de Mayo. Love it. And then I'll probably go Halloween after that. Probably. I just said I love Valentine's Day. You have Valentine's, Tana's Halloween 4th behind Valentine's Day. I do like Halloween. I like Halloween is incredible. Halloween is incredible, but I miss, we're going on way too long about all these holidays. I miss the lore of Halloween that you get in New England. I feel like here in LA, we all just dress up like a bunch of sluts. Yeah, it's awesome. And we go out and we just drink too much. In New England, you would like go on haunted hay rides and you'd go into haunted houses. Salem do. We used to burn. Yeah, like Jesus. Bring it back. Bring the good old days. Let's get those Halloween's back. But it's like there, you felt the lore. Yeah. I feel like I want to, you know what, maybe that this year I'll do better. I'll do a better job of spooky season, getting into it, watching the movies. We can go to Halloween Horror Nights or something. It is hard in California. A lot of holidays don't feel like their holidays because it's so sunshine all the time. Yeah. So like Christmas is so weird. It's a tragedy. Like Christmas lights and reeds on palm trees. Sean, I'm with Halloween. American Thanksgiving is the most brutal here. Yeah. Like you just, all you want to do is put on like a sweater, go outside in the cool crisp fall air, throw a football around. Billion degrees. You walk outside, it's 80 degrees outside. And you're like, what the fuck? Sean, what are your top three? My top tree, the iris came right there. That was big. My top three would probably be, I think Halloween would be my number one. And I'm not even a big Halloween boy, but I do appreciate like all the movies and the lead up to it. Yeah. You know, it's like St. Patrick's Day has a, is lacking in festive movies, festive TV. You don't like the Disney Channel original movie, The Luck of the Irish? I knew you were going to say that. I knew you were going to say that. I have a very crisp memory in my brain of watching that on St. Patrick's Day as a kid and going, this is dog shit. Yeah. It's, hey, it's not great, but I need to watch it again. I was a very tough critic as a little kid. So I'd say, yeah, Halloween number one, St. Patrick's Day number two, and you know what? I might go April Fool's Day number three. Although Cinco de Mayo, I love all the Mexican traditions and like, what's it called? The Day the Dead? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dia de los Muertos. That's beautiful. I think that's really cool. And in that movie, Coco. I knew Sean loves Coco. But yeah, I think maybe I'll lock in with April Fool's Day, though. Lock in with number three. That's awesome. St. Patrick's Day deserves some credit. I love how you went first because it's, it really does get the day, but like that trick or treating is on Halloween every year. That part is cool. Yeah, that's cool. I can't forget that. I'm going Halloween one, St. Patrick's two, though St. Patrick's electric, and then I'll go Cinco de Mayo three because Cinco de Mayo's fun as fuck. Cinco de Mayo deserves more, like the way we all drink on St. Patrick's, Cinco de Mayo deserves equal footing. I think it does get that. I don't know. I don't think people as universally go nuclear. That's true. There were people in Jamison's pub yesterday at 9 a.m. And like we need to be... Yeah, they opened at six. Did you see the sign outside? What? It was a man. That should have just been like an AA meeting from six till 12. It should just have been like, we got you. Sit down, have a seat. That's insane. It needs to be, the Mexican restaurants here should be like, we were opening at six because Cinco de Mayo, we're going nuclear. Isn't that like defeating the French empire or something? Yeah, yeah, but it's not. There's something that's like, everyone's like, oh, is that going to be Mexican? So people think it's Mexican and it's not. It's not. It's not. But it's a really cool story. It does have to do with the French war with the French. Unexpected 1862 victory over the French forces at the battle of Puebla. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. That's fucking amazing. Nice. All right, CP, let's wrap this episode up with a nice game. Okay, Dan, this is your favorite game. I love this game. This game is called What's the Connection? I asked Dan 10 trivia questions, nine of them have answers, and then the 10th question is what is the connection of those nine answers? Sometimes we did famous TV and movie dogs. You did Marvel superhero or you did superhero real names. I did. By the way, Sean, have you seen the newest Spider-Man trailer? I have been avoiding it because I don't want anything spoiled. I just want to see the movie. I love that you guys do that. I'm such a horror for it though. I just need the Dune trailer too. Yeah. I saw the posters and I've also been avoiding the trailer. You're a good man. This is a hard one. Okay. Oh, okay. I think you'll get the questions. I just don't know if you will be able to get the connect. Got it. Question number one, go. With two Stanley Cups and two Vesna trophies, this goalie's long last name is usually shortened to create a nickname that some could mistake for his actual first name. I'm going to guess Vassie. He has two Vesnas and two Stanley Cups. Question number two, the 18th overall pick to the Devils. This forward shined in his sophomore year with 56 points, but he hasn't been able to reach those heights again in his last three seasons despite playing on Nico Hecher's wing. What is his first name? I think that's Dawson Mercer. So I'm going to put in that and I will lock it in. Okay. Question number three, first name was the answer. What is his first name? Okay. This family of four brothers all made the NHL. The oldest won a cup with the Canes. The second oldest never won a cup. And this guy, the third oldest won a cup with the Penguins. What is his first name, Jordan? Stall brothers. Question number four, a 13 year devil. This player finished his career with one season on the Bruins, his hometown club. He eventually became an assistant coach of the Bruins until he left to be head coach of the BU Terriers, his current job. What is his first name? I think that's Jay. Question number five, a second round pick of the Colorado Avalanche. This goalie has bounced around the league until finding some success as a top backup in recent years during some playoff runs. Sometimes his last name is confused with that of a Star Trek character. What is his first name? I'll tell you this again, please. A second round pick of the Colorado Avalanche. This goalie has bounced around the league until finding some success as a top backup in recent years during some playoff runs. Sometimes his last name is confused with that of a Star Trek character by me. What is his first name? Fuck. I have no fucking idea. You will be very mad if you don't get that one. I'm not a Trekkie brother. The only person I know is Spock. Well, you know one other one. Kirk? I got to move on. I have no idea. Question number six, a humane black bear. This humane black bear got his start with the LA Kings before getting his bag in Tampa Bay. All in all, a great career for someone with self-proclaimed slow boots. He still married a gold medal-winning beach volleyball star. What is his first name? Teddy. Question number seven, a five-time All-Star. It was in his first All-Star appearance where he made all the headlines, tying Wayne Gretzky's record for the most goals in a single All-Star game with four. What is his first name? Do it one more time. A five-time All-Star. It was in his first All-Star appearance where he made all the headlines, tying Wayne Gretzky's record for most goals in a single All-Star game with four. What is his first name? I think it's Danny Heatley. Question number eight, this player has one of the most lethal shots in the NHL, scoring 37 goals once on his current team. Many thought he would end up in New York, even though he's a Boston local. But then again, many thought he would end up at BC, but that's not how things worked out due to some questionable test results. What is his first name? Frankie. Frank Petrano. Question number nine, a bruiser as a player, this person has built out a nice coaching career in retirement. His first head coaching job was for a team that, as of recently, no longer exists. At his next stop, he won the Jack Adams in his first year. They parted ways the next season, and now he's on his third team and has them and one of their young stars they traded for playing better than expected. What is his first name? Rick. And now what's the connection? Question number 10 is what's the connection? Okay, give me five again. Five. I don't know why I'm asking you to give me it again, because I... Well, he's been a top backup goalie in recent playoff runs. Oh, wait a minute. Okay, I got it. Sean Luke Picard. And it's his first name. What is his first name? Calvin. All right, what is the connection? So I believe that my answers are Vassie, Dawson, Jordan, Jay, Calvin, Teddy, Danny, Frank, and Rick. Is Vassie right? No. Okay. That's the only one you have wrong. Okay. Actually, I shouldn't have told you that, but... Well, it felt wrong. Yeah. Given all these. So this guy has two cups and two Vesnas. And he has a long last name. He has a long last name. He's usually shortened to create a nickname, to create his nickname that some could mistake for his actual first name. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I got it. Bob. Okay, Bob Dawson, Jordan, Jay, Calvin, Teddy, Danny, Frank, and Rick. This is awesome. I'm just looking at them. And I'll tell you this. Did you want a hint? No. Okay. Okay. I'm just like looking at them to see how these could be connected. I love when we play this game because I love people listening. They who know it. Yeah, like it's this, it's this. You are gonna love it. I'm gonna love it. Let me get it. Bob, Sean, do you know it? No idea. Bob Dawson. Dawson should be such a hint. That was gonna be my hint. The only one, these are perfect. Bob Dawson, Jordan, Jay, Calvin, Teddy, Danny, Frank, and Rick. I could have done a different one for the Dawson one, but I did that one to hopefully spark you to get it. Yeah. That's why I did it that way. I was like, oh, you might get it because of that. Dawson, Jordan, Jay, Calvin, Teddy, Danny, Frank, and Rick. Tell me when you want a hint. When I'm just listing names like this, it makes me think that it is Will Hunting's fake brother names that he gives to many drivers. That's hilarious. Give me a hint. Fuck. Okay. It's topical in something that was happening this weekend. Okay. That makes me think the Oscars. Okay. Is that correct? Yep. You're aiming in the right direction. And you are someone at the Oscars. Yeah. Someone at the Oscars, I would say. Not just the Oscars in general, but someone at the Oscars. Oh my God. Is this... No. I feel like you were getting, you were close there. I feel like something happened in your brain. Yeah. This is the character names of an actor. Is that correct? That might just be it. That could be it. And it's... I'm going to guess it's my guy. So I'm now just trying to get... Hold on. Let me think about this. I'm trying to... No bad radio. You've got to get it now. You've got to get it now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because now you're on the goal line. You've got to get that. I'm on the goal line. So is this... Fuck me. Hold on. I'm sorry. Everything's fucking up right now. What's fucking up? Me. Okay. We've got to think out loud. Okay. I'm thinking... I don't have it. Okay. I don't have it. I was thinking it was potentially... I mean, these are character names of an actor. Yep. But I was initially thinking Redford, but it's not Redford. Okay. It's Bob... Is it... It's Leo? Yes. It's Leo. Okay. So it's Leonardo DiCaprio character names, which is great. Bob is obviously one battle after another. Jordan Belfort, Jay Gatsby. Yep. I would imagine. I'm trying to figure out what... Oh, Jack Dawson. Yeah. Okay. I was like, when is he named Dawson? Jack, but I was like, it'd be so hard. So I'll give you Jack Dawson. Yeah. This is great. Okay. Calvin Candy. Thanks for bearing with me, everybody. But this is great. Rick, obviously. Calvin Candy, Teddy Daniels, Danny Archer, Frank Abagnale, Jr. and Rick Dalton. Phenomenal. Leonardo DiCaprio character names. Very good. Really good. Really good. Really, really good. Great stuff, CP. I love this game. That's good. All right. Huge episode. Great stuff. We love ranking holidays. Yes. Have an amazing weekend, everybody. We got some fun new stuff coming out for you. Great new interviews lined up. 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