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Season 5 Episode 19: Here We Go Again · The Buckpuster Podcast

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  These playoffs, and I mean both legitimately
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  and metaphorically, have been fucking killing
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  me. They absolutely kill me. Not only with how
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  late it is, because you know, Eastern Standard
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  Time, we're all, you know, open as fuck right
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  now. But, and just how much they drag the fuck
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  on. I love the playoffs. I love them. You know,
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  they're so energetic. They're so fun. But my
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  God, guys, you are killing me. I'm going to have
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  more gray hairs on my head by the time the cup
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  was sifted. I swear to God. Imagine if our penguins
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  were still in it. I'd be all gray. Nothing else.
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  How do we do this two years in a row? We actually
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  had a team that was good. But they had been fun,
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  though. Again, I love the hockey playoffs. I
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  love them. But it's stressed me the fuck out.
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  That first round between... Winnipeg and St.
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  Louis was crazy. The second round between, we're
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  about to see game seven tonight, between Toronto
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  and Florida has been insane. It's just been back
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  and forth, back and forth. The Dallas series
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  was pretty intense. That one, what was that last
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  night that ended? Yeah. Winnipeg and six. Carolina,
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  that's one I didn't catch. I didn't catch much
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  of the Carolina -Washington series. That series
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  was boring. Carolina just kind of kicked the
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  shit out of Washington up and down the ice for
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  18 periods. Outside of game two, Carolina was
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  the more dominant team. Hands down. Freddie was
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  being Freddie. Carolina's defense is phenomenal.
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  Shut down Washington's top six. Their offense,
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  they were rolling. They were cooking. Carolina
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  was keeping their cool, not letting the Caps'
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  shenanigans get to them. I like round one against
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  Montreal. They let Tom Wilson get to them. Look
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  what happened. But yeah, just looking at Carolina,
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  they were a really, really competitive team there
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  against Washington. And obviously it shows with
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  them moving on to round two against whoever the
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  Titans winners are. The series has been... This
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  series has been violent. It's been brutal. I
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  honestly think that Carolina might be going to
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  the final regardless just because these two teams,
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  regardless of the winner tonight, are so beat
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  up from this series and so ran down from this
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  series. I don't see either one of these two teams
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  make it to the final just because of this series
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  alone. This series has been probably the most
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  fun to watch in these playoffs and probably the
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  most... It's the most energizing and just the
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  most physical series I have seen in quite some
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  time. These two teams, you can tell clearly they
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  do not like each other. No. Nobody really likes
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  Florida right now. I think they're a bunch of
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  goons. In all honesty, putting my jokes and my
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  love for laughing at Leafs aside, The biggest
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  reason... You're more or less laughing at the
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  fans. Oh, yeah. But that comes with the territory.
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  But putting all that bullshit aside, you know,
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  one of the biggest... I really want Florida to
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  advance just because, you know, seeing that Eastern
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  Conference final matchup between Sergey Bobrovsky
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  of the Florida Panthers and fucking Freddie Anderson
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  of the Carolina Hurricanes. Two veteran goalies
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  that have been around for a while. Yep. Obviously,
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  just the one cup to Sergei and nothing to Freddie
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  yet. Yet. Oh, I don't know why I knocked on wood,
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  but yet. So that would be a goaltending matchup
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  dream. I think that's one of the only things
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  I would not hate to see Florida go back -to -back
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  is to see Bob raise another one. As much as I
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  don't want to see Brad get another one, or as
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  much as I don't want to see Kachuk get another
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  one, or Sam Bennett get another one. I did gain
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  a lot of respect for both Kachuk brothers after
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  the Four Nations. I still don't really like Brady.
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  Matthew, I never really had anything much against
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  Matthew. I've always sided with him. I've never
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  liked Brady. I've never liked Brady. You had
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  to cheer him on there in the Four Nations. It
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  was fun to see when you're cheering for that
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  team, but now that they're in Florida, I don't
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  give a shit about him. Or he's in Ottawa, don't
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  give a shit about him. He can stay out there.
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  Nothing to talk about. We know, as we predicted
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  pretty much the last month and a half, two months,
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  the London Knights are your reigning back -to
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  -back J. Rob Robertson champions. As we predicted
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  at the very beginning of the series. I saw they
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  are now tied for the most in recent modern OHL.
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  I know... D .O. Hunter is tied for the most.
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  J. Ross Robertson as head coach. But, yeah, that
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  was pretty predictable. I'm glad Oscar Davis...
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  I mean, I think I had said that halfway through
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  the season when they started off, what was it,
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  like, fucking 35 -2 or whatever. That ridiculous
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  right wasn't that bad, but that ridiculous 35
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  -10 record that they had to start the season,
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  I was like, they're going to repeat. And here
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  we are. I mean, Oshawa took that first game away.
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  It's funny because the day after I said, you
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  guys are allowed to lose a game, they lost the
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  game. So I think it was the day after, the night
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  that this would have been live, or the day after
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  that episode went live, they lost. I'll take
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  a little bit of credit for that, just a little
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  bit. They didn't get swept like they did last
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  year against London. They did not want to lose
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  on home ice is what they were fighting for. Are
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  we shocked that that happened? We said at the
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  beginning of the playoffs that London is the
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  best team in the league for a reason. We got
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  together for just a little small get -together
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  last night. We just bullshitted for a little
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  bit. We were talking about first we started talking
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  about Malcolm Spence who committed to Michigan
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  State. Or not Michigan State, Michigan. Thursday,
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  May 8th was when Oshawa beat London. It was a
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  couple days after this last episode went live.
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  Yeah, we were talking about Malcolm Spence being
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  committed to Michigan. Why did it have to be
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  Michigan, Malcolm? I love you, man, but why did
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  it have to be Michigan? Best of luck, but fuck
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  you, Michigan. Second, then we brought up, we're
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  like, there should be absolutely no reason that
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  London is this good again next year. Are they
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  still going to be a playoff team? Yeah, without
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  a shadow of a doubt, yes. They're still going
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  to be a playoff team. Are they still going to
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  be probably a top four seed at home? At least
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  the first round of playoffs at home? More than
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  likely, yes. But there should be no reason at
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  all that they are a number one seed again next
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  year. Not number one nor number two. I can still
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  see them being a four, maybe having to drop down
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  to the five and not getting any home series.
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  But there should be no reason that they are 50
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  -18 again or 50 -4, whatever the record was this
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  year. There should be no reason that that happens
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  again. Especially with Kitchener still going
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  to be probably even more stacked next year. This
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  conference is tough. Well, technically that season
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  was the season Kitchener was supposed to be in
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  the rebuild. They were supposed to be a rebuild
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  team. So, you know, anywhere between five and
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  eight. And they finished second. This year they
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  finished third. Oh, third, sorry. This year was
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  third in the conference. I think last year was
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  second. Well, either way, they finished third.
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  So, you're right. Kitchener is going to be even
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  more stacked. I mean, granted, they're losing
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  their away goaltender, Jackson Parsons, but...
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  I mean, yeah, the two teams to beat next year
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  are going to be Windsor and Kitchener. Maybe
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  even, I mean, Barry's in the other conference,
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  but they show that they're going to be a team
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  to beat. They prove that. Brampton's going to
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  be a team to beat. Oshawa, I think, is still
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  going to be a team to beat. Brantford is going
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  to be up there. The East is starting to get stronger
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  over time. I mean, obviously, any team's going
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  to get stronger. With the exception of Niagara,
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  but Niagara is Niagara. And Saginaw is still
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  a great team. Are they going to be as good as
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  they were this year? I don't know. We'll see
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  about that. I think we all know the Otters aren't
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  going to be as good as we were this year, unfortunately.
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  I hope and I don't think we're going to be bad
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  enough to miss the playoffs again. I said we're
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  probably going to be lower seeded. We'll probably
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  be seventh -eighth seeded again next year, but
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  I don't see us. fighting for that fourth seed
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  at all next year. We'd be fighting, I think,
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  for a sixth seed at best. Prove me wrong. I hope
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  they prove me wrong, but that's... Potentially
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  fighting to be a first round against London next
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  year with the third or fourth seeded London.
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  But that's, again, if we're lucky. But yeah,
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  it's definitely going to be interesting going
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  into... Yeah, we're now losing Malcolm Spence.
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  We are obviously already guaranteed to lose...
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  Pano, Marty, and Alfie. Potentially going to
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  be losing Schaefer. Potentially going to be losing
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  Carey. Again, that all depends on how Anaheim
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  they want to work out on his contract with us.
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  It's going to be a rough one. It's going to be
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  tough to figure out, especially that bottom six,
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  too. And then the defensemen as a whole are going
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  to be jumbled to bits. It's going to be a rough
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  one. I mean, I have faith in Chris Millett and
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  what he can do with this roster and what he can
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  do with a full season with this roster. Because
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  this weekend we just had our draftees orientation
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  camp this weekend. I saw on our local news was
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  interviewing, he's like, I don't know much about
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  these guys yet, but he's like, they got to show
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  me. if they really want to play next year and
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  stuff like that. I'm sure they've got to really
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  amaze me. Open scrimmages again, hopefully we'll
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  usually do those July, August, those open scrimmage
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  games. I will see the actual roster get to play
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  right before preseason. I'll definitely be there
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  again because I'll be able to go because I did
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  renew my season ticket for this upcoming season
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  for my third season with the off year. So four
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  years, technically, but not... I mean, I went
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  to... Still went to a majority of games last
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  year, but... Basically, these guys helped hook
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  me up with some of their tickets for even one
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  that they didn't use. It's going to be tough
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  for the Otters next year. I mean, I really...
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  I do have faith in these boys, man. I'm going
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  to stand by them no matter what happens. I know
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  you guys are with me on that one. I've got to
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  stop saying um so much. It's going to be tough.
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  It's going to be very tough to see what this
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  team can put together. Again, I have faith in
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  Coach Chris Millett to see what he can do with
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  a full season with this very tough to manage
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  roster. We'll see. I know we were talking also
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  briefly yesterday. Depending on The whole O .A.
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  situation. I think Auditor's Tracker, shout out
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  to you. I don't know if you listen to this, but
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  you had tweeted out about a joke. You said Wesley
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  Royston breakout season. I hope so. I think that'd
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  be hilarious to see. But we were talking, me
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  and Colin, I told him, I said it all depends
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  on if we decide to keep Messier as one of our
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  O .A.'s, which I don't see it happening. I really
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  don't see it happening just based on his discipline
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  issues. He is one of our enforcers, one of our
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  power forwards, our guys that are meant to stick
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  up for this team and drop the gloves when he
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  needs to. If he ends up being one that stays,
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  then I think that gives Wesley the opportunity
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  to start being more of that playmaker, goal scorer
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  type of guy. If not, then if Wesley... If Messi
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  ends up leaving, then Wesley can continue to
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  be the role that he has. Be that fighter, be
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  that power forward, be the guy that drops the
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  glove when he needs to. We also said that we've
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  seen Sauter drop the gloves a fair share amount
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  of times. Is he a very good fighter? Sorry, Nathan.
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  No, you're not very good, buddy. He's one of
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  those leaders that's like, okay. He will take
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  the punches for his team. He will be the one
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  to drop the gloves. I don't appreciate that you
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  did this to my teammate. Here, I'll take a couple
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  fisticuffs. He can get some punches in, but he
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  does not often win a fight. I think I've seen
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  him fight maybe five, six times in the last two
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  years, and I think he's... one, maybe one of
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  them. But he's going to shit rock the other four
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  or five. He's agreeing. He is that guy that he
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  will drop the gloves if he needs to to defend
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  his team. But he is not going to win that fight.
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  Wesley can't. I don't think I've seen Wesley
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  lose a fight. Him and Messi, man. Those boys
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  don't lose fights. My favorite thing is going
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  back to the Peterborough game last year. And
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  seeing, you know, Messi go up and grab him by
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  the fronts of their jerseys and just back and
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  forth and fucking back and forth. He went after
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  the one, but then that third guy decided to be
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  third man in and also was like, hey, I went in
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  on this and Messi goes, I bet. Fuck you, let's
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  go. Fucking rock 'em, sock 'em robots with two
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  of them. Two reds and one blue. Rock 'em, sock
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  'em Peterborough, right? Rock 'em, sock 'em Pete's.
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  still mad that I ended up missing that game.
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  Because I think we had a Saturday -Sunday home
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  -home two games in a row. I think I ended up
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  going, oh, I can go to one or the other. I ended
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  up going to that Saturday night game. Which I
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  think we still ended up winning that Saturday
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  night game, too. But I was very, Colin's like,
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  you guys should be very upset you didn't make
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  it to this game. I was watching it. Colin was
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  the only one there, so. Yeah, exactly. I figured,
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  at least. Wasn't the only thing on there. Well,
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  yeah. Thankfully, but. Now, I remember talking
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  to a couple of the guys around, and, you know,
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  the guy next to me asked me, I was like, you
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  know, I need to ask him about this coach, and
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  I was kind of telling him, you know. And then
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  I turned, looked down, and I'm like, oh, oh,
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  shit, the coaches are fighting. Oh, shit, the
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  coaches are fighting. Listen to him talk about
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  it on the Out There Record podcast. It was just
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  hilarious. He goes, he just, he just. Soon as
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  he starts talking to Wes, and he was turning
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  his left to start talking to Ken, and he sees
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  Peter Burrell's coach standing at their door,
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  yelling at him. So he's like, I had to go over
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  there and see what was up. And he's just laughing
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  the entire time, too. You can see it on the telecast.
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  You can see it on the broadcast. Smiling as they're
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  talking. I love this coach, man. I'm very excited
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  to see what he can do. Fresh heads, fresh season.
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  Get the off -season out of the way. The off -season
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  out of the way. Get fresh new heads. Get these
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  boys where they need to be for next season. I'm
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  sure we will see how preseason looks and how
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  these scrimmage games work. Depending on my work
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  schedule, depending on when they host those,
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  I'm definitely going to try to be at those. If
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  we even get any home preseason games this year,
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  I know we didn't last year because we did all
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  three years prior to that. I know not all teams
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  get to host preseason games. The way they do
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  it, I think it's still stupid. A lot of the rules
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  in the NHL are stupid. 2, 5, 10, fuck you. Yeah.
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  Real quick before we get into the... current
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  playoffs that are going on. One that we forgot
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  to mention with the London Knights, San Jose
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  Sharks prospect Casper Holtman. He's the first
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  CHL import draft player to win the Wayne Gretzky
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  99 award in the OHL history. Who? They gave it
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  to Holtman? Yeah. Really? Yeah, they gave it
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  to him. I definitely would have seen it go to
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  either Cowan or Dickinson or something. Yeah.
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  Like I said, he did have a rabble of a playoff
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  run. He did very well this year. He kicked our
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  ass all four games. He was the first CHL import
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  draft to win the Wayne Gretzky 99 award. That's
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  pretty cool. That's pretty awesome. Moving on
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  to talk more in depth about these NHL playoffs
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  we got going on. Starting from the East, we know
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  we had briefly mentioned Carolina more or less
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  kicked Washington's ass up and down the ice for
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  five games. One game Washington took was game
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  two in Washington, a 3 -1 win. Other than that,
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  2 -1 win, 4 -0 win, 5 -2 win, and 3 -1 win in
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  favor of the Carolina Hurricanes. Moving on to
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  the final four. I don't know what the hell I
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  just saw on my TV. The freaking pulp is in there,
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  man. It's nasty. That stash, though, is fantastic.
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  Dude, what a fucking beauty, man. It is. He's
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  such a fucking beauty. Such a beauty. Washington
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  didn't stand a chance against Carolina. I thought
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  they were going to put up a little bit more of
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  a fight than that. I think most of us said that
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  that was going to be a seven -game series in
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  the last episode. It was not. Hold on. Hold on.
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  I'm sorry to interrupt, but I kind of want to
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  see this because apparently he's on the air right
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  now lighting a memorial for the Core 5. Paul,
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  Biz Nasty, I know you're a big Toronto fan. Like,
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  you're all for Toronto. But this is not how you
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  do it, you fucking weirdo. I saw this, just looking
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  at this Maple Leafs player right now, all these
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  fans going crazy right now. I saw a post, I think
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  it was on a TikTok. It said, name a sports city
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  that would absolutely lose their shit, damn near
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  burn their fucking minds if they win a championship.
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  Toronto. Toronto is going to be insane if they
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  pull this thing off. Downtown Toronto is no longer
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  going to exist if the Toronto Maple Leafs pull
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  this off. The whole thing, not just this game.
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  They're going to out -Philly you. Philly, pretty
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  much. Philly will lose their shit. They win or
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  lose. Again, they're going to out -Philly you
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  Philly. Downtown Toronto is going to be unrecognizable.
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  If Toronto wins this Cup. That's what they mean
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  by the Philly special. Instead of Philly, Philly,
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  what are they going to yell? Toronto, Toronto.
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  E -A -G -L -S, Eagles, right? You know why they
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  call it Philly, right? Because the people that
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  live there can't spell Philadelphia. I can't
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  spell Philadelphia. Exactly. That's the nicest
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  thing you can say about Philadelphia. You good?
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  Going to the Winnipeg... Are you good? No. Actually,
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  some of us had to work today. Thank you, fucking
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  Bones. Unlike Bob, who obviously has only got
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  to show up once. One shot in 11 minutes a game.
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  So going to the Winnipeg Jets and the Dallas
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  Stars series. Again, what an entertaining series.
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  Really entertaining. Obviously with the Jets
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  winning games 2 and 5. Actually both with the
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  final score 4 -0. And then Dallas winning the
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  rest. 3 -2, 5 -2, 3 -1, 2 -1, N -O -T off of
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  Mark Scheifele tripping penalty. That really,
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  honestly, really has to strike it far. Because
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  only, what, a minute and a half into overtime?
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  It was something like that? Something like that,
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  because, like, the tripping penalty came in,
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  like, within the last, like... I got the notification
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  on my phone that it was going to overtime, and
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  I went to turn it on, and it was already shaking
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  hands. Yeah, Mark Strifey took a tripping penalty
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  with 15 seconds set in regulation, and then the
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  goal came a minute 33 into... Which, by the way,
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  condolences to Mark Scheifele and his entire
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  family. That, I mean, just completely unexpected
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  death of his father. You know, the thing I saw,
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  he literally called his coach or called his team
• 21:18
  that night, prayed them in there and says, I'm
• 21:20
  playing tonight. And, you know, he went out there
• 21:23
  and scored Winnipeg's only goal of the game.
• 21:26
  Unfortunately, it was not enough as Dallas took
• 21:29
  that one in overtime. Sadly, based on a penalty
• 21:32
  caused by Mark Scheifele. What an amazing series
• 21:36
  that one was, man. 4 -2, Dallas takes it. Dallas
• 21:39
  in the final four for the third year in a row,
• 21:41
  I believe, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, third year
• 21:43
  in a row and three of the last five, because
• 21:45
  2020 and then 23, now 25. And then, moving over
• 21:53
  to the other finished series in the West, Edmonton
• 21:57
  taking down, thankfully, the Vegas Golden Knights.
• 22:01
  Thank... Christ. I know I'm rocking the jersey
• 22:04
  tonight, but I don't care. Thank God Vegas is
• 22:07
  down. You don't like Vegas anymore? I'm sorry.
• 22:11
  Ever since the whole IR, Mark Stone, and the
• 22:15
  whole bullshit, I'm done with them. I know it's
• 22:18
  a reason a lot of people hate them now, is that
• 22:20
  whole situation. Yeah, between that and them
• 22:23
  practically trading up Mark 100 for pretty much
• 22:26
  crumpled up one, happy, uncrustable. A crumpled
• 22:32
  up one and a half even Uncrustable. No, they
• 22:35
  give you an Uncrustable with the crust. Yeah,
• 22:39
  but like, just how they treated the whole situation,
• 22:42
  you know? I just don't like them. For some reason,
• 22:47
  I saw their future in Robin Lehner and I don't
• 22:49
  think he's played a game for them since. Nope.
• 22:52
  I'm wondering if he had a gambling problem. Yeah,
• 22:56
  he... Learn some skills from Evander Kane. I'm
• 23:01
  no gambling man, but I think Manor might be a
• 23:05
  snake. I'm not a gambling man, but I'd bet you
• 23:08
  any money that... But yeah, it was almost...
• 23:12
  No, not really a gambling sweep. Vegas took Game
• 23:17
  3 and ended it in 4 -3 off a goal with .4 seconds
• 23:23
  left. I saw that one. crazy point four second
• 23:28
  set and then obviously edmunds from one one the
• 23:32
  last four four four two five four in ot three
• 23:36
  nothing and a casper captain seer game winner
• 23:41
  series winner one nothing in game five in the
• 23:44
  fortress insane which i wish she'd be able to
• 23:49
  do that for pittsburgh but no so we obviously
• 23:51
  know brown room Conference Finals in the West,
• 23:55
  we got the Edmonton Oilers and the Dallas Stars.
• 23:58
  Starting on Wednesday night, Game 1 in Dallas.
• 24:01
  Who do we have winning this series? Is Otter
• 24:05
  going to keep playing the way that he's been
• 24:07
  playing? I'm going to stick to my bracket. I
• 24:10
  think Dallas takes this one. Yeah, it's going
• 24:12
  to be Dallas. I know they are neck and neck.
• 24:20
  I know the bets, the odds, they're both at minus
• 24:24
  110. Skater -wise, they're kind of even, pretty
• 24:28
  even. I know Edmonton, yes, has more offensive
• 24:32
  firepower. Dallas has some better defense. I'd
• 24:36
  say goaltending is much better than Dallas. You
• 24:40
  need defense in these playoffs, man. Dallas,
• 24:44
  I think, has a much stronger defense. If Mira
• 24:48
  Heichkinen wasn't back, It might be questionable.
• 24:51
  You've got Miro Hishkin, you've got Thomas Harley,
• 24:53
  you've got fucking S .L. Endell. I mean, Cody
• 24:56
  Seabin has been playing pretty well. Dallas is
• 25:03
  a better team just all around. They are a better
• 25:06
  team. I mean, Edmonton's defense is still pretty
• 25:08
  good as well. But you have names like Darnell
• 25:11
  Nurse and freaking Evan Bouchard. Other than
• 25:15
  that. And again, I'm going to keep going back
• 25:21
  to this statement because it's fucking true.
• 25:23
  Anywhere else, both those names would be third
• 25:26
  pair of D -men best. Tops. They would be trash
• 25:30
  anywhere else. At this point, I mean, yeah, he's
• 25:33
  old at this point, but when you go to a team
• 25:35
  like Dallas and Jamie Benn is not even one of
• 25:37
  the first maybe six names that you mention from
• 25:39
  that team anymore. Back five, four, five years
• 25:42
  ago, he might have been one of the first names
• 25:43
  you mentioned. But now he's not even one of the
• 25:45
  first seven, I can find him seven, eight players
• 25:47
  before him. You've got Wyatt Johnson, you've
• 25:49
  got Miko Rantanen, obviously you've got, as we
• 25:51
  said, Thomas Harley, Esa Lindell, Miro Heskinen,
• 25:54
  you've got Jason Robertson, you've got Jake Audier.
• 25:56
  You're like, oh yeah, I forgot to have Jamie
• 25:57
  Benn still. They still have Jamie Benn and Tyler
• 26:02
  Sagan. That's another one. I can't believe I
• 26:05
  forgot Tyler Sagan. They still have fucking Tyler
• 26:07
  Sagan in there. That's crazy. He's only, what,
• 26:09
  32 years old? Yeah, he's still. And he still
• 26:11
  forgot to mention it? I think that's what's crazy
• 26:12
  about Dallas. Just how much depth they have.
• 26:16
  They have so much depth, man. All these guys
• 26:19
  are still very young, too. And there's still
• 26:22
  a bunch of prospects in there. With Texas. They're
• 26:25
  going to be a good team for quite some time,
• 26:26
  man. I mean, I've even seen Christian Cairo is
• 26:29
  doing very well down in Texas. Who? Exactly.
• 26:32
  He's doing very, very well in the AHL right now.
• 26:34
  That whole team is doing very well in the AHL.
• 26:37
  As Bob makes another great save on a breakaway
• 26:39
  from, was that Nylander? No, Stephen Lorenz.
• 26:44
  But, I mean, as I said, we just got to wait for
• 26:47
  the final of this series. Hopefully, we have
• 26:48
  a winner. Because that's right, we didn't want
• 26:51
  to talk about this. How Game 7 of the Winnipeg
• 26:54
  St. Louis series ended up. happening, because
• 26:57
  I think we cut recording literally shortly before
• 27:00
  that game -winning goal was scored. That second
• 27:03
  overtime was just as crazy as that first one.
• 27:05
  I remember, oh my god. I think it was literally,
• 27:07
  we said, alright, we're not going to be able
• 27:08
  to have the result. Literally five minutes after
• 27:11
  we hit stop recording and scheduled to post it,
• 27:15
  Winnipeg scored. I'm literally getting ready
• 27:17
  to walk out and start heading home. Winnipeg
• 27:19
  shoots and scores the game -winner. Just unbelievable,
• 27:23
  man. I think Dallas, because I didn't say what
• 27:28
  I said, I think Dallas will probably win this
• 27:31
  series. Obviously, I had Edmonton going all the
• 27:34
  way, but I think, in all honesty, it's going
• 27:36
  to be Dallas. I think you originally had Colorado
• 27:39
  beating Dallas, didn't you? No. Did you have
• 27:42
  Dallas from the beginning? I had Dallas from
• 27:43
  the beginning. I know the whole world, I think
• 27:46
  it was 50. That was one series where the whole
• 27:48
  world was like, damn near 50 -50 split on. That
• 27:51
  one was just such a tough one to call. And ended
• 27:53
  up being right because that one was one of the
• 27:55
  two in round one that went to seven games. I
• 27:58
  think only two did. I think it was Winnipeg and
• 28:01
  then Dallas. Yeah, all the other ones didn't
• 28:04
  except for Winnipeg, St. Louis, Dallas, Colorado.
• 28:08
  I think we're the only two that went to seven.
• 28:09
  Yeah. Everybody else went to six or, I mean,
• 28:13
  three of the four series and East went to five.
• 28:16
  Yeah, I don't think there was a sweep that was
• 28:18
  there. Yeah, there was not a single sweep this
• 28:19
  year. Three series went to five, three series
• 28:22
  went to six, and two went to seven. We could
• 28:24
  be completely wrong. We could go into this and
• 28:26
  Connor McDavid could be Connor McDavid and carry
• 28:31
  them to a sweep. I mean, who knows? Jay Gottinger
• 28:34
  might lose whatever magic he has going right
• 28:36
  now. You never know what's going to happen in
• 28:40
  these playoffs, man. You really don't. Anything
• 28:43
  can happen. Hey, for your first period intermission
• 28:47
  entertainment, do our normal Puck Doku hurdle.
• 28:52
  Depending on how quickly we get this done, we'll
• 28:54
  do the pyramid on here. If you guys want to play
• 28:58
  along, go ahead and pull up Sunday, May 18th's
• 29:01
  game, and feel free to play along. Going for
• 29:05
  the columns, it's going to be St. Louis, the
• 29:07
  Shorts, and Minnesota, Minnesota. And then for
• 29:12
  the rows, it's going to be Detroit, Carolina,
• 29:15
  and CBJ. For Detroit St. Louis, David Perron.
• 29:20
  Yeah. Wait, wait. Oh, no, you're right. I thought
• 29:25
  I said the wrong one. No, no, I'm right. I'm
• 29:28
  not writing the type, but I'm writing the column.
• 29:31
  Can't spell David. Eric Stahl, Carolina, Minnesota.
• 29:42
  Great. I believe. Yep. And then didn't Cam Talbot
• 29:50
  do Minnesota there for a little while as well
• 29:52
  as Detroit? Yep, Cam Talbot. Jake Wallman, Detroit,
• 30:00
  San Jose. We cooking, we cooking. Not for much
• 30:10
  longer probably. Carolina, San Jose. Brent Burns.
• 30:14
  Yeah. Justin Falk. Didn't he do St. Louis, Carolina?
• 30:28
  Carolina? Justin Falk. I thought he was in Carolina
• 30:30
  there for a hot minute. Was he? Yeah, I think
• 30:37
  you're right. I think he was there before St.
• 30:39
  Louis. Good job. So we just need the whole Columbus
• 30:50
  row. So Columbus, St. Louis, Columbus, San Jose,
• 30:53
  Columbus, Minnesota. Did Jack Johnson play for
• 31:01
  any of the teams on top? Obviously he played
• 31:05
  with Columbus, but did he play for Minnesota?
• 31:07
  Oh, no, he didn't play for San Jose. I don't
• 31:11
  think so. That could be like a... A last second
• 31:15
  burner, I guess, if we have nothing else. Corposalo
• 31:25
  has only been, what, Columbus, Ottawa? Ottawa,
• 31:29
  Boston. Boston, too, that's right. Bob has only
• 31:35
  been, what, Philly? Philly, Columbus, Toronto,
• 31:38
  Florida. Bob had a stay with Toronto? No, I'm
• 31:42
  sorry, I'm thinking of Freddie. Because Freddie
• 31:45
  did Anaheim, Toronto. Anderson. I don't think.
• 31:54
  Voracek was only Florida. Oh, not Florida. Philly,
• 31:57
  Columbus. Started and finished in Columbus. Same
• 32:02
  thing with Cam Atkinson. Or Atkinson, whatever.
• 32:15
  I might have to go down and drink one of my ghosts
• 32:18
  or make my pre -workout. I'm starting to die.
• 32:24
  The team who never played for Columbus. Rick
• 32:30
  Nash. I think it was only... Columbus, Boston.
• 32:35
  New York. The Rangers. The Rags. I'm thinking
• 32:45
  goalie has to go somewhere here. But where? Antony
• 32:51
  Yemi, I don't think he ever played for Columbus.
• 32:54
  Jake Allen played for St. Louis, Montreal, New
• 32:57
  Jersey. I don't think he played for Columbus.
• 33:03
  I'm trying to think of journeyman goaltenders.
• 33:10
  Jonathan Quick with his... Long stint in Columbus.
• 33:14
  Columbus with Jackets legend. Why am I trying
• 33:16
  to think? It's only game. Why do you have to
• 33:18
  be so mad? Oh, um... Oh... What the hell? Brizgalov.
• 33:23
  Ilya Brizgalov, dude. I have no idea where all
• 33:25
  he played. He... Philly, Columbus, Arizona...
• 33:30
  Brian Elliott, I know he jumped around. Brent
• 33:40
  Johnson has been around. Tomas Vukun's been around.
• 33:44
  I think Vukun was only like three or four different
• 33:46
  teams. He wasn't around too much. Still, there's
• 33:48
  a few teams. Tim Thomas played for St. Louis,
• 33:52
  Boston. Dallas. Anybody playing along is screaming
• 34:03
  a name into their phone right now. There's somebody
• 34:07
  screaming. It's this guy, you fucking moron!
• 34:10
  This kind of thing. I know for a fact there's
• 34:12
  somebody screaming a name right now. I can't.
• 34:17
  I'm blanking so hard. I'm going to go snort a
• 34:20
  line of free workout. I'm only kidding. I'm only
• 34:23
  kidding. That is really irresponsible. I'm trying
• 34:29
  to remember. Zach Gorinsky. I think his whole
• 34:33
  career has been out there. Okay. What about Seth
• 34:36
  Jones? I think he's only done Columbus, Chicago.
• 34:39
  Florida. Bobby Lou obviously wouldn't fit there
• 34:43
  anywhere. Claude Drew won't fit because he's
• 34:49
  only been in Ottawa. Yeah, Claude Drew is nowhere.
• 34:53
  Yeah. He's only been in Philly, Florida, Ottawa.
• 34:59
  I don't know why I just thought of him. We're
• 35:04
  naming other flyers with Atkinson and Borchek.
• 35:10
  Like a Daniel Breer. I know he jumped around.
• 35:14
  Buffalo Philly. Was it just Buffalo and Philly?
• 35:16
  Just Buffalo and Philly. I swear, I thought he
• 35:19
  played at a stint with St. Louis at least. No.
• 35:21
  Oh, did James Neal play for Columbus? No. No?
• 35:26
  I know he had a very short stint with St. Louis.
• 35:30
  Very short. He was down in my 18 game, something
• 35:32
  like that, stint with St. Louis. Joe Morrow.
• 35:36
  Castor Kapanen never played for Columbus. I'm
• 35:43
  trying to think, like, early Columbus days. Don't
• 35:50
  mind me. Oh, yeah. Best sound in the world. It's
• 35:57
  even better with the beer, but... I'm sorry.
• 36:01
  Oh, the Welch's grape goes. I love the smell
• 36:04
  of grape, but I hate the taste of grape. Yeah,
• 36:07
  good old Ghost Energy. We're not sponsored, by
• 36:11
  the way. Just shouting them out. Yeah, I would
• 36:14
  love to be sponsored by Ghost Energy, but no,
• 36:16
  we are not sponsored by them. So, hit me up.
• 36:22
  Our email's on a Twitter bio. What about like
• 36:26
  an Eric Goodbranson? He's another Journeyman
• 36:28
  defenseman. He did play for Columbus. Did he
• 36:32
  play for any of those other three? Oh. Maybe
• 36:37
  like a Minnesota? Oh. Florida. Didn't he spend
• 36:48
  some time in the Berger? Columbus. I don't remember
• 36:52
  anybody else. I would say L .A. Tyler Toffoli
• 37:00
  didn't go to Columbus, I don't think. Matt Duchesne,
• 37:05
  I think he spent a little bit of time. Did he
• 37:06
  not spend a little bit of time at Columbus? I
• 37:10
  don't remember. Because I know Colorado, Nashville,
• 37:19
  and Dallas. I don't remember. Man, it's like
• 37:29
  we do this every fucking week. First five, we
• 37:33
  were... Well, the last couple of tries, we've
• 37:35
  been struggling with the first two. We at least
• 37:37
  coped through the first six here. It's because
• 37:40
  Columbus is just so newer to, let me guess, Minnesota.
• 37:43
  It's two, and we got two there. But... Oh, man.
• 37:50
  My best guess that I have right now is if Eric
• 37:53
  had been principal, where else would he have
• 37:55
  been? Or where did we say we were going to keep
• 37:59
  him? Who did we say we were going to keep in
• 38:01
  our back pockets? It was a goalie, I don't remember.
• 38:04
  Where's he going to be? Steve Mason. Columbus.
• 38:14
  Columbus, St. Louis. I think. Well, let's throw
• 38:20
  that there. No. I thought that was about to be
• 38:26
  an amazing poll. Another one I just thought of,
• 38:30
  Steve Ott. Steve Ott, where would he go? St.
• 38:34
  Louis. I know St. Louis. St. Louis, Dallas, Buffalo.
• 38:40
  He didn't play for Columbus, though. No, not
• 38:43
  that I know of. JVR not spend some time over
• 38:52
  in Columbus? I can't keep track of the Van Lee
• 38:56
  and Shive brothers. I always get them mixed up,
• 39:02
  honestly. I'm pretty sure he did, but I don't
• 39:05
  think he would have been with St. Louis or any
• 39:08
  of those other three. Brad Brizgolov, this is
• 39:42
  not what we thought. Marion Gabryk, Miko Koivu,
• 39:47
  Goose Nyquist. Ian Cole. There's one of the German
• 39:51
  defensemen, I told you. Mike fucking Rupp. Anthony
• 39:54
  Duclair, oh my god, yes. Rafi Torres. Ray Whitney.
• 40:00
  Ryan Dezingle. Brandon Sod. Mike Sillinger again,
• 40:05
  of course. Ian fucking Cole, Ty Conklin. Gilzado.
• 40:09
  Jordan Leopold. Wow. That's a name I haven't
• 40:12
  heard in about 11 fucking years. Jordan Leopold.
• 40:16
  Wow. Geez Louise, man. Alright. Main topic for
• 40:21
  this evening. We've definitely done this. Sorry.
• 40:25
  We've done this in years past. I think we might
• 40:26
  have done it every year thus far. Our UFA predictions
• 40:30
  are talking about the top 25 to 30 -ish. Maybe
• 40:34
  even go up to decent names all the way up to
• 40:36
  even 40, I'd say. But the UFA is where we think
• 40:40
  these guys could end up. They just might re -sign.
• 40:43
  Where we think a lot of these guys could end
• 40:46
  up. I think we should start at the bottom. Start
• 40:49
  down near the 40 range. I think a good name to
• 40:53
  start off on is number 40. Being Taylor Radish
• 40:55
  from Washington. He's only 27 years old. So he's
• 41:00
  still pretty young. I think he's definitely going
• 41:04
  to stay out east. Now the concern is, well, my
• 41:07
  concern is, you know, is he going to stay in
• 41:10
  Washington or is he going to go down to Tampa,
• 41:12
  Florida? Or Darren Radish is seeing a whole lot
• 41:16
  of success down there. Well, not a whole lot
• 41:18
  of success, but he's made a pretty good name
• 41:20
  for himself in the defensive core. He'll go play
• 41:23
  with his brother again the second time in their
• 41:25
  career. I know during the 21 run, the 2020 -2021
• 41:30
  run, he was... He got caught up from Syracuse
• 41:34
  and then was on their taxi squad. He was dressed
• 41:37
  and everything in case... In case something would
• 41:40
  happen. And then obviously right after that he
• 41:42
  went up to Chicago. I think he's probably going
• 41:48
  to resign. Just resign with Washington? I think
• 41:51
  it could happen. I could see maybe somebody like...
• 41:56
  I don't know, maybe somebody like Boston picking
• 41:57
  him up. I know they're going to start needing
• 41:59
  some help with a lot of the guys that they lost
• 42:01
  this year. Honestly, yeah, re -signing maybe
• 42:05
  somebody like Boston. Buffalo, teams that need
• 42:11
  help, as much help as they can possibly get.
• 42:14
  Another one coming from Washington is Andrew
• 42:16
  Magipani. He's re -signing. Yeah, I can see him
• 42:20
  just re -signing. I can even see him maybe. possibly
• 42:24
  reuniting with Calgary, going back over there.
• 42:27
  Maybe even somebody, like, depending on what
• 42:29
  happens with, like, a Brock Besser, maybe I could
• 42:31
  see him maybe going to somebody like Vancouver,
• 42:33
  because they just have to worry about Pius Suter,
• 42:37
  they have to worry about if they're going to
• 42:38
  end up keeping Thatcher Demko with his health
• 42:40
  problems, that he can't stay healthy. So, man,
• 42:44
  I could see him going somewhere like those guys,
• 42:45
  but, yeah, that's another one that's kind of
• 42:48
  tough to tell there. Next big one that I want
• 42:52
  to go over is Brett Burns. Chewy. The Wookie.
• 42:57
  I think he's probably going to call it. I think
• 42:59
  depending on how deep Carolina goes in these
• 43:01
  playoffs, it's probably just about time for him
• 43:04
  to call it. I mean, the man's 40 years old at
• 43:06
  this point. He is 40, yeah. His age is 30. I
• 43:09
  know. That's why I said it. I thought you said
• 43:12
  he's about 40. No, I said he's 40. Come on, Kyle.
• 43:16
  Listen up, bud. Yeah, you're right. He's old.
• 43:22
  I'm sorry. And going right below him, Dimitri
• 43:25
  Orlov. He's 33 as well. Another defenseman there
• 43:28
  on Carolina that's on the verge of potentially
• 43:31
  leaving or testing the market. I mean, I don't
• 43:36
  know. I don't know about him. Could maybe again
• 43:38
  go reunite with Boston over there. Could reunite
• 43:42
  with Washington. But I really don't think Washington
• 43:45
  needs the help. That honestly wouldn't be one
• 43:48
  that I would... I'd hate to see him in Pittsburgh,
• 43:49
  but he's a little older than I'd like. With how
• 43:53
  old our team already is. But I think he'd be
• 43:55
  a decent replacement for LeTang, because I know
• 43:58
  LeTang is going to be questionable to start the
• 44:01
  season. He might be questionable to play at all.
• 44:04
  He might be done this week. It all depends on
• 44:06
  how he heals from the surgery he's had this offseason.
• 44:10
  One person I would like to pick up as a Penguins
• 44:12
  fan, and who's still relatively unsashed in their
• 44:16
  prime, At 34, it's, oh, age 29, number 34 on
• 44:22
  here, Victor Olsen. Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't.
• 44:25
  He's still a young guy, you know. If he doesn't
• 44:28
  sign with Vegas, I'd like to see him come out
• 44:29
  and play for the State City. He's pretty solid,
• 44:32
  too. Well, I was talking more like defensemen
• 44:34
  that replace Tanger. Well, I'm saying for a youth
• 44:39
  standpoint. Not taking Tanger or our defensive
• 44:41
  core, our awful, awful defensive core out of
• 44:45
  the picture. Yeah. Which will actually probably
• 44:47
  get better after that, but that's besides the
• 44:49
  point. And going back down, Jeff Skinner, I can
• 44:52
  see him just re -signing with Edmonton. He seems
• 44:54
  to be in a good fit there. Actually gets to have
• 44:57
  some playoff experience being in a team that
• 44:59
  can make the playoffs. Because of his time in
• 45:02
  Carolina? Nope. When he was with Carolina, they
• 45:05
  sucked. Of course, he goes to Buffalo. Buffalo
• 45:07
  has sucked for, what, 15 years now? Yes, a long
• 45:10
  time. I think this was their 14th year not making
• 45:12
  the playoffs in a row? 13th or 14th year in a
• 45:14
  row? Yeah. It was. Longest active streak in the
• 45:18
  league. This is another one in the top defenseman
• 45:23
  names that I think Pittsburgh could go after
• 45:26
  going up to number 31 with Vlad Gavrikov. I think
• 45:29
  he could be a very good addition to the Penns
• 45:31
  defense, especially if we end up letting Matt
• 45:33
  Gryzlik walk as well. I think he could be a very
• 45:37
  good fit in our system. Again, it's tough to
• 45:40
  tell when we don't have a head coach right now
• 45:42
  to be able to debate. who might fit in with the
• 45:46
  system. Again, we might even bring in somebody
• 45:48
  that we've never heard of. Somebody from the
• 45:49
  AHL that has done very, very well. But, again,
• 45:54
  time will tell with that. Corey Perry, I... Retire.
• 45:58
  I can see it definitely happening. No, no, no.
• 46:00
  He's going to resign with the... I'm trying to
• 46:05
  think of a name. Where do people go for their
• 46:09
  career to die? Buffalo. There are a lot of hot
• 46:12
  ladies up in Sudbury. that he can go up and,
• 46:16
  you know. Apparently there is in Chicago, according
• 46:17
  to Corey Perry. No, it's just bombs. He just
• 46:20
  goes after the bombs. If he does play, you're
• 46:25
  at that age where you don't really want to change
• 46:27
  where you're at. If he does, just resign for
• 46:29
  another year and finish it there. Connor Brown,
• 46:33
  that's one name that has honestly just kind of
• 46:35
  been a disappointment his whole career. No offense
• 46:37
  to him, but he just, he has never lived up to
• 46:39
  the hype that he had coming out of Erie and coming
• 46:42
  into the NHL. He's never been able to reach that
• 46:45
  potential that he had around his name. But I
• 46:49
  think he does fit in well with the Edmonton team.
• 46:53
  I could just see him re -signing a smaller, maybe
• 46:56
  two, three -year deal worth $2 million, $3 million
• 46:59
  a year. No matter where he goes, it's not going
• 47:02
  to be anything massive. No. That's what you said.
• 47:06
  Yanni Gord, another one. I can just see that
• 47:09
  being a quick re -sign for Tampa Bay. He really
• 47:12
  loves it there. The fans and the team loves having
• 47:14
  him there. Another one I think I can just see
• 47:17
  him re -signing and staying there. The amount
• 47:21
  of success that he has had in Tampa versus anywhere
• 47:24
  else, it's ridiculous. So Tampa and that system,
• 47:29
  if John Cooper does end up staying for the long
• 47:32
  run, you know. Yannick will succeed. Our role
• 47:37
  continues to be successful under that John Cooper
• 47:40
  system. Eric Robinson, no offense, I don't know
• 47:45
  too much about him to talk too much about him,
• 47:48
  so I think we might skip over him. The next two
• 47:50
  are the other two defensemen that I think Pittsburgh
• 47:54
  should have a chance of going after, both being
• 47:56
  Aaron Eckblad and Ivan Prokhorov. Well, the only
• 47:59
  concern I have with Aaron Ekblad is he's obviously
• 48:03
  on the final year of an eight -year deal. He's
• 48:06
  making $7 .5 million per year, and he's on a
• 48:10
  minimal no -trade clause, whereas Ivan Prokhorov
• 48:13
  is obviously on the sixth year, $6 .75 million
• 48:17
  per year, and he doesn't have a trade clause.
• 48:21
  Out of those two, I think I would honestly definitely
• 48:23
  prefer... pro -Rob that might be kind of the
• 48:26
  hot take or kind of an unpopular answer there.
• 48:29
  Yeah, I mean, he's a tad bit younger being here,
• 48:32
  younger than the neck blood. But also a left
• 48:34
  -handed defenseman, which we could use a couple
• 48:36
  left -handed defensemen on the line. That'd be
• 48:38
  actually really nice. I'd very much like having
• 48:41
  him there. And plus for, you know, granted it's
• 48:44
  only a $250 ,000 cheaper, technically you could
• 48:49
  get away with that and still be good to make
• 48:52
  a couple minor signings for You know, your depth
• 48:55
  or your age, I'll squad for a two -way squad.
• 48:57
  Or a two -way contract. And Aaron Edelblad has
• 48:59
  kind of been on the downfall the last, let's
• 49:01
  say, by two, three years. He definitely was not
• 49:04
  as good as he was in his first, you know, eight
• 49:06
  years in the league and since he's been drafted.
• 49:09
  But that one, like, dead serious, I could see
• 49:12
  that one being a Buffalo signing. Like, I could
• 49:15
  honestly see him, see Buffalo trying to go after
• 49:18
  him. I mean, considering all their top defensemen
• 49:21
  in Buffalo are lefties, you do need to have a
• 49:24
  couple righties in there. Like, you need to have
• 49:25
  a decent balance, whether it's threes or two
• 49:29
  and four or whatever. You need to have a good...
• 49:31
  I thought it would be a good possibility for
• 49:33
  that. Especially, you know, being paired up with
• 49:38
  somebody like a Rasmus Dahlin. Yeah. That'd be
• 49:41
  a good... Even an Owen Power, too. I mean...
• 49:44
  You got the old man. Old man. I'm going to use
• 49:47
  that term lightly, but the old man. I'm sorry,
• 49:50
  the middle -aged man, because I know people like
• 49:52
  said who hate the phrase old man. The middle
• 49:55
  -aged man. Young guy in power could really utilize.
• 49:59
  You can't call it said old. You just have to
• 50:00
  add an er to the end, because every time somebody
• 50:02
  would say old, he'd be like er. Old er. Yeah,
• 50:06
  he's older than some of the rest of the guys.
• 50:10
  Christian Dvorak, again, I don't know too much
• 50:12
  about him. I only really honestly remember him
• 50:16
  being from Montreal. I'm not too familiar with
• 50:19
  his career path. I mean, I could see him just
• 50:23
  resigning there with Montreal having the year
• 50:25
  that they did. Probably don't want to make too
• 50:28
  many major changes. Because they made the playoffs.
• 50:32
  Montreal? Yeah. No, they played Washington. They
• 50:35
  played Washington. That's right. Okay, yeah.
• 50:37
  That's what I thought. I keep paying attention
• 50:39
  to this postseason. Kyle, get in the system.
• 50:43
  I knew they made the playoffs, but they were
• 50:45
  that close. I knew that they were right on the
• 50:47
  cusp of making it. Kyle, get in the system. We're
• 50:51
  almost over the fucking second round. Montreal
• 50:53
  made the playoffs other than this year. 2021.
• 50:57
  It's 20 -41. Get it with the system, okay? It's
• 51:00
  almost the same for something. Listen, we're
• 51:02
  watching the second. The house came with the
• 51:04
  fucking second round right now. Get it with the
• 51:05
  system. The second round felt like it's lasted
• 51:08
  two months. Two weeks. It says this round is
• 51:12
  shorter than round one. Is it really? Yeah. It
• 51:15
  felt like it's been a lot longer. Because it's
• 51:17
  been only one game seven for this one, but round
• 51:21
  one we saw two. Get it with the program, freshman.
• 51:24
  God. Marcus Johansson, that's another one I'm
• 51:27
  not too familiar with much of what he does. So,
• 51:30
  I mean, I can't give much. Being an older guy,
• 51:34
  I mean, he provides the experience. He's a good
• 51:36
  middle six forward for Minnesota, considering,
• 51:39
  you know, who they have up there on their top
• 51:41
  line. But he's going to stay in Minnesota. I
• 51:45
  think so. I think he loves the Twin Cities. The
• 51:47
  Twin Cities, you know, most of the fans love
• 51:49
  him. Yeah, he's one of the fan favorites over
• 51:51
  there. I can't see Minnesota being too happy
• 51:53
  if they let him walk. Oh, no. JBR, he's another
• 51:57
  one. He's up there in age, being 36 years old
• 52:00
  now. When you get to that 35, 36 range, that's
• 52:06
  when you start thinking about the one, two -year
• 52:07
  deals. You just take what you can get, where
• 52:10
  you can get it. I can see just being another
• 52:13
  resigning. I can see him going to somebody maybe
• 52:16
  like, I don't know, maybe like a New Jersey or
• 52:19
  something. I don't know. New Jersey can definitely
• 52:21
  use a little bit of help in that middle six.
• 52:24
  I mean, they will fight against Carolina. And
• 52:28
  considering Jack Hughes can't fucking stay healthy
• 52:30
  now, I know his injury when he went down against
• 52:34
  Vegas with his collision with Jack Eichel, it
• 52:37
  was poor timing. It was a shitty circumstance
• 52:41
  for him. And I feel bad, but just in case he
• 52:44
  continues to go down, well, guess what? You have
• 52:47
  somebody like Marcus Jansen who can step up and
• 52:49
  play top six minutes. Grant might be on the second
• 52:52
  line, but he is able to play those top six minutes
• 52:55
  and produce on a consistent level. Andre Kuzmenko,
• 53:02
  this is kind of, he's almost 30. He's 29 years
• 53:05
  old. He's still pretty young in the end. He hasn't
• 53:07
  had too much experience in the league yet. I
• 53:10
  know I think he had, what, a couple years with
• 53:11
  Vancouver, if I'm not mistaken. I think he just
• 53:14
  went over to LA there in the deadline. I'm not
• 53:19
  too familiar with what he's done. He has 11 goals
• 53:27
  and 37 points in 66 games. Okay, so he's a pretty
• 53:33
  decent bottom six or middle six forward there.
• 53:37
  I'm just trying to think of teams. Again, that's
• 53:38
  another one I could see maybe Boston going after
• 53:40
  with all the guys that they lost. Brandon Carlo,
• 53:43
  Jake DeBrusque, obviously the biggest one being
• 53:46
  Brad Marchand. I could see that being another
• 53:50
  middle six guy that Boston tries to pick up.
• 53:53
  I think a big one, or one of the bigger ones
• 53:56
  here in the top 15 -20 range is obviously Jack
• 54:01
  Roslevich. only being 28. He did obviously amazing
• 54:04
  in Columbus, where he started his career. He
• 54:07
  did great in, or he was consistent in the Big
• 54:10
  Apple, the Rags. And now he's doing pretty decent
• 54:13
  in Carolina, finishing up a one -year contract
• 54:16
  at a 2 .8 million. In 81 games, he has 22 goals
• 54:22
  and 39 points. So, I mean, he's just coming into
• 54:26
  his prime. He's young. He can fit in the middle
• 54:28
  six. Obviously, he's doing pretty good in Carolina.
• 54:32
  I can see him staying out east, like maybe in
• 54:34
  the Metro, go back to the Bluecoats, or hell,
• 54:36
  even go back to Columbus, who's missing that
• 54:39
  offensive firepower with the loss of Johnny Goudreau.
• 54:42
  I mean, you can't use the word replace Johnny
• 54:45
  Goudreau, obviously. Well, I mean, as a human,
• 54:48
  no, but as a hockey player. As a body, as a player,
• 54:50
  as a body on the ice, as a player. As a body
• 54:53
  on the ice, it'd be a good replacement. when
• 54:58
  it comes to scoring -wise and depth -wise. I
• 55:01
  don't think he can replace the scoring aspect
• 55:04
  of it, but I think coming from more of a playmaking
• 55:07
  asset and getting those opportunities, he can
• 55:13
  definitely fill those shoes. Oh, for sure. And
• 55:15
  really wear down that goaltender, because you
• 55:18
  might not get the tally, but you might wear the
• 55:20
  goalie down enough or their D down enough to
• 55:22
  have your teammate get the goal, which a goal
• 55:26
  is a goal. Don't ask them how, just ask how many.
• 55:32
  Evgeny Dadunov is another one of those. He's
• 55:34
  kind of bounced around his whole career, been
• 55:35
  just about everywhere, getting to that age where
• 55:38
  you want to start thinking that one, two -year
• 55:40
  contract. I think it fit for him. I think he's
• 55:44
  played here previously, but Team Out West, I'm
• 55:46
  thinking maybe a team like San Jose. Yeah, they're
• 55:52
  going to be getting some youth here in the next
• 55:53
  couple of years. Bring in that veteranism. guy
• 55:57
  like him definitely hasn't been, you know, elite
• 56:01
  to any level. But, just, I mean, I think anybody
• 56:06
  would be, he'd be good bottom three or, you know,
• 56:10
  bottom line forward to help just about anybody.
• 56:14
  Matt Grislick, I said this is one of Pittsburgh's
• 56:16
  decisions that they need to make. I haven't,
• 56:20
  he hasn't been horrible, but he definitely hasn't
• 56:22
  been worth what we've been paying him these last
• 56:25
  two seasons. I mean, just finishing up a one
• 56:27
  -year $2 .750 million con. Or $75 million con,
• 56:35
  whatever. With a full release, whatever. 82 games,
• 56:41
  his one goal and 40 points. If we were to re
• 56:46
  -sign him, I would be okay with this amount.
• 56:49
  I just don't want us to pay any more. Maybe bump
• 56:52
  it up to three. But I would not really want to
• 56:56
  pay him any more than that. Yeah, three tops
• 56:58
  would definitely be the most I'd go. Unless if
• 57:01
  he continues, like if he improves. Yeah. If production
• 57:05
  -wise he gets better, if he's a great person
• 57:08
  on the PK, if he can run the second power play
• 57:11
  unit, as well as anybody in the first, then I'd
• 57:15
  be happy with Vader more. But it's a prove -me
• 57:18
  -wrong point. Riley Smith, fuck him. I really
• 57:22
  don't give a shit what he does. Pui Suter. Fucking
• 57:26
  stay in Vegas, Riley. Stay as far away from Pittsburgh
• 57:28
  because you really didn't fucking like it here,
• 57:30
  so fuck you. He's going to resign with Vegas.
• 57:34
  I can just see him resigning and staying there.
• 57:38
  Fucking good. Pui Suter, this is honestly one
• 57:42
  that... I could see him going to a powerhouse,
• 57:45
  you know, helping out a team that has, like,
• 57:47
  kind of been struggling in that first round or,
• 57:50
  you know, first, second round the last couple
• 57:52
  years. I know they just went back -to -back a
• 57:55
  couple years ago. I could see him going somewhere
• 57:56
  like Tampa. I think he'd be a great replacement
• 57:59
  for Stephen Stamkos there on the top six. Well,
• 58:02
  he'd be the second line because the top line
• 58:04
  of Kucherov, Gensel, and Point has been outstanding.
• 58:07
  I think he could be very solid. I think he could
• 58:10
  do good in the middle six. I'd say he'd probably
• 58:11
  be in the middle six. But, again, body on the
• 58:14
  ice -wise, he'd be a decent replacement for Stamkos.
• 58:16
  And being in a system like just a very heavy
• 58:19
  point and scoring team like Tampa Bay, I think
• 58:23
  he would fit in very well there. The next three,
• 58:27
  all with a couple years, only 34 years old. Yeah.
• 58:30
  Dude, he's one of those you think he'd be like
• 58:32
  42. I thought he was older. I thought he was
• 58:35
  way older than that. I was going to say, the
• 58:38
  next three players, Kyle Palmieri from the Islanders,
• 58:41
  Jamie Benn from the Dallas Stars, Claude Giroux
• 58:44
  from Ottawa, I can see all staying, signing those
• 58:47
  one, two -year contracts. Maybe a three -year
• 58:50
  if you're Kyle Palmieri, but I can all see them
• 58:53
  signing at least a one or two -year contract
• 58:55
  with the teams they were on. Claude Giroux, honestly,
• 59:00
  I wouldn't put it past seeing him reunite with
• 59:02
  Philly, bring him back for a year. I wouldn't
• 59:05
  be opposed to it, but I'd just imagine him wanting
• 59:08
  to stay up in Ottawa a little bit more. Or stay
• 59:11
  up somewhere he's familiar with. I don't think
• 59:14
  I can see him going to a new team, going back
• 59:16
  to a team that he used to play for or just staying
• 59:18
  with. I'd say if he were to move, he'd probably
• 59:21
  be back to Philly. But if it's not retirement,
• 59:25
  then he'll probably do a one or two. In my opinion,
• 59:30
  I think this guy should be top five. This next
• 59:32
  one being Brock Besser out of Vancouver. I don't
• 59:35
  know why he's as far down as I am, but I really
• 59:36
  think he should be top three on this list. Injuries
• 59:39
  and personal issues have really plagued his past
• 59:42
  couple years. I can see him going to a young
• 59:47
  upcoming team that has not quite reached that
• 59:51
  skill mark that they need to. Someone that I
• 59:53
  personally think he could fit in very, very well
• 59:56
  in. Anaheim. Put him with Trevor Zegras. That
• 1:00:01
  could be a very good line. That could be a very
• 1:00:05
  interesting thing to see. Next up is The Rat.
• 1:00:10
  And I can see him staying in Florida. I know
• 1:00:13
  before the trade. I think I saw an interview
• 1:00:16
  with him. Like, shortly after he got to Florida,
• 1:00:20
  because he sat out for a couple weeks due to
• 1:00:21
  injury, and he was like, yeah, I've always liked
• 1:00:25
  Florida from an opponent's standpoint. I've always
• 1:00:28
  liked their system, how they play, their physicality,
• 1:00:31
  the style that Paul Maurice has. So he's like,
• 1:00:34
  if I was going to be traded anywhere, this is
• 1:00:36
  definitely going to be one of the places on the
• 1:00:37
  top of my list. So I do imagine Brad Marchand
• 1:00:40
  wanting to stay in Florida for another year or
• 1:00:43
  two before he calls a quits. Number nine, Sam
• 1:00:49
  Bennett. Stay in Florida. Stay in Florida. Keep
• 1:00:52
  him away from everybody else. Nobody else wants
• 1:00:54
  him. Brock Nelson. Here's one. I could see him.
• 1:00:59
  There's one team that comes to mind that made
• 1:01:02
  a bunch of moves last offseason. Big moves last
• 1:01:05
  offseason. And it didn't work very well. So I
• 1:01:09
  think this team now needs to get as much help
• 1:01:12
  as they could possibly get. There's actually
• 1:01:14
  two names here in the final top now that I can
• 1:01:16
  see this team going after. And that's the Nashville
• 1:01:19
  Predators. Yeah. Made a bunch of moves this offseason
• 1:01:22
  that obviously did not work out very well. There's
• 1:01:29
  one thing that I have against Brock Nelson that
• 1:01:32
  I know can kind of be contradicted because of
• 1:01:36
  who Nashville currently has. Age. Yeah. Stammer's
• 1:01:41
  getting up there. Riot is getting up there. Martial
• 1:01:45
  Soul is getting up there. Yoshi is getting there.
• 1:01:47
  Who? Yoshi. I heard Yoshi. I was like, Yoshi's
• 1:01:50
  a Nintendo character. But yeah, Yoshi's getting
• 1:01:55
  up there. Pekka is... I don't know how old Pekka
• 1:01:58
  is. Oh, not Pekka. He's been so long. Yusi, yeah.
• 1:02:01
  Yusi. He's getting up there. But the other name
• 1:02:04
  in that top nine that I could see going there
• 1:02:07
  is Mikael Grantland. I could see him going there
• 1:02:10
  as well. I'm sorry, he's staying in Dallas. He's
• 1:02:12
  staying in Dallas. You think so? He's having
• 1:02:14
  a good playoff right now in Dallas. Yeah, but
• 1:02:18
  you've got to think, they just paid Wyatt Johnson
• 1:02:20
  all that money. I think they already did give
• 1:02:23
  Branton a whole shit ton of money now. I don't
• 1:02:26
  know if they started paying Aria or not, but
• 1:02:28
  if not, he's going to have to start getting paid
• 1:02:29
  very soon. They are going to be paying a lot
• 1:02:32
  of money to these stars that they've got coming
• 1:02:34
  up. Obviously, they're paying Robertson a lot
• 1:02:36
  of money right now. I don't think Thomas Harley
• 1:02:40
  is on the big page yet, so he's going to be getting
• 1:02:43
  there soon. I don't know. I just don't know if
• 1:02:46
  Granlund is going to make the – unless he's willing
• 1:02:48
  to play for $3 million to $4 million, then sure,
• 1:02:52
  I could see it happening. But if not, he's definitely
• 1:02:56
  going to have to be looking somewhere that he
• 1:02:58
  can still shine, a team that needs some help,
• 1:03:00
  and I think Nashville is one of those teams.
• 1:03:03
  They may not go after both of them, but I could
• 1:03:04
  see them going after at least one of those two
• 1:03:06
  guys. Or Detroit, depending on where Patrick
• 1:03:09
  Kane ends up. I mean, the man's 36 years old.
• 1:03:13
  He's coming off a one -year contract getting
• 1:03:15
  paid $4 million with a no -movement clause. Or
• 1:03:21
  no -trade clause. So, depending on where Patrick
• 1:03:26
  Kane lands, they can pick up Grantland. Besser
• 1:03:29
  or whoever. I think I could see Patrick Kane
• 1:03:32
  staying put. I mean, he's been fighting injury.
• 1:03:35
  It's going to be the year he might call it quits
• 1:03:37
  early. I know Taze was only, what, 37 when he
• 1:03:39
  called it quits. And I know he's... Kane might
• 1:03:41
  fall on his footsteps and call it quits pretty
• 1:03:42
  early. I saw someone in an interview, like, well,
• 1:03:46
  like, kind of in the middle of the season, like,
• 1:03:48
  saying, like, his son and the Brinkett son, like,
• 1:03:52
  have, like, a really good... are really close,
• 1:03:56
  but he's worried that if he would leave, he'd
• 1:04:01
  ruin that. I know his kids, they're both young,
• 1:04:05
  but he... It's just the young friendship kind
• 1:04:08
  of thing. Lifelong memories. Future line mates,
• 1:04:12
  hopefully. I guess Ryan Donato, I guess that's
• 1:04:15
  another one with his age, I guess that's another
• 1:04:17
  one Nashville could honestly be looking at, too.
• 1:04:19
  He's a little bit younger than Nelson and...
• 1:04:21
  in Grandland. He's only 29, so he's still got
• 1:04:25
  that youth energy to him, but I don't know how
• 1:04:27
  much money he's going to be looking for. Yeah,
• 1:04:29
  he just finished up a two -year, $2 million deal.
• 1:04:32
  He's kind of a bottom six guy, so I really don't
• 1:04:36
  know where I could see him going. Pittsburgh
• 1:04:38
  is honestly a possibility. We definitely need
• 1:04:42
  some help in that bottom six. We need some help
• 1:04:45
  everywhere. The Eilbers? Going to Long Island.
• 1:04:49
  Going to the... Going through the very short
• 1:04:52
  island now. Kind of a replacement for the loss
• 1:04:54
  of Brock Nelson. You didn't pick up what I was
• 1:04:57
  putting down. The very short island. Nikolai
• 1:05:01
  Ehlers. This one's tough. He could go, I think,
• 1:05:04
  just about anywhere. I feel like Winnipeg would
• 1:05:08
  like him to stay in Winnipeg. He might want to
• 1:05:11
  stay in Winnipeg because that's where he spent
• 1:05:12
  his entire career. In Winnipeg. Let's see. He's
• 1:05:17
  just finishing up a seven -year contract, $6
• 1:05:19
  million with a minimal no -movement clause. He
• 1:05:25
  had 24 goals, 63 points, and 69 games this year.
• 1:05:30
  Nice. Honestly, what I could see happening, if
• 1:05:34
  Vancouver doesn't re -sign Besser, I could see
• 1:05:39
  Ehlers possibly going over to Vancouver. Just
• 1:05:43
  how much are they willing to pay him? Yeah. Kind
• 1:05:46
  of thing. It's just, you know, the whole monetary
• 1:05:48
  thing. Yeah. I'm going to jump up to number two
• 1:05:52
  because one and three can kind of go, you know,
• 1:05:54
  hand in hand. Matthew Shane, 34 years out of
• 1:05:57
  Dallas. This year, you know, he's finishing up
• 1:06:00
  a one -year $3 million contract. No trade clause.
• 1:06:03
  He had two games, 30 goals. He has a point per
• 1:06:07
  game all season. Or all this year. So, I could
• 1:06:10
  see him... If he stays in Dallas, obviously he's
• 1:06:15
  going to take a pay cut. But he'll be 34 looking
• 1:06:18
  at staring down the barrel at 35 years old. I
• 1:06:21
  can see him being added to one of those teams
• 1:06:24
  that have been right there on the bubble of first
• 1:06:27
  round exits or right there missing the playoffs.
• 1:06:29
  The team that comes to mind is maybe somebody
• 1:06:30
  like St. Louis. Well, when you have people like...
• 1:06:38
  Jordan Cairo, and Pavel Buznevich. Robert Thomas.
• 1:06:42
  Robert Thomas. St. Louis might not be able to
• 1:06:45
  fit him into the system. I'm thinking more along
• 1:06:49
  the lines of Seattle and Utah. You know, those
• 1:06:51
  bubble teams. Utah. Utah. Utah. It's just, okay,
• 1:06:56
  who's that one player that could take us from
• 1:06:59
  a French team to just right there on the cut
• 1:07:03
  line? Just maybe barely above the cut line. Florida
• 1:07:07
  just scored again. Maybe just above the cut line
• 1:07:11
  like Montreal was this year, but, you know, right
• 1:07:17
  there into the postseason to dance the third
• 1:07:21
  statement. Trying to see what happened here.
• 1:07:25
  Oh, my God. What a scar. That's just a garbage
• 1:07:28
  goal, man. Just a nice snipe off the faceoff.
• 1:07:32
  All right, the Carolina Hurricanes will be playing
• 1:07:35
  Florida Panthers in round three. All right, speaking
• 1:07:39
  of Toronto, the last two players, obviously out
• 1:07:42
  of Toronto, at the number three spot would be
• 1:07:45
  John Traveris, 34 years of age, finishing up
• 1:07:48
  a seven -year deal, cap it $11 million. No matter
• 1:07:54
  where he goes, he's not going to get that amount
• 1:07:57
  of money again. No. There's no chance in hell.
• 1:07:59
  Especially with how he's paying. I'm sorry, he's
• 1:08:02
  not. A team that I could see him sticking in
• 1:08:05
  the Eastern Conference, a team that I could possibly
• 1:08:09
  see him going to, is honestly somebody like the
• 1:08:12
  Rangers, maybe. No, he's not going to go to the
• 1:08:14
  Rangers after being a lifelong Islander. I'm
• 1:08:19
  sorry, that's a sin. That's a death sentence
• 1:08:22
  for him. The Islanders fans already fucking hate
• 1:08:26
  him. Let's not hate him more. It goes both ways,
• 1:08:30
  that's the thing. You know, as long as you're
• 1:08:32
  paying for the Islanders, you don't go to the
• 1:08:34
  Rangers and vice versa. I said, if he's going
• 1:08:36
  to stay, because I feel like he honestly is going
• 1:08:39
  to stay in the East. I've seen something, but
• 1:08:42
  I'm leaning more towards Ottawa, but I said the
• 1:08:49
  other two I had in mind were Ottawa. Yeah, I
• 1:08:51
  said Ottawa could be good. Ottawa, I think Ottawa.
• 1:08:57
  Boston and New Jersey. They were kind of my other
• 1:09:01
  two. I could see them in Ottawa. I was going
• 1:09:04
  to say, I'm kind of going with the Boston vibes.
• 1:09:06
  With an older guy, a middle six guy in Boston
• 1:09:13
  who, again, as you stated multiple times beforehand,
• 1:09:17
  Boston needs those forwards to kind of help rebuild.
• 1:09:20
  And having a couple veteran guys. will really
• 1:09:23
  help them. So, again, I'm going to piggyback
• 1:09:27
  off your statement there, Kyle. Boston needs
• 1:09:30
  those guys. Johnny T could potentially be one
• 1:09:32
  of those guys. And then the number one name,
• 1:09:35
  everybody's talking about it. What's going to
• 1:09:37
  happen? This is very close, very similar story
• 1:09:40
  to 2016 and the Stephen Stamko situation. What's
• 1:09:45
  going to happen with Mitch Marnie? Where's Mitch
• 1:09:47
  Marnie going to go? Is he going to re -sign with
• 1:09:49
  Toronto? Is he going to go somewhere? Mitch O
• 1:09:52
  'Barney. Bitch O 'Barney, right? Honestly, I
• 1:09:55
  can see this being kind of like a Stephen Stamkos
• 1:09:57
  situation where it's going to be the hype all
• 1:10:00
  the way up until the free agent debt, all the
• 1:10:02
  way up until the free agency. He's going to talk
• 1:10:04
  with a couple of different teams. Everybody's
• 1:10:05
  like, oh, he's going here. Everybody is positive
• 1:10:08
  that Stamkos was going to Toronto. Everybody
• 1:10:11
  was so confident Stamkos was coming to Toronto
• 1:10:13
  just for him to re -sign with Tampa Bay that
• 1:10:15
  year. Yeah, and on the trade deadline eve...
• 1:10:18
  you reassign to Tampa, stick with them for another
• 1:10:21
  eight years. I could honestly see that being
• 1:10:24
  a very similar situation with Mitch Marner. I
• 1:10:26
  could very easily see them being, honestly, how
• 1:10:30
  this game is turning out, maybe not, but this
• 1:10:33
  might be a situation where he says, hey, I'm
• 1:10:36
  testing the market, I'm possibly going to be
• 1:10:38
  leaving until the very last second. Just kidding,
• 1:10:40
  I'm resetting with Toronto. If not, two teams
• 1:10:45
  come to mind. Pittsburgh is one of them because
• 1:10:48
  his history with Kyle Dubas, I really think Dubas
• 1:10:50
  would have the interest in trying to bring him
• 1:10:52
  over. And I think with him playing with either
• 1:10:55
  Crosby or Malkin would be insane. Even making
• 1:10:59
  him his own line, maybe down on the third line.
• 1:11:01
  Yeah, I was going to say. With the two young
• 1:11:04
  kids, like a Rucker, McGrody, and Billy Coivin
• 1:11:06
  in. Yeah, Kyle and I were talking about this
• 1:11:09
  off the air, just sitting around bullshitting.
• 1:11:13
  It's almost like a Phil Kessel situation. Yeah,
• 1:11:17
  like, all the hype might be around, you know,
• 1:11:19
  Phil Kessel bonding with either Sid or Gino,
• 1:11:23
  but no, we were proven wrong, and he had his
• 1:11:25
  own line, the HBK line, which was highly successful
• 1:11:28
  during their first cup run. Marner could potentially
• 1:11:31
  do the same thing. Marner, almost like Sid and
• 1:11:34
  the kids. Marner and the kids. Even though Marner
• 1:11:38
  is a kid. The HBK would have the MMK line. McGrody,
• 1:11:44
  Marner, Klavenen. That could be sick. That'd
• 1:11:47
  be really sick. If not, a team that, again, this
• 1:11:51
  is another one I think we just mentioned briefly.
• 1:11:53
  Somebody like Utah. I think he could fit in very
• 1:11:56
  well over in Utah. You have players like Dylan
• 1:11:58
  Gunther, you got Clayton Keller, you got Lawson
• 1:12:01
  Kraus. You got a very young, talented team over
• 1:12:05
  there. And bringing in somebody like Mitch Marner
• 1:12:08
  could just be that last little... Who are that
• 1:12:11
  last little oomph that they need to get over
• 1:12:13
  that hump, maybe get into a playoff spot next
• 1:12:16
  year? Well, I was going to say Seattle because
• 1:12:18
  a lot of Seattle, they have great puck movers,
• 1:12:22
  they have great playmakers, but they don't really
• 1:12:24
  have a whole lot of players to be able to finish
• 1:12:28
  the playoff, to actually put the rubber in the
• 1:12:30
  net. And Marner could potentially do that. He
• 1:12:35
  does have a nice wrister. He does have a knack
• 1:12:39
  for the net. So, like, I could see him also fitting
• 1:12:43
  in Seattle. Yeah. That was the other one I had.
• 1:12:48
  Seattle, I know Utah was kind of one of my last
• 1:12:53
  three choices. Also, I'll pull this up real quick.
• 1:12:56
  Believe it or not, Seattle only has, or at the
• 1:12:59
  moment, only has 1 .97 million of cap space right
• 1:13:01
  now. So, I'm sure they're not going to be resigning.
• 1:13:06
  not a lot of the guys that are on the team right
• 1:13:08
  now, so I'm sure that if they wanted to, they'd
• 1:13:09
  let some guys walk, maybe some that they don't
• 1:13:12
  want to, to free up at probably at least 10,
• 1:13:14
  11, 12 mil that Marner's going to be asking for.
• 1:13:17
  Or also try to trade up, use some trades for
• 1:13:21
  the draft. I think people often forget, myself
• 1:13:27
  included, there are going to be some teams that
• 1:13:30
  are going to be trying to be aggressive. at the
• 1:13:32
  straight deadline. And I know this draft has
• 1:13:34
  to be a little bit weaker compared to years past
• 1:13:38
  and years coming. No, no, no. Next year is it.
• 1:13:40
  Next year is stacked. It's stacked. But take
• 1:13:43
  advantage of the very few great players of this
• 1:13:47
  draft. There are 15 of them. They're amazing.
• 1:13:51
  If you guys could guess the top five teams with
• 1:13:53
  the most amount of cap space right now, who would
• 1:13:55
  you guess? Chicago, Detroit. No, not Detroit.
• 1:14:02
  I agree with Chicago. Chicago's close. Chicago's
• 1:14:05
  8th. Okay. I know it's not Detroit. Obviously
• 1:14:08
  it's not Toronto. Not Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh's
• 1:14:11
  9th. We're close. Neither are... Buffalo might
• 1:14:17
  be up there, but the other two New York teams
• 1:14:19
  definitely aren't. Correct. Buffalo's 7th. Yeah,
• 1:14:25
  Buffalo would have been the closest out of all
• 1:14:27
  three New York teams. Neither Florida team. We
• 1:14:32
  have mentioned a good majority of these teams
• 1:14:34
  tonight. So, Dallas is a no. Carolina's a no.
• 1:14:39
  Colorado's probably not either. No. Nashville
• 1:14:44
  has to be up there. They just got there sixth
• 1:14:48
  for available cap space. By about less than a
• 1:14:54
  mil. Utah has to be up there. Number five has
• 1:14:58
  the most. They have $7 .72 million of cap space
• 1:15:00
  right now. Okay, so Utah's five. Then we got
• 1:15:03
  Colorado's not going to be up there. Minnesota
• 1:15:08
  might be on the fence. They might be seven, right?
• 1:15:11
  No, Minnesota actually has barely. Minnesota
• 1:15:16
  has $36 ,000 of cap space. They could pay somebody
• 1:15:21
  to play for about three games. Let's see. Moving
• 1:15:24
  Pacific to Atlantic. I don't think Pacific. Vancouver
• 1:15:29
  has to be up there. No. One of the three California
• 1:15:33
  teams. Two of the three California teams. So
• 1:15:36
  not LA, so it's going to be Anaheim and San Jose.
• 1:15:39
  Four and three respectively. So we're just missing
• 1:15:41
  one and two. Yeah. All right. Any more in the
• 1:15:44
  Pacific? No. Yes. Sorry, yes. Up north. So, not
• 1:15:52
  Vancouver, Seattle. Calgary. Calgary is number
• 1:15:57
  two. What's number one? At least Metro. Metro.
• 1:16:02
  Columbus. Columbus has $18 .2 million of cap
• 1:16:06
  stays right now. Well, you do realize that they
• 1:16:08
  were below the cap basement because of Johnny
• 1:16:12
  DeDrobin. They got a pass in the league. They're
• 1:16:13
  like, we get it. We're fine. So, I fucking should
• 1:16:17
  have guessed Columbus. Yeah. Ah, dang it. That's
• 1:16:19
  why, I mean, yeah, Utah. Honestly, Ehlers, I
• 1:16:23
  think, could even go to somebody like Anaheim,
• 1:16:25
  too. Anaheim or San Jose. That was actually one
• 1:16:28
  of the other ones I've... I mean, those top five
• 1:16:32
  guys can go just about anywhere in all those
• 1:16:34
  teams that have space. Nashville still has...
• 1:16:37
  Like, Nashville's in sixth, still, with all the
• 1:16:41
  signs that they made last offseason. They still
• 1:16:45
  have $7 million of cap space, which is crazy.
• 1:16:50
  Clone's just learning this right now. Yes! Let's
• 1:16:53
  go! Yes! Cry, baby, cry! Let's go! I love this!
• 1:17:06
  This is what I live for! Yeah! Now we turn on
• 1:17:13
  Steve Daigle's stream here shortly. Oh, man.
• 1:17:16
  Here, hold on. We'll talk about it here in a
• 1:17:19
  second off the air. While we are letting the
• 1:17:23
  last four or five minutes of Toronto's season
• 1:17:26
  come to an end, just a couple things that happened
• 1:17:29
  outside of free agency and outside of the playoffs.
• 1:17:33
  The Philadelphia Flyers hiring Rick Talkett as
• 1:17:35
  their new head coach, which I fucking hate that
• 1:17:38
  so much. I hate that so much. I do not want Philadelphia
• 1:17:42
  to have a good coach, man. That one's rough.
• 1:17:47
  And then Joe Quinto is announced as the Anaheim
• 1:17:52
  Ducks head coach. So this is probably about 10
• 1:17:59
  days ago. With Niagara, the Ice Dogs, cleaning
• 1:18:03
  the fucking house after an OHL review. Which
• 1:18:06
  I am not surprised. We kind of saw that one coming.
• 1:18:09
  Honestly, it's loser because just how garbage
• 1:18:14
  they've been. of everything they've done over
• 1:18:18
  the last few years in that organization. Good,
• 1:18:21
  clean. At this point, I might as well throw some
• 1:18:25
  money together to buy that freaking franchise
• 1:18:27
  and be like, hey, here you go. Fresh start. Again,
• 1:18:30
  I feel bad for the fans of Niagara. Like, over
• 1:18:34
  the years, I've talked to a few of them that
• 1:18:39
  have come to hear that. But, that I might feel
• 1:18:42
  bad for. But, just in general. The organization
• 1:18:45
  itself? No. It's not a joke. Florida or Toronto
• 1:18:49
  with the empty net. Your seat is on the line.
• 1:18:52
  You have nothing to lose. Game's over. I'm trying
• 1:18:58
  to keep this close because the laptop's ahead.
• 1:19:00
  But, alright. Hey. Remember? We want Florida.
• 1:19:10
  We want Carolina. What happened now? Let's go!
• 1:19:21
  Yet another Game 7 playoff by the Toronto Maple
• 1:19:29
  Laughs. Man. Oh, man. Are we stuck in like a
• 1:19:35
  time loop or a time machine where we just keep
• 1:19:37
  seeing the same thing back and forth? Groundhog's
• 1:19:41
  Day, I swear. We're living a live Groundhog Day,
• 1:19:44
  to be honest with you, man. It's every year with
• 1:19:48
  this team, man. That's about all we were waiting
• 1:19:52
  for to wrap up this episode. We didn't want to,
• 1:19:54
  again, end it without knowing the outcome last
• 1:19:58
  episode, but we kind of had to because it was
• 1:20:00
  pushing midnight here. And we all had it. We
• 1:20:05
  only just got caught after 10 p .m. here right
• 1:20:07
  now. I was going to say, at the time, two of
• 1:20:09
  the three of us had to work. And now all of us
• 1:20:13
  have to work in the morning, but whatever. This
• 1:20:15
  game is just about over, so we can just about
• 1:20:17
  wrap this up and say, prediction for Carolina,
• 1:20:21
  Florida. I don't know if I said this off recording,
• 1:20:26
  if I said this at the beginning of this recording.
• 1:20:29
  It's going to be Carolina because I do think
• 1:20:32
  Toronto did give them enough of a beating to
• 1:20:34
  where I don't know if they're going to have enough
• 1:20:36
  left in them to get past Carolina. If I can remember
• 1:20:38
  last year, Florida and Carolina in the conference
• 1:20:40
  final, it was in six last year? No. It wasn't?
• 1:20:45
  In the conference final. So, sit between the
• 1:20:48
  last full season knockout and present day, this
• 1:20:54
  is Carolina's fifth Eastern Conference Finals.
• 1:20:58
  Guess how many games they've won. One? Four.
• 1:21:03
  Wow. They won the series back in 2006 when they
• 1:21:08
  won the Cup. They haven't won a game since. They
• 1:21:12
  lost in 2009 to the Penguins in four. They lost
• 1:21:16
  in 2019 to the Boston in four. And they lost
• 1:21:19
  in 2023 to the Florida Panthers in four. They
• 1:21:23
  are 4 -12. Since the NHL lockout. Since Sidney
• 1:21:28
  Crosby came into the league. In the conference
• 1:21:31
  finals. In the conference finals. Specifically,
• 1:21:33
  the conference finals. That's insane. So, I don't
• 1:21:38
  know. They obviously have that haunting them.
• 1:21:42
  That adds a little backstory. But I don't know
• 1:21:46
  if they're coming back with a different vengeance,
• 1:21:48
  with more confidence, with more swagger. primarily
• 1:21:51
  kicked the shit out of New Jersey up and down
• 1:21:53
  the ice for five games. New Jersey, I think the
• 1:21:55
  one they won was in overtime. Yeah. Kicked the
• 1:21:58
  shit out of Washington up and down the ice for
• 1:22:00
  five games just as bad. Again, did they waste
• 1:22:03
  too much energy on those two series to be able
• 1:22:05
  to take on Florida? But the one thing with Carolina
• 1:22:09
  is they've had some time in between series. Between
• 1:22:13
  rounds one and two. And between rounds two and
• 1:22:16
  now round three. That series ended what? Six
• 1:22:19
  days ago already? That's a good question. Five,
• 1:22:22
  six days ago? Because obviously game one will
• 1:22:24
  be in Carolina on Tuesday. I want to say game
• 1:22:27
  five was either Tuesday or Wednesday. So by the
• 1:22:30
  time the next series starts. May 15th. So five
• 1:22:34
  days. It'll be five days between game five of
• 1:22:38
  the Carolina -Washington series and game one
• 1:22:41
  of the Florida. Carolina series. They haven't
• 1:22:44
  put, they just put the graphic up there. It's
• 1:22:46
  over. They still have a blank there. Oh, can
• 1:22:49
  we please note over it? Let me know it's over.
• 1:22:55
  Dude, I, I just, I, I'm sorry. Like, I, I, there
• 1:22:59
  are very few fans that I truly feel bad for.
• 1:23:03
  Like Toronto fans, I truly feel bad for. Steve
• 1:23:06
  Dangle's one of them. He has been through so
• 1:23:08
  much bullshit in his life. He's only seen, Five
• 1:23:13
  playoff series wins this millennium. Five! This
• 1:23:17
  fucking millennium! I feel so bad for him, but
• 1:23:23
  he continues to torture himself with this franchise.
• 1:23:27
  He wrote a book about how much this team has
• 1:23:30
  ruined his life. But he still loves them. He
• 1:23:32
  still loves them. That's how we feel about our
• 1:23:35
  Ariadnas and our Pittsburgh Penguins. We've seen
• 1:23:37
  three cups in our lifetime with the Penguins,
• 1:23:39
  so we can't really say that. And two, kind of,
• 1:23:42
  we were all on an age of five when the Otters
• 1:23:44
  won their first one. Yeah. Right? Yeah. 2002.
• 1:23:51
  Yeah. Born in 1997. Yeah, I was five. I was literally
• 1:23:55
  about to turn three when they won the... Four
• 1:24:00
  days after they won it, I turned... When we won
• 1:24:03
  our first one, I probably couldn't even say Erie
• 1:24:05
  Otters yet, so... Yet again, the Toronto Maple
• 1:24:10
  Leafs choking in Game 7 on home ice. They love
• 1:24:14
  Game 7s. I know what Colin was saying. Certain
• 1:24:17
  Toronto fans definitely have had this coming
• 1:24:21
  to them. But the way I look at it, honestly,
• 1:24:24
  is when you were as bad as you were for as long
• 1:24:28
  as they were, and now you actually have a team
• 1:24:31
  that is starting to see success, you're going
• 1:24:35
  to start to get a little excited. You're going
• 1:24:37
  to start to show... Your bias and a little bit
• 1:24:39
  of your cocky side show. Some of them have definitely
• 1:24:42
  gotten a little too much of it. But... Yeah,
• 1:24:47
  man. Florida Panthers have advanced in seven
• 1:24:51
  games against the Toronto Maple Leafs. A repeat
• 1:24:55
  of the Eastern Conference Finals from last season.
• 1:24:59
  Two years ago. Who did they play last year? Who
• 1:25:02
  did the Panthers play last year? I thought they
• 1:25:06
  played the Hurricanes. That's what I thought.
• 1:25:12
  So is it the third year in a row? The Rangers.
• 1:25:16
  Oh, that's right. The Rangers beat the Hurricanes
• 1:25:20
  in second round. Because like I said, it was
• 1:25:22
  Florida, Carolina, and 23. When Carolina got
• 1:25:26
  swept in the conference finals. That's right.
• 1:25:32
  Well, that's about wraps it up for this episode,
• 1:25:34
  guys. I think we're going to quickly end this
• 1:25:35
  here. Watch this handshake line. Watch Steve
• 1:25:37
  Dangle lose his mind for a couple minutes before
• 1:25:39
  we head out of the studio ourselves. Thank you
• 1:25:41
  guys for listening. Stay tuned, possibly next
• 1:25:44
  week. I don't know. We'll get together here and
• 1:25:45
  decide if we want to go back to back weeks here.
• 1:25:47
  Depends on how quickly these two series are moving
• 1:25:49
  along. But, uh, Toronto fans. Adios. Adios. Florida
• 1:25:56
  fans, welcome back to the third round. And, uh...
• 1:26:00
  Brad Marchand, welcome back to the third round.
• 1:26:03
  Toronto Jersey can officially come down in the
• 1:26:05
  studio. Only four remain. Literally last recording,
• 1:26:11
  we still had like 10, 11 remaining. Yeah, I was
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  still on the wall behind Jeffy. The only non
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  -staple jersey that was up was the Penguins one.
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  Because the others, you were still on the faucet.
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  Because, again, that one's not going away. Wow.
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  Anyways, thank you guys for listening. Hope you
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  guys enjoyed. If you haven't already done everything,
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  Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok,
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  you know what to do. Goodbye. We want Florida.
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  We want Florida.