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Season 5 Episode 20: Stanley Cup Final Preview · The Buckpuster Podcast

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The Florida Panthers are really starting to rapidly
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accelerate up to the top of the list of teams
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that I'm starting to genuinely hate. They're
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absolutely pissing me the fuck off. There's three
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players specifically that I have in mind that
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I just wanted to open the show with and discuss
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about. Two of them that are more kind of like
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the Brad Marchand that you just... The type of
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guys that you hate to play against. But you would
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love to have on your team, not like Brad Marchand,
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because one of them is being Brad Marchand. One
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of those guys you would love to have on your
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team, you just hate to play against. Other one
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being Matthew Kachuk. Matthew Kachuk, he is one
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of those that, he's feisty, but he's a damn good
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player. He knows how to get the puck into the
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back of the net. He's a great two -way forward,
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great 200 -foot player. But his physical side
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of it, you hate to play against the kid. I got
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to start to tell her in a little bit. So just
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keep Matthew Kachuk in the background. It's going
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to be hard to, but I mean, I guess. The third
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one that I would like to mention, being more
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of a comparable to like a Matt Cook. Even somebody
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that played for my favorite team was a little
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pisshead. He was a little shit, probably one
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of the dirtiest players to ever play in this
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league. And that is what I think I can compare
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somebody like Sam Bennett to. I would never like
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to have Sam Bennett play for my team. I would
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be very, very upset if Sam Bennett signs with
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the Pittsburgh Penguins in the offseason. I'd
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be very disappointed. I'd be very, very mad about
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that. Just because he, like, what, two series
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in a row now he has tried to take out the goaltender
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in the playoffs. I think it was game one is the
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reason he took Stolarz out in the Toronto series.
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Game one, like, second period or something like
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that. Right early on. I think I remember if it
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was game... four or game five of this Carolina
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series, where he tried to go after Freddie Anderson,
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but I think, thank God, I think Freddie Anderson
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was able to duck out of the way. So two series
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in a row that he tries to go after the goaltender,
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one of them being successful, one of them, goaltender
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got very, very lucky, almost like he was in the
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wrong place at the right time. He was just able
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to move out of the way and avoid that. Sam Bennett
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can suck my ass. Matthew Kachuk and Brad Marchand,
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again, just two players that you'd love to have
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on your team, but you hate to play against those
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little shits. Brad Marchand, I mean, his nose
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takes up half the ice. Kind of fits with the
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rats with them now, throat rats. Yeah, for real.
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He's a hell of a player. You'd love to have him
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play for your team. You just hate to play against
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him. Florida Panthers, those three players specifically
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are the reason that I'm very much starting to
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hate. Sam Bennett alone makes me hate this fucking
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team. If Sam Bennett wasn't on that team, I might
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at least be able to tolerate him. I can appreciate
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how good of a team they have been. Regardless,
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I can. They have been a good team for all the
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past three years. You'd think the Panthers went
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from being just a mediocre barely -missing -the
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-wildcard kind of team. Not even fan bases were
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not even showing up. And now they're finally...
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Yeah, I mean, it's bandwagon. No matter what
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team, what city, sport, city, team it is, you're
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going to have some bandwagoners hop on the train
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and they'll say, oh yeah, I've always been a
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fan. Okay, sure you have. Yeah, you're part of
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the 28 fans they had since they stuck, so. And
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you think now, looking at it, it's crazy to think
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now both the Lightning and the Panthers are now
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making... The state of Florida. The state of
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Florida, a hockey town, a hockey state, a hockey
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place to be, man. Now six years in a row, a Florida
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team has represented the Stanley Cup. Now eight
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Atlantic Conference teams have been in the last
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seven Stanley Cup finals. Oh, where'd the eight
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come from? Oh, Montreal versus Tampa Bay in the
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bubble. That wasn't in the bubble. That was the
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year after the COVID year where crowds were almost
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at 1. The North Division. But instead of the
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common divisions battling it out, I think they
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did... Did they go seeding that year? Instead
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of division versus divisions? I forget how they
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did it. Inner division matchups. So the first
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two rounds, inner division, 1v4, 2v3. Again,
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for the first two rounds, and then round three,
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it was, you know, best of the East. It was just
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because Montreal was up in the North, instead
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of rather being in the Atlantic Division, they
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were in the North. Yeah. And they got to play
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the Atlantic Division, or I think the Bruins
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were in the East that year. Yeah, the Bruins.
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Sorry, the Lightning, I think, were in the Atlantic
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still that year. Oh, yeah, it was East, which
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it was both Florida teams. Pittsburgh, Boston,
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Buffalo, New Jersey. Was Florida in the East
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that year? Well, Florida is east side of the
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state. Yeah. Tampa is west side of the state,
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the Gulf side of the state. It was what? Carolina,
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Florida teams, Pittsburgh, Philly, Boston, Buffalo,
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I think was in our division that year. Yeah,
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and then New York brought on both the Ragsons.
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Yeah. That was a strange year, man. Yeah, that's
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not good. Actually, let's go back on the app.
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It doesn't go back that far. You might not even
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be able to look up 2021 divisions. Yeah, so the
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Atlantic, we always say, and we've thought for
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a couple years, that the Metro is one of the
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hardest divisions to play in, but apparently
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not. I mean, the last seven years, or I should
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say eight years, the last seven years, eight
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Atlantic Division teams have been in the Stanley
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Cup Finals. We're all wrong. Central Division,
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Carolina, Florida, Tampa, Nashville, Dallas,
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Chicago, Detroit, and Columbus. East Division
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is Pittsburgh, Washington, Boston, Both the Islanders
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and the Rags, Flyers, Devils, Sabres. The West
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Division, obviously, is the rest of the American
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-based teams in Colorado, Vegas, Minnesota, St.
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Louis, Arizona, L .A., San Jose, and Anaheim.
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Obviously, the North Division being all the Canadian
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-based teams. What a weird fucking year. That
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was a weird year. Such a strange year, man. But
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the Panthers and the Lightning have been the
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teams to beat. I know Colin is very, very excited
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about the repetitiveness the last couple years
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in the playoffs. Six straight years of a Florida
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-based team in the Stanley Cup final. Six fucking
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years! Can anybody be different? Anybody! The
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way I look at it is... Would I be excited as
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hell if the Penguins were in the Stanley Cup
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for six years in a row? Fuck yeah, I would. I'd
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be ecstatic as hell. I'd be thrilled. I mean,
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yeah, you might get sick of winning eventually.
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No, we wouldn't. That's fucking mine. But I'd
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like the Penguins to actually start winning some
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games. Hell, I'll even show for fucking Philadelphia
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to win one of these years. I'd like to see a
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Pittsburgh team win a fucking playoff game sometime
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soon, or a playoff series, whatever. Make it
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to the playoffs first, and then we'll actually
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be able to do something. When's the last time
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the city of Pittsburgh saw a playoff or a series
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win? Penguins was 18. Steelers was 17. Pirates
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was 20. 13. 13. Because that was actually when
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they were somewhat entertaining. When the Pirates
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had three straight 90 -win seasons, yeah. Those
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rosters, man. Oh, my God. I reminisce about that
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team all the time. I do too. I think Josh Harrison,
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just as of today or yesterday, has his retirement.
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Part of that team. I know Starling Marte is getting
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close. I think he's still playing for the Mets
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as we speak. But he's getting very close. Obviously
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McCutcheon is getting up there. Half the team
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is nothing. Retired since then too. But anyways,
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this is a hockey show. The state of Florida has
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really shown this league that, hey, we exist
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too. I mean, before that was 2014. Sorry, 2004
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when the Tampa Bay Lightning won their first,
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which I think Torres was the head coach of that
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team. John Torrell, that is. And then what was
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recently before that? I don't think the Florida
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team made it since then. I mean, the Panthers
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made it in. They got struck by Dallas in 96,
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I think. Not in the finals. In the finals. The
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only one Dallas has won was 99, and that's when
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they beat the Sabres. His foot was in the creed
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school. And then Dallas was in the finals in
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the bubble year. Because I know Tampa lost to
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Chicago. 96. I was right. But who did they play?
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They lost to the Avalanche in four. In the final?
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In the final. There's really? Yeah. 95 -96. They
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won in round one versus Boston 4 -1. Won in round
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2 -4 -2 against Philly. Won in seven against
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the Penguins 4 -3. And lost. I don't know. They
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got swept. I did not know that. I thought the
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Panthers weren't around until like 2000. 94.
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That's their first season. 94 -95. Wow. I was
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going to say, I know they made it beforehand,
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Kyle. Don't fucking judge me, okay? I just didn't
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think that they, I thought that this was recently,
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you know, their most, you know, I thought this
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last three years was the only time that they've
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had playoff success. Yeah, what? Three years
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in a row, the Florida Panthers alone are in the
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Stanley Cup Final. Three previous to that, Tampa
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Bay Lightning. They're kind of doing a reversal.
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I wonder if the Panthers are going to go back
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-to -back after their loss compared to the Tampa
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Bay Lightning. lost in the finals after their
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back -to -back. So I wonder if they're going
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to do kind of reverse, be able to lose their
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first and then win the next two. But the way
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we've, I think Colin pointed this out, or I know,
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I'm sure a bunch of hockey shows have. Wayne
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Gretzky, his first attempt, he lost, went back
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the next year and won. Sidney Crosby, went in
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2008, lost his first attempt, went back the next
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year, against the same team, and won. And now
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we have Connor McDavid. Went last year, lost
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in 7 -2 the same team that he's going to be playing
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this year. Does history repeat itself yet again?
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Does he take home his first cup here? I'm hoping.
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I'm just looking at that cup right above the
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jerseys there between the Panthers and the McDavid
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jersey there. Who's going to win it? It's going
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to be a good steer. I think it's going to be
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him. be local much different than what it is
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last year like where Florida came out swinging
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when it pretty like nearly sweeping And then
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it's an almost came back with that reverse sweep
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I think that game seven was only two to one I
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think they lost that one was a three to two or
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two to one something like that two to one Yeah,
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so will history repeat itself? Regardless, I
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think history is gonna repeat itself either The
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Florida Panthers beat the Edmonton Oilers in
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the Stanley Cup final as history itself there
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for a back -to -back Or, you know, debatably
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the best player of its generation winning his
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second attempt after losing the previous year.
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Regardless, I think we're going to see history
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repeat itself here. Oh, yeah. Going down to,
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might as well talk about it real quick, the Memorial
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Cup. Right now, the Memorial Cup final is being
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played. London currently beating Medicine Hat
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3 -0 about midway through the second. After losing
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to Medicine Hat, I think, in what they're...
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Not the semifinal, but the final game of the
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round, Robin. Yeah. Which both teams were undefeated.
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Which Medicine Hat, beating London, locked up
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this spot in the final. And London beat... Was
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it Moncton? Moncton. In the semifinal, just Friday
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night? Kind of, I think that was a blowout. I
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think that was like a 6 -3. It was a 5 -1. It
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was kind of an ass -beating. I guess I saw...
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And then I saw some, like... With, um... Medicine
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Hat, this is the first time in a little over
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a decade that a WHL team has made it to the Memorial
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Cup Finals. Really? It's been either been dominated
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by the Q or the O, who's been going to the finals.
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So we had the two O's in the final last year.
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It's the host Saginaw beat London and then they
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cried about it. Oh my god, I so badly hope Medicine
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Hat comes back and wins this game. I mean, they're
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not going to happen. It's not going to happen,
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but... It's so easy and so fun. They're probably
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not listening. They've been trolling us on social
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media, like, oh, go talk about it on your little
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podcast. Guess what? You got your wish. Oh, you
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guys know how to do his talk show. These guys
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can back me up. From the beginning of this season,
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I was saying that London was going to repeat
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as champs. Oh, every time we lose, you're right
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there rubbing it in her face. Yes, but every
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time you win, I'm the first one there to congratulate
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you. I've been saying since the beginning of
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the year that you guys were going to repeat.
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A view's a fucking view, bud. A view's a fucking
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view. We'll take those views. We'll take those
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listens. Whether you stop or you clip this and
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you post, oh, you're talking shit on us. Cry
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about it. Yeah, like I said, Londonites, obviously.
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And the Memorial Cup Final for good reason again.
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It looks like they're probably going to win this
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game. We'll keep track of it momentarily while
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we throw out recording here. But yeah, Medicine
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Hat, what a season for them too. Winning their
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respective league and then getting over here
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to play the final. Beat London once. Goals coming
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from the shocking ones. Denver Berkey, Easton
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Cowan, and Jacob Julian. The last two coming
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within about a minute and a half in the second
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period. The shots are pretty close. I mean, Medicine
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Hat's giving them a run for their money. Shots
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are within one. Still about half the game to
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go. Soon we shall see. I wish there was a way
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we could watch it here in the U .S., but it's
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very difficult to watch these kind of games here
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in the U .S. I just more or less want to see
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how many London fans made that travel. Couldn't
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imagine that. It's probably nothing but London
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fans up there right now. Oh, yeah. Because I
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know there were a lot of them, at least in the
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round robin. There was a lot of them. Yeah. From
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the highlights I've seen. Every time they'd score
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at the building, you'd feel like it was a London
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home game at the Bud. Or not even called it anymore.
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I'm still going to call it the Bud. The Garden
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and that. But, yeah. Kind of interesting in that,
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like... I don't even remember where next year's
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is, Memorial Cup, honestly. I don't think they
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have. I think it goes to the, where is, Rimouski's
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in the Q, obviously, right? Yeah. So I think
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the W gets to host it next year. So I think the
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O. So it depends on. Because I know the O doesn't
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get to host again in 2027 or 2028. It should
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be 2027 because we did it last year. So this
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year is the Q, next year will be the W. And the
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next year I think should be us. Let's see if
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they. Did they not see it? Kelowna. That's right.
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I do remember seeing that. 2026 Memorial Cup
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will be hosted by the Kelowna Rockets. Okay.
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That's right. I do remember that. I know one
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thing I did see that kind of... Oh. I think we
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kind of... I think we kind of knew very middle
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of the season that it was kind of speculative
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for... The manufacturers for the entire CHL teams,
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they're now going to be officially under armor
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going forward. Like jerseys, some merchandising
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on select items. I think I saw Bauer giving the
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socks, and I think different companies are going
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to be the skates. Three different companies pretty
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much are going to be the uniforms of the teams
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in the CHL. Very confusing. I know jerseys are
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going to be under armor. I know they did reveal
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that. I know we kind of knew. We'd kind of known
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about it for a while, but it was just the contract
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with CCM. The entire CHO confirmed that it was
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going to be under armor this week. I just wish
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it was fucking consistent all the way through.
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Make it a solid uniform. You know, every team
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can make him look, design, or help design however
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the fuck they want to design it, whatever. And
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just make him nice and consistent and through.
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Just like the NHL does. Just like the AHL does.
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Just like every other league in the fucking world,
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minus the CHL. But, you know. Because it's so
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funny, like, how many manufacturers they've gone
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through. They've gone back for CCM, Nike, Reebok,
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CCM, Nike. It's a juggling act, is what it is.
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And I know another thing I saw, which I think
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was literally just yesterday, that the board
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denied that all goaltenders will be normal. They
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still have to decide if they're going to keep
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an OA goaltender. That sucks. I'm sorry. That
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could have been huge for Erie. Especially the
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season with Noah Erland in. Not only Erie, but
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I feel like all teams will be able to benefit
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off of that role. I think Owen Sound is one of
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them because I think Carter George is going into
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his OA season coming up here. Obviously it also
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depends on what LA decides to do with him. Whether
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they keep him up with Ontario Reign or actually
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call him up to NHL. Or if he actually signs an
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NCAA because I know he can. Yeah, they're in
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a lot of players. At the beginning of the season
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when they announced And now the whole deal, the
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whole crossover with MCW. I was going to be excited,
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but that was kind of like short -sighted. Like,
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oh, great, it benefits us. But, oh, no, it fucks
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us. It really fucked us. We've lost Malcolm Spence
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for this upcoming year. I know, Brandon, there's
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speculation that Jack Ivakovic is going to sign
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with somebody. There's rumors it might be Penn
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State. I'd love that for my boy. I'd love that
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for my boys in Penn State. That'd be huge. That'd
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be awesome. I'd be very excited for that. Because
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I know another one that's been rumored is Porter
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Martone instead of going into the draft. Maybe
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it was him. Maybe it was him instead. Maybe it
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was Martone might be going to Penn State, not
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Ivey Covey. One of those guys was rumored. This
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was about four hours ago. Not too long ago. June
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1st, 319 Central Time. Jack Ivankovic has committed
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to the fucking University of Michigan. Want to
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play with Malcolm? Maybe I did see that. Maybe
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it was more tone. I'll take that back. My apologies.
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It was more tone than I did see. Still very solid
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for Penn State. Regardless, I'm getting a great
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player, yeah. Yeah, like now looking like I get
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it that's it's a lot of part there's gonna be
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a lot of oh not just the OHL but Cross Q and
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WHL their lot players are gonna if they don't
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end up playing the Respective leagues or get
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drafted. I want to go play in college At on Twitter
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at Sean for photo for far out sorry Two hours
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ago tweeted, today is the day that 19 different
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OHL cities become medicine, not tiger hat. Hat
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tiger fans. That's funny. Oh, it's 4 -0 now,
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so never mind. Easton Cowan again. Am I going
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to be shocked? Not at all. It's kind of funny.
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I've seen a lot of people compare them. Now I'm
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just waiting for Medicine Hat fans to complain
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about the referees and then the London fans be
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like, what do you mean? That was a completely
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failed game. It's funny that I've seen not just
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London players, but London fans. Go back and
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look at the comments from Game 1 of the NHL Finals
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that London lost to Oshawa compared to the next
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four. You'll see nothing but London fans complaining
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about the referees for Game 1. And then the next
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four, you'll see them attacking other fans for
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complaining about the referees in the next four.
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I think it's kind of funny with both the London
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and Maple Leafs fans. Like, a lot of them are
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saying, like, oh, Cohen's better than Marner
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and all. I mean, Cohen has had playoff success.
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Like, it's true. Oh, congrats in the OHL, where
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Marner's also had playoff success. Same team.
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Yeah, fair enough. Very true. Martin was the
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MVP during that 16 run. So it's always hard to
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say until Colin gets up to the show. I'm really
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wondering if he's going to be ready next year
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for the Leafs. Again, if he doesn't sign with
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somebody in the NCAA, man. Which, I think we
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ended last week on talking about the, or last
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episode, sorry, on talking about predicting the
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UFAs and where they're going to sign. We talked
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about Mitch Marner. We named like three or four
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different teams. Then literally right after we
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stopped recording, we had read something on Twitter.
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One that we all were like, whoa, that could be
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massive. Chicago. Marner to Chicago could be...
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With Bedard. With Bedard. You might have 200
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-point scores on that front line right there.
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That could be huge. It'd probably convince Bedard
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to kind of actually stay in Chicago. I mean,
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I want so much better for Conor Bedard. People
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think he's just a cocky little shit. I mean,
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he's 19. He's going to be frustrated with not
23:11
finding any success yet, especially being the
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first overall pick in your respective draft.
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You want to naturally be... being known as, you
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want to be one of the first players that people
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look up to and talk about, but just being in
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that team, part of that system, he doesn't really
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have that right now. They've been a bomb barrel
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team for the last two years. And Chicago, again,
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they're picking what, third this year? Fourth?
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I think it's bottom five. Because they were,
23:41
again, not a very good team this year. Third.
23:44
Is it third? I think it's San Jose and then Chicago.
23:47
Yeah. Yeah, because Utah is getting fourth. Islanders,
23:54
San Jose, Chicago, Utah, and then Boston is fifth?
23:59
I think they're fifth or sixth. That fall off,
24:03
man, was just ridiculous. First five, one through
24:08
five. Islanders, Sharks, Blackhawks, Mammoth,
24:11
Preds. Then they rounded off the top ten. Flyers,
24:15
Bruins, Krakens, Sabres, Ducks. And then the
24:21
rest of the draft, it's through 28. So Pens,
24:25
Rangers, Red Wings, Blue Jackets, Canucks, Canadians,
24:29
which was the original Flames pick. Then the
24:33
Canadians original pick. And then the Flames
24:36
again from Devils. Blues, Jackets from Minnesota.
24:41
Ottawa is the 21. Flyers from Avalanche. Preds
24:45
from Tampa at 23. LA, Chicago, which was the
24:50
Toronto's pick. Nashville, which was the Vegas
24:53
pick from San Jose. Oh, the original Vegas pick
25:00
that went to San Jose and then to Nashville.
25:04
I was going to say, isn't it Pittsburgh's first
25:07
round? Doesn't the Rangers have to determine
25:10
if they're going to give Pittsburgh the first
25:13
run this year or next year? I think it's next
25:17
year. I think they had to give an official. I
25:22
think this year we get one in the first, two
25:24
in the second, three in the third this year.
25:26
I think next year is one in the first, three
25:28
in the second, two in the third next year. Possibly
25:31
two in the first next year. Because I knew one
25:35
of them. Pittsburgh's first round was determined
25:38
by the Rangers if it was this year or next year.
25:40
I think it's next year. Because I knew they had
25:45
a certain deadline. The Penguins are now thinking,
25:46
what, 13th this year? Or 11th? Which I know that's
25:51
right around the spot Malcolm Spence is predicted
25:53
to go. Yep. Or 11th? Okay. I think Malcolm Spence
25:58
is predicted to go 14 to 16 at mid -teens range.
26:03
I wouldn't hate us reaching for him there at
26:05
11. If he's there, I would not hate us taking
26:07
him. I was trying to go snag him. I'd say snag
26:09
him. Call me biased. I don't give a shit. That's
26:12
my middle name. I'd love... No, your middle name
26:16
is Michelle. It's Kylie Michelle Tripp. I'd love
26:20
to play. I'd love to see Malcolm play for the
26:22
black and gold. Me too. I mean, what Penguins
26:25
fan or what Erie fan wouldn't, you know? But,
26:30
uh... Yeah, I mean, that's not all we got, but
26:34
let's go through and recap what we've seen in
26:39
round three of the playoffs. NHL playoffs, obviously,
26:42
that is. Round three, we saw the Florida Panthers
26:44
take on the Carolina Hurricanes, and Florida
26:47
more or less wiped the floor with them for five
26:49
games. Game four was the only one that Carolina
26:52
really did much of anything. Freddie Anderson's
26:54
3 -0 shutout. But other than that... Game 1,
26:57
a 5 -2 win in favor of Florida. Game 2, a 5 -0
27:00
win in favor of Florida. Game 3, a 6 -2 win in
27:04
favor of Florida. And then Florida finishing
27:07
off in Raleigh in Game 5, 5 -3. See, I mean,
27:12
there's not much to talk about in that series,
27:13
again, other than Sam Bennett being a little
27:16
bitch trying to take out Freddie Anderson. Apparently
27:18
that's the only way Florida knows how to win
27:20
games is when Sam Bennett goes and takes out
27:22
the goaltender. I'll admit, I think I was a little
27:27
more entertained on the Edmonton -Dallas series
27:32
between the two series that happened. Those first
27:36
two games, I don't think we were going to have
27:37
ourselves a series, but then Dallas taking game
27:40
one in Dallas 6 -3. Did you see that still shot
27:45
or that video of Jordan Seidel and McDavid locking
27:49
eyes after the game one loss? Yeah, yeah. They
27:52
lost game one badly. That was a 6 -3 loss. All
27:54
of a sudden, they just kind of looked at each
27:55
other like annoyed, but like, time to lock the
27:57
fuck in. And they have not lost a game since
27:59
they changed that look. Winning game two, 3 -0.
28:03
Game three, 6 -1. Game four, 4 -1. And then game
28:06
five, 6 -3. I just wonder what was said in that
28:09
locker room after that game one loss from either
28:12
Connor or Leon. It's probably from Connor because
28:15
he's, I know he's, he tends to be a little more...
28:18
I can predict that it's something along the lines
28:21
of DICK THE FUCK IN! RIGHT NOW! DICK THE FUCK
28:25
IN! I can get something along the lines of that.
28:29
Just a guess. I don't think it's happened before,
28:31
but... So, earlier today when I was on my lunch
28:37
break, I saw a YouTube short of Leon and all
28:41
the bullshit he said during the media questions.
28:47
They're so stupid, but Leon, it's just, the questions
28:50
are so stupid, and Leon's answers are so iconic.
28:55
And they think he's such a cocky jackass for
28:57
it. Like, ask a fucking better question than
28:59
that. His team just got fucked six to three,
29:02
and then you're sitting there like, oh, what
29:03
do you think went wrong tonight? He's like, what
29:06
do you think went wrong? Like, we didn't play
29:09
our game. I think it was Bo Nix earlier, and
29:13
I think it was the game against the Steelers,
29:14
like week two or three of the season. His rookie
29:17
year, he threw a pick six, not a pick six, but
29:19
he threw a pick in the end zone instead of a
29:21
touchdown. He goes, what do you think happened
29:23
on that throw? He goes, threw it to the other
29:24
team. What do you expect his answer to be? Oh,
29:29
you know, I tried to get it to my guy, but he
29:31
just wasn't there. No, he goes, I stepped back,
29:34
threw it to the other team. I don't know how
29:38
some reporters get to keep their jobs. I know.
29:41
Some of them are so damn stupid. Some of them
29:43
are fucking 350 -pound land whales that just
29:46
get to sit there and judge athletes for how they
29:48
perform. Like, bro, you go out there and do any
29:50
better. Or you will look like you weren't hustling
29:55
there in the third period. Like, bro, you fucking
29:56
put down the cheeseburger and you get out there
29:58
and do it. How about that? As far as they're
30:01
not chewing on their, like, swoop. What do you
30:04
think went wrong there? Chewing on the cheeseburgers
30:06
and hot dogs. Oh, God. I mean, respect to him,
30:11
I couldn't be a reporter. I mean, I definitely
30:12
don't think I could come up with, you know, good
30:16
questions, but I can't go a little bit better
30:18
than that. Like, just berating these guys for,
30:21
you know, mistakes that they have made literally
30:24
an hour, less than an hour ago. Like, oh, what
30:26
do you think went wrong? He lost the game. That's
30:28
what went wrong. Let's, uh... Let's go back into
30:34
some old -fashioned doku or hurdle. One of the
30:36
two. Probably both. We'll be kidding. We'll start
30:42
with hurdle. Hurdle. Curly hair up top? That's
30:56
not a bad guess to start. Ivan Barberchev? Well,
30:59
we know that he's in the Pacific. He's... 30,
31:03
31 years old -ish. So early 30s or 30s. He's
31:07
not Russian. He's not a center. And his number's
31:10
45 or below. Let's pull that up again. Ooh, is
31:21
that like a Matty Benier? No, he's not that old.
31:23
Never mind. I'd say he's too young still. Is
31:30
that like a... It's like a Jordan Eberle, isn't
31:33
it? No. So he's American. Eberle, I think, is
31:42
Canadian. Yeah, Eberle's Canadian. Obviously,
31:46
he's not a goaltender, so... I think Eberle might
31:49
be a little bit older than 30, 31, too. So he's
31:52
either a defenseman or a winger. And then, numbers
31:55
31 or below... I'm just trying to guess a random
31:59
defenseman on... A Western team? Or a Pacific
32:03
team? Let's go for like a... Like an Evan Bouchard.
32:14
I think he's Canadian, isn't he? But at least
32:18
we can narrow it down between winger and... That's
32:21
a winger. He is Canadian. His number is somewhere
32:33
from about 6 to 30. That's his journey number.
32:40
And I'm in Vegas, Vancouver, or Edmonton. Seattle,
32:46
Wigners. Again, I don't know much about Seattle.
32:51
I wish I did, but I don't. L .A., could that
33:05
be like a Kevin Fiala? Has he been over in L
33:11
.A. still? I think he is. Oh, it is L .A. Let's
33:19
go. L .A., he's a left winger. He's a check.
33:26
It's a very normal name. I'm not expecting him
33:28
to be great. It's not like a Kopitar, is it?
33:36
No, because he's... Kopitar's the center. He's
33:39
also, like, Slovenian. Slovakian. I think Slovenian.
33:42
Whatever. Either way, it doesn't fit the American.
33:45
And Presley's too old. Gotcha. Too old and centerman.
33:50
How about, like, um... A Philip Deneau? Is he
33:57
still there? Let's find out. He is still there.
34:04
Okay. Can you bring up the... So 30 or 31 years
34:11
of age. I'm trying to think. Okay. Oh, no. I
34:13
think Mikey Anderson's too young. I'm pretty
34:20
sure Mikey Anderson's too young. It's a guess.
34:24
I also think he might be a defenseman, but...
34:28
Romy, do you have anything to add? It's not Mikey
34:32
Anderson. Romeo, do you have anything? No? Because
34:35
he didn't know what we were talking about. L
34:42
.A. Wingers. He's a left winger, specifically.
34:48
I know it's not Byfield. I know that. Arbertson's
34:51
not American, though, right? No. I'm trying to
34:56
think of guys that would have went over there.
34:58
I know Fogle was over there. I just can't remember.
35:02
I don't think his age is going to be... I mean,
35:06
he was an overage of the year, but he won the
35:08
cup in the year, right? He was in 2021? That
35:12
was eight years ago? So I put him at 29 right
35:14
now? So yeah, it can't be him. That's not a bad
35:19
guess. Because that's what was throwing me, was
35:24
the age for him. I knew he was LA. You guys can
35:33
hear the panting. Yes, we do have a visitor here
35:35
today. Should be one week and one week only.
35:45
It's not like... Kim Atkinson played for what,
35:48
Tampa this year, didn't he? Yeah, he never...
35:51
JVR, I think, is still over in Boston. Yeah,
35:54
both of me and Reem strikes are East Coast, so...
36:07
They just added somebody like this last offseason.
36:15
Oh, is it? No, PLD's in Washington. Who went
36:22
over to LA in the PLD trade? I don't know. I
36:28
don't know the LA team, but that's the thing.
36:30
Oh, man. Who went over there in the PLD trade?
36:33
I feel like it's that guy. Adrian Kempe? Adrian
36:42
Kempe? Maybe? No, Kempe was there before PLD
36:48
was there. That's the thing. Still, it could
36:51
be Adrian Kempe. No, my God. He's Swedish, too.
37:00
I did not know that. Okay, so his jersey number
37:03
is 10 -11 -12? Uh, Kopitar's 11. So it's either
37:12
10 or 12. Maybe even as high as 13. I can't remember
37:16
what the handicap is on the jersey number. I
37:20
think it's within like 3 or 4. So yeah, it's
37:24
either 10, 10, 12, 13. I want to say Arvidsson
37:36
is 10. I think Arvidsson's like 36 or something.
37:40
33. Something like that. 30s. He's on 30s. So
37:45
he's not going to matter. Who is it? No, we already
37:49
said Mikey Anderson. It's not Brendan Lemieux
37:50
because he went over to Philly, didn't he? Good
37:54
spot for him. Who the hell wears number 10 over
38:00
there? I feel like I can see you. Josh Archibald's
38:10
in... No, Philly, right? Archibald. I have no
38:14
idea where he is now. If this was about nine
38:19
years ago, you could say Marty Furk. Oh, what
38:22
the furk? No, Charlie Brown didn't play hockey.
38:40
Come on, Trebek. I mean, he didn't even kick
38:45
football. Well, the dumb bitch kept moving. He's
38:48
probably one of the rookies or something. That's
38:51
our last guess at it. Quinn Byfield. I mean,
38:59
that's the best guess I have, but his age is
39:02
also way too young. Way too young. numbers way
39:06
too high. Who were the three? Because I know
39:12
LA broke a record for the first time having an
39:15
all -black line. They were called the Black Aces.
39:18
It was Quentin Byfield. Who were the other two,
39:21
though? Neither do I. Trevor Moore. Okay. Yep.
39:49
I don't think I would have gotten that. Nope.
39:51
Not at all. Alright, let's redeem ourselves with
39:53
some Puck Doku. Oh! So going across from the
39:59
columns, it's got Columbus, Edmonton, Minnesota.
40:03
And for the Rose, it's Florida, Philly, and the
40:09
SHL. Which I believe is the Swedish league? Yeah.
40:14
Maybe just try to get some Swedes for Minnesota
40:17
Edmonton. And the first Swede that comes to mind
40:21
for Minnesota is Zuccarello. Yeah. That's the
40:24
first Swede that comes to mind for there. But
40:26
did he play in the SHL? I thought he came right
40:29
over to... Right over to the show. Where from?
40:39
Did he come over from the Swedish league? I'm
40:42
not sure. I'm sorry. I'm trying to keep up with
40:49
the Memorial Cup. No, you're good. I can get
40:55
us a score update here. 4 -0 still. End of the
41:01
second period. Two from Markey. The SHL is what's
41:08
going to... Yeah, so let's try to get the rest
41:11
of the board cleared out here. So, Bobrovsky
41:14
for Florida Columbus. Cam Mack. Well, the Bob
41:21
can do Florida Philly. That's just a Cam Atkinson
41:27
for Philly Columbus. For Philly Columbus. Okay,
41:30
so... Yager can't fit anywhere. He's played for
41:42
Florida and Philly. Florida and Edmonton. Corey
41:54
Perry didn't play for Philly, did he? No. Eric
42:01
Stalk do Minnesota -Florida. Yeah. Well, he can
42:08
do Minnesota -Philly too, right? Not only Mark.
42:12
Mark played for Philly. But Mark didn't play
42:16
for Minnesota, so we can't use him. Cam Talbot
42:29
-Philly. Philly -Edmonton. Or Philly -Minnesota.
42:33
So we can put him in the back pocket for the
42:36
Philly row. depending on what we do for the other
42:38
one. Yeah. Okay. For some reason, Florida Edmonton,
42:46
like, Ole Jokinen is popping in my head, because
42:48
I know he was kind of a journeyman, bounced around
42:51
a couple different places. Cody Cece. Has he
42:57
played in Florida? I know he hasn't played for
43:00
Philly, but has he played for Florida? I'm not
43:02
confident enough to put it. All right. Let's
43:08
see, there's OEL, who's done Arizona, Vancouver,
43:12
Florida, Toronto. Alex Tuck has done Minnesota,
43:24
Vegas, Buffalo. I'm just trying to think of players
43:31
that are current that have been, you know, kind
43:33
of bounced around between teams here. Neil Yakupov,
43:37
did he spend some time in Philly before he called
43:40
it a career? He didn't have much of a career.
43:45
That's only a downfall. He didn't make much of
43:48
an impact. Which one do we think will be harder
43:53
to get? Edmonton or Philly, Minnesota? That's
44:09
the thing. Mike Smith. Did he play for Philly?
44:16
For some reason, he just came to mind. Calgary,
44:21
Edmonton, Arizona are the three I know for sure.
44:35
Joel Eriksson has only been... Minnesota, right?
44:39
I'm pretty sure. I should have a manager here
44:47
because he knows a lot about Swedish hockey.
44:50
A lot about Swedish hockey. Obviously he's Swedish,
44:57
but that's besides the point. What is Jesse Poyarvi's
44:59
nationality? Is he Swedish? Well, he's played
45:04
for Edmonton, Pittsburgh. Where is he now? Who
45:07
picked him up? I have no idea. Oh, boy. Keith
45:19
Vandell? Where's he been? Philly, Florida. I
45:26
think that's it. Yager can't go anywhere. Can't
45:35
go anywhere outside of Philly. Marcus Foligno
45:38
has been Minnesota. Is that it? Yeah, because
45:42
Nick has been Columbus, Boston, Toronto, Chicago.
45:48
In that order. Did Josh Archibald play for Philly?
46:03
Oh, um... Mike Rupp, did he end up playing for
46:07
Philly? That's why I've been trying. I think
46:10
he did. Because he did Minnesota. I just can't
46:14
remember. I think he did play for Philly. So
46:16
I'll take the blame if it's not. I think for
46:19
some reason he was coming up too. I just couldn't
46:22
remember if he played for Philly. He did not.
46:25
I know he's played for most of the Metro. All
46:31
right, well, let's do... Because I think we are
46:34
struggling to get Philly, Minnesota. So let's
46:38
put Cam Talbot there. And we'll figure out for
46:42
Philly, Edmonton. Okay. Taylor Hall has only
46:52
done Edmonton, Buffalo, Jersey, Arizona, Boston,
46:59
and now Carolina. Say only then. We just listed
47:04
off six teams. Well, it could be like Alex Kochenyuk
47:10
paid for or been on, what, 14 teams? Yeah. What
47:16
about like a Mason Marchment? Where is he? Florida,
47:20
Dallas. Florida, Dallas. Is that it? Yeah. I'm
47:24
trying to think of my former otters here. Former
47:28
otters or former penguins. I only have three
47:31
NHL. NHL -worthy jerseys up, and that's David,
47:35
Crosby, and DeForey. Did Mark Reckie ever play
47:37
for Edmonton? I don't think so. I think he mostly
47:43
stayed out east in the Eastern Conference. James
47:53
Neal. I don't think he played for Philly. I think
47:59
he played for Florida. Did he play for Philly?
48:04
In the last two or three years of his career,
48:06
he jumped around a whole bunch. I know he didn't
48:09
play for Philly. After he left Edmonton, I know
48:16
he jumped around. I think even after he left
48:17
Nashville, he jumped around. I know he played
48:23
for Vegas for a little bit. The Blues, Edmonton.
48:29
Now he jumped around a couple different guys.
48:33
Jeff Carter's only been Philly, Columbus, LA,
48:37
Pittsburgh. Josh Archibald isn't a bad guess
48:45
for Philly and Minton. We're struggling anyway.
48:48
I doubt we're going to finish off the Swedish
48:49
line anyway. No, okay. I have three shots up
48:55
anyway. Go for Zuccarello on SHL Minnesota. Oh,
49:09
okay. I knew he was Swedish, I knew that. I know,
49:13
because Lundqvist is too, and I know they were
49:15
like best friends. They were buddy -buddy. That's
49:17
like something they shared, and they were literally
49:19
brothers. I legit want to, seriously want to
49:29
text my manager, hey, what Swedish players are
49:32
on Columbus that have played for the schedule?
49:34
Kind of thing. Oh, um... Why are you so mad?
49:44
It's only game. Rizgolov? Rizgolov. I know he
49:47
played Philly. I know he played Florida. Did
49:50
he play Edmonton? Fine. We got another guesses,
49:54
so I say let's go for it. I just drew a bank
50:00
on his name again. Ilya. Ilya Rizgolov. Fuck
50:06
it. Oh! What a fucking snipe. That's fucking...
50:11
Go, baby. What a fucking shot. All right, let's
50:16
try to get that top, that panther. Oh, man. I
50:22
feel like I know that one. Yeah, I feel like
50:24
this might have been the easiest one so far,
50:26
and we're going to miss it. Evander Kane, no.
50:32
Corey Perry, we said no. Yager, no. I don't think
50:42
Yari Curry would have played long enough to have
50:44
the Panthers in the league yet. Messier, obviously,
50:49
like a no. My best guess is like an Ole Okunin.
50:57
But I don't think he played for Edmonton, but
50:59
it's a guess. O -L -L -I. There you go. No, Edmonton,
51:09
okay. All right, we got six. So, Ryan Whitney.
51:13
UC Yokanen. UC Yokanen. God damn it. Jesse Pooley
51:18
-Arvey is now in Florida. Dukestad. Derek Sard,
51:22
Ray Whitney. Alan Montoya. Martin Gelinas. Sergei
51:26
Samsonov. Just to name a few. Damn. Matias Anacom.
51:35
Swedish, okay, I didn't know that. Victor Arvidsson,
51:37
somebody we said earlier. Linus Olmark. Larson.
51:41
Oscar Kleffbaum. Matias Janmark. Double S is
51:44
Swedish, yeah. And Alex Wenberg. William fucking
51:50
Carlson, man. Emil Bemstrom. You know, funny
51:53
enough, I even have Emil's fucking signature
51:57
right here. Look at that. Look at that. Maybe
52:00
that was a sign. No pun intended. Maybe that
52:03
was a sign. Jesus Christ. Let's go over three.
52:08
Let's try the pyramid. Might as well. Fucking
52:12
bird. Here. No. No, no, no, no. No, no. Oh, fuck
52:16
that. No. Oh, no. What did I do? What did I do?
52:23
No, no. We didn't see that. No, we didn't see
52:24
that. No, no, no. Supposed to be a junior and
52:29
there was fucking 12 squares. 16. 16. 16. So
52:32
any goalie that has ever had a 90 % save percentage
52:36
in his career. Well, the top one will save for
52:41
Patrick Watt. Yeah, for sure. So let's go like
52:45
Tristan Jari. I don't think he's been that bad.
52:53
He'll be below 90%. Yeah, okay. 100 wins. Let's
53:02
do like a 100 run quiz or something. No, save
53:05
for the 50 playoff game wins. And let's do Fleury.
53:15
Um, Carey Price. Does he have 50 plus payoffs
53:20
for our games? I mean, yeah, because he was on
53:23
the bubble team, wasn't he? Yeah, but... I mean,
53:27
they made the playoffs enough. They may have
53:30
never made deep runs. I feel like he has to have
53:32
deep runs. I almost typed Montreal for that.
53:39
Yep, okay, so now... Let's use a lifeline here.
53:44
Yep, get lifeline. We know the last one. Let's
53:46
do 50 -50. Plug it. It's gotta be Jose Theodore.
53:51
Yeah, okay. And then Patrick Waugh. Easy. There,
53:57
we kind of redeemed ourselves. Imagine an X.
54:01
There you go. Patrick Waugh. 0 -3, right? Yep.
54:04
Yeah, alright. We redeemed ourselves. Yeah. That
54:07
was easy, alright. We wouldn't want to attempt
54:10
that, Junior. Fuck it. Let's see if we can get
54:13
something here. All right, so across the top
54:14
we have the four teams in the Memorial Cup final.
54:17
Not the final, but the Memorial Cup. London Knights,
54:19
Rimouski, Medicine Hat, and what's the fourth
54:22
one? Moncton and then Medicine Hat. And then
54:25
down to the sides for the Groves, we have 50
54:27
goals in their NHL career, 100 games played in
54:29
their NHL career, they played in the AHL, and
54:32
where's the Stanley Cup winner? London Stanley
54:34
Cup winner, Corey Perry? Yep. I was going to
54:37
do Matthew Kuchuk, but Corey Perry... Yeah, Kuchuk
54:39
works too. Well, we can do Kuchuk anywhere, minus...
54:44
Oh, we can do anyone anywhere, pretty much, for
54:47
London. So we'll do... Corey Perry for that one.
54:55
And we'll do... For the AHL, we can do Conor
55:02
McMichael for AHL London. Yeah. Mitchell Larner,
55:13
and then Connor McMichael. Ramuski, 50 goals.
55:21
Has Alexey Laferney hit 50 goals yet? I feel
55:23
like he had to. He has to. No. That's Sid, right?
55:33
Let me stand for winner, Ramuski, for Sid. Yeah.
55:36
No, that's what I have up there. Oh, okay, yes,
55:38
yes, yes, that's it. So 50 goals. Rimouski has
55:42
to be like Alexei Lafrenier. I feel like he has
55:45
to have 50 goals at least by now. Alright, I'm
55:49
done. I can't tell you anybody that's played
55:54
for Moncton or Medicine Hat. Those are the only
56:00
two I honestly don't know. I feel like we need
56:05
one more for Rimouski. Who is some of Sid's teammates
56:07
in that team? You're barking up the wrong tree,
56:15
Eric. Yeah, I got nothing. Ready? I'm gonna just
56:23
pop open this sparkling water. All right. I swear
56:34
to God, if one of them actually fucking hits,
56:37
I'm gonna shit myself. Okay, we did nothing for
56:44
100 games. Liam O 'Brien. Big Tuna. Ben McCabe.
56:53
Brad Marshawn played for Moncton. Good to know.
56:56
Oh, this is Rimouski still. Well, yeah, Marshawn
56:59
right there for Moncton. Oh, oh, oh. Cory Crawford,
57:03
Ivan Barbershop, Johnny Oduya, David Savard.
57:08
Oh, a couple names out there. There's fucking
57:12
J. Boatmeister. Tyler Ennis. J. Boatmeister,
57:16
Darren Helm, Chris Osgood, Rob Niedermeyer, Laney
57:21
McDonald. Tyler Ennis, Jason Chimera. Brian McCabe.
57:27
Craig fucking Berube, man. Yeah, I wouldn't have
57:32
known any of this shit. Yeah, absolutely. Not
57:38
horrible, but... Yeah, I'm sorry. Absolutely
57:47
the fuck not. The last little mini... Here's
57:54
one thing Colin sent. Chris Noblock joins Toe
57:58
Blake, Tommy Ivan, Scotty Bowman, Jimmy Skinner,
58:01
Mike Sullivan, and Punch Imlock as the only coaches
58:05
to ever make the Stanley Cup Final in their first
58:07
two seasons as a head coach. So hell yeah, Chris.
58:11
How do I do, Chris? Hell yeah, Borger. What else?
58:20
The Alex Ovechkin retirement scare that apparently
58:24
was rumored around, but saying he's going to
58:26
be doing at least one more year after that is
58:29
unknown? Yeah, they definitely got you when he
58:32
was retiring. No, ESPN just sent out an article.
58:49
Corey Perry, after this playoffs, he has now
58:52
the most playoff games played from active players
58:56
with 227. More than every single franchise since
59:00
the year 2000. And now Yarmir Yager has had a
59:04
teammate play in the Stanley Cup Final for 45
59:08
consecutive years, dating all the way back to
59:11
1980 with Brian Trashier. 2022 is kind of a write
59:17
-in because him and Andre Pavard kind of played
59:19
together in the Olympics. So that one's kind
59:23
of a write -in. The last thing we want to discuss
59:28
here, a couple of us have discussed this before,
59:32
me and Colin did. The only answer we haven't
59:33
heard yet is Jeffy's answer to this one. Bardown
59:36
sent out this tweet or this thing on their social
59:39
medias that said you have $15 to create a super
59:42
team. where you get your normal lineup of one
59:46
center, two wingers, and two defensemen. For
59:48
$5 going across from center to two defensemen,
59:52
you've got Conor McDavid, Nikita Kucherov, David
59:54
Pasternak, Calum Carter, and Quinn Hughes. $4,
59:58
you've got Nathan McKinnon, Kaprizov, Mikko Rantanen,
1:00:02
Zach Borensky, and Evan Bouchard. Then $3, you've
1:00:05
got Leon Dreisaitl, Mitch Marner, Matt Kachuk,
1:00:08
Victor Hedman, Adam Fox. $2, you got Austin Matthews,
1:00:11
Kyle Conner, Alex Ovechkin, Rasmus Dahlin, and
1:00:14
Josh Morrissey. $1, you got Sid the Kid, or Sid
1:00:18
the Middle -Aged Man, Clayton Keller, Willie
1:00:20
Nylander, Jakob Slavin, and Lane Hudson. My original
1:00:26
build was Cal McCarr, McKinnon, Hedman, Kyle
1:00:31
Conner, and Clayton Keller. And then mine changed
1:00:36
up because apparently I didn't do math there
1:00:38
at the time. is Sadakuchi Ovi. Then I have Wierenski
1:00:45
and Fox. Originally, I had McCart, but he would
1:00:49
have put me over, so I'll do the Wierenski. Looking
1:00:55
at this now, going back at it, I mean, I think
1:01:00
Matthews at $2 is a steal. But again, if you
1:01:04
want playoff performers, you've got to go with
1:01:06
somebody like McKinnon, who actually knows how
1:01:07
to show up. No matter what time it is. That's
1:01:10
why I took McKinnon. I was going to say, Sid
1:01:12
has done it all. Sid has done it all. He's up
1:01:15
there. If I'm going to NHL 25 and I'm doing a
1:01:19
one -year sim, I'm probably taking Sid. But if
1:01:22
we're saying, hey, this is going to be my lineup
1:01:24
for the next couple years, I'm going to go with
1:01:26
Nick McKinnon. I'm sorry. Taking Sidney Crosby
1:01:30
for a dollar. It's a fucking steal. It's more
1:01:34
than that. It's a steal and a half. I'm sorry.
1:01:36
I don't care if Sid is 26 or 36. He's been performing
1:01:42
the same, barring injuries and everything, he's
1:01:45
been performing the same since... Who did you
1:01:47
say you said? Sid, Cooch, Ovi, Wierenski? Wierenski
1:01:50
and Fox. Wierenski's a good offensive defenseman.
1:01:54
He's obviously not the number one. I mean, he's
1:01:57
been competing for the top three all season.
1:02:01
Like, this season was really a breakout year
1:02:03
on a pretty mid -Columbus team. Yeah, I mean,
1:02:07
for me, regardless, if I take McKinnon, then
1:02:09
obviously I would take Keller, but if I take
1:02:10
Crosby, then I'm going to go up and take Capriza
1:02:12
instead of Keller. So it's interchangeable for
1:02:15
those two, but I don't think you can change my
1:02:17
mind on the last three being Hedman, Conner,
1:02:23
and Keller. Yeah, I was kind of... Or sorry,
1:02:26
Makar. Makar, I'm taking Makar any day of the
1:02:28
week. I mean, he's the best defenseman in the
1:02:29
league, and he's going to be that for quite some
1:02:31
time. I was going to say, my forward core is
1:02:33
pretty locked. It's my defense. I can kind of
1:02:35
bump around. I can do the Fox -Renske duo. I
1:02:40
can do the Dahlian -Quinn -Hughes duo. I can
1:02:43
do the Saban -Quinn -Hughes duo. It all can change.
1:02:47
I can even bump down to where it's the Makar
1:02:49
-Morrissey duo. For me, I can kind of interchange
1:02:54
that defensive pairings notes to whatever. When
1:02:58
you really look and you're like, oh, I can get
1:03:00
Sid for a dollar. Yeah, but you're going to say,
1:03:01
oh, McKinnon's there. It's tough to come up with
1:03:05
a discreet answer. For my centers, I was going
1:03:10
always back and forth between Sid and Crosby.
1:03:13
I was going back and forth between Sid and McKinnon.
1:03:17
Obviously, it's just more dependent on my leaners.
1:03:21
I think my original team, I did. I was making
1:03:24
a second one because I wasn't sure who I was
1:03:26
going to officially go with. I pretty much have
1:03:30
the same. I have four that are the same. Three
1:03:32
that are definitely the same. But like I said,
1:03:34
if I'm going for just like a one -year sim on
1:03:37
NHL 25, I'm taking Sid over McKinnon. But if
1:03:40
I'm going for like, I want this to be my lineup
1:03:42
for the next upcoming couple years, then I'm
1:03:45
going to go with McKinnon. Because I feel like
1:03:46
you're definitely going to get more years out
1:03:48
of McKinnon for the next few than you will Crosby.
1:03:50
Because I think what my lineup I initially did,
1:03:54
just because I was going back and forth, I did
1:03:57
Sid, Ovi, Kucherov, and then Darlene and Makar
1:04:03
for my defensemen. I guess my biggest thing is
1:04:08
when we're creating a super team, we're obviously
1:04:10
assuming, number one, the set players are in
1:04:14
their prime, and number two, injuries aren't
1:04:17
a thing. Injuries are turned off in this game.
1:04:20
That's kind of where I was looking at. That's
1:04:24
kind of where my approach was. Game 7, what lineup
1:04:32
are you setting out there? You're 5 -5. In game
1:04:39
7, you're double overtime. Which five skaters
1:04:45
are you entrusting? to get that game -winning
1:04:47
goal, that club clinching goal. If that's the
1:04:51
case, I'm saying that's where I say Sid Keller.
1:04:54
Sorry, that's Sid Keller. I lost my train of
1:05:02
thought. I forgot. I want to see where I went
1:05:04
after that. Where the hell did I go? Sid, maybe
1:05:12
Kyle Conner, Rantanen, maybe. And then Makar
1:05:16
and Morrissey. He was actually my, was going
1:05:21
to be my third choice for a defenseman if I didn't
1:05:24
end up going with, Darlene was Morrissey. But
1:05:29
yeah, it was, it really more than, the wingers
1:05:32
were like where I was kind of going back and
1:05:35
forth on. Like it was going to determine what
1:05:37
my list was, but I ended up going with that first
1:05:41
one. All right, well, do we have anything else?
1:05:49
Just scrolling through our chats here to see
1:05:52
if there is anything. Oh, the official 2026 Olympic
1:05:56
groups are for the men's hockey tournament is
1:06:01
officially announced. In group A, we have Team
1:06:05
Canada, Czechia, Switzerland, and newly appointed
1:06:09
France taking over the whole. Team Russia thing,
1:06:13
which that's something I kind of want to ask
1:06:15
you guys here in a second. In Group B, we have
1:06:18
Finland, Sweden, Slovakia, Italy. Team Italy,
1:06:24
I am so fucking sorry. You got three very tough
1:06:27
teams in Finland, Sweden, and Slovakia. If you
1:06:31
can even squeeze a point out of any of those
1:06:34
teams, I call that a win. I'm not saying you're
1:06:37
a bad team. Okay, I kind of have to say you're
1:06:41
a bad team because I don't know any true good
1:06:44
Italian players in the league right now. And
1:06:48
then Group C, United States, Germany, Latvia,
1:06:53
and Denmark. Which I don't want to shit talk
1:06:55
Latvia or Denmark because obviously Denmark upset
1:06:58
Team Canada this past year. Latvia upset Canada
1:07:01
in the juniors last year, wasn't it? Yeah. So
1:07:04
I don't want to knock those two teams. At all.
1:07:09
They're going to be tough competition. It's going
1:07:11
to be close games. I think, personally, the United
1:07:13
States is going to be the clear -cut number one.
1:07:15
Germany, just right there. Knocking on their
1:07:18
back door. That's the thing, something we didn't
1:07:20
mention. USA finally won their first double IHF
1:07:24
World Championship for the first time in, what,
1:07:25
95 years? 92. 92, something like that. And I
1:07:28
posted about that on Twitter, and I had some
1:07:30
clown... at reply me and was like, oh, it took
1:07:33
you 92 years to win a dry -ass tournament. I
1:07:36
said, you lost to Denmark, shut up. And he didn't
1:07:38
say when after that. So, how do we feel about
1:07:42
Russia not being able to compete? I'm still...
1:07:45
And not seeing, for the last time, Ovi and Vasily.
1:07:49
I mean, I don't think that's my place to say.
1:07:51
Well, not being able to see players like Ovechkin
1:07:54
and Volkin and Vasilevsky and Kucherov. all on
1:07:57
the same team, all these big Russian stars. We
1:08:00
see it on a day -to -day basis in the NHL, not
1:08:04
being able to compete together for a girl, Golda.
1:08:07
Like, I get why they're doing it, but it just
1:08:11
sucks for these players. I think it stinks because,
1:08:15
like what Colin said, we don't get to see it.
1:08:19
What do you think would be a one -two punch?
1:08:21
for goaltenders, like, Sterkin and Vassie. Yeah.
1:08:25
Like, who's ever hotter in the moment? You can
1:08:29
even have, like, a third backup as, like, an
1:08:31
Ilya Sorokin can be, like, a third, like, a backup.
1:08:34
So, there's this person that I've kind of, you
1:08:37
know, befriended on Twitter who, ironically,
1:08:39
is a London Knights fan. And I saw somewhere
1:08:43
out there that she posted about... Is that her
1:08:44
name, Olivia, right? Yeah, exactly. I thought,
1:08:46
I... Shout out to Olivia. You're probably not
1:08:50
listening to my shout out to Olivia. Yeah, like,
1:08:52
you're one of the very few Naughty Night fans
1:08:54
I actually respect. But that's besides the point.
1:08:56
I saw that, you know, there's a Russian woman,
1:09:00
like a woman Russian figure skater that's going
1:09:03
in independent. You know, just on her own. She's
1:09:07
not representing Russia. She's not representing
1:09:09
anybody. She's just going in, competing for herself.
1:09:13
Which I think is good for her. The Olympics?
1:09:15
Yeah. Oh, that's pretty cool. They improved her
1:09:18
because it's a solo thing. It's not a team thing,
1:09:20
which, I mean, good for her for being able to
1:09:23
do it, but my thing is make it consistent. If
1:09:29
no Russian athletes can compete, no Russian athletes
1:09:32
can compete. It's not my place to get into politics
1:09:37
and everything going on over there between them
1:09:39
and whatever is going on on that side of the
1:09:42
world. That is far out of my business to discuss
1:09:44
that side of it. Not being able to see these
1:09:46
players, all these big players that you're playing
1:09:50
right now. Imagine a first line of Ovi, Malkin,
1:09:53
and Kucherov. You got the shot in Ovi. You got
1:09:59
the handles in Kuch. And he got Malkin. Just
1:10:04
don't piss him off. To this day, man, if you
1:10:08
piss him off, his speed increases 50%, 100%.
1:10:12
Oh, no. You piss him off? I feel like Ovi is
1:10:15
the Malkin whisperer. He knows. They have him
1:10:19
speak in the foreign tongue, but he's the Ovi
1:10:21
whisperer. You know about their beef they had
1:10:24
way back then. Yeah. When they were both young,
1:10:27
up and coming. I think Malkin's agent threw something
1:10:30
at Ovi or something or vice versa. They got into
1:10:33
it and that caused them to have this whole turmoil.
1:10:36
Then I think he's at the one all -star game they
1:10:37
helped each other out with a funny shootout goal
1:10:42
or something to show the world, hey, we don't
1:10:44
hate each other. It was Malkin helping Ovi. He
1:10:48
gave him a Hawaiian wreath to wear while he took
1:10:51
his shot or something along those lines. He gave
1:10:53
him a jersey to put on. I don't remember exactly
1:10:55
what it was. Yeah, it was pretty much like this
1:10:59
thing to show the whole world, hey, we don't
1:11:01
actually hate each other, which behind the scenes
1:11:03
they probably still kind of did. But this is
1:11:06
more or less to get the spotlight off of them,
1:11:08
like, hey, we don't hate each other, actually.
1:11:12
But, yeah. Yeah, that's not really the only,
1:11:15
like, outside of, like, the political world.
1:11:18
But I think it's just unfortunate we don't get
1:11:21
to see, once again, like... The big Russian stars
1:11:26
of the NHL get to play in that. Just to name
1:11:30
a couple other ones. Artemi Panarin, Vladimir
1:11:33
Tarasenko. Why did I say it like that? Tarasenko.
1:11:36
Don't try that again. Pavel Buchnevich, Andrei
1:11:38
Svechnikov, Evgeny Dadunov, Dmitry Orlov, Mikhail
1:11:42
Sergachev. You can have him reuniting with Kucherov
1:11:44
over there. Kirill Marchenko, Andrei Kuzmenko.
1:11:50
Dmitry Voronkov, Alexander Romanov. Yeah, some
1:11:54
of the up -and -coming younger guys, like Pavel
1:11:56
Minchikov. Anyone that has the last name ending
1:11:59
with Av, pretty much. The Russian connection
1:12:02
back, the Detroit Red Wings, the Russian Five,
1:12:05
or, you know, the Russian connection with...
1:12:06
Here you go, here you go. Off of YouTube. Bucket
1:12:12
hats. Bucket hats and shades. Glasses, wipe them
1:12:16
off, give them some Gatorade. That's a weird
1:12:21
scene. I'll be with the A and not the C. And
1:12:25
two sticks. Malkin's stick and Ovi's stick. He
1:12:28
tosses one of them. He tosses the right -handed
1:12:33
stick and shoots with his off -hand. That Russian
1:12:39
team could be absolutely filthy. Just one last
1:12:43
thing. I think we talked about this briefly,
1:12:45
but I want to get your guys' full, in -depth
1:12:48
opinions on this. The two mock trades that I
1:12:50
saw. involving the Toronto Maple Leafs and the
1:12:53
Pittsburgh Penguins. One of them being, to the
1:12:56
Toronto Maple Leafs, Eric Carlson with us retaining
1:12:59
50 % of his contract. Oh, yeah. And coming to
1:13:02
Pittsburgh, Morgan Riley, David Kampf, and a
1:13:05
second -round pick. Again, it's just the contract
1:13:09
that we're getting. Like, Morgan Riley's contract.
1:13:14
That's the thing that... Yeah. No, like, if we're
1:13:19
retaining... Half of Carlson's contract. That's
1:13:22
heftier. So either give up all of Carlson's contract,
1:13:27
or at least retain maybe 25%, but also get another
1:13:31
draft pick in return for that. Yeah, that was
1:13:36
my only issue with that one. It's mainly the...
1:13:40
How much they're retaining on Carlson. This is
1:13:43
the one that I really did like. To Toronto, yeah.
1:13:45
Ricard Raquel, Noel Achari, Vasily Potomrov in
1:13:48
a second -round pick. Coming to Pittsburgh, Matthew
1:13:50
Nyes, Nick Robertson in a fourth -round pick.
1:13:54
That one I like. Nope. No? Nope. I like him.
1:13:58
I would honestly replace Raquel with Russ. With
1:14:02
Brian Rust? Nope. Still no? Hey, let's trade
1:14:07
to Roca. Oh, wait. Hey, why not mark his pet?
1:14:11
Oh, wait. Hey, how about John Murray? Oh, wait.
1:14:19
Who'd be getting back in that Pedersen card?
1:14:22
Wasn't it Luke Shen came over in that deal, I
1:14:25
think? No. No, Luke Shen was from Nashville.
1:14:30
Yeah, we immediately sent him over to Winnipeg,
1:14:32
yeah. And then Pedersen went to Vancouver. I
1:14:35
know, but Pedersen, who came over from that?
1:14:37
I don't remember. Pedersen and Conrad trade.
1:14:43
something to waste your guys' time for two more
1:14:47
minutes here. Oh, sorry, we got back Heinen and
1:14:53
Desjardins, who was the other one we ended up
1:14:55
sending back out. I think he played four games
1:14:58
for us, so Penguins Legend, Vinny Desjardins.
1:15:02
But yeah, I think that just about does it. Just
1:15:04
a heads up to you guys, I think next episode
1:15:06
is going to be the Season 5 finale. That's insane.
1:15:12
Season 5 finale. Absolutely insane. Five seasons
1:15:17
into it already. Five seasons in the books. It
1:15:22
feels like we just started the season here. We're
1:15:24
about to wrap season 5 up already. Be on the
1:15:29
lookout for that. We're not quite sure. It all
1:15:30
depends on how these Stanley Cup finals go. If
1:15:32
we end up recording the night of the 15th or
1:15:35
if we push it back one more week to the night
1:15:37
of the 22nd. So we might have two weeks up here.
1:15:40
We might have one week up here. We might have
1:15:42
two weeks up here. TBA, TBD. Three weeks until
1:15:47
you guys get the finale might be two weeks. So
1:15:48
again, it all depends. If somehow these Stanley
1:15:51
Cup finals end in five games, which how good
1:15:53
these two teams are, I don't think it's going
1:15:54
to be five games. I didn't think either one of
1:15:58
the conference finals were going to be five games,
1:15:59
and they both ended up ending in five. But yeah,
1:16:03
we will find out. We will hopefully, regardless,
1:16:05
we will see you guys one more time before the
1:16:07
end of the month and to end off the season. And
1:16:09
maybe at some point, again, middle of the offseason,
1:16:13
we'll do a quick free agency recap, which we've
1:16:16
done, I think, once or twice in these first couple
1:16:18
seasons here. But no promises on that. But we'll
1:16:20
have more information for you on that come the
1:16:23
final episode here in the next couple weeks.
1:16:25
But thank you guys for an awesome season. Again,
1:16:27
we'll give you more of an sincere one at the
1:16:29
end of the next episode. But we'll see you guys
1:16:32
then. Until then, keep it real. See ya. Bye.