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Season 5 Episode 8: Goodbye 2024 · The Buckpuster Podcast

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Alright everybody, welcome back to your new episode
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of the Buck podcast where we talk about anything
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and everything hockey. I am Jeff, followed by
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Colin and Kyle. What's going on? I'm doing research,
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let me be it. So how are you guys doing? Good.
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We're getting ready for the holidays here. Oh
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yeah. Three days away until the main one, obviously.
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Then you have what eight nine days until the
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big party one. Yeah, it's gonna be a blast. Oh,
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yeah Always is when they wouldn't hear that when
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you're the weenie boys. There's no such thing
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as a boring New Year's No, there is we oh, there's
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always something I think that's the one we always
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go everybody goes the hardest on New Year's like
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it's it's just a death the unspoken rule of the
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group like we just go so hard that day I said,
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I think that last year was an exception. I know
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I didn't last year's because I was starting out
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feeling good. Yeah, everybody just wasn't, I
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think last year everybody just wasn't feeling
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it. Plus I wasn't, I was against, I was coming
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down sick that night and I was like ugh. We came
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here for a short amount of time and I think everybody
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was gone by midnight. Yeah, cause I remember
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we watched the first track that night. I do remember
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we did watch it. I was gone early, so I was gone
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by like 10, 10 .30 that night. I was back home.
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Yeah, that last year was kind of a lame New Year's
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with our standards of... We'll have to make up
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for it this year, for sure. Yeah. We'll really
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have to make it up this year. So have a good
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time. But yeah, we're back in the studio for
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the final time here in 2024, about to be 2025.
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This year went flu by. Thank God. We just saw
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that TikTok just a little bit ago. Kids born
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in 2010 will be going into high school here soon.
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Fuck, man. And here I am, six years, seven years
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graduated. Almost 10. So the front half of 2010,
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up till August, are technically freshmen in high
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school, as of right now. I'm teaching kids almost
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half my age. Half my age. Fuck! SHIT! That's
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wild. I was like, my youngest sister's let you
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have freshman this year in high school. Which
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is... Which is insane. It's wild. It's... It's
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crazy to think. What was the other thing, like,
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kids born in 2009 can drive next year? Like,
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oh my god. It's so insane. That's not the end.
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Yeah, let's not think about that. Nah, let's
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get through this final episode of 2024 before
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we jump into 2025. Jeff? Real quick before we
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get into milestones for the OHL. One big thing
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actually just came out yesterday as a recorder
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on the 21st. This is by Elliott Freeman of Sportsnet.
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Obviously the OHL did approve, they recently
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did approve that they would accept Muskegon and
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Youngstown, but the USA Hockey League, they actually
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declined it at the moment. So there will be no
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OHL expansion quite yet. What a bunch of problems.
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Because I know they should, because I know obviously
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about a month ago the commissioner and a bunch
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of the Board of the OHL, they obviously looked
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at Muskegon. Youngstown they went actually went
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to Their arenas and just kind of looked it over
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and stuff like that But really man, at least
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at the moment it sounds like we're no expansion,
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but there's But it doesn't mean it's out of it.
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It's not not not yet Yeah, I'd say It's still
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under future considerations as you know, I'm
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able to say enough In the trades future. We'll
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give you future considerations. Yeah, we'll think
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about it But yeah, we can we give London to to
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that league? And London just go to the eat like
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just they're good enough as it is man. Just just
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bump them up to the ECL So they don't they they
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never have a rebuild year apparently all their
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their cocky fans like we don't we don't rebuild
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we just reload pretty much just kind of true
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Just pretty much guys that have built up. I mean,
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yeah, you can't even get mad at that because
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it's true. It's a very good way to put it, honestly.
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It frustrates me, but at the same time. Especially
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seeing what they did to our auditors here this
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past week on Wednesday. Let's not talk about
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it. Rough game to be at. Yeah, that was rough.
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I think it's another one of those, kind of another
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reality check that we needed, you know, coming
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off that high from Saturday night's win. And
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yeah, just I think more of a reality check like,
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hey. Not all games are gonna be like that. Yep.
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You're gonna have these tough teams coming in
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and out, you know, you gotta be ready for it.
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Let's get back to working. Honestly, I was kind
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of looking at the standings. Which is crazy the
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thing, like just looking at how close the east
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is right now, like Erie currently sits fourth
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in the west. Literally right now, if they were
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in the east right now, they'd be eighth. Wow,
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so the east is strong this year. Yeah. Wow. Because
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they're all completely flip -flopped from last
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year. yeah so obviously as we go into the winter
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break on in the east from 10 to one it's peterborough
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7 22 and 4 with 20 points north bay ninth play
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which honestly i was surprised with them being
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this low um but they're currently 13 15 3 with
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29 points brampton who's an eighth 32 um 14 -14
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-4. The Autos 67 -7 with 13 -12 -2 -5 with 33.
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Brantford 17 -13 -3 with 37 points. The Sudbury
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Wolfs 31 -17 -18 -4 with 38. And then Kingston.
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17 .95 and 241 points for Barry 21 .91 and 144
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also in second with 2011 to 143 in Niagara 22
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.91 and 146 points. Let's go back and look at
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my my only two predictions. I had North Bay finishing
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first so yeah that worked out pretty well. Kind
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of curious what it... I have them second right
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now. I had to Niagara dead last night. I had
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Niagara a little bit higher than everybody you
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guys thought I was crazy. I didn't expect them
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to do this well, but... Pizza actually, right
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now, I'm kind of... Pizza had them in ninth,
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so it could still happen. Yeah. And then obviously
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in the west, we got it currently in 10th place.
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Owen's done a tack 9, 19, 2, and 3 with 23. Ninth
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place is the Wolf Storm. Ten nineteen two one
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twenty three points the Sarnia sting with that
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final Playoff spy on 11 18 205 29 points to sue
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Greyhounds 15 18 With 30 they've not yet gone
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to overtime or shoot this season Oh sue sue really
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they've not had an overtime more sheet again.
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Nope. They have not yet And then on sixth place
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is the Flint Firebirds 15 -15, 1 -1, 32 points.
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The Saginaw Spirit in fifth was 16 -16, 1 -0,
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33. Erie's in fourth with 16 -10, 3 -1, 36 points.
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Kitchener in third place with a record 23 -7,
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2 -1, with 49 points. Windsor, second place.
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23 7 2 1 with 49 points and then London currently
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in first 27 6 and they actually also haven't
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gone to an overtime or shoot I either Just haven't
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lost it. I'm sure they've gone to some That's
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probably you're right now. I think about it But
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London's currently 27 6 in 6 with 54 points Wow
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That's kind of what it's looking at going into
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into this This break in the halfway Christmas
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break Yeah, so the otters are even with help
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with their Couple inconsistent games like Kitchener
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and London stuff Also that bad loss against Windsor
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last week. I'm still honestly proud of this team
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still I don't know. They've I mean they're they
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had they had their They can work on the consistency
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then I think we have an all -around team But
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you know, a lot of these younger guys that have
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been coming up like de lesio. I think has been
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One of our best defensemen, at least the past
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couple games. He's outperforming some of the
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veterans back there. I mean, literally just,
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they literally just signed another. Just signed
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another defenseman. What was it? I can't remember
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his name, I already have to top my head. Quinn
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McCall. Quinn McCall. Yup. And obviously he's
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already committed to the Holy Cross for next
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season and that. That's awesome, yeah. On Panathena,
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yes she has a recording, before recording on
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Panahee. officially Committed to Notre Dame and
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I'm happy to see that I'm so happy for I enjoy
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watching me some Notre Dame hockey. So that'll
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be that'll be pretty cool to see No, which one
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play up there and it was it another OHL player
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with Kevin he officially signed a contract with
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the With what page yes the first Asian born player
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in NHL history to sign it on NHL That's really
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cool. It's awesome to see that and he's right.
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He's really good But yeah, that's one thing I
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was excited about. But as we go into milestones
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and news, one thing I did miss on last week's
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recording on the 15th, the Astro General's head
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coach, Brad Malone gets his first OHL win as
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head coach. Then multiple December 18th milestones,
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Ben. Or Arabic of the Barry Colts and 4 to 5
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C gets his first career. Oh, he'll shout in a
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4 -0 victory Adani Femis of the London Knights
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gets his first career. Oh, he'll point off an
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assist of Sam O 'Reilly gold first theory otters,
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so it's kind of Cool to see his panel's younger
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brother Playing for the in his like first game
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and that releases first time in Erie Chicago
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Blackhawks prospect Nick Lardis of the Brantford
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Bulldogs playing in his 200th career OHL game
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versus the Brantford Steelheads and then multiple
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and then on the 19th Alex Azeroth Rodin of the
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Niagara Ice Dogs gets his first career OHL hat
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trick versus the Barry Colts Oh and Flores of
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the Niagara Ice Dogs sets a franchise record
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for most assists by a goaltender with eight.
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Braden Jenkins of the Guelph Storm gets his first
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career OHL goal versus the Sioux Greyhounds.
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Chad Reed and Hunter Saltman of the Sioux Greyhounds
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get their first career OHL goal in that exact
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same game. Ben Radwell. Radley of the Brantford
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Bulldogs gets his first career to a goal versus
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Oshawa Generals Jack Darst saves the Flint Firebirds
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gets his first career to a goal versus Saginaw
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Spirit and Mike Stubbs at the London Nights radio
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play -by -play called his 2 ,000th game Hayden
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Ellis of the Kitchener Rangers gets his first
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career to a goal Avadaski of the Ottawa 67's
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gets his first career OHL goal. And then Ottawa
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Senators prospect Luke Ellis played in his 100th
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career OHL game versus the Kitchener Rangers.
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And then Seattle Krakens prospect Nathan Valnevue
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of the Sudbury Wolves gets his first career OHL
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hat trick versus North Bay Battalion. And that's
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all. Oh! One thing I did see that which I kind
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of I did expect to happen that Bring up his name
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again real quick Hang on one second here On that
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Demian's the zealot of the satan spirit he was
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officially suspended one game for that boarding
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penalty on Nick Kalanago just one game? yeah
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which I still think honestly and I will admit
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I know we talked about last week I still don't
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think it was the right call I still don't see
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I still see what was wrong about that hit I mean,
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I still I think the home eagle was back into
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the next game. So he was badly he was seriously
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injured Yeah, he was just out for the rest of
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that game. Yeah, but he was back against London
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So I really all know did not see anything wrong
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with that hit that hit that happened At first
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I initially thought again is because they were
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reviewing those first little foot and that clear
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But they cleared he called it a boarding which
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I don't I don't agree with which I haven't seen
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how spirit fans are reacting to that but I mean
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if they are pissed off I don't blame them like
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it was a very clean hockey play like I don't
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think he made contact with them at least it didn't
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look like it from I'm sure they have a bunch
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of different angles but from what all the angles
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we were able to see you know on the screen or
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you know just watching it watching the replays
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on our phones you know I did not see anything
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wrong yeah whatsoever neither did I Alright,
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we're gonna jump into the new one that we've
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been doing that we did last week. We're gonna
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jump over this hurdle. I'm trying to picture
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who that could be. I have a potential idea. I
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honestly think it could be your boy John Murray
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now. I was thinking also Tage. I was thinking
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Eichel as well. Can't do him, all right. Okay,
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he's in the East and he's an American player.
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All right. Older than age 27, but under the number
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22. 72. Okay, so that's not one of my predictions.
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He's not a center, so he's in a metro. player
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over the age of 27 who's American and under the
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number 72. And is not a sentiment. Not a sentiment.
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Not a sentiment. Pull it up again. I'm thinking
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somebody in, I don't know, somebody like Will
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Coley, but I don't think he's that old. Sean
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Monahan is pretty short hair or shorter hair
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or if it's long it's not that it could be because
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he's getting up there in age Throw it on there.
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I don't know his position is but Okay, so we
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were getting closer on the age so he is 31 32
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years old Still still lower lower than 20 for
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the number because it's still not yellow so it
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could be lower than 19 21 are below i'd say 20
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because i think it's either 20 if i think it's
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within three it would be yellow all right so
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it could be lower than 20 or lower for the jersey
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number all right we're running through metro
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teams pittsburgh doesn't have anybody with a
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fat ruley hair no right now i have many americans
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on the tape either jersey numbers that could
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be that low We have Caramanda I'm just like Jersey
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Nevers is what throws me off and then the nationality
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you can never really tell between like American
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and Canadian. We have Columbus. They'll be Dribbers.
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Well it's not Columbus. We already know that.
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Oh. Someone could be Barzal. Matt's Barzal. How
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low is his number? 13, I believe? 13. I'm pretty
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sure he's American. It is on the Islanders. Okay,
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we got the team. Cool. His number is between
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20 and 16, so it's a pretty... Never mind, never
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mind, never mind. Yeah, it's a single digit.
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Single digit. Single digit. Possibly 10 or a
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single digit. I'm trying to think of... It's
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not Matt Martin hair. Well, Matt Martin was I
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13 oh no, see No, he's a team, okay Well, you
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know what I'm srogan the srogans like 30 No,
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what no adoption. Oh, it could be no adoption.
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He's younger though. Is he I thought he was younger.
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I thought he was like 20 like 24 25 our age Yeah,
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24. He's a defenseman now, okay. So we're making
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some... And his number's lower than 8. It's lower
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than 8, so it's gonna be like 5, 4, 3. I don't
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even... That's such a fucking boring team. Could
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it be Adam Pelleck? Is he still over there? Yeah,
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he's still over there. Could it be Adam Pelleck?
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I thought his numbers were in his 20s. I thought
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it was 3. His number's low, a single digit. Nope.
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three so it's his number two or one it's a defenseman
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who's like 32 years old his number is number
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two or number one i'm trying to think who's even
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over there now again the islanders are such a
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fucking boring team i don't i don't ever pay
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attention to them they're very boring the only
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ones i ever honestly really pay attention over
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there oh is um no noah gragoire i think he's
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in um Calgary. I don't know anything about the
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Islanders' defense. Neither do I. Nothing's coming
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to me for names. Yeah, there's... Just like Colin
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said, they're such a boring team. It's probably
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number two, because I don't think a skater would
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wear the number one. Nine out of ten times sounds
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like a goaltender number. This film is guaranteed
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that the jersey number is two. But who the hell
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wears it? I don't think it's Noah Gregor. I'm
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pretty sure he's still, I think he's over Calgary.
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I'm trying to think of like number two's. It's
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not like Ole Mata. He's, where is he now? West.
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West. Like Seattle or Utah isn't it? Utah. I
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think it's Utah has like six former penguins.
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Always like the new team new team that comes
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in they always have like I know when Vegas first
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started They have like five former penguins last
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year the year before at some point Seattle had
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like six former penguins now No, you still have
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like four or five former penguins. I Don't even
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know No Gabor, I don't think it's him but fuck
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i mean we know it's an islanders defenseman so
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like we don't know his name we just look it up
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at this point that's honestly what i was want
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to do but i yeah i mean we just don't know his
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name we know it's the number two defenseman on
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the islanders so i'm just looking it up because
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i don't know any names Why should be like a dumb
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obvious one that we should have known? Never
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would have gotten that. It's Mike Riley. Yeah
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Mike Riley Never would have gotten that. Yeah
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Dude looks stoned as shit. Let's do an unlimited
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one. This one can be tough That fat fucking cheeky
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bones and no neck Not a bad guess. Ivan Barber,
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chef. We got the conference and the vision correctly.
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Okay, so he's not a forward, or he's not a center.
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He's over 30 and he's not Russian. His number
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is below 36, 45, below 46. And he doesn't play
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for Vegas. He does not play for Vegas, but he's
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in the Pacific. Just based on how fucking big
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his head and neck looks, I'd more or less say
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it's some sort of goaltender. Like initially
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when I saw the hair I immediately thought of
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Robin Leonard because I remember... I was gonna
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say that but he's not currently active. Yeah.
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And even if he was, you know, Vegas is out of
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the option. Yeah. That's when I saw the silhouette,
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that's who I immediately thought of. Who's Minnesota's
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starter? No, it can't be because it's Pacific.
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It would have been Gustafson. It would have been.
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This just gets a random goalie in the... in the
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pacific. Thatcher. Dr. Demko? I don't think it's
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anybody. Now I can guess him. All right um who's
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is not Talbot. Talbot's over in Detroit. Who's
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the king starter right now? Thank Dave shit big
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save Dave or No go go right go David What a guess
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we're gonna pull that out there man, oh my god
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sort of blow your all ears out there, but my
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god what a guess oh my god How did we get that
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one two guesses? Oh my gosh, he's Czech? Yeah.
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Wow. Let's do another one. Let's do one more.
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One more. Oh, that was good. We got to now. What
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type of hairdo is that? It's fucking sticking
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up and setting away from Sunday. I would just
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say Jonathan Marsha show. There's a third guess
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out there. A random guess. It's in the West.
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And it's Canadian. It's in the Pacific again.
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Canadian in the Pacific. Pull it up again. I
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had a name in anyway. Here we go. Being William
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Carlson, yeah You know, I like half these players
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like you can't even name That's stupid do will
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a carrier he's on Vegas, isn't it? No, he's on
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Carolina hurry no, he used to play for Vegas.
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Okay, so he is 28 29 Jersey numbers 26 27 maybe
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25 He's Canadian, plays in the Pacific. He's
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not a center and he's not a left winger. He'd
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be another goalie. Again, like neck. That fucking
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fat neck would say he could be another goaltender.
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Who's the other one in LA? I was actually thinking
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of Darcy again. Do it. Do Darcy Kemper. I sort
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of fucking got off leaving if it's Darcy Kemper.
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Oh, I almost went for a one. No, okay. It's not
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a goalie. Alright. So he's 27. I guess we could
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have wasted a guess. I knew he was older. But
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we've guessed three Canadian goaltenders without
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even looking. Not in goaltenders, but three Canadians.
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So it could be a right winger or a defenseman.
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Defenseman in the Pacific. Evan Bouchard. No,
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but he's a defenseman. OK. He's a defenseman.
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So, his number is definitely between 5 and 31.
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Or 5 and like 25. Well, I was saying 31 because
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of... Or, I'm sorry, I didn't even see that.
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Oh yeah, his number is 26, 27, maybe as low as
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25. A defenseman in the Pacific. Who is 28, 29
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years old. Let's go Calgary. Can we like... Rasmus
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Anderson? Seen it still there. I think his numbers
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a little higher, but All right, we're getting
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close to the age So it's 20 he's 29. You know,
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that's perfect. He's 29 years old. Oh, I guess
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I'm what he I guess he's not Canadian but Let's
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know if we got we got some So the only only thing
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we don't well, the only category is obviously
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we don't fucking know our team and player All
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right number. We're not confident number yeah
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well it's well we know it's 27 26 25 right around
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that area so let's go to let's think like san
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jose mario ferrero i think he's like 48 though
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his number i'm trying to think it could be way
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up yeah no i don't think it's i don't think it's
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mario ferrero or we could just do it for the
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guess or for the name darnell nurse is he canadian
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yes yeah he is canadian it could be darnell nurse
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Oh my god, it's all green except for the damn
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team. And we know he was 25, so we know his number
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is 26 or 27. Not Darlene, obviously. What is
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um... Oh, we already did Edmonton. We wasted
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that guess. Oh, fuck me. I didn't even see that
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until just now. What number is... I'm trying
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to remember what Quinn's number is. 43. Yeah,
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43. He says 43. Okay. I can't remember what...
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Some other defensemen in Vancouver. So it could
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be Vancouver, it could be the Sharks, the Ducks.
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Utah's in the Pacific. Whatever's... No, it obviously
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can't be Sergeychev because he's like... Not
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you. Logan Cooley, is he defenseman? No, he's
29:32
a forward. I've seen enough shards games. No,
29:37
it's not a shard. It's you. Either way, I've
29:41
seen enough garbage games. Let's just guess a
29:43
random player on any of the remaining teams.
29:46
At least try to get the team. So let's just guess
29:52
locally. Okay, he's not on Utah. Alright. And
29:58
he's way younger too. So we have Vancouver, Anaheim,
30:06
San Jose, I just don't - Utah's in the fucking
30:08
central. I'm stupid. Oh my god, yeah they are.
30:13
So do I have - I don't know, Anaheim? Anaheim,
30:16
San Jose, Vancouver. Vegas. Vegas. Seattle. Seattle.
30:28
Okay, so it could be Seattle. Oh, um, maybe Vince
30:33
Dunn. What's his number? Uh, sir, Vince Dunn.
30:37
I mean, it's worth a guess at the last chance.
30:40
Because I don't, because the thing is, I would
30:41
have said Truba. Shave Theodore, oh my god, okay.
30:47
Pretty easy one. I feel like we could have gotten
30:49
that if we knew it was Vegas. I think we could
30:51
have gotten it All right, we do one more to win
30:54
to go to do go. Let's go to do go. Let's give
30:57
us a little bit of break Well, then that David
31:01
already went out of our house party. All right
31:04
for the for the columns we have Washington Minnesota
31:08
and 50 past minute how many minutes in a single
31:11
season and for the roads we have Boston San Jose
31:15
and Florida Boston, Washington, Chara. They have
31:20
Char - yeah. We also have Yager. I'd do Chara.
31:25
We'd do Yager from Florida, Washington. Oh, that's
31:28
right. Then, yeah. Then Boston, Penalty Minutes,
31:34
Marshawned. Boston, Minnesota, Felino? Nick Felino?
31:43
Or no. No, no, no, no. Marcus and Flano played
31:47
for Minnesota, not Nick. I say, um... Capitals,
31:53
um... No, did he? I... Did he? Who do you think
31:58
it? Nick Benino. For San Jose. I don't think
32:02
he ever played for the Capitals, no. That's what
32:04
I was trying to think. Did he play for Minnesota?
32:06
No. No? If... Either the Capitals or Wild were
32:13
switched for San Jose... We could we could do
32:20
Matt Cook, but yeah What if he had 50 penalty
32:24
minutes in the season for the Sharks? How long
32:26
did he play for the Sharks for? Matt Cook didn't
32:27
play for San Jose. I'm saying for Washington,
32:30
Minnesota. Oh, yeah. Okay, so he could technically
32:33
go to fit there. Brendan Burns, I'm sure he had
32:41
quite a few penalty minutes at some point. Him
32:42
or Jumbo Joe. That's where my jojo penalty minutes
32:48
Like he had to have at some point in his career
32:51
had that many in a season Yeah, okay And Florida
32:59
Minnesota Florida penalty minutes Should be of
33:02
somebody who played for Florida that would have
33:03
been had a lot of penalty minutes Chuckie Matt
33:08
Kachuck. Yeah, I'm sure probably Yeah The whole
33:19
Minnesota column and then San Jose, Washington
33:24
So this is not even one that you can go back
33:27
to like a previous franchise because that's that's
33:29
that's it franchise. Yeah, that's it. That's
33:30
not like Dallas Yeah For Florida and Minnesota.
33:45
Good point. I don't know if it's going to be
33:57
anybody current. I feel like this goes back a
34:00
little bit. It's like the beginning of Minnesota.
34:08
San Jose, Washington, I feel like should be easy.
34:12
Kemper never played for San Jose. Niemie, I don't
34:17
think he ever played. Definitely played for Washington.
34:23
Nabakov, I don't think he would have ever played
34:25
for Washington. Hagman was only Anaheim, Pittsburgh.
34:30
Rangers. Rangers and Washington. It came for
34:33
a little bit, I believe. Yeah, one of those things
34:52
we flew through the first four or five, now we're
34:54
sitting here struggling. San Jose. I feel like
35:00
San Jose, Washington, one of those should be
35:02
easy. What about Eric Fair? Did he ever play
35:07
for San Jose? I know he bounced around. I don't
35:14
think so. I'm thinking Matt Cullen, although
35:22
he had a very long and luxurious career, paid
35:25
for Carolina, he paid for Minnesota, Pittsburgh.
35:31
What did he ever play for? Like San Jose? Boston.
35:38
Or Boston, yeah. Are we sure Marcus Flito never
35:46
played for Boston? I thought he spent most, if
35:49
not all, of his career in Minnesota. His office
35:54
in Zuccarello is just ranger's and wild. Slurry
36:02
is just Minnesota, Pithbridge, Chicago, Vegas.
36:07
Not in that order, obviously. No comment, Your
36:11
Honor. Well, I'm done. What about like Frederick
36:22
Goudreau? I think he's Pittsburgh, Minnesota.
36:28
I don't know if he's been any time anywhere else.
36:30
Danton Hyden, I don't think he ever played for
36:32
Minnesota. Yeah, I'm dead. Matt Cook, where are
36:42
we confident that he played? Pittsburgh, Minnesota.
36:46
Vancouver, Washington. Did he play for Boston
36:48
at some point? No. No? Olmark obviously just
36:57
Boston, Buffalo, Sens. Man. Yeah, I know. That
37:08
and the other was San Jose, Pittsburgh, who was
37:12
that other team he played for? Don't think it
37:17
was Minnesota. Again, I tapped out a long time
37:20
ago, my guy. Do Antini Emi first hit in Hosea,
37:28
Minnesota? I don't think it's right, but. See
37:46
San Jose Washington one is killing me. Yeah,
37:50
someone should be like right in your face easy
37:54
Boston Minnesota should know and It's just not
38:01
coming to me in Washington and San Jose too Yeah,
38:07
I got nothing they just get some random names
38:14
Imagine if one of those random cliques ends up
38:16
being in it someday. Pat Maroon. Pat Maroon.
38:20
Yeah. Oh my god. Oh Fucking Brent Burns. We were
38:24
just talking about him in the fucking uh, the
38:27
other one Boy, when was he with Minnesota? He
38:31
was drafted by Minnesota. Who? Brent Burns. Yeah,
38:35
he's drafted by Minnesota. I didn't even realize
38:36
that. I was always nervous. I think he played
38:39
for one, played for one year. If he even played
38:42
for them. Mikael Grandlund. Let's do the pyramid
39:07
one just to get one last little thing in here.
39:12
Alright, so any player that has had 40 assists
39:14
in a season. Sidney Crosby. Anytime you can choose
39:19
Sidney Kid, you're going to choose Sidney Kid.
39:20
So anybody with 40 assists and played for...
39:24
Actually, I was going to say put them for...
39:27
500 points in a season? Yeah. Then we should
39:29
do... Would you put Lindros here cuz Lindros
39:44
played for the blues, didn't he? I do that. I'm
39:49
Tom's back mentally spent Yeah, you didn't do
39:54
what you're doing dresser I'm almost positive.
39:58
He played he did play. No it Never played the
40:03
blues I did I'll say he had 500 points in his
40:18
career. Yeah. That's a given. Maybe he never
40:23
had a 40th season. But I doubt that. Because
40:31
he was originally going to be drafted by Quebec,
40:32
but he refused to go there. Play for Philly,
40:35
Rangers, Toronto, Dallas. Dallas? That's it.
40:41
Huh. That's it. The blues. F -f -f -filling in
40:49
the blues. Not Brendan Saad, not J .V .R. Not
40:55
somebody like Simone Gagné. Use one of our lifelines
41:03
for this one. At least we can't get all anyway.
41:09
I'll do Thumbelike. Adam Oates. All right, yeah,
41:16
that makes sense. I know he played for Philly,
41:19
I knew he played for... All right, the Stanley
41:22
Cup winner, so would that one be... Do the other
41:30
lifeline, because we're not gonna do 100%, so
41:33
do 50 -50. Ron Suter, Ron Sutter, or Steve Duchesne?
41:42
Well, I'm familiar with the Steve Duchesne, but...
41:45
Thing in Ron Sutter, that's the answer. It's
41:48
hot. I was deep to shame And Rod Brendan more.
41:52
Yeah, that makes sense. What do you think the
41:54
fires though? Raiden Shen for a long time? Okay,
42:08
all right. Well, that's a bummer Alright, we'll
42:15
move on to some NHL milestones from the past
42:17
two weeks, because I did not do mine last week,
42:19
because there weren't a whole lot. And there
42:21
really still isn't for two weeks worth. Starting
42:24
with the goals, Mika Rankin recorded his 10th
42:27
career hat -trick versus the Penguins. Mikas
42:30
Abanajed scored his 300th career goal versus
42:32
the Sabres. And Liam Bischel of the Dow Stars
42:37
scored his first career NHL goal against the
42:39
Predators. Scott Lofton recorded his 100th career
42:42
goal and his second career hat -trick. Brian
42:46
Rust recorded his sixth career hat trick as well
42:49
as Jake Gensel recording his sixth career hat
42:51
trick. Max Sassen of the Canucks scored his first
42:55
career goal against the Bruins. Lane Hudson scored
42:58
his first career goal against Winnipeg. Declan
43:02
Carlisle of the Lightning scored his first goal
43:04
against the Kraken. Kafer Sherwood of the Canucks
43:09
recorded his first career hat trick. Adam Wellesby
43:14
of the Nashville Predators, scored his first
43:16
career NHL goal against the Rangers. Nolan Allen
43:20
of the Blackhawks, scored his first career goal
43:22
against the Kraken. Coming back to it, Gage Goncalves
43:27
of the Tampa Bay Lightning, scored his first
43:29
career goal, apparently I put against the Tampa
43:32
Bay Lightning, and Isaiah George of the New York
43:34
Islanders, scored his first career goal against
43:36
the Maple Leafs. Just a couple of point milestones,
43:40
Jesper Bratt surpassed the 400 point milestone.
43:44
Mason Diktavich got 100 points and Leon Dreisaitl,
43:48
just the other day, passed the 900 point milestone.
43:53
For games played, Dmitry Veronikov played in
43:57
his 100th game. Owen Tippett played in his 300th
44:01
game. Brock Besser, Andrei Vasileski, Evan Rodriguez,
44:05
and Neil Plonk all played in their 500th. Diego
44:09
Terevinen and Artemi Panarin. Played in their
44:12
700th. And Marcundry Flurry made his 1004th career
44:17
start, taking sole possession of third, all time
44:20
surpassing the great Patrick Law. Flower. Just
44:25
one little assist milestone, Ryan O 'Reilly just,
44:27
I believe as of yesterday, recorded his 500th
44:29
career assist. And earlier on, I think this is
44:33
more closer to what should have been announced
44:35
last episode, Sebastian Cosa of the Detroit Red
44:38
Wings. Recorded his first career win against
44:41
the Buffalo Sabres. I believe that was in his
44:43
first start as well. Yeah, that is all for those.
44:48
Nice. Do we want to do Jeffy's thing again or
44:50
do we do Colin's blind ranking first? Let's do
44:53
Jeffy's thing. All right. We're doing that same
44:56
thing we did last week with the higher lower,
44:57
correct? Yep, higher lower neutral if they happen
45:01
to be the same. First one is, was Brandpoint
45:05
higher or lower? neutral to Ryan O 'Reilly. Oh!
45:12
Reading point to Ryan O 'Reilly. Higher. I'm
45:15
taking the higher in this one. Did he use you
45:16
have to higher than O 'Reilly? Mm -hmm. Or...
45:20
Because I want to say I think I want to say O
45:22
'Reilly was like mid to late second. Point was
45:26
bird view so that will be high high. Was red
45:30
point that high? I thought it was earlier second
45:32
round. Early second round? Yeah. Okay, I'll agree
45:35
and go higher. O 'Reilly, Brandpoint was actually
45:39
lower than O 'Reilly. Brandpoint in 2014 drafted
45:43
by Tampa, setting 9th overall, 3rd round, 19th
45:47
overall pick that round. Ryan O 'Reilly was 2009
45:51
by Colorado, 33rd overall, 2nd round, 3rd pick
45:55
of the 2nd round. Okay, so we were both, I was
45:58
a little bit wrong on O 'Reilly, but I knew it
45:59
was 2nd round. But you at least were correct
46:02
on it. O 'Reilly being the 2nd round, yep. Eric's
46:09
higher low or neutral Eric's stall or Mark's
46:12
stall? Who was drafted higher? Eric's stall or
46:16
Mark's stall? What do I say Eric's stall was
46:21
drafted higher? I want to say Eric's stall was
46:23
like top five in his class. Eric's stall was
46:27
top five. I think Mark was until eight or nine.
46:30
So Eric is higher. You guys are both correct.
46:34
Eric Stahl was drafted higher in the 2003 draft
46:37
by Carolina, second overall in the first round,
46:41
where Mark Stahl was picked in 2005, 12th overall.
46:48
And then this one is Goaltender's. This one is
46:54
either higher or lower. Ilya Sorokin or Ivo Shosturkin.
47:02
I feel like this one would make you want to thank
47:05
Igor Shosturkin. So I'm gonna say Sorokin. Sorokin
47:09
was drafted higher. You guys are correct. They
47:12
both were drafted in 2014, but Sorokin was drafted
47:16
78th overall in the third round, 18th pick, where
47:20
Igor was picked in the fourth round, 28th overall.
47:25
Okay, cool. Awesome. I'm gonna pull these notes
47:29
up. Alright. We'll bear it back. All right. I'm
47:35
gonna do one. I only have the energy and patience
47:37
for one tonight. The best active, active players
47:42
to be wearing the jersey numbers zero through
47:46
nine. Okay. Active players wearing jersey numbers
47:50
zero through nine. Wearing the jersey number
47:54
five, Aaron Ekbada. Oh, okay. I mean, overall
48:01
career, he's been around for a while. I think
48:04
he's drafted first overall in 2013, 2014. So
48:08
he's been around for about 10 years now. I think
48:10
he's stuck, I think he's been with Florida the
48:12
whole time. I think he's good right in the middle.
48:17
I would agree. I think he's good right in the
48:18
middle, at three. Just a hint, only one player
48:25
on my list has moved. by the second person up
48:30
on the list, number four, Miro Hyskinen. Hyskinen,
48:34
okay, I already have a feeling who the one that
48:36
moved might be. Yeah. Miro Hyskinen. He's actually
48:39
been pretty solid. He's been very solid. His
48:42
entire time with Dallas and that. I mean, he's
48:45
only been around for four years now, three or
48:47
four years. I want to say he might have been
48:49
drafted same year as Kaprizov. I think he had
48:51
a kid's rookie year might have been the COVID
48:53
year. Can you guess who? Why that Paris? No,
49:24
he's actually next to my list. Jack Heichel?
49:27
Yep. Yeah, I think he's number one. Yeah. I mean,
49:30
he was great in Buffalo. He's the only reason
49:33
Buffalo had life, if you can call it that. They
49:37
failed him. They failed him and he's putting
49:40
up great numbers this year in Vegas in one of
49:42
his first four seasons. Hopefully he can stay
49:44
away from injury. Don't get me wrong, I didn't
49:47
like him in Buffalo. I wanted him to have success
49:50
and Buffalo didn't. Mean I want Buffalo in general.
49:53
I just like you still bad for the fans at this
49:57
point and I guess dedication you got you got
50:00
one fantastic team in the bills and one shit
50:04
team in Every game we've gone to Buffalo whether
50:07
our penguins were playing or the game Ryan Miller
50:09
and I like those fans were just No matter what
50:13
position their team is in that fan base is that
50:15
another I don't count this but funny enough between
50:18
the bills and the Sabres the Bills are between
50:23
i think i said november 27th between november
50:27
27th and present day which is december 22nd The
50:32
sabers have more bosses in that time than the
50:34
bills do in the last three regular seasons combined
50:38
Super dave is insane But yeah, like what we said
50:43
with michael like i'm glad that he got what he
50:46
was asking like when he got traded like his Actual
50:50
surgery and he's now look at him like he's thriving
50:54
in Vegas That's why I agree number one. Yeah,
50:59
and he won his first day in the cup in his first
51:01
payoff. Yeah, so Number the fourth man on the
51:06
list is number seven Brady Kachuk Even's favorite.
51:11
As much as we don't like the guy. I mean, he's
51:13
a great player I mean, he's one of the only reasons
51:16
I think that Ottawa has life He's one of the
51:19
only people that brings life to that team. So
51:22
I think you've got to put him at four here. No
51:24
offense to this last guy, but I'm trying to think
51:27
of who it could possibly be. Do you guys have
51:32
guesses? I don't have a guess. Well, the guess
51:36
would be that you put your boy Marino, but I
51:37
don't know what his number is over in Utah. Well,
51:39
he hasn't played yet. He hasn't played yet? He
51:41
had hip surgery. Oh, that's right. He played
51:44
in September and hasn't started seeing ice time.
51:46
I'm trying to think of... Other players that
51:51
are... Yeah, I don't... I'm gonna wait. One of
51:57
the guys that helped save us out of the 0 -4
52:00
-0 -5 lockout, the Grady himself, Alexander...
52:04
Oh my god, oh boy. Yeah, yeah, I'm sitting here
52:08
like I gave you guys hints in the past couple
52:10
weeks. I gotta wait and see anyway, so... Oh,
52:15
ow. Yeah, that one's rough. It's I I want to
52:20
be almost as upset as Ryan Miller. I really Yeah,
52:25
you were just fucking Jersey, too But you know
52:31
Unfortunately, we said that one hurts. Yeah Bob
52:35
say if we were to actually rearrange it if this
52:37
wasn't a blind one I'd say only one I cool to
52:42
you just bump OV up to one and drop everybody
52:43
down. Yeah. Yeah How do we not think of the over
52:47
how do we not think of Mexican is gonna come
52:49
up? Yeah, you got payers in the single digits
52:51
You think the great eight is always gonna be
52:54
out there? I just wasn't even thinking of them.
52:58
I don't know how we how we couldn't You got anything
53:04
any more news any more stats any more Jeff you
53:07
got anything while he's looking over the The
53:11
pair I think just a pair of small trades that
53:13
went on earlier this week What do I mean Capo
53:15
Caco going to Seattle? Oh, I doubt was just one
53:19
of those completely random ones that I did not
53:21
see coming No in exchange for Will Borgen the
53:24
third round pick in 25 in the sixth round pick
53:26
in 25 All in exchange for Capo Caco If I wouldn't
53:32
only the Penguins Reuniting with PO Joseph in
53:35
exchange for just future consideration. So at
53:37
the time considerably nothing And then the Montreal
53:41
Canadiens acquiring Alex carrier for the Predators
53:45
in exchange for defenseman Justin Barron. Yeah,
53:49
the Capo one kind of took me by surprise. If
53:51
I would have known he was on the trade block,
53:53
I would have wanted Pittsburgh to go after Capo
53:56
Capo. Bring in some young talent. Yeah, somebody
53:59
who's actually under the age of 35 on the roster.
54:03
We're starting a little bit younger. We're getting
54:05
there. Well, we still got, I mean, Krosby, LaTang,
54:08
Malkin themselves are going to bump up that average
54:10
by three themselves. No pun intended, but baby
54:16
steps. No irony in that. Those big four, LaTang,
54:20
Carlson, Malkin, those four alone are going to
54:23
bring up the average age above 30 themselves.
54:26
And we can have the rest of the team being 25
54:28
years old. Those four alone are going to make
54:30
the average age 30. When you're almost 40 years
54:32
old, obviously you're going to... Carlson's 37,
54:35
Malkin's 38, Carlson's like 35, Tang's like 36,
54:38
37. Yeah, that's what I think that's not all
54:44
ahead Yeah Don't think I'm just gonna scroll
54:48
through here real quick. Just see if there's
54:50
anything else that It catches our eyes that we
54:53
can discuss Maybe bring us up to here to an even
54:56
hour But uh, you don't see much I have this one
55:06
that I saw that which holiday dinner table are
55:09
you sitting at? The only problem is I don't know
55:12
some of the other people at the tables. Oh, I
55:15
saw that and I'm just like, I would bring it
55:17
up if I knew the players, if I knew the people.
55:19
I'm going to go over them. Unfortunately, I just
55:21
don't know some of them. Table 1, you've got
55:23
Austin Matthews, Ryan Reeves, Justin Bieber,
55:27
and some other fellow that I'm not too familiar
55:29
with. The only person in the table I talk to
55:32
is Ryan Reeves. Table 2, we have Connor McDavid,
55:38
Leon Dreisaitl. Beyonce. That's not Beyonce.
55:42
That's not Beyonce. From a distance. I want to
55:44
say that's like Lainey Wilson or something. I
55:45
don't know. And then I don't know who the other
55:47
guy is. I don't know who that one is. Table three,
55:49
we have Willie Nylander, David Pasternak, Tate
55:53
McCray, and I'm not sure who that fourth guy
55:55
is. Is that a good one? That's not a good one.
55:57
No, it's not. Table four, we have Kendall Coyne,
56:04
Sidney Crosby, Marc -Andre Flurry, and I'm not
56:06
sure who the second woman is. Right now, that's
56:09
obviously the winner. Just sitting at a table
56:12
with Crosby and Flurry alone is ridiculous. Table
56:16
five, we got Alex Ovechkin, Wayne Gretzky, Michael
56:19
Buble. And again, don't know who that fourth
56:21
guy is. And then table six is honestly closed.
56:25
You got Jack and Quinn Hughes, Bobby Liu, and
56:29
I'm not sure who that fourth guy is. I know who
56:32
he is, but I can't think of his name. I mean,
56:35
table four alone just... You're gonna hear some
56:38
of the conversations and laughs that cross being
56:40
flurry would be sharing Probably flurry putting
56:44
something across these food for a prank against
56:46
his reaction And that alone would be worth this
56:52
sitting there, you know Just yeah getting to
56:54
engage in conversation with those two who were
56:56
teammates for 14 years years You know still are
57:03
great friends to this day. They still see Flurry
57:05
pulling pranks on him, you know, and to this
57:08
day, like, it's crazy. You love it. Yeah, I mean,
57:13
you gotta love the flowering, I know, and this
57:15
being, most likely being his last year, which
57:19
sucks, you know, definitely my favorite goaltender
57:22
of all time. Yeah. Probably next to Ryan Miller
57:25
that we, you know, we saw his number go up, so.
57:27
I would be willing to pay an unreasonable amount
57:30
of money to go watch flurries after we go up
57:31
into the rafters. Same. I would pay a ridiculous
57:35
amount of money. I'm upset that I missed the
57:37
yonder one. People also miss the bobbleheads,
57:44
but here we are. A lot of people do. I think
57:50
that does about do it. All I can really say is
57:53
hope everybody listening has a great holiday,
57:56
great New Year's. Just enjoy your time to finish
58:01
off 2024 as a whole. And cheers to the second
58:06
half of season five coming up here. And just
58:10
a quick thank you for all the support that we
58:12
were able to get. If you guys did not see it
58:14
yet, we got our blue check mark on Twitter, which
58:16
that's huge for us. That's fucking awesome. never
58:20
would have think that we would have gotten that
58:21
which is it's awesome to see that next to our
58:23
name on twitter that is awesome that's so cool
58:26
that that happened now but uh you know we just
58:29
gotta do facebook next and here i don't know
58:31
if you can get like a verification on spotify
58:33
or not That's an after holiday project. I'm sorry,
58:46
I barely got through Twitter. Okay, that's an
58:50
after holiday project. That's awesome that we
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got that. Thank you to you guys for that. I know
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we just recently surpassed 3500 total downloads
58:59
of all time, and that's just downloads. I wish
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we could see the amount of listens or plays that
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our episodes have had. But like I said, hope
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you guys have great holidays, Merry Christmas,
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Happy New Year's, and live your life to the fullest
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here for the new year. Bring in 2025 with a bang,
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and go out with a bang, bring in the new year
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with a bang. I don't know if you all believe
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in superstitions, but I know there's superstition.
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Do not wash your clothes. I think it's on New
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Year's Day. You're not supposed to do laundry
59:29
on New Year's Day or something like that. No
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matter what I'm doing, my ear is going to be
59:32
fine. We've got a plan on doing some fun stuff
59:38
in here. Makeup for last year. Not doing much
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last year for it. Plus we've got a lot of exciting
59:44
things coming up in the coming weeks. A lot of
59:49
threat in later in the year. There's a lot more
59:51
exciting things to come as well. Number one thing
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that we're looking forward to is Connor McDavid
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night in the ear. It'll be 10 days into the new
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year, January 10th. Thankfully that's going to
1:00:00
be after our first recording of the new calendar
1:00:04
year. So we'll kind of get to... Maybe we'll
1:00:07
have to do a recording on the 11th the night
1:00:08
after, so it's fresh in our minds and we can
1:00:10
talk about it. 12th. Is it on a Friday night
1:00:12
we're doing it? It's a Friday night. Oh, Friday
1:00:14
night, but the 10th is a Saturday, okay. Yeah,
1:00:16
because the start of the new year is Wednesday,
1:00:20
Thursday, Friday, which as far as I know, what
1:00:22
the fuck. Oh yeah, I saw that. And you know what
1:00:26
the last year to start off with that was? 2020.
1:00:31
I saw that and I was like, oh god damn it, no!
1:00:34
March 15th, if you have any life in this, please.
1:00:38
Please. Just stop. Don't. Don't even think. Alright,
1:00:42
now that we've bladdened to get to that hour
1:00:44
mark, you're welcome for the last two minutes.
1:00:47
Thank you guys again for everything, man. We'll
1:00:49
see you in 2025. Lick it up and go out with a
1:00:54
bang. Alright guys, we'll see you later. See
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ya. Bye.