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Season 5 Episode 18: An Insane 1st Round Recap · The Buckpuster Podcast

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You know, I think somebody needs to tell the
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London Knights that they're allowed to lose a
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fucking game here and there. That they have now
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won 28 of their last 30 playoff games. They're
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allowed to lose a game here and there. Do they
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know that? Apparently not. They can. They have
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swept six of their last seven playoff series.
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The only one that they did not sweep was the
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conference finals last year against Saginaw.
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They lost that one in six, and then went on to
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lose to them in the Memorial Cup final. So apparently,
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if you want the London Knights to lose a playoff
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game, you just got to send the Saginaw their
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way. Which obviously they almost did, but you
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know. Hmm, they lost to a pretty familiar team.
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A team they were pretty familiar with. I don't
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know. I mean, I'm looking over Jeffy's right
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shoulder there, too. One of the beautiful -looking
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jerseys. I don't know. The crest, that beautiful
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logo on the crest. They don't use that logo anymore,
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but it's what that logo represents. As Connor
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McDavid would say, to wear the jersey now, it
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means something. He said that during his jersey
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retirement, when I first got here, it did not
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mean, you know, it was... It didn't mean that
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much or it wasn't as important as it is now.
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But now you've got to wear that jersey with pride
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because it means something now. And obviously,
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him being the one, the reason that his number
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is now up in the rafters. I hope they keep it
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on the ice. I doubt they will next year. I don't
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think so. But obviously, his number is going
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to be up there forever now. And that will never
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be worn by an Erie Otter. Again, not in that
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building. Not anywhere else. Yeah, these Londonites,
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man, they, oh my god. Anyways, yeah, Colin found
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this fun fact. We are now seeing the first rematch
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in OHL history. And it's the third time in OHA
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slash OHL history. Last time it happened was
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1954 and 1955 between the Toronto Marlboros and
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the St. Catharines teepees. Also happened in
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1949 -41, also the Toronto Marlboros and the
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Oshawa Generals. So, again, the Oshawa Generals
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have done it twice. But now, instead of the Toronto
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Marlboros, it is the London Knights. Which, I
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did not see them going on to sweep Barry. I did
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not see that coming. Neither did I. I honestly
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thought Barry was a much better team this year.
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Also, keep in mind, going into the Eastern Conference
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Finals over there, I'll show one in Barry. They
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went home for games three and four up to nothing,
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which, you know, it's rare to see at this stage
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in the playoffs for any level to lose both games
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on home ice. You expect it on the first round,
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any league, because, you know, there might be
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some phonies in there, some phony teams. It's
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like, okay, how the fuck did you make it this
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far into the season to get to the seed? Yeah,
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but now. After game one, you thought, hey, this
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might be a pretty close series. It's a 3 -1 final.
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Then they go on to win game two 7 -1. And it's
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like, oh, okay. Okay, Oshawa, we see you guys.
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Like, okay, we see you. Game three coming home
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to Oshawa. They won 7 -6 in double overtime.
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90 total shots in that game between both teams.
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Oshawa outshot Barry 50 -40. That's insane. And
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then game four, Oshawa wins 8 -4 to close out
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the series. London, Kitchener kind of held in
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there. I mean, most of the games were pretty
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close. First two games in London, final scores
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of 5 -2 and 6 -2. And they really tried, really
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fought hard to hold them off there. And the home
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ice didn't want to get swept on home ice. Scores
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of just being 3 -2 and 4 -2. So all four games,
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Kitchener scored two goals. It'll be 3 -4 -5
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-6 for London's totals. Or 5 -6 -3 -4 if you
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want to go in order. But we have a rematch of
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last year's Stanley Cup. Jay Ross. Wrong lead
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there, buddy. I know we talk about anything hockey,
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but you've got to get your leads right, alright?
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Last year, hopefully, we don't see an exact repeat.
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Because last year, London swept against us. Swept
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four games to nothing. Again, none of those were
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close, being 8 -1, 9 -1. Okay, one of them was
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close. Also, it's 7 -6. It's a double overtime
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game. And then, finally, what? 8 -1? Yeah, I
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mean, it's... These London Knights, man. Someone
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needs to tell them to just chill. I'm sick of
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seeing them. I mean, they're a good fucking team.
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You can respect good hockey. That's the Dale
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Hunter way. That's the way this team and this
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organization is. They know. They know where to
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find talent. They know talent when they see it.
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They know how to develop. They never have an
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off year. Ever since the Hunters came in, in
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the early 2000s, I think they joined the 99 -2000
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season because the first year that the Otters
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were in the league, 96 -97, The London Knights
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had an abysmal three wins. That was their shit
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season. And that still holds the record for the
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worst. Worst season ever. And then they still
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were a basement team. They were still in the
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bottom of the league. Granted, the league was
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16 teams back in the day. Oh, no, four teams
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in 27 years, 26 years, something like that. That's
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something I'm trying to find out. I'll have to
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go back and maybe try to find this kitchen answer
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for you next episode. But the Peterborough Peets
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currently hold the record for the longest. consecutive
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playoff appearance streak in OHL history, making
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the playoffs for 27 consecutive seasons, from
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the 76 -77 season to the 0 -2 -0 -3 season. The
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Gulf Storm currently hold the longest active
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streak, extending to 18 seasons. Was that this
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year? Did they make it this year? I don't know.
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They got knocked out. So yeah, that must have
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ended this year. I could assume London might
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be up there for the longest active streak at
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this point. I don't think they've missed since
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the early 2000s. I know, it's been quite some
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time. But, yeah, obviously with the finals now
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getting ready to get underway, game one will
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be in London. on May 8th, and then Game 2 on
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May 10th in London. And then they'll head over
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to Oshawa in Games 3 and 4 on the 12th and 13th.
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And then if necessary, Game 5 will be back in
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London on the 15th, and Oshawa on the 17th. And
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then Game 7 is on the 19th, if they get to that
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point. I'm sorry, I don't think it's going to
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go... Maybe five or six, but... London's going
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to repeat, unfortunately. Yeah, I mean, as much
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as we probably don't want to see it, I mean,
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we don't say a lot of advice, so we've voiced
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how much we dislike London as a team, as individuals.
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But, I mean, respect for them versus good of
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a team. They're just good, like... I'll admit
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it, they're a really good team. Really good talent
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on that team. It was kind of funny, we kind of
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briefly talked about it on our little group chat
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we have. Because obviously throughout this year
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they've been doing the quarter century teams
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for each OHL team. Like, just the Midwest, just
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because he revealed the Midwest division, like,
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it's just so stacked. Like, there are so many
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games that are not even on the list. Like, it's
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insane, like, how stacked, like, the last 25
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years has been for the Midwest. Like, it's just
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been so stacked. Unbelievable. Because, obviously,
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for the Midwest division, it was... They have,
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on first team, it was Patrick Kane, Connor McDavid,
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Mitch Marner, Drew Dowdy, Evan Bouchard, and
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Jordan Finiton. And then team two was, second
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team was Jeff Carter, Wyatt Johnson, Michael
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Misa, Zane Perak, Mikhail Sergeyev, and Matt
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Murray. Like, there's honestly so many other
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names you could easily... Zane Perak's a fucking
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bitch. No, because I'm going to say stuff that
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I can't say on the air. Easy. Like, there. That's
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all I can say. As friggin' annoying as that is.
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Yeah, I'm doing research as we speak. Still going
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back. I'm all the way back to the 0203 season.
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And London's streak is still going on. So...
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Yeah, I'm trying to just figure that out as we...
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As we speak here. Obviously M2 was the honors.
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Did the Knights make it that year? They made
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it that year. Have we beat them in the second
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round? Shocker. We've seen that before. But yeah.
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It's going to be interesting how the finals are
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going to go. And obviously, when this episode
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goes out tomorrow, we'll kind of have an idea
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where Schaefer is going to more than likely land.
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Because obviously the lottery is up tomorrow.
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The NHL will be doing that tomorrow. Apparently,
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whatever stat I just saw before was wrong. The
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London Knights have not missed the playoffs since
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the 1999 -2000 season. When's the last time you
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missed the playoffs? That's 22 seasons. 25. We
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didn't have the 21 or 22 playoffs. Or 2020 or
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2021. So 24. It said 22, so. 24. If you're including
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the 1999 -2000 season, that's 24 seasons because
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you take outs. the 2020, or, sorry, 23, because
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you take out the 1920 playoffs. So I probably
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just didn't update yet, so yeah, 23 consecutive
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seasons. Yeah, because you're, well, we say the
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Guelph Storm one was 27. Yeah, or, I don't know,
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because technically, technically they made the
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playoffs in the 1920 season. Technically, so
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we can say they didn't, although they didn't
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actually physically play, game, they still clinched
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a playoff spot. And then the 2020 -21 season
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was cancelled, so we didn't have playoffs that
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year as well. You know who the longest active
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streak in the NHL is? I don't know. I'm trying
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to go through the teams. No Winnipeg, no Dallas,
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no Florida, no Toronto, no Washington. No Carolina.
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Hold on. I've got to look at who actually made
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it. They are on the walls right now. Oh, they
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are on the walls. I want to say Carolina. Edmonton.
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Nope. Can't be Vegas. It is Toronto. Toronto?
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Oh. They've made it every year since 2017. And
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they have won one playoff series. Two. Two now.
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Two. The longest streak, least amount of playoff
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series wins in that time. Yep. Well, with the
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exception of... Actually, no. No other exception.
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Now. The All -Stars have only made it the last
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three years, and they have won four series. Florida's
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only made it in the last four, last five, and
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they've won eight series. Obviously, they've
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won the Cup. And, yeah, half of them were last
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year. But, yeah, it's crazy. Some of these streaks
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that we're seeing, man. London has a hole, man.
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I mean, chill out. I don't know. I mean, if the
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Russia would... Swept right by Barry. I mean,
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we might have a series here. I've seen a lot
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of... Again, I'm not going to act surprised if
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this does end in another London sweep. I'm not
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going to act surprised. I saw a lot of Osho General
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fans. They said that this was... They honestly
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believe this team was a lot better than what
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they were at last year. Even though they made
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the finals last year. They think they're overall
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better. They were a better team than what they
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were last season. Yeah, for sure. But, I mean,
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yeah, that's about all we have to discuss in
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the LHL right now. Obviously, there's not much
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going on in Otter's world, except they announced
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coaching changes. Wes Wolfe is going to be gone.
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And what, head athletic trainer? Yeah. Andrew
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Koop is going to be gone. Well, as the voice
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of the Otters, Sean Bednar is moving on, which
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I think we did discuss that already last episode.
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Trevor Cabana taking over for the voice of the
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Otters. It's going to be nice to see the nice
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young, what, 23, 24 -year -old Trevor. 24. He
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just graduated college. So nice and young. He's
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an Erie boy. Born and raised. Went to Gatlin.
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Yeah, went to Gatlin. He's a homegrown boy. I
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know he's mentioned on his podcast that he does.
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I wonder if he's going to have enough time to
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continue that going. Or if he's going to be able
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to find a new host for it. I wonder if they're
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going to try to find a new host for that or if
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he's going to try to keep it going. I guess we'll
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see. We'll find out here in the offseason. The
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ought season here. I just want to punch it right
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now. Yeah, so we weren't calling it that right
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now, which we're still going, but nobody's getting
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past London, man. It's one of those things, at
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this point in this league, if you want to make
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it to the final, you're going to have to play
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London at some point. Yep. Whether it's in the
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final or the conference final or somehow get
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it past in the first round, which I wish I could
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go back even further and see when the last time
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London lost the first round. Which I think it's,
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yeah, I think it was 2018. I think I saw that
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as I was going through. I think they got swept
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in 2018 in the first round to 0 -2. As I know,
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if that's the case, before that it was 2015 against
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Erie. And Erie swept them. We did that in 2015.
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It was 2014 or 2015 we swept them. Oh, wow. I
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know it was 2014 or 2015. I do remember that.
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It was not 14, because London lost in the second
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round to the number one seeded Guelph. Okay,
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it might have been 15 then. Yeah, well, we swept
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them in the second round. Yeah, we were the number
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two seed there in number three. We swept them.
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Let's see. Yeah, 2018, the number four seed,
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Owen Zantac, swept the fifth seed, London, in
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the first round in 2018. Also, that's the year
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that Hamilton went to go on to win their first
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of their two and four years or two and five years.
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That 2018 year, Hamilton only lost five games.
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They went 16 -5 in that year. The second year,
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they only lost three games. They were such a
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fucking good team. 2022, they only lost three
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games, all three of them being in the final where
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Windsor took them to seven. I mean, that's about
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all I got left to say for the year. London just
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needs to chill out, man. They've lost first round
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2008 to Guelph 4 -1, but they didn't get swept.
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They have not, they haven't, or I guess it was
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in the 99 -2000 season, so I can't really say.
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I was going to say they have not, they have yet
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to miss the playoffs in this century, but if
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it was the 99 -2000 season, that wouldn't make
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sense. Imagine if you could say that. Oh, we
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haven't missed the playoffs this century. That'd
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be ridiculous. Yeah. Alright. Now that we've
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done this in a couple weeks, I think we are going
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to jump back into some hurdle or Pukdoku here.
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Let's start with some Pukdoku. Alright, going
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to run across for the columns. We have Arizona,
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Vancouver, and Ottawa. Whereas for the rows,
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we have Philadelphia, Winnipeg, and Edmonton.
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I'm wondering if this can be Winnipeg or Arizona,
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or if it has to be Arizona. I think it just has
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to be Arizona. Click on Arizona. It'll usually
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hover over it or click on it. It'll tell you.
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It's just Arizona. It has to be Arizona. Right,
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Arizona, Edmonton. Mike Smith. Yeah, so that's
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what I was just about to say. Shut up, Walmart.
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I don't want to read your ad. Arizona Philly
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Jeremy Roenick, correct? Arizona Philly? Yeah.
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How long has that Penguins banner been up there?
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I just noticed that. Oh, I've had that for a
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while. No, I got it for Christmas. Because...
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It's been up there since? No, not up there since.
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I think since I... The banners, I've been up
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there for a while. The clock I moved up. The
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three banners have been there for a while. I
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moved the clock up, the stick over, and the board,
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the pin board up. You're just now noticing it?
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Kyle, we've been in the studio for how many weeks
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now? Two, come on. Back on topic, all right?
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Come on. Philly. I want to say Trevor Linden,
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but I don't know if he played for Philly. I know
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he's spent a good amount of his career in Vancouver.
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Did he go somewhere else? Oh, Claude Giroux for
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Philly. Ottawa. Kind of a gimme, but... Well,
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I mean, we'll take it. Because this is usually
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the point where we start to tamper off. Edmonton,
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Ottawa. And we're tampering off. Man, it's like
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I know us at this point. Josh Norris, I think
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he's always been up there. Up in Ottawa. I don't
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think he's been sometime. Not neither. Winnipeg
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or Edmonton. Taylor Hall, I don't think he'd
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fit anywhere. I'm just thinking of players that
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have jumped. Traveled. Well -seasoned, per se.
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Wow, I can't... Prison Boy. I don't think he'd
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fit anywhere. Other than Arizona. Click on Winifred,
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does that say? Would the franchise count? No,
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just the Winnipeg. So, current Winnipeg and last
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season's Arizona. Or through last season's Arizona.
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If you just hover over the logo instead of clicking,
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does it tell you? No. It's one of the grid sites
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that tells you which ones count. Normally, it
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says it. If it's the playoff stats or the stats,
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it says... On that team versus career. I'm just
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wondering if thrashers would count for the Jets
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here. No, it would say that franchise versus,
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like I said, it's just saying it's the specific
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team. Damn, Ottawa -Winnipeg. I think that one
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should be a lot easier. Yager doesn't fit anywhere,
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I don't believe. No. Oh, Philly, but Philly's
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the only... He wouldn't fit in anywhere. Yeah,
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Kyle, he's a person. All the way over in the
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Czech Republic. Mike Hoffman, did he ever play
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for Edmonton? I know he played for Ottawa. I
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think he was on that absolutely stacked 17 team.
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Yeah, he was. Did he ever play for Edmonton?
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Ottawa, San Jose. I think he's still... I think
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he's still currently out of San Jose. Is he?
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Yeah. I know he's played for more than the three
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that we just named, but what are the other ones?
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I'm not saying the Rangers, because I think he
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might have been the one that was in that... the
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Mika Zibana chat trade. Because remember, Zibanejad
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started up in Ottawa, but then came down to the
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Bluecoats, and that's right. Okay. So... Well,
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I don't think Hoffman ever played for the Bluecoats,
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though. No, no, he didn't. They were both on
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that absolutely stacked 16 -17 center team, the
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one that made it to the conference finals. No,
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because we played Mika in the first round that
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year with the Bluecoats, so... Hoffman, yes.
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Oh, no. Mika was up in... It was in New York
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at the time. I thought he would be with Ottawa.
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No, that's a little too late. 15, 16 maybe, but
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definitely not 17. Did Hoffman play for Edmonton,
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not for Cremo? I want to say he did, but... Let's
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see, Jeff Skinner's only been... Buffalo, Carolina,
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Edmonton. Cory Perry has been... Anaheim. Anaheim,
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Toronto. Tampa. Tampa. Dallas. Dallas. Montreal.
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I'm in Montreal, sorry. Montreal. One of those
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fucking Canadian teams that we all fucking hate.
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Dallas, Montreal, Tampa, Chicago, Edmonton. Oh
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yeah, the Chicago motherfuckers. That's right.
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Yeah. He took motherfucker away to a whole new
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level, man. Dylan DeMello, I know he's younger
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on Winnipeg, but I think he's only been there.
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Or did he start in Ottawa, maybe? Brendan Dillon,
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really the only team on here is Winnipeg. Washington.
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Well, I'm saying on here. It would only be Winnipeg.
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Did he play for Vancouver? I know there's a third
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team. New Jersey. Jersey, Washington, and Winnipeg.
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Is that it? Okay. That little... We're binded.
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We want to just throw Hoffman on. Edmonton. Edmonton.
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I thought he did the right one point. Let's do
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the right one. No, he did not. Damn. All right.
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Wow, this one's tough, man. Winnipeg and Arizona.
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Not Evander Kane, right? No. Winnipeg, San Jose,
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Buffalo, and Montana. Trying to think of that
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time right around the time where maybe Winnipeg
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was new or when they just came back from Atlanta.
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Big Buff? Blake Wheeler? No. Big Buff? No. Ilya
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Brzgalov. I know he did fill you. I know he spent
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a little time in Arizona. You spent some time.
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I think he might have. That would be the best
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guess we've came up with so far. Well, as you
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played for either Winnipeg or Vancouver. Vancouver,
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I don't think so. Because if we did Winnipeg,
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we could do Winnipeg, Arizona. But if we did
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Vancouver, we could do Philadelphia, Vancouver.
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I think this one might be the hardest one to
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get. I think we eventually could get another
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one for Winnipeg, Vancouver. I think we want
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to get Dries Gahl. I'll use him for Winnipeg,
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Arizona. All right. Did he, though? Again, I
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know for sure he did Arizona. It's just I don't
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know Winnipeg. I'm trying to think of who would
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have been their goalie right when they first
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came over back to Winnipeg. Oh, remember the
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goalie that fainted on the ice in a game against
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Philadelphia? When he was playing for Philadelphia.
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Michael Neuwirth. Neuwirth. There's a second
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one. There's another one that happened. With
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that Atlanta -Winnipeg franchise. I can't think
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of it. But anyway, Neuwirth. Where else is he
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a player? I'm not 100 % sure either. I said Briscoe
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would be my best guess right now. For Arizona?
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Yeah. No? Damn. Damn it. Where all has Craig
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Anderson played? I know one of you are. Colorado,
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Ottawa, and Washington. Never played for Edmonton?
28:01
No. Oh, I don't know if he technically played
28:04
for Washington because it was the COVID year,
28:06
the COVID bubble year with the realigned divisions.
28:09
Oh, no. He was the number two because originally
28:13
Lundquist was supposed to be in there, but with
28:15
his heart problems, Lundquist could never suit
28:17
up. So. Ended up retiring. Yeah, which is sad.
28:21
He only played for the Bluecoats. Damn, this
28:26
one's... Why is this one so tough? Hoffman, I
28:32
don't think he'd play for Winnipeg, so I don't
28:33
think we can use him there either. Just checking
28:39
the score of the game. Your final series going
28:44
on right now? The first series to start. And
28:47
the last series to go, I have to keep playing.
28:51
Three minutes left in the third. Drew's still
28:54
up. 3 -1. I'm going to say it again. We have
28:59
no other guesses. I'd say throw Trevor Linden
29:00
up there for Vancouver Philly. I don't think
29:04
he played there, but we are struggling hardcore
29:06
today. We have that rust that we haven't done
29:09
since a couple weeks. No? Damn. I'm out. I got
29:19
nothing. Neither do I. Come on. Here we go. I
29:35
have two stats. Luke Shen, were you just talking
29:39
about him earlier? Mike Delzato, Don Brashear,
29:42
Sam Gagne for Philly, Vancouver. Anybody? Andrew
29:50
Lyon. Keith Kachuk. He came to my mind for a
29:54
minute, but I was not thinking that he played
29:56
for Winnipeg. I see. He came to my mind, too,
30:00
but I couldn't figure out where he's... Tyler
30:02
Myers. From Winnipeg, Vancouver. To Foley, Luke
30:05
Shenigan, Nate Schmidt, Garnier. Fuck, why? Danny
30:13
Hew... Hosa. So they were counting the Atlanta.
30:16
The Atlanta. Franchise. Damn. Thanks for fucking
30:26
telling us, friggin' Puckadoku. Damn. Let's embarrass
30:31
ourselves with the grid or the pyramid thing.
30:34
Oh, Connor Brown. Me too. Cam Talbot, Connor
30:38
Brown, David Perron, Kyle Turris. We deserve
30:42
that loss. Who else? Who's waiting to find out
30:48
who they're playing? If I can find out a little
30:50
bit, wait a little bit longer as Winnipeg comes
30:52
back and ties. They're playing Dallas. Dallas.
30:54
The winner plays Dallas. Dallas, you need to
30:57
find out. Wait to find out who you're playing
30:59
for just a tad bit longer. Winnipeg Jets with
31:01
two goals in the last, what, minute and a half.
31:05
No. To tie this game. Hold on. I'm looking that
31:11
up now. I do have a timer set for beginning of
31:13
Miltie, by the way. So. So if it does go off,
31:17
that's why. All right. A minute 55 left in what
31:29
is the second Winnipeg goal by Nemeskov. And
31:33
then three seconds left. Fucking three seconds
31:37
left. Perfetti with the second of the game from
31:41
Connor and Ehlers. Unbelievable. Beautiful goal,
31:45
too. Not even Winnipeg fans, man. We sat here.
31:51
We're going crazy. We're like, holy shit. The
31:54
kid's 23. He just turned 23 years old at the
31:57
beginning of his calendar year. I know, man.
31:58
I know. But he's still like his third or fourth
32:00
season. I know he started when he was like 19,
32:02
20. But that is without question no word from
32:08
that. That is the biggest goal of this kid's
32:09
career so far. That is... Unbelievable, man.
32:12
I'm surprised we can't hear the Winnipeg fans
32:14
from here. Okay. Hold on. Open the window. Actually,
32:18
no, that's south. That is one of the most electrifying
32:21
goals I have ever seen. I just tweeted that out,
32:23
man. If you don't think that playoff hockey is
32:26
the best, not only the best hockey, but the best
32:30
moments in sports, you're fucking lying. There
32:36
is nothing that can compare to playoff hockey.
32:38
We just saw it right there. You're lying or you're
32:40
fucking stupid. We just saw it right there. That's
32:44
unbelievable. Back to games. Not hockey or intermission,
32:51
but intermission games. Here we go. Anybody that
32:58
has ever played for Boston. Let's try to think
33:01
of the most random thing we can possibly think
33:03
of here. Excuse me. Dan Heinen, Phil Kessel.
33:10
Zdorov. Yeah, let's do Kessel, because he won't
33:12
fit anywhere else. He might fit in one of the
33:15
bottom three, but... Let's do Stanley Cup winner
33:21
for Phil Kessel. I think he has had a 30 -goal
33:24
season. I think he did once or twice for Toronto,
33:26
then once or twice for us. So we'll save him.
33:29
Let's do... Let's do Danton Heinen. Come on.
33:35
Imagine we just did all Penguins here. And the
33:38
30 -goal season for Boston. Pasta. Pasta, yeah.
33:43
Yep. Pasta. Oh, yeah. And then feel the thrill,
33:49
Kessel. Feel the thrill. Drafted first round.
33:59
Bergeron, right? Bergeron was first overall,
34:01
I think. No, Bergeron was like a third or fourth
34:04
rounder, wasn't he? Six, because he was the same
34:06
year as... Was he sixth round? He was 2003. Wow.
34:10
He was late, but, man, what a... He doesn't necessarily
34:14
have to have been drafted by Boston. Just somebody
34:16
that was drafted in the first round. Drafted
34:19
first round, cup winner, 30 -plus goal season,
34:23
and has played for Boston at any point in the
34:27
career. I'd say Taylor Hall, but he doesn't win
34:29
a cup yet, I don't think. No. Nope. Ray Bork?
34:37
Chara? When was he drafted? I don't know. And
34:43
I don't think Chara's had a 30 -goal season.
34:46
Oh, yeah, probably not true, yeah. And Ray Bork.
34:52
When was he drafted? I can't remember. No idea.
35:05
I'm trying to think of some players back on that
35:07
2011 team. Tyler Sagan? Was he your first round?
35:17
I feel like he might have been. I feel like he
35:21
might have also been. Wait, what's that top one?
35:23
Dallas? Dallas is the top one. Okay, so Tyler
35:26
Sagan might be the top. So let's save him for
35:29
the top one. So then we can use one of our lifelines
35:32
for these first two. So film playing 50 -50 or
35:36
player card? Let's do... Let's make it tell us.
35:40
Player card. We've never done that one. It wasn't
35:43
going to show us stats. That's totally what I
35:48
wanted to pick. It's a fucking ad, dude. It keeps
35:51
popping up. I'll play for the Penguins for 11
35:55
years. Oh, Yager. Wow. Duh. Duh. Canadian nationality.
36:10
The rap. I was going to just do the rap. Was
36:13
he a first round draft pick? Oh, fuck. Yeah.
36:16
Oh. Well, we can do Get Lifeline. Get Lifeline
36:23
and do 50 -50. Andrew Chuck or Brian Rolison?
36:28
Did Andrew Chuck play for Boston? I don't know.
36:32
I don't fucking remember. I don't know. I'm not
36:35
even 100 % sure who Brian Rolison is. I don't
36:40
even know any of them. We have some mics. We
36:49
do. It was J. Andrews checking out Tyler Sagan,
36:54
I believe. Yep. Hell yeah. Boom, alright, we
36:59
redeemed ourselves from that horrendous grid.
37:06
It's three choices for the top one. Or the third
37:08
one. Yeah, Yager, Kessel, Sagan. Sagan would
37:11
have fit there, obviously, as well. Ratt, yeah.
37:15
Rick Nash would have been... Okay, that makes
37:19
sense. And then... Yeah, for like any boss to
37:25
fire. Let's try some Hurtle. Hurtle. Alright.
37:40
I swear to God, if I would have fucking gone
37:42
there, man, I would have lost my shit. That's
37:45
the one I was immediately going to say. The hairdo.
37:48
The hairdo and the ears that kind of stick out.
37:52
I was going to say Cole Caulfield, but obviously
37:54
if it's in the West, it can't be Cole Caulfield.
37:57
Pacific Center that is over the age of 31. His
38:04
number is over 12. And he's not American. So
38:11
let's try to maybe get somebody that's in the
38:15
30 -40 number range. Maybe somebody in the 20s.
38:24
He's like 31 years old or older. Well, what nationality
38:31
is Logan Couture? I think he's Canadian. I think
38:36
he's Canadian. I know that's not his hairdo,
38:41
but... Okay, he's Canadian. This player's Canadian.
38:44
He's between the age of 31 to 34. 31 to 33. So
38:49
we know he's early 30s. And his numbers are between
38:52
12 and 36. Okay. Obviously doesn't pay for Vegas
38:59
or San Jose. Honestly, don't think in a million
39:01
years I could have told you Logan Couture were
39:03
the number 39. I don't think I could have told
39:05
you that in a million years. Well, that's the
39:07
only thing that popped up. I was like, okay,
39:09
his number's in the 30s. I did not know that.
39:11
Yeah, his. I would have guessed him as like a
39:13
single, like an eight. Maybe I did not know that
39:15
he was 39. What's the silver again? So, okay.
39:21
It gives us more direction. We know he's a center,
39:24
right? Yeah. I was thinking maybe goalie. Dude,
39:29
why does that finally kind of fucking look like
39:30
Ferb? From like Phoenix and Ferb. The fucking
39:39
draft neck, man. Obviously, it's not in one of
39:46
the Kachuks. It's not. It's not like a Brandon
39:50
Tanev. I'm just trying to picture some of the
39:57
great photos that we've seen of draft necks.
40:03
And I'm going to be wrong on the nationality.
40:12
But. Oh, position. Oh, I guess I'm wrong on a
40:18
lot more things than I thought. Do like a Connor
40:23
Brown. I don't know. He's on him. Yeah. No, he's.
40:28
Yes, sorry. I'm also thinking of Warren Fogle.
40:37
I'm thinking of Warren Fogle. I was trying to
40:44
get more of his number. His number is between
40:48
13 to 25 range. 12 to 25 range. 37. So it could
41:04
be Calgary, San Jose, Calgary, Anaheim, and Utah
41:14
is also in the Pacific, right? I thought they
41:18
were in the Central. Or Seattle. So Calgary,
41:25
Anaheim, Seattle. I'll be honest with you, I
41:27
can't tell you any centermen out of... Out of
41:30
Ute's thought. What's he trading at the deadline?
41:33
Bjork Strand. Well, remember, I don't think this
41:37
website's updated. As updated as... Maybe like
41:40
an Oliver Bjork Strand? I know his number's like
41:43
20, I think. I know, I'm pretty sure he's a center.
41:47
And the age might be a little high? But... Oh,
41:52
he's off Tampa now. Okay, so it is updated. Okay.
41:56
Let's see, we just wasted a guess. Oh, and he's...
41:59
Danish too, yeah. Dumbass. Or Denmark. The only...
42:02
Only... Actually, I don't even know any centermen
42:06
out of fucking Seattle. I don't even know who
42:09
their centers are. Yeah, because Gord is back
42:11
with Tampa. Yeah. I think they're part of that
42:14
same trade. The Yorkshire and Gord. Who did...
42:19
Who did Tampa send to Seattle on that trade?
42:22
I don't fucking remember. Again, I don't even
42:24
know... I don't even remember anybody in Seattle.
42:28
Outside the defense. Yeah, it wasn't Kakko. I'm
42:33
trying to remember, who did Tampa send to Seattle
42:34
in that trade? Was it Sergachev? No, because
42:38
Sergachev came over in the offseason. Oh, that's
42:40
right. Yeah, because he played almost all 82
42:44
with Seattle. Sergachev went to Utah, didn't
42:46
he? That's why I was... Oh, Utah. Oh, yeah. And
42:50
the number wouldn't line up. And age. Age is
42:56
32. Try to guess somebody on Calgary, maybe?
43:00
No, not Sean Monahan. He's on Columbus. What
43:05
about Elias Lindholm? He's on Carolina now, I
43:09
think. Oh, maybe Nazem Khadri? What's his number
43:16
over there? 43. So, too high. Too high. And that
43:21
would give us the team. We want to get somebody
43:27
on, like, Anaheim. I think Zegras, just you.
43:43
Yeah, just try to get the team. It's not Anaheim.
43:48
So it's Seattle or Calgary. 32 -year -old Canadian
43:54
centerman. In the Pacific. But almost everything
44:00
else lines up for Qadri, but not the number.
44:08
I think Qadri might be a little bit older than
44:11
that by now. I think he might be more like 34,
44:13
35. Fuck. I'm almost thinking of Seattle now,
44:35
but who? I got nothing. Yeah, I got nothing.
44:57
It's my best guess, but the age doesn't line
45:00
up. Or the number. Jaden Schwartz at West Seattle.
45:07
That makes sense. Jaden Schwartz, wow. Damn.
45:16
It looks like we probably won't know the winner
45:19
of this series with tonight's episode because
45:22
we are going to double overtime now. Some beautiful
45:25
saves from both sides. Great plays. St. Louis
45:29
had almost a heartbreaker with a very stupid
45:32
delay game penalty. were able to kill it off
45:35
early on in overtime. Look at that one, man.
45:37
My God. Jordan Bennington, dude. Different Jordan
45:44
Bennington this year, man. Oh, no. It's an end
45:48
date between pre and post Four Nations. That
45:52
was really the confidence booster that Jordan
45:55
Bennington needed was Four Nations. He's been
46:00
unstoppable. Or no, he... Was stoppable, because
46:05
goalies stop. Yeah. Ah, get with it, freshman.
46:11
But, yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, like I said, this
46:15
is the only series that is still going on that
46:17
we have yet to find out the winner to. Everything
46:22
else, so we know. We'll start, we'll go over
46:25
in the east. Toronto taking down Ottawa in six
46:29
games. Four games to two, obviously. And Florida
46:32
do it in five games over Tampa. And then Washington
46:36
did it, beat Montreal in five. While Carolina
46:41
beat New Jersey in five. So, looking forward
46:46
to, let's go back to the first series, the series
46:50
from the Atlantic. The Toronto -Florida series.
46:54
That was a great, hard -fought series by Ottawa.
46:58
Going down 3 -0. I won game four, winning one,
47:04
going back to Toronto for game five, taking one
47:06
away again. I think that was an overtime, wasn't
47:08
it? Games two, three, and four were an OT. Five
47:12
was in regulation. Okay. Yeah, one, five, six
47:15
were regulation, so. I want to say it's on me
47:20
because I know Jeffrey had said it, and I saw
47:22
it earlier in the day with Moe and Barney. Moe
47:26
thrown Barney out, and then. He knocked it out,
47:29
Brady. Okay, great. You got one good Chuck brother
47:33
out. You still have one more. Just remember.
47:36
I thought it was funny. Steve Dangle's video
47:39
after game five, man. I thought he was about
47:41
to lose it, dude. Just remember. After game four,
47:45
he's like, okay, we lost one. It's fine. Whatever.
47:46
And then he lost game five. I thought he was
47:49
about to lose it. Game five in Toronto. In Toronto.
47:54
But just remember. We want Florida. What happened
47:59
the last time? They won Florida. Those cocky
48:03
bastards. There's nobody in this world that wants
48:06
Toronto to lose more than Colin right now. Again,
48:08
I just want them to shut the fuck up for crying
48:13
out loud. Real quick, look at the time on ice
48:17
leaders for Game 7. Neil Pionk has played 39
48:19
and a half minutes so far. Almost 40 minutes.
48:22
Almost 40 minutes out of 80. Like, that is insane.
48:24
He's played almost 50 % of this game. That's
48:28
insane. Yeah, that was a fun series. Ottawa made
48:33
it a series. They made it very interesting. They
48:37
had a Toronto kind of, not made it very easy,
48:39
but 4 -2 win to win the series 4 -2 in game 5,
48:43
or game 6, sorry. The Tampa Bay -Florida series.
48:49
This one I ended up being completely wrong on.
48:51
I think I said Tampa in 6 on this one, in my
48:53
bracket. Ended up being Florida in 5. Florida
48:57
was just clearly the better team in the series.
49:00
Tampa got a lucky win on game three in Florida,
49:03
5 -1. But other than that, Florida just took
49:06
care of business, beat the piss out of them,
49:09
and showed why they're reigning cup champs. Yeah.
49:14
I'm going to stick to my guns. I know I told
49:16
you guys earlier. I'm going to say Florida in
49:19
six for round two. I mean, just overall, they're
49:23
a much better team. They have more consistent
49:25
goaltending with Sergei Prokhorovsky. Their defense
49:28
outside the top, they have more than the top
49:31
pair. Once they get Aaron Eckblad off of suspension
49:33
there, because I think he'll be out for game
49:36
one. I mean, you can't take anything away from
49:40
Anthony Starrs. The second half of the season,
49:41
Anthony Starrs has been light out. And I know
49:45
both Stolars and Joseph Wohl have been spending
49:49
time in the regular season. Obviously Stolars
49:51
thankfully got hot at the right time for Toronto,
49:53
which that was a big thing in that Ottawa series,
49:56
was Stolars. But instead of having a top six
50:01
that's going to pound you, again, Florida's just
50:04
a more balanced team. They'll come in waves,
50:07
just the greatness they have. That fucking second
50:10
line. If they, like, if they put that second
50:12
line together of Chucky, Marshy, and Benny. Dude,
50:17
you, good fucking luck. That's a scary line.
50:19
Good. It's scary for anybody, okay? And for somebody
50:23
who doesn't have really, like, defensive depth
50:25
like Toronto, may God have mercy, may God have
50:30
mercy on your souls. On top of just, like, because
50:33
you know that line would just get underneath
50:35
the skin of Toronto, like, just easily. And they're
50:39
not afraid to fight. No. I mean, Toronto has
50:43
their fair share of not being a fan of Marchand
50:45
in general already, with him being in Boston.
50:47
I mean, Boston fans definitely don't hate Toronto
50:50
as much as Toronto fans hate Boston. But it's
50:54
still, you know that Marchand probably is not
50:56
a fan of Toronto. He's going to let them have
50:59
it. That might be the most fun series here in
51:02
Toronto to watch. Oh, yeah. I cannot wait to
51:06
see that series. I think both series in the East
51:09
are going to be pretty fun to watch. Washington
51:12
and Carolina, I think, is going to be another
51:14
division rival. But that's going to be the top
51:19
two teams in the Metro and the top two teams
51:21
in the Atlantic going at it. Yeah, game one is...
51:29
Well, tomorrow for us, but today we're recording.
51:33
Monday, May 5th, starting at 8 p .m. Eastern
51:36
Standard Time in Toronto. Toronto gets home ice
51:41
advantage for the first two rounds. That's probably
51:43
been a loss since we've seen that. Well, yeah,
51:46
because... Because they usually don't make it
51:47
past the first round. Yeah, going on the Washington
51:51
series, they beat Montreal pretty easily, four
51:53
games to one. Had a little bit of a very shaky,
51:55
rough game three in Montreal. The 6 -3 Montreal
51:58
win. But again, aside from that... Those fights,
52:02
the memes that have come out of that game, the
52:04
Tom Wilson crisis. As much as I hate Tom Wilson,
52:07
that was hilarious. Hysterical, dude. One of
52:09
the funniest things to come out of this season,
52:11
easily. Yeah, other than that, Montreal didn't
52:14
score more than two goals in the other game in
52:16
that series. Yeah, it's so much better than Tom
52:18
Wilson standing with just his gear on. Like,
52:20
no sweater, just the gear. Looking like a fucking
52:22
idiot. Ended up having one box. He's sitting
52:25
there... Mocking them whining and fighting. It's
52:29
great. And then Carolina obviously winning 4
52:33
-1 over Jersey. What is it? Game 3, the only
52:38
one that Jersey won, came out of double overtime.
52:42
Actually, no, there are two games. Game 3. The
52:47
home team winning both of them. Yeah, that game
52:51
5 goal. I don't know if you guys were watching
52:53
it. I didn't watch it live, but I saw it. Just
52:57
as electric as this Cole Profetti tying game
52:59
with two seconds left here in the Winnipeg game.
53:03
Moving over to the West. Obviously, we don't
53:05
know the winner yet of Winnipeg -St. Louis. The
53:08
Washington -Carolina series starts on Tuesday,
53:11
May 6th at 7 Eastern and D .C. in the American
53:14
capital. This one, I'm going to stick to my bracket.
53:19
I'm going to say Carolina takes this one. Probably,
53:22
and it's going no shorter than six games, I don't
53:25
think. I think this one's going to be hard fought.
53:27
I have to say seven, but I'm saying Washington.
53:32
Washington takes in seven? Because I still don't
53:35
know. We still don't know what's... Freddie Anderson
53:39
is. If he's healthy, if he's not. Because obviously,
53:42
Kachekov, or whatever his ass name is, he's a
53:45
good goaltender. He's the one who obviously started...
53:48
He's young, but he doesn't have a whole lot of
53:49
playoff experience as of yet. Yeah, he started
53:51
Game 5 against Jersey and obviously he won, but
53:54
you're going to have a lot tougher time stopping
53:57
Washington. Yeah. Like, they're not afraid to
54:00
throw shit at them. And they're not afraid to
54:02
drive either, so... Obviously, he had the greatest
54:05
goal scorer of all time. on that team, too, man.
54:08
Yeah, we, uh, that's obviously one big threat,
54:11
but, you know, overall, like, it just, it all
54:16
depends on what Freddie Anderson makes, if he
54:18
plays or not. So, I'm sorry. That's just, that's
54:22
really Carolina's biggest hope in competing in
54:24
this series. I think it, the most will go six,
54:29
but it can end in five, and then, but, I think
54:32
I'm going to say Washington in six. Washington
54:35
in six? Okay. Yeah, I'm still going to stick
54:37
to my bracket, my gut, and say Carolina's winning
54:40
this one. I don't think I said my winner for
54:42
the other one. Toronto, Florida. Again, I almost
54:46
want to stick to my bracket again because I had
54:48
Toronto going all the way to the conference final
54:50
in my bracket. Panthers in six. I mean, but seeing
54:54
how, I mean, Toronto, honestly, they struggled
54:56
against Ottawa. They just, you know, they kind
54:58
of, I think they took the foot off the gas a
55:00
little bit in games four and five and then really
55:02
said, oh, fuck, we need to get going and kind
55:04
of beat them up there in game six. But Florida
55:07
just beat the absolute shit out of Tampa Bay.
55:11
Essentially pretty much for all five games, Tampa
55:13
Bay got a lucky one there in game three. I think
55:22
I am going to change, though. This one I'm going
55:26
to change. I'm going to say Florida. But I do
55:29
think this one is going to go to seven. I think
55:30
Toronto is going to be heartbroken yet again
55:33
in a game seven. for the eighth time in the last
55:36
nine years. In game seven in Toronto. It is going
55:41
to be in Toronto, isn't it? The other series,
55:44
one that wrapped up last night, an absolutely
55:46
crazy, again, an absolutely crazy game seven
55:49
as well in that one. Dallas taking down Colorado
55:53
in seven games. Mikko Rantanen just... He goes
55:56
off against his former team. I don't know what
55:58
happened, man, but he found his rhythm and he
56:01
just kept punching and he kept going, man. Oh,
56:04
so you didn't want to resign me, right? Well,
56:06
here you go. Here you go. Here you go. Literally
56:09
back and forth pretty much the whole series.
56:12
Colorado took a 1 -0 lead. Dallas tied it. Dallas
56:15
went up 2 -1. Colorado tied it. Dallas goes up
56:17
3 -2. Obviously, Colorado ties it. But then Dallas
56:21
takes it. Game 7, 4 -2. Did Mike and me get a
56:24
hat -trick on that one, or did he just get 2?
56:26
No, Mike and me got 3. Did he get the hat -trick?
56:28
Yeah, he got goals 1, 2, and 4. Dallas. Obviously,
56:34
goal one was power play, two was even strength,
56:38
and three was empty middle. Yeah, three different
56:40
ways. And unfortunately, we did see the flower,
56:46
Marc -Andre Fleury, play his last National Hockey
56:50
League game ever. We're not talking just regular
56:52
season. Ever, he played his last game. I think
56:57
he did play it in Minnesota, though. A 3 -2 loss.
57:02
Two months in the Vegas Golden Knights. His former
57:04
team. He did end up playing in relief to Gustafson
57:09
twice in the series. I think it was five and
57:12
six, wasn't it? I said four. Four and three.
57:15
I know in five he came in in the third. Four
57:17
and five. Four and five. I know he came in for
57:19
one of the overtime games. I can't remember which
57:21
one. Four. For game four? Yeah. I mean, Minnesota
57:26
put up a fight, man. I mean, they went up two
57:28
to one. And then they lost back -to -back games
57:31
in overtime, and that's just, you can't get over
57:34
losing back -to -back games in overtime, especially
57:36
in the playoffs. That's very difficult to come
57:38
back from. And obviously they couldn't losing
57:40
game six at home, three to two. Vegas moving
57:45
on to the semifinals. The other team moving on
57:48
to the semifinals is the Edmonton Oilers taking
57:51
down the LA Kings in six games. I'm so fucking
57:54
tired of seeing this. Edmonton L .A. matchup
57:57
in the first round. Can we please go back to
57:59
1v8? Four years in a row. Fucking go back to
58:03
1v8. Please. That's why, honestly, I love with
58:07
the OHL why they do 1v3 because we see... We
58:12
actually see different matchups year by year.
58:15
I mean, NHL is also very rare that we see VHC
58:21
do just about anything now. Still, but it's something.
58:26
You still see different matchups, you know? Again,
58:29
four fucking years in a row. I get back -to -back
58:31
years, whatever. It happens. But four years in
58:34
a row. Go back to 1v8. Fucking step it up, Gary
58:39
Bentley, you dumb bitch. Alright? Go back to
58:42
1v8. Make it a lot more enjoyable for hockey
58:45
fans. And we'll be happy with it. So, I don't
58:50
know. Yeah, Edmonton taking it in six games,
58:54
winning game six. At home, in front of the Rogers
58:57
Center crowd. The home team pretty much ruled
59:04
this series, except for Game 5 where Edmonton
59:06
took one in L .A., 3 -1. Other than that, the
59:10
home team ruled the series. L .A. jumped out
59:12
to an early 2 -0 lead. And then Edmonton, it
59:15
was all Edmonton from there. Just beating the
59:17
crap out of them pretty much. I mean, Game 4
59:19
was close, an overtime win. But other than that,
59:22
it was all Edmonton after that. With that series
59:25
now being Vegas versus Edmonton. Who do we got
59:31
winning this one? Vegas in six. Oh, excuse me.
59:35
Edmonton does not have the goaltending. Oh, great.
59:37
Picard's doing good. And the defense is just
59:40
meh. What defense? Who is besides Skinner? Because
59:43
Skinner went down, didn't he? Well, Skinner's
59:45
number two. Skinner's two right now. Picard's
59:49
the number one. Really? Because Ginnar was playing
59:52
like shit in L .A. the games 1 and 2, so Picard
59:55
came in. Picard played the last four? Yeah. I
59:57
didn't know that. Picard played the last four,
1:00:00
and obviously he did well enough to help the
1:00:02
system. And then defense, I mean, great. You
1:00:04
continue, you know, nursing Bouchard as your
1:00:08
1A and 1B. Who's in the morning base right now?
1:00:10
Is it Aiden Hill? Aiden Hill. Aiden Hill, yeah.
1:00:13
And then is it Logan Thompson? No, he's in Washington.
1:00:16
He's in Washington, yeah. So who's being based
1:00:20
as number two? Oh, gosh. If Aiden Hill goes down,
1:00:23
are they screwed, or do they still have somebody
1:00:26
back there that's been decent? Oh, I thought
1:00:28
I knew who it was. Once I hear it, I'll know,
1:00:31
but... Ilya Samsonov. Samsonov, yeah, okay. That's
1:00:37
funny. It's former Caps goaltender, isn't it?
1:00:40
Yeah. And I think he played a little bit of Toronto,
1:00:42
too, yeah. But... Vegas and Six, they have better
1:00:48
defense. Outside of that top six, Edmonton doesn't
1:00:53
really have many. No. And I'm sorry, Leonor McDrysaddle,
1:01:00
or whatever you want to call them, isn't going
1:01:02
to be able to carry you. That's literally the
1:01:04
only two players that have really been doing
1:01:06
much. In that series, I mean, obviously, it's
1:01:09
welcome to Edmonton. Yeah, even though I have
1:01:13
Edmonton moving on in my bracket, but I think
1:01:16
it's going to be Vegas in six as well. I could
1:01:20
honestly see it being as early as, like, five.
1:01:23
I mean, Vegas is just clearly the better team,
1:01:26
and they have the better, like you said, they
1:01:27
have kind of the better goaltending. Again, it's
1:01:30
the same kind of situation as the Toronto, I'm
1:01:33
sorry, Toronto -Florida series. Vegas is more
1:01:37
well -balanced. I think Vegas has a much better
1:01:39
and stronger defense. I mean, Edmonton has what
1:01:42
they've done on theirs. They've got Bouchard.
1:01:45
Again, that's your... They consider them the
1:01:49
1A and 1B defensemen. You know, great, they're
1:01:54
your top two defensemen, but on any other club,
1:01:57
they're probably a third -parent defenseman at
1:02:00
best. They have Cody Ceci back there, like bottom
1:02:04
two defensemen, I think. So they don't have him.
1:02:07
Jake Wallman, John Klingberg, I forgot they got
1:02:09
him. All right, Klingberg could be, again, bottom
1:02:12
pairing. He's second with Wallman, and then they
1:02:15
have Brett Kulak and Ty Emberson. Who? Exactly.
1:02:19
I know Kulak, but I'm not too familiar with Emberson.
1:02:22
I think he might be one of the rookies. I know
1:02:24
he's pretty young. But, yeah, I mean, other than
1:02:26
that, I mean. Defense is non -existent. Again,
1:02:31
top pairing defense. Is Wadham Perrin a defenseman
1:02:36
anywhere else? At best. You're number five, the
1:02:39
highest. Other last pieces of news that we had
1:02:43
this week, obviously, knowing Pittsburgh Penguins
1:02:45
firing, or they called it parting ways, with
1:02:49
head coach Mike Sullivan. They fired his ass.
1:02:51
They're just trying to protect his butt. Yeah,
1:02:53
I think they did. The fact that Dubas even said
1:02:58
that he called Sidney Crosby in the morning over
1:03:00
the night before to tell him. Like, hey, this
1:03:02
is what's going on. And they had a 30 -minute
1:03:04
conversation. There's no way that they came to
1:03:07
the discussion in the meeting. He might have
1:03:11
either went into that meeting knowing he was
1:03:12
about to get fired, or Kyle Dubas was going into
1:03:15
that meeting knowing he was going to fire him.
1:03:17
I don't think they went into that meeting saying,
1:03:20
hey, we might be able to come to an agreement
1:03:22
here. I think both sides had to have known, hey.
1:03:25
Or even Mike Sullivan might have went in knowing,
1:03:27
or maybe he told Dubas ahead of time, hey, I
1:03:30
don't think this is working out for me anymore,
1:03:32
you know. I mean, we honestly don't know what
1:03:35
goes on behind closed doors, what happened in
1:03:38
that meeting. I don't know, because here's the
1:03:40
other thing, because originally his contracts
1:03:42
ran through the 26 -27 season. So we would have
1:03:46
had another two seasons of Mike Sullivan assuming
1:03:49
that, you know, this didn't happen. Was Tonkett
1:03:54
this week or was that before? Was that last week?
1:03:57
I thought it was this week as well. Was that
1:03:59
this week as well? Rick Tonkett? It's been rumored
1:04:03
he might end up being interested in the job for
1:04:05
Pittsburgh. No, goddammit. Bring back Phil Kessel.
1:04:09
Bring back Kessel! I think it'd be hilarious.
1:04:12
You said you saw a post about it. What were some
1:04:14
of the other options on that post? Oh god, that's
1:04:16
a while ago. Oh, fuck. Rick Tonkett. Balsma.
1:04:24
I wouldn't want to bring back Balsma. The other
1:04:28
one I don't want to bring is Torts. That's another
1:04:32
one I do. The only one I do not want is John.
1:04:34
I don't want John Torts. I don't want him either.
1:04:36
I don't think Crosby would want him either. Oh,
1:04:41
God. Where is this? We're currently five minutes
1:04:45
into second overtime. Still no winner yet. Yeah.
1:04:51
I don't know who I'd want for the head coach.
1:04:53
I mean, maybe I know the head coach down in Wilkes
1:04:57
-Barre right now had a great season, even though
1:04:58
they lost in the first round as well. But at
1:05:00
least they're having better success than us.
1:05:02
Making the playoffs, yeah. I mean, he'd be very
1:05:05
good with, you know, keeping ties with, you know,
1:05:08
Billy Coivinan and Rutger McGrody and those guys
1:05:11
that, you know, came up towards the end of the
1:05:13
season. Yeah, man, I don't know. I can definitely
1:05:18
see torts. I think it also depends on, like,
1:05:21
what other coaches might become available. A
1:05:26
couple other things. I'm sorry for interrupting,
1:05:28
but I finally found it. Posted by, well, I'm
1:05:34
not going to say her name, but some names are
1:05:36
out here. Joel Greenville, John Tortorella, Talkin,
1:05:40
Gerard Delant. I have some former players come
1:05:44
back, like Cooney and Coffey. Mike Yeo, assistant
1:05:54
coach David Quinn, John Cooper, who's shown a
1:05:58
little bit of interest. I wouldn't mind. I would
1:06:01
like John Cooper. I would not mind that. Bruce
1:06:05
Rudrow. I don't know if I could see Tampa getting
1:06:09
Brent Cooper, though. Yeah, I know that's a long
1:06:12
shot. Bottom two cups, Ben to three. I mean,
1:06:16
the last two years, I think they've been first
1:06:18
round exit the last two years. I think they've
1:06:21
been first round exit every year since that loss
1:06:23
to Dallas, that loss to Colorado. Another one
1:06:29
that I kind of chuckle at because I'm a big fan
1:06:31
of the show. Yeah, Shorzy. Set the fucking tone!
1:06:37
That'd be great. That'd be so funny. Now, Phil
1:06:39
Kessel... We were talking about this in the group
1:06:41
chat the other day. I can't imagine taking his
1:06:44
voice. God damn it, Stan. You got to shoot the
1:06:47
puck. That's the end of the coke. I cannot imagine
1:06:52
trying to take Phil Kessel seriously as a coach.
1:06:55
I fucking hate that impression, man. God damn
1:07:00
it. I couldn't imagine. I can't see a world where
1:07:06
you can take Phil Kessel seriously. I wouldn't
1:07:08
take it seriously. Well, I'm sorry. I wouldn't
1:07:12
take it seriously at all. I think it's a pretty
1:07:16
good impression. I just go by what everybody
1:07:19
else literally does the same exact impression
1:07:21
of him. It's so funny. Even that one clip that
1:07:25
we found of... Kessel, when he, like, yeah, I
1:07:28
think he shot the puck out of his arm. He goes,
1:07:29
God damn it. And I think he said, it sounds like
1:07:31
Phil Kessel doing an impression of Phil Kessel.
1:07:35
And they're in the changing room. Jack Eichel.
1:07:37
Wide heads, right? And Phil, in, like, two seconds,
1:07:41
he's got a big cut right here. This is 2BC Reacts,
1:07:48
Jack Eichel. They're interviewing Jack Eichel,
1:07:50
obviously former teammate. And he's like. I've
1:08:11
been watching him for a long time. I've been
1:08:13
watching his YouTube videos for years, man. Johnny
1:08:17
Suburban? Yeah, I've been watching him for quite
1:08:20
some time. Just anybody who pokes fun at Hellcastle
1:08:24
on a sports fan. Dude, I can't fathom. I can't
1:08:28
see a world where we're just trying to take him
1:08:30
seriously as a coach. Imagine being on the other
1:08:33
end of the ice and he's just here on the other
1:08:35
end. God damn it! I can't see a world where...
1:08:42
I'll lose my fucking shit. Way to go, boys. Way
1:08:45
to go. Atta boy, Sid. Good shot. Oh my god. Can
1:08:53
you imagine Phil Kissel sitting there calling
1:08:54
somebody else lazy too? Like, I can get there
1:08:56
faster than that! Yeah. Phil Kissel. Can't see
1:09:04
it happening. I can't take it seriously, man.
1:09:07
I think that's where we're going to end this
1:09:09
episode, though. Are you fucking kidding me?
1:09:13
Keep it going, boys. God damn it. Way to go,
1:09:15
boys. Way to go. Great episode, guys. Anyways.
1:09:19
I'm happy. Where's my couch? Yeah, again, we
1:09:29
do, looks like we are ending this episode without
1:09:31
knowing the winner yet of this game seven. Ten
1:09:34
minutes into double overtime here and we still
1:09:36
don't have a winner, so this one, hopefully this
1:09:38
one doesn't end up being another five overtime
1:09:40
Columbus -Tampa situation here. I mean, imagine
1:09:45
these players playing until like probably two,
1:09:47
three o 'clock in the morning if that's the case.
1:09:48
My God. I don't think I can stay out to watch
1:09:52
that game. I will not. I'll probably listen to
1:09:56
the rest of it on my drive home here and then
1:09:57
probably pass out as soon as I get home. Probably
1:10:00
be the start of the third overtime. That about
1:10:02
does it for this week's episode. Not sure if
1:10:04
we'll be back for our third straight week next
1:10:06
week. I know we've been in discussion for if
1:10:09
we're going to stay weekly here to keep updated
1:10:11
with these playoffs. Again, it all depends. I
1:10:13
doubt we're going to have four sweeps that we
1:10:16
can come back and talk about next week. Yeah,
1:10:19
we'll see. Thank you guys for listening. I'm
1:10:22
not going to go through the whole spiel. We're
1:10:23
almost 200 episodes into this shit now. If you
1:10:26
haven't done it yet, we're close. We're probably
1:10:28
a little bit past 150, I think. I know we hit
1:10:31
100 in Season 3, I think. We're getting there
1:10:36
past 150. I'll do the math later. We're a while.
1:10:40
If you haven't done any of that stuff yet, obviously
1:10:43
you know we're on everything now. Spotify. Apple
1:10:47
Podcasts, Amazon Music, YouTube. So if you have
1:10:50
more than or don't have Spotify, you can listen
1:10:52
to us elsewhere. Thanks for listening, guys,
1:10:54
and we'll see you next time. See ya!