On Episode 511 of Spittin’ Chiclets, the crew returns to the dazzling lights of Las Vegas, Nevada, gearing up for the highly anticipated Draft at the Sphere. But before diving into the excitement ahead, they electrify fans with a raucous recap of the Florida Panthers’ epic Game 7 victory to claim this year’s Stanley Cup. RA found himself “pidgeon tossed,” and a whirlwind of other hockey headlines demand attention. Episode 511 LIVE will be an absolute must-watch for all hockey aficionados.
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[Music] it’s my duty to please the booty and must got mad at me the coach said he goes Jesus Christ why don’t you just wor two nines and I went okay switch to please please please never do that yep [Music] hello everybody Welcome to episode 5501 of spit and chickets presented by Pink Whitney from our friends at New Amsterdam Vodka here in the boss D Sports podcast family holy [ __ ] boys what a cup what a season what a run we’re here in Vegas for the draft Biz how you doing buddy I’m doing awesome uh just first off congratulations to the Florida Panthers on a stanle cup Victory welld deserved what a season boy start to finish and what a way to cap it off great game seven uh now we’re obviously in Las Vegas where we have the NHL awards in draft but uh lot to dive into including that game seven and just uh a lot of Tire pumping to go around for the Florida Panthers on what they assembled a absolute Juggernaut back to the finals back to back years uh Bill Zito uh created a monster in this team and uh welld deserved to him and everybody involved with that staff no doubt we’ll dive in a little bit more we got to bring in the merid Matt merley how are you doing my friend I’m doing great that game seven it lived up to everything the pregame before Terry Ryan gets us a bus over there we had a chicklets charter bus going over it was insane we got over we had the tailgate you set up late pink Whitney popup just set the tone for a great night and like you said the Panthers they’ve been you know the best team in the East for almost two years now year and a half and uh congrats to them it was nice having Terry Ryan there because AR wasn’t the drunkest guy for once till the end of the game I don’t even know if Terry Ryan even got into the arena but yeah he uh he showed up at Elbow Room about 3:00 I’m like Terry the game starts in five and a half hours like I know [ __ ] spitting on our drinks and stuff but you guys said it best it was an incredible season what a game seven effort by the Panthers they just locked everything down they looked exactly like the team we’d seen run through the East and the first three games of the finals they deserved everything they got that three-oh lead while Oilers came back and tied it it was just too much it was just too much to overcome amazing run by them to get back into it but the Panthers were incredible once I apologize for my voice it’s not good a lot of screaming a lot of yelling for the Oilers in that game seven not many chances but also this show is presented by Pink Whitney I gotta get that out there new Amsterdam’s Z own pink Whitney pink lemonade flavored vodka we have a special meet and greet today after this at Stadium swim at cira G is that where it is Circa so you can come over there 5:30 in Vegas time hopefully we see everyone over there and thank you so much to Pink Whitney now the series was uh I’d say as back and forth and as incredible as I can remember I think Elliot fredman put out a tweet before game seven that this is the biggest game in the history of the NHL he mentioned game seven with the Rangers and the Canucks that was probably a pretty good comparison but just what this meant the possibility of blowing the three-oh lead I think the Red Wings had done it in 1942 you think back to the Yankees in 2004 in baseball of being known as the biggest Choke Artist ever and that was sitting in front of the Panthers and then they came out and they performed to a level that I I did not expect I thought the momentum of the final three games of the series four five and six would lead Edmonton and you could tell right off the hop right off the Hop that they had something different that night I said in the Box we were sitting in right before the game I said I don’t love that bosski didn’t skate yesterday as an Oilers fan I said that right away I would guess and I’d love to find out someday if Maurice told him listen stay away we talked about this don’t even come to the rink go recharge go take it all in and right now there’s some panic but you’ll be ready to go and I think that was the perfect recipe because he looked exactly how he looked earlier in the playoffs you couldn’t get anything on him and then the defense didn’t even really allow that many chances to begin with so we’ll go into the game a little bit but there’s also another elephant in the room that’s R I don’t know if we want oh I lost 40 pounds bro elephant choke oh okay you lost some weight you did not lose any hate though because right now I would say you’re the most hated man in the internet for NHL like related things like there are people who want you done now I would love to maybe I don’t know if you want to go into this now or we go into the game but if you want to set it up a little bit ra has actually picked the Panthers to win every series this playoff I don’t so have I yeah so of you and so of you and we’ll get into that because you’re a little involved in this as well I believe you even picked them to beat the Bruins R right um I honestly don’t remember I made it okay there you go there you go so r uh being a Panthers fan being very close to the kachuck he’s mentioned that a million times decides to go with the Panthers and you know it makes total sense we get to Edmonton and I don’t really know what happened AR but you kind of just I guess fell like within the city like fell in love with the team and the vibe and how crazy it was going and you just turned into a Die Hard Oilers fans you’re shaking biz’s belly Jersey over the Moss pit you’re dancing around the owner Suite you’re going bananas for Oilers goals which is is your right no doubt like you want to do whatever you want to do and if you want to be a turn coat you can be a turn Co and if you want to be a turn coat or a bandwagon jumping [ __ ] as Sean Thorton said that is your right the game ends and it was mentioned by grenell yeah AR and I were going down to the ice you coming down I I looked I looked at you like I said you think I’d ever go down there I’m I I’m a blatant Oilers fan an Oiler Stan as they say I could never and would never think about showing my face down there I would think people would see me and say what the [ __ ] are you doing down here now I want to ask you ra you had to have some idea like that you being down there made no sense like I don’t really understand how you thought you could go down there and be in their face after for 10 days literally be dancing around the entire city of Edmonton celebrating Oilers goals as you work as if you worked for the team and also the fact that my understanding is you received a a prior text after game four from from kachuck uh uh Walt bicy being like I’m tired of your Oiler [ __ ] is that true I believe it was all of us I could pull it up if you’d like first off what to go back to what am I doing on the ice 2019 Stanley Cup I rooted for the Bruins for seven games they lost at home ICE I went down I interviewed the blues I did my [ __ ] job I went down I talked to buo I talked to Pat maroon I was a [ __ ] professional I went that’s what I was doing this time all right you had no voice either that wasn’t brought up so I don’t know if maybe and you had a CH I don’t know you had a you had a you had died a plastic diamond crusted choke holder necklace you had zero voice and you were going bananas for the Oilers the past like 10 days I have a confession on the bus on the way to the rank I I specifically stopped him and said R I love that choke run don’t take it off the rest of the night so that might be on that’s on bis and then all right I want you to speak no doubt you were one of the hosts of this show but but nevertheless you go down on the ice and the videos I mean there’s more that haven’t came out there are more folks I probably watched those videos 500 times yesterday I mean it’s just amazing like your face it’s kind of shocked but whatever so your pigeon TOS on the ice after that what in your mind makes you think to go in the locker room that’s where it’s what um probably the fact I was invited to go in by one of the players and you don’t give names I don’t snitch i a f okay okay so there you go so he was invited in I didn’t know that wait uh uh couple clues did the play did he I’m not I’m not saying anyone’s name I’m not I’m not thr we’re not saying names did the player have a point in the game was he was he dressed I’m not giving any clues that who it is I’m protecting [ __ ] anonymity here was it the mascot no it was not the mascot it was definitely a roster player and then and so I didn’t just walk in I was I was brought in by a player actually I could even say two guys I walked them with and then when when [ __ ] Matthew [ __ ] said he’s an Oilers fan which is hilarious because I don’t even own [ __ ] oers merch [ __ ] I I bet I bet Florida and I only say because I’m [ __ ] you kid that that’s the reason I was red for Florida and then another place said no he’s okay and they’re like nope he wants him out of here and then I get thrown out of the building I don’t have my [ __ ] phone cuz I gave it to this goofball POS where over there to take videos so now I’m outside the arena in the middle of a [ __ ] swamp no cabs no Uber no phone no way to get home thank Christ I had a credit card in my pocket so I get the [ __ ] back to the hotel so you’re worked up about this you feel like you were I feel like I’m yeah I feel like I’m [ __ ] defending on all sides here you know well I mean honestly buddy if you haven’t like and and I’m not going to sit here and say that like online comments are the be all end all they are not by any means they are not by any means but at some point you look and you’re like holy [ __ ] there’s like a Title Wave of momentum against ra right now there has to be some sort of maybe regret in your mind and you tweeted out yesterday no regrets correct no regrets no regrets at all what have we been saying Twitter’s fake life we Twitter’s fake life we’ve been saying that for eight years listen but but but it’s also not because Chucky Walt uh Sean thoron and I’m sure a few other guys in which I saw who Veri Veri there’s a lot of guys who felt this animosity towards you so it’s carried over from Twitter to to say maybe Twitter’s not real life is fine but there was also real players in the game that were involved in this that wanted you pigeon talk yeah well I think it was maybe one player on that team and I think it was Matthew kachu I talked to Sam Bennett after that game who who I wrote about during the the Mas on [ __ ] I called him a lunatic he didn’t give two [ __ ] and the league players have never given a [ __ ] what the media says I’ve never seen guys mad at what we said before now I know what we go way back but what am I I’m in a box in Evanson we guest of The KES having fun I’m dancing around with little soup there and like what I’m oh the K trucks might get mad if I’m [ __ ] having fun with the Edmonton box [ __ ] that how doing I’m going to do what I want to do like if they’re pissed off I don’t care I don’t give a [ __ ] if they’re mad I you know I did what I did and [ __ ] like I said I bet them I [ __ ] rooted for them because of the [ __ ] family friends going back 100 years and they want to be pissed about it they wanted to be Petty and whatever that’s that’s their [ __ ] right just like it’s my right to [ __ ] say I got no regrets and also you know how many [ __ ] texts I got I got four nhlers texted me yesterday family members of the kachuck saying how [ __ ] embarrassing it was what they did and that’s the [ __ ] difference in the internet okay the internet yeah whatever theet is going to do the internet [ __ ] I don’t give a [ __ ] if people hate me or not but I got text from [ __ ] family members for NHL saying how [ __ ] embarrassing it was that went down and they weren’t [ __ ] talking about me that’s why I get no [ __ ] regrets so this is a this is a majorly majorly divisive topic now fact I just want to say I was there too Keith was very nice to me I talked to him he was he busted my balls at first obious betrayed by our I don’t know what yeah maybe there’s something there cuz they grew up together but he said to me after like don’t like don’t worry it’s said the same there is something to be said because I wondered I said oh maybe they hate me too but I’ve been an Oilers fan like if they want to hate me I really really don’t care that is their right maybe it’s more so the the the family and the relation that you’ve had with the Chucks for that long where they look at you celebrating and kind of enjoying them collapsing this series as it went on and looking at it like this [ __ ] is not being loyal you make a good point that you really don’t care now personally if I had just won the Stanley Cup I probably really wouldn’t care about anything but I’m I’m never going to judge anyone for kind of what they’re doing and feeling and they were pissed off enough to really really make you look like a fool on the ice so I was a little bit surprised about it I think partly though maybe some of the fans and their thing is that you are down there you’re pretty [ __ ] up and you do have no voice so it kind of looks a little odd when you’re you know Sasha barkov’s biggest moment of his life and you really can’t talk as you’re interviewing now saying that Sasha barov what was it Porto text you say he should win the he deserves the con Smite for doing that that’s hilarious that’s hilarious what a classy guy and he actually answered your question and like did somehow understood bakov did Bill Zito talked to me I tried to grab him Paul Maurice by the way his two sons great kids they come over they were gracious in defeat I’m gracious in Victory Val talked to them they were super nice about it so like as far as the the kach D we’ve been championing the three of them for [ __ ] eight years on the show but I get family history like if anything that should be like we’re entertainers at the end of the day we’re growing the game we’re having fun and everyone else seem to [ __ ] remember that you could say we go back all these years whatever I just thought if anything that would afford me a little more more [ __ ] I know leg room or whatever to to not get [ __ ] on but you know what it happened it is what it is like I said I got a lot of messages from [ __ ] family friends whatever that you know had no issue with what I did with so I’m hoping we can get Matthew and Walton to to bury the hatchet or put a hatchet into his throat but but I I think that what just said leads into another thing because there are people that have been just furious with the SP podcast for about two weeks now and I think part of it goes into that we are clowns like we’ve always been pretty open we are not normal media we come off as media and analysts I guess you could say but we have this incredible following I love our fans you could come up to me and I’ve had people come up to me you drive me [ __ ] crazy on the podcast I’ve I’ve had people say Whit I love you on the podcast I love it all because if you’re listening I appreciate it no matter if you’re hate listening honest to God I think people are really having a tough time like separating us and regular media in which regular media is not biased there is no bias you listen you listen to Elliot and Jeff you listen to sahali and Gregor they are very very down the middle which is the correct way to do things there’s no cheering in the Press Box that’s just never really how this has been Biz has seven favorite teams I had the Oilers minus two weeks ra had the Bruins and kind of the Panthers despised has a panther’s travel bag he brings on every road trip he’s got a Matthew kachuck chain with his face on it like he’s our biggest Panthers guy now now also In fairness AR you you sent the group text uh uh picture yesterday of Shan thoron writing you a message still love you bud so maybe that that one of the three there was Walt there was Matt and there was Sean Thorton the video compilation Brady dis off camera and not to not to be lost year and even Paul Maurice talked about it like after they blown the three three games for you know they got to sit on that for two days so a lot of stress and implications involved when these guys are in the middle of the fight as to maybe why they had that builtup emotion towards you and by the way ra I’m very proud of the way you’ve handled yourself and backed yourself up so far in this first 10 minutes because you have you look like the [ __ ] Lincoln Lawyer right now yeah no no backing down and then giving his points and now I think the videos though I mean if I’m ever in a bad mood dude I see big Walt say [ __ ] you I’m done with you and then your face like it look like you were going to cry Matthew in the locker room being like he’d already told Point time then he go the lock when you went in the locker room and then I I’m I’m just when you Matthew had already on the ice said get away from me so when you went back up in the in the locker room tomb did you think maybe like I’ll try again like maybe I just yeah just a handshake congratulatory thing I said you know maybe the he the moment right afterwards I but the fact he again had me thrown out of the night the room the building with no phone whatever just I just think they would a better way to handle it now Biz would to your point yes I know you got to sort of create maybe anger in your head sometimes or imaginary enemies or real enemies or whatever you know to to fuel what you’re doing to win the Stanley Cup uh I just thought it was just [ __ ] I didn’t expect that I was surprise off it and what you said every time you’re in a bad mood you you watch the video so what about 500 times a day you exactly there you go anytime I’m down so maybe every once an hour I’m just gonna pull up ra on the ice getting pigeoned to by his life B friends and I’m and I’m just as guilty as jumping on the Oilers bandwagon and obviously it had that’s you well but but another thing too I I I said before the series started I thought Florida was overall the better team I picked Florida in six I wanted a good series and when it was down three 0 or yeah when it was down even 20 I hadn’t been to Florida yet right so I hadn’t been mucked up with the crowd so when we got to Edmonton and we felt that energy and especially after they go down 03 once they had that big victory in game four like I’m just pumped up and fired up and I want Edmonton to come back to for the for the sake of hockey and obviously being up there with all you guys and and Joey super and all the rest of the Edmonton fans I got really wrapped up to it especially being in Canada and just seeing the way that the the fans up there treated us and embraced us so I’m as guilty as just as much ra but never in my wildest dreams would I go down to the ice and and even if Edmonton had won because I feel like it’s taking away for their moment but once again are you’re more of a fan of me never played so I feel like you maybe have more of that right to go down there with the the Diamond en crusted choker and without a voice to talk I would say I would say maybe another part and dude I I am not a great dresser I know that but like you had a petty shirt like maybe some chicklets merch or something then the diamond and the diamond and Joker was like I I just didn’t really get and I think more than anything my number one thing would have been r one don’t go down on the ice cuz you’ve been dancing around Edmonton like Daryl Kates and two you had no voice so it was like the no voice thing I think probably in your mind should have maybe been like I don’t know if it right now is the time to go down and he was on every substance you IM you called him Steve Monto you didn’t even know it was Brandon Monto no I got the name confused with yeah you got a lot I got MTO montador that’s I the Steve Mador passed away it was a [ __ ] brain jum that’s all it was Montour montador that’s all it was that simple we lost the poor Phil I didn’t want to have to bring his name up and like AR you you know you you snap back at me which I really like that like you said I rooted for the Bruins and I went down in 2019 and did my job because I’m a journalist journalists don’t get blacked out during the game I watched a game with you guys like crippled I I beg to death I don’t think I was C I was anywhere what the [ __ ] but is out of here all right but I [ __ ] wanted I was sitting next riing joints and crushing pink Whitney and getting [ __ ] up so if you’re gonna say you’re a journalist I didn’t say that you did joking at the beginning of the show you said in 2019 I went down because I’m a journalist you were CRI all right well dude we were in the box there was hardly any booze in the Box dude I I literally had [ __ ] tell me I mean I was sit with you guys I watch the game with you guys I [ __ ] whatever we can the merits of what I would have blown a08 or 02 a 0 I want blood test you can’t say you can’t say I go down on the ice cuz I’m a journalist if you’re crippled like they don’t get crippled that’s why I never say I’m a journalist dude I go out and I have a couple beers I enjoyed the game it was the most amazing pregame like vibe in that Arena Barkley was there Stephen A Smith’s there we’re next to Gary bman the nerves the energy t uh sorry Tampa Jesus Florida’s fans showed up in Spades they were awesome considering you guys mentioned to me in game five it wasn’t great they were amazing getting the first goal really mattered but dude like you can’t tell me that you’re a journalist and then you get blacked out and go down the ice I’m not going to [ __ ] sit here and let you say that like I’m sorry dud I dispute that I was on everything under the sun and that was blacked out so when we you you slept on the beach you slept on the beach dude yeah because I [ __ ] because it took me 2 hours to get out of that Arena get home I was in I got two [ __ ] fights I sat down and catch my breath all right all right it took you yeah getting having no phone getting kicked out of the Arena that’s a disaster you had a hotel room key and slept on the beach and you’re trying to say you weren’t crippled okay like I like they’re like two different things yeah that was three hours [ __ ] later dude like I was aggravated I sat down [ __ ] after the bot Clos and then [ __ ] dunked out cu I just [ __ ] was exhausted I was beat I was tired dude it took me [ __ ] hours to get out of there so whatever I I think we’re coming to the end of this AR sick of it what was your favorite interview on the ice um if I’d had if we can ask you um I thought Pito was pretty pretty good I thought you know I was basically I was bringing up I thought the way the game ended was was a perfect metaphor of of the the Panthers they just snuffed out the others for that last 10 15 seconds in that corner essentially choked them out choke this season out and that that’s what I asked Bill about so that’s a journal answer right there journal and then just pass over the pipe but hey so let’s go into the game a little bit the game oh I I was I was very excited as I just mentioned and you know there’s going to be a little bit of nerves obviously within the players Florida came out hot dude they came out they were chipping Pucks in I thought randomly enough Mika looked awesome unbelievable he was jumping into the play he was looking very good barov right off the Hop was in mcdavid’s face taking away time and space and I thought more than anything posha said this too about 10 minutes into the game Florida was throwing everything at net and that’s something they’ve done for a long time but maybe had got away from as the Oilers kind of overtook that series but everything was going to the net and then how does that first goal get scored Evan Rodriguez who what a signing by Bill Zito another amazing move by him I think it’s three million bucks for four years maybe four million for three years I’m not exactly sure but not not a ton of money for the production that he’s given them throws one on net and the guy who is getting called out more than anyone carder heggy with a sick tip I think that puck was going about three feet wide and he just reaches across tips it in and Florida’s going and that was kind of our thing going in the game was I think it’s first goal wins I I I the first three games it was uh Florida scored the first three goals they won then Edmonton scored the first three goals in games four through six they won and it just felt like that and boom it seemed like that was the end but they answered quick didn’t they that passed by Cody CCE dude Cody Cody [ __ ] Mar man what a [ __ ] play that was and yanm Mark just what a playoff for that guy four goals four assists for Yan Mark and and really really the the the the third and fourth line in my opinion for the Oilers really stepped up since at the end of game three and and and they kept them in the series and and they scored some big pivotal goals for them and you know when you talk about barkov smothering McDavid and the games that he did the last two no points for McDavid it was really those bottom six guys who were stepping up and and giving him and providing him that energy but going back to you mentioned Mika I just felt like overall the the back end like Montour I we talked about his his struggles maybe compared to last season overall uh last playoffs he was remarkable and then he had that injury coming in so he missed time I don’t think he was ever really able to get his feet underneath him like he did last year but to a man the back end for the Florida Panthers in that game seven they looked like that they they they looked like they did in game two of the series and I think it was you said that game one they really leaned on Bob but they really got back to the foundation of their game where they had their dman jumping in staying aggressive keeping plays Alive by pinching and staying in the offensive zone which helps your forwards drastically uh their gaps were tight in the neutral zone Great sticks I think the yanm Mark um goal was it like a semi Breakaway it was a break it was a breakaway and I believe that was one of the only odd man rushes they’ve given up all game long if you look look at the numbers and you know you go back to last year too like Gus and Mark stall had incredible runs Bill Zito and you talked about him bringing in everan Rodriguez and we’ll go to the other crazy moves he’s make like kachuck but bringing in mikola and Oliver ekan Larson I thought paid massive massive dividends to the point where I thought they were two of their best e throughout this entire series if you look at the full seven games so and going back to your point ra it it was like a it it was fitting that in that last 15 seconds they put the anacon choke hold on them because McDavid was in front of the net alone and and to a man they just suffocated him all game long uh not a ton of Glorious opportunities I think dry Sidle had a few that he whiffed on where he’s normally on that off side for the one-time and then maybe you could look at that one late in the game where McDavid set up Hyman but once again forsling tying up the stick bossk’s down he has that Split Second to put it the open cage but no it goes back to the six men all of them eblad everybody stepped up in that game seven to lock [ __ ] down and actually there was the fifth straight breakaway goal by the Oilers in that series five breakaways in a row they scored on bosski in that series pretty wild stuff like they all were to his blocker too they were like coming across blocker side so they might have figured something out there congrats to the coach that figured that out like guys break beat him that way and watch out next year Bob everybody’s gonna be trying to Blocker on you and and I know you mentioned uh couple Leon chances right after they made it 2-1 the Panthers did after rein um um Reinhardt scored which we can go into that goal kind of a tough defensive play they just sat back and and didn’t pressure but McDavid brought it through Center and fed Leon with a nice one time he whiffed it turns out Leon had a broken rib and a broken finger so no shots on goal in game seven shocking him and him and McDavid combined one assist in game six and seven the first two playoff games of this entire playoffs in a row McDavid didn’t have a point so it’s like the timing’s everything and he wasn’t able to get it done and you don’t want to just put it on him but I’m sure for himself it was pretty hard after that game to look at himself in the mirror and say I didn’t have any points in that game cuz I for one thought he’d Light It Up and I listen to 32 thoughts too but like it just seemed like with what they’d put into the playoffs and I think they even talked about Hyman and dry Sidle as well just running out of gas like what what McDavid had to go through in order to even get his team to that level it’s like and then you’re going against barkov all night long and I know that maybe they got away from their game in games know four through six but Sasha barkov still the best 200 foot center in the game he put the wet blanket on him and for McDavid if you’re not you don’t have that full Gap full gas tank loaded it just to to get any type of Separation not only from barov but the way they play that fiveman game where they have layers on top of him it just it made his life a miserable hell and and and I I can’t remember other than the the Heyman opportunity and then maybe a few others where he really shined in that game seven and a lot of people were like you guys were just pumping the Oilers for 10 straight days it’s like yeah dude they won all three games I seem to remember game z uh one through three we were pumping the Panthers yeah myis granted game one I was probably saying the Oilers outplayed them but like we were saying how good Florida was games one through three and then it switched and then we were talking about how good the Oilers were but in the end game seven it goes right back to Florida in team defense and Sam [ __ ] Reinhardt awesome clip on the ice of Maurice kind of giving him a hug and saying dude your life you have the game-winning goal in game seven of the Stan the Cup Final like so cool uh the one thing I love about Reinhardt and POS kind of taught me a little bit more about him that I didn’t know is one of the best defensive Center the best defensive players in the league so to score that many goals and to get that big of a goal and still be on the PK and so responsible in your own end that’s why he’s going to sign eight years times what nine and a half you think no I think he’s gonna take a team-friendly deal and I think he’s gonna take n million now that they want to stay on the cup I think we should get posha on because he was actually probably the one member of the podcast who didn’t kick get kicked out of the locker room and because uh he is so close with Sam rart they’ve been bud buddies ever since they were kids um you know he was able to kind of have a special night with him and you know his you know him coming up I don’t want to see the struggles in Buffalo but I remember there’s a there’s a video that just resurfaced where he actually called the Buffalo Savers GM Kevin Adams and he apologized for for not getting the job done while he was in Buffalo so just Sam did right yeah after he was traded and it just like speaks to the volume of a guy that he is and and also his play this year and how [ __ ] unreal he is as a player yeah I mean I think everyone knows where my allegiances lie with the Devils but seeing someone like Sam that I grew up with wi a cop was obviously very special and emotional um guy deserved it he’s a warrior uh played his heart out and you know for him to score the cup winning goal like Maurice said it’s it’s a short list of guys that that have that on their resume so um yeah was really really special to see him to see him hoist that thing posha when I I was watching that game and at first when he scored we were kind of like oh it’s kind of a bad goal it’s kind of outside but I was standing with a longtime NHL guy I don’t know if he’s Hall of Famer or not but he’s like no that’s a good goal he like this Reinhardt kid has some weird release he doesn’t release the same the puck the same way as the rest of the guys and it’s really hard for the goalies to pick up is he ever talked to you about that or anything no I’ve never talked to him about his release I remember earlier this year I asked him about the changing his stick because you had asked me about that and he said he he changed up the stick length but um no I haven’t talked to him about his release in particular but I mean the guy can shoot it what did he have end of the year now playoffs regular season 68 goals something like that like most in you know more than bur so just a crazy year uh Billy zitto you’ve got about what four or five days to figure it out and back the Brinks truck cuz that man is going to get paid I thought the craziest thing you mentioned to us was that you went back to his house it’s about 4 in the morning you guys are hanging out with him and his wife or you are and then all of a sudden he’s like I have a haircut at 10:30 like why did he need to get the haircut at 10:30 oh you got to look good for the parade boys look good for the parade he already looked good his hair was short to begin with whatever I digress but I want to go into the goal because yeah like I would say Skinner wants that one back and Skinner was awesome dude you got to remember Skinner’s second year in the NHL and what he did in games four through seven of these series forget the beginning struggles like I have a lot of belief in Stuart Skinner going forward as a goalie of the Edmonton Oilers and being able to win a Stanley Cup with him I don’t know if he’d he’d probably say he wants that goal back but I was disappointed with how they played it it was like a three on three and they just kept backing in and backing in and I think reard even was surprised he’s like nobody’s coming to me he just gets that little angle inside yeah good shot but it was more about how they played it and I believe it was right after they had the chance in front that kulakov barely saved I think it hit kulakov and barely went wide and then boom they go down the other end and 2-1 and here’s the craziest part about I saw a tweet I don’t remember who sent it prior to the game that said if you averaged out I think over the last five game sevens of the Cup Final if you averaged out when the winning goal was scored it was with five minutes left in the second period and and you told me that with like I don’t know 12 minutes left in the second I I I I said to Basha and then boom Reinhardt scores I’m like [ __ ] 450 450 and I was like oh my God like I think this could be it and it ended up being it and and I I I love how the ref stayed out of that game I think there was a lot of complaining from Panthers fans side on the kachuck pen uh um penalty it was it was a [ __ ] call yeah you’re saying you have to have control of your body and if you lay out like that if just looks so weird that he happens to fall like right in front and with the amount of like [ __ ] kachuck has gotten from fans and maybe refs for embellishment I think if that’s anyone else they don’t call it but they look and see it’s him and he’s so like uh what the word sly on the ice is that the word like he’s just he knows how to just draw calls and get the mix and they’re like oh that could have been onose it’s kachuck probably not the best call but overall the only Power Play the ERS got and Florida only had two neither team scored so I love that it was a five on five game and that’s any that’s what anyone wanted going into that game just the ref stay out of it stay out of and they did um I was just going to go back to posha so you were able to spend time in that locker room like what was it like just watching those guys soak it in because if there’s one thing you could say about that that Panthers group is majorly galvanized like they all love each other uh it doesn’t matter who’s getting taken out of the lineup they don’t care they just want guy to get it done so what was it like watching them all soak it in and and were you in there when when barov initially came in and lifted the cup uh I wasn’t in there when he first brought it in but I’ll say probably my biggest takeaway was was Maurice he went in there and gave a speech to the team where right after I’m like no wonder these guys won the cup it was yeah it was it was a crazy speech he was bringing up historical things it was just it was a motivating speech I can see why that group wanted to win for him you know great to see a guy like him win but yeah I mean obviously Vibes were very high in there and like I said just just very proud of Sam well I appreciate him bringing that I think we should dive into Paul Maurice right now because like his his run I mean back-to-back trips to the Stanley Cup finals uh this is coming after his resignation in Winnipeg he did mention Winnipeg uh Jets winning the Stanley Cup in in his postgame presser one of them anyway I feel like he did eight interviews and all of them were 10 out of 10 one was on SVP which was Unreal SVP crushes he’s one of the best guys to to interview guys especially right the moment and extract everything he can out of them but I just thought the way that he he took on a lot of the deflection from the team and even when things weren’t going so well when he was up there answering questions we were talking about Paul Maurice’s quotes we weren’t talking as much or maybe as much as that needed to be talked about as maybe even some of the players play so what a what a run by Paul Maurice and a guy who probably one of the the the the biggest coaches who deserved the Stanley Cup with the time and energy he’s put in the game and what he’s G into the game of hockey and becoming a coach that young I apologize for my voice though becoming a coach that young and then grinding and having a chance early on with Carolina against that wagon Detroit team and then moving around and just never being able to get over the hump and then you get up three 0 and boom all of a sudden it’s 33 it’s like am I like is this gonna happen and he talked about after uh the game that I think the day before game seven he had the TV on and the banner on the TV whatever they were talking about 15 minutes 15 minutes it was up there mentioning like will this will the Panthers become the biggest choke artist in sports history and he’s like move along change the [ __ ] ban for ch’s sake but what he’s done has been been magnificent and and I’ve been told that in the locker room after the speech had a lot to do with his father and where he got his name and what his name means to him which is so like awesome to hear like that’s what your parents give you like that’s that’s who you are is you make trying to make your parents proud and your kids proud which he’s done and then after on the ice he he spoke about his dad he you know he’s getting teed saying like you know your Legends how Lindsay Bello Etc like Maurice is on the cup now your Legend with your favorite players yeah his father’s name gets to be next to those Legends and and that’s all he ever wanted and uh wow what a remarkable run from Paul Maurice I was also surprised sorry Mar before you go I thought that um last year when they were struggling when Keith Keith kachuck went on the radio and ripped him and then Maurice exploded against the m beliefs that was that was very much talked about then this year when did he explode was that the playoffs or was that the end of the season remember we had another explosion on the bench late in the season late in the season I was wondering if he’d end up having one in games four five or six not game four I think game four it’s like all right we got blown out we’re going home but I thought maybe in game five or game six but he didn’t and you know that’s calculated and that’s really like looking at it like I can’t I can’t turn on these guys now not that he ever would but I can’t I can’t let them show that I’m as rattled as maybe I am inside he had to have Panic going into that game seven but the way he coached and the way he had them prepared including having bosski not practice that day it was a master class I think him and noblock were both phenomenal the whole run unbelievable is was something said about what he talked to the team about in in those two days off which I thought was huge for the Florida Panthers coming home was there anything that he said to the team I know we he gave bosi the day away from the rink in order to collect his mind and thoughts but I’d be curious to know like you said he he didn’t pull that card because you can only pull that card so many times by snapping on the boys you can’t lose the team and and show frustration and that you’re rattled going into game seven after dropping the last three I don’t know what what he did in order to get them with that demeanor to get them back to their game in game seven yeah he he was incredible for two years now uh Paul Maurice and press’s conferences have been like the best combination it’s like John Cooper esque lots of things are better together Biz hockey food golf but if you really want to take to the next level drink some laat blue lights and your friends and live to the power of we take a page out of the laat blue light book and enjoy your beers together so you can live life to the power of we find laat blue light at labat usa.com finder that’s laat usa.com slinder after the night in uh Fort Lauderdale we were on a Stanley Cup F anywhere we were chasing it around all Fort Lauderdale we never got it but the close up on Paul Marie’s never been happier for a coach to win a cup yeah 5 and0 in game sevens now also most games coach before win in his first Stanley Cup 1985 games is that playoffs included yeah playoffs included yeah yeah also to we didn’t we failed to mentioned the Conor McDavid won the K Smite trophy as well I know he probably doesn’t give a [ __ ] he had eight goals 34 assists and 25 games just a tremendous performance I’m sure is that he’ give it back to have a frecking Stanley Cup no doubt yeah I mean it’s people wanted to argue a little bit about the fact that it’s what is it the the the first ever guy to get a a con Smite who didn’t have a point in game six and seven or something yeah so I don’t I think the first stat I saw that I was telling you was incorrect but I understand it it’s not it’s not about the most valuable player in the finals or game six and seven of the finals it’s the entire playoffs and I wouldn’t have given it to Bovi after what happened in four five and six but I would have been fine with barov but I do think that McDavid did deserve it it’s just it’s it’s unfortunate and for anyone out there for anyone who was like on him for not coming back on the ice and accepting the trophy you they’re saying oh Jager did it who gives a [ __ ] yeah and and Jager like regretted having to do that he said it was horrible he walked back in the locker room put it down right when he got off the ice and just went back in the room didn’t tell anyone like why do you have to come back out it’s the same people who were dogging Royal Rory mooy for taking off after the US Open collapse and not doing media it’s like buddy this is this guy’s entire life he cares more about this than you’ve maybe cared about anything minus your kids and he doesn’t want to go back out and accept the trophy that means nothing to him right maybe someday it will mean something to him if he wins a cup but you’re you’re you’re you’re in under no obligation to go back on the ice and and accept that trophy that just that’s just [ __ ] to me that people also 20 20 more points to the next guy right is yeah it’s like at some point Gretzky record well at least on the Panthers excuse me I I don’t think uh and I think OT touched on their 32 thoughts nobody in the Panthers did something so exceptional in the final to to to take it away from him and that’s ultimately why I think Conor McDavid got it so uh congrats to him I know it doesn’t mean jack [ __ ] to him he wanted the Ultimate Prize uh but going back to the Panthers I mean do you guys want to talk Bill Zito Luongo how about Luongo before the game banging the drum banging the drum getting the boys going on the Jumbotron like this guy’s in management getting he’s fired up on the getting all the crowd into it the energy was so high in the building did you guys like that move to get him going oh yeah he’s a beloved icon down there too but I I want to mention kylo poo first I mean this guy before the season had 17 I’m sorry 24 playoff games before this season played 17 playoff games this season almost doubled his previous career output you know he’s a guy been around a long time just want to give him a congratulations want to mention him hopefully we get him on the show going forward yeah he was talking about playing mini sticks with this kid the day before trying to take the the stress away well and he didn’t play game six right so he looked great too in game seven he had that jump early I I noticed him a lot they were hitting they were hitting everything in that first period they were hitting everything and I love Maurice putting him back in like this is a guy who’s done it all this could be it for him you never know and let’s get him back in the mix he’s already played 16 games for us in the playoffs we didn’t have him in we need this guy who wants this so bad who’s had no success in the playoffs prior in his career and they put him back in and he did his job Merles said it right from the Hop he did a great job their third and fourth line was awesome and I think that ooso after coming on with us and talking about his concussion and what he had to go through and the pain he had like trying to get back and not knowing if you’d ever play again like those are the stories that just as a former player for me makes me teary eyed like this guy thought it was all over this guy went through so many bad teams in Buffalo he was a great leader in Buffalo and you talk to the guys there and they’re so thankful that they had him as a captain and then he gets the chance at the deadline to go to a contender and then he’s in and out of the lineup and gets thrown in in game seven you’re like that’s what that’s what sports is about man you worked your entire life and you ended up winning that greatest trophy in sport with your entire family there I was so happy for him another another incredible move at the the deadline by Bill Zito and it goes back like I mean let’s look at the kachuck move that was a first time we’d ever seen a sign in trade like that and you establish your culture even more than what they’d had uh Veri had won a cup with the Tampa Bay Lightning and Bill Zito his first year I think he signed in uh 2020 so he’s been in the organization for four years they bring over ver Hagi they got Reinhardt you talked about Rodriguez replenishing that back end uh Sam Bennett like the list goes on of crazy moves that he’s made to make this team a winner and that cannot be overlooked this guy has been absolute Rock Solid in his four years so far and then also signing Paul Maurice like the list goes on and on bringing in Roberto Luongo so just the organization as a whole and the moves they’ve made in order to put these guys in place to win a champion ship like it it should be studied in the fact that they pulled this off and second uh he’s the fifth GM in history to win a CER cup as a GM and a Stanley Cup as a GM so he’s he’s worked his way up he was an agent mles you know him well yeah I’ve known him for like 25 years he was an agent and he had rage Drew and Jeff Hamilton kind of like not bigname guys and he was really big in Finland so he was going over to Finland he could always get go guys jobs in Finland he started bringing over some finnished younger players and getting them in and then he went in to Columbus right as assistant GM with the with the Finish GM there and just started learning more and more and more about the business and he is just dialed in he is not afraid to make moves remember how mad we were at him at the beginning for some moves he was doing yeah I mean I was I was very hard on him and I’m not gonna hide the fact that what he did to Keith Yandel I don’t agree with I think it it was proven that with teammates going in and saying you can’t do this and then him not being scratched that was part of it Panthers fans have always been all over me because I’ve said they won’t win the cup up I’m now saying amazing team you guys deserved it Bill Zito yeah at the beginning I’m like this guy’s a clown but dude he did not give a [ __ ] the kachuck deal was a big one and he does not really care at all what anyone else says or thinks about him which is exactly how you have to be in this business look at ra for [ __ ] sake and and I think I think that I think for him to be able to just like have the panic and the anger and the water bottle throw and then be able after to just release it all you saw him ra he’s an emotionaly said he was crying for 30 minutes on the ice buddy I would be balling still if I won the standing cup so I get it and I’m I’m I’m I’m very happy for the entire team I mean I look at all of rman Larson too and when they lost stall and gutas and they brought in Oliver Ekman Larson and mikola you can’t tell me that part of it wasn’t seeing the size of the Vegas D the merly theory and yes Mark stall was very big but gutus is undersized even though he plays like he’s six7 but all right I don’t care I’m getting two big guys in here and Oliver Ekman Larson was chirped nonstop in Vancouver you remember the clip of him in training camp he was about eight miles behind guys on a bag skate everyone’s all over him he gets bought out and being bought out is probably one of the worst feelings you can have as a professional athlete it’s just straight up we are going to pay you to not be on this team if you look at it like how it is it’s it’s it’s a slap in the face and how you going to respond to that and Oliver Ean Larson he went to work this summer he lost a little weight I believe he worked on his power skating and he looked awesome he took over the first power play role when Monto was struggling so just amazing move after amazing move and guys really just digging deep and not not at all thinking about the outside noise until chicklets came around and all of a sudden they all despised us but so be it it was it was an amazing game and to have the Panic of possibly losing that game and then playing as well as they did that’s what I was impressed about just going back to Oliver Ekman Larson too like yeah like tons of scrutiny obviously being in a Canadian media market like Vancouver um I Heard Rumblings that they were gonna try to make it work because he had a conversation with talk and the fact that he was GNA really dig in and have a big off season and then obviously the buyout did end up coming and when you’ve made as much money as that sometimes it’s easy to say yeah you know what it was a great career I I accomplished a lot and then you know here we go all right off into the sunset but he went back this summer and put in so much [ __ ] work not only on his power skating um his skill work getting back on the gym you said he lost a little bit of weight that has to do with his the muscle that he gained because he played with that snarl all season long and including playoffs where I never really seen him play with that type of Mean Streak it was always that offensive dispens so for him part of being on Florida it’s just like osmosis obviously to buy into that but the fact that after you know suffering that embarrassment to take a look in the mirror and address it in the offseason and come with that working mentality to Florida and put it and put in the work that he did uh I couldn’t be happier for the guy because he’s a 10 out of 10 human being who had just been stripped of a con confidence but he put the work in to regain it so it’s a lesson to be learned for anybody who might not be where they were you put in the work it eventually is going to turn back around so love you oel and hopefully we’re able to interview you about the last 12 months of your life and how about a [ __ ] turnaround absolutely Merles just to piggyback on your point there bakov became the first Finland born Captain to win the Stanley Cup he had 22 points in 24 games but then he shut down kov shut down pasta shut down the two guys at everything just a Stella job also the oers have been eliminated by the eventual cup champ for the third streight season B so that that leads me into Edmonton and and you you like to believe and you like to look at like the people who didn’t need to lose a final before they won one and there there are many out there Mario lemu never lost a final before he won one you know it happens but there’s something to be said about Gretzky’s legendary story of seeing the Islanders and realizing like it just takes a little bit more and Edmonton they they got behind the ball it was 03 like you can’t yes they won three in a row but four in a row it’s just nearly impossible but Edmonton I believe and a lot will come down to Leon and his decision he did press conference today where he said uh I love being in Edmonton Oiler I haven’t really thought about it yet but I love more than anything being an Edmonton Oiler I think that they’re that I think he will resign I don’t know if it’ll be eight-year deal it could be one of those shorter deals you see Matthews you see some of these great players now maybe you look to sign something when the CBA like until the CBA ends I don’t know but he has no intention of signing a short-term deal and he’s looking for a long-term extension okay well hopefully it’s hopefully it’s in Edmonton because if he is back in Edmonton and if Connor stays as an Edmonton Oiler they will get a Stanley Cup I you could call me crazy the way Evan Bard has turned into a legit star defenseman in the NHL amazing shot amazing Poise with the puck you got EOL signed now they have a lot of guys they do have to resign I think Yan Mark’s up for a new deal I think Connor Brown I think Connor Brown is a no-brainer if he wants to stay there you do whatever it takes and it’s not going to be big money based on his stats you need the stats in the regular season to get the Big D no matter how good he was in the playoffs he didn’t have the big numbers so hopefully they can get him locked up and you have things there and you have that loss in the finals to drive you and get you back there and losing three years in a row to the cup to The Cup winners I mean it just shows they are so close one game away one period away but it’s also so difficult to get there I mean they played some amazing hockey down 3-2 to Vancouver down 2-1 to Dallas and then you realize next year Dallas is going to be better Colorado might be better Vegas is goingon to be back in the mix Vancouver had a great season so it’s like it’s very scary as an Oilers fan to look at how difficult it is to get there but I believe they’ll be able to do it based on those two guys that’s the biggest kick of the dick is and Dr I’ll touch on is you’re two shots away from from accomplishing your goal and now you have to hit the reset button go through a whole 82 Game season and um if you could look at the the probably the biggest bright spot for me is the way that broberg was able to come in and play the way he did his skating ability guys is out of this world there was a few times in that game seven where he had the puck and he’d gotten it like below the goal line and he just like moved his hips a certain way and next thing you know he was like at the top of the circle little little crot shot for you guys at the watching the live stream right now but his ability to move out there it’s kind of like mesque like he’s not at that level but it ain’t that far off so the fact that you have him I believe one more year on an entry-level deal it kind of offsets the money that that Darnell nurse is making right so that to me is probably the biggest positive where that back end will look very similar and if not get a little bit better because he’s never played a full season in the NHL and I was told that Paul coffee said give me a season with this kid he’s going to be an All-Star well there you I trust that I think being that big and skating that well 22 years old they got a great one in him and it was amazing to see how he played being hopped in being in the thrown in and then miners most of the Year forget looking out of place there were times he dominated carrying the puckup ice with his legs and his speed so it’s just heartbreaking I so bad for Oilers fans and I I know much of Canada maybe didn’t want the Oilers but I I feel bad for Canada too I think and I want Canada to get a Stanley Cup we saw that City we saw how alive it was what was really cool was uh I mentioned Brad toche a lot we played golf with him he was talking to me about how much money the city made in that run 250 million probably by the time it’s all said and done and and growth financially really for the city of Edmonton I think that like in the finals at some point it just reached over two 200 million so for a small community like that like I’d never spend that much time in Edmonton we were in and out for for when I played in the NHL and i’ you know popped in a few times during that pink Whitney tour uh but just an amazing amazing City with amazing people and I guess that’s probably why ra went over the top rails and starting to root for him is just because of the way that they were babysitting him the whole time yeah he was crippled you had did you not have a friend that you’d met there throughout the finals that basically like carried you all the way to Florida yeah the girl the girl Handler yeah she had him in a wheelchair at the airport not quite that but yeah she would no she was helped me out she was uh became a new palette obviously you’ve known her for a little while you met her priv yeah no I know her her and her friend group then all of a sudden I’m like oh I I I said like the night before you were hanging out with some crackhead and I’m like oh my God I’m like I’m like sh like he’s with the crackhead and they’re flying together and all of a sudden it’s like no no it’s this girl and I’m like oh okay so now he’s got a new one he’s ditched Kate Kate’s on the back burner he had a crackhead girlfriend and now he’s got this new Asian one so you have just been tasting the whole Buffet R I’ll tell you hope for get all blue eyes oh yeah I forgot about this the hottest one of them all but uh yeah so I don’t know what what more you have to touch on as far as the Edmonton Oilers but uh incredible job by noblock coming in partway through the season and and uh really figuring out this team and his calm demeanor had a major major impact and influence on how they were able to respond come playoff time and all you look at back back at all the changes he made to the lineup and I think we talked about it last pod it’s like everything he touched turned to gold as far as decision making and you know they fall a goal short guys I don’t know I remember Bard hit the post remember third period rard hit the they had that that they had that power power play the only one they had that what’s his name stenin broke his stick had to give his stick I’m sorry foren broke his stick had to give us so they basic had a five and three and a half for that whole that whole power play and they couldn’t do anything with it scor the opportunity right there exactly yeah I think that broberg was a huge ad like he’s only going to get better he had to live in the hotel during playoffs let the guy get an apartment next year he’ll be even better but are you looking for next year wh from the Oilers a draft pick or free agency anything really glaring you want to add well we can go to the the fact that uh Rumor Mill is going around that Ken Holland is out I’ve heard Rumblings that uh that a former GM of the Chicago Blackhawks might be taken over there so there is just a lot going on I I thought that Stan Bowman and quinnville were like banned right now I didn’t I I didn’t say a name you did well you said the black former oh wait I said a former I’m hearing Rumblings at a former GM of the Chicago Blackhawks is taken over that’s that’s it I heard rumbling I have you guys have all you guys heard Rumblings I think Scotty up up yeah buy upy said Source telling me that Ken Halland could be on his way to Chicago Blackhawks position to be determined could this be the beginning of building a new Dynasty in Chicago they have the cap space and draft pick see how it plays out so UPI doesn’t really throw stuff out there no he never does he never probably something I i’ I’d heard that like a week ago I just really want to break it like that the fact that he wasn’t coming back and the fact that who he would be be replaced with but I like to see things play out I’m not really the journo uh newsbreaker guy the only scary thing about the Oilers is like you know you talk about Gretzky and he lost the Cup Final and then they went on the run and mcdavid’s now lost one but I think it was Gretzky’s fourth year that they lost and fifth year they won it’s it’s mcdavid’s what ninth yeah so it’s like you look at like holy [ __ ] it just time goes so fast parents out there know it’s just like long days short years and all of a sudden Conor mcdavid’s going into his 10th season 11th season whatever it is it’s like you just start you start like thinking about will this guy ever get one and I believe he will but it’s just so [ __ ] hard to win a Stanley Cup and you saw it in person on game seven and the sacrifices that Florida made and how long of a run it is too it’s exhausting it’s what is it June 25th it’s 100 degrees out like how are they still playing hockey and they were so close so I this summer I mean I don’t know I think you really really look at Brown and Yanmar and you’re looking at the third line and there’s just not any money to bring in a stud you know you’d have to make a big deal I don’t know what they’re going to do with nurse but if there were Rumblings that they would try to get rid of nurse after they went down three 0 and then maybe it changes after like the little comeback like I don’t that doesn’t make sense to me you can’t let like three games and tyeing the series up affect how you’re going to approach free agency and the trades and all that but it’s just obviously they got to get a guy in there first going to make the decisions because Ken Hall and I apparently won’t even be here at the draft no sh obviously he’s going to be switching jobs um we got to talk about the ratings too B the second highest rated Stanley Cup in North America since uh 2013 when Chicago played by Boston way back in the day just the the numbers absolutely 16.3 million viewers across North America I know Canada everyone up there was watching but these numbers are unre business now you’re in the TV business what you been you hear anything from your peers guys we we’ve been talking about all season long like hockey is on a heater right now I think that it is is going to take over and and Leap Frog um other major sports maybe not the NBA maybe not the NFL but definitely in my opinion the MLB with the way that the traduction of the NHL more teams coming in expansion the parody uh the skill set and the development of the players alone to me like I I I I forget what year I retired I think it was 2016 or 2017 but I was playing in the AHL and I’m like these [ __ ] kids are so fast now they’re twice the speed of when I came in and to now when you go down close to the ice if you’re sitting in the lower ball you’re like how the [ __ ] did I even ever play in this league no we didn’t we didn’t it was a different League oh was we did I I I see people say you played in the NHL ago not this NHL yeah the version 1.0 and in game seven like we were saying in the box like there was no time and space zero and this is after playing 25 games or whatever in the playoffs like you just have no room out there because people are so big and fast that the talent and the play that are made now I get the TV ratings being this High I believe it was the most watched game in the history of the NHL in Canada yeah and it’s just awesome to see and I know B’s taking a lot of heat over the years guys but the the whole league in general is heading the right direction they’re making the right move have you ever been sober that was what Gary said to me what was he game six or game seven I don’t know I wasn’t there for but then you e getting after it tonight Gary our interactions with Gary this turn this tournament have been unbelievable we got to we might get on the Pod I think he’s warming up to us enough that was hilarious maybe we had him in we might we might not even get credentials now with with Ra’s episode on the ice but it’s just awesome to see guys and it’s the Testament to everybody involved like all the other media Outlets who who do work obviously T TNT ESPN sportset T TSN and even like the the the journalists the the people who travel around and Amazon coming on Amazon’s coming on they’re doing this behind the behind the scenes dock on what is it 12 players I’ve actually been doing some voiceover for it uh to to help out with it and it’s just like I I shook everybody’s hand yesterday after I did it I said they’re like thank you I said no thank you like everything you guys are doing to help grow the game is huge more eyeballs means everybody wins and this great game deserves it based on the time and effort and and how competitive and how much these guys love and put into their sport so even everybody watching right now we thank you guys we know how invested you guys are like witch just said we’re at the [ __ ] end of June and you guys are watching hockey so it’s it’s incredible to see and uh I’m so proud of of of the league and and all the work of the people behind the scenes that they’ve done to get it to where it is right now I was kind of surprised the parade is until Sunday that’s that’s quite a long time I actually like that let all this stuff get over with and then once everything settles down they can actually really really take it in and it gives people enough time to organize to actually show up in South Florida and put out those numbers my prediction is they get more more fans in the Miami Heat after that pathetic parade they had a few years ago and they mentioned route or anything yet is it going to go right oh it’s going right by the elbow Beach FR Avenue all right we haven’t really talked about like so the posha mentioned how he ended up at Sam reinhardt’s house at about 3 3:30 they they spent all their time partying in the locker room and most teams sometimes they have a big party set up or they go out to like a you know go out to the club but they all went home at a at after the locker room situation and then right early in the morning everybody was at the Elbow Room and that’s the way you even said it too I would have loved to have done it the day partying is the best part so kachuck gets to get there early he’s pouring beer and the the few people that are there early enough to get it and then he brings it over for a dip in the ocean and then all the local news outlets had already posted all about it and then Elbow Room was packed it was packed inside there it looked like there was probably about 500 to a thousand people outside and the city really got to embrace it at at at Matthew and Walt kach Chuck’s favorite bar which is the Elbow Room swimming in the ocean with it too yeah I think I just mention that unless I’m going [ __ ] crazy and uh I men that you go crazy no shout out to J G you’re playing clean up I love you brother so I was at the Elbow Room we were chasing the cup me and memes the empty Netter boys we were like we got to see the cup we want to try to drink out of this thing tonight and so the Elbow Room closed to that too but we we start leaving the guy some guy grabs us like no no no like you guys can go upstairs go up there with Mark Messier and and PK you know and Steve leevy all those guys they said the Cup’s coming Cup’s coming here everybody else is getting kicked out we’re going to up to the second floor cuz on the second floor they don’t have the live stream cameras either so they could have had oh I was getting I was getting posted about me playing tummy sticks with a few ladies on the live stream camera but uh so we sat there we waited there from like two to three still no shows see ra out in the middle A1A throwing drinks at people but yeah let’s get into that what Happ it was it was a wild night it was great but we never got eyes on the cup wait you got in a Donnie BR I I almost twice I almost squar up twice the other night and I’ve had fighting since 1988 wear up yeah yeah like [ __ ] yeah I know what was the reason you you you would have got dribbled dude I don’t know I was pretty [ __ ] high rate the other night you know that [ __ ] Superman strength that com over called poke strength but it’s called pooke strength some guy some guy has the video of it he came up to me at the Elbow Room and was showing me the video of it and then I didn’t want to give him my number I don’t know why whatever panic I was in but I was like I was trying to video record his phone with the ra drink toss but it never worked out but the video’s out there if you’re listening it to G drinking a guy’s face I don’t even know if I just got out the cab so I don’t even unless it was another guy I don’t know no the first guy got out of the cabin I don’t even know what the interaction was but [ __ ] like I I I wasn’t the one back ped [ __ ] leave it at that you know not like today not like at the Elbow Room now do we have a few other of the ra interactions on the ice if we could go back to it I believe you talked to lamberghini who is I mean he’s a fan favorite I don’t know if you guys at home saw him in the locker room with a tarp on that just a little Speedo like underwear got all those like uh what is that thing they do Muses got all those like circles all over him he’s jacked but yeah I mean he was like [ __ ] Biz [ __ ] Whit I gotta kick out of that um what else that I want to say about that night I don’t know if you want part two of the second the second almost almost fight the first one or whatever so then the second one there’s the pizza joint next door right to the Elbow Room there all people they’re waiting for food I wanted to buy a couple drinks so I I was seeing if I could pay for my drink and I have to wait for everyone to get their [ __ ] food to buy a couple drinks and some kid got [ __ ] mouthy right hilarious he had a Red Sox hat on with starts pointing to the bee on his hat like he’s [ __ ] Doug McCrae from the town and not some goofball from London der New Hampshire tells people he’s 20 minutes from Boston [ __ ] stay in line [ __ ] I was like I was [ __ ] angry I was he after what just happened [ __ ] what do you want to do kid [ __ ] he stayed in [ __ ] poin in his hat to the beat like I was gonna be scared of it was it was pour over from your um your anger from the locker room situation you were car you were carrying it with you a big bag of emotion been with me a long time and I have I ever lost my [ __ ] Kool maybe once if I remember posha posha when he was recording you puke him before we started he me he walked in the bathroom and the door shut POS has been wearing a Boston Red Sox hat was will you call Keith kachuck uh I told you yesterday I might but I don’t think there’s anything for me to call I didn’t I think I don’t think I owe anybody I don’t owe anybody in apology we need tole it on the PA we want to get Matthew and Walt on like just an incredible run that those guys deserve it we we didn’t really talk about the the the moment that he had with Brady as well like we’re a year removed from Brady having to put his cloth on for him going to the rink in order to try to even play with that broken Stern check G to make sure he’s breathing saying yeah so just an incredible moment to share with his brother who should be uh hopefully in the playoffs soon enough if not on on the Florida Panthers at some point because we’re missing out with not getting Brady kachuck come playoff time but just a great moment for him and his family and uh like I said the invitees out there we we want to get any Panthers whether you guys are willing even though we’re Oilers Jo sniffers uh also one last thing on the cup unless you guys have anything else Alanis Mara said absolutely croak both of those anthems she was unbelievable yeah but the I thought she stopped singing well the crowd took over the first one where it was off it was off tune because the crowd just was like n no no we got this one and then took it off yeah so good shout out all the Oilers fans too I believe somebody said 9,000 people flew down from Edmonton I don’t know if that’s [ __ ] but it was Oilers fans everywhere and once in a once in a lifetime chance to see your team play for the Stanley Cup pretty cool the travel how difficult that was that that many people made it down to Florida for that game absolutely boys so that’s it any final thoughts Merles so we good to go here but no an amazing playoffs again I mean this every year 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epic cup run epic cup run five games you went to man what a ripper but some other major news that dropped H Hockey Hall of Fame RS got seven new members coming in here uh Detroit Redwing Legend pavell datsu one of the best defenseman of his ever his era sheay Weber Jeremy ronic finally gets in uh US Women’s players Natalie dotz and Chrissy wendle Paul will go to his players while longtime GM David pole and League exec Colin Campbell will go in the build category I tell you what it just makes me feel really old when there’s guys that I played against and they’re going into the Hall of Fame but is it is Shay Weber I thought he was still like on the books with Phoenix like isn’t he only guy on Utah my yeah but they they I think they all put that rule rule a few years back when guys are obviously not going to come back even if their salary is still active they they to let them get in the Hall of Fame which makes a lot of sense you know especially if these guys are on extended deals uh Whit what was your reaction to the Hall of Fame election um so happy for Jr we actually talked to that with him at our sandbagger in San Diego when we got our asses kicked by him and teu and teu was even saying thisy you think the sandbagger was what did it maybe possibly I think that teimo was so adamant about J.R you should be in the Hall of Fame this is [ __ ] like hearing him say that you know I knew there was some uh some chance that he would get in I’m glad for him Pavo datsu one of the biggest no-brainers maybe that I can think of Sha Sha Weber in in my mind a little surprised first time uh first ballot Hall of Famer I thought maybe he might have to wait considering um you know we’ve seen some other names have to wait a little bit but he’s a Hall of Famer the way he changed games the way he was so dominant big strong physical defenseman with a rocket Weber bomb remember that here comes the Weber bom so uh I like it I love it I want so Weber’s in he should be in it’s just a mill issue for me so every single year we go over this I don’t understand it I don’t get it it better happen and you know what I think a lot of people thought Jr would never get in so that makes me think mgy will but Mill is a Hall of Famer you think of Alexander Mill and what he did in the league you think of Hall of Fame in my opinion so hopefully he ends up getting in what names am I forgetting a couple women Chuck wal kachuck isn’t in I know no no isn’t in I thought you me guys who should the people who got in this this performance by him after the game shoving ra out of there might get how hated ra is right now then voters might get him right in he’s still American so I don’t know about that either H David P and Colin Campbell with two of the other names what okay makes sense to me I mean David pil [ __ ] a dude that guy did it for a long time he he had a a small Market team in Nashville be competitive quite often he did a great job incredible drafter especially if defenseman God damn ham Dan ham Heist ham hu I always mess that up Weber sudor it was just like eolm it was just uh Ryan Ellis he was just always bringing in stud defenseman and I I think that he he’s welld deserved there Coen Campbell I know Greg Campbell very well awesome guy Stanley Cup champion I don’t know his dad that well uh but that’s he’s been around the league for so long and I I I love seeing people get in the Hall of Fame I’m not somebody who’s going to sit there at a name and say what the [ __ ] he should have never got in because if you’re even up for it you’re that great of a player you’ve had that great of a career that if you get in great for you I don’t have a vote in it so if you’re in I’m just happy for you because as Biz as Biz has made it quite clear he’d let it anyone anyone Merles would be in the Hall of Fame if it was up to Biz 100% yeah and adwit and wend Paul they play R would be for journalist yeah journalist they do have that drunkest journalist in the history of his picture would have the the choke call I believe I think that might have actually been a headband Biz not an actual choker oh I know someone picked it up off the bus you made it a choker you told me to keep it on buddy you know I was listen to my man did uh oh yeah I mention the two women delitz Wendel pole they played for the US Women’s team uh played on the 02 and 06 Olympic teams back then one of Silva and bronze respectively boys lots of news went on the last couple days well Elliot mentioned uh B you were telling me he said it might be one of the crazier weeks we’ve had I think it might have been G or posha who said it but I read the Tweet too and and I was excited when I saw it and and you we talk about it all the time time guys with the hard cap and the fact that yeah it moved up four million that’s not a crazy amount given what the four million next year so knowing that it does change it so you know in two years you got eight million more sure I think that that probably allows people to make some more moves than maybe usually yeah and I and I also think that people are looking at like how aggressive Bill Zito with what what he did and and and the moves that he made and saying you know we’re a few moves away like let’s get aggressive here so um I know the all mark one went down and and there’s some other crazy on so I just think that like once again with everything and where their leagues at and the fact that it’s on a heater the all these crazy moves happening in the offense or the offseason excuse me to keep the momentum going is just what the game needs and I don’t know if we’re going to dive into that allar right now but if you’re a bees fan holy [ __ ] losing your mind right now you have one of the best surprised you have a you have a guy who’s who’s a season removed from winning a vzna and he’s getting a [ __ ] 20 th overall first round pick a late first round pick Corpus solo and I believe there’s corpo was one of the worst statistical goalies in the NHL last year yeah but dude things can change quick he’s a very guy and and and ottawa’s not the easiest team to play for because they give up a lot of great A’s I think he also led the league an amount of goals he let up on the first shot of the game this season so a reset will be good for him going into a team like Boston who has great structure but to me it’s just like Ottawa had to get him off the books like he makes $3 million not much less than what allmark makes so a 25th in return to me is just lunacy I thought I thought the Bruins had a great opportunity with allmar to bring in a player who could really help them that’s what I’m saying and it’s like it’s like oh my God you have swam and now you can get another player with allar you need centers and boom you’re like wait what we didn’t even get anyone to help up who is the other player involved there was one yeah and he’s a bottom six center at that like and they have six of those at this point and and people forget they have the best go ah goalie in the AHL right now Brandon busy so like they have homegrown Talent they have Michael D as well Calgary was the best goal either way he’s good he’s unbelievable I mean they and they just resigned him to a three-year deal so it doesn’t make any sense why they would make that and they retained 25% but it’s still it’s like if you want to get rid of corpal now you have to attach an asset to it do you not that’s what I’m that that’s kind of where I was going where if anything that that’s should have you you should be getting something for taking him based on the season he had and the fact that you have to get him off the book so very a big head scratcher uh we’ll see normally I’m okay with a lot of the moves that the bees make but this one just didn’t feel like the right thing well this this goes back to the power and the leverage and him deciding he didn’t want that trade to go down at the deadline whatever they had built up I believe somebody said it was LA and he said No and when a player has the ability to say no it’s like you’re hamstrung a little bit and they didn’t they let go ahead sorry I you don’t you don’t want to go to La but you’re going to Ottawa I know I don’t just to let people know the trade they traded Lena soak to Ottawa for goal yonos cor pasalo ma cellic in the first you you mentioned this weekend the 25th overall omach he’s only got one more year left on the deal at five mil I think that was probably a factor in on the return corpal has four more years left at four mil aav the send are retaining 25% of that Castell one more year at 835k listen omok was hardly a number one goalie when the Bruins brought him in a lot of people was shaking the head when heads when the Bruins brought him in right coming from Buffalo he wasn’t really an established number one goal system goalie I’m not calling him a system goalie at all but I’m saying he Le here number one goalie Coral was a pretty damn good goalie in Columbus things didn’t work out in Ottawa I think he’s gonna be a damn good goalie again in Boston and pairing him with a guy like Swan I have no issue with it at all I just feel like why yeah why not just keep omark you know they work well together you know it works like you’re just brought in another goal similar salaries makes a million dollars less just hold on to olark till next year in around mid season some teams panicking you’re going to get more than a first rounder for him or even wait to the deadline like you were going to this year and you’re going to get more than a 25th overall pick I have heard they are shopping the first round pick though we heard that down on the ice last night they aggressively shopping they need they need help they need help in the center position and I don’t know how you go about doing that but dry Sidle yeah I don’t I don’t think that’s happened yeah September a long way off as well I think that’ll be a distraction too having a m yeah that could that could be a distraction in the locker room right if you know you’re going to trade him so anyways moving right along uh San Jose picked up defenseman Jake wman in a second round pick in a trade with Detroit the old future considerations he’s got two more years at 3.4 mil with this feels almost like our eer was done with the gritty I heard he saw those gritties he’s like you’re going one of the worst team in the league so it’s uh kind of an odd deal I think Wallman played pretty well in Detroit um didn’t know much about him all of a sudden he scored some big goals playing a lot of minutes but maybe that’s a move with something else in mind I I I don’t know but I think Mike Greer’s looking at it like we need veterans who are proven nhlers in here and they’ve done a good job and they got goodro over from New York in that weird waivers move and who else did they bring over um San Jose grabbed somebody else in the past while baky guro no I just said I’m sorry I was reading I was reading the next thing I don’t know I can’t oh uh no I Smith sign yeah Will Smith signed maybe that’s what I was thinking of and they’re going to have celebrini but I think good move for for for San Jose maybe Detroit has something else in mind I think Detroit next year we’ll see Edinson coming up from the miners playing a much bigger role I know he was up for a little bit this year but yeah like yeah no more gritty yeah sometimes it’s about moving a guy to give another guy room to come in that’s a great Point Ry uh the Avalanche signed forward Casey midd stat to a threeyear 17 and a quarter million dollar extension comes out to 5.75 average annual value Merles what’s you take on this signing scenery yeah I mean they traded a guy Bo Byrum who is he’s going to be a top two defenseman for forever and uh you had to make sure you don’t lose him so no matter what he did he zero goals in the playoffs and I still think you got to resign him just because of what you gave up for him so but he did well he was second line I I don’t know if he’s the second line Center on a cup winning team but I mean he he he’s he’s NHL he’s an NHL he’s NHL second liner but I don’t think he’s a cup winning I I I think that if he wants to get there he has to have a major major off season and gain a gain that half a step speed I don’t think he’s fast enough in order to keep up at the pace in which Colorado wants to play um I thought he had a solid playoff um I mean but when jimie Ben’s burning you off of a [ __ ] you know 200 foot Sprint down the ice I don’t know if your speed is where it needs to be but in Colorado and this is a nice little Bridge deal to see if he’s able to get to that place and look at like maybe not next year but in years two or three if you say the cap keeps bumping up four and then it maybe even another four like could end up being your third line Center and that’s an incredible third line Center who can chew guys up in that spot but uh still looking to replace that Cadre they’ve just been trying to replace that now call Marks like biggest for me is nushin what is gonna happen there like I I nobody knows nobody knows how that’ll play out and then landeskog will landeskog be able to go it sounds like he’s definitely gonna be giving it a shot but who knows if he’ll be able to be the player he once was so there are a lot of kind of question marks around Colorado but when you have McKinnon and you have ronon and you have ma it’s like that core you’re set up to be a successful team it’s just you see Florida you need those pieces you need those depth pieces and those players that can produce when the when the game gets even rougher so middle stat I don’t know if he has that grit that they’re chasing that they lost with cadri but maybe he can grow into it he’s still pretty young yeah I just think like when you’re gonna be Colorado if you are going to go to the cup you’re going to have to beat Vegas you’re going to have to beat Edmonton you’re going to have to beat Dallas and that’s the second line Center that can can beat those teams yeah he had 10 points in 18 regular season games but he actually had nine points in 11 playoff games I thought he had a pretty good playoffs himself uh Winnipeg jet signed defenseman Dylan Dello to a four-year $19.6 million extension comes out to a shade under five million a year 31y old he was San Jose’s six round pick way back in 2011 Biz what do you got for us on this one repeat it sorry I problem Dylan Dello four years 19.6 mil extension with the Jets 31y old defenseman yeah I I I actually think that their back like overperformed expectations this season and uh I I like his game I think he’s a he’s a solid he’s probably what a number three probably more of a four on a Stanley Cup on a Stanley Cup winning team I think he blocks a ton of shots I feel like I had him in fantasy and he was always winning me the block shot he’s he’s he’s a gamer and he’s a foxhole guy and and a and a good second layer Guy where if you want to establish that culture you need to keep around so I think it’s a solid deal and I don’t know Paul Maurice seems to think they have the recipe to win one I think I don’t know about that I think think he just really appreciates the fan base and his time there and how it all ended with him resigning and I think he just wants success for that I don’t know if he actually believe yeah little tummy sticks like I left you guys I end up winning a Stanley Cup but I really hope you get yours I don’t know if you gave him truth s it’s like if you leave your wife and you find someone better and you’re I just want my ex to find happiness yeah I don’t know I’m probably not going there on that one I’d like to not think about that but maybe I don’t know do you hope your ex finds like somebody better than you yes okay that’s a nice guy move for you that’s true love our buddy schaly but the big scoop the Big Tuna Lam O’Brien signed a three million with Utah man he knew what he was doing when they did that introductory press conference he’s like I’m gonna make these fans love love me they’re gonna have to resign I think every team should have a guy like that he’s a morale guy he’s just great in the community uh shows up every day to work he’s willing to fight anybody he creates energy he was a fan favorite with the Arizona Coyotes I think that’s going to trans uh transfer over to Utah especially early on establishing a culture and a fan base you need guys who are willing to not only do everything they need at the rink and on the ice but also get in the community and shake hands and make fans feel like they’re a part of it and I think spicy tuna is the perfect guy for that uh you saw it with that intro when they first got there and and and that I I I think that it might have been schaly who gave them that the nickname or maybe it was heat daddy so uh they’re they’re huge on I think they were the ones who actually broke the trade I think it was schaly and uh could be happier for Liam O’Brien kind of like he’s a better player than I was uh but like kind of like a similar type Guy where he’s just like a like a fan favorite Vibes guy he’s a VI guy guy he’s a menace he’s a menace he’s not crushing everything in Oldtown like I was you think he’s married happily married with a kid but uh that’s probably the only difference and that he’s making over a million which I never did for Jeff Skinner expected to be bought up by the sabes perhaps today he’s got three years left on that 8 years $72 million deily sign uh he’s a 10 time 20 goal scorer six time 30 goal scorer and one time 40 goal scorer Whit whoever picks up this 32-year-old this offseason gonna be pretty happy he’s a good little player man no you you immediately just go and bet that they will not make the playoffs whatever team he signs on there’s the lock of next season for your betters out there oh I wasn’t going to call them it’s very it’s very tough if you’re a playoff team with C cup aspirations to go sign a guy that’s never played in the playoffs like I I hope he gets a shot with a really good team the good thing is with his bio and how much money he’s made and will still receive He he’ll be willing to take close to league minimum I would think I mean he’ll probably have to because even though he has number league manum is probably a little bit of an exaggeration but it will not be a number where you’re like oh my God maybe two million a year like do Shane and Dallas kind of thing like him exactly exactly and I hope he gets in the playoffs I hope he really gets a chance to play in the best time of year but we talked about that I think a few episodes ago for a while uh big congratulations to Glen sa the a hockey lifer NHL Legend he was uh serving as senior advisor to the owner of the Rangers he announced his retirement from the game on Wednesday uh the 88-year-old 80 the 80-year-old s that was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame back in 97 he won five Stanley Cup cups with the oers the first four is coach in GM the final one is GM this guy played in the NHL just a like I said a Hockey Life a hockey Legend so congrats to slots on an unreal career a great guy too so enjoy every time boys coup always takeing him with the stoy I would love to have an hour sit down with Wayne to talk about Glenn saor stories I’d love to sit down with with Glenn oh [ __ ] if he would do it I didn’t he would do it you never know even know what a podcast know H congrats to the Hershey beers as well the 13th call the cup in team history they went back toback for the third time in team history uh they beat Coachella Valley for the second straight yeah this team is just dominant on the HL poor I I poor Dan B and all the guys of Coachella to lose again to play this long it is hilarious to me that they play a call Cup final game on the night of game seven I think that’s maybe the most insane thing I’ve ever heard just move it a day it’s the miners but Dan bman is moving on and he’s moving up so as hard and as heartbreaking that is and I’m sure he feels horrible for the team and himself he’s back in the NHL so happy for him and it’s it’s it’s I think it’s a great thing when you have a coach that’s down in the miners and he’s seeing the prospects and he’s working with guys they’re going to have to be a big part of the NHL team in the future and then being able to bring that coach up I think that is the dream scenario for most teams if you can have your AHL coach work his way up and be there for a while and then come up to the NHL and know a bunch of the younger prospects I think that’s perfect so I love what uh what’s happened in Seattle yeah and I think I think he was our assistant in Wok be when we went to the finals against the Chicago Wolves and we lost that one in six so he’s now at least been to three cder Cup finals and never one uh but going back to bman he does have that Stanley Cup with Pittsburgh when he took over for tyion and then afterward he ended up going to uh what was it he was in Buffalo and then that was it for his NHL as a head coach I believe so yeah so so and he was a young head coach right so a lot of learning lessons early on uh that fizzled out he went and you know reestablished his coaching abilities in the minors he’s had success there so I mean look at Paul Maurice and how long it took him to win a Stanley Cup you know and and and and become a fulltime NHL coach so I wish him nothing but the best he was a great guy he was fun to be around so I think it’s a good move for for Seattle like you said to to already have a connection to the next wave of player that’s going to come up and have to fill in those roles I think that’s very very vital have to go over to the Hershey side Brian Helmer it’s old teammate of mine he’s uh VP of hockey operations I believe he was the guy when we were in San Antonio together he was gonna play his thou 1,000th G Pro game and he was a guy that always had the big goatee so yance made all of us on the team grow out our our uh beards and then right before the game we all shaved the goatee for him so we all played a seventh game with a goatee that was pretty fun awesome such a y great with the bck razors too so everyone’s Bleeding Out warm up ohz you got the [ __ ] God is Todd Nelson’s their head coach down there in Hershey and Todd Nelson is that it I don’t know but that hurted I think Wag that organization is crazy they just win it’s all they do uh this November good stuff coming we have the CHL USA challenge we’re going to have the American kids facing off for us the Canadian kids uh this November like it’s a two game series with did that kind of jump out so basically this is incredible this is awesome and you’ve had the national development program or national team development program excuse me become so successful and become so different same as I said I didn’t play in this NHL the ntdp that I was at is nothing like now these kids are so good so skilled and then you’ve always had the CHL top prospects game so the under 18 team in in Plymouth Michigan the are the draft eligible kids most of them unless they’re late late birth birthdays that year and they’ve played around they play college teams they play USHL they play international but they never face off against the best draft eligible players in the CHL and now ra I wish it was two out of three I think that maybe would have been a little bit better to guarantee yourself a Victor as opposed to if they split this there isn’t a winner aggregate yeah I mean yeah I know but like if you win 4-1 and then lose two nothing like are you really the champion like it’s a little odd to me but it’s not even rules it’s not even more well the rules you just made up for aggregate but what what do you mean it happens in soccer you’re the soccer Guy Mr Mr is this Champions League are we talking Champions League or draft prospects in the CHL and the USA well we’re talking about something that was brand new we’re talking about something that was newly established my point two out of three would be better and then you’re like well aggregate when has aggregate been used in hockey uh I think it has in the past at some point I think we had that in ecac’s first round when I play sick what a Le a long time ago you not like his answer no I just think that if you’re going to lean towards the ecac first round in 1997 you’re reaching a little bit all I’m saying is I wanted two out of three but no matter what it’s awesome because for the players you’re getting to Americans that you’re going up against in the draft and for the scouts you’re seeing them all together right so you don’t have to watch kids just in the CHL and then you get to see like one-on-one like maybe Haggins and then the top prospect next year in the CHL like see this battle between them two I think it’s cool I I might have missed it is it USA vers Canada with those kids or is it CHL vers USA it’s C it’s the best top it’s the I I read it’s the top draft eligible players in the CHL versus the under 18 and if it’s an so there can be an American kid that’s on that CHL team playing against Team USA which would be interesting didn’t think of that that’s oh so maybe you’re saying it it’ll only be Canadian I know yeah I don’t know yeah yeah yeah it’s like like a big high-end showcase I guess probably probably a good way to put it now I think we should have probably read the fine print but who gives a [ __ ] no I was just in you’re correct you’re correct play against the US a Us kid that’s weird yeah Tampa Bay head coach John Cooper he’s gonna coach Canada at the four nations faceof in the 2026 Olympics no surprise there I’d say not at all and he’s got one thing left he get the cups got that gold medal and and you’re you’re well he’ll be in the Hall of Fame anyway yeah no doubt the longest tened active coach just finished his 12 season out in Tampa uh he was going to coach back of the 22 Olympics but the NHL did not partake Biz what do you got oh it’s a no-brainer and I think he just signed like a a in a one-year extension so he’s got two years left now at the Tampa Bay Lightning too so I mean we talk about these coaches and and the paydays that they’re getting uh once this this dynasty Run for the Tampa Bay Lightning is over I mean who the [ __ ] he’s gonna get the bag oh my God he’s gonna get he’s gonna get a Babcock type deal y right like six seven million a year so he knows how to manage all those e and those unbelievable players and the press conferences everything so like I said I don’t think there was a really another option all right congratulations Belle happy for you po uh the Kings debut of the new threads man they’re pretty sweet the LA Kings I love the throwback ones yeah and I love how on the bottom they made that the bar across very thick so it just it adds different dimensions and layers to the Jersey I like the the Rebrand and of course they’re going to be playing with those matte black buckets which are way better in my opinion the silver ones and they’re just a lot classier so uh kudos to them way better than what the Ducks got going on all right the Ducks orange I was like I don’t I didn’t hate the Jersey it’s just the pants being orange I was like H but as we’ve seen with Dallas and their like neon yellow or green jersey like it’s about the younger kids it’s about selling the jerseys and wanting these 14 15 year olds to want this cool orange Jersey and maybe it pops off on camera for the on TV but I didn’t love just that much Orange in a uniform I wasn’t a huge fan yeah just to listen the Ducks about an hour and a half after the Kings put their tweet out the Ducks did as well but I think rat goas is may be the first rat goas the first guy in history to make a duck actually look mean I mean that’s Ducks just kind of a weak name for a hockey team it’s you know kind of a [ __ ] Bird right who’s afraid of a duck uh I think never saw blue ducks are very resilient my understanding Ducks work their dick off don’t they yeah yeah uh Marell he’s walking away from ownership of the Arizona Coyotes time holy [ __ ] buddy that was quick yeah friend of the show Craig Morgan reported uh the news come four days after the Arizona state land Department canceled that auction that Mar Maro was trying to get this [ __ ] trative land AR land the land was um what’s the term you use it was uh zoned for like a 3500 seat Arena so it wasn’t even zoned properly to build what they wanted to build so that’s why we already have those think even at a certain point like one of the the people in the community came out and said like this isn’t going to be built on it even if they win the land so I just think they were way in over their head uh a great business move by I think they make out making about 400 million on the whole overall deal take your money get the [ __ ] out of hockey you’re not the type of owners that the NHL is looking for you don’t know how to treat your employees you’re Cutthroat in the businesses that you’ve ran before if you want to go run them like that go do it that’s not how the NHL operates you have to treat people like people and uh you know what the Panthers are perfect proof of what an owner means exactly and you saw Florida flounder for years and then Vinnie Viola comes in and with his West Point background and Matt cwell and all these guys and they’ve changed everything you need you need a superstar owner to become Stanley Cup champions I’m telling you it matters so much because as you said it’s the treatment of everyone whether it’s a secretary whether it’s a janitor it doesn’t matter when you have an owner that just takes pride in how he’s running that entire business and team it changes the landscape of everything and he was that guy was a that guy was a pigeon even for Kate’s right like the money that they’ll spend like he’ll go down there say what do you guys need for me in order to be successful like down to them hiring the the the mental coach so the budgets they have and to say Hey listen here’s the amount of money to go get these types of re resources in order to have success because he brought a bunch of his West Point buddies over too right Biola Y where they help run the organization so these guys are the type of guys who are up at the crack of dawn you know going for cold dips in the [ __ ] ocean our guy Bryce HG he’s he’s a West Point guy he’s I I don’t even know his exact title I feel like he does everything down there he’s a COO yeah it’s I mean the NHL finally cut and bait here hopefully Biz they can learn some lessons so something like this does never happen again I mean the GU wasn’t great beforehand the the owners were sick and tired of leaking oil and covering the cost of it because the league owned team uh and ultimately you know this guy came on board and and it seemed like he had enough money and he wanted to make a difference and and pulled the wo wool over their eyes and hey it’s a learning experience and move on where nowadays I mean they just got Ryan Smith from Utah another incredible person and and a Visionary and I think the NHL has has finally got rid of uh get rid of some problems and brought on some better people actually I met a woman from Utah at the airport the other night she was very excited to have a team and I told her you going to have a real good team very out there all the prospects in the pipeline uh chicklets cup registration is open uh the ball street hockey is full with teams weight listed we do have co-ed in women’s division spots available as for the roller division uh the D division is full but other divisions do have a couple Slots of course we’ll be in London Ontario September 19th and 20th oh yeah memes’ Hometown folks you can register at bosd sports.com eventss what what went on with the big deal select meeting on the bus I didn’t really get to catch all [ __ ] drunker than a maggot I just said Terry I think you might have to retire you and Biz are brutal and and Terry he just fired his world championship ring right in my face and and he’s a Ball Hockey Hall F yeah I was just trying to get him going a little bit I just said listen you guys are just non-stop talking about the talent and and the heart and how much you guys mean to each other which is all true but you haven’t won and if you don’t win like how often can you keep trotting back the same people but his buddy was there I forget his name apparently he’s a game breaker we hear this every year future ball hockey oh this is the best ball hockey play well why didn’t you have him last tourn I told Biz he needs to coach a need to retire I think G got some information from from from some of the organizers as to some of the the ad division ball hockey teams that have signed up since yeah they said they’re 10x the Godfathers which was the Godfathers dominated last year dominated and they said their teams there’s multiple teams that are 10x the Godfathers so Biz needs to load up so so so currently there’s there’s currently there’s eight teams in the top division correct for ball hockey I was even talking about maybe even opening up another four slots so it’s 12 teams to make it even more competitive because all of a sudden all these like people from Quebec want to come over who are apparently Savages and I would like to make it like a money division where every team be sick yeah every team who signs up every guy throws in an extra hundred bucks and then you know if you have 12 teams 100 bucks a guy let’s say there’s 10 bucks a guy I don’t know math very well but that’s a decent chunk a change for the winners to bring on we should figure out some sort of cash prize anyways I think for roller a for Street a both teams deserve definit for for for ball hockey because we have actual professionals showing up on every team we got Professionals in a roller I know but we’re talking about like professional ball hockey teams guys who go play in the World Championships like how many teams that are the in the Ball Hockey division have like multiple multiple eight guys who have 100% 100% guys that come from Nationals I want to see I want to see names and I want to see highlight 100% you guys mentioned Terry Ryan I actually did help him get into the game the other night I was like T you are right there he had his phone but he hadn’t had his ticket downloaded I you you know have to sign up whatever app Ticket Master app whatever so he has me his phone it’s an Android I’ve had I was like I literally was like this I was like does anybody here out working Android like 10 times finally some guy come over like help me walk through the Android seen these two trying to get into the game with their phones I do remember on the bus where you had you’re like Terry this isn’t good but I’m the one that has to lecture you you’re like settle down I was like this isn’t this is bad you know you’re in real bad a little bit of responsibility for ra is good sometimes yeah not a bad thing uh come see us in a couple hours we’re gonna be at Stadium swim at cirker at 5:30 awesome time oh I can’t wait to get over and uh right now we’re interviewing I think in about an hour Macklin celebrini so I can’t wait to talk to him we’ll be dropping that this summer at some point we got two episodes left guys and we’re leaving you with a banger on the last episode of the season so I cannot wait till you guys get to hear that but should we tease it do it uh guys we got Mark Messier for over an hour live in Edmonton and we’ll be dropping him on our last full podcast together July it’ll be on July 9th and then we’re going to say goodbye for the summer but of course we’re going to be dropping episodes every week R is going to come in for the intros we have some other amazing interviews uh lined up for who we have but you guys will be teed up for some summer comment especially if you guys are commuters or you’re on the boat or wherever we have some Legends of the game who are going to come on and tell some awesome stories and you guys will be taken care of but it’s been an un unbelievable rip for us an unreal end to the season we’re so grateful for all of you who who who come by and listen on a weekly basis even despite how polarizing our brand can be at times but as Whit mentioned at the top of the show we’re a circus we’re not your basic media Source we’re just a bunch of Goofs who get together and and want to talk about hockey and do what we love and make silly content so on on that note we got a sandbagger tomorrow with a few goofballs we got another appearance on Thursday tomorrow at uh Le’s Discount Liquor starting at 1:45 that’s 4230 South Rainbow Boulevard in Las Vegas Nevada so we got two appearances in Vegas come stop by if you’re here we got the NHL draft we’ll be there for a little bit we’ll be at the awards as well and uh once again congratulations to the Florida Panthers on an incredible run uh the entire organization back-to-back finals and you guys finally pull off and get your first one well deserved and it’s so good for the growth of the game especially in South Florida look at the domination of of Tampa and Florida over the past few years and it continues to grow the game so you guys welld deserved and looking forward to hearing from Walton Matthew yeah let’s see what happens we love it all right everybody great show see you peace good job
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I wish portnoy would just can RA, dude has turned into a mess and kind of embarrassing to how much work biz and whit put in to this show. And whatever chick banged him in Florida had to have been on the same drugs he’s on cause no way she’s voluntarily doing that
Yall can’t be treating RA like that he ain’t no pasha
Why doesn’t this man just admit he was crippled lmao
RA is fuckin hilarious chill the fuck out
RA is supposed to be the slap dick townie who takes the butt of jokes. That’s his role. If he tries to play any other role it simply comes off as entitled.
RA sounds like that alcoholic mom yelling at her kids during the family intervention, denying any drinking problem.
Can we please be done with RA. Let him blog or whatever, but his antics are beyond old at this point
Keep going RA you all are legends and some of these people are so ridiculous!!! love the pod keep it up don’t change a thing 🫵💪
Ra fell for the edmonton hick with a huge rack and switched to the oil
brandon bussi is the best goalie in the ahl. after hildeby, askarov, and wolf lmao
I'll say this about the Coyotes ownership…..the league bears responsibility for vetting all these clowns into the league that destroyed that franchise.
RA, too funny! Don’t listen to the haters. But, next year maybe stay off the ice!
I think we can all agree RA was in the wrong. Let's hope he can learn from this and admit his wrongdoings and move on.
Literally every Stanley Cup game in history has a guy scoring a cup winning goal…
rattled
This loser is playing victim?
I'm team RA. 100% . I'd much rather have him do his thing than listen to corporate mouthpieces that are told what they can and cannot report on by the NHL.
Who cares if he was drunk , didn't have a voice, and was cheering for edmonton (possibly) ? It's entertaining. It's authentic. Unlike the corporate mouthpieces and their scripted narratives. There a reason why players HATE media.
Did tkachuk kick messier out of the party? You know very well he was rooting for edmonton
Oilers Suck. RA sucks too
Time to put RA on waivers boys