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Now, earlier this week, San Diego Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh stopped by the Anaheim Ducks locker room to give a pep talk and announce the starting lineup. And this is how it sounded.
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I mean, he's like the Yalanders for me at this point.
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Oh my goodness. All right. For those on DraftKings Network, we have John Butcher-Gross coming up next. You can watch that interview and the rest of the show on the Levitar YouTube page. Just go to the playlist and find our folder. We got every episode in that folder. So we got John Butcher-Gross coming up next to talk about college hockey.
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The NCAA Men's Hockey Tournament has started, and you can find all the games across the ESPN platform, the family of networks. And one man who will be prominent on said platforms, it's John Butchergrass, who joins us now. We're going to talk about the Frozen Four. Let's go through the matchups here, because last night was absolutely crazy. Cornell upset Michigan State.
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Game winner with eight seconds left in regulation. Boston University defeated Ohio State. They're going to face the Terriers tomorrow. Western Michigan got past Minnesota State in double overtime. And UMass with a stunning, and I mean this is a stunning overtime victory over the Minnesota Gophers. The Gophers had to change goaltenders in the middle of the third period.
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immediately gave up a goal off the faceoff, switched goaltenders back because there was an equipment issue, and that was two goals in a minute and a half, and then a tripping call was missed in overtime, and in transition, the Minutemen scored, and they will play the Broncos tomorrow night.
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Today's matchups, Maine versus Penn State, UConn versus Quinnipiac, Boston College versus Bentley, and Providence versus Denver. Denver is the defending national champions. So, John, why don't you give us your thoughts on what's going on in the tournament right now?
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You guys mentioned a couple of names from the finalist list from the Hobie Baker Awards. So let's go over the entire list for best hockey player in the country. Zee Bulliam and Jack Devine from Denver. Aiden Fink from Penn State. Matt Godowski from Army. Isaac Howard from Michigan State. Ryan Leonard from Boston College. Ayrton Martino from Clarkson. Liam McClinsky from...
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Holy Cross, Jimmy Snuggerud from Minnesota, Alex Tracy from Minnesota State. Some unreal names on that list.
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Oh, my God. So you have any thoughts on any of the names that we haven't mentioned yet, John?
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The Frozen Four, the actual semifinal is April 10th. And the national championship is April 12th in St. Louis on ESPN2 and ESPN+. Before we move on to the NHL, I want to give a shout out to the women. Wisconsin won the national championship on the women's hockey side. And Layla Edwards. I see you. All right.
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You mentioned Team USA. Leila Edwards is now joining Team USA as they go off to play in the Women's World Championship. So good luck to Team USA.
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So it's basically Dustin Bufflin. That's right. Good call. I like it. Yeah. You have been on Alexander Ovechkin Watch as we transition to the NHL now. And I was looking up the exact date that you predicted that he would break the record. And originally, you said he would break the career goals record in the spring of 2026. Yeah. Originally. And then you updated it.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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That didn't work for me. The Chargers players get that every day. So think about them in that situation.
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Okay. Well, we don't talk about that here. This is a hockey show. We talk hockey. Speaking of which. They lost 5-2 to Carolina that night. Oh, yeah, but that didn't work. But we go from a good coach to a good coach that probably made a mistake here. Check out this video here. We got Devils defenseman Jonathan Kovacevic. He answered a postgame question. It was innocuous.
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It's just regular hockey speak that you hear from these players, just like any other NHL player. Uninteresting and dry as possible. But the Devils head coach Sheldon Keefe apparently didn't like the answer that Kovacevic gave. So this is what he said.
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So the Panthers complete their six-game road trip going 2-4 and 0. Not good. Not good at all. They were outscored 18-4. So a little home cooking for them was very much needed. And the Panthers played the Penguins. And all three of the matchups have gone past regulation. Extra hockey. That means more Sidney Crosby for me. Hooray. What are we doing here, man? Smile. Smile. It's all for you.
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Okay, whatever. By the way, those three games. Very important in the standings because that would have figured into the tiebreaker with Toronto. Right now, and we mentioned this with Bucci, a three-way tie in the Atlantic Division. And that tie, by the way... 35 wins in regulation, both Toronto and Florida. So they had to go to the third tiebreaker with regulation and overtime wins.
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And Toronto has the advantage on that. So, yeah, win games in regulation. And they did not versus the Penguins as the Panthers won 4-3. But Alexander Barkov in the shootout, best backhand in the game. Just making goaltenders look silly, Ethan.
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You know, we're in a fight, and hopefully that, you know, gets us in that playoff mentality, you know, 10, 11 games out, and we carry that into playoffs. So, yeah, obviously the results are tough, but we're in a fight here, and we're not going to back down.
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Yes, he is. And this is going to make Dave happy. He had an assist in the game.
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Goalie assist. Goalie assist. Can count for double. Sam Reinhardt had two goals in the game as well. The Panthers... are going to play Utah tonight.
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Yeah, yeah. The Utah Hockey Club. Four-day break for the Panthers. UHC. Even though that's not what they put on the graphic in the upper third for the scoreboard, but UHC. We mentioned this to Dabucci earlier that Brad Marchant hopefully will make his debut tonight. Confirmed. Confirmed. Confirmed.
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So it's looking like the second line, correct? He's going to be in Matthew Kachuk's spot as well as Mackie and Sam Bennett.
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It's a good problem to have, being that deep. It's the best problem.
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Yeah. Kevin Stenland's coming back. He's going to get his tribute video. That's great.
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That's exactly right. The biggest and greatest penalty kill in franchise history. Straight up. Utah is coming off of an 8-0 beatdown against LA Lost in Tampa. Yeah, that was bad. The Panthers last time they played Utah was the first matchup that they had since Utah moved from Arizona. And that was a dominant 4-1 win. Yeah.
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Yeah, not a good problem to have in the opposite end on that one. Sunday and Tuesday, back-to-backs. I should say home-and-homes, not back-to-backs, but home-and-homes against the Montreal Canadiens. The Habs are in the last wild-card spot in the East. They've got four teams chasing them, as we mentioned with Bucci. Cole Caulfield dedicated his season to Johnny Goudreau, changed his jersey number.
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Damn. Yeah, that's not cool.
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He has 34 goals and 29 assists for 63 points. Nick Suzuki is leading the team in points for 73. He's got 22 goals and 51 assists. These are big games for the Canadiens.
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The rest is very important. And good to have Brett Marchand on this team now because – They need the support because this is going to be a long one for the rest of the season.
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Yeah, neither can I. For Ethan, for Dave, for Jason, for Gino. My name is Roy Bellamy. We'll see you next week.
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We need to have a playoff mentality as something that anybody was saying in that situation. Like, I don't understand why you would have a problem with that.
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Hello, welcome to the Hockey Show. My name is Roy Bellamy. My co-host is David Druck. He works for the Hockey News. He is not in studio. He is on assignment, and that assignment is family vacation. Ethan is in the shipping container in the EP chair. Rosie is not here. She is still doing March Madness.
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David mentioned John Tortorella. He got fired yesterday. The Flyers fired him, and the Flyers ended up the day before, I should say, and the Flyers ended up winning the very first game. with Tortorella, not behind the bench.
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Yeah, it does. It does, doesn't it?
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Yeah, exactly. I mean, we knew the Flyers were going to be bad, but really the man said that after the Toronto loss, actually, because they beat the Canadians, after the Toronto loss, he said, really not interested to learn how to coach in this type of season. That's where we're at right now. I mean, Daniel Breer as general manager, like he said that this is a recent thing.
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This came into his head recently. Like, OK, we're going to have to let this guy go. I mean, but we knew the flag was going to be bad. This is a rebuilding season for him. I thought that they had a little bit of promise coming into the next season. But I guess Daniel Breer thought that they should go in a different direction.
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And finally, I'm going to continue my streak of laughing at the New York Islanders until they do right by me and people who don't want to see races get second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth chances in the NHL. They got screwed, just like the Panthers have been screwed, on a goalie interference call. And we're going to play the video here. This is not great. This is against, I believe, Columbus.
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Yeah. He was outside of crease. I don't really think that was goaltender interference there.
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Oh, you're on dad duty. Yes, you are.
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Yes, I'm laughing at him regardless of what happens here. Ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha. All right, it's time for wins and fellows of the week presented by Jägermeister. Serve it cold or don't serve it at all. Jägermeister. Damn, that's cold. For more, visit Jägermeister.com. Drink responsibly. David, your win of the week.
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Probably should check that shovel because it's probably in that shovel with the scraper.
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My winner of the week is a video or sound here of a dad who created a portable goal horn. Go ahead and play that.
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a milwaukee drill where did you buy that don't do it no no no oh my god don't be no control on it so you can take that with you and scare people badass that's nuts i love oh man that's that's a recipe for trouble i'm i'm showing up with that thing to claire's game whenever she starts playing hockey there you go she scored yeah no i'm gonna piss off everybody ethan
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No, I'm at work. So it looks like you're on vacation.
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Fails of the week. David.
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Oh, if you're watching on YouTube, it's a quarter with a Michigan State jersey.
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Today we have John Butchergrass from ESPN to talk about the NCAA Men's Hockey Tournament. For those on DraftKings Network watching today, you can watch that on the Levitas Show YouTube channel. Just go to Playlist and find the Hockey Show folder.
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My fail of the week comes from Bruins and Kings. This is the official's fail. Goalie fights. We need more of them. Jeremy Swayman and Darcy Kemper had a chance to do it, and they go to center ice, gloves, blockers, sticks down, masks down, and broken up before they even get together.
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Yeah, and the tale of the tape, 6-3 versus 6-5, that would have been a nice little bout there. If they had gone through, but the linesman decided, yep, no. Jorky, you ever been in a goalie fight? What's that?
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For short guys, you know, short guys like to be scrappy on the ice, right?
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By the way, anniversary for that. It was this week. It was the anniversary of the game in Detroit between the Avalanche and the Red Wings. So to recap that, by the way, it was Chris Draper.
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That's my bad. Yeah, Pistons Pacers. But to recap that, the year before in the conference final, Chris Draper was boarded by Claude Lemieux and shattered his jaw. Gone. Oh, yeah.
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Ended up going to the cup final that year. Dino Cicerelli said, can't believe I shook that frigging guy's hand. Sucked the next year. Raw City, everybody fighting. And then the Red Wings went to the Stanley Cup Final and won. So, yeah, that was a rivalry of the 90s, and we all missed that. Ethan, your Fail of the Week. All right, my Fail of the Week is Matt Rempe.