Paul Bissonnette
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I just figured I'd come in costume, right? I've been a clown for them all playoffs long, but not so much sad, just disappointing. I knew Florida was a great team defending Stanley Cup champions, but for them to show up like that in games five and seven at home, I couldn't believe it. I thought they took their shit in game five.
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So coming back, especially after the way they played in game six on the road where they locked it up defensively, they didn't make many stupid plays. They were great defensively. Penalty kill was good. I was just shocked to see them come home and lay an egg like that. But ultimately, the pressure was too much.
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And, uh, credit to the Florida Panthers, man, they fucking beat the shit out of the Leafs. Like as far as defensemen and, and, uh, hits taken throughout playoffs, I believe the Leafs, uh, their top five defensemen were in the top seven as far as hits taken. Chris Tana being the most over a hundred hits he took, uh, throughout the first two rounds. So warriors back there, but, uh,
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Yeah, just disappointing on the effort in Game 7. So where do we go from here? Leafs fans.
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The internet's going to run with it. I think that, like, you know, obviously he's wearing a letter and he's trying to be a leader in that situation. I think it's a little bit difficult when it's a guy like that at that particular time saying something where maybe he hasn't been at his best, especially come that second round. There's a stat. I think he's played...
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like 20 to 22 games, games five to seven throughout his playoff career at the Toronto Maple Leafs. And he doesn't have a goal and he's got seven assists. So based on his regular season performance and numbers, like he just hasn't lived up to what, not only he's being paid, but what the hype is. Um, in, in crunch time.
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And I think that that is a little bit of the criticism that's being snapped around as far as the whole core for, um, for those of you listening who are not fully aware of this situation, the Toronto Maple Leafs have had these four guys, John Tavares, Austin Matthews, William Nylander, and Mitch Marner, who, you know, making a lot of money.
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The core group for the Toronto Maple Leafs have constantly been criticized about not being able to make it out of the second round. Sometimes they can't even make it out of the first round. And ultimately, this was kind of the last season where you were going to see the four assembled, where Mitch Marner's contracts up. They try to trade him at the deadline for Mikko Rotman.
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And that became made public along all the other, along all the other things where like, I guess you could say Mitch and his camp have felt disrespected and where the Leafs have maybe lacked loyalty towards him. But at the end of the day, like the core four hasn't gotten it done. They're all making big, big money.
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Mitch Marner off his entry-level contract signed a deal where he's making $10 million. So there's only been one player who makes $10 million or more, who has ever won a Stanley Cup. And that just speaks to the volumes of how, with the hard cap, you have to snap the money around, and you can't just rely on a couple guys throughout these runs. You have to snap the money around.
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Sergei Bobrovsky is that guy who has won it. He's got a cap hit of exactly $10 million. John Tavares is at $11 million. Austin Matthews, who just re-signed a contract, he's making $13.5 million. He was playing hurt. throughout these playoffs, I think the diagnosis and what exactly he was playing through will come out later on.
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Uh, he did score in game six, but as far as offensive output compared to the regular season, just like Mitch, he, he struggled also, but I think people are a little bit more lenient on Austin Matthews because he has to play center and he he's good defensively. He breaks up a lot of plays. Um, I mean, the first two games at home and the series against Florida, uh,
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you know he was uh they were they're plus three like they'd scored three goals their line against sasha barkov who's an incredible two-way centerman for the florida panthers so they were maybe he wasn't lighting up the score sheet but he was doing his job stopping him defensively and doing everything else um that that is involved in a good 200-foot game so
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John Tavares, who is the older guy who was from Toronto, who was brought in as a free agent, signed a seven-year deal when he left the New York Islanders and Frankie. He's done that contract. So I would be surprised if they brought him back, but they might with a hometown discount. So three of the four core four members might be back.
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My theory would be that you bring back Nylander, you bring back Matthews, and you can build around those guys. And with Marner and Tavares coming off the books, you have $21 million to spend right there in free agency. So that's kind of the synopsis as to what's going on. And it's shitty, man. It was brutal. Like to see – Witt described it perfectly. Like Mitch Marner is a Toronto kid.
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who was drafted top five to them, played for the London Knights in the OHL, gets to live his childhood dream playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs. He's making all-star games, putting up 99-point, 100-point seasons. Obviously, we talked about his playoff performance, but...
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his last game as a Toronto Maple Leaf, they get beat 6-1 at home and they're getting booed off the ice, jerseys on the ice, beers being thrown on the ice. Just not how you thought that it would end for a dream scenario of this kid getting to play in his hometown. He won't be back. It sucks. I do feel bad for him as far as the amount of heat that he's probably taking personally. I don't think that
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I think that when you are very vocal and a little bit greedy in contract negotiations, thinking that you're worth a certain amount and you don't live up to that, especially in crunch time,
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Yeah, I would agree with that because you really can't escape it, right? Like, your roots are in Toronto. Everybody you know is a Leafs fan. Like, you just can't get out of your bubble. And that's where I sympathize for these guys. We had Matthew Kachuk on to come stuff me in a locker for the, what, 14th time this season? Mm-hmm.
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on yesterday's podcast and he goes i feel for those guys they competed but he goes any other market if they're living somewhere else i feel like they're a way better team essentially saying that the pressure and of how ridiculous fans are in toronto um it's counteractive it's not even necessarily home ice advantage in fact you'd rather go play on the road like they did in game six get away from the noise but buddy you're playing in the big smoke like yeah like y'all i i
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be vocal about not signing there or don't bend them over in contract negotiations. But going back though, that is one of the bigger issues that I have with who is in charge and when they handed these deals over. I think that Mitch Marner, Austin Matthews, William Nylander are incredible players. Nylander actually, out of his entry level, only ended up signing a $7 million deal.
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So he was being fairly paid, if not maybe a little bit underpaid, but
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matthews and marner got the big tickets right and that's where i feel like they because they were restricted if i was the general manager i would have said hey i get that you guys are are going to be superstars in this league but you haven't proven shit so this is the number we're prepared to offer you you're restricted if you don't want to sign it sit the fuck at home and we'll get the job done without you until you want to sign something that's more of a fair deal yeah that's
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I would say that those were invented past, post.
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I would say the Rubik's Cube is after they won the Cup.
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I would say that you could. I mean, we're phones. Yeah, I would say that was before.
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Oh, for sure.
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Wow.
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That's a tough one. That's a real tough one. Yeah, Leafs fans are cursed. It's much like the Boston Red Sox before they won theirs, the curse of the Bambino. And I actually thought that there was a chance, maybe there was a chance in that game where kind of like when the Boston Red Sox were down in game four,
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Weren't they down like 3-4-0 in that game and rallied to win game four and then rattled off four straight wins? I thought maybe when Max Domi put that in for a split second, I thought there was a possibility they could come back in that game. But 45 seconds later, they made it 4-1. And then the onslaught of jerseys and beers started flooding the ice and they got booed.
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And he's going to go to the games and see the stars, the Western Conference final. Oh, he might not. I don't know if they're going to. I don't think they're going to let him in the building. Okay, okay. So for those of you who don't know, they've had this longtime fan in Dallas who wears an all-white suit, and he has a cardboard cutout that says hashtag bang.
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And when the play goes in the offensive zone where like when Dallas is there or when the play even comes near him, he's like standing up and banging on the glass and like body checking the glass. He's essentially their sixth man in on the four check, but he's so obnoxious and he brings like hookers to the game.
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So he just completely annoys everybody in his section, including the people who are sitting behind him. Like they don't want to see this guy standing up, blocking the vision and, and, and creating all this noise. And, nobody likes glass bangers at hockey games. It's a faux pas. You don't bang on the glass. Like those people are the most painful, annoying people on the planet. So,
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He apparently had a bunch of DUIs and then didn't show up for his court date. And in December of 2024, so about, what, six months ago, five, six months ago, he got thrown in the clink. So he was gone. Obviously, he wasn't in his seats for the first two rounds. Well, I think he just got out in the last couple days. Yep. The Dallas Stars have been rolling.
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They beat the Colorado Outlands, who a lot of people thought could win the Stanley Cup with the roster they had. They didn't have their top scorer and best defenseman in the lineup. They get through Colorado. Well, their top scorer comes back. They still were waiting on their best defenseman. Well, they end up winning the last round.
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and getting through that one against the Winnipeg Jets in six games. So all of a sudden, hey, smooth sailing. They're going to play the Edmonton Oilers, a very difficult conference finals, and then he drops the hammer today on Twitter that he's back.
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Holy shit. I would say best slash worst depends who you ask, right?
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Yeah. I'm just fascinated by him because the Leafs have never gone against him. It's more about like, is he aware that his own fans hate his guts? I'm sure he is aware of that. Is he actually going to be in his seats come game one of the conference finals? Because they have home ice advantage, right? Witt's loving this.
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He's like, Witt might buy his tickets to put him in that seat because he's such a mush for them. Yeah. And he's more of a distraction than a fan, including rattling all the other people who have had peace and quiet for this last six months at Dallas Stars games.
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The money trains back. The bartenders. I'll show your viewers a picture of him unless you guys are able to pick it up.
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Oh, man.
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He thinks you should be paid like Mitch Marner. Yeah, right.
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So I picked the Oilers, and then Witt said, no, you can't. You're done. You're a mush. Stay away from my team. So then I switched my pick to Dallas and Seven. I'll be heartbroken for either of these teams because Pete DeBoer, the Dallas Stars head coach, he's never won a Stanley Cup. He's been to the conference finals, I want to say, the last seven years, guys.
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And he's been fired in two of those years. So he went with, I believe, San Jose Sharks was one of them. And then Vegas Golden Knights was the other one that he went with. And he's just kind of been shipped around. And he's found a great home in Dallas. So he's 9-0 in Game 7s in playoff history. So if it does go 7, look out. He's undefeated.
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And also Jamie Benn, their captain, who hasn't won a Stanley Cup. I would put Jamie Benn up there with Joe Thornton. And the list goes on of a certain few, like Jerome McGinley. Legends who have never won the big one, who you feel bad if they retire and they never got to hoist the Stanley Cup. Connor McDavid. Connor McDavid at this point, but he's only halfway through his career.
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And he's in his prime. But, boy, he's like, I have a hard time betting against the Oilers right now because you got Leon and Connor, the biggest dynamic duo in sports right now, and the fact that they're getting secondary scoring finally. Like, I believe that they've gotten goals outside of Connor and Leon. I think they have 16 goals right now contributed by, like, basically their –
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like their bottom six slash roll guys. And all of last year's run, they only had, I believe 12 or 14. So already halfway through playoffs, they've outscored last year's, uh, role players, which is huge, man, because I talked about it. Like you're when you're like the Toronto Maple Leafs, when you're paying all the top guys, like. It's hard because you can't just rely on a few players.
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You really, truly need everyone. So they've been getting great contributions from everyone. But Dallas has home ice. They're a wagon. They got that Miro Haskin in back who will be the best defenseman in that all-around defenseman in that series. Evan Bouchard on Edmonton's side is a lethal offensive defenseman. Who's been playing incredible.
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Um, so guys, it's, it's like both of these teams could easily win a Stanley cup. Uh, but the problem is, is they're going to beat the shit out of each other. And then Florida gets to play Carolina, which I think they'll make damage of in about five or six and then a little bit easier of a path. to get to the Stanley Cup Finals, in my opinion.
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I think everybody would agree that Oilers and Dallas playing each other, those are two juggernauts going at it.
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So there's a few things that Carolina has on its side. They have home ice advantage. They were able to beat Washington in five games, so they do have rest. So they've been sitting there waiting at home for the Leafs and Panthers to finish the seven-game series. Well, they finished Sunday. I just talked to you about how physical Florida is.
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This could be, if they make it past this round, their third straight Stanley Cup final. So that's a lot of hockey being played, boys. We're not talking about... you know, a sport with no, with no contact. We're talking about one of the most physical, if not the most physical sport in the world, especially based on the grind 82 games and then going through playoffs every other day.
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So, so Carolina, they got, they got great goaltending. They have rest, they have home ice advantage. And the fact that Florida has played so much hockey to me, I wouldn't be shocked if it goes seven games with Carolina, but, but I think that Florida should win this series in six, if not maybe five games. Um, yeah, that's, that's my opinion.
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And, and, and a lot of people have been criticizing Carolina about maybe playing boring hockey. They do compared to like boring hockey when the New Jersey devils were doing like the left wing lock and hanging out in the neutral zone and two one games. Like
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they like Carolina goes, like they might not get all these amazing Gloria, glorious scoring chances because they tend to just throw a lot of pucks towards the net, maybe from non-threatening positions, but they're also sending guys there. And then like on the four check, like their D you're pinching, like they're getting up and they swarm you.
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So at least it's like fast and in your face where it's a, you know, it's not just sitting back and necessarily extremely boring. And I feel like Florida and Carolina have very similar systems in the sense that they're very aggressive with their D they're great at filtering back and, and like protecting, like the forwards are great at supporting their defensemen who are pushing up.
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They both have great goaltending. They both have extremely good penalty kills. Um, I would give the advantage to Florida on the power play. Carolina did struggle earlier in that series against Washington. They started figuring it out towards the end, but Florida comes at you like so hard.
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And then as far as Carolina is concerned, I want to say they were top one or two penalty kills all season long. And that's, that's the case every year, year over year. So that was interesting.
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They are just well connected. So they don't just sit back in like a little like they call it the box or sometimes they call it the triangle, depending how the offense sets up. You basically like rotate it to take away what the offense is trying to accomplish. But they'll have one guy attack where, OK, well, then the offensive player will move it to the open guy.
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but that next guy for Carolina knows that his guy's going. So they anticipate one another. So they all close on you very quick. So you have to make like two, three quick, really, really good plays in order to beat their, their defense where, with how hard they come and how fast they pressure, it's hard at that level to make two, three really quick, good plays.
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And if you're able to accomplish that, you probably will end up getting a scoring chance. So Florida is very strong on their power play because they have good high options with guys who can shoot the puck and have bombs, but they also have really good low plays. So they have a good option everywhere in Florida, including Sam Reinhardt, who is up for the –
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one of the best defensive forwards in the NHL, like him and Sasha Barkov in Florida are up for the Selkie trophy. So not only are they amazing offensive players, but they're being recognized as how good they are defensively. Like Sam Reinhardt's a 50 goal scorer. So he, he is in their bumper position where if, Cause Chuck doesn't like the low play.
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He'll hit it to hit him in the slot and boom, it's off the stick top corner, just a lethal sniper. So, um, I would, like I said, advantage power play for Florida, but both of them lethal, lethal penalty kills and Carolina, uh, They roll four lines, and they're high energy all game long.
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They have six great defensemen, four great lines, so they're able to maintain that high pace throughout the course of the 60 minutes. Rarely do you see lulls because they're not just relying on the top guys all the time. They spread the ice time out very evenly, as does Florida. Florida's got two guys, two forwards sitting out that could easily be inserted in the lineup.
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and you wouldn't even notice and wouldn't even blink. And they could put one of those guys like Boquist on the top line with Barkov, and he would fit right in because Barkov's just that nasty.
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So I think that high-end superstar talent also advantaged Florida, but let's see if the rest and the home ice and the fact that Florida's beat up can pay dividends for Carolina because the last three times Carolina's been to the conference finals, they haven't won a game. They got swept by... I believe they got swept by the Pittsburgh penguins, the Boston Bruins.
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And then last time, two years ago, the Florida Panthers, like we had the series, the games were very close. They were all, I believe one goal games, but you know, they just Florida can play any way you want. That's what makes them dogs. Oh, you want to play the up and down game? We'll play that. Oh, you want to lock shit down? We'll lock shit down too. Oh, you want to try to be physical? Oh yeah.
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We'll fucking stuff you in a locker. So they are just, Florida's a well, well-oiled machine. And who are the two best, most noticeable players on the ice in Game 7 against the Leafs? Brad Marchand and Seth Jones, the two guys they make deals for at the deadline. So as far as management top to down, Florida's looking good. Rank the four goalies left. Oh, wow. So...
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I would probably have to put Bob at the top, Bobrovsky, just because he's been there, done that. He seems very dialed, like maybe not as good early in the series against Toronto, but he tends to figure things out as the series progresses. And like I said, he's just locked in right now. Guy's got a couple Veznas, Stanley Cup champion. He gets the nod.
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Two, I would put Ottinger, up-and-coming USA goaltender, just beat out Hellebuck, who was the starter for Team USA at the Four Nations. He's really trying to prove himself as the number one American goaltender, especially ahead of next year's Olympics, and he seems very dialed right now. And, yeah, I would put him as the number two.
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And Freddie, I would say shared position at number two with Freddie Anderson. Freddie Anderson's with Carolina. He's dealt with a lot of injuries, blood clots, you name it. Didn't play the whole season this year. He shared the net. But these playoffs, I think he has the best save percentage right now going into the conference finals. He's been unbelievable.
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That's a testament to also the guys in front of him and how they play team defense. He also looks like Ed Sheeran, so there's a little fun fact. That is fun. Wedham is for Halloween one year. So if you guys want to check out that costume online and then last, I would put the Oilers goaltending. It's been shaky. Pickard went in for Stuart Skinner.
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Stuart Skinner got the reset and he's gotten shutouts in his back-to-back games in the last round against the Vegas Golden Knights. So no disrespect to him. He's an Edmonton kid. You talked about pressure of being a Toronto kid playing in Toronto and He's been pretty vocal about the anxiety that he deals with because of the amount of pressure playing in a Canadian market as a starting goaltender.
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He's got the net back after Calvin Pickard kind of saved them a little bit, and he's posted back-to-back shutouts against the Vegas Golden Knights. So he's the fourth guy, but like last year, he turned it on the later it got in the playoffs. Yeah.
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You know what, Big Cat? Sometimes when you're maybe playing a little too much hockey, especially as a goaltender, you get away from your fundamentals and you start being a little bit like slipping around too much, not being in position. Yeah. Um, you know, when I was, uh, doing radio for the Phoenix coyotes, Rick talk, it was the head coach and, uh, we had Darcy Kemper.
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And this year he had an incredible year with the LA Kings. He was nominated for the Vesna trophy. Um, and, uh, he was scrambling like that and they gave him like a week to reset with Corey Schwab, the goaltending coach. And then he came back and he was one of the best goaltenders the rest of the year.
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So sometime as a goalie, because when you're being put out there, you have to stay focused a whole 60 minutes. Like guys are getting a change and they make a mistake while they got the defense to help them out. Well, if the defense makes a mistake, they got the goalie to help them out. They're the last man there. Right. Right.
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So sometimes they just need that mental reset, get back to their old techniques and that could pay massive, massive dividends. And and I'm happy for a man. That's it must be a mental grind going through a season in Canada like that.
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No, he's not nearly as intolerable as I am with the Toronto Maple Leafs. I actually give him full marks and full credit. For me, it's been over 30 years now since Canada's brought home a Stanley Cup. A lot of Americans like to use that against us. I want the Americans to keep in mind these American teams are built of 50% Canadian players on these rosters. that are winning on the Stanley cup.
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But I would like, especially this season after winning four nations and you know, the USA, all the barking going on in USA, I would like the cup to come back to Canada for that reason. And of course, like Connor McDavid, man, what he's done for the sport, the most electrifying hockey player we've seen since Wayne Gretzky.
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And just for every, you know, every fiber of his being that he's put into the game. And, you know, living up in Canada, I hope he wins the big one. Because just like I was happy when Ovi won the big one, right? That was something like a scarlet letter that was being used against them where, you know, he got that and then nobody ever talked about that again. He can ride off into the sunset.
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And I really hope that Connor McDavid and Leon Dreisaitl are able to help them win a Stanley Cup. And like Edmonton, the people of Edmonton are the nicest people on the planet. Like, I really want them to, like, that's all they live for. Yeah, that's it. That's it. It'd be nice.
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I think that next year, like it's the last year of his contract. I believe he signed a three-year extension a few years ago. Yeah, he said he wasn't retiring. Yeah, I figured he would come back for sure next year. I mean, why wouldn't you? He scored, what did he have, 42 goals and he broke his leg and missed some games. I think he played just over 60 games.
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when you're on that type of heater, like, why would you? And they have a solid team around him, so it'll be enjoyable. I would assume they make playoffs again next year. He's just slowing down a little bit. It's just, you know, what's the term? Father time is undefeated. Father time. Fucking right, it's big, Cat. Way to save me there.
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And I think in playoffs, I think that did hurt them a little bit, if I'm not lying. I think that he should have been playing around 15 minutes a game for them to be efficient. I think that he wanted to play more thinking that he could help the team, but with how fast that Carolina was, like they were getting exposed in that area. Like, I don't think that Ovi is a 20 minute, uh, a game guy now.
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So, um, I think that next year he will return. I think he'll be playing right where he normally plays on the power play. And I wouldn't be shocked if he scores another 30 goals, but, If he continues to slow down, it's just hard in today's day and age to keep up as far as skating. And he has been vocal about wanting to go play one more year and finishing off his career in Russia.
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Don't know if that's still the case, but I could see him after next year going back to the KHL and playing one more year and really having his final swan song and goodbye. I really, really hope, and this is not a political conversation at all, next year's Olympics, Russia's not going to be playing. It's, it would suck because like politics out the window is,
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it would be probably Evgeny Malkin's and Ovi's last opportunity to play in the Olympics. And there's just so much momentum for the league. And there's so many good Russian players that are now coming into the NHL. Like you had Michkov this year who was in Philadelphia, Kirill Kaprizov. Like this kid is a top 10 player in the NHL, no doubt worth the price of admission.
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This Nikitin kid who just showed up in Carolina, who I didn't mention during my breakdown with them. Like they would have, like they could win a gold medal. That's how good their young guys are, along with the nostalgia of having Ovi and Malkin kind of passing off the torch, as well as the fact that it probably would be Sidney Crosby's last Olympics, right?
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Those two guys entered the league at the same time and have carried the torch forever. for 20 years. Like we are blessed as hockey fans at the fact that these kids lived up to every bit of hype and surpassed it like insurmountably. So to see all of not only Russia, Canada, the list goes on Sweden, Finland. I think Germany is going to be there with Leon Dreisaitl.
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Like it would just be so good for the sport with the momentum it has off of four nations. And would you guys not agree? Like, I don't know how hardcore of hockey fans you are compared to other sports, but nothing has even came close to what the playoffs have provided in the first round. Oh, it's been great.
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Buddy, Florida just finished a seven-game series. They went to Toronto, packed for three games, and then won that game, flew to Carolina, and now they're playing tonight. Like, we have the broadcast. So less than 48 hours, you're suiting up again for another seven-game series, playing every other night in these humid temperatures, Carolina, Florida.
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And then if they win that, they got to go play another round against Edmonton or Dallas and then start on the road. Like, it's... It's a fucking grind, boys, and agreed. Hockey's on a heater, and I have so much respect for these players.
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I thought that by the time that Toronto's run was over, there would be a statue of him outside of Scotiabank.
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So the craziest part about all this. So let's talk about Oldie for a second, how this all came to be. I believe during Four Nations, I came on your pod. And you guys were talking about the stream you're going to have. And I said, we need Canadian representation. Yep. You guys kind of got the ball going on that.
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You had about four or five people who you were considering for applicants to come in and watch it. And then Jens must've, I think he listens to every single one of your shows. And he said, boys, I got to send in this oldie guy. Yep. So he put you guys in touch with this oldie, and you saw one second of his videos, and you're like, this guy's electric. We're bringing him in.
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So he does what he does on your guys' stream. You guys hire him. He becomes famous overnight, rightfully so, even though he'd done a bunch of stuff for NHL guys and teams in the past. So fast forward to the other day where I, before Yanzi came on your podcast, I mentioned that I was going back to Welland, Ontario for game five, to go to a local watering hole to bring luck to the Leafs.
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So Jans was trying to figure out where I was going to go, and he said on your show, he said, I'm going to have Oldie buddy him up and try to get information so I could send Panthers fans to where Biz is watching the game to fuck with their mojo. Well, Oldie listened to that, and then he DM'd me on Twitter. Then he tried to call me on Twitter. I didn't even know you could do that.
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Big FaceTimer. Loves the FaceTime. So I'm like, well, I'm going home. I texted Yannis. I said, hey, can I get Oldie's number? And I invited him down to Welland. And after just spending three hours with him, even though Toronto got shit kicked, I was like, he's like the most positive guy in the world. He's like, we'll get him in six and four and something like that. And then Merle texts the chat.
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He goes, you should send him down there. So I had my lucky shirt on me. I said, would you go down there with my lucky shirt to bring the Leafs a mojo? Absolutely. He's got a wife, two kids. He's on the next plane down there, takes the day off work, and then does what he does behind the glass and makes friends with everybody. And I'm like, well, we've got to send him to game seven.
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And that happened.
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didn't work at all it was close though did he get kicked out is that what happened i saw a cop escorting him up the steps that was in sunrise they couldn't handle his his little uh he calls it his pocket pussy yeah yeah oh we're very familiar intimately failure the reason i brought up yans coming on your show was because yans has been rooting for the panthers played there uh still hangs around with a bunch of those guys like they love him there he banged the drum
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with the biz idiot shirt on it, got them going for game four, and then they fucking smoked the Leafs too. But he almost ruined the Panthers. Like their own guy created that, put it into the universe, and that's how old he came to be, at least for the Leafs in this round. So it would have been so poetic that if Yans would have said that,
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And then oldie would have pulled off victories in game six and seven. And then he would have been off to the Eastern conference finals, but it didn't come to be. And there's one other thing I wanted to mention, and I'm sure you guys talked to wit or even Yans about it is that, that Miko Rotten.
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You guys been following this story. Yeah. Unreal. So this is a guy who won a Stanley cup with the Colorado avalanche and they were going through contract negotiations and basically they never, they never gave him a final offer and said, Hey, if you don't sign this, we're going to trade you. And I believe that he would have taken eight years times 12 million in Colorado to stay.
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Well, they were kind of going through the negotiations. Things went a little bit silent and then boom, he gets blindsided, goes to Carolina and, He didn't want to go to Carolina to begin with. Carolina asked to start negotiations even before they made the move. And Rantan and his camp were like, no, we don't want to go there. That's not the style of play.
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We want to try to work things out with Colorado. They make the trade regardless. He goes to Carolina. He's there for three weeks. Obviously, it's not going to work out. And they ship him to the same fucking division as Colorado and Dallas. And then he goes on that heater that he's been on. This is...
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The dominance that he performed over the first two rounds is some of the likes we've – I think him and Wayne Gretzky are the only ones that had that many points in that period of time in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
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So talk about a kick in the dick, but I'm so happy for him having gone through all that bullshit for whatever it was, six weeks, two months, to now find a landing spot, sign an 8x12 extension, and then –
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no state tax and then be on the heater he's on and i would say right now he's probably the favorite for the con smite and i just wanted to mention him before i logged off because he deserves his flowers and he's an absolute playoff beast right now yeah he's been awesome and yeah you're right the playoffs have been incredible and we love watching you so uh everyone tuned in tnt uh biz you're the best we'll have you back on sorry about the leafs uh we love you man
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I love you, boys. Keep doing your thing, and I appreciate you guys having me on as always. And thank you for, of course, thank you to Yance for bringing Oldie into our lives, but thank you for really putting him on that pedestal that he deserves and snapping the love of what is Oldie around. He's absolutely the best.
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All right, we'll see you, Biz. That might have been the biggest free agency signing of the year. Easily.
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I love you, boys. Thank you, as always. Go Leafs go, baby.
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Enjoy your round-robin win, boys, because Thursday night, we're going to put on a spanking to you Americans. You guys have been gloating. You've been calling us your 51st state, okay? You're imposing tariffs on our country, and now you're trying to take our national sport? It ain't happening. Thursday night, you're going to see McJesus, McCarr, McKinnon...
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And Crosby put on a goddamn show in front of the Boston crowd. First of all. You hear me? You hear me, PFT?
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Yeah.
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I would say that the fights were overall a draw. Let's not get carried away here. You guys were the antagonizers. Hey, listen. Let's get serious.
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Yeah. You want one? Those stories coming here, boys. Those stories in here. All right? Well, let's get serious for a second. USA Hockey is coming, and it's here to stay. With the amount of development that's going on, with the way the NCAA game has evolved, the NDP game,
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I think it's called the National Development Program that they have out of Ann Arbor, which they have like under 16, under 17, under 18 programs. Of course, World Juniors. Some of those guys are already playing college who end up playing World Juniors, but you guys have won back-to-back under 20s, which is the World Junior Tournament, gold both years.
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So there has been a resurgence of hockey in America. A lot of Canadian players, and this is not to take credit, This is not take credit. A lot of Canadians who have played in American markets have stayed and helped out with development in the minor league program. So it is going to continue to evolve. Big cat. Don't make that face. I am not taking credit.
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I'm saying it's a good thing for the sport growing in the United States of America. And there's 330 million people here, and it's starting to get the respect that it deserves because of all the work that a lot of people have put in. So shout out to the USA.
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You guys got some players, not quite to the level of McDavid, McKinnon, and McCarr, and Crosby, or anyone else in the top 10 of all time because those all belong to Canadians. But you guys have came a long way, and American hockey is here to stay.
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You know what? He's going to go down as the greatest goal scorer of all time. Correct. But I don't think that anybody would have him in the Mount Rushmore of hockey. There's ten guys on a top ten. Sidney Crosby is closer to the Mount Rushmore of hockey than Ovechkin. Wait. I would say that Ove is, once he passes Gretzky for goals, I would say he's probably, yes, going to be coming in
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around sixth or seventh all-time. I think still a lot of people put Stevie Y ahead of him for the amount that he won and also put up points like him, not quite the goals, but from an all-around play perspective, Stevie Y is definitely ahead of Ovi.
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Well, one of the studs was ill. He was not playing. Oh, making excuses? And where we're a little bit thin... in the lineup, is on the back end. And Makar, a lot runs to Makar. He's like a 28-minute-a-game type player in these types of situations. Now, listen, credit goes to the States. Not only did they come out with the fisticuffs, they got punched in the nose with a beautiful...
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you know, accelerating move by McJesus, taking McAvoy to the outside, but then they stopped the bleeding. That was the only goal they ended up scoring. McAvoy was physical. The rest of the team was physical, throwing the body around, and then they locked things up defensively. They didn't allow McKinnon or McDavid's speed to affect them. They did an unreal job of angling in the neutral zone.
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That's something that you guys need to learn about, the angling in the neutral zone to combat that speed coming through the neutral zone. and the Americans did a great job of shutting things down for one game. For one game. And you got punched in the nose, and I get that. But like I said, Thursday, we're going to find an answer, and we're going to bring it to you in your own house.
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Yeah, goaltending has always been a strength of Canada, and they've always been able to rely on three guys bringing them to these international tournaments. I would say that the position has gotten a little bit weaker in Canada. We still have world-class goaltenders. Let's not forget Jordan Binnington won a Stanley Cup with the St. Louis Blues. In fact, he did win that Game 7 in Canada.
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the Boston garden. So he's familiar with the territory. He's now entering for the four nations finals. Um, also Aiden Hill who, yeah, maybe he doesn't have this longevity and this big resume, uh, that some guys have, but he also won a Stanley cup with the Vegas gold Knights. And we do have some young guys in the pipeline.
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Now, the United States has definitely excelled in the goaltending position over the years. Like they have probably five of the top 15 goaltenders in the, in the world now. Um, Hella Buck has been on this incredible run.
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I would say Hella Buck, based on the last five years, not so much in playoffs or in big money games, which is a good thing for Canada going into this one, because the last few years he's had these incredible regular seasons where he won the Vezina last year. He's probably going to win it this year if he continues, but yet bounce in the first round. So...
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Jake Ottinger is another guy who he played at BU, I believe, and he's an incredible goaltender for the Dallas Stars, and there was even a few left off the roster. So that's a position that Canadians have dwindled in, but nonetheless still have guys who can get the job done in that.
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Well, I think it shows everybody why best on best is so important, and the league came out with a statement actually right before the tournament started where they're going to obviously have the Olympics every four years, and the two years offsetting the Olympics.
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So I guess still every four years, but offset by two years, they're going to have a World Cup of Hockey where they're going to essentially control The best on best. Is it going to go back to being a little bit boring? Well, I wouldn't say that because obviously the quality of play won't be as high, but you're also going to be down the stretch here for who's going to try to make playoffs.
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So the caliber and intensity of the NHL will now ramp up with 30 games remaining and so many teams still in the playoff picture. The way the point system is structured now, it keeps a lot of teams relevant later in the season to have a chance to make a run. and capture a playoff position.
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I want to say that there's like six, seven teams in the East that can still grab that Eastern wildcard position. And on top of that, you kind of have this thing that no one ever thought was even possible in the OV goal chase. No one thought Gretzky's goal record was ever going to be broken. And they thought that...
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with the way that Ovi was going and trending, maybe coming off of last year, that it would take him two, maybe even three years to pass him, and it was going to be like, oh, God, this is kind of taking forever. No, he hasn't slowed down one bit. He's still at his normal pace where there's a strong possibility that he breaks it towards game 80 to 82, in which...
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Game 82, they play the Pittsburgh Penguins against Crosby. So for him to break that playing against Crosby, I think that that would be a monumental moment given the fact that these guys have carried the league for the last 20 years. And they can do it at the same time.
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I think that people were optimistic going in. I think that a lot of people understood how good this American roster was and that all four teams had a possibility to win. It does suck because the Finns had a few injuries on D, which kind of made them the fourth man out. But that game changed everything.
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Even going back to the first game, Canada versus Sweden, Canada got out to the 2-0 lead, and twice Sweden came back from two goal deficits, and it went to overtime. It was this incredible three-on-three, and that kind of set the tone for everything, and I think that that made people even more interested. And then when that game happened, I don't know if you guys heard, but
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Like, you guys know who the Kachuk brothers are. There might be people listening who are not familiar. Walt Kachuk, Keith is his actual name, is a bona fide Hall of Famer. He will be put in the Hall of Fame. American player who scored 500 goals. He's not in the Hall of Fame yet.
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The fact that he birthed these two children and Brady and Matthew should put him in the Hall of Fame just for that reason alone. They should put his sperm.
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in the hockey hall of fame in its own little section maybe in like a cloning lab if they want to make more guys who can sell the game because these guys are like these WWE characters who are not only very highly skilled they play fucking hard they handle their own business and obviously if they feel threatened in any way they'll punch your face in especially if you're booing their national anthem so they go out there
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But that afternoon before the game, they started a text thread with a guy named JT Miller, who's been having a chaotic year with the Vancouver Canucks, who was then traded to the New York Rangers. And they basically said, we're going to flip the bell center in Montreal upside down, right from the opening goddamn face-off. And then you guys saw the melee that ensued. So...
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There are so many casual sports fans that are now obsessed with this storyline of these teams meeting back up on Thursday. This couldn't have been a better thing for the NHL. This makeshift experience that took over for an All-Star game has basically now turned into World War III.
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I would say for a week straight, everybody's going to argue about the lineup decisions. There will be conversations of blowing up Hockey Canada and restructuring the whole thing. There'll be dialogue about how hockey, youth hockey specifically, is far too expensive, how much it is to rent ice, how much it is to buy equipment, how the common man has been weeded out.
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So it would be safe to say yes, it would be a national emergency if we lose that game on Thursday. That would be fair to say.
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What are you doing? Are you working? So I've been on the road for a week straight and I've missed basically every flight's been delayed or are canceled minimal sleep. I am going to watch from my living room in peace and zone in. And I'm going to watch every goddamn second of that game. That's where I want to be on my couch outside the noise.
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You should probably get somebody who has experience playing hockey growing up in Canada.
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I think that you should get a blue-collar Canadian who's extremely passionate about hockey, somebody who has a thick accent. You are in Chicago, which is pretty central. It would have been funny for you guys to get a Maritimer or something. It might be easier for you guys to fly in somebody from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, maybe Red Deer, Alberta. Maybe get a true Westerner.
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I would imagine somebody of that magnitude would have a big impact on the stream to bring their patriotic beliefs in Canadian hockey to the streams.
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I would say give me a 30 to 60-second video of them describing why they deserve to be on the stream, and then I'll make my pick according to that. They have to provide maple syrup, and every time the Canadiens score, you have to do a maple syrup shot. Everybody in the room. That has to happen. Okay. If he's not wearing a Canadian tuxedo, he's not invited. Yeah.
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And ask them how they would solve the housing crisis in Canada. Okay. That should be their little trick question to see if they, who knows, maybe he's the next prime minister.
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I would just build more houses. I like the people who solve it.
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I would, I would do that. But if, if we win, then Trump can't even talk about one more fucking deal. And he has to walk back to 51st state comment. He has to take the podium at the white house and, And he has to apologize to not only me, but all of my fellow countrymen about some of the inflammatory comments he's been making about taking over Canada. Okay, deal.
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We've long been friends with Americans. He started this. I'm sorry about the boos, but they were not directed at people like you. They were directed at the orange man who called us the 51st state.
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It's fun. I would say that the political climate of this game is at the perfect place. It's like, okay, it is serious. I don't think that the tariffs are going to happen. I think he was joking about the 51st state. Let's boo each other. Let's fight each other. And let's go have beers after the game and say, hey, great job, everybody. We did a lot for hockey. Yes.
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After a 6-2 Canadian victory with McJesus two goals, Mitchie Marner with a goal and an assist, Kale McCarr with one and one-two, and hopefully a Marshawn knuckle sandwich.
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No, it actually doesn't because it's motivated him even more to win this game. I agree with what you're saying. Hey, listen. I'm not being a hypocrite either. Everybody scrutinized Ovi until he won, right? But he won. And then he won. And then the monkey was off the back. And then everyone called him a winner. So for McDavid, yeah, I think he's won World Juniors. But this is a way bigger deal.
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There's going to be 15 million people watching worldwide. That would be my assumption as to how many people watch this game. This might go down as one of the most viewed hockey games of all time. So McJesus has to win the big one. And the torch will be passed.
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I don't think that would be fair to say. Okay, all right.
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I mean, like... And this is no insult to the Bills or is it Jim Kelly? Yeah, Jim Kelly, yeah. He did lose four times in the Super Bowl, like straight, right? Right back to back to back to back.
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That's true. That's true. That's a good point. I wouldn't say he's the biggest loser, though. I would say that my concerns would rise whether or not he can win the big one.
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No, I think he's going to play around that. He doesn't want it enough. You would have to drag me off that ice.
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So hockey is an anaerobic sport, and you can't be efficient being out there the full 60 minutes. It's just impossible. Yeah, if you don't want it enough.
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Mind over matter. I bet you if you ask one of the Kachuk brothers, they'd do it. Why would you want to come off the ice to allow a guy like Sidney Crosby to also play 20 minutes?
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Come on.
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Well, we're the cucking Canadians. We do like to share.
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So I was trying to do my best Don King impression, and we had Drew Doughty on postgame, and he's had an individual rivalry with Matthew Kachuk since Matthew Kachuk entered the league. They were both playing in the West at the time. Matthew Kachuk started with the Calgary Flames.
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So keep in mind, folks, the guy that you guys have been bag licking the most, the Kachuks, they both started their careers in Canada. Brady actually still plays for the Ottawa Senators. You literally talked about their father's firm, and you're saying that we're bag lickers. They have honed their skills on Canadian ice. Brady has played for the Ottawa Senators, which is the capital of Canada.
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That's where our parliament is. And Matthew started with the Calgary Flames. And when they would play against the LA Kings and Drew Doughty, they'd always be battling. So I asked after the game, I said, hey, Hagel said he wouldn't back down. And I know that you've had personal beef with Matthew Kachuk over the years. If he asked you and challenged you to fight, would you do so?
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And he said, I would do anything, anything for my country. So we may see fisticuffs in that game. I don't think we're going to see him at the drop of the puck. But if there's a big hit... maybe a little tomfoolery with running of the goaltender, I think there's a strong possibility that they shed the mitts and they go toe-to-toe. Toe-to-toe.
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Alberta beef.
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He honed his skills on Canadian soil. Okay, yeah. To propel him to learn how to be a winner. What happened when he came to America? To propel him to learn how to be a winner, just like all the people who played in the NHL who are Canadian, who settled in the United States, who helped you guys become a strong hockey nation. You can thank us now.
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Exactly. And we didn't even ask for thanks for it. All we wanted was your respect and dignity. And we've received none of it.
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Here we got hockey boosting your economy, and now there's threats of you guys crippling ours after everything we've done for you. So I would refrain from your booze at Boston Garden there, Mr. Big Cat.
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I kind of, when I'm nestling up to get a little nap, I don't mind having my hand on my junk.
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I think Al Bundy was on to something.
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Yeah, they did. Kind of like how the Americans started the game. Sneak attack. This is war. And I'm hoping that Canada deploys the nukes like Tom Wilson. This is war!
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I just wanted them. There are Canadian natural hand warmers. That's what we call them. Canadian hand warmers.
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In the CFL, the quarterbacks don't have that pouch. They just put their hand on their nuts in the midst of the game. That's the Canadian Football League.
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gotten everyone so excited and like just so i'm looking forward to thursday night like it's a playoff game for one of my teams oh and as if this game needed a little extra spice there is rumblings that uh uh the greatest american defenseman on the planet who is too injured coming into the tournament is now going to lace him up for the finals he hadn't played one game didn't even attend the tournament and they're calling in the infiltrate yeah so quinn hughes
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Quinn Hughes, this kid is unbelievable to watch. And for those of you who don't follow hockey much, if he does play, he's a water bug out there. You could also argue the fact that Kale McCarr is also a modern-day Bobby Orr.
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But the way that him and Quinn Hughes are able to move around back there and walk the blue line with their Shakira hips and their edge work with their skates and how they're able to find lanes to the net. They're a single-man breakout. They don't even need anybody else on the ice to snap it around with. They can just take it up the ice themselves. They're fascinating to watch.
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Another guy to look out for, Columbus Blue Jackets defenseman Zach Wierenski played at the University of Michigan. He's had a tremendous season. Because of the injuries that Quinn Hughes has sustained and some of the time he's missed, he could actually maybe win the Norris ahead of him.
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I think that he should also be in the heart conversation also based on what he's done for the Columbus Blue Jackets alone. Jacob Slavin, a smothering defenseman with a great stick. Another young defenseman in Brock Faber who plays in Minnesota.
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The general manager of Team USA is Bill Guerin, and he brought this youngster on the team, and he has showed him that he looks like a genius for even adding him to the roster. Incredible shutdown game against the Canadiens. As far as the forwards are concerned, Jack Eichel. He won a Stanley Cup with the Vegas Golden Knights. This kid is unbelievable.
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The way that he moves up and down the ice, the way that he plays on the defensive side of the puck as well, the way that he's able to spread the puck out and distribute it, yet being so reliable. To me, he's like Shasha Barkov for the Florida Panthers. That's how good he is at playing a full 200-foot game
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Austin Matthews, who scored 69 goals last year at the Toronto Maple Leafs, giggity-giggity, he is a lethal sniper for the Americans as well. He has not scored a goal yet in this tournament, but look for him to potentially have an explosive game. I could go on and on about all the talent that has been developed on the American side, all thanks to the Canadians. Those are some of the guys.
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We got two sets of brothers.
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That goes without saying. The Kachuk brothers are the modern-day Bash brothers. They literally foreshadowed this in the Mighty Ducks movies about these two. Okay? The modern-day Bash brothers. And they are WWE superstars at the way they can also handle the mic. So I am grateful for these guys and helping grow the game. But on Thursday... They're going to get absolutely fucking worked.
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Mark my words. This is our score.
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Final.
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Six to two.
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McJesus will rise. McJesus will rise. They will light up Hellebuck in an elimination situation. When all the chips are on the table, he is unproven. He is unproven. And Canada will take advantage of that. And Jordan, the snowman Bennington, will have an incredible performance for the Canadians in net.
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Mark my words. It's disrespectful. An absolute spanking. And it'll be a message to you, all the casual hockey fans, and that orange man in the White House for threatening the tariffs on us.
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Yeah. You started this, and I didn't boo the national anthem. Yeah, you did. I respect all the freedoms that this country has provided me and my family. I respect that. You guys disrespected us first.
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Are you guys done?
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I may have been a plug, but I do understand the game. Right. I sat right in front of the coach most of my career, right in the middle of the bench, and observed and paid attention to all the little details of the game, every video session. And I had to pay attention to those details because if I didn't, I wouldn't have been in the lineup.
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And if I would have messed one of those little details up, I would have been out of the lineup. So I was just trying to help Bedard. I personally think I should be on the payroll. with the Chicago Blackhawks based on me helping him train this summer on that hike we did. Helping him with his face-offs at the Winter Classic when we did that little video in which what's happened since?
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His face-off percentage has improved. You're welcome. And then he was getting a little bit sloppy defensively, so I called it out. If the coaches don't want to call it out, I will because you guys ain't going to win no Stanley Cups if he's playing defense like that. So you're welcome, Big Cat.
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Have you talked to Bedard at all? I respect Blackhawks Twitter for having their boys back. I respect that. But I was just calling it how I saw it.
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If you're going for a Stanley Cup big cat and there's a big, fat, juicy rebound in the front of the net, do you want your centerman who's supposed to be in support swinging into the corner and not stopping in front to potentially rid of the danger of the puck just sitting there in the crease? What do you think?
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That's what I'm saying. And that's all I was saying on television. And then they got poopy pants because their team sucks and they're going to be another lottery team.
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He was incredible in the third period of that game, and then the next game he played against Nashville, given all the negative media attention surrounding it, he had a goal and an assist. I think that, although not like Nathan McKinnon dog in him, or maybe an assassin like Kucherov, I believe that he does have dog in him, and it will eventually be unleashed.
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He's too stubborn not to become one of the greats. Some people are questioning his speed, his defensive effort, maybe his lack of compete in some situations. I'm not crazy about his body language some of the time, but I think that this kid is very young, he's very determined, and he's going to figure it out with my help and other fellow Canadians.
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You know what? I don't think that people would take me seriously as a coach given how big of a clown I am, but maybe down the road I would consider it.
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Let's say this. After we eventually maybe win a Chicklets Cup in which we're actually competing against you and Keith Yannel's team.
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Let's win that and then hopefully spend a little time with John Gruden, allow maybe some of his skills to rub off on me, and then maybe I'll consider.
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I never really looked at it that way. Um, Before you mentioned it. And a little fun fact, Nickelback is Connor McDavid's favorite band. So maybe there was a little bit of jealousy and distraction at the fact that I got the limelight with Nickelback. And maybe that's why he's distracted from winning the big one. But I would say no. No, don't put those negative thoughts in my head.
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It was an honor to get up there on stage with those guys. I believe there are over 70 million albums sold worldwide. And those guys could put on an unreal 90 minute show. They rocked it out at the bird's nest. Uh, Jerome McGinley, uh, another fellow Canadian was in attendance. He scored 600 goals in the national hockey league. I was just surprised that he didn't get asked up.
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There was other hockey players there. So, um, I guess the, the Irish traveler situation is what put me over the edge. And as the local citizen of the year, uh, that's why I eventually got the nod. And, uh,
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was able to perform but uh quite the honor uh nervous going in but i gotta thank our boy glenny balls yep who was there who had actually already sang with nickelback and gave me a nice little pep talk uh pep talk beforehand in order to calm my nerves so i gotta thank uh only stands and he also got me a bonnie blue message for my uh my toronto maple leafs So he's just on fire.
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He's basically my life coach at this point.
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Yes. I think that it would be a detractor. To the Bash Brothers. I call them the BBLs because Keith Kachuk called his sons lunatics. So I call them the Bash Brother lunatics, the BBLs.
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I think that Tom Wilson, considering that Quinn Hughes hasn't played a game this tournament and they're going to add him to the final roster more than likely, I figure that they should just open the floodgates and allow any person to now enter the tournament. So Tom Wilson is a very feared individual. He forechecks like a motherfucker. He will take a 20-gamer and elbow you right in the jaw.
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And if he could be added to this and we could throw in the nukes, I would muck Bonnie Blue's bin.
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I look forward to seeing this Canadian that you're going to bring on, and I hope he brings us luck.
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I have one last thing to say. Yes.
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Boo. Boo. You don't boo my anthem. Boo. Boo. You don't boo my anthem, god damn it.
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There's going to be a... What do they call it when they took all the booze away? The prohibition? Yeah. We're taking away all America's booze and you're going to be drinking maple syrup. That's it. Once we take over your country.
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100%.
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42.
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11.
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Thank you.
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Yeah, right.
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I'm doing fine. I got cocky, obviously. I was just kind of on the IR for a couple weeks there. But I've been getting some good Thai massages recently, and it's been working out the kinks in my neck. So I'm not as fucked up as I was. But for those of you who have no clue what's going on, I went to eat at a family restaurant called Houston's that I normally go to.
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I go there like three, four, five times a week sometimes when I'm back.
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and just these drunk irish travelers i don't know people who are listening to know what irish travelers are basically like modern day gypsies um but they were in there causing a ruckus they got in the manager's face they assaulted them they harassed them and then finally i'd seen enough i go over and i said hey i said if you guys keep doing that i'm going to bring in the parking lot we're going to have issues and then they just started swinging so that fight went from inside the restaurant all the way over to the cvs it was a
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three minute round and i was gassed by the end of it took a couple boot fucks to the head but uh all in all uh doing good doing pretty good boys took some gave some more it's my favorite line yeah you fought seven dudes in a parking lot and you and you held your own again you're my hero you're my hero
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I mean, I want you singing the national anthem at a rough and rowdy in which I'm beating the fucking wheels off this Danny Bradley puke. The kid who was caught on video an hour and a half before that altercation sucker punching a guy at Ravens Golf Club and then moseyed on over to Houston's to do the exact same thing to that manager. But before he was able to cock his right back and swing.
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I went over there, and then the rest of it ensued. And on top of all of what has gone on, now Glassbanger ends up in prison.
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He never made it back. Oh, shocker. He hired a lawyer named Larry Kazan, a local Scottsdale guy, whose kid, Ben Kazan, ended up DMing the Shea Stevens guy who's been doing all the undercover work on behalf of Spittin' Chicklets, Barstool, and then our side of it.
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It was just some random Chicklets fan who's also a private investigator who has been uncovering all this crazy shit about these Irish travelers, like how they scam people, All these guys records in the past, the fact that they have affiliation to these people who have caused or who have been involved in murders for insurance fraud scams.
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The list goes on and on and on as to how big of a dirt bag or how big a dirt bags these guys are. So shout out to Shea Stevens. But that Ben Kazan kid ended up sending him a DM basically being like, eat a bag of dicks. Fuck you, you Canadian. Because the Shea Stevens kid's Canadian. So now we got this slimy lawyer in the mix.
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And that's why he didn't have to show up because he hired this big wig lawyer and he ended up taking the stand as far as his defense. So I know they dropped three of their charges to enhance them to felonies. So I'm going to end up going after these guys civilly. We're probably going to have to wait till all the legal proceedings from a criminal side going out and about. But I don't...
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I don't even want, like, I want my hospital bills recovered. I want like my, my physio and all that paid for because my neck still jacked up and I dealt with concussions, but I won't go after him that hard civilly. If that Danny Bradley is willing to fuck willing to fight me.
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So that's basically what I'm going to present to their side saying, I won't ruin your lives if you end up paying the piper inside of a ring. Yeah, just be a man about it.
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I, so Danny Bradley was the guy in the lime green golf shirt who you see at Ravens golf club who suckers the employee. He ends up clipping one of the girl waitresses too. He was the instigator in that one. He was also the instigator who was getting in and putting his hand inside the manager's face, like giving her one of these ones and acting them up onto the back bar.
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That's when I kept turning around in my seat being like, like, uh, like, did I smoke a bad batch of weed here? Like, am I going fucking crazy? Like we're at Houston's restaurant and these nine drunk golfers are getting in these guys' face. And the lime green golf shirt guy was the guy who was the antagonist in both situations. And,
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They're just all scumbag piece of shit who rip off everyday Americans. Anybody's grandparents who are listening who live in Texas, they're going around knocking on their door saying they're going to perform asphalt jobs. They say, hey, do half down. If you don't like it, we'll give you all your money back. See you later. Never to be seen again. Go to the next town.
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These guys are absolute scumbags.
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uh like criminals traveling criminals that go around and do this you're it's the whole story is insane the way that it unraveled because the next day i was expecting maybe like like officers call and say hey these guys want to reach out to you about what happened where we could all just kind of go our own way and
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Even though they kicked me in the head, it's like, well, maybe they just had one too many drinks and this was a one-off and a horrible mistake they made. And I understand that those types of things happen. But when I ended up seeing that other video, when that Shea Stevens, who the undercover detective or whatever, the PI or whatever you want to call him.
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He'd been getting messages like crazy from people from their town in Fort Worth, Texas, being like, these guys show up to bars and restaurants and they'll get so rowdy to where they're going to be. They rip flat screen TV TVs off the wall. They like go and terrorize small businesses.
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So the exact opposite of basically what Barstool stands for and Dave Portnoy and what he does for small businesses, these people are terrorizing them and then ripping off everyday civilians in order to buy their G-wagons or Escalades. These guys are cruising around like living life very lavishly by ripping people off with other people's money. So these guys, they need to pay the piper this time.
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Yeah. Like this – We finally got these guys. We got them pinned down and including not only that Danny Bradley kid, but that Sean Daly kid who, I mean, he's got a rap sheet as long as fucking a Santa list. And he ended up having a military ID on him, a fake one. Yeah.
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so he could get discounts at hotels and restaurants and then they go do that at these places and then when he got caught after kicking me in the head because keep in mind so at the raven golf club about an hour and a half two hours earlier it had been called in but they didn't catch them so they were off and running around town and apparently they stopped at a ruth's crisp before they ended up getting to houston's so um
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the cops were aware that these guys were out and about. So the minute that Houston's called in and, and they kind of were like, okay, it's probably the same guys. They were over there in like three minutes. Cause by the time the fight ended, some of them had been caught. Some of the guys, some of these guys were able to like run away and avoid police. But the,
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the camera operators there was a camera across the street they were operating it because they heard the call and they're like okay it moved outside and then they followed it along so they were able to identify what the guys were wearing and then call out to the cops being like this is what these guys are wearing and then like a few of them were caught a few miles down the road which included that sean daly kid with the red shirt who boot fucked me in the head three four times um it
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At one point, his foot, when he missed me, ended up getting to probably the height of his shoulders. So they were... If I would have gotten knocked out, they would have kept boot-fucking me. Yeah, they would have.
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So I feel like it's my duty at this point. I don't care about getting kicked in the head or any of that stuff, but I just feel like it's my duty now to publicly humiliate these guys.
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If they're willing to pay the piper and go through the legal system and pay their dues not only criminally but somewhat civilly, as I said, you sign the documentation, we meet in a ring somewhere, I'll make an example out of you, and then we can all move on from this. Yeah. But if they don't and they keep – I said to them on the podcast, I've said it in – I'm going to smoke them out.
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I'm going to use every resource I got. I got – there's some bad people out there. Irish travelers are not the only bad people out there.
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That's my understanding is there's an Arizona chapter and a Texas chapter. I know. It's just wild. It's just ridiculous.
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Until they tried to boot fuck you.
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That's what I'm saying. So apparently the Arizona chapter is very angry being like, we're doing these small petty crimes under the table, and you guys are bringing us all this negative attention. Like, fuck off. So I don't know. It's a gong show, but it also seems like something that, like, The government or the feds need to get involved in from a bigger scale in order to take these guys down.
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I think that immigration and people coming over is great, man. North America is the land of opportunity, but to come over here and then do that, come on here. What are we talking about? This isn't people that we want inside of our country, is it?
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you want one right it reads tap on the shin pads you want one and it's just a circle yes or no yeah you laugh that is exactly the way you do it we slide over the number that we want to cover my hospital ambulance and all the bullshit bills and of course the lawyer fees or whatever it is and it's like this is going to be a lot less painful financially if you just meet me in the middle of a ring somewhere yeah I don't want to
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I would say at the, at the height, probably like, I would say four to five times at the height. Like I haven't, I've only been there back twice since the ordeal in the last month. Just cause like, I just don't, you know, it just doesn't feel as comfortable and cozy as it once did. And maybe a little PTSD. Yeah.
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Uh, and just like, I don't want to go in there and just, I have to talk about it every time. Right. I've hit up a few other local spots where I just moved into my place not too long ago, my newer spot. So I haven't gotten back into my cooking routine like I was when I was renting my apartment the last few years.
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Yeah.
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How would you know? It's a good Kickstarter.
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Have you ever eaten at a Houston's? I have not, no. I have. Okay, it's very military-like. They are hardcore. The process to get hired there, they don't fuck shit up. Everything's always cooked perfectly. The service is incredible. They run a tight, tight ship. So that's why I go there. I usually get the rotisserie chicken. I do the filet sometimes if I'm feeling extra wild, maybe the French dip.
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And yeah, that's usually the extent of it.
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Sure. I kept getting backed up through the parking lot. I don't know how many people who are listening. The videos are everywhere if you go search them online. If you go on my Twitter timeline, if you back it up a little bit, Shea Stevens has them. The local Fox station posted it. Probably three quarters through the distance of the fight.
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Remember, this started inside the Houston's and it made its way all the way over to CVS inside the same strip mall.
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because they kept backing me out and and when you're fighting like that you don't want to get clipped to the where you end up getting knocked out where you're asleep because like i said they'll just keep kicking your head in so as i kept backing up and then there would be a little bit of engagement kept backing up a little engagement the one one of the one guys who was the biggest dickhead william carroll he ended up sprinting past the group to try to get me like to try to catch me off guard and i hit him with a right hook and you could see in his mug shot that he's all up on his left temple
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And the minute I got him right on the temple with my right, he just dropped right to his knees, ready to fucking suck on my forsy. Right. Right. Like he was getting ready to unzip my zipper. Fucking piece of shit. I should have fucking pulled it out and gave him a little bit of a nightingale.
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trash bucket Irishman but and then I guess their side was trying to say that he like fell on the golf course and that's why he was all the fact that I did that like give me a hey but if you watch the surveillance from across the street in which catches them as they continue to kick me in the head After that, you could see him point at me and sprint at me into the frame.
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And then he disappears behind the dumpster. And then out the other side, there's four of them sprinting at me because they're pissed off. I just knocked out their buddy and he doesn't come out the other side. So pretty hard to deny. And then below the tree line, when the camera follows it, as he runs in where you get blocked, you could kind of see him drop.
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And then you come see me sprinting out the other side. So listen to this before any of the surveillance came out, didn't even know if they had surveillance. I recounted the whole story on the podcast and I posted something on social media. I was 95% bang on with all of the details of what happened. I thought the guy I knocked out was bald. He wasn't bald. He had a little bit of hair.
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He was maybe a little bit thin on top. Uh, keep in mind, I was kicked in the head three, four times. So my memory was a little bit blurry, but every, every detail about the whole ordeal, I pretty much got bang on in my statement. And even the cops said like, they were like, wow, you were unreal at recounting this before they'd even show me the tape myself.
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I mean, you should watch it any weirder.
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They were so scared. What a scene in Braveheart when he's running on the hills and they're telling the tale of William Wallace. That fucking gave me goosebumps when you said that. Yeah, that's you.
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And he's like, yeah, the one guys. No, the one I'm, I'm being like, I said, what the fuck are you guys doing, man? Like these people are good people. And I, and I pointed at the assistant manager who walked out the one that, that guy, the red shirt was screaming his face. That's when it all started. And I turned around. So he ended up being removed from the restaurant.
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So when the assistant manager came out to try to break it up, That William Carroll guy grabbed him by the neck and threw him against the car. You could see that in one of the clips. So as he veers off and goes and does that, you could see me pointing. And then one of the other guys is like, fight him, fight him.
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And pointing at the Danny Bradley guy, I go, I go, you guys back up and I'll square off with a one on one. But they never backed up. It was never going to be a fair fight. At one point, I think there was three or four of them because two or three of them had veered off to go fuck around with the assistant manager.
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But the minute that they'd thrown him against the car and assaulted him again, they hopped back in to come out by the dumpster. So that's basically the words being exchanged were like, yeah, I'd love to go with a guy in the lime green shirt one-on-one, but I know that ain't going to happen. Because it didn't happen in the restaurant.
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It didn't happen when you guys got me down by the rock pile quickly when you started punching and kicking me. And then it obviously didn't happen after I knocked the William Carroll out when one of them tackled me like it was a rugby match. And then the other three had their way with me.
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So let's have a fair fight. And if a few of them want to jump in the ring, we'll let Sean Daly, the boot fuck specialist, we can let him. I'll take him as my traditional salad appetizer and then send in Danny Bradley when I'm done with him. I'm going to make these fucking guys famous, boys. Yeah, I love it. We're going to make them famous.
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But in the meantime... We're going to let the legal process figure it out. And let's hope Larry Kazan, the local big wig lawyer, whose son wants to get in the mix, firing DMs off the good side. Like, this guy lives locally. His son, Ben, went to ASU, and these guys are jumping on those guys' side?
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Confirmed.
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Jeremy Rona. Two Hall of Famers. Love it. And a local legend, JR. He started his career there. I think Mike Keenan was the head coach. This guy's got the best stories of all time. So does Chelly. These guys are unbelievable dudes. So happy that JR finally got inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. That was much...
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much needed and long awaited based on what he did for the game, not only on the ice, but off the ice. So great to have those two guys in the mix. We're actually going to have Tim Stapleton as well, who is one of the OG favorite chicklets interviews, probably a top five guy. He was the guy who kind of cracked open the can on all the Russian KHL stories. Oh, So he'll be joining us.
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Jans will be there. The Game Notes guys, Merle and Armie will be there. And I think at this point right now, there's about 150 tickets left over. I want to say the venue seats about 11 to 1200. So there's some lower bowls available. There's some upper bowls available, but it's going to be a live show at four o'clock. So even if you're a Hawks fan and you're going to the game that night,
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You'll be downtown. Come grab a couple cocktails. Come to the show at 4. And then you'll be out of there by 5.30. You can go grab a quick bite to eat and then off to the Chicago Blackhawks game. And then, of course, they play two days later on the 31st, which is going to be the Winter Classic. It's going to be awesome. I actually like that it's on New Year's Day rather than New Year's Day.
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Just because people are hungover. It's almost like you go to the game. You get that little buzz going, you go have fun, and then the next day you can just sit on the couch and watch football.
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I'm going to, and I'm trying to convince Yans as well. I changed my flight.
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I would say this is the best lineup the Leafs have had in the last 15, 20 years. Very solid back end. They're getting incredible goaltending. They have three guys, actually. Matt Murray, who finally came back from injury, who won a couple Stanley Cups with the Penguins. Mind you, he does deal with the injury bug. They have that Joseph Wall, who last year played incredible, got injured for Game 7.
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And then, oh God, I'm drawing a blank here. Their starter, who just got hurt. I'm drawing a blank, but he's been unreal all season long for them. He just went on the IR. I think he's out four to six weeks. Help me out by Googling him. I can't believe I forgot his name, but they're back end solid. They're core four. All the guys making all the big dough.
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Matthews, Marner, Tavares and Nylander are buzzing. Matthews has been out a little bit with back issues. I don't know if it's spasms or whatnot. He actually went over to Germany to get looked at, came back, was buzzing when he returned. and then got re-injured the other night after taking a cross check in the back in the Buffalo game. But very solid team.
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They're at the top of that Atlantic division, which is very strong. They're tied in points with Florida, who's a juggernaut again, who has the possibility to reach their third Stanley Cup finals in a row if they stay healthy. Looking around the rest of the league, New Jersey, great bounce back here. Stolarz is the goalie's name for the Leafs. Yeah, he's been incredible for them. A great pickup.
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Going to the Metro, New Jersey just looks really solid. They solidified their goaltending. They got Markstrom. And then who's the other one? Not Elliott. Fuck. No, I'm drawing a lot of blanks on the goalies' names today. Jesus Christ. Well, you got boot clocked a little. What's that? You got boot fucked. I got boot fucked in the head. Sorry, folks. But their offense is incredible.
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They got a great top nine forward group, great defense. Probably the biggest surprise so far this year has been the Washington Capitals, PFT's team. Yeah. They made a lot of trades in the offseason, like five or six guys they brought in, whether it was signings or trades, and they have just really panned out. Pierre-Luc Dubois playing solid.
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They got Jacob Chikrin over from Ottawa, who's a great defender. Mangio Pani's been solid. Roy. So they went out and got five or six guys where they were able to gel very quickly. I would say the overall MVP of their team, Not only Ovechkin because of the goal chase, but because of the mojo he's created around the team. Him and Dylan Strom have had incredible chemistry.
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They really slow the game down. It's almost like the reincarnation of Backstrom. Not to insult Backstrom at all, but just the chemistry that these two have together. But I would have to say Carberry. The coach, he's the frontrunner for the Jack Adams. He just is such a modern-day coach, players coach, really inspires the players, and they've really gotten behind him.
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Carolina's always solid with Rob Brindamore, although people don't have much trust for them to get past the conference finals. They seem to get there every year, and they blow their load, and they just can't get over that hump. Um, Winnipeg had a crazy start to the year where they were 15, Oh, and one, uh, people didn't expect that. So that was another huge surprise.
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Uh, and then Minnesota, Kirill, the thrill, another crazy Russian in the league. Who's been lighting the lamp, uh, probably a top three candidate for MVP right now. And, uh, Just an unreal player to watch where every game, game in, game out, shift in, shift out. He has much watched television.
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And then probably just have to give a little bit of love to Witte's Oilers, who have made a great comeback in a sense of another slow start. They were bullshit off the beginning. Probably some hangover from going all the way to the cup finals. And then, oh, God, we got to do this all over again. And then probably the front runner in that Pacific division is the Vegas Golden Knights.
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They got great depth up the middle. They have a really, really good back end and good goaltending and they're well coached. So that's a good synopsis of the league. I don't know if you guys had any further questions about the NHL, but that's pretty much my rundown.
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I think Dallas is a top five team in the league. So yes, I think that they could be a problem with Glassbanger. So a little bit of a backstory. So for you non-hockey fans, it's a faux pas to continually bang on the glass as the play gets close to you, right? I can understand some people, it's their first hockey game. They're getting excited.
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The play comes over and they want to start body checking the glass a little bit to like feel like they're in the mix. But eventually you figure it out and you stop doing that. Or someone just grabs your shoulder and says, Hey buddy, stop playing in the fucking glass or I'm going to give you a knuckle sandwich or I'm going to kick boot. Fuck you like an Irish traveler.
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Well, this guy, he's a trust fund baby. Uh, he has glass seats, uh, He calls himself the glass banger. He brings a sign every game that has the hashtag bang. He wears a full white suit, and any time the play comes near him or any time he wants to distract the goalie, he's just continually banging the glass, throwing throwing body checks against the glass.
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So even last year during playoffs, the camera would pan over. There'd be a battle behind the net and he'd be over there getting in on the four check with the rest of the team, just bang and bang and bang. And so the section that he sits in, the people are fed up with them. They hate him. He also to put a cherry on top brings pay for play hookers to every game.
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Like he'll bring, like he'll call girl from back pages and Get sucked off in his limo outside and then bring him on in and then just be obnoxious. And then that's it. Every game in, game out. So apparently he ended up like what? Getting a DUI and then forgot about it.
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Yeah, he got you good. Just when I didn't need it, Brad Marchand comes in, the Cosa Nostra. Brad Marchand is such an incredible ambassador to the NHL, so I have no more beef with him, nor do I want to get to put any more headlocks with noogies from Brad. But we had a fun little back and forth on TNT after that happened.
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And I don't know how many people watched the clip online, but so every time pregame, the whole panel usually asks one question. So they had just replaced their coach. They fired Jim Montgomery. They brought in Joe Sacco.
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And I was curious to know, because it's the first time that we got a chance to talk to him, what was it that Brad, as captain of the Boston Bruins, took away from when Sacco first addressed the team? Like, what did you guys need to button up and change, and what was the message? So I asked that, and he's like, well, that's a bit of a boring question, and then proceeds to answer it.
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So he antagonized me. So I tap Liam. I go, give me one more. So the other guys are in the midst of asking their questions. And then finally they're done and he's done answering. And I say, Brad, one last question here from Biz. I said, I heard about all these off-season surgeries because he had like two or three off-season surgeries.
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I said, was one of them getting a Turkish hair transplant because his hair looked great. It looked like he filled in some spots. As the guys at Barstool go, this thing can really change the top of your dome. It can. Big time. So... He had a good chuckle and he goes, I'm just trying to look like one of those Irish travelers that beat the wheels off you the other night on the broadcast unexpectedly.
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I get nose-kicked. And he gets the last laugh. So sure enough, we have them on back to back broadcasts. So we plan this whole skit where I do a department of player safety like George Peros used to film the clips and we roll it. And then I come out of it and I got the neck brace on and the head wrap and he didn't know. So we got him a monitor so he could see me asking that next question.
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And then we shared another awesome back and forth. But these are the type of things that I think the NHL needs in order to draw outside interest. And I just can't thank Marshy for being a good sport and not only involving himself, but definitely giving it back. So it was a fun exchange.
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I got to go sit and do a hit with those guys. I sat down with them for 10 minutes to go on and promote the Winter Classic. So I got to sit down with those guys. And as you just said, they laid the foundation. you know, we could be a little bit more personable and maybe be a little less stale and traditional broadcast.
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So not only, you know, thank you to TNT for everything they've done for me, but also those guys for, for laying the foundation of what is just nonstop entertainment. And, uh, yeah, very grateful and honored to get to sit down with, uh, with all of them, Ernie, Shaq, um,
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uh kenny and uh who's uh and barkley is uh who sorry i've drawn a blank to the guy to who was to my left is it uh kenny's i i think you're in the middle so kenny was to your left yeah kenny kenny yeah i feel like he's like the glue guy yeah no like you always talk about shack and barkley but he he has some quick one-liners that he's a funny fucker man yeah yeah they have just great chemistry oh yeah
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Yeah. Citizen of the Year Award.
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Boys, boys, I'm honored. I always get a little bit envious when I see the blank of the year or these awards that you give out and the fact that I'm taking in my first ever part of my take of the award.
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Citizen of the year award. Okay, I didn't have a speech prepared, but I guess I should wait till the new year.
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I'll just say if I do win it, I'm not saying I'm going to. Don't want to jinx it. If I do win it, I want to pass it along to all the citizens of Scottsdale and also the police, fire department, all the first responders and the amazing people. It's incredible. Why are you doing it? What do you mean? It's incredible. This is what a citizen of the year does.
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This is why you're going to win it probably. I just wanted to solidify that. But all those police officers that caught those scumbags and helped rein those guys in from –
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creating more terror in our city so thank you to the police department of not only paradise valley but scottsdale road bad boys bad boys what about the don't do it is comfortable all right so biz i got one last question it's a robot question r-h-o-b-a-c-k.com promo code take 20 off your first purchase q-zips polos hoodies joggers shorts so hopefully you will
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So would you do that? Would you consider that? I would 100% bring it over and say, hey, the PMT boy. Only if next time you're in there, they give you a traditional salad on the house. Okay. I like that.
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We'll see. But if you do the traditional salad, you got to do it with 1,000 island dressing.
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That salad should be called the biz. Yeah. Well, maybe I could bring, I know you're not going to be here, PFT, but Big Cat, maybe I can bring you when you're here on the 26th. I could bring you in there, show you around, show you the blood spatter that's still on the ground there. Be nice.
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You're our hero.
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What?
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I also, I, first of all, thank you guys for having me on and the kind words. And the last thing I'll say is like, I was never that much of a fighter growing up. Like, yeah, I got in a few dust ups on the, you know, look at the playground and, and, and did a little bit in junior.
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But when I got to the American Hockey League and I switched from defense to forward, that's kind of when I got thrown in the fire where I had to start playing that role. So when I was playing in the AHL, back-to-back years, I got over 30 fights. So we would get on a bus. We'd drive to the away city.
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get off the bus, you get dressed, and I have to fight Jeremy Oblonsky in Binghamton once or sometimes even twice, get bambied, get conked, go to the penalty box. There was no spotter back then. You just went and licked your wounds in the box and acted like nothing was wrong.
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And then after that game, you put your gear back in your bag, you hop back on the bus, you travel four hours to the next city, you'd go and unpack your gear at that rink at 2 a.m. or whatever time it was, you'd go to the motel, you'd sleep, you'd wake up, and you'd do it all over again. You'd do that three in a row. Three and threes.
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So that basically prepared me to get boot fucked to the CVS parking lot. I need to thank Jeremy Oblonsky and the John Morastys, John Nasty Morasty, and all those other guys who used to beat the wheels off me when I was learning how to scrap. That prepared me for the Irish Traveler. So without them, I'd probably be drinking out of a straw and a respirator right now.
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I'm going to add that to the note that I'm sliding across Larry Pizan's desk.
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Thank you.
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I don't let you know that whenever you see this guy, if you see this guy and me fighting in a parking lot, you'd say, he's going to beat the fuck out of him. He's got a lick of fat on him. He's fucking tremendous. He's got a giant tattoo. He's put like Dwayne The Rock Johnson. My uncle's 50 fucking year old. Is he a white guy, black guy, Hispanic?
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He's an Hispanic guy with black hair and a black beard. And he was pushing and shoving just as much as everybody else. But that's whenever I showed up.