The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
Tue, 22 Apr 2025
You'll never be my rat. Today's cast: Dan, Zaslow, Chris, Billy, Jessica, Mike, and Roy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the controversy around notaries discussed in the podcast?
Yeah. The least surprising thing ever, Yeti is a notary. My dad's producer. He was quick to tell me that. I don't feel like I dismissed it. I just was like, people that do it think they're super important. I don't really like the vibe that people that are notaries, they like to tell you that they're notaries. You know, I realize it has value. I super serious.
All the people sending me links to videos. Hey, watch this video and then tell me notaries are not important. You know, the fraud that it fights in this country. Back off. All right. It's not that important.
I do think there's a self-importance that comes. Thank you. People who are qualified. I'd love to tell you.
Did they notarize their complaints?
No, so I don't even know where it came from. I've never had a person walk up to me and say, I'm a notary. You're a secret notary. People are notaries and you just don't know they're notaries. Who are these people? You see people walking around with shirts that says notary. They wear crowns. Like, what are you even talking about? I'm just talking about when it comes up.
People love to say it if they are.
What was the first part of the complaint that was sent to you?
Scolding a New York Jew about food.
No, before that.
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Chapter 2: How did last night's NHL playoff games unfold?
Yes, of course, my fault.
I get it.
Yes, I get it. I'm used to blaming you, but yes, my fault. I don't remember Monday's local hour scolding a New York Jew about food. Yeah, I'm trying to figure out who that was. What is that? I don't have any recollection. Not the best way to start, incidentally, after four one-goal games in hockey, two in overtime, one decided by Ovechkin. That's a pretty good hockey night. What a night.
A lot of people talking about Kawhi today, but that hockey night?
Hockey did its thing last night, man.
Four one-goal games? I don't know why you guys aren't afraid of Ovechkin. I don't know why you guys think this is going to be an Uberdough offense that's going to be in the playoffs.
Got to get there first, right? Right now the series price on most sportsbooks is minus 110, minus 110. This is a total pick-em series going on right now. The two teams that made it to the Stanley Cup last year, appear to have some challenges in front of them.
I believe that just about everything right now should be pick-em in hockey. Just make it all pick-em.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of Ovechkin's playoff overtime goal?
And is this Sean McDonough calling the Ovechkin goal in the best possible way that you could call an Ovechkin goal?
Well, there are a few things that Ovechkin hasn't done. Not many, but he's never scored. overtime game-winning goal in the playoffs.
Really interesting here. He's on the shooting spot on the left wing. The Canadians have Demidov and Line A on the ice. A rookie and a player not known for his defensive play.
The puck is free. And a great chance for Pavilion. Ovechkin scores! Now he has that playoff overtime goal. What else can he do? Washington wins 3-2.
15 seconds between him saying Ovechkin has never done that at the age of 30. The one thing he's never done. Oh, he just did it. Before we talk about Kawhi entering the chat, surely Mike, Roy and Zaslow ate up and slathered all over their chest some hockey last night.
I mean, what a sport. Like, what do you even say? The best. What a sport. It's what, the third day of the Stanley Cup playoffs?
The Panthers still haven't played yet.
Right, right, right. The main event's tonight, by the way. But four games yesterday, all decided by one goal. Two of them in overtime. One of them was an Ovechkin winner. I don't understand how he's still doing that. And another one was a 4-0 game late in the second period. where Edmonton comes back and ties the game at five with under a minute to go, only to be answered by the winner from L.A.
20 seconds later.
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Chapter 4: Why is the 'Lightning ain't shit' sentiment central to this episode?
Terrible defense by the Oilers. Terrible puck management. Terrible goaltending. They somehow almost won that game.
And that goal from McDavid to tie it. I don't even know how it got in past the goalie. How did it go in the net?
You asked a couple of good questions. Ovechkin, how is that all possible at 39? Jessica, Billy, World Roar 4. Are you guys in?
This is the fourth time we've done this bit. Yeah, World Raw R4. Yeah, this is the fourth straight time. The Panthers? The Panthers and the Lightning. You were not familiar with the Panthers and the Lightning tonight? The show always calls this playoff feud.
I thought that we were past the Lightning. I thought that we were better than the Lightning and we didn't give the Lightning any mind. This is loser mentality. No, no, no.
Last year's shirt was World War III. Our group chat has a good feeling about this one.
The Lightning aren't shit to me. I'm just going to come right out and tell you right now. We have surpassed the Lightning. They're not a formidable foe. They're a joke. I don't take them seriously at all. Strike me by Lightning. I don't care. Nothing's going to happen to me. Lightning are soft. I'm not giving them any mind. I'm not paying attention to them this series. On to the next round.
That is terrible analysis. However, I do believe it's the analysis of Roy, Mike, and Zaslow as well.
Absolutely. I agree with you, Billy. I've been saying that all year.
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Chapter 5: What are the expectations for the Panthers vs. Lightning playoff series?
I mean, I'm on the same level as Billy as far as the lightning don't mean shit to me. All right.
Stunning. Stunning that you guys would be uniform in this.
But this is going, like, I think it's going to be hard as hell. No. Every single game starting tonight, I'm going to have anxiety for 60 minutes. You guys are really disrespectful.
You guys are disrespectful of things accomplished in the past, just generally.
Yeah, I don't live in the past. I live in the present. Lightning ain't shit.
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Chapter 6: How are key players like Matthew Kachuk and Aaron Ekblad expected to perform?
I mean, I would fear them in a hockey series.
I would love to wear that shirt. I'd walk into the building. Lightning ain't shit.
This is going seven. I know you guys are trying to be tough, but this feels like a seven-game series.
It feels like a difficult series. I mean, the series prices all reflect that. And while Florida may be top to bottom more talented than they were last year, they still got 88. He didn't have the greatest series the last time these two teams played in the playoffs. And... There's a reason why, though. Florida's going to be getting some guys back, but some guys that haven't played in a while.
Some hugely important guys like Matthew Kachuk, Aaron Ekblad.
What are you guys expecting from Ekblad, given that you guys know now that he was terrible during a time when no one suspected anything from him other than expectations to be better, and then he was great, and then he was popped for PEDs?
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Chapter 7: What are the differing opinions on Brad Marchand's role with the Panthers?
Right, so I saw him have a career resurgence, and shortly thereafter he tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. I imagine that performance-enhancing drug thing got cleared up during the suspension, and he's probably not on that stuff anymore.
I hope he still is because he's been playing great.
Yeah, so I don't know. And you keep in mind he had a longer layoff. Same thing with Matthew Kachuk. There's new players on the team, new lines that are going to get formed. So we'll see. I do think it's going to be a tougher, longer series.
I think it's going to be a blessing for them. Kachuk with the time off, Ekblad with the time off. Three straight years they're trying to get to the Stanley Cup Final. Essentially three straight years they're trying to play like an extra 20 plus games than the regular season. And we saw the way both of them, by the way, broke down in the Stanley Cup Final two years ago.
And now for each of them to have a couple of months off before the playoffs... I think it's going to be a benefit. I really do.
Roy, who are they going to have Marshawn with? They're probably going to have him on the third line. I was hoping that he would be on the second line, but they're probably not. You think with Lundell and Listerainen? Yeah.
Put him on that third. I want him on that second. Why do you want a guy with one goal on the second line? Two. I just want to see what it looks like.
Two. Him, Bennett, Chucky. That line, Mike. Come on, Mike.
No. You want him on the third line because then Tampa Bay, you don't have to worry so much about matchups if you're Paul Maurice because you've got three lines now that the other team's like, damn, I don't want to face those guys.
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Chapter 8: How do the hosts react to each other's hockey analysis and pronunciation mishaps?
You can always do that, yes.
I just want to see him on the same line, those three.
One thing I'm really curious to see is Kucherov had another outstanding season. A book on him, though, is he's a power play merchant. Florida really neutralized Kucherov last year. He was very frustrated. I agree with you.
that's their thing. Like every series that they win, it's all, they neutralize Dreisaitl. Oh, they neutralize Kucherov.
That's their thing.
They neutralize Zibanejad. That's their thing.
That was not an English sentence you just said. I don't know what the verb was. No, there were some Z's in the verb there. Mike, I thought you wanted Marchand on the train line right out of town. Not the second line, not the third line. I thought you wanted him on whatever line is that takes him away from your hockey team.
Look, he hasn't been good as a Florida Panther. He just hasn't. Oh, I disagree. He hasn't been good.
He hasn't been good.
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