The whole gang is back together in the studio this week, and they kick off the show with their hot takes for the week, including Rob Ray's epic f-bomb in a Buffalo Sabres game and the Edmonton Oilers chances at getting back to the Stanley Cup Final this year. Plus, Princess Claire is learning to skate, and a referee in the Vancouver Canucks-Utah Hockey Club game took a puck in the worst place possible. Then, Fatou Bah, a member of the Board of Directors for the Black Girl Hockey Club, joins the show to discuss efforts to grow the sport among young black women and her Washington Capitals. Finally, the group recaps the week for the Florida Panthers after two wins over the Nashville Predators and Edmonton Oilers in a Stanley Cup Final rematch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the hosts' hot takes on recent hockey events?
Welcome to the hockey show. Roy, Dave, Rose, Ethan. Let's start with our Slapshots hot takes. Go ahead, Dave. Okay. Welcome to the show, everybody. Hey, man. I don't have time for this. Let's go.
Welcome to the show, everybody. Wow. I'm Rose. Thank you.
I said your name, then. I said your name. Did I say your name? I said your name. You did say everybody's name, Roy. Yeah, I did.
Chapter 2: Why did Rob Ray's f-bomb become iconic?
Okay, all right. My hot take, it's not a hot take, actually. It's a cold take? It's a hot mic. Oh. It's not a cold take. It's a hot mic. Former Sabres, I don't want to say star, former well-known player Rob Ray, tough guy, fighter, longtime Buffalo Sabre. Yeah, that's the word I was looking for. Yeah, there you go.
He works between the benches on the Sabres broadcasts, and he had his mic open and got hit by the puck.
This is the greatest F-bomb of all time.
Oh, my God. The greatest F-bomb of all time. Dude takes a puck in the eye.
Trainers are checking on him.
The funny thing is the next game, where is he broadcasting from? The last row in the upper deck of the arena.
You got to stay safe, man. Wouldn't you? I would. I would be throwing out F-bombs, too.
Does this get into the old school discussion that we've had, though, of guys, the old school guys not wearing visors? Because if you would have had a visor on, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
How do they not put these guys behind a thing of glass? First of all, how does this not happen more often? I know they get pucked sometimes.
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Chapter 3: What are the Edmonton Oilers' chances this season?
Oh, f***. Yeah, it's just perfect.
Yeah, that's going to make Rose happy.
If you're not watching this on YouTube or if you want to just Google Rob Ray, find a picture of him post-puck to the face.
Thank you. Go ahead and play it again. Yeah, play it again. One more time. Yeah, one more time.
Puck has dropped and it's four to... Oh, f***! ...here in the opening period.
And Razor just took another... That sounds like he's taking, like, a violent shit and he can't get... Like, that was like... Like, you know, like... Confirming!
all right let's go sorry for all the editing roses i'm saying though man she's got roses over there like ah shut up guys now you did it again you know what you're gonna edit this video i'm gonna give it to you and this is gonna be your first i'm gonna have work to do too guys because i have to believe it out in okay uh let's go to my uh my hot take new york islanders You reap what you sow.
You know why you reap what you sow? Because you brought back Anthony D'Angelo back into this league. Now, I mean, seriously, like, they should be embarrassed. And they get embarrassed. You know why? Because he lost 5-1 to the Rangers and allowed this goal to Matt freaking Rimpey.
Oh, you can't do that.
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Chapter 4: How is Princess Claire learning to skate?
I feel so bad for Ilya Sorokin. He's having such a rough year.
Yeah. The Islanders in general are having a rough year.
Scott Perunovich and Ryan Pelak did not escape this game without a bad set line, respectively. Minus four. Both of them.
Put Matt Barzell.
Yeah. Or Matt Barzell. I mean, all this bat juju that the Islanders have brought upon themselves. Yeah, it's been bad. In fact, they've lost five of their last six, so good for them. Good for them. Not good hockey in New York right now. Bad, bad hockey on that side of the island, yeah. Devils are okay. Wait, I have a hot take. The Rangers are actually doing better. Ethan, you have a hot take.
I do have a hot take. I went to watch the Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers last night.
This is back-to-back weeks, by the way. I've ignored your hot takes.
Take on the team they knocked out in the Stanley Cup final, the Edmonton Oilers. And the Edmonton Oilers are 3-6-1 in their last 10. They've lost five in a row. I got a hot take, boys. They're going nowhere this year.
You realize how hard it was for them to scratch and claw their way back up the division? Because they were out of it.
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Chapter 5: What is the impact of Black Girl Hockey Club?
We should tell McDavid, hey, just take the Canada win because you're not going to the Stanley Cup.
Yeah, you're right. This is a learning situation for all the GMs in the National Hockey League as far as how to handle players when it comes to stuff like Olympics and Four Nations and World Cup of Hockey and how to handle their injuries and how to handle what to do with them coming back from these tournaments because... As Ethan said, they look exhausted.
Yeah. Look, maybe you've got to build in a few days of rest. Neither of the Chuck brothers have played yet.
Yeah, I was very surprised. Sorry, David. To see how many guys... My buddies asked me in a group chat, how many guys do you think sit out the first game back from the four nations between U.S. and Canada? I said 44 or 46 or however many guys were on those rosters. I legitimately thought...
everybody would get a rest day you know there would be a select few but the goalie to see right to see how many guys came back reinhardt and bennett were right back in the lineup crosby dealing with an injury was right back in the lineup like i would have given these guys a couple days to kind of get back you know take a vacation hell go to go to cabo for all i care like sorry but you know what i'm saying like i just think that settle down there rob ray i just think that uh he's scrappy
You made me lose my train of thought. I just think these guys could have benefited from a couple days of rest to really get them back for the stretch run.
Do you want to set that precedent, though? I'm just playing devil's advocate here, but do you want to say, okay, we're going to do this amazing tournament where everybody's going to go balls to the walls, they're going to go crazy, that's how we want it, but then we're going to give them... a game or two off.
What's one or two games in February?
Because everybody who's involved with the NHL that's not involved in the Four Nations, all the GMs of everybody that didn't, they're going to be like, what the bleep? Because now my NHL, you're not going to please everybody with this. So I think you can't make it a precedent, but if guys didn't just quietly take a game or two to get their stuff together, that's okay.
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Chapter 6: What barriers exist for black women in hockey?
And what you have with the injuries, because Vegas, Florida, and Boston has to deal with that now. Yeah, we're not even talking about Martinez. The first casualty. You're complaining about the... Okay. Yo no sé.
Yeah, since we're bleeping everything, a tomar por culo. Good luck with that. Oh, that's a bad word.
That's a very bad word. You bleeped that. That's a very bad saying. Yeah. I know how to say the F word in French. Thank you, Shorzy.
We have more that we have to do, so let's move on to win of the week, Dave.
My win of the week comes from St. Louis. Ryan Suter played his 1500th NHL game the other night, and the Blues brought his four kids into the locker room to read the pregame lineups. And that in and of itself was amazingly cute and awesome. But if we can play it, his youngest son, when he gets to his father's name, it just melted my heart.
OK suits you got 1500 games so we're celebrating that today. OK, let's start the line of starting lineup. We got suits is 4 kids coming out.
That's not. My dad starting suits. I love the little guy in the suit looking dapper as hell. I love it.
That's too bad.
That's very nice. He even got the pronunciations correct. That's very good. And dad. And dad. And dad comes over and gives the big hug.
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Chapter 7: How does Fatou Bah view diversity in hockey?
And she's watched a lot of hockey, a lot of hockey with dad. And before she came out, she said to me, I don't skate as fast. Maybe I'm going to do bad. I said, hey, listen, it's not about you going out there and skating fast as she goes out there and tiptoes on video. If you can see it on YouTube, it's about trying. And she went out there and she tried and.
Me and Aneed, my wife, we led her out to the edge of the ice we put out there, and she did very well. She only fell twice, which was definitely the under, because I expected her to fall a lot more, but she only fell twice, and she did very well. She had zip on her passes and shots. Big ups to the trainers out there. They really did well with her on the ice. I was definitely a proud dad.
That's so cool.
As of you, as are you, because Tyler is playing hockey. Yeah, Tyler was on the other ice when Claire was on that ice. So it's pretty cool that our kids were out there. I had to look it up on my phone because I remember as she was on the ice getting a text from you, and all he said was, Dude, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, I think she might be good.
Yeah, yeah, and as you can tell from the video, Like, she's staying up right.
Who's a better skater, Roy, you or Claire?
Well, it's me. Because I can actually push.
Claire, I have a video. We can put them side by side.
Yeah, side by side?
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