Celtics Win Game 1, SCF Preview With Paul Bissonnette, Edmonton Oilers Evander Kane And Fyre Fest Of The Week

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Speaker 10 On today's part of my take, we finally have some sports to talk about again.

Speaker 14 And it's the NBA Finals, game one.

Speaker 14 The Celtics handled the Mavs.

Speaker 16 We're going to get into that.

Speaker 18 We also are going to talk about Dan Hurley possibly going to the Los Angeles Lakers.

Speaker 23 We have a full, full Stanley Cup final preview with our good friend Paul Bissinet and Edmonton Oilers Evander Kane.

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Speaker 15 Today is Friday, June 7th, and the Boston Celtics are up 1-0 on the Dallas Mavericks after an absolute shit kicking.

Speaker 22 Hank?

Speaker 37 Yeah, great game.

Speaker 38 Great game. Looked like in the third quarter they were going to do the classic Celtics thing, let the other team back in.

Speaker 38 Turns into a close game, but they called a timeout when they cut the lead to eight. Went on an 8-0 run after that, and it was smooth sailing from there.

Speaker 39 Yeah, it's a shame that Jason Kidd couldn't give another halftime speech where he said, everyone, remember to have fun out there.

Speaker 39 In the NBA Finals, he said, when you're given the have-fun speech, you lost. I don't think that you can come back with a half-fun speech.

Speaker 39 But I guess they did come back a little bit in the third quarter.

Speaker 2 Yeah, no, they definitely did.

Speaker 18 I mean, they made it an eight-point game, and then it was, and then when you looked up at the end of the third quarter, the Mavs had only won the quarter by one point, and they took their best punch, and the Celtics came out with way more energy.

Speaker 12 They looked better.

Speaker 42 Porzingis kind of ropa-doping everyone.

Speaker 41 He's like, I don't know if I'm 100%.

Speaker 17 He looked.

Speaker 38 He didn't look 100% when he started the game. He looked slow.
They were kind of picking and rolling. He wasn't really closing out.
He wasn't really contesting shots.

Speaker 38 I was like, oh, yeah, he's definitely not 100%.

Speaker 38 And then he just made 20 shots in a row.

Speaker 39 Yeah, he was the best player on the court for a little bit in that first quarter. It was unreal.
This is a big-time revenge series for Chris Stopps.

Speaker 39 Hank, you are very confident right now. Are we still thinking Celtics and six?

Speaker 38 Yeah, we're thinking Celtics and six. The Mavs aren't going to go away.

Speaker 38 They're going to give us their best shot.

Speaker 38 but it might be Celtics in the five.

Speaker 39 I did not realize this was going to be a Bill Walton game.

Speaker 39 That would have affected things quite a bit for me.

Speaker 39 The family's there, they're wearing the Bill Walton jerseys. They're passing out the Bill Walton buttons and stickers before the game.

Speaker 39 If there is an afterlife where you can control something that happens on planet Earth, I'm certain that Bill Walton would be doing everything in his power to control this game.

Speaker 39 This should have been an easy bet. Yes.

Speaker 29 The one thing you could say, if you're the Mavericks, you could have played worse, couldn't have played with less energy coming out.

Speaker 31 The Celtics hit every shot in the first half, and Jason Kidd also sucks at game ones.

Speaker 12 So that was, I think, the Wolves series was the first time he had won a game one for the Mavericks.

Speaker 44 He has notoriously been slow starting with his teams in a series, but it definitely looked like the Celtics were the better team all around because they just have an answer.

Speaker 21 It's the role players.

Speaker 22 It's what we talk about. Right.

Speaker 18 It's different than the series they just finished where Carl Anthony Towns couldn't hit a three, and Rudy Gobert is nothing on offense, and you can basically play a different style of defense when there's only a certain amount of guys that can hit a shot.

Speaker 13 Everyone on the Celtics can hit a shot.

Speaker 39 So, who's the MVP after one game? Jalen?

Speaker 22 Yeah. Yeah.
Jalen.

Speaker 39 I am looking forward to the discourse if he wins MVP.

Speaker 2 That is crazy that the Celtics won by as much as they won by, and Jason Tatum was not good.

Speaker 34 I think that's a good thing.

Speaker 31 Yeah, no, I'm saying that's crazy.

Speaker 17 Like, if he's not going to be not good for the entire series, he's eventually going to be good.

Speaker 14 And yeah,

Speaker 16 the Mavs role players didn't show up.

Speaker 36 Luca started slow.

Speaker 30 He had that third quarter where he was incredible.

Speaker 15 And yeah,

Speaker 23 you can't expect to win this series if Kyrie's going to only score 12 points.

Speaker 38 Yeah, they did a good job not biting on his, you know, Luca always is trying to draw fouls. I feel like Jalen Brown, we said it.
He got snubbed for NBA all-defense, and he took that personally.

Speaker 38 And he came out and he was playing really good defense. Every time Luca was pump-faking, he was letting him shoot it, and Luca never does.
He just always pump fakes and then passes.

Speaker 38 It was just a great, great, great, great game one.

Speaker 37 Happy basketball is back.

Speaker 38 It was a long wait and it was a great payoff.

Speaker 10 It's good that basketball's back.

Speaker 29 I still think that the Mavs were stupid to wear these jerseys in game one.

Speaker 34 I don't know if they did that because Luca looks very slim in them.

Speaker 39 Are you thinking blue?

Speaker 21 I was thinking blue.

Speaker 40 These jerseys feel like the jerseys you wear for Star Wars night in like early February.

Speaker 39 Yeah, yeah. I also think the white Celtics jerseys, they're just, that's a big game jersey.
Yeah.

Speaker 18 I just, yeah, I just feel like it was crazy because if you had said before that the, that the Mavs were the team, or sorry, the Celtics were the team that had the longer rest and also had just played significantly less games, weren't in the rhythm of like a big-time game, what are you talking about?

Speaker 30 They look as sharp as could be.

Speaker 39 Yeah, they weaponized time.

Speaker 30 Yeah, they did. They weaponized time.

Speaker 18 Mavs max.

Speaker 22 Celtics are four.

Speaker 22 Oh, no.

Speaker 51 I mean, this team fucking sucked tonight. These role players were horrible.

Speaker 22 We have a role players play better at home.

Speaker 51 Well, the Celtics got more fucking home games.

Speaker 22 They're going to go down.

Speaker 2 The Mavs are going to win at least a game. The Mavs suck.

Speaker 39 I stand by Celtics in five. I feel good about that.
Three.

Speaker 34 Listen, we can't overreact to one game, Max.

Speaker 51 Hank's the fucking worst. I fucking hate when Hank.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 22 Continue, continue, continue.

Speaker 51 You're just such a fucking podcast.

Speaker 39 You got to talk. You got to talk, Max.

Speaker 38 Don't go silent when your team loses. You got to let your feelings out.

Speaker 22 You're the worst.

Speaker 52 Max, here's a spin zone for you for Mavs Max.

Speaker 30 At least you still have your reservation at 4 Charles Prime.

Speaker 51 The Celtics have eight guys who should have a $100 million contract.

Speaker 22 Wait, what? I said it was a good thing. Let's bliss them.
Jalen Brown, Jason Tatum, Porzingis, Derek White.

Speaker 38 I mean, Pritchard, friend of the program.

Speaker 22 Holiday? Who paid Pritchard stunk tonight?

Speaker 5 Sam Hauser.

Speaker 38 Sam Hauser, stud.

Speaker 22 Al Horford, did you say? Al Horford. Al Horford's such a horror.
Fucking Horford July.

Speaker 38 Sixers and Sixers could have used a guy like Horford.

Speaker 51 Al Horford is the worst.

Speaker 39 I think the Mavericks.

Speaker 38 Remember when it seemed like his career was over on the Sixers? That was like 70 years.

Speaker 22 Didn't want to play there. I don't remember.

Speaker 39 Didn't want to play there. Need a better environment, I think.
He signed there.

Speaker 47 He chose to play there.

Speaker 34 By the way, Luca having one assist, that tells you how bad everyone else played. Because Luca didn't.

Speaker 22 Oh, come on.

Speaker 13 Do you know how an assist works?

Speaker 39 It's a fact that

Speaker 39 all their shots are passed early on.

Speaker 22 It was like nobody should have thrown more lobs but you like luca didn't have only one

Speaker 51 pass tonight he they were just they missed everything luca didn't play great but one assistant play better than jason tatum you understand how assists work like with one assist means that the other guys you have to make the shot for the assist to count Yeah, you got to make better passes.

Speaker 38 It was guys better looks.

Speaker 39 It was great team defense by the Celtics.

Speaker 22 Oh, the Bats stunk.

Speaker 39 Did you say you say Drew Holiday? Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 53 Geez, I couldn't even say the one assist without Hank getting.

Speaker 38 Well, I was curious how you were going to, you know.

Speaker 34 Because in an assist, you have to pass the ball, then the person has to make the shot.

Speaker 52 The rest of the game is. You got to make good passes, though.

Speaker 22 The Mavs didn't make the shots.

Speaker 23 Should have done more Lops.

Speaker 22 Yeah, Kyrie was really bad.

Speaker 39 Kyrie was really bad. Lucky revenge game.

Speaker 34 No, the Mavs were bad. I mean, the Celtics were, it wasn't as the Mavs were bad.

Speaker 15 The Celtics were just, like, they came out and they were like, hey, we're playing in the NBA Finals right now.

Speaker 30 And they looked as sharp as sharp could be.

Speaker 38 I don't think this series is over either. I think think the Mavs could easily come back, win game two.
It is, you know, a blowout like that will wake you up.

Speaker 55 Yeah.

Speaker 31 Statement loss? You think that was a statement loss?

Speaker 22 Not a statement loss.

Speaker 56 Yeah, you think this series is over.

Speaker 22 I don't think this is easily over.

Speaker 51 We can see your fucking face. You think this series is over?

Speaker 22 I don't. Yes, you do.
It's not.

Speaker 21 Yes, you do.

Speaker 38 It's a seven-game series. Well, it's a six-game series.

Speaker 47 Those were two different.

Speaker 22 Hank, would you

Speaker 39 have rather won this game by like two points, three points? No points.

Speaker 22 No.

Speaker 38 But I'm just, I don't think the Mavs are going to roll over and die.

Speaker 38 I think it's like. Kyrie's not going to play that bad.
Luca's going to make some better passes next game, get some more assists.

Speaker 49 Yeah, Kyrie was very, very bad.

Speaker 22 I mean, the subject is

Speaker 22 not defend well. So much more depth.

Speaker 25 There was that one moment where Kyrie looked like he was open, and it was just Porzingis standing with his arm out.

Speaker 31 And someone in the gambling cave was like, shoot it, dude.

Speaker 22 It's like, well, he can't.

Speaker 30 Porzingis is a fucking monster.

Speaker 58 Like, he looks like he's open from the angle, but he's 100% not open.

Speaker 39 And he looks very healthy. Very healthy.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Porzingis does.

Speaker 4 Max, you didn't even say you didn't even like my spin zone.

Speaker 22 What? He was just.

Speaker 59 He bought your reservation at Fort Charles Prime.

Speaker 51 This is just a bad joke.

Speaker 22 Why?

Speaker 51 Because this is the second time that Jerry's done this to me.

Speaker 22 What happened?

Speaker 51 Jerry's good at getting reservations in New York City. He got me a reservation.
And then after he books the reservation for me, he just tells me every day that he accidentally canceled it.

Speaker 4 So did he cancel it?

Speaker 51 Yeah, apparently.

Speaker 22 Oh.

Speaker 39 Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah,

Speaker 51 this is a bad joke.

Speaker 51 This is not a good joke for the listener.

Speaker 39 Can't you get it back?

Speaker 51 I don't care about it.

Speaker 22 Do you have to reply error?

Speaker 51 Yeah, well, I was playing into Jerry's little bit.

Speaker 22 Oh, okay. Oh, got it.

Speaker 36 Got it. Okay.

Speaker 39 You know, Max really is angry when he tells everybody, like, the listeners hate this.

Speaker 21 Yeah, the listeners hate this.

Speaker 57 They fucking hate this.

Speaker 39 Do you think the listeners like Mav Max?

Speaker 51 No, I shouldn't say I should just go. Actually, no, that would be Hank.

Speaker 22 Whatever. I'm done.
He can't even speak. I'm done.

Speaker 22 He is. Max, I'll agree with you.

Speaker 31 He is annoying, but

Speaker 15 his team won game one.

Speaker 2 You can't really, like, what are you going to say?

Speaker 51 Nothing. Nothing.

Speaker 39 You got to talk, Max.

Speaker 22 He answered the question.

Speaker 51 I can't say anything. You won.
You won.

Speaker 51 You win. Every three years you fucking win.

Speaker 39 You know what? I'm happy for Hank right now in this moment. Fucking hate ball.

Speaker 39 but i can assure you that if they win game two and game three and hank just the the shit eating grin becomes shittier and grinnier i'm gonna start to hate hank too because this this cockiness is gonna carry over all summer but it was good that we got

Speaker 5 we got game one out of the way because the we had the worst combo of hank today because we're dealing with cocky hank right now which i i have no problem with cocky hank we had nervous hank all day and he was just a little annoying even you'll hear it for the rest of the show he's just annoying i was getting fits off in it it was you were just you

Speaker 37 jelly mode. Yeah.

Speaker 39 I'm rooting for you, Hank. I truly am, but I don't want to see you sweep.
I want to see you sweat a little bit.

Speaker 38 I mean, I'm rooting for a sweep.

Speaker 22 Okay.

Speaker 18 I had two other things I wanted to say before we kick it back to ourselves, talk some Dan Hurley.

Speaker 34 This one is, and we're going to talk about Dan Hurley, but

Speaker 45 our friend Adam Lefko had a very interesting tweet that I very much enjoyed.

Speaker 15 It was titled, The Tradition of LeBron or His Team Looking to Overshadow Game One of the NBA Finals Continues.

Speaker 10 2024, Dan Hurley, JJ Reddick, Coach Mania.

Speaker 29 2023, LeBron retirement rumors plus biopic shooting stars premiere.

Speaker 19 2022, I forgot about this one.

Speaker 3 Forbes announces LeBron is a billionaire the day of game one.

Speaker 21 That's great.

Speaker 57 He really is the best at it.

Speaker 39 He's really good at doing that. And then also watching the finals and be like, damn, this is so good.
I wish we were in this. Not happening again next year.
Yeah. I'm going to be back.

Speaker 10 But that is some really good game one news that he needed to have out there.

Speaker 31 And

Speaker 34 there's no doubt that he planned this whole Dan Hurley thing for having it all day on game one.

Speaker 39 Yeah, also, he said, important moment for a sport tonight. Love and respect to Doris Burke and everything she does to elevate all of us.
You're a goat.

Speaker 39 And then everybody started to congratulate LeBron James on congratulating Doris Burke. Yes.
Like, this is what an ally looks like. What a great, great tweet by LeBron.

Speaker 14 He also had, he said, I'm so effing

Speaker 25 with some stars in it, mad that I'm not his running mate anymore, talking about Kyrie.

Speaker 30 Yeah. Kendrick Perkins called him out and was like, dude, shut up.

Speaker 23 It's game one of the finals.

Speaker 3 Let this be game one of the finals.

Speaker 20 Because he was just like, damn, I should be with Kyrie right now in the finals.

Speaker 14 Okay, the other thing I had was, I'm worried about Mike McDaniels.

Speaker 39 Why, what's up?

Speaker 14 Mike McDaniels

Speaker 19 is, so the Dolphins have not won a playoff game in 24 years.

Speaker 20 He now has every staff meeting he puts at 24 on the hour.

Speaker 39 I don't like that.

Speaker 25 Like 7.24, 24.

Speaker 39 I don't like that.

Speaker 39 Because you're just thinking about it all the time.

Speaker 34 Yeah, I don't know if he was being cheeky with it.

Speaker 39 He probably just did that so that the big team meeting could start at 4.24, four minutes after he was ready for it.

Speaker 25 I will hold reservation because Mike McDaniels is a funny guy, and he might be just fucking with the media.

Speaker 39 But if this is true, this makes me nervous this is like uh after the double doink year when matt nagy ended every practice with all the kickers having to kick a 41 yarder yeah it's in his head right it's in his head so you're you're just making everybody in the building think about how long it's been all the time right not the best way to do it no i did i thought of a a great a great be a shame and i'm so it's a shame that i thought of it so late i think the ultimate shame would be if Justin Fields won a Super Bowl with the Steelers.

Speaker 39 That would be a shame. That would be a crying shame.

Speaker 3 People really like the shameless.

Speaker 39 A crying shame.

Speaker 31 Yeah, we might have to do an updated shameless in six months.

Speaker 39 I'm not going to root for it, but if it does happen, just know that it would be a

Speaker 22 fear of shame.

Speaker 3 That would be a very big shame.

Speaker 30 It'd be a shame if Max's reservation got canceled before Charles Prime.

Speaker 38 It'd be a shame if me and Max had to go to game four and shoot a PMTV.

Speaker 22 Oh, that would be a shame.

Speaker 39 Where would that be?

Speaker 37 Dallas.

Speaker 22 Oh, okay.

Speaker 2 Is that on the table?

Speaker 22 Mavs Max. You love that.
You love the Mavs.

Speaker 22 Oh, what?

Speaker 51 I have to be in Philly for PLL.

Speaker 39 We can do a different weekend for that, right?

Speaker 22 What day? Yeah, what day? I don't know.

Speaker 52 Sounds like it's really locked in.

Speaker 51 It's definitely locked in, I think, what day game four is.

Speaker 22 Oh, yeah, game four is Friday. So, yeah, he's right.

Speaker 38 He does. No, that's Saturday.
You can just get up. There's a flight like 5.30 in the morning.

Speaker 37 Oh, yeah, you could.

Speaker 19 That would be a shame if you had to get the 5.30 in the morning flight.

Speaker 39 It'd be a shame if you had to follow Hank with a camera wherever he went.

Speaker 22 Wherever he went. Wherever.

Speaker 39 Until it

Speaker 39 closes his eyes to fall asleep, any concourses, bedrooms,

Speaker 22 pools.

Speaker 39 He is more torn up about this than he was about the Sixers.

Speaker 22 It's crazy. No, I'm not.
After the Sixers lost,

Speaker 63 he's just mad. He just hates Hank.

Speaker 39 He really hates after the Sixers loss. He was like, it feels different.
This one feels different.

Speaker 39 Now, this feels bad for Max.

Speaker 16 I think it's also the problem: Mavs Max is a great nickname.

Speaker 2 Yeah. And it's just one game.

Speaker 15 He quit in the second quarter.

Speaker 16 Mavs Max died in the second quarter tonight.

Speaker 22 Dead. Yeah.

Speaker 51 I already tried to cash out my future, but I place it in Jersey, so I can't.

Speaker 22 Oh, shit.

Speaker 14 That's a shame.

Speaker 2 That is such a shame.

Speaker 22 That's a shame.

Speaker 37 That's a real shame.

Speaker 38 I'll buy a ticket for five bucks.

Speaker 22 Just kidding. No?

Speaker 22 He won't? You're not going to take it?

Speaker 42 No, Max?

Speaker 22 And Maz Max.

Speaker 43 Decline. Decline.

Speaker 15 Decline. $10?

Speaker 22 All right, let's kick it to ourselves.

Speaker 22 All right.

Speaker 10 We're going to kick it to ourselves. We're going to talk some Dan Hurley.

Speaker 23 Then we got Paul Bissonet, Stanley Cup final preview.

Speaker 18 We got Evander Kane from the Edmonton Oilers, and we got Firefest.

Speaker 10 So get excited.

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Speaker 60 Okay,

Speaker 41 uh, Dan Hurley might be the new Lakers head coach according to the Woge bomb that went out at 4-5 or five in the morning.

Speaker 29 He said, breaking the SPN story on the Los Angeles Lakers, preparing a massive long-term offer to bring UConn's Dan Hurley to the NBA with talks

Speaker 31 expected to escalate in coming days.

Speaker 39 So, when we had Dan Hurley on, I believe this was two years ago, we asked him about taking an NBA job, and he said, not now. I've got a lot to learn.

Speaker 39 He also said the league might not be ready for a guy like him. That's a fact.
Might be true. But then he also said it's a challenge that he could see himself doing at some point in the future.

Speaker 39 It sounds like they're about to just back up the truck for him. Yeah.

Speaker 39 If they actually pull a truck into his driveway, like a Brinks truck, you have to take that deal.

Speaker 39 I thought the weirdest part of this whole thing was buried in Woge's article, they talked about how getting Dan Hurley on board could benefit Bronnie James if the Lakers were to draft him and how Dan Hurley could help him step his game up and develop as an NBA player.

Speaker 39 That is the craziest thing I've ever heard to be considering a coach based on the fact that a guy you might draft in the second round might get a little bit better.

Speaker 39 A guy that's not even on the team yet, the son of your superstar, he could help him with his development. That's crazy to me.

Speaker 39 But then I thought to myself, wait a second, what if it's a tit-for-tat situation and Dan Hurley says, I'll do it.

Speaker 39 I'll sign off on drafting Bronnie. I'll help develop him.
But you also have to sign Andrew Hurley. And he gets to get in all the games,

Speaker 39 to be the turnover sponge at the end of every game. If his son's on the team, my son's on the team.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 That part of the story was very funny because

Speaker 32 it would be just as easier, way easier, actually, to just have Bronnie transfer to UConn.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 31 Why not just transfer to UConn and stay in college and actually learn from Dan Hurley right now?

Speaker 2 But LeBron has tweeted about how much he likes Dan Hurley.

Speaker 34 Dan Hurley is an incredible coach.

Speaker 23 The Lakers are one of those jobs.

Speaker 30 I mean, Coach K, which we'll get to in a second, flirted with it 20 years ago.

Speaker 3 But the Lakers are one of those jobs that I think every single college basketball coach picks up the phone for because, you know, they'll always get free agents and they'll always find a way to be relevant.

Speaker 52 My only, so there were two things initially that I thought.

Speaker 42 One,

Speaker 31 Shams got his lunch eaten on this one because Shams has basically been talking about J.J.

Speaker 24 Reddick to the Lakers almost being a done deal for the last two weeks.

Speaker 29 And Woge, this,

Speaker 18 the Woge-Shams rivalry is so great because you know how much pleasure this gave Woge to just dunk on him at five in the morning.

Speaker 57 Shams probably woke up, saw it, was like, clutch has been lying to me, all this stuff.

Speaker 17 And he has to just sit there and pray that talks fall through with Dan Hurley and they end up with J.J.

Speaker 31 Reddick.

Speaker 34 But I was thinking about it.

Speaker 29 I think Dan Hurley would be awesome at the Lakers.

Speaker 21 I think he would be, he's going to coach.

Speaker 17 He's going to be a great coach no matter where he goes.

Speaker 33 The only thing that doesn't really make sense to me is I do think the Lakers, like, LeBron's not going to play forever, and he is

Speaker 66 fickle at best.

Speaker 14 Like,

Speaker 14 he's not going to give you a long-term commitment.

Speaker 34 So, why would you take it now when you know you could maybe stay at UConn and the Lakers will still be there in a couple years from now when they eventually fire whoever they hire this cycle and then just take him over then?

Speaker 39 I would love to see Dan Hurley take a hands-on approaching like he did at UConn, like go on the court and push LeBron James.

Speaker 22 Oh, he would.

Speaker 31 I don't think he'll go there if he can't coach the way he wants to coach.

Speaker 39 That would be awesome. Also, Dan Hurley doesn't strike me as an L.A.
guy. No.
Like he's not laid back enough, but he would bring the fire to L.A. No, I mean, he's a UConn.
He's a New Jersey guy.

Speaker 39 He's never leaving. Trust me, I'm right.

Speaker 11 There's two ways this is going to play out.

Speaker 19 One is the Lakers are going to offer him so much money that he can't turn it down.

Speaker 31 And you're going to say, okay, well, Dan Hurley, good job.

Speaker 44 Like, you deserve this.

Speaker 65 And yeah, you got to take this offer.

Speaker 59 And then the other thing that could happen very well, and I could see it in my head, is Dan Hurley sitting at his desk.

Speaker 12 He tweets a picture on Sunday night, maybe, with just the number seven, because they have six and they're going for their seventh.

Speaker 46 And he's like, yeah, my wife couldn't find a good hoagie place in L.A., so we're jobs not finished.

Speaker 39 You know, it'd be great.

Speaker 39 Let me strike that reverse. You know, it would be a real shame.

Speaker 39 It'd be a real shame if Dan Hurley left and then UConn hired Jay Wright.

Speaker 39 That'd be a real shame. That would never happen.

Speaker 22 Max is hoping for this to happen so, so bad.

Speaker 39 Such a shame.

Speaker 68 Max unpugged the whole big East.

Speaker 3 Yeah, they all need Dan Hurley out.

Speaker 42 I don't know which way this is going to go.

Speaker 1 I wonder, do you think JJ feels like he's being used a little bit?

Speaker 39 I actually think that this might be an entire Duke conspiracy. Because Coach K.

Speaker 3 Yeah, no, I was streaming about this morning.

Speaker 2 I was right on it.

Speaker 22 Coach K did all of this.

Speaker 39 But think about it, yeah, with the J.J. Reddick thing, too.

Speaker 61 No, yeah, no, Coach K

Speaker 2 was named an unofficial.

Speaker 42 What was it?

Speaker 61 I'm gonna get the exact.

Speaker 1 How do you get named something, but it's unofficial?

Speaker 57 Will you shut up for a second with your little vest?

Speaker 39 You just tell him to shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up for a second.

Speaker 66 Satisfying.

Speaker 1 Lakers reportedly using Mike Shyszhevsky as unofficial resource in coaching search.

Speaker 29 Coach K sees Dan Hurley win his second national title back-to-back.

Speaker 24 He looks around, he says, look, there's a lot of guys in college basketball that will will never reach where I'm at.

Speaker 22 They won't be the old school, tough style like Dan Hurley.

Speaker 2 He's a throwback. He's a relic.

Speaker 3 I got to figure out a way to

Speaker 47 make sure that Dan Hurley doesn't surpass me as the GOAT or alleged goat by Coach K-Standers.

Speaker 35 He's not my GOAT.

Speaker 45 GOAT college basketball coach.

Speaker 31 I'm the unofficial.

Speaker 65 resource in this searching job.

Speaker 1 And he's just basically, every time they bring up, who should we hire, he's like, you know, I'm thinking Dan Hurley.

Speaker 63 He's getting Dan Hurley to go to the Lakers, so Dan Hurley can't take everything from John Shire and Duke and Coach K and all his legacy and stuff.

Speaker 57 And he used JJ Reddick, someone he knows very well,

Speaker 13 he's a pawn in the scheme.

Speaker 39 I think he might have engineered the entire podcast and been like, hey, you guys do a podcast, and then we're going to set that up.

Speaker 39 When the coaching thing becomes available, then we're going to link JJ heavily to it.

Speaker 39 I'll call Shams, get Shams to endorse this, and then everyone's thinking, oh, JJ, oh, JJ, no one's on the phone picking up the phone to call Dan Hurley, and then boom, we do the old replace last second, the old switcheroo.

Speaker 66 And don't put it past Coach K.

Speaker 66 Don't put it past Coach K

Speaker 3 to not try to take down all of college basketball because Dan Hurley is a throwback coach.

Speaker 59 If we lose Dan Hurley in college basketball, I will be upset.

Speaker 2 He is, we had all these, you know, tough guys, hard-nosed guys, the Patinos, the Bayheims, the Izzos still around, but, you know.

Speaker 38 Patino's still around.

Speaker 2 Patino is still around, but we're losing a lot of them.

Speaker 64 All right, it's fine.

Speaker 3 The Bayheims, the Coach K's, the Roy Williams, the John Thompsons.

Speaker 22 Bobby Knight.

Speaker 44 The Roly Massiminos, the Bobby Knights.

Speaker 31 These guys are like 100 years old.

Speaker 32 The Jay Wrights.

Speaker 60 We don't have any old school coaches anymore.

Speaker 2 Dan Hurley is what college basketball has been for a very long time.

Speaker 65 Coach K is trying to basically, I think he wants college basketball to not exist in five years.

Speaker 2 That's what he's trying to do.

Speaker 71 He's trying to take down the entire NCAA tournament.

Speaker 6 He wants it all to end.

Speaker 44 He's a classic.

Speaker 64 Just pull up the ladder on you.

Speaker 39 If you're Dan Hurley, would you rather go to the Lakers and

Speaker 39 get paid a lot more money and not have to recruit and not have to worry about NIL, all that stuff?

Speaker 39 But you also have the threat of being fired every single season, sometimes in season, if LeBron James doesn't like you enough.

Speaker 38 Yeah, but then he could go back to college. Yeah, he he could.

Speaker 22 He could.

Speaker 22 He got off of hats.

Speaker 63 I,

Speaker 22 what, Max?

Speaker 51 I think that he's done everything that he needs to do in college. He should go.

Speaker 7 Mute your mic. He should go attack.

Speaker 51 Oh, I want to go attack.

Speaker 22 I want

Speaker 39 now.

Speaker 39 I want Jay Wright to sign on that document. That's not going to happen.

Speaker 2 It's not going to happen.

Speaker 4 Jay Wright would just go back to college.

Speaker 31 There's no chance. No chance.

Speaker 22 I would go to UConn.

Speaker 51 There's no chance. No, zero chance.
Zero chance.

Speaker 68 He'd wait one more year for them to have a bad season, fire Neptune, and go back, if anything, I feel like.

Speaker 51 Although, Nova's back.

Speaker 31 Oh, Nova's back because you got

Speaker 31 Coach K is trying to ruin UConn.

Speaker 5 UConn fans, don't take this.

Speaker 17 If you are trying to blame anyone, do not blame Dan Hurley for being an incredible coach and being offered a lot of money.

Speaker 2 Blame Coach K.

Speaker 67 He's behind all of this.

Speaker 38 That's a bunch of donkey crap.

Speaker 5 You said that because you're in the Shrek costume.

Speaker 45 Hank's doing a bit where he dressed up today.

Speaker 56 No, we

Speaker 38 did Dungeons and Dragons earlier and I just had been busy, yeah.

Speaker 41 He's been really busy.

Speaker 39 He's been busy trying to nap.

Speaker 42 He took a nap. What do you think?

Speaker 22 What do you think about this, Hank?

Speaker 38 I think it's a bunch of malarkey.

Speaker 2 Oh, you think he's going to stay? I mean, I

Speaker 22 or you think the

Speaker 38 I think he is going to stay. This actually does remind me of Coach K.

Speaker 38 Well, and he always stayed.

Speaker 22 Yeah, there is.

Speaker 38 Like, that was every summer. It was Coach K is going to Lakers.

Speaker 2 Yeah, there is a strong possibility in all of this

Speaker 25 that Dan Hurley has just won two national titles, and

Speaker 59 he's got new recruits.

Speaker 67 He's got new transfer portal guys, and he now has to find a way to motivate them.

Speaker 57 So he's like, all right, well, let's just leak that I'm going to the Lakers.

Speaker 39 And then he comes back and then he just, I'm not leaving. Yeah, that would be a good motivational tactic.
I think he might be bored with college basketball at this point.

Speaker 39 The last two NCAA tournaments, he's just dominated so hard. There's no way that's just fucking crushed.

Speaker 38 The other thing to your point, which has nothing to do with Coach K, is that it's tough to be a hard-nosed coach in today's day and age when the transfer portal exists if you're too hard they just leave but that it's way harder to be a hard-nosed coach in the nba

Speaker 38 but you get paid a lot more you don't have to worry about the transport portal like dan hurley

Speaker 38 if you can't coach the same way that you used to be able to coach because especially not in the nba but it's a complete it's a completely different game how much money would they have to offer him because he probably got do we know the terms 12 like he probably can't coach the way he wants to coach in the nba

Speaker 15 at uconn but he has been coaching that way.

Speaker 38 But it's probably a lot and it's probably dealing with a lot of bullshit. Or you could get paid fuck you money to go coach the best players in the world.

Speaker 3 Yeah, the fuck you money is the part that, you know.

Speaker 39 Like 20 mil a year?

Speaker 23 I don't know.

Speaker 48 I don't know what the offer was.

Speaker 17 100 mil over however many years?

Speaker 52 I have no idea.

Speaker 13 I hope we don't lose him in college basketball.

Speaker 23 I really don't want to see that happen.

Speaker 34 And I also...

Speaker 2 It would be funny because I honestly think that if LeBron tried to use Dan Hurley as a scapegoat, Dan Hurley would just fight him. Yeah, that would end up a season.

Speaker 3 If LeBron said that, yeah, that was Dan Hurley's fault, our coach didn't coach well enough, he'll just come in and be like, okay, fight me.

Speaker 39 He'd probably just publicly say, like, we're trading LeBron James. Yeah.

Speaker 51 You don't want to see that? You don't think that would be great?

Speaker 22 Dan Hurley. Shut up, Luke.
You are so biased right now.

Speaker 31 You're very biased. I understand it.

Speaker 1 I understand your bias, and you should be taking the stance you're taking, but

Speaker 22 don't

Speaker 11 everything you say is very biased, but go ahead.

Speaker 51 That's everything. That's everything in the show.

Speaker 71 Yeah, that's everything in the show. That's fair.

Speaker 51 But I mean, Dan Hurley with the Lakers would make the Lakers way more entertaining next year.

Speaker 11 Agreed. I just...

Speaker 71 Do you understand my point about college basketball?

Speaker 22 We've lost all of

Speaker 73 the real coaches. I want him gone.

Speaker 22 I know.

Speaker 11 Would you rather Dan Hurley a Kentucky or Lakers?

Speaker 51 Kentucky.

Speaker 13 Yeah, because then you get to keep him in college basketball.

Speaker 51 I could see UConn fans cry.

Speaker 22 Oh.

Speaker 51 Yeah, I mean, you really. Yeah, I want Dan Hurley gone.

Speaker 39 Okay. I don't blame you for that at all.

Speaker 6 No, not at all.

Speaker 39 You have to. They're just so dominant.

Speaker 39 Maybe board is the wrong choice of terms, but I do think that he's accomplished a lot in college basketball, and he feels like a guy who's ready for different challenges. Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 67 I just, I don't know if I would want the challenge to me would not be to coach LeBron where he's desperate and will blame anyone but LeBron.

Speaker 39 Maybe the challenge is try to win a championship with LeBron's son in the rotation.

Speaker 55 Yeah.

Speaker 57 So we'll see what happens.

Speaker 2 We'll update, obviously, on Monday.

Speaker 31 I think maybe if something happens, Johnny Phantom will come on.

Speaker 39 Also, if they're dead set, if they're making this pitch to him like we want you in case we do draft Bronny, another team should just draft Bronny and then try to trade him to the Lakers.

Speaker 39 He's the most valuable poker chip of all time.

Speaker 53 Yeah, for Anthony Davis, straight up. Yeah.

Speaker 23 I always agree with one Anthony Davis.

Speaker 39 You're essentially kidnapping LeBron James' son. Yeah.
And be like, all you have to do is give me your second guy, and then now we can all be friends again. Yeah.

Speaker 31 How bad do you think Shams feels right now?

Speaker 2 He's got to just be praying that Dan Hurley says no. Mm-hmm.

Speaker 21 Has to pray.

Speaker 53 And do you think JJ, is he,

Speaker 52 I, I'm actually, this is good for JJ Reddick.

Speaker 39 It's good for him because now he's the big name out there. So next opening, they're going to talk to JJ.

Speaker 52 Well, it also is a good little reminder, you haven't coached yet.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 63 And you, yeah, you go, you go behind Dan Hurley.

Speaker 39 But he's already, he's already skipped to the front of the line. Right.
So the next coaching vacancy, it's like, okay, I guess JJ is the name that we should interview. Yeah.

Speaker 22 Coach Kay will probably get, that's probably the end part of it.

Speaker 37 You got to get over it. You got to get over it.

Speaker 22 No, I don't. No, I don't.

Speaker 41 No, I don't.

Speaker 57 Coach K will probably get JJ.

Speaker 30 JJ's first coaching job will probably be the Olympic team this year.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 39 That's probably what he did. Winning gold medal.
Yeah.

Speaker 22 Front of the line.

Speaker 68 I still have the Coach K little cheat sheet.

Speaker 52 Yeah, we'll update it.

Speaker 68 It's in my wallet.

Speaker 22 Yeah, it's in mine as well.

Speaker 21 I'm going to go for two years ago.

Speaker 34 We will update it with what he's done here by trying to eliminate Dan Hurley.

Speaker 30 So UConn fans, just remember it was Coach Coach K.

Speaker 31 Did you see Coach K got a highway named after him?

Speaker 22 No. I feel like that's normal.
Yeah.

Speaker 68 That makes sense.

Speaker 38 He's probably donated like billions to charity.

Speaker 29 Do you think he's going to let his friends drive on the highway?

Speaker 22 What?

Speaker 22 Good luck.

Speaker 53 I didn't make a joke.

Speaker 39 What do you mean, his friends, big cat? I don't know.

Speaker 16 Any of his friends from coaching.

Speaker 39 Yeah. Do you think he's going to let his

Speaker 39 Paolo Banquero, I mean his grandson, drive that highway?

Speaker 22 Yeah. I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 49 Who do you thought I was talking about, Jake?

Speaker 22 Oh.

Speaker 22 Okay.

Speaker 39 Probably not all of his friends.

Speaker 57 Yeah, there's probably one friend he doesn't want.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 39 Tony Stewart.

Speaker 11 Okay, anything else before we get to it?

Speaker 3 Oh, I saw Angel Hernandez.

Speaker 2 Jeff Passon said that

Speaker 20 bullying worked in this case and that he was sick of seeing himself dragged on the internet all the time.

Speaker 39 So we did it. Yeah.
We did it, guys. Congratulations.

Speaker 39 This is a big year for bullying. We've got this, and then we've got the Heisman Trophy going back to Reggie Bush.
Yeah. And making things happen.

Speaker 15 It is very funny that Angel Hernandez would say, I was sick of watching myself being dragged online when all he could do is just, he could easily fix that by not being terrible.

Speaker 39 Yeah, well, he can't eject the internet. He can't throw the internet out of the game.
Yeah.

Speaker 11 Why are they being so, why are they replaying all of these times I've gotten balls and strikes wrong?

Speaker 39 I hope that MLB brings him on as an analyst, as like a rules analyst. The way they did.
Remember when Mike Carey came on in the NFL and he got every prediction wrong? Everything. That was incredible.

Speaker 39 If they bring Angel Hernandez in for the playoffs, he's like, I think that's a strike. Yes.
And it's like clearly outside the box. We need that.
Yeah, come on. So bad.
Do the right thing, MLB. Yes.

Speaker 64 I guess we'll talk, Max.

Speaker 3 Will you talk a little bit about your deli slicer during Fire Fest or you want to talk about it right now?

Speaker 22 We can do it later. Okay, well, is it a Fire Fest?

Speaker 51 There's some Fire Fest aspects.

Speaker 2 Okay, then we'll save it for later because your deli slicer has arrived.

Speaker 29 And, you know, you are living out your fantasy of being just a strong Italian man.

Speaker 51 Memes wants you to know our college football schedule.

Speaker 57 Oh, yes, that was a good point.

Speaker 64 Yeah.

Speaker 22 We got the college football playoff schedule, and it fucking rocks.

Speaker 39 There's so much football starting in December. So much football.

Speaker 34 There's also just so much more football in January now that is going to be.

Speaker 10 We've almost eliminated January,

Speaker 2 which is great.

Speaker 53 Yeah.

Speaker 43 January is a, we were both born in January.

Speaker 58 It's the worst month.

Speaker 39 It's just a month of pure sports now. Yeah.
And just looking forward to sports.

Speaker 2 So pull it up. It is

Speaker 20 perfect because we have a Friday game, then three Saturday games right before Christmas.

Speaker 31 And then we have a New Year's Eve game and then three New Year's Day games, which is going to be great.

Speaker 61 And then

Speaker 25 we get the special Thursday.

Speaker 1 I think January 9th is week, that's right before week 18.

Speaker 34 So that would be right when we were getting weaned off of Thursday night games.

Speaker 31 So they throw a Thursday night game in there.

Speaker 39 And a Friday.

Speaker 3 And a Friday,

Speaker 14 which leads us into week 18.

Speaker 31 So the January 9th weekend, think about that.

Speaker 11 10 years ago, was that even, was that...

Speaker 22 Was that divisional round already?

Speaker 57 No, it wasn't divisional round, but it was wild card weekend, not super wild card weekend.

Speaker 22 So 10 years ago, we had four football games that weekend.

Speaker 52 Now,

Speaker 22 the first full weekend of January is a full week 18 and two college football playoff games.

Speaker 39 It's pretty sweet. And then Monday, January 20th, National Championship.
Is that MLK Day?

Speaker 2 That is MLK Day.

Speaker 71 That's also coming off.

Speaker 2 I think that's also inauguration.

Speaker 22 Oh, good. Yep.

Speaker 57 And that is also coming off.

Speaker 39 That'll be fun.

Speaker 71 That is coming off of, I think that's Super Wildcard weekend.

Speaker 68 So 11, 12, 13 is actually Super Wildcard.

Speaker 22 Oh, it is?

Speaker 68 Yeah, so I guess everything's up this week.

Speaker 22 Okay.

Speaker 68 18-19 is divisional.

Speaker 3 Okay, so Super Wildcard weekend.

Speaker 2 So we're going to have the semifinals Thursday, Friday, and then Super Wildcard weekend. That's going to be, that's the best, that's the best stretch of football right now.

Speaker 39 I hope the new president or the president goes to that game the day after they get inaugurated. Yeah.

Speaker 57 Wait, when is the Super Bowl this year?

Speaker 22 February what?

Speaker 39 It's not President's Day,

Speaker 39 but it's like 9th.

Speaker 22 Okay. Okay, so it's early.
It's earlier than it's been.

Speaker 39 Yeah,

Speaker 39 January and December are incredible this year. Incredible.

Speaker 31 This is my whole plan, just to eliminate if we could just get football,

Speaker 31 as much football in January as possible to just get rid of January as a month.

Speaker 39 Oh, we even, we got that Friday, December 20th game. We get a Friday night college football playoff game.

Speaker 31 No, it's Monday, January 20th.

Speaker 39 No, Friday, December 20th.

Speaker 22 Oh, yes.

Speaker 10 Yeah, it's one Friday, three Saturdays.

Speaker 29 Yeah.

Speaker 12 And then New Year's Eve, then three New Year's Days.

Speaker 68 It is interesting how this is going to go head to head with some NFL games, which we usually don't see.

Speaker 62 Which ones?

Speaker 68 The 21st is going to be Texans, Chiefs, and Steelers, Ravens.

Speaker 22 That's fine. You just

Speaker 21 have multiple TVs.

Speaker 68 Yeah, no, it's just these marquee college games usually are standalone.

Speaker 39 It's going to be tricky for the travel schedule around Christmas time.

Speaker 39 That weekend, that also

Speaker 27 show, yeah, we're going to have to do some shows.

Speaker 35 Yep.

Speaker 46 I did think about that.

Speaker 39 So, December 23rd, that Monday.

Speaker 31 Yeah, which we normally would have done.

Speaker 45 Definitely did a show there.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 13 And then we're going to have to do a show on the Wednesday, January 1st.

Speaker 4 Yep.

Speaker 45 Yeah, which we would have probably had to do a show anyway.

Speaker 31 But yeah, I'm excited.

Speaker 22 A lot more football.

Speaker 22 Okay.

Speaker 67 Let's get to some hockey talk because we haven't previewed the Stanley Cup final yet.

Speaker 31 We got Biz and we got Edmonton Oilers

Speaker 14 Vander Kane.

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Speaker 59 Okay, we now welcome on our great friend.

Speaker 58 First of all, congrats on a great season on TNT.

Speaker 71 I know the boys are wrapped up for the Stanley Cup final.

Speaker 22 Let's talk some final.

Speaker 59 Let's get going.

Speaker 8 Let's get into it.

Speaker 58 Here's what I'll start with.

Speaker 22 Paul Bissinette, you know this league so well.

Speaker 6 If the Oilers win,

Speaker 58 what is the X factor for them?

Speaker 8 And then do the same thing for the Panthers.

Speaker 22 Give us the X Factor.

Speaker 76 I love doing the X Factors.

Speaker 76 I think we started to do it last year or maybe the year before. And I think Witt was like,

Speaker 76 fuck off with these X Factors, but then now he's an X Factor guy. They play.

Speaker 60 You know what it is, Biz?

Speaker 22 And this is a little tip for you.

Speaker 77 I mean, you know this.

Speaker 32 You're very successful in everything.

Speaker 76 Oh, man, explain it to me. No, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 52 You don't think.

Speaker 22 No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 65 I'm not going to say what you think I'm going to say.

Speaker 10 What I'm going to say is, at least for this show, when we have a guest on like you who knows hockey so well, when I ask for the X Factors, I'm basically asking for you to give us a name or two or a situation that all of our listeners can walk around this weekend at the bar and sound smart.

Speaker 44 And they can be like, yeah, you know, if the Oilers do this, and then everyone's like, oh, shit, you know, you're puck.

Speaker 2 It's like, no, they just listen to Biz.

Speaker 76 Okay. All right.
I like this. I like this.
Okay. So when we talk about the X Factors on the pod, we usually refer to a team who might be

Speaker 76 going into the series where we think they might lose. Like right now, I have Florida and six, right? I think that overall they have the better team.

Speaker 76 But I think if these two X factors step up, the Oilers have a chance to win. One of which apparently you have on today's show.
It's a Vander Kane.

Speaker 22 Yes. Yes.
Okay.

Speaker 76 All right. Okay.
So if Vander Kane is like your prototypical power forward in the NHL, he's nasty. He can play with a physical edge and he's tough as shit.
I think he grew up a boxer.

Speaker 76 He's actually, I believe he's named after Evander Holyfield. Did he explain that in the midst of the interview?

Speaker 22 He did, yes.

Speaker 76 So he hasn't quite been himself over the past couple years.

Speaker 76 Going back to two playoffs ago, he had 13 goals that might have led all of playoffs and they were ended up being getting swept in the conference finals.

Speaker 76 If he can get to playing that nasty, that nasty style of play, play physical and find his goal scoring edge, I think that that helps them out so much because he hasn't been there quite all of this playoff.

Speaker 76 Like this playoff, I think right now they have him going into this round round on the third line.

Speaker 76 Even if he stays there, if he can be that impact in this series, it's going to matter because Florida, a very physical team can beat you up.

Speaker 76 And they're so deep up front where they have guys on the third line like Lundell

Speaker 76 who are putting the puck in the back of the net. So he needs to be an X factor.

Speaker 76 The other X Factor was a guy that half of the fan base was kind of throwing out of the bus going back to the Vancouver round. And that was Darnell Nurse.
Big defenseman. He's earning a lot of money.

Speaker 76 I think his cap hit is just over 9 million. And

Speaker 76 although he makes that type of money, he's not that type of player. He's not a Kale McCarr.

Speaker 76 So, what he needs to do is up his game defensively, make sure he's boxing out in front of the net, and he's also playing with that nastiness.

Speaker 76 After the game in which he got called out, there was like a weird pregame press conference around his stall where all the media members were grilling him. He was giving short answers that night.

Speaker 76 And at that point, I think he was minus 12 in playoffs. Not great.
He started off the game in the first five minutes, dash two, boom, one in the back of his net on a two-on-one.

Speaker 76 Boom, the other one hits his ass in the back. So it was just like a bad luck streak mixed along with not good playing.
And then I feel like he just snapped after that.

Speaker 76 He ended up getting an assist that game, and then he finished with 12 hits. double digits and hits.
We need that from him every game this series.

Speaker 76 And if they, those two X factors do that, I believe the Edmonton Oilers, along with all the other pieces, do have the possibility of winning this in seven games.

Speaker 22 Okay. Okay, but

Speaker 39 you picked the Panthers, and I saw Gretski kind of trashed you over it. He reminded you that you picked the Starship.

Speaker 76 Well, he's on the Oilers' payroll. So let's not go over there.
And he's also won four cups with them. So let's not go there.

Speaker 39 Well, he does live in South Florida.

Speaker 76 Right?

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 39 So I don't know. I'm just saying what the great one told me on TV was that he shouldn't trust you because the pick that you had in the last series was ass.

Speaker 22 Okay. Factor fiction.

Speaker 76 So I had Dallas in six. I thought they were the better overall team.
And Edmonton, kind of now the new team of Destiny that the Rangers have been pigeon tossed to the side.

Speaker 76 I do believe that the Oilers could do it, but they have to have all systems go. Florida is expected to be there.
They have the goaltending. They have more depth on defense.

Speaker 76 They're overall better on defense. Edmonton Oilers' argument and their fan base's argument might be that you don't have an Evan Bouchard.

Speaker 76 Evan Bouchard, I believe currently he has 27 points in these playoffs. He's 10 away from

Speaker 76 Paul Coffey, who set the record for 37 points in a postseason playoff run when they obviously went on to win the cup. I believe that anybody who's ever hit 29 points as a defenseman individually.

Speaker 76 I want to say Kale McCarr hit that two years ago when they won the Stanley Cup.

Speaker 76 Everybody in the one to four slot who has had that many points as a D-Men, their team has gone on to win the cup so that might be the argument on the back end for for oilers fans to say we have another x factor whammy oh another

Speaker 22 they have three x factors yeah they might have triple x triple x and they also got that in the stands too yes that's

Speaker 76 the tits mcgee baby we saw the big the big jugs come out in dallas but not those nice ones like in edmonton boys yeah she had a nice little paunch belly too she had the she had that big black leather belt which which you know she wants to be choked and spanked with you know that oh jesus you know that you did some deep diving on that i didn't get around to analyzing the book what do you mean i did rays texting with her

Speaker 76 and to to make matters even crazier the techs have not been going through that well because she apparently is at one bar because she works up north in alberta at the oil

Speaker 76 oh okay so this is just it's just too perfect so

Speaker 39 can you explain to me how this shakes out for canada as a whole i know it's big if Canada wins a Stanley Cutback, but I know that Maple East fans are Maple East fans, and that's it.

Speaker 39 Is that the same way for Senators fans and for Canucks fans? Or is there some sort of unification in Canada right now where it's like we need the cut back on our soil?

Speaker 76 Okay, so before I answer that, just to quickly go back, because I got distracted by Tits McGee. And then at the forward position, yes, Edmonton has Dreiseitel and McDavid, who are

Speaker 76 world-class top of the game, probably top three players in the world, McDavid being number one. Overall, Florida has a deeper offense up front.
They have a better four lines.

Speaker 76 You cannot debate that. Anybody who has half a brain in the hockey world will tell you that.
So going back to the, is Canada aware?

Speaker 66 Wait, let me ask it again.

Speaker 39 I fucking nailed it the first time I asked it. Let me set you up again.
Let's see.

Speaker 76 I want to hear it again, baby.

Speaker 39 This is a major, major, major

Speaker 39 Stanley Cup for the entire country of Canada. It's been so long, 1993.
They've been waiting since 1993 to get the cup back on home ice in Canada.

Speaker 39 And the thing is, there's multiple Canadian teams, and I know that the Maple Leafs fans only care about the Maple Leafs. Senators fans, I don't know.

Speaker 39 Are they pulling for Edmonton or Canucks fans or Flames fans? Or is this only the city of Edmonton and their supporters that have been waiting so long for another Stanley Cup?

Speaker 39 Are they the only ones that are really taking this set that seriously, making it that big of a deal? Or is it the entire country of Canada?

Speaker 22 Okay, so that was a great question. The first time was better.
That was unbelievable. No, you made me repeat.
The first time was better.

Speaker 22 Basically, the cover song of my question. Great question.
Great question.

Speaker 76 No, because you being long-winded with it and throwing all this stuff at me,

Speaker 76 it reminded me, I believe it was Wayne who said that all Canada is going to be behind Edmonton

Speaker 76 on the panel. And that's kind of what sparked this whole conversation.

Speaker 76 Now, I would argue that I think that more Canadians overall from a percentage standpoint are interested on whether Conor McDavid will lift the Stanley Cup

Speaker 76 rather than maybe more so the Oilers and a Canadian team winning it.

Speaker 76 I believe that the fact that it's Conor McDavid, this generational talent, a guy who has poured his heart and soul, every fiber of his being into hockey since probably the young age of like six years old.

Speaker 76 This guy's a phenom.

Speaker 76 He deserves a cup, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything. You dealt with it with a guy like Ovechkin, who had done all he did in the goal scoring department and everything he'd done for the game.

Speaker 76 But what was held against him?

Speaker 76 The fact that he'd never won a cup. And then he did.
And then it was like, oh,

Speaker 76 the weight of the fucking world was off his shoulders. So in order to be considered a great in the hockey world,

Speaker 76 you have to get a Stanley Cup. That is non-negotiable.
And this is his first crack at it. So I think that that interest is more impactful in my mind than Edmonton itself winning.

Speaker 76 But as a Canadian and as a Leaves fan, I am, I want Edmonton to win because I would love to see the cup come back to Canada.

Speaker 71 I also think it's,

Speaker 33 you can kind of like compartmentalize because it's a little bit, it's not the exact same, but it's, it's similar to

Speaker 59 college sports and rooting for your conference.

Speaker 71 I never really actually root for my conference, but there are certain things that are in the back of your mind.

Speaker 34 Like for March Madness, the Big Ten has not won a national title in like 20 plus years.

Speaker 69 I was not rooting for Purdue when they were in the national title this year, but if they had won, I then would have used that going forward to be like, hey, we're not a joke anymore.

Speaker 3 So it's like, you're not, maybe a Maple Leaves fans not actively rooting for the Oilers, but if the Oilers win, you know that you can at least like not have to deal with these jokes anymore.

Speaker 76 That's okay, that's fair.

Speaker 76 And there's also like a tinfoil hat theory that Gary Bettman is like, you know, okay, yeah, these Canadian fan bases, they're going to sell out every billion, but he's more concerned about growing the game in the states and favoritism towards these American teams and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 76 so i agreed with with part of what you're saying i think that canadian people just want to say ha the cups back in canada you okay so we we talked about the edmonton oilers uh x factors you have the panthers in six is it as simple as if the panthers play their game they should win this series yeah if they're so last year the issue with florida was where they they were a little bit banged up going into that finals and of course maybe the lack of experience and the fact that they had to really turn it on from the all-star break last year all the way to

Speaker 76 the Stanley Cup final, in which it took a lot out of them. They are a better overall team this year.
They still have the goal tending from Bobroski that they had last year.

Speaker 76 I think they're a little bit better on defense because they picked up Oliver Ekman-Larson, who's making under $3 million.

Speaker 76 And, you know, when he was at the top of his game, when I was playing with him with the Arizona Coyotes, you know, he's at least a number two on most teams in the nhl so now he's basically in the in the bottom three defense of that team and as well as a guy uh mikola who's 6'6 huge body so these are their like five and six defensemen that they have who are once again they're not anchors they're very legitimate d yeah and then uh

Speaker 76 like i said going going up front man like they have guys who aren't even going to be in the lineup who are valuable players that could be inserted on their third line so they are all systems go Sasha Barkov, easily in the world right now, probably the new Anze Kopitar as the best 200-foot center, a guy who could be a point-of-game player, but

Speaker 76 he's fast. He back checks like a maniac.
He's the most reliable center ice

Speaker 76 position player, I believe, on the planet. Even more so than McDavid from a defensive standpoint.
Maybe that, not that offensive flare, but then you got Matthew Kachuk.

Speaker 76 You got Sam Bennett the menace, who will fucking knock you out with a sucker shot if you're not even paying attention.

Speaker 76 Carter Verhaggy, as we call him, Verswaggy, so clutch with the goal scoring. And the list goes on and on and on.
I said Luce Durainen and then Lundell. Those are like their second wave of offense.

Speaker 76 There are very, very few weaknesses. If their all systems go, it's going to be very difficult for the Edmonton Oilers to beat this team.
But what they don't have are Connor McDavid and Leon Dreisitel.

Speaker 76 If they are going beast mode, mode, then

Speaker 76 it's a whole new series, and who knows? But listen, I think this is probably one of the best matchups we've seen in the Stanley Cup finals in a very, very long time.

Speaker 39 I'm excited for it. And we were talking with Kane about how good their power play is in Edmonton.
Is there something about their game that

Speaker 39 they do that invites more penalties?

Speaker 39 That like they set they set up plays, they work the puck around, they put the other team in a position to commit penalties so that way they get that man advantage and really hammer home the power play

Speaker 76 well i mean it also depends who you're playing right so they played dallas last round where for the most part dallas was one of the most disciplined teams all season long as well into playoffs maybe a little less towards the end of the series and that's when edmonton's power play started clicking but the way to draw penalties in hockey is you know you got to win your one-on-one battles So if you beat a guy, you know, he's either got to hook you on the way to the net, trip you, do what he can.

Speaker 76 And

Speaker 76 Edmonton does have individual players like mcdavid dry seitle um you know hyman's really good in the net front and he he demands a lot of attention and they do have players where yeah you have to maybe pay a little bit more attention and haul them down more so than usual and that's just based on the the power and speed of of the top end skill that they do have but once again that's not something that florida doesn't have either but the good the

Speaker 76 The what's even been even more impressive about the Edmonton Oilers, aside from their amazing power play that I want to say is clicking above 35% for playoffs, is their penalty kill.

Speaker 76 They've killed off 28 straight penalties. The NHL record in playoffs, I believe, is 38 straight, which is, that's even crazier, the fact that somebody did that.

Speaker 76 But Edmonton's PK throughout the season was meh. It was very average.
Even after Noblock, their new coach, who took over after about 15 games, He handed it off to Mark Stewart.

Speaker 76 The penalty kill was actually even went down a little bit from that first 15 games, games, where I think that in the last, let's say, 50 games of the season, their power play was, or PK, excuse me, was clicking at about 76%.

Speaker 76 Now in playoffs, it's just shy under 94%, which is remarkable. So their overall special teams has been a much added boost for the Edmonton Oilers and a big reason they're in the finals.

Speaker 76 But going back to special teams, Florida,

Speaker 76 they have an unreal penalty kill and their power play was one of the best all season long as well with a guy I didn't even mention earlier, Sam Reinhart.

Speaker 76 I think he led the league in power play goals with like 30, maybe above that, finished the season with like 56 or 57 goals. So he's, he's a beast too.
They have weapons, bro. Weapons.

Speaker 59 Okay, I got one last hockey question for you.

Speaker 22 Okay.

Speaker 58 Goalies. Skinner versus goalie Bob.

Speaker 22 Is Bob hurt a little?

Speaker 71 Because I thought I saw some Rangers fans saying he might be a little hampered with something he's dealing with.

Speaker 3 But what would you say, like, in terms of the goalies? Obviously, Bob is the better goalie, but Skinner's been playing.

Speaker 34 I mean, he was incredible in that game six against the stars.

Speaker 49 So,

Speaker 7 like, strengths, weaknesses between the two of them.

Speaker 76 So, let's start with Bobrovsky. So, he's the Russian goalie that in Florida got that big contract.
He signed like an eight-year deal at $10 million per and kind of lost his game.

Speaker 76 And then that's Bobrovsky last year on that playoff run, found it. And he's kind of playing all this season and so far in playoffs exactly like he was last playoff.

Speaker 76 I have not heard one word about him being potentially injured. So that is news to me.
Okay. And especially

Speaker 76 fair enough. And as that series went on against Florida, he was obviously stellar, but they weren't allowing a lot of high danger chances.
They had New York Rangers nuts in a vice.

Speaker 59 Yeah, maybe because he was injured and they were like, we have to do our job.

Speaker 22 Keep him out and

Speaker 76 yeah, at the end of the day, most of the time, if you're a team like Florida and you're limiting teams to, let's say, 25 shots on goal and only, you know, four or five high danger chances a game, it's going to be hard for them to generate and obviously win.

Speaker 76 So to me, right now, goalie goaltending looks fine. Overall, team defense looks fine.
Nothing wrong with Bob to be worried about.

Speaker 69 I just saw one tweet.

Speaker 71 I saw one tweet and I was like, oh, that's it.

Speaker 76 Hey, listen,

Speaker 76 I'm the guy who reads Twitter and then all of a sudden starts spouting off too.

Speaker 76 So actually, everything I think I've said so far on this podcast is probably false and things that I read off Twitter about that.

Speaker 76 Going across the ice to Skinner, Skinner struggled a little bit in that round against Vancouver to the point where they put Calvin Pickard in net, their backup, to play back-to-back games, and he did well.

Speaker 76 You know, he did solid, but they had the confidence to put Skinner back in game six and game seven of that series against Vancouver. And I think he's played eight games since being put back in.

Speaker 76 He's six and two, and I'd have to look it up online as far as his numbers.

Speaker 76 but overall it looks like he's fixed a few things in his game he's not moving uh as much he's not challenging um out uh off the goal line as much he's a little bit backed up he's using his size more and he's kind of like a blocker as opposed to a reactor and when you're when he uses his size properly and he doesn't get like you know all fidgety and net and he just works his proper angles he is dialed in and he's doing everything that he needs to do in order for them to win.

Speaker 76 So well above a 900 save percentage. He was better than Ottinger in that last round and he came up with some big, huge saves.
So

Speaker 76 I would say that if you wanted to call the goaltending matchup even going in based on how they're both playing, I would say, let's call it even. So that's where I'm at.

Speaker 76 But most people with experience and with. provenness Bobroski does have two Vez in the trophies, but he has never won the big one in the Stanley Cup finals.

Speaker 22 All right.

Speaker 22 The big lion might be injured, though.

Speaker 39 We don't know.

Speaker 76 So Wayne Gretzky's brother, Keith Gretzky, is the assistant general manager of the Edmonton Oilers and knows a lot about their farm team.

Speaker 76 And three, four years ago, the Bakersfield, their AHL team had made a couple runs where I don't think they were expected to make runs in the Calder Cup playoffs.

Speaker 76 And Wayne was like, you know, oh, like, what are they doing well? And Keith was like, they have this goalie, Stuart Skinner. He's won at every level.
He's as clutch as they come come playoff time.

Speaker 76 I believe he's gonna help the Oilers win a Stanley Cup in four or five years and sure enough here we are we're going to the Stanley Cup final and he has made a lot of good help with with draft picks and calls on some of their prospects coming up and this could be one of them all right we'll keep an eye on him uh so back to the goaltender being injured situation maybe um how does that work in terms of the injury reports that teams put out?

Speaker 39 In the playoffs, are they always, do they play it straight? If you got an injury, they put it it out, or do sometimes teams withhold that information and just not disclose it at all?

Speaker 76 So I think in football, they have to say exactly what it is that's bugging these guys at a certain date and time. In hockey, it's very private.

Speaker 76 They usually just go with lower body injury or upper body injury, and that's all the information you're getting. And then, of course, playoff ends for a certain team.

Speaker 76 They do their end-of-the-year press conferences and media scrums, and then you find out the laundry list of injuries that those guys had throughout playoffs.

Speaker 3 Yeah. All right, so Biz, I had one last question for you.

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Speaker 8 We are going to see you in two weeks in Vegas, two and a half weeks,

Speaker 70 for the beer games, but you also

Speaker 7 have agreed to be in the Dingers-only league

Speaker 8 with Yans,

Speaker 59 which we're announcing it right now.

Speaker 3 I know I said that I had a verbal commitment on Twitter, but you are a part of this league now.

Speaker 59 We're going to do the draft on that Monday.

Speaker 3 Are you ready for this?

Speaker 60 Do you know anything about baseball?

Speaker 11 If you lose, are you going to be ready to pitch against the college baseball team?

Speaker 76 Okay, so here are the things I know about baseball, that the worst umpire in the history of the world is retiring after this season.

Speaker 2 Oh, I think he's out.

Speaker 22 He's out. He quit.

Speaker 39 Spent more time with his family this summer.

Speaker 22 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 76 Oh, so my understanding was it was was originally said that he was, this would be his last year, but then he just completely shut the mill.

Speaker 39 He, I think he shut it down, yeah.

Speaker 76 Do you think he had his Twitter mentions on?

Speaker 63 Yes, no, that was the story that he got bullied online.

Speaker 3 He was like, I'm sick of all the hate.

Speaker 47 It's like, well, dude, you suck.

Speaker 76 I don't know. I don't follow baseball, but is this a commitment that I'm making more so than just the day that we draft? Do I have to do this all summer?

Speaker 22 No, no, no.

Speaker 60 That's the beauty of this league.

Speaker 3 The league is as simple as it gets.

Speaker 59 We each, all of us draft nine players, and you get, I think, a 10th reserve player, player, and there's no lineups or anything that you set.

Speaker 49 It's just you go, and it's the only status home runs.

Speaker 3 And we update it every week. But the only thing is, if you lose, you have to get six outs against a college baseball team.

Speaker 63 We'll play the field. If you lose, like, you'll pitch.

Speaker 71 I'll probably catch PFT and Max and Hank will be in the outfield.

Speaker 63 So you'd have to be there.

Speaker 76 They'll be there that afternoon.

Speaker 22 Yeah,

Speaker 63 we did it. PFT lost last year.

Speaker 25 He had to get six outs against the college baseball team.

Speaker 76 And I pitch. Yeah.

Speaker 22 You pitch, yeah. If you lose, I only hit one guy.
Yeah.

Speaker 76 Oh, okay. If I, yeah, let's do it.
I love that. I like that whole thing.
I'm actually leaving Monday morning. I'm driving to Vegas, and then I will be there for whatever time your draft is.

Speaker 76 Let's hope it's at like, what, two or three o'clock?

Speaker 79 Yeah, whenever you get there, we'll do it.

Speaker 22 We'll have some drinks.

Speaker 63 It's like, and it takes like, it, it takes like a couple hours, but it's just us fucking around saying names, and we don't know what we're saying.

Speaker 76 How about, how about I'll 100% do it if

Speaker 76 you guys take mushrooms with me.

Speaker 22 Oh, no, don't twist our arms.

Speaker 76 Oh, you're a big mushroom guy?

Speaker 3 Yeah, but I mean, I'm going to the sphere

Speaker 71 on the Saturday and Friday before that.

Speaker 39 Yeah, we're fun guys.

Speaker 76 Yeah, okay, let's do it. I'm in.
I'm in. I don't know about Yans on the shrooms, but he'll definitely be there.

Speaker 39 Okay. All right.
How many baseball players can you name right now?

Speaker 76 I can name Bryce Harper.

Speaker 22 Yep.

Speaker 76 Who's the guy you guys Yilich?

Speaker 22 Yeah, okay. I'll count that.

Speaker 76 I like him. He seems like a good guy.

Speaker 39 He doesn't really hit home runs, but

Speaker 76 Carlos Stanton.

Speaker 63 Yeah. John Carlos.

Speaker 22 John Carlos. We'll give it back.
Carlos Stanton.

Speaker 76 Yeah, John Carlos.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 76 Oh, who's the guy who got busted with the gambling?

Speaker 22 You got this.

Speaker 76 Otani? Yeah.

Speaker 22 That's four.

Speaker 76 O'Shanti Atani?

Speaker 42 What's his first name?

Speaker 2 Oshanti Atani.

Speaker 76 Oh, who's the guy in Anaheim? He's the big dog.

Speaker 76 Oh, fuck.

Speaker 39 Maybe the best hitter of all all time.

Speaker 39 Actually, no, he's like Barry Bonds is that guy, but he's like historically good.

Speaker 3 He's like Connor McDavid if Conor McDavid never made the playoffs.

Speaker 76 I think it starts with a T, doesn't it?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 39 It's a fish.

Speaker 76 Oh, Trout. Mike Trout.
That's it.

Speaker 22 Thanks for that.

Speaker 22 That's fine.

Speaker 76 I know enough of him. I really like the guy from Cincinnati who he just seems to be a fucking character that doesn't give a care in the world.
He's actually Canadian, I think.

Speaker 22 Are you talking about Joey Vatto?

Speaker 76 Joey Vatto. He's a Canadian.

Speaker 22 Yeah, I don't know if he is.

Speaker 71 Is he? Is Joey?

Speaker 76 I'm pretty sure he's Canadian. Oh, yeah, he is.

Speaker 31 You're right.

Speaker 76 Sean Paul's not Canadian.

Speaker 22 Hey, Sean Toronto. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 57 So, so we're going to do, we'll have a whole cheat sheet for you.

Speaker 3 So we'll have a list of everyone's, because the thing is, we do the draft, it's already like halfway through the season.

Speaker 58 So we'll have a list of everyone who's already, you know, what their home runs are.

Speaker 59 They don't count.

Speaker 8 The home runs they hit before the draft don't count, but you can see like who's doing well and who's not.

Speaker 22 And then you just pick off that.

Speaker 22 It's as easy as possible.

Speaker 76 I'm so excited, and I'm pumped that you guys are spending even more time that you have in the past invested in the Stanley Cup playoffs because it's been a great run. And

Speaker 76 for all your fans who might be just casual hockey fans, this is going to be an...

Speaker 76 unbelievable final and there's a lot at stake and and a generational talented player might end up hoisting the stanley cup for the first time so even for you capitals fans you can you can really relate to this watching ovi trying to get his cup.

Speaker 76 It's been nine years since McDavid's been in the NHL and it's the first time he's in the Stanley Cup finals.

Speaker 22 It's a long time.

Speaker 39 That's a long time.

Speaker 39 It would put to bed the narrative out there that I've heard all over the place, which is he can't win the big one, that he's not good enough to win the big one.

Speaker 39 So on one hand, I would not like to give that narrative up. On the other,

Speaker 39 I understand the pain and the suffering that he's going through, that the fans are going through.

Speaker 76 I appreciate that as a Canadian.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 58 All right, Biz, you're the best. We're excited for it.

Speaker 3 We'll see you in in a couple weeks.

Speaker 22 Get ready for dingers only.

Speaker 7 Bring the mushrooms because we will do that.

Speaker 18 It will be dingers only while we're on shrooms, which will make it even better.

Speaker 76 Yeah, are you guys doing the beer Olympics the next day?

Speaker 37 Yes, we are, yeah, or yes, we're very excited.

Speaker 64 Oh, it's gonna be the best.

Speaker 76 Oh, I can't wait, boys. Yeah, I can't wait.
You guys are the best. Love you guys, and uh, hopefully, we'll see you in Edmonton for game four.

Speaker 22 All right,

Speaker 2 all right, save us a seat. All right, see ya.

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Speaker 76 And now for something completely different.

Speaker 52 Okay, we now welcome on a very, very special guest.

Speaker 35 He is from the Edmonton Oilers.

Speaker 8 It's a Vander Kane

Speaker 71 getting ready for the Stanley Cup finals.

Speaker 77 How are we feeling

Speaker 70 on the precipice of being in your first Stanley Cup final?

Speaker 28 Yeah, obviously really exciting. It's taken a long time to get to this stage, and it doesn't happen every year.
So really excited for our group, and obviously individually.

Speaker 28 It's been a long time coming, as I said, and

Speaker 28 I'm looking forward to kicking it off on Saturday night.

Speaker 59 Did you guys make a pact before

Speaker 25 game six against the stars that you wouldn't be touching the trophy?

Speaker 46 Because it felt very coordinated that that you weren't going to be touching the trophy.

Speaker 28 I'd be lying to you if I said there wasn't some whispers about it prior to the game. Obviously, we wanted to make sure we got the job done first and foremost.
But

Speaker 28 yeah,

Speaker 28 after we squeaked that one out,

Speaker 28 everybody was on the same page. We weren't touching it, and we were going to wait until we got the big one.

Speaker 3 I didn't even think about it.

Speaker 3 It's like a superstition, like double jeopardy, because you don't want to talk about what your plan is with the trophy before you get the trophy, but you also got to get a plan for the trophy to not touch the trophy.

Speaker 28 Yeah, like I said, there were some whispers.

Speaker 22 There wasn't anything

Speaker 28 really that much out there, but I think we all knew what we were doing. And obviously, when the game was over,

Speaker 39 we weren't touching it. I think it was you.
I think you were the one.

Speaker 39 I think you were like, don't touch that fucking trophy.

Speaker 22 Don't do it. Don't pass.
Don't put it in.

Speaker 28 I mean, that's intuition on your part.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 22 There you go.

Speaker 39 Are there any nerves going on in the Stanley Cup?

Speaker 28 You know what? I think, you know, a lot of us obviously haven't been to a cup final before.

Speaker 28 I think we have, obviously, we've got a guy like Corey Perry who's been to five of them on five different teams. So he has that type of experience.
And I know Matthias Eckham,

Speaker 28 he's been to a cup final in Nashville before.

Speaker 28 You know, the thing about our team is we just kind of take it game by game like it's any other game. And I don't envision the Stanley Cup final rattling us or getting us overly nervous

Speaker 28 to have an effect on our game. So, you know, that's one thing I really like about our group.

Speaker 39 Any additional pressure knowing that you're representing Canada as a whole, trying to win the cup back for the first time in forever?

Speaker 28 Yeah, I mean, obviously,

Speaker 28 Canada hasn't had a selling cup in a long time. I think it was 93.

Speaker 28 I don't know how many Canadians are actually cheering for our team. You know, we played Vancouver in the second round.

Speaker 28 Toronto's Toronto, as a couple of our teammates have mentioned.

Speaker 28 But

Speaker 28 if that's what it's going to be, we're more than happy to take that on. But at the end of the day, we're worried about the Edmonton Oilers.

Speaker 1 Is there a noticeable speed difference between regular season and postseason? And

Speaker 59 do you think it's going to even go up another level?

Speaker 22 Because guys talk about that with football, where it's like the Super Bowl is just a different level of speed.

Speaker 58 Do you anticipate that, that there's going to be a different level of speed or nerves?

Speaker 46 Or you think it's just going to be hockey once you get out there?

Speaker 28 You know what? I think there's a massive difference between the regular season and the postseason.

Speaker 28 I think the intensity and the desperation that guys play with is,

Speaker 28 I don't want to say drastically different, but it's noticeably different.

Speaker 28 And that only continues to ramp up as you move on through each series.

Speaker 28 I think you see guys that maybe aren't blocking shots in the regular season that are diving face first in front of pucks

Speaker 28 to keep it out of your own net at the end of the game. And I think

Speaker 28 it just shows how important um winning is uh to each and every individual on a group, especially when you're trying to win the standard cup.

Speaker 39 Yeah, yeah, your power play has been so awesome, Edmonton. It's been so fun to watch.
Uh, talk a little bit about like what your mentality is going into a uh a

Speaker 39 man advantage when you know that, okay, there's a pretty good chance, like 50% we're going to score. Do you guys just expect to score every time?

Speaker 28 Um,

Speaker 28 I mean, I think our power play has been historically great. Uh, it was the best player power play percentage over the course of regular season last year in the history of hockey.

Speaker 28 You know, I don't know if you're ever going to repeat that again, but, you know, obviously, especially in that first round,

Speaker 28 you know, it did a job for us to win us that series in a quick fashion.

Speaker 76 I think we have a confidence

Speaker 28 that it's either going to score or it's going to create momentum for our group. And I think when a power play is doing that,

Speaker 28 you know, you obviously set your team up for some success. Yeah.

Speaker 39 If you have a power play where you don't score, you're saying that sometimes just having a great power play, you end up playing with more confidence.

Speaker 28 Yeah, just having touches, wearing down the other team,

Speaker 28 you know, being in their zone the entire time, wearing down the goalie a little bit, him having to make big saves, him getting moving in the crease.

Speaker 28 And I think it just builds confidence when you get puck touches out there.

Speaker 28 Because when you get those, maybe the next shift, you know, you're confident, a little bit more confident with the puck.

Speaker 28 It builds momentum for your group.

Speaker 59 All right, I got a two-part question.

Speaker 34 I wanted to go back to your first year in the NHL and your first big fight against Matt Cook, which if you haven't watched is one of the cleanest knockouts you've ever seen.

Speaker 77 In that moment, Matt Cook was like kind of the big badass on the block at that time.

Speaker 34 In that moment, did you know going into that game, I'm going to have to fight Matt Cook or was it a spur of the moment?

Speaker 50 And afterwards, you're like, I kind of earned my stripes here?

Speaker 28 Yeah, so I'll tell you the story. So, yeah, that was the last game, actually, of the regular season for us.
We weren't making the playoffs that year. So, that was the last game of my first year.

Speaker 28 And earlier in that first period,

Speaker 28 me and Crosby were kind of going out a little bit.

Speaker 28 You know, and I was kind of getting in his face a little bit. And then I forget the other guy's name, but there was another or there was another big tough guy on Pittsburgh.
They had two tough guys.

Speaker 28 That's when every team had two fighters, you know, 15 years ago on every team. And the other guy was Mike Rupp.
And Mike, these are two massive guys. And I'm just an 18-year-old kid.

Speaker 28 And they're now getting in my face, asking me to to fight them. And I'm like, I'm not fighting you guys, like that's just not happening.

Speaker 28 So then the second period rolls around, and I remember Eli Koval chucking in your mission.

Speaker 28 He said, Hey, just make sure you keep your head about there because you know, these guys are coming after you.

Speaker 28 So then, uh, Matt Cook kind of asked me to go early in that second period, I believe it was, and uh, I was more than happy to oblige and uh ended up knocking him out.

Speaker 28 And I remember sitting in the penalty box for like

Speaker 28 in real time, it was like 20 minutes. And he still was not off the ice.
And I'm thinking, geez, I don't want to be the first guy in my first year to kill somebody in a fight because he wasn't moving.

Speaker 28 So

Speaker 28 I was happy to see him get up. But then the very next season, he elbowed me right in the chin and didn't want to fight me again.
Because I mean, if you get knocked out, I want to fight that guy.

Speaker 28 the very next time i have an opportunity because it can't go any worse for you yeah but he was a he was a dirty

Speaker 28 dirty player.

Speaker 39 Yeah. He learned his lessons.
Yeah.

Speaker 59 It is one of the cleanest. Like, do you, how often have you watched that back? Because you can't get a cleaner knockout.

Speaker 48 Yeah.

Speaker 28 Well, no, I mean, when I, when it happened, I mean, I probably watched it. I'm not even overexaggerating 300 times.

Speaker 28 And then I actually got a gift basket from the Boston Bruins later that year. Wow.
In the offseason.

Speaker 28 Because of what he did to Mark Sabard.

Speaker 2 Wow. That's awesome.
That is sick.

Speaker 39 We were talking to Yandel a couple weeks ago about what you say when you're trying to get into a fight with somebody, whether you're the person who's instigating it, who wants to fight.

Speaker 39 And he said, usually it's like, you want to go, you want to fucking go, or you want one. And then if you don't want to fight, you just say, my coach told me I'm not allowed to.

Speaker 22 So for you,

Speaker 39 for you, do you got anything that you say like right off the bat? Like, let's fucking go?

Speaker 28 It depends who it is. It really depends who it is.

Speaker 28 I rarely fight where it's like, you know, I'm just fighting to fight. It's usually usually off emotion or something's transpired during that play.

Speaker 28 I remember just earlier this year, I asked Brendan Dylan, who was actually a teammate of mine in San Jose.

Speaker 28 I just, there was no real animosity, you know, there wasn't anything, but I just kind of wanted to get myself going. So I just said, yeah, you want one.
And he said, absolutely. So we went.

Speaker 76 And Nandel was right.

Speaker 28 That's, these are, those are kind of the three phrases you use. And if you're fighting off emotion, usually you don't ask.
You just start throwing.

Speaker 11 Yeah, that's a very cordial way of saying it.

Speaker 22 You want one? Absolutely.

Speaker 39 Well, it also feels like somebody asked me if I wanted one, it sounds like if I say yes, I'm saying, yeah, I want you to kick my ass. Yeah.
I would say, no, you want one?

Speaker 22 Yeah, you want one. Yeah, back and forth.
They're just getting a you want one on who wants one.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you just like very Canadian friendly, like just going, you want one?

Speaker 22 You want one? No, you want one. Over and over.

Speaker 28 Yeah.

Speaker 3 But so, all right, so you mentioned that like that, that Matt Cook fight, you didn't want to fight the guys who were like massively bigger than you, but you did fight Chara later on in your career.

Speaker 40 that was stupid

Speaker 28 i mean yeah it probably was but at the same time it wasn't i wasn't an 18 year old in my rookie year um he kind of i mean he's seven feet tall on the ice so he hit me in the head and i went down and i looked at the ref and his arms were glued to his kneecaps and uh I was so mad that there wasn't a penalty on the play.

Speaker 28 So I just turned around and I jumped Chara and I had him in this, I thought, pretty good headlock, but he just kept standing up. Like, he just kept getting taller so that my arms were.

Speaker 28 Now I don't have the headlock, and now we're, he's strung me out, and that's the worst possible position to be in on a guy who's a foot taller than you.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 28 And I just kind of held on for dear life and made sure my face wasn't pounded into the cement.

Speaker 57 Yeah. So, so

Speaker 10 the second part of the question that was started with the Matt Cook was: the Panthers do play a physical style of hockey.

Speaker 8 And, you know, we've seen Kachuck get into scraps and be physical.

Speaker 25 So do you know, like, going into this series, is it going to be a little different where it's like, I got to set a tone or just be ready for this?

Speaker 28 No, I mean, I think this is going to be a very physical series. They obviously have some guys

Speaker 28 that like to scrum it up after the whistles. Dallas was very different with the team we just played.

Speaker 28 Obviously, we played a couple of their guys

Speaker 28 that were on Caligary before a couple of years ago in the playoffs, Kachuk being one of them.

Speaker 28 So there is a bit of a history there.

Speaker 28 You know, I anticipate it being a very spirited, emotional series

Speaker 28 with two teams wanting to try to impose their game on one another. So

Speaker 28 I'm sure I'll be right in the middle of that.

Speaker 7 Yeah, that was a nice way of saying you're going to hate their guts by the end of this thing.

Speaker 62 Yeah.

Speaker 39 And it's spirited, physical.

Speaker 50 Yeah, it's going to get nasty.

Speaker 28 Yeah.

Speaker 22 It's going to get nasty.

Speaker 39 I love your home ice advantage that you have in Edmonton, too. And we're dumb fans.

Speaker 39 We watch on TV, so all we know is really what the camera shows us um you guys have a great fan base really good fan base um are you talking about a specific fan uh no are you talking about a specific fan no but i i i i thought you were maybe talking about a specific fan i i mean maybe there is like if i rack my brain uh yeah i'm racking i'm racking yeah there's one what was she what was he he he or she wearing uh it was a jersey got it you got a lot of fans that wear your jersey most of the time and then sometimes they're not wearing all of your jersey yeah they kind of take part of it off um I believe it wasn't even at a game.

Speaker 28 It was at like a watch party too. Like we were on the road playing.

Speaker 22 Oh, yeah, that's right. That's even better.

Speaker 39 So how quickly after that game is over, did you guys pass around the phone in the locker and be like, look what a fan did?

Speaker 28 Well, I think it was almost impossible not to see that video several times. Being in Edmonton and just turning on your cell phone, right?

Speaker 28 Yeah, I mean, we have an incredibly, again, I'll use the word passionate fan base.

Speaker 28 And I think that was a great example of that.

Speaker 71 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Did you guys get in fights in the locker room trying to argue like what jersey she was he or she was wearing?

Speaker 28 You know what? I

Speaker 28 don't know how many people were actually looking at the jersey.

Speaker 22 Yeah, true.

Speaker 22 But after like the thousandth watch, you know, you could be like, oh, yeah.

Speaker 28 Apparently, it was discovered she was wearing a Sam Gagne jersey.

Speaker 22 Oh, that's a massive dub for him. Dude, he's a longtime Stoolie, old school.

Speaker 28 So, yeah, so obviously,

Speaker 28 you know, he was an oil a long time ago as well for a lot of years and a fan favorite. So no surprise, I guess.

Speaker 57 That's got to be huge for him.

Speaker 70 Just a little pep in his step, man. Like, damn.

Speaker 22 Yeah, it's like...

Speaker 39 Yeah, or McDavid's probably walking around the locker room afterwards, like, yeah, that was my jersey. Obviously, she was wearing my jersey.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 And it's also that old saying, like, you don't die until the last person utters your name.

Speaker 48 Like,

Speaker 34 his career goes as long as someone's flashing their tits with his jersey on.

Speaker 39 You say Udders? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Udders, yeah. Yeah, you could say utters.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 22 Is that wrong?

Speaker 39 No, with Ds.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 39 Two D's with double D's.

Speaker 22 Udders. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 28 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 22 It was fantastic.

Speaker 82 You just watched us do the show.

Speaker 39 Is your ice shinier?

Speaker 39 It looks shinier on TV.

Speaker 76 Compared to who?

Speaker 39 Compared to

Speaker 39 every other team.

Speaker 39 It seems like you guys have the best ice in the league.

Speaker 76 Maybe we just have really good lighting in the arena.

Speaker 28 It's one of the best arenas, uh, definitely in the league. So maybe it's just the lighting.
I don't know.

Speaker 3 It was crazy how bad you guys were to start the season.

Speaker 70 Now you're in the Ceiling Cup final.

Speaker 1 Was there ever a moment in the beginning of the season where it's like, shit, this isn't just a slow start.

Speaker 22 Like, we actually have to kind of start worrying that we're getting too deep here?

Speaker 28 Yeah, I mean, after the first 10 games, you know, it was kind of continuing. And

Speaker 28 I don't want to say doubt, but we definitely, the urgency

Speaker 28 was at an all-time high to

Speaker 28 end this slump or whatever you want to call it and get back into the winning column. And

Speaker 28 we have to play catch up now. We really started to have to put some wins together five, six, seven games in a row just to start climbing to the standings to get ourselves back in a playoff spot.

Speaker 28 And we did that. We did that tenfold.
We won eight in a row. We won 16 in a row.

Speaker 28 And obviously got ourselves back to where we thought we would be at the beginning of the year. So that was impressive.

Speaker 39 Was there a moment where it started to click and you were like, okay, this is something we can build off of?

Speaker 28 Yeah, I think, you know, it was the game in Washington. A couple of guys said some things in the room before we played Washington.

Speaker 28 I had made a bet with the boys if we won five or six in a row or seven in a row, it was, I'd wear double Rolexes for warm-up,

Speaker 28 which I ended up having to do.

Speaker 28 And then when we were winning 16 in a row, we had a bet going with if we could make it 20,

Speaker 28 davo was gonna have to wear a grill and warm up

Speaker 28 so um we didn't we didn't get to 20.

Speaker 28 i'm sure he was probably not happy about it but not overly disappointed so he didn't have to follow up uh with that grill and warm up if you win a cup he has to do it

Speaker 28 oh yeah i think uh

Speaker 48 yeah we'll we'll take it one step at a time we're four wins away we'll start with saturday yeah we can't we can't we can't talk about it we can't remember we're in superstitions like will you guys be no i was gonna say will you touch the cup if you win it?

Speaker 34 I can't ask that, can't even ask that you touch the cup.

Speaker 22 Well, no, what maybe they will?

Speaker 28 Will we win it? Will we touch the cup? Yeah, maybe they will. I can answer that.

Speaker 22 Yes, oh, you jinxed yourself, dude. Why would you do that?

Speaker 28 No, no, no, no, no, that's a common sense question. Everybody does that.
You never know.

Speaker 39 So, you're satisfied. Talk about it.
You're satisfied with one cup. Because if it were me personally, I wouldn't touch the cup the first time.

Speaker 39 Yeah, I wouldn't be in luck because I want to win two in a row.

Speaker 22 I wouldn't touch the cup until I won my cup. I actually don't think

Speaker 28 I'm going to challenge you on that. I think every person who's won multiple cups has touched it the first time.
Right.

Speaker 46 But

Speaker 46 they top themselves off like you keep touching the cup.

Speaker 70 Eventually, you're going to stop winning cups.

Speaker 46 What if you never touch the cup?

Speaker 61 You're just going to win forever?

Speaker 39 I wouldn't be satisfied with winning a cup.

Speaker 42 We haven't proved that.

Speaker 39 I'm already thinking about the next one.

Speaker 3 The first person to not touch the cup might win Infinity Cups.

Speaker 42 We don't know.

Speaker 28 Yeah, I mean, that's, we don't know. That's

Speaker 22 the thing. We do my case.
I reckon.

Speaker 22 Good point. Yeah.

Speaker 22 We don't know. Yeah.

Speaker 39 It might be a sensitive topic to bring up but um i i was watching an interview with you the other day and you were talking it was right after you had the the devastating wrist injury uh when you got your wrist run over by by pat maroon skate and uh you were talking about how you're going to start wearing kevlar around your wrist or you were thinking about some sort of protection is that something that you're doing now on both wrists

Speaker 39 yeah yeah i am i wear a cut resistant uh undershirt under my equipment that has uh kevlar on both wrists so that they protect them it was honestly it was shocking to me to hear you so soon after that injury, which was, it was a life and death moment for you.

Speaker 39 So soon talking about getting back on the ice, getting back with the guys, spending time with them. Because if it were me, I would be like,

Speaker 39 I'm never playing hockey again. Like that, I could see somebody going that direction.

Speaker 39 Did you know, like, from the instant you started your recovery, like, okay, I'm a hockey player, I'm going to go back and play hockey, or was there a small part of your brain that was like, maybe it might be time to hang this one up?

Speaker 28 No, no, I never had any

Speaker 28 thoughts about any of my career over that type of injury.

Speaker 28 I think, you know, my biggest focus was wanting to be able to come back that year

Speaker 28 because early on or after I got a surgery, you know, they had kind of ruined at least the regular season out for me and maybe be back for the playoffs.

Speaker 28 And then when I actually got all the bandages off and I saw the wound, I was actually kind of sick when I first saw it, to be honest.

Speaker 28 But I ended up coming back in two and a half months, which

Speaker 28 nobody thought I'd be able to do.

Speaker 28 And

Speaker 28 yeah, I put a lot of work into trying to get my feeling back and desensitize that area as much as I could. I still have sensitivity.
But yeah, definitely

Speaker 28 not how you drop a year going with an injury like that. And it was a scary moment for me when it happened.

Speaker 40 Super scary scary moment.

Speaker 59 But I guess the only

Speaker 31 upside now is, do you kind of feel like Batman when you put on your Kevlar?

Speaker 28 Well, I definitely feel more protected. I mean, honestly, I honestly wouldn't

Speaker 28 get on the ice in an NHL atmosphere without that on.

Speaker 28 I think just, you know, with what I went through and having those flashbacks a little bit, I definitely feel a lot more secure on the ice.

Speaker 28 um you know because honestly it happens more than you think it actually happened to me again this year where it saved my other other wrist.

Speaker 28 It wasn't as prominent as obviously somebody stepping on your wrist, but it was just kind of a glancing skateblade that, you know, if I wasn't wearing that, I probably would have been cut not as severely, but it did save me.

Speaker 28 So it does happen. It's the same thing with those cut resistant socks.

Speaker 28 You know, it happened to a player a bunch of years ago where he cut his Achilles. Yeah.
And the whole league kind of got these cut resistant socks in. I put them on right away.
And two games later,

Speaker 28 I got stepped on with a hit. It wasn't stepped on.
It was kind of, you know, two guys going on the boards. And the skate came down behind my boot.
And it actually cut the cut resistant sock.

Speaker 28 And

Speaker 28 I had a small, very small cut on my leg. But if I wasn't wearing those, it was where the major artery was.
And I could have, you know, you never know. So it's, it's a very dangerous sport, hockey is.

Speaker 28 And I think anytime you can put on something a little bit more protective, especially when it comes to cut resistance stuff, why not?

Speaker 70 Yeah, that's, I mean, that's crazy.

Speaker 47 I mean, I remember when it happened with your wrists and like the panic, it was just like, because you don't see it very often on the, on the ice, where a hockey guy's like, this is a problem right now.

Speaker 35 We have to fix it right now, you know, and just how scary that moment was.

Speaker 28 Yeah, no, it

Speaker 76 definitely was scary. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Happy every, I mean, now you're in the Stanley Cup final.

Speaker 57 This is awesome. So

Speaker 70 I wanted to ask you about McDavid and playing with him.

Speaker 34 Can you explain the difference in his speed versus everyone else to people who might not have watched enough McDavid this year or the last few years?

Speaker 28 Yeah, you know, obviously he's an incredibly fast player in straight lines and whatnot.

Speaker 28 You know, there's lots of fast players, but I think what separates him is that his entire, all his limbs and his mind work in unison together at that speed.

Speaker 28 You know, his hands move as fast as his feet. His brain moves as fast as his hands.
You know, he's so coordinated.

Speaker 28 And then obviously just the strength on his edges.

Speaker 28 And I think there is probably no better example of that than the goal he scored in game six against Dallas. Yeah.

Speaker 28 You know, it's, it's, it's something that I don't think any player possesses in terms of that type of skill set.

Speaker 28 And obviously, uh, you know, one of the best to ever do it, if not the best to ever do it.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 59 I mean, that goal, that was just it was it was a joke that goal was a joke it looked like it was it looked like a goal you'd see in like an all-star game not game six of the western conference final yeah it looks like a goal like you're playing three on three with your buddies in the summer right

Speaker 39 has there been is is that the most impressive thing that he's done or has there been another play that uh might not be in as big a moment where you watch him and you're like that person is is simply not human um

Speaker 28 I mean, geez, there's been so many incredible goals he scored. To date, that's probably the most impressive thing that he's done that I can remember off the top of my head.

Speaker 28 Um, and I think when you have it in that type of a moment, it amplifies. So, so I'll give him that for right now.

Speaker 71 Yeah, yeah, do you think they should bring the thrashers back?

Speaker 78 You got drafted by the thrashers, yes, you were the last thrashers draft pick, uh, for first-round draft pick, right?

Speaker 28 I was the second last Alex Berbistroff was the last, yeah. Um, I loved Atlanta, I loved my time there.
I had uh an incredible two years. The fans in Atlanta

Speaker 28 I think, were awesome. I think it's a great city to live.
Lots to do. I'm all for getting hockey back in Atlanta.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 22 It's a great idea.

Speaker 39 Good franchise. Is there a city in either Canada or the United States that you think deserves a hockey team?

Speaker 28 I mean, I would, again, I'd argue Atlanta. I just, I'm a real homer in that regard.
You know, that's where I started my career. I had my first two years there.

Speaker 28 I had great experiences and I'd love to see hockey back in that market with the right ownership group. I think it would do incredibly well.

Speaker 39 What do you think about Biz's mustache? Do you like it? Are you like, this looks like a caterpillar dyed on his lip?

Speaker 28 Yeah, I think

Speaker 28 he's rocked a lot of different hairstyles and facial hairstyles in the past.

Speaker 28 I think this suits him, to be honest, the best.

Speaker 22 I think it really does. Yeah.

Speaker 28 I think just a straight mustache, that's perfect for him.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 59 Were you, you were named after Vander Holyfield?

Speaker 28 Yes.

Speaker 2 That's kind of, that's a lot of pressure.

Speaker 11 When did you realize the pressure?

Speaker 28 I honestly never looked at it that way. I think

Speaker 28 I kind of had a very athletic family growing up. My dad played hockey.
He was an amateur boxer. My cousin, Kirk Johnson, was a professional boxer.

Speaker 28 So there's a lot of boxing in my family.

Speaker 28 My grandfather, his favorite boxer was Evander Holyfield. And my dad decided to, my dad and mom decided to name him after me, so, or name me after him, pardon me.

Speaker 28 And I actually got an opportunity to meet him in Atlanta my rookie year. So that was pretty cool because he was living there.

Speaker 36 We got an

Speaker 50 opportunity to not interview him, but we got a listener just duped us and texted our producer saying that Evander Holyfield wanted to come on the show.

Speaker 40 And we just sat in a hotel room for like three hours waiting for him to show up, and he just didn't show up.

Speaker 39 It was a good prank. It was a good prank.

Speaker 22 So that's our Evander Holyfield story.

Speaker 39 Well, you're named after after one of the best boxers of all time and maybe the best wrestler of all time too. It's a strong name.

Speaker 22 Yeah, Kane. Kane? Yeah.
Kane, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Undertaker's brother.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 28 I was a big WWF fan growing up.

Speaker 80 Who's your favorite?

Speaker 28 The Rock.

Speaker 22 Oh, I kind of don't like you anymore now.

Speaker 59 Really?

Speaker 22 I'm a stone cold guy. I'm a stone cold guy.

Speaker 28 Yeah, but I mean, I mean, they made each other. Yeah.
I'm a huge stone cold guy, too.

Speaker 28 Like, nobody wants this, you know, double middle finger in the air and be smashing beers more than me, you know, especially if we win.

Speaker 28 So, I mean, I love Stone Cold too, but The Rock, you just had that extra charisma and that showmanship, right? It was hard not to like, yeah.

Speaker 22 I mean, whenever you did the eyebrow, the eyebrow was the people going, the elbow was good too, got the people going, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 39 So, so, you're growing up. Um, how early did you learn how to skate? When did you first put the skates on?

Speaker 28 I was three years old,

Speaker 39 so like right after you start walking, skates,

Speaker 28 yeah, yeah, I started skating at three. Uh, my dad got me on the ice, took me to a public skate, and that's all she wrote.
I worked with my dad

Speaker 28 my entire career, but he was the one I kind of worked with specifically early on

Speaker 28 before I got to the NHL, and is a big reason why I am where I am.

Speaker 39 What's the longest you've gone without skating?

Speaker 28 Oh,

Speaker 28 eight months.

Speaker 39 That's a long time.

Speaker 28 Yeah, I had shoulder surgery. So that one makes sense.

Speaker 28 Yeah, long, long time.

Speaker 59 Did you grow up a Canucks fan?

Speaker 76 Yeah,

Speaker 28 Colorado and Vancouver were my favorite teams.

Speaker 28 And I was a big Marcus Naslin fan, big Joe Sakic fan, big Peter Forsberg fan.

Speaker 28 Those are kind of my favorite players, along with Aginla. So I was big fans of Colorado and Vancouver.

Speaker 36 Yeah, those Colorado teams were very good.

Speaker 39 Is there a guy that

Speaker 39 you looked up to? Like you get into the league and all of a sudden you're on the ice skating against him, a a guy that you've been watching for years?

Speaker 28 Yeah,

Speaker 28 my very first exhibition game, I was incredibly starstruck.

Speaker 28 We were playing Nashville and Paul Corea was on the other, was on Nashville warming up on the other blue. And I looked over him like, it's just crazy.

Speaker 28 Like, I was like eight years old, you know, watching Paul Corea play for the Mighty Ducks and out here playing against them.

Speaker 28 And then the other guy would probably be Jerome McGinla.

Speaker 28 You know, I kind of, I wouldn't say modeled my game, but I really liked his style of play.

Speaker 28 And obviously the play against him early in my career was pretty cool. Yeah.

Speaker 52 All right. I had one last question.

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Speaker 61 So my last question is, In the Stanley Cup playoffs, and now obviously in the final, like hockey locker rooms, from our perspective, and we know Biz and Witt very well and all those guys, like it feels like a very

Speaker 49 jovial, like joking around place.

Speaker 11 Does it get a lot more serious before a big playoff game?

Speaker 22 And is there that weird line where it's like, hey, we got to keep doing what we do, we're doing, why are we switching this up just because we're in the playoffs?

Speaker 28 Yeah, yeah, I think I touched on it earlier.

Speaker 28 Our team is,

Speaker 28 we're very business-minded. You know,

Speaker 28 we're very serious, but at the the same time, like, you know, we're really tight. We like to joke around.

Speaker 28 We're talking about lots of different things, you know, the morning of the game before pregame skate or whatnot, joking around. And I think

Speaker 28 if that were to change, I think that would be a negative, that would have a negative impact on our group.

Speaker 28 And I think we've done a really good job each round as the pressure continues to mount and the stakes get higher of staying with what we've been doing all year long. And I don't see that changing

Speaker 28 even in the Stanley Cup finals. And I think if we do that and continue that off the ice, it's going to lead to hopefully the same on ice results we've had.

Speaker 3 So you're going to maybe be like, look at this video of this fan right before you go puck drop.

Speaker 28 I would get her tattooed. I think we'll have some new material by that time.

Speaker 22 I don't know. That's her.
Yes. Play the hits.
Play the hits. Just keep playing the hits.

Speaker 39 Somebody should get her tattooed on their body if they win the Stanley Cup.

Speaker 28 Well, it won't be a veteran guy. Maybe your rookie.

Speaker 22 Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 39 I might do it, actually. Yeah.

Speaker 39 She made me fall back in love with her. That's a good move.

Speaker 28 Yeah. That's a good move.
I like that. Yeah.

Speaker 22 That'd be great. Yeah.

Speaker 39 So, okay, so you're not going to say, we're not going to do any official predictions for you guys, but give us a roadmap.

Speaker 39 How do the Oilers win the Stanley Cup? What does that look like? What do you have to do?

Speaker 28 I think we just got to continue to play our game. I think everybody obviously has to raise their level individually.
And I think if we do that as a group, you know, our best,

Speaker 28 I think we'll be good enough.

Speaker 22 Score more goals than them.

Speaker 28 That's obviously a very good uh equation to winning a hockey game. Yep, yep,

Speaker 39 yep, take a lot of shots.

Speaker 28 Pucks on net, pucks and body's on net. You know, the old cliches, uh, pucks out at the blue lines, pucks in at their blue line, you know, finish your checks, all that good stuff.

Speaker 11 Here's, here's one, just the last one.

Speaker 3 Um, maybe tell McDavid that, like, could you play a little bit more?

Speaker 22 I don't know. Like,

Speaker 61 a lot of guys don't, Patrick Mahomes doesn't come off the field on offense.

Speaker 71 Like, just stay on the ice the whole time.

Speaker 28 Yeah, that's

Speaker 28 not realistic in hockey.

Speaker 22 If it were me, hockey's not that tough.

Speaker 39 You'd have to drag me off the ice.

Speaker 28 Sounds like

Speaker 28 it'd be like a five-on-four, and you know, you're now helping the other two.

Speaker 22 Yes.

Speaker 22 You have to drag both of us off the ice. So it's five on off.

Speaker 39 So this is an example of a great intellectual debate that we have on the show sometimes. Do you think that a team that has, let's say, 15 Conor McDavids, but also Conor McDavid has to play goalie?

Speaker 39 Do you think that that team could win the Stanley Cup?

Speaker 76 He has to play goalie?

Speaker 57 Yeah, every position.

Speaker 32 Yeah, you just get

Speaker 28 playing against real NHL teams. Yep.

Speaker 11 Yeah, but it's just Connor McDavid on every position.

Speaker 28 Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 28 Yeah, that'd be tough.

Speaker 28 I'd probably say no still. Like, goalie is a very important position and it's way harder than people think.

Speaker 22 Okay.

Speaker 28 Like, I had Danny Green come out in Vancouver and put on goalie equipment, and he could barely move.

Speaker 79 Yeah.

Speaker 53 Okay. Here's.

Speaker 76 He's 6'7, 6'8. Takes up a lot of the net.

Speaker 22 Yeah. All right.

Speaker 61 Last one.

Speaker 70 If you had 15 Evander Kanes on a team and 15 Chara's on a team, how many fights would the Evander Kanes team win?

Speaker 28 Are you going like 15 on one?

Speaker 22 No,

Speaker 79 each of Vander Kane's going against Chara like consecutively, 15 fights.

Speaker 28 Oh, I'd give, I'd be, I don't know.

Speaker 28 I'd probably say

Speaker 28 maybe 10% of them.

Speaker 22 Okay. That's not bad.
Yeah. So you win at least one.
I think I could win.

Speaker 22 A couple or two. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 39 I'd squeak on a couple. You get a puncher's chance inside on them.
Yeah.

Speaker 22 Yeah. Maybe trips.

Speaker 22 Yeah, exactly. Because really,

Speaker 22 like, correct me if I'm wrong.

Speaker 61 Obviously, you can win a hockey fight if you knock someone out like you did with Matt Cook, but you could also win a hockey fight just by taking it to the ground and being on top of the other guy.

Speaker 34 And then everyone's like, oh, he must have won.

Speaker 28 Yeah, a lot of guys go for the takedown and the referees hop in.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 28 A lot of guys try to do that now. I'm not a huge fan of that.

Speaker 28 I don't think you won the fight because you took the guy down by any stretch of the imagination. So, but yeah, you are seeing that a little bit more.

Speaker 28 I think that's some of the younger generation, their whole UFC attitude with some of the on-ice fights.

Speaker 22 Yeah, great.

Speaker 22 Well, good luck.

Speaker 39 I think I speak for myself. I'm rooting for you.

Speaker 22 I'm rooting for you.

Speaker 39 Yes.

Speaker 39 I want Canada to get one back. I want this team to win one.

Speaker 39 I'm sick of having the conversation of whether or not McDavid can win the big one.

Speaker 39 You think he can win the big one?

Speaker 28 We're in the finals. We're going to do everything we can.

Speaker 22 That's a smart answer.

Speaker 34 But I'm sick of having that conversation, too.

Speaker 46 It's so annoying.

Speaker 34 I don't want anyone. I think he does this where they're like, oh, he can't win the big one.

Speaker 8 It's like, dude, he's fucking awesome.

Speaker 39 And he's one guy on a team, and he's got a great team around him. It's a team sport.
Hockey is the ultimate team sport. If you reduce it to one guy winning the big one, you don't know puck.
Right.

Speaker 28 Yeah. No, hockey, I think, is the ultimate team sport.
It's not like other sports where you can have one or two guys and you can win a championship. That's just not the way our sport is.

Speaker 28 It's almost impossible.

Speaker 22 Facts. Facts.

Speaker 42 All right.

Speaker 71 Well, Vander, best of luck, man. We really appreciate it.

Speaker 59 And if you guys do win, we'd love to have you back on.

Speaker 28 Awesome. I appreciate it, guys.

Speaker 76 All right. Thanks very much.

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Speaker 39 You think Big Cat's jealous of that?

Speaker 22 No.

Speaker 38 Definitely. It's like

Speaker 38 Big Cat starts chirping me this hard, it's like

Speaker 38 anger, and it's like a lot of bit of like,

Speaker 38 I wish I could pull that off.

Speaker 39 Hank's saying that Big Cat's like, yeah, people watch part of my take for him, but they also watch part of my take for me, too.

Speaker 64 Yeah, on this, all right, let me put it on. If I'm so jealous, let me put it on.
No.

Speaker 22 What? I want to put it on.

Speaker 22 All right,

Speaker 22 I admit I'm jealous. I want to put it on.
I want to put it on. No.

Speaker 37 Get your own.

Speaker 41 Stand up and spin around for the people.

Speaker 39 You look like a beaver trapper.

Speaker 21 I mean, it's ridiculous.

Speaker 39 Yeah, you look like the guy that dies first in a Civil War movie.

Speaker 5 You look like a dude who did Dungeon and Dragons this morning, then had nothing to do for the next five hours.

Speaker 80 What does that mean? We work in fucking fantasy land.

Speaker 22 I can wear whatever I want. Okay, go ahead.

Speaker 21 You played cricket. That's right.

Speaker 68 Also, biggest upset in sports history. USA just beat Pakistan.

Speaker 22 Let's go.

Speaker 2 USA. Coincidence, I think not.

Speaker 39 Biggest in sports history?

Speaker 22 That's what I

Speaker 52 You can never take off that vest.

Speaker 38 No, I guess not.

Speaker 22 Okay.

Speaker 39 How fast do you think our best baseball players would win the cricket, the World Series of cricket?

Speaker 51 Cricket's fucking hard. Jack said that the pro cricket players were looking at my swing, and they were like, we could really use that guy.

Speaker 39 Sure. Yeah.

Speaker 37 You want me to go?

Speaker 39 I bet they were

Speaker 39 genuinely impressed. We'll go grab him right now.
I bet they weren't just being nice. Yeah.

Speaker 51 They singled me out over your swing, that's for sure.

Speaker 39 Yeah, well, I'm not saying I could take over the world in cricket.

Speaker 51 You just said baseball players, if so, facto. We're still trying to get me drafted.
Let's not forget that.

Speaker 22 Fact.

Speaker 22 Hey, we got breaking moves.

Speaker 22 We got breaking moose.

Speaker 57 Hold on, I want to make sure that I have the dates right.

Speaker 38 Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

Speaker 22 What? Oh, never mind. What were you thinking I want to do?

Speaker 38 I thought we were getting a reschedule.

Speaker 39 No.

Speaker 22 No.

Speaker 39 Fuck, that'd be be a shame.

Speaker 3 Oh, no. But here's breaking news.

Speaker 22 So the Beer Olympics, which we will be attending begrudgingly,

Speaker 2 has been

Speaker 13 tossed around a million times.

Speaker 3 They've taken away other people's dates because they were trying to get Jason Kelsey and Travis Kelsey to come.

Speaker 31 The Kelseys then

Speaker 64 dropped out.

Speaker 44 But Jason Kelsey officially sets date for his celebrity bartend at Ocean Drive hosting Beer Bowl in Seat Isle City.

Speaker 46 O.D. Rocks.

Speaker 51 Yeah.

Speaker 44 Is it the same day as the Beer Olympics?

Speaker 51 Is it actually?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 39 He's like, I don't have a weekend to just go out to Las Vegas.

Speaker 52 It's so great.

Speaker 39 I got to go to the shore and drink beer.

Speaker 51 No, they're proud members of Sea Isle or residents of Sea Isle.

Speaker 51 It's for charity. It's for a good cause rather than just drinking beers with the fucking boys.

Speaker 52 Perfect.

Speaker 30 That is going to be a great event.

Speaker 45 Everyone should go to that event.

Speaker 22 And not the Paralympics.

Speaker 22 Okay, Hank.

Speaker 38 Yeah, the spiders are back in a big way.

Speaker 38 I don't really know what to do. Every time I get rid of them, they keep coming back.

Speaker 38 I'll start taking pictures. They're fucking huge.

Speaker 38 I feel like I'm just eating spiders in my sleep. Which leads me to my next point.

Speaker 38 If you guys, I'm sure you all remember.

Speaker 38 I remember when I was sleeping basically upside down last year. Yeah.
My bed was angled, and I didn't realize it for like a couple months. Like a bat?

Speaker 22 I recall.

Speaker 38 I set up my bed and it and I

Speaker 34 oh,

Speaker 66 you didn't have the slats set up perfectly or something?

Speaker 38 Yeah, I had them slanted downwards.

Speaker 38 The slats were set up, but the

Speaker 38 way I screwed it in,

Speaker 38 they came down, yeah.

Speaker 38 And I fucked up my back.

Speaker 39 Stop touching the microphone.

Speaker 38 And I think I, let's say, please.

Speaker 37 Let's go, Pete.

Speaker 42 I mean, it's annoying.

Speaker 39 All the listeners out there heard Hank just like grabbing the microphone. They're probably like, oh, is my radio broken or my earbuds broken?

Speaker 64 Hank, we're taping this at three o'clock, uh, right after your afternoon, or right before your afternoon siesta.

Speaker 18 You usually take a nap right around now, no CSM gym at 4:30.

Speaker 38 What, what, and then I'm probably gonna take a nap before what was your what's your prediction for this game?

Speaker 28 I don't know, I'm nervous, yeah.

Speaker 52 See, it's not me, it's you.

Speaker 17 You're you're you're the nervous little thing right now.

Speaker 38 Celbyx by

Speaker 22 six.

Speaker 39 Whoa, three, four, six.

Speaker 5 Okay, didn't

Speaker 39 No, who cares? Do you have a mares bet with Tiffany?

Speaker 38 Yeah, we're working on something. We're trying to figure it out before the game time.

Speaker 39 I think the loser should have to smooch the winner.

Speaker 38 Yeah, I suggested the loser has to pay for

Speaker 38 our trip wherever we choose to go.

Speaker 39 Together?

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 39 And what airline?

Speaker 38 Not American.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 38 But

Speaker 38 ipso de facto, long story short,

Speaker 38 I was like on the phone.

Speaker 38 I was doing some day drinking Saturday, and I was just on the phone with someone, and I

Speaker 38 kind of like, not jumped on my bed, but just like fell on the bed on the phone, and I think I broke one of my slats.

Speaker 39 You're having phone sex?

Speaker 73 No, I was just.

Speaker 39 You broke your bed having phone sex?

Speaker 38 You guys are the worst. Never mind.
I haven't checked the damage. I haven't.

Speaker 22 You said you were drunk.

Speaker 39 You called someone on the phone.

Speaker 38 I was on the phone with a friend making plans.

Speaker 22 Okay.

Speaker 38 And I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 22 What were the plans?

Speaker 2 Like, oh, I'm going to come in 10 minutes?

Speaker 22 I'm done.

Speaker 38 Sheldicks in five.

Speaker 22 Go ahead.

Speaker 22 He's sleeping. Finish.

Speaker 82 Finish.

Speaker 38 No, this is a, I can't exist.

Speaker 38 Finish.

Speaker 22 I don't think I apologize. I can't speak.

Speaker 38 I can't exist. Finish.

Speaker 38 Based off my sleep the last couple nights, I'm pretty sure I've...

Speaker 38 broke the slats of my bed

Speaker 21 and I haven't checked it.

Speaker 31 Well, yeah, they might not be broken. They might just,

Speaker 22 you know, how they can come off, but they're not broken. Yeah.

Speaker 39 So just look. Just lift your mattress.

Speaker 22 You just haven't looked?

Speaker 38 Well, I forgot. I woke up this morning again and was like, what the fuck? And then I left.
And then it hit me today.

Speaker 22 I was like, oh.

Speaker 3 A normal person would just look the minute they woke up and said, what the fuck?

Speaker 38 I didn't know what it was. I got up at 6.30 this morning, so I was just like, I must be tired.
And then I was like, oh, and then I was like, my back hurts. I was like, oh, I think.

Speaker 22 Shit.

Speaker 39 Yeah, you just lift the mattress up and the slats probably fell down in between the box. Correct.

Speaker 22 So they're not broken. We'll see.
Who knows? Fix them.

Speaker 38 Could be anything.

Speaker 39 I love the fact that you just slept on an uneven bed for like a year. You were sleeping.

Speaker 56 It was like three months.

Speaker 21 And he's also, he just started a new streak.

Speaker 12 It's going to be another three months here before he looks under his mattress.

Speaker 18 Yep.

Speaker 38 Now I'm going to get to the bottom of it.

Speaker 22 Are you? Yeah. When?

Speaker 22 Probably not tonight.

Speaker 39 Tomorrow, tomorrow. Maybe Celtics when Tiff comes helps you repair your bed.

Speaker 10 So tune in for the mayor's bet.

Speaker 22 yeah nice okay i'm excited

Speaker 38 uh my fire fest suggestions any suggestions that aren't actually that's a dumb idea

Speaker 39 do you want do you want to do you want to take that back yeah okay it's an easy fix anyways my fire fest of the week is um i posted this online yesterday you said you had a doozy is this the doozy yeah this is doozy okay um life goal accomplished yes put the check mark next to it your boy got an el camino it's been my dream car car for a very long time.

Speaker 39 There's one word to describe an El Camino, and it's bitching. This ride is fucking sweet.
1970, SS, racing stripe, cherry red. It is the El Camino of El Camino.
So I got it. It purrs.

Speaker 39 It makes a great noise. And I was driving around yesterday, and

Speaker 39 I parked it on the side of the road.

Speaker 39 And now it won't start.

Speaker 22 Oh, now it doesn't start.

Speaker 64 This car is awesome, by the way.

Speaker 25 Congratulations. It was

Speaker 18 incredible.

Speaker 23 I'm happy, very, very happy for you.

Speaker 39 I'm actually thinking about getting a mullet as an accessory to my car because the El Camino is a mullet of cars. It's business in the front, party in the back.

Speaker 39 So it doesn't start now, and I don't know what to do with it. I guess I have to get it towed somewhere and have them fix it.

Speaker 39 I got a lot of work. I knew that I had to put some work into it.
It's not like 100% ready to roll yet.

Speaker 39 The sound system's awesome. That's the important part.

Speaker 55 But I

Speaker 39 have to fix like all the lights, the wiring on the inside.

Speaker 39 And now I was cool with that. I was like, whatever, you know, like it's just wiring.
The motor is fine, it's it's been rebuilt, it's gonna do me good.

Speaker 39 And I pulled it over, and now it doesn't start, so it's just on the side of the road right now.

Speaker 39 And uh, I have a feeling like this is I'm just gonna have to become like a car guy, it's gonna be the thing that I try to fix up and never gets actually correctly fixed. That'd be cool, though.

Speaker 5 It'd be cool, and I'm an aspiring car guy in the short time that I've had it.

Speaker 39 I've realized why old dudes become car guys, yeah.

Speaker 39 So I drove it around and every guy every dude that's above the age of like 45 stops you and like flags you down it's like that's a cool car man right what's under the hood it was at 456 and then you get into a conversation you make a new friend that that's how old guys make friends not only that but old cars break down that's how old guys just spend their day yeah just fixing their own car working on their car so i'm gonna have to figure out first of all what's wrong with it uh and why it won't start and then hopefully i can get it back in in working order shortly because this is the best car for the summertime.

Speaker 39 And I need to have this ready for me for the summertime. I was so excited yesterday and I put out that video.
And then about literally an hour later, the car just doesn't start now. Damn.

Speaker 39 So, whatever, just play the video.

Speaker 42 Yeah. Just keep playing the video.

Speaker 39 I do close my eyes.

Speaker 39 I close my eyes and I think about it. I'm like, fuck yes, I have an El Camino at home for me.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 37 And

Speaker 39 I'm very excited about the potential behind it. But now I'm just, I'm realizing that I'm going to just pour a bunch of money into fixing this car.

Speaker 3 I'm very happy for you.

Speaker 31 My dream, my El Camino-like car is like just a sick old Cadillac.

Speaker 22 Yeah. I want a sick old Cadillac or Bronco.

Speaker 30 Bronco is more of a beach car, but like a sick old Cadillac that can sit three people in the front.

Speaker 39 Yeah, like huge front end on it. Yeah.
Big ass boat. Yeah, I want one of those.
So I've been also thinking about how to accessorize the El Camino because it does need some sort of like flair to it.

Speaker 39 It's a cool car, but when you have an El Camino, you have to have bitching bumper bumper stickers.

Speaker 39 So the ones that I've got on my shortlist, I want to get an ass, gas, or grass, nobody rides for free bumper sticker. That's a good one.

Speaker 39 Maybe Calvin peeing on something. Calvin peeing on the Ford logo.
Maybe Calvin peeing on Charlotte the Stingray. Calvin peeing on the Dallas Cowboys star.
Yep. One of those things.

Speaker 39 One that says, if you're going to ride my ass, at least grab my hair. I think that'd be a good one.

Speaker 39 And yeah, maybe one that just says like legalized soup.

Speaker 22 I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 39 But I got to accessorize this thing. Get the hula girl, the fuzzy dice hanging from it.
Customize horn.

Speaker 39 Maybe get Max rolling around with a keg in the back. So I'm like the ice cream guy, but for beer.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 39 So you just go around selling beer to dudes. It's unlimited.

Speaker 15 Your mists are unlimited.

Speaker 39 Yeah, I'm very excited. I feel like I've been an El Camino guy my entire life just without the El Camino.
But now that I have it, it's not working. So I don't know.

Speaker 39 If you fix cars in Chicago, let me know. If you specialize in 1970s cars, I would love to hear from you because we got to get this baby purring.
It also needs a name. So, feel free to give it a name.

Speaker 15 It's got to be a chick name.

Speaker 39 Chick names.

Speaker 61 Tiffany? Carmen.

Speaker 39 Oh, Tiffany's a good name.

Speaker 21 Tiffany's a really good name.

Speaker 20 You just, you.

Speaker 17 So we said a woman's name for a car, and you came up with Carmen?

Speaker 38 Carmen Sandiego. I was thinking Carmen Sandy.

Speaker 2 You just said the name Car.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 38 Carmen. Sandiego.

Speaker 22 What about

Speaker 22 Carline?

Speaker 3 Carmen San Diego. Red.
Yeah.

Speaker 51 Sexy red.

Speaker 39 Ooh, sexy red. Yeah.

Speaker 21 Ooh, sexy red.

Speaker 39 Sexy red's pretty good.

Speaker 44 Sexy red.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 38 That's not a name.

Speaker 38 It is a nice.

Speaker 22 For a car, yeah. And it's also a person.

Speaker 38 It's an adjective and a color.

Speaker 51 It's a person's name.

Speaker 22 Andy Reid. Ooh, yeah.

Speaker 39 Yeah, Andy Reid's name.

Speaker 38 Carmella.

Speaker 22 Carmella. There you go, Hank.
You got another one.

Speaker 39 Sexy red. Sexy red is good.
My pussy pink, my transmission fluid brown.

Speaker 21 Yeah, sexy red.

Speaker 22 Ski yee!

Speaker 79 You got a Camino now. You can do that.

Speaker 22 I can do anything. I can do anything.
You're a Mr. Unlimited.

Speaker 39 I have transcended race. I'm no longer a white man.
I've achieved the most powerful form of white boy summer of all time. I'm a white boy with a fucking El Camino.

Speaker 22 You're ready to go.

Speaker 22 Okay.

Speaker 45 Congrats again. That's awesome.

Speaker 39 Thank you, but

Speaker 39 I'm afraid I'm going to double the price of the car just trying to fix it up. Yeah, probably.

Speaker 46 By the way, is Vanny Woodhead here?

Speaker 22 I haven't seen it.

Speaker 22 Might have gotten carjita. I don't know.

Speaker 57 Go check in the loading dock.

Speaker 39 Was it supposed to be here? It was not here yesterday.

Speaker 23 It was not here on Monday either, it looked.

Speaker 10 Yeah, the loading dock. It's supposed to get here at some point.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 24 Might be lost in.

Speaker 34 Lost in the sauce somewhere out there.

Speaker 39 Billy might have just gotten ahead of it on the road and then just carjacked the dude that's driving it over here.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 36 All right.

Speaker 22 I don't really have a Fire Fest.

Speaker 45 I guess I got to just stop responding to people on Twitter because every time I do, I just realize that then it just has a bunch of other people responding.

Speaker 31 Some guy was like, you yawned a bunch on Sunday night.

Speaker 67 I was tired.

Speaker 34 And I was like, yeah, this is unfortunately having three kids is like, there's, I'm tired.

Speaker 65 I don't have any time to myself, which not a complaint because I love.

Speaker 50 I have the best life ever.

Speaker 45 But then just a bunch of people being like, we didn't tell you to have kids.

Speaker 23 There were some people who were backing me up, but I just got to just not.

Speaker 39 Did they tell you to have kids?

Speaker 14 Those people did not tell me to have kids.

Speaker 39 Okay, so those, if you did not tell Big Cat to have kids, then you'd have a legitimate gripe.

Speaker 31 Yeah, it was a simple just response to why I was yawning, not there.

Speaker 2 That was why I was yawning.

Speaker 31 I am, I'm just perpetually tired.

Speaker 12 It just, you're going to have to deal with it.

Speaker 49 Yeah.

Speaker 42 It'll keep showing up.

Speaker 23 Yeah, Hank has the same thing going on in his life.

Speaker 39 Maybe Hank's tired all the time because he sleeps on an uneven, jagged edge of a bed. Yeah.
Hank sleeps on the aggro crag and then he wonders why he's tired all day.

Speaker 39 It's been like two days. Chill out.

Speaker 39 You slept for four months upside down.

Speaker 31 But if I yawn, that's why it's not because I'm bored.

Speaker 45 It's because I probably have not slept ever.

Speaker 39 Big, can I step in real quick?

Speaker 39 I think the appropriate person to blame for your tiredness is actually Hank, because Hank's always yawning.

Speaker 39 He's always tired. And then it's contagious and you catch it.
True. So stop yawning.
True. True.

Speaker 38 True, true. Remember when you guys made me yawn on the podcast?

Speaker 39 I do. Yeah, disgusting yawn.

Speaker 38 I haven't done it since.

Speaker 57 I also don't know what it is about this specific spring.

Speaker 25 I don't know if you guys have felt this, but like this is supposed to be our

Speaker 67 not as busy time, and it's felt like it's way busier than ever.

Speaker 23 Way busier. I don't know what's going on.

Speaker 31 Someone didn't get the message that this is supposed to be our not busy time.

Speaker 38 Yeah, I thought it was like after memorial. Well, I think it's after NBA Finals and NHL Finals.

Speaker 39 Yeah, well, that's basically.

Speaker 3 But I already know the schedule for the rest of the summer, and there's no break.

Speaker 31 So I feel like,

Speaker 71 yeah. Again, these complaints are are not real complaints.

Speaker 2 We know we have the best job in the world.

Speaker 23 I don't want anyone to be like, I can't believe you guys are complaining about this.

Speaker 2 I'm literally just stating a fact.

Speaker 45 That's why I was tired.

Speaker 17 Go ahead.

Speaker 39 Yeah, I was just going to say, NBA, NHL playoffs, they're sneaky. I think we have this conversation every time.
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 39 We work later hours than we do usually in football season because football season, late night, Sunday, and then late night Thursday. But I'm talking about...

Speaker 39 But NBA playoffs, it's Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday night, every night. But we just have other stuff going on.

Speaker 22 That's just.

Speaker 37 I haven't golfed all week.

Speaker 45 I am going on a three-day vacation next week.

Speaker 35 We'll have regular shows. Don't worry.

Speaker 39 You know what it is? It's also knowing the Peer Olympics are coming.

Speaker 57 Ah, that's what it is.

Speaker 39 That's what's going on.

Speaker 25 When you have something you just desperately do not want to do sitting in front of you for as long as it's been sitting in front of us, your whole life is just basically ruined.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 39 So actually, if you need to blame Big Cat for being tired, blame Hank for yawning and also blame Will Compton for Peer Olympics.

Speaker 21 For existing.

Speaker 22 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 11 Funny enough,

Speaker 14 we were going to do a Yak case race and I invited Will, and he said yes, and then he

Speaker 22 bounced out of it.

Speaker 39 Oh, really? Yeah. He doesn't like traveling places to drink beer? Yeah.

Speaker 46 Funny enough, no, he said he had to go to TEU, which we would love to go to, but we have the dozen, which we have the dozen because of Beer Olympics being rescheduled.

Speaker 39 Yeah. Doesn't he have the dozen?

Speaker 23 Yeah, he said he's going to go and come back.

Speaker 39 He doesn't plan on winning. Yeah.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 42 Their whole team doesn't plan on winning.

Speaker 39 He has a much shorter stop at the dozen. Yeah.

Speaker 22 Okay.

Speaker 53 Jake.

Speaker 68 I aggravated my arm a little bit. Don't ask how.

Speaker 42 How?

Speaker 68 Oh, well, since you asked, I was lifting.

Speaker 22 Oh, sick. Oh, nice.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 68 But running some bio freeze on it, and it should be good to go for this weekend.

Speaker 22 Oh. Okay.

Speaker 39 What do you got planned this weekend?

Speaker 22 Golf. Nice.
Yeah.

Speaker 54 How much?

Speaker 68 Two, maybe three.

Speaker 39 Whoa. You are getting low-key jaked.

Speaker 22 You're getting...

Speaker 39 I can see the muscles.

Speaker 24 You think? Yeah.

Speaker 22 Appreciate it. You're getting a little jacked there, yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 38 Working on it.

Speaker 31 You want to finish this off, Max, with your deli slicer?

Speaker 51 Yeah, no, I found my new hobby and my passion in life, which is deli slicing, but

Speaker 51 I may have to retire because cleaning it is a real bitch.

Speaker 22 This is like everyone always has a little flirtation with cooking, and then they forget the cleaning part. But this cleaning,

Speaker 51 you have to get a screwdriver to clean it. You have to like...

Speaker 51 Donnie, it's also I'm with Donnie, who's like a professional world-class cleaner of kitchen appliances.

Speaker 22 Why don't you just get an intern to clean it?

Speaker 51 That's an excellent point.

Speaker 22 That sounds good.

Speaker 51 Do I have the power? Do I have the power to do that? Yes.

Speaker 39 That sounds like a medical emergency waiting to happen.

Speaker 22 I also cut two of my fingers.

Speaker 57 Make one of the interns be just in charge of cleaning it.

Speaker 52 Because I don't want to lose

Speaker 22 my sliced meat because you don't want to clean something.

Speaker 2 Okay, good.

Speaker 31 So the solution is make someone else clean it.

Speaker 51 Okay, good. No, this is great.
But cleaning it it is a huge issue. But the deli slicer is great.
I got PFT on the six today. How satisfying is it

Speaker 3 getting a nice hunk of sales?

Speaker 39 It was nice.

Speaker 51 Getting a nice hunk of salami in there and just hearing the

Speaker 51 engine of the. See, you got the engine of the El Camino this week.
I got the deli slicer.

Speaker 39 Yeah, the deli slicer is powerful.

Speaker 39 You feel good when you do it. You feel like a man cutting your own meat.
I was saying that Max's or Jared from Subway. Yeah.

Speaker 22 No.

Speaker 39 Yeah, you got the pants. No.
You have the big pants that you like to hold up for everybody.

Speaker 51 Hank looks like Shrek. That's true.

Speaker 39 He doesn't. Donkey.

Speaker 39 Max, why don't you just, to clean it, just get a big-ass bar of soap and then just cut the soap. No, like you're cutting the meat.

Speaker 61 Like meat meat.

Speaker 51 It's stuck inside of the blade, so you have to take it all apart to get the meat and the blade. I don't know.

Speaker 51 If someone owns a deli and knows tricks to cleaning it, let me know.

Speaker 56 I don't do donkey.

Speaker 51 It was a disaster trying trying to figure out how to clean this thing.

Speaker 39 You don't have to clean it every day, right?

Speaker 51 That's what I said, but then Donnie was giving me shit.

Speaker 39 Leaving some of the meat on it, add some seasoning to it.

Speaker 51 Donnie was giving me shit.

Speaker 5 Max, when am I going to get to cut a basketball?

Speaker 51 I think it'll ruin the thing.

Speaker 39 No. So I told Max that we should actually

Speaker 39 cut a football and make a sandwich out of football. Yeah.

Speaker 22 When am I going to be able to cut a basketball? I mean,

Speaker 22 if

Speaker 51 whenever.

Speaker 51 It doesn't matter.

Speaker 39 It was like 500 bucks. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 39 Honestly, it should pay for itself.

Speaker 51 Donnie was talking shit on the one that you got.

Speaker 22 Oh,

Speaker 22 he wants like a French one.

Speaker 39 He wants a guillotine?

Speaker 51 No, he just said that he was like, yeah, you just got a deli slasher that's impossible to clean.

Speaker 22 Oh, no. Oh,

Speaker 22 we could upgrade.

Speaker 56 What are you doing in my swamp? Listen.

Speaker 22 What the fuck was that?

Speaker 21 He's just doing the track line.

Speaker 59 Hank tried to blame it on me.

Speaker 11 Hank does have so much nervous energy right now, and that is partially why he's putting on his little cape and

Speaker 31 his armor.

Speaker 51 I can't wait to be Mav Max this week.

Speaker 22 Oh, Mav Max.

Speaker 22 Yo,

Speaker 44 you should dress up like Mad Max.

Speaker 22 Mav Max.

Speaker 38 You and Drake, elite company.

Speaker 22 Fine. Fine.

Speaker 22 Drake put a big bet on the Mavs.

Speaker 39 Drake and Jared from Subway, probably good buddies, too.

Speaker 51 Jack Max, CFP put a big bet on the Celtics, and that's honestly terrifying for you.

Speaker 38 Yeah, yeah, it should be. It is.

Speaker 51 I trust him.

Speaker 22 I trust him more than most.

Speaker 38 Same.

Speaker 39 Always have.

Speaker 22 You talk shit. Disrespect, yeah.

Speaker 51 Yeah.

Speaker 51 The way you just said that was disrespect.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you're doing me.

Speaker 22 You're being cheeky.

Speaker 38 I've literally been the. I've always had that.

Speaker 51 Big Cat and I are the

Speaker 77 Bucks.

Speaker 22 Yeah, we will not eat the Bucks.

Speaker 38 You and Big Cat are elite Glazers. I'll say that.

Speaker 22 We will never eat the Bucks.

Speaker 38 Two of the top glazers in the world.

Speaker 22 I will not eat the bugs.

Speaker 51 Luca's so fucking good, dude.

Speaker 13 I have a Celtics in seven.

Speaker 22 You want to wear it? Yes.

Speaker 53 Thank you.

Speaker 22 Max, get your slicer.

Speaker 22 What? We're going to slice this. No, I don't want this ever to be worn again.

Speaker 22 Don't get it.

Speaker 39 What other lines of dialogue from Shelton?

Speaker 22 Ogres are like onions. Oh, that's bad.
We have flyers.

Speaker 22 That was good, Max.

Speaker 59 What are you doing in my swamp?

Speaker 22 Fiona.

Speaker 57 Wait, so what is it?

Speaker 60 Deli days once a week?

Speaker 51 Sure, whatever you want it to be. Yeah, meat day.

Speaker 51 We can do a different menu each week.

Speaker 57 I think we can get better bread.

Speaker 56 Yeah, the bread's

Speaker 38 pug. Pug.

Speaker 22 Sorry, Pug. Pug did that.
Sorry, Pug.

Speaker 73 Pug. We're going to D'Amato's.

Speaker 22 How many times have you got it? Yeah,

Speaker 22 we literally work next to incredible Italian bakeries.

Speaker 39 If you were to put Pug on the slicer, how many slices do you think it would take to cut through all of Pug?

Speaker 22 Oh, good question.

Speaker 22 I think... think.

Speaker 51 Well, it depends how thin.

Speaker 57 175.

Speaker 21 Oh, you think that?

Speaker 22 Oh, I could get them thinner. I could get them thinner.
Yeah.

Speaker 39 No, you could do thicker slices.

Speaker 51 Oh, I thought we were trying to get it as thin.

Speaker 39 No, I'm saying, like, what's the fastest you could cut through?

Speaker 15 We got to get the jerky from Polina.

Speaker 22 We got to cut that.

Speaker 39 How quickly do you think?

Speaker 39 No, we should do a series like, Is it cake? But could it slice? Will it slice? And episode one, Mr. Pear.

Speaker 22 Oh, no, no, no.

Speaker 73 Well, that would be part of the shame list.

Speaker 54 The shame list, yeah.

Speaker 22 It'd be a real shame if something happened to Mr. Pearl.

Speaker 39 It'd be a real shame if somebody ran Mr. Pear through the meat slicer.

Speaker 39 Jesus.

Speaker 39 Real shame.

Speaker 1 Let's see if he can get Celtics and Oilers home.

Speaker 22 Yeah, that's true. Then he'd be an incredible.

Speaker 51 NHL, he was spot on. Got every series right.

Speaker 22 Right, memes? Boy.

Speaker 31 Except for one.

Speaker 51 Except for the one, yeah.

Speaker 22 Well,

Speaker 71 we'll see everyone

Speaker 31 Monday. And by the way, we are going to stream game two on Sunday night as well.

Speaker 79 Oh, wait. Yeah.

Speaker 22 No, that made sense. Numbers.
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Speaker 22 18.

Speaker 39 77.

Speaker 41 99 Poke.

Speaker 39 21.

Speaker 77 Max, have you ever gotten this?

Speaker 38 Nope.

Speaker 72 We actually shouldn't let Max use a slicer until he gets this.

Speaker 53 Don't you think, BFT?

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 72 I'm going to take your slicing abilities away until you get this.

Speaker 51 Then you'll never have deli day.

Speaker 4 I can slice. I've gotten this.

Speaker 51 Deli day is during when you do your show.

Speaker 79 Okay, but I can do it whenever I want.

Speaker 77 I can do it at 10 in the morning.

Speaker 51 Click the button.

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Speaker 39 me.

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Speaker 39 me

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Speaker 39 that I'm too much of

Speaker 39 all the things that I say

Speaker 39 like hope. Just play that worry away.

Speaker 39 You're all things I've got to remember.

Speaker 39 Shine away.

Speaker 39 Love and coming for you anyway.

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Speaker 39 Love and coming for you anyway.

Speaker 39 Day

Speaker 39 on

Speaker 39 me.

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