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000 - WTYKY Podcast Episode 46
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Luke and James are back to break down the first 5 games of the Sens season! Topix Include:
– The Penalty Kill
– Shane Pinto looks great, and also he’s playing well
– Should Roman Josi be sent to The Hague or executed without trial?
– Whither Fabian Zetterlund?
– What does “whither” actually mean?
– Is Nick Jensen maybe a little too injured to be playing right now?
– This is the last episode of the podcast, by the way.
– We’re rebranding.
- This is the rebrand.
Transcript
Love and Loss
00:00:39
Speaker
used to think I always had an open invitation I was so confident with every step and every move I made
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Speaker
But now it seems as if I'm losing my sense of direction Where can I run to When all I wanna do is be with you When you least expect it You're the one elected Anyone will ever fail
00:01:25
Speaker
You're going crazy for him, we don't even know this, you know it just isn't fair. Never fall in love, again, no, never fall in love, again.
00:01:38
Speaker
Never fall in love, again, never again.
Early Season Reflections
00:01:55
Speaker
folks welcome back welcome to your carlson years podcast is back earlier than expected it's still october there's only five games which is what that have happened so far and yet we're coming through with a podcast are we turning over a new leaf time will tell but let's just say i'm ready to see the other side of that leaf I'm Luke. I'm joined as always by James.
00:02:23
Speaker
James, how is how are you? How's your experience with the beginning the season been? ah miss world. Somebody kill me.
00:02:35
Speaker
ah kill Kill me. don't know. Only, yeah, how many games? Five five games into the season, in but it only took five months off my fucking life.
00:02:47
Speaker
Remember when we were talking on the podcast and in private, it' was like, okay, this is the year we're going to get like really into the podcast. We're going to like, make sure we watch it more games. We're going to make sure like we're in the take minds looking for gold.
00:03:00
Speaker
Tell me about the time that you were watching. i don't know. Let's say the, uh, let's say the Buffalo game. I think that, you know, the like There's been 10,000 podcasts come and go. We've buried them all.
00:03:17
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Not going anywhere. um That said, maybe there are people who are listening to the show right now, but I've lost some homies
Hockey and Identity
00:03:29
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along the way. I'll see the crossroads. I miss my Uncle Charles.
00:03:33
Speaker
But I think the Melnick out period followed by, ah you know, the rebuild, which is a Venn diagram that's like a perfect yin yang.
00:03:44
Speaker
um Killed off a lot of my hockey watching friends or compatriots. And as a listener, you may have guessed I'm a bit of an artsy boy. OK, like I'm not a like ah ah a a jock wearing. a I love hockey. Mom's hoodie on ironically.
00:04:09
Speaker
i have always said that you are the right brain of this podcast ah like off off mic. Were Luke and I talking about contemporary English jazz trios? Yeah, we were. Okay, that's where I'm going. to I'm going to watch that kind of concert after this podcast. Not a bit.
00:04:28
Speaker
um So I don't have a lot of people to watch games with anymore. Some of them have moved away. Some of them... just kind of, I don't know, took their ball and went home, like whatever. So, yeah, we we feel that we feel energized and we are going to watch the podcast more. Sorry, I just had a stroke.
00:04:45
Speaker
And, um yeah, i mean I'm so motivated, Luke. I'm so motivated to watch the Sens this year. i even got a subscription to Sportsnet Plus.
00:04:56
Speaker
but That's right. That's what you know. dan that's why That's real love. That's real love, listener. Like... but i I'm going the extra mile. I already had TSN plus and I swore I'd never get sports net because I don't want to give money directly to the Toronto Maple Leafs.
00:05:14
Speaker
But, uh, that, that's what I'm doing. And anyway, we're five games into the season.
Commitment and Productivity
00:05:20
Speaker
I've already twice found myself being like, why the fuck do I do this? Like, what? but Like, what what am I doing with my fucking limited time on this mortal coil?
00:05:34
Speaker
You know, like, I'm watching, I'm watching, and like, the... buffalo mozzarella's like bank went off the scoreboard like off the back of uh marilyn's ass uh you know i'm like
Senators' Early Struggles
00:05:51
Speaker
what am i doing i could be painting something right now so we've had lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of fun Let's fucking go so but for For all the ah talk of spending any amount of your finite time on Earth alive watching Sens lose 8-4, as dire as that seems, I submit that
00:06:22
Speaker
at least equally as dire is the prospect of waking up at 6am, checking your phone, checking the yeah ESPN app, seeing eight to four Sabres over Ottawa and thinking,
00:06:39
Speaker
Well, better watch this on the commute so I can have a take about it. Yeah, it is it is insane. like I think I got up for work the other day 5.30 a.m. because so I was working the early shift at the arm wrestling factory.
00:06:54
Speaker
And ah i see a text from you and it's like... It was after the Buffalo game. And you said, well, time to punch in on my shift at the enjoying watching Ottawa Senators games workplace. And I was like, i this particular shift might feel like ah that.
00:07:20
Speaker
That scene at the end of Casino where ah Dominic gets hit in the face with an aluminum bat and thrown into his own grave that he just dug while he's still alive.
00:07:34
Speaker
They say do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life, Luke. Once again, i think you know what we've learned is that... Whatever the opposite of the hardest working guys in SENS podcasting is, that's what we are.
00:07:49
Speaker
yeah are we're we're We're here for a good time, not a long time. only Only a thousand people went to our shows, but everyone who went to one started their own podcast.
00:08:04
Speaker
we've But we've soldiered through this, ah you know, the first five out of 82% the season so ah percent of the season so far And I'll tell you this.
00:08:15
Speaker
The takes are percolating. I got things to say about this shit. So it was all that time was not in vain. You guys are going to get some spicy podcasting out of this.
00:08:27
Speaker
And do you want to start with a nice light topic or do you want to go straight for the jugular here? What are you feeling?
Travis Green's Coaching Impact
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It's all the same to me. I gotta give it up to Travis Green.
00:08:41
Speaker
Tarvis. Go on. Tarvis Green. it's It took him so long to win me over. I was the last person to want to believe in Travis Green. I had...
00:08:53
Speaker
heard the rumors about what had gone down in Vancouver. It's not like, you know, i think they made the playoffs once and it didn't seem like he was okay any of the players liked him very much. It's not like he had results.
00:09:08
Speaker
He took over a promising team with lots of young talent that had defensive troubles. And I'm not talking about the senators. I mean, i the time he took over in New Jersey and then he made them worse somehow before he got hired by Ottawa.
00:09:25
Speaker
And based on all this previous experience, I was like, Travis Green, don't see it. i don't trust you, Travis Green. And then all throughout last year, that that that bastard slowly won me over.
00:09:37
Speaker
You know why? Because the Sens looked good and they won games and they won games they didn't necessarily deserve to win and they had discipline and everything worked the way was supposed to. And then they made the playoffs and then they almost beat the Leafs. I mean, they didn't almost beat the Leafs, but they looked good against the Leafs.
00:09:52
Speaker
yeah They put up a valiant effort. And I thought, this is, you know what? Travis Green. Good work. um i'm on your I'm on your side. I trust you, Travis Green. It was a playoff series that had, like, Waking Nightmare written all over it, and i could and it was, like, 20 fucking twenty fucking in years in the making,
00:10:12
Speaker
and like i You have to give him credit. He came out the other side being like, fill it up again. I'd do that again. I want uninjured Kachuk. I want not shitting your pants like first time in the playoffs. like I'm ready for these guys. like Yeah. yeah they they looked They looked up to the task.
00:10:35
Speaker
And so after all of what we've seen and after the faith that I had finally developed in the Sens coaching staff, They have simply sat the bed with the lights fully on.
00:10:51
Speaker
Like, it's not even in the cover of darkness. It's just the lights are on, they're shitting the bed, it's the goddamn penalty kill. This is the worst calamity on the face of the earth since the last Eurovision Song Contest.
00:11:04
Speaker
Well, we've all been there. we've all We've all lived through our fair share of toxic relationships. our beautiful gelled-haired boy, a Tarvis Green, is fully in a toxic relationship with this diamond ah penalty kill formation that I like I have to preface you know all coaching discussions about...
Defensive Woes
00:11:34
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or all discussions about coaching with like, I don't know what it's like to coach. And I certainly don't know what it's like to coach at the and NHL level, um which, you know, in our previous discussions, when Tarvis Green was ah chosen to coach the team and you pointed to his record and, you know, his exit from Vancouver, his exit from New Jersey and his record his overall record.
00:12:00
Speaker
And to counter it, i i ah pointed to ah Mike Babcock and, you know his $8 million dollar a year value and his Stanley Cups with Detroit and his gold medals with Team Canada. And I said, and...
00:12:23
Speaker
Look at that dynasty Toronto Maple Leafs team that he coached. So all that to say is like, who the fuck knows with this? But you know what I i do know? i That diamond formation...
00:12:37
Speaker
but Like, do the math on the results of that shit. like It's a calamity. A calamity. It is calamitous, James. I don't... Calamitous.
00:12:48
Speaker
I'm not... I'm no Sun Tzu when it comes to strategy, but... I believe in the art of war he said he did not say roll a red carpet down the middle of the slot for, you know, like the best forward on the team just fucking come in and put his feet up on your coffee table. Like, I don't understand this.
00:13:14
Speaker
How many times have you watched some guy get the puck down low below or close to the goal line and just walk unimpeded right in front of the net because there's only one defenseman down low because we're in a fucking diamond formation? I'm saying I don't i know how they skate on a red carpet.
00:13:35
Speaker
We've seen the videos when the person trips on the red carpet about the ceremonial puck drop. They usually eat shit. Now they're putting the puck in the back of the net. I assume that there's a perfect version ah how the diamond PK is supposed to work.
00:13:51
Speaker
and sure And in this perfect version, it works well. However, as its current as it currently exists, I have no clue what that even would look like. I can't even conceptualize what the best case scenario for this penalty kill formation is.
00:14:08
Speaker
That's fucked. like I can't even tell you what they're going for. like Here's the thing. but on On the one hand, on the one hand, They are letting forwards just walk out in front on the red carpet.
00:14:21
Speaker
But you also have to take into account the fact that there are apparently unlimited opportunities for the power blade to make cross-seam passes. So...
00:14:32
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you know We're getting fucked twice in this magical diamond formation somehow. They're skating down the red carpet and then taking a dump on the carpet for us to clean up.
00:14:43
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ah No, I've already watched a few games and it was taking me back to some previous years because, again... We're not going anywhere. I've watched this team be bad more than I've watched it be good.
00:15:02
Speaker
And where yeah we're, we're, we're, we're, we're five games in and I'm already having flashbacks of watching, especially against Florida, which if you want to if you want to like zero in on the vibe of certain games, I'm,
00:15:20
Speaker
First of all, ta the Tampa game, that's gaslighting. Second game against Florida was the epitome of like, we got a lot of work to do here. like got Okay, that that game was almost... like They got their...
00:15:37
Speaker
asses beat it was giving me flashbacks to like the rebuild years where i was like ah like and and listeners if you're a fan of another team first of all fuck you and second of all sound off in the comments i'm looking around my uh creepy uh studio apartment saying like so any other teams just get hemmed in their zone for like half an like like We went into the season being like, you know what? The Sens defensive depth is pretty good. And Tarvis Green has taught them to play well. defense I'm watching Florida play fucking keep away like it's Alfie against goddamn Ron Hainsey, you know, in practice or something.
00:16:24
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They've got like a fourth liner called like Keith Vandersloot, who just has the fucking puck down low for two full minutes. And then he like passes it off to like Darren Henderson. And then it's they just it's just a god bunch of guys you never heard of playing perfect kill bot hockey until Sam Bennett just takes a one timer from the high slot and then rips it through the glove of whoever. Like it's...
00:16:52
Speaker
And here's here's the thing. At least they are, in fairness, sadly, the defending champs. So I do think that, yeah, actually a lot of teams do actually have a hard time with Florida. I do not think that is strictly an Ottawa problem.
00:17:05
Speaker
If there's one team where I'm like, eh, it happens to a bunch of guys. it's It's actually Florida. This is the one team where I'm like, you know what? Probably good to get your asses beat early in the season. So, you know, you can, you don't get complacent. You don't think you're hot shit because, uh,
00:17:22
Speaker
ah The proof is in the pudding and the pudding is getting your ass beat. Yeah, I watched most of that game. I'm thinking like, you video session tomorrow going to be litty. Like that's going to be that's going to be a good video session. Everyone's going to be clamoring to get in the video room tomorrow.
00:17:43
Speaker
Bring a water bottle. Yeah, we're not. You're not getting let out of this room for a while. oh Yeah, and Florida with devastating injuries.
Unexpected Game Results
00:17:53
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Let's put a pin in that for later.
00:17:56
Speaker
Nashville game, the vibe is just honestly, fuck you guys. Fuck ah fuck you. like and Do I think Roman Yossi getting eight years in Rikers Island in the shoe beside Jeffrey Epstein's old sell is too harsh a punishment? No, I don't.
00:18:15
Speaker
No, I don't. um This but beginning part of the season, for many reasons, is extremely February coded. ah baffling road tip to trip to Florida where you win one, then lose one.
00:18:31
Speaker
Very February coded. A game against Nashville that you probably should have won, but you get completely jobbed by the refs. February game. This to me is like classic mid-season grinded out shit. And to be fair, they did grind it out against both ah the Kraken and Tampa.
00:18:52
Speaker
But the Nashville game was just, ah I don't know, that's that's that's just one of those games where it shit happens. I don't know what to tell you. i'm I'm just a caveman.
00:19:03
Speaker
I'm frightened and confused by your strange flying machines. Did Roman Yossi get a penalty for cross-checking Brady Kachuk from behind into his untimely death? like i don't to I believe he did, actually. Okay, well, that even Steven, I guess.
00:19:23
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Let justice be done, though the heavens fall. yeah so Look, ah Brady could chuck out six to eight weeks versus a two minute penalty that they didn't score on.
00:19:34
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you know, that's ah that's how that's how the justice system works, baby. We should address Curtis McAdurney.
00:19:45
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and then he would have beat up Roman Yossi real good and got a five minute major after that. what are we doing um okay but so but in i don't know if you have other thoughts on the nashville game ah was that the one that they had a perfect penalty kill it like six for six or something yeah that's yeah exactly that was the one where like we came out that one it was like i so i see i see the vision that's that's february code six with a vk
00:20:16
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i i do I do agree with ah Jason Hussein York, where the diamond penalty kill looks okay if everyone's acting extremely aggressively.
00:20:29
Speaker
i don't know if we have that kind of defense core. We have more of like a cerebral, like angle the man off the puck type of pen or ah defense core. So I think they can get...
00:20:41
Speaker
fired TF up after getting absolutely embarrassed by the Florida Panthers. And i think... I don't remember how many power play goals they lit in that game, but it was enough that they were had a perfect penalty kill the next game.
00:20:57
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um But ah yeah, that's February coded as well. Like perp six for six on the penalty kill in a loss. like you know Fuck. My thoughts? Fuck you guys. But honestly, fuck you. I put a lot of money up. I'm hating.
00:21:15
Speaker
You put up money for two subscriptions. You put up subscription money. I have to look at that guy who looks like a baked ham in between periods when they're doing their quiz of like, who would you rather go to senior prom with? Like Tim Stutzler or Tage Thompson? Like, um okay.
00:21:39
Speaker
So next game, Buffalo. This is a special one for me. um this This... So, again, like, flashing back to, like, me just sitting there at the YMCA around the shared TV being like, do other teams get hemmed in their zone for, like, two minutes against the, like, badly injured team?
00:22:06
Speaker
and This one is also, like... This one makes me feel like there's like a special kind of experience for the Sens where it's like... I'm sitting i'm sitting there at the why watching... like my i've I've logged into my shitty Sportsnet subscription and they're giving up like the pregame i like stats and fun little figures in between betting advice.
00:22:34
Speaker
And like... The lowly Buffalo Sabres, zero wins on the air, like, here we go. And like, no power play goals. Oh, Jesus. Like, the foreshadowing is too strong. Like, that's that's like Chekhov's power play stat. Yeah, and like all like all the goodwill that built up last year, I realize what a house of cards it is where it's like, and the first goal of the game is banked off the back glass off of like Merrill Linen's L4 vertebrae and like into the net.
00:23:13
Speaker
And don't know if you listen to these other SEDS podcasts, one worse than the next, my my man, a certain silver Fox was like, he's gotta have that one. That's spatial awareness. that I'm like, I'm like anamorphic.
00:23:27
Speaker
I'm anamorphic into Tom brass hole being like, but now he's got to stop the ones from behind. Like that, like, What the fuck? He was horrible in that game, but anyways. The United States launch a weapon into space and just start launching like tungsten rods down at like Mach 15.
00:23:50
Speaker
from ah From high Earth orbit. And it's like, Marilyn's got to have that. And they were talking about like, oh, that's the that's the legendary active boards in Buffalo. It's like, I remember there was a game, i think it was against Boston or something, where Chris Kelly, of all people, oh gets a breakaway like breaks free shoots the puck wide on purpose into the corner.
00:24:25
Speaker
It bounces like it's coming out of a pitching machine. And he, and like the goalie's like, what the fuck? And just put it in. He's like, yeah, I noticed that the boards there are really springy and I thought it would really distract everyone.
00:24:41
Speaker
And it's like, I, I hate every team from NHL eight NHL but like, If I saw opposing teams like post game show and they're like, he had to have that one when a third line center bounces the puck off the boards where he knows it's springy in a visiting building.
00:25:02
Speaker
You got to know that he is like passing to himself to shoot. Like you got to just be like that fucking sucks. You know? yeah Anyway. Yeah.
Panic and Performance
00:25:13
Speaker
A friend of the show, Tarek, texted me after that one where he was like,
00:25:20
Speaker
but I should bring up the exact language you use, but he's like, can we just not have like a situation where the best response isn't panic? Like they're playing the literal, this is the experience I'm talking about for this season. It's like,
00:25:37
Speaker
yeah They are playing a practice squad. They had a segment on the terrible sports network, sportsnet.taliban,
00:25:49
Speaker
where they were saying, like, the the current roster doesn't want to play there anymore. Like, they said that pre-game. Like, just that just the just the entire roster.
00:26:02
Speaker
Like, not, like... Not like Tage Thompson wants out, just like everyone. Dylan Cosine should be dropping leaflets from the rafters saying like, Statue of Liberty is kaput. Give up.
00:26:19
Speaker
yeah like there are Every team you could be requesting a trade to is better than this one. Lay down your arms, you know? GI GI someone's fucking your girlfriend at home you are in the NHL's cuck chair Buffalo
00:26:42
Speaker
upstate New York is cuck chair of the NHL so what do we do give up eight like it's not even a field goal We don't even have a cute metaphor
00:27:02
Speaker
it. You can't have him stop the ones he wasn't in the net for. And or fine. Oh, let me take it easy on this guy. Also, like, again, yeah, how are we not supposed to panic?
00:27:15
Speaker
It's like, we just we just let our stalwart back, like the guy who was born to be a backup goalie walk away, because we're like, look, this this kid looks unbeatable. Here he is in his, like...
00:27:28
Speaker
season debut and it's like he he's just getting absolutely fucking clowned it's not like Mariline loses in four to like lost to Buffalo for their first win of the season.
00:27:47
Speaker
Looks kind of shaky on a couple of the goals. Like, no, we have to have this like deep analysis, like, like the absolute confidence shattering performance by this kid. i yeah. Like why, why,
00:28:05
Speaker
Why I always got to go and make things so complicated? you know? it It's getting me frustrated. lo
00:28:16
Speaker
The SENS, lest we forget, the SENS were up one with like consecutive power plays and like a literal five on three.
00:28:29
Speaker
in the in in the second period of that game. like They absolutely had their fucking foot on their necks. like And then they gave up a shorty bafflingly.
00:28:48
Speaker
And yeah, just decided to... like Here's the thing. I watched that game and was like, Ottawa kind of dominated that game. Other than the fact that they mysteriously let in fucking... Four goals in six minutes or something ridiculous. like If you ignore that, the Sens were full value.
00:29:06
Speaker
it's it's it's like Even that shorthanded goal, like seven things went wrong. like Batherson like went offside for some weird reason that like allowed Buffalo to clear the puck. And then Merrill Linen played the puck with his body instead of his stick. And then it like squirted out to the...
00:29:24
Speaker
Buffalo instead of to the defenseman. And then like it was just so four things went wrong in a row. And then, ah you know, the penalty kill reared its hideous head again.
00:29:37
Speaker
it's It's funny, though. i' i like i I got to the end of that game that Ottawa lost ah eight to four. was like, you know, four or five goals weren't even Marylin's fault, if you think about it. Jesus Christ. This is the best I can do. They mysteriously gave up eight goals. It was very mysterious to me the way that I let my dog out in the backyard for a piss and then went and got a drink from the refrigerator and Buffalo scored three goals in that time. Very mysterious how that happens. Magically appeared on the score sheet.
00:30:15
Speaker
I've been getting more reading done when I'm... Maybe it's time to start a big knitting project as well. I think that could help. um Sends won last night.
00:30:26
Speaker
That was a game where I thought they got outplayed for fast stretches and then they went in the shootout. but like Again, February coded. this is this We're having February and October, James.
00:30:40
Speaker
A game against Seattle? How February coded is that? I'm not liking the wild, plausible theme of the season that's like either get blown out or come from behind. Like, can we as can we just have a nice, tidy win? Like, can I...
00:31:00
Speaker
I do think that the Sens should try scoring the first goal yeah be cool upcoming games, which is something they have failed to do once so far. It is funny listening to like these other these podcasts. I don't know if you've heard these other Sens podcasts, man.
00:31:18
Speaker
The theme going into the season was like how deep the team is, and now like they lose Brady Kachuk, and it's like... well, like, this team has no one on the left side, whatever.
00:31:31
Speaker
I'm just like, this is, like, the fucking deepest Sens team since, like, the early 2000s. I'm not fucking listening to this. Like, i fuck off.
00:31:43
Speaker
but But, i yeah, they have scoring power. Like, I don't buy it. I don't like, I don't think they lose one important player. And then it's like, well, we're fucked now.
00:31:56
Speaker
Like, no no, no, no, no. Like Steve stoicism has built a little bit of a deeper team than this. And I will say, a um to his credit, Jordan Spence has been filling in great with ah Nick Jensen out of the lineup injured.
00:32:16
Speaker
What's that? Oh, Nick Jensen is in the lineup, possibly injured. What's going on with that? Go ahead. I'll take my call off the air. There's a lot of things to cover here.
00:32:30
Speaker
ah First of all, ah yeah, I do not think, even with Brady Kachuk out, I don't think the Sens are fucked. Although I do think that they have to stop fucking around. Like, now it's time to tighten up the ship.
00:32:44
Speaker
And, again, like score the first goal a few times... stop going to the stop getting penalties i guess if we're not going to fix the penalty kill or like fix the penalty kill alternatively and it's time to be a bunch of bucking professionals uh we need to get some professional 3-1 wins up in this piece Yeah, in the words of Mr. Pink, we're supposed to be acting like fucking professionals here.
00:33:09
Speaker
um That's my overall her take is this team, and like, you're better than this guy. Like, offensively and defensively, just there's so many...
00:33:24
Speaker
Like, what is this Craigslist with all these misconnections?
Senators' Strategies
00:33:27
Speaker
they um Sorry about that. But like they just can't like put together a cycle or like a nice clean like zone to zone carry.
00:33:40
Speaker
and something always goes wrong or like they're trying to like pass 16 times on the power play and i understand like i fuck with the vision but like look at dylan cousin's goal last night like sometimes i'm just like yeah just like shoot the puck at the fucking net and maybe something cute will happen like there's smart players on the team that can like you don't have to like put it through the threads of the goalies trapper, you know, like you can just like hate the puck into the net. And I know that's Brady Kachuk's job. You can just be like, Oh, there's an open spot and you shoot it there. like yeah
00:34:21
Speaker
Like, yeah. Like I feel like we're talking directly to Tim Stutzler with this entire, this entire bit. It's just like, is is no more thinking only shooting. I love Timmy, but like you you can see the wheels turning too much. and like he's He's a little too calculated. and Because he's thinking, other the goalie and the defense can read him. and It's time for him to just be a little chaos gremlin out there.
00:34:49
Speaker
Just shoot when not even he's expecting it. Germans known to eschew calculation and go with chaos. I want to follow up on this ah depth point as well, where it's like, what about the sense depth? how but How about this? Shane Pinto has six goals in five games.
00:35:05
Speaker
That that to me is its depth. You know what? He looks fucking good doing it.
00:35:13
Speaker
You know how many Sens teams we've watched where if the top line wasn't scoring, it meant the Sens lost? That was most of the rebuild. Well, guess what? The top line isn't scoring, isn't scoring but like people are picking up the slack. And by people, I mean Shane Pinto.
00:35:29
Speaker
like that's that's That's depth to me. This is what it's this is what it looks like. And it would be working too if it wasn't for giving up a billion goals a game somehow. Listen, Shane Pinto is a lot of things.
00:35:41
Speaker
He is a human man who looks like ah Austin Butler. A normal thing that hockey players look like.
00:35:52
Speaker
And i think he won the award... for player least surprising to say, especially in a post-game interview.
00:36:04
Speaker
um I think that like my my take on... I mean, my my hot take going into this season was like, oh...
00:36:16
Speaker
Honey, like, you you were calling Dylan Cousins the second line center. That's pure ceremony. Like, Shane Pinto is, like, going to be, like, the 1B center of this team.
00:36:29
Speaker
That happened instantly. Like, Dylan Cousins, start watching, like ah like, a game tape of the other wingers on the team and stuff. Like, start start talking to Daniel Alfredson about, like...
00:36:44
Speaker
what to do um but uh we are like he is going to put steve's stoicism stoicism to a test like putting his balls in a vice with the like season he's gonna have where the only like ah rebuttal that they're going to have in those contract negotiations is like how he missed a lot of time with that injury one time and he and the gambling suspension you know which I think is like it's like a blessing in disguise of like at least his career points will be kind of low but yeah get that money girly like
00:37:34
Speaker
Also, he's like quietly had two 20-goal seasons ah already, which is like more than a lot of players can say. i think when he first joined the team, I was like, I thought he was really good, but I think the first 20-goal season was like, he scored like eight goals in the first eight games and then scored 12 goals over the next like eight months or You know like, that was weird. But ah no, he he's ah he's a hot ah hot he's hot, he's hot, okay? Look, I said it.
00:38:15
Speaker
I'm known for pointing out how hot Shane Pinto is.
00:38:21
Speaker
Shane Pinto, in in his career, has as many goals as assists. Like, he's not a playmaker. He's a... He likes to put the biscuit in the basket.
00:38:32
Speaker
And you know what? Fuck it. The Sens need guys like that. like We got some playmakers up in this piece already. like but's Let's get a shoot first guy ah in the mix. I'm okay with it. Even though Stevie's stoicism is going to have some trouble with it.
00:38:45
Speaker
It reminds me of that ah that season that ah Josh Norris had... ah What was it? 35 goals?
00:38:58
Speaker
35 goals and 20 assists. It was like, yeah, but you know, don't really got that. Like Jason Spezza, like vision is like, I don't give a fuck.
00:39:10
Speaker
Like, you know, it rocks a player getting 35 goals on the team. Like I don't, I don't give a fuck. like If count the rings, baby. Yeah, like if if Jake Sanderson gets 11 goals and 46 assists, it's like, yeah, but Eric Carlson put up 20 goals. I'm like, yeah, i i'm I am happy with like his production
Player Performances
00:39:34
Speaker
right now. like but um can i Can I bring up a a good bit that's developing?
00:39:42
Speaker
but Please do. You know I love a good bit. You're like in the writer's room of this of this bit that's being perpetrated against you. And I wanted to hear you go off, Queen, about this guy in general, but it's like since last year is Dylan Cousins continues his reign of terror playing dog shit, but count the rings like he's splitting up points. Yeah.
00:40:11
Speaker
It's like Fabian Zetterlund is like chug, chug, chugging along, trying his hardest and like putting it into the third deck. And like Dylan Cousins like, and it banks in off of his ass. It's a hat trick for Dylan Cousins.
00:40:28
Speaker
Minus six on the night. It's incredible. Yeah. Tim Stutzler looks like fucking Leonard Bernstein out there. like He's just he's like directing traffic. He's bringing in.
00:40:43
Speaker
if Tim Stutzler is trying to invent a way to pass it to himself. ah he's He's shooting more. He's going to the net. He's starting the cycle. He's retrieving the puck.
00:40:54
Speaker
He takes it in. He's like... No one is out there is like doing more than Tim Stutzler. And possibly to his detriment, he looks like it. And then Dylan Cousins, absolutely the most nonchalant look. is Dylan Cousins not at full Wasteman status yet.
00:41:17
Speaker
No. he is he he has Wasteman tendencies. Yeah. Like, if it goes all the way bad for Dylan Cousins, like, you're going to know why. <unk>ll We'll put it that way.
00:41:30
Speaker
And, yeah, just ah just a random little garbage shot from the ah from the ah from this circle gets by Grubauer. Oh, it was way it was way farther out than the circle. That was, like, from the fucking blue lines. Yeah.
00:41:48
Speaker
They had to go upstairs to make sure he was on side for that goal. um Dylan Cousins, a how how long does it take a guy to develop as a prospect, do we think?
00:42:01
Speaker
A Buffalo Sabre, I feel like he is in his like sophomore season mentally right now. um I think he might be right. I'm going to wait on it, but Dylan Cousins, hmm.
00:42:16
Speaker
Also, spelling of his name seems made up. I don't know. At least he's been slightly less... At least he's been slightly less alarming... defensively but i'm gonna i'm not gonna lie it's gonna take me a while to not see that awful defensive coverage he had in the series losing goal in the playoffs like if anyone ever asks me know oh why don't you like dylan cousins i'm just gonna just be like watch this shift and like that's all you need to see that guy was taking years of my life in the playoffs
00:42:52
Speaker
um But you know what? Big goal, though. So, yeah, you are Salieri and he is Mozart mocking you like Dylan Cousins doubling up Tim Stutzler in points right like But a healthy minus seven of the year. Yeah.
00:43:10
Speaker
Is that true? Incredible bit. Incredible bit. I gotta give it up. And I'm also trying to determine like... Oh my god, I thought you were making up minus seven. Minus seven is the actual stat.
00:43:23
Speaker
Holy fucking shit. No, he's had some dad had some rough nights. We've all been there. ah Hang in there, boo. um I'm trying to determine whether to award the smooth jimmies. Like, you are the five games into the season Ottawa Senators of players.
00:43:42
Speaker
The nominees are Dylan Cousins. Four points. I don't know how you have that many points. Minus seven. That's hilarious. Next, Thomas Shabazz.
00:43:57
Speaker
You look fucking amazing sometimes, and then you look like you don't, like you're playing with the wrong-handed stick other times. i these two like Because Cousins like has his moments. like he He came out looking hungry against Buffalo, and then they lost 8-4, so that only went so far.
00:44:16
Speaker
But ah yeah, both both of those guys are the current... you are the... ota i would also say maybe third nominee, Linus Allmark, for that award. of like You are an embodiment of the team so far this year. and Although, i will say Linus Allmark has a better record than the overall team.
00:44:40
Speaker
So, I would like to use Thomas Shabbat as a Trojan horse to sneak into the actual discussion I want to have. sick Because...
00:44:51
Speaker
i was I was thinking about this myself because i was ah I knew Thomas Shabbat was really good last year and I thought he was going to be able to keep it up.
00:45:02
Speaker
And Thomas Shabbat, I'm just going to say it, has not looked good. And i was...
00:45:12
Speaker
wasn't At first it wasn't clear to me why. And then I checked some game logs. I looked at the shift reports. And I realized what was happening.
00:45:25
Speaker
Thomas Shabbat is carrying Nick Jensen's one-legged ass up and down the ice, and he doesn't have anything left to be able to positively affect the game of hockey.
00:45:39
Speaker
Because...
00:45:42
Speaker
I'm not trying to be mean and pile on a guy who has been injured and worked really hard to come back from surgery, but Nick Jensen should not be out there.
00:45:54
Speaker
No. The guy, that he looks like he's got all the mobility of a battleship out there only without the firepower. Like, I don't know if Nick Jensen is going to play his way back into something resembling shape.
00:46:12
Speaker
If this is the sort of injury you can successfully rehab over time by building the necessary strength. But as it stands right now, Nick Jensen appears to be permanently washed.
00:46:31
Speaker
And... I respect him for, you know, suiting up every game and getting out there, but... I mean, he's holding Thomas Jabot back right now, I'll tell you that.
00:46:46
Speaker
And more generally... a tough man. I, like... You're telling me that Jordan Spence couldn't get into the lineup over this guy? Like, Donovan Sobrango had to get sent to waivers so we can keep playing Nick Jensen?
00:47:05
Speaker
Yeah, but Luke, Jordan jordan jordan sp is jordan Spence is only third on the team. Well, he's tied he's only tied for second on the team and are in points. like or No, no. he's it Sorry, he's tied for a third on the team in points.
00:47:20
Speaker
My bad. And he's a plus player somehow. So, you know, you can't feed steak to a horse or whatever. Yeah. No, we got like, I think it's time for, I don't know um many game how many games, as hello has Nick Jensen played the entire fucking season so Yes.
00:47:46
Speaker
That's insane. I think that um Jordan Spence sitting out a couple of games is going to to be this year's, can you believe Zub sat the first few games when we first signed him? uh yeah it's that artem zoob award for why the fuck were you sitting like healthy scratching this guy like we need this dude uh award for outstanding achievement in the field of being able to ah keep pace at the nhl level right now
00:48:20
Speaker
Yeah, the Eric Carlson spent six games in Binghamton award for not making the starting, the opening night lineup for some reason and then making the team then never leaving it goes to...
00:48:38
Speaker
I hate to be... i I hate to be a stickler because it's it's one of my favorite like little stats, but it was he spent 12 games and got 11 points, which was really funny.
00:48:53
Speaker
And I think that team was terrible. He came back and then Corey Cluston was... And then Corey Cluston's like, yep, sure taught him a lesson. Yeah, like, that'll learn you.
00:49:04
Speaker
You gotta learn how to back check like Philip Kuba or whatever. So, yeah, Lena Solmark got the big dub last night, bringing his record
Goalkeeping Concerns
00:49:14
Speaker
on the year. He was great. He great. rock And rocking the solid 862 save percentage on the year. So, you know, room for improvement.
00:49:24
Speaker
Yes. ah If you add up the goals against average of both goalies, it's more than 10. Is that good?
00:49:33
Speaker
ah It's for the other team. Yeah. See? mindset is Is there anything else we want to hit? i mean i could I mean, I could also talk about how I'm not sure Fabian Zetterland is it.
00:49:48
Speaker
I do want to say ah in the Buffalo game, i watched um Jake Sanderson attempt kind of like a a lob ah zone entry. like ah like us I hate... Don't make me say soft dump.
00:50:06
Speaker
But I... You tried to... yeah Damn you, hockey. He took a loose he took a loose shit into the corner. Now we got to talk about all these defensemen being long, big and long. God, what is with you guys, you hockey pervs?
00:50:24
Speaker
ah But yeah, he he attempted a soft dump and... what laszlo panaflex of the buffalo savers medication for that now just modium ad um yeah francois jean francois modium from the buffalo savers just kind of like gloved it down and just like was like dakimbe mutamba like fuck off dude and Jake Sanderson is already at the point of his career where I watch him make one mistake and I'm like, come on, man.
00:51:01
Speaker
Like... He... He fucks up so seldom that, like... Just like a failed zone entry is like... It's it's actually amazing that he's like leading the rush the other way.
00:51:17
Speaker
like But is like if he makes one mistake, you're like, man, Sanderson's really off tonight. Made one mistake. God bless. Yo, that... Sanderson's performance in the Tampa game was a fucking masterpiece.
00:51:32
Speaker
The way he like perfectly knew how to like sit back and just not giving anything up until like five minutes left. And he's like, okay, now it's time.
00:51:45
Speaker
I'm going to start jumping up to intercept passes. I'm going to jump into the rush. And then he directly caused the winning goal. Like I, that was when I was, I watched that on the, uh, on my commute, on my phone. I was like, okay, Sanderson's,
00:51:59
Speaker
Xanderson's playing the game within the game at this point. And that's that's going to be huge. Because I can't wait to see... why Basically, I can't wait to watch this guy every night.
00:52:11
Speaker
Well, you're in for a treat. He is on the team. I have Lars Eller. And there's no notes beside his name. So welcome aboard, Lars Eller.
00:52:24
Speaker
This is the sort of good depth that I like, you know, like Lars Eller is like the flavorless gruel of the fourth line, which is fine. I don't want my fourth line to be interesting, you know? ah I do not miss just, like, screaming at the but ah the the fourth line or the bottom pairing. Like, I just don't want to notice yet.
00:52:45
Speaker
The fourth line is 12 minutes a night where nothing happens. And that's fine by me. And Quietly has the same stat line as Tim Stutzel, so... Way to go.
00:52:58
Speaker
Two guys on the team who are as good as Tim Stutzler. There you go. That's got to be good for the Sens. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. um So going into the deeper stats, because I know you like that, Tim Stutzler has 400,000 shot attempts so far. So hopefully they start going in.
00:53:18
Speaker
And speaking of hopefully they start going in, ah besides beside the name Fabian Zescherland... I have the note, go off, Queen. I would like to hear you talk about Fabian Zetterlund for my own personal amusement.
00:53:33
Speaker
So it is with a heavy heart that I must announce a reversal of my opinion on Fabian Zetterlund, because in our very last podcast, when we were previewing the season, was like, don't worry about Fabian Zetterlund until we find looks good. He's just going to figure it out.
00:53:47
Speaker
And... Fabian Zetterlund, respectfully, of course, is fucking invisible on his line with Tim Stutzler.
00:53:58
Speaker
And that ain't right, James. You can't be on a line with Tim Stutzler and be nowhere. Like, you gotta at least go to the net and, like, put yourself in a position for Timmy to bank it in off your shin pads. Like, lest we forget, like...
00:54:13
Speaker
Colin Greening had like a 39 point season playing line with Jason Spezza and like Colin Greening basically held his stick upside down. I know that there's sort of this ah idea in certain hockey circles that, you know, yeah it's tough to play with a skilled player. and You know, only fucking Chris Kunitz can play with Sidney Crosby at the Olympics and ah this sort of bullshit.
00:54:40
Speaker
How about this? Go to the fucking net with your stick on the ice. like yeah how How fucking hard can it be? I'm genuinely i'm genuinely asking. Timmy is going to do all the work on that line.
00:54:53
Speaker
You just got to make yourself open. Like just, you don't even have to worry about it. This is the best part about playing with good players is, you know, you're like, okay, I'm open. How is he going to find me? They'll do it.
00:55:04
Speaker
That's what it is. When you're good players, they make passes that other players don't see. And you just have to be open. Fabian Zetterland is never open. What the fuck is that, dude?
Improving Player Dynamics
00:55:13
Speaker
College greening, please text, I know you're listening, please text a photo of your in-ground pool to Fabian Zetterland, courtesy of the Red, White, and Jason Spezza.
00:55:24
Speaker
Like... i mean i think I think Colin Greening had 17 goals playing with Spezza, if I'm not mistaken. Jason Spezza needs to go after col Colin Greening for fucking back taxes.
00:55:39
Speaker
I don't know how that works, but like ah somebody oh like he owes him money somehow. Fabian Zetterland, I'm worried about you, dawg. You can't be put into this position, put into a position to succeed like this and then be nowhere.
00:55:54
Speaker
And honestly, to be fair, he wasn't on. He wasn't even with Shtetsuo last game anymore. I think yeah Tarvis Green also sees it my way. It's your way or the highway. Listen, Zetterland is the most confounding player her on the team because...
00:56:12
Speaker
We sort of need him to be the thing more than ever now that Kachuk is gone. And though I guess he's more of a right winger, even though he shoots left. But ah don't be a little freak. Like, just put your stick on the ice and...
00:56:30
Speaker
Like, good things will happen. Did you see that deflection that Stutzipop had off that Zetterling shot the other night? Holy guacamole. That was yeah beautiful. um Yeah, actually, maybe that's your job.
00:56:45
Speaker
Just shoot the puck at Tim Stutzel and then just see what happens, baby. Bank it in off Timmy's shin pads.
00:56:57
Speaker
Or stick blade because that's... Timmy don't play that shit. Aim at Tim's weird tape job.
00:57:09
Speaker
It's clear as day on that thing. and No, I think that... Prove me wrong, Fabian, but, yeah you know, his contract is that of a middle six player. And I think, like, watching...
00:57:26
Speaker
Like, watching Zetterlin try to play... doubles with ah Timmy is not, he's not keeping up with the processing power there.
00:57:39
Speaker
And the the conundrum I was speaking of is like, i don't know what we're supposed to do instead of this, you know, but I think that like bumping him down the lineup would be probably a good call.
00:57:50
Speaker
I guess, I guess if he's playing right wing, like we just got to stick Bathurst in Like, we got to attach him at the hip with Stutzl for quite a while. I mean, there's nothing wrong with playing some of your best players together. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. I have said since day one, I'm in favor of that.
00:58:10
Speaker
I mean, here's the thing. Tarvis Green has a, ah ah you know, ah security binky. that he can always deploy if he feels the need to.
00:58:25
Speaker
And that is... It just puts Stritzlo with Giroud.
00:58:31
Speaker
I was actually watching a game and I was like, oh where the fuck is going on with Zetterland? Oh my God. yeah And then finally the Stritzlo line got an amazing chance. i was like, oh, there it is. It was ah it was because Giroud was there. i could have it instantly. I think it's time to break out the security bankies.
00:58:47
Speaker
Yeah.
00:58:50
Speaker
I think he might be onto one there. Maybe they can share a little bit. Sometimes he plays with Giroud, sometimes he plays with Zetterlund.
00:59:04
Speaker
But yeah, I think with no Brady Kachuk in the lineup, there's no ideas. you know there's no bad ideas Yes, there are.
00:59:14
Speaker
ah Maybe we should play all the good players with each other. Yeah. Sounds good to me. That's the thing. is there's a There's always a part of me that's just like, just keep the fucking lines together for like more than 25 seconds.
00:59:30
Speaker
like I don't know. Whatever. Get David Perron in the mix. I bet David Perron would like be really good with Strzutsev for 10 minutes a game or something. Yeah. he's He's been around the league.
00:59:42
Speaker
A wily veteran like Perron would know to just take a hard clapper at Tim Stutz's blade of his stick and see what happens. That's what I'm saying.
00:59:54
Speaker
I'm going to put a capper. im I'm going to wrap all this chat into a nice package, put a bow on it before get to the a little bit of the lighter side of the Sen season.
01:00:07
Speaker
but Okay. So all this being said, for all the problems that we've noticed in five games with the captain and, know, at worst, second best forward being out for six to eight weeks, goaltending looking somewhat dubious, penalty kill looking like, not even like a sieve, just like a fucking hoop with no mesh whatsoever. Just hoop is a straight shot.
01:00:39
Speaker
I ain't worried. This is as bad it's gonna get. ah what What's going on right now? Absolutely fucking nothing. And the Sens are still in most of these. like The Sens have still been in four of the games.
01:00:53
Speaker
The only game I think they were never had a real shot against was against Florida. And it's it's not great. i think ah a big problem is that you know a bunch of these games have been terrible. And unfortunately, that makes up like 75% of the season right now But just ah just reframe it in your mind. Just be like, this is just a this is February. This is just February shit. This is the February part of the season.
01:01:21
Speaker
It's happening in October for some reason, but we just got to get through to the end of the other end of this. like Things cannot get worse. And the Sens are still fine. like Imagine how fucked we'd be with one of these Sens teams of four years ago.
01:01:38
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Like that that that was a team that without like we had teams that were like perfectly healthy and like weren't winning shit. And now we've got like, I don't know, as you know, seven or eight very serious problems, which we have discussed.
01:01:55
Speaker
And honestly, they're still looking okay. mean, they're not great. But I still got to think they were going to have a team, a chance against most teams in the league just because, you know, the depth is there. They can roll four lines, which is huge.
01:02:16
Speaker
um The defense will be fine once Nick Jensen can take some time off. like just he doesn't Don't even healthy scratch him. they Tell him he's doing rehab. like Just say he's doing rehab or something. like You can't keep rolling Jensen out. That's the main thing I say. Yeah.
01:02:33
Speaker
There's different rules for different teams, but just invoke the Tianto Leafs ah provision where they got to just be like, Matt Murray actually died on his way here. And she...
01:02:51
Speaker
We forgot. ah we yeah We actually went on a vacation to France for Christmas and we forgot him at home and he will turn our a suburban Chicago mansion into a whimsical Rube Goldberg machine of ah burglar injuring traps and and exciting ah little obstacles.
01:03:19
Speaker
You know, so we could do the same with Nick Jensen. You know, it could be like rehab, you know, like you put paint cans on a string and you you shoot them over the balcony or the banister of the the stairs and he has to dodge them. Or like you put a bunch of micro machines on the floor and instead of slipping on them, he has to maintain his balance. You know what I'm saying?
01:03:40
Speaker
So I'm saying the Home Alone 1 training regimen is what he needs to focus on, not skating like ah he ah just had surgery earlier that day.
01:03:56
Speaker
butre We're going put Matt and Paolo in until Nick Jensen doesn't look like he just had surgery. Yeah, we need to we need to put Matt and Paolo in so we can figure out what the hell is going on here.
01:04:11
Speaker
that's the That's my number one action item for Tarvis Green. And then 1A is go back to a fucking square in the power, in the penalty kill. And yeah, we get those two items squared away.
01:04:23
Speaker
but We'll be fine. ah Bill Zito, it's on site for you for claiming Donovan Sobrango off waivers. Fuck you. If I see you in these streets, you can catch these hands. i Man, honestly, fuck that guy.
01:04:39
Speaker
You want to talk Jersey? They're fine. Okay, it's fine. Are they nice? Not really. But are they the worst thing I've ever seen? No, we already had that jersey for like 15 years.
01:04:52
Speaker
I maintain my ah feelings on this is the regular jersey is now nice. I don't give a fuck. yeah Go have a psychedelic freak out with the third jersey. That's what it's there for.
01:05:07
Speaker
Lots of teams with cool jerseys have the most hideous third jersey I've ever seen I'm looking at you, the New York Islanders with that Fakakta New York Giants piece of shit.
01:05:23
Speaker
a You know, like whatever. They wear these dumb ass. they They kind of look like. you know, NHL 2K, uh, 25, 26, like ass jerseys. And maybe that's the strategy. I don't know. But if, if the goal is like making me buy a $300 long sleeve polyester shirt, uh, I'm out as they would say on dragon's den.
01:05:51
Speaker
um, But like the regular jersey is nice. So I don't care. Have have your fun. But like we got to we got to stop with this red shit. i Like it's it's not that great. The red.
01:06:07
Speaker
I thought that the i thought that's the new third jersey, it looked way better on television than I was expecting. Same. Same. I watched the game with the third jersey. I was like, you know what?
01:06:22
Speaker
Looks pretty good. Doesn't look as bad as I expected. i've This doesn't offend me. um Also, and never going to buy one.
New Jersey and Rebranding
01:06:32
Speaker
Yeah.
01:06:33
Speaker
I'm never going to, there's never going to be a big game where I'm like, I can't wait to bring out my NHL 2K25 Prieta franchise looking ass jersey. About it on TV, like...
01:06:47
Speaker
Turns out the Jersey that they rolled out with the most riddless man in the six, one, and three, Chris Phillips but there with his, with his bingies over the like cuffs of the sleeves. Like he's a Cristiano Ronaldo deacon out the fullback ah looks better when Shane Pinto, uh,
01:07:14
Speaker
with a bunch of equipment that makes him look like a gladiator, ah ah ah like it looks a lot better on TV. I agree. That was one.
01:07:24
Speaker
That was the most. You said Melnick Dorian coded moment of the and Lauer Steyos regimes. Like we gotta have a model show off these new jerseys.
01:07:36
Speaker
Who do we got? ah Chris Phillips is available. Uh, That's how you know they were burying it, you know, yeah how you in in wrestling when, ah you know, a guy's not getting a a fair shake with his ah character or gimmick, you know, they they're going to soft bury him. It's like, you know if they were trying to make that jersey cool, you know, they were throwing Chris Neal up on there.
01:08:01
Speaker
Yeah. But they were like, you know what? we don't we don't don't ah We don't need to bust Chris Neal out of the vault for this jersey. I don't know why they don't do the parliament building jersey. i don't know. They're saving that for when the arena is built in 2050 under sea level.
01:08:21
Speaker
um When Brady Kachuk's contract is up and we got to raise some funds real quick, that's when when the Peace Tower jersey comes out. That's when you know. There you go.
01:08:32
Speaker
It's time to pass the hat around. I'll be there. Well, we've had lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of fun, but now the time has come to go.
01:08:45
Speaker
If this damn clown is found dead in his bed tomorrow, I'll be in heaven still doing this show? question mark Luke, take it away. So for the first, and I but believe last time in Welcome to Your Carlson Years History, ah we're going to do some housekeeping at the end of this episode, which is to say we're going to tell you right off the rip,
01:09:09
Speaker
This is the last episode of Welcome to Your yeah Carlson Years Podcast, a.k.a. The Scotchcast. And we will explain why. Basically, while we have a lot of fun doing this show, i think at least ah some people in our life and also ourselves have thought, you know what would be nice?
01:09:33
Speaker
Maybe slightly expanding our audience. And while we were thinking this, we also thought, In order to do this, maybe we should be on more than one and a half platforms.
01:09:46
Speaker
There have been many times when people have asked, hey, can you get on Spotify? And for reasons that I will not go into at this time, the answer has been no. And this is this is why we are a ah iTunes only and sometimes web browser based podcast.
01:10:02
Speaker
But basically, we're gonna we're going do a little cheeky rebrand. And we're going to have ah new channel, new show, continue to post more often on this new breakneck ah this this new breakneck schedule we've we've started. started And yeah, look for the new project from James and I to drop soon.
01:10:26
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i Still going to us doing a podcast, but we're going to throw it up on some ah um some new channels, do a bit of YouTube, do ah Spotify and iTunes. Everywhere a good podcasts are found. And terrible ones. It's finally happening.
01:10:44
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It's mostly terrible ones, if we're being honest. yeah ah So yeah, it's ah we wish a fond farewell to the Welcome to Your Carlson Years brand.
01:10:56
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ah The next show, I believe we're going to be calling They'll Never Trade Jake Sanderson. And yeah, watch for that on every platform that exists.
01:11:06
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And if you like it, tell your friends. that's ah that's that's That's my pitch to you. Yeah, we promised to bring the exact same level of hating out the door that you've come to expect from your boys, Luke and James.
01:11:20
Speaker
i say I'll say this, and I'm not... um I can't promise this entirely because I don't know if Spotify is going to just horn in ads to whatever we do, but I promise you, the best of our ability...
01:11:37
Speaker
We're not doing any ads. We're not taking any money. This shit's going to be free forever. we're not in the We're not in the game to get popular, in like monetarily speaking. Like, we don't want ah to do ad reads. We don't want sponsorships.
01:11:52
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If I say, do you have anyone to thank? And if you say, do you have anyone to thank? And I answer, yeah, I want to thank my goddamn self. I mean it. Okay? yeah I don't want to thank anybody else.
01:12:04
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So I want to make this clear. We're not doing this to sell out. but i'm not We're not going to hope that we get like the prestigious Wilfenada's sponsorship. ah And I'm not going to do any ad reads. We are going to continue to refer to various...
01:12:25
Speaker
members of the hockey community buy their ah by their official names, which usually coincide with names of terrorists.
01:12:37
Speaker
That sort of stuff. It's going to be the same but same classic bits. The more unmonetizable the bit is, the more we you're going to do it. Don't get it to it. Like, this is not a move towards being more ah marketable.
01:12:53
Speaker
We're not trying to secure the bag. No, we're just going to be on two or three extra podcast platforms. I promise you that's it. We're giving it to you, the people.
01:13:05
Speaker
We just want you to be able to hear this shit. We got this bad delivery system and we're going to try to make it better. That's all it is. I'm still going to refer to Barry El Baghdadi Zito and threaten that I will...
01:13:25
Speaker
smack him in the face if I ever see him in public for claiming ah possible seventh defenseman off waivers. And yeah, if you have an Android phone, that's hilarious, but we still want you to be able to download the podcast easily and so on. it's we just We just want to, look, we've done a lot of talking and now we want to do a lot of talking.
01:13:48
Speaker
So that's pretty much it. Right there. With that, we wish a fond farewell to the Welcome to Your Carlson Years brand.
01:13:59
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it we We will never delete the blog, obviously. we Don't worry about it. But yeah, the next to in the as in the famous words of the philosophers, ah Bob and Doug McKenzie, you'll be looking for me on another label.
01:14:15
Speaker
Should we thank the people who helped build the WTYKY brand? The brand is stronger than ever. who who do you think Who did that, James?
01:14:26
Speaker
Tell Tell me and we who did that. Talking about Verata. Talking about Pete. Talking about Priyanka. That's right. Real heads remember Priyanka. Talking about Steph. Steph, where did you go?
01:14:38
Speaker
one of the funniest people of all time. ah Talking about Chet Sellers. Talking about Hortense Paristi. Brag.
01:14:48
Speaker
Or as you're referred to in my phone, Luke and how Siri calls you, Luke Paristi, Paristi. No, sorry, I meant the guy's name is that meant the guy name is literally Bragg. Bragg's got some ah guest posts up on the blog as well. Oh, shit.
01:15:03
Speaker
Bragg, friend of the show. well ah The funniest person on Twitter, so of course he's like a private account. Steve on Sens. Poppy, I don't know, just generally you're the best. The boy Andrew.
01:15:16
Speaker
Andrew, oh my god, Andrew. i haven't talked to you in a million years, hope you're doing well. And Corey Kloestan. Where it all began. our unpaid and Our unpaid intern who... I know we gave you a hard time, Corey, but we can't help it. You're a small target, dude. like Alright, so yeah, we're gonna... Big tings, okay?
01:15:41
Speaker
This is madness and badness combination. Alright, Luke and James out. Until we're back in. Peace.
01:15:51
Speaker
I don't recall saying peace to anyone.
01:16:41
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I'm sorry.
01:17:03
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So
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The