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Provo Pushing - Tougie's Take Podcast (4/8/24)
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Introduction & Hockey Focus
00:00:00
Speaker
Hello, everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Two Gees Take podcast. We're back again. It's us, the guys, the fellas, your hockey friends here for another week of mostly hockey talk.
Endo Mills' Work Rant
00:00:15
Speaker
Although in the case of Endo Mills, boy, he's he's ready to he's ready to throw hands, everybody. I'm wet. He's got very wet.
00:00:27
Speaker
Yeah, that's basically how I would say it. I had a long ass day today. Yeah, I started a new work in construction and that's always great. I always feel like somebody's watching me and I have no privacy. Oh, that's great. Um, life is great. Um, holy fuck fucking Home Depot. I will go on a mini tangent here. Home Depot needs to fucking
00:00:56
Speaker
figure out what they're doing with their shipping because holy shit, we were waiting since 8am until 3.30 to get a fucking shipment of material so we could actually start work and we didn't get it till 3.30, like the entire fucking day.
00:01:12
Speaker
Yeah, so I got paid. I'm still getting paid regardless, but it's like we could be getting the shit done and, you know, moving faster. But no, we just didn't do anything.
Eclipse Experiences
00:01:23
Speaker
How are you guys doing today on this beautiful solstice, not solstice eclipse? I was going to say so how endo you first. How was your experience with the with the eclipse giving everything else that was going on for you?
00:01:38
Speaker
Um, the, when it finally like hit and everything got real dark, it was right when the, um, the delivery guy showed up. So it was like the, the sign of the ruination is on upon us. Like we have to finally work. Um, no, it was, it was, it was nice. It was foggy. It's not foggy. It was, um, you couldn't really tell because it was just cloudy as shit in the city.
00:02:04
Speaker
Like, it got dark. Like, people were like, oh, I saw it. It was great. And like, that was like before the actual eclipse happened. And I guess people thought that was like all it was, not the fact that it was going to get really fucking dark in the city for like 20 minutes. Right. And yeah, I took some pictures. It was great. Could you stare straight into the sun? No, because I couldn't fucking see it because it was just fucking cloudy as shit in the city. Yeah. Toronto in April, baby.
00:02:35
Speaker
So here, I was going to say, yes, and didn't get to experience that it didn't line up for him. So he was just busy having a time comparing Endo to Rockwell. That's the highlight of his day.
00:02:48
Speaker
For me, the wife and I took the dog for a walk and we didn't get that like full blackout experience. Like it definitely got darker. We also didn't get any of those frickin glasses. So we didn't really. Was it like only on the East Coast or what? It was like towards the eastern side of the Midwest. Like I don't know if Texas experienced it or not, but it was, you know, central to East Coast, the West Coast. You guys got fucked. You got nothing.
00:03:16
Speaker
No, it's always gonna remind me of fucking That fucking idiot. Oh my god. Yeah, I will say god. Go ahead I was gonna say as I I will say that um
00:03:32
Speaker
I feel like people looking at the sun, I feel like we had like no actual sun directly because of the fucking clouds. But I feel like the whole thing, like don't stare at the sun during an eclipse, is kind of like, I don't want to say overblown as a fucking, what is it, as a tin foil or a tin foil, I'm happy, like, oh, they're trying to stop you from, you know, doing whatever.
00:03:57
Speaker
I have a feeling that like it's because people are idiots and they will legitimately just look directly into the sun with their big fucking gaping eyes. Like, wow, that eclipse is real fucking bright. Like, no, just try to see how long I could stare at the sun when I was a kid.
00:04:14
Speaker
Yeah, I'm steering contest with the fucking sun. No one else do that. I'm just like, ah. Oh, my God. Well, it's funny because on that walk, I kept going like, I'm going to look. But in terms of people being stupid, did you see Trey Young's tweet? Probably not. Trey Young of the Atlanta Hawks tweets out. So we need glasses or no?
00:04:42
Speaker
Someone responded. Trey Young, questionable for Tuesday due to blindness.
New Family Guy Podcast Announcement
00:04:50
Speaker
I love this feature for the injury report. Tweeted 13 minutes ago. Hawks Trey Young cleared to practice after finger injury. Nowhere near anything about blindness from staring at the sun, unfortunately.
00:05:06
Speaker
I mean, hey, give it time. You never know. He did say that he survived though, so that's good. Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen, before we get down to business today, we need to make endurance feel like a third wheel for half a second. All right, you're fucking whatever podcast. Yeah, so Sin and I are doing a thing.
00:05:34
Speaker
Sin, after you take the lovely swig of the huat'er, would you like to inform people what we're up to? Yeah, we've been sitting on this idea for a while. And it came up because of how many jokes we make on this show and references we make on this podcast and in our day-to-day life regarding Family Guy. And we had this brilliant idea to go back and watch every single episode from the beginning and then review and talk about it as a podcast. And so that is now officially out.
00:06:04
Speaker
Again, when I say we've been sitting on it for a while, idea months, and we've recorded some, put them in the bank and that's been done for at least a month at this point. And then 2G getting COVID and us working for, waiting for, you know, artwork and other stuff like that. It's all taken time, but it's finally out. And we're both very excited. I'm particularly excited because goddamn, it's, it's been an absolute blast to record so far.
00:06:30
Speaker
So the links to that, both in audio form, because you can find us on Spotify and Apple Podcast, and of course we're on video form just like we are with this particular podcast on the YouTube side of things. We have its own dedicated channel for that deal. That is out. And yeah, Sin and I are just going to have fun
Purpose of Podcasting
00:06:45
Speaker
with this. I don't care if 12 people listen to it. It's more so. It's more so for us than anything. But yeah, just because there weren't enough white guys of the podcast out there, we decided to make another one.
00:07:00
Speaker
so here we are absolutely but oh i have one thing one little the second it launched i really really started hating women it was weird now that i'm on two podcasts sorry but the same guy disclaimer that is clearly a joke
00:07:20
Speaker
What is the over-under for the amount of episodes you pass, for how long it takes you to pass your total episode count for the second turnbuckle podcast, which hasn't had a fucking episode in how long?
Scheduling & Controversies Discussion
00:07:35
Speaker
Months, January. So the whole deal with that is that Crash and I's schedules just really haven't lined up.
00:07:42
Speaker
Um, you know, his son was in the middle of hockey season, stuff like that. And then, uh, so he and I are still talking about continuing that. We're just trying to lock down a dead set kind of idea here, right? Cause I can spin this all into our first viewer question as well. Um, it was in January that we launched, uh, or that we had the last episode that we uploaded last episode of that podcast.
00:08:04
Speaker
And right after that was when the whole, hey, Vince McMahon and the WWE are being sued. And here's these heinous accusations. I was already on the fence. Like at that point in January, I wasn't actively really following the WWE too much. Like I was following it, but I wouldn't watch or anything like that. It's like I see stuff on Twitter and Reddit. That's about it. The primary thing that Crash and I would do on that podcast is talk about the older stuff.
00:08:32
Speaker
But then when you're talking about the older stuff, it is intrinsically intertwined with Vince McMahon. So then it's like, how the fuck do we even talk about like, oh, stone cold and the rock? And it's like, well, yeah, because Vince McMahon's all over TV at the same time, too. And it's just gross, right? Gross. So it's like, well, shit, what do we do? We're both busy.
00:08:51
Speaker
And then obviously, in March, you know, sin mentioned it affected our recording of this Family Guy podcast, it affected our recording of this, I ended up with COVID that I am, you know, a month on just now finally feeling like back to 95%.
00:09:07
Speaker
which sucks, but it is what it is. And I still kind of feel that way about WWE, right? Our first question is from cynical blues and it has a wrestling spin to it talking about Cody Rhodes. WrestleMania was obviously over the last two nights this past weekend. I didn't watch it. I saw what happened through Twitter and Reddit, like I mentioned, but there's still something about that where it's just like,
00:09:34
Speaker
very similar to the NHL. The stories that we've talked about over the last couple of years, we talked about on the last show, like, you know, we brought up some negative stuff, and Sin's just like, I'm so fucking bummed out, I don't wanna talk about hockey right now. And that's been the joke about this podcast. Over the last few years has it's been almost documenting our decline in hockey fandom because of a lot of the bullshit that's going on. Not to say we're not gonna talk about hockey today or be excited about the playoffs that are coming up really soon. You get the point.
00:10:03
Speaker
wrestling for me, it's you know, like right now, for me, it's just mostly AEW and there's a million bajillion wrestling podcasts out there as much as there's a million bajillion hockey podcasts, not so many Family Guy podcasts, which is why we're doing that. It's just one of those things where Crash and I are trying to talk about. What do we want that to be?
00:10:28
Speaker
when I'm just kind of grossed out by WWE. And I saw a lot of positive reception like WrestleMania over the weekend, that's really cool. I know Endo was watching it from your Twitter feed, you enjoyed the hell out of it, which is cool. I will never tell somebody, and I talked about this on Twitch. I don't care if it's music, a TV show, whatever. Man, if you like something, go ahead and like it. It's been a long time.
00:10:53
Speaker
since I was the fucking insecure teenager that's like, you like Justin Bieber? Ah, fucking nerd. Like, who gives a shit? I'm of that viewpoint. Like, what the hell you like? I won't judge you for it. I just can't separate art from artists when it comes to the WWE, especially when they went on a full court press this weekend of Vince McMahon's the bad man and he's gone.
Cody Rhodes & Unfinished Stories
00:11:19
Speaker
when in reality, the company is also being sued. People that are named in that lawsuit for having known, maybe not known the full extent, but having known, were on WWE, you know, television this weekend. They brought out Stephanie McMahon, who was named in that lawsuit to someone who knew that at least something was going on. Same with Nick Khan, who's like the CEO of the company. I'd love to, it sounds like the on-screen product is better, and that's what most people care about. Same as hockey.
00:11:50
Speaker
Most people don't give a shit about the stuff that's happening off the ice. They just want to talk about the sick goal that Conor McDavid scored. And that's cool. Like I said, I wish I could separate out from artists, but that's where the whole wrestling thing is right now is. Crash and I is scheduling and just what the hell do we want that podcast to be? And in this instance, with our hockey podcast that we have here,
00:12:11
Speaker
You know, we can kind of just decide if we want to talk about the we have that same struggle, I guess. Right. Like, do we talk about the negative? What do we do, at least with the family guy stuff? It's like, hey, we can just mention if a joke aged poorly because that show has been on the air for 25 years. Yeah. Some jokes are going to age poorly. Some of them were designed to age poorly. Yeah. So.
00:12:35
Speaker
Anyway, just because I know brought that up, I figured I'd mention it. But Cynical Blue's question was what sports team has a Cody Rhodes-esque story that they've been trying to finish? Because again, Cody Rhodes won the WWE's grand title this weekend. What's the story? I only started hearing about this guy this year, so it's not like he's been suffering, has he?
00:13:00
Speaker
So basically that whole storyline was he was in WWE years ago Couldn't break through to that next level leaves WWE goes to the independence
00:13:11
Speaker
help start a W goes back to WWE to win the title. His dad never could. And then he finally did last night. So, you know, so it's like the rock in a way kind of. Because he was like a second generation wrestler, wasn't he? Third. Oh, my God. Yeah. Yeah. And then the rock wrestled on Saturday on the first night in WrestleMania. Oh, there you go. Dude, they were dropping at they were just
00:13:37
Speaker
Usually, in a WWE event, there's not a lot of swearing. But for the entire month, because I watched little bits and pieces here, there on Twitter, or X, or on YouTube and everything, the amount of swearing and increasing to that new era of... People were saying it's like a return of the Attitude Era and all that, but more freely the swearing costs and more blood and all that.
00:14:02
Speaker
Like it was insane. The entire like pay-per-view was just the rock just swearing like a motherfucker whenever he wanted to. And it was it was it was like a breath of fresh air. Yeah, I had seen the promos you put up on social media where he just wasn't caring, which is pretty funny.
00:14:21
Speaker
Could I make your son play like a bitch? He said, we don't fucking cut. This is my show, don't cut. And then he told the ref, like, if you count, you're fired. And he's like, I bet. And he just steps back. I saw the clip. He's like, I don't fuck around. I don't fuck around. My favorite was I saw it on Twitter. He's just like, off is the direction in which you can fuck.
00:14:49
Speaker
It's like, oh, he's, he's still got it. You still got it. I mean, he's probably going to run for president and he's trying to be as apolitical as possible now. And it's like, okay, rock. But you know, he is still funny as shit. Um, so in regards to this question, because otherwise I'll sit here and talk about wrestling for a long time and my frustrations that I want to enjoy on screen stuff, but the off screen stuff is
00:15:12
Speaker
making it difficult because hey, hockey, same damn thing. What sports team has a story that they've been trying to finish? So a positive story, right? Like we won't talk about the soon to be just athletics who are trying to finish their story by moving to Vegas and not being able to do so. So now they're going to be playing at a AAA ball field. Sacramento. Yep.
00:15:39
Speaker
Oh, man. I mean, the Blue Jays did that for a bit because, you know, restrictions in Canada. But, you know, yeah. And they had to upgrade the facility. But I feel like them going over the playing in in Sacramento is already an upgrade in itself because, you know, the stories I've heard about the Oakland Stadium is not good and how it's bad and certain certain things I've heard from certain players of the former organization.
00:16:09
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it is. It is true. Like Oakland Coliseum is falling apart, man. Like I don't I can't remember the last time they renovated it. Like it looks the exact same as when I went to games as a kid. Yeah, I'm trying to look up their renovation history. Kid five because they don't exist. Hey, so this stadium opened in September of 1996.
00:16:38
Speaker
It was renovated throughout 95, 96, and then renegaded again in 2017. And that's kind of it, right? In my lifetime, they've had two different renovation projects over the last
00:17:05
Speaker
30 years. Whereas you look at something like Fenway Park, they have had renovations. It opened in 1912.
00:17:15
Speaker
They've had renovations in 88. They had a massive renovation project all throughout 2002 to 2011, and then another renovation project in 2017, as well as expanding it again in 2022. Yeah. That's what you do when you constantly upgrade a ballpark. You have to. Right. Especially if you're not going to build a new one. And yeah, they haven't in Oakland.
00:17:41
Speaker
You know, the city of Oakland owns the stadium at this point. And the problem is, I feel like and, you know, I'm just speaking in generalities here, I might have the story completely wrong, I'll be honest. But my feeling is from the outside looking in is that they're just like, well, if you're not going to commit to us, then we're not going to get the taxpayers to fund the money for these renovations. So it's a fucking billionaire owner, man, like it's it's already stupid that taxpayers pay for billionaire owners.
00:18:11
Speaker
stadiums anyway, saying like, yeah, expecting to renovate it, put put all those millions in with like a team that has wanted to get out of there for like over a decade. Mm hmm. The fine folks.
00:18:26
Speaker
I will say this. It could be worse. You could be like Toronto and have a former mayor sign off on a expansion deal for a BMO field. There are few where the Toronto FC play have them install. I think it's 40,000 temporary seats that will cost just as much as brand new seats for the World Cup because Toronto's hosting like three games. Could be that.
00:18:56
Speaker
What's bad about that though? Just because they're temporary and he's not renovating it? Yeah. They said they wanted to put temporary seating instead of adding additional seating. Because the original plan was to add a whole extra seats and permanent seats. And then for some reason they went, oh, no, they're going to be temporary seats.
00:19:19
Speaker
So it's an expansion that costs the exact same amount of money as it would for regular seats to be there full time. And I guess they just couldn't get the approval for permanent, so they made it temporary. I'll say this in regards to the whole taxpayer situation. Kansas City just said, no, we are not paying
00:19:42
Speaker
for a new stadium for the Chiefs. You do it. You have the money to do it. John Fisher, who owns the Athletics and the San Jose Earthquakes of MLS, has more money than God, because his parents were the founders of The Gap. Yeah. You know, so. He's just a trust fund baby through and through.
00:20:11
Speaker
Yeah, in April of 2022, Forbes estimated his net worth to be $2.4 billion. And meanwhile, he is just outright fucking over the city of Oakland because he wants that move to Vegas. Honestly, my least favorite part about the Vegas Golden Knights is they have fucked up other sports. And it's mainly been Oakland's.
00:20:37
Speaker
Because the Raiders are like, we'll move there. And there's such little heart and soul for the Raiders being there. The athletics want to move there. And it's just like you don't like just. Yeah, at least at least when the Oakland at least when the Raiders were in like Oakland's even L.A. for a time, like there was a spirit about them.
00:21:02
Speaker
I'm having snow fall off my roof. I couldn't tell what it was. There was the black hole. There were the fans who were always dressed as pirates and stuff, and they had this crazy fan base. I don't know if any of that exists in Oakland. I don't think it does. Or sorry, in Vegas. In Vegas. Yeah.
00:21:24
Speaker
But yeah, there was there was that thing. I can't remember the last time as I haven't seen a single person in like like Vegas Raiders gear ever. But I still see Oakland Raiders here occasionally still see L.A. Raiders gear. Yeah, pretty much. So in regards to this question, I was trying to think of an answer, right? Because I think like with most sports, you come up with the answer of like, OK, OK, what teams on this long ass journey? I mean, the answer is Toronto.
00:21:53
Speaker
Like, the answer's Toronto. Like, if you're gonna make that comparison of trying to live up to success of the past of your forefathers, like, it's Toronto at this point, and whether or not they can take that step forward. I mean, playoff-wise, it's incredibly likely that they'll play the Florida Panthers in round one. There could technically still be some movements, but if it'll leave, it's either Tampa,
00:22:23
Speaker
uh... the florida panther i mean boston the new york rangers i mean depending like i don't know cuz temp has been insane i don't know if they'll actually don't think amp would fall to second wild cards or not that they'd be in the top of cuz but so it could technically be somebody anyway you get the point why not tamper in toronto again but uh... that that's the story right that's always the story is will this be the year that the leaves do it and even now the story about the leaves is like how are they gonna rasta like i saw
00:22:53
Speaker
Endo's favorite breakfast television host I Saw him on Twitter being like it's a essentially it's a disgrace if they Load management Austin Matthews for the rest of the year. Let him hit 70 and it's like But if they do that and he gets hurt
00:23:15
Speaker
The narrative is, how'd you care more about the regular season in the playoffs? You have to sit them. But then if they sit him, it's, well, he's at 64 goals with seven games left. You got to get him the chance to get 70. Like it's, there's always that narrative about the leaves of like, here's why a good thing's going to happen. Here's why it's not going to happen. And it's very similar to that whole wrestling storyline of here's why this good thing's going to happen for Cody Rhodes. Here's not, here's why it's not going to happen. Right? So, I mean, I feel like the Leafs are the,
00:23:44
Speaker
the perfect kind of comparison. I mean, obviously they have one in the past, but we're talking about almost 60 years ago now. So I feel like they're the perfect comparison. You could look at other teams.
00:24:00
Speaker
You know, it's it's tough to say like it doesn't really work for like Premier League or anything like that because you can't talk about a team that got like relegated and then came back because that's just not how those systems
Playoffs Predictions & Bruins' Goalie Debate
00:24:09
Speaker
work. So yeah, I'm going with the Leafs on that one. I'll piggyback off that because I don't know enough about Cody Rhodes, but it sounds good. There you go. From Bouncy, which player gets your vote for the unlikely hero of the playoffs? He does say for both conferences, but
00:24:30
Speaker
Right now, the only teams that we could talk about for sure, Boston, Florida, Toronto, New York, and Carolina, Tampa as well, with two playoff spots left to go in the East. The thing about this is, I feel like when you're talking about unlikely heroes on any of those five or six teams, there's no one that's unlikely.
00:24:56
Speaker
Even on the Bruins, like if Danton Hynden goes off and wins the Kahn Smyth, Bruins fans won't necessarily be surprised because he's had a great year. Panthers fans, if, I mean, some people might still say like Sam Reinhardt, but he's a fucking 50 goal scorer this year. So that's not a surprise. For the Leafs, if it's Bobby McMahon, I mean, if anybody scores a goal on a Leafs uniform, they're the next Wayne Gretzky for some of that fan base. So I mean, it's- Ryan Reeves.
00:25:26
Speaker
Christ, like Pierre Engvall was the second coming once upon a time. Coming. I watched kindergarten cop this weekend. For the first time maybe ever, if not in a long time. Good movie. Put the cookie down. Good goddamn movie. I'm gonna go with Gustav Nyquist.
00:25:50
Speaker
OK, because I yeah, he was he was. Yeah, I remember I'm on the Sharks and he was pretty freaking good in the playoffs. That'll be my Western Conference pick. Eastern Conference pick. Honestly, I'm going to go with unironically, I'm going to go with Bobby McMahon. I am ridiculously high on that young kid.
00:26:18
Speaker
Uh, he's been completely underutilized on Toronto. I hope too bad Kyle Dubis isn't there anymore. We can't grab him for nothing. And then he'll turn into a second liner for us. All our band off. Yeah. But, uh, yeah, I'm really high on him. I would love to have him on my team.
00:26:37
Speaker
I think, yeah, because everyone else, if I'm looking on Carolina, they're built where anyone can go off. Last year, Stefan Nason was going off and I was just like, yeah, that's Carolina.
00:26:53
Speaker
Yeah. Detroit is just like, I don't know. They have to be carried by Larkin and the Brinkette and New York. No one cares. Um, so, you know, and the Islanders are just going to be the most boring hockey that you've ever seen. If they stay in there, which they are, they're, they're, they're, they're doing a good job. It's a tough question because I feel like you're not really going to get that light.
00:27:23
Speaker
especially tough to replicate it because if you're on if you're on a playoff team odds are you've been talked about for a while you know it's like I don't think it's a situation where like you know over 10 years ago now where it's like holy shit who's this Corey Conacher guy on Tampa you know because for the most part like I said you have six
00:27:46
Speaker
of eight playoff spots in the East already decided. And then, of course, everyone else dueling it out for either the third spot in the metro with a dueling card spot. AKA all losing at the same time. Fucking trash. I'll cut my arm off. I'll cut my arm off, too. It's been horrible. Yeah. And then the West is almost locked up. You know, St. Louis is holding on mathematically by a thread.
00:28:17
Speaker
But even then, who's Vegas? Are you gonna be surprised if even Mike Amadio goes off after? He scored in the fucking Stanley Cup finals last year. Nashville. I feel like, for me at least, it's a very tough question to answer because I do have that familiarity with the league of always kind of checking out, oh, okay, what these teams look like from the roster or anything stuff. Yeah, I don't necessarily have a great answer for that.
00:28:46
Speaker
And the final question comes from Endo's Cat Muffin. It actually comes from Colin. Who will the Bruins starter for game one of the playoffs be? Now, if the season ended today, it would be Boston and Tampa. In round number one. Fun. Not fun. Not at all.
00:29:14
Speaker
The Bruins are three points behind the Rangers, each have four games to go to get that number one seed in the East, which is obviously a little bit more ideal to play a Detroit, Pittsburgh, Washington, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Buffalo, one of those six fucking teams in that second spot. In terms of the numbers this year, right, because the Bruins' success,
00:29:44
Speaker
Number one has been very surprising, right? I don't think too many teams would have thought they'd have a five-point lead on the Panthers with four games to go in the season, right? That was just very, very unlikely based off of the losses of Bergeron, Crachey, et cetera. Especially when you consider, I'm gonna go over the Bruins' lines here really quickly too, their top line, Brad Marshand, Charlie Coyle, and Morgan Geeky, with 66, 58, and 38 points respectively.
00:30:15
Speaker
The second line, Danton Heinen, Pavel Zaka, and David Posternok, with 35 points, 56 points, and 107 for Posta. Posta, by the way, 47 goals, 60 assists. I feel like he's done that quietly, too. He hasn't gotten nearly as much hype as he's gotten some other years.
00:30:41
Speaker
Their third line is Jake DeBrusque, Jesper Bokevist, and Trent Frederick. 39 points, 14 points, and 39 points. You know what? I'll change my answer to Trent Frederick if you learn how to lift the puck over the offseason.
00:30:59
Speaker
so for those who don't recall three fucking two-on-ones pastor frederick oh it's on the ice and right into the pad last year against the panzers he could have had 12 goals in two games and he just could not elevate the puck he does have 18 goals this year and 78 games so maybe he's learned
00:31:24
Speaker
By the way, the points there, like I said, 39, 14, and 39. Their fourth line, James Van Riemsdijk, John Beecher, and Jakob Lauko. 38 points, 10 points, and 8 points. Noted massive Lord of the Rings fan, Jakob Lauko. His Twitter account's great. I love him so much.
00:31:44
Speaker
Um, by the way, injury to forwards, Justin Brazo has seven points in 19 games. Patrick Maroon still hasn't suited up for them once. Matt Patra is scratched. He's injured. Oh, okay. Okay. He's been on 33 games. He had a shoulder shoulder surgery. Yeah. And then Milan Lucic was limited to four games before he actually he's about to win the selkie in the current season. I'm in for the franchise mode.
00:32:10
Speaker
culture. Yeah. Good. Good. Um, for the record, the Bruins defense is Lindholm, McAvoy, Grizzlett, Carlo, and then Parker, Parker, Parker, Parker, while the spoon and Andrew peak, who they acquired at the deadline, uh, with Derek Forbert being hurt and then chat and Kirk and Laura are in there. So, I mean, it's not the craziest team in the world. It comes down to their team structures and their goaltending.
00:32:37
Speaker
and their goaltending hasn't even been outrageous in my opinion. 38 games for Allmark, with a 255 goals against average and a 916 save percentage. 42 games for Swamen, with a 252 goals against average and a 917 save percentage.
00:32:58
Speaker
They've been almost identical this year in terms of those two base stats. Yeah. I mean, you just got to get better goaltending. Two goaltenders at a 915 or higher. Oh, it hasn't been amazing. We're suffering. Fuck you. The reputation is though, right? Like, oh, they must be insane. It's like, they've been good.
00:33:24
Speaker
Yeah, like you would expect like, OK, to see the Bruins in first in their division and to see the fact that it's like it's David Posternock, Brad Marchand and their band of merry men. You would expect then to see the goaltending be up around like 925 plus, and it's not. I mean, especially when. Well, the well, then again, the highest for a starter in terms of save percentage this year is lower than some might expect.
00:33:51
Speaker
You have backups like Laurent Brasois and Anthony Stolars both in the early to mid 20s for games played at a 925 and 922 For a starter the highest save percentage in the league is a 920
00:34:04
Speaker
for Connor Hellabuck. And we've seen starters kinda up towards 930 before. So honestly, I'm wrong. Swamen and Almark are only behind Hellabuck. And Joey Decord is the only other guy to have played. What was that? By three fucking points. Yeah, right, exactly. And Joey Decord's the only other goalie that's up there over 35 games played. So honestly,
00:34:35
Speaker
They have been really good, actually. I thought there were other goalies that were up there around, like, the 920 plus mark. It just looks like goalie save percentages are lower this year, so NHL 24 becomes more realistic, where good goalies don't play well. So we all lose on that front. Yep. To answer the question, Jeremy Swamin.
00:35:01
Speaker
He's the guy. Allmark has one year left on his deal after this with a 15 team, no trade list. Swamin is an RFA at the end of this season. He is going to get paid. And unless Allmark takes a pay cut, which right now he's making five million bucks, Swamin's at three, four, seven, five, Swamin's going to be
00:35:29
Speaker
I mean, I don't even think it'll be as low as five. I think it'll be six, seven million dollars a year. What the hell did Jake Ottinger get paid? Like four and a half. You got like, geez, I'm only getting four right now. OK, for sure. He also lives in fucking Dallas did did magic with like Robertson and I think even.
00:35:51
Speaker
I know those are the two, I thought there was like one other that they got a really team friendly. Maybe it was Ruppe. Oh. I mean, for the record, it's off topic, but Dallas is paying Ruppe hints, eight, four, five. Robertson's getting paid seven, seven, five. Hayskinen, eight, four, five. Onture, four mil. It's fucking stupid. That's Francesmo numbers, baby. They multiplied the asking price by 0.85. There you go. 85% trick, baby.
00:36:20
Speaker
It's got to be swimming, right? Like he is their guy. All Mark, if he sticks around long term, it's because he'll take a pay cut because they're going to need to pay other people, of course, even though they already have like Posternock and McAvoy locked up. So, yeah, I think I think it's got to be swimming. The thing for me, I don't think they'll do it, but it's what they should have done last year. Stick with the goddamn rotation.
00:36:46
Speaker
Like, I don't think it needs to be like, OK, it's Swamin's net until he has an awful game like. That rotation system works, and again, they have the ability to do it. You know, a team like Winnipeg, like I get it, like even though statistically, Broswan Hellabuck could do it, you're paying Connor Hellabuck the big bucks stayed in Winnipeg and to be the guy he's going to start making eight point five million dollars starting next year.
00:37:14
Speaker
I think the Bruins still have that strength of It's not so if you're the Jets and you're like, okay, we're gonna alternate because we're not playing hella buck tonight. We're playing bros. Wah Teams are gonna be like boys. They're putting in bros. Wah, even though his numbers are good. He doesn't have the reputation of a hella buck All mark and Swamin are equal where you're like, oh shit. We don't really have an advantage one way or another do we?
00:37:40
Speaker
Yeah. My viewpoint at least. And I would, I would, I would say the biggest advantage is that like they're there, especially for when it comes to teams who like overplay goal tenders down the stretch, like Dallas or Vancouver. Um,
00:37:56
Speaker
For Boston, you'll probably have the luxury because both goalies will be rested more to be able to ride one, but I don't think you should because it's like, I'm sick for the reason being, yeah, you would rotate it all year. It's worked all year. Also, why would you just want to drive one of them into the ground also?
00:38:13
Speaker
Yeah, keep keep them on the same workload. And I think you'll get better results. And I just there's that old documentality is like you go with you choose a guy, you go with that guy until he loses the net or whatever. I'm like, why you don't do that in a regular season? So why do you start in the playoffs? Like, yes, it's different. Yes, it's.
00:38:34
Speaker
You know, it's, you know, you're playing the same team every night, but I think that's even better. Keep thrown in different goaltenders so they can't have a consistent scouting report every single game. Like, okay, this goalie, every goalie has a weakness. And if you keep playing the same guy, that weakness can be exploited. So I would keep swapping them, man. Completely agree. In terms of some other hockey topics that we have here, um,
00:39:00
Speaker
Then we got some current ones, and then we got some ones that could be discussed at any time, but hey, now's a decent little time. And I want to start off with what's going on in the NHL over the past week, and I want to start off with arguably the biggest story from the past week, and that was yet another showdown between the New York Rangers and the New Jersey Devils, which is a shame it won't be a playoff series this year.
00:39:23
Speaker
All season long, pretty much. These two teams have been at each other's throats. And Matt Rempe has been in the middle of it. From his first game against the Devils, where he headshot, I believe it was Nathan Bastian.
00:39:40
Speaker
and then there was a follow-up game where he didn't want to fight Curtis McDermott and then right out of the gates for this one they put McDermott and Rempe on the ice and they finally get their scripted brawl but it turns into a full-line brawl with eight players getting ejected. Hell yeah.
00:40:01
Speaker
Hell yeah. Scripted lime brawls. Hey, you know what's great? You know what's great? All the racism that came out that Ke'Andre Miller completely manhandled another guy. And it was like, it's Ke'Andre Miller, it's his first NHL fight against the guy who had a bunch of fights and whatever. It was like, what are you talking about? Like, wow, I put him against like a goon, like a hole again. I'm like, Jesus Christ.
00:40:24
Speaker
Like, guys. I missed all of that. I didn't get it. It was all over Instagram. And it's like, I'm just a breeding zone for that kind of shit as of late. I don't know what it is. As of late. Yeah, I don't know. I've seen it a lot more. That's everywhere, unfortunately. But I think this just kind of lends to the the fighting debate.
00:40:50
Speaker
of the game.
00:41:10
Speaker
When, when you can blame the refs for it, like, cause you know, the refs oftentimes don't call a game, right? They lose control of it. And then the players just say, fuck it. Like fine. We're just gonna, everyone's going to get kicked out and stuff. But, uh, yeah, I don't understand why everyone, it, it, it was kind of neat, I guess. We hadn't seen that in a while and it's cool that it's the devil's Rangers, but I don't understand why everyone thought it was reminiscent of. Was it Vancouver and Calgary that one time?
00:41:38
Speaker
Oh, yeah, they fall on the ice and drop over and they both put their fourth lines out there and then
00:41:45
Speaker
Oh, there was a rookie for Vancouver. It was his first NHL game. And he's playing against, I can't remember who he fought, but it was against like a, like a veteran fighter, like a veteran enforcer. And then like, there was a lot of shit for that. And then towards went off in the, um, towards went off in the, the hallway and they had like, they had, there was a scrub in the hallway too afterwards and during the first intermission. Yep.
00:42:14
Speaker
I so again, I think line brawls are hilarious, right? I think back like the penguins islanders game from over a decade ago where Brent Johnson dropped Rick DiPietro and like one punch. They're fun to watch. But in terms of the code, it's like what? So, OK, you finally fought Matt Rempe. It's just done then, right? It's done. There's no more. It's just you got your tussle in there. We're good, right? Or
00:42:44
Speaker
Like, I doubt it. It's my kind of response to that. Because it's like, well, yeah, Curtis McDermott and Matt Rempe finally fought. But, you know, Curtis Azar, Chris Tierney, John Marino, Kevin Ball, they were involved with fights with Jimmy Vesey and Truba and Miller and Barclay Goodrow. So does Barclay Goodrow and John Marino have to fight now to settle it? Like,
00:43:10
Speaker
I don't know. I don't know. To me, it's like I said, I can enjoy it for. You know, people punching each other in the head is always kind of entertaining because we're we're chimps at heart, let's be honest. But at the same time, it is just kind of stupid, right? Am I wrong? That's that's my I could be wrong. I don't know. It just feels kind of stupid. Yeah, scripted fights started because of the instigator rule.
00:43:40
Speaker
Yeah, that too. So it's like, yeah, I don't know.
00:43:47
Speaker
I don't mind the scripted fight between McDermott and Rempey. I don't understand why everyone else started fighting. That's the thing I don't understand. Then they all get tossed too. It's like the NHL can't even figure out what its own rules are. Why don't you just sit them off for five minutes? Why do they all get tossed? What is the situation where fighting gets you tossed? What is in the rule book that says this is when you get kicked out for fighting? Is it because they all fought at the same time? Where in the rule book does it state that?
00:44:20
Speaker
It's a fair point. Yeah. Too many fights at once, so therefore people have to get kicked out. Yeah, it just. And what's weird, I mean, you know, you get there were 10 skaters involved, but only eight of them were ejected. So who didn't get injected if they all fought?
00:44:49
Speaker
Let's see, Rangers goalie Igor Shasturkin, and Devils counterpart Capo- Oh, so the goalies. Okay, so everybody but the goalies. Fair enough. Wait, but it's only eight players? Who are the two skaters that got off the hook? Because I'm pretty sure I saw everyone fight. Hold on. It would be 10 skaters. There's 12 total if the goalies were kicked out too for fighting. I think two guys literally didn't fight. I don't know who it was. Sartirny, Marino, Ball, McDermott.
00:45:21
Speaker
Hold on so Lazar didn't get kicked for the Devils Lazar and VC were the two that didn't get kicked of course did they not fight enough I? Want to see if hockey fights has them on record yeah counted as a fight It counted as a fight
00:45:49
Speaker
But they, I mean, it was the voting's very one sided to Jimmy VC. I guess it was, I don't know. I guess it was so pathetic on their part that they're just like, ah, fuck it. Leave him in the game. We can't call that a fight. I don't know. I have no idea. Um, that's great. Maybe they just kicked, you know, for those Lazar defenseman. No, they're both forwards.
00:46:17
Speaker
Yeah, maybe they're like, oh, it's going to be too short of a bench if each team loses five guys. So if we only take four skaters from each. No, it doesn't mix. Yeah, I don't know. I'm trying to think it's like one guy from each line, then you can rotate. I don't know. I think we can admit it's it's fun to watch. It's cool as hell. It's also dumb as shit for all of these reasons that we've talked about who got ejected, who doesn't the instigator rule. It's just it's typical NHL nonsense. At the very least, I can enjoy the fight for what it is.
00:46:48
Speaker
Speaking though of typical NHL nonsense, the Ottawa Senators.
Ottawa Senators & Unwritten Rules
00:46:54
Speaker
Oh, man. Oh, the culmination of their season all coming to this moment is just so perfect. They just cannot. This has been a nightmare season for the Sens. It is bad enough to horrifically underperform
00:47:14
Speaker
It is even worse to set yourselves up to get clowned on like this. Earlier in the season, in February, in Toronto, or against Toronto I should say, Ridley Greg, ruined hockey.
00:47:33
Speaker
by scoring an empty-neck goal with a slap shot that resulted in Morgan Riley cross-checking him in the head, or the shoulder, whatever the fuck idiots wanted to say, because of the unwritten rules. Well, at the end of a Sen's Devils game, Nico Hescher,
00:48:01
Speaker
put the puck into the net about a second, about a second, two tops of an empty net for the Sens. Didn't even count as a goal. And Brady Kachuk sprints across the ice, resulting Kachuk and Brendan Smith looking to throw hands.
00:48:30
Speaker
Yeah, just. To set yourselves up to get clowned on. Yeah. Like this. Yeah. But not because they're like, it's different. And yeah, it is. But it's the same. It's the it's different, but it's the same.
00:48:51
Speaker
It's an unwritten rule that you're talking about. Don't give me the well, he got penalized for it. Doesn't matter. The game's over. It's it's it's a two colon zero zero written on a piece of paper. It does. It serves nothing like unsportsmanlike. And to me, like all he did was like he was already skating to the net. All he did was lift his stick up and the puck goes in. He didn't shoot it and he didn't even really guided him. He was skating towards the net and then stopped handling the puck and it went in like. Right. So.
00:49:21
Speaker
It's it's it's it's empty net etiquette that you're talking about, right? So it's an episode title It's the same bullshit and you're and you guys react and the reason that you're getting shit for it is because You know like
00:49:41
Speaker
the way that you guys said everything's fine. It's fair game. Like, oh, the game's over. It's always been you don't shoot into the net after the whistle or something like that. It's like he didn't shoot.
00:49:53
Speaker
So you got this minuscule difference of this unwritten rule for either scenario. And that's how they're the same. Yes, they're not the same situations, but it's this gray area that you're talking about. It's illegal to score. It's illegal to shoot new and empty net. Oh, but he took a slap shot.
00:50:16
Speaker
I laughed my ass off when I saw breaking a jacket. I just started looking up kneeler tweets after that. I'm like, oh, this is going to be great. Oh, he's had a great time. Even today, I just saw a tweet of his today going after the sense fans for their thoughts on the defense at the end of the season.
00:50:36
Speaker
Yeah, I don't have too much to talk about from this, because I think everything that we talked about when the Greg incident happened in regards to just how fucking stupid the code is and the unwritten rules, and we even just talked about it a minute ago in regards to scripted line brawls, for fuck's sake. Something can be cool and funny, but stupid at the same fucking time. And I feel like these last two topics are perfectly in that same realm. It just had to be Ottawa, though.
00:51:06
Speaker
You know, it couldn't have been a different team. It's like Ottawa had to be on both sides of the coin this year. And it's just been a dreadful, dreadful season for them. Couple other things really quickly. Speaking of a dreadful season, I guess we'll segue to this.
Newfoundland Growlers Team Loss
00:51:22
Speaker
I wanted to say as a fan of a team that went away, my heart goes out.
00:51:29
Speaker
to the fans of the Noofie Growlers, who even before the end of the ECHL season have lost their team. I feel like you could go into a lot of details, I think, about the financial situation, but I'm gonna deem it as financial issues that have cost them their team as hockey continues to struggle to survive
00:51:58
Speaker
in Newfoundland just because primarily the geographical situation for them is the biggest issue, but unfortunately their ownership group just did not have their shit together from everything that I can tell. Yeah, and the ECHL just said, all right, fuck it, you're done. And even at a base level,
00:52:23
Speaker
The Growlers had such a good look. Great logo and color scheme. I'm sad about that.
00:52:32
Speaker
Yeah, but shit, they had they had an arena dispute dating back to 2021. Yeah. So I mean, there were there were there were some signs there for a while. Yeah, kind of doomed the way COVID hit right in their beginning. And also they've tried Newfoundland of several times. And what are the as they did kind of a deep dive on this situation, apparently
00:52:57
Speaker
The new Finland Growlers, because where they're situated, you actually have to fly at least part of the way. Yeah. They had to pay for that for other teams. So that's a huge, huge strain on the ownership group.
00:53:14
Speaker
for an ECL team, where I'm pretty sure most of the other times they just bus everywhere. It might even be the case in the AHL that they bus everywhere, or most, I don't know. Mostly, is my understanding. Yeah, the minors, you have to bus. It's very rare that a minor team will take a flight to certain things, because some clubs are owned by their NHL affiliates, and they can, for that luxury,
00:53:39
Speaker
In this case, the ownership group for Newfoundland Growlers are not owned by the Maple Leafs Sports Entertainment. It's a deacon sports entertainment group. Yeah. It just sucks, man. Because I'm just thinking about all the people who are out of a job.
00:53:58
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, that's that's the aspect of it, right? It's like the players all had their contracts voided. So I mean, you got a lot of players that are out of a job. Yeah. You have obviously employees for the team as well. And this is pretty fucked that they get voided, man. They should get payouts. I'm sorry. Like it's not their fucking fault. Yeah. So the official statement, all eligible Growlers players signed to a standard player contract were released as unrestricted free agents, allowing other league members to sign up to two players.
00:54:28
Speaker
So, and you're in the A, you're getting your guaranteed money because you're getting paid by the by the AHL team, not the NHL team. But at the same time with the AHL players, it says all Growlers players under an AHL or NHL structured contract were also deemed ineligible to play the remaining six games at the ECHL level.
00:54:50
Speaker
Yeah, if you're on an AHL deal, but on an ECHL team like a lot of players for Carolina happen to be this year because of their AHL situation. Yeah, you can't go back to the ACHL. Yeah, at least in the regular season, you can go play in the A. You can get loaned somewhere else. Yeah, if there's any space on any teams, someone's losing a job still for the liner on that AHL team is like, well, shit, they're going to get this new guy and I'm going to be scratched.
00:55:19
Speaker
Now he's going to defect to Russia like fucking Joseph Duzak did, and get into a piss-fed after. Yeah, that's a whole different scenario that happened. It sure is. I did want to mention, too, just to showcase this, so again, you guys know I live in Maine. I live in the easternmost state in the US.
00:55:40
Speaker
I am still over 1,100 miles away from St. John's, Newfoundland. Jesus. That is how fucking far east it is. In terms of a drive, it is registered as over a day long and over 1,100 miles for me. Holy crap.
00:55:58
Speaker
because you have to go through New Brunswick, through PEI, the top of Nova Scotia, take that long ass fucking bridge between Nova Scotia and the other goddamn part, I'm sorry, my geography isn't great, and then go all the way up and around Newfoundland. So you get across the bridge into Newfoundland, you cannot just go straight across the bottom of Newfoundland, you have to go all the way up around the top
00:56:27
Speaker
Uh, drop down, just avoid Dildo, Newfoundland, and then hit St. John on the coast. Hell yeah, Dildo, Newfoundland. Like, it is... Had Greenland not been a part of North America, it would be the easternmost point. And it is the easternmost point of the continental North America region. Like, it's so fucking far out there. So you gotta figure, for the ECHL,
00:56:57
Speaker
You know, you're talking about teams that were in their division. The Adirondack Thunder. In Glen Falls, New York. Yeah. The Norfolk admirals of Norfolk, Virginia. The Maine Mariners. The Three Rivers Lions in Troy, Livia, Quebec.
00:57:19
Speaker
The Worcester Railers in Massachusetts and the Redding Royals also in Pennsylvania. That is who they were in a division with and who they had played the majority of times throughout a season. Outside of Maine, which again, driving, Portland's a couple hours from me. So you're talking about over 13, 1400 miles on a bus. They have no choice but to fly. Otherwise Jesus Christ to travel.
00:57:49
Speaker
I mean, it sucks. And to Sin's point about the history, like you had the St. John's ice caps that were there between 2011 and 2017.
00:58:01
Speaker
that didn't make it. Back in the 90s into the early 2000s, they tried the St. John's Maple Leafs for the AHL. This was their first ECHL attempt. They had the St. John's Fog Devils in the QMJHL between 2005 and 2008 that ended up moving to Montreal and are now known as the Blainville Bois Brande. I can't French Armada.
00:58:29
Speaker
in the queue that are still there to this day. Oh, blah, blah, blah. And then there's a litany of junior B teams, senior hockey league teams that just haven't survived over the years. It's a shame because the only the only time it worked was in the movie goon.
00:58:49
Speaker
Sam Yarn, Sam Rocks, baby. Basically, yeah. Also, another thing about that ownership group, Deeker Sports and Entertainment also owned the Iowa Heartlanders until July 2023. And they also sold the Trois River Leons on Tuesday as well, too. So none of this makes any sense. They've had a history of having teams
00:59:16
Speaker
and then just shit not working out. I feel like that sports group took too many teams on at once and it kind of got fucked over. Self-inflicted, who knows? I think the other big thing is I think that there were people lined up for the sale for the Growlers. So this would have been completely unavoided whatsoever. But I have a feeling that the ownership group wanted to make some money
00:59:44
Speaker
instead of actually wanting to pay off their debt and dues.
00:59:49
Speaker
Because right now, right now the Growlers were in a better position than Trois-Hiviรจres. They were doing a lot better positionally. Attendance-wise, they were doing relatively well as well, too. I mean, Trois-Hiviรจres were like dead last in the league, not doing too well in standings. It's kind of like a slap in the face to the fans of the Growlers who, you know, they haven't seen it successful, it's doing well.
01:00:17
Speaker
You know the history of success like last year there were first in the north and they had a pretty decent like playoff run and now it's basically Up in smoke because your ownership group took up to two more
01:00:29
Speaker
Yeah, so with the Growlers, it just would have been too difficult, essentially, to wait to find a new ownership group. Maybe Sports and Entertainment didn't view it as worth the cost, essentially. So they didn't take them up. And the ECHL,
01:00:47
Speaker
Unlike what they did with all three rivers, as I'll continue to call them, with that team, with the Leon, they did take temporary and have taken temporary ownership with that team because the expenses are significantly lower than what it would have been to keep Newfoundland going until they founded ownership group.
01:01:04
Speaker
Yeah, I would not be surprised if MLC is already working on bringing over a team, probably local to Toronto or in Brampton, Hamilton somewhere soon because that development pipeline has helped them in the past.
01:01:19
Speaker
I mean, you have guys like Todd Skirving, who went from being an ECHLer to being a borderline AHLer, and now he's going over to the Florida Everglades, who are basically really strong and looking like front runners to possibly go back to back to back again.
01:01:38
Speaker
And that's huge. Also shout out Joshua Hose saying we're dropping an album, dropping an application for sports of getting people together to host sporting events and getting signed to an ECHL deal in the same week with the Florida Everblades. I agree. Shout out to the greatest 66 in NHL history, Josh Hose. Hell yeah. The last current hockey thing to talk about broke today.
Utah Jazz NHL Team Name Survey
01:02:06
Speaker
The ownership group of the Utah Jazz have sent out a survey asking if an NHL team were to come to Utah, what should we name it?
01:02:20
Speaker
Now, this has brought up memes, old and new. There was a Steve Dangle podcast joke from back in the day, calling them the Utah Bunch of Wives, which is fucking incredible. Other suggestions I saw today were the Storm and Mormons. Oh, yeah. The Soakers.
01:02:53
Speaker
Yeah, so if anybody if anybody doesn't get that Oh, please explain this to the class I will
01:03:11
Speaker
So there is a Wikipedia page for this, by the way. Soaking in brackets, sexual practice. Hell yeah. Soaking, also known as marinating or floating, which just significantly worse.
01:03:30
Speaker
is a sexual practice of inserting the penis into the vagina, but not subsequently thrusting or ejaculating, reportedly used by some members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormonism.
01:03:47
Speaker
News sources do not report it being a common practice and some LDS members have said that soaking is an urban legend and not an actual practice. Probably. Other reports knowing church members who have soaked. Who rat and who tattles. So, you know, I'm gonna keep going because it's very funny. Some popular news sources have stated that soaking serves as a purported loophole to the LDS Church's sexual code of conduct called the Law of Chastity.
01:04:17
Speaker
which says that all sexual activities outside of a heterosexual marriage is a sin and further bars masturbation for church members. Can we just accept that religion as does nothing but try to stifle basic human instinct? They have to have all... Oh, sorry. I'm going to get off. Well, no, you're not. It's the rules.
01:04:45
Speaker
Oh, fuck. So yeah, soaking's just putting it in and don't do anything else. Let the Lord take thick control. Holy shit. See, if you want to read more about that, again, there's a Wikipedia article that also includes related practices.
01:05:11
Speaker
Practices described in the following sources are related to soaking including jump humping Provo pushing And derfing
01:05:29
Speaker
Jump-humping is defined, soaking is sometimes accompanied by jump-humping, in which a third person is invited to bounce on the bed for a couple engaged in soaking, thus generating motion for them. Yeah, someone shakes the bed, so that way he generates the vision. God, I'm not humping. It's Craig. He's jumping on the bed. It's not me.
01:05:58
Speaker
Provo pushing. Two little monkeys soaking on the bed. One got up and jumped on the bed. One got off and now he's going to hell. Provo pushing. The jump hump assistant has been termed the bed jumper or Provo pusher. After Provo, Utah, home of Brigham Young University. Yeah, jump hump assistant's pretty good, isn't it?
01:06:25
Speaker
I'm just thinking of the LeBron fucking Dwayne Wade with like Dwayne Wade's going to dunk in LeBron, just arms spread out like hell yeah. Me and my bros helping my buddies soak. And then there is derfing, which is what they call dry humping. Derfing.
01:06:51
Speaker
The C also terms include coitus reservations There's a Wikipedia page for the poop hole loophole There's a sexuality in the LDS Church technical virgin and Saddle backing are all articles you can click
01:07:18
Speaker
What? This is the best segment we've had since we talked about porno grind. Yeah. I feel bad. No, I don't actually. Oh my gosh. Just Mormons get shit on so much. I mean, what happens when you base religion off something, you can ask your grandparents if it happened and they can say, no, that didn't happen. Yeah, they get shit on. That happens when you use the poop hole loophole. Like what the fuck?
01:07:46
Speaker
So I clicked on saddlebacking. Oh, no. Oh, no, it is. It is a term.
01:08:04
Speaker
from an article, the phenomenon of Christian teens engaging in unprotected anal sex in order to preserve their their virginities is, yeah, it's saddlebacking. But then there's also a follow up. What do you think there's a follow up?
01:08:24
Speaker
This is a Wikipedia article called Rick Santorum's views on homosexuality. That's a fucking page. Holy fuck, this rabbit hole is, it just doesn't stop. That's what he said.
01:08:47
Speaker
So anyway, other Utah hockey team names suggested were the SLC punks, which very good, as long as Matthew Lillard movie from back in the day. As long as he's there for the opening puck drop. There's also the Salt Lake, Utah tornadoes. The SLUT.
01:09:12
Speaker
Slut! Slut! Slut! Slut! Slut! Slut! And I saw somebody else suggest the Utah Nordiques. Oh shit. Oh what is shit?
01:09:36
Speaker
Yeah, I do anything to pick off the kebec bomb man. Oh my god. If you can piss them off, it's always worth it.
01:09:44
Speaker
man. So I thought that was phenomenal. Um, I think any of these are winners. Um, more serious. People mentioned like the flag of Utah now has a beehive on it. So they were like, Oh, the salt lake stingers or something like that. I think there would be good branding that they could come up with.
01:10:08
Speaker
Um, obviously because people had a blast with Seattle, right? Like before the Kraken was announced, the right. Oh, yeah. Bitch pigeons. Oh, yeah. Bitch pigeons is still my favorite creation of all time. I will personally shout out one of my franchise modes, the Seattle Seaman Seaman, though. My favorite, the Seattle Salmon Maki.
01:10:38
Speaker
Just because of the fish. Oh, OK. Yeah, I got you. I got you. You know, the salmon is popular in Seattle because of the freshwater salmon maki. Salmon maki is fucking great. And of course, shout out to the Seattle sea cattle. Yeah. I just look forward to this, right? Like because the idea of hockey in Utah.
01:11:00
Speaker
Could it work? Obviously, like they have the arena for it. The owner of the jazz wants them. There's obviously still a ton of talks about the coyotes as we're not going to get into that because I want to do the Steve dangle thing and just walk away whenever that topic fucking comes up nowadays. Um, I'm over it. Just do something or don't.
01:11:16
Speaker
Yeah, we'll see what happens. Especially on social media. Yeah. In terms of Utah getting a hockey team, I find it interesting just how much they've entered the narrative, right? Because prior to that, it was always like, oh, you know, Houston, Kansas City. And now all of a sudden Utah is like right up there as a top potential destination for the NHL. As we've discussed,
01:11:39
Speaker
They don't want to do anything related to relocation though. They want expansion teams. They want people to pay those expansion fees. Absolutely. And I have no issue with the league going over 32 teams. I don't give a shit. I don't see why that would necessarily- They should go up to 40 and this is what, this is what my, yeah, this is what that miscellaneous topic I said we could bring up at any time was, you know, it should, we should have a 40 team league.
01:12:06
Speaker
and maybe expand the playoffs a little bit. I would just say put in a play playing round make the regular season matter more. I don't think it would necessarily dilute the product that much either to go from 32 themes to 34 even up to 40.
01:12:21
Speaker
Oh, yeah, if if you can't go tall in the way of you're going to be the dominant sports in every area, go wide, hit all kinds of new areas. That's what I think that's what you should do. And you're not going to dilute the talent. Look how many expansion teams do really well right off the bat. Vegas, Seattle did pretty good or that we thought they'd do better the first year. They didn't do great, but then they made the playoffs. What second year there in existence? Yes. Like, yeah, clearly you're not diluting the talent that much.
01:12:50
Speaker
And especially too, like you talk about the AHL, right? And...
01:12:55
Speaker
I'm looking at the leading scorers right now. Rocco Grimaldi, 65 points in 66 games. He's been up and down throughout the NHL and the AHL. That would guarantee someone like Rocco Grimaldi a spot. And Rocco Grimaldi being a full-time NHLer is not gonna dilute the product, but it is gonna allow someone like him or Adam Gaudet, who has 40 goals in the AHL this year. Cole Lin, Seth Griffith, TJ Tynan. It's gonna allow guys like that to make a better fucking living.
01:13:21
Speaker
while not necessarily diluting the talent pool. Because it wouldn't get to the point where it's like, okay, let me go to the fucking fifth page of top scorers in the AHL and be like, oh, but
01:13:37
Speaker
Max Sasson is going to be an AHL or an NHL or now that's going to ruin the league. Like, yeah, I don't think so. You know, that guy being on a fourth line or being the 13th forward or something like that isn't going to ruin it. And then like I said, you cast that wider net of Utah gets a team. Houston gets a team. Salt Lake City gets a team. Quebec hopefully gets a fucking team so we can stop hearing about that. And then you get into those other large markets that
01:14:06
Speaker
don't currently have a team, whether that be breaking through in Virginia or adding another team in Texas. And I mean, Christ, you're already adding it in Houston. You could have a fucking third one in San Antonio. There's so many different options. You could upgrade Milwaukee from an AHL club to an NHL club because they have the arena for it. The Milwaukee Admirals, if I'm not mistaken, play where the Bucks do. They can easily house an NHL size team.
01:14:36
Speaker
There's so many different options, and I completely agree with that. It's that idea of go for that further expansion. Because again, the talent pool is not going to be diluted. You already have NHL-level talent in the AHL. What it will affect is the ECHL, perhaps,
01:14:54
Speaker
because you're going to need that top ECHL talent to replace the departing AHL talents. But I feel like that's worth it to have the highest leagues succeed that much more rather than the third tier. Yeah. And even then that talent level will fill in at the third tier. Like the NHL's talent level isn't going to be diluted. It's going to be the ECHL's, but it's third tier. So it's going to be relatively fine anyway, because people expect it to be third tier professional hockey.
01:15:22
Speaker
And there's going to be people who get jobs because of this like that. That's the things people are going to. There's it's only going to make more money in every single sense of the word and people who always talk about the dilution of the product or. You know, whatever they you know, it's all those people are there just those are the same people who are afraid and resistant to any form of change and evolution. Hmm.
01:15:47
Speaker
It's the same type of people and hockey can and will sustain 40 teams. And I'm telling you this next few next couple of decades, there there's going to be more expansion. And honestly, I think there could and should be 40 teams. Maybe they redo the divisions, but I think it should just be same divisions. And I already have at least a lot of my list of where I think hockey will could and would work.
01:16:15
Speaker
Yeah, I think on a later episode, we can finally go through with that. I was just going to suggest that, give you guys both homework to come up with two teams, two, two like locations, two cities for each division that would bring us up to 40. I think that'd be fun. We could talk about that next episode.
01:16:31
Speaker
The rule is, though, you can't move Detroit out of the Eastern Conference because they refuse Columbus as well. So, you know. In terms of just a couple other things I want to talk about really quickly, it's almost kind of in the, hey, can you guess who this was type of thing? We got a couple of them. The first one I want to talk about is number one galar. Can you pronounce? Can you pronounce?
01:16:57
Speaker
On r slash hockey earlier this week, somebody posted the graphic, the most points in a single season for a Montreal Canadiens player since 2000. Number one is Alexei Kovalev with 84 points.
01:17:21
Speaker
and then Sakukoyo75, Maxdomi72, Nick Suzuki this year with 71, and then Sakukoyo again in 2002, 2003 with 71 points. Will that knowledge that it maybe wasn't the strongest team surrounding Carey Price, will that knowledge stop you from joking about Carey Price number one galar? Because it won't make me stop laughing about it. No. It's a fact. It's not a joke.
01:17:51
Speaker
It's not slash J is slash sirs
01:17:59
Speaker
I saw this and immediately my thought was like, yeah, I don't care. Just because it's funny, right? Like, I think most people know, like, Carey Price was, I mean, one of the best of his generation. Maybe not someone that, you know, you follow to a tee to potentially ruin all of hockey Canada's goaltending. Yes. But yeah, it can be true. It can be true. But hey, at the same time, look at the Bruins this year.
01:18:25
Speaker
84 points and no seven away for Kovalev's pretty equivalent to what David posture knocks doing right now. And then the Bruins still have like Charlie coil and then filling up team. It's similar. You're bitching. I just wanted to set sin up for a chance to take shots at the Habs, but I did it instead. Yeah, you nailed it. Jeff Skinner became the 11th youngest player in NHL history to reach 1000 career games played.
01:18:51
Speaker
Um, there's some interesting names on this list. Fuck. I just thought of the, I'm so sorry. I, we got, we got to rewind a little bit. I thought of the best salt lake city team name, the golden plates.
01:19:11
Speaker
You got the golden knights and the golden plates. Yes. Oh, the Salt Lake City Joseph Smiths. Yeah. Yeah. I was going to say, shout out to what's his name. He just wanted to fuck multiple women.
01:19:26
Speaker
Anyway. Please continue. I will. I will. I just thought this was interesting. Dale Howardchuck was the youngest guy to reach 1,000 career games at 30 years old. And then there's some other names on there that aren't surprising. Vincent Domfus, Patrick Marlowe was the third youngest to do it. Brian Bellows, Pierre Turjan, Anze Kopitar, Chris Gratton.
01:19:52
Speaker
I didn't know that Chris Grattan had 1,000 career games played. I don't even know who you are. That was one of the ones that surprised me a little bit. What, Sabers Legend, if I'm not mistaken, Chris Grattan. He played a bunch of different teams. But that was a surprising one. And then Scott Stevenson and Luke Richardson. So some interesting company.
01:20:19
Speaker
for Jeff Skinner, and I only bring this up because last night on Twitch, Architect popped into my chat and he said, Sabers have missed the playoffs for the 13th year in a row, end me. Jeff Skinner still hasn't played a career playoff game either. He ends up out of Carolina right around the time they get good. Now he's in Buffalo. Wow. I feel so bad for Jeff Skinner. He's fucking trash.
01:20:46
Speaker
trash the sabers of trash by the way on that list the only other player to not have a playoff game by the time of reaching their 1000th game is nobody Jeff Skinner is the only one the lowest total was Chris Gratton with 40 playoff games by the time he reached his 1000th game Skinner was still at zero oh
01:21:15
Speaker
It's honestly impressive how bad the teams have been that he has been on. Yeah.
01:21:22
Speaker
to the two fun ones really quickly to wrap this up. Sidney Crosby has tied Wayne Gretzky for the most point per game seasons in league history. He also hit 40 goals on the season and the NHL put up a graphic for Crosby. What else was happening when he recorded his first point per game season?
01:21:51
Speaker
And some of these facts are intriguing. It would have been 2000. Oh, wait. Lockout 2007 because he had one hundred fifty like his sophomore season, I think. So they're counting the oh five oh six season for Crosby on this. OK. Because his was a lockout. Oh four oh five then. Oh four oh five. Oh, OK. It was Ovi that missed his rookie year. Crosby did not. OK. So yeah, they competed the same year.
01:22:20
Speaker
So, Sidney Crosby, by the way, in that rookie year, had 102 points in 81 games. Yeah. Silly. This graphic. What happened in that 0506 season? Well, Connor Boudard was born. Twitter was founded. High School Musical first aired. Oh, God. Pluto lost its status as a planet.
01:22:50
Speaker
Any guesses of what the number one movie was? In 0506. Yes, so I believe... Let's see. The Departed? Not The Departed. Shit. So it is counting as a 2006 film that they had on this graphic as the biggest movie of the year. And it was.
01:23:20
Speaker
A sequel. A Disney sequel. Ew. Iron Man. No. It's not Iron Man 2. Not Iron Man 2. Good guess, though. A sequel in 06. Spiderman 2?
01:23:39
Speaker
Not Spider-Man either.
Reflecting on 2006's Top Movie & Song
01:23:40
Speaker
Huh. The top movie was Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest. Shit, that was that long ago? Yeah. That movie's 18 years old this year. Jesus Christ. Holy hell. And the number one song. Bad Day by Daniel Powder.
01:24:01
Speaker
Oh my god. You had a bad day. You had a bad day. The camera don't lie. The camera don't lie Rick.
01:24:22
Speaker
Noted a Canadian Daniel powder the the pride of Vernon, BC. I'm sorry That the CRTC made the play that sound like fucking crazy, man There have been so many songs and I'm like, well, it's probably popular And then I realized it's like no the reason why it's popular in Canada is because they have to play Canadian content. Mm-hmm Yeah, that's how I uh, that's how I discovered Ray got big yeah and magic and
01:24:52
Speaker
Why you gotta be so rude? Don't you know I'm human too? God, there's some good ones. There's some good ones.
Conor McDavid's Impressive Stats
01:25:04
Speaker
Also because we can't mention Wayne Gretzky without also mentioning Conor McDavid. I saw this stat too. Had Conor McDavid never scored a goal in his career, he would still be over a point per game off of assists.
01:25:18
Speaker
That's so fucked. That's similar to the Gretzky stand. If he never scored, he'd still be the leading point getter all the time. By the way, I think another stat. I don't think we mentioned this yet. McDavid, maybe he's already hit 100 assists. If you guys don't know this, do you know the only three other players in NHL history who have recorded 100 assist seasons?
01:25:45
Speaker
My guess is Lemieux Gretzky and Thornton. No, Thornton never hit it. No, he had the 92. Yeah, yeah. Was that right about Lemieux and Gretzky? Yes, you were. I mean, yeah, that one almost seems obvious. But who's the third one? Can we get an era?
01:26:07
Speaker
Um, seventies, 70 fill us. No. Close. Bobby or of course. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, if you didn't get it, I'm like, Oh, you're going to be so mad. Doogie. Yeah. Well, there we go. Bobby or.
Exceptional Status in Hockey
01:26:29
Speaker
The last thing to note as we wind down for today is that some history was made today in the WHL as defenseman Landon DuPont became just the ninth player in the history of the CHL to be granted exceptional status.
01:26:49
Speaker
The defenseman, huh? Yes, he is the first defenseman in WHL history and only the second player in WHL history to accomplish the feat after Conor Baddard. Yeah. So I wanted to talk about the history of exceptional status really quick because we future land in DuPont, by the way, is eligible for the twenty twenty seven draft. Oh, shit, maybe not.
01:27:20
Speaker
He is currently 14 years old out of Calgary, listed at 511 and 170 pounds, by the way, it's at 14 at 14. He turns 15 on May 28th. Macklin spent four years in college, but we need this guy. He is playing an edge school. You 18 prep edge. Oh, yeah. In Utah. Everyone's talking about like edging.
01:27:49
Speaker
Again, he's 14 years old and an under 18 league where he had 62 points and 30 games in the regular season, 19 goals again as a defender and 16 points and five playoff games. No shit. He was granted exceptional status with numbers like that, right? Like he looks insane. The history, though, of eligible status.
01:28:15
Speaker
The rule was enacted in 2005 and since then there have been just 9 players to be granted exceptional status. Let me know if in hindsight you think it worked out for these players. Oh man. Any idea by the way of the very first to be granted exceptional status?
01:28:39
Speaker
John Tavares. When did they start it? Correct. Endurance. Mmm. Oh yeah. Okay. 2005 John Tavares was the first player to be granted exceptional status, which was a good call. Yes. I mean, obviously he, you know, to this day, I mean, you know, say what you want about the contract and whatever. John Tavares. He's a monstrous player. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he is.
01:29:04
Speaker
Absolutely worthy of a gap. He should have been granted exceptional status And for the record his numbers by the way before his first year in the by the way in his first year in the OHL in 2005 2006 He put up 77 points in 65 games as a 15 year old Heading into the age 16. Yeah the year before that He was playing for the Toronto Marlboro's AAA team
01:29:34
Speaker
under 16 where in 72 games he posted 158 points with 91 goals and also played a step up in the OPJHL the uh god what the hell did that stand for Ontario Provincial Junior Hockey League
01:29:53
Speaker
Yes, now known as just the OJHL, where he had 28 points in 20 games. He was an absolute monster. He went into junior, was an absolute monster there. His second season, by the way, 0607 in Oshawa, 134 points in 67 games. Ridiculous. He was a monster before the exceptional status. He was a monster afterwards. Obviously went on to be the face of the Islanders until he wasn't. And still.
01:30:23
Speaker
You're talking about a player now that has a career 0.94 points per game after 1,103 career games. Great career. So it worked out for him. Yes. I like this. The second did not happen until 2011. Six years in between. Defenseman, Aaron Ecklad. Oh, Ecklad. Fuck, yeah.
01:30:48
Speaker
Vlad was granted exceptional status. Could've worked. Aaron Eckblad, broken to the league at 18. He's had some injury troubles, for sure. Before his first year in the OHL, for the Sun County Panthers under 16 team, AAA level, 34 points in 30 games as a defenseman,
01:31:13
Speaker
So not the craziest numbers necessarily goes to the Barry Colts, takes him a couple of years to really kind of put up those outrageous numbers, but does debut at age 18 for the Florida Panthers, had 39 points in 81 games after being the first overall pick that year. Has had a really solid career, but has also had a lot of trouble staying healthy. He has not played a full season of hockey since the 2018-2019 season. Yeah.
01:31:43
Speaker
Now, obviously, you got Covid in the mix there, but he's been limited to 51 games this year, 71 last year. So he had early injury troubles in his career, man. It sucks. Yeah. So still a really, really solid career. I don't think that's when you look at like, oh, man. But, you know, not to the level of John Tavares. Yeah. Next one, the very next year, Connor McDavid 2012, Connor McDavid was the third player ever to be granted exceptional status.
01:32:13
Speaker
And his numbers lost are obviously fucking insane. Jesus Christ. I want to hear these, though. So 2011, 12. For the Toronto Marlboros U-16 team, there was the GTHL under 16 League. Where he posted 77 points in 33 games. It gets better.
01:32:43
Speaker
He also that year played for the Marlboros in the U16 AAA League. Where in 89 games, he posted 209 points. You gave him the puck. That was, it was, it was fine. That's, that's like two and a half plus points per game. That's stupid.
01:33:07
Speaker
His first year in the area as a rookie, 66 points in 63 games as a 15 to 16 year old is outrageous. And then obviously he'd get better from there his last year in Erie in his draft year, 47 games, 120 points. That's while getting her with a wrist injury. I'm taking a fight, by the way. Yes. And in the playoffs, he put up 49 points in 20 games with 21 goals. Jesus. And then obviously we do not have to talk about
01:33:38
Speaker
His Oilers run, where he got hurt in his first year as well. Came back and scored the most iconic end-to-end goal in his career so far. Going through an entire team, everyone's like, is it gonna be the same way as it comes back? I think it was first fucking ship, goes through the entire team, one hands it. God. Sex!
01:34:04
Speaker
He's just he's unbelievable, right? Like I read off John Tavares his numbers Connor McDavid through six hundred and forty three games played as a career point per game of one point five two John Tavares is stellar at point nine four. Yeah, McDavid's at a one five two and through forty nine playoff games is at a one point five three
01:34:33
Speaker
So he gets it done in the playoffs too. I mean, we don't have to hype up Connor McDavid. He is the pure definition of generational talent. If Connor McDavid were to retire today due to a freak injury or health complication, he is a first ballot Hall of Famer. I don't know. Fuck. First ballot right there. Player number four in 2013, defenseman.
01:35:01
Speaker
Sean Day. Sean Day is the first name on this list that didn't really work out. Yeah, make that face. He's a career AHLer now. I mean, that's still fucking good. That's still great. But for a guy who had exceptional status to not get anywhere higher than that,
01:35:20
Speaker
You're talking about three number one overall picks between Tavares, Ekblad, and McDavid before Sean Day went. And in 2016, he was drafted 81st overall in the third round by the New York Rangers.
01:35:35
Speaker
His first year before going to miss a saga, he played in a 16 and under AAA league, had 35 points in 63 games as a defenseman. His career high in the OHL, which he was in the OHL for his entire run, was 47 points in his final year. And then, yeah, to this day has just two NHL games played.
01:36:02
Speaker
AHL time, 272 games, 55 games in the ECHL. He just never captured.
01:36:12
Speaker
what was, you know, seen heading into that, you know, exceptional status for whatever reason. It just didn't work out. And that's kind of the point of this is you don't know for sure. But obviously, by the time we get to the end of the list, you'll be able to see like, OK, what is the success rate of this? But yeah, he was the first guy to miss out and.
01:36:34
Speaker
Obviously, that's tough. You go from Tavares, Ekblad, McDavid, and then, oh, who's the next guy? Probably not easy, but is still a professional hockey player to this day. 2015. Forward. Joe Valeno. Oh, yeah, Valeno. Hmm. Yeah, yeah, OK. It feels like another kind of miss here, like he's been more successful than Sean Day.
01:37:02
Speaker
Went 30th overall in 2018. That first year before going to the queue, he had 52 points in 41 games. And then goes to the QMJHL and doesn't post over a point per game season until age 17. In his draft year, 104 points. The year after his draft year, actually 104 points in 59 games.
01:37:29
Speaker
has played on the Red Wings this year, all season long, 75 games. He has 227 career games with 63 points, a 0.28 point per game mark. Not great yet. That's around the time where you're like, OK, man, exceptional status. You know, three hits in a row, but then two misses. Brings us to 2019. Chain right. So far, so good. Remains to be seen, but yeah, looks good.
01:37:59
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, his numbers, when granted exceptional status, he played in an under 16 league, the Don Mills Flyers, 150 points in 72 games. OK, that team, I will say one thing about that team. That team might be one of the greatest minor hockey teams to ever play in the GTHL. There is a story, I want to talk about this because it's kind of like crazy how that team rallied behind each other.
01:38:29
Speaker
The goaltender of that team and the mother were brutally murdered by their father, by the husband. It was like a free thing that happened. And the whole team rallied behind the passing of basically their brother, essentially, with their goalie. And they had one of the greatest seats. They only lost like three games all year. It was something no one has ever seen before.
01:38:58
Speaker
And like for that team, for him to have that many points, obviously it's a great player, but like that whole team just bonded behind each other. And they helped definitely help push up their draft prospects as well. That 2018, uh, 19 team as well, uh, featured Brent Clark from
01:39:17
Speaker
Um, Brennan Offman, Shane Wright. I mean, there was some big, big names. It was stacked. And that goalie was looking like, was like a decent like, OHL prospect too. And then obviously Shane Wright in junior does very, very well. Has gotten six games with the Kraken this year. They've still been kind of, you know, keeping him in the AHL, letting him ripen up a little bit more, which seems to be the right call. Uh, still just turned 20 in January. Jury's still out, but looking good so far.
01:39:47
Speaker
Then you have Connor Bedard. Yeah. Yep. Not too much else to say there about Bedard. Although in terms of looking at those numbers heading into his exceptional status grant for West Vancouver Academy Prep and an under 18 league as a 14, 15 year old, he had 84 points in 36 games with 43 goals.
01:40:12
Speaker
That's pretty good. Pretty good. And then obviously COVID kind of disrupted his first year in the W, in the dub. And then over the next two years, he had 100 points in 62 games. And then last year in his draft year, 143 points in 57 games as the captain of the Regina Pats. It's kind of a dark. Yep. Is that the last player to get exceptional status? There's one more prior to land in DuPont this year, 2022 Michael Misa.
01:40:45
Speaker
This is another one, obviously, that we cannot judge yet because he is not draft eligible until next year in 2025. Saginaw spirit. Yes, but with that exceptional status, he had 43 points in 27 games for the Mississauga Senators in an under 16 league. His first year was Saginaw, 56 points in 45 games. This year he has 75 in 67.
01:41:11
Speaker
So still a really solid pace for a young player. The big thing will be this upcoming year. Yeah. The draft year. Do you see that explosion of being well over a point per game? But he's on track and it's obviously easier to judge forwards compared to defenseman because you can look at certain numbers and be like, Oh, okay. That bloods numbers weren't crazy, but he did pan out. Whereas Sean days, you know, numbers weren't crazy and well, not so much for him, but
01:41:38
Speaker
A quick little stroll down memory lane with the history of players with exceptional status and I am intrigued to see what Landon Dupont can do. Again, now that he is in or going to be in the Dubya with... Oh god, who is he going to be with next year? I forgot who he was granted status for.
01:42:01
Speaker
It's fine. It's unimportant. Landon DuPont. Who the hell is he playing for next year or has it not been announced? I don't think it's been announced. Does that make sense? Anyway, gentlemen, today was fun. Yeah, we had a good time. Not every podcast we talk about the history of soaking, but you know, when when the topic comes up, you got to take advantage of it. I would say got to take advantage. Endurance.
01:42:30
Speaker
What do you have going on?
01:42:32
Speaker
Nothing. Words in my priority. I'm not sure if I'm going to stream in the next couple of days. Who knows? I'm just going to probably play Road to the Show, hit baseballs, and play Mario Golf for the Switch, which apparently has motion controls. I mentioned it before. And it's been something that Polina and I have been playing. Polina doesn't know how to swing a golf club. So it was fun trying to teach her the motions of how to golf.
01:43:02
Speaker
And it was good. It was good bonding. Great way to stay in shape. Yeah. Then what do you have going on? Yeah, still got my St. Louis blues series going on. You went blues. Yeah, we went blues. Yeah, just did some Vegas-esque trades today going all in for a playoff run. So that was a lot of fun. And yeah, I'm going to be launching another series quite soon, not NHL. I'm very, very, very excited about it.
01:43:32
Speaker
There you go. And of course, you can catch them and I talking about 25 year old animated cartoon. Hell yeah. If you want to. I am still going to be on the Bay Bar grind in the meantime. Potentially no podcast next week, by the way.
Closing Remarks & Future Plans
01:43:51
Speaker
I'm still waiting for some other things to sort themselves out, but there is a very good chance that while my wife has vacation from school next week, that we're just gonna go on a road trip. So yeah, keep an eye out on the Twitter side of things, but yeah, there might not be a show next week. We shall see what happens. And who knows, there might not be another show ever. This could be the last one. Maybe I, you know, get shot in Tennessee or something. Who's to say?
01:44:14
Speaker
Why'd I have to bring it there? What's the matter with me? We love you, everybody. We will see you next time. Or we won't. Who's to say? Don't stare at the sun, you fucking idiots. Yeah, I think we can end the podcast on that, maybe. Can anybody else top that? No, that's it. I'm just going to keep this going. I'm not hitting the stop button. Can't stop. It's OK.