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It's Bosty O'Clocky
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Professional podcast guest Matt Bosty joins the show to hash out his twitter beef with one of our hosts and give his thoughts on various sens offseason related topics, including Korpisalo's eyesight, Jakob Chychrun's thirst for raw milk, and Spartacat's eternal youth.
You can reach Bosty on Bluesky at bosty.ca.
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Transcript
Introduction and Personal Anecdotes
00:00:05
Speaker
I don't even know what he was thinking. He was just a complete bird town. Greedy Kachunk. Amos is my best friend. I got a lot of good-looking noobs on my team. You just got a noof. I've got them. I've got them, we'll see.
00:00:23
Speaker
Hi, everyone, and welcome to episode Andrew Hammond of Elite Sends Brain. As always, my name is Beata, and I'm joined, of course, by my co-host, Twitter user, at EricssonSperner, but also by another guest, and it's a, ah you know, very well-known guest in the Sends podcast space, a professional podcast guest, if you will. Hello, Matt Bosti. How's it going?
Controversial Era and Social Media Insights
00:00:51
Speaker
Hello, hello. Thank you for having me. I'm sorry for any blowback that this will get. I am fully in my canceled era. So this will this will be a little controversial, and I'm going to lean into it just so just so we're all on the same page as we start out.
00:01:05
Speaker
That works. In fact, our plan here was to cancel you a little bit more. um You know, this is not just your first appearance on a podcast hosted by me, which is weird because like we've known each other a while and you've never come on my podcast. This is also, as I understand it, the first Elite Sends Brain podcast that you will ever listen to because you have claimed that you only listen to podcasts that have you on as a guest. So right off the bat, my first question for you is, why do you hate women? It's not that I hate women, it's that I just hate people who aren't me. And if I'm on the cast, I know it could be good quality.
00:01:50
Speaker
So then I can trust and I can go from there. But anyway, it is true. like I can think back. I think I wasn't on now. this I might be leaning more into my women hating angle here, which maybe I shouldn't be. But I remember when you and when when you and Poppy were doing your podcast, ah I made Poppy mad by telling her her microphone was really, really bad. And then offering a gamer headset, which I believe she said, I will never wear a gamer headset in my life. And I think that sucked any chance I had of getting on the podcast. No, actually, ah this and Melancon Life only ever had two guests. It was Jared and Ian Mendez. So... So elite. So elite. I don't understand why I wasn't a part of that. And I understand there's some some drama between you and and my co-host as well. um So I might have to clear the air here before we get started.
00:02:47
Speaker
We'll do a we'll have sharing circle. Yeah, I don't even remember where it started. I think there was stolen hockey o'clocky. It started because at one point you said, I want a Twitter beef. Why is the one beef giving me a Twitter? And I just lead really heavily into that. And that that's that's all I think it came from. I think you're right. And I think immediately after I tweeted that, I was like, I forgot it ever happened. But that's perfect. That's perfect. Yeah, exactly. It's the best way of doing it.
Social Media Habits and Strategies
00:03:23
Speaker
So yeah, we have had but now we're both off Twitter. So like, that i think could have ended. I don't know if it's still on blue sky. I can't tell. I'm pretty sure your name is still Matt Bosti's number one hater, right? Yeah, it is Matt Bosti's number one hater.
00:03:37
Speaker
That was like other reasons. That was a different hypothesis. Well, the thing of about Blue Sky is like, I don't know if you could have a feud on there because it's so it's so just, it's just such a weird space. Like it's kind of nice because nothing happens ever. It's just like eight posts an hour and like four of the posts are like, I saw a dog. And then you're like, Oh, that's kind of nice. It's just like a weird anti Twitter where no one's really like farming anger, but also there's just no content. So it's just like, I don't know, like I think it's like a Google like Zen room that they put for their overworked employees. It's like this little social media space that's just like low sensory. It's a, it's a nice little accident. Yeah. It's like, if there's ever hate on there, it's like, Oh my gosh, nice. Someone's interacting with me. Thank God. It's weird though, because it's like, it's got you, it's got the sensitive shit and, uh,
00:04:33
Speaker
How do I forget the good thing? You know the one, everyone, he loves Bob Dylan. Yeah, they break senators. like It's got the elite, the elite people on there. But just like it's just like the normal version of that. It's really nice. It's not just like Twitter, like hyper stylized, realistic, unrealistic thing. It's just like everyone's going about their day. but ah What a place. What an era. Um, so speaking of you quitting Twitter and going to blue sky instead, uh, I actually still being on Twitter, unfortunately, seen some concerning rumors about you, which is that many people seem to believe that you have burner accounts. Could you clear that up here?
00:05:19
Speaker
But like everyone has more than one account at like something sure at some point, because when you're blocked by people, you have to have a second one that you open up an incognito so you can still can still see what people are saying. If they say they don't have that on the other side, they were they were subtweeting me after I blocked them. So it's not like I'm better than them or they were better than me at this point. But no, i I'm so unplugged. Every once in a while, I'll go on. i have a One that is logged in on a completely different computer that I don't think I know what the password even is. It's a state of an old, like if you want to try and track it down, it's the <unk> a Renaissance painting of a person, of a child who was found in ah in the German wilderness that didn't have the ability to speak.
00:06:12
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it is It is that image as the avatar and I don't think it follows anyone or has made any interactions of any kind. Wow, so you're not like engaging in Twitter beef from like 10 different burner accounts because I've been told that that's what's happening. That was insane when I left. Everyone was just like, Hey, check out the, like the brain, the brain worms these people have after you quit. And it's like my favorite part out of all of this are people who I've had run in with who I have like, I'm talking like two or three years later, uh, we're just like,
00:06:48
Speaker
That's right. Never liked a guy and it's like you haven't said anything in three years and like you didn't like me because I said hey don't follow Liz the TikTok and they're like well don't tell me what to do and it's like have you been sitting about this for three years? Like have you just been like simmering like every time you see one of my tweets and be like I'm so mad and then I quit you're like I gotta I gotta say it. There was a guy who I used to buy chicken tenders from at a local grocery store that made me feel like I hate how pretentious Bucky was. I hope someone spits in your tenders. Oh, joke's on you, buddy. When you quit that place, the tenders went downhill. You were better at making them. So I stopped shopping there. So no chance, buddy. Y'all had a weird beard net? No, I always kind of felt bad for him because like he didn't really fit his beard. So it was like, imagine a beard net, and the beard comes through the beard net. So it's like a weird layered beard net. it was It was a look. Wow. Wow. you just
00:07:45
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easily. I would see that guy and I'd be like, oh, okay, now this is Tender Tuesday today, I'm getting my two chicken tendies, a little bit of wedges, diffidence of honey garlic sauce, can't be beat. I'm sorry, Liam Hill. Wow. Five dollars. It was two new Tuesdays. Now it's five dollars for tenders. What's wrong with this country? Wow. We need change. We need change. I think there's only one guy. No. I sometimes got that whenever I would get like canceled, all these people that I had been you know had never interacted with or had like you know been polite to this whole time who I'd met in person were like, that's right, I always hated her. It's like, why were you following me? yeah what What's going on? That's the beauty of social media.
00:08:29
Speaker
If you don't like what a person does, you just block them, mute them, you move on, or you don't, you don't like, you don't look at their words. Like I don't, I don't necessarily think Tyler, the creator, is always correct, but what he says, like, just close your eyes. Yeah, if you saw one of my tweets being like racism bad, and you had me get mad, just pretend you didn't see it. So a message to any of Bosti's haters who are tuning in to find out what he's up to these days. You can just turn off the episode. No, no, no. You want to stay the whole time engaged from start to finish because who knows what I'm going to say about you? Right in the middle. We might be talking about something else, but I might just sneak in a little, a little quick, a little jab, a little something.
00:09:15
Speaker
It's like a few episodes ago when we did a discourse lightning round, but we placed it after our 15-minute tangents about Chapel Rhone. So we were like, if you stick around, you get to hear the discourse. But first, you have to listen to our Chapel Rhone tags. What's even planned? We were just like, we're going to talk about Chapel Rhone for 15 minutes in the moment. And then we were like, oh, shoot, we have an episode planned. But that's that's what makes the podcast good. Like when you listen to like, well, like what we're doing right now, instead of talking about about hockey in any way, it's it's like why a podcast is good. But if you listen to do a podcast and you could tell that they're just trying to hit every beat
Authenticity in Online Persona
00:09:54
Speaker
that they planned out on a thing, it's like, no, I don't listen to the radio for a reason. This has to be organic and fun. Oh, actually, I had a U-Haul for a move and we had to listen to the radio. It's so weird now.
00:10:06
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The radio is a weird place to be. It played, I heard the same song four times in eight hours, and also every single bit in the middle of it was like, I don't know, the worst Twitter bits that would go on, and it went, aw, it was good. I might become a radio guy now that I've said it out loud, ironic. An ironic potty D9-9 listener. Jini and Josie in morning, let's go! I could see that happening for you. I mean, like, you need, you waste entertaining yourself now that you're not just, like, online all the time. There's so much time. There's so much time that i I'm doing things with and it's it's weird. It's just like, Oh, I'm out. And I'm like, Oh, I'm not going to, not going to check to make sure it's like, Oh, i've I've got some meetings that work today. I'm not going to like sneak a seat in the middle of it. It's just like red, black sign someone, even though I don't at all like the CFL, it was just the easiest way to farm weird boomers to get in your comments, which is entertaining.
00:11:02
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Yeah, hey I feel like I i tell I've told the story a lot. I don't know if I told it on the podcast, because I've repeated the times, but the first time that bossy and I met in person, our first ever in person conversation was bossy explaining how easy it is to bait Leafs fans on Twitter. And I remember having a moment of like, yeah, he's the exact same person. I appreciate it. that I think that's what surprises people the most. is just I don't have the like capacity to have different personas. I'm just completely the same, except like sometimes I put on, like, I'll ramp it up. I'll get the energy up for like certain situations. But this is me, baby.
00:11:50
Speaker
but It's bossy o'clocky. That'll be the title of the episode. Oh, yeah. Thank you so much. excellent I don't have to ask. I need to keep asking you about this. What are your plans for bossy.ca? That I so what, what I want to do with bossy.ca is start like an old early 2000s forum. Like I want it to have just like a whole bunch of things and like every topic will just be like a bunch of folks that I've ever made. And then I'll link it to people on my lovely business card. And then we'll go there. See, the thing is, I have your business card on my fridge and it says bossy.ca. And it's great because when people come over, they can be like, what is this? And I'm like, just go to bossy.ca. It's this great website. But now it doesn't lead anywhere. So I need to get on that so that I can direct people to it whenever they come to my house. Have you ever got the silver seven cents to SBA?
00:12:49
Speaker
Dot CA? Not good dot com. Not dot com. Oh no, I'm going to do this right now. Live pod reaction.
00:13:01
Speaker
It takes a while and I also didn't pay for like, uh, there we go. I told the owner, when y'all were transitioning away, I said, hey, make sure you buy the .ca. I see people who are dealing with things like this all the time, and it went two months, and I was like, okay, I'm gonna do it. And then I'm going to have some fun with it. Hi everyone, this is cliver7cents.ca. Great website. Great website. I mean, I have no complaints. Does the owner of this website redirects to know about this? They do. They do. And they love it. And that was one thing because I said, I'm like, is there any bid I should do for Elite Cents, right? And they're like, oh, push cliver7cents.ca over and over. Any time cliver7cents.com is mentioned, make sure you say also about CA. Take a look.
00:13:56
Speaker
How is your credit card ready? It's good stuff! I will i hope get relay this information to the Silver Seven team. Yeah. if there There is, I'm very amenable. And if a solution can be had where everyone is happy for absolutely zero dollars, I will do it. Okay. Cause I was going to say, bossy, are you asking us for money? Do you know how much effort we've put into subscription drives? How hard it is to keep the site running? The last thing I wanted, so because like I work in the domain space is I see so many people who have a dot.com and then a.ca gets purchased in like
00:14:34
Speaker
it uses fishing and it is like a nine month like insane like process to try and get stuff down and I just don't want to see that happen to us. I'm trying to think of a way to say a nice thing but also not too nice. The third best sense blog online. What are the first two? Okay now that was that was the worry.
00:14:58
Speaker
Welcome to your Carlson years. I'll give you that one. That's okay. There we go. i Okay. Yeah, but they kind of disappeared after Carlson. They did a good thing and they just had like, like semi yearly one. Uh, I'm going to go with the hockey forum, hockey, what's that awful hockey forums that like people used to yell on hockey. I am. It's the eyeball. It's the eyeball. You two are young and still have your life ahead of you. So like my early sense discourse was on like hockeytrainforum.net.org, flashco.uk. And it was just- It was better send a log if it's number seven. Oh, it was amazing. Cause it would be like, Ratic Boggs for, if you moved to Lonnie who says no, and it would be like 700 pages of people. I see. So you enjoy it for the like- your age for the really bad posts that you find. Yeah, absolutely. Silver7cents.com is just too high quality for me. I need to drop the quality to enjoy a place, to feel at home, to know I can make a little bit of a mess and not get yelled at.
00:16:02
Speaker
Okay, I'll try not to be offended on behalf of this podcast then. That you're willing to come on this podcast, even though it's a little too much. I don't know what this podcast is, first time ever interacting in any capacity. so Yeah, because as we've established, you are- I won't do it. Yeah. That worked out and got me on Zoomcast. I tweeted that and then I think the next day Louis was like, hey, You want to come on and then it was like, we're going to do a like player ratings. And I'm like, oh man, you're getting me on. like That's the craziest one to go on because I go with like the lightest like knowledge and Louis is like yours. And then like me and Adam are like, we're good. And then like Louis is just like actually bad because of all this. And we're like, well, we got nothing to back it up.
00:16:51
Speaker
They brought me on a few times to talk PWHL. And yet, like, Louis knows more about PWHL stats and stuff than I do. Like, I was listening to their draft recap episode. We'll get to the draft later. But, um, and he was just saying stuff that I didn't know. I was like, I'm learning stuff from this. Why did you have me on to talk to PWHL? Like, what is this? No, it's fun. It's good. We're in the Golden Era since podcast. I mean, in so many ways.
00:17:22
Speaker
Let's not get into discourse here.
NHL Senators Discussion
00:17:26
Speaker
So anyways, um now that you have expressed that you are not the right person to talk about serious things, let's do that anyways. Let's talk about the off-season, because the sets haven't done much this off-season, but I guess that's normal because like the playoffs are still going on, so they can't do that much. But um what do you think they need to get up to? I'm starting to worry about Shinkansen. like Yeah, I feel like, I feel like we need to get some people out of here before we get Shane Pinto really signed. Like if you kind of think about our center depth, it's kind of wacky because we've got Nora's Greg Pinto and that's kind of, that's going to be our big middle three centers and one winger. But then we also have, I think it's Chartier and Catholic. Like they're not in the same realm of things, but like you got to do something with them. So I think we're going to probably pitch one of them at least for like a seven
00:18:19
Speaker
Uh, and then like how many middling that like bottom pair of players do we need? Like I got a soft spot for Parker Kelly and he actually played really well under Jock Markey. But like everyone else who kind of played in that role down there, it's just like, if you got rid of them, you'd at least understand where you can swap Pinto. Cause if Pinto is going to be the second line center, then yeah, like a five times six makes a lot of sense. But if he's going to be paid for third line center thing, but don't know if you can afford to go above five. for a player like that. But Shane Finto should be the second line center. Is Josh Norris real? Is he alive? Is his arm going to be attached to his body? like There's just so many weird question marks that are coming up around Shane Finto that I feel like it might go until like mid-July.
00:19:02
Speaker
before we get a Pinto info. Pinto info? No, I'm kind of departmental Pinto info. I see. Yeah, Pinto info, I don't know. But I feel like so much depends on Josh Norris, because it's like, you know, yeah, like you said, you know, will his arm be attached to his body in September? We don't know. And like, if he gets back to his old form and stays healthy, then yeah, he's the second line center. But like, you know, if it counts on him being the second-line center and then he isn't healthy, like, what do we do? Because we've now had like two seasons where either Pinto or Nora is like where they're not basically never in the same, I guess three seasons actually, where they're like never in the lineup at the same time, right? So it's like, maybe we do kind of need both of them. And Greg too is like, is Greg going to be a center, a winger, because they kind of caught him coupled all around. He kind of seems like he's definitely the third best center out of those three.
00:19:58
Speaker
but not necessarily like the third best player. like it like I think we were so blind for so long under Pierre Dorian that we're like, aw, that doesn't matter. Let's just get like as many prospects and just shove them in. It makes no sense. like You look at all of the players and people coming up in our middle six, and it's just like no cohesion. It's just like we can just jam them whenever, wherever, and it's fine. There was never any trade. Pierre Dorian was so attached to every single prospect that he had, but also at the same time had like the worst way of identifying who we needed. So he would just trace all of our draft picks that said semi-regular prospects, and then he'd be like, well, we've got a lot of prospects and I just added two new players, so everyone's going to have to fight it out.
00:20:46
Speaker
So no one had time to really kind of come in slowly and figure out where they want to go. Like, Jake Bishow was just kind of like, oh, you're not injured, go ahead. Oh, you're not going to figure it out where you want to go. Really great. You're ready to play. You're going to be second live, third live. Let's have some fun. Here are the thank yous here for some reason. So you got to kind of work around him. It was just the most absurd chaos. So that's kind of where I think Steve Sayles has to really realize, it's like, okay, if we have these players who are coming in, they're going to play a role, not just have fun, go with it. But it's also insane that he traded Nick Paul, because if you want a player who can do a little bit of everything, why would you trade Nick Paul? Why Nick Paul doesn't? He softheads big. like What else do you need if you're pure Dorian? I love Matthew Joseph, so I'm happy about that. but
00:21:33
Speaker
I was gonna say, yeah, did you see I guess you might not have seen it because this was all on Twitter. So I'm like reporting. Um, there are rumors that the Sens are talking to Philly, apparently. Um, no idea who they're talking about, but of course, naturally flyers fans are all on twitter you're like, Oh man, if we can get Brady Kachuck, like that's amazing. You know, I'm hoping for like Kachuck or Sanderson, they would really fit our team. You gotta be kidding me. Like Sanderson's you like, no way basically least available players on the side. Be off Twitter is amazing because I get my sense news through Google art.
00:22:10
Speaker
And it's like, here is the fifth beatwriter for the Boston Bruins being like, yeah, well, there was one where I'm like, you know what, I'm down for it. It was like, Pasternak and McAvoy for Kachop. And I'm like, all right, you know what? I'm kind of like, know no, no Kachop trade. But if you want to give us Pasternak and McAvoy, you got my attention. But like, that's some weird shit that gets pushed to you if you're not on Twitter. It's like, as though, the like, it's just like weird uncles at family gatherings who have watched three hockey games and no four names. And we'll just come up to you knowing you're a hockey fan and be like, hey, here's my hockey case. And you're just like, oh, that's awesome. So that's what Google, the hockey news is like. But Philly, I could see them, because they were kicking the tires on Matthew Joseph last year as well. In other words, we'd have to give up, like, a first to also get rid of him. But now he's high value. But I could see them going Joseph and Chikrin for something.
00:23:07
Speaker
I don't really know who. That's who we need. That's who I want. yeah That's a number one. Yeah. actually yeah We also traded Chikrin, then Bonk could be like the defenseman that we need. um Not that he's like a same caliber as Chikrin right now. We all look good. Maybe Bonkham Connecti. How about that? Joseph M. Tickern for Bonkham Connecti. That's my trade proposal. Flyers fans listening, tell me if I'm completely out of my mind. I still feel like that's more reasonable than people being like, what if we traded our like third-pairing defenseman in Travis Connecti with Madika Chuck and Jake Sanderson?
00:23:47
Speaker
Connecting would be insane too, because it would just also make more of a jam for our weird center. I'm also here for just reuniting Father and Son. Yeah, exactly. Let's make flyers fans maximally mad by saying Joel Fairby. All flyers fans mad, I think. That's making one flyers fan mad. Shout out to Victoria, we love you. Sometimes you just need to make one person very mad. Who are their goalies? Who are the flier's goalies? No one. One of them has been arrested, so I think their starting goaltender is no longer available. No, he's gone. He's not even a flier, so that's not a fear. It's kind of nice, too, that we don't always have the fear. Well, I tell a shattered that Pierre's going to just be like, don't worry, I'm going to pay for the biggest piece of shit.
00:24:46
Speaker
And then we're gonna have to deal with having it. Did he ever actually do that? But it just felt like that was something like after his Carlson and Stone comments of like, come to the hockey arena and fight me, which I have to say, an amazing thing. I don't think we ah like appreciated Pierre Dorian's insanely horrible media management skills he had. I appreciated him. I put out a whole tribute for him after he left. Oh, good! Just like every single time comparing Carlson to like a divine creation.
00:25:21
Speaker
On the 8th day, God created Eric Carlson. That's amazing! He created them like 12 or 14 months later. Like it is an absolutely insane era that like it sucks to live through. But like in five or six years, once we fund four or five cups, I'm still delusional. That will be something we look back on very fondly.
00:25:47
Speaker
Yeah. Oh yeah, we were talking about the fire. yeah yeah ah Matthew Joseph there makes sense. They have to do like a semi rebuild. They can't really burn it all down. So like players like Joseph gambling on Corpus sallow for pennies because that's definitely going to happen. that that's because i The problem with, are we going to the goalies? Yeah. Yeah. Let's go to goalies. There's no one there's no one available like if you look at the goaltending like the the USA class it's garbage but you either overpay for all marks or marks from or you like Gamble on like Anthony solars who got let him like four goals last night i Kind of coming in and and saving the day so it's just kind of like one of those things for okay wait a second
00:26:37
Speaker
And it says, it says in a particular thing, they said that Corpus sallow needs laser eye surgery or glasses. Like, Oh my God. Yeah. This is how little attention I've been paying. I didn't even know that. What? At some point it was like, yeah, Corpus sallow needs some, some eye things, which kind of makes sense because how many, like his death reduction helped off. What a sense. What a sensible moment where it's like we traded, we signed for this starting goalie who immediately his eyes degraded over an off season to the point where he needed to get laser eye surgery. Like, is that just not the most sense? It feels so sense. It's like Pascal Leclerc. To be fair, yeah, as somebody whose eyesight got dramatically worse very randomly, I think I relate to that. Like, that happens to me last year.
00:27:35
Speaker
And sometimes I wonder, like, yeah, what would it be like to be a pro athlete, especially a goalie where your eyesight is so important? Because you don't notice it at first. Like, I neither of you are wearing glasses now. So I guess you don't have this problem. But like, it takes you a while to realize that like, oh, I can't read street signs. Like I was going to the gym, I would go without my glasses because I had like decent eyesight. Like I was a minus two in each eye, which isn't too bad. And after a while I was going to the gym and I was like, I can't tell if other people are using these machines. Like I have to just see if they're using it. And I feel so strange and like, yeah, I'd be going out on runs and couldn't read street signs, couldn't read like the, um the countdown lights. I couldn't tell if it was like,
00:28:20
Speaker
15 seconds or five seconds left you know stuff like that um but so imagine i was a goaltender and it like it would take a little while you know i You know, my eyesight was better than that with my glasses. But even with glasses on where I was like, I can't read street signs properly. um And then it also continued to get worse after I got new glasses. So guys, if anyone listening knows what's wrong with my eyes, let me know. Probably has to do with living in a windowless apartment for two years because my optometrist did tell me that I need to look out windows more often. You got a ah doctor to tell you to touch grass.
00:29:04
Speaker
that is That is an elite, a very elite a claim you can make. You know what? I have been doing that. Yeah, you talked about like going to the gym and running. it's Like, yeah, okay, yeah, you're just having plenty of crass. You're not basically vlogging. Yeah, see, i was I was spending lots of time outside and everything. It's just, you know, you don't realize how, like, apparently it's just because I'm not looking long distance enough. And you don't realize it until somebody points it out to you that you're like, oh, I am only looking at the walls of my apartment because I have no windows.
00:29:38
Speaker
like Most of the day. I've lived in, my last place I lived in for near a decade, and it was a basement. And now I'm living in a room that's above ground and I'm just like, oh my God. You listeners can't see, but like look at this natural light. like I haven't been touched by this much natural light and inside my house in a decade. Yeah, it's just like, oh, it's blinding. I don't have curtains set up so I wake at six in the morning, but I was like, that's almost nice, but that's all because it's my second day.
00:30:09
Speaker
How I'm paid for it, if I don't have curtains up, i will I will put more of my records. It's like packed up in front of it, just trying to block some of the life. Yeah, fair enough. No, it's also like, I don't drive. Like, I can drive. I just don't have a car, and I live in a walkable area, so I haven't driven in like two years. And you you realize, like, when you're thinking about looking long distance, you're like, man, driving probably does that. And I read on the bus. Like, man, that's, there we go. I've solved my problem. That's why my eyesight is so bad. Save the planet or save my eyes, you know, I have to choose here.
00:30:46
Speaker
Can we also just say, can the Hudson Goldies not have stupid gold cages? I liked them at first, now I'm mad at them because they played bad. So like, I don't want to see a gold cage on either of these Goldies ever again. Also, I don't really want to see any of these Goldies on the set of Frozen Candy either. I like Forest Bird. But like, it's time. Let's do a swap. ah gika That's the name actually. That's the name that's been rumored. And people might be like, hey, bossy, you've always been a gust hater. And it's like, yeah, kind of. But that was just because there was that one year where he forgot how to play hockey. But so did all of the senators and it was insane. i But if we could get him back for a good price.
00:31:31
Speaker
Yeah, who knows? It's just so hard because it's like they overpaid for a goaltender last season and now and we knew at the time that it might backfire and it has. It feels like we're like the um ah the Devils from a few years ago where everyone was saying, you know, the the underlying numbers are good, like this is a good team if they can just get a save. And people aren't really saying that about The Sens, but I feel like they should be saying that about The Sens. The thing is, the thing I remember about Gustafson though, is that remember that thing where he was like, when I'm nervous, I can't feel my hands. And I was like, what did he say? Don't admit that. Don't tell anyone that. Like I'm for being open about like trauma and everything. Like that's not that gut. As a goalie, you don't be like, oh yeah, nervous and big game, my hands turn to garbage. Like it says that is just for you, King.
00:32:26
Speaker
I feel like that is just like the worst way to take your career as a goaltender because and even if you're really good in like normal games, people are going to look at that and be like, oh, but he says that he can't play this game in whatever, the game is actually important. I'm trying to think of all the goalies we've had that Matt Murray, because like, yeah. he's a Yeah, like, and that's just it, like, we are in, like, a very big contract. Everyone's like, well, this is a bad choice. Of course, it's not a big contract. So, like, four million isn't in pain. Like, backups are paid, like, 2.83. It was the five years that was... Yeah, it was... You never give goalies. Like, I'm a goalie person. I played goal growing up. I still, like, whenever there's a chance to play goal, I'll play goal. Oh, yeah, pictures of you playing goal at a plug in last six years ago.
00:33:19
Speaker
You're sweating, I think, like yeah three times the amount of liquid in my body. like yeah they me love your e yeah but Were you at the one where it was, for some reason, we did it in a dome on 40 degrees? And it was so hot? Yeah, of course you were at the one. That was the one where you were going to pick me up and I told you where to pick me up and you went somewhere else. Okay, okay, yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna re-litigate this here. So, Vlasty tells me his address, and he's like, oh, but it's hard to get to, so just pick me up. but I don't know if I should say who this is while you move, but it's fine. Yeah, so just pick me up in the parking lot of the Toys R Us. And Maribel, everyone knows that. So I was like, why am I going to the Toys R Us in Maribel when you gave me your address? Because the roads were so narrow, people were always parked, like, against each
Social Media Privacy and Nostalgia
00:34:09
Speaker
other.
00:34:10
Speaker
We're just running to the middle of the road. Jill, I was like, look, I can just park on the street or whatever. Why are you going to the parking lot of the Toys R Us? And so I went to his address, although he was right. It was actually like impossible to find. There was like a garbage can somewhere. Is that where Bossy lives? you know um and And then we texted him like, hey, we're here. We can't find the address. And he's like, I'm at the parking a lot of the Toys R Us right now. I was chilling under a tree. I was having good vibes. I had a case of Gatorade.
00:34:42
Speaker
it was ah It was just like a nice summer little trip. That was also the day, though, in going back to... I can't remember... Yeah, going back to, like, adopting where I live, where, on the way out, I think you were giving Joe a ride home. He took a picture of me in front of my ah my house, and then Peter Raymakers sent me a Google Maps pin or responded with a Google Maps pin of where I live, and I'm like, but... bud back
00:35:14
Speaker
I was too that can people that was like still in an era of Twitter where people were just like weirdly not careful about it. Remember one time that Trevor Shackles posted like a letter that people like people had sent him something? I think it was for actually our hockey pool and he won it or something. Yeah. And he the prize right he won the prize, and he just posted a picture of the letter that we have sent with his prize, which is like a fidget spinner, and it had his address on it, and he posted it to his public Twitter account. Yeah, what ah what a weird, like, Twitter was just fun. Like, you didn't have the people who, your haters jumping in on every post and, like, people watching you and all that. It was just like this little, like, echo chamber of fitness. Yeah.
00:36:01
Speaker
So anyways, yeah, you played goal at that. Yeah, I was really, really sweating. I remember at the end of that, like I was done as the other goalie was done. And I can't remember who it was. And like, one more? And everyone was like, no, oh, god, no, like okay, let's go home. yeah Why would you have this dome in the middle of July? It'd be crazy for that one. I don't know. That was the final sense blogger classic, wasn't it? I don't think there has been one sense. Now they do golf. They do the sense scramble. It was taken over by other people. Yeah. Yeah, that's the thing. It's like, I feel like the community just got too big where, and you know, blogs aren't as much of a thing anymore. So it's just you can't really, because before I think the early sense blogger classics were like Bunk's Mullet versus Silver 7, right? That was before my time. There's was, I think we should do now micro blog classics where we play like tiny little like model, like some nerdy like Warhammer version of hockey that is like a micro hockey game. I think that's the natural evolution.
00:37:00
Speaker
All right. That sounds fun. Anyways. No,
00:37:10
Speaker
you that's a great idea. or What were you saying about goalies? Oh yeah. But there's no one available. So like if you look down the list, it's like guts is one of the options. Uh, like all Mark and Mark's from our book that has bidding wars between any player that wants to update their goalies. Elvis. lekins Columbus is available, but that's literally just also Corpo Salo. He is the exact same situation. Don't do it. like St. Louis has Hofer, who is like kind of an okay goalie, but then you also look at Husso, who came out of them, and how bad he was for Detroit. it's just like it There's no one around and available.
00:37:52
Speaker
And both of our AHL goalies, like Sogarn and Marilainen, are not NHL ready at all when it comes to but it comes to an upgrade, unless they really come in different from last year. So it's like, we can make wide wide sweeping changes. But if we're going to be the like third prize goalie, like don't give up a single anything to
Goalie Market and Personal Experiences
00:38:13
Speaker
get one of these. Because as bad as Porpocello was last year, like it can't be worse. like he was the worst goalie in the league. and So like, if we're going to if we're going to give up any sort of but sort of like prospect or like draft pick or anything to try and get not one of the like eight class goalies that's going to be in the state, and they might might as well just gamble that our team under Travis Green, Travis Green coaching, which like, yeah we have oh, yeah, we question mark.
00:38:46
Speaker
Like, is that going to be the the glow up that our goal tending meeting? h Again, it can't be worse. We had DJ Smith who literally had no at all like cohesion with the team. Like Tafuato was running crap. Uh, I can't even remember who the other assistant coach was that was also fired. and Like they just didn't have any sort of structure. So even though it's Travis green, And like, we should be wary. it has to He at least understands how coaching works. He's not just a guy who ate a bunch of sandwiches in front of, like, Melnick, who was impressed with how many meatballs he could eat. And there's actual, like, at least a little bit of pedigree with Travis Green. Yeah, well, and maybe the laser eye surgery will fix Corpus. We'll come back and suddenly he can see everything.
00:39:38
Speaker
It's kind of like maybe an Anderson style like thing where every off season that Carpathol was bad, he's going to get a new laser eye surgery and come back better. ah It'll be a good season, bad season, but thanks to surgery. Also picturing everyone who's who has glasses knows that like once you get a new prescription, it takes you a little while to adjust to it, and you're kind of disoriented. That's why I'm imagining him like coming in at the very beginning of the season. He's like, I just had laser eye surgery, and like everything goes wonky. I can't see a thing. And then it a little bit to sort it out.
00:40:10
Speaker
Cause I'm sure that would be extra hard with goaltending, right? You gotta like, you learn everything. I mean, yeah thats how i like I have astigmatism, so everything's a little to the side, right? So maybe that's what he has. You can figure it out. Maybe you can kind of like start like playing a little off-center. Yeah, yeah. But see, maybe he's been like, you know, compensating. Well, now he hasn't been compensating as we can see this season.
00:40:34
Speaker
The goalies are fun. Oh, it's just so fun. this is This is good for the Andrew Hammond episode to talk about our weird goalies. Exactly. He's the prime example of you can never predict goalies. You never know what's going to happen.
00:40:49
Speaker
and then Yeah, I don't know. I guess Chikren's getting traded apparently. How about, and can I just say like, what a drop off of like fan enjoyment Jacob Chikren was. And i I know exactly when it started for me. And it was the sense content where he talked about like, Liber King brought me, like, insanity eating. As soon as that happened, I'm like, oh no. Oh no, we got a, we got a little weird freak and I don't want to match that this time. Like, we got to just let him exist in Arizona, Calgary, wherever he ends up, stay away from it. He doesn't bottle that crap from Whole Foods, where it's like, okay buddy, you're talking about like, you gotta know
00:41:29
Speaker
what you put in your food, you gotta get it. like the Whole Foods is not like a good, cool, like organic supermarket. like You're just going to be a Jeff Bezos like in like inflation station and buying your meat there, being like, this is how I know that I'm getting the good stuff. Now get out of here, Jacob. I don't care. And you know what? I don't care about your grandfather either. That's right. I'll say that right here. You're not welcome to send games anymore, Mr. Chickren. I'm sure you're a lovely person. called out. Yeah, I feel like that's when it kind of started then, but I do feel like a lot of people, including myself, I was like, you know what? No, this is a funny bit. Like I'm going to keep kind of like lovingly mocking him for this. i I just loved also joking about his whatever he has going on with Thomas Chabot. It was really funny.
00:42:17
Speaker
But i it was really funny how like the immediate shift as soon as he did that exit interview, because I feel like that was the real shift when he was like, oh, I don't know if I want to stay. And immediately, everyone's just like, yep, you're gone. Bye. I hate you now. but He didn't play well enough throughout the year. like he had be He was up and down, and he was like half engaged on certain plays. And if you're going to be like that, and then at the end of the year, be like, eh, I kind of changed my mind about ottawa's actually where
00:42:49
Speaker
pardon yeah that's the thing it was know what this yeahtic it like oh what you couldn't go out and like hunt a bison in the backing raw beef here yeah he's got to go to alrita ah He's got to just like trespass on people's farms and just grab his own raw I don't know raw meat Make some deals with, I'm sure there are some farmers. you know If he goes to like the Flames, I'm sure there are some like Flames fans with like you know and cattle farms who are like, yeah, I'll hook you up with like a some, you know I'll just slaughter this cow here and just give it all to you. I don't know. Where else is he sourcing his raw milk? Because I know he posted a picture in Japanese posted out on a postage on Blue Sky. like It says, not for human consumption on the raw milk.
00:43:36
Speaker
Which to be fair, it's definitely a legal disclaimer, so they don't get sued if people get sick. But like, it's there for a reason, you know? There is a reason pasteurization was amazing! It saved lives! Don't dream! Oh, that's weird!
00:43:54
Speaker
It's also just funny to me because, like, I, you know, okay, doxing myself. I think I've already said this before. I used to work at the Agriculture and Food Museum and I did these, like, tours where I would explain all the regulations around, like, dairy in Ontario. And if you guys don't know, like, it is nuts. Like, if you have the, you know, in your whole herd, because they mix all the milk together, if one of your cows um it has like antibiotics in their bloodstream basically and there is any like trace of antibiotics in the milk that gets tested after being taken from all of your cows. You have to dump literally the entire thing of milk and then like that's that's like your whole day you know your whole day's worth of milk down the drain. like it is The testing is so
00:44:39
Speaker
so intense and it's just like, it's so funny that he can manage to get milk that like bypasses that. Where are you even getting that? Like I know how intense this is. Wait, also, I don't know. I knew that about you. I'm like starstruck right now. I love the agriculture and food museum. You definitely did know. I have literally offered to give you a tour. Come on. I knew and then I forgot for like a second. And then when you just said it again, I was like, Oh my God, it's a celebrity.
00:45:12
Speaker
right maybe on the podcast but i keep forgetting things that's amazing That's a podcast episode that you have to record on the farm now. You have to yes yeah get and just have it like with some good wildlife behind you. mooing and like Oh no, I can't. Yeah, I used to be able to let people in for free because I knew the codes for all the gates. And so if they could go around to like the back gates, I could just let them in. And I kind of wonder, I don't remember the codes, though. That's the thing. I remember the scheme that they did, the the like system that they used, like there was a pattern to them. But I can't remember the exact codes. I love how like people i when they're like, Oh, yeah, a job I saw my head when I i was younger. Yeah, I would I would like
00:45:53
Speaker
I would sneak this food out the back, I would do all this, and yours was like, yeah, the naughty thing I did was I would let my friends into a museum for free.
Jacob Chychrun's Diet and Trade Rumors
00:46:02
Speaker
like equipment like And people like, I was stealing a laptop when I worked at Staple, or something like that. And you're just like all of them learning. the whole of learning guess It was also more fun when I worked, like I could actually like go and handle the animals and everything, which obviously I can't do anymore because I don't work there. So not be as entertaining these days. I've also forgotten a lot of the information, but it just comes back randomly, like when Jacob Chikrin posted.
00:46:28
Speaker
he's drinking raw unpasteurized milk and i'm like hold on where did you even get that like why that's why he has to go to Alberta i also feel like i think this is wrong on my like on my understanding i just feel like Utah seems like a place for him like i don't know if they have raw milk but it just seems like they would she is warm and coated for sure like what was it so the in the During the exit interview, like everyone else was like either a little casual or they were wearing like a sport jacket. and He was in this whole turtleneck. He is getting him into Utah, have him have him enjoy the the lack of anything exciting there. He can look at the stunning vistas and drink his milk right from whatever cows wander around Salt Lake City. and then Because they got it. There's got to be a lot. like
00:47:18
Speaker
What are you going to do? You're drinking milk, baby. like That is where he should be. You are right. This is good. This is perfect. I should go look up the dairy regulations in Utah. I mean, clearly, he's bypassed the ones in Ontario. But we'll see. Maybe maybe their milk is, ah you know, they're less intense. Like raw milk, milk, might go crazy. Like he goes to the shop and brings his own, like, special drink. But also, see that's the thing, he also seems like he definitely has the energy of like, oh, all soft drinks are bad. Like, I don't eat, yeah I don't eat sugar, you know, it's something is some weird thing like that, you know, like, oh, you know, that's so bad for you.
00:47:58
Speaker
oh like he's not into those sodas and stuff no soda bars for him he's like oh that all those artificial sweeteners they you know give you weird diseases or something you know like they're they're definitely so bad for you and you have to yeah eat everything you know straight out of the farm yeah you found the Mormons are like yo this guy's intense man Like, I wouldn't be that far from Arizona. You could still visit, cause I think he still has like a weird branch in Arizona or whatever it was that he had. Like you can basically commute that. yeah There we go. It's funny for a guy who was like so big on being from Ottawa, he just does not have Ottawa energy at all. No, he does. He has Ottawa Valley energy. And I apologize to anyone, any of the listeners from Ottawa Valley. Y'all are different. Not necessarily bad, but like y'all have a weird little like,
00:48:53
Speaker
like I'm from a Valley energy. So he has that he definitely has that of like, like the villain from a lot of energy in some ways to that he has Florida man energy. in some ways you know like Yeah, I feel like that's more of a vibe. Like I feel like he would come to a place on a jet ski and you'd be like, how long was this jet ski ride? And he's like, Oh, it was like seven hours. And you're just like Why? And then like, how do I get home now? Like that's just kind of the, the, the, I don't think he has a brain that like processes too many thoughts at the same time. Like I think it's, it's really just kind of like all on one little, whatever he's focused on. He kind of looked like that on the ice. Like it was always just like, Oh, I can get a sweet shot from the point he could, but then it would be like, you try to watch him defend a two on one and it's like, okay, you're just going to run at this guy on the half for it. And then before you hit them, they're going to pass it.
00:49:45
Speaker
And then Carpacellable, mixed with a glove. Yeah, it was also funny that like, I remember when he was talking about his weird diet, he was justifying it with like, oh, I've had so many injury issues. So I'm so careful about my health. And I remember at the time thinking like, oh, he's going to get even more injured. He's going to get sick. And he's not going to learn. He's just going to keep going deeper into this, convincing himself that if he just needs a more raw meat, he'll like eventually he'll be healthy without realizing that this is what's destroying his body. But then he played a full season for the first time. So now it works, apparently. He's going to think it works. He passed on the injuries is to Shabbat. He came to Shabbat a fresh lamb. And Shabbat ate it like corn on the cob and no Shabbat has curds forever. And now we know what happens.
00:50:37
Speaker
ah Friggin, what is this team? Like this is just this is the weirdest off season.
Ottawa's Coaching Chaos and Team Culture
00:50:44
Speaker
Because it's like, as we've got, Dejos did nothing during the season, which is fair. like He kind of got frustrated when he wasn't expecting it. yeah Our coaching was a mess. like We went back to Jacques Martin. At the time, we were like, oh, this is kind of fun. In hindsight, that's insane. We got a retired coach out of retirement to be a special, like like just just like a consultant for home games.
00:51:09
Speaker
And then three weeks later, it's like, actually you're doing everything. And like, I love that these coaches like him and Elsie who are like, yeah, you want to be a part of this. Like we have a family life now. We're enjoying this aspect. The absolute millisecond, they were allowed to go back on, uh, like bowl, like travel schedule with the team. They're like, we're doing it. Oh my God, we need this. We need this so bad. I have to get out of the house. ah And like, that was, that happened in December. Like just in the middle of the year, we just swapped out everything with just people who had no experience or are really, really old. And just was like, yeah, that's our solution for things. That sales did one trade, right? Just the Terrasenko trade. I don't think there was anything else. Yeah, I think that was it. And then now we're just like, he's got to do like 20 things this off season. Like Delville is also like,
00:52:04
Speaker
Bellville's on fire. like We've got to figure out like how to get like six to eight players into Bellville's system so that they can have some stability. Our fan favorite but off by on-ice terrible player, Yuri Smekolwes, like what are we going to do to build a Smekolgath? Yeah, it's funny though that you you say that these like coaches jumped at the opportunity to be full time coaches, because in my head, it was the opposite where it had that energy of like, you know, when you work a minimum wage wage job, and then suddenly they clear out the people and they're like, yeah, you know, we're not upping your pay or anything. But like, you kind of have to just work more and do more jobs now.
00:52:43
Speaker
In my head, they they just kind of went to Alfie and Jockmaugh thing and they were like, so we don't have a coach. So y'all are coaching the team now. That's, that's cool, right? Like your full time coaches now. All we can really do, you know, otherwise we just won't have a coach. And they were like, hot God, well, I guess I have to. Like Jacques Martรฉ couldn't go on the ice. He was too old to skater out and run practices. Like that's funny. We had to have Jack Capuetto, the great New York a Island, this, like, tenant of Garth Snow has to run the, uh, the ice for, for chocolate. I love the senators. Like we can talk at all about like teams, like campus success. They do not have nearly as much entertainment of the circus that we've had in the last decade. And yeah, it might be hard to cheer for this team, but just like, if you take a step back, it's funny. It's camp.
00:53:39
Speaker
It's good. I love it. I like that it's continued to be funny, even post Melnick era, post, you know, like, we've kept that identity a little bit. Where are we going to draft? Everyone's like, oh, the top 10, there's like after the first two or three, it's just like everyone's real good. Are we going to have one of those situations where we're going to draft like a no name that no one Oh no, I am 100% sure that we're getting Aginla, or at least they want it. what if Imagine like the the team before us, I can't remember who it is, traps, Aginla, and then the team is just like, well, we were going to reach for him, so now all events are offline. We didn't even scout the other players. They're going to draft Brushing again. I've heard that Aginla must be all might take Aginla at four or three, really high up.
00:54:31
Speaker
because they're unhappy, not unhappy, but they feel like they don't have a marketable player. And they want to make Aginla and Suzuki the absolute faces of the franchise and kind of to usher in a new era because supposedly they're really struggling with Caulfield and like Rhinebacker and Slopkovsky. Like they're just like, they don't enjoy any of the media thing. So they're hoping to go for Aginla. That's just something I've heard. And i it's not through like reputable sources, but if that happens, that's hilarious. I think it's going to be real good. but if They're going to leave like some S-tier super prospect.
00:55:09
Speaker
just because this guy has the same last name as a forward star, which actually they should have done with Brady Kitchock and then they have a margin to hold stock. Trying not to repeat their mistakes, yeah. And they're going to go crazy and then they'll leave us with someone, I don't know, all these crazy last names. Like if you got Devadov or something like that, that would be pretty exciting. And these players that are are rumored to to be falling out of like the first three or four picks like they should be because One wants a gimbal. People are going to take him Lindstrom because he's just big and strong. Cillian, who's like not an actual fitness. He's Jared Cowan, Darnell Nerds. He's just really tall. So he's going to be picked at like five or six for some reason. And he's going to be like the most mediocre defenseman making $8 million dollars a year. And then we're going to be able to waltz to take someone good. But if you got a gimbal, that'd be great. Can you imagine can chuck it a gimbal? Like just like, just fun. It's wholesome.
00:56:04
Speaker
I want to see Keith and Jerome hanging out. I want to see them. Oh, true. What is it, the Hexagon Bar? who was The Hexagon Lounge. Yeah. The Hexagon Bar is a bar in Minnesota that ah yeah had meat raffles. So Hexagon Bar in Minnesota, this is a very meat-centric episode. You should stop with it. And let us know where's the meat on it. No, I want to see Keith and Jerome hanging out in the Hexagon Lounge. I want to see the high fives part of Kat. I want them to like have the dad's trip. like That's also what I love about Keith Kachuk, is he just does the dad's trip. It's just a bunch of like just like weird middle-aged men at Keith Kachuk being like, we're going on a yacht! It's the most insane thing.
00:56:54
Speaker
It is funny, yeah. It's also like, people always say, oh, again, it's gonna be drafted, you know, it's supposed to be late first round. And it's like, okay, he's the son of a famous NHLer, he's obviously gonna go top 10. Like, even if he's not ranked top 10, like, teams are going to reach for him 100%. So I feel like I'm fine with the sentence. Oh, yeah, it'd be funny. Yeah, it is very funny to think of Montreal. I like to think Montreal is like specifically looking at the sentence. And I guess the leaps of it and being like, why do people like them so much? They're so likable. They're so marketable. Why don't people want to cheer for the great franchise of the Montreal Canadiens? We need to be more like them. They're like, oh, I got it on a cocktail. They're like, who are the gritty? Who are the gritty now?
00:57:38
Speaker
Who on that team has fought Like even Suzuki who I, I might get, and I might get canceled for this. I like Suzuki. That's the same thing I like to have. I even like him like, he just like, you put him in front of a camera and all he does is like a little smirk. Like, yeah yeah, you can't, you can't have but like a crazy amount of fun with him. But i want to I am sad that Rady didn't go there just to see him like clown on hat fan TV. like Can you imagine if they were like trying to interview Rady Kachuk in the street or something like that? like you would I don't think he would go along with it. It's like some of their like weird defensemen, like Matt. Matt is like, what is that? I'm not going to go off too much, but what a weird group of terrible players. Get out of here. Relocate Zen to Quebec City.
00:58:30
Speaker
That's a plan. Yeah. So the problem is that none of them speak French. Oh, get political. I mean, you can live in Montreal without speaking French, but living in Montreal, it's funny. Yeah. I've been to games at the Bell Center where they have their little, um, like funny videos before the game, you know, like the, the sends with their breakaway videos, that kind of stuff. And it's always with subtitles in French. And I've always thinking like the sense could do these videos fully in French. like they have more french other videos than the haves do like they're even like the ads and stuff or the you know the little messages where the players are like you know thank you fans i don't know they're little commercials or whatever they get none of them can speak french it's so funny to me like this yeah i have like they had master joseph in that car commercial right like and that was the french version this said they could do little videos with their players speaking french and the haves can't even do that
00:59:27
Speaker
Look, I do think this is the plan, like Stรฉos or Emlauer being a French Francophone himself had said that he wants to embrace the Gatineau side and we're going to have a preaching game. They've started speaking in French, they've done the bilingual tweets, which is very like Canadian government energy, like it's great. I heard that this is something that the sense some of the social media wanted to do and they got told not to because certain owners, Melnick, were like really angry at Gatineau for not liking the sentence so out of spite would be like well we're not going to try and court them but it's like come on you're such a little freak like any weird like entity that just existed in the ottawa sphere for 20 years got the team for some reason it was like here's the eagle
01:00:21
Speaker
Immediately had like one of our best seasons of all time and getting to the family cup finals. Ben was like, okay, I'm cutting all budget. Ben had a health scare where he came back evil, like not just like that, but like an actual evil person. Like suit a, suit a pilot, suit a cruise ship driver. Like this is a weird, like actual like movie Hallmark villain stuff. And then just died. Cause out of nowhere died. And on on the sentence, respect for Eugene Melnick Day, it was also Spartakat's birthday. And I will always like this as the most insane thing to ever be in the arena. Because they'd be like, here's Eugene Melnick's seat, illuminated from the sky. So I'll have a moment of silence. And you look over at Spartakat's there, that's victory green from Dallas and U.P. And they're just like having a somber moment. And it's just like,
01:01:17
Speaker
You could have delayed it. could have said... Listen with where his birthday party is, you know. Yeah, also, that's not his birthday. Spartaket, Spartaket, you gotta come clean. You gotta let us know when your birthday is for real, because I am worried that we have a portrait of Dorian Grey situation going on. Barnacat is like a mold evil like vampire or something that is showing up as you like storing all of that up into the rafters of the CDC. That picture that um Twitter user at Yedgens, Jay, always put up stuff that. That's the question. That's a real barnacat.
01:02:02
Speaker
That's the portrait that's like hanging up somewhere in some like dark room of a CTC and then starting that like stays young and and youthful and and beautiful. um And then so majestic ah because this portrait is less slowly decaying. oh Oh, I love the setting. You can do this with any other team in the league. I don't care. but If you're listening, thing this is a fan of another team, and you think, oh, our team is quirky and we have fun like that. dude You don't. You friggin' liars. Yeah, delude yourself into thinking you have the layers of personality that the Senators do, but you don't. You're boring. You're garbage. You're trash. Get out of here. Get out of here, Canucks fans.
01:02:47
Speaker
If you would be like, this would only happen to our team. I always think it could happen to the sense. Yes, I think. Yes, like, oh, come on, you got a cannon? No one likes it. It's too pretty. Get rid of it. We've got one side. They drop Snickers bars from the roof and they all went on the ice and they had to stop the game about eight years ago because they tell one of the rafters that they were going to release as a fan. Like, congratulations. Also, yeah, they were so cheap, it was Snickers bars. with the uninitiated McDonald's card. So yeah, get out of here, Columbus. Pittsburgh, you got nothing. You got a bunch of bridges. That's all Pittsburgh has. You got a bunch of bridges in your city. There's nothing cool about your team. I'll tell you, many years of very good hockey, and the that's what you'll always have on us.
01:03:41
Speaker
Yeah. so Maybe ah briefly switching to discussing other
Playoff Engagement and Gender Dynamics
01:03:47
Speaker
teams. um Have you been watching the playoffs at all? Yeah, I think actually this playoff is weird. I've been more engaged, like watching almost every game than any other time, but like also angrier about it. But like I hate all of it. Like, I hate every team that's not the fans and especially the Canadian teams, like Edmonton not being swept last night makes me sad because that was an amazing deal. We can't say this on this podcast due to a past arrest. Yeah, no, don't don't worry. Well, I'm just gonna farm some anger.
01:04:24
Speaker
oily if if If you're listening to this, I hope McDavid demands a trade. I hope Drycidal goes to play in the D.E.L. I hope Evans-Bouchard is just retired, just decides, I'm good. And I hope Darnell Nurse gets ah like an increase in his salary, like an unprecedented where they just decide to opt his contract midway through to 12 million. And then you never have an answer to that. But like four about like, I don't give a half The views expressed by Matt Bosti on this podcast are the views of the Elite Sends Rain podcast where it's two individual hoes. We need to say that. Florida, Florida, I don't care about Florida. like I watch them and I'm like, I don't even hate them. I'm just like, all right, you're gonna win. Go, go ahead, go do it. Just friggin finish. Just stop it. hockey stop. It's June 16. hockey should not be happening now. This should be cool, fun trade time. But we're having a lot of hockey.
01:05:23
Speaker
The first round was fun. Second round was stupid. Third round was even stupider. Oh, Vancouver. Yeah, I get up far more angry for when he has the Vancouver fans. Vancouver, you were punching so far above your weight. You will not get back here next year. You're gonna think that this is like, oh, a prototype for success. You got lucky that Winnipeg was also the biggest fraud team in the league. And the second Halifax wasn't an absolute elite. You were one of the worst teams in the league. And then who did Vancouver play second? Dallas, Colorado. ah the i get They started with Nashville, right? but Oh, who played? Did they ever play Winnipeg? No, right? I don't know. No, definitely not. nashville yeah They played Nashville and then they played um the Oilers.
01:06:09
Speaker
Okay, then here's the thing. Nashville also sucks. You want to look at a theme that's really boring? They got nothing. Like, oh, Philip Forsberg just start? You got Ryan O'Reilly's, like, animated corpse just going through the motions of trying to play hockey. Like, as sorrows, whatever, you're gonna get worse every year from now on. Like, yeah, congrats, you beat Nashville. Then you lost the... You lost the Edmonton. And you say, oh, we can You can't. You can't at all. Who else can I get to get mad at that people people will be angry about? Who's the lovable team that people like? No one likes Calvary. Dallas? Okay, great. Oh, great. You like a Texas team? Yeah, you got a couple of fun things. like if is there got You got J. Ben. You got Tyler Senget. These people, like they can leave at any point. Arms are great, but they better run another team. like There's just nothing around. like
01:07:08
Speaker
these are the most boring teams i want something fun i want to see like i don't know who's like he's in the playoff i think about like the rangers this is how we grow the game this is how we save the entertainment value of the playoffs we get the sends into them The best part of this was Carolina not doing it again. That was the best part of this entire playoff in a Soothe Carolina line. Yeah, I know. For me, it was the Leafs losing again. I don't get it. That was the Boston who was just so bad that that's different. Like, it's like you struggle to take it to seven games to Boston and then Boston's like, well, we're out. Like, yeah, you're you're trash Toronto. Sign Clingberg again.
01:07:49
Speaker
Ryan Reeves is still under contract, like like there isn't a cool fun team anymore unless you're from the Ottawa, whole of the Ottawa sense. That is the only good fun Ottawa team, or a hockey team. Yeah. I actually like have not watched any men's hockey since the end of the regular season other than like I've had a few games on in the background while doing other stuff. Um, but I just feel like this sense season was so depressing that at the end of it, I wasn't like in past years I've been like, Oh, finally I get to watch like, you know, other teams. I get to watch fun hockey. Whereas now I'm just mad. Like the sense should have been here. Like they shouldn't have been this bad and I'm just upset. So well, and just with how bad
01:08:32
Speaker
like the the bottom two wild card teams were in the east and west like it was just like Detroit got to making it where you're like man you know we could have we could have beat like Washington like this is we should have been here it wasn't like past years where there was just such a huge divide that it was like okay we weren't gonna make it now it's like god if you had just had league average goaltending you make it you know if you had just not ran with DJ Smith at the start of the season
01:09:02
Speaker
But yeah, that next part was there was PWHL, which was actually incredible. Good hockey. So that, that did take a lot of my time. instead Yeah. Although you have Minnesota, who the hell is happening after that championship?
01:09:19
Speaker
How do you win the inaugural championship and be like, let's, let's do the worst thing. Let's make a conscious decision to do bad things. Like we are the toast of the league right now, comes like barely sneaking in, like having to wait till the absolute last possible met moment to win, to get into get the playoffs, run through a bunch of good teams, win the whole thing, and now, fire beloved Minnesota hockey player as our GM, and Transphobia is good. No? Like, is that just like, was that just their plan?
01:09:56
Speaker
Was that their plan? is this their Is this their version of unparalleled success?
01:10:03
Speaker
Yeah, pretty pretty intense like turnaround there. And actually that does lead us into like the final segment that we had. She wanted to briefly discuss the draft. Of course, we are bringing on a noted misogynist and also the first male guest ever on this podcast to talk about women's hockey. Yeah, well, we've had go ahead we've had lots of women and we've had one non-binary person. You're the first man to come on. Well, I'm i am honored, especially. But it's it's good that you let a misogynist and a noted woman-aider get to show their views. It's that if everyone, like both sides have some good points here now. Please. Absolutely. If employers that you're listening to this, I am i am like, I am pro-Semitism.
01:10:51
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, but I think it's nice that, you know, even though you're a proud misogynist and we're a feminist podcast, we can still be friends and we can still, you know, ah coexist and have have productive discussions about our views. That's that's how it works. that's how has the And but we can talk through how like you you hate women so much that you won't listen to a podcast that's run by women just because they've put you on um and you don't appreciate the radical act that you've been on the podcast for years. You have wait to wait until you come on the podcast. There we go. And that's perfect. i hope I hope I'm opening the door for men everywhere to finally be allowed in the space.
01:11:36
Speaker
Yeah, to come on and have a discussion about why you hate women.
01:11:43
Speaker
Whichever
PWHL Draft and Player Impact
01:11:44
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your thoughts on Ottawa's draft. I really, but well, Doka, given. like It wasn't really, or not Doka, sorry. um I was looking at the wrong. Yeah, I was looking at the wrong thing. Yeah. Wow. You're such a misogynist that you don't even know who PWHL Ottawa drafted. Correct. Exposing you on this podcast. This is absolutely correct. So Daphne, I'm going to say the word name wrong too, because I'm, again, misogynist. was a given of a pick. Out of the top two, they were too clear. It's Filier and them to be able to deal with it. What was good when that happens? I was saying in my recap of this, Ottawa had probably the easiest pick. New York, obviously, Filier, but even then, there was a bit of discussion about maybe Sir Daphne would fit better, although I feel like they're doing that thing the NHL does every year where they try. Nobody except Montreal ever goes against the consensus, you know? Just that one year that Montreal was like, oh, but what if we did go off the board? That was a fun draft to be there in person for. But yeah, so I felt like, I feel like PwBjall writers were probably just doing that, being like, what if they don't? You have to. Otherwise, what's the point even like,
01:13:06
Speaker
paying attention whatsoever yeah but anyways that made me feel good as a fan of the team with the second thing because i was like oh wow so that's actually so good that she might go first overall amazing i'm choosing to believe that this is a real conversation that people are having and so yeah on over it's like who
01:13:28
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. And so Ottawa, you know, had the easiest job, like, like the Sens in, was it 2020, when they drafted Stutzler, where it was like, it's a top three, they're drafting third. But it was the Sens, so they could have gone off the board, but you know. yes no I guess was for the first time. But no, that was, I was really happy to see that. And then I was really hoping for Passova as our second pick, just because I kind of love the idea that we have a bunch of like going for the same like weird European team kind of like the early 90s and early 2000s where we had all the all the weird Swedes all the weird like players like that to to be like this scrappy kind of outsider team because like you know collecting players from all these different teams different countries it's so cool like you look at Toronto and Montreal and they're like okay you got Nerds you got Kool-Aid you got like these big superstars that like
01:14:20
Speaker
You don't really have to like get excited for it because you know, they're going to be absolutely ridiculous on here. And we're getting like, who are these cool little, little players that are coming in just like absolutely lighting the storm. Uh, but I'm also really happy with, uh, Temple Linen, who was another really good pick. And I actually think a better fit because Ottawa is too small. And I think we were seeing that down the stretch where teams were just playing us so ridiculously physical that we couldn't have our playmakers and everything having to be run through kind of a few of our good offensive stars. and seeing that kind of fall off when we just needed to get one point. Just one point. That's all we needed and we just couldn't because people were playing the game. So those two picks, I think, absolutely just identify the issue. It's also so fun. Sorry, I know I'm talking a lot on this, but like the PWHL draft is so exciting because these players will immediately play.
01:15:11
Speaker
like you pull them in and you're like these are going to make such a huge difference whereas it's for like Ottawa or for the and NHL it's like oh great it's four years we're gonna see if this player is still good at hockey or if they've decided to like not want to play hockey anymore it's like these these women are going to just jump right in and just be playing on like opening a roster. And it's just so easy to get hyped. Well, because it's not like these are players who weren't good enough to get drafted. So these are players who had contracts last year and said, you know what, I'm not going to move over to North America and uproot my life for a league that might not even work out. And so yeah, they they stayed, you know, and in um
01:15:53
Speaker
Sorry, I'm gonna make sure I get her name right. In Savalina's case, I'm doing the same thing as you. I'm a misogynist, actually. In Savalina's case, it was like, you know, she just, yeah, she was staying in Lulea. I'm sorry if I'm mispronouncing that, Lulea. I don't know. Mio, who lives there, can correct me if she's watching this. But yeah, and so it was like this year, she decided to move over and like she would have been good enough to play last year. ah You know, sort of acne would have been good enough to play last year, but she was obviously playing college hockey. So yeah, that's really exciting. Also, fun fact about Sava Lion, and I don't know if you saw this, she is like in a committed long term relationship with a
01:16:32
Speaker
Swedish player who is playing for Montreal, who was drafted by Montreal. no it's it's It's Sweden and Finland, right? So they already have the like, you know, kind forbidden love kind of dynamic. and They were playing for the same like team in Sweden, both playing for Lea. And now they're playing in Ottawa and Montreal. Good distance for them, too. Like they can manage that easily. Yeah. Uh, enemies to lovers, back to enemies? Oh, that's good. I did not know that.
01:17:05
Speaker
So yeah, well, I mean, obviously first thing I had to do was like stalk them, especially with women's hockey. You got to figure out who they're dating. Like often, even if they're not public about it, like you can, you can just tell if there's like someone in a lot of their pictures. Speaking of that, I fucking knew that Emily Clark and Jamie Bourbe when they were together and they finally hard launched. So the narratives. I knew that. I knew it. I knew they were together. It's so good. It makes it, it's just so fun. Like, I think. i people like i No one in my circle, because I only know good people, has questioned it. but like You see people, are like oh why are people like why are why is the PWHL launching so hard? like How did they have no struggle? And they don't realize just how fun all of the players are. Look at the social media content. It's just effortless.
01:17:58
Speaker
to just really get invested in them. Like when players are afraid, it hurts. Like, Alexi was amazing, but it wasn't even like, she wasn't a star for us. She wasn't necessarily playing amazing. She wasn't putting a point. And it was still heartbreaking because they integrate into the community, into the fans, into the league. and So when people are in and out, it's so easy to just really get attached to them. Whereas like compared to the and NHL, and it's like, I don't think they have friends. I don't think hockey, like men's hockey players have friends outside of just their team or the people that they grew up playing hockey with. So like you watch their content and it's like a picture of raw milk. Oh, your shirt looks on the boat. awesome yeah like It's just the most insane, like zero ribs. I'm trying to get a little useful. Energy that comes out of men's hockey where the PWHL is just so fun. It's so fun. Going to a game.
01:18:55
Speaker
Like there's so much animation. They're like enjoying it. They're reveling in the moment. Like it's just, it's just nice little dances after the game. i said That's just it. No, I do have to say that they need to find a better walk-in at the, I gotta call it the civic center, but TD arena and Lansdowne because when you see them walking in the stupid underground garage and like there's just trucks behind them of people who are parked to go with their good life. It's just like, come on. set up a little walkway into your dressing room with like some branded things because like the style checks, the fit checks are insane. I also have to do, I know I'm just off, but the Ottawa ah soccer team at Litical Ottawa also does fit checks, but like these players don't make like insane money. So like their fit checks are cargo shorts and like a stained t-shirt. And it is my favorite thing of all time. But WHL players don't even make that much money, but they still manage to dress. so well it's very cool what they're doing whereas like whoever from like zera goes to spain playing in the second north american or canadian league they're they're not they don't have their fashion roots in in coming over they just have whatever they add in their garbage bag that they put on the plate uh no it's good
01:20:13
Speaker
But it is so I'm so looking forward to the season two because like watching PWHL Ottawa this year was like three different teams where you had the start of the league where they just couldn't quite win. You had the middle of the league where it felt like they were just running the whole league for like a period of a month and then they had the end of the league. They forgot at one point! One point! That's all you needed! No, no, they needed more than one point. They needed one win. all it one one yeah yeah one win like or any company Or just three points across those final five games. How much they're all friends, though, is I want them to stop shaking hands after every game. I i that if i could have one wish for next season. that would
01:21:00
Speaker
I need need a little bit more animosity, even if it's pretend, right? It's like, you know, I want Emily Clark and Jamie Borbanese to at least like pretend that there's a bit of animosity between them when they're on the ice. Like, I want to make it seem like this is like a a difficult thing for them to overcome in their relationship, right? Like, oh, they're they're bitter rivals on the ice, but they have to overcome that on the ice, right? I need the real drama like you get that with Canada versus USA where yeah that starts you're like, they hate each other, even though they're all dating, they hate each other. ah you hl Right? Yeah, no, I think once the league kind of evolved a little bit more, that's just gonna come hopefully naturally.
01:21:44
Speaker
where it's not just like, oh Oh my God, people are watching and like, we've got an actual marketable product where everything was just like this. du Like I remember the first game where like we were booing Montreal so heavily and they were loving it. And it's like, yeah, I'm happy that happened. But I'm like, I want, I I want them to like flip off the pants. I want us to like roll. That still gets held up as like a defining moment of the league. is Recently, you know, so many players were saying that one of their most memorable moments was that game when we were booing Maki Fudet-Pune, and they realized, oh, this is a real league, like the fans are into it, the fans are like, actually, they've decided to hate Maki Fudet-Pune, despite the fact that she's like, you know, a god in Ottawa. And yet people in Ottawa are booing her because they're so invested in this rivalry between these two teams. And so yeah, it's hilarious that that gets held up and we need more of that. We need more booing today. Which i am I am all on board. I will bring my booing lungs.
01:22:51
Speaker
i I own a plane jersey and I'm like I can't wear it anymore because people arenna like it's a ten of the jersey obviously but like if people are think I'm a Montreal fan I can't wear it do we know the name yet because I know that like the the trademark names were leaked but like then everyone who was like these are terrible we' like okay we're going back i didn't hate the ottawa alert that one was okay like New York found and what was the other? The Boston. It's called Emolial, which like doesn't even work in French. like That's not a name. It will kind of mean something different in French, so that was bad. Was it the Toronto torch? Yeah. Boston was insane, wasn't it? It was like the Boston chowder or something. No, Boston chowder.
01:23:40
Speaker
Yeah, I thought it was soft and wicked. Soft and wicked I kind of like too. I especially if they like came out like fully dressed in green and whole tables. I think they were playing songs, kind of defying gravity randomly at a PWA tell game. you know They're suddenly playing like popular and everyone's like, what? This doesn't fit the vibe at all. um Yeah, at the end of the game, they're playing for good. um Yeah. go ah brigan
01:24:11
Speaker
Yeah, but that what those names are there and we can get jerseys that are not just like Ottawa but one of those because I think it's like it's funny to be like if I can travel in Europe and just wear a jersey that says Ottawa and they'll be like, oh okay, I know where you're from like it just it's just like yeah because that they have a city journeying I had I did buy one eventually um Partly because I thought you know, it'll be a nice like collector's item one day, you know from the inaugural season But also I thought this actually works for like any Ottawa sporting event like I can wear this to a sales game be Like yeah, that's an Ottawa fan If you're going to a PWHL game do not wear your sense jersey
01:24:54
Speaker
The amount that I have seen in there, it's like, yeah, I get it. It's an Ottawa hockey team. But no, it is not. You do not need to attach them. Like I saw so many people, not really the people I normally do or like follow or interact with, but we're saying like, uh, PWHL Ottawa has to contract, uh, Mae Baperson and our marketing team. And it's like, no, they don't. No, they fricking don't. Like don't get me wrong. I would love the content that would come out of both teams to be like playing in the same city, enjoying it. But not everything has to be like, oh, they have to have sense connection. They have to do that. It just has to be a like, let them do their own thing. And that's, that's the biggest annoyance that I had this year. It would be annoying for those players to be like your brothers or like, I feel like a dark rag, it would have been fun. Cause I don't know, it would be such a like shit server kind of, you know, star. So it could be fun, but.
01:25:48
Speaker
Um, yeah, it just, it was also, I felt like so much of that, not to call people out, kind of came from people who just didn't know much about women's hockey and were trying to find something to get invested in. And so they were like, Oh yeah, we need to draft these players. Like, you know, that that those are the players I want. And it's like, okay, but you don't actually know what they're like as players. You don't know which players you want to, like, you know, you want Ottawa to draft. And those two of their name you know like if those players got drafted to to Ottawa. They'd be like, well, are we just being drafted ahead of time or whatever, just because our brothers are here and they want to use us in as much social media as they can. like is I would have hated it by any means and I would have definitely loved the content, but like I'm also really happy that they were drafted by other teams so that they can exist in their own reality. And like, no, I thought they're on my own.
01:26:44
Speaker
I'm relying on anyone else to do this for me. This is my stat, this is my field, I'm drafted because I'm freaking good at that. And they can cross that. And I'd definitely be down for like, you know, they can spend a few years on other teams and maybe get traded down the line when they've like already made a name for themselves and stuff. And then it could be like a really fun, exciting thing. um But yeah, I think it's probably a better situation for them to not be. i Can we talk about how funny it is that Montreal drafted to the players that said, we won't play anywhere but Boston? And they were just like, all right, bet. That is a good move, and I am here for that. I do enjoy the hater energy. That was funny. Montreal had like such a chaotic draft. Yeah, isn't great. Her seventh pick, they were just like, and Amanda Kessel. Like, OK.
01:27:37
Speaker
Interesting Amanda Kessel's comments being as like, all right, thanks. Great. Looking forward to Montreal, I guess. We'll see. I feel like during the draft, there were rumors going around that she was in talks to be the next Minnesota GM. And they were like, that's why she hasn't been drafted. dude And then suddenly Montreal's like, OK, well, guess we're drafting Minnesota's GM. Yeah, that also has such an interesting dynamic where the fact that like the players could also just be front office at any given point. I feel like, I don't know, Amanda Kessel, it just kind of gives off the energy of like, yeah, she's retired, she's ready to to have a front office role. But she's like, I want to play one season. And then I should want to be able to say that I played one season, you know, like, and for me, I just feel like that's the energy. Same with it was like, Mira Dida Wu last year, where you could tell that she was close to retirement, but she was like, you know what, just just you have to when you're a legend in that hockey space, like missing out on this would be something you think about in 20 years.
01:28:35
Speaker
And also just like, again, the vibes are immaculate and it's just like, it's such a fun experience to do. yeah I also do love that Amanda Kettle, like if you look at their things, like everyone else is like from these schools or these teams and hers just says Adidas. And it's just like, yes, like we've drafted this player from a corporation. Like that is just a hilarious thing. Like I'd love to like trap him cook. Like just like steal like some stupid CEOs from some um area. Like i I want that to just be able to happen in all life. Like you can just steal people and make them uproot their entire life and like move across the country too.
01:29:13
Speaker
a love that. Because it's also it's because that was the PW or the PWHPA team. It was Team Adidas, right? Yeah, I'm sure it does look right. It does look like a he just sold from Adidas. yeah Honestly, that's such a Amanda Kessel vibes because I think she was known for like having more sponsorships than anyone else. Because of her like every she has the name recognition, the the national team stuff, right? And she especially in like the NWHL days back when it was the NWHL, I think was very well known for just having all of these sponsorships. So yeah, naturally, they just took her from Adidas.
01:29:50
Speaker
specific That's where she really worked. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like Kyle Dubas coming up and being like, we really liked her. If she wants to play, that'll be fine. But like, we'd also love if she wanted to stay with this first. Yeah. It's like, oh, it's just funny. It's just funny. Yeah, I forgot she worked for them. That was funny. Yeah, it's such weird vibes. Yeah, once you're all drafting like her and then, yeah, the did this sister of an Ottawa senator who like Toronto, the city of Toronto was going to hate the Greg siblings so much. Oh, yeah. Like, I love it. I love it.
01:30:27
Speaker
And then, and then yeah, the the girlfriend of a PWHL Ottawa player as well. Although, you know, plenty of teams did that, I'm sure. just Yeah, incredible energy. I have to respect it. Yeah, yeah, it's just it's good. It's fun. I love this week. I'm excited when they add a couple more teams too, because it's clear that it can sustain it. And there's enough
PWHL Expansion and Diversity
01:30:50
Speaker
players that there needs to be more like there's, there's enough players that don't have a starting spot. that will be able to get more parity and it would just make for a better league. So like, what was it, Detroit and Pittsburgh I think are the the next two that are rumors. Yeah, there were rumors too that they were they have deals with European teams to do like sort of a farm system thing, which could be cool. I mean, that's definitely, you know,
01:31:18
Speaker
In the NHL, you don't have to move that far. say you know Go play in some random town in northern Sweden for a few years. that That's a little intense.
01:31:30
Speaker
But like it's still something, at least. oh yeah because yeah That was my concern with this year. is like where's the farm team like what are they gonna do it's not like you can just like right now the the farm system is the NCAA and you can't send the players back to that right you can't draft them while they're in the NCAA either is you know't get this weird that your gpo written gpa draws too low and you're kicking off the teeth but i was playing weeks ago a Yeah, and and they have the rule that like you can't draft current NCAA players. So it's not even like, oh, we'll draft her and then two years she'll play. So I don't know. It's it's interesting vibes. It's good. It's fun though. It is. It's it's nice to be at the kind of the the start of this and be able to watch it grow and evolve because clearly they're doing the right thing.
01:32:20
Speaker
Exactly. Yeah. Well, how thank you for giving your opinion on the PWHL. We really need an opinion. yeah the thinkoynous opinion It's so cool even misogynists are into the PWHL. It's so I can cheer against something. No, please no. Please everyone know that I'm lying about all my patients. Although, to be fair, there are a lot of misogynists in the PFU retail now. I see them everywhere. It's so bad. It's so weird. It's so weird. Like, I see people, like, how are you talking about, like, the Ottawa one and then, like, your next post of, like, this rocket?
01:32:55
Speaker
I found some bottle rockets out of the golf course, drinking nuts, lizards, I don't know what I'm saying.
01:33:27
Speaker
It kind of There's all this discourse in the WNBA, too, where they're like um where all these people are like, oh, we don't want to watch lesbians play. You should lean more into the straight white players. And it's like, why are you watching this league? You will not enjoy the sport. You are about to see the worst basketball ever if you make it straight totally. I'm sorry, but the queers are ugly. They need to. but It's the only way I'll be good.
01:34:05
Speaker
Yeah and it's just I don't know it's like it's very much this idea of like the traditional sports fans being like all sports needs to be catered to me in order to be legitimate therefore they can't be gay. like just Just don't watch women's sports like I don't know I have so many gay friends who were not into sports at all who got into the PWHL like I think it'll be fine. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. It's a nice to have a face. I also think that most people are, I mean, maybe this is over the optimistic, most people are not like so violently homophobic that they can't even watch a sport where players are overly aware, you know? So I feel like even nor even like you know your average sports fan can probably tolerate watching sports as they are.
01:34:50
Speaker
they better be like, well, you better be able to enjoy a sport that you don't have to be like, self inserting into. Yeah. Here's the other thing. These people who self insert themselves into like the and NHL being like, Oh, I like the NHL. Cause like I can see myself. No, I can't. No, you, you cannot, you cannot compete on this. Get the hell out of here. Go. go and play your pond hockey and do, I better remember that Toronto guy who was like, I can do what they do, but just much slower. That like, when he was talking about like shootout moves and it's like, Oh, you, you big dingus.
01:35:27
Speaker
better dumb just like go home We're getting controversial, but all those podcasts where it feels like
Podcast Reflections and Farewells
01:35:33
Speaker
these are just people who really wish they were best friends with NHL players and try to talk like NHL players and like like getting players just have the energy of like, we so wish we were in one of those locker rooms and you can just tell when they talk or it's like, oh man, not naming names. no on flight yeah that it's I'm talking about so many different podcasts. i' not yeah any day dier yeah But, you know, hold somebody in them, have that energy. it's the The quickest turn off, even if I'm on on that podcast, if I'm like, unfortunately, there's a couple that I am not proud of. But again, you can ask me, you can ask me to do a podcast and I'll do it. Yeah, let's do it. And then I do some research and like, Oh, nevermind. Nevermind.
01:36:22
Speaker
and so but Yeah, I love your energy of like, you don't do anything on your own, you just like, you're desperate to get to become a guest on like every podcast. Yeah. Well, this is the best one. You told me i was like, Hey, let's do this at this time. And I'm like, Yeah, sure, no problem. And then after that, I get to turn off my headset and go continue unpacking my house. And you both have the light. and And I've got the dream job here. If I say something stupid, that's fine. That's good. I don't have to like hear about that from anything else. It's just content for y'all. It's the dream. I don't have to worry. Being a guest is the best. Well, thank you so much for being a guest on this. I think this will wrap up our podcast. um Where can people find you now that you're no longer on Twitter? Outside, enjoying the real world. but would you Would you like to talk to yourself so people can find you outside? Where can we find you outside? What's your address?
01:37:18
Speaker
Maraville is garbage now. Eastside, Let's Go, Glocchester-Livin' Baby, Cash Me in the Costco Business Center, buying a kilo of mayonnaise. a But no, you can find me on Blue Sky. I don't really met like you that much, posting there. Bossy.ca will eventually have something up there, silver7cents.com, for all of your needs of any variety. That's where you gotta go. And outside of that, find me where you find me. Okay. And, uh, as always, you can find me at, at C, Biata, E, and obviously Ericsson's burner. Well, I guess mostly on Blue Sky.
01:38:03
Speaker
Yeah. you my earnard Or look up Matt Bosti's number one hater. that is Yeah, you can also follow elitesensbrain at Elite on Twitter or Blue Sky. You can go to elitesendsbrain.tumblr dot.com for our Tumblr so it doesn't ask any time. um Follow, we'll go to silver7cents.com and silver7cents.ca if you feel like checking that out. I mean, that's a good website too. But silver7cents.com and if you would like to give us money so that we can buy the domain name silver7cents.ca. I'm going for thousands, baby! If I know there's one thing that makes money, it is basically a volunteer run spend blog. That's just printed money.
01:38:51
Speaker
I've done everything I can. So that's it for this episode. Go Sends Go. Bye. Bye. I'm waving.