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004 - The Tet Special
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TONIGHT'S TET LIST:
- Uggs on the Ground™ Report from the 100s
- Tarvis By Tet: The Verdict
- The Glory Days Are Now
- Olympics Recap
- Brady Tkachuk We Will Bury Your Stupid Podcast
OUTRO: REAPER by thee male nurse ( https://malenurse.bandcamp.com/album/reaper )
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Transcript
Welcome to Senegoth Lounge
00:00:08
Speaker
Oh shit, I didn't think of a drink special. Remy Martin Palas. You know what? Fuck it. We're going with it. ah Good evening and welcome to the Senegoth Lounge. I'm your bartender, Luke, and our drink special tonight is a Remy Martin Paolo.
00:00:32
Speaker
And we've got our best regular in the house with us tonight. It's James. James, what can I get you?
Joking and Talking Hockey
00:00:40
Speaker
Listen, if you're going to stick around for these garbage takes, it's going to be a two drink minimum.
00:00:47
Speaker
And cover charge. Could I get a ah double weller with a cyanide pill chaser, please?
00:00:58
Speaker
Yeah, of course, but ah cyanide pill is extra. That's fine. i got I can't take this money with me. So it's ah good to have you back in the old ah Senegoth Lounge, the of the old watering hole.
00:01:17
Speaker
Seen any good hockey games lately? actually was Uggs on the ground at the recent tilt against their Pittsburgh Penguins.
00:01:30
Speaker
Yeah, they are not our Pittsburgh Penguins in any yeah sense of the word. But they certainly are a lot of fucking people, which is very annoying. Yeah. I guess they have children-like shiny things and you have your like Mario Lemieux, Yaramir Yager dad, and now Sid Nex Crosby ah child, multi-generational bandwagon fans.
00:02:02
Speaker
ah And of course, so can't forget the dirtiest player in the NHL, Evgeny Malkin. um They are truly the fucking Foo Fighters of NHL teams. Yes, that is exactly what they are.
00:02:16
Speaker
Where it's just like, it's just relentless at this point. It's like, okay, they had like a couple of great albums and it's like, these guys are still here and all of their albums still go platinum. Are you fucking sure? There's no way that they're as good as they used to be. What the fuck?
00:02:35
Speaker
And like Dave Grohl is screaming on every song, and there's three guitars, and all of the sound waves are so jacked with compression that it doesn't even sound heavy. like this is just like just sound coming out out of your...
00:02:55
Speaker
i your Your speakers and your Nissan Qashqai, official sponsor of the Senegal Lounge. ah Your Toyota Venza.
00:03:09
Speaker
shit brown um but yeah like it's like how the penguins like won that cup a few years ago you're like yeah whatever man don't even like like yeah yeah the food fighters and that's how we say it on this show uh the food fighters won the best album grammy the last three years you're like i don't know sure i don't know fuck me up exactly we leave leave me out of it leave me out of it yeah i'll be yeah i'm ah I'm over here. ah I'm listening to the tasteful palette of the nineteen seventy s over They did that show a bunch of years ago where like it was a docu-series and they were going to like different
00:03:52
Speaker
American cities and writing like they oh yeah but sonic sonic highways they talk about the musical history and then write a song about the city or like New like new Orleans Preservation Hall Jazz Band Katrina, you couldn't be mean. You're like, guys, hang it up. Like, what what the fuck is, like, what are we doing here? Like, you you've run out of things to write about. You're like, let's go to a city so I have something to talk about.
00:04:24
Speaker
They wrote, as they they they recorded a song at Joshua Tree. that featured Joe Walsh and Chris Goss. That's awesome. And like, I swear to God, you have never heard that song before in your life.
00:04:39
Speaker
ah No. And I watched that show.
00:04:44
Speaker
I probably couldn't hear the, it just sounded like like when they actually played the song. Anyway, that's what what that's what the watching the Pittsburgh
Hockey Game Encounters
00:04:55
Speaker
Penguins is. yeah they are the sonic highways of the nhl like there's like brandon rust you're like okay that sounds made up uh anything any other uh notable incidents in that game yeah there was some guys sitting behind me and uh my companion that i went to the game with uh
00:05:23
Speaker
Where they were they were actually quite good seats. You put a lot of money up, you're hating. That's right. And honestly, it was a rare 100-section appearance by your boy. These are not my people in the 100-section. Oh, my word. Let me tell you something. But ah there was like relentless conversation about like aggregate...
00:05:48
Speaker
like some gravel surfaces like, like that shovel goes in the ground. It doesn't stop till the job gets blah blah blah blah. And then the guy was like,
00:06:00
Speaker
basically trying to like marry out his daughter to like, form like form some sort of ah like multi-generational gravel dynasty, ah which was a conversational turn that stopped my friend and I in our fucking tracks. Like, like Timmy Stitzel could have been on a breakaway and we were both just making eyes at each other. Like, did this guy just talk about how hot his daughter is and showed a picture to this other guy? And then the other guy agreed that the daughter is quite hot and then didn't get punched in the face by the guy.
00:06:40
Speaker
Anyway, that was the highlight of the game for me. Also, Linus Allmark was incredible in that game. Folks, it all happens in the Ottawa Valley. Yeah, it it really took the edge off of Eric Carlson having a fucking time with...
00:07:00
Speaker
Your tired-ass Ottawa. Those fellas look like they played a back-to-back ah like 48 hours ago.
00:07:11
Speaker
on the road back-to-back as well. that's Shout out to the schedule makers for that. You know, like a new road game back-to-back. Like, thanks, brothers. Like, late in the season.
00:07:23
Speaker
No, no.
Hockey Team Performances
00:07:25
Speaker
By the way, i know it's tough. but We have been doing the podcast more like we planned, and it's not my fault that we haven't been doing it. but ah And because of the infrequency of the transmissions, ah join our Patreon for more content. ah The games fly by and it's hard to, you know, we're not doing a post game after each game.
00:07:55
Speaker
ah But I do want to take my fedora off to our our beautiful boys. Like the effort that Rangers game and the subsequent the Red Wings game. like That was remarkable effort by last. I watched that Rangers game with... like The Rangers are trash, ah but...
00:08:20
Speaker
like you curb stomp the trash teams and they sure as hell did. Like, holy mother of God. Like, if they if they didn't have, ah what's his name, Shisterkin, and like that would have been, like, they would have been ripping the chairs out of the stands and throwing them on the ice, I think.
00:08:41
Speaker
Yeah, and even if, like, if we go back to January 14th, january fourteenth Since that date, the Sens are on a 71% point pace. Like, they've got 41 points in their last 29 games.
00:09:02
Speaker
And ah is it going to be enough? Annoyingly hard to tell. where that that that particular question The answer to that particular question is still very up in the air. But...
00:09:15
Speaker
ah I mean, the guys, the boys were kind of, ah you know, at at before they went on that little run, they just they just had a four game losing streak and ah kind of looked like they might have been they might have been toast.
00:09:31
Speaker
So, I mean, we got to at least ah give it up to the boys for turning it around to even getting to the point where, you know, we're not we're not completely dead yet.
00:09:43
Speaker
Like some Toronto Maple Leafs I could mention. Who? hey well like like Let's not be snots. like There's some really good players in the AHL. we We have to make the playoffs, dude, just so we can like spend an entire episode clowning on Toronto.
00:10:00
Speaker
yeah it's it if if we po If we punt on this beautiful like dynastic collapse because we didn't we don't make the playoffs because we blew too many three-goal leads in like the first part of the season, I'm going to be so fucking mad.
00:10:15
Speaker
We need to bookmark that clip of Sid's Scissor Sisters on his like whatever that We decided to put radio guys on video now with mixed results.
00:10:30
Speaker
All those shows are just called The Drive to me. Every yeah single a every single show like that, you listen to it on AM radio and it's called The Drive. Doesn't matter what the channel is, doesn't matter what city you're in, it's always, you're listening to 1080 The Drive. And that's just what the show is. So yeah, Sid, Scissor Sisters on his show that's called The Drive.
00:10:53
Speaker
They got that, like, Tony Macaroni guy in Montreal. Yeah, like, um no, but that that clip where he's, like, annihilating, like, William Nylander. Like, that thing was legendary. like Like, these people have fucking oatmeal for brains at this point. Like, where he was, like, listing off thing after thing.
00:11:16
Speaker
Like, I didn't know it was that bad where he was, like, didn't play well in the Olympics, comes back from the Olympics, doesn't play well. It's like, did William Nylander not step it up for Team Sweden? and What the fuck are you talking about? And then it's crazy where he, like, in his laundry list of things. And, like, look, I don't know from William Nylander, he might be ah really frustrating like another player that they recently ran out of town might have been. But ah where he... He fucking calls him out for passing ah the puck to Austin Matthews in the moment before noted sociopath Radko Gudis intentionally injured him. Like, it it makes me think about, like, as if, ah like, ah the boy JR on TSN 1200 was, like, reaming into, I don't know, like...
00:12:19
Speaker
Daniel Alfredson for passing the puck to Eric Carlson before ah Matt Cook sliced his Achilles tent. You know, like, like what? Like, we need to keep our eye on the ball here. Like, anyway, just like, we should do a whole show about that.
00:12:37
Speaker
Absolutely. and We need the Sens to make the playoffs so we can be justified in such a... i mean are the so do We'll do the show anyway, but it'll feel better if we're doing it from a place of we made the playoffs and the Leafs are toast.
00:12:51
Speaker
I don't know, like 86 points, they should be leading the Pacific Division with that. Right? i mean Yeah, I mean, yeah, I think but that checks out. yeah they Yeah, they're tied for the jut Ducks right now. So, yeah, safely ensconced in the playoffs. um We need to shut down the Boston Bruins until we can figure out what the hell is going on.
00:13:13
Speaker
Like, have they lost a game this season? like I mean, ah Ottawa has more regulation wins than everyone except Buffalo and Tampa, at least in terms of who's in front of them in the in the division. It's been a fun season. All of these fucking guys like Boston and especially fucking Columbus, my lord, and Montreal, they're all just fucking...
00:13:41
Speaker
overtime shootout win merchants listen you call the canadians a paper tiger when you get down to ot and the and the shootout in the playoffs look out brother those over yeah those three on three overtime wins are gonna come like all that experience with their three on three overtime wins that's gonna be money in the playoffs Ottawa, you have to do it. You cannot... Okay, where're you're you're a point back, one point back of the Columbus Blue Jackets.
00:14:14
Speaker
you both at bought Boston, Columbus, Detroit, Red Wings, you know especially Columbus and Detroit, it's either 87 points for Columbus, 86 for both Ottawa and Detroit.
00:14:29
Speaker
These... peace These other teams are just too fraudulent. You have you have to, Ottawa. You have to get this done in the last nine games. ah Jake Sanderson, if you're listening, and i know you are, I hope you're able to find in your mailbox some pills that I have left you and some instructions on how to use the syringe. Don't ask what's in it, but it'll make you feel...
00:14:57
Speaker
tremendous james's special stuff yeah james's special stuff just just you know make sure there's no air bubbles in the syringe and then just get get out there and have fun yeah go for the biggest muscle you can find and get creative with which one it is who As much as I i think Carter Yakumchuk can lead lean us to victory, ah i'd be missing Jake the Snake. I mean, that was that was a rough one last night. is you know tie game 10 minutes to go all the sends big guys are out there ah top line turns it over low and tampa bay comes out uh with a four on two and our two are carter yakomchuk and artem zoob which you know
00:16:01
Speaker
but the The guys are doing the best they can, but yeah and if you look at the roster, like not the two guys I would choose to have in that scenario. Artem Zuban life support at this point.
00:16:15
Speaker
Looking like Atlas out there. just Help me! Whatever help of me in Russian is. ah Yeah, no, it's it's unsustainable. but Like I said, that's ah like the efforts that these guys have put forward is remarkable. i really am like proud of the boys, but... like You know, is it too much to ask to have... ah I mean, obviously giving Jake Sanderson that contract was a mistake. Remember getting remember the the roast session for the Jake Sanderson signing? They're like, who the fuck is this guy? like
00:16:54
Speaker
oh you mean the Olympic gold medalist who's like the best player on the team? like the The guy who'd be a Norris contender if like hockey writers didn't just like look at...
00:17:08
Speaker
like points when they determine who uh should be nominated for the norris that's so fucking funny by the way is that like when we have eric carlson putting up harlem globetrotter numbers it's like well you have to look at the play on both sides the puck like yeah sure his po his point tottered totals are gaudy but you gotta hear both you gotta you gotta you have to understand that you know it's a two-way game and uh it's a defenseman six has to Make sure they achieve great things on both sides of the pocket, both ends of the ice. And then as soon as we get that guy, it's it's like, actually, you have to understand, it's a small market. These guys can't watch every game.
00:17:48
Speaker
Yeah, i just now we just ah sort the sort sort the stats table by points. And that's who we vote for for fucking ah Norris. So, yeah, it's going to be Zach Wierenski this year. Fuck you.
00:18:02
Speaker
I love it here. Yeah, know. it's ah and ah It's another fun season. This one most fun of all, i think. Should we dip dip into Tarvis by Tet? It is if I the moon from my window. and yeah, it looks like another pet lunar new year.
00:18:27
Speaker
and right on time. Culturally respectful. Um... In our last episode, we were going to do an evaluation of our thoughts and feelings, perhaps prayers, toward Tarvis Green and the job that he's doing with your Ottawa Senators.
00:18:51
Speaker
ah Tet has come and gone.
00:18:55
Speaker
Luke, what what what are your thoughts? Well, let me just crack open a nice cool can of Otakringer beer here. Proud sponsor.
00:19:11
Speaker
A toast to you, Tarvis Green. You did it. You made me a believer. ah Love to hear it And if it weren't for the fact that ah Ottawa is missing $16 million dollars worth of defensemen right now, ah i'm sure i'm I'm sure the boys would be in a playoff spot.
00:19:35
Speaker
And even in the even in this case where ah we don't have a full complement of talent, ah the team looks great. um It hasn't always resulted in wins, obviously, but like they've been putting up some truly legendary defensive performances as well.
00:19:54
Speaker
Oh, I hate to interrupt, but I'm just getting an Amber Alert on my phone. I think it's probably just responsible for of us to... ah to distribute this news. Missing is a 23-year-old boy ah from Ulu, Finland. 196 pounds, blonde hair, little idea of a mustache. ah Goes by the name Levi Mariline. He's not been seen in months.
00:20:27
Speaker
He wasn't The idea that we don't even know the idea that like I have no fucking idea if he is even playing Belleville right now. Not so good.
00:20:40
Speaker
Levy, Marilyn and DB. All right. I'll just ah good news. He's got a save percentage that's over 900 in Belleville.
00:20:52
Speaker
Okay. So there you go. Not dead, ah just in Belleville.
Goaltender Critiques
00:20:59
Speaker
Again, different things. Being dead and living in Belleville, not the same. One is much worse and the other one means that you're buried in the ground.
00:21:10
Speaker
ah Please go off, King. I hate i hate to interrupt. I just didn't want to mention Tarvis Green without bringing up Levi Marilinen right away.
00:21:22
Speaker
yeah you You don't think that Tarvis Green was responsible? You think don't think his coaching duties extended to telling Levy, hey, go out there and make sure you let in every single puck if you can.
00:21:33
Speaker
Go out there and have fundamentally speaking historically bad goaltending performances.
00:21:45
Speaker
I... Man, that i that shows the fucking rube I am where I thought... Brilliant. This kid is ready.
00:21:55
Speaker
All we need is Linus Allmark to just put up league average numbers and have Levy Marilinen come in every once. Sure, he's young, but he he showed he he's ready last year. like Linus will finally get those starter, you know, number true number one starter numbers and and have Marilinen.
00:22:20
Speaker
to do spot duty surely we won't need to uh recruit a bigoted an aging homophobe aging homophobe from europe who's playing in fucking the fucking spangler cup which uh like coincides with the nhl season to let you know how things are going for him Honestly, Reimer's been fine. He's been fine. He's been fine. Gotta check the tape on last night's game. ah But also, like, Ottawa's still been putting up some truly legendary...
00:22:56
Speaker
ah defensive performances. I mean, the I think the high watermark was oh ah holding the AHL New York Rangers to 10 shots in the entire game. Like, that's... ah how how it's It's like Ottawa won that game 2-1. It was like like the most dominant 2-1 win you could imagine, basically.
00:23:17
Speaker
I think I'm so broken by the goaltending I watched in the first half that I thought, like, Reimer came up big when he had to, though. He stopped nine of those ten shots. I actually think, by the way, it was eight of ten. I think that Gary Hussein Bettman, from his ah office in the center of the earth, like had them fudge one more ah shot into the count, so they didn't have a historically... No, for real. it' say they They were like, we've got to give them and double digits just so we don't have to rewrite does we don't have to rewrite and republish the record book, basically. Exactly. Just trying to save themselves some work down the line. Yeah.
00:24:02
Speaker
We want to see. Batman, release the unredacted trash performance files. ah yeah Last night's game against the Lightning, was a couple of plays there where Reimer looked questionable. i I think the way I put it on Blue Sky was James Reimer inspires doubt in me. Yeah. But also, Sens were up 2-0 early in the first period, and James Reimer didn't say, hey, go not score any more goals. Yeah.
00:24:38
Speaker
And, you know, guys had chances on but breakaways and didn't bury ah any of them. And, yeah, that's that's the way. When your goaltender is James Reimer, you know, you got to give him a bit of a cushion, apparently.
00:24:52
Speaker
As ah the recent Uggs on the ground at... ah as my grandmother would call it, Canada Tire Center. ah Yeah, not burying breakaways. I know that feel, bro. I saw a lot of that in that game.
00:25:10
Speaker
So we were talking about Tarvis Green. a Defensive play is good, is what it's funny is my main is my main commentary on Tarvis Green. It's funny that the bringing up the topic of Tarvis Green immediately devolved into a discussion of goaltending.
00:25:27
Speaker
Right, because it's so like, if Tarvis Green is so good, how come the Zens aren't winning enough games? It's like, what, you want him to stop the puck too? Yeah. And you're, yeah, you're, you're, a you're a a numbers guy, math guy, stats guy. Like, it's kind of crazy that there's no actually with this season. Like, no, it truly the goaltend, like there's, it's, it's actually kind of a boring conversation. app Thanks for tuning in everyone. Um,
00:25:59
Speaker
that is like the goaltending i i don't know if ottawa's gonna make the playoffs like i it's kind of like i saw i would say i would still bet on it but like it feels consistently bad let's pay let's pay some bills let's talk about betting i don't know because like i i saw some uh you know friend of the show varada sent me a video uh of ah the controversy of, I guess it was, uh, Linus Allmark's personal decision to not play against Tampa yesterday. And, uh, you know, I mean, i to, to your point, Luke, like you dance with the gal that brung you, like you gotta win with Reimer also, but, uh, it's like,
00:26:48
Speaker
ah Folks seemed to be pretty pissed off that, you know, they really needed Elmark to step up and be the guy and he he kind of didn't feel like playing. But I'm like...
00:27:01
Speaker
I can't help but think, why why are the games so insanely important now? why yeah why is Why is there so much pressure on the team? Is there something that happened a few months ago that maybe led to this razor's edge that they were they essentially have to run the table for the rest of the season to make the playoffs?
00:27:23
Speaker
was Was there? Is there something you're thinking of in particular there? Yeah, like, there might have been some games where, ah you know, Ulmark or Marilinen decided to take the night off, but actually still played in the game for a few solid weeks there.
00:27:43
Speaker
I have to say, i Yeah. Tarvis by Tet. It was ah definitely by a Tet that I'm a i'm a Tarvis believer. he he has this team bought in to a degree that we haven't seen. And you're going to laugh.
00:28:01
Speaker
But since Guy Boucher where he got the team to play his fucked up way and it worked. But it only worked for like one season, you know, and you know That's the way she goes, but i think tarvis Tarvis Green, you know, like you you got the the team playing like a well-oiled machine. Also, shout out to you, Steven Stoicism, for I am not used to...
00:28:35
Speaker
ah cheering for a SENS team that I would consider ah describing as deep. Like, ah that is not something we've been able to say about this team is since the 1970s, I would say.
00:28:54
Speaker
i think this brings me to something that I've been thinking about a lot lately, because...
Senators' Playoff Potential
00:29:03
Speaker
Especially with a with good old Tarvis Green, if you if you go on the all-time Ottawa Senators leaders,
00:29:12
Speaker
uh uh you know all the all your faves are there obviously uh especially if you sort by points you've got your classic uh your alfie your yashin your wade redden your radic bonk your hoses your reaction not mine yeah okay fine a a a yashin but and dennis but the please but sprinkled in there are guys like brady kachuk at fifth all-time points tim stutzler at seventh and even drake batherson has the 11th most points in sense history yep he's creeping up there and he's gonna pass danny heatley soon like
00:29:58
Speaker
this In terms of overall success, like this team is now approaching... like they They should be, at least given the amount of talent here, like they should be a lock for year-in, year-out playoffs the same way those early 2000s Senators teams were. yeah And like Travis Green seems to be our our Jacques Martin at this point.
00:30:25
Speaker
Yeah. no like keeps it and Keeps the boys disciplined, makes them hard to play against. No one wants to see them in the playoffs. And at the end of the day, he gets undone by some sketchy goaltending. It's a perfect one-to-one comparison. know i No, I'm still waiting for my cyanide pill.
00:30:44
Speaker
Can I get another cyanide pill, please? This one's not working fast enough. um Yeah, and I will also give... ah What is it? It's like, ah was it our angelic boy up in paradise, Brian Murray, who said, you know, like, if you play good defense, you don't have to defend as much. Like, I think that it's, um I mean, the numbers have shaken out is that, the yeah, those, those,
00:31:18
Speaker
you know, super defensive Jacques Martin teams actually, like, were pretty nice with it on the score sheet. um I find that Tarvis Green's system also benefit, like, it's not like Guy Boucher's, like,
00:31:34
Speaker
you know, let's play six players back. We're going to win every game negative one to nothing. i want the goalie behind the net and we'll just put all the players in front of the net like it's a free kick in soccer. yeah But, like, the team is fun to watch, you know? Like, the they play defense so well that it leads to the puck going the other way a lot. Like, there's enough skill... And also, i don't know if this has to do with it, but there's actually good players at the bottom six.
00:32:10
Speaker
Instead of like fucking frozen dinner, you know, like. You what? you're not you don't You don't think Victor Stahlberg would make this roster? Who?
00:32:24
Speaker
Yeah, like that's like i said, that's when you got a deep team, when you're like, quiet everyone, Michael Amadio is on the ice. because it Right, when when when sturdy NHL veteran Lars Eller, or sorry, how do you say his name again?
00:32:40
Speaker
Lars Eller. is chipping in here and there with the points. And you don't have to like immediately like go for a piss as soon as the bottom six goes out. You're right.
00:32:55
Speaker
yeah and You know, who launches a great steady ah ah presence there on the bottom on the bottom six? but Mainstay of the bottom six, if you will.
00:33:08
Speaker
ah Fabian Zetterlund. Yes. so so much So much meat and potatoes and that gay in that guy's ah game. this somebody Somebody fucking bounced like three feet off of him in that Pittsburgh game. It was so awesome. like It was like it they they tried to... I don't know what the average size of an NHL player is. Probably like 200 pounds. But like... Yeah, theyre they they all have the density of depleted uranium.
00:33:43
Speaker
Like, tried tried to try to take a run at wee little Fabian Zetterlund, not realizing it's like trying to ah like place tackle a fucking fire hydrant. It was so funny.
00:34:00
Speaker
yeah can we Can we at least say, like have we seen enough now? Can we admit that like maybe Fabian Zetterlin's not actually a 20-goal, 20-assist guy? He's just maybe a guy?
00:34:11
Speaker
but he's He's getting deadline trade-mogged by Warren Fugler at the moment. It's true. And I don't know how you're supposed to say his name, but like I know it a German last name when I see it. So yeah, he's now Vogeler.
00:34:25
Speaker
No, he's Vogeler. yeah Is there anyone else with that last name in popular culture that we could use as an example? Let me just look on the internet here. Oh, getting a lot of interesting results.
00:34:41
Speaker
uh it's just funny that uh warren warren fogler got uh picked up by ottawa at the deadline and already has five goals in 12 games and like something that i can you imagine if fabian zetterland had done that last year how happy would have been and now no one expects that anymore and this guy is coming in like hey guys i heard you wanted secondary scoring happy to happy to help out um Yeah, he's been great.
00:35:10
Speaker
It's funny, like everyone, ah I found the reaction to the to the the the acquisition was, I don't know, tepid tipping into disappointed.
00:35:24
Speaker
um But I gotta say... my My boy Stevie Stoicism said this guy was just hanging out there in the market. He's like he's a he dead big boy. He's a big boy. He's a big boy.
00:35:38
Speaker
He was hanging out there. ah He's having a down season, but he has like serious upside, and that's the only reason we got him. And Figale himself said he wasn't really getting much opportunity in L.A., I
Senators' Management Decisions
00:35:53
Speaker
guess. I can't care about the LA Kings in any kind of way.
00:35:59
Speaker
um But ah yeah, just another like sneaky deadline. but I liked David Perron, but you got to... I like him more on Detroit, I'll tell you that.
00:36:12
Speaker
Yeah, you got to have a bit of a like contingency plan with, you know... a gal getting up in years like that and uh no the shrewd move figure has been ah i don't i don't expect him to so be like a point every two games type player going forward but like certain it's just like like i said there's like another good bottom six player like ah i think tarvis has the boys playing well but like
00:36:45
Speaker
he is stoic stoic steve has kind of put together a strong enough lineup for him that like these guys seem to know the assignment and be able to execute it well you know like lars eller as your fourth line center like that's a fucking great move you know he's been fantastic and ah Yeah, ah i am just ah mad at i'm mad at the goaltending.
00:37:16
Speaker
Yeah, the classic Steve Stoicism move is always like learning that you're having like fettuccine Alfredo for dinner, where it's like, it's it's not incredible, but like, how can you be mad?
00:37:31
Speaker
Is it a sexy, sexy spaghetti carbonara? No, of course not. it's it's never It's never sexy.
00:37:41
Speaker
But it's still like, yeah if you don't like it, you know, why don't you get up there and get behind the grill? Also, this is the thing with him. I don't know. There's a certain manic pixie ah plaid a jacket wearing motherfucker that's hiding in Orleans right now where he would make these bugged out moves.
00:38:03
Speaker
If you are curious why the Sens aren't going to be able to draft a player for the next fucking eight years, blame PR Dorian. But... ah Yeah, he'd make the big moves and get us all horned up for, you know, Vladimir Tarasenko. But, like, at the same time, like, the last couple of... Arranged.
00:38:32
Speaker
The last couple of ah trade deadlines run by Stevie smoothness has been like, dude, here's the thing, right? The team's actually pretty fucking good. Like, don't do something just to do something. Please don't. And he hasn't. I mean, the biggest move he did was ah get a Josh Norris with an untwistable stomach. Like, ah which was brilliant. Like, and Because that guy was getting his stomach twisted fucking constantly.
00:39:07
Speaker
Yeah, like it brings me I'm pro-life and it brings me no joy to say this, but like I think Josh Norris has been has had like long term injury status numerous times ah since moving to Buffalo.
00:39:26
Speaker
i I have a prediction to make about Dylan Cousins right now. Dylan, Dylan, Dylan, Dylan. ah This guy,
00:39:41
Speaker
i don't, i all I know for sure is at some point this year, before the season is over, Dylan Cousins is going to be the difference.
00:39:52
Speaker
I have absolutely no idea if it will be a good distance difference or a bad difference. But mark it down, Dylan Cousins is going to do the thing that turns the season.
00:40:05
Speaker
Okay. that's That's my prediction, because he's just that sort of guy. He's very curial, is what you're saying. Especially this year. ah He's got absolutely stunning... ah like The Sens are looking great with him on the ice, except for his slight and annoying tendency to make boneheaded passes in his own zone.
00:40:30
Speaker
so He's either going to score the goal that sends us to the playoffs or wins a series, or he's going to be the guy who turns it over and... eliminates Ottawa, but he will do it. That's that's that's that's ah Luke's player to watch for the last nine games of the season, Dylan Cousins. Dylan Cousins...
00:40:49
Speaker
playing style kind of reminds me of like what it must look like when I play like NHL 2K. He just presses every button. Or no or like I figure out how to do one thing and like like good like, my favorite video game is the New York Times crossword puzzle app. Okay. Yeah. Once they introduced like more than four buttons, I'm out. Like, I don't have, I don't, I don't got that dog in me. But like, I could see myself figuring out how to do that. Like, like cousins does that angling it. Cause he's a big boy. He's a big boy. He's a big boy.
00:41:31
Speaker
The work, the white horse from workhorse. Um, where he angles the guy off the puck, like, he he just uses his size and, like, pushes the defender away from him and tries to angle in and, like, put it in short side or whatever. He just does that over and over and over and over again. Like, that's what I look like probably playing hockey video games. Like, this is going to work eventually. Like, the yeah that the the the way the game is, like, coded, the goalie has to eventually give up one of these. 20 25 goals 27 assists count the rings baby you yeah it's working yeah uh i think he's i think he's tidied it up uh he's playing better like i don't know i know he was driving you absolutely bananas and i don't know if he's like tarvis green improved his standing with you
00:42:29
Speaker
but I don't know. I i thought he had some really good games here and there for sure. No, he's definitely tidied it up. and And especially since the Olympic break, I go up and down the Sens roster and I was like, like that guy, he's doing good. Like that guy, he's doing good. i Like that guy, he's doing good. it's like, okay, then surely like we're a lock to make the playoffs and win the cup, right? And it's like, no, except for one thing.
00:42:58
Speaker
So, I don't know. I guess it's time to drop our legendary hot takes on lina's all mark needs a rest gate no uh i did want to while we're in the uh vibes cast portion the vibe the vibe lounge i did this This, again, to go back to the construction of the roster, is um it reminds me of the early mid-2000s Sens teams where like, who's the player that you hate on this team? Like, who's the...
00:43:36
Speaker
who's Who's the Travis Hamannick? Who's the, like, Ron Hainsey? or as you know like Especially now that Nick Jensen has been sent to the shadow realm for recovering from his likely career-ending injuries, and David Perron's been shipped off to a worse location of Detroit. Azkaban. Like...
00:44:02
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, it's, yeah, this, a lot of these guys should be household, well, should become household names in the same way Magnus Arvidsson was in the heyday of our youths.
00:44:13
Speaker
Yeah, Nick Cousins got like, we probably gonna finish the season with 10 goals, like above and beyond, my man. Like, you're like the shithead guy out of the group of shitheads on the team. You're like the captain of the shitheads.
00:44:29
Speaker
And you make like $800,000 a year. shout out. You can kill the man, but not the idea. Photo of Yarko Exactly. that's like i'm oh That's been my hobby horse for years. it's like We just need Yarko Ruto back. like The guy who makes the other team like go insane and puts up 10 goals a year on the fourth line. like Incredible.
00:44:55
Speaker
Also, shout out to Yarko Ruto. Remember how he was nice with it in the shootout? Because Finnish kids grow up with the shootout. and he i remember I probably told this story before, but like...
00:45:06
Speaker
I remember he and ah Alex Kovalev had the same shootout move. Truly, like, truly an insane bit. like Like, the guy whose nickname is L'Artiste has, like, the same the same shootout move as the guy who I more than once saw trying to cut his lip with his thumbnail after getting on his stick to try to drop blood on his own face.
00:45:35
Speaker
And then you ask him about it in the ah in at an interview, and he's like, all Finnish children learn the Moscow baffler. as of ah course I know the Spassky Bishop block. I'm from Espoo, Finland. The Finnish art the the finish accent's hard to do, fuck.
00:45:57
Speaker
It's like... it's it's like Also, Matin Paolo doesn't seem like a Finnish last name to me. Matin Paolo is such fucking classic guy terms of just being a third-pairing defenseman. We're going to remember some guys at some point, and he's going to be one of the guys we remember. Absolutely.
Nicholas Mattenpaolo's Role
00:46:21
Speaker
Where he has his fancy stats and everything about his game is just like...
00:46:30
Speaker
not good, but i he never pisses me off. and Yeah, respect. I can't find it within myself to hate Nicholas Mattenpaolo because it's like, when has he ever made me mad?
00:46:42
Speaker
Basically, like, not good at anything, but trying to not piss anyone off. Like, man, I feel seen right now. yeah Like, man, I'm spiritually Nicholas Mattenpaolo. Right, exactly.
00:46:59
Speaker
Just the guy who's at his office every day. yeah Just low maintenance. Just trying to be low maintenance over here. Yeah, I am not Dylan Cousins, like, swing big, miss big.
00:47:17
Speaker
I'm a video game Dylan Cousins ah real life Nicholas Mattenbaum. Yeah, exactly. The duality of man is really contained somewhere within that continuum.
00:47:31
Speaker
A Matin Paolo in the streets, but Dylan Cousins in the sheets, if you will. I can only hope so. ah so Tarvis, we doff our purple fedoras to you. Another of those moves.
00:47:50
Speaker
another like another one of those moves like ah Kind of no one was stoked overly on the hire at the time, but like.
00:48:02
Speaker
Only because we had seen how all the other hockey teams he had coached did, you know, like. ah But that's a that's also a credit to him is that like he's he doesn't come in here and be like, i I'm Travis Green and I coach Travis Green hockey.
00:48:18
Speaker
I mean, maybe he does do that, but at least this time he's got the team that can pull it off. And he's got the he's got the man management skills, to use a soccer term, to get the boys to buy in. so He's done it ah Yeah, well, and yeah, you got to go by the coach's record because, I mean, look no further than the Tianto Leafs where they brought in ah ah Mike Babcock and the rest is history. All those, the band it a matter of how many cups, not when. yeah
00:48:57
Speaker
ah See, also Craig Berube, I think the team... is currently not in the basement of the division, but they are ah one step above the basement.
00:49:10
Speaker
That one's crazy. Like, the Craig Berube thing is crazy to me because, like, with basically winning a cup as a coach at any point in your career is basically just a license to scam teams for the rest of your life.
00:49:25
Speaker
Like, you can get any contract anywhere with as long as you have that single cup on your resume and like I can name a lot of coaches and Brubay is one of them but there's also like Mike Keenan John Tortorella yeah like these guys are just dog shit coaches but they keep getting jobs oh fuck what am I saying literally Mike Babcock uh hey hey he had those Olympic gold medals I couldn't have coached those teams You gotta really take it, hey, Sidney Crosby, hit a home run.
00:50:00
Speaker
You got it, Skip. look Look, could I have won a a gold medal with the 2014 Team Canada team? Yes, I believe I could have. But could i have done it in a way that turned the entire experience into a joyless death watch? Absolutely not. That was the Mike Babcock difference.
00:50:20
Speaker
um His NHL coaching is like, listen, ah Nicholas Lindstrom, this is going to be tough, but I'm going to need you to play the entire game.
00:50:31
Speaker
Anyway, Travis Green doesn't have that cup-winning sheen. Not
00:50:37
Speaker
ah sheen not yet
00:50:42
Speaker
But fuck it. He's got the boys playing the sort of hockey that we can get behind. i we i was at least until the puck gets to the goalie. A hilarious bit is how the ah Vancouver media has destroyed Travis Green permanently. like He is just...
00:51:06
Speaker
oozing trauma. ah I have heard that Vancouver is a very, it's a it's like low-key the toughest place to play outside of Toronto. where like yeah We're all aware, like if you ever go on tsn.ca, proud sponsor of ah the Senegal Lounge, and the entire... like I wish I still had my screen grab of this. was the game where ah Garrett Sparks ah what like pitched a shutout in his first NHL start.
00:51:43
Speaker
And he, like, it was like a big moment. And he i think he got teary-eyed during like the post-game. um interview or whatever and I remember going on TSN's website and the entire page was just stories about it I'm like go out there and have fun ah former NHL player Garrett Sparks like Like, I can't see how this would possibly... root Like, you're either going to be the next Patrick Waugh. Like, this is going to give you superpowers. ah A.K.A. like an ego the size of Texas that you can somehow ride. Or it's going to destroy you mentally. Where...
00:52:24
Speaker
um it's a it's it's hidden in the cloak of no one gives a shit about the Western Conference but ah apparently like the media and fans in Vancouver are like super super tough to deal with and you know in fairness to them if your Centos had been to the Stanley Cup final three times and lost all three times I would also be a fucking lunatic yeah
00:52:54
Speaker
but I mean, would I like hockey anymore? Probably not. think This is not for me. like you know yeah Also, ah losing in how many game sevens did they lose?
00:53:10
Speaker
I know they lost in game sevens against the Rangers and the Bruins. the did they I can't remember the third family cup they made.
00:53:21
Speaker
I think it was like I could be wrong on this chat. Let me know in the comments. ah But ah I think what they had like a St. Louis Blues kind of thing or Florida pans Panzers where they made it to the final like very, very early on in their franchise history. like they Like the league expanded and they kind of like got to the dance right out of the gate, I think.
00:53:50
Speaker
um That's why we listen to this show, just me having ideas of that stuff. But I'm pretty sure i'm pretty sure they've made it to the final three times. All right. ah i don't i'm not I don't have the patience to fact check you in that one. so Nice. let us Let us know in the YouTube comments if ah James is right or wrong. But let's for the for the purposes of going forward, we'll just say that, yeah, I guess losing multiple Stanley Cup final game sevens will turn you into a horrible twisted husk of a person.
00:54:21
Speaker
ah But hey, if I was wrong, two Stanley Cup final game seven losses, I'm a lunatic still. Like, I'm not mentally any more healthy than three.
00:54:34
Speaker
three Three lost finals. ah Also, like thinking back to the Sens going to the final in 2007, I don't know if you know about this, but I remember being so fucked up like from those Sens teams of the early that...
00:54:53
Speaker
that you know, they lost the cup final, but i was like, we're going to go right back. Like, don't no worry about nothing. We'll be back. but We'll be back. It's fine. we'll In the off season, we'll get a bit tougher. Clearly, like, you know, the West Coast are relentless kill bots. We'll we'll get some we'll get some big boys and we'll be right back. And then and now I'm i'm fucking 63 years old.
00:55:19
Speaker
And we're like, maybe they'll scrape in with a successful rebuilt roster that took like eight years. Like maybe we'll scrape into the playoffs for a second. Like truly, it's so hard to win the NHL. Fuck you, Boston.
00:55:38
Speaker
Please go away. Fuck you, Pittsburgh. Please. Can you please go away? how awesome is it that and then we also have montreal just like three three on three overtiming their way to a fraudulent playoff spot like yeah columbus they're gonna get swept by tampa bay holy there will be nothing left nothing We gotta make the playoffs, man. We can't let these frauds be in the playoffs.
00:56:08
Speaker
Well, will you we're we're on the outs just because of some just because of some games that happened in like September. like That was years ago. how you Why you gotta bring up bullshit? How are you gonna how are you going to hold games that happened in November against us? That was months ago! 4-3 loss to St. Louis but where we gave up a lead. had some Buffalo Sabres before they decided to be the best team in the league. like like blowout losses. ah
00:56:43
Speaker
And you're like, you you got like you you got to put it away against like Chicago at home. like You them... That one shouldn't count. I'm just saying, like, we go we should replay some of these games. I'm sure they'd go the other way.
00:57:01
Speaker
Oh, hell yeah. So many like so many blown leads. It's funny. it's it's with There's no way that we can miss the playoffs just because it's some old shit. That's not that's not fair Like, that that's part of, like, the way that tra ah Tarvis Green coaches these guys. Like, I actually care way less about quality of opponent now. You know, like, I feel like they can hold it down against any team.
00:57:25
Speaker
You know, like, it's it's not as vital to, like, oh, you know, ah let's pick a shitty team. Like, ah the Toronto Maple Leafs aren't them.
00:57:37
Speaker
By the way, we I never talked about that. We'll do a whole episode for our Patreon ah folks about that si Scissor Sisters clip. where he That'll be good summer content, I think.
00:57:49
Speaker
yeah But he's talking about another rebuild. like It's like a fait accompli. They're going to just like blow it up. like It's like brother... They're going to draft another Marner, win the lottery again, draft the next Austin Matthews, ah re resign the next fucking Tavares, draft another Nylander. They'll just run it back. well Look how easy it was to get all those players together the first time.
00:58:20
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, like there that's the funniest thing about that is like there's more Austin Matthews is than Nikita Zaitsev's in that. re but Like the the players sort of like they weren't.
00:58:36
Speaker
They weren't ah busts or something. like you You know, like Austin Matthews didn't turn out to be Alexei Lafreniere, where you have to be like, or or even... Yeah, where you have to be like, damn, that's that's just generational level of disappointment. a as his appointment fucking Alexandre Dagg survivor, he's like, he's a serviceable third-line player. Like... Like, yeah, no, it was awesome to watch the team win 11 games all season so we could have this serviceable third line player. this I love this game. This is why I got into it when I was a kid, you know, where like other teams can fucking like somehow absorb where they're just like in Tampa. They're like, oh, like Jonathan Druane didn't really work out. Whatever. Remember that guy?
00:59:26
Speaker
Is he in the NHL? Is he playing the NHL? I don't even know. And then they just like went and traded him to the fucking Canadians who went and have traded him to the fucking Avalanche who went and traded him to the fucking Islanders who went and traded him to the fucking like Like Jesus Christ.
00:59:44
Speaker
Anyway, I put a lot of money up in pain. Fuck y'all Wow, the the the trade tree here is really funny. it Just traded ah Earlier this year for Braden Shen. like what We got to shut down the NHL so we can figure out what the hell is going on.
01:00:02
Speaker
So, Ottawa ah had $16 million dollars worth of cap on injured reserve last night, and they also had $24 and a bit million dollars not playing, if you count Linus Allmark.
01:00:18
Speaker
Do you have any strong opinions about Linus Allmark needs a break gate? I mean, the schedule has been fucked up ah I don't know.
01:00:34
Speaker
I have a soft spot for Alina Selmark, man. hey good He's a fucking weirdo. thing I don't know. ah And anna I believe that a weirdo is like the guy that can...
01:00:51
Speaker
get you there you know ah like they have the potential to like become like become but go go sicko mode and like like win the con smith trophy you know ah but also there's a lot of bullshit that you have to put up with you know um yeah I don't know. i it's It's so fucked to... I mean, I think the comment from Tarvis Green about like this was his decision is...
Allmark's Controversy
01:01:24
Speaker
um Right. if we If we're going to dock Tarvis Green for anything at all, it should be... He should have... Putting it in the street.
01:01:32
Speaker
Yeah. He should have like taken more of a hit on behalf of the boy, Venus, there. We've been doing this for 27... It'll be years this...
01:01:45
Speaker
summer, I think we've been doing this. um And I've never been a fan of an insider information, you know, ah because I don't know if you've been around for some of these years. It's not been a fun ride for a lot of it. Yeah. No, the insider information is never like the guys love each other behind the scenes and...
01:02:09
Speaker
Yeah, like... our there's There's multiple romantic relationships. It's always the worst shit. we've Because we fought in the Twitter wars. Of course. Former web website, twitter.net.
01:02:23
Speaker
Still got my bronze star. Yeah. um But, like, there'd just be fur like daily fury over coaching decisions with the lineup.
01:02:34
Speaker
And like the, like I've had friends that work for the organization or like whatever, no guy who knows a guy like that. And every time I find stuff out, I, I'm not going to put it in the street cause I'm not that kind of a messy bitch in that way. But ah yeah, you know, like there was a player that was like mysteriously scratched numerous years ago and everyone was like going so hard on the coach at the time for being like a idiot And i found out through, you know, the down at the drinking hole that like, that player showed up to practice drunk. Like the coach had to be like, I can't let this slide. Like you are fucking sitting. If i don't sit you,
01:03:22
Speaker
I lose my job basically. Like I have lost control of the ship and which might've been tenuous to begin with. if you have players showing up to practice drunk or like certain line combinations that like the coach just never put together and like finding out like those players hate each other and refuse to play with each other and stuff. Or was like, God, a man, I love being a turtle. Anyway. Yeah.
01:03:50
Speaker
fucking lena solmark and this is like i don't know there might be some really upsetting reason for it it's like that i just rather not know about do not dm me here insider tips they make me very sad i've never yeah i've never got a good one The only good one I've ever heard of is like incredibly generous charitable acts that Mike Fisher would do for people in the community that he didn't want getting out to the public. And then he turned out to be a QAnon guy, basically.
01:04:26
Speaker
So every cloud. Kyle Turris, I do not want to know what what you're up to these days. life it Unless it's the same shit you're always doing.
01:04:37
Speaker
yeah I mean, here's Allmark has is also basically your question. Well, the worst answer i kind book and I think i think that's a fine answer because basically I'm like, I think Allmark gets one.
01:04:54
Speaker
No questions asked, at least. And even outside of that, you know, as much as we've complained about him and other goaltenders throughout this podcast, he's put the train back on the rails this season and is actually drifting dangerously close to league average, cumulatively speaking.
01:05:14
Speaker
And like has genuinely gotten some points back for Ottawa in the last couple games. So... I mean, and here's the other thing. It's like, it's also not Linus Allmark's fault that he's the only we guy who can win a fucking game. Like, Linus Allmark didn't go, all right, James Weimer, go in there ah for me and also make sure you're horrifically out of position on ah the first goal.
01:05:41
Speaker
ah yeah Guys, I'm out today, so make sure you can blow a two goal lead for me if that's alright. Thanks. Peace, I'll be in the press box. And i this is the only thing I really feel strong about is but no matter what you feel,
01:05:57
Speaker
shut the fuck up about it. How about that? like all maybe maybe Maybe this shouldn't be discourse in at at that at this time. you know we've all Especially we've already done this in like December. In a normal situation, one game off because of reasons shouldn't be a big deal. It just happens to be a big deal because you know you're going to need to have 102 points to make the playoffs in the Eastern Conference this year for some fucking reason. Yeah, exactly. um The other thing too, I think that is, you know, worth, like, giving some grace toward is that, like this guy had been through some stuff personally and came back pretty quickly and had to deal with, like, by the way, can we just stop, like, deciding...
01:06:48
Speaker
to believe rumor like I couldn't believe it was like in the mainstream media like a guy on Twitter said that uh Brady Kachuk and and Mrs. Krabappel were in the closet and the baby will ditch them the baby looked at me and Lena Salmark told every like why are we like What? like this is This is like what we're going off of? Anyway, i just, you know, much like Jake Sanderson coming back, it's like, yeah, he's going to be back soon.
01:07:24
Speaker
He might not be like 100% better. like it we like He might be well enough to play. And like, There was a bit of a comment after, he was so outstanding in the Uggs on the ground,
01:07:43
Speaker
ah performance against pittsburgh he sing talk about like he single-handedly got them that that game could have been ugly if he didn't just play out of his mind and it was heartbreaking that they couldn't get the w for him because he was like the number one star of that game and eric carlson scored two goals and had three points you know um But, and where we feel normal and good about it. But after that game, he said, you know,
01:08:19
Speaker
yeah he hates the shootout because, like I'm paraphrasing here, obviously, but you can feel like, you know, he's having, like, one of his best games of the season, and then he loses the game in the shootout for the team, he feels, and he feels like the shittiest goalie in the world, and it's like,
01:08:39
Speaker
yeah, maybe this guy's not 100% better from his like mental struggles that he was having earlier this season too. like Maybe that game emotionally kicked the living shit out of him. And there's going to be people out there that say that that's not no excuse.
01:08:54
Speaker
You got to flush it. And they're like, yeah, okay but like also But what if he can't? I don't know. It's just... We're all sensitive people with so much to give.
01:09:07
Speaker
aren't we? And not for nothing. And I i told you this before we started recording, but like that's being the goalie is the one position in hockey where you actually do have to be a hundred percent on every night.
01:09:21
Speaker
so you You can't come in and like not having slept well and then just sort of fuck the dog on the third line for 12 minutes. Right. Yeah.
01:09:31
Speaker
You, you really do have to, make sure you've got it all together and you know if if you felt like he didn't like wouldn't you rather him say that ahead of time i don't know i think it's i i don't mind and yeah again james reimer is still a james reimer is still a war criminal for like various reasons but like james reimer whatever what whatever james reimer does isn't lenis almer's fault
01:10:02
Speaker
I think the idea that we have James Reimer as a regular roster player is the big reason why, like what led to necessitating that move might be the reason why the games are so stressful. at it Like, yes, the East is ludicrously tight.
01:10:24
Speaker
And part of that is that the Sens should be like, up there with like in the top three, not worrying too much about it right now. You know, like it it was the months of terrible goaltending and awful penalty kill, which are obviously connected. i mean, that that that's the one thing that we can maybe that's, that's the, that's the, the mustache on the Travis by Tet mon Mona Lisa is whatever was going on with the power play, but, uh, or so the penalty kill, but yeah.
01:10:59
Speaker
I mean, also the way it feels stressful for us that's like, oh, the Sen's have to win every single game. That means it also feels like that for the players. Yeah.
Olympics Disappointment
01:11:08
Speaker
yeah Did you enjoy the Olympics?
01:11:13
Speaker
ah I know. No, I didn't have a very good time. Why? Why did something happen? this is ah Look, I don't even need to say who I'm talking about.
01:11:30
Speaker
But they got to ruin everything. They ruin literally everything. They ruin everything. And this is perhaps like best encapsulated in these fucking assholes ruin everything to the point that we couldn't even...
01:11:49
Speaker
Be sad about Canada losing the gold medal enough. like Like, oh, how about it's even worse? We're going to invite your beautiful boys to the State of the Union.
01:12:03
Speaker
And was that State of the Union speech rousing and incredible? Yeah, it was. Okay, I was charged up. Say what you will about the man. It was Churchillian. Yeah.
01:12:16
Speaker
The section about how Graydon Carter's Vanity Fair post-Oscars party is not as cool as it is, not as hot as it used to be. That was, it honestly brought a tear to my eye. America's back, baby. I used i used to have a i used to have a made a coat made out of ah Churchillian.
01:12:36
Speaker
Listen, you're softest for a trillion. Your album got a bunch of billion. ah Fuck fuck you We need a certain thing to happen. ah Y'all know what I'm talking about.
01:12:52
Speaker
Listen, you shouldn't. You shouldn't. it it but absolutely It absolutely ruined the overall ah overall vibe of the Olympics, where you know I would have been happy to cheer for any number of non-Canadian teams.
01:13:12
Speaker
Because, like I'm just going to say it, this Team Canada, not very likable. Yeah. yeah and They should have absolutely lost to Czechia.
01:13:28
Speaker
And I love Czechia. They're fucking like. can i Can I stop you for a second? Is Czechia like Latinx where like Latino people are like, could you not do that? But like we don't like that.
01:13:41
Speaker
No, they they they they agree that i think that they agree that they are Czechia. Okay. Their website is Czechia.eu. Well, yeah, but like... here Here's the thing. Czechia makes me feel like the way my dad feels when he is not allowed to say Czechoslovakia anymore.
01:14:03
Speaker
lady policeman right like anyway my point is is that i would have been happy to see canada lose to any team except for the one they lost to which makes me hate this year's team canada even more like and how do you have all that talent on the roster and you have one good line which is mckinnon celebrini and uh Conrad McDavis. Yeah, yeah, McDavid. I was like, who's the other guy? Who's the other Mac? His name Conrad McDavis. Also, looking into that overtime, I'm like, it's pretty sick to get to cheer for the team that has Conrad McDavis on And then he doesn't even win it. What could possibly go wrong?
01:14:48
Speaker
yeah So yeah, fuck this year's Team Canada for for not winning. Admit it though, you would have put Drew Doughty on the team too. That was a shrewd move. who Who? Drew Doughty, known active NHL player, like guy I did not think retired ah two seasons ago. Like Anze Kopitar before him. Like, what? That guy's still around. That's awesome. How about Brad Marchand being on the team? He's older than me and I'm old as fuck.
01:15:20
Speaker
Damn. Damn, dude. It was like, look, finally some bad news. I remember tuning into that Rangers game and it's just like, and now Lassie Thompson, in addition to Thomas Chabot, is sort like, that's where I tuned into that game. Like, but finally, some something going wrong. like Like, now time to check in on my hobby that I apparently enjoy.
01:15:48
Speaker
You can see why I'm less than optimistic about the rest of the season. It's called protecting yourself. I mean, I have given up on the idea of a universe which whose arc bends towards justice. you know it' as a As a lib, I'm like, yeah, I'm owned. Congratulations. I'm so fucking owned. like Can you take your foot off the back of my neck for five minutes? Yeah.
01:16:18
Speaker
good Great job. i' owned. We got owned. It's great. i I have no hope in my eyes anymore. This is awesome. But at least gas is $2 a gallon.
01:16:31
Speaker
We're going to bring down inflation on day one. yeah Folks, we love supply side pricing adjustments, don't we? Galen Weston ah is in the Epstein files, by the way.
01:16:48
Speaker
is Is that one true or am I going to have to prove that later? Snopes that one. Okay. Think about that next time you're at the grocery store. Which Galen Weston? That's a good question.
01:16:59
Speaker
but Junior or senior? Star Wars or regular. That one's just for you and me. Dudes Rock. What and as the Have you listened to the Kachuk cast lately?
01:17:15
Speaker
Oh, yeah, definitely. That's how I want to spend my time. Yeah. Like, who are the top five donkeys on all time? Like, what do they even talk about? By the way, also, like, the thing is, like, I was talking about this the other day.
01:17:33
Speaker
There's no such thing as marketing or branding in the NHL. Give me a fucking break. Like, give give it... ah it's It's kind of like hockey itself. Like, this is not a popular sport. It's okay. It's okay that just we like it. Like, it's not... It's like baseball's... Like, interest in baseball is cratering. And it's a hundred times more popular than hockey will ever be. Like, marketing... Like, I heard that with, like...
01:18:04
Speaker
tim stutzel or like brady kachuk like they're not marketing them probably properly it's like do you realize no but no the gold standard of hockey marketing is like yeah conor mcdavid is in a cibc commercial that's as far as it goes i i am old enough to remember eric carlson being like cool and interesting interesting and then hockey fans just immediately saying that he was too gay Look at his hair, he looks like a girl. Look at that mustache and beard and long hair, he looks like a girl out there.
01:18:37
Speaker
And that's also bad. Nathan McKinnon, there's a haircut's there's a haircut you can set your watch to. i'm i mean, fucking Nathan McKinnon missing that empty net. i have Fuck that team, man.
01:18:49
Speaker
First of all, fuck me. but like Fuck them for like making me cheer for them. just like Nathan McKinnon, no fun. Sidney Crosby, no fun. Kale McCarr, no fun.
01:19:01
Speaker
Tom Wilson, a literal terrorist. ah Brad Marchant, one of the most hateable people on earth. Drew Doughty, too old. Mitch Marner, the tin man, he's got no heart. Connor McDavid is cool, I guess.
01:19:13
Speaker
And i just no one on that team I actually like, other than Macklin Celebrini. And... So fuck you for making me cheer for you. And then fuck you twice for not winning at all. Like that I wasted my energy. It was fun to cheer for Drew Doughty instead of Matthew Schaefer. That was, that was like, that was a bonus. Like let's bring out donuts for, you know, one last hurrah instead of having ah the 18 year old defenseman who's having a like historically good season. Like,
01:19:47
Speaker
like We don't need him for the three-on-three overtime, which I also love seeing the game get decided by. I was watching with my friend. It's just as good as the shooter. I was watching with her, and I was like, wait, what? We're going to three-on-three overtime with these lineups? It's going to be like first person to bobble the puck loses. like's like yeah and And it's going to be us because we have fucking Bennington in net.
01:20:17
Speaker
i'm looking at the kachuk podcast now and it's like interview with the hughes brothers uh interview with biz nasty ah interview with connor hellebook and like i don't know it's a tj oshi it's like hey i've never i'm getting the viewing maybe ah oh Matthew Kachuk reveals insane details of meeting Donald Trump i during Panther's White House visit. like Are you getting the feeling that maybe that is not actually for us in
Kachuk Brothers' Podcast
01:20:52
Speaker
some way? I'm telling you. right
01:20:55
Speaker
These guys. Dudes rock. like look That's how you know that's how you know they love hockey. is just They're just so good at like really spreading around the Really spreading around the the the podcast invites.
01:21:12
Speaker
I've actually been wondering what TJ Oshie is up to these days. what's What's your day-to-day, brother? Lay it on me. Oh, you play golf. That's crazy, dog.
01:21:25
Speaker
That is crazy.
01:21:28
Speaker
Listen. We've had lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of fun. But now the time has come to go. If this damn clown is found dead in his bed tomorrow, I'll be in heaven still doing this show.
01:21:43
Speaker
Look, we've put so many podcasts in the ground. We'll put this one in the ground. We'll put all the existing SENS podcasts in the ground as well. Don't get it twisted. Yeah, we're not going anywhere.
01:21:56
Speaker
Kachuk cast, we're coming for you next. You guys are going to get bored of doing this. We need our big, beautiful boy to be focusing a little bit more than doing a podcast episode every week. You think? You think maybe? Oh, man, i'm I got some takes. I'm going to wait to the offseason.
01:22:13
Speaker
all right. Because now is not the time. We've got to make the playoffs. And then after the season, we're going to have a serious conversation about the captain. I think, but that's for the future.
01:22:26
Speaker
In the meantime, ah this was the Senegoth Lounge and go, Sens, nine games to achieve ah to make the playoffs.
01:22:37
Speaker
ah Your coach is not the problem. We have already agreed. Yeah. yeah And so either and win the game so we can relax or lose them and then we'll be mad all offseason. We'll return to our natural state of being mad all the time. Finally, some bad news. We're on a real run there. ah Luke, I love you. I miss you.
01:23:01
Speaker
um Oh, ah before we wrap up, I'd like to send a huge shout out to my goddamn self. ah We did it, boo. And that's that's end of list.
01:23:13
Speaker
Great. In that case, with all the housekeeping out of the way, ah I'm shutting down the bar. We'll catch you next time. Sens, go. ah See you soon. Let's chop up a big line of cyanide on the bar now that the place is closed.
01:23:29
Speaker
Oh. Check.
01:24:26
Speaker
I used to be one too I used to stay a fall but god damn night I didn't sleep so my dreams could
01:25:32
Speaker
Hey!
01:26:01
Speaker
I used to wear my pants bit too tight
01:26:26
Speaker
That steak pill of peace, four stairs sleep in eight-mail pie, the bomb is still late.
01:26:35
Speaker
It used to give every part of me away. Until there was nothing left to make you want.
01:30:08
Speaker
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