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Speaker: Add the tone. Please record your message. Luke, it's Ray Ferraro calling. I'm just in Germany right now. I'm down here to see my son Landon play.
Speaker: I was wondering if you wanted to get together. now that i'm in the uh Austro -Hungarian Empire Maybe we could get an Otterkringer or a Fairhat Doner.
Speaker: i haven't been down to germany in quite some time you see i spent most of my time down in the baja See, that's what you don't understand is that I don't even live in the United States.
Speaker: I'm usually down in the Baja. Analyzing power play formations. and the Masonic symbolism contained there within.
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Speaker: Good evening. And welcome to the Cenagoth Lounge. I'm your bartender, Luke, and tonight's drink special is The Swill We Choose. We've got our best regular in the house tonight.
Speaker: It's James. James, where can I get you? Uhhhh... Can I get a Shabton and Coke? ah Hopefully not too much coke in that you're a dad now. You got responsibility. and A family man's Chabton and Coke.
Speaker: One of those coming right up. He's not a virgin anymore. He has exactly one kid. The sex -having captain. It's locked on. I mean, once that once like the proof of sex came through, I think he was a lock.
Speaker: Yeah. that kids Does anyone know for sure? Does anyone know for sure? that Tim Stutzler or Jake Sanderson fuck It's still an open question.
Speaker: Damn, we are off to us we are off to a start here. Could be a Sidney Crosby type situation. like Gay? I wish. What I have is a romantic abnormality where I'm in a romantic relationship with the numbers eight and seven.
Speaker: I can see Jake Sanderson Like, entering into some sort of, like, hyperbaric... chamber in the offseason, just like... Thinking about every... Thinking about all three plays that he tanked over an 82 -game season. like like and by tanked i mean just like i didn't do it perfectly that time I'll now just self -flagellate until the coming season. Which, by the way, Luke... is only Uh...
Speaker: 17 sleeps away still so as we record this. That's right. The Senators will start the season after everyone else has played a minimum 23 games.
Speaker: But at least we'll have a lot of games in hand. Oh yeah. Games in hand will be the word of the week, I guess. Sen's new slogan. Your Ottawa Senators. Games in hand.
Speaker: data duda Taste the games in hand. Gross. I... Would that even be too much worse than what we've been saddled with? this year.
Speaker: No. Ottawa Senators... Organization. Put me on. You need a slogan? You need two slogans? fart out a slogan for you if that's what you can come up with jesus christ guys The worst part was how...
Speaker: That's the ah the hill we choose was also accompanied by like some pieces in the media about how This was developed... through like extensive community.
Speaker: kind consultations and like focus groups about like what make us people love ottawa and stuff like that and like I but don't want to be too uncharitable, but like even just that attitude is the most Toronto shit imaginable. yeah Coming into Ottawa and being like, Why could anyone possibly love this place? I need to convene at least seven focus groups to figure it out.
Speaker: And then coming away with... Turns out these people want to be here. With the mayoral election coming up here, it's been on my mind a lot. It's like, you know what's some great ideas? The general population. like Let's go so check in on them.
Speaker: i mean i do think that you know every crisis is an opportunity though and so At least... If we're going to have the hill we choose on just all the promotional materials this year, like we're just going to have to meme on it. Like, we gotta meme it. Yeah, we gotta.
Speaker: Not being cool obviously but like We gotta make it a bit. Yeah. The Parliament Hill we shoot ourselves on. that that that the day I don't know. they They left that open for me.
Speaker: I mean but like what what was the best slogan? that's the other thing right it's like before we get into this like what it Like, who fucking cares? Like, what is the Minnesota Wild slogan for the - This is like a, you know - yeah like no and no No one knows about this. This is not a thing. I actually saw a player with...
Speaker: uh the hill we shoot ourselves on shirt and it was like i was like that thing's worth money like that's that's a meme That's a meme right there. like press like press scrum warned shane pinto the hill we die on Bye.
Speaker: Shirt. Yeah, we we can't wait to die. yeah Uh... Unwashed. Think about death. Unwashed Shane Pinto shirt.
Speaker: Five thousand dollars. Still smells a little bit like Shane Pinto. Wow, move over Hemingway. I'm putting mine on. I'm i'm putting i'm putting my money out. ah You raise a good point about there being no good slogans though, right? Like having a weird, embarrassing slogan.
Speaker: is basically the only type of slogan. I mean, this, like, this was also in the news, is that the Sens are trying to do their own, you know, We the North. And like, here's the thing about We The North. That shit also sucks. But I don't i don't know why anyone thinks that that's cool. And I don't know if anyone actually does think it's cool.
Speaker: drake would Drake wouldn't phone something in. Not my Aubrey Graham. With his 47 track long album. Wait, what is that? Like a fucking Game of Thrones reference in like 2026?
Speaker: Like, sure, if you say so. I mean, it makes sense the Raptors were named for Jurassic Park, but still. What are those - what are those Drake albums like? At this point. like Who's checking that? He's putting 50 tracks on it. He's like, hey there, gang. It was supposed to be Daddy City.
Speaker: yeah what if Not being a virgin is my game. who I like how this has just become Anthony Fantano Corner for some reason. The Ottawa Senators.
Speaker: Snoop Dogg almost bought the team.
Speaker: I wrote down some other ones ah that we've had in the past. just like I mean, I think the classics are stuff like... ah All in, all red. And United in Red. oh You can always go back to those. I also have All in All Red. as like i wrote When you were like, let's talk about the the history of shitty slogans. And I can only remember a few. No refunds.
Speaker: And... I remember all in all red. It's notable. I wrote that down immediately. I was like... That's the worst, that is the worst one ever.
Speaker: Like... That was the one that I was like, God. It was like yet another like... Mike Tyson. and like body shot to the kidney, you know, like.
Speaker: of Of, like... G .I .G .I. Danny Heatley is gone. Melnick is broke. Like, go home. Yankee, go home. like Like, the the good times are over. Like, all in all. Like, is poker...
Speaker: Competitive, like... professional poker was popular oh yes
Speaker: this And it also it also literally like a 15 year slogan. I think like this is literally like 2011, 2012 shit. And it's like, it's burned into our brain.
Speaker: Exactly. And it's like... Also, like, in reverence to the sins being read, which, like, no one liked, you know? Like, I don't know. I feel like people got used to it being... a red jersey but like we always wanted to go back You're not true Norwegian black metal sense fans if you didn't miss the original jersey for the 46 years that we had the fucking side profile or the ah a 3D Uh...
Speaker: Sad senator guy in Scotiabank red. ah But yeah, it was it was so so annoying. Yeah, I think that was like... in the era of, like, yeah, the Sens still make the playoffs every two years or so, and they...
Speaker: Just make it in in and get the shit kicked out of them by the penguins. But hey, we're all in and all red, which is like... Again. I feel like it was to do with the rise of a competitive, like a professional poker which was so cool Which now it would be like...
Speaker: The Ottawa Senators, united in pickleball. you know like it's just like what's going on or like fearless remember fearless it's like a beyonce album title like god damn dude Is Sen's army still a concept?
Speaker: Are we still volunteering for Sen's army? Are you in the Sen's army reserves? I feel like you're thinking you boys thinking about joining up? Uh... I feel like...
Speaker: Stuntman Stu. Or whoever's on the... on the On the ones and twos at the Sens game is probably... We call it... thing. Calling upon me and my...
Speaker: brothers and sisters and non -binos to sends army Make Faye DeBruy We're down by two goals with 30 seconds left. I think Sen's army is...
Speaker: Here to stay. It's like Kiss Army. And like Sen's army is also like a state of mind as much as it is like a paramilitary organization. Exactly. It's like being a Marine. Like, you're never an ex -Marine.
Speaker: Yeah. You're always in the Sen's army whether you fucking like it or not. That's perfect, yeah. I'll tell you what's funny is ah I was also reminded by the fact that Sens in session wasn't even a real slogan.
Speaker: Did Stephen Sens make that up? No, life i don't think I don't know if he made it in. I thought it was like listed as like a like possible contender. they had like a screenshot Someone had like a screenshot of like eight possible contenders. like uh slogans for the year and then it was all like uh you know we are sen's army or like
Speaker: the coolest game on ice, that sort of shit. And then one of them in there was Sends in Session. And then everyone focused on that and was like, wait, what the fuck? but what is What is that slogan? And then I don't even know what the actual slogan was that year because we just did Sends in Session the whole time.
Speaker: So yeah, the hit we choose is gonna work out. It's just not gonna work out the way they think. Turns out we all want in on that rotation. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker: Uh... Damn, I yeah, I thought that was me Speaking of which like... Shout out to the boy Brochenski, angels soar high, but like... Send Sickos is like more popular than like any slogan that... the Sens ever had. Like DJ Smith.
Speaker: did the fucking sicko thing on tsn one time like in the middle of a game there are There are two moments. where I realized that like Sen's Twitter was the most powerful of all NHL Twitters.
Speaker: one The first time was when we got... Robert Kraft. to put out a statement that he was not buying the Senators. Has ah Robert Kraft...
Speaker: Spit out any other interesting statements lately haven't looked and go to hell There was a rumor about Robert Kraft coming to Ottawa and then we were like, oh, he's buying the Sens. And then that caught so much traction that...
Speaker: they were forced to respond. So good work us there. And then, yeah, i'm making DJ Smith say, yes, ha ha ha, yes. while being interviewed by tsn like absolutely our top our top two moments. Like, those that those are our sandwich cups.
Speaker: Yeah, like, don't even try to have a slogan. Just leave it to us. We got this. We will determine. you will think of something. We always do.
Speaker: Like... The hill we... Like, go to hell or whatever. Like... Don't do it. it's like it's like It's like the... medallion thing remember they had the chain that they made the players where And for like minute one, the players were like, We're not doing that.
Speaker: Like, this is ah this is us. Like, you just like, we're... We're only memeing the hill we die on and like just wait till the first It's like four game losing streak of the season. Then we'll see what hill we choose.
Speaker: uh anyway there's uh there's a little bit of advice from From the peanut gallery. ah Stop trying. Save your money. Let the fans cook. We got this Yeah, we got this, don't worry James, we've got some other topics we're going to run through here. We have a whole list and stuff. And so in order to keep us on schedule, I'm going to set a 10 -minute timer for the rest of the topics. Part of the interruptions style.
Speaker: so after 10 minutes you will hear This noise.
Speaker: ah So 10 minutes ah starting now. We got some new players this offseason. We got some some ah some new guys. What? OO - hey Hmm.
Speaker: This is what we could have talked about this last episode, but we spent an hour and a half remembering guys. So now we're like, oh shit. uh, What's the opposite of remembering of guys? I guess learning about guys.
Speaker: Let's learn about some guys Let's learn about some guys here So... Uh, William Eklund. Don't call him a... Uh... Brady Kachuk replacement.
Speaker: I'm feeling like... William is an interesting name for a Swedish guy. like Is he like Wilhelm? Like... like I'm not used to that one. I guess William Nylander.
Speaker: He feels like half American though. He's got that like My... My dad was in NHL. I'll play her but my - Mom was a beautiful woman.
Speaker: No. I kind of feel from like North America feel like. You know, that most, like, NHL player, second generation have. like Like Ty Domi. This is such a specific reference. Like Max. Hey, William Eklund, I bet you've got a real hot mom. I'm serious. I know.
Speaker: I'm serious. Like, look at look at Max Domi. It's like... My dad's a triceratops, but my mom is like a bottle waitress. Like a maximum dome piece, as you referred to it. Yeah, both of them had big heads. There's no getting around that one.
Speaker: Oh man. Continue if you have anything to move on, William Eklund. i got i got i got i got a william ecklund expectation are we talking about expectations for the year Yeah I think so.
Speaker: or like Or like, what would make you happy? I'm coming in socks with the this first one. My expectations with... William Hussein Eklund are high.
Speaker: Um...
Speaker: My expectation is you have a career year, motherfucker. That's right. You got you come in and you have a career year. This ain't the sharks no more. The safety shark's no more.
Speaker: You're not? Not playing with... Macaroni celebration. understudy. Who is he playing with in San... St. Joe's.
Speaker: California. Exactly. Exactly. I guess that they're having him play with Dylan Cosign now. Um...
Speaker: But... This is the position that William Eklund's being put in. If this Dylan Cosine thing doesn't work... You're gonna be fucking bumped up. To play with Tim Stutzel. Like, that's your punishment. Like, you have to fucking...
Speaker: Dish, girly. you Do not. Bucket up. Don't! Fuck it up. Uh, no, seriously, like, uh...
Speaker: i like I like you. I love you. Fuck Brady Kachuk till I die. ah And and and this is why this is why I expect a career year out of it. our new son. William Eklund.
Speaker: Because I believe in him. I believe in him. He's built to be a sin. All I know about them, because I'm not, I don't know if you've seen these West Coast teams. They come here. once or twice a year. or they They act like they know they own the place.
Speaker: They come over here, they take our jobs. Bloody sharks coming here.
Speaker: Scoring. ah With their lace. Yeah. We don't watch... Toley's here. We've got Corduroy. That's for one person, that joke. Anyway, ah no.
Speaker: he he's ah He's got a good defensive game. He's fast. He's tenacious. And he's a good playmaker. Motherfucker we got a pretty good team over here. You got you got to make some hay And...
Speaker: yeah If he plays with Dylan Cosine... Dylan Coside had his second best year of his career last year. I like the situation he's walking into.
Speaker: I'm looking at some ah hard numbers here for ah Wild Bill Eklund. I'm going to try that one on for a bit. Wild Bill. Let's see how we go with it. Yeah, we're going with Bill Eklund. The name's Bill Eklund.
Speaker: ah Yeah, good advanced stats. Uh... He does have a ah quite the golfer. Because he's got a... Minus 31 on the card last year.
Speaker: And then... in 2024. It was a minus 45. So... i don't i'm I don't think... Maybe it wasn't his fault because, you know.
Speaker: He was on a line with other players, and... Hockey is famously a team sport, but that's the sort of number where I'm like... ah It doesn't matter how many apples you get if...
Speaker: Uh, you're the clubhouse leader. On the Bless Minus. you know, so He must have been trailing. philip zadina it was according to our last episode minus 44 what we gotta shut down san jose until we can figure out what's going on over there Yeah, I mean... If we've learned one thing from ah Fabian Zetterlund.
Speaker: It's probably that they do things a little differently that over there in San Jose. And by differently, I mean... Adley. So...
Speaker: ah Go out there and have fun. But yeah, mostly. Fit in with the system and, uh... game Daddy Travis Green's trust first before you start. to Trying to express he yourself too much offensively.
Speaker: But also don't wait too long to express yourself. offensively because otherwise you will be uh fabian's letter one though Yeah, just go out there and be perfect. It's fine. In the words of my grandmama...
Speaker: Uh... Madonna. Express yourself, don't repress yourself. Yeah, I believe in him. The only monkey's paw on my expectations is how like...
Speaker: William Eklund. Sorry, Bill. Bill Ackland. Funeral director. is that he scored on his first shift in the first preseason game. like Fuck, that - Like that seems like I've been a sense fan for a long time now. That seems like something we'll be making jokes about like cynically at some point.
Speaker: although I think I also got the same feeling from Tim Stutzler as well, where he like scored this gorgeous goal in the... against the Leafs in one of the preseason games. And then I got the feeling that he was like, yep, ready to go. And then just like shut it down for the rest of the game. like f He like had one good shift to make sure everything was working, and then he was like, all right, let's go out there and not get injured.
Speaker: Yeah, go out there and don't pull your grind. All right. yeah ah Andre Hurtikovsky. Oh shit, that's right. There's more than one guy. That's right. There's there's ah over two guys.
Speaker: Alright, give me a good two minutes on Andrei Burakovsky. No problem. I don't have much to say. He's definitely one of those guys. I classify him as an NHL player I've heard of. You know, this is like a type of guy like...
Speaker: Andre Burakovsky, I heard of that guy. And like, you know... Couple of cups. weird year last year, like capable of good things. Uh...
Speaker: Comes here with zero fanfare like people seem pretty bummed about it because I don't know. Uh... All I have to say... My man, Andre. ah Your career's on the line here fella.
Speaker: Like... You're going back to Austria, which is an awesome place. If ah if you fuck this up. so Stay stay on the sunny shores of Kanata. Bye.
Speaker: Bye. Uh... By ripping the pill. Exactly. Yeah, rip the pill. and ah You know, your name is Andre Burakovsky, so, like...
Speaker: Just... All I ask, I ask one thing. Don't give Bruce Garriock stuff to talk about, okay? Just like... Keep Garriott quiet and we're good. Okay, like Tara Senko. Remember Tarasenko came in and we were like, oh, fuck, here we go. Like, this is going to be a disaster. And you know what? He was fine. He was fine. Just go and be fine.
Speaker: You know, put up like. 17 goals, like a kind of like... respectable amount of points. yeah And they're putting you in a position to succeed. And you know what? Starting the year or hurt.
Speaker: What's the worst that could happen? Andrei Burakovsky, his birthplace is listed as Klagenfurt, Austria. Yeah, my ah my guy, Andrei Burakovsky, is one of the only guys on the team right now who's actually noted for his shooting ability.
Speaker: or has been noted in its for his shoot shooting a ability, so... Yeah, potentially an important player. Uh, yeah. Like I said, it's, uh, it's pill weapon time.
Speaker: 100. Buzzer beaters, Sam Arison, just get more wins than losses. That's all I care about. Perfect. All right. This ah new system is working great. ah Next topic. It sends podcasts. uh not us obviously but other sense podcasts were eating well this summer because There was... No less than...
Speaker: I don't know, 35 episodes about how important it was to sign Drake Batherson. do an extension you don't say you don't say so 10 minutes on the clock uh what do you got on drake batherson's extension Drake?
Speaker: Cash or sin? Got him It may sorry make cash person would be better I guess but anyway I feel like there's a lot of post Melnick Uh, trauma.
Speaker: Uh... It's them. post Melnick stress disorder where like So much was made of the dollar value in the wake of the William.
Speaker: Mmm. ah Carl... Carlsberg contract. And it's like... Why do you care? you know like I feel like we...
Speaker: are obsessed from years and years of having to pour over. Every deal that happens is like, how can we? how can How can the management... like convince like lowball this guy what What leverage are they going to use to they convince the, to hypnotize them into staying or whatever, you know, like.
Speaker: talking about your Bobby Ryans and like things like that over the years. Um... And... I have this to say. When it comes to...
Speaker: Dirk Batherson Here we got a guy. He's a... He's a perfectly good player. Is he flawed? Let you cast the first stone there big fella This is a guy that's like a legitimate top six player.
Speaker: famously like the thing that's brought up is like he's improved every year ah in terms of his points. ah We cannot spare this guy. Like, oh, you think... You think the $10 million dollar price tag is bad, quote unquote?
Speaker: Wait, what are you gonna do instead? You're gonna go find that guy for cheaper? It's not fucking happening. And... I just want to... I invite you over to the pacifying waters of, uh...
Speaker: Big St. James Island here. Uh... Here we had a player Important to the team. Likes being here. Like, retainable.
Speaker: High market value. Or high high ah high high market rate or whatever. going raid has just gone up. and We got... We got, we got, you know what they did? They paid him.
Speaker: There was a commitment from the player commitment from the owner And they they came together in the... Brotherhood of Christian Friends. And uh...
Speaker: That is not - Something that we got ever for like a fucking decade So... That is awesome. We're, we're... I'm a real boy now.
Speaker: I'm a real boy. Paying paying the fucking players. It's like, can you believe we're only paying Eric Cross? isn't 6 .5 million dollars a year because his number is 65 or whatever like they did to get him to sign that contract it's like no this is like the guy's contract came up They're like, it's worth this much.
Speaker: Here's like the term we can offer you. And then they just got it done. And there's signing bonuses, which I had to look up in the damn dictionary. as like I was gonna say, speaking of speaking of things that we never did for a decade...
Speaker: like there's a lot of ah There's a lot of upfront money. Which I guess you can do when your owner is actually... Uh, liquid. Yeah.
Speaker: Obviously, Everyone loves it when your team gets a deal on a player just because it frees up resources to get more good players. I don't think, at least I think that's the reason we like it. I don't think anyone...
Speaker: I think you'd have to be a real fucked up person to be like... Yeah, fuck you. Uh... Michael Amadio, you shouldn't make more than $2 .6 million. Um... But...
Speaker: I do think there's this nasty tendency as fans to... you know Once they see that we got one or two good deals, that they want that on every player. It's like that becomes the expectation then rather than like the...
Speaker: rather than the cool exception. Luke, if I may, it's not only like the expectation, it's like... a necessity, you know, where, like, the owner's not willing to spend to the cap for years. It's, like, its the only way, like, we're gonna have to trade, like...
Speaker: David Rundblad for Kyle Torres. He's under contract. He makes this money. Like... so We're allowed to spend... we're real boy now. And yeah, at the end of the day, there's only one thing you got to remember, which unless you're...
Speaker: ah Michael Andlauer, in which case, thanks for listening. ah It's not my money. Yeah, yes Uh... There's going to be a cap room. And they don't have any ah outstanding...
Speaker: UFAs to sign? that are incredibly important like um i guess maybe if we want to keep burakovsky you know we'll see what happens We're gonna see what happens. Warren Fogler.
Speaker: Michael Amadio, Claude Giroux coming back for an age 39 season. I guess Zoob. Zoob's the big... Zub is the big name. And even Zoob is like, how expensive? It's one Zoob, Michael.
Speaker: How much did it cost? $25 million? dollars Also, it's like... a I'd rather... put my eggs in the drake baskets and then like you're like oh no but what if warren fugler like come on let's let's be like Big baller brand over here, you know.
Speaker: And if we got some cap space, guess what? That means maybe we can trade for a guy. Well, the other thing too about all the anxiety around like the price tag on it is like... I recall back in the 1960s when...
Speaker: Tim Stitzer. fucking signed the richest contract in Senators franchise history. Sorry, herstory. It's like, that is...
Speaker: Cited as like one of the most like value. Like good value contracts. like Oh, my God. That's right. We're paying this guy peanuts. It's like...
Speaker: $10 million dollars for like a... goal scoring top six winger in like 14 months from now is going to, like, it's gonna be fine.
Speaker: There were people ripping on that Stutzler contract too, which is like to this day remains crazy. They were like, whoa, seems a bit rich for... for timmy like where are all those people now The Sanderson went too. I have a... I remember...
Speaker: Skrrt! Dreaming about... Like... Like, I'm screaming about how, like, don't worry about this one. Anyway. Uh...
Speaker: Yeah. We we had a player that needed to be signed for a lot of money, and he got it. I think the last time I remember that happening was like...
Speaker: Danny Heatley getting his big deal. Yeah, it's been 20 years. Yeah, so rejoice. Boom! That's all I have to say about that.
Speaker: All right, we're going to roll the timer over. You get an extra two minutes to talk. to talk about the uh next topic which is hey we drafted a guy who actually produces highlights Let's draft some guys. We haven't done that in a long time.
Speaker: Did you get like draft -pilled at all this year? or Were you just... ah Okay. So...
Speaker: I mean, for a minute there, we were thinking that we're going to have a top 10 pick. We got a... Bill Eklund instead, but Um... Jackson Culver has immediately become like the most important prospect in the organization.
Speaker: Just for being a guy who is like... ah First of all, goaded with the sauce. And also... Nice with it. in a quippable way.
Speaker: I put this on Blue Sky as well. it's like It's been so long since we drafted a guy. who has like actual highlights. you know I remember that ah after after the ah Tyler Boucher debacle...
Speaker: Who? The goat. that The goat Abdi was like, I knew that... ah Tyler Boucher. didn't have any motion because no one made any highlight videos of him. And that is a 100 % accurate way to figure out. Yeah. If the guy you drafted was any good. Is there a highlight video set to some terrible music? Yeah, you know your shit's busted when...
Speaker: There's no highly real like there was a fucking Curtis Lazar highly real You know what I'm saying?
Speaker: Yeah. Also, I'm just on... if Proud sponsor of the show, hockeyprospect .com. And... One of Jackson Cover's ah ah assets is ah be the most lovable guy in the world with kind eyes.
Speaker: You know? we We love you. We'll do anything for you. Uh... No, the story is great as they say. body bling -bong blue but like the whole thing like He's from...
Speaker: ah the Caribbean and the Roller hockey. Uh... Following in Bobby Ryan's footsteps there, hopefully only on the ice.
Speaker: and And all that is a good story, but like... dude looks like a good fucking hockey player and I wanna zoom out a little bit. about how we've welcomed into our lives our new son jackson with an x stop hockey parents 2026.
Speaker: We gotta stop naming these hockey players until we can figure out what's going on. The WHL draft is just always just an absolute wasteland. player JC Um...
Speaker: is... I will con... The glazings will continue till Steve's stoicism fucks up bad. Like, let me just break it down like this.
Speaker: Imagine... With all this Brady, ka -chug. Shit happened, which it would have still happened in an alternate time prior to happen faster If...
Speaker: Eugene Hussein Melnick and... Pierre. Dorian, we're still... Uh... You know... Captain and... First mate of the good ship.
Speaker: Ottawa Senators. Imagine. Pierre Dorian with, like... Melnick. in his ear having a handle It'd be like Melnick is on the fucking TSN Toronto drive time. radio show to fucking publicly flame brady kachuk and the kachuk family and destroy his trade value james we don't We don't have to imagine.
Speaker: We already traded a captain. like under yeah ah very suspicious kind like circumstances. We already did this with Eric Carlson. ah with Doria and Melnick. I'm saying.
Speaker: But like... God damn. car Carlson didn't want out. You know, like, he it was like... a rebuild situation. Where it's like, this is ugly. This is ugly stuff.
Speaker: And like... like What does Stevie Stoicism do? He's like, get the fuck out of here then. And he gets, he can only trade him to one team. He gets Three first round draft picks in a second?
Speaker: He flips one of the draft picks into a... bonafide top six winger which we left winger that we need Like... I'm not doing the comparison to Brady Kachunk because, like...
Speaker: That doesn't matter. It's a different hockey player. And now we got... Jackson Cover and... You know that Hans Lingenberry guy.
Speaker: like pretty tidy turnaround. Like... we like we got that we we We filled the hole. And we have... a restocked cupboard like that.
Speaker: And... Honestly, Brady Kachuk, get the fuck outta here. Like... I don't know That that's how I feel about all this is like we have Anyone to be excited about.
Speaker: ah Because of... Peace. Steve Stai - Staios is like... deft maneuvering of an awful situation. We probably would have had to listen to the Brady Kachuk is leaving thing for like Three extra years. if oh my it was yeah the old guard. It would be like...
Speaker: Whereas, like... It just came out of nowhere. you know when it happened but i don't want to eat up all the time on that but i'm just saying We're excited about Jackson Covert because of that. They somehow turned it into like...
Speaker: A cute thing. So don't forget that. Jackson Cover. Was taken with the 32nd overall pick. Why did Ottawa have the 32nd overall pick?
Speaker: That's right. Cause we complained. but Technically, Pierre Dorian drafted Jackson Culver in a way.
Speaker: It's it like a gift from the past. From beyond the grave. Jonas Lagerberg -Hohen has one of the funniest stat lines I've ever seen.
Speaker: Uh, his 24, 25. season in lexans in the swedish junior league 27 goals, 3 assists.
Speaker: And you know those three assists were on like rebounds. What's the Philly don't do rebounds of passing? Yeah, the stats are weird with him. Uh, uh. I'm just gonna trust and believe.
Speaker: uh because i got not much else going on in my life and Yeah, his stat line and kind of like... The tea surrounding him is like...
Speaker: I think he plays in like a relic on a relegated team. kind of reminds me a lot of like and there's the injury thing where it's like actually this guy's a lot better than you know, the, the, the spreadsheet lights on.
Speaker: Now, injury thing aside, it kind of reminds me of... When we drafted Mika Zibanejad... Where, like... His it was like he's played Two games in the Swedish Elite League with zero points, but...
Speaker: and He's fucking good. Trust me. Like, I don't know. Okay. You know, like this is why this. job of scouting is hard, I guess. you know if If you look at his HockeyDB page, he looks like a propaganda poster.
Speaker: Eh, eh. Yeah, this is like a... I'm not going to pretend that I have a hot... taste Like... This is the luxury of actually having multiple first round picks.
Speaker: right like Honestly, with the ninth overall pick, You hope that you... develop a bill ecklund in a couple of years and by a couple of years i mean like four or five years like to the maturity level that he's at he's nhl experienced you know Yeah, he's literally drafted seventh overall. like it's ah It's a perfect system.
Speaker: We're actually trading up? So... We're entering the golden age. um But... I like that they went out there and they had a little bit of fun with it.
Speaker: R .I .P Sean Simpson. but ah Yeah, so... And... I think there's another. Yeah. The yeah other first round pick is like in the futuristic year, 2029 or something.
Speaker: so I for one welcome our new children. Yeah, we'll get there. I do think it's funny that uh... one of the like the head scout of ottawa or something was interviewed at Or like either you do like a presser.
Speaker: And was like, yeah, so we looked around and realized we didn't have very many skilled players. And so this year we drafted for skill. Like, you could have been doing that the whole time, I think.
Speaker: Like, thank God for Carter Yakumchuk. Yeah. And there are still some prospects in the system of like... There's still guys I like hanging around.
Speaker: But this is the first year where, again, we've drafted guys where like there's a... Uh... Fuckin'... highlight package of them set to Avicii.
Speaker: that I can yeah to put on while I try to fall asleep at night, you know? ah Like, boom. like all respect to like logan hensler but he's just not really doing it like that no No, like that Jackson cover. Over time...
Speaker: When against the Leafs it was like like I'm not comparing the two guys, but... Didn't I? Haven't I seen Conrad McDavis do that? move Like, damn, girl. That that was unexpected. like You didn't have to do all that.
Speaker: You're going back down to the OHL. And you know it's been a long time without the refreshing rain of just... a nice goal from a prospect because I stood on my front porch and said We needed this.
Speaker: We needed this. We've been needing this. We've been needing this. Yeah, no, it's true ah So yeah, drafting for upside late in the first round. What a concept. I mean, I thought the Sens have been in a weird position for a long time. like i've For a long time,
Speaker: defended the drafting of courteous lazarb Like a... two -way player that will definitely make the NHL. It's like, I don't know, that's who you fucking drafted.
Speaker: Fucking 15 or 17 or 20 like yeah, I don't know like What are you going to do? Get like Rob Schrempf there? Like, like. This guy could bank it off the scoreboard in. It's like, I don't know if that's useful. So...
Speaker: I liked how they took the most guaranteed pick and fli flipped it for a guy that is has already made it. Because I don't want to... i don't want to wait around like it's going to be hard enough to wait for jackson covair i'm 37 my biological clock is ticking like we gotta get its cup up exactly Heh heh.
Speaker: And... And he has the benefit of playing for the London Knights, so you know he's going to get yelled at a lot. So maybe he'll be up faster than we realize. So there's the alarm. ah That will knock that topic off the list. 10 minutes on the clock.
Speaker: James. What you have to say about... The Shabaptin. Shabaptin? Is that how we're pronouncing that? Shabaptin? The Shabton? Shabaptin? What's Shabaptin?
Speaker: Shabab - Shababton's funnier, so we're just gonna go with that. Okay, the Shababton. I mean... What can you say other than it was the right choice and it's the choice of the current generation?
Speaker: I guess I should... I should go back to Uh... I don't know what is... The year was 2000 -dickity thousand dickty two The Kaiser had stolen the numbers of whatever year that was.
Speaker: An onion on her belt. The Great War was... At its peak. In the sense sphere... There was I remember...
Speaker: Uh... One of the best ever do it. Craig Medalia was the sends admin guy on social media, the goaded social media guy.
Speaker: ah And he made a cute video. i Don't know what movie it was from but it was I remember it crystal clear in my mind where
Speaker: Shabbat's like superimposed on like a guy and he's like waving away free agency and all this stuff and then he Like, slides up to the bank or something. And it was like...
Speaker: Tommy Shabadi. Eight more years. I think. He was making 8 mil. Which was... a lot of money at the time This is... it's still It still is, it's depending on who you are. But uh...
Speaker: Shabbat re -signing at that like nadir of Sens. Fandom. um It was like the only... good thing that happened that year.
Speaker: Possibly like... inside or outside of hockey. So... I think he's attributed to this quote of like, We've seen some shit. It's like Yeah, that's the most relatable...
Speaker: Hehehe. comment since like Probably not. you know and uh Which, again, we don't like it. That one. Yeah, I'm not happy. Like...
Speaker: I want the most memorable sentence quotes to be like... Man. We came, we saw, we kicked ass. Winning the Stanley Cup is getting too easy or whatever. I'm bored of all this winning. But anyway...
Speaker: No. Like... Am I mad of Timmy or Jake? is the captain of the team. No, but like, we got time. Shabbat's only signed for two more years. I don't know what happens after this, but like...
Speaker: Jason fucking Spencer was the cat. I don't know. like Eh, eh... and And it's... that People are making a little too much about the bilingual thing. This guy's a so guyss vibe.
Speaker: He seemed... It's like serious enough and light enough. It's perfect. Maybe he's one of the funniest guys to be the captain of the team. Eric Carlson's pretty funny.
Speaker: I don't know, but... there's a There's a levity to Shabbat. He's got that weird, like... Charlie Murphy. In the haters ball sketch, like... showing all his teeth when he smiles like you need to vacuum that coat like i don't know he's he's great uh
Speaker: I like it. What do you think, Luke? Obviously, this was right up there with ah the extension in terms of uh faces that launched a thousand podcast episodes And, you know, I think There is a lot of chatter And, i like, especially... ah Pierre Maguire was... ah Going hard for Jake Sanderson.
Speaker: all that stuff basically at the end of the day like i was stumping for thomas shabbat as captain like this shit was like the u .s presidential primary I was out there like cutting advertisements.
Speaker: Like... When times were tough, Thomas Shabbat didn't turn tail and run like some captains. He'll lead us now. Lincoln Project Ass. Thomas Shabbat, the only choice for Sen's captain. This ad paid for by the Thomas Shabbat First Senators Political Action Committee. Like, it's...
Speaker: like yeah that That's how serious I was taking this shit. It's like, if you didn't want Shabbat to be captain, I kind of thought less of you. Hey, your candidate won. When, yeah, so finally I've i've earned this one.
Speaker: Tell you that for free. But yeah, so... We don't really have to put it on our beautiful baby boys and they're still like... I don't think I am betting my happiness.
Speaker: ah No pressure on... Tim Stutzel and... Jake Sanderson not being in even the peak of their prime yet. Let them just go out there and do their art, okay? Like, they don't have to argue with the ref or, like, smooth talk the ref after, like, a weird thing happens.
Speaker: What? Red Puppet! Let Papa Shabapa do that, you know? like It's not a big deal. Uh... I think it was a great choice. I think Geru would be awesome, but like...
Speaker: He's like a spiritual... It doesn't matter that much. It does and it doesn't. and When people say it doesn't matter at all, that's not true, but like... It's it's he's the he's the Guy we need right now.
Speaker: Again, is is is is is Steve Stales going to ruin this podcast? We're just like, good idea. No. Oh, we'll think of something. I'm sure. I'm sure we can come up with something to plan.
Speaker: But yeah, it's a... Ever since the Kachuk trade, it's just been... Quick. non -stop good vibes just Dub after dub after dub.
Speaker: Which, you know... By the way... We've been needing this. you're Going back to a previous episode where you were... Flambéing! Brayden Kachunk.
Speaker: for his like Fake toughness. By the way, I saw this play last night. It's like fucking... Hitting. Macaroni celebration. From behind on a play and then he fights ah I forgot it was like...
Speaker: Jacob Truba, I don't know anything about hockey. No refunds. But I was just like what is this guy up to out there like what the fuck it's like Sort of like your point in the in a previous episode about...
Speaker: His fighting... Jordan Stahl being really selfish and stupid in the playoffs. I was catching a whiff of that last night. think I invite you into my mind palace here. It's like...
Speaker: Thomas Chabot played In. He played... Playoff hockey with a fucking broken arm. last year. I feel like if Brady Kachunk did that...
Speaker: there'd be like a bronze plaque of him because his player profile fits doing something like that more like I feel like Thomas Chabot has been hurt for like the last decade.
Speaker: Not necessarily a good thing, but like... He's a... he's a tough motherfucker like he's not the biggest strongest guy in the world but like he's not you know tom wilson but like I don't know. Let's just go around the room. When was the last time you played hockey with a broken arm?
Speaker: Yeah, that's a great point. I think, uh... What exactly... Gets. you know praised or perceived as toughness in hockey isn't necessarily aligned with you know actually going out there and Yoke.
Speaker: doing it day in and day out. And here's the thing, like Thomas Chabot's almost too smooth with it. Like, yeah he did he doesn't complain enough for you to appreciate how tough he is. It's like, how hard can it be? How hurt is he really if he's not constantly...
Speaker: you know complaining about how hurt he is like uh I don't know. It's a guy I admire a lot. Thomas Shabbat. I don't say that a lot about hockey players. so Similar things have been said about his general... like uh appearance like his skating mechanics and stuff like he's such a good skater that it looks like he's not trying that hard but like He is in the play, but he's just too slick with it. It's like...
Speaker: I feel like that's a good indicator of him as a player. He had some rough years where Excellent. um nhl coach dj smith what's he up to these days anyway you know he's played him 47 minutes a night on a terrible sense team he had some down years but I don't know. i Think that Shabbat has like a kind of even keeled personality that is um...
Speaker: Perfect for the job. So that closes the loop on the Shabaptin. ah Next, we have a sort of a flex category, James. 10 minutes on the clock.
Speaker: How are you feeling about this season? Do you have any predictions? or thoughts or even just fears. Yeah, I got something to say. Surprise.
Speaker: Surprise motherfuckers, I got something to say. for area man has Uh... Opinions. Um... I don't want to say this.
Speaker: But I'm gonna say it because... Luke I trust you. I love you. This is a safe space Hm? I have a bad feeling about this season. who Fuck, okay.
Speaker: let's ah Let's work through it. All I can be is myself. You asked me what I think. This is what I think. I don't know. I just have like a weird feeling about the season. I think...
Speaker: we're Confident? in a lot of ways going into this, which I am not used to. ah You know, it was like Sens are one of the best defensive teams in the league, which is is true.
Speaker: And it's like... their weakness is goal scoring. Like, well, um... They were like top 10 in goal scoring in the NHL. That is the craziest stat of all last year, in my opinion.
Speaker: um but I also agree that... With the sentiment that this is like the... deepest sense team even Fucking without Brady Kachucka. Like...
Speaker: deepest sense team since the early -mid -2000s. Fight me. Um... And it's like, the question mark is goaltending. It's like, we have a goaltender that literally has won the Vesna trophy.
Speaker: Like I know they got swept in the playoffs And... That. was great i loved that i loved every minute of it But like...
Speaker: Lena Solmark was spectacular. The, the... The sourest taste in my mouth was, I think it was game two. um It was game two.
Speaker: My therapist says I shouldn't think about this. But, like... um That was like, that was the sourest. take away from that series like you have to win.
Speaker: That game. for your goaltender spiritually. Like, if you're if he's going to do that for everyone, you have to reward him with... An overtime winning goal or whatever. Even if the series is fucking 4 -1 at the end. It's like you did everything in your power. But anyway.
Speaker: I don't know. there's There's a lot going for us. like I like the player that they replaced Brady with. I like our defense. I love how several key players are going into the season injured.
Speaker: um It's actually good. But... No. It sounds doom and gloom, but... It's more this. Okay? We live in a tough neighborhood.
Speaker: It's going to be pretty unforgiving. There's all this weird shit already where like the season started three and a half weeks ago and we don't play till December 31st. ah Which is weird.
Speaker: but I think... In Canada. In the Canadian market, we have the deficiency of needing Perfectly linear growth every year.
Speaker: Hmm. Perfectly linear. Whereas like... If the elli - are the la Let me ask you this. Luke, you're smart you're one of the smartest people I know. Are the LA Kings rebuilding?
Speaker: What's going on? Who are they? Who's the captain of the L .A. Ca - What's going on down there? We need to - We need to - looking to... This very strongly. They just get to rebuild for fucking ever.
Speaker: You know? Like, the next time we're gonna care about the LA Kings is when they win the fucking Stanley Cup. because they're 25 year rebuild. worked again you know where it's like If we don't get a hundred plus points this year.
Speaker: Like they're going to fire fucking Travis green or something. You know what I mean? Like it could be like the best defensive team in the league. If they don't make the playoffs is like, it'd be like, blow it up. People are talking about blowing it up!
Speaker: after last year and not anyone serious or smart or no not anyone serious i'll give you that i'll give you that intelligent Anyway, I don't know. I'm not feeling good going into this year. That's I'm leaving it there Prove me wrong children.
Speaker: I guess it's like Jake Sanderson's already hurt. Like when Jake Sanderson left that game in the playoffs, I was like, we're done. This is over. It's over. And going into the year where Jake Sanderson's like...
Speaker: Yeah, you know... of Talk to... Uh... giant syringe with juice in it this morning and i'm feeling better and better Uh... And I'm excited to play it.
Speaker: The undetermined point, like I was like... Okay. Don't do that thing where Or we need to be in a playoff spot in... American Thanksgiving just yet. You know?
Speaker: i saw this ah I saw this article that was like... consulting so -called media experts. about who was going to make the playoffs out of the the Atlantic Division, and not one of the experts picked...
Speaker: Ottawa, like we went over 13. What? For the first time ever. ah That said, I have been looking at season projections from you know the the stats guys.
Speaker: And all of the ones I respect have Ottawa between like 50 and 70 % to make the playoffs. Which does... You're right to me. That feels right. Yeah, that does feel right.
Speaker: And the thing is, is that I don't think we can afford to just fully... have the goaltending suck shit for 70 % of the season this time.
Speaker: But also, i like because of the playoff performance he just put in, like I've never been more confident in Lena Solmark. I know, again, like you said, I know we got swept, but like that Lina Solmark that I saw in the playoffs, I was like, that's the guy we traded for. that's he was the best He was the best player, and it wasn't even fucking close. It was not even fucking close.
Speaker: Like that's that's that's my guy right there. So if we get like Good, we get a slow mark. I like our chances.
Speaker: There is some, I will say this as well, that There is some going to be some challenging stretches of the season. ah What? For various reasons.
Speaker: We gotta to get off to a hot start. Because. We are like... our the first month here October uh we go we did Ottawa doesn't play at all then they play 20 games and 20 nights.
Speaker: But a bunch of those games are against ah guys guys who are barely NHL team. like we get Philly twice we get San Jose we get the Islanders at home we get the Rangers at home we get Nashville at home Uh...
Speaker: Then we play San Jose again, but it's on the road. Thanks. we need to get really get out to a hot start i think because There's some nasty. There's some nasty parts of the road trip. i'm of of Of some road trips. I'm looking at this ah right now in January.
Speaker: Uh... We go... Utah. And then... away at Colorado, on the second half of a back to back. that That's just...
Speaker: There's never been a more scheduled loss. Even in November we have... A road trip where we played Tampa Bay and Carolina on back -to -back nights. That's just nasty, nasty shit.
Speaker: Yeah, that's so... Like, we gotta make sure that we... actually like so up those two points that we can get because we can't fuck around like we did last year.
Speaker: So that's I think we're going to know how this season is going to go if we know. ah We can't win the easy ones. That said, you know I think that if the team also plays... ah The same type of defensive system they did last year.
Speaker: I'm always a bit nervous. in terms of like year -to -year consistency of the how effective of a certain system is but You know, Ottawa, at least structurally, had excellent bones last year. Also, they played well. I mean... Case case in point, like, you you're down, like...
Speaker: seven defensemen and they're are still holding it a a huge takeaway from last year as well is our boy jordan spence like that kid was...
Speaker: playing above his pay grade, quite literally, like... a admirably like he gives me hope for You know, like... Starting the season with a diminished blue line and...
Speaker: I don't know. I feel like Travis got them playing like some Kill bots, defensively. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, there's there's enough easy games on this schedule that the Sens can make the playoffs, boo but we gotta win those games.
Speaker: Mm -hmm. This is like... Eh, choot. My season motto for 2026 is not the hill we choose, it's a... ah Senator's Hockey.
Speaker: We're not fucking around this time. I like that more. Um... So what's your overall feeling? Uh, win the cup, of course.
Speaker: Okay. I can get into that. I can get into that. I don't know. I like this game. Like this is... supposed to be like we're there's gonna be guys on this team who are still very young and should get better Right?
Speaker: Yeah. Look, I like this team too. i'm i'm mentally unwell like it's okay that's my feelings are not rational My feeling is usually, like, Sen's winning the cup this year. Just this year feels a little weird.
Speaker: Uh, Jordan Spence should be better this year. Dylan Cousins should be better this year. Shane Pinto should be better this year. Jake Sanderson should be that better this year. Tim Stutzla should be better this year.
Speaker: ah Ridley Gregg should be worse this year, and by worse I mean better. Nice. Even Drake Batherson... Bye. He's only ever improved. Who's to say he's going to stop?
Speaker: Like, the this team has a really good aging curve. working William Eklund makes the team faster and better defensively. I don't know if you've seen Brady Kachunk's defensive ah prowess. but it's ah No, I haven't been admiring his prowess. The backup goalie thing is...
Speaker: the That's the biggest wildcard. That - By the way, we can't even put one of the worst goalies in the entire league through waivers. Like, what the fuck?
Speaker: is going like We need to make some amendments to these rules. Like... Like look, this guy's trash. Please don't steal him from us.
Speaker: Don't steal our trash. James, I got one more. topic. on the docket here. Yes. um And if it's okay with you, uh...
Speaker: I'd like you to clear the lane. I'm taking this one one -on -one to the basket. look And you can crash the boards for a rebound here. I'm declaiming my time.
Speaker: go ahead okay As... supreme leader. of the Shia branch of Sen's podcasting. I am...
Speaker: officially issuing a fatwa calling on sense fans everywhere. to fight back against the corrupt media apparatus. You cannot.
Speaker: Stop. strenuously sucking off. The Montreal Canadiens I'm tired of this bullshit. I've had enough. And it's not even the Habs or the Habs fans themselves.
Speaker: Cause like... as you As you have said, James, this is the they're the Yankees of the NHL. yeah They're the biggest fanbase with the stupidest fans. That's just how it is. That's what I expect from them.
Speaker: But... just The amount of... media fellatio that they've received over the past. Six months. I'm sick of it. It's completely unfounded. I'm sick of this. It's horseshit.
Speaker: Okay, I've looked at the roster up and down. Okay, they have exactly six good players. I'm tired of this bullshit team. Okay?
Speaker: Do you remember that tweet that was, ah like, I dated a 5 '8 guy who'd taunt every jacked 6 '3 bro he met until they'd pull up? their fists to beat him up, and then... ah He'd be like, hey, hey, come on. I'm just a little guy. I'm just a little guy. and It's also my birthday. I'm a little birthday boy. And somehow it always worked. That's the Habs. That's the Montreal Canadiens. They're just little birthday boys.
Speaker: Okay. the way again but It's just an entire team. of Little birthday boys, you know this is true. Like... Arbor Jacques is like one of the worst regular Sorry, Sha 'Kai?
Speaker: is one of the worst regular skaters in the nhl and i have to like pretend that this guy's in any way a real NHL player. Like... No, you think this guy's Tom Wilson the way they talk about him. Michael mathath Matheson. Michael, is he Mike? Is he Mike Matheson? I don't give a fuck. This suspension he just got for sucker punching. No, it wasn't even a... suspension it was a 5000 dollar fine.
Speaker: Like... He did a full on like UFC move like that thing where you've got a guy on the ground and then you concentrate the entire force of your body through your fist and then put the guy's fist into his face. And like,
Speaker: I'm not going to defend Ridley Gregg. You know, if Ridley Gregg gets a random sucker punch, I'm like, yeah, he probably earned that one somehow. I don't know. Like, the game is the game.
Speaker: You know, like Ridley Craig knows how the game works, but there's a line like, holy fuck. Ridley Craig starting the year suspended and I don't even remember it. I'm just like, yeah, probably. like he did He did that shit. Hmm. Yeah.
Speaker: Exactly. like I'm not going to say that Ridley Gregg doesn't deserve... getting punched in the face but like come on now like there's got to be a line for these guys And...
Speaker: yeah Here's another like classic League bias for the for the Habs. this is This is our new move this year, alright? The Habs? Statistically, Not that good.
Speaker: And but this year they do have the most favorable. rest schedule in the entire league. where they are playing a tired team when rested 11 more times than they have to play a rested team when tired.
Speaker: And... uh for a comparison ottawa will be the tired team playing arrested team 11 times this season and will only be on the good side of the Rest equation five time.
Speaker: So if the Habs happen to do well this year, I'm calling all the Sens fans to refer to the Habs as schedule merchants. Okay? in the replies, in the streets, in the comment sections. on radio call -in shows. The Habs are schedule merchants. Don't forget this. Don't let them forget it either.
Speaker: um and Not only do you not have to respect the Habs, you also shouldn't. All right, so That's the that's the worst case scenario where they actually are winning games doesn't matter. They're just schedule merchants However, I do think there's I do think there's a downside risk for the habs this year because the way they keep on uh beating the analytics is just by
Speaker: having a bunch of guys who suck, but still chipping the odd goal here and there. And... ah you know I think this is at least a somewhat legitimate way of being good at hockey, scoring goals. you know I personally can't see anything wrong with scoring goals, I'm i'm sorry to say.
Speaker: but Seems good. I do think that scoring goals is... Uh, you know... You can go on a cold streak now and then, you know? And...
Speaker: I think if it starts... going bad for the Habs this year. It's gonna go all the way bad. Because they think they're good. like they are so like They don't know what it's actually like to be on like the normal side of... like statistical regression. Like they just think that they score on every shot because they're good.
Speaker: look brother the leafs went into last year thinking they were good You know what I'm sayin'? Life comes at you fast. I think the Habs... are going to go through a shooting cold streak at some point and once that starts happening they're gonna start ah cheating to cheating defensively.
Speaker: to turn it around. And then it's going to go all the way back. So that's that's my that's my prediction for how the Habs will suck this year. um Even if they don't...
Speaker: ah their schedule merchants as previously prophesied. And I know they're supposed to have this incredible prospect pool, and maybe they do. But none of those incredible guys are in the AHL. They don't have anyone in the AHL sniffing a point per game right now.
Speaker: Uh, so they're relying on a bunch of teenagers to work out perfectly. Uh, how do you say count your chickens before they hatch in French? Do you know that, James? Can you provide me with that? like g is' not as bad is This is not a serious... This is not a serious...
Speaker: organization. I'm tired of Everyone pretending that they are. Inshallah, this will be the the year that the fever breaks and we can see these fucking frauds for the frauds they are.
Speaker: I see the four. Bravo! Talk to him brother Hello. That was beautiful. I'm 100 % serious about this. Yeah, I am too we've defeated we've defeated the red wings and the leaves.
Speaker: ah Not just the teams, but their fan bases. Like those guys are nowhere to be found in the streets these days. And like it's time for us to focus on the real enemy. The Montreal Canadiens Yes.
Speaker: Well, 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...
Speaker: I'll be in heaven. Hopefully. Still doing this show. Yeah, fuck the canadians have scum You want a little two rounds in the playoffs, you get sucked off. you're a cup content like Come on, man.
Speaker: Censor one goal away in 2017 from the goddamn finals. Nobody said shit. After like rightly so. i Don't know i saw a great reddit post which was something like uh i'm friends with uh ah Jackson Blake from the Carolina Hurricanes, and he said the Habs were the easiest... team they faced in the playoffs by far.
Speaker: and i don't even care if that's i don't even care if that's completely made up because i know it's true yeah exactly just because it's made up doesn't mean it's not true Yeah. um I have a bit of housekeeping to do.
Speaker: At this point. Uh... Last episode, I said we were going to go out, or you said we were going to go out with ah You're So Cool by ModeVile. And then I dropped in the wrong track into the end of the episode.
Speaker: so That one's on me. And this week, we're definitely going to go out with... a you're so cool by mode vile uh this time the real version I mean, lucky everyone. They got to hear her Grandmother twice. So, yeah you know, win -win. But yes.
Speaker: We're reaching out the other side of the... ah Ottawa River! To uh... Yeah. The reigning champs of... Haul Quebec.
Speaker: Fuck that. Is he say hull ah mode vile? You're so cool. What a great band. Just saw them at Minotaur on Sunday. Fantastic show. Nice.
Speaker: Uh... Support your local scene. Go over the bridge sometimes guys. There's some stuff going on over there there ah Yes, I... Definitely...
Speaker: Want to give all praise due to my goddamn self We did it again. ah Luke, I love you. I miss you. Uh... Anyone you want to thank? or Well, I would thank you, but you already did it, so. I guess ah i guess i can shut down the I can shut down the lounge now.
Speaker: Honestly, go Sens, go...
Speaker: I don't have a lot going on, please help me Yeah. We need this. Yeah. We've been needing this. In that case, I'll let you know the next time the lounge is open.
Speaker: enjoy the ah Enjoy the first game. of the season. I'm sure it will be a glorious Sen's victory. And if not, you know we'll complain about it next episode. Otherwise...
Speaker: Have a good night, and we'll see you next time. Shabby! down!
Speaker: I think.
Speaker: You're so cool.
Speaker: From an Ottawa perspective, I like to make things most most things sexual. and what I feel like when you talk about beating the Toronto Maple Leafs there's those situations where man or woman you have the different levels of sex you have the booty call right where you're just kind of in there and you're back out you have that sex once in a while where you know what you're just kind of chatting but you both kind of understand
Speaker: When you beat the Toronto Maple Leafs, Justin, I don't know if you agree. it's the kind of sex where you want to hang around you actually may even talk cuddle light up a cigarette would you feel that same for a lot of sentence fans like it's not just about the actual moment it is truly enjoying it maybe even cuddling and staying overnight
