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Speaker 1: was part of the coverage of the Four Nations tournament.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it, thought it was great. Goes back to
Speaker 1: if they're invested, it's easy for me to get invested.
Speaker 1: And came down to overtime and you had the stars. Now,
Speaker 1: the only problem you don't have the Russian players weren't
Speaker 1: able to compete. I don't know if the NHL has
Speaker 1: maybe a way to incorporate maybe each team gets to
Speaker 1: draft a couple of players. You don't let Russia represent Russia,
Speaker 1: but they're still in the NHL. But could you have
Speaker 1: maybe a draft where the other four nations get to
Speaker 1: bring in two of the Soviet players. Just a thought.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to Steve Levy coming up here in a
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Speaker 1: I don't know the last time I was in the
Speaker 1: Palm Beaches.
Speaker 2: What about the Cognizant Have you ever played the Cognizant Day?
Speaker 1: I have not. I've heard about the bear Trap. I
Speaker 1: have not played the bear Trap, but I don't get
Speaker 1: to Florida to play golf very often. I have played
Speaker 1: Metalist where Tiger belongs, and that was that. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of pros who I think belonged there.
Speaker 1: Nellie Corda, I think plays there. So out on the
Speaker 1: driving range you might be heading next to some big
Speaker 1: time star. Yes, Paul, you.
Speaker 3: Ever play a course that was so difficult it was
Speaker 3: not even fun?
Speaker 1: Yes, it's called Pinehurst number two. Pinehurst number two, that
Speaker 1: was not any fun. And uh, Pinehurst number eight was
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. Pinehurst in general is beautiful. Loved it,
Speaker 1: but Pinehurst number two it was mean. It was mean
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 3: It was you asked for an apology, Yes, the way out.
Speaker 1: Yes, I don't want a receipt, I want an apology,
Speaker 1: please all right? Age seven seven three DP show yees see,
Speaker 1: there's a what is that saying?
Speaker 2: It's like golf is a is the best way to
Speaker 2: ruin a nice walk through the.
Speaker 1: Woods, a good walk spoiled, a good rock spoiled the
Speaker 1: AAA or whatever. You pretty much lived that. Yeah, what
Speaker 1: was the other one? The reason why they decided on
Speaker 1: the name golf was because F was already taken, not four.
Speaker 1: It was f you was already taken. Might have they
Speaker 1: call it golf because that was taken? Okay, I probably
Speaker 1: say the other word more than I do four when
Speaker 1: I'm out there playing. I did play golf. And my
Speaker 1: son broke a window of a house that was on
Speaker 1: a golf course, and so we're, you know, the caddie goes,
Speaker 1: don't worry about you know, the golf course will take
Speaker 1: care of this. So my son blames the house for
Speaker 1: being in the way of his drive to the house.
Speaker 1: Right out it. He hit it as straight as you
Speaker 1: can hit it, but not straight where you're supposed to
Speaker 1: hit it straight to the house and create drive. And
Speaker 1: you heard this, hush, and we're thinking oh my, and
Speaker 1: the cadie goes, you broke a window, so we have
Speaker 1: to drive up. Caddie, I said, can you apologize for us?
Speaker 1: And you know, let us know if we.
Speaker 4: Have to pay.
Speaker 1: So can you go over there and say sorry for us?
Speaker 1: Could you made me say that you lighted us up incorrectly?
Speaker 1: And he said, don't worry about it. So he walked
Speaker 1: over apologized. The guy came out of the house and beautiful,
Speaker 1: you know house and these big, beautiful picture windows, and
Speaker 1: he says to my son, hey, you want to get
Speaker 1: your camera or you get your phone. And my son
Speaker 1: goes why and he goes, well, you come on over,
Speaker 1: you take a picture in front of it. So my
Speaker 1: son went over and took a picture in front of
Speaker 1: the window that he shattered on the golf course. But
Speaker 1: it wasn't for it was just not for insurance. It
Speaker 1: was just, hey, if you want to show people that
Speaker 1: you broke The guy could not have been nicer. And
Speaker 1: but my son the rest of the day, you know,
Speaker 1: I go home. I told my wife, I say, U,
Speaker 1: Jack broke a window playing golf. The house was in
Speaker 1: the way, I go The house was not in the way.
Speaker 1: I didn't break a window. You broke a window. These
Speaker 1: kids nowadays? All right, combine later this week and the
Speaker 1: Rams are saying to Matthew Stafford, go out there and
Speaker 1: see if anybody really likes you, and then report back
Speaker 1: to us. And then you wonder, Now, this is what
Speaker 1: I'm always interested in, is the dominoes. If let's say
Speaker 1: Stafford goes to Pittsburgh, hopefully they get a better offensive
Speaker 1: line and a couple of weapons, what do the Rams do?
Speaker 1: Does that impact what the Vikings do? Are the Vikings
Speaker 1: going to sign up Sam Darnald? Do you franchise him?
Speaker 1: If you're the Steelers, would you be more interested and
Speaker 1: interested in Sam Donald? What do the Rams do if
Speaker 1: they let Matthew Stafford go, they don't get Sam Darnald?
Speaker 1: Are they interested in trading up? So that's what's always
Speaker 1: interesting for me, is this happens. That means that could happen,
Speaker 1: which means that could happen. And this is a situation
Speaker 1: there with Matthew Stafford wanting to get paid. Now he's
Speaker 1: he's a great in the pocket passer. But we saw
Speaker 1: with the Steelers, even with athleticism with Justin Fields and
Speaker 1: also with Russell Wilson Junior, the third, you're you got
Speaker 1: to be on the move there and unless that offensive
Speaker 1: line and Bill Belichick talked about that during the season
Speaker 1: on McAfee where he talked about the line was just
Speaker 1: not that good and I can't count on Pickens. So
Speaker 1: is that a Maybe the destination is for the money.
Speaker 1: But you got to if I'm the Steelers, what does
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford give me? If we don't give him what
Speaker 1: he needs to succeed. That's really the tricky part. Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford is an upgrade, but only if you upgrade your
Speaker 1: offensive line and receivers. And his season in LA was
Speaker 1: was okay, it was good. Twenty touchdowns, eight interceptions. Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean you gotta you can get that out of
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. But I don't want that. Do I want
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. He's going to be less. You know, he's
Speaker 1: the guy who doesn't have mobility. Donald has some mobility.
Speaker 1: Is he still twenty seven? I think he's been twenty
Speaker 1: seven for the last three years. You know, Sam Darnold's
Speaker 1: only twenty seven. His age always accompanied him like Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: Age always accompanies him certain athletes. Yeah, yes, Martin, but.
Speaker 5: Wouldn't upgrade for the Steelers be Russell Wilson with an
Speaker 5: offensive line that's better.
Speaker 1: And some weapons. Yeah, I mean I would go with
Speaker 1: Justin Fields. But that's only because I don't there's there's nothing,
Speaker 1: there's nothing going on with that offense. Now, if you
Speaker 1: get you know, a true quarterback, then I don't need
Speaker 1: Justin Fields. The problem is you haven't done that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Do you think the Rams are hoping someone gives a
Speaker 3: big deal to Stafford for two years so they could
Speaker 3: tell their fan base. We made an offer to him,
Speaker 3: We made a gentleman's offer, a good offer, and he
Speaker 3: went elsewhere, like pin it on him.
Speaker 1: I don't think they need to apologize for anything.
Speaker 3: They're a little close to. They were a little close
Speaker 3: to the super Bowl to blow things up.
Speaker 1: I know, I thought they were going to beat the Eagles.
Speaker 1: I thought they were. That was a game winning drive.
Speaker 3: If they had a worse season this year or didn't
Speaker 3: do anything in the playoffs, it'd be easy to move on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they became and you know, I know there were
Speaker 1: people who thought that they were a legit playoff team,
Speaker 1: but they were more than that. Like you go to
Speaker 1: Philly in the snow, and you have the ball with
Speaker 1: a chance to go to the super Bowl. One or
Speaker 1: two plays, all of a sudden, you're kicking the extra point.
Speaker 1: You're playing in the super Bowl. But you know they're
Speaker 1: probably looking at Matthew Stafford and saying, do we want
Speaker 1: to pay you fifty five million dollars? He wants the
Speaker 1: going rate.
Speaker 3: He's just.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wouldn't pay I get it. But who's desperate
Speaker 1: to pay for that? Like the Giants aren't ready to win?
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford want to walk into that, Like where do
Speaker 1: you want to go? You know, going to the Rams?
Speaker 1: The Rams had, they had talent there and he was
Speaker 1: the missing piece. Now where are you going? It's not
Speaker 1: like he can go back to the Lions, because he'd
Speaker 1: be like, hey, you know, they'd be a good team
Speaker 1: to play for right now. But I'm curious about Stafford
Speaker 1: because he can still play a couple of years. Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers is going to get all the clicks, Like everybody
Speaker 1: wants to talk about Aaron Rodgers just because Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: brings clicks. But you know, is he going to end
Speaker 1: up in Vegas for a year? You know, because if
Speaker 1: I'm Tom Brady, Tom Brady has known Shador Sanders a
Speaker 1: long time known Dion. He's worked with Shador Sanders, so
Speaker 1: he knows what he is, will he be there and
Speaker 1: what Tom draft? Does Tom want to draft him?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 1: A lot of times those who play aren't very good
Speaker 1: at assessing those who play. Sometimes you're just great at
Speaker 1: what you do. Michael Jordan prime example. He could play.
Speaker 1: But you know, when I think about the guy who
Speaker 1: could play, who could then pick out talent Jerry West,
Speaker 1: he had an innate ability to be able to go
Speaker 1: that guy that guy, and not many of them do.
Speaker 1: But I think that'll be That'll be interesting what Tom's
Speaker 1: role is in what kind of quarterback he wants for
Speaker 1: that team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, PAULI, I have a quick NFL game for you
Speaker 3: based off a couple quarterbacks you mentioned. Okay oOoOO oo
Speaker 3: has made more money up to this point in their career,
Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins or Matthew Stafford. It both made a lot.
Speaker 3: Both have done very well, very well. They're not hurting.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say you're gonna go last in Oh, Okay, Todd,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say Cousins, Seaton. I think it's gonna be Stafford,
Speaker 1: Marvin Stafford I'm gonna go Kirk d Cousins.
Speaker 3: Matthew Stafford has made more by fifty million dollars. Kirk
Speaker 3: Cousins has made two hundred and ninety four million. Now
Speaker 3: Kirk has a lot on the way of guaranteed money.
Speaker 3: Kirk could finish at four hundred and eleven million dollars.
Speaker 3: Matthew Stafford up to this point has made three hundred
Speaker 3: and sixty four million dollars.
Speaker 1: But if the Falcons when they cut Kirk Cousins, then
Speaker 1: nothing's guaranteed. Though, can't they get out from.
Speaker 3: I don't know if they can get out of twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five that I have to check. But Matthew Stafford
Speaker 3: three hundred and sixty four million in county.
Speaker 1: But wouldn't you want to I don't know. Maybe his
Speaker 1: wife doesn't like La. I don't know. But and if
Speaker 1: if it's that, then I get it because I've read
Speaker 1: where maybe she is the one who not pleased with
Speaker 1: La or once out, so I want to be fair
Speaker 1: with the story. I don't know, but man, i'd play
Speaker 1: for a discount if I could play for the Rams,
Speaker 1: play half my games in that building with that coach,
Speaker 1: with Puka Nakua Williams is my running bank. I kind
Speaker 1: of like that because if I'm looking at the options,
Speaker 1: like can he go to Tennessee, no Steelers, maybe Raiders?
Speaker 1: Is that worth it?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 1: I look that. I think he's only only thirty million
Speaker 1: or something. I don't think his salary is prohibitive.
Speaker 3: I think he's twenty seven million.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, so that's a bargain if you can get him.
Speaker 1: But that's why he wants a new contract. Rams don't
Speaker 1: want to give it to him. Adam in La Hi, Adam.
Speaker 1: What's on your mind today?
Speaker 6: Hey, good morning, DP Dan.
Speaker 7: That's happy Monday. Welcome back, op be guys all enjoyed
Speaker 7: your vacation. The NBA All Star weekend is as worse
Speaker 7: as an NFL on sidekick, as both are currently constructed.
Speaker 7: The best of the weekend was the Lakers breaking that
Speaker 7: win street or that losing streak to the Denver Nuggets,
Speaker 7: Luca playing well. That was good to see, and then
Speaker 7: worse the weekend. You've been talking about it all morning.
Speaker 7: Stafford obviously still in the trademarket. Who is going to
Speaker 7: move off of a first round pick? I saw all
Speaker 7: the teams that are up there at the top ten,
Speaker 7: none of them are ready to win, So I mean,
Speaker 7: that's that's tough to move off of a first round
Speaker 7: pick and then pay fifty million or whatever he's asking.
Speaker 7: Rams are ready to win now, as you said, it's
Speaker 7: a good team.
Speaker 6: They were close.
Speaker 7: I actually thought they were going to come back to
Speaker 7: them there against the Eagles too, So they are ready
Speaker 7: to win. I don't know where.
Speaker 6: Else he's gonna go.
Speaker 7: And then where will they go to some compete saying all.
Speaker 1: Right, thank you, Adam. And if you're the Rams, are
Speaker 1: you expecting a first round pick from Matthew Stafford? Because
Speaker 1: if I'm the Giants, I got the number three pick.
Speaker 1: I'm not giving that up for Matthew Stafford. Like you're
Speaker 1: in a division with the Eagles and the Commanders there
Speaker 1: are they're already playoff teams, a super Bowl champion team,
Speaker 1: and Dallas may may get it right one of these days,
Speaker 1: but they may. Are we hoping that they do? Is
Speaker 1: it better content when the Cowboys win or when the
Speaker 1: Cowboys lose? Lose?
Speaker 8: Dodd, I'm gonna say shockingly that it's a hybrid. It's
Speaker 8: it's they looks like they're gonna win.
Speaker 9: They're gonna do Oh no, and they crash and burn
Speaker 9: just when everyone thought they were gonna do something right.
Speaker 1: Seaton els okay, okay, love it, Marvin Losses for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It feels like we've been telling the same story over
Speaker 1: and over and that's not interesting. I kind of like
Speaker 1: when they get to the playoffs and then this Astro
Speaker 1: Packers game close to the sun? Yes, or the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers game? Was it? Didn't they have a couple
Speaker 1: of them?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's take a break. The Four Nations
Speaker 1: tournament was awesome. Alexander Ovechkin ready to close in on
Speaker 1: the great one. Steve Levy will join us little hockey
Speaker 1: coverage here, what Steve Levy DP, give me your give
Speaker 1: me your Linda cone impersonation? Tom?
Speaker 9: Did you see what was going on there? USA Canada
Speaker 9: overtime Thursday night? Why are we talking about the NFL
Speaker 9: and the NBA All Star Game? For crying out loud,
Speaker 9: it's all about hockey and my Mets.
Speaker 8: What are they doing?
Speaker 1: Home run?
Speaker 9: New players? Home runs?
Speaker 1: No, give me your Linda Conan person.
Speaker 8: That's me? What what already?
Speaker 9: For Nations?
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Speaker 1: More phone calls coming up in this Monday Best and
Speaker 1: Worst of the weekend. Got to watch a lot of
Speaker 1: the four Nations face off tournament. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: But once again we've talked about this with the NBA.
Speaker 1: Can you have the United States against the rest of
Speaker 1: the world. I think it would be interesting. And if
Speaker 1: you get to see that documentary on the Olympics and
Speaker 1: you see Joker and how passionate he was they won
Speaker 1: the bronze and he was so excited winning the bronze
Speaker 1: and losing the gold medal, but because he was with
Speaker 1: his fellow countrymen. I don't know if you could get
Speaker 1: that same kind of patriotism in different parts of the
Speaker 1: the world. But if you're the NBA, and I know
Speaker 1: maybe we shouldn't link together the NHL and the NBA,
Speaker 1: but the timing of it, and one was successful and
Speaker 1: one was once again not successful, I think you have
Speaker 1: to Steve Levy, the spn NHL play by play man
Speaker 1: and host Sports Center host as well. All Right, leaves.
Speaker 1: How did we get to this four nation tournament? How
Speaker 1: did it come up? And how long has it been
Speaker 1: kind of in the works, not that long.
Speaker 12: Dan, We needed a spark, I think I think people
Speaker 12: have grown tired of the All Star breaks for all
Speaker 12: the corporate sponsors and those kinds of things. I think
Speaker 12: the skills competitions of all getting old, and I think
Speaker 12: we needed some kind of spark. I think we saw
Speaker 12: the and I say we, I mean the NHL Hockey
Speaker 12: saw the Olympics on the horizon and let's do something.
Speaker 12: So that's the amazing thing about this four nations But I.
Speaker 4: Think that this is a one off.
Speaker 12: I don't think we ever see four nations again. This
Speaker 12: was a stop gap, despite how successful it was. NHL
Speaker 12: has already said they're gonna do World Cup of Hockey
Speaker 12: and that could be eight eight nations, eight countries.
Speaker 4: So I think this is a one off.
Speaker 12: I don't think we see four nations again in this
Speaker 12: in this exact format with the Olympics next year.
Speaker 1: Do you think that's a mistake.
Speaker 4: No, Listen, the.
Speaker 12: Only downside and we're really nitpicking because this thing was unbelievable,
Speaker 12: you know, made for television, gimmicking. We obviously got the
Speaker 12: right matchup in the end, in the right places.
Speaker 4: There are still some great players.
Speaker 12: I mean, if you want best on Best, you know,
Speaker 12: Alexander Vetskin's not there, David Pastronak is not there. These
Speaker 12: are you know, outstanding players. There's five or six other guys.
Speaker 12: And listen, but this could have gone This could have
Speaker 12: gone awfully wrong.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 12: We could have had the Finns and Swedes, and while
Speaker 12: they hate each other, they despise each other at least
Speaker 12: as much as American Canada does. I'm not sure nine
Speaker 12: point three million people would tuned in the US.
Speaker 1: I was wondering about this if they did this again.
Speaker 1: Could you see where there was a draft of Russian players.
Speaker 1: Each nation got to bring somebody just so I can
Speaker 1: incorporate some of these great players. And maybe you don't
Speaker 1: want to recognize Russia, but you still have to recognize
Speaker 1: the players who play in your league. Could you have
Speaker 1: something like that? Would that work for these names?
Speaker 12: Something absolutely, because you can't do another one of these
Speaker 12: tournaments without those guys. It's not then Best on Best.
Speaker 12: The draft is an interesting idea. I hadn't heard that.
Speaker 12: You know, we've done World team before, right, So everybody
Speaker 12: other than you know, US Canada and so and so.
Speaker 12: I want to give Greg Wshinsky credit because he writes
Speaker 12: to ESPN. I don't know if it's his idea, but
Speaker 12: he told me about it. He broached the idea of
Speaker 12: a summit series. So we can just get the US Canada, okay,
Speaker 12: and are assured of that. And the nineteen seventy two
Speaker 12: Summit series of our age Dan when whber Paul Henderson
Speaker 12: scores the goal that had a best of eight and
Speaker 12: it was simply Canada against the uss R.
Speaker 4: I don't know how I got the best of eight.
Speaker 4: How that works doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 12: But things were different than seventy two and so just
Speaker 12: because the US Canada thing was so good. But I'm
Speaker 12: with you, we need to incorporate everybody, and right, have
Speaker 12: two spots, right, you want have two roster spots for
Speaker 12: you know, players who are not American or Canadian or
Speaker 12: something along those lines. But I think we go to
Speaker 12: five or six or eight nations and you hope for
Speaker 12: the matchup we got in Boston on Thursday night.
Speaker 1: Steve Levy of the Mothership Seaton, what is the poll
Speaker 1: question with Gretzki and Michael Jordan.
Speaker 2: Whose legacy is more cemented Michael Jordan or Wayne Gretzky.
Speaker 4: It's a good question.
Speaker 12: I think I think it's Gretzky's is more cemented because
Speaker 12: there is now the fair argument of Jordan Lebron And
Speaker 12: I don't think it matters how many goals Alexandroveitchkin scores.
Speaker 12: And no one will ever say that, you know, someone
Speaker 12: other than Wayne Gretzky was the best hockey player of
Speaker 12: all time unless you live in Boston, which then you
Speaker 12: say it's Bobby or I get that well, Pittsburgh, Mario Lemieux.
Speaker 12: But I don't think there's any real argument other than Wayne,
Speaker 12: Whereas in the NBA now there seems to be a
Speaker 12: legitimate argument.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you look at the cultural impact of Gretzky, and
Speaker 1: I liken it too. Now you have Caitlin Clark who
Speaker 1: is opening up the entire United States for WNBA teams.
Speaker 1: Now all of a sudden, you have Boston once won,
Speaker 1: and you know Portland, and Gretzky did that when he
Speaker 1: came to Los Angeles, the fact that there was going
Speaker 1: to be hockey in Florida, and people are like really,
Speaker 1: but that's because of Wayne Gretzky.
Speaker 12: And the amount of youth hockey rinks that exploded and
Speaker 12: opened up.
Speaker 4: And I mentioned Bobby Orr.
Speaker 12: You know all over Massachusetts people went wild for Bob
Speaker 12: Yor and all of those things. And yes, Wayne Gretzky, Anaheim, obviously,
Speaker 12: Los Angeles, all of these those southern states. You know,
Speaker 12: for a long time you had a team in Arizona
Speaker 12: that didn't work out, but in the desert they were
Speaker 12: playing hockey. And the great example of that is DP
Speaker 12: is you know Austin Matthews. So he grew up in Arizona.
Speaker 12: He was at the game where Ovechkin scores what is
Speaker 12: many believe was the greatest single regular season goal of
Speaker 12: all time on his stomach, on his back.
Speaker 4: Twisting around.
Speaker 12: Austin Matthews is in the building for that game, for
Speaker 12: that Coyotes home game, and so whatever spurred him on,
Speaker 12: and so players are then exposed to it.
Speaker 4: The Caitlin Clark, it's a great example. You get seer
Speaker 4: her on TV.
Speaker 12: She's in Subway commercials and sure all state commercials and
Speaker 12: all these insurance commercials, and yet it has to capture
Speaker 12: the imagination and young people watching. And that was the
Speaker 12: great thing about the four Nations two to go back
Speaker 12: to it, Like I heard from so many non hockey people,
Speaker 12: Dan right, and I mean, you know NFL types, people
Speaker 12: who would never give hockey the time of day, and
Speaker 12: we're watching it and fell in love with it. And
Speaker 12: I go back to the fights and people won't like this,
Speaker 12: but I think the Kuchuck fights on the Saturday night
Speaker 12: in Montreal, the three fights and nine seconds really made
Speaker 12: the turn look people would have watched US Canada. I
Speaker 12: get that, but that attracted a certain crowd. I know
Speaker 12: people were calling their buddies. You gotta put this on
Speaker 12: with the hopes of maybe seeing it again, which we didn't.
Speaker 12: But I thought the fights had a great impact on
Speaker 12: the television.
Speaker 4: Rating and whatever.
Speaker 12: You're a hockey person who cares whatever it is to
Speaker 12: get you there. And now can the NHL harness that momentum.
Speaker 12: We had great games yesterday and the day before on
Speaker 12: ABC two and not going down and now here it
Speaker 12: comes down right. Here's the outdoor game in Columbus, little
Speaker 12: Ohio state Michigan flavor for you. Here's the trade deadline
Speaker 12: and the run of the playoffs and what I think
Speaker 12: is the best postseason all of sports. So can this
Speaker 12: momentum keep going?
Speaker 1: Why did they fight right away?
Speaker 12: So there's this story that they had a group chat,
Speaker 12: like on a text chain that the Canadians, of course,
Speaker 12: are now making fun of after the tournament was over.
Speaker 4: But the two ku Chucks and JT.
Speaker 12: Miller who were out there, they had a chan, Hey
Speaker 12: you go first, No, I'll go first, you go who's
Speaker 12: gonna go first? Right, I'll take the first guy, you
Speaker 12: come after me. And it was, you know, it was
Speaker 12: like right out of the Bash Brothers for the you know,
Speaker 12: the Mighty Ducks movie, right it's and it was wild.
Speaker 12: I think they caught the Canadians off guard. The Kuchucks
Speaker 12: they loved being the villains up in Canada where they're
Speaker 12: booing the American national anthem. And although that side show
Speaker 12: is definitely going on and plays a role, and I
Speaker 12: think the Kachuck Brothers shook the place up.
Speaker 4: I think it shook everything up.
Speaker 12: It got everyone on board in Canada and back down,
Speaker 12: and you know, they won one of the fights, at
Speaker 12: least to think, but it seemed to galvanize the whole
Speaker 12: tournament and bring it together. And if you're asking, you know,
Speaker 12: who's the base of hockey in the US. You know,
Speaker 12: I think now it's I think it's Matthew could chuck
Speaker 12: and and the downside of the four nations, Dan, And
Speaker 12: this is you know, the only the only negative to
Speaker 12: this whole great tournament. We don't know when Matthew's coming back.
Speaker 12: He plays for the defending Stanley Cup champs, and you
Speaker 12: know there's talk he might not come back this season.
Speaker 12: So you know, you want you don't want the All
Speaker 12: Star Game where the guys aren't trying hard. But when
Speaker 12: guys are out there killing each other, you get where
Speaker 12: you get real injuries. Shay Theodore hurt himself, Vegas's top defenseman,
Speaker 12: uh and they're Charlie McAvoy at Boston. We don't know
Speaker 12: when he's coming back. So that's the risk versus reward
Speaker 12: in a tournament like this.
Speaker 1: You ever been hit by a puck while on the jump.
Speaker 12: On the job, No, I have not, because I've never
Speaker 12: been in that in between spot between the benches.
Speaker 4: But I played back in the day, Dan, I was
Speaker 4: a feared center.
Speaker 12: Ice really led my team in penalty minutes every year
Speaker 12: now wearing the full cage of course to protect the
Speaker 12: money maker.
Speaker 1: As you know, you want to protect your hair. Steve
Speaker 1: still looking all right, it looks pretty good for.
Speaker 4: Not sixty, let's put it that way.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that the hair looks like it's sixty or so.
Speaker 4: Just happy to have some quite frankly.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember in the day though, on Sports Center. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you had you had good moss.
Speaker 4: It was darker.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had mine. I think mine was puffier.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Did you do that on purpose or no?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: And I don't know if it cost me a job
Speaker 1: at Fox, but I I interviewed for their pregame show,
Speaker 1: and I was with David Hill, then president of Fox Sports.
Speaker 1: We're in Arizona, super Bowl big, you know, secret meeting.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna join Fox. I'm gonna be there
Speaker 1: pregame football guy. And I meet with David Hill having lunch.
Speaker 1: I think it's going great. And then he says two
Speaker 1: woods fo yeah, cream rints, and then he got up
Speaker 1: and left. And I didn't know what that meant other
Speaker 1: than cream rints, you know, to condition her to keep
Speaker 1: your hair, you know, from getting too So I said
Speaker 1: to my wife, She goes, how did it go? I go,
Speaker 1: I don't know. He said two words to me at
Speaker 1: the very end, it goes Cream rants and she goes, oh,
Speaker 1: he's probably making fun of your hair. I go, what
Speaker 1: so I didn't get the job.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't have gotten the joke either. By the way,
Speaker 4: at that time.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm thinking it's a legitimate meeting. He's he's quiet,
Speaker 1: he says, oh random by everybody on the dais you're
Speaker 1: really really well liked. You know Howie loves you and
Speaker 1: Terry and I go, okay, are good, I'm good, all right,
Speaker 1: all right, two words fail you cream Rance never heard
Speaker 1: from him again.
Speaker 12: I think that's changed over the years, because bald seems
Speaker 12: to be in now. Bald seems to beautiful. A lot
Speaker 12: of successful bald guys on to you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know. I if I look like MESSI,
Speaker 1: then I would do it right. But I don't look
Speaker 1: like MESSI.
Speaker 4: He looks great in a helmet.
Speaker 12: He's still got that great farhead too, you know what
Speaker 12: I mean, forehead forehead, he's looks he looks tough man
Speaker 12: back in the day. You want to google a guy
Speaker 12: international play too. By the way, google some Mark Messier
Speaker 12: for you. Elbows and just taking people.
Speaker 1: Out, okay, okay. Gretzky's the greatest score of all time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's he the greatest player of all time.
Speaker 4: I think he is.
Speaker 12: And uh, you know, sitting next to mess mess just
Speaker 12: can you imagine being the second guy Dan all the
Speaker 12: time like your entire life, Gretzky Messia, you know what
Speaker 12: that kind of and and mess defers to Gretz Actually
Speaker 12: they have such a beautiful relationship because every time and
Speaker 12: I watch Grets on TNT all the time, and he
Speaker 12: always the first guy. He throws out of what Mark
Speaker 12: did for us, what mess did, Messier did for us,
Speaker 12: And they've got this great thing. And maybe that's part
Speaker 12: of a hockey there's no ego, you know, and team
Speaker 12: and all about the team and all that thing. I
Speaker 12: have heard that that Messia is considered the greatest leader
Speaker 12: in all of sports, which is quite the compliment. You know,
Speaker 12: the weighty see on a hockey sweater that you don't
Speaker 12: see in the other sports.
Speaker 4: But no, I think grets is the greatest player of
Speaker 4: all time. I don't think there's any.
Speaker 1: Question yager best hair of all time.
Speaker 12: You know, he's still playing Dan, He's still playing competitive hockey.
Speaker 4: That's crazy. You want to see thighs on.
Speaker 1: A guy, Buddy, no, I don't, not really, but but
Speaker 1: but thank you though. Thanks you hockey pants. That was
Speaker 1: my nickname in high school, Big hockey Pants. I didn't
Speaker 1: even play hockey. That was big hockey Pants. Great to
Speaker 1: talk to you again.
Speaker 4: Always a pleasure.
Speaker 1: DA thank you.
Speaker 6: Leaves.
Speaker 1: That's Steve Leaving SPN NHL play by play now four nations.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize when we're gonna do it again. Damn.
Speaker 1: I thought we were gonna, you know, be able to
Speaker 1: troubleshoot this. Let's fix it, make it work. Let's see
Speaker 1: a couple of phone calls. Here, we say goodbye to
Speaker 1: Steve Levy. We can lose. There we go. That's how
Speaker 1: we do it. Steven Burbank, Hi, Steve, what's on your mind? Hi?
Speaker 6: Six one ninety seven. And I was just going to
Speaker 6: say two quick things. I think if there was ever
Speaker 6: a People's Choice Awards, you guys would win with your ratings.
Speaker 6: I mean all across the country. That would be awesome.
Speaker 6: I want you guys to win with me. And you
Speaker 6: always got to do this before a critique. But you
Speaker 6: were mentioning, and I'm a big RAMS fan that they're
Speaker 6: all play away from the Super Bowl. Actually they're a
Speaker 6: play away from the NFC Championship, the NFC Champion.
Speaker 1: You're right, all right then, thank you, thank you clarifying
Speaker 1: that for me.
Speaker 6: E me.
Speaker 1: Let's see what else do we have? Kurt in Colorado? Hi, Kurt,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind today?
Speaker 4: Bed Dan?
Speaker 13: I've got a best of and worst of all within
Speaker 13: about a thirty second span.
Speaker 6: So I have four boys I drive.
Speaker 13: In school every morning when we listen to your show,
Speaker 13: and I think they love it, like they're engaged with it.
Speaker 13: So they didn't have school, so we're out of our
Speaker 13: normal routine and they're like, hey, Dad, can we watch DP?
Speaker 13: And I'm like, well, they're off this week. They're like, no, no, no,
Speaker 13: there's a new episode. So I run down to the
Speaker 13: TV and they turn on Dude Perfect and so they're
Speaker 13: associating DP with Dude Perfect, not Dan Patrick. So I
Speaker 13: don't know, you guys have to capitalize on this, either
Speaker 13: an og dp's shirt or you challenge the Dude Perfect
Speaker 13: guys to pick a ball or whiffle ball shooting skills
Speaker 13: like all that type of stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think they're two good athletes. They're a lot younger
Speaker 1: than us. Similar logo to US. I believe but thank
Speaker 1: you dude. Perfect.
Speaker 2: Yes, that sounds like a parenting failure if you ask me, Kurt,
Speaker 2: you should be doing better at teaching your kids, you know,
Speaker 2: like do.
Speaker 1: A screen you know where you're doing a presentation, point
Speaker 1: out who we are?
Speaker 3: Low chart?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, marm.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I do that with my son, like no, no, no,
Speaker 5: ice Cube is and a guy from Are we there yet?
Speaker 5: Let's listen to straight out of comptence. Son, We're gonna
Speaker 5: let her.
Speaker 1: Ice Cube based Okay? Are you listening to all of
Speaker 1: ice Cube the Predator all day?
Speaker 8: It was a good day. He got a beat from.
Speaker 2: Kim Is you know what she could do all night?
Speaker 1: Is there anything going on with Drake and Kendrick since
Speaker 1: we last left? Is there? Didn't Drake just put out
Speaker 1: a song that went number one or something?
Speaker 6: I know?
Speaker 8: So he says, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Now I start feel sorry for a guy, probably a billionaire,
Speaker 1: seems to be doing okay, but man, like, this is
Speaker 1: twenty eight to three, but you don't come back from
Speaker 1: twenty eight to three. This is this is when the
Speaker 1: Falcons actually win forty five to six. Yes, yes, business,
Speaker 1: you got to keep it going. Though they're both laughing
Speaker 1: all the way to the bank. You think Drake is laughing.
Speaker 3: Not currently, not the past mind.
Speaker 1: I don't think he was at the Super Bowl, No,
Speaker 1: I don't think he was going look at that.
Speaker 2: And then he released an album and you're like, all right, guys,
Speaker 2: let's just like move on. Okay, let's just I got
Speaker 2: a new album.
Speaker 8: It's come on.
Speaker 2: I'm you know, doing all this beef stuff. I'm not
Speaker 2: really okay, timm Chers for kids. Let's sing now. Oh
Speaker 2: now you want to sing?
Speaker 8: I bet you do. When eight thousand people sing a minor, Yeah,
Speaker 8: I'd sing too.
Speaker 1: Take a break. Last call for Phone Calls, What we
Speaker 1: learn once in Store Tomorrow. Right after this, be sure
Speaker 1: to catch the live edition of The Dan Patrick Show
Speaker 1: weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio WAP. Last Call for Phone Calls,
Speaker 1: What we learn Once in Store Tomorrow. Got the latest
Speaker 1: Draft Kings. Odds to win the NBA Championship This year,
Speaker 1: it's the Thunder and the Celtics pretty much neck and neck.
Speaker 1: Third best odds to win the NBA Championship, Marvin, I'll
Speaker 1: go to.
Speaker 8: You Cavaliers Blue up.
Speaker 9: There you go.
Speaker 1: Here's the okay this is surprising. Thunder and Celtics are
Speaker 1: pretty much neck and neck to win the championship. Then
Speaker 1: it's the Cavaliers a distant third, and then after that
Speaker 1: the Nuggets way down but there in fourth, and then
Speaker 1: the Lakers in fifth. They're not great odds, so it's
Speaker 1: really a two team race with maybe the Cavaliers coming
Speaker 1: up on the outside. Here I got updated odds. Since
Speaker 1: it is spring training to win the World Series, Todd,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the Dodgers out of this because they're
Speaker 1: the overwhelming favorites. New York Mets. The New York Mets
Speaker 1: are fifth on that list, the Atlanta Braves. Then it's
Speaker 1: the Yankees, Phillies, Mets according to DraftKings. All Right, this
Speaker 1: day in sports history, what we learned. Woody Harrelson I
Speaker 1: think is going to join us at some point this week.
Speaker 1: Has a movie coming out on Friday called Last Breath,
Speaker 1: and I went to see it yesterday, and it's about divers.
Speaker 1: They're called saturation divers. So they go three hundred feet
Speaker 1: down in the North Sea and they're there for a
Speaker 1: while out at sea, like twenty seven days. Then they
Speaker 1: have to spend three days decompressing or four days decompressing,
Speaker 1: but they're there with the like the power grid is
Speaker 1: offshore and you have to go out there. Occasionally there's
Speaker 1: a group of them divers go down. It's a true
Speaker 1: story based on a true story. Guy is down there
Speaker 1: with his partner and the umbilical cord for his oxygen
Speaker 1: snaps has a backup tank and so he has ten
Speaker 1: minutes of oxygen and the ship is bouncing all around
Speaker 1: they you know, they they're trying to find him and
Speaker 1: he's got ten minutes and you know, some of the
Speaker 1: footage is pretty crazy of it. What what was going
Speaker 1: on there? He ended up going thirty minutes without oxygen,
Speaker 1: but didn't suffer any uh, you know, repercussions after that.
Speaker 1: And then the doctors still aren't sure why because they're
Speaker 1: thinking the temperature and the depth of where he was
Speaker 1: did not affect his brain. But it is a true story.
Speaker 1: So what he Harrelson is on his last mission. He's
Speaker 1: with this group, but he's the one who's in the module,
Speaker 1: you know, bringing up their rope or their tubes or
Speaker 1: whatever it is getting them in And so, uh, what
Speaker 1: Harrelson I think is going to join us at some
Speaker 1: point this week?
Speaker 3: Yes, point, So not to spoil, but there's a chance
Speaker 3: of a last breath too, is what you're saying, because
Speaker 3: it sounds like a franchise.
Speaker 1: Well, the fact that it's a true story. The guy
Speaker 1: ended up going back down in uh three weeks later,
Speaker 1: you know they they went back to finish up their mission.
Speaker 1: But you can read about this guy. It's in north Sea, yes, Tom,
Speaker 1: second to last breath?
Speaker 8: What do we do on the sequel?
Speaker 1: We got to an edge one more breath? Yeah, but
Speaker 1: what he's going to join us at some point, I believe. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know when he grew up
Speaker 1: in Ohio, but I know where I grew up and
Speaker 1: he grew up or lived is about a miles apart.
Speaker 1: And his school and my school were rivals, even though
Speaker 1: we didn't beat his school, but we considered them a rival.
Speaker 1: But he is five years younger than me, so we
Speaker 1: didn't if he played basketball, we didn't play against each other.
Speaker 1: But I mean, he would have remembered me if he
Speaker 1: played against me, that's for sure, And maybe he does. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's the question. Do I bring up the smoking pot
Speaker 1: with Woody Harrelson at his apartment in New York City
Speaker 1: with Darius Rucker. Do I bring that up? When do
Speaker 1: I bring that up?
Speaker 3: Hit the movie?
Speaker 1: Okay, then go right there.
Speaker 8: Look at a breath.
Speaker 9: It's hard to breathe if they smoke a lot of pots.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to know we're gonna call it last hit.
Speaker 4: Done.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jo. How about this day sports history?
Speaker 3: There's always a lot of Wayne Gretzky this time of year.
Speaker 3: Nineteen eighty, Wayne Gretzky became the first NHL player to
Speaker 3: score one hundred points of the season before the age
Speaker 3: of twenty. In eighty two, Gretzky scored goal number seventy
Speaker 3: seven to break the record of seventy six by Phil Esposito.
Speaker 3: He finished with ninety two goals and two hundred and
Speaker 3: two points two hundred and twelve points on the season,
Speaker 3: first player to get two hundred and more points in
Speaker 3: one season.
Speaker 1: Team USA in nineteen eighty beats Finland for the gold.
Speaker 1: People always make that mistake. It feels like, hey, when
Speaker 1: we beat the Russians for the gold. No, that was
Speaker 1: to get into the final to beat Finland. Nineteen seventy eight,
Speaker 1: Kevin Porter set an NBA record twenty nine assists in
Speaker 1: the nets went over the Rockets. Yes, Mark, No, who's
Speaker 1: Kevin Porter? You don't remember Kevin Porter.
Speaker 8: I don't usually better about stuff like that.
Speaker 1: He was just one of those guys who knew how
Speaker 1: to play basketball. I don't know if he had. He
Speaker 1: wasn't big, wasn't fast, It didn't feel he just he
Speaker 1: knew how to find the open man, GrITT and grind,
Speaker 1: good ball handler, first one in, last one out. No no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no, not Kevin Porter. But he could play. Is
Speaker 1: that still the record? Twenty nine assists? Now?
Speaker 8: I think Scott Skyles got it.
Speaker 1: Gritty, gutty, Scottie skilesh great to be back. Have a
Speaker 1: great day, everybody. We'll talk to you tomorrow.