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Speaker 1: NHL Unscripted is a production of the NHL and iHeart Podcasts.

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Speaker 1: Episode eighty six of NHL Unscripted. After all of the

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Speaker 1: wildest hockey games you will ever watch, We've got lots come.

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Speaker 2: Up to, cluding Blake's back.

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Speaker 1: That's right in news about Rob Blake now back with

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Speaker 1: the Nashville Predators.

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Speaker 2: Our special guest is Stuke Grimson.

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Speaker 1: He could beat the crap out of us, but he's

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Speaker 1: got great stories from his entire career and he's a lawyer,

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Speaker 1: so clearly.

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Speaker 2: Stud's a smart guy.

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Speaker 1: Plus he once did Jason dirty when it came to

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Speaker 1: the movie Tombstone.

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Speaker 2: We'll get into that. I'm your huckle Bayer. But it

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Speaker 2: is NHL the Scriptive Finals time. Baby.

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Speaker 1: We're posting again Mondays and Thursdays from the Stanley Cup

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Speaker 1: Final and JD is there Boots in the ground which

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Speaker 1: is watching him right now? NHL Tonight with Pat Maroon

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Speaker 1: and Catherine Tappan and Mike Johnson.

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Speaker 2: JD, you're there right now.

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Speaker 1: And as I said, it was one of the most

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Speaker 1: exciting games you'll ever see Stanley Cup hockey history, unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: What was it like for you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's crazy it's you know, it was a

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Speaker 3: great spectacle they put on. You know, everything's a show here,

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Speaker 3: and I thought the atmosphere was good. I still think,

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Speaker 3: you know, the atmosphere in Edmonton my first two years

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Speaker 3: watching and covering the Stanley Cup Finals, it's almost impossible

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Speaker 3: to beat that. But yeah, it was a crazy games

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Speaker 3: on crack, you know. You know, Mitch Marner puts on

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Speaker 3: historic second period, just incredible what he was doing, and

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Speaker 3: you're we're sitting there like Carolina could not have played worse,

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Speaker 3: like that was the worst second period by a team

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Speaker 3: I think I've ever seen by decorp turnovers, goaltending so bad,

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Speaker 3: so you think that it's over. And I even tweeted it,

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Speaker 3: and I think I was sitting with Patty Maroon, and

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Speaker 3: Patty Maroon like tweeted something that Maple Leafs fans being

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Speaker 3: like how we feel in Toronto.

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Speaker 4: And then Carolina proceeds to.

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Speaker 3: Slowly claw their way back in three goals and in

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Speaker 3: thirty nine seconds, We're all sitting there like, what the

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Speaker 3: hell is going on? Because it's such a sloppy series.

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Speaker 3: I feel like it's it's it's sloppy and it seems disorganized,

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Speaker 3: but yet it's entertaining. It's such a great series for

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Speaker 3: the fans. But if you're kind of like a guy

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Speaker 3: that played or a purist, you're just kind of cringing

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Speaker 3: half the game because you're like, oh, it was a

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Speaker 3: bad play, but you know what.

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Speaker 4: A crazy game.

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Speaker 3: And then you go into overtime and I mean eventually

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Speaker 3: it's Shay Theodore from a pass from Brady McNabb who's

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Speaker 3: playing with the broken face. Just so many different storylines

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Speaker 3: in this game, and and and the way for it

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Speaker 3: was only fitting that the goal to go in at

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Speaker 3: end was one off the wall, off the skate of

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Speaker 3: bread and Bussy. And now you have all these question

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Speaker 3: and what do they do with the lines, and Vegas

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Speaker 3: just seems to kind of be chugging along and not

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Speaker 3: changing anything. But yeah, it's it's been sloppy, but like

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Speaker 3: I said, entertaining for fans.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you.

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Speaker 1: If you're a purist, you're going, oh my god, the

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Speaker 1: devil's in the details. The details are not being made.

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Speaker 1: But among the storylines and a few that you touched

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Speaker 1: on there. Braden mcnapp played thirty five forty seven with

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Speaker 1: Mitch Marner scoring three goals in six y ten that's

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Speaker 1: the fastest hat trick in Stanley Cup final history. Well

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Speaker 1: he talked more about bussy, but you're right, Freddie gets

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Speaker 1: pulled after what's been a great post season. He gets

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Speaker 1: pulled it for forty minutes and end up time the

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Speaker 1: game and then the Shay Theatre game winner in double overtime. Well,

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Speaker 1: leading all skaters almost forty minutes of ice time. I mean,

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Speaker 1: those baffling numbers all over the place. Tal for you,

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Speaker 1: you've watched hockey for forty years, what stood out to

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Speaker 1: you most of that game? Three Carolina's brasilience. How about

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Speaker 1: Sean mcdone on the third goal? Just be goes, this

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Speaker 1: is incredible. It was awesome.

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Speaker 5: I just I added a couple of friends who were

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Speaker 5: then they're main takeaway at the end of the game.

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Speaker 5: Actually they all I do, three guys of the game,

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Speaker 5: they also the same thing. Thank god, we got Mitch Marner.

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Speaker 5: They love this guy. This guy is the King of

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Speaker 5: Vegas right now. They are so thrilled that he's on

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Speaker 4: You know, there's so much to take away there.

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Speaker 5: For me, it's like, it's the first rule of any

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Speaker 5: NHL playoff game, especially in the finals, that goes past

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Speaker 5: the first overtime, the game winner is always ugly.

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Speaker 4: Always, it's always just some you know, it's a Hail

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Speaker 5: It's a bounce off the boards, it's a you know,

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Speaker 5: it's it's it's Patrick Kane and Michael Layton, right, It's

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Speaker 5: just always just if it goes past the first overtime period,

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Speaker 5: it's always an ugly one. I mean, I think for

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Speaker 5: me this is and JD you can back me up

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Speaker 5: on this. Since you were there. Everyone I've seen comment

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Speaker 5: one of the best games they've ever attended live.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you got a lot of those people.

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Speaker 3: And like I said, the pure chaos of it, I

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Speaker 3: and he turns around after the second and he goes,

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Speaker 3: he goes Demurs, he goes Carolina and seven, aha, fuck

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Speaker 3: you Knights and Knights in five and he starts laughing

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Speaker 3: it is four nothing, and I'm like, you're probably right,

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Speaker 3: He's going through it, just going through and he's sweating.

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Speaker 3: He's turning around looking at me, going like, the refs

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Speaker 3: still like, we haven't gotten to our game for sixty minutes,

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Speaker 3: if we figure it out, we can win this thing.

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Speaker 3: So I gotta think the beliefs there and it's just

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Speaker 3: net is going to be the big thing, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, overall I was listening to Britndan Moore on NHL Network.

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Speaker 1: Rady was talking about count Treamailler leaving Game three the

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Speaker 1: obviously now must winning, so we haven't gotten the good

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Speaker 1: of is Bussy going to play in game four on Tuesday?

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Speaker 2: But that really I think is the major story.

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Speaker 1: And I would think if I am Rod Brendan Wore,

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Speaker 1: I would go with Bussy, which because to me, jdiots

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Speaker 1: a must win and Freddie hasn't been as strong in

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Speaker 1: So I do think it's risky in some ways, but

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Speaker 1: I personally would go with Bussy in game four.

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Speaker 2: Tallied something else asked with the question of the game.

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Speaker 4: My only question.

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Speaker 5: I was just curious, what do you think now if

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Speaker 4: Are you bummed about the lost opportunity? Oh?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you thrilled that you came back from a four

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Speaker 4: Well, Brendan Moore said it.

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Speaker 3: He's like, there's no moral victories, Like it doesn't matter

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Speaker 3: It doesn't matter how bad you play or good you play.

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Speaker 3: It's a win or loss. Like you're trying to get

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Speaker 3: the win, like they got that win and you're happy

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Speaker 3: because you found a way, right. So so to me,

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Speaker 3: Brendan Moore is just like, listen, it feels shitty, it's awful.

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Speaker 3: He was pissed, I guess after the game, but you know,

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Speaker 3: you have the good thing is they have the two

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Speaker 4: He's streaky, Like it's not like.

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Speaker 3: He's We talked about it on the NHL tonight, like

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Speaker 3: going to have a two headed monster, but Freddy's just

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Speaker 4: Now they have to.

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Speaker 3: So it's like, I think people maybe overthinking the decision.

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Speaker 3: And even I was, I was like, oh, you got

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Speaker 3: to go back to Freddy. But I'm like, wait a minute,

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Speaker 3: Like they were fully prepared to play bussy all series long,

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Speaker 3: in years past, just this kind of goalie that does

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Speaker 4: And that's why they had Bussy. And he came in.

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Speaker 4: He'd win some hockey games.

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Speaker 3: This year, and so I just think it's gonna be

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Speaker 3: it's going to be bussy. But yeah, you know, you

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Speaker 3: He didn't look good. It looked like he had a backspasm.

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Speaker 3: And then William Carrey a you know, unfortunate injury. Like

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Speaker 3: it's two big pieces down and Vegas was just running

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Speaker 1: Nate Thompson among those who was winded just after watching

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Speaker 1: the game. That's why Nate is not with us today

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Speaker 1: and I'll be remissed by not mention. Jason Newersey now

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Speaker 1: clearly is battling it cold. I was watching in NHL

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Speaker 1: tonight it's gonna be battling a raspy throat. And even now,

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Speaker 1: JD you seem a little parks Is it just a

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Speaker 2: What's going on with you? You're still a little rasper

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Speaker 2: of the norse Kathleen Turner, right now.

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Speaker 3: It's getting it's getting pulled to go see the chain

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Speaker 3: smokers the first night here and then literally feeling like

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Speaker 3: I chain smoked myself that dry Vegas air, that dry

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Speaker 3: Vegas air. But you know, once I get on air,

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Speaker 3: was I rast that rasp rast?

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Speaker 2: I was watching that. I was surprised. My guy seems

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Speaker 2: a little little mellow the normal. He's a little raspect.

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Speaker 2: I think he's nouner the weather.

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Speaker 3: Actually my phone, fucking Christ, He's Louise, come on, Jason,

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Speaker 3: it's all right.

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Speaker 1: Then, Pat Maroon, I mean he said, he goes, this

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Speaker 1: is the best Taly Cup finals I've ever seen. I

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Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, just an outrageous statement.

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Speaker 2: I agree with you.

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Speaker 1: It's like in baseball, it's entertaining. What it's back and forth,

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Speaker 2: Now, six am, right now, six am.

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Speaker 3: Four yeah, three or four years, or you're finishing at

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Speaker 2: You know, it's talis and you can't beat the building

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Speaker 4: That's great. Downtown sow you build a franchise.

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Speaker 1: some other hockey news wing stop major news last week.

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Speaker 1: They're apart from multiple Storces Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin's

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Speaker 1: All Red Wings and Points is coming into the league

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Speaker 2: What was just mean for the Redpens stradi This is

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Speaker 2: a slap of the face.

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Speaker 1: I would think Tylon Larkin's your boy, the guy like

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Speaker 1: he is Detroit Zone. He's gonna I'm tired of shit,

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Speaker 1: iSER plan Seya.

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Speaker 3: I wonder what that group chat was with that team

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Speaker 2: Now it's all collusion. If you go here, I'm going

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Speaker 3: Well, I think we're gonna see in the next year

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Speaker 3: It's pretty interesting. We're seeing this now of players demanding

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Speaker 3: it's worked out for all these guys, like you know,

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Speaker 3: you you say the saying the grass isn't always greener.

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Speaker 3: It's been greener for all these guys that look at

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Speaker 4: A Cup year one. He's got a chance to win

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Speaker 3: He's give me the con smythe So Dylan Larkin's probably

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Speaker 3: saying the same thing. Jack Eichel goes to the Olympics.

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Speaker 3: All these guys start talking, they go this, this is

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Speaker 3: Because the two things the three teams I'd put is Utah,

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Speaker 3: power went on, they can be the face of the franchise.

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Speaker 3: I like that Utah call. Yeah they got they got

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Speaker 2: It's crazy to think, speaking of trades. I mean, there

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Speaker 1: Now we get the news Matthew Nis one minute short

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Speaker 1: would have gotten back prospect Alexander Zorowski, two first round

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Speaker 1: so hapsham Ken Hughes allegedly cussed out then leaves Jim

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Speaker 1: bradstre Living insisting he honored the deal. This summer, I

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Speaker 1: want to issue True Living is gone. So that looks

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Speaker 1: the nice deal is officially dead. How wild this news?

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Speaker 1: Jad this doesn't happen. Habs leaves don't make trades. This

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Speaker 3: I think Hughes is gonna be pretty happy that it

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Speaker 3: I'm all for selling the future, but this is enough

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Speaker 4: What do you want?

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Speaker 6: Just give me a job with the HAPs Yeah, tell Gordon,

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Speaker 6: you want Austin Matthews for two and or grand to me?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, let's do it.

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Speaker 1: I'll make it happen. One last top before we get

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Speaker 1: to our friend Stug Gramson. Vassi gets to Vesna. Andre

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Speaker 1: Vasklovski winning his second Vesna. You know, Ilio sarrokn and

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Speaker 1: Jeremy swimming for the honor, earning seventeen and thirty one

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Speaker 1: first place votes. It's the longest gap between Vesna wins

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Speaker 3: anywhere and just stay in college. Why are you going

432
00:20:24,232 --> 00:20:27,232
Speaker 3: to leave the nest right, you know? For anything less

433
00:20:27,352 --> 00:20:31,312
Speaker 3: than eight million or whatever? He's what number he wants?

434
00:20:31,352 --> 00:20:36,752
Speaker 3: Who knows, but yeah, PAVs listen, it's it's I heard

435
00:20:36,792 --> 00:20:42,432
Speaker 3: he's was considering it and they called him and everybody

436
00:20:42,552 --> 00:20:46,952
Speaker 3: thought why because he's playing on this golf circuit right now,

437
00:20:46,992 --> 00:20:51,032
Speaker 3: he's making money, he's coaching his kid, he's got his

438
00:20:51,152 --> 00:20:52,192
Speaker 3: house in Wisconsin.

439
00:20:52,352 --> 00:20:53,352
Speaker 4: Life's good, there's nothing.

440
00:20:53,392 --> 00:20:56,952
Speaker 3: Why would you throw yourself into that market, have your

441
00:20:57,032 --> 00:21:02,352
Speaker 3: kid be going to school, have parents all, you know,

442
00:21:02,512 --> 00:21:06,952
Speaker 3: having the question marks in that market too, where it's

443
00:21:08,512 --> 00:21:12,432
Speaker 3: you're really just a glutton for punishment. So I I

444
00:21:12,512 --> 00:21:15,792
Speaker 3: don't know why, but you know, Mike Johnson said something.

445
00:21:15,832 --> 00:21:16,432
Speaker 4: It was great too.

446
00:21:16,512 --> 00:21:18,912
Speaker 3: He's like, listen because Mike, Mike Johnson's insulated in that

447
00:21:19,432 --> 00:21:22,352
Speaker 3: community like that. That's he knows more about Toronto than

448
00:21:22,392 --> 00:21:26,672
Speaker 3: I think anybody. And he said, He's like, they interviewed

449
00:21:26,712 --> 00:21:29,432
Speaker 3: fifty five candidates, so they could be just casting a

450
00:21:29,512 --> 00:21:33,112
Speaker 3: wide net and it's kind of greasy. But they're probably

451
00:21:33,232 --> 00:21:35,672
Speaker 3: just bringing these people in like a Pavelski and saying like,

452
00:21:35,712 --> 00:21:36,632
Speaker 3: what do you think we're missing?

453
00:21:37,712 --> 00:21:39,512
Speaker 4: You tell me, and they're just sitting there taking out.

454
00:21:40,232 --> 00:21:41,152
Speaker 2: Exactly taking notes.

455
00:21:41,312 --> 00:21:43,832
Speaker 3: Ye, people realize, oh you would trade Austin for what

456
00:21:44,232 --> 00:21:46,992
Speaker 3: a first and a yeah, okay, maybe a third?

457
00:21:47,072 --> 00:21:49,472
Speaker 4: All right, okay, cool, cool, cool, cool cool, good, thank you.

458
00:21:49,872 --> 00:21:50,632
Speaker 2: We'll call you back.

459
00:21:51,232 --> 00:21:54,352
Speaker 4: We'll call you back in a bit. But you know,

460
00:21:54,432 --> 00:21:54,712
Speaker 4: I don't.

461
00:21:55,592 --> 00:21:59,312
Speaker 3: I guess Marty Saint Luis kind of opens up for

462
00:22:00,392 --> 00:22:03,192
Speaker 3: you know, it opens up the door for teams to

463
00:22:03,232 --> 00:22:04,912
Speaker 3: be a little bit more creative with the guys are

464
00:22:04,912 --> 00:22:06,792
Speaker 3: bringing in and bringing in the next player. So PAVs

465
00:22:06,792 --> 00:22:09,912
Speaker 3: would be listen, when I played with him, he's he's

466
00:22:09,952 --> 00:22:10,592
Speaker 3: a hockey nerd.

467
00:22:10,632 --> 00:22:12,392
Speaker 4: He's a smart guy. He understands the game.

468
00:22:13,312 --> 00:22:17,312
Speaker 3: He loves the game more than you know, anyone I've seen,

469
00:22:17,472 --> 00:22:20,312
Speaker 3: or as much as anybody I've seen that that is

470
00:22:20,512 --> 00:22:23,112
Speaker 3: just addicted to it. So you know, I could see

471
00:22:23,192 --> 00:22:28,112
Speaker 3: him coming in and really helping a franchise a team

472
00:22:28,432 --> 00:22:29,952
Speaker 3: because I think he would. I think he would be

473
00:22:30,072 --> 00:22:33,592
Speaker 3: a positive impact anywhere you put him in a franchise

474
00:22:33,672 --> 00:22:38,072
Speaker 3: or an organization. But I just don't know if head

475
00:22:38,152 --> 00:22:40,631
Speaker 3: coach would be it. Maybe assistant, But it's worked out

476
00:22:40,672 --> 00:22:43,752
Speaker 3: for Marty. I guess when you coach your you're able

477
00:22:43,832 --> 00:22:46,192
Speaker 3: to coach like you know you fifteen with all those

478
00:22:46,272 --> 00:22:47,032
Speaker 3: crazy parents.

479
00:22:47,072 --> 00:22:50,592
Speaker 4: That coaching on professional hockey teams easy? After that?

480
00:22:50,792 --> 00:22:53,552
Speaker 2: Right? Do you imagine the Steve Simmons press conference? What

481
00:22:53,712 --> 00:22:55,792
Speaker 2: you like on from you fifteen? Steve Simmons?

482
00:22:55,872 --> 00:22:58,792
Speaker 3: The oh my god, Steve Simmons. Would Steve Simmons would

483
00:22:58,792 --> 00:23:03,712
Speaker 3: come to ask, HAVEVS a question? Stevie Simmons?

484
00:23:04,072 --> 00:23:05,192
Speaker 2: All right?

485
00:23:05,912 --> 00:23:08,112
Speaker 1: Still they come here an hll in scriptor the grim Reaper,

486
00:23:08,192 --> 00:23:10,592
Speaker 1: our friend Stu Grimson of Nhldon ever will.

487
00:23:10,472 --> 00:23:12,872
Speaker 2: Tell us the toughest guy he ever fought his thoughts

488
00:23:12,872 --> 00:23:13,192
Speaker 2: so far on.

489
00:23:13,192 --> 00:23:15,512
Speaker 1: The Stanley Cup Finals. All that more coming up, Stewie

490
00:23:15,592 --> 00:23:31,632
Speaker 1: after this our next guest draft. In the tenth round

491
00:23:31,712 --> 00:23:33,591
Speaker 1: of the nineteen eighty three draft of the Detroit Red

492
00:23:33,632 --> 00:23:35,952
Speaker 1: Wings were being selected the seventh round the nineteen eighty

493
00:23:35,992 --> 00:23:39,032
Speaker 1: five draft of the Calgary Flames. He collected seventeen goals,

494
00:23:39,112 --> 00:23:42,272
Speaker 1: thirty points and two one hundred and thirteen pounty minutes

495
00:23:42,552 --> 00:23:45,752
Speaker 1: in seven hundred and twenty nine career games. The Flames, Blackhawks,

496
00:23:45,992 --> 00:23:50,312
Speaker 1: Mighty Ducks, Red Wings, Whalers, Hurricanes, Kings, and Predators.

497
00:23:50,592 --> 00:23:53,632
Speaker 2: Not bad for a lawyer. Everyone's favorite Stuve Grimson, the

498
00:23:53,672 --> 00:23:54,992
Speaker 2: Grim Reaper. Still great to see you.

499
00:23:58,472 --> 00:24:01,272
Speaker 7: Hey, good to see you guys. Sorry you're going through

500
00:24:01,312 --> 00:24:03,512
Speaker 7: all my teams. I started nodding off there a little bit.

501
00:24:03,552 --> 00:24:07,071
Speaker 2: It's kind of a long but it's amazing to think.

502
00:24:07,112 --> 00:24:08,712
Speaker 1: But the thing I always tell people, like, listen, Stu

503
00:24:09,072 --> 00:24:10,672
Speaker 1: is such a great guy, and they go, come on,

504
00:24:10,752 --> 00:24:11,552
Speaker 1: he could beat the shit out of you.

505
00:24:11,632 --> 00:24:12,952
Speaker 2: I go, no, I know he could, he could at

506
00:24:12,952 --> 00:24:13,392
Speaker 2: any point.

507
00:24:13,392 --> 00:24:15,672
Speaker 1: And yet for a guy who had this resume for

508
00:24:15,792 --> 00:24:20,232
Speaker 1: being so intimidating, is so fearsome. Again, attorney, cerebral fan

509
00:24:20,312 --> 00:24:22,112
Speaker 1: of Broadway. I'm sure you're watching the Tony Awards.

510
00:24:22,192 --> 00:24:22,591
Speaker 2: Last night.

511
00:24:22,712 --> 00:24:25,592
Speaker 1: We talked about MJ the musical MJ Cercusila. We talked

512
00:24:25,592 --> 00:24:28,072
Speaker 1: independent films like Anora, like how can you be a

513
00:24:28,152 --> 00:24:30,392
Speaker 1: guy who was so vicious on the ice and yet

514
00:24:30,432 --> 00:24:31,792
Speaker 1: be a man of culture off the ice?

515
00:24:35,512 --> 00:24:40,152
Speaker 7: You know that's a funny thing. Uh, you know, I

516
00:24:40,312 --> 00:24:42,232
Speaker 7: was thinking about this this morning. You and I have

517
00:24:42,312 --> 00:24:44,192
Speaker 7: a lot in common where the arts are concerned. We

518
00:24:44,312 --> 00:24:47,192
Speaker 7: love to discuss, you know, the latest great things that

519
00:24:47,312 --> 00:24:51,992
Speaker 7: we've seen. And honestly, those those the part you referenced

520
00:24:52,392 --> 00:24:55,072
Speaker 7: my you know, my kind of tendencies as a player,

521
00:24:55,152 --> 00:24:59,312
Speaker 7: My role as a player kind of dovetail into my

522
00:24:59,672 --> 00:25:02,632
Speaker 7: affinity for the arts because you know the role, and

523
00:25:02,672 --> 00:25:04,832
Speaker 7: I'm sure you've heard lots of guys in my that

524
00:25:05,192 --> 00:25:08,152
Speaker 7: played this role say this, but it's really it's a

525
00:25:08,312 --> 00:25:10,871
Speaker 7: hard role to play. It's very taxing. It'd be very

526
00:25:10,952 --> 00:25:14,512
Speaker 7: taxing on you. So Honestly, nights before games when I

527
00:25:14,712 --> 00:25:16,632
Speaker 7: was pretty you know, I knew I was going to

528
00:25:16,672 --> 00:25:18,792
Speaker 7: be tangling with somebody else on the other side that

529
00:25:18,872 --> 00:25:23,392
Speaker 7: looked like my size, my dimensions, I was actually out

530
00:25:23,672 --> 00:25:25,872
Speaker 7: trying to find a distraction. I would be at the

531
00:25:25,952 --> 00:25:27,992
Speaker 7: movies the night before. I just wanted to take my

532
00:25:28,152 --> 00:25:31,032
Speaker 7: mind off the game, get a little separation, a little

533
00:25:31,072 --> 00:25:34,552
Speaker 7: space from it, because again, like gearing up to do

534
00:25:34,912 --> 00:25:38,432
Speaker 7: hand to hand combat eighty two times a year with

535
00:25:38,872 --> 00:25:41,072
Speaker 7: you know, guys that are six foot four, two hundred

536
00:25:41,072 --> 00:25:43,312
Speaker 7: and forty pounds and they can crush human bone with

537
00:25:43,392 --> 00:25:46,111
Speaker 7: their fists Like That's that's why I wanted to kind

538
00:25:46,112 --> 00:25:47,872
Speaker 7: of get a little distance from it, just take my

539
00:25:47,952 --> 00:25:49,752
Speaker 7: mind off it. I go see the movies.

540
00:25:50,912 --> 00:25:52,512
Speaker 4: It's crazy to think, you know, and.

541
00:25:53,992 --> 00:25:59,392
Speaker 3: Most the majority of the physical imposing the enforcers in

542
00:25:59,432 --> 00:26:01,992
Speaker 3: the league, when you talk to them, they're all very

543
00:26:02,072 --> 00:26:04,472
Speaker 3: soft spoken, intelligent, you know, the George.

544
00:26:04,752 --> 00:26:08,912
Speaker 4: As you and you know, is it just the do

545
00:26:08,992 --> 00:26:12,232
Speaker 4: you almost have to be cerebral to be doing that job?

546
00:26:12,392 --> 00:26:17,272
Speaker 3: And because it is a decision, but it's also like

547
00:26:17,512 --> 00:26:20,512
Speaker 3: you have to be analytical about it. And also I

548
00:26:21,032 --> 00:26:24,392
Speaker 3: never heard somebody say, like gearing up for the fight

549
00:26:24,752 --> 00:26:27,112
Speaker 3: is you're thinking about it, but you're also like I

550
00:26:27,192 --> 00:26:29,592
Speaker 3: need to get away and be distracted.

551
00:26:29,672 --> 00:26:32,952
Speaker 4: So it's so interesting to hear that. But like, is

552
00:26:33,032 --> 00:26:36,032
Speaker 4: there such an analytical side to it more than people

553
00:26:36,152 --> 00:26:37,072
Speaker 4: even realize.

554
00:26:39,512 --> 00:26:42,112
Speaker 7: You know, that's a great question, JDA, And I don't

555
00:26:42,112 --> 00:26:44,192
Speaker 7: think I've ever been asked in quite that way. But

556
00:26:44,912 --> 00:26:49,512
Speaker 7: two things come up for me, and the short response

557
00:26:49,632 --> 00:26:52,112
Speaker 7: is yes, I think you're right, And maybe a couple

558
00:26:52,152 --> 00:26:55,992
Speaker 7: of things kind of play into that one because guys

559
00:26:56,072 --> 00:26:59,232
Speaker 7: in my role have learned over time, Hey, I'm not

560
00:26:59,312 --> 00:27:01,992
Speaker 7: a thirty goal forty goal scorer. I may have had

561
00:27:02,072 --> 00:27:04,552
Speaker 7: some points in you know, a college or junior but

562
00:27:04,592 --> 00:27:07,272
Speaker 7: if I'm going to survive and carve out a roll

563
00:27:07,432 --> 00:27:10,832
Speaker 7: a niche for myself in the NHL, I've got to

564
00:27:10,952 --> 00:27:14,832
Speaker 7: find a way to be this physical catalyst, right. I

565
00:27:14,952 --> 00:27:17,512
Speaker 7: got to find these different moments in the game where

566
00:27:17,512 --> 00:27:19,872
Speaker 7: I can I can help turn the game, I can

567
00:27:19,992 --> 00:27:22,472
Speaker 7: help my team win in a in a kind of

568
00:27:22,512 --> 00:27:25,871
Speaker 7: an obscure way. So that takes a bit of a tactician, right.

569
00:27:26,032 --> 00:27:30,952
Speaker 7: That takes somebody who's constantly assessing the game for these moments,

570
00:27:31,392 --> 00:27:33,912
Speaker 7: and you act when you think it's appropriate. So there's

571
00:27:33,952 --> 00:27:36,272
Speaker 7: a good bit of analysis going on there as you're

572
00:27:36,592 --> 00:27:39,072
Speaker 7: somebody like me is sitting on the bench or on

573
00:27:39,152 --> 00:27:42,712
Speaker 7: the ice watching things evolve. And then number two, you know,

574
00:27:42,872 --> 00:27:46,992
Speaker 7: there's there's this selfless piece to it, like nobody jumps

575
00:27:46,992 --> 00:27:49,592
Speaker 7: out of bed in the morning, like when you're you know,

576
00:27:49,992 --> 00:27:51,832
Speaker 7: twelve thirteen years of age, Han, I'm going to go

577
00:27:51,832 --> 00:27:53,952
Speaker 7: out and be the next heavyweight enforcer in the NHL.

578
00:27:54,672 --> 00:27:58,672
Speaker 7: But it's it's a selfless person. It's a it's a

579
00:27:58,792 --> 00:28:01,871
Speaker 7: person who has the team's kind of best interest at

580
00:28:01,992 --> 00:28:04,512
Speaker 7: heart that I think makes that decision that's not to

581
00:28:04,512 --> 00:28:06,832
Speaker 7: say that goal scorers don't care about their team, but

582
00:28:07,112 --> 00:28:08,831
Speaker 7: you know you're willing to make one of the ultimate

583
00:28:08,912 --> 00:28:12,272
Speaker 7: sacrifices in the game, which is to put your physical

584
00:28:12,352 --> 00:28:17,152
Speaker 7: well being in harm's way to assist the team. So

585
00:28:17,472 --> 00:28:19,071
Speaker 7: those are the couple things that kind of come up

586
00:28:19,072 --> 00:28:21,112
Speaker 7: for me. But I do think there's some merit to that.

587
00:28:21,352 --> 00:28:22,872
Speaker 2: You Bet Stewart a great book.

588
00:28:22,872 --> 00:28:24,832
Speaker 1: It's called The Grim Reaper, The Life and Career of

589
00:28:24,912 --> 00:28:27,072
Speaker 1: a Reluctant Warrior, and I want to read is a

590
00:28:27,152 --> 00:28:29,432
Speaker 1: passage from it, just to his point about being tough

591
00:28:29,512 --> 00:28:29,952
Speaker 1: and fighting.

592
00:28:30,272 --> 00:28:31,712
Speaker 2: This is a story you told about fighting.

593
00:28:31,832 --> 00:28:33,472
Speaker 1: I stepped in with two of my buddies, waded into

594
00:28:33,472 --> 00:28:35,352
Speaker 1: the fray, got the party store up by cold cock,

595
00:28:35,432 --> 00:28:37,472
Speaker 1: and the guy doing most of the talking his two

596
00:28:37,592 --> 00:28:38,912
Speaker 1: front teeth launched skyward.

597
00:28:38,952 --> 00:28:40,272
Speaker 2: We quickly became the main event.

598
00:28:40,592 --> 00:28:43,032
Speaker 1: Within seconds, I pinned the trash talker against the theater

599
00:28:43,072 --> 00:28:45,392
Speaker 1: wall and was slamming his head against the bricks over

600
00:28:45,472 --> 00:28:47,352
Speaker 1: and over and then a few more times for good measure.

601
00:28:47,552 --> 00:28:50,072
Speaker 1: I left him sprawled in the ground bleeding. The only

602
00:28:50,232 --> 00:28:51,872
Speaker 1: damage I suffered was the loss of one of my

603
00:28:51,952 --> 00:28:54,632
Speaker 1: stan smith sneakers. During the fight, I never tied my

604
00:28:54,752 --> 00:28:57,232
Speaker 1: shoes back then. It flew off my foot sometime after

605
00:28:57,272 --> 00:28:57,712
Speaker 1: I threw.

606
00:28:57,632 --> 00:29:00,272
Speaker 2: My first bunch, I lok into the shoe quickly and

607
00:29:00,352 --> 00:29:01,872
Speaker 2: bent over to grab a big mistake.

608
00:29:03,152 --> 00:29:05,992
Speaker 3: You and your study, Wait, how do you usually you

609
00:29:06,072 --> 00:29:08,472
Speaker 3: hear you get hit so hard you fly to your shoes,

610
00:29:08,832 --> 00:29:10,912
Speaker 3: Not that you hit somebody so hard that your shoe

611
00:29:10,992 --> 00:29:11,552
Speaker 3: comes up.

612
00:29:12,672 --> 00:29:14,952
Speaker 1: You and your sister adopted you were the son of

613
00:29:14,992 --> 00:29:17,192
Speaker 1: an RCMP officer, Like I would think. It's a lot

614
00:29:17,232 --> 00:29:19,112
Speaker 1: over a househole that you're out there stuke kicking the

615
00:29:19,112 --> 00:29:19,832
Speaker 1: shit at the guys.

616
00:29:23,152 --> 00:29:25,712
Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, it was crazy, and you know it's really

617
00:29:26,272 --> 00:29:31,512
Speaker 7: odd about that av is you know? That was actually

618
00:29:31,832 --> 00:29:34,872
Speaker 7: the moment at which as all this is going on

619
00:29:34,992 --> 00:29:39,672
Speaker 7: in front of my hometown movie theater, downtown Camlton Movie Theater,

620
00:29:40,672 --> 00:29:43,752
Speaker 7: this miniature brawl is taking place on the corner of

621
00:29:43,792 --> 00:29:46,792
Speaker 7: the street. The head scout for the Regina Pass of

622
00:29:46,832 --> 00:29:49,672
Speaker 7: the Western Hockey League happened to be driving by and

623
00:29:49,752 --> 00:29:53,312
Speaker 7: he goes, oh, hey, that's the Crimson boy. I think

624
00:29:53,352 --> 00:29:58,512
Speaker 7: you can play for us. They listed me after that moment.

625
00:29:58,792 --> 00:30:01,752
Speaker 7: I'm sixteen years of age. I'm getting into a dust

626
00:30:01,832 --> 00:30:05,072
Speaker 7: up on a street corner and their head scout drives by.

627
00:30:05,192 --> 00:30:07,232
Speaker 7: They listed me at that point. I played three years

628
00:30:07,272 --> 00:30:10,832
Speaker 7: a junior with the Regina Pats and you know, went

629
00:30:10,912 --> 00:30:14,712
Speaker 7: on to a seventeen year professional hockey career. But that

630
00:30:14,992 --> 00:30:17,312
Speaker 7: really is the moment, not to say that it may

631
00:30:17,352 --> 00:30:20,872
Speaker 7: not have happened other ways. Yeah, but that got Regina's attention.

632
00:30:21,072 --> 00:30:23,112
Speaker 1: Well, later on you talk with the fact it is amazing,

633
00:30:23,272 --> 00:30:26,352
Speaker 1: he said, isn't officially a party until Stu strip's naked

634
00:30:26,432 --> 00:30:27,312
Speaker 1: and jumps in the pool.

635
00:30:27,752 --> 00:30:30,152
Speaker 2: You actually jumped off a friend's house into the pool.

636
00:30:30,152 --> 00:30:31,312
Speaker 2: And no, I was not clothed.

637
00:30:31,592 --> 00:30:33,432
Speaker 1: I had a few beers, but I was not drunk.

638
00:30:33,472 --> 00:30:35,512
Speaker 1: I knew what I was doing. It was about becoming

639
00:30:35,592 --> 00:30:37,632
Speaker 1: the story I wanted people to talk about me. I

640
00:30:37,712 --> 00:30:40,232
Speaker 1: believe that was the quickest way to find acceptance and admiration.

641
00:30:40,712 --> 00:30:42,072
Speaker 1: That is how I believe the world worked when I

642
00:30:42,152 --> 00:30:42,792
Speaker 1: was in my teens.

643
00:30:46,032 --> 00:30:48,112
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, it was a strange mindset.

644
00:30:48,152 --> 00:30:48,752
Speaker 4: It really was.

645
00:30:49,472 --> 00:30:52,752
Speaker 7: Growing up a Cops kid back back then. You know,

646
00:30:52,992 --> 00:30:55,272
Speaker 7: we moved around a lot. Our family was never in

647
00:30:55,392 --> 00:30:57,672
Speaker 7: one place any more than two or three years at

648
00:30:57,712 --> 00:31:02,632
Speaker 7: the most, So you know, changing towns, changing schools, finding

649
00:31:02,752 --> 00:31:05,792
Speaker 7: new people to you know, to to fit in with,

650
00:31:05,992 --> 00:31:09,632
Speaker 7: to socialize with became a real challenge when you're you know,

651
00:31:09,752 --> 00:31:12,792
Speaker 7: in your teens. And for me, my twisted way of

652
00:31:12,872 --> 00:31:16,072
Speaker 7: thinking was if I could do things that were completely

653
00:31:16,192 --> 00:31:19,872
Speaker 7: outrageous and get everybody talking about me Monday morning back

654
00:31:19,952 --> 00:31:23,632
Speaker 7: at school, that must mean that I'm accept I'm accepted,

655
00:31:23,712 --> 00:31:26,752
Speaker 7: and I'm respected by these people. So it was kind

656
00:31:26,752 --> 00:31:31,072
Speaker 7: of an empty, you know, thoughtless existence when you when

657
00:31:31,112 --> 00:31:32,912
Speaker 7: you really think about it. But you know, as teens

658
00:31:32,952 --> 00:31:36,912
Speaker 7: we go through this and it sure it got me

659
00:31:36,952 --> 00:31:38,952
Speaker 7: into a lot of trouble as a kid. It really did.

660
00:31:39,592 --> 00:31:42,072
Speaker 3: Well, you know what you go through your NHL career,

661
00:31:42,232 --> 00:31:44,832
Speaker 3: and we'll get to that as we kind of pivot back,

662
00:31:44,952 --> 00:31:47,392
Speaker 3: but you know, going to the end of it, you

663
00:31:47,472 --> 00:31:50,592
Speaker 3: know what prompted you and to get your law degree

664
00:31:51,112 --> 00:31:53,912
Speaker 3: after retiring and then you know, working for the NHLPA

665
00:31:53,952 --> 00:31:56,232
Speaker 3: as well, so as in house counsel. But take us

666
00:31:56,272 --> 00:32:00,032
Speaker 3: through that of your thought process and why that tickled

667
00:32:00,072 --> 00:32:00,632
Speaker 3: your fancy.

668
00:32:03,232 --> 00:32:09,032
Speaker 7: Yeah, so I had, I had, I signed my first

669
00:32:09,072 --> 00:32:12,352
Speaker 7: pro contract. I was two years at the University of Manitoba,

670
00:32:12,432 --> 00:32:13,712
Speaker 7: so I kind of had a head start on my

671
00:32:13,872 --> 00:32:18,472
Speaker 7: undergraduate degree and I took actually some correspondence courses while

672
00:32:18,552 --> 00:32:21,872
Speaker 7: I was playing, and got to a point towards the

673
00:32:22,472 --> 00:32:24,872
Speaker 7: middle stages of my pro career was like I couldn't

674
00:32:24,912 --> 00:32:28,352
Speaker 7: really take any more correspondence had exhausted basically everything that

675
00:32:28,832 --> 00:32:32,592
Speaker 7: had any interest in merit for me. So I knew

676
00:32:32,592 --> 00:32:34,752
Speaker 7: I wanted to finish that off after I was done,

677
00:32:34,952 --> 00:32:39,352
Speaker 7: and kind of the last handful of years during my career,

678
00:32:39,672 --> 00:32:42,672
Speaker 7: I started serving as a player rep. Had the you know,

679
00:32:43,432 --> 00:32:47,712
Speaker 7: the really exciting responsibility of actually serving a term as

680
00:32:48,192 --> 00:32:52,512
Speaker 7: vice president of our executive committee for the Players Association,

681
00:32:52,832 --> 00:32:56,672
Speaker 7: and I just I found the union side of the

682
00:32:56,792 --> 00:33:01,072
Speaker 7: game really interesting, and for that reason, JD, I kind

683
00:33:01,112 --> 00:33:06,672
Speaker 7: of decided, you know, as I pivot from playing to now,

684
00:33:07,072 --> 00:33:10,992
Speaker 7: you know, doing something else in my life, I really

685
00:33:11,032 --> 00:33:13,832
Speaker 7: think I need to kind of invest in the marketable skill.

686
00:33:13,912 --> 00:33:16,232
Speaker 7: So I knew I wanted to do finish my graduate

687
00:33:16,312 --> 00:33:18,392
Speaker 7: undergraduate degree, and I knew I wanted to do another

688
00:33:18,472 --> 00:33:21,352
Speaker 7: advanced degree of some kind, and the law made the

689
00:33:21,432 --> 00:33:24,432
Speaker 7: most sense. I'd seen a lot of other players, you know,

690
00:33:24,672 --> 00:33:29,232
Speaker 7: like the Mike Leutes, the Ken Dryden's, the the Neil

691
00:33:29,272 --> 00:33:32,672
Speaker 7: Sheehee's of the world earn law degrees go on to

692
00:33:33,472 --> 00:33:37,192
Speaker 7: work at some really exciting jobs within our game. So

693
00:33:37,632 --> 00:33:39,272
Speaker 7: it was kind of for those reasons. I knew I

694
00:33:39,352 --> 00:33:41,392
Speaker 7: wanted to stay in the game in some way, and

695
00:33:41,472 --> 00:33:43,912
Speaker 7: I thought getting a lot of degree might make a

696
00:33:43,992 --> 00:33:48,512
Speaker 7: lot of sense. But then again, that's what makes a

697
00:33:48,592 --> 00:33:50,192
Speaker 7: lot of sense to a guy that suffered a lot

698
00:33:50,232 --> 00:33:52,152
Speaker 7: of head trauma over the course of his career, Like

699
00:33:52,912 --> 00:33:55,312
Speaker 7: going to law school as a thirty seven year old

700
00:33:55,392 --> 00:33:58,112
Speaker 7: man makes makes great sense to anybody.

701
00:33:58,472 --> 00:34:00,272
Speaker 1: Well, I can imagine that alluring. You would have to do,

702
00:34:00,432 --> 00:34:02,792
Speaker 1: Stewey back in Detroit. You're on a roster led by

703
00:34:02,832 --> 00:34:06,752
Speaker 1: Scottie Bowmen and featuring names like Eiserman, feder Off, Lidstrom,

704
00:34:07,112 --> 00:34:10,912
Speaker 1: Coffee Fatiso, Constantinov, Larryanov, and Vernon.

705
00:34:11,312 --> 00:34:12,352
Speaker 2: What was that room like?

706
00:34:16,471 --> 00:34:18,951
Speaker 7: It was amazing, It was amazing. It was, you know,

707
00:34:19,352 --> 00:34:24,551
Speaker 7: one of the most memorable stretches of my career. You know,

708
00:34:24,911 --> 00:34:26,792
Speaker 7: for me, it was coming full circle. The club that

709
00:34:26,991 --> 00:34:29,751
Speaker 7: originally drafted me Detroit, but I never turned pro with them.

710
00:34:29,752 --> 00:34:33,712
Speaker 7: Originally it was ultimately via Calgary, but I kind of

711
00:34:33,752 --> 00:34:36,031
Speaker 7: came full circle. I came back to Detroit at a

712
00:34:36,111 --> 00:34:39,231
Speaker 7: much later stage in my career, but I came over

713
00:34:39,272 --> 00:34:43,312
Speaker 7: at the deadline of the lockout shortened season ninety four

714
00:34:43,431 --> 00:34:47,392
Speaker 7: ninety five. And you know, Detroit had an amazing team,

715
00:34:47,631 --> 00:34:52,192
Speaker 7: all those characters you reference. You know, I left Anaheim,

716
00:34:52,951 --> 00:34:54,872
Speaker 7: a team that didn't make the playoffs in the priory

717
00:34:54,991 --> 00:34:57,471
Speaker 7: in that year to go to Detroit, a team that

718
00:34:57,832 --> 00:35:01,751
Speaker 7: was heavily favored to win it all that year. And boy,

719
00:35:01,951 --> 00:35:05,191
Speaker 7: we I've never been a part of a team an

720
00:35:05,312 --> 00:35:12,111
Speaker 7: organization where winning came so easy. The talent was incredible.

721
00:35:12,631 --> 00:35:16,672
Speaker 7: Scottie really had you know, everybody on the same page

722
00:35:17,431 --> 00:35:21,232
Speaker 7: had a lot of respect for him. But assembling a

723
00:35:21,272 --> 00:35:24,832
Speaker 7: group of people like that av I'm left with this,

724
00:35:25,272 --> 00:35:29,832
Speaker 7: you know, wonderful reminder of just how rich and like

725
00:35:30,352 --> 00:35:34,312
Speaker 7: interesting the personalities and the characters were on that team.

726
00:35:34,471 --> 00:35:37,991
Speaker 7: You know you mentioned Coffee and Fatissov and and Stevie Y.

727
00:35:38,152 --> 00:35:41,232
Speaker 7: Chris osgood was so you know, he's kind of cutting

728
00:35:41,272 --> 00:35:47,512
Speaker 7: his teeth entering the NHL and sneaky, funny, quiet, interesting character.

729
00:35:48,192 --> 00:35:50,352
Speaker 7: But we we had a lot of a lot of

730
00:35:50,392 --> 00:35:53,911
Speaker 7: great memories. And JD Will you know, can attest to

731
00:35:53,991 --> 00:35:58,471
Speaker 7: this when it's going well, when you know, when you're

732
00:35:58,631 --> 00:36:02,591
Speaker 7: meeting expectations and you're having success, as a club. Those

733
00:36:02,631 --> 00:36:04,352
Speaker 7: are some of the Those are some of the best

734
00:36:04,551 --> 00:36:06,991
Speaker 7: moments you can enjoy as a professional athlete. It really

735
00:36:07,152 --> 00:36:10,032
Speaker 7: is a wonderful time. And that that was Detroit.

736
00:36:10,631 --> 00:36:14,872
Speaker 3: Yeah, you when it's going great, you're like, it's there's

737
00:36:14,951 --> 00:36:17,792
Speaker 3: nothing better. And then you also can be on the

738
00:36:17,832 --> 00:36:21,431
Speaker 3: opposite side of it, where it's you you can't even

739
00:36:21,551 --> 00:36:23,631
Speaker 3: imagine going to the rink because it's just you know

740
00:36:23,712 --> 00:36:26,192
Speaker 3: how bad, it's going to be miserable. But you know,

741
00:36:26,272 --> 00:36:28,951
Speaker 3: after you started your career with Calgary in Chicago, you're

742
00:36:29,312 --> 00:36:32,791
Speaker 3: on that inaugural roster for the Mighty Ducks Anaheim. How

743
00:36:32,991 --> 00:36:35,752
Speaker 3: was that being part of a team that literally is

744
00:36:35,792 --> 00:36:39,431
Speaker 3: owned by Disney And what do you remember from those

745
00:36:39,551 --> 00:36:42,272
Speaker 3: kind of years because those are probably some lean years

746
00:36:42,591 --> 00:36:45,832
Speaker 3: in that those expansion teams, because it's not always a

747
00:36:45,911 --> 00:36:46,831
Speaker 3: Vegas Gold Nights.

748
00:36:46,911 --> 00:36:49,672
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's most of the time. It's there's some struggles

749
00:36:49,712 --> 00:36:54,511
Speaker 4: early on. Yeah, it was.

750
00:36:55,111 --> 00:36:58,191
Speaker 7: It was a different experience, but it was no less

751
00:36:58,312 --> 00:37:01,352
Speaker 7: enjoyable to me, and I really do consider it an honor.

752
00:37:01,832 --> 00:37:04,551
Speaker 7: Do you have had a part in kind of, you know,

753
00:37:04,712 --> 00:37:10,511
Speaker 7: helping that organization, that that franchise get its start, and

754
00:37:10,591 --> 00:37:12,111
Speaker 7: you know, we all felt like we were kind of

755
00:37:12,152 --> 00:37:16,311
Speaker 7: contributing to some of that initial foundation. But for many

756
00:37:16,352 --> 00:37:19,551
Speaker 7: of us, i mean, third fourth line players from all

757
00:37:19,631 --> 00:37:23,591
Speaker 7: over the league cobbled together. We all felt, hey, you know,

758
00:37:23,792 --> 00:37:25,911
Speaker 7: we may not be the most competitive, but for all

759
00:37:25,991 --> 00:37:28,792
Speaker 7: of us, it's going to mean more responsibility. It's going

760
00:37:28,872 --> 00:37:32,031
Speaker 7: to mean there's an opportunity to kind of to play more,

761
00:37:32,111 --> 00:37:34,232
Speaker 7: to do more than we have at earlier stages in

762
00:37:34,312 --> 00:37:37,632
Speaker 7: our career. And we all experienced that in varying degrees.

763
00:37:37,752 --> 00:37:41,911
Speaker 7: So it was a wonderful, incredible experience. JD. You know

764
00:37:41,951 --> 00:37:44,751
Speaker 7: what this is like. You know, there was a day

765
00:37:44,911 --> 00:37:50,071
Speaker 7: when you know, the California California had just a single team,

766
00:37:50,111 --> 00:37:52,352
Speaker 7: it was LA, and when you went to LA, it

767
00:37:52,551 --> 00:37:55,031
Speaker 7: was like the highlight of of the year. It was

768
00:37:55,071 --> 00:37:57,591
Speaker 7: the West coast trip. We're going to LA. But now

769
00:37:57,832 --> 00:38:01,351
Speaker 7: you know, you're actually somebody that's playing in southern California,

770
00:38:01,672 --> 00:38:04,312
Speaker 7: And that was an incredible experience all by itself. I mean,

771
00:38:04,511 --> 00:38:08,192
Speaker 7: I woke up most days just pinching myself. It is just,

772
00:38:08,951 --> 00:38:10,791
Speaker 7: you know, we always looked at it, my family did,

773
00:38:10,832 --> 00:38:13,591
Speaker 7: as an extended vacation of some kind. We knew we

774
00:38:13,712 --> 00:38:15,991
Speaker 7: were gonna never we never would live there. But it

775
00:38:16,071 --> 00:38:18,471
Speaker 7: was just a wonderful experience. And Disney just to put

776
00:38:18,551 --> 00:38:21,392
Speaker 7: up bow on all of it. Disney owned the team,

777
00:38:21,872 --> 00:38:28,352
Speaker 7: treated us as players so exceptionally well really Disney silver passes,

778
00:38:28,392 --> 00:38:30,032
Speaker 7: we could take it. You could take as many people

779
00:38:30,071 --> 00:38:34,232
Speaker 7: to the so the theme park as we wanted with it, merchandise.

780
00:38:34,911 --> 00:38:38,472
Speaker 7: I had two young daughters. I had two young daughters

781
00:38:38,511 --> 00:38:40,431
Speaker 7: when I was playing for the Ducks, the Mighty Ducks

782
00:38:40,511 --> 00:38:42,791
Speaker 7: back then. And let me just tell you this, Dad

783
00:38:43,031 --> 00:38:45,392
Speaker 7: was never more popular than when he was working for

784
00:38:45,471 --> 00:38:47,991
Speaker 7: the Mouse. I mean, we would go to the theme

785
00:38:48,031 --> 00:38:50,111
Speaker 7: park all night long and just ride the rides. It

786
00:38:50,272 --> 00:38:50,671
Speaker 7: was a ball.

787
00:38:51,591 --> 00:38:55,112
Speaker 4: What it's you know, how much access and how easy

788
00:38:55,272 --> 00:38:55,431
Speaker 4: was it?

789
00:38:55,551 --> 00:38:57,191
Speaker 3: You know, you get the silver pass, but what are

790
00:38:57,232 --> 00:38:59,432
Speaker 3: some other things in some of the benefits that Because

791
00:38:59,832 --> 00:39:02,551
Speaker 3: it is early on, I feel like they're trying to

792
00:39:03,312 --> 00:39:06,192
Speaker 3: make you guys as happy as possible as players.

793
00:39:06,312 --> 00:39:07,872
Speaker 4: So what other kind of things?

794
00:39:07,911 --> 00:39:10,911
Speaker 3: I mean, not to mention, you have the gruff Ron

795
00:39:10,951 --> 00:39:13,671
Speaker 3: Wilson behind the bench as your bench boss. So how

796
00:39:14,111 --> 00:39:15,312
Speaker 3: how's having a guy like that?

797
00:39:15,712 --> 00:39:15,911
Speaker 4: Yeah?

798
00:39:16,071 --> 00:39:18,951
Speaker 3: With Disney, I feel like Disney and Ron Wilson does

799
00:39:19,031 --> 00:39:23,872
Speaker 3: not doesn't mix, you know, that's.

800
00:39:23,832 --> 00:39:27,551
Speaker 7: That's really interesting. You say that because Ron and that

801
00:39:27,712 --> 00:39:30,712
Speaker 7: was Ron's first head job, head coaching job in the NHL.

802
00:39:31,232 --> 00:39:34,951
Speaker 7: But I'll tell you this, like all of us loved it,

803
00:39:35,071 --> 00:39:38,712
Speaker 7: because all of us got, you know, this this unique experience.

804
00:39:38,752 --> 00:39:42,192
Speaker 7: And again, the club, the organization just treated us so

805
00:39:42,511 --> 00:39:48,352
Speaker 7: exceptionally well. For instance, they were testing the Indiana Jones

806
00:39:48,471 --> 00:39:50,551
Speaker 7: ride for the first time. They had not released the

807
00:39:50,631 --> 00:39:53,431
Speaker 7: new ride to the general public, so they invited the

808
00:39:53,712 --> 00:39:56,911
Speaker 7: entire team down one evening to kind of preview the ride,

809
00:39:57,232 --> 00:40:00,991
Speaker 7: and we went on it, say ten times. Can I

810
00:40:01,111 --> 00:40:05,111
Speaker 7: just tell you, JD. Nobody was more tickled, nobody was

811
00:40:05,192 --> 00:40:09,192
Speaker 7: more excited than Ron Wilson dragging his family down to

812
00:40:09,312 --> 00:40:10,071
Speaker 7: the Indianage.

813
00:40:10,111 --> 00:40:12,471
Speaker 2: Oh my, he was like, he was giddy.

814
00:40:12,752 --> 00:40:15,431
Speaker 7: He was he was just giddy. You could hardly shut

815
00:40:15,511 --> 00:40:17,671
Speaker 7: the man up. And he went on the ride as

816
00:40:17,792 --> 00:40:20,471
Speaker 7: often as or more than any of us. It was

817
00:40:20,631 --> 00:40:23,471
Speaker 7: just hysterical. But he loved it. He was he was

818
00:40:23,551 --> 00:40:25,911
Speaker 7: fully in and it was you know, it was a

819
00:40:26,031 --> 00:40:28,232
Speaker 7: It was again just an amazing experience.

820
00:40:28,551 --> 00:40:29,071
Speaker 2: That's great.

821
00:40:29,352 --> 00:40:31,312
Speaker 1: We've all witnessed the caroll And hurricanes it built over

822
00:40:31,352 --> 00:40:33,392
Speaker 1: the past few years too, But very different story. When

823
00:40:33,431 --> 00:40:37,311
Speaker 1: you first arrived and probably to the Hurricanes first season. Again,

824
00:40:37,392 --> 00:40:39,471
Speaker 1: the Whalers stories are so plentiful. You were great in

825
00:40:39,591 --> 00:40:42,231
Speaker 1: Tal's doc that you put together. John Forrest has told

826
00:40:42,272 --> 00:40:43,751
Speaker 1: me stories. But you'd be in a rink rat wanting

827
00:40:43,752 --> 00:40:45,351
Speaker 1: to get to the rink earlier in harperd the Civic

828
00:40:45,392 --> 00:40:46,191
Speaker 1: Center back in the day.

829
00:40:46,431 --> 00:40:48,151
Speaker 2: But what was it like from Raleigh? I mean, at

830
00:40:48,232 --> 00:40:50,872
Speaker 2: least in harfrond it was a small town, but at

831
00:40:50,991 --> 00:40:53,631
Speaker 2: least you had hockey fans. Probably must have been different, right.

832
00:40:56,712 --> 00:41:00,352
Speaker 7: Oh, super different. I mean just to look now to

833
00:41:00,471 --> 00:41:03,471
Speaker 7: see how far that market has come. So when we

834
00:41:03,872 --> 00:41:08,151
Speaker 7: migrate from Hartford to Carolina last year, Hartford existed. First

835
00:41:08,232 --> 00:41:11,272
Speaker 7: year of Carolina, we didn't have a rink and the

836
00:41:11,392 --> 00:41:13,511
Speaker 7: rink was going to be two years out before it

837
00:41:13,672 --> 00:41:16,431
Speaker 7: was ready, So believe it or not, I mean, everybody

838
00:41:16,511 --> 00:41:19,432
Speaker 7: on this call knows this, but for folks that hadn't

839
00:41:19,471 --> 00:41:23,672
Speaker 7: followed this part of you know, NHL folklore. We played

840
00:41:23,911 --> 00:41:27,311
Speaker 7: our home games ninety miles an out ninety miles away

841
00:41:27,712 --> 00:41:31,272
Speaker 7: in Greensburg, North Carolina, to the to the north, and

842
00:41:31,392 --> 00:41:35,431
Speaker 7: I mean we played out of an SEC basketball venue.

843
00:41:35,672 --> 00:41:38,511
Speaker 7: It was I mean it was great, but I mean

844
00:41:38,951 --> 00:41:44,631
Speaker 7: this was basketball country, this was monster truck country. We

845
00:41:44,872 --> 00:41:49,111
Speaker 7: had immediate family show up for our home games. Like

846
00:41:49,232 --> 00:41:51,792
Speaker 7: we drive ninety miles one way to our home games

847
00:41:52,111 --> 00:41:54,512
Speaker 7: and there might be two thousand people in the building.

848
00:41:54,591 --> 00:41:57,551
Speaker 7: And when I say two thousand people, I am not exaggerating.

849
00:41:57,591 --> 00:42:00,392
Speaker 7: I mean it was immediate family. It was so bad.

850
00:42:00,511 --> 00:42:03,392
Speaker 7: They used to drape off these big black curtains. They

851
00:42:03,431 --> 00:42:06,112
Speaker 7: would drape off the upper tier so that it didn't

852
00:42:06,152 --> 00:42:10,392
Speaker 7: look so cavernous and empty for for television as they're

853
00:42:10,631 --> 00:42:12,991
Speaker 7: you know, as they're they're they're covering our games. But

854
00:42:13,471 --> 00:42:17,671
Speaker 7: it was a really bizarre experience. But my family's first

855
00:42:17,752 --> 00:42:21,872
Speaker 7: experience in the South, and you know, got to know

856
00:42:22,071 --> 00:42:24,832
Speaker 7: and understand that North Carolinians are just some of the

857
00:42:25,591 --> 00:42:30,191
Speaker 7: sweetest people. And you know, we did sense it back

858
00:42:30,352 --> 00:42:34,231
Speaker 7: even back then. There's there's a following for this team,

859
00:42:34,272 --> 00:42:35,991
Speaker 7: and I think they're going to do really well here

860
00:42:36,071 --> 00:42:39,751
Speaker 7: because momentum just seemed to gather year after year after year,

861
00:42:39,832 --> 00:42:42,551
Speaker 7: and you get what you see today as you enter

862
00:42:42,672 --> 00:42:45,591
Speaker 7: that building and this this franchise in the Stanley Cup

863
00:42:45,631 --> 00:42:46,671
Speaker 7: finals again.

864
00:42:47,712 --> 00:42:50,392
Speaker 3: Well, you know they're tailgating now and keeping it in

865
00:42:50,631 --> 00:42:53,231
Speaker 3: in that same vein. You know, talk a little bit

866
00:42:53,272 --> 00:42:55,431
Speaker 3: about what you've seen so far in this series and

867
00:42:56,111 --> 00:42:59,951
Speaker 3: what are you making. We mentioned it it's an exciting

868
00:43:01,111 --> 00:43:06,471
Speaker 3: and entertaining Cup final, but it's very sloppy and disorganized

869
00:43:06,471 --> 00:43:10,752
Speaker 3: a little bit, it feels like to me, yeah.

870
00:43:10,951 --> 00:43:14,392
Speaker 7: Yeah, it does have that feel. And I think especially

871
00:43:14,672 --> 00:43:18,471
Speaker 7: Game three, because a couple, at least a couple important goals,

872
00:43:18,911 --> 00:43:24,951
Speaker 7: really impactful goals were more a byproduct of, you know,

873
00:43:25,712 --> 00:43:28,551
Speaker 7: a puck mishandled, a puck miss read, a puck misplayed

874
00:43:29,152 --> 00:43:32,671
Speaker 7: than they were this you know, this this brilliant playmaking

875
00:43:33,152 --> 00:43:35,631
Speaker 7: or goal scoring. But we've you know, we have had

876
00:43:35,712 --> 00:43:37,991
Speaker 7: plenty of both. The thing I'm left with j D.

877
00:43:38,392 --> 00:43:42,192
Speaker 7: And I've I think I've been, in spite of all that,

878
00:43:42,471 --> 00:43:44,712
Speaker 7: kind of enthralled with this final. You know, when you

879
00:43:44,832 --> 00:43:47,151
Speaker 7: cover it as an analyst, you're no longer you know

880
00:43:47,232 --> 00:43:49,911
Speaker 7: a player or a fan. Really you just want to

881
00:43:49,951 --> 00:43:53,992
Speaker 7: see a competitive series and you want to see good hockey.

882
00:43:54,471 --> 00:43:58,431
Speaker 7: I have been blown away by the level of drama

883
00:43:58,672 --> 00:44:01,071
Speaker 7: that we've seen from Game one, two, and three, Like

884
00:44:01,192 --> 00:44:04,312
Speaker 7: each of these game games kind of stand on their

885
00:44:04,712 --> 00:44:08,192
Speaker 7: just in terms of the drama, the lead changes that

886
00:44:08,312 --> 00:44:11,032
Speaker 7: we've seen and the way the leads have been changed.

887
00:44:11,071 --> 00:44:13,071
Speaker 7: I mean, it's nothing for one of these teams to

888
00:44:13,152 --> 00:44:15,872
Speaker 7: go on a three goal tear inside the space of

889
00:44:15,951 --> 00:44:19,751
Speaker 7: three or four minutes and turn the contest on its ear.

890
00:44:19,872 --> 00:44:22,872
Speaker 7: It's just been really remarkable. So at the end of

891
00:44:22,911 --> 00:44:25,591
Speaker 7: the day, you know, I kind of I have this

892
00:44:25,712 --> 00:44:31,151
Speaker 7: one takeaway. In a typical Stanley Cup final, as long

893
00:44:31,192 --> 00:44:34,312
Speaker 7: as it's competitive, you know you'll have one or two

894
00:44:34,392 --> 00:44:37,591
Speaker 7: of these games that are really really memorable. All three

895
00:44:37,631 --> 00:44:40,592
Speaker 7: of these games seem to have had that kind of drama.

896
00:44:41,031 --> 00:44:46,071
Speaker 7: Leaves me kind of believing, you know, whatever way this

897
00:44:46,551 --> 00:44:48,671
Speaker 7: shakes out, we're in for a five game series at

898
00:44:48,712 --> 00:44:52,831
Speaker 7: a minimum. But it's it's it's a lot of fun

899
00:44:52,911 --> 00:44:55,231
Speaker 7: to watch and you don't want to step away from

900
00:44:55,272 --> 00:44:56,911
Speaker 7: it while while the clock is running.

901
00:44:57,631 --> 00:44:59,671
Speaker 1: I've asked you before too, but toughest guys you fought.

902
00:44:59,752 --> 00:45:01,991
Speaker 1: Dave Brown definitely high up on that list. But again,

903
00:45:02,071 --> 00:45:04,111
Speaker 1: a great story from your book, The Grim Reaper, The

904
00:45:04,152 --> 00:45:07,112
Speaker 1: Life and Career of a Reluctant Warrior is about another flyer,

905
00:45:07,431 --> 00:45:10,111
Speaker 1: and Ron Hextall. Thirty six years that are people still

906
00:45:10,152 --> 00:45:12,191
Speaker 1: debate who should be blamed for the brawl. My take

907
00:45:12,232 --> 00:45:15,152
Speaker 1: it was Hextall's fault, no question. Our coach Bob Strom

908
00:45:15,232 --> 00:45:15,991
Speaker 1: called Hextall the.

909
00:45:16,071 --> 00:45:16,951
Speaker 2: Eye of the tornado.

910
00:45:17,272 --> 00:45:19,031
Speaker 1: He said, when the referee let the team's back in

911
00:45:19,071 --> 00:45:21,071
Speaker 1: the as you saw Hextall's eyes letting up like a

912
00:45:21,152 --> 00:45:24,271
Speaker 1: pinball machine. He led the charge of the visitors dress room,

913
00:45:24,312 --> 00:45:26,671
Speaker 1: skated through our zone, waving his goalie stick over his

914
00:45:26,752 --> 00:45:29,551
Speaker 1: head like a Viking wielding a battle axe. And an

915
00:45:29,752 --> 00:45:32,992
Speaker 1: editorial The Regina Leader Post referred to Hextall as junior

916
00:45:33,071 --> 00:45:35,392
Speaker 1: hockey's version of Billy Smith and Attila the Hunt.

917
00:45:35,712 --> 00:45:38,031
Speaker 2: And know that nobody bothers the pats more than he does.

918
00:45:38,111 --> 00:45:43,232
Speaker 2: Take me back to that, Oh it was.

919
00:45:43,511 --> 00:45:47,071
Speaker 7: It was just the strangest, strangest doubting and that is

920
00:45:47,192 --> 00:45:51,152
Speaker 7: a that is a full scale brawl, like we're not talking,

921
00:45:51,352 --> 00:45:54,312
Speaker 7: you know, line brawl, a bunch of guys kind of

922
00:45:54,591 --> 00:45:58,752
Speaker 7: you know, smashing their gloves in one another's face. This

923
00:45:59,071 --> 00:46:02,951
Speaker 7: was full on. Everybody's everybody's in it. But it, you know,

924
00:46:03,551 --> 00:46:06,352
Speaker 7: the start of the night had no there was no

925
00:46:06,511 --> 00:46:10,152
Speaker 7: indication it was going to be that messy, that bloody.

926
00:46:10,792 --> 00:46:14,231
Speaker 7: But you know, the zamboni breaks down, so they usher

927
00:46:14,312 --> 00:46:16,031
Speaker 7: us off the ice and it takes us a little

928
00:46:16,111 --> 00:46:20,512
Speaker 7: out of our normal, normalm And what ended up happening

929
00:46:20,631 --> 00:46:24,591
Speaker 7: is when the Brennan Wi Kings, our opposition, came back

930
00:46:24,911 --> 00:46:28,431
Speaker 7: to start the game, they skated right through our zone

931
00:46:28,911 --> 00:46:31,512
Speaker 7: and Hextall, for whatever reason, is just waving his stick

932
00:46:31,551 --> 00:46:31,911
Speaker 7: in there.

933
00:46:32,951 --> 00:46:33,591
Speaker 4: Psychopath.

934
00:46:33,752 --> 00:46:36,312
Speaker 7: Of course, that brings a bunch of people. He's just

935
00:46:36,672 --> 00:46:39,231
Speaker 7: he's just a little loopy, and it brings a bunch

936
00:46:39,312 --> 00:46:43,072
Speaker 7: of players together. And the moment that happens, Hextall brings

937
00:46:43,111 --> 00:46:46,911
Speaker 7: his stick down on our team, one of our captains,

938
00:46:47,272 --> 00:46:50,992
Speaker 7: Bob Lows, who's actually now a scout for he's director

939
00:46:50,991 --> 00:46:54,951
Speaker 7: of Amateur Scouting for Vegas. And you know, that was

940
00:46:55,071 --> 00:46:58,192
Speaker 7: like dumping six gallons of jet fuel on a fire.

941
00:46:58,431 --> 00:47:02,232
Speaker 7: It just it just exploded, and everybody's paired off and

942
00:47:02,431 --> 00:47:05,991
Speaker 7: everybody's got a dance part partner. I was in and

943
00:47:06,071 --> 00:47:08,631
Speaker 7: out of the penalty box about three different times that night,

944
00:47:09,232 --> 00:47:11,951
Speaker 7: and I ended up I'm kind of leaning over the

945
00:47:12,071 --> 00:47:13,792
Speaker 7: first time I got put in there. I'm leaning over

946
00:47:13,872 --> 00:47:16,392
Speaker 7: the boards after I got separated from my fight, and

947
00:47:16,511 --> 00:47:19,751
Speaker 7: I'm watching everything that's going on the ice. Guided by

948
00:47:19,792 --> 00:47:23,192
Speaker 7: the name of brad Well sidles Down. He's kind of

949
00:47:23,392 --> 00:47:26,071
Speaker 7: like goes under the radar. He comes down the side

950
00:47:26,071 --> 00:47:28,232
Speaker 7: of the boards next to the penalty glass, outside of

951
00:47:28,312 --> 00:47:31,591
Speaker 7: even my peripheral view, and he just clocks me. He

952
00:47:31,752 --> 00:47:34,151
Speaker 7: sucker punches me from the side, and all of a

953
00:47:34,192 --> 00:47:37,431
Speaker 7: sudden it is on again. I leap out of the

954
00:47:37,471 --> 00:47:40,832
Speaker 7: penalty box. I go after brad Wells. It's just you know,

955
00:47:41,071 --> 00:47:44,231
Speaker 7: that whole brawl took forty five minutes to play out

956
00:47:44,352 --> 00:47:49,991
Speaker 7: and settle down eventually, and then Jd'll appreciate this, like

957
00:47:50,352 --> 00:47:53,791
Speaker 7: as a team, this is back in the days of VHS. Right,

958
00:47:54,152 --> 00:47:57,751
Speaker 7: as a team, we'd have practice, but for the next

959
00:47:57,832 --> 00:48:00,831
Speaker 7: three four days after we would sit in the room

960
00:48:00,951 --> 00:48:03,591
Speaker 7: after practice was over and we would play that thing

961
00:48:03,911 --> 00:48:06,352
Speaker 7: a lot. We played that thing on a loop. Oh,

962
00:48:06,551 --> 00:48:09,392
Speaker 7: here's here's the part where LB goes. But what this

963
00:48:09,551 --> 00:48:09,992
Speaker 7: is awesome?

964
00:48:10,951 --> 00:48:13,792
Speaker 4: It was just crazy. Yeah, you got everybody goes in

965
00:48:13,872 --> 00:48:14,151
Speaker 4: the room.

966
00:48:14,232 --> 00:48:18,551
Speaker 7: All has lived on in WHL. Oh, just it's lived

967
00:48:18,591 --> 00:48:22,151
Speaker 7: on in WHL folklore, you know, since ever since it happened. Yeah,

968
00:48:22,192 --> 00:48:22,672
Speaker 7: it's crazy.

969
00:48:23,031 --> 00:48:24,832
Speaker 4: And those are so good because everybodys in the room,

970
00:48:24,951 --> 00:48:26,272
Speaker 4: like you saw that, Yeah you saw that.

971
00:48:26,431 --> 00:48:29,111
Speaker 3: Everybody's all the guys are so excited and happy and altogether.

972
00:48:29,232 --> 00:48:32,672
Speaker 4: But you know, speaking of disputes and great.

973
00:48:32,511 --> 00:48:35,192
Speaker 3: Segues like I'm gonna pull you you while working with

974
00:48:35,272 --> 00:48:38,272
Speaker 3: the PA, I'm sure you saw a ton of stuff.

975
00:48:38,392 --> 00:48:41,471
Speaker 3: Is there any kind of wild disputes or anything that

976
00:48:41,832 --> 00:48:44,471
Speaker 3: you were just I don't know if i'd say pinching yourself,

977
00:48:44,591 --> 00:48:47,151
Speaker 3: but you're like, what did what did I get myself into?

978
00:48:47,192 --> 00:48:50,312
Speaker 3: I mean specifically, there's a whole tint advisor with alexovech Kid.

979
00:48:50,752 --> 00:48:53,071
Speaker 4: I don't know what you remember from that, but any

980
00:48:53,152 --> 00:48:55,111
Speaker 4: disputes that stand out in your mind when you were

981
00:48:55,111 --> 00:48:55,832
Speaker 4: at the PA.

982
00:48:59,712 --> 00:49:02,551
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, I mean there's lots of stuff that comes

983
00:49:02,631 --> 00:49:05,672
Speaker 7: up day to day. I did served as Labor Council

984
00:49:05,792 --> 00:49:07,911
Speaker 7: for about two years, and I will say one of

985
00:49:07,991 --> 00:49:13,471
Speaker 7: the craziest parts of my whole tenure at the NHLPA

986
00:49:13,792 --> 00:49:16,392
Speaker 7: was not so much a dispute that we had with

987
00:49:16,551 --> 00:49:18,431
Speaker 7: the League, but it was a kind of a civil

988
00:49:18,511 --> 00:49:23,671
Speaker 7: war internally. If you remember when the Union and the

989
00:49:23,792 --> 00:49:27,232
Speaker 7: League went from a let's call it a free market

990
00:49:27,312 --> 00:49:29,951
Speaker 7: system to all of a sudden, you know, this year

991
00:49:30,031 --> 00:49:35,591
Speaker 7: plus of workstop, which led to a total, you know,

992
00:49:35,712 --> 00:49:39,351
Speaker 7: kind of capitulation by the Union to accept the salary Cap.

993
00:49:40,071 --> 00:49:43,471
Speaker 7: If you remember all that, Bob Goodnow was removed as

994
00:49:43,551 --> 00:49:48,872
Speaker 7: the executive director. Ted Saskin was installed as the executive director,

995
00:49:48,951 --> 00:49:51,911
Speaker 7: but he was installed in a way that wasn't compliant

996
00:49:51,951 --> 00:49:55,071
Speaker 7: with the constitution. So there were a bunch of players,

997
00:49:55,272 --> 00:49:58,471
Speaker 7: this kind of you know, kind of outlaw bunch that

998
00:49:58,631 --> 00:50:00,951
Speaker 7: we're trying to get Ted removed. And Ted was the

999
00:50:01,031 --> 00:50:04,111
Speaker 7: guy that hired me. You know, he's the architect of

1000
00:50:04,511 --> 00:50:07,191
Speaker 7: Salary Cap. He was the new executive director. He signed

1001
00:50:07,232 --> 00:50:10,272
Speaker 7: to this new contract and almost from the day he

1002
00:50:10,431 --> 00:50:14,272
Speaker 7: got the job, this this group was was trying to

1003
00:50:14,352 --> 00:50:17,872
Speaker 7: remove Ted and it was just, you know, day after

1004
00:50:18,031 --> 00:50:20,671
Speaker 7: day of dealing with that and it was just like

1005
00:50:20,951 --> 00:50:22,792
Speaker 7: internal strifele like I had never seen it.

1006
00:50:24,832 --> 00:50:26,591
Speaker 1: Pretty crazy to think about what a life for Stu

1007
00:50:26,631 --> 00:50:31,232
Speaker 1: Grimson's remarkable career and obviously a terrific analyst for NHL Network.

1008
00:50:31,272 --> 00:50:34,712
Speaker 1: And most importantly, you've given Jason de Murz a humbling

1009
00:50:34,792 --> 00:50:37,672
Speaker 1: to remember, just absolute ass kicking on words with friends,

1010
00:50:37,712 --> 00:50:38,991
Speaker 1: win ghost do we Oh.

1011
00:50:39,591 --> 00:50:42,311
Speaker 4: I didn't know what I was getting myself into.

1012
00:50:42,511 --> 00:50:46,631
Speaker 3: But before I handed over to you, Stu, I got

1013
00:50:46,712 --> 00:50:49,591
Speaker 3: some awful letters and there's a little bit of luck.

1014
00:50:52,591 --> 00:50:54,951
Speaker 7: Well, let me ask you, this is it the Is

1015
00:50:55,031 --> 00:50:58,871
Speaker 7: it the archer? Or is it the arrow always torn?

1016
00:50:59,031 --> 00:50:59,792
Speaker 2: Is it the archer?

1017
00:51:00,071 --> 00:51:03,312
Speaker 7: Is it the I will say a lot of your

1018
00:51:03,392 --> 00:51:06,231
Speaker 7: rough In spite of your rough, in spite of your

1019
00:51:06,312 --> 00:51:09,192
Speaker 7: rough start, your rough start to our first game, I

1020
00:51:09,392 --> 00:51:11,431
Speaker 7: was I was able to eke out a win by

1021
00:51:11,551 --> 00:51:14,392
Speaker 7: just a narrow margin of two hundred and one point.

1022
00:51:14,591 --> 00:51:14,872
Speaker 2: I think.

1023
00:51:16,752 --> 00:51:20,471
Speaker 4: So I've battled back to you.

1024
00:51:21,111 --> 00:51:21,951
Speaker 2: I've battled back.

1025
00:51:22,631 --> 00:51:25,992
Speaker 7: Here's to you being more more competitive in the games

1026
00:51:26,031 --> 00:51:26,352
Speaker 7: to come.

1027
00:51:26,911 --> 00:51:28,551
Speaker 4: Yeah, I looked forward to it.

1028
00:51:37,111 --> 00:51:38,791
Speaker 1: Time for a little centopol and sixty. A new movie

1029
00:51:38,872 --> 00:51:40,831
Speaker 1: called Tuner what you just went and watched in the theater.

1030
00:51:40,872 --> 00:51:44,192
Speaker 1: It's still an independent movie. It's a really interesting concept.

1031
00:51:44,232 --> 00:51:46,232
Speaker 1: A guy who's a piano tuner for those who are

1032
00:51:46,272 --> 00:51:48,712
Speaker 1: musically inclined. He's got a great ear of knowing, you know,

1033
00:51:48,872 --> 00:51:49,352
Speaker 1: this key.

1034
00:51:49,272 --> 00:51:50,111
Speaker 2: Is off, this key is off.

1035
00:51:50,152 --> 00:51:52,432
Speaker 1: But then he gets hooked up with some criminals. Because

1036
00:51:52,431 --> 00:51:54,151
Speaker 1: he's got such a great ear, he can crack some

1037
00:51:54,272 --> 00:51:58,111
Speaker 1: safes as well. The rare piano tuner turned criminal accomplice.

1038
00:51:58,471 --> 00:52:00,991
Speaker 2: It's a good movie. I enjoyed it. Slickly edited and

1039
00:52:01,152 --> 00:52:01,632
Speaker 2: the great.

1040
00:52:01,551 --> 00:52:03,751
Speaker 1: Dustin Hoffman is in the movie. Doesn't happen so eighty

1041
00:52:03,792 --> 00:52:05,991
Speaker 1: eight years old. He shows up for more than a

1042
00:52:06,031 --> 00:52:08,472
Speaker 1: glorified CAMMI for twelve minutes. But I just loved Dustin Hoffman.

1043
00:52:08,591 --> 00:52:10,111
Speaker 1: He's always good to watch the movie, and I enjoyed

1044
00:52:10,111 --> 00:52:12,111
Speaker 1: the film. Daniel war Is the director. Make sure you

1045
00:52:12,192 --> 00:52:14,591
Speaker 1: check it out. It's called Tuner. Also note that Tony

1046
00:52:14,591 --> 00:52:17,111
Speaker 1: Awards were last night. JD knows this as a wife

1047
00:52:17,111 --> 00:52:18,352
Speaker 1: who is in the musical theater.

1048
00:52:18,712 --> 00:52:20,431
Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing bigger. I'm watching.

1049
00:52:20,471 --> 00:52:21,832
Speaker 1: I know you hate a war show, so so I'll

1050
00:52:21,832 --> 00:52:23,792
Speaker 1: watch it on Behalf of Us and I look up

1051
00:52:23,832 --> 00:52:26,032
Speaker 1: and I see the Rocky or Picture show, the guys

1052
00:52:26,071 --> 00:52:29,271
Speaker 1: in a mustache, wearing like a boostier and like a falling.

1053
00:52:29,031 --> 00:52:29,752
Speaker 2: Of the Jesus.

1054
00:52:30,031 --> 00:52:33,351
Speaker 1: I just I just imagined Middle America. What's on CBS tonight,

1055
00:52:33,471 --> 00:52:34,951
Speaker 1: Just recoiling at this image.

1056
00:52:36,471 --> 00:52:38,551
Speaker 4: You know, the Broadway community. They're gonna show up and

1057
00:52:38,591 --> 00:52:38,991
Speaker 4: show out.

1058
00:52:39,631 --> 00:52:43,312
Speaker 1: Absolutely, They've got absolutely.

1059
00:52:42,752 --> 00:52:45,591
Speaker 4: They don't give they don't give a yeah, Baker's fuck.

1060
00:52:45,672 --> 00:52:49,151
Speaker 4: They just they are. They're They're out there cherry and

1061
00:52:49,272 --> 00:52:52,031
Speaker 4: love it every minute of it. Yeah. Yeah, I just

1062
00:52:52,111 --> 00:52:52,911
Speaker 4: woke up this morning.

1063
00:52:52,991 --> 00:52:56,111
Speaker 3: Well my wife watched it, of course, because yeah, our

1064
00:52:56,192 --> 00:52:59,151
Speaker 3: friends you know, big A Jambrie. They were up for

1065
00:52:59,392 --> 00:53:02,471
Speaker 3: nominated for Titanique, so they performed as well and nice

1066
00:53:02,832 --> 00:53:05,591
Speaker 3: they they were nominated. But La but yeah, so she

1067
00:53:05,752 --> 00:53:08,671
Speaker 3: was watching Supporting and I just like opened my phone

1068
00:53:08,672 --> 00:53:11,992
Speaker 3: and it was like there's literally Josh Gadd singing about

1069
00:53:12,431 --> 00:53:16,511
Speaker 3: Jesus on the cross and like humping the hair, and

1070
00:53:16,591 --> 00:53:20,511
Speaker 3: I'm like, this is fucking this is insane, but I

1071
00:53:20,672 --> 00:53:20,951
Speaker 3: love it.

1072
00:53:21,232 --> 00:53:22,832
Speaker 1: You've been the only guy there who's locked in on

1073
00:53:22,911 --> 00:53:24,752
Speaker 1: the Tony Wards. At least it even has a semilance

1074
00:53:24,752 --> 00:53:26,392
Speaker 1: of an idea. Like imagine if you're talking, I know,

1075
00:53:26,471 --> 00:53:27,431
Speaker 1: I know that they're.

1076
00:53:27,272 --> 00:53:30,431
Speaker 2: On Maroon, Like just even knowing that they're on, Like Pat,

1077
00:53:30,471 --> 00:53:32,592
Speaker 2: you wouldn't even know what the Tony Awards are. You're

1078
00:53:32,591 --> 00:53:34,551
Speaker 2: gonna watch the Tony Words site. What's that like?

1079
00:53:35,312 --> 00:53:35,511
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1080
00:53:35,591 --> 00:53:37,311
Speaker 2: I think Johnny might know what it is, but would

1081
00:53:37,392 --> 00:53:39,151
Speaker 2: never watch Tony Words. Is that the Broadway thing?

1082
00:53:39,272 --> 00:53:41,991
Speaker 3: I think so, because I think Johnny is expressed how

1083
00:53:42,031 --> 00:53:44,392
Speaker 3: he likes he goes and see shows and stuff like that.

1084
00:53:44,471 --> 00:53:46,792
Speaker 4: I'm sure there's some people, but yeah, the.

1085
00:53:46,832 --> 00:53:48,551
Speaker 2: Tony's not making plans to watch.

1086
00:53:49,951 --> 00:53:50,071
Speaker 7: Uh.

1087
00:53:50,792 --> 00:53:53,272
Speaker 3: Katie Wentz saw The Wizard of Oz at the sphere.

1088
00:53:53,392 --> 00:53:55,832
Speaker 3: So I think I'm gonna try to I'm gonna try

1089
00:53:55,872 --> 00:53:58,032
Speaker 3: to do that, so I mean close, you know, close,

1090
00:53:59,511 --> 00:54:00,111
Speaker 3: it's on the way.

1091
00:54:00,672 --> 00:54:02,751
Speaker 2: If I've just mentioned to Mar at some point today, Hey,

1092
00:54:02,792 --> 00:54:03,392
Speaker 2: you see Josh.

1093
00:54:03,312 --> 00:54:06,392
Speaker 3: Gadd last night and just just Josh can't talking about

1094
00:54:06,872 --> 00:54:09,071
Speaker 3: coming all over Jesus or some shit like that. Like

1095
00:54:09,192 --> 00:54:12,352
Speaker 3: it's just like the weirdest that's the weirdest lie.

1096
00:54:14,152 --> 00:54:15,232
Speaker 2: That is the probably community.

1097
00:54:15,312 --> 00:54:18,111
Speaker 1: Tal has a centiphile in sixty Office Romance with Jlo.

1098
00:54:18,312 --> 00:54:20,431
Speaker 1: Jlo is still as hot as ever, tals all in

1099
00:54:20,511 --> 00:54:21,231
Speaker 1: on her new film.

1100
00:54:22,392 --> 00:54:24,591
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't want to gush too much about how

1101
00:54:24,631 --> 00:54:26,352
Speaker 5: good Jlo looks because the.

1102
00:54:26,392 --> 00:54:27,472
Speaker 4: Restraining order and everything.

1103
00:54:27,511 --> 00:54:32,312
Speaker 6: But office romance, you know, well you're not allowed to

1104
00:54:32,712 --> 00:54:34,551
Speaker 6: restrain it or you can still talk about I know,

1105
00:54:34,832 --> 00:54:38,232
Speaker 6: but you know sexual Devian from far No.

1106
00:54:38,712 --> 00:54:40,791
Speaker 4: Well, we know Nate and j D are the big

1107
00:54:40,911 --> 00:54:41,872
Speaker 4: rom com guys.

1108
00:54:42,031 --> 00:54:44,352
Speaker 5: So this is this is a solid one. I gotta say.

1109
00:54:44,392 --> 00:54:47,471
Speaker 5: Brett Goldstein stars in it. He wrote it with Joe Kelly.

1110
00:54:47,511 --> 00:54:51,431
Speaker 5: They're both involved with Ted Lasso. It's legit funny, it's

1111
00:54:51,471 --> 00:54:54,671
Speaker 5: I I actually did have some out loud laughs in

1112
00:54:54,752 --> 00:54:55,071
Speaker 5: this one.

1113
00:54:55,111 --> 00:54:56,312
Speaker 4: They did a lot of the sort of.

1114
00:54:57,232 --> 00:55:01,311
Speaker 5: Brit expat in America humor that was that was pretty good.

1115
00:55:01,551 --> 00:55:04,591
Speaker 5: And you know jlo Is is she's Jennifer Lopez is

1116
00:55:04,672 --> 00:55:05,111
Speaker 5: great in it.

1117
00:55:06,792 --> 00:55:06,991
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1118
00:55:07,071 --> 00:55:09,191
Speaker 5: I mean, if you're looking for a for a rom

1119
00:55:09,312 --> 00:55:12,752
Speaker 5: com to you know, kind of just enjoy with with

1120
00:55:13,752 --> 00:55:16,031
Speaker 5: a loved one or by yourself, whatever it is you're doing,

1121
00:55:16,551 --> 00:55:18,512
Speaker 5: I'm gonna recommend Office Romance.

1122
00:55:18,631 --> 00:55:20,111
Speaker 2: Is it streaming somewhere? You didn't go to the theater

1123
00:55:20,272 --> 00:55:20,792
Speaker 2: on Netflix?

1124
00:55:20,911 --> 00:55:23,272
Speaker 4: Just came out on Netflix, right, Office Romo? Do you

1125
00:55:23,471 --> 00:55:26,231
Speaker 4: uh all to go check it out?

1126
00:55:31,471 --> 00:55:33,111
Speaker 2: I do recommend. I do you recommend The Wizard of

1127
00:55:33,111 --> 00:55:33,712
Speaker 2: oosit Sphere?

1128
00:55:33,712 --> 00:55:35,551
Speaker 3: I did see that with Yeah, I heard, Yeah, I'm

1129
00:55:35,712 --> 00:55:38,031
Speaker 3: trying to go see today is uh it's like a

1130
00:55:38,152 --> 00:55:39,151
Speaker 3: hundred it's great.

1131
00:55:39,431 --> 00:55:41,712
Speaker 4: Well, how about what are your thoughts on Masters of

1132
00:55:41,752 --> 00:55:42,312
Speaker 4: the Universe.

1133
00:55:42,792 --> 00:55:45,031
Speaker 3: He man getting some good reviews right now. Yeah, but

1134
00:55:45,192 --> 00:55:48,911
Speaker 3: then it absolute flop? Fifty four million worldwide? Is that

1135
00:55:49,071 --> 00:55:51,032
Speaker 3: that baud wow opening weekend.

1136
00:55:51,192 --> 00:55:53,272
Speaker 1: What's amazing is the two movies that are carrying the

1137
00:55:53,352 --> 00:55:56,632
Speaker 1: box office are made by twenty year old YouTube directors,

1138
00:55:57,111 --> 00:55:58,512
Speaker 1: like Obsession is huge.

1139
00:55:58,712 --> 00:56:00,911
Speaker 2: Back Rooms open at eighty one million dollars.

1140
00:56:02,312 --> 00:56:05,911
Speaker 1: It's startingtel A G four and Rensvey and I'm a

1141
00:56:05,951 --> 00:56:07,071
Speaker 1: little bit classer ff.

1142
00:56:07,071 --> 00:56:07,872
Speaker 2: I'm gonna watch this movie.

1143
00:56:07,911 --> 00:56:09,792
Speaker 1: But apparently you go into a building and there's all

1144
00:56:09,792 --> 00:56:11,551
Speaker 1: these back rooms and there's like no ending and to

1145
00:56:11,551 --> 00:56:13,352
Speaker 1: get trapped, and probably it's based on some video game.

1146
00:56:13,631 --> 00:56:15,352
Speaker 1: And the dude that did it, I'm not kidding, he's

1147
00:56:15,352 --> 00:56:16,991
Speaker 1: twenty one years old. I don't know how he gets

1148
00:56:16,991 --> 00:56:19,992
Speaker 1: a budget four million dollars. It's eighty one million dollar opening.

1149
00:56:20,071 --> 00:56:21,352
Speaker 2: I mean, tell them, like, oh, let's go make the

1150
00:56:21,431 --> 00:56:24,551
Speaker 2: Mandalorian grogolm like f that noise. Go give these kids

1151
00:56:24,631 --> 00:56:26,392
Speaker 2: some money. They'll go make some scary ass shit. They'll

1152
00:56:26,392 --> 00:56:27,071
Speaker 2: make a ton of money.

1153
00:56:27,312 --> 00:56:31,032
Speaker 4: The most profitable film in a twenty four history already.

1154
00:56:30,792 --> 00:56:33,272
Speaker 1: Crazy And they made Tim maybe Marty Supreme, which was

1155
00:56:33,312 --> 00:56:34,951
Speaker 1: a very profitable film that was made for like a

1156
00:56:34,991 --> 00:56:37,272
Speaker 1: sixty million dollar budget, made one fifty worldwide.

1157
00:56:37,352 --> 00:56:39,951
Speaker 4: It's not Safty. You know, we know about Safty.

1158
00:56:40,152 --> 00:56:41,911
Speaker 2: We know who the good Safty is. Okay, all right,

1159
00:56:41,991 --> 00:56:43,591
Speaker 2: that's the story.

1160
00:56:43,631 --> 00:56:46,311
Speaker 1: When it comes to Citiphile in sixty How about Blake's back.

1161
00:56:46,911 --> 00:56:49,271
Speaker 1: JD who played with them in San Jose, Nate played

1162
00:56:49,352 --> 00:56:51,751
Speaker 1: them in La rob Blake is back NHL front office

1163
00:56:51,792 --> 00:56:54,551
Speaker 1: after joining Chris McFarland in Nashville, hall of Fame player

1164
00:56:54,591 --> 00:56:57,312
Speaker 1: and former Kings general manager as the Pretor's knew executive

1165
00:56:57,392 --> 00:57:00,832
Speaker 1: vice president of hockey Operations. What is Blakey bringing to

1166
00:57:00,951 --> 00:57:01,632
Speaker 1: nash Vegas.

1167
00:57:02,511 --> 00:57:07,392
Speaker 3: Well, just that calmness, the godfather Bobby Blake. I think

1168
00:57:07,431 --> 00:57:09,872
Speaker 3: it's a good That's a nice move by Nashville.

1169
00:57:10,071 --> 00:57:10,911
Speaker 4: You know McFarlane.

1170
00:57:10,951 --> 00:57:14,431
Speaker 3: I think the pedigree of McFarland and Colorado and then

1171
00:57:14,471 --> 00:57:16,072
Speaker 3: you bring some of that. You know, you always see

1172
00:57:16,112 --> 00:57:20,912
Speaker 3: that veteran, you know, kind of legend that played paired

1173
00:57:20,992 --> 00:57:24,671
Speaker 3: with not not an analytics guy, but but somebody that's

1174
00:57:24,712 --> 00:57:27,592
Speaker 3: been around and in the managerial position for a while

1175
00:57:27,631 --> 00:57:30,631
Speaker 3: and is very effective. So I think it's great to

1176
00:57:31,792 --> 00:57:33,832
Speaker 3: ford Nashville. I think they needed to make a good move,

1177
00:57:33,912 --> 00:57:36,751
Speaker 3: make a splash. It took a long time. I feel

1178
00:57:36,792 --> 00:57:40,592
Speaker 3: like they've been looking for somebody for decades and they

1179
00:57:40,672 --> 00:57:42,352
Speaker 3: got their guys. So it's gonna be good for nash

1180
00:57:42,631 --> 00:57:45,592
Speaker 3: It's a big year for them. It's everybody's getting traded

1181
00:57:45,672 --> 00:57:47,872
Speaker 3: or they make the playoffs. I think half through.

1182
00:57:48,792 --> 00:57:49,432
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was weird.

1183
00:57:49,472 --> 00:57:51,312
Speaker 1: A couple of years ago they were a massive disappointment

1184
00:57:51,352 --> 00:57:53,192
Speaker 1: in this past season. They're like a pleasant surprise and

1185
00:57:53,272 --> 00:57:55,032
Speaker 1: still on the outset looking into you're like, Okay, where

1186
00:57:55,032 --> 00:57:55,512
Speaker 1: are we going here?

1187
00:57:55,552 --> 00:57:57,432
Speaker 2: That's it's an interesting time for that franchise.

1188
00:57:57,672 --> 00:58:00,792
Speaker 1: Perry trots out Blake sim Big news are the USHL

1189
00:58:01,032 --> 00:58:05,072
Speaker 1: announcing plans to established new teams in Arizona, California, and Nevada.

1190
00:58:05,472 --> 00:58:08,672
Speaker 1: New rules aligned players are transfer between Canadian Junior Hockey

1191
00:58:09,032 --> 00:58:11,952
Speaker 1: and the NCAA put the USHL in a tough spot.

1192
00:58:12,192 --> 00:58:14,792
Speaker 1: So could expansion JD saved the league while assisting hockey

1193
00:58:14,872 --> 00:58:15,912
Speaker 1: development out West.

1194
00:58:17,672 --> 00:58:22,472
Speaker 3: Geez, I don't know, like the youth, not the youth

1195
00:58:22,792 --> 00:58:24,752
Speaker 3: like I mean, you can still consider it youth, but

1196
00:58:24,872 --> 00:58:27,512
Speaker 3: like the junior level and college level, and there's just

1197
00:58:27,631 --> 00:58:28,512
Speaker 3: so many options.

1198
00:58:28,631 --> 00:58:31,671
Speaker 1: Now, Yeah, I don't days if just your sixteen year

1199
00:58:31,672 --> 00:58:32,872
Speaker 1: old you're play in the OHHL or the.

1200
00:58:32,872 --> 00:58:33,872
Speaker 2: Q and the W that's it.

1201
00:58:34,312 --> 00:58:35,832
Speaker 4: And then yeah, maybe you go to college.

1202
00:58:35,912 --> 00:58:39,112
Speaker 3: Maybe you you know, maybe you don't make the NHL

1203
00:58:39,192 --> 00:58:42,392
Speaker 3: and you go college in Canada and get red shirt

1204
00:58:42,432 --> 00:58:44,872
Speaker 3: if you go to the States, and I like it,

1205
00:58:45,672 --> 00:58:50,631
Speaker 3: but you know, it's just gonna I just wonder how

1206
00:58:50,672 --> 00:58:53,592
Speaker 3: it's gonna listen. I think that them talking about maybe

1207
00:58:53,672 --> 00:58:56,631
Speaker 3: moving the draft to nineteen years old, I think, I

1208
00:58:56,712 --> 00:58:57,952
Speaker 3: think is a smart thing to do.

1209
00:58:58,352 --> 00:58:58,952
Speaker 4: I think.

1210
00:59:00,432 --> 00:59:03,112
Speaker 3: Going to college and maybe these guys coming out a

1211
00:59:03,152 --> 00:59:05,512
Speaker 3: little bit later is smarter like coming out. You look

1212
00:59:05,552 --> 00:59:08,631
Speaker 3: at Michael Hage in Montreal's he's gonna come out at

1213
00:59:08,672 --> 00:59:11,672
Speaker 3: twenty one, twenty two and he's you know, fully developed,

1214
00:59:11,712 --> 00:59:15,312
Speaker 3: and he's kind of ready to go and understanding that

1215
00:59:15,952 --> 00:59:17,872
Speaker 3: understands the game a little bit more is a little

1216
00:59:17,912 --> 00:59:19,631
Speaker 3: bit healthier. I feel like when you come right at

1217
00:59:19,672 --> 00:59:23,072
Speaker 3: a junior, you're still learning about the game. So I think,

1218
00:59:23,512 --> 00:59:26,151
Speaker 3: you know, I think it's good that guys coming to

1219
00:59:26,192 --> 00:59:28,272
Speaker 3: the league later and when they come in because the

1220
00:59:28,392 --> 00:59:30,952
Speaker 3: NHL is not a development league, it's a it's a

1221
00:59:31,032 --> 00:59:34,272
Speaker 3: win now league. So you know, that's for the AHL,

1222
00:59:34,392 --> 00:59:38,032
Speaker 3: that's for college. Guys that come in should be ready

1223
00:59:38,072 --> 00:59:40,032
Speaker 3: to play, period.

1224
00:59:40,192 --> 00:59:42,871
Speaker 1: And bottom line is this, when it comes to having

1225
00:59:42,912 --> 00:59:44,752
Speaker 1: to vote, every vote, counch, you hear that when it

1226
00:59:44,792 --> 00:59:46,752
Speaker 1: comes to voting, like in the world at large, how

1227
00:59:46,752 --> 00:59:50,072
Speaker 1: about in hockey, Elliott Freeman and Michael Russo come from

1228
00:59:50,112 --> 00:59:53,552
Speaker 1: the forty broadcasters failed to return their ballot for the

1229
00:59:53,672 --> 00:59:56,592
Speaker 1: Jack Adams award, which is voted on every year by

1230
00:59:56,631 --> 00:59:58,592
Speaker 1: members of the NHL Broadcast Association.

1231
00:59:58,792 --> 01:00:00,472
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, who gives a shit? Are the best coaching

1232
01:00:00,552 --> 01:00:00,912
Speaker 2: hockey is?

1233
01:00:01,272 --> 01:00:04,112
Speaker 1: So should the NHL consider imposing a rule for award

1234
01:00:04,192 --> 01:00:05,712
Speaker 1: vote who don't return.

1235
01:00:05,512 --> 01:00:07,312
Speaker 2: Their boot on time? Or is it like, well, if

1236
01:00:07,352 --> 01:00:08,631
Speaker 2: you have the ballot you don't want to use, it's

1237
01:00:08,672 --> 01:00:09,751
Speaker 2: up to you. What do you think, Jenny?

1238
01:00:10,631 --> 01:00:14,472
Speaker 4: No, you you you should fucking one thousand percent be voting.

1239
01:00:15,112 --> 01:00:17,191
Speaker 2: If you don't have to get a vote, cast your vote.

1240
01:00:17,272 --> 01:00:17,912
Speaker 4: Yeah, don't.

1241
01:00:18,512 --> 01:00:20,952
Speaker 3: Yeah, these these guys, these guys that vote anyway are

1242
01:00:20,992 --> 01:00:22,671
Speaker 3: bad enough as it is with who they pick.

1243
01:00:23,992 --> 01:00:25,032
Speaker 4: Now you're not even voting.

1244
01:00:25,712 --> 01:00:28,271
Speaker 3: That's if you don't cast a vote, that's a vote

1245
01:00:28,312 --> 01:00:30,912
Speaker 3: for the Democratic part of the Republican Party right now,

1246
01:00:30,912 --> 01:00:33,472
Speaker 3: what it is that it is in the States, if

1247
01:00:33,512 --> 01:00:36,392
Speaker 3: you don't cast your voters to the Republican Party always.

1248
01:00:37,232 --> 01:00:40,311
Speaker 4: You get to vote for the Dems right the other way. Yeah,

1249
01:00:40,392 --> 01:00:43,232
Speaker 4: this is not a political show, guys, So just relax.

1250
01:00:43,352 --> 01:00:48,872
Speaker 3: But yeah, I think I mean, listen, I guess nobody

1251
01:00:48,912 --> 01:00:50,312
Speaker 3: wanted to vote for Ruffles.

1252
01:00:50,872 --> 01:00:54,271
Speaker 2: Yeah that was if he wins, fine, I'm just saying

1253
01:00:54,272 --> 01:00:55,872
Speaker 2: to vote him Cooper is who I wanted to win.

1254
01:00:55,912 --> 01:00:56,832
Speaker 2: So I'm glad that that's it.

1255
01:00:57,312 --> 01:00:59,512
Speaker 3: If you didn't cast the vote for Lindy and you

1256
01:01:00,232 --> 01:01:03,352
Speaker 3: didn't submit, that's a vote for John Cooper exactly. O.

1257
01:01:03,352 --> 01:01:04,952
Speaker 2: Livia Rep's fear is right now it gets screwed.

1258
01:01:05,072 --> 01:01:08,312
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's but yeah, go ahead. I just got to

1259
01:01:08,352 --> 01:01:08,791
Speaker 4: hand out.

1260
01:01:08,712 --> 01:01:10,112
Speaker 2: Flowers of Hockey Fights Cancer.

1261
01:01:10,192 --> 01:01:12,912
Speaker 1: Awesome news from the NHL, NHLPA and the v Foundation

1262
01:01:12,992 --> 01:01:15,711
Speaker 1: for Cancer Research. You're the twenty twenty five, twenty six

1263
01:01:15,752 --> 01:01:18,432
Speaker 1: season the Hockey Fights Cancer Camp being raised over nine

1264
01:01:18,472 --> 01:01:21,712
Speaker 1: point one million dollars. Since it's launched in nineteen ninety,

1265
01:01:21,872 --> 01:01:24,912
Speaker 1: Hockey Fights Cancers raised more than fifty three million dollars,

1266
01:01:25,312 --> 01:01:26,112
Speaker 1: staggering numbers.

1267
01:01:26,152 --> 01:01:26,832
Speaker 2: Dude, that's awesome.

1268
01:01:26,872 --> 01:01:30,392
Speaker 3: It's it's you know, you want to throw a joke

1269
01:01:30,472 --> 01:01:35,592
Speaker 3: in on this, Sid please, it's amazing. It's it's amazing

1270
01:01:36,192 --> 01:01:40,352
Speaker 3: the support you know that is garnered for for these

1271
01:01:40,512 --> 01:01:41,671
Speaker 3: organizations and we.

1272
01:01:41,792 --> 01:01:46,552
Speaker 2: Still can't solve cancer. Why why are you taking my

1273
01:01:47,152 --> 01:01:47,952
Speaker 2: fifty million dollars?

1274
01:01:48,192 --> 01:01:49,872
Speaker 3: List feel like all this money being thrown at it,

1275
01:01:49,912 --> 01:01:52,872
Speaker 3: I feel like, well, we'll figure it out eventually. It's

1276
01:01:52,912 --> 01:01:55,792
Speaker 3: kind of like homelessness in California, right, it's all the

1277
01:01:55,872 --> 01:01:57,832
Speaker 3: money thrown at it and they still can't figure it out.

1278
01:01:57,992 --> 01:01:58,632
Speaker 4: That's interesting.

1279
01:01:58,792 --> 01:02:03,472
Speaker 3: Just just just put them in the homes, build homes, right,

1280
01:02:03,712 --> 01:02:06,232
Speaker 3: Uh no, I listen. It's it's incredible. It's amazing.

1281
01:02:06,992 --> 01:02:07,151
Speaker 4: You know.

1282
01:02:07,232 --> 01:02:09,872
Speaker 3: I feel like you can't I don't want to see

1283
01:02:09,872 --> 01:02:11,792
Speaker 3: you can't go through life without having it affect somebody

1284
01:02:11,832 --> 01:02:15,312
Speaker 3: close to you. But it is prevalent, you know, seems

1285
01:02:15,392 --> 01:02:20,792
Speaker 3: to touch everybody in some way, shape or form. You

1286
01:02:20,912 --> 01:02:23,792
Speaker 3: have somebody you know or or a friend or a

1287
01:02:23,872 --> 01:02:27,512
Speaker 3: family friend, and so it's it's something that connects all

1288
01:02:27,592 --> 01:02:29,912
Speaker 3: of us, you know, not a good way, but you know,

1289
01:02:29,992 --> 01:02:31,992
Speaker 3: the support I think that everybody gives for it, and

1290
01:02:32,552 --> 01:02:35,512
Speaker 3: the initiatives are great. So it's listen, it's it's it's

1291
01:02:35,552 --> 01:02:38,832
Speaker 3: amazing the amount of money raised. I just you know,

1292
01:02:39,072 --> 01:02:40,912
Speaker 3: come on, pharmaceutical companies.

1293
01:02:41,472 --> 01:02:42,032
Speaker 4: Figure it out.

1294
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's one thing you can't trust. It's the FDA

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Speaker 1: also want to hand out flowers. But one and only

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Speaker 1: Connor McDavid. He wins the Ted Lindsay Award, formerly known

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Speaker 1: as a Lester Pearson Best Player, voted by his peers,

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01:02:51,672 --> 01:02:54,512
Speaker 1: fifth time in ten seasons. That ties Wayne Gretzky for

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Speaker 1: the most ever, but the bottle on his JD. He

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01:02:56,631 --> 01:02:59,872
Speaker 1: couldn't give a rats ass Edmonton's season and terribly his

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01:02:59,992 --> 01:03:00,992
Speaker 1: offseason is going to be bad.

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Speaker 2: They have a new coach.

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01:03:01,992 --> 01:03:03,671
Speaker 1: This might be the most meanless award given to any

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01:03:03,672 --> 01:03:05,792
Speaker 1: player this year. He had, Lindsay to McDavid, he probably

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01:03:05,792 --> 01:03:07,671
Speaker 1: gave the award away. You can't care less.

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01:03:08,032 --> 01:03:10,352
Speaker 3: See I disagree with you first time ever. You know,

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01:03:10,592 --> 01:03:13,072
Speaker 3: I think that Ted Lindsay holds more weight than getting

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01:03:13,112 --> 01:03:16,272
Speaker 3: a vote from some you know, some guy with a

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01:03:16,352 --> 01:03:17,592
Speaker 3: mustard stain on his shirt.

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Speaker 2: I think this one actually matters. It's it's a fellow players, it's.

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Speaker 4: Your peers, you know, it's your it's the players, And

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01:03:23,832 --> 01:03:28,472
Speaker 4: it's kind of one of the most unbiased, honest.

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Speaker 3: Votes you'll get because guys are voting purely on you know,

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01:03:31,992 --> 01:03:34,032
Speaker 3: some guys will vote for somebody on their team, like

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01:03:34,631 --> 01:03:36,792
Speaker 3: you know, everybody in Vegas will vote for Jack Eichel.

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01:03:36,872 --> 01:03:40,631
Speaker 3: But the fact that unanimously everybody goes Connor is the

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01:03:40,672 --> 01:03:42,512
Speaker 3: best player in the league. This is our this is

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01:03:43,232 --> 01:03:45,432
Speaker 3: this is the best player, and I think it does

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01:03:45,552 --> 01:03:46,231
Speaker 3: carry more weight.

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Speaker 2: And it's this is bigger than the Heart Trophy.

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01:03:50,832 --> 01:03:53,631
Speaker 1: You couldn't argue. You could argue in a bar. And

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01:03:53,712 --> 01:03:55,151
Speaker 1: you say, this guy won this many Heart trophies. How

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01:03:55,152 --> 01:03:56,671
Speaker 1: many people are going this guy won this many Ted

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Speaker 1: Lindsay Awards.

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Speaker 4: I mean Gretzky won five and Connor's now tied him. Right,

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01:04:00,872 --> 01:04:02,392
Speaker 4: so you know that won eight hearts.

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01:04:02,432 --> 01:04:04,352
Speaker 2: People know the heart like Bobby are won the Heart.

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01:04:04,472 --> 01:04:06,712
Speaker 3: See, I'm gonna start, I'm gonna I want to change this.

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01:04:06,792 --> 01:04:09,952
Speaker 3: I want the Ted Lindsay to become that trophy. Listen

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01:04:10,072 --> 01:04:13,712
Speaker 3: Mustard saying beat anyway.

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01:04:16,192 --> 01:04:17,752
Speaker 2: All right, you're the rare guy. I know you are

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01:04:17,872 --> 01:04:19,832
Speaker 2: pro Ted Lindsay war over the Heart trophy.

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Speaker 3: All right, fellow, I'm not an awards guy though, so

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01:04:22,872 --> 01:04:24,912
Speaker 3: you know me like this is like this, I don't

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01:04:24,952 --> 01:04:26,912
Speaker 3: consider the Ted Lindsay Award other than that's like a

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01:04:26,992 --> 01:04:33,232
Speaker 3: peer reviewed you know, it's just guys. It's a popularity contest.

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01:04:34,072 --> 01:04:37,791
Speaker 3: I don't know, like all awards, just throw them out.

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01:04:38,352 --> 01:04:40,671
Speaker 1: You know, it isn't popularity because you said, even like

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01:04:40,712 --> 01:04:42,272
Speaker 1: the guys in Vegas are voting for eicles, So I

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01:04:42,312 --> 01:04:44,192
Speaker 1: don't even trust this award that much because players just

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01:04:44,232 --> 01:04:44,872
Speaker 1: vote for the guys for.

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01:04:44,832 --> 01:04:46,912
Speaker 3: A possible It was like one there's like one defector

1343
01:04:46,992 --> 01:04:50,631
Speaker 3: on one team that like, you know, like yeah, like

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01:04:50,712 --> 01:04:54,112
Speaker 3: Brad McNabb like hates Jack Eichel, So he throws a

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01:04:54,192 --> 01:04:55,312
Speaker 3: vote to Connor McDavid.

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01:04:55,912 --> 01:04:58,751
Speaker 2: This is still like mc david's is the most popular guy.

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01:04:59,232 --> 01:04:59,432
Speaker 4: Yeah.

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01:04:59,592 --> 01:05:01,751
Speaker 3: When I was like younger in my career, I would

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01:05:01,752 --> 01:05:04,312
Speaker 3: like throw a vote to, like, you know, some random

1350
01:05:04,472 --> 01:05:08,912
Speaker 3: fourth liner like George Perils would be like he's the

1351
01:05:08,992 --> 01:05:09,952
Speaker 3: Ted lindsay.

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01:05:11,832 --> 01:05:13,751
Speaker 2: Because you have a vote, at least you used your vote.

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01:05:13,952 --> 01:05:18,072
Speaker 2: I used it. Yeah, use your vote. Last political thoughts

1354
01:05:18,152 --> 01:05:19,632
Speaker 2: be on this up. Tell the Knicks.

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01:05:20,192 --> 01:05:22,352
Speaker 1: I'm hoping you're gonnaweep the Spurs, but if they lose,

1356
01:05:22,392 --> 01:05:24,912
Speaker 1: it's Trump's fault. Trump is coming to the game tonight

1357
01:05:25,272 --> 01:05:27,472
Speaker 1: and they have to cancel the watch parties outside, which

1358
01:05:27,512 --> 01:05:29,872
Speaker 1: have been a huge success because who can afford eleven

1359
01:05:29,952 --> 01:05:31,072
Speaker 1: thousand dollars to go watch this?

1360
01:05:31,192 --> 01:05:32,312
Speaker 4: Do you see those prices?

1361
01:05:32,672 --> 01:05:33,912
Speaker 2: It's staggering.

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01:05:34,032 --> 01:05:36,151
Speaker 3: I think I'm pounding the Spurs tonight. I think you're right.

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01:05:36,192 --> 01:05:37,672
Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna pound the Spurs tonight.

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01:05:37,912 --> 01:05:39,912
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Wenby after missing that jumper in game

1365
01:05:39,952 --> 01:05:41,952
Speaker 1: two to pretty clean, look at the turnover in game one,

1366
01:05:41,992 --> 01:05:43,192
Speaker 1: I think he has the game of his life, and

1367
01:05:43,272 --> 01:05:46,711
Speaker 1: mainly Trump being there saying it, booed vociferously, Spurs win

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01:05:46,872 --> 01:05:47,432
Speaker 1: Nixon five.

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01:05:47,472 --> 01:05:48,112
Speaker 2: What do you gotta tell?

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01:05:49,752 --> 01:05:53,432
Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of people hitting on the on the

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01:05:53,512 --> 01:05:54,952
Speaker 4: Spurs hard in game three.

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Speaker 5: I mean, this is tough if you're you know, if

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01:05:56,952 --> 01:05:59,072
Speaker 5: your family's been going to these watch parties and now

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01:05:59,112 --> 01:06:02,032
Speaker 5: you can at least for one game because the President's

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01:06:02,072 --> 01:06:02,592
Speaker 5: going to the aim.

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01:06:02,672 --> 01:06:04,271
Speaker 4: I mean, that's that's a little rough.

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01:06:04,432 --> 01:06:06,671
Speaker 5: I'm I never thought this was going to be a

1378
01:06:06,752 --> 01:06:10,392
Speaker 5: sweep a longtime Knicks fan, first time, long time, but

1379
01:06:10,712 --> 01:06:13,112
Speaker 5: uh yeah, I mean, at least they do have the

1380
01:06:13,152 --> 01:06:15,352
Speaker 5: built in excuse if they drop Game three, they can

1381
01:06:15,432 --> 01:06:18,552
Speaker 5: just blame it on the President and move on from there.

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01:06:18,592 --> 01:06:21,512
Speaker 5: It's going to be a complete fiasco. I mean, celebrity

1383
01:06:21,592 --> 01:06:24,272
Speaker 5: row of Madison Square Garden is crazy enough as it is,

1384
01:06:24,392 --> 01:06:26,552
Speaker 5: so this just bumps it up a notch.

1385
01:06:26,672 --> 01:06:29,592
Speaker 4: But I will say it's it's incredibly exciting.

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01:06:29,712 --> 01:06:31,792
Speaker 5: It's incredibly exciting as a long time Knicks fan to

1387
01:06:31,832 --> 01:06:34,112
Speaker 5: see them doing any of this. My wife, who has

1388
01:06:34,152 --> 01:06:37,512
Speaker 5: no idea anything about the NBA, so Rick sorry. Jalen

1389
01:06:37,512 --> 01:06:39,191
Speaker 5: Brunston given a postgame interview was.

1390
01:06:39,192 --> 01:06:41,112
Speaker 4: Like, how old is that guy? He looks like he's fifty.

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01:06:41,152 --> 01:06:42,631
Speaker 4: It's all she cares about. Who's that guy?

1392
01:06:43,152 --> 01:06:44,392
Speaker 2: How old is he? Where's he from?

1393
01:06:44,432 --> 01:06:44,752
Speaker 4: What's his.

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01:06:46,631 --> 01:06:48,552
Speaker 2: She looks Jilli Brunch looks bad for his age.

1395
01:06:49,232 --> 01:06:53,792
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's making seven. That was her only Takeover seven.

1396
01:06:54,032 --> 01:06:55,631
Speaker 2: Won the first championship with fifty three years.

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01:06:55,631 --> 01:06:58,552
Speaker 4: She's like, hey, she doesn't care about that.

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01:06:59,592 --> 01:07:01,112
Speaker 3: How funny is that, though you want to go to

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01:07:01,152 --> 01:07:04,032
Speaker 3: Game three for the next you sell your kidney just

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01:07:04,112 --> 01:07:04,832
Speaker 3: to get it there.

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01:07:05,712 --> 01:07:08,352
Speaker 5: It's cheaper to buy a flight to San Antonio and

1402
01:07:08,432 --> 01:07:10,191
Speaker 5: book a hotel and go to the game there.

1403
01:07:10,272 --> 01:07:12,272
Speaker 4: Then it is too for a local to get a

1404
01:07:12,352 --> 01:07:13,072
Speaker 4: ticket at MSG.

1405
01:07:13,152 --> 01:07:14,952
Speaker 3: It's cheaper to put a down payment on a two

1406
01:07:15,032 --> 01:07:17,392
Speaker 3: bedroom condo in Hell's Kitchen, and it is to go

1407
01:07:17,432 --> 01:07:17,952
Speaker 3: to that game.

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01:07:18,472 --> 01:07:21,512
Speaker 1: Jad Benji Goldsmith, director at MLB Network, diehard Knicks fan.

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01:07:21,832 --> 01:07:26,032
Speaker 1: He flew to San Antonio, got hotel, twelve hundred bucks.

1410
01:07:26,112 --> 01:07:28,472
Speaker 1: He's behind the next bench twel hunter backs a steal

1411
01:07:28,512 --> 01:07:30,151
Speaker 1: and then he was on the broadcast Mike Bringers, we

1412
01:07:30,192 --> 01:07:32,631
Speaker 1: got all these New Yorker fans, it's Benji. And then

1413
01:07:32,672 --> 01:07:34,432
Speaker 1: they should have shot up on the roller and Charles

1414
01:07:34,472 --> 01:07:37,231
Speaker 1: Barkley goes, look at these cockerroaches. All these cock roads

1415
01:07:37,272 --> 01:07:37,832
Speaker 1: come from New York.

1416
01:07:37,872 --> 01:07:40,872
Speaker 2: Like, there's Benchi again. He came back directed quick bit.

1417
01:07:40,912 --> 01:07:42,192
Speaker 2: So the next time it will be Network. It was

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01:07:42,232 --> 01:07:42,992
Speaker 2: the steal too.

1419
01:07:43,072 --> 01:07:47,032
Speaker 3: That's unbelievable. Charles Barkley said, look at these cockroaches. I mean,

1420
01:07:47,072 --> 01:07:48,472
Speaker 3: these people can't afford anything.

1421
01:07:50,912 --> 01:07:53,792
Speaker 2: Eric researcher MLB Network, he's going to Game four. His

1422
01:07:53,912 --> 01:07:56,832
Speaker 2: ticket right now. He could sell for twenty five thousand dollars.

1423
01:07:56,912 --> 01:07:59,352
Speaker 2: I go, nay, sell the ticket. If they win, it's

1424
01:07:59,352 --> 01:08:01,032
Speaker 2: still not worth twenty five grand. If they lose, you'd

1425
01:08:01,072 --> 01:08:03,152
Speaker 2: be so pissed. Go get twenty five thousand dollars.

1426
01:08:03,272 --> 01:08:04,112
Speaker 4: Yeah, Mondam.

1427
01:08:04,192 --> 01:08:06,952
Speaker 3: He's trying to reduce costs, but he can't reduce tickets

1428
01:08:06,992 --> 01:08:10,272
Speaker 3: to the It's not the Cathedral, not MSG.

1429
01:08:11,232 --> 01:08:12,351
Speaker 4: That's Dolan's land.

1430
01:08:12,512 --> 01:08:14,712
Speaker 2: It is Dolan's land. Trump's his buddy. We'll see what

1431
01:08:14,752 --> 01:08:18,192
Speaker 2: it goes. Thanks for JD battling right now. Is it

1432
01:08:18,272 --> 01:08:22,392
Speaker 2: that bad? It's noticeable? Tell us it's okay, tell us always.

1433
01:08:22,631 --> 01:08:26,031
Speaker 3: Well, you're very yeah, you're very sensitive to any voice

1434
01:08:26,112 --> 01:08:29,272
Speaker 3: change and yeah, your your voice is that But that's

1435
01:08:29,312 --> 01:08:30,871
Speaker 3: a big thing being on TV, like I have to

1436
01:08:31,072 --> 01:08:31,911
Speaker 3: watch my voice.

1437
01:08:32,312 --> 01:08:33,112
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is true.

1438
01:08:33,232 --> 01:08:36,032
Speaker 4: I'm trying to. I'm on vocal arrests at Chainsmokers.

1439
01:08:37,432 --> 01:08:39,192
Speaker 1: Just go watch The Wizard of Oz. You can't talk

1440
01:08:39,272 --> 01:08:40,911
Speaker 1: for that two hours to enjoy the movie. It's a

1441
01:08:40,952 --> 01:08:43,751
Speaker 1: great spectacle its sphere. Hopefully we'll get Nate Thompson back

1442
01:08:43,791 --> 01:08:45,831
Speaker 1: for the next episode again Mondays and Thursdays. Thanks to

1443
01:08:45,871 --> 01:08:48,192
Speaker 1: to Grimson and Hell Scripted coming at you. Let's hope

1444
01:08:48,232 --> 01:08:49,671
Speaker 1: the Cup Finals continues to entertain.

1445
01:08:49,751 --> 01:08:50,552
Speaker 2: We'll see you next time.

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01:09:06,831 --> 01:09:10,912
Speaker 1: NHL Unscripted is a production of the NHL and iHeart Podcasts.

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