Speaker 1: So all the people I talked about that I brought
Speaker 1: to Colorado. I had this big fifteen passenger van with
Speaker 1: the cooler inside that was picking them up bringing to
Speaker 1: the game. They're going to bring them home the cooler
Speaker 1: full of kol aides. Oh yeah, so we win the game.
Speaker 1: I'm about to leave after the party in Pierre Lacroix,
Speaker 1: our general manager says, Ray, bring the cup home with you.
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, So now I got it in
Speaker 1: a van. Now forget it. Everybody's coming home with me.
Speaker 1: So now two thirty three o'clock in the morning, I
Speaker 1: turn on my streets, start beeping the horn. I put
Speaker 1: the cup on the sidewalk, the cool in the street.
Speaker 1: We're there till five thirty in the morning. Wow, it
Speaker 1: was amazing. And then you know, then you go to
Speaker 1: bed with it and if that thing could talk. Man.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Games with Names.
Speaker 1: I'm Juliet Edelman.
Speaker 2: They are Jack and Kyler, and we are on a
Speaker 2: mission to find the greatest game of all time. On
Speaker 2: today's episode, we've got Hockey Royalty in the building, right,
Speaker 2: Stanley Cup is here in the nuthouse.
Speaker 1: I can't believe. I just can't believe.
Speaker 2: Twelve, and we're covering Game seven of the two thousand
Speaker 2: and one Stanley Cup Final Devils versus Avalanche with Hockey
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer, Bruins legend and Stanley Cup champion Ray Borg,
Speaker 2: and we get into talking what it's like winning a
Speaker 2: championship after twenty two years in the league, on his
Speaker 2: last game ever.
Speaker 1: Twenty one years old, chasing it. It was an amazing, amazing.
Speaker 2: Time, the feeling of lifting the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 1: That Joe grabs a cup that just passed it on
Speaker 1: to me, and then it's just like what a relief.
Speaker 2: And what goes into a playoff?
Speaker 1: Beard, That's when the Olivers kind of started this bear thing,
Speaker 1: mullets and everything. You know, it's it's a hockey thing.
Speaker 2: And then we wrap up the show with another guest,
Speaker 2: the one and only the Keeper of the Cup, Phil Pritchard.
Speaker 1: If it could talk, it have its own podcast that
Speaker 1: I produce that there's.
Speaker 2: Just so much or in building tonight. Let's go, you
Speaker 2: got to stick around to the end.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Games with Names is a.
Speaker 2: Production of iHeart Radio. June ninth, two thousand and one,
Speaker 2: Pepsi Center, Denver, Colorado.
Speaker 1: Game seven Devils versus Avalanche. The Cup is in the building, and.
Speaker 2: After twenty two years.
Speaker 3: Raymond bork this game seven of the two thousand and
Speaker 3: one Scanley Cup Finals.
Speaker 1: I was there for the first Super Bowl New Orleans.
Speaker 1: I had just retired. Yeah, I was in there where
Speaker 1: Veritech kick the field goal? Vin Terry, I know, but
Speaker 1: you weren't there when Marrier Monino was you guys remember that? Yes?
Speaker 2: No, oh my god, I forgot about that.
Speaker 1: Their Bobby your statue in front of the garden. So
Speaker 1: Merri Monino was there talking about the the iconic moments
Speaker 1: in sports in Boston and Maritech kicking the field goals.
Speaker 2: The captain, Well, we are looking at game seven of
Speaker 2: the two thousand and one Stanley Cup Final, Devils versus
Speaker 2: the Avalanche with a Boston legend, Ray Borg. Welcome to
Speaker 2: the nuthouse, Ray, I got one question. We'll dive into
Speaker 2: the game plenty, but in one sentence, why this game?
Speaker 1: Because I won the Cup one thing that was pretty
Speaker 1: much left for me to accomplish in my career. You know,
Speaker 1: I never thought I would leave Boston, but things were
Speaker 1: where they were at that time, and I was eight
Speaker 1: years old and never thought I'd leave to win a Cup,
Speaker 1: but I had to leave to kind of see if
Speaker 1: I had any more any more juice in the tank
Speaker 1: for me and to compete again because it had been
Speaker 1: a while, you know. I went to two finals with
Speaker 1: the Bruins and eighty eight and ninety and after that
Speaker 1: we had a couple of good runs in the early nineties,
Speaker 1: but after that we were kind of not that good.
Speaker 1: So it had been a while and I was always
Speaker 1: one to bring energy, passion and you could disname it
Speaker 1: whatever to the rink, and I was really having a
Speaker 1: hard time at that point. So I came to the
Speaker 1: conclusion that I had to go somewhere else and ended
Speaker 1: up going to an amazing place where I was part
Speaker 1: of a team that was the best team that I've
Speaker 1: ever played with. I got there in March of two thousand.
Speaker 1: That first year, we got to the semifinals against Dallas,
Speaker 1: lost in a seventh game, and I knew that I
Speaker 1: was going back for another year. And that's why to compete,
Speaker 1: To go on a team where I knew I was
Speaker 1: going to be able to compete, and to get to
Speaker 1: that seventh game. Playing for this thing was just an
Speaker 1: amazing feeling. Now, is this the greatest game? Of all time.
Speaker 1: Uh for me, yes, Uh, it's the ultimate. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, you know you've won three five three five.
Speaker 1: You weren't around that long, okay, well three. And it
Speaker 1: is so hard to win. I don't care what sport
Speaker 1: you're playing. Uh, so many things have to go right,
Speaker 1: and you've got to go through so many ups and
Speaker 1: downs and uh, so many different emotions and regardless off
Speaker 1: your favorites or not, it's uh, there's no guarantees and
Speaker 1: it's so hard. So and I had played, you know,
Speaker 1: in eighty eight, in ninety with the Bruins. We lost
Speaker 1: to Edmonton in four games in eighty eight and then
Speaker 1: five games, and so I know you're playing for the
Speaker 1: Cups in the finals, but you're not really playing for
Speaker 1: the cup. So playing that's seventh game, you know that
Speaker 1: you're now playing for the cup because you've got three
Speaker 1: wins and now the next one, whoever wins this gets
Speaker 1: to pick this thing up. And so it's just an
Speaker 1: amazing run. And for me going back to you know, Colorado,
Speaker 1: I got there March sixth, We got to the SEMIS.
Speaker 1: I knew I was going back for one more year,
Speaker 1: so I asked the general manager. I said just give
Speaker 1: me the same amount of money I was making last year.
Speaker 1: I'm coming, I'm playing one more year. He says, no,
Speaker 1: I'm giving you a two year deal. I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: only playing one more years? Is I'm giving you two years?
Speaker 1: So I'm like, all right. So I knew that. I
Speaker 1: told my wife. The only people I kind of knew
Speaker 1: was my wife and I that I'm only playing one
Speaker 1: more year regardless of what happens. So Game six and
Speaker 1: seven for me was an amazing experience because we go
Speaker 1: to New Jersey down three to two. Nobody's given us
Speaker 1: a chance to win that game against the defending champs,
Speaker 1: And for me, I got to live it like to
Speaker 1: the fullest because I had my siblings, my dad, my
Speaker 1: wife's siblings, her dad, my best friends at Game six
Speaker 1: in case this was going to be my last game,
Speaker 1: I wanted those people there. So the last pregame skate
Speaker 1: at in Colorado, you know the practice rank you kind
Speaker 1: of you're you're looking around, You're taking everything in. Then
Speaker 1: you fly to New Jersey. You know, the next morning, pregame, skate,
Speaker 1: pregame meal, pregame nap. You're really sucking it all in
Speaker 1: because you know this you know this might be it.
Speaker 1: Then we go out first ten minutes, New Jerseys is
Speaker 1: storming us and Patrick wats standing on his head making
Speaker 1: saves after save, and then ten minutes in Adam Foot
Speaker 1: scores a goal right inside the blue line and from
Speaker 1: that point on we take over. The game go on
Speaker 1: and it went for nothing. So now everybody that had
Speaker 1: at Game six all I brought to Colorado for game
Speaker 1: seven knowing that's my last game. So just that thought
Speaker 1: that you know that this is regardless of what happens
Speaker 1: in game seven, this is it. I have the people
Speaker 1: that are important to me that are going to be
Speaker 1: watching me, and then closing a deal and winning it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know when you want to hear
Speaker 1: the story after we partied. Yeah, so it's it. It was
Speaker 1: just an amazing and that's why that game. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's so much that went into that game, you know,
Speaker 1: twenty one years of chasing it and finally after twenty
Speaker 1: two years, being able to hoist it. So it's the game.
Speaker 1: You know, they asked what are your There's so many
Speaker 1: big moments that it's really unfair to kind of when
Speaker 1: you're asked, you know, what are the special moments. Well,
Speaker 1: I look at bookends, you know, I look at my
Speaker 1: last game where I was able to hoist the cup
Speaker 1: and my first game where you finally make it. You
Speaker 1: play your first NHL game where you dream as a
Speaker 1: kid to play in the NHL, and then it happens,
Speaker 1: and you know, then you end up playing twenty two
Speaker 1: years and you go, holy crap.
Speaker 2: And it goes like that. Probably, now, who's your first
Speaker 2: game against Winnipeg Jets. Last game was against New Jersey Devils.
Speaker 1: You knew for sure this was going to be your
Speaker 1: last game no matter what. Yes, yeah, for sure, one
Speaker 1: hundred percent. I had six million reasons to go back
Speaker 1: for the second year. But I was like, regardless, it
Speaker 1: wasn't going to happen. I thought, just I was forty
Speaker 1: years old, and you know that last year I averaged
Speaker 1: the most minutes played out of anybody in the NHL.
Speaker 1: I average over twenty seven minutes a game. I was
Speaker 1: up for Norris Best Defenseman that year. But just mentally,
Speaker 1: and you know, to get me to where I had
Speaker 1: needed to get to to play another year, I just
Speaker 1: didn't think I had it in me.
Speaker 2: So it's one of those things they say as a
Speaker 2: professional athlete. When you start thinking about it, you're out. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because that means you're not all the way in.
Speaker 1: You've got to be all in, you know.
Speaker 2: And I told my dad I was going to retire.
Speaker 2: I needed his validation. He goes, Son, you finally smartened up. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because you got to be crazy to go out and
Speaker 2: with your sport as well.
Speaker 1: I mean you got to have those two sports. I
Speaker 1: mean you.
Speaker 2: Got to flirt with crazy. It's like a fighter pilot,
Speaker 2: you know, you got to be willing to die in
Speaker 2: your combat to go out and flirt with that line
Speaker 2: to have your best production. And the times you start
Speaker 2: thinking about like you know, I don't know if I
Speaker 2: that's when you got to get the fuck out, because
Speaker 2: that's how you get out.
Speaker 1: And I knew, I knew, you know that. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know how you got to prepare the off season
Speaker 1: for the next season, and I mean I I and
Speaker 1: I was, you know, committed. I you know, my training
Speaker 1: in the off season was so important to me. And
Speaker 1: I met somebody very special in my life that really
Speaker 1: helped me with that took me under his wing at
Speaker 1: the age of sixteen until I retired. Was my high
Speaker 1: school gym teacher, that I met at fourteen, that was
Speaker 1: a track and field team for the Canadian Olympic team.
Speaker 1: He had his own track and field team in Montreal
Speaker 1: that four of his runners went to your Olympics. But he
Speaker 1: was like this genius training guy that you know. I
Speaker 1: was always a really good hockey player, but he made
Speaker 1: me an athlete that allowed me to be even better
Speaker 1: hockey player. So to this day, he's one of my
Speaker 1: very best friends that I talk to every week and
Speaker 1: very lucky. And I knew that, you know, if I
Speaker 1: was going to play again, it's another three months of
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's getting your teeth ticked. It's tough.
Speaker 2: People don't realize that when you're a pro athlete, it's
Speaker 2: not just seasonal like you have to, especially for a
Speaker 2: man who played as long as you did, you have
Speaker 2: to constantly re evolve yourself every off season, bring something new,
Speaker 2: work on your deficiencies, but also bring something new. You know,
Speaker 2: you have to build something into your game that you
Speaker 2: may not be comfortable with. That reinvention is like people
Speaker 2: don't I used to get a lot of anxiety after
Speaker 2: the years that we would win the Super Bowl because
Speaker 2: you knew how much harder it was going to be
Speaker 2: the next year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you guys always had a target on your
Speaker 1: back because you were that good, right, and everybody's trying
Speaker 1: to bring it down, not only the teams you're playing against,
Speaker 1: but the media around the country.
Speaker 2: And the same could be said about the Boston Celtics
Speaker 2: because you guys are a cornerstone organization for you know,
Speaker 2: the NHL. Like, what did I say?
Speaker 1: You said Celtics. But yes, sorry, iconic Yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: let's let's.
Speaker 2: Jump into a lot of them on that one.
Speaker 4: Right, there's just so many iconic franchises in Boston, there
Speaker 4: really is, but it really starts with the Big three,
Speaker 4: like ours were like the Slappies.
Speaker 1: On the Patriots.
Speaker 2: Now in the last twenty years, we've but like, when
Speaker 2: it comes down to it, the origin of the pro sports,
Speaker 2: he goes, you know, Red Sox, Bruins, Celtics.
Speaker 1: Okay, Joe's you want do you want to know the
Speaker 1: real story? How how that that two decades started?
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's hear it.
Speaker 1: So I win the Cup in Colorado, right, my agent
Speaker 1: calls me, says, the Maryor's office just called me asking
Speaker 1: if you'd be willing to bring the Cup back to Boston.
Speaker 1: They want to celebrate you at city Hall. I'm like,
Speaker 1: Steve Fryer was my agent. I said, Steve, I said,
Speaker 1: I can't do that. I don't want to embarrass the Bruins.
Speaker 1: He says, what about if the Bruins sign off on it.
Speaker 1: So Michael O'Connell's the general manager, Harry's sidons the president.
Speaker 1: So he calls Mike and says, you know, Ray's Ben
Speaker 1: asked if he could come back, and you know, they
Speaker 1: want to do something for him at city Hall. He says, yeah,
Speaker 1: we have no problems with that and all that. So
Speaker 1: then I come back with the cop city Hall. Ten
Speaker 1: thousand people are are there. It was like it was crazy.
Speaker 1: It was amazing, amazing day. But what happened after that?
Speaker 1: The Patriots win in New Orleans against the St. Louis
Speaker 1: the fastest Brady Shorn turf right, and I'm there, I'm
Speaker 1: right there in the zone where Vinitarry kicks her in
Speaker 1: the field goal. I'm there with my son veritec Yeah,
Speaker 1: VerTech exactly.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then from that point on, I mean, Pats win
Speaker 1: two out of three. The curse is broken with the
Speaker 1: Red Sox. The Celtics win the Bruins win, the Patriots
Speaker 1: keep winning, the Red Sox win again. It all started
Speaker 1: after the Cup came back to Boston. It's funny, let's go,
Speaker 1: let's go baby. Fuck.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now you grew up in Quebec.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Montreal, Montreal. You've been to Bolinsky's. What's that little
Speaker 2: slami spot, It's it's in Montreal. I went to it once.
Speaker 1: Well, if you're talking smoke meat, yeah, this is this
Speaker 1: pastrami on steroids.
Speaker 2: No, it's like a It's like a blooney sandwich that
Speaker 2: they make and they game me. I went went to Montreal.
Speaker 2: It's like a blooney sandwich with cheese that they like
Speaker 2: gridle in and all they make is that and like
Speaker 2: homemade sodas.
Speaker 1: No, you go to Schwartz or Bad Sports maybe.
Speaker 2: And then I went to the high Line or what's
Speaker 2: another of this? There was another deli. I went, fuck,
Speaker 2: I love Montreal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great. Have you ever been to Quebec City?
Speaker 1: I haven't. I mean, Quebec City is one of my
Speaker 1: favorite cities in the world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta check it out.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: What what was a young Ray Bork like in Canada?
Speaker 1: Growing up?
Speaker 2: Were you just playing hockey? All fucking day.
Speaker 1: Hockey and baseball. I loved baseball as much as I
Speaker 1: liked hockey. I was very good at baseball growing up,
Speaker 1: growing up somewhere. Yeah, my dad always says I could
Speaker 1: have played for the Expos someday. Very proud dad. But
Speaker 1: I was a very good baseball player, played up until
Speaker 1: I came to Boston. I played junior ball in Montreal,
Speaker 1: growing up somewhere else, maybe baseball could have been an option,
Speaker 1: but I just, you know, a kid growing up in Montreal.
Speaker 1: I mean, we were so spoiled. When I got into
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, I thanked the Montreal Canadians for
Speaker 1: making a young kid dream about playing the NHL someday,
Speaker 1: because I mean, every kid's dreaming about playing the NHL
Speaker 1: and growing up in Quebec, just because we're spoiled. And
Speaker 1: back then they were winning Cups after Cups, and.
Speaker 2: You were a big Canadians and I was.
Speaker 1: A big Montreal Canadians fan. I'd missed school. I go
Speaker 1: to the parades with my buddies, and you know, and
Speaker 1: then it was just, you know, a path that just
Speaker 1: took me as a young kid, you know, just going
Speaker 1: through the ranks. And but as a very shy, quiet kid,
Speaker 1: you know, always always a leader on the ice and
Speaker 1: how I played and how I approached the game. I
Speaker 1: don't know how you felt about being on that field,
Speaker 1: but for me, being on the ice is where I
Speaker 1: felt the most comfort in my life. Just that's where
Speaker 1: I was meant to be, and I just kind of
Speaker 1: I was. I was always a really good, good player.
Speaker 1: I was never like this elite I can't miss kid
Speaker 1: as a As a youngster, I started separating myself at
Speaker 1: the age of thirteen from my peers. So I would
Speaker 1: play forward, I played defense. I play forward. I played
Speaker 1: defense every year. It seems like I played, you know,
Speaker 1: the different positions, and that I think allowed me to
Speaker 1: be creative as a player and allowed me to be
Speaker 1: offensive instincts as a defenseman as well as a good defender.
Speaker 1: But at the age of thirteen, I strictly played defense.
Speaker 1: And that's when I start separating myself from my buddies.
Speaker 1: And I was fifteen years old playing with guys that
Speaker 1: were sixteen to twenty years old driving their cars and
Speaker 1: the strip joints aren't bad, and uh, but I'm trigging
Speaker 1: fifteen years old, Like what am I doing now? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So I grew up pretty quick, you know, in a.
Speaker 2: Hockey life though, right, a lot of these young kids,
Speaker 2: like you're, they got to become pros because they would.
Speaker 2: You guys go ship each other to like other houses
Speaker 2: and live with different families.
Speaker 1: So I get drafted into the Quebec Major Junior League
Speaker 1: it's called the Queue when I'm fifteen, So now I'm
Speaker 1: a couple hours away from where I grew up. So
Speaker 1: you're living with a billet and now you're playing with
Speaker 1: guys that are sixteen to twenty years old, and then
Speaker 1: you play there for the next four years, and that's
Speaker 1: where the NHL are looking to draft all their players. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, back then it was mostly those leagues. You know,
Speaker 1: some US kids out of the universities, but mostly it
Speaker 1: was Canadian kids playing in those junior leagues that were drafted.
Speaker 1: And so then nineteen seventy nine there was another professional
Speaker 1: league called the WHA World Hockey League that merged with
Speaker 1: the NHL. So there's four teams from that league that
Speaker 1: ended up merging with the NHL in nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 1: I was Winnipeg, Edmonton, Hartford, and Quebec. So that year
Speaker 1: they allowed the underage draft to come back, so I
Speaker 1: didn't have to play four years. At eighteen years old,
Speaker 1: I was drafted and I came to Boston when I
Speaker 1: was eighteen, so in the draft was not in June,
Speaker 1: it was in August because of all the stuff that
Speaker 1: they had to sort out because of the murleagues coming together,
Speaker 1: and I was eighth overall coming to Boston and there's
Speaker 1: no two biggest rivals, then take it, Oh my god. No.
Speaker 1: But I was so happy to go to a team
Speaker 1: that was established. I could have gone to Minnesota, Colorado,
Speaker 1: I could have gone to these teams where they sucked
Speaker 1: for like ten fifteen years. And I go to the
Speaker 1: Bruins where they just lost to Montreal in the semifinals
Speaker 1: in the seventh game and overtime. That was established and
Speaker 1: tradition and one of the original six teams. I couldn't
Speaker 1: have gone anywhere better. Five hour drive from Montreal. It
Speaker 1: was great. So a lot of my friends and family
Speaker 1: followed me to Boston. But it took us forever to
Speaker 1: be able to beat Montreal in the playoffs, Like it
Speaker 1: was forty five years before Boston was able to beat
Speaker 1: not that they played forty five years in a row,
Speaker 1: but it was that amount of time since they had one.
Speaker 1: Then we ended up beating Montreal in nineteen eighty seven,
Speaker 1: eighty eight and the uh in the playoffs that But
Speaker 1: I'd go back to Montreal every summer. You know, my
Speaker 1: wife and I are both from there. I've known my
Speaker 1: wife since I'm eleven years old and we hang around
Speaker 1: with the same group of friends. But every time i'd
Speaker 1: go back in the summer, I'd get all kinds of
Speaker 1: shit like, oh, you guys frea against Sock, you lost again,
Speaker 1: and this and that, and I'm like, so eighty seven
Speaker 1: was the quietest summer. Eighty eight was the quietest summer
Speaker 1: I've ever had going back to Montreal. It was awesome.
Speaker 2: Now when you were a kid, when you look at
Speaker 2: the American players, like, ah, these guys are secondhand, They're
Speaker 2: secondhand citizens in our sport. We got because it's kind
Speaker 2: of like me, if I saw white dB, I saw
Speaker 2: someone white trying to guard me, I was like, this
Speaker 2: fucking joke.
Speaker 1: Well, I think it could be any color hard.
Speaker 2: But I but it was even more.
Speaker 1: It was even more, you know, like you can't have.
Speaker 2: This guy, I mean what we do?
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you know, And then then I come to Boston.
Speaker 1: So I we used to have an exchange in Montreal,
Speaker 1: like every year we'd come to Ludlow or Chickapea that
Speaker 1: you know, is around the Springfield area, and we're like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're going to play in Boston. You know. It was
Speaker 1: the furthest thing from.
Speaker 2: Boston after our Springfield So.
Speaker 1: We'd play against them and we'd killed them. You know,
Speaker 1: we were like it was like twelve one or you know,
Speaker 1: but I don't think we're playing against the best teams.
Speaker 1: But when I got to Boston to play with the Bruins,
Speaker 1: then I got to know and find out about you know,
Speaker 1: Boston University, b C, Harvard, Northeastern, all these great college
Speaker 1: programs that were developing great hockey players. And you know,
Speaker 1: my first year is the year that the miracle on
Speaker 1: ice US beats you know, the Russians and go on
Speaker 1: and win beat the fence for the gold medal, and
Speaker 1: that that was like now it takes off, right, But
Speaker 1: all those great players I played for the US and
Speaker 1: then nineteen eighty and so I I know, I I
Speaker 1: knew that never disrespected the US player and and then
Speaker 1: it's just growing from that part. You know, what they
Speaker 1: what they did for hockey in nineteen eighty in the
Speaker 1: States was phenomenal. And then after that and and just
Speaker 1: years after that and more, and now you look at
Speaker 1: the US program and you know, they just won the
Speaker 1: world the World's Championship, they won the uh they won
Speaker 1: the gold medal in the World Juniors. The last two
Speaker 1: or three years, both my sons played for the US team, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, in the World Junior.
Speaker 2: So we do so we just we just take the Canadians.
Speaker 2: We my kids here.
Speaker 1: My boys are not Canadian. And they'll tell you I
Speaker 1: might be Canadian, but they are not. So when it
Speaker 1: comes to my kids, I mean, I'm walking around the Olympics.
Speaker 1: My my son Chris played for the Olympics and uh
Speaker 1: South Korea last time around, and I'm walking around with
Speaker 1: the US you know, and uh, hoodie, yeah, And it's like, guys,
Speaker 1: people are looking at them and they're like, what's going
Speaker 1: on with that. I'm like, Hey, it comes to my kids, man,
Speaker 1: I'm us. I'm dual, I'm dual. And when it comes
Speaker 1: to the kids and they're skating man for the US team,
Speaker 1: I'm turning to the US and uh, no one for
Speaker 1: your kids. And when they're not involved. I'm you know,
Speaker 1: strictly Canadian, but so it's it's kind of fun to
Speaker 1: play the fence like that. Sometimes.
Speaker 2: I got a question, who who's the Mount Rushmore of
Speaker 2: French Canadian hockey players.
Speaker 1: Well four for me, Mario Lemieux, Gui Le Fleur, Jean, Billival,
Speaker 1: and uh Rocket Rashard probably so we're going back, you know,
Speaker 1: and you probably don't know Billival or Rocket Rashar. If
Speaker 1: you're talking French Canadians, that would be Mount rush for
Speaker 1: and and if there's a fifth one, hell you can
Speaker 1: put fifteen up in the LB.
Speaker 2: You guys have such cool names.
Speaker 1: Patrick wa protrick wah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, isn't it Roy?
Speaker 1: Patrick Roy? Patrick Roy? You call him the king? You
Speaker 1: know what? You know what what is in French? No king,
Speaker 1: is it? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I gotta work on that French. I've been yelled at
Speaker 2: it together. On what was Boston like as a sports
Speaker 2: town in seventy nine when you got here?
Speaker 1: Amazing? The Old Garden, Uh was just a phenomenal building.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: The the upper deck was like almost right on top
Speaker 1: of the ice. So the I mean that national anthem
Speaker 1: sometimes you just you'd feel the vibration in the building. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's how loud that building would be. And it was
Speaker 1: a small ice surface, so teams hated coming in there.
Speaker 1: What's that mean? What's ice surface smaller? Because uh, most
Speaker 1: ranks are two eighty five. That was like maybe the
Speaker 1: one ninety by eighty. There's different size ranks back then
Speaker 1: ranked now every rink now is the same size. But
Speaker 1: back then you had Chicago Stadium, Boston Garden, Buffalo Buffalo
Speaker 1: Auditorium was maybe a touch smaller as well. And you
Speaker 1: felt it, oh you felt it. You felt playing against
Speaker 1: the Bruins because it was quicker.
Speaker 2: Was it faster?
Speaker 1: Things happened so quick, but get you get killed, Like
Speaker 1: you had a lot less time to react to stuff.
Speaker 1: And we were a big, heavy, tough team. And yeah,
Speaker 1: teams weren't that excited about coming to the Garden and
Speaker 1: play us. But when you're talking about sports town, it's like,
Speaker 1: I mean, the passion of the fans supporting all their
Speaker 1: teams here is just second to none. You're so lucky.
Speaker 1: It's when I hear that, you know, oh, he's not
Speaker 1: meant to play in Boston? Are you frigging kidding me?
Speaker 1: Why would you not want to play somewhere where expectations
Speaker 1: are high and uh, and if the fans are passionate,
Speaker 1: and you know that if you just go out there,
Speaker 1: work hard, give an honest effort, and play hard, they
Speaker 1: don't have a problem with you. That's when you don't
Speaker 1: do that, you have a problem. And you know what,
Speaker 1: if they have a problem with you, I probably do too.
Speaker 2: That's the honest truth. Now, Like, how was it playing
Speaker 2: in the wake of like Bobby Orr Did you feel
Speaker 2: that legend? Because it was you know, being a guy
Speaker 2: that played on a second part of a dynasty. I
Speaker 2: mean we felt the Teddy Bruskis, the Kevin Falks, the
Speaker 2: fucking Vinitaries, the very like we and we heard about
Speaker 2: it all the time, the verite which for me as
Speaker 2: a young player, that motivated me to like, I wanted
Speaker 2: to make my own fuck like I'm sick of Bill
Speaker 2: Belichick talking about these fucking other other guys. Let's make
Speaker 2: our own ship. Like did you how is it playing
Speaker 2: in that way? I mean one of the greatest player.
Speaker 1: Of all time? Some people argue, but that it motivated
Speaker 1: me exactly. But that makes you because you know what's
Speaker 1: come before you, and it's important for you to move
Speaker 1: that ahead and and pass that on to the young guy,
Speaker 1: the young Julian that's coming up, that is watching you
Speaker 1: and how you do things, how you prepare, how you play,
Speaker 1: how you speak, how you act, and you you feel
Speaker 1: that you come into a team that has history and expectations.
Speaker 1: And and for me, when I came in, of course
Speaker 1: I knew Bobby Orr and you know, and I think
Speaker 1: Bobby your's number one all time in the history of hockey.
Speaker 1: He changed the game and nobody played it like he did.
Speaker 2: And uh no, what made him special?
Speaker 1: Everything? I mean he just you watch highlights above you Yeah,
Speaker 1: a little bit here and there. Well it seems like
Speaker 1: he was just he was playing like with with ten
Speaker 1: year olds, that's how good he was. But so for me,
Speaker 1: I was. I came in my first year, I scored
Speaker 1: seventeen goals, sixty five points. I won Rookie of the Year,
Speaker 1: First Team All Star. I had an amazing year. So
Speaker 1: when people would come up and I was, you know, offensive,
Speaker 1: I was gifted offensively, nothing like Bobby. But you know,
Speaker 1: the press were constantly coming up and comparing me to
Speaker 1: Bobby Orr. And I'm like, I always said, believe me,
Speaker 1: if I could be half the player that Bobby orr
Speaker 1: was I'm going to have an amazing career. And that's
Speaker 1: how I looked at it, how I diffused it because
Speaker 1: I knew, I'm not Bobby or I play my game.
Speaker 1: I'm not as explosive and dynamic as Bobby was. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was just so spectacular and so much fun to watch.
Speaker 1: I was more. My subtleties in my game were a
Speaker 1: lot different. Wasn't like you would I wouldn't raise you
Speaker 1: at a of your seat by watching me play. But
Speaker 1: if you watch the subtleties and how I played my game,
Speaker 1: how consistent I was, you'd really appreciate how I played
Speaker 1: the game. And I knew that, you know, I knew,
Speaker 1: I knew my game. I knew how I was. I
Speaker 1: had to play.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah it was okay, yeah, twenty two, but.
Speaker 1: It was Yeah, it's just I mean, for me playing
Speaker 1: in Boston, that's that's I'm so happy I ended up
Speaker 1: here because like we talked about the passion uh in
Speaker 1: the city and the suburbs and everything that comes living here,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I I knew it didn't take
Speaker 1: me very long that I'm like, well, once I had kids,
Speaker 1: I knew regardless this was going to be my home. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and fans were amazing. Now did you ever cross paths
Speaker 1: with Larry Bird? You guys are in great, great, great
Speaker 1: question because I've you know, I've got to know McHale,
Speaker 1: a few Reggie Lewis I've met, I've kind of run into,
Speaker 1: and a few other Celtics. Larry Bird we came in
Speaker 1: the same year in nineteen seventy nine. We both won
Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year. I did not meet Larry Bird
Speaker 1: till after he retired. Dale Arnold had us on we
Speaker 1: I for one hour together. Was the first time I
Speaker 1: met Larry Bird, and it was great, But it was
Speaker 1: so weird that we didn't cross paths before that. And
Speaker 1: now I winter in South Florida. I play Hideout once
Speaker 1: in a while. Every time i'm there, I see him.
Speaker 1: He's one of the founders of that place. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I was. And I got this great picture that day
Speaker 1: at Larry and I. They gave me a seventy seven
Speaker 1: Celtics jersey and they gave him a thirty three Bruins
Speaker 1: jersey with our names on it and all that. I
Speaker 1: looked like I'm twelve years old and I'm like thirty three.
Speaker 1: At them. I think thirty four years old, and he's
Speaker 1: got probably nine inches on me. Those boys are tall.
Speaker 1: They are trees, aren't they.
Speaker 2: Those basketball guys are And you don't understand it because
Speaker 2: when you watch them on TV, they're all the same
Speaker 2: height and shit, and then you see them in regular life,
Speaker 2: you're like, that's a fucking dinosaur. Holy schnikes.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: But that's it's understandable because you guys are in the
Speaker 2: grind of your careers.
Speaker 1: Like I would always see Bruins.
Speaker 2: I became close with a couple of Bruins through charity
Speaker 2: events or you know, I would see Celtics out here
Speaker 2: and there. But you know, you didn't always see certain
Speaker 2: guys because everyone's caught up in their career, especially you guys.
Speaker 2: You guys are playing at the same time.
Speaker 1: So michale I got to know, like he would invite
Speaker 1: me to his Christmas party. Don Warden was our fiscal therapist.
Speaker 1: I was really good friends with Kevin and from that relationship,
Speaker 1: like Kevin would come to our game and he'd stand
Speaker 1: right by our bench where the Celtics would enter and
Speaker 1: come out to the floor and off and on. So
Speaker 1: he'd watch a game right there, right by our bench
Speaker 1: and then he'd come into room after the game. So
Speaker 1: he grew up in Minnesota. He knew what hockey was
Speaker 1: all about, not like you from California that.
Speaker 4: I grew to like he went to the second half
Speaker 4: of I went, yeah, cal palace was palace.
Speaker 2: I was telling you the elephants or you know, we
Speaker 2: thought we were going to catch the second half. Being
Speaker 2: football people, we missed the first two periods and you know,
Speaker 2: me and my dad after the third are like, yeah,
Speaker 2: at least we got the fourth.
Speaker 1: There's no fucking fourth. Learned that short no overtime back then.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back after this quick break. Now, can
Speaker 2: you explain to us how'd you go from seven to
Speaker 2: seventy seven.
Speaker 1: So, out of anything I've ever done in Boston, uh,
Speaker 1: people will come up to me and talk to me
Speaker 1: about that, Like, out of anything I've ever done in hockey,
Speaker 1: that's number one thing that comes up most. And so
Speaker 1: I wore number twenty nine in training camp, had a
Speaker 1: great camp coming up from my first game. Number seven
Speaker 1: is in my stall and I'm like, I mean, I
Speaker 1: knew that Phil wore that number. So before I go out.
Speaker 1: Bobby Schmatz, a veteran comes over. He says, Ray, if
Speaker 1: you hear any hecklers, don't worry about it. Just play
Speaker 1: your game. I'm like, yeah, great, right, So I have
Speaker 1: an amazing first year and never hear nothing about it
Speaker 1: other than the press asking me every once in a while,
Speaker 1: what do you think about Phyllis Posito's number being retired.
Speaker 1: I'm like, he's a legend, amazing brooin, He's done great
Speaker 1: things here, won two Cups and everything I said. Of
Speaker 1: course I said, I was given that number. I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's it's not up to me. And so what happened
Speaker 1: is the Bruins traded Phyllis Posito, and once that happened,
Speaker 1: Phil and Harry really Phil was really pissed at the
Speaker 1: Bruins never want to go. The story goes, when they
Speaker 1: traded Phil Esposito that Don Cherry was the coach back then. Grapes,
Speaker 1: So Harry tells. Grapes says, go tell Phil that we
Speaker 1: just traded him to the Rangers. So Grapes, yeah, So
Speaker 1: Grapes get gets Bobby Orr and Wayne Cashman, Phil's two
Speaker 1: best friends to go tell him. Knocks on the door.
Speaker 1: They're staying at the Bay Shore in Vancouver. It's right
Speaker 1: on the water, beautiful place, Vancouver. So they walk in
Speaker 1: and feels like, you better not fucking be telling me
Speaker 1: I'm going to the Rangers because I'm gonna frig and
Speaker 1: jump out that window, says Bobby. Get in front of
Speaker 1: the window. So after that it was like so Harry
Speaker 1: was like pissed that Phil for being pissed at him,
Speaker 1: And I get the number and now I'm killing it
Speaker 1: and doing great, and so then they kind of patch
Speaker 1: things up up and they decide that they're going to
Speaker 1: retire the number December third, nineteen eighty seven. So I've
Speaker 1: worn it now since seventy nine, eight years. But nothing
Speaker 1: is talked about anything up until one o'clock that afternoon.
Speaker 1: Terry O'Reilly's our coach, calls me from Harry's office and
Speaker 1: he says, Ray, what do you think we should do
Speaker 1: with the jersey? That's how great the communication was back then, right,
Speaker 1: So like, my, let's have like Belichick system. Yeah, well yeah,
Speaker 1: dinosaurs are talking. I'm like, jeez, this is crazy, I said.
Speaker 1: So we come up with I'm going to go off
Speaker 1: for warm up with number seven. Come back in, go
Speaker 1: in the back room in the train's room, put number
Speaker 1: seventy seven under seven, go back out, call Phil up
Speaker 1: and then I'll take the seven off Reveal seventy seven.
Speaker 1: And it was. It was so messed up how it was,
Speaker 1: but it ended up being the best. Yeah, because no press,
Speaker 1: no fan. I drove in with Keith Crowder and Glenn
Speaker 1: Wesley that day. They said, Ray, what the hell you
Speaker 1: could have told us? Nobody knew other than my wife
Speaker 1: coaches management and ended up growing well. I see Phil's
Speaker 1: faces like, you know, I joke about this, but it's
Speaker 1: really true that it was the first time Phyllis Bozido
Speaker 1: was ever speechless in his life and his face dropped.
Speaker 1: I was like, wow, it was. It was the perfect thing.
Speaker 1: Nobody should award that number after Phil when he left.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt that that number was going to be retired,
Speaker 1: and it's up where it should be.
Speaker 2: You know, a stand up guys. It really is noticeable
Speaker 2: with the hockey guys. You guys, I feel like your
Speaker 2: guys respect to your teammates and to tradition into the
Speaker 2: guys before you. I mean, it's in your trophy, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. Look, you see everyone who's put
Speaker 2: the blood, sweat and tears into getting this trophy. It's
Speaker 2: just really cool to see because you don't see that
Speaker 2: in all sports. I'll tell you that right now.
Speaker 1: How about this trophy though his trophy is pretty bad ass,
Speaker 1: it's it's the best, and your name gets on it.
Speaker 1: It's there for over sixty years, sixty years, over sixty
Speaker 1: years before this gets so this when this is full,
Speaker 1: this comes off and they and they straight that out.
Speaker 1: They put it in the vault in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: So this before this gets up here, it's over sixty years.
Speaker 1: So your name, so you're my my grandkids kids could
Speaker 1: go to the Hall of Fame someday and look up.
Speaker 1: You know, this was my grandfather. And uh so it's
Speaker 1: it's an amazing trophy. It is.
Speaker 2: It definitely has an aura, and I think, you know
Speaker 2: it's going to be a hot take, but this probably
Speaker 2: is the best trophy because the imperfections.
Speaker 1: And oh my god, if that thing could talk exactly,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. When you want me
Speaker 1: to talk about a few of the stories that I have, Yes,
Speaker 1: please have after yes, please? So we win Game six
Speaker 1: and Joe Joe Sakik, our captain, was an amazing player,
Speaker 1: but even a better person an amazing classy. So we
Speaker 1: win game six. All Joe wants to talk about, says Ray,
Speaker 1: how we're going to do the cup thing. I'm like, Joe,
Speaker 1: let's win the frigging game first. Let's win the game
Speaker 1: and we'll worry about the frigging cup after we win
Speaker 1: the game. But all he was worried about is like
Speaker 1: he wants right, he says, okay, right right next to me,
Speaker 1: right next to me. So he gets the cup from
Speaker 1: Betman and he doesn't even want to he just wants
Speaker 1: to grab it. And then Betman said, no, we've got
Speaker 1: to take a picture first. And then Bettman says, somebody
Speaker 1: who's been waiting for this for a long time. And
Speaker 1: then Joe grabs a cup and just pass it on
Speaker 1: to me. And then then it's just like what a relief?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, he says, here right now. So
Speaker 1: the captain's a guy that lifts the cup every time.
Speaker 1: Like Joe took me out for lunch before I came
Speaker 1: back my second year, and he like, right, I don't
Speaker 1: feel you know, I don't feel comfortable wear in to
Speaker 1: see with you on my team. I'm like, Joe, forget it, buddy,
Speaker 1: I said, you are the leader of this team. You
Speaker 1: saw what I did last year. I don't need an
Speaker 1: A or a C or whatever I'm going to be
Speaker 1: talking about. I'm an ally and Joe, I'm here man,
Speaker 1: I'm going to do what I need to do, and
Speaker 1: class it comes twofold with him. But so, so we
Speaker 1: win the game, we go party at the chop House
Speaker 1: across from the Pepsi Center, and we're you know, we're
Speaker 1: there till two thirty. So, so all the people I
Speaker 1: talked about that I brought to Colorado I had. I
Speaker 1: had them in hotel rooms and some stayed at my house.
Speaker 1: I had this big fifteen passenger van with the cooler
Speaker 1: inside that was picking them up bringing to the game.
Speaker 1: Andy going to bring them home. Well, the cooler full
Speaker 1: of kol Aides. Oh yeah, good kool aid. So I'm
Speaker 1: about to leave after the party in Pure Lacroix, our
Speaker 1: general manager says, right, bring the cup home with you.
Speaker 1: I'm like, holy shit, all right, So now I got
Speaker 1: it in the van. Now forget it. Everybody's coming home
Speaker 1: with me. So now two thirty three o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 1: I turn on my streets, start beeping the horn. I
Speaker 1: put the cup on the sidewalk, the cool in the street.
Speaker 1: We're there till five thirty in the morning. It was amazing.
Speaker 1: And then you know, then you go to bed with
Speaker 1: it and if that thing could talk, man, if that
Speaker 1: thing I still with you that night too. No, I
Speaker 1: had nobody with me that night. But but then you
Speaker 1: know that the thing and the city hall, you know,
Speaker 1: doing the thing in city Hall. So then two days
Speaker 1: later I come back with the cup. Buddy you know,
Speaker 1: sends a private jet for me and my family and
Speaker 1: buckled up the cup again, and then we have the
Speaker 1: day at city Hall, come back and then it wasn't
Speaker 1: feel that was with me for that. I think guy's
Speaker 1: name was Steve back then he was with the cup
Speaker 1: and following me around. And then I ended up having
Speaker 1: in my hometown for like two hours, and then I
Speaker 1: had it for three days in August. It was like
Speaker 1: a it was like a wedding I had. I invited
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty people to this ceremony that we're
Speaker 1: going to have with the cup. It was an amazing,
Speaker 1: amazing time.
Speaker 2: Wow, Jackie, let's jump into this game. We can sit
Speaker 2: here and talk all day.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, let's get into these Devils Real Quick fifty
Speaker 5: two sixteen ten and four, led by legend Larry Robinson.
Speaker 1: Scott Steve.
Speaker 2: This was a star studded.
Speaker 1: Team defending champs.
Speaker 5: I mean you got to talk bro to Or Scott Gomez,
Speaker 5: Elias Scott god Nieda Meyer just to name a few,
Speaker 5: all Hall of famers, Ken Dan It's crazy, man. This
Speaker 5: was a This was a wagon of a team allowed
Speaker 5: the second fewest goals in the.
Speaker 1: East with bro or State. Mcgilney. That's crazy.
Speaker 2: Yes, Guinny mcghini, mgilney, mogil ley.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he he'll get there. He's got to get there,
Speaker 1: like a certain guys. I can't believe mcgilny's not in there.
Speaker 1: Keith Ku Chuck's not in there with Middleton's not in there.
Speaker 2: Chuck's the Ku Chuck, the dad.
Speaker 1: Yeah he was.
Speaker 2: I heard he was a monster. How about his boys, Oh,
Speaker 2: they are awesome. That's I mean, that's that's a cool
Speaker 2: thing about being a pro athlete. Like I'm starting now
Speaker 2: seeing the guys, the little kids that are in the
Speaker 2: locker room are now like at Notre Dame and shit
Speaker 2: playing at Ohio State.
Speaker 1: That's great. That's the fun.
Speaker 2: That's I think that's the best thing about pro sports,
Speaker 2: seeing the like the boys kids.
Speaker 1: Like my son played seventeen years pro yeah, Chris and
Speaker 1: had his retired. They retarded as Jersey in Hershey where
Speaker 1: he went three calder Cops and they were playing fifty
Speaker 1: something in games. And then Ryan played eleven years mostly
Speaker 1: in the minors, but he played one NHL game Madison
Speaker 1: Square Garden for the Rangers against the Ottawa Senators. If
Speaker 1: you're going to play one game, that is where you
Speaker 1: want to play it, right, Oh yeah, but it's fun.
Speaker 1: But these kids grew up in the locker room, right
Speaker 1: and they see, they watch and they just that's what
Speaker 1: they want to do.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I went to that LA skate so we did. We
Speaker 2: did a charity event after those. I can't skate, but
Speaker 2: you try, right.
Speaker 1: I try?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm all right. I'm telling you if you
Speaker 2: if I went out with you and you gave me
Speaker 2: three techniques, I can figure it, like if you just
Speaker 2: taught me how to do it, because I don't feel
Speaker 2: uncomfortable in the ice. I mean, I grew up roller blading,
Speaker 2: yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: But roller bladings skating is a lot shorter stride, Like
Speaker 1: I doubt I would work out. A lot of my workouts,
Speaker 1: i'd do rollerblading around the track or some long distance stuff.
Speaker 1: Then the first time I was on skate, i'd be
Speaker 1: tripping almost I'd be falling forward because it's such a
Speaker 1: shortest stride because roller blading you got to really take
Speaker 1: it out. Yeah, and it's like longer. Then you got
Speaker 1: on the ice. It's like, oh my god, so awkward.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we did that skate. And I only bring
Speaker 2: that up because all the Kings and there's a bunch
Speaker 2: of former kings and their kids were there and these
Speaker 2: like kids like they couldn't walk, but then they got
Speaker 2: on the skates and they're fucking flying around me doing
Speaker 2: laps and ship little girls doing finger skating.
Speaker 1: This I was, it was amazing skate.
Speaker 2: You remember, remember that these kids were skating. He had
Speaker 2: little little hockey haircut. Molly, there's a little badass kids.
Speaker 1: We all had mullets. But my my grandson's three and
Speaker 1: a half is going to be four, and got to
Speaker 1: get him on right he's he's already flying like I'll
Speaker 1: show you a video. It's like it's crazy. I was.
Speaker 1: I said something like two days ago. I was like, wow, amazing,
Speaker 1: how he improved and uh then I got a thirteen
Speaker 1: year old grandson that plays a really nice level. He
Speaker 1: plays really good hockey. So yeah, yeah, let's jump in.
Speaker 2: So what do you think? What did you think about
Speaker 2: this Devil's team? You first about this era? What was
Speaker 2: this Devil's team era? What was your thoughts about the team?
Speaker 1: Well, this group, I think they won two Cups, if
Speaker 1: not three, and they were you know, they were on
Speaker 1: a verge of winning another one against us, and that's
Speaker 1: how good. They were. Just strong in all areas. You know,
Speaker 1: they could score. They had great defense, they were tough, skilled,
Speaker 1: and they had a great goaltender, so they were they
Speaker 1: were not easy to solve, and they they really played
Speaker 1: a nice system that they're really hard to penetrate and
Speaker 1: to get some score goals. They were always among the
Speaker 1: best defensive teams in the league by how structured they were,
Speaker 1: so it was quite a challenge.
Speaker 2: Let's do a word association with certain guys. You give
Speaker 2: me one word, I'll see a name, border a Wall
Speaker 2: Wall Stevens.
Speaker 1: Keep your head up. That niede Meyer so skilled and fast.
Speaker 1: Robinson my idol, your idol. I grew up watching Larry
Speaker 1: Robinson's Search of Art and Guilla Point in Montreal. All
Speaker 1: those years, those three guys were my idols. That's why
Speaker 1: I looked up to and playing against. Larry was coaching then,
Speaker 1: so shaking his hand and line the words he had
Speaker 1: for me were amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah what did he say?
Speaker 1: He was just so happy that I finally got to
Speaker 1: experience this, as as pissed as I am right now
Speaker 1: that we didn't win. If there's one guy that I
Speaker 1: wish could win, this is you. Wow.
Speaker 2: Wow, those are that's an ultimate respect.
Speaker 1: He's on there, I think ten times. Yeah, he had
Speaker 1: his share, But but I played, you know, I played
Speaker 1: with Larry and Canada Cups and eighty one and eighty
Speaker 1: one for just amazing player and better person like so
Speaker 1: so funny, such a good team leader. Yeah, kept things loose.
Speaker 2: All right, Let's let's jump into the Avalanche Jackie.
Speaker 5: The number one seed in the West, led by Captain
Speaker 5: Joe Sakic. This was Ray's first little season with the
Speaker 5: Avs coming off. Of course, we alluded to a little
Speaker 5: bit earlier that Western Conference Finals loss Game seven to
Speaker 5: Dallas the year prior. We got to talk about some
Speaker 5: of these these ballers on this team. Sakkik Forstburg wah.
Speaker 1: Ray, I mean just the Hall of famers, to name
Speaker 1: a few, Rob Blake, Chris Drewery, Tong gay a lot,
Speaker 1: Hey do hey do?
Speaker 2: Now I want to go to the year before when
Speaker 2: you got traded. How was that experience?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: Was that a mutual I how?
Speaker 1: You asked? Yeah, so, like I was talking earlier, how
Speaker 1: the struggles had been you know, for quite a while,
Speaker 1: and it was the hardest, hardest thing I ever had
Speaker 1: to do in terms of my hockey career. As asked
Speaker 1: to leave Boston. Call Harry Sindon. He was at the
Speaker 1: general manager's meetings in Florida, and I called him and
Speaker 1: I said, Harry, I said, you know, I've decided that
Speaker 1: I've got to go somewhere to compete, to put myself
Speaker 1: in a different environment, to see if I, you know,
Speaker 1: first of all, if I still got it, and to
Speaker 1: try to win again, or to compete to win, to
Speaker 1: get somewhere, to have hope that a team, you know,
Speaker 1: we could get somewhere. So I told him I wanted
Speaker 1: to go to Philadelphia. I didn't want to go in
Speaker 1: a Western conference. I was at the time we were
Speaker 1: building our big house here in Boston, and I wanted
Speaker 1: to be able to commute come back when the schedule
Speaker 1: allowed me to, and I thought Philadelphia, looking at the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference, had the best opportunity. And I made that
Speaker 1: very clear to Harry and he was like, Okay, I
Speaker 1: hear you. And I knew Reggie Lemlin was a goodie
Speaker 1: for the Bruins. That is one of my best friends.
Speaker 1: That he was goalie coach for the Flyers, So I
Speaker 1: knew everything that was going on on their side, and
Speaker 1: I too, I thought I knew what was going on
Speaker 1: on my side, and it just happened that there was
Speaker 1: more teams involved at the end. And I, uh, I
Speaker 1: knew this because I'm having dinner one night with my
Speaker 1: agent and my wife and Steve Casper and his wife,
Speaker 1: and Renee Angelil calls me Celein Dion's husband back in
Speaker 1: the day. Yeah, don't know if you remember how we spoke.
Speaker 1: Do you remember me? We played golf together in Montreal
Speaker 1: and I'm like, yeah, yeah, Rene is yeah, I remember
Speaker 1: because him and Pierre Lacroid, a general manager for the Avs,
Speaker 1: were best friends. They grew up together. They talked every day,
Speaker 1: and he says, Pierre does not know I'm calling you.
Speaker 1: He says, I hear you might get traded. Corolado would
Speaker 1: be an amazing place, and so I'm like, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: Pierre doesn't know you're calling me, right, you talk every day.
Speaker 1: So anyways, I knew Colorado was involved. Dave Alltt played
Speaker 1: for Saint Louis back then that had played with the Bruins.
Speaker 1: He called me and says, Saint Louis would like to
Speaker 1: know if you come to Saint Louis. I'm like, that's
Speaker 1: not where I want to go. I knew New Jersey
Speaker 1: was involved, Detroit was involved, so I knew there was
Speaker 1: other teams involved. So we're playing a Flyers some after
Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon game. The last game I played with the Bruins,
Speaker 1: and I Reggie Lemblin in the morning says, Ray, it's
Speaker 1: a done deal. You're gonna you'll becoming a Philly. So
Speaker 1: I'm like great. So the puck ends. I'm on the
Speaker 1: ice the end the end of the game, and the
Speaker 1: puck's just rolling right for me and the buzzard goes off.
Speaker 1: So I pick up the puck and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: so I got the park for the last game I
Speaker 1: played with the Bruins and all that stuff. So then, Uh,
Speaker 1: after the game, I'm looking for Harry Sinda and I
Speaker 1: think it's a done deal. I can't reach Harry ended
Speaker 1: up calling me later that night says, sit tight, there's
Speaker 1: other teams in ball. I said, you know where I
Speaker 1: want to go. He says, yeah, but we'll see. He says,
Speaker 1: don't come to the rink Sunday if it's not done
Speaker 1: by tomorrow. If it's not done by the next day,
Speaker 1: don't come. We're playing Ottawa on the Monday. He says,
Speaker 1: stay away from the rink till it's done. So he
Speaker 1: calls me. I get a call later that night at
Speaker 1: the end of the the Senators game telling me that
Speaker 1: I'm going to Colorado but and warm up that that
Speaker 1: night Dave Dave Anderchuk was pulled off the ice and
Speaker 1: warm up and he calls me. He says, Ray, they
Speaker 1: just pulled me off the ice. I'm probably going with you.
Speaker 1: Where are we going? I said, I have no clue, Dave,
Speaker 1: I haven't heard nothing yet. So we both end up
Speaker 1: going to Colorado together. So it was but it was
Speaker 1: an amazing I never played with so many French guys
Speaker 1: in my life, and a hope, because you know Quebec
Speaker 1: Nordeks or those that's team in ninety six that moved
Speaker 1: to Denver, Yeah, to become the Avalanche, and they won
Speaker 1: the Cup in ninety six the first year they were there.
Speaker 1: They were ready to pop. When they moved from Quebec,
Speaker 1: they were frigging ready to roll, and so they won
Speaker 1: the Cup there. Then they competed. They got to the
Speaker 1: Semis pretty much every year, but could never really get
Speaker 1: over the hump until two thousand and one. So that's
Speaker 1: how the deal went down. So you get traded.
Speaker 2: Earlier in the interview, you go, you know, this is
Speaker 2: the best team I ever played for. How is that
Speaker 2: dynamic going when you're a fucking legend. Everyone knows you
Speaker 2: as mister Bruin, you're the Boston Bruins. Okay, you're the
Speaker 2: captain of the Boston Bruins. How was it going in
Speaker 2: and re calibrating yourself to a new locker room, Because
Speaker 2: that's tough. I don't know if I could do that.
Speaker 2: I didn't leave like after like ten years because I
Speaker 2: didn't want to go and learn new people. I didn't
Speaker 2: want to learn new systems. Like that's a very big thing,
Speaker 2: especially when you've been in somewhere for twenty plus years.
Speaker 2: You know what you're doing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: That's like being a rookie again in a little bit
Speaker 2: of a facet, which is completely different because you're a
Speaker 2: bored and you know, but you're learning guys for the
Speaker 2: first time in an uncomfortable environment that you've never been in.
Speaker 2: How was that dynamic?
Speaker 1: Walking into that room? First of all was really weird.
Speaker 2: I are you like Banks when you joined Mighty Ducks
Speaker 2: from Banks?
Speaker 1: I was asked to play in that movie just to come.
Speaker 1: You know. They had a cameo of Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: Luke Luke Rubbie Tie and I don't know who the
Speaker 1: other guy was, but there's two guys. And I was asking.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm not flying a LA feed so but
Speaker 1: I got to Calgary. So Dave and I took the
Speaker 1: plane at seven am on the Tuesday morning. We're playing
Speaker 1: in Calgary that night, so they sent a playing for us.
Speaker 1: It couldn't have been the smallest jet that you've ever had.
Speaker 1: We have to stop in Kansas City to refuel, and
Speaker 1: we're both and like he's six' four And i'm Like
Speaker 1: i'm Six but we're like this in a, plane all
Speaker 1: frigging bubble up with our, equipment our, sticks our, clothes
Speaker 1: and it's like it was so. Uncomfortable we get To
Speaker 1: calgary around two pm their, time and then we have
Speaker 1: a little press, conference a quick bite to. EAT i
Speaker 1: try to sleep for maybe an hour or. WHATEVER i can't.
Speaker 1: Sleep SO i met at the rink at four. O'clock you,
Speaker 1: KNOW i first got the, RINK i walk in and right,
Speaker 1: there it's seventy seven in An, Avalanche. Jersey it was
Speaker 1: so frigging. Weird, man it was. Weird and then as
Speaker 1: the guys come, IN i greeted everybody at the door
Speaker 1: and introduced. Myself and but they you, know they got
Speaker 1: me for my, play but they also got, ME i
Speaker 1: think more for leadership and WHAT i brought in other
Speaker 1: areas as, well because talent they, had they needed maybe
Speaker 1: another voice in there as. Well so but WHEN i
Speaker 1: talk About, TOWN i mean this. Team the first first,
Speaker 1: game first Game i'm, Playing i'm behind the net And i'm, like,
Speaker 1: okay SO i come. Out Miilan haydu comes across in our.
Speaker 1: ZONE i frigging rip a pass right on his. Tape
Speaker 1: now he gets it and all in one motion he
Speaker 1: rips it To Joe sackett going up the middle on
Speaker 1: a breakaway. Scores i'm, like, jeez it's. FUN i think
Speaker 1: this is going to be. Fine but THEN i get To.
Speaker 1: Colorado we go so we play In, calgary Playing, edmonton
Speaker 1: and then we go back To, colorado AND i got
Speaker 1: like three frigging suitcases and luggage and all that. Stuff
Speaker 1: And i'm staying at The Marriotte residence In i'm on
Speaker 1: the third, floor no, elevator So i'm walking three flights of.
Speaker 1: STAIRS i THOUGHT i was going to. DIE i mean the,
Speaker 1: elevation And i'm, Like i'm, like holy, shit this is
Speaker 1: going to be. Different but you train, there you play,
Speaker 1: there you practice, there and what an advantage to be
Speaker 1: able to play, there and then you go To Sea
Speaker 1: level and play some of these.
Speaker 2: Games it's about a, mile, right they'd always have those
Speaker 2: little altitude. METERS i hated going To. Denver yeah it's
Speaker 2: not JUST i didn't feel those. ALTITUDE i just hated Fucking.
Speaker 1: Denver. Oh you could never win. There you can never
Speaker 1: win there except for that one. Game SO i, UH
Speaker 1: i go to A patriots. Game i'm in a box
Speaker 1: with the whole at every fucking. GAME i go to
Speaker 1: the game with my two boys that are Huge patriots, fan,
Speaker 1: right So chris is uh fifteen And ryan's ten and
Speaker 1: uh And patriots killed them that game here this is
Speaker 1: two thousand and, one yes, before so they kill. Them
Speaker 1: and every Time patriots, score my kids are going nuts
Speaker 1: And i'm Like, jesus boys now. Crazy but, hey, sorry
Speaker 1: like they're you, know fifteen.
Speaker 2: Kids let's do word association with The avalanche and will
Speaker 2: jump into the. Game let's do some dude talk. One
Speaker 2: i'll give you a, name you give me one. Word
Speaker 2: Joe Sackett Heart, Trophy Heart, Trophy Most Valuable player that,
Speaker 2: Year Heart. Trophy, Amazing patrick the best is he really
Speaker 2: as crazy as he?
Speaker 1: Seems Like, patrick like, you you would love this BECAUSE
Speaker 1: i just tell people be careful what you, ask because
Speaker 1: he'll answer sometimes like he puts his balls on a,
Speaker 1: line like he'll he'll say shit that but he needs.
Speaker 1: It that's how he, rolls, Right like he challenges himself
Speaker 1: by some of the stuff he says because He, okay
Speaker 1: NOW i got to frigging back it up, right and he,
Speaker 1: does and that is that's not done by.
Speaker 2: MANY i was never that kind of guy.
Speaker 1: EITHER I i wouldn't EVEN i, MEAN i.
Speaker 2: Think you could during, game BUT i would never before game,
Speaker 2: ever like give fuel to, fire because you never you
Speaker 2: know how there's always there's so many variables that take
Speaker 2: place in a team, Sports LIKE.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even fregain yap much Because i'm, LIKE i
Speaker 1: know it's going to come against. Me like there's this
Speaker 1: one kid that come to me every TIME i play,
Speaker 1: him and he'd be right in my, face, Pork you're
Speaker 1: so fucking. Overrated i'm, like holy, Shit i'm, like what
Speaker 1: does that make? You who are?
Speaker 2: YOU i was just gonna say it was a.
Speaker 1: Friend of the.
Speaker 2: Show what About Peter forsburg A?
Speaker 1: Viking, Man oh my god he. Was he was so
Speaker 1: stubborn Like peter would like would try to and he
Speaker 1: could sometimes like beat three guys and it's, like AND i, Go,
Speaker 1: PETE i, said, move move the. PUCK i Promise i'll
Speaker 1: give it right. Back you don't have to take that
Speaker 1: physical get hit or hit. Guys this is not all.
Speaker 1: RACES i love. IT i love. IT i got to do.
Speaker 1: This i'm, like, okay but he would just, man what
Speaker 1: a what a Most but you could get under his skin,
Speaker 1: though because If you're, LIKE i remember playing against him
Speaker 1: and you BECAUSE i knew how he, played and then
Speaker 1: you're you're like right in his face all the, time
Speaker 1: and he he'd, Go cuckoo's what a? Player what a?
Speaker 2: Player psychological battles you guys, Have what About Rob?
Speaker 1: Blake a monster monster defense the defender and uh a
Speaker 1: great offensive. Talent. Rob you know his physicality if he
Speaker 1: when he had you lined? Up, MAN i played in The
Speaker 1: olympics and he was my partner in The. Olympics And
Speaker 1: i'm stepping up on somebody in The. Olympics so we're
Speaker 1: defense defense. Partner, okay so we're playing together like he's
Speaker 1: on the right, Side i'm on the west. Side we're
Speaker 1: DEFENSE u, twosome you, know so there's TWO d three
Speaker 1: forwards and a. Goalie but so he was my partner
Speaker 1: And i'm stepping up on a forward coming to, me
Speaker 1: And I'm I'M i got my stick out like. This
Speaker 1: all of a, SUDDEN i see, him he's coming and
Speaker 1: he's got his ass is coming. RIGHT i get my
Speaker 1: arm out of. There my arm would have snapped and
Speaker 1: like this IF i don't see him last. Second but he,
Speaker 1: would Like Scott stevens would hit guys in the middle
Speaker 1: of the. Ice rob could do, that and he had
Speaker 1: a bomb for a shot and a classy, guy such
Speaker 1: a good. Teammate. Wow what About Chris. Drry Chris drury
Speaker 1: a gamer, game always always scoring big. Goals when when
Speaker 1: it was imporn score, goal he was a guy scoring
Speaker 1: it like always at the perfect. Time in The League World Series, Champion.
Speaker 2: Little League World Series champion out of what. City, yes
Speaker 2: we'll be right back after this quick, Break all, Right,
Speaker 2: jackie let's build this game. Up lead up to this,
Speaker 2: game we talked about it.
Speaker 5: Earlier The avs go out and take game six four
Speaker 5: nothing In, jersey head back To colorado for the third,
Speaker 5: Finals game seven in thirty years crazy and we got
Speaker 5: history on the line here, too going up Against rays
Speaker 5: Guy Larry, robinson who was eight to no In Stanley
Speaker 5: cup finals before.
Speaker 2: This so pretty.
Speaker 5: Crazy and we're Without, forsburg he was. Out all of
Speaker 5: The Western conference finals were big.
Speaker 1: Loss that that was that. Story so we PLAY la
Speaker 1: in the second round and we. Win we win seven
Speaker 1: and seven games And peter plays the. Game we all
Speaker 1: leave after the game And peter goes out for dinner
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden enugh feeling. Well he goes
Speaker 1: to the, hospital he has emergency emergency surgery middle of the,
Speaker 1: night and we have a meeting the next. Day we
Speaker 1: don't practice because we're playing the following day to start the,
Speaker 1: final And Bob, hartley our, coach comes, in tells us
Speaker 1: That peter had an emergency. Surgery he's done for the.
Speaker 1: Playoffs AND i was, like, wow, really maybe our best.
Speaker 1: Player so that's that's the stuff that you, know you go,
Speaker 1: through and injuries and and just the ups and downs
Speaker 1: and the. Emotions you, know you guys are one one
Speaker 1: game and done for. Us you got to win four
Speaker 1: games and sometimes it's go. Sevens the mood swings and
Speaker 1: the highs and the lows that you try to stay
Speaker 1: even keel and to keep that. Belief it is so
Speaker 1: hard to maintain and to and now you've got twenty
Speaker 1: guys that you got to kind of work with to
Speaker 1: kind of keep them up and or not too. High hey,
Speaker 1: guys that's. One that's. One we need three, more yeah,
Speaker 1: Right or hey, guys we're down to, nothing but we're
Speaker 1: going back. Home we're going back. Home we'll be, Okay we're,
Speaker 1: Good we're. Good it's it's crazy.
Speaker 2: The thing that we always pool from, hockey basketball eighty
Speaker 2: plus one hundred and sixty two with, baseball the. Games
Speaker 2: we always talk about your guys' competitive stamina because you
Speaker 2: have to the focus. Levels like we break our game
Speaker 2: down into, quarters you guys break your, games your your
Speaker 2: series down into. Games you got to have that competitive,
Speaker 2: stamina that short, memory whether good or. Bad AND i remember,
Speaker 2: vividly you, Know belichick would always reference. Hockey you, know
Speaker 2: look at you, know you, guys they gotta do it
Speaker 2: for This you guys only have to do it for
Speaker 2: one Fucking, Saturday so you know WHAT i.
Speaker 1: Mean it's, different but it's the.
Speaker 2: Same but that competitive, stamina like that's hard to like
Speaker 2: go in like a six game.
Speaker 1: Slump BUT i think ALL i think all good really
Speaker 1: successful players they have they have short, memories short. Memory for,
Speaker 1: me WHEN i look back on my, CAREER i was
Speaker 1: looking for, perfection knowing That i'm never going to reach.
Speaker 1: It but in the constructive, WAY i played with guys
Speaker 1: that are looking for perfection and if they don't have,
Speaker 1: it they're freaking. Screwed you lose them for a, period
Speaker 1: you look for a, game you lose them for a,
Speaker 1: week you, know for. ME i was looking for perfection
Speaker 1: every single, day let it be practiced, games knowing That
Speaker 1: i'm never going to reach. It but it made me
Speaker 1: the BEST i could be every single. Day AND i
Speaker 1: brought that AND i brought, that and WHEN i look
Speaker 1: back on my, career that's WHY i was so, consistent
Speaker 1: BECAUSE i never sat on. Nothing you, know IF i
Speaker 1: have an amazing, game it's like they're in your, okay
Speaker 1: So i'll, right you're freaking amazing tonight And i'm, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: HEY i did my, job, man BUT i don't care
Speaker 1: because Tomorrow i'm trying to be. Better, YEAH i got
Speaker 1: to be better. Tomorrow AND i never really sat on
Speaker 1: nothing That i've. ACCOMPLISHED i, Said i'm going to look
Speaker 1: back when it's all over. With that's When i'm going
Speaker 1: to look back and kind of analyze AND i, go holy,
Speaker 1: SHIT i did. That, Yeah BUT i know WHY i did,
Speaker 1: it because that's HOW i approach. It my glass was
Speaker 1: always half, full never half. Empty we're going to find a,
Speaker 1: solution we're going to get. Better that's HOW i approach
Speaker 1: everything as a later a, Captain that's HOW i approach,
Speaker 1: things always in a constructive. Way if it's, CRITICISM i
Speaker 1: was always part of it because we're a, team and it's, like, hey,
Speaker 1: guys you KNOW i might be talking to you right,
Speaker 1: now But i'm part of this AND i got to be.
Speaker 1: Better we got to be. Better and NOW i approach
Speaker 1: my leadership skills and all that. Stuff that's HOW i
Speaker 1: approach everything in.
Speaker 2: Life and that's why you're the fucking. Captain, well that's Like,
Speaker 2: titanic it got be. Done what makes we could kind of?
Speaker 1: Hang this is kind of like The. Titanic you, KNOW
Speaker 1: i could stand right behind. You we.
Speaker 2: Got a lot Of titanic and then the elevator reminds
Speaker 2: you of The, titanic you, know the. Sliders that's why
Speaker 2: WHEN i first got, this BUT i was, like, man
Speaker 2: That's titanic, elevator holy ship going all over the. Place
Speaker 2: can you break down the playoff beard for? Us where
Speaker 2: did this come?
Speaker 1: From that? Started BECAUSE i stole it way? Back, yeah
Speaker 1: it was it was something that you, know maybe The
Speaker 1: islanders might have started that When so The islanders won
Speaker 1: their First cup and seventy nine to. Eighty they beat
Speaker 1: us in the second, round like we finished. First, overall
Speaker 1: The islanders were coming as a. Team first GAME i
Speaker 1: remember at the end of the first, period we had
Speaker 1: a big brawl that probably lasted a half. Hour AND
Speaker 1: i think that right then and there kind of made
Speaker 1: them who they. Became they went on to win four
Speaker 1: Straight Stanley Cups wow that. Year AND i think that's
Speaker 1: that's when The islanders kind of started this beard. Thing you,
Speaker 1: know we're not going to shave and so then it
Speaker 1: just like mullets and. Everything you, know it's it's a hockey.
Speaker 2: Thing it became a hockey. Thing jackie break down the.
Speaker 5: Game The avs never trailed in this one up one,
Speaker 5: nothing Two tangway, goals got up to, nothing Then saki
Speaker 5: had another, one got up three. Nothing jersey finally got
Speaker 5: on the board the end of the second up three
Speaker 5: to one heading into the, Third, uh survive a bevy
Speaker 5: of power play, shots win this thing three to.
Speaker 2: One so when did you feel it was? Coming are?
Speaker 2: You because you're the cap AND i just heard how
Speaker 2: you were. Boys, hey, boys we still got we got
Speaker 2: a period.
Speaker 1: Here. Boys that was you know what Like i'm sure
Speaker 1: you've worked, With like we Had Fred, neff that was our.
Speaker 2: Our mental, coach, psychologists sports, psychologists, right so we would
Speaker 2: have classes when when Terror riley.
Speaker 1: Coach she was really big on, this so we would
Speaker 1: actually have class that we would work, on you, know
Speaker 1: staying in the, allment staying present about the process and
Speaker 1: breaking down all those things and working on visualization and
Speaker 1: and all those. Things and you, know we had a
Speaker 1: pretty veteran, team and you, know the older guys were,
Speaker 1: like what the fuck is what shit?
Speaker 2: Is?
Speaker 1: This is? This come? ON i want to do? This
Speaker 1: and BUT i bought into. IT i really enjoyed. IT
Speaker 1: i liked. It and staying in the moment is such
Speaker 1: a hard, thing staying present and about the process and
Speaker 1: staying right here and not thinking about the outcome or
Speaker 1: the past. Whatever it's, like it is so. Hard and
Speaker 1: that game was the biggest tests of staying in the.
Speaker 1: Moment we're up three nothing And i'm, like holy, Shit
Speaker 1: i'm gonna win the Frigging. Cup Then i'm, like, ray come,
Speaker 1: back come, back shut the hell, up play the, game
Speaker 1: stay right. Here what a test that. Was and staying
Speaker 1: in the, moment and then the last two shifts is
Speaker 1: trying to stay. ALIVE i always THOUGHT i was gonna
Speaker 1: faint and and AND i had a hard time. Breathing i'm, Like,
Speaker 1: Jesus i'm this is going to. Happen and they got
Speaker 1: my big face and the jumbo tron and people are
Speaker 1: going frigging. Nuts last, Minute i'm trying to get. Off
Speaker 1: the guys are pushing me back on the. Ice they
Speaker 1: wanted to be on the ice for the last second
Speaker 1: of the. Game, man it was it was. Crazy it
Speaker 1: was it was. Nuts what a.
Speaker 2: Feeling and when it hit, zero it's the first thing
Speaker 2: you think, about going.
Speaker 1: To see my, Goalie Patrick. Waugh you, know good goalies
Speaker 1: make good. Coaches great goalies made great, coaches And patrick
Speaker 1: made a lot of great coaches out, there and you
Speaker 1: can't win without. It so he was, amazing AND i was,
Speaker 1: like we were like. This we had so much fun playing.
Speaker 1: Together i'd pick him up for all home. Games i'd
Speaker 1: pick him up to go to the. Airport we sat
Speaker 1: together in the. Planes we go for dinner every every
Speaker 1: time on the, road so really. Close and we always
Speaker 1: joked about playing together someday When i'd go back To
Speaker 1: montreal in the summers And patrick was playing For, MONTREAL
Speaker 1: i was playing for The, bruins and we were members
Speaker 1: at the same, club and we would always, say, yeah you,
Speaker 1: know we got to come To montreal and said, no
Speaker 1: you got to come plain In boston and we end
Speaker 1: up In colorado together playing a year and a. Half was, amazing.
Speaker 2: Amazing so relationships you get in, sport, yeah you probably
Speaker 2: know that guy. Forever and then it comes full. Circle
Speaker 2: you guys go different paths and then it leads you.
Speaker 2: Back that's, so.
Speaker 1: LIKE i get a. Call So Sean paudine was on this,
Speaker 1: team one of my favorite. Teammates Every june, ninth at
Speaker 1: the exact time we win The. Cup, hey mister bab
Speaker 1: how are happy?
Speaker 2: Anniversary hell, yeah you guys are always.
Speaker 1: So then we got a text train going around with
Speaker 1: a few of the. Guys it's it's because you win,
Speaker 1: together you walk. Together, right there's, nothing it's nothing like. It, forever, yeah.
Speaker 2: Forever and Then, jackie let's let's see the aftermath of this.
Speaker 5: Game The avalanche become the first team since the nineteen
Speaker 5: seventy One Montreal canadians to rally from a three to
Speaker 5: two deaf sit in the finals win this. Thing ray
Speaker 5: retires and rides off into the. Sunset his number seventy
Speaker 5: seven is retired by Both colorado And, boston and he'd
Speaker 5: be selected to The Hockey hall Of fame two thousand
Speaker 5: and four.
Speaker 1: All time leader in points assistant goes by a defenseman. Too,
Speaker 1: yeah those are pretty good. Numbers a pretty good. Career
Speaker 1: is that? Good not too more than half Of? Bobby
Speaker 1: you are just a Little french. Guy, hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: Hey bobby played ten, years ten, years and his last
Speaker 1: year might have been on one. Leg bobby plays twenty two.
Speaker 1: Years forget about.
Speaker 2: It let's name the. Game these are some names we
Speaker 2: came up. With if you have a specific name that
Speaker 2: you come up, with we'll use. That after twenty two. Years,
Speaker 2: Game this one's For. Ray Game mission, Accomplished game.
Speaker 6: Avs in.
Speaker 1: Seven Game mission. ACCOMPLISHED i HAD t shirts made up and.
Speaker 1: Hats it Was mission SIXTEEN.
Speaker 2: W mission SIXTEEN w.
Speaker 1: And the and the exit for the h where we
Speaker 1: played The. Meadowlands the exit was SIXTEEN. W i love.
Speaker 1: That that's. It we're Going mission SIXTEEN. W. Game that's.
Speaker 2: Awesome that's what it's. Called score the. Game is this
Speaker 2: the greatest game of all? Time let score? Its ray
Speaker 2: steaks zero to ten of this game Seven Stanley, Cup
Speaker 2: oh ten Ten Big Time do Or? Die yeah ten
Speaker 2: yeah ten for? Me nine point six star power star
Speaker 2: power on your, team who was in the, building where
Speaker 2: there are celebrities in the, building, coaches hall of, famers
Speaker 2: a lot of Good.
Speaker 1: IF i go star power by who's on the, Ice
Speaker 1: i'd go ten, again a lot of hall of. Famers
Speaker 1: we'll go To i'll go.
Speaker 2: NINE i like.
Speaker 1: IT i went eight, NINE i went nine to.
Speaker 2: One the gameplay of the game Seven finals game three.
Speaker 1: To, one three to. One but after a long, series.
Speaker 2: The gameplay though for, you this is for, You so
Speaker 2: it's ten, Ten i'm gonna go three.
Speaker 1: One battle guys were sitting in this freaking. CHUIR i
Speaker 1: think it's.
Speaker 7: Easy this is.
Speaker 1: We.
Speaker 4: Had we Had Mark cuban come on and he gave everything.
Speaker 4: Ten it's like a market. Owner but you know, what for, you.
Speaker 1: Hey well earned.
Speaker 2: Gameplay for, me he's gotta go seven to.
Speaker 1: One had an eight. ONE i also had an eight.
Speaker 2: One the name of the game the mission sixteen w pretty.
Speaker 1: Strong eleven, yes that might break the. ALGORITHM i love.
Speaker 2: IT i gotta go with the nine yes for the.
Speaker 1: CURVE i had a nine point zero as. WELL i
Speaker 1: had nine point.
Speaker 2: Two we're just gonna put, us it's gonna.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be the highest.
Speaker 4: Game nine point, two three that puts us our new,
Speaker 4: fourth just behind The Malcolm butler Game Super bowl forty
Speaker 4: nine see alfas The, patriots and just ahead Of miracle
Speaker 4: On ice in nineteen eighty we did With Jim craig.
Speaker 2: Holy Strong Worthy, wow, right, man miracles should be, higher
Speaker 2: not just this, game just in.
Speaker 6: General.
Speaker 2: Well ray even said the miracle brought it to the. Stage,
Speaker 2: basically he said, that he, said that match right there
Speaker 2: grew with the. GAME i, mean big, Time, ray do
Speaker 2: we miss anything about this?
Speaker 1: Game. No WHEN i WHEN i watch the replay of
Speaker 1: the game and all that, stuff and the ceremony of
Speaker 1: the cup and all that, stuff it's so cool to
Speaker 1: see my two kids and the background that, is and
Speaker 1: my ten year old is frigging crying like a. Baby,
Speaker 1: Yeah dress that's that's you know for. ME i that
Speaker 1: that just kind of wraps everything.
Speaker 2: Up you, know everyone go out there and check out
Speaker 2: The Borg Family. Foundation ray does a lot of great
Speaker 2: things for the. Community he's got The Captain's ball to
Speaker 2: fight Als september twenty third at A Gainness. Arena tickets
Speaker 2: at The Borket gala dot com check them. Out you,
Speaker 2: know we met many, times many, times but the first
Speaker 2: Time we met in two thousand and nine at a
Speaker 2: what was that you said in The cape at that?
Speaker 2: EVENT i really didn't KNOW i, like LIKE i was
Speaker 2: A CALIFORNIA. KI i didn't really know Who Ray boar,
Speaker 2: was you know WHAT i? Mean BEING i didn't know
Speaker 2: hockey and getting to know you more over this last
Speaker 2: hour and a. HALF i, MEAN i would have loved
Speaker 2: to get to play with. You you just seem like a.
Speaker 2: Captain every answer that you've had you can tell your
Speaker 2: stand up. Dude you love your, family you love, hockey
Speaker 2: and you did it the right. Way and it's an
Speaker 2: absolute honor to have you here with The Stanley. Cup
Speaker 2: we thought it'd only be.
Speaker 1: Suitable it's. Amazing WHEN i heard, THAT i was, Like,
Speaker 1: jesus you are connected.
Speaker 2: Man, No, no we got to do our.
Speaker 4: Homework The Stanley Cup final Starts june fourth only Versus
Speaker 4: Panthers Conraic Danilers Panthers.
Speaker 1: Uick quick question for. You have you talked With brad
Speaker 1: Marsha on at?
Speaker 7: All?
Speaker 1: YEAH i communicate With brad. QUITE i MEAN i text
Speaker 1: them after they, won but you, know during the trade
Speaker 1: stuff and all that. Stuff of, course this Season brad
Speaker 1: might reach out OR i. Whenever you, KNOW i have,
Speaker 1: great great relationships with these, guys you, Know, Burgee, Sharrah,
Speaker 1: brad all the captains and the coaches of The. Bruins
Speaker 1: and then with our, fundation they've been so supportive and
Speaker 1: some of them show up on my golf tournament that
Speaker 1: Is august, eighteenth and then a lot of them they've
Speaker 1: supported Our captain's, Ball like there's at least you, know
Speaker 1: eight to twelve of them that come. Up you, KNOW
Speaker 1: i was a great relationship With, Butch, Cassidy bruce and Then.
Speaker 1: Monty you, know they were, great and we try to
Speaker 1: have it just before camp, starts BUT i know everybody's,
Speaker 1: here SO i always kind of hope that we get
Speaker 1: a good. Turnout that makes it so special for people
Speaker 1: that attend the ball and they've been so generous and
Speaker 1: uh with their time and so. Through And i'm And
Speaker 1: i'm a huge. Fan you, KNOW i get to the
Speaker 1: garden pretty much WHEN i have to now to watch.
Speaker 1: Games BUT i WATCH i watch as many games AS
Speaker 1: i can if i'm you, know And i'd rather be
Speaker 1: in my chair at home watching it AND i get
Speaker 1: to watch a game because you, know when we're out
Speaker 1: watching games in a luxury box or whatever it. Is
Speaker 1: you don't you don't see? It oh ship they. Scored,
Speaker 1: okay let's see the replay ON. Tv but you, know
Speaker 1: And I'm i'm a big, fan AND i really admire these,
Speaker 1: guys and and we've had such a great. Run you
Speaker 1: know those two decades we talked about where you, know The,
Speaker 1: patriots The Red, sox The, celtics The, bruins they were
Speaker 1: just you, know title, town, right it. Was it was.
Speaker 1: Crazy so get to know them and having a relationship
Speaker 1: and ships with, them and you, know sending them a
Speaker 1: little text when they're doing something, great knowing that they
Speaker 1: could always reach out if they have a question or
Speaker 1: they need anything from. Me it's it's it's been.
Speaker 2: Fun, no this has been extremely. Fun it's been absolute.
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Speaker 2: not only do we have The Stanley cup with, us
Speaker 2: we got the keeper of The, Cup Phil pritchard here
Speaker 2: in the. Studio welcome to The. Nutthouse though this is
Speaker 2: this is, AWESOME i feel way over. DRESSED i, mean
Speaker 2: you have an image to upkeep with this bad. Boy
Speaker 2: anytime you go around it's like you're like secret. SERVICE
Speaker 2: i feel like. THAT i told the audience. Already there's
Speaker 2: like six cars outside just waiting waiting for something to.
Speaker 2: Happen if anyone wants to come around this freaking. Lord
Speaker 2: it is pretty. Nice though it's not like it's. Unbelievable
Speaker 2: it's it's really cool because OF i think because of
Speaker 2: the imperfections of. It when you see the. Imperfections that
Speaker 2: shows me is that this thing's been around for a
Speaker 2: very long. Time and having you, know all the names
Speaker 2: of every player that's got to hold this cup, on
Speaker 2: there's just a lot of. Tradition this. Is this is
Speaker 2: a pretty damn cool trophy and we've seen them.
Speaker 7: All, yeah it's amazing what started off in the eighteen
Speaker 7: nineties as that little, bowl what it's become now and
Speaker 7: how hockey has grown and you see where the countries
Speaker 7: that it's played in and the names on.
Speaker 1: IT i, mean if it could, talk it have its own.
Speaker 2: Podcast it would definitely have its own if it could.
Speaker 2: Talk what would be a fun Story it would say
Speaker 2: that you've been.
Speaker 7: AROUND i think one thing that's really cool that not everyone.
Speaker 7: Realizes nowhere on there does.
Speaker 6: It Say Stanley.
Speaker 7: Cup The Dominion Hockey Challenge bowl is the real, name
Speaker 7: But Stanley cup sounds way.
Speaker 2: Cooler, yeah so this Is Dominion. Bowl, yeah we've been.
Speaker 6: You've been blessed with The Dominion.
Speaker 2: Ball, now what's a question you wish no one had
Speaker 2: ever ask you about the?
Speaker 1: Cup is this the real? One everywhere we?
Speaker 6: Go the first question is is this the real?
Speaker 7: One because people can't believe that it's here or whatever
Speaker 7: that always gets, asked is this the real?
Speaker 1: One?
Speaker 2: Yeah can you take us through the origins of how
Speaker 2: you became the keeper of The?
Speaker 1: Cup you know?
Speaker 7: WHAT i growing up In. CANADA i played, hockey just.
Speaker 1: Like all my.
Speaker 7: Buddies everyone did road, hockey street, hockey ice, hockey. Whatever
Speaker 7: we all wanted to play in The National Hockey league
Speaker 7: and lift The Stanley. CUP i THINK i was either
Speaker 7: smart enough or dumb enough to realize that WHEN i
Speaker 7: was fifteen THAT i wasn't going to be playing pro.
Speaker 6: Hockey my face got in the way of the.
Speaker 7: Puck whatever, HAPPENED i had to do something, else and
Speaker 7: so WHEN i went to. COLLEGE i had always grown
Speaker 7: up collecting hockey, stuff sports, stuff football.
Speaker 6: EVERYTHING i was a big sports.
Speaker 7: Fanatic SO i took a sports administration course in college
Speaker 7: and it ended up being a co op internship thing
Speaker 7: where you volunteer you don't get. Paid mine was with
Speaker 7: The Ontario Hockey, league and for whatever, HAPPENED i must
Speaker 7: have done a good job because my boss was there
Speaker 7: thought guy's, okay let's see how we can help. Him
Speaker 7: SO i went on to The Canadian Hockey league and
Speaker 7: THEN i got a call to go to The Hockey
Speaker 7: hall Of.
Speaker 1: Fame was that was eighty, Eight that was a long time.
Speaker 7: Ago, YEAH i went to The Hockey hall Of, fame
Speaker 7: BUT i didn't start off as traveling with a. Cup that,
Speaker 7: took believe it or, not four days my first week
Speaker 7: on the. Job someone needed the cup up In, Newmarket,
Speaker 7: ontario which is a small. Town conor McDavid's from, There
Speaker 7: Sam bennett's up. There there's a bunch of players from up.
Speaker 7: There it had to go up to a minor hockey.
Speaker 7: Tournament And i'm the new guy in the. Block and
Speaker 7: our boss, said does anyone want to take The Stanley
Speaker 7: cup up On friday night To, Newmarket? Ontario AND i
Speaker 7: look around the office and nobody says. Anything And i'm
Speaker 7: thinking to, MYSELF i don't know if you put your
Speaker 7: hand up in, this BUT i put my hand. Up
Speaker 7: SO i put my hand up and all, Right, phil
Speaker 7: do you want to go up? THERE i, said that'd be.
Speaker 7: Great what kind of car you? Got i'm, Thinking, okay
Speaker 7: what kind of car DO i? GOT i tell him
Speaker 7: WHAT i?
Speaker 6: Got will it fit in the back of the.
Speaker 1: Car we'll make.
Speaker 7: It SO i drove. Up we did this minor hockey.
Speaker 7: Event and WHEN i came in On monday, morning my boss,
Speaker 7: SAID i heard it went well On. Friday, YEAH i
Speaker 7: want to go To dallas this. Weekend and it just
Speaker 7: kind of went from. THERE i don't want to SAY
Speaker 7: i applied FOR i didn't really apply for a. JOB
Speaker 7: i put my hand. Up so WHAT i tell people everywhere, is,
Speaker 7: hey you're never in the wrong spot at the Wrong
Speaker 7: you never know what's going to, happen is you KNOW i.
Speaker 2: WAS i was expecting like a conclave or like there
Speaker 2: was a bunch of coming out of. SHIP i thought
Speaker 2: there was going to be like a selection of cardinals
Speaker 2: type hockey people that make a.
Speaker 1: VOTE i guess you just got to say put your hand.
Speaker 1: Up that was.
Speaker 7: It but you know, WHAT i believe it or. Not
Speaker 7: in eighty, eight, obviously hockey was a lot different than
Speaker 7: than it is. Now Wayne gretzky had just got traded
Speaker 7: to The Los Angeles. Kings hockey in The south began
Speaker 7: to boom pretty. Quick, California, florida all of That dallas, Area, Phoenix, Yes,
Speaker 7: Anaheim Los. Angeles but you look at where hockey is
Speaker 7: now compared to where it was. Then everyone in the
Speaker 7: world that puts on a pair of skates and holds
Speaker 7: a stick arguably wants to play in The National Hockey.
Speaker 7: League was just like me WHEN i was a. Kid
Speaker 7: but ultimately they want to win this and bring it
Speaker 7: home to mom and dad and say thanks and. That
Speaker 7: that's the stories that it can't, tell which it.
Speaker 2: Could, Yeah, now what's your favorite place that you got
Speaker 2: to bring it?
Speaker 1: To for?
Speaker 7: ME i LOVE i love going everywhere to a new.
Speaker 7: PLACE i love the people In. Finland in the, summer
Speaker 7: it's twenty four hours, night so they have a lot
Speaker 7: of celebrations going. On in the winter twenty four hours of,
Speaker 7: darkness it's a bit, tougher, yeah but, yeah The, fins
Speaker 7: they're all in on. Hockey but regardless of where we,
Speaker 7: go whether it's Across, CANADA, us over To, europe Into russia,
Speaker 7: wherever the reaction of hockey today.
Speaker 6: Is growing all the.
Speaker 7: TIME i think the last SET i saw it was
Speaker 7: it's played in ninety six countries around the. World, now oh,
Speaker 7: yeah and most of them don't even have, snow but
Speaker 7: they can make ice now and that makes it.
Speaker 2: Work it's pretty crazy in this new information, age how
Speaker 2: all the sports are just. Booming it seems like because
Speaker 2: of the social, media's the streaming services that are creating
Speaker 2: these deals with the, leagues THINKS i think sports are
Speaker 2: just on a way up because it's our real only
Speaker 2: REALITY tv that's real, exactly you know WHAT i? Mean
Speaker 2: like there's REALITY, tv but that ain't.
Speaker 1: Real this is.
Speaker 7: Real it's funny you said That my wife loves REALITY. Tv,
Speaker 7: YEAH i TELL i always tell her that's not REALITY.
Speaker 2: Tv In.
Speaker 7: Canada REALITY tv started With Hockey night In.
Speaker 1: Canada that's the real.
Speaker 7: Stuff and it's grown Obviously monday night football and all that.
Speaker 1: Baseball but that's. Reality that's.
Speaker 2: Reality, now what's the most intense superstition you've?
Speaker 1: ENCOUNTERED i think there's a few of.
Speaker 7: Them one of them is the beard in the playoffs
Speaker 7: hockey is right into. That the guys don't shave throughout
Speaker 7: basically two and a half months if they're still playing in.
Speaker 7: That but the other one is they will not touch
Speaker 7: it until they've earned.
Speaker 1: It AND i love that. Respect, Yeah like.
Speaker 7: Whatever Lord stanley brought to this game back in the
Speaker 7: eighteen nineties when he purchased this In, London, england it
Speaker 7: has grown and. Grown the respect of it and all
Speaker 7: of that and it could have a lot to do
Speaker 7: with the way the game is gowing in social media
Speaker 7: and all of, that but it's our white gloves we.
Speaker 7: Wear the guys understand how hard it is to. Win
Speaker 7: they know they can't do it by. Themselves their family
Speaker 7: is part of, it so when they touch, it they
Speaker 7: want to have earned. It and you gotta love anytime
Speaker 7: respect is part of a.
Speaker 2: Sport, yeah you feel that with, hockey you feel respect.
Speaker 2: Tradition that's something that like that locker, room out of
Speaker 2: all the, SPORTS i, feel has like the biggest respect
Speaker 2: for the people that came. Before and it's probably because
Speaker 2: this has something to do with. It you get to
Speaker 2: see every single one of their names until they have
Speaker 2: to remove one and add a, new but you get
Speaker 2: to see the guys that put the, work the, blood to,
Speaker 2: sweat the tears to be able to hold this.
Speaker 6: Thing it's so.
Speaker 7: True the night the cup is, won to be in
Speaker 7: the dress room and the guys are looking at past
Speaker 7: names of.
Speaker 6: HEY i remember watching that guy or.
Speaker 7: Whatever to hear that, yea it brings all the magic
Speaker 7: together right on the spot and then you ask, them
Speaker 7: so what do you want to do with that on your?
Speaker 7: Day and it's just the emotions ARE i gotta thank
Speaker 7: my mom and.
Speaker 6: DAD i wish my grandparents. HERE i got to take
Speaker 6: it to the.
Speaker 7: CEMETERY i gotta go to like it's. Unbelievable but they
Speaker 7: know they can't do it by. Themselves, yeah they had
Speaker 7: somebody tying their skate when they were, young and they
Speaker 7: don't forget those, people and that that's a respect in.
Speaker 2: Itself you wear white gloves every time you touch? It,
Speaker 2: Yes so, like are we Like Willie Mays hayes posting
Speaker 2: up our white gloves after every time we Touch how
Speaker 2: many white pairs white gloves are going?
Speaker 6: Through i've got every Pair i've ever.
Speaker 2: Worn how many is? It?
Speaker 6: Wow it's probably four to five hundred.
Speaker 7: Pairs holy. Shmoly my wife wants me to throw them.
Speaker 7: Out i've got them in my drawers at.
Speaker 1: HOME i don't have sock drawers, anymore ondy. DRAWERS i
Speaker 1: have white.
Speaker 2: Glove, george you know you should. Do you should sew
Speaker 2: them to. Fanatics, honestly we should sew. Them.
Speaker 1: Honestly make you a couple of shekels, there.
Speaker 7: Buddy but you know, what it's funny we talk about
Speaker 7: the white. GLOVES i work at The Hockey hall Of
Speaker 7: fame And museum In. Toronto every curator in any museum
Speaker 7: in the world wears white. Gloves our fingerprints have oils in.
Speaker 7: Them we don't want to get it on the. Artifact
Speaker 7: whether it's a, trophy whether it's an, artwork whether it's
Speaker 7: a rock, gallery whatever it might, be all curators wear.
Speaker 1: Them we kind of brought those white.
Speaker 7: Gloves from behind the scenes to the forefront when we
Speaker 7: carry the. Cup we wanted to carry it whether we
Speaker 7: don't deserve to touch it. EITHER i, Mean i've never won,
Speaker 7: it SO i shouldn't be touching. It but by carrying
Speaker 7: it with the white, GLOVES i think we're AND i
Speaker 7: hope we're paying.
Speaker 1: It the respect it.
Speaker 7: Deserves, Wow AND i hope fans and players in that
Speaker 7: understand that's why we do. It it's not not for
Speaker 7: any of, it not to glam or.
Speaker 6: Anything it's to respect what this.
Speaker 2: Is we'll be right back after this quick. Break, now
Speaker 2: what's cleaning technique this bad? Boy it's every day every,
Speaker 2: Day so we're using like silver polish or.
Speaker 6: Well, no what do we use?
Speaker 7: It you know what's amazing is because this is all hand,
Speaker 7: done so it's not a computer generated. Names it's a
Speaker 7: silversmith out of Old, montreal generational, silversmith and she engraves
Speaker 7: each one of these names on here and it does
Speaker 7: it letter by. Letter so when we're cleaning, it all
Speaker 7: we're trying to do daily is take the fingerprints off of.
Speaker 7: It basically in our hotel, ROOM i can use the
Speaker 7: shampoo that's in the hotel room in warm water and
Speaker 7: that'll get rid of the. Fingerprints Louise Saint jacques is the.
Speaker 7: Silversmith she professionally does it twice a. Year so it looks.
Speaker 7: Outstanding and as you mentioned, earlier when you see it
Speaker 7: from a, distance it's. Unbelievable when you see it up,
Speaker 7: close you see the imperfections in. It then it's got
Speaker 7: a story and that's there's the story it can.
Speaker 2: Tell the story's. Everything like that's the best part about this.
Speaker 2: Trophy sometimes when you get a perfect, trophy the brand,
Speaker 2: new you, know it's like this is like been through.
Speaker 4: It only being cleaned by like hotel, shampoo hockey, guy
Speaker 4: hockey guy moved through and through love.
Speaker 7: IT i don't know about, That like what it DOESN'T
Speaker 7: i have?
Speaker 2: Do like you and, Now, phil what's The Stanley?
Speaker 1: Cup mean to.
Speaker 7: You to me in, SPORT i think it's the greatest
Speaker 7: trophy in the. World to be able to be part
Speaker 7: of the greatest sport in the world and to be
Speaker 7: able to walk out on the ice and play a
Speaker 7: small role in that whole presentation, process it's. AMAZING i growing,
Speaker 7: up LIKE i, SAID i wanted to win The Stanley.
Speaker 7: Cup to be able to walk it on the red
Speaker 7: carpet and be part of the commissioner's presentation in, that
Speaker 7: it's pretty. Amazing, WOW i think on their, day because
Speaker 7: every player gets a day with a cup to show
Speaker 7: up on the day of and first of all congratslating
Speaker 7: them and meeting their, family but being a fly on
Speaker 7: the wall listening to the stories of how they got,
Speaker 7: there that to me means all of.
Speaker 1: It, yeah that's priceless right.
Speaker 2: There, Now how the hell did you end up at
Speaker 2: the bottom Of mario lemuse? POOL i saw.
Speaker 7: This, YEAH i didn't end up in the BOTTOM i.
Speaker 7: Was if you started the photo out, there you'll SEE
Speaker 7: i didn't have do you know we had we actually
Speaker 7: we had some police officers there one. Time It's mario's
Speaker 7: pretty superstitious, guy and well deserved. TOO i mean two
Speaker 7: Time Stanley cup champion as a, captain three times as an,
Speaker 7: owner he's earned the. Rights but, yeah it has been
Speaker 7: In mario's pool a few times and a few. Times,
Speaker 7: yeah and again that's the superstition side because it went
Speaker 7: in once and then they won the next, Year so
Speaker 7: that's got to be that's the superstition kicking in. That,
Speaker 7: YEAH i don't think he and see my feet in that.
Speaker 2: One, now what's the worst has been? Damaged and who? Didn't, SADLY.
Speaker 7: I mean, again we go back to the imperfections and
Speaker 7: perfections when if someone looks at it close they see
Speaker 7: scratches and some. Dents, sadly it has got scratches and.
Speaker 7: DENTS a few years ago it was dropped on the ice.
Speaker 6: Right after the.
Speaker 7: Presentation oh, man that was a tough one because the
Speaker 7: whole world is watching. Then but players will do whatever
Speaker 7: to make sure that doesn't. Happen but as you can
Speaker 7: see on there when you look, CLOSE i, Think, jules
Speaker 7: when you AND i are this, hold we might have
Speaker 7: some dents and scratches on us.
Speaker 1: Too where they.
Speaker 2: Say the bumps in the road or will make the journey? Fun,
Speaker 2: yeah well said there it.
Speaker 1: Is there you. GO i got a.
Speaker 4: Question So i've, heard like recently that there's a lot
Speaker 4: of superstition around the ownership and having the cup in
Speaker 4: the building or not in the, building like when it's
Speaker 4: like during The Stanley Cup.
Speaker 1: Final is there any.
Speaker 4: Like how do you deal with that or any stories
Speaker 4: from like having to like jostle superstitions while also being
Speaker 4: president for The Stanley Cup.
Speaker 1: Final it.
Speaker 7: IS i, mean there are other superstitions and it's pretty
Speaker 7: amazing BECAUSE i Use colorado for, Example Pierre, laquali OLD
Speaker 7: gm and president of The, avalanche he did not want
Speaker 7: it in the building until it could possibly be young be.
Speaker 7: One so we're there doing our job with having the
Speaker 7: cup have to be in the building because it could be,
Speaker 7: won and Peerre laquad doesn't want it, there so you
Speaker 7: have to kind of hide out of the, way but
Speaker 7: at the same time respect his wishes and his. Superstitions
Speaker 7: there's a lot of teams that think the same. Way
Speaker 7: boston was the same Way, Montreal. Toronto but in today's
Speaker 7: world of social, media everything else on, camera so everybody
Speaker 7: knows where it's at and. That BUT i can really appreciate.
Speaker 1: Why they don't want it in the.
Speaker 7: Building they don't think they've earned the right to have
Speaker 7: it there until they've actually. Done and then once that's,
Speaker 7: happened those superstitions are gone and they become part of
Speaker 7: the legacy of A Stanley cup.
Speaker 2: Champion, Well, phil it's been an amazing treat to have
Speaker 2: not just The cup, here but you because of your
Speaker 2: countless stories and you're part of the tradition, man and
Speaker 2: it's it's really cool to get to pick your brain
Speaker 2: for a little. Bit, uh thank you for coming to the.
Speaker 2: Nuthouse is there anything you want to? Plug does your
Speaker 2: wife have something that she? Loves she loves. Reality what
Speaker 2: do we want to? PLUG i, know happy, wife happy.
Speaker 1: Life, YEAH i like that.
Speaker 7: One, hey you know, what that's a good. ONE i,
Speaker 7: mean she's become a hockey fan over the. Years So
Speaker 7: stanley is part of our life and part of our.
Speaker 7: FAMILY i guess so for my kids and my wife And.
Speaker 7: Diane it's another story in the day of the life
Speaker 7: Of Lord. Stanley oh, man thank. You how awesome is
Speaker 7: it to have The Stanley cup? Here that still can't
Speaker 7: Believe it's.
Speaker 2: Unreal shout out to THE. Nhl you, know they they've been.
Speaker 2: Listening they've been listening to the. Fans you, know the
Speaker 2: four nation. Ship this, LIKE i feel like hockey's got
Speaker 2: buzz right. Now hockey's, buzzing and.
Speaker 1: It is because it's.
Speaker 2: PLAYOFFS i mean playoff. Hockey you always feel.
Speaker 1: It, well we know what The Stanley Cup final is right.
Speaker 1: Now it's The oilers versus The.
Speaker 2: Panto boilers versus The pan.
Speaker 1: Two fourth on four ON t AND.
Speaker 2: T great pregame, coverage, McDavid, McDavid Chuck, Good Chuck Brad.
Speaker 2: Marshawn we love, You Face, Killer let's go Snows Face killer.
Speaker 2: Podcast we like, dogs and thanks everyone in THE nhl
Speaker 2: for for letting us see this thing.
Speaker 4: And experience this and everyone. There, yeah absolutely. INCREDIBLE i
Speaker 4: MEAN i go back to not to be too. SENTIMENTAL
Speaker 4: i go back to last year around this, time we
Speaker 4: Have larry O'Brien in the.
Speaker 2: Trophy which was.
Speaker 4: Huge jack's a big basketball guy AND i never really
Speaker 4: thought having a trophy at our studio on our show
Speaker 4: would be. Possible and then When larry O'Brien showed up
Speaker 4: And larry was super, Cool larry can, Hang larry can,
Speaker 4: Hang i'm thinking to, myself, like oh, Man Stanley cup,
Speaker 4: man that would be. Crazy and now almost exactly a year,
Speaker 4: later it's right, here.
Speaker 1: Get into.
Speaker 5: Existence we gotta, say, Though, kyler as our resident hockey,
Speaker 5: guy how are you?
Speaker 1: Feeling?
Speaker 4: SO i was never gonna win A Stanley? Cup look at.
Speaker 4: Me it's never gonna win A Stanley? Cup, RIGHT i chose.
Speaker 4: Media but you know, what this is the Closest i'll
Speaker 4: ever get. That this cup is here because of. Us
Speaker 4: my dad's. Here it's very.
Speaker 1: Sentimental i'm about to cry if you touch. IT i
Speaker 1: haven't touched it.
Speaker 2: YET i don't think you're supposed to touch.
Speaker 1: It, Well i'm not gonna win.
Speaker 2: It how do you? Know what?
Speaker 1: If what?
Speaker 2: If what if you direct a crazy movie by AN
Speaker 2: nhl team and then all of a sudden you think
Speaker 2: back to your. Life, HMMM i touched it WHEN i
Speaker 2: was doing that little podcast we were, doing and Now
Speaker 2: i'll never win. It when you're like seventy eight years, old.
Speaker 1: You know what we'll, see we'll see what.
Speaker 2: Happened don't don't fucking touch.
Speaker 1: IT i might touch.
Speaker 2: It i'm gonna touch.
Speaker 6: It.
Speaker 2: Don't don't you touch. It don't touch, it gonna touch?
Speaker 1: It?
Speaker 2: Wait, wait you're he's such a fair weather. Fan, wait
Speaker 2: who's your hockey. Team now you're you're you're bolt up
Speaker 2: with fucking The chargers in La are you in L
Speaker 2: a King he.
Speaker 1: Doesn't he wears his career in L A kingship all the.
Speaker 1: Time The penguins BECAUSE i live in Near Korea. Town well,
Speaker 1: yeah He's penguins.
Speaker 7: Guy i'm The penguins first of, All kings And.
Speaker 1: Penguins they don't have any bad, blood first and.
Speaker 4: Foremost, okay so you can have A West coast, team
Speaker 4: like you're a forty Nine ers fan.
Speaker 2: The, team you might as well have An east coast,
Speaker 2: team A west coast.
Speaker 1: Team let's get A south team in.
Speaker 4: There i'm mostly Repperen Korea town because it's got the
Speaker 4: Cool Korean kings. Thing it is pretty. Cool and when
Speaker 4: they're doing the, HARMONICA i thought they were going to
Speaker 4: take that all the way to The Stanley. Cup turns
Speaker 4: out they lost of The, oilers but you know that
Speaker 4: was fun. Vibes those vibes are. Incredible, hey those ladies
Speaker 4: got the, Juice.
Speaker 1: Yeah they do have the.
Speaker 2: Juice and then, yeah so.
Speaker 4: But you, know If i'm not wearing Any penguins stuff,
Speaker 4: HERE i don't want to jinx any of.
Speaker 1: That, Really, yeah what do you, mean what would?
Speaker 2: JINKS i don't.
Speaker 1: KNOW i Think crosby And malkin and the thing they
Speaker 1: got one more in. Them would that be a? Jinx
Speaker 1: you think if you wore pen? Stuff not, really but.
Speaker 2: You, know have they been?
Speaker 1: Close not?
Speaker 2: Recently no butt, believe gotta, believe gotta, Believe Kyle.
Speaker 1: Doss they're turning around next. Year all, right let's get
Speaker 1: out of, here let's get thanks for at THE. Nhl
Speaker 1: this is. Awesome go watch The Standy cup.
Speaker 4: Final you don't need to hear from, us but, oilers,
Speaker 4: Panthers you're gonna be. Awesome it's gonna be A tnt
Speaker 4: and shout out to Ray, bork The Rayborg, foundation Ray Borg.
Speaker 4: Foundations what an. Episode that's what an.
Speaker 2: Episode and thanks again to Ray, Borg Phil pritchard and
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