LIVE: Colorado Avalanche vs Los Angeles Kings NHL GAME Live Stream | Hockey Fan Watchalong Live Chat

LIVE: Colorado Avalanche vs Los Angeles Kings NHL GAME Live Stream | Hockey Fan Watchalong Live Chat

All right, guys. I think we are going live. We should be up in a second on the transmission. It’s end of the third period here. We’re just going to catch the last few minutes of Pittsburgh, New York. Good game. Pittsburgh’s up one- nothing here. They’re both starting their young goalies. Uh and soon we’re going to get you to the ABS and Kings. We’re going to do that whole game live tonight. Kick off opening season NHL. Should be freaking sweet. Um, if you’re new here, it’s a brand new channel. My name is Evan A. This is Late Night Hockey and we’re going to be uh chatting a bunch of games, bunch of midweek late night games all year. So, just 232 left right now. Shurken is coming out of the net now. Okay, two and a 220 to go. Net empty for New York. Malin’s got an all. Pens are going to win here. Empty netter. That’s game. Justin Brazzle put one in. Two nothing Pens. Penguins are going to lead two to nothing. Get an opening night win here against the Rangers. Sullivan looks like he’s going to lose his mind. Rangers new coach. Love the I kind of like this 100 anniversary Rangers kit. It’s simple, but the blue is a little little like pastel almost. It’s got some white in it. Nice looking kit. They’re losers tonight. Savanad can’t get to him. Malcolm just saucers one to Barcel. Nice. Two nothing Penguins this game. Justin Brazil in his debut. It’s his second goal tonight. So, he gets both. He gets the winner and the empty netter. Nice look for him. Just 11 goals last year between uh split between the Bruins and the Wild. So, big first night as a Penguin for him. Uh welcome to the chat if you’re there. I got to get my chat set up properly. Say what’s up. And hello. We are about 10 15 minutes away from the ABS Kings game. Sullivan looks pissed. He’s wearing a blue a little blue uh blue kid on the sideline too for his Rangers debut. Oh, they just put in another empty netter. I think that’s three. O, this is done from bad to worse. Who’s getting the stat patter? Somebody’s happy playing fantasy hockey tonight. Getting a little free goal in the end. Oh, it’s Blake Lazot. 49th career goal there for him. 11 last season. Game on. Big win. It’s great game though. It was one- nothing until about a minute ago. So, tight hockey game and I’m excited for the Kings LA here. Watching the streamer here for face off inside the NHL. A lot of talk about Crosby. I think it’s I mean seems pretty likely like Crosby is going to get traded this year. Could be some serious deadline debate. I wonder if he’ll get he’ll move after the Olympic break. I think that’s what makes more sense. still playing though. A minute and a half on the ice. Penn’s in the zone here running out the clock. Shesteren played an amazing game. It’s not going to look like it with this three nothing loft, but he only gave up a goal and he was fantastic. Let’s see how many shots there were in net. So, yeah, he faced 27 shots tonight when he was actually in net and he looked great. Penn’s just killing time now. Scooping it up. Let’s uh switch over to the ABS and start talking pregame stuff here. All right, so ABS Kings, we’re about seven minutes away from puck drop on opening night. It’s going to be fire here. McKinnon, of course, going to be the the big one. Anybody playing fantasy, anybody just excited about hockey is going to be ready for that. And the Kings, too. The Kings are a funny team. They’ve had a great couple of seasons, 100 points backto-back years, but just haven’t been able to to figure it out in the playoffs. So, Dan Muse winning his first game there as the coach of the Penguins behind the bench. Um, exciting for them and Kyle Dubass maybe. And Archer Cops is going to get a shut out in his Penguins debut. So, pretty exciting. I mean, I don’t know if you’re a Penguins fan. It’s debatable if you actually want them to win too much this year. You might you might prefer that the rebuild is on and they they trade Crosby and get in the Gavin McKenna sweep stakes. Rangers walking off in shame here. Yeah, the R this Rangers team I have them kind of middle of the pack, but I do think they could have a real fall off. They could easily miss the playoffs this year. They’re in a little bit of like no man’s land uh to celebrate their hundth year. They’re interviewing the pens talking about Sully being on the other side of the net tonight. Pretty funny. Ricard Rashelle, 24 shifts, 16 minutes of ice, three shots tonight. He’s probably your best bet on the pens for fantasy this year other than Crosby. I don’t think is Blackwood playing tonight for the AS. That’s interesting. games in LA at Crypto Arena. Colorado scratches. No. Okay, so Black Mckenzie Blackwood is hurt. Who’s starting in net for the ABS? Wedgewood. I guess this could be this could be a better hockey game than I thought. I think the Kings have a real shot of winning tonight. They could do better. Biffield, Lefier, Turf, Cece, Keer. I mean, if you think of just think of just the goalies, Darcy Keer is, you know, playing against his old team. He’s about as good as it gets. And uh I’m not putting any money on Wedgewood. Let’s look at Scott Wedgewood stats. Last game got one game played in the playoffs. Didn’t register any stats. Not a bad I mean 917 and 199 are pretty pretty dirty. Like he had some good stats last year but only played 19 games. All right, they got the mess and TJ Oshi on now talking about Sheil and his shut out debut for the Penguins. Stopped 25 shots. Looked good. Wow, Mess is looking weathered but very Florida. He’s got that Arizona Florida tan going. Mess has been hanging out in the sun in the off season. Good for him. Wiry, man. Looks a bit like a dinosaur. Oh, McKinnon, seven goals, four assists in the playoffs, and all for not coming off a year last year. Let’s look at the stats. 116 point year. Unfreaking real. 32 goals, 84 assists. I mean, he’s got a real shot at at all of it. The Ross being the player of the year. Be interesting to see contractwise, too. see what happens. Everything’s going to change because of that new David contract, of course. All right, looking at Landis Gogg, we got 18 minutes till puck drop in the ABS Kings game. Excited about this one. Three games on opening night. This one’s definitely going to be the best one. Kings and ABS. These are two legit contenders. Quinton Biffield now is the real star in LA. Obviously, Copitar is uh he’s doing his sort of whatever you call it, his bell lap of this bell lap. He’s on the ice now warming up. gonna build a statue of Copitar out in front of Krypto Stadium next year. He’s that good. All right, what do we got? Feel like I could rip on and do a We’ll do tier ranking. Tier ranking NHL teams. All right, we’re going to rip through an NHL tei list and kill the 20 minutes and the warm-up time to the game. Let’s start out with Okay. Okay. Well, we just watched Penn’s Rangers. Maybe we’ll kick it off with Pens and Rangers. The Pens got the win. Uh, honestly though, I think Pens are Dtier. I think this is a full rebuild year for them. Crosby, I think highly likely to get traded. He was in the Red Couch interview the other day and he was talking about it like it’s a real possibility. And when they asked him, he literally was just like, “Well, that’s going to happen whenever you’re losing.” So, I think the Pens are are in rebuild. Exciting that they got some young players. Brezo looked good. The goalie looked good, but uh they’re Dtier. They’re they could be if they make trades, if they get rid of Malcin and Crosby, they could be in the Gavin McKenna sweep stakes. The Rangers uh I think the Rangers are a better team. Sherkin is awesome, but maybe it takes them October with the new coach with Sullivan to figure out sort of how that team looks. Um where Troche is in the lineup, what works for them, what what doesn’t. Um earlier tonight, who kicked it off? Oh, it was Blackhawks, right? So, the Blackhawks in their first game of the night played against the Panthers. The Blackhawks, we’ll start with them, are definitely Dtier. They’re a mess. They have one They’re one line. Uh Frank Nazar, Todd Bertusi, and Terivvenan. Terrainan. I can’t say his name properly. Terrain. They actually look nice. They look nice in the Bard line. that second line. It looked like a real uh threat. They scored two goals tonight. There was, you know, a moment, it was a tight game where they actually looked like they could beat the Panthers. Spencer Knight looked okay in net. Um he looked like a real starter and they were just getting shelled. I think going into the second period, they were outshot about 20 to four by the Panthers. So, Blackhawks Dtier, I mean, they’re another team if they end up with a Gavin McKenna or a real prospect or maybe a real solid number one defenseman next year, they could be right in the thick of it rebuild wise. Uh, some other Dtier teams, the Sharks, no doubt the Sharks are I mean, their rebuild under my career looks awesome, but they are definitely in the middle of figuring out a new look down there in the Bay Area. uh Celabbrini, Mlin Celbrini obviously is the the big hype going into this year along with Will Smith and then they just drafted Michael Misa. He’s going to play they traded for Orlov um from the Kane. So he’ll he’ll probably be their number one Dman there. And but the goalkeeping is just brutal. The the the Sharks have no goalkeeping really. I think they’re they’re full rebuild still. Uh, again, another team. I think they have two first round picks, too, next year. So, they could really, you know, three or four years from now, they could be something. Let’s look at the other bottom feeders. We’ll go worst to first here. Um, oh, this isn’t the Utes, but that’s okay. We’ll stick with it. I think the Bruins. Oh, no. You know what? No, no. Sabres. We’re going Sabres here. The Sabres are just What did they do? They traded JJ Peter in the off season and they’re just basically waiting for Raasmus Delin to carry them to victory. Tage Thompson was awesome last year, especially five on five. I think he led the league in five on five goals. But I mean, what’s Buffalo doing? Where are they going? They’re going to continue their record streak of not making the NHL playoffs, if you ask me. Um, oh, the Flyers, too. Flyers are definitely Dtier. Um, okay, Flyers. So, what’s exciting about them? They have that young guy, Mitch Mitch Machonov, the double M, Mitch Konov. Um, he looks great. He’s going to be a somebody, no doubt. Um, we can pull up advanced stack cards when we do this. So, I think the Flyers are, you know, they also got Zaggress, right? They signed Zaggress, which is an interesting sort of move. Um, was it an overpay? Was it an underpay? I’m not 100% sure. I think Zegress is a guy who, you know, he was supposed to be the the sort of centerpiece of the rebuild in um in Anaheim. I think I’m wearing a Ducks hat, too. And that sort of didn’t work out for him. So, what does it mean long term? Uh, it means he gets another shot at it in the Flyers. Yeah, let’s put his player card up there. Okay, so we got the Zaggress player card. If you look at that war, projective war, 47%. Pretty pretty mid. That is average stuff. And if you look at his stats, too, he he almost looks like he peaks, right? I mean, he goes up big time for 23 24 and then he just drops off last year. So, kind of the opposite of what you want to see in a player. His war percentile rank has gone down every year since he entered the league. Um, not a huge cap hit, but still that’s pretty oof oof pretty woof. Um, and then I forget the other guy’s exact name. They have that speedy winger Mitch McConn. And then, uh, he was talking trash about the dump and chase. Pretty funny offseason story. So, that’s five in the bottom. Do we add another bottom feeder? I’m on the fence here about the Kraken. I think the Kraken could take a drop off. Uh the Predators. Oh god. Yeah, the Predators are bottom feeder. The Preds are old AF. Uh they’re a bunch of them are like almost my age. I mean, you just have, you know, even Philip Forsber is getting up. Stamos is mid30s. Their poor goalie, Juicy Sorrowos. I think Sorrowos could be an incredible trade bait. He’s kind of the lynch pin of their team, but honestly, they’re not going anywhere. They’re not winning. So, why not why not move on from him? Um, I think that’s good. That’s our solid D tier there. The Pens, the Blackhawks, the Sharks, the Sabres, the Flyers, and the Pred. The next worst team I think is the Kraken. I would No, the Bruins. O, it’s tough. Bruins or Kraken are right there. They’re neck and neck. You know, I’m going to say the Kraken. And here’s why. They don’t have a star. Who is a Kraken star? Joey Decord, their new goalkeeper, US goalkeeper. He’s got his own YouTube channel. He’s been pumping out some videos lately. That’s kind of exciting. It’s an exciting thing about their team. Uh but like Matty Bees is another one of those guys. We’ll pull up his advanced stats. He’s one of those guys who you’re just waiting for the promise to show up, right? They had that nice run when he was a rookie. They go into the playoffs. He looks like the future of the franchise. you know, not dissimilar to to what we saw with Zegris, but here’s a there’s nice, right? So, he has this drop off and then he bumps back up stats wise big improvements 2425 over 2324. So, I do like that. That’s interesting. I wouldn’t have thought that the sort of hot take on the street is that Benur’s um is not showing up probably because his EV on offense and his power play are absolute dog [ __ ] But um you know, look at that. He looks okay on defense. It’s it’s the scoring basically, right? You see that in the color codes there. His scoring is what’s holding him back. He’s still only 21 though. So I think Matty Benz is going to be it for the the Seattle team. They’re going to live and die by him. Maybe if they have something in that goalie decord, they can move on from Grubau because Grubau is overpaid. He makes a lot of money and his contract’s definitely going to hold them back. Uh, okay. So, we got Kraken Ctier for sure. Who’s next? Oh, it’s the Bruins. Okay, look. The Bruins for me would be right here in Dtier. They’d be right at the bottom. Total pits, but this is a huge butt. They still have pasta. And pasta is a legit superstar. And Swayman has also shown flashes, like real flashes. But, I mean, I don’t even have to show you these, but I’m going to for fun. You know, David Pastnack is, depending on the night, top five, top 10 in the league. Um, you know, he’s as good as anyone, I think. And I mean, look, the data, look at this. It all backs it up. Look at that number. Projective war, 99th percentile, right? He’s literally in the top 1% of NHL players statistically. He’s younger than you might think. He’s only 28 years old. The cap hit 11.3. I think it’s a steal. It doesn’t sound like as much of a steal now that we know uh McDavid signed for 12.5, but McDavid pulled the old Tom Brady, right? He’s trying to help his team out to win. Look at this war percentile rank. 100 99 100. I mean, this guy’s a freaking stud. Took a bit of a defensive drop off last year, but I think that can also just be the team around him, right? Swayman was not great last year. Gave up a lot of goals. The defense is falling off a cliff. So you see his his defense there at 36% is pretty weak, but I think as as long as past man’s on the ice, you can’t put them in Dtier. You just can’t. They’re such a he’s such a legitimate superstar. Uh and I know I have Crosby down here in Dtier, but it’s different. He’s at a different point in his career. So I’m going to stand by that one. And we’re going to move on. Who’s next? Oof. Um, my Calgary Flames. Maybe the Islanders. Uh, no, the Red Wings. The Red Wings, I think. Yeah, we’re going to get the Red Wings in here. The Red Wings are mid. What did the Red Wings do in this off season? They got Gibson. They traded for John Gibson, so they have a decent goalie. The The Who days are over. Um, I don’t know what else. Honestly, I don’t know what else the Red Wings did this offseason. They’re one of those teams that’s sort of been rebuilding, but is the rebuild going anywhere? We’re 645 till puck drop, by the way. So, maybe I should hurry up this tier list. ABS Kings NHL opening night coming up. We’ll do a full playbyplay on it. Let’s go. Say what’s up in the chat, by the way, if you’re hanging out on the tier list here. It’s a brand new channel. Uh, it’s late night hockey. My name’s Evan A. I’m a YouTuber. This is my third channel and uh kind of retired and loving life. This is all I’m doing these days. Okay, so moving on from the Red Wings. Enough about me. I’m going to say who’s freaking next? Columbus. You can let me You can vote in the chat here. I’d gonna say Columbus or the Ducks here. Columbus or the Ducks. Um sorry, Columbus. I think it’s Columbus. Um, you know, sad story obviously with Gudro. I mean, he’s one of my favorites. When I was living out in Calgary watching the Flames, Gudro and his whole family are absolute legends. And Shawn Monahan, you know, his best friend, went down to play with him, Columbus. And then after that absolute tragedy, um, Monahan had his best year as a hockey player statistically by a mile. So he was obviously energized by the tragedy of his friend’s death and and Monahan, you know, played incredible like almost like looking like a real star and obviously Zach Worinsky is a real star. So that, you know, a team like Columbus when you have a couple stars and then do you get any decent goalending that becomes the question. Um, we can look at Warenski and also at Monahan stats, but these guys are both real, you know, real players. So, let’s see. You got that there. Yeah. So, Warren stats here. I mean, he is incredible. It’s interesting. He actually dropped off two years ago, probably because he was hurt. He’s another guy with a four-year under 10 million cap hit. 27 years old in the 97% of the 100% on offense and goals, assists, everything in there. His compete level’s a little lower than I would have thought. Um, and then let’s get up Monahan because Monahan took a huge leap in his career last year. I remember when it was like him, Gudro, and Sam Bennett were the kids in uh in Calgary in the Flames a few years ago. You look at this. Look at that line, right? He’s going from a nobody to a sort of midpack 74enter all the way up to what is that 70 or 80% last year. Okay. So, over 75%. So, this is really like a legitimate top line top six guy. Eevee on offense was 88%. The power play 74%. Competition and teammates and first assists 98%. So, I mean, this is for him. This is a real a leap, a massive leap and step forward. So, could be exciting. All right, let’s get back to the tears. Enough about Columbus. Um, who do we got next? Who do we got next? Uh, Islanders. What am I going to say about Islanders? Lou’s finally gone, so maybe they’ll be able to grow beards. Exciting times. Uh, they drafted the first overall defender, Matt Schaefer. He’s going to play this year. That’s an exciting little adjustment for them. Uh, if you play fantasy hockey, Sorin is going to be great unless your league counts losses. Oh [ __ ] the Kings are wearing some kind of alternate jersey tonight. It’s all black with the classic uh crown logo on it. Oh, that’s fire. That’s nice, man. I’ll have to find a picture of that for you guys. Okay, Islanders Ctier Blog. Um, shoot. I think I’m gonna put the Ducks here in Ctier. No, the Ducks have [ __ ] So, I think Btier means you’re like you could make the playoffs. Let’s update this trash for McKenna. Um, hot garbage and ducks. These guys are on the edge. They’re on a precipice walking the line. Ducks are they got rid of Zegris which is a big move for them. Uh Gibson is gone as well to Detroit. It’s you know who’s there is Clingberg there now? No. You know it’s something. Oh god. Some of these Kings are wearing silver helmets. Holy [ __ ] I take back everything I said about the alternate uniform being cool. The silver helmets look terrible. They look like a bad like NFL Las Vegas Raiders rush night. Uh, say what’s up in the chat if you’re here. There’s actually a couple people watching now. Brand new channel. First stream ever, folks. Uh, not for me, but for the channel. Okay, Ducks on the edge. They’re they’re right there. Who else is right there? Um, Utah. This is Utah. I know it’s a Coyote, but it is Utah. Utah traded for JJ Purka. Um, they got Dylan Glenther. I think they’ve got an outside shot at making the playoffs. Um, a real shot though. They could if I bet you the if there’s a good betting line on Utah, their new owner, Ryan Smith, is a great sports owner. He wants to win. He’s he’s improving their facilities. Um, you know, they have a name. They’re the Mammoth. No longer the Coyotes. Uh, they’re there. I think they’re going to be in the thick of it. Uh, same with the Flames. Here’s what I think about the Flames. They basically suck. Uh, but Dustin Wolf dragged their asses. I love my Flames. You know, I used to go to games all the time when I was in Calgary, but they stink. There’s not a lot to love about this team except young studs. The new defenseman Zayn Zayn perique peri I don’t know how to say his name properly. He has a real shot at maybe being an all-star player. You know, a sort of lynch pin for the next decade. Dustin Wolf could be right there in the conversation. You know, starting national team games, winning playoff games. And I think when you have a keeper that good, you’re always in the mix. So unless unless Wolfe has some sort of big regression, I think they’re still right there. Uh the Blues again, this is probably a playoff team. You know, everyone saw it. They pushed the President’s Trophy, Winnipeg Jets, right right till the end last year. We’re in Anthems, by the way. We’ll get to the ABS Kings later. So, the Blues, yeah, they’re a playoff team again or very close to a playoff team in that one of those wild card slots. Maybe it depends on Jordan Bennington. Uh, I got Binner in my fantasy league. Binner looked great in Four Nations, I’m sure, as many of you know, but it’s not too deep of a team depthwise. Okay, who’s next? Who’s next? I think we’re in this Canadians Senators range now. Um, oh no, you know what? The Canucks are next. The Canucks are so hard because if they if Quinn users healthy and they bounce back, they could be a real contender. Um, I’m gonna say Montreal. Montreal like the Flame, surprise playoff team last year. They have Damov this year. A lot of excitement. And I think we might have to leave. Looks like the game’s about to start. You let me know in the chat. Do you guys want to stick with this or do you want to go into game mode? I think we should go into game mode. Okay. 35-year-old Darcy Keer is starting. We’ll get back to those tier rankings when we have the first period intermission for now. Scott Wedgewood starting for the ABS. Blackwood is hurt. So, Wedgwood had pretty incredible stats. His goals against was 1.99 last year after he got traded to the ABS from uh where did he get traded from the Stars, I think. Let’s freaking go. These silver helmets. I can’t I don’t like these silver helmets. Okay, puck drop. Game on. Deno took the opening face off there. Fired straight in by the ABS. McKinnon line is out on the ice. Landiskog’s going to push it around the net. Nachis is on a line with McKinnon. Landiskog’s first regular season game in three plus years. Wild. McKinnon on the ice here. Nachis throws a nice check. Brent Burns also on the ABS this year. Exciting new team, man. Okay, Landisk offside. He is on the ice. Wow. Huge comeback there. He’s wearing the C. The captain, number 92, second overall picked in 2011. It’s his 14th season. Top 10 in goals, assists, points, games, just about everything for this ABS team. He is their heart and soul. If McKinnon is their legs, he’s their heartbeat for sure. He’s on the wing with Brock Nelson here. Kings fourth line is out. Alex Turkot in the middle checking for them. Edmonson. Oh, and Brandt Clark. I’m excited about Brandt Clark, young defender on the Kings. Lot of depth on this Kings team, man. They have four four or five real good defenders. Okay. 40-year-old defenseman. Who? Oh, it’s Brent Burns. 40-year-old Brent Burns. It must be him, right? Turn over here. By field in front of the net, shot Kings. Ooh, they were buzzing there for a second, but cleared by the ABS. Abs are going to push this back out. By field just looks strong there in the offensive zone. Colorado’s minus 125, by the way, if you’re curious. Kings are an underdog at home, plus 105 right now. Edmonson behind the net. Kings coming out of the zone again. LA’s second line by field four checking hits Manson. Nice shot there. Puck turns over to the ABS. They’re going to clear back out. Dumping it in. 35-year-old Darcy Kemper. The Kings are a weird team. They’re so good. They’re so talented. But it’s been over a decade since they won a playoff round, which is freaking unbelievable. Abs in here. Burns with a shot on net. Keer blocks that away. Floats out. Nobody there to get on that rebound. Net just gets knocked down. Puck turned over in the neutral zone here. Taves and Mar out there. One of the top defensive lines in all of hockey if you ask me. No doubt. Taves back to Mar here. Turned over. LA’s on it again. LA’s look like the better team here. One shot a piece. Mike Anderson. Nice stick work here. Abs into the zone. Got it down beneath the red line. Opening night here. Welcome to the channel and the chat. Got whole season of NHL hockey coming up. Both teams look a little little slip. Little slippy sloppy I’d say. First game. A lot of turnovers. Big hits though. Nice puck speed. Copitar on the ice now. Landiskog out there checking him. Nice to see couple of ancient fellas on the ice. Not quite my age, but they’re old. Quick speed through the neutral zone. Turnover. King shot on net there. Set the first, no, second save of the night. Quick save there on a nice wrist shot by Kopitar. Biffield got the puck, lost it, squirted across into the front, and Biffield got another chance. Nice little replay. Good hits here by Biffield. He looked aggressive in the first couple minutes of this game. He’s going to be taking a face off here in the offensive zone. Coming up at 23 goal, 31 assists, 54 point season for Biffield. He’s playing with Laaferier. He’s going to get waved out of this puck drop here. Lefier is going to take the draw. Backs the defender. Comes beneath the net. Biffields on it now. Now he’s going to skate it out. Protecting the puck. Looking to swing it into the blue ice. Can’t get it there. Lefair back to Biffield. Byfield on the point now. Tries to rifle a shot through that gets blocked. It’s going to come out. Landisog is going to stay on it and clear the zone for the ABS. Nice little bit of pressure there by the Kings. And they’re keeping it up. ABS couldn’t get a change. Biffield is back in here. Kings have had nice pressure here for 90 seconds or so. And uh we’ll see how Landiskog’s knees are doing because he’s stuck on the ice here. Okay, he’s going to skate it out himself and clear it and they’ll get a change finally. 15 minutes left in the first period. Great start to this game. Fourth line’s out. Turkot’s checking for checking for the Kings and he gets a he gets the puck back. Nice little bit of hockey there. Can be cleared. Waved off the icing there. Not sure why. It’s been all kings here the last couple minutes. The abs just look pushed back a bit. Little slow. Another turnover. Kings are in round the blue ice. Can they get a shot behind the net? No shot. Oh, close. Malot just had one right in front of the keeper and he missed the net that just puck squirted out from behind the red ice came to him and he just missed it. Should have had one. Should have been forcing Wedgwood to do some work there. Yeah, it’s the the classic Ice is leaning one way right now. It is all LA. They’re just swarming around Wedgewood. Doesn’t matter what lines out there. We’re going to get another offensive zone face off here for the Kings. All right, I think I just lost the internet there for a second. Oh, harsh. Did I get cut off from YouTube? No, we’re still going. Thanks. Geez [ __ ] Jack. Sorry, my internet here I guess busted out. [ __ ] FPT. Welcome to the chat. Uh the circle in the middle of the screen. Oh, I know what that is. That’s the light meter on my camera. I’ll get rid of that in a second. Just give me Fortunately, we just lost the interweb, so I got to reconnect everything. How you doing, man? What do you What have you been up to tonight? Do you watch any of the earlier games? You watch the Blackhawks or the uh Blackhawks actually look really good against Panthers. And then Oh, McKinnon in front of the net here. Good chance there for the ABS. Dow is on it. Puck behind the net. Kings clear the puck. Oh, here’s an opportunity. One-handed backhand. Oh, nice save by Wedgewood. Real back and forth hockey now. They’re going fast. Really good pace. How are you watching the Jays game? I was I had it on my phone going earlier. I uh honestly I’m pretty confident the Jays are going to beat the Yankees. I’m not too worried about it, but you know, maybe it’ll be famous last words. Kopitar now on it. He’s battling in the corner. Landiskog back on the ice. Good to see him out there. ABS pushing back on the counter now. Shot saved by Darcy Keer. There you go. Great action in the start of this game. Uh should I try and fix that thing? Yeah, I can try and fix the little circle in the middle of the screen. I don’t know. It’s a big deal. You let me know in the chat if you’re annoyed by this little circle in the screen and I’ll get rid of it. I probably should, but I don’t know. Who cares? Uh, all right. Commercial break. Let’s go back. Should we go back to our tier list? If you’re in the chat, let me know how we’re doing with the tier list. I was tier listing all the teams worst to first before we started here. And here’s where we’re at right now. So the absolute trash in the league, trash in the season for McKenna. We got Penguins in the bottom. Blackhawks for sure down there. The Sharks, despite Mlin Celibbrini and Will Smith and Michael Misa, they’re still they’re not going anywhere in the playoffs with their defense and their shitty goalending. Sabres setting new records for not making the playoffs. What do you guys think in the chat, though? Um, I’m not watching the Jays. I had them on earlier. I had them on till it was about two nothing. Um I think if I was in Toronto, I’d be going crazy for the Jays, but the reality is that I’m a I’m more of a hockey fan than a baseball fan now. Used to play baseball. All right. Hot garbage. The Rangers. Maybe I was swayed by their game today, but they look like a not good team with a great goalender. Uh the Kraken just mid. Everything about them is middle. Bruins suck except for pasta. Red Wings. I can barely name a good player on their team. Maybe Dylan Lin, I guess. De Brinkit if he bounces back. Okay, back to the game here. So, Copitar, they’re doing the Copitar sort of walk of fame thing here. Talking about all the assists, 400 plus goals, 800 plus assists, 1278 points. He’s second in franchise history. one won the cop twice. No doubt they’re going to build a star or statue for Copitar. Um I’m going to All right, we’re about to drop the puck here again. There’s 12 minutes left in the first period. Just five shots in this game so far. Been a lot of good skating. McKinnon taking a defensive zone face off. Can’t see who he’s out there against. One of the Kings just got thrown out of the circle. Uh Nate gets the puck, gets stripped, goes back to the Kings. Anderson to know now. Kings enter the zone. Little shot on net. Flicked away by Wedgewood. Comes back to the blue line. Moore takes in the post to know behind the net. He circles out to know circling now. Good line so far for the Kings. Nice shift. Oh, shot blocked back to the blue line. Kings still have it. Abs trapped here beneath the net. They look like they’re in trouble. Taves on him defending. Sorry, Jack. Thanks, man. Oh, man. I’m having serious internet issues. It’s funny because my internet is fast as hell, but it’s just cutting out. LA Kings in the third line here is still pressing the fair. Turn over here. Abs have a shot. Oh, deflected. Who is this guy? Gavin. I don’t know. Says some AB I’ve never heard of. Just took a shot. Looking at the highlight here. Dumal for the Kings. Had the puck behind the net. It just balanced. that turned an awkward awkward giveaway and a checking line app had a nice shot. Jumalin came in diving in. Gavin Brinley second career NHL. So he made his debut for the Blue Jackets. Can’t believe this. I got gigabyte per second internet speed and somehow it’s still cutting out. It’s killing me, man. Sorry, guys. Landisk coming in. Shot. Keer deflects. It comes off the boards. ABS now with a little bit of pressure. Quick shot wide. Abs looking good now. This is the most pressure the AS have had all game for sure. Kings with numbers coming back. Oh, he lost the puck. Just couldn’t have the handle. Kempe was there on the pass and he lost him. Kuzmano there should have shot and he just lost his handle on the puck. He had Kee on the far side. Kuzzeno was great for the Kings last year in the playoff run. I mean, as short as it was and after the trade line, he looked great. 17 points in his last 22 regular seasons after he was traded from Philly. Philly obviously deep in the rebuild mode. Loose puck here. Abs now in the zone. Nine minutes left in the first. Brandt Clark, their young defender for the Kings. Looks good. I’m curious to see if he gets any power play minutes. All good, brother. Cheers, Jack. All right. Yeah, Brandt Clark. He’s out there wearing 92 on defense. These Fanatics jerseys are too funny. I’m going to find a I’m going to find a piece this Kings alternate jerseys. You got to see this thing. All right, you guys are going to tell me what you think of this jersey. It’s something. It’s a piece of work. All right, let’s get it in there. We got up on the screen. Okay, we got it. Look. What is that? Just seeing the big Oh, it looks like a like a handbag or something, right? What is that? No, no, no. There it is. This is it. All right, guys. In the chat, what do you think? Be honest. I think just shred them. There’s no need to be nice. Tell me what you think. It is I don’t know. It kind of looks like a weird old sort of like Italian soccer team or something like, you know, with this huge silver crown. You got to keep in mind, too, they’re wearing silver helmets, like silver silver. Uh oh, the gray is hideous. But this black one, so it’s it’s actually the the real one looks more silver. The numbers are all silver. Everything’s silver. It looks like a LA Raiders jersey. This is just a mockup, but it is this. It’s just glowing. You guys let me know. All right, we’re about to get back to the action. They’re interviewing the coach Jared Bedner. The ABS win. Yeah, he’s basically saying they need to hit more, saying they need to skate harder, be a little more disruptive, otherwise they’re not going to get into the game. The Kings are definitely carrying it. Mushrooms says Jack. Yeah, that’s a it’s a it I mean, you can’t describe the silver. It’s like I think all the teams have seen these, you know, the Vegas gold jersey, right? The Senators used to have a little bit of gold piping and it was nice. Vegas now has gold everywhere and that full gold kit and this like all silver kit, it really looks like a Raiders jersey. There’s huge silver numbers with a kind of like saraphy font. Big silver crown. Uh, it’s too much for me. Not into it. All right, Bedner is starting to shuffle his lines up a bit. He’s trying to get something started. The Kings have been pretty dominant this first period. It’s a five-2 shots on goal. 54 55 45 faceoffs. Uh they’re only out hitting them 76. But yeah, Mar shot. There’s a first chance for the ABS. Comes off the glass to Trevor Moore. He’s going to skate it out. God, more brothers been around forever. ABS back in now. Swarming around the Met. You know what it is though? I mean, the Kings defense looks so good right now. As soon as the ABS get into the zet, the Kings take it back, clear the zone. Just looks so solid. Fast skaters, strong players, always in the right position. All right, Panthers and Penguins both. Oh, there’s a little shot on that from the Kings. That came out of nowhere. Just turn around off the boards. A nice wrist. The chuskin sends it in. Dump and chase here for the ABS non-stop. It’s just not working. The dump and chase. The Kings are just getting the puck every time and taking it out. By field intercepted pass, neutral zone. Nuskin back in. Backhand shot goes wide off the boards. ABS in the zone here trying to get something going. Chinsky again. They’re just fighting for the puck at the blue line. Nuskin back side of the net shot. Keer makes a save covered up. There’s a little bit of action. Now there’s some pushing and shoving in front of the net. Biffield puts Nelson in a headlock. There you go, boys. All right, boys. Nelson looks pretty good. He looks involved. Landiskog just got low there, waited for the puck from Nuskin and then just brought it out from the, you know, tight angle on the red line. Brought it out and tried to tuck it under Keer. It’s the first I mean the ABS have had a couple chances here, but nothing that really looked like a a legit scoring chance until that landog looks good here. It’s his first time playing in years and he looks like I mean he looks really good. All right, ABS win the draw. Shot coming from the blue line. Rebound in front of the net. Can I get it in? No. Going to be cleared away again by the kings here. Breenly offside at the line here. Thraw is going to come outside of the Kings zone. Upcoming NHL schedule, Kings Vegas tomorrow. We could come on. Maybe I’ll do the Kings Vegas game tomorrow, too. I was planning on doing um the Battle of Alberta on Friday. I’m definitely going to stream that one. So, if you guys are watching, want to join the stream, we’ll be we’ll be back, no doubt. Going to get the Oilers. I’m actually more of a Flames fan, even though I’m technically a Toronto guy. Been decades since I lived in Toronto. Got the Canucks jersey over there too somewhere. Full can full I didn’t realize. Get the full Canadian spread up in the office. Habs versus Leafs. I wish, man. Too early for me. Late night only. Are Habs leaves tomorrow? Maybe I might be able to get on for the end of the third period. Is that tomorrow or two days from now? Kee into the zone now. Shot. Edmonton’s got a bit of room here. He’s going to fire a shot. Side of the net. O Kings just look like a better team. Going have to readjust my worst to first. Oh, here’s a chance for the ABS. He’s loose. Shot saved. Keer, another save off the rebound. ABS just had a nice breakout chance there. 700 p.m. Eastern tomorrow, like Wednesday night. Wednesday night hockey. 700 p.m. Eastern. Well, Jack, do you know that I live in in the way way way far east? It’s 10:00 a.m. my time right now, which means a Leafs game like that tips off at 6:00 a.m. here, 8:00 a.m. I’m going to be having a morning coffee. By the way, my shirt says I love hockey. I love Jesus coffee and hockey, not just Jesus. Just so we’re clear. Maybe not. Save. Ross Colton gets the puck back here. Abs are trying to tilt the ice back in their favor a bit. They don’t look so bad now. They’re getting a bit more going. Wait, what? One of the ABS players has a brother who’s a UFC fighter and he’s fighting in Toronto this weekend. Yeah. Jesus was a great dude. I don’t know if he was a hockey fan. He was definitely I’m sure he was a coffee lover, you know, a lot of coffee over there in the Middle East. Um, Taves on the breakout too far. Icing here on the ABS. Taves just he was on the breakout and he fired it in too early. He got a little little jumpy on the um on the dump and chase there. Oh, where are you at, Jack? Where you chatting from, man? Who’s in your in your logo? Is it Doug Gilmore? Who’s in Who’s in your uh in your YouTube profile logo? I can’t tell. It’s too small on my screen. It I can tell it’s the Leafs, but I can’t see who the player is. It’s what one of the Leafs coming over the board. Right. Who you got? All right. Five minutes left in the first here. Kings bringing it out. They’re going to have to cycle back on this one. Nice for check there by the ABS. Trevor Moore takes the zone. Shot right on Wedgewood. That’s going to be saved and held for another faceoff. 5 minutes left in Pete one in LA. Going to get back. So when when first period breaks, I’m going to get back to my worst to first here. I wonder if I could I don’t know how if I could set up a live poll on this. So, I’m pretty happy with the bottom feeders here. The hot garbage teams are hot garbage stuck in mud. These are teams that aren’t going anywhere in my opinion. Um, yeah, the Rangers, after watching them play this morning, I feel even more confirmed about that. It’s when Big Lton blocked a shot to help win a game. Nice. Um, Lton was always a great fantasy player, too. Uh, yeah, Rangers, Kraken, Bruins, Wings. I was hopeful for the Wings a couple years ago, less so now, honestly, when they first got Puzzo Petusi and Uso was young and Larkin, the debrink cat move, all that stuff, but no. Blue Jackets, uh, I don’t see it. Islanders, nope. So, these are the on the edge teams. Ducks, I think, could get back to the playoffs if they take a leap. Utah I has a really really solid core now especially the trade uh the Flames yes and no they’re probably not going to make it into the playoffs again but Dustin Wolf is so crazy if he takes a step up and that new young defender Zayn Periq Pare is a stud who knows Canadian same thing wow they’re show we’re showing Landisk had a pre-season fight. [ __ ] a there’s a lot of scraps in the preseason this year. Did anyone watching see that? That crazy scrap between Tampa and Florida was nuts. And then Ottawa in Montreal went off. Some dick. Who was it? Cousins, Dylan Cousins, whatever. Some piece of [ __ ] on the Senators slashed the Havs young star Demadov and then that game went off and there’s just balls. Chiang Mai then Dang in October from Oregon. Sweet. Oh, you’re an Oregon guy repping the Leafs. There you go. I like Oregon. I’ve been all through. I mean, ages ago when I lived in California and Mexico, I was through uh Asheville, Eugene, up the coast there. That is, man, that is God’s country. That is a beautiful spot. Uh Chiang Mai is nice, too. Yeah, you’re going to skip skip out on Chiang Mai burn season and come to Daang for rainy season. Pick your poison, I guess. All right, back to the game. We got four minutes left in the first period here. Taken away by Moore. He’s going to regroup. ABS now have leveled up the shots. Six a piece for Kings and Aves. It’s fast game, but okay. Turnover. Kings now through the neutral zone. They’re pushing in. Biffield’s out there again. It’s been his line has just been dominant tonight so far. He looks like I don’t want to call him the best player on the ice when McKinnon’s out there, but he looks like the most aggressive player tonight for sure. Quinton Biffield looking to take another big level up. I think he’s a guy the shoe skin looks good for the abs, but Biffield’s a guy too. if he levels up and goes from sort of that 50 or 60 point range into the 70 or 80 point range, uh, he could be the game changer and, you know, get the Kings over that hump come playoff time. We’re getting way ahead of ourselves here. All right, offensive draw coming here in the A zone. It’s by field. He’s got Brandt Clark there on the point, young defenseman. And no, ABS are going to win it. Push it out of the zone. Four minutes left now in the opening period. Kings are going to a Vegas game tomorrow, I think, against the Knights, which should be exciting. I don’t know. I’m going to stream it, but I definitely want to watch at least part of that. Going to be Marner’s first game in the desert. Alex Petrangel’s gone. Here’s the Kings with a chance. Oh, that turned it over. Nuskin again takes it away. And Nuskin’s been super active on the puck for the ABS here. He’s been their their most aggressive best player first period. ABS coming now. Looking for something. The ABS get a late goal here at the end of the first period. They can swing the momentum for sure of this game. It’s been mostly kings, but they haven’t scored yet. Not too many shots from either side. ABS down low now behind Keer. No, Kings are going to clear it again. Back into the zone. It’s Mar. Mar is going to skate it all the way down. No one there to help him. Turns over the puck. Little dump and chase here by the Kings. Comes back to Taves. Taves giveaway here. Oh, recovered by his defensive partner. Marty Nes on the ice. Kind of I guess the biggest acquisition by the ABS this off season. No, Blackwood. Blackwood who’s hurt. The keeper would probably their biggest acquisition. And then it’s Marty Nas come over from the Canes. Okay, twoon-one here for the Kings. Moore. Oh, Moore, you turned the puck over. I don’t know who he had with him, but he had someone with him and he couldn’t make the pass. Two minutes left. That should have been The Kings have had some real chances that haven’t even turned into shots on net. It’s not uh not great. Not great. Minute and a bit left in the opening period now. Oh [ __ ] Huge hit. Someone just got cleared out. Who was that? Fogle just got destroyed on the boards trying to come up on a change. There’s going to be a scrap here. They’re going for sure. Malot is hammering someone on the payback. Instant payback here. O some vindication and going to end up with a tackle. Malot from the Kings. Fogle just got absolutely [ __ ] drilled on the boards. Malot jumped in and started throwing blows. This game just got scrappy at the end of the first. That was some live action. Wow. Couple of big boys. And Meot is yelling. He’s saying he’s going to look for more. Crowd in LA absolutely loves Meot. He’s gonna have a big lump on his head just because he got tackled at the end. But good for him. Manson stepped up in the neutral zone. Absolutely destroyed Fogle. Just destroyed him after he dumped in the puck. And then Malot comes right over the boards and looks for some instant payback. Oh man, Fogle took one from Manson though. He’s going to get some attention between periods. Malot straight in. First right hand drilled Manson right in the head. He got another hard right. Knocked his helmet sideways. Malot landed some real blows here. What? They saying he’s thrown out of the game. That’s [ __ ] They gave him an extra two minutes for being an instigator. What is going on? Yeah, Portland. I’ve heard things in Portland are not great right now, Jack. This is absolutely [ __ ] insane, though. Sorry. Colorado’s going to get a power play for this cuz they gave Malot an instigator penalty. He’s not He doesn’t do anything. He doesn’t jump him. He just skates up to Manson, drops his gloves, and goes, “Ah, whatever.” I think that’s nuts, but I think that’s uh that’s not cool. Got some odds on the screen here. The ABS are 450 to win the West. Vegas also 450. Edmonton the favorite at 400. The Kings are down at plus a,000. I mean, watching this game, the Kings look like a good bet. I guess the issue is that they haven’t play performed in the playoffs yet. All right, so now Colorado, this is going to be real turnaround after huge hit. They’re going to get a power play to end the period. First power play of the night. Lefer, Biffield, Dowy, and Anderson out on the kill. Biffield just looks everywhere in the first period. How’s the audio by the way? I’m not very close to my mic. Mar, McKinnon, Nes, Nelson is out there. New look power play. Nis on the point. Cross to Nelson. Nelson back to Mar. Mar gets it to Nas. Nes is going to push up the right boards all the way across the ice to McKinnon. Back to Macar. McKinnon to Mar again. McKinnon to Nes. Nes in front. Shot. Big save there by Keer. McKinnon gets it back. Tries to fire it across. Going to be intercepted and cleared by Biffield. Overall, I got to say Biffield may be the best player on the ice in this first period. He looks like an absolute stud. McKinnon again trying to take the zone with Netas on his right. Drops to Netius. goes behind the net now. Abs are circling. Can they keep it in? Leaning keeps it in. Oh, they blew the play dead. I don’t think it was. They blew the play dead for an offside the line. That was close. Edmonson just pressing on McKinnon there. This has been a great game though. I mean, these are two good hockey teams unlike I caught little bits of the earlier games. I mean, relative to the the Rangers and Pens were competitive, but these these teams are flying out there right now. This looks great. 30 seconds left to the first intermission and then we will get up the old worst case scenario again. Second unit with Colton and Burns. Eight seconds left. I don’t think they’re going to get another chance. We’re going to go to first intermission with no score here. Shot 76 in favor of the ABS. All right, let’s go back to our worst to first tier listing. No score at the end of the first period. Okay, so back to the worst of first. Say what’s up in the chat if you guys want to vote on who you think are these teams or where they’re going. We’ve got a couple different tiers. We’ve got the trash for McKenna, Pens, Blackhawks, Sharks, Savers, Flyers, Predators. I don’t think they want to be here, but they are. They’re so old. I think they need to clear some cap space and get rid of some of the 30 plusers skating. Uh, hot garbage stuck in the mud. Rangers, Kraken, Bruins, Red Wings, Blue Jackets, Islanders. The Blue Jackets can maybe push up. They can maybe push up to this on the edge walking the line. I think if Zack Winsky is super healthy, maybe I’m not giving them enough credit. If Monahan continues and takes a big leap up, maybe the Blue Jackets go up here. Um, maybe I’ll move them. Will I move the Blue Jack just walking away? If I move them up here, the team that would come down to my mind is probably the Flames. It’s the flames or the ducks. Or the ducks. We’re going to leave them up there now. And we’re going to leave the blue ducks down here. Okay. Coyotes. No mammoth. Oh, yeah. I know. No, I don’t have the new logo yet. I couldn’t find But I did I did talk about this team. I like the new team. Like I couldn’t find a tier list that has the Mammoth one. I think the Utes or the Mammoth, whatever you want to call them, I think they’re getting sued for that name. That new the owner Ryan Smith there is real. I think they’re going to build a real thing in Salt Lake City. I would love one day to get down there and uh see a game. Okay, so now we’re starting to get into the real contenders. Um I think the last team on the edge walking line is going to be the Canucks though. The Canucks I think have the talent to be right up here in you know the top two tiers of the league. But um that weird Person regression we saw last year was just didn’t make any sense. uh statistically I can I’ll pull that up and show you the Elliott Patterson stats from last last little while were just I mean he looked like a different player after and he got paid. So here he is. So Project War this is a guy who’s supposed to be in the 96 percentile of the league which sounds great on paper. Uh here’s the reality though. Two years ago he was a 1enter. He was the absolute creme to the creme in the NHL. had a little drop off in 23 24 and then a significant drop off last year. So you see it his defensive rating plummets for one year then bumps back up last year but the finishing and the offense both really really fell off right I mean we’re talking a guy up in the sort of 75 80% range in the league dropping down to 25% it’s just unacceptable especially his cap hit 11.6 6 million. It’s a guy who’s now getting paid and it’s going to happen to everyone. So, two bad guys. He’s a guy who’s getting paid, you know, in that Conor McDavid range. So, that’s the reality. That’s what you’re going to who you’re going to get compared to. And he is the guy who makes the difference for Vancouver now, right? They moved on from JT Miller. He’s in down here in the Rangers. Uh it’s going to be all about is Demco healthy? Is Quinn Hughes healthy? A lot of talk that Quinn Hughes might go play with his brothers in the Devils on the Devils in New Jersey in two years. So, I think Vancouver has to, you know, I got my Canucks jersey up where up here over my shoulder. The the Canucks need to need to get it done. They’ve got to they’ve got to act now. I think the And the flip side too, right, is like if the Canucks become a serious contender, then maybe Quinn Hughes sticks around. Maybe he does a McDavid and signs a short two-year deal with the salary cap going up. Big encouragement. Um, okay. I think we’re in now to contenders. Some of you might be surprised that the Wild and the Senators are here. Maybe I’ll put the Wild here. But here, I’m assuming, not assuming, but yeah. playoffs in Amucho Mass. I think these So, these next teams are playoffs teams. These are real playoff teams that are going 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14, right? So, two of these teams will make the playoffs. Get 16 teams to playoffs. Two of these are wild card teams. These are my teams that I basically think are playoff locks, barring some sort of um freaking disaster, i.e. injuries. So, let’s start with the Wild. Possibly the least exciting, perhaps the most exciting. Obviously, they just paid huge money to Carol Caprosov. He’s now uh the highest paid, richest hockey player, not just in the NHL, in the history of planet Earth. Making what is he making? 16 odd million a year. 12.5 ABG is criminal. Nice, Jack. Um, so I think the Wild need to be a playoff team. They’re going to be a playoff team. And if you look at their record before Kappa got hurt last year, so whatever it is from fall until December or January, uh, they were amazing. They’re absolutely incredible. Again, they look pretty decent in the playoffs, too. But I think it’s like, you know, what do the Oilers look like if McDavid gets hurt? They probably look like the Wild without Caprosoft, right? They look like a middle to average team. I know they still have dry citle, but it’s just the reality. This is a team dependent on having a big star and having a big star makes all the difference in sports. So I I got them in the playoffs for sure as long as Kurill stays out on the ice. Next up, the Senators. The Senators I love this year. I think the Senators have an outside shot at making a deep run, maybe going in all the way to the Eastern Conference final. Uh they got Lis Lionus Olark, the old uh one half of the Boston goalie duo, the swayman. He’s a legit goalie. Brady Tachchuk is I mean he’s becoming one of my favorite players in the league. He’s just awesome. Everything about Brady Tachuk is awesome. He’s got a little bit more skill I think a little bit more skating ability than his brother even though he’s not not um obviously as proven yet as Matthew Chuck with his multiple cup wins. Saddest thing ever him being traded from Calgary. We’re not going to talk about it. So Brady Chuchchuk right now, see projected war up in the 94th percentile. And look at this, right? This is a guy who just his defense gets so much better. Yes, his finishing went down a little bit. Offense right up in that top 100th percentile. Boom, boom, boom. Three years in a row, right? So this is a guy who’s absolute superstar. And if he just improves on the finishing, I think he’s there with anyone. Obviously, the team is only going to go so far as as he carries them, but you know, Bath, Drake Bath’s hurt right now. He’ll be back soon. I think the Senators are are loaded up, locked and loaded, ready for a serious deep playoff run this year. Uh, and I’m excited for it. Um, I don’t know if we’ll get a Battle of Ontario first round, but maybe that’s a good thing. Maybe this year seeing the Battle of Ontario second round um would be a best case scenario. Speaking of which, I think the next team on this list is probably the Leafs or the Devils. The Leafs, uh, their biggest offseason move, my my lovely Leafs. Should I put on my Leafs cap when I do this? Maybe I should put on my Leafs cap to talk about them. My filthy old Leafs cap. I’m not replacing this cap until they win something. No, no buying loser team caps. Um, the Leafs lost miner in the offseason. Why did they do that? Well, they did that because for [ __ ] years, none of their general managers have pulled the trigger or made a big move or done anything other than just, you know, sit and watch the so-called big four not do anything come playoff time. Um, I don’t think there’s much to say about the Leafs other than the fact that they won the Atlantic Division last year, uh, and they’re probably going to regress this year. I don’t I mean, nothing about them implies a better team. Don’t say anything about Matias Machelli or whatever. Are you Jack? You think the Leafs will win the Atlantic? I I think they’re in third place maybe in the Atlantic. Uh we’ll see though. We’ll see. Um well, okay, we’ll get there. Okay, so Leafs, boom. Then got the Devils. The Devils, I think, have an outside shot of winning their division, possibly moving past the Canes this year. They just signed Luke Hughes to the big deal. Jack Hughes is healthy. Obviously, there’s all the rumors all three brothers want to play together at one point, in which case they create some sort of super juggernaut brother team. Speaking of Canadians, we got Ryan Reynolds on team on TV pitching Mint Mobile. Used to live in Kitano with him. So, the Devils, I think the Devils are great. I think Markstrom in that for them is going to be solid. Uh the Luke Hughes signing is a big deal and they’re a real serious contender. Playoffs and a whole lot more if they uh if they stay healthy and get into it. Next up, I have the team we’re watching right now, but these they look so good they could even move up. LA is one of those teams. I mean, do we want to call them the Leafs of the Western Division? They got maybe not because they have Darcy camp. Yeah, prove it. Year for the Leafs for how many years running? 50 years. I’m taking this hat off. It stinks. Um, I’m so cynical about the Leafs. I don’t even like talking about them. I could not stand the Kyle Dubis Leafs and I cannot stand the Kyle Dubis Penguins. I don’t even want to wake up to watch them. Uh, yeah. So, we got LA Kings. They look awesome right now tonight with Biffield. Uh, Kopitar, it’s his last season. There’s going to be a lot of push to to do something with him there. Kempe looks good. Um, the defense is awesome. They have some older guys like Dowy back there, young guys like Brandt Clark waiting to take over in the wings. Um, they look like studs tonight. They’re locking down the abs through the first period. Um, so let’s do it in that way. Let’s say ABS. No, ABS has to be S tier. Playoffs and much mass. Who else? I think the Caps belong in here. I think the Caps take a bit of aggression. They have a lot of awesome young prospects. Who’s the monster? The big dude, Prous. The six foot sixer. Prous is gonna I mean, let’s not forget about him. He’s out there. He’s a stud for sure. Uh, incredible skill for a guy of his size. Obviously, Obie, he’s going to hit 900 goals. Is he going to push all the way up for a,000 goals? Obie’s a legend. Um, you know, I remember back in the day, Don Cherry, before he got cancelled or thrown off TV or whatever, the CBC told him they didn’t want to pay him anymore. he would talk about how he liked Obie as much or more than Sid the Kid. So I think it’s played out that they’re different but but equally incredible players. Um so I have the caps here, but yes, taking a bit of a regression um from last year where they’re just on fire. So the top eight, these are the teams that I think are going to be playing each other more or less for for a cup. Am I loaded on the West? I think I might be loaded on the west here. Or did I do this right? I am. I’m too heavy on the west. So, I have to pull out a west team and drop an east team in. Okay. So, I’m going to take the back. The Panthers or the Caps stay up. And we got to knock one team from the West out of here. Dallas, ABS, Spilers, Knights. It’s the Jets. Sorry Jets. I love you. I love you Jets fans. I’m I mean, there’s nothing cooler than going to a hockey game in Winnipeg. Um, you think the caps are too high? I don’t know. I think the Caps are real legit. I guess if you think the Leafs or the Devils will take the Caps out. Um, yeah. So, I got the Jets dropping off. The Jets are amazing, but they lost. Eers, statistically, Eers is just an incredible, incredible player. We can look him up. His all of his advanced stats are uh are stunning. He’s just an incredible guy. and they lost him. They replaced him with aged Jonathan Taves. Um, I like Jonathan Taves, but he’s been out of hockey for a while, I think, because he had some personal problems, which usually means someone’s sort of drinking or off the wagon or something. I don’t know what was up with Jonathan Taves, but he is not a guy at this point in his career who can replace Nikolai Eers, who’s off to the Canes. I think Eers is one of the underrated stars. Yes, Kyle Connor is still there. Kyle Connor is going to be hoping to get paid soon. But if you look at Eers, 94% projected wins over replacement. And he’s a guy who’s been moving up, too. So, he’s just just a little bit, but I mean, when you’re that high, when you’re in the top five, 10, 5% of the league, it’s hard to move up, but you see his finishing is getting better. His offense has stayed there. This took a bit of a regression, but that’s okay. Either way, he’s gone from Winnipeg. I think they’re not relying on Kyle Connors, on Shley. um on pian on defense uh I I don’t see it. Hell, you know, Heluk is the best goalie in the league or the world maybe, but um yeah, they’re for me they’re the one they’re the team that pulls back after that president’s trophy. Uh we saw them almost lose in the first round and then kind of get brushed aside in the second round. Okay, so now we’re up to our top eight. Definitely I just kept the Cavs Caps here because I needed a fourth team from the East. Um, these for me are the cup contenders. Legit odds and worth laying cash. Okay. Yeah. So, these are teams that like are legit. I would lay some cash on them if the odds are right. Uh, I can’t spell, but that’s okay. We’ll just say worth worth worse to first. Yeah. So, the Caps the first one. I already talked about them. I would have had them in the playoffs in Mro Mass because I do think they might regress. That said, as long as Obie’s out there with Prous on the come up, um, good goalending, you know, they’re a solidly built team. They know how to win. I think they have a culture there, too. Um, that they can they can make a run at any time. Next, I have the Panthers. They would have been higher. Would have been higher, but I think right now having them at seventh is probably the right spot. It’s really hard to do a three repeat in any sport. We all know that statistically it’s almost impossible, very unlikely to happen. Um, Matthew Duch out till December. Barov now missing the whole year. I think they’re going to need Anton Lundelle to step up and be huge just to keep them in the thick of it till Christmas. Um, for Hey, he’s going to have to be awesome. Babski is still Babski, but he’s getting older, too. I I just think that this could be the year where, you know, they haven’t been an awesome regular season team. I think this could be the year when the wheels fall off the bus for them. Uh I still have them top eight, no doubt, but a little bit lower than some of these other squads. Next up, I think it’s this ABS team we’re watching. They’re really great. Are Wedgewood or injured Blackwood gonna be the Darcy Kemper, the Praint they’ve been looking for for the last couple years? Probably not, you know. Um, Wedgewood looks pretty good tonight. His stats were awesome after he got traded to them. Still, I see that as a flaw for them. Uh, Netis, Marty Ness came over from Carolina, who of course he got swapped out for Eers. Netas looks good on the right wing with McKinnon, but I don’t know. I I don’t really see this team as having improved or fixed the the mistakes that they couldn’t come over last year. Next up, I think it’s Dallas. No, Dallas really good. Uh I think it’s the Canes. So, I know we’re running out of Eastern Conference teams here. I think the Canes will probably have the best regular season record in the Eastern Conference. I think this improvement, this is a really good team who lost Ness and then replaced him with Eelers who is a better hockey player uh in my opinion and statistically right or left wing on a $6 million contract. It’s an incredible deal. It’s going to give Carolina wiggle room. Carolina also uh picked up Keandre Miller from New York. Uh they lost someone. Or Demetri Orlov I think left. I can’t remember if they lost another defender or not. This is a great team. Again, they’re going to be relying on Freddy Anderson to stay healthy. I think Freddy Anderson is a great keeper. There’s a real miss that the Leafs couldn’t win games. Couldn’t figure it out with Freddy Anderson. For me, that was a shame. They bombed that up. Among other things, the Leafs are bombed up. Okay, next up, I think it’s the Stars. The Stars are good. They’re cup contender. Having them fourth on my list here doesn’t I mean they could win the Stanley Cup. Any of these teams could win the Stanley Cup, but the Dallas Stars could legit win the Stanley Cup. They could go in with the President’s Trophy, absolutely on fire. Uh if Robertson plays well, if Ransin becomes their best player, which I think he is their best player. Um but if he proves it on the ice, I think that the the Stars could go into the playoffs as Stanley Cup favorites. um and then they could win. The flip side, I don’t know that Robertson is as dependable of a top scorer as some of the players on other teams. Um and Ratnan, you know, he was missing missing an action for a while after that trade. So, I know it’s not fun to be traded from two teams one year, but still. Okay, next up, I got the Bolts. The Bolts, remember, were, you know, they’re going in after as the best team on the ice and then they lose to Florida last year, right? I think the Bolts are the best team in the East, especially with the Barov injury. Um, I don’t even really think it’s that close. I think Coov’s the best hockey player in the East. Uh, we’re about to tip off in second period, but I’m going to finish this first. So I think Cutrov um and Vaselki just carry them again. They’re stacked. Hegel awesome. They’re an awesome team. So leaves the Oilers and the Knights. I got the Knights. The Knights obviously huge acquisition with Mitch Mner. Offense gets better, but they lose Alex Portangelo. Defense gets worse. They sign Aiden Hill to a long-term contract. I think the Knights are going to be right back in it playing deep, deep, deep in spring hockey. But like the Vegas oddsmakers, I got the Oilers as favorites. Even before the McDavid contract announcement, I had them as favorites. McDavid signs for less money, shorter term. Um, remember, it’s not charity case here. He’s still taking $12.5 million. There isn’t very much income tax in Alberta relative to the rest of Canada. And he’s going to sign a freaking mega deal in two years. So, and I think what he’ll do too is if he doesn’t win the next two years with the Oilers, this is dryidle kit, by the way. This is not a McDavid. This is a dry cidle assistant. Um, right. Two more years with Dry Cidle. Dry Cidle’s long-term. Jake Walman just resigns. They can afford those kind of deals because of McDavid. Ah, goal. We just got a goal. Nasis Natches scores his first goal as the ABS. Martin Nis, welcome to Colorado. You look great. There you go. We’re gonna move him right up. No, I’m just kidding. All right, so Martin Nes a minute into the second period swings this game towards the ABS. We’ll get back. Boilers number one picking up. They’re my cup pick. They’re doing it this year. Do they trade for a goalie? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe they figure it out with Connor Ingram, who they basically just got for free. So, I mean, that’s pretty incredible. Uh, I think they’re absolutely stacked, absolutely loaded. Kyman will be back from injury in a month or two. This is a great hockey team. They should and will win a cup because they have two of the five best skaters in the NHL. That’s my That’s my take. All right. One thing in the chat going to be Dallas versus Oilers, then Leafs versus Canes, Panthers. Honestly, I don’t think the P I don’t think the Panthers are going anywhere. I think the worst case scenario for the Leafs, now just talking as a Leafs fan, Jack, the worst case scenario, is that the Leafs get stuck playing the Bolts in round one. Um, not Florida, the Bolts. And I think if that happens again, whether the Leafs are two and the Bolts are three or vice versa, I think the Leafs might be out flaming out again. first round playoffs. You know, everyone in Toronto lighting the arena on fire, bitching about MLS, all that stuff. Um, yeah, I definitely see the Canes Canes are going to be right there. The Lightning going to be right there. I honestly think in a weird way that the I think the Senators could stun a lot of people in the East. The Senators to me are like my dark horse pick coming out of the East this year. Um, and then in the West, this Kings team, you know, maybe the Kings team bounces back and makes some action happened. Finally beats Edmonton after blowing it against them a couple years in a row. Okay, back to this game. 18 and a half left. Opening night, late night hockey with Evan A. Let’s freaking go. First stream of the year. Freaking fracking [ __ ] pumped up. Got to beat the champs. Sands are good, but not good enough yet. Yeah. Yeah, I mean it would involve like Almark playing out of his mind and having like a 930 or 940 save percentage um and some young players on that team taking a big step up this year. I just think it’s exciting. I would personally I’m not that excited to watch the Leafs team this year. I think Matthews will score a lot of goals. Um Taris is really old, but if you ask me am I excited to watch that Senators team? The answer is like hell yeah. They’re freaking exciting. Same with the Canadians, man. Oh, man. The Habs are super exciting. So much fun. Young talent. What’s fun about the Leafs team? Austin Matthews is the answer. The only answer. Uh, if Matthew scores 80 goals, they’ll win the Atlantic. Okay. Turnover. Nishkin shot. Deflected. Another chance there. So, Nathan McKinnon gets his first points of the year. He’s got the assist on nature. Say what’s up in the chat. I can see there’s other people than just Jack watching, but I appreciate all of you, including Jack for the chat and anyone else who’s here joining me. It’s the first live NHL walkalong on late night hockey channel. Uh I’m Evan, I’m a YouTuber hanging out on the far far east. Retired school teacher, sports fan, die hard, and I’m fired up for this channel. Y’all will see by playoffs next year, we’ll have a thousand people in this chat going bonkers. So, you’re you’re a early adopter, Jack Esquire, and whoever else is watching. Appreciate you joining me. Thanks so much. Spread the good word. Spread the good word. Do some good service. Have some good fun. Enjoy your life. Yeah. So McKinnon had 84 assists last year, which literally means he would have to be on a one assist plus a game pace to match that this year. So he’s getting started. He’s being modest. He’s a big deal. Uh McKinnon’s a big deal. Zagris is a big deal. I’m big in Vietnam, buddy. Oh yeah, I’m excited to watch some hockey this year. That is what I am. I got a buddy who’s going to come up. We’re going to stream some games back to back together next week, too. And I’m definitely doing the battle. Turkot turnover in front of the net. Drops. Shot. Saved. Oh, real opportunity there for the Kings to level up. CC keeps the puck in at the blue line. This Kings defense is so good. Dumalin on it now on the boards. Ara trip trip on Dumlan there. Are they going to call it? No call. Kings still haven’t seen a penalty yet. Uh that’s a little disappointing. That should have been a call for me. Only power plays so far is on the shitty instigator penalty. Here’s CC now. Twoon one. Ah, the other guy drops him off and he just drops the puck in. Great game so far. McKinnon and Lechinan both get an assist. McKinnon with a primary on Neas’s first goal as an AB. I tried to pick up Lechin in my fantasy hockey league bush league bitching and did not get him, I don’t think, today. That’s a bit of a disappointment, but we’ll get over it. Taves has it now on the boards. Here comes McKinnon flying. He’s got the puck in the edge and just closed down again. This king’s defense looks legit. Couple cross checks on McKinnon there. Can’t tell who that is, but he’s ripping into McKinnon’s ribs. Back to Taves. Shot on net. Molinsky knocks it down. Comes out of the ice. Kings pushing back on the counter. Can’t get to it. Ah, turnover in front of the net here. Puck is loose. No. Clear by the ABS. McKinnon back. Naches drops. Nothing. Big battle here between Anderson and McKinnon. It was Anderson who was just ribbing them with cross checks. Fourth line for the Kings make a real nice chance. Turkot has looked great there. He just skated in front of the net then did a nice little drop behind the back pass and Arma just couldn’t finish it. Fial is out there floating around too. But this man, these jerseys, I wish I could find a proper one. They really look like uh LA Raiders. Vegas Raiders. Kings back in. Take the zone. Burn takes away my internet chunks. How we doing in the chat folks? Anyone else saying hi? No. Copitar now with an opportunity. Drops shot coming from the blue line. Kuzeno. Kazenko’s digging in there. Burns behind the net trying to clear for the ABS. They get it out. All right. Brent Birds has 926 consecutive games played. He will break the record next year if he continues. Unfucking believable. Tough as nails, that guy. Cody Cece. No. Oh no. Did the Jays lose today, Jack? Two game four is tomorrow. What was the What was the final score on the Jay’s game? Cody CC on the blue line steps in. Shot fired, handled by Wedgewood with the big glove. What’s the final Jay scores? Nine to six. Wow. So, another big run barrage. So, the Jays have now scored 29 runs in three games. That Yankees pitching staff is not good enough. Just my opinion. I don’t think they’re good enough to stop the Blue Jay bats. It’s just a matter of time. Uh I don’t think the Jays are going to give up nine runs again tomorrow and I think they’ll close it out. Let’s go Blue Jays. Vlad the Impaler talking up Wedgewood on the broadcast here. McKinnon turns it around. Quick shot. Oh, it’s tied 66. Oh, that’s a shame. Taves to McKinnon. Now McKinnon down in the corner. Can’t take it out. Biffield has it. Pushing back. He’s got a man with him. It’s Lefari. Lefari loses a puck. Back and forth hockey here now. Nas again into the zone. Nas is dancing all over the place here. Gets it back in front of the net. Can’t find a way to get it through though. That is turned away. The McKinnon line is like so weird. It looks like they’re like double shifting in the first game of the year. Bit weird. Cody Cece now has the puck. Shot. Kanees. O. Gavin Brinley clears it out. Skates it out for the ABS. Just his second NHL game. 21-year-old. Molinsky keeps it in. Shot. Scores. Molinski gets the ABS a second goal. Wow. Wow. Big turn of events there. The ABS up two now. 13 minutes left in the second period. Bad clearance. Parker Kelly blocks a shot. Comes to Molinsky and he just There’s three guys screening Keer. Keer cannot see it at all. Molinsky just threads it through. It takes a tiny deflection off someone into the back of the net. Two nothing. Well, Saminsky, five goals all last year. He gets himself one on opening night tonight. Good for him. Undrafted 27y old. Let’s have a look at Sam Malinsky. Oh, this is interesting. Advanced stack hockey has their standings and playoff projections. So they have the Knights as first, the Oilers as second, and the Canucks is third. Interesting. Wow. They have the Canucks bouncing all the way back. That is fascinating. And then the Kings as missing the playoffs. Huh. Flames, Ducks, Sharks, Kraken. Yeah, that sounds about all right. Hurricane win the Metro? Yes. Rangers? No. Penguins? No. I don’t have either of these teams anywhere near 90 point teams. I have the Devils above them both and the Caps above them both. This looks about right to me. Dallas Stars win the Central ABS close behind. Sure, I can see it. The Blues and the Mammoth at 91 points a pop. Yeah, that sounds about right. Predators. No, I have the Predators below the Wild. The Jets dropping to 82%. That’s [ __ ] nuts. I think they’re going to regress, but that’s nuts. Maple Leafs to win the Atlantic one point over the Bolts. Okay, sure. The Sabres. This is where when data goes wrong. I will eat my baseball cap if the Sabres get 90 points today and finish above the Panthers, Senators, and Canadians. They have Canadians in dead last. Interesting. Okay. What do you think of those projections, Jack? Those seem a little bit nuts to me, but you know, you got to eye it test and data. You want to have data to back up what you’re saying, but sometimes I think it’s a little bit too much. All right, take a bathroom break. Leave those up. Highlight of the goal here. McKinnon comes all the way around the net, gets it to Nas in the slot, and he just slaps it in. Very nice goal. The Flyers will have more points than the pen, says Jack. Yeah, I don’t know about those projections. They’re a little odd uh to me. I don’t see it. Rangers too high and the Devils can be good but too injuryprone. Yeah, I mean I think the Devils are like one of these teams that are they’re full of studs now. Young studs. They have a real goalender. like they have all the pieces but haven’t really seen them prove anything yet. And until they prove something, it’s hard to predict them to really be a cup contender. Let’s see. Yeah, I think that I don’t know. I don’t really see anything wrong. I mean, I guess the glaring error when I look at what I’ve got here is that maybe I swap the Leafs and the caps or the senators in the caps and you pull the caps down and you bring the Leafs or the Senators up here. Um I don’t see any who what what other team here in the east is going to be in the finals. I guess the the Devils, right? Is one of these three teams maybe replaces the Caps. Lefaria with Biffield. Byiffield shot saved by Wedgewood. Nice hockey there by the Kings. The Kings have looked fantastic tonight, but they’re down two goals at home. Certainly not going to be feeling great at the end of the second period if they can’t claw one back. Did I freeze again? I know. I just went to the bathroom. I didn’t I don’t I don’t see any uh any warning. Usually I get like a warning from YouTube. It like the thing turns yellow. The list ain’t bad. Yeah, it’s a work in progress. I I think I’ll cut it up and repost it as a video or something. Or I can save it and download it. Maybe I’ll save it and then I’ll revisit it after uh after October, you know, revisit the power rankings or something. All right, let’s lock in on this game. Kings need to do something. They need to They’re getting outshot here. They got the puck in the zone, but they’re just sort of flopping around in it. All right, Kings digging in here. They’re behind the net, fighting for it, trying to jam it in the side of the net. Wedgewood’s there. Where’s the puck? Oh, pops loose. Still loose. And Kale Mar skates it out, but it’s in the corner. Kings are pressing here. Chop it free. Shots coming. Turnover. Ah, back to the blue line again. Dowy fires. Oh, he missed the net. Come on. Kuzeno behind the net now for the Kings. They’re absolutely buzzing. Puck comes back to blue line to Dowy. Over a minute in the zone here attacking. Blocked by McKinnon. What a defensive play by McKinnon to give them a little bit of a break there. Yeah, exactly. There’s always one team that comes from nowhere, right? And you never know who that team’s going to be. I think it could be the Senators. The flip side is the West, right? In the West, who’s the team that comes from nowhere? The Blues maybe or the Conucks. Probably the Conucks or the Wild. Oh, ABS now back pressing again. Looking for a third goal here. The ABS get a third one. This could be game. Avalanche power play coming. Six skater on the ice for the ABS. Puck turned over. That’s going to be the whistle on a delayed penalty. We are halfway through this game and it’s going to be a slashing call on Copar. No, number six. Oh, Edmonton. Oh, that’s tough for them, too. Good defender going off. They’re going to have to kill the penalty without him. Well, folks, hockey is back. Let’s go. Let’s get it. I’m excited. I’m super pumped to be streaming and doing a live channel. I haven’t done any live streaming in a couple years. Uh so I’m excited about it. Actually, that’s not true. I was streaming some gaming. But uh I don’t know. A couple of you are watching. If you want to any other requests, you want me to do top 10 hockey list, do NHL 26. Maybe I’ll do a career mode and play play as the Leafs in NHL 26 or something. Thanks for doing says Jack. Yeah, cheers. I mean, the the thing about YouTube that people don’t get, not that I’m any kind of like YouTube expert, is that it just takes forever, right? Like like most channels, most videos, even you post a hundred videos and you still there’s still it’s like five people, 10 people, 100 people watching, like the I don’t think there’s any like magic trick to the algorithm. It’s just about working really hard for a long time. Uh other people might think differently, but that’s how I feel about it. Lists are always fun and fun to bait. Yeah, I love the list. I think that’s why I like this tier list thing. I think I’m gonna do maybe I’ll like every Monday or something, I’ll up I’ll use the tier list to like update the my NHL power rankings. Um, and in that sense, like if this is a living list that’s going to change every week, I’m pretty cool with where it is right now. Uh especially if the ABS beat the Kings and stay up there and the Caps for me get to stay up there until they lose. You know, I’m not going to swap the Rangers and Penguins just because the Penguins won a tight game today. Um they’re by the way, they’re young goalie. The Penguins Arthur Sheiloff Celaf hockey gaming would be cool, too. Yeah, I love gaming. So I my my only sort of like experience background streaming is is is gaming. I used to play Football Manager. You know what Football Manager is? I used to play Football Manager on Twitch a fair bit and watch a lot of Football Manager Twitch streams. It’s kind of like sport simulation. Okay, Colorado Power Play coming up now. Bogle Biffield Dodie Anderson out for the kill. They win the draw and get it out right away. I mean, Biffield, even if they lose, he’s got to be in the top three stars tonight. He looks awesome. Yes, exactly. I got to keep that first list and revisit it constantly. Nis now gets the zone to Kale Mar. Dropped to Nelson. Nelson on the boards here. This penalty McKinnon in front through the ice back to Nas. Nas keeps it in. It’s Nas and Mar on the blue line here. Nas quarterback in the power play. McKinnon down low. He is the puck now. Back to Nas. Nas skates it into the middle. Drops it for McKinnon in the slot. McKinnon circles to male Mar Nelson front of the ice. Oo, missed a shot. Someone the trailer missed a shot there. And LA clears and gets a little breathing room for a second here. Oh, wow. Wow. Nelson now skating it back in with McKinnon. Looks like the first power play unit is staying out there for the ABS. They’re looking, they’re going for the kill shot here. Cleared again. Let’s see if they can get a change. Kale Mar is back and NASA stays out. So, it looks like they’re keeping first liners out again. Kings just stand them up on the blue line. Someone just had a nice hit there on the PK. Nachis and Nelson get the zone. McKinnon’s there. They’re playing all two minutes. Here’s McKinnon in the slot. He’s got a chance to shoot. Save by Keer. Old teammates. Nice. It’s a great great game. I will say that as far as this tier list goes, we are watching definitely two top 10 talent-wise NHL teams. This is a really good hockey game. It’s why it would be fun to watch the Kings Vegas game tomorrow. I don’t think I can stream because I don’t have the time. much stuff to do. But yeah, Nathan Nathan’s led McKinnon’s led the league in shots like two of the last three years and you can see why. All right, Burns. Burns has the puck now on the blue line to land a SCOG. 10 seconds left. Second unit out. They got a shot right away. Another offensive zone faceoff coming here. The ABS do finally have their second power play unit out. It’s Landiskog Nishkin who’s been great in this game. Can’t see who the third forward is. And then Burns is back there in the quarterback role. He looks like a yeti. 1500 games played. Almost seven minutes left in the second period here. The Kings got to get moving after they kill this penalty. Penalty’s ticking down now. They’re slapping their sticks on the ice. Only a couple seconds left. Taves Burns shot full strength, but ABS still have the zone here. Nice defense. Now Edmonton came back and helped out from the box. Kings now are going to fire it in. Do a little dump and chase. Yeah, they got to start pushing these last couple minutes. Turn over here. Not great. Another dump in by the ABS. Piala to Kempe. They’ve got the zone. Back to the blue line. Shot coming. Ooh, just missed. That was screened, too. That was a good chance there for the Kings. Abs coming back the other way. They’re on sides. Furry drops the point. Shot coming. It’s in front. It’s loose. Okay, Kings are all going to skate it out. They got a fouron two here. Taking advantage. No, they too slow. Shot coming. Weird angle and looks like it’s going to be covered up by Wedgewood. Nice back and forth action here. Great rebounding. Great play from both teams. Shots on goal are now 14-9 for the Kings. weird low shooting game. Um, wait, did Melo get an unsportsmanlike conduct and get thrown out of the game? That is absolute trash. That’s silly. He should You should I mean, Manson absolutely stepped up and [ __ ] destroyed Fogle and then Mallet beat him up. That’s what h That’s how hockeyy’s played, isn’t it? I don’t know. Just one guy’s opinion. All right, Brock Nelson and Turkot facing off here. Kings offensive zone drop. Dowy shot. Misses the net again. ABS clear the zone. Don’t have numbers. Back though. Kings are going to get to it but can’t clear. ABS for checking now. Trying to dig it out. Puck stays in. Cleared. Now comes to the center ice. Nice check here. Kings moving in. Clark softly in front. Puck’s loose. No. Turn around. Abs are going to skate it back. This is really good. Fast back and forth hockey now. Oh my goodness. Nate just attacks now for the ABS. McKinnon’s with him. McKinnon circles the net. Oh man, he’s so fast. Two guys at the blue line, drops the puck to one. Kale Mar steps in, shoots, saves, goal. Looks like Lechinan tapped it in. Kale Mar just attacked from the blue line after McKinnon circled. ABS up three. It is looking like a steep steep hill to climb now for the Kings. Oh, Kings fans in LA looking crushed on opening night. McKinnon just circles all the way, drops Mar. Mar fakes the shot, steps through two defenders, walks in, takes a shot, and Lechin just cleans up the mess on the doors stop. What a goal. It is going to be hard to stop this ABS team. This first line with Martin Nachis on it, McKinnon and Lechinan looks insane. Well, I think the ABS are sort of putting a stamp on it here. If they’re only going to give up nine shots in 40 minutes, Wedgewood’s going to be enough to take them deep into the playoffs for sure, especially with Blackwood coming back. Shot from the kings here. ABS now looking like the better team this second period. So they were right at the end. Big hit. I mean it’s incredible. A single hit is going to change this whole game. And isn’t that the way it happens? The Manson hit on Fogle turns into a fight. Then Malik gets the instigator penalty. And once the ABS finish that first period on the power play, they’ve been attacking ever since. Another shot coming now. It’s traffic in front. They’re looking for four. Kings clear it, but they’re they’re Kings are sloppy on the puck now. You can see they’re shook. They did not expect to be down three goals at home on opening night. Nelson now brings the puck in for the ABS. And Keer’s going to grab that and slow it down. Just hold on for a faceoff. They’re showing. It’s incredible. They’re going to show the fight and the hit highlight. It’s really the TSN turning point as they say. No doubt. Oh man. 3 nothing. 3:30 to go in the second period. ABS are making a case. What are we going to do in this third in the second period intermission? I got to think of something some kind of top 10 list. Maybe I’ll do a goalie tier list. Is that crazy? I don’t know if I have time. There’s so many goalies. I also I don’t know that I can recognize every goalie by face. That’s probably too hard for me. Could you could anyone in the chat recognize go bullies by face? Maybe we can do players or skaters. Get all the studs. All right. The goal scorer. Oh, Leanin scored. Yeah, goalies are tough because of the mass. True say. It’s funny like their their profile photo. It’s just their face, right? And it’s like you can kind of judge by the kit, but I think there’s a bunch of goalies. I don’t think I’d recognize them. I was watching uh Joey Decord, the Seattle Krakens new keeper. He has a YouTube channel and I literally was watching his YouTube video and just think, wait, like that’s what he looks like? All right, abs off the face off shot here. Going to go wide. Copitar coming in at the side of the net. Pushed in there. Wedgewood makes another nice save. Wedgewood looking confident now. Kuz Mets off is out there playing with Kopitar on the first line. I guess it’s the second line. He must be the second line. Byfield must be their first line. Kuzmano looked I mean I remember when he was younger playing with Calgary and with the Canucks, but he just keeps jumping around. Okay, off the draw here comes back to the blue line. Edmonson keeps it in. Shot behind the net. Kuzman’s off now. Kuzmano circling. ABS trying to clear the zone. They get it out. Taking it up to the neutral zone now and attacking. Olas in towards the net. Shovels it in. Always surprised how small hockey players tough. Yeah, that’s funny, man. I met u I mean Marner is like small small he is a just small by any standards. Um I mean I guess he looked big if he was in Vietnam but he’s a small guy but I was going to say McDavid. I saw McDavid once. Uh and he was you know my size maybe. I mean he’s a bit more square in the shoulders. He’s in better shape than me. I used to uh when I lived in Calgary hang out with a guy named Michael Frolik. was a great player. He won a cup for the Blackhawks and then he was uh went to the Winnipeg Jets and then he went to Calgary. He was a good He’s a penalty killer in Calgary. Big soccer fan too though. Anyways, Frolique was probably like 5’8, 5’9, but he won their fitness test every year. And the only way you could tell he was a hockey player was that his forearms and his calves had like tennis balls. just like tennis ball muscles. But otherwise, like like if he he’s the kind of guy if he wore jeans and a loose sweater, you would never think he was a pro athlete, right? You would just never think it. I mean, absolutely shredded, don’t get me wrong, but just like sizewise, his build, like if you w you’d walk right by him in a mall or a restaurant or a street and just think, “Oh, yeah, that’s a tough looking small guy.” But like small, you know, like period, like in an objective way, a smaller man. Uh, but [ __ ] hell was he tough as hell and super fit. They can drink like no other athletes. That’s true. There’s a hockey drinking culture. Maybe it’s the Eastern European thing or the Canadian thing or just the cold weather thing. It’s funny even I was watching that NHL faceoff show the other day like from last year and they were showing pasta and uh Knander, right? William Knander and Pasta played hockey together in I don’t know Finland or Sweden or something when they were kids. And so it was showing them like having dinner in Toronto before Bruins Leafs game and they’re just like skull and beers which is I mean it’s great. I think it’s it’s cool. Why shouldn’t you drink a beer? I mean it’s not like there’s anything wrong with beer if you’re a pro alete. It’s not like these guys are alcoholics the way they used to be. Um but it was just interesting to see, right? There’s so many other games, so many leagues. they’re um they’re uh you know just kind of like obsessed with fitness and cardio and all this stuff now and like yeah well like even pro league pro league who was always winning the fitness test on the Calgary Flames right they have a little competition at the start of the year and he just dominated right he could do whatever a zillion squats a zillion press ups you know his uh what’s the blood oxygen test they do through the roof exceptional athlete, but like at his house like he’s always drinking beers, you know, like he he that’s what he did like on the weekend. He would watch soccer and have a couple beers. Just a couple, not like 12, but oh, turnover here. Kings with a chance. This game would kind of cool off after that third goal. Kings now trying to get one before half. CC tipped in front of the net. Wow, Turkot just about got one there. Poor clearance. Giveaway for the abs. Turkot just gets it right in front of the net. Has it on a platter and he can’t get the puck off the ice. Puts it right into Wedgewood pads. Turkot just turned right where you want it. He just couldn’t lift it over the blocker. This is going to be one of those games for the Kings where they look back and think we played better hockey than them for 25 minutes and somehow ended up down 3 nothing after two periods. Um, you know, it might ignite them if it was a playoff game, but in opening game of the regular season, I think it’s going to be really hard for this Kings team to turn it around unless they get that goal in the next minute. One minute here. Last minute of play in the second period. Abs again pushing up. Tried a little dangle there. Did not work. Pucks back and forth now. They’re chipping it around. It looks like we’re going to see the time wasted. Time run out on the end of the second period here. All right, let’s go. Kings, make something happen. You got to make something happen right now if you want to get anything going. And oh god, I think the Kings are taking a penalty here again. The Kings, stupid [ __ ] way to end a period. That is two periods in a row. The Kings get a penalty, bad penalty, and are going to finish the period on the PK. What is it? Just neutral zone interference. Oh no, it’s a bag clear for the Kings. This power play has been insane too for the ABS. Looks great with Ness Lechinan, Nelson, McKinnon, and Kale Mar. Undisiplined is right. Well, the first period was bad. First period was bad, the instigator penalty, but that delay a game undisiplined. Okay, McKinnon gets the zone here to Lechanin. Lackin puts it around the board. Nelson there digging it out. Gets it back to McKinnon behind the net. 10 seconds left here. Kings are going to get a clearance. And that might be it for the second period. Nas is going to try one more rush. Oh, he’s fast. He’s up there. He’s going to get a shot. Short shot to extend the period. Wow. Net just went red line to red line in what looked like about five seconds and then fired an odd angled shot. Great work by the ABS. They no doubt look like a Stanley Cup contender again. They are just buzzing and they’re finishing their chances. Unlike the Kings, they are finishing their chances. That goal by Lechanin off an absolutely stud play by Kale Mar. TJ Oshi is on the broadcast and he’s saying he’s never watched three hockey games back to back in his life. That’s funny. Hey, the difference between players and fans. Oshi is literally like I can’t believe it. Okay. All right. Let’s get another tier list up here. We will have a bit of fun with this. Okay. We’re gonna do current player tier list and we’ll do not there yet or anymore. Okay, so this tier list is easy for me. Jump in the chat. Let me know if you see any guys here you think are not there yet or not there anymore. We’ll put them in here. Um, we just grab everyone on the sabers. I think Baddard is definitely not there yet. Conor Bard is going to be a great player, but he is not there yet. I’m having to look close. Sorry, I’m I’m leaning off screen trying to see. Thompson is a dog. Thompson is a dog. I think he led the league in five and five goals last year. He was awesome. [Music] Oh, should we put Sid the kid in the not there anymore or less? No, he’s still there. He’s there. Um, let’s look at I think we should get we could get a couple of the the Habs in here. Is Lane Hudson in this list? I can’t see him. Oh, I see another. Not there yet. Is that Mlin? I think that’s Mlin Cabbrini. Yeah, Mlin is going to be awesome. His stats so far look better than the Bodard, but he is not quite there yet. Not there yet. Uh, where did we see Tage Thompson? Did you see Tage? I I see him there. Is that him there? Yeah, that’s him. Okay. A or B? What do you think? What do you think, Jack? Is he an A tier or B tier? Dirty Dogs. We’ll give him his own category for now. Is he mid or you think I should move him up one? It’s hard. I find it hard to put a player too high up when they haven’t made the playoffs. Um, but whatever. You jump in. I mean, his national team stuff is real. Um, up one A tier. Okay. Okay. All right. Almost elite. [Music] All right. Who else is this? Cooch. I’m gonna Is this Paneran? I think that’s Paneran. I’m gonna put Paneran in that same category right beside Thompson. I think Paneran is another one of those guys that’s like so great. He’s getting old and his team is not gonna make the playoffs. Awkward, but that’s how I feel about it right now. Um, all right. Let’s see. I can see a couple of the big dogs here. Is that Hegel? That looks like Hegel to me. Oh, Kandre Miller. Interesting. Where do we put him? This is Mitch. Is that This is that guy Mitch Mitchikov. What’s the Flyers kid’s name? I’m going to say I’m going to butcher his name. Mitchoff. Mitchoff, I think, is definitely in that same tier. Mate Mitchkov. Is that him? I think that’s him. Hopefully I’m not blind. I think that’s the Flyers Mitchkov kid. Is this Bertusi buddy? No way. You’re not getting on any tier list. There’s JT Miller still wearing Conucksi. I think JT Miller also goes in that almost elite elite. He’s a freaking dog, but he’s not he’s not changing the game. Not swinging the game yet. So, you think I should just get McKinnon and Matthews right to the top? Superstar. Yeah. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Matthews is in there. No doubt. McDavid’s a no doubter. There you go. There’s another No doubter. What about Obie? Is Obie belong top tier now? I don’t know. He still scores goals. Eichel’s up there for sure. Eichel’s I think I E I E I E I E I E I E I E I E I E I E I E moved into this superstar range for me. Jesus. Yeah. Let’s see. Where’s Kira? Where’s Kapasoft? It’s so I mean I’m partly I’m just blind, but I find it hard to like pick guys out. There’s Taris. I’m going to put Tiveras in the not there anymore. I think he’s he’s taking a serious drop. Um, how about underperforming allar? Um, underperforming all stars. Oh, Robertson. That’s Robertson for me. He’s a guy that is never quite quite there. What about Matthew Chuchchuk? So, Matthew Chuchchuk be a superstar. Willie Nelander is definitely an almost elite absolute dog for me. Um, where is Willie? Did you see Willie? He’s better in the playoffs than Matthews or anyone else the Leafs have. That’s for sure. Feel like I’m leaning into the screen and missing it. Um, where’s Knander? I don’t even see Neander here. Maybe I’m just blind. Oh, is that Quinn Hughes? Quinn Hughes is almost superstar now, right? The Hu All the Hughes brothers are sort of going into that. Are they quite superstars? They definitely I mean Jack is when he’s not hurt. I think this Yeah, I think Quinn Hughes is here for now for me. Um what about What about Kyle Connor or Winsky? Winsky’s in that same tier. I need more tiers. I’m putting everyone in the same tier. Any tier ideas? This looks like Winsky to me. Okay, what’s this mid tier? This is a Winsky tier. Winsky’s in his own tier right now. How about the best guy on a crap team? There’s a couple of those in here. Panaran could actually, you know, we could move Panaran down to the best guy on a crap team. I don’t think he’s almost elite anymore. Oh, maybe Tage. I don’t know. I don’t know, man. Tage Thompson. He fits the bill. The best guy on a crap team. Uh, does it Matthews? No, the Leafs aren’t crap. I’m just kidding. Um, oh, Sid is definitely in the best guy on a crap team now. Sorry, Sid. I know you’re a superstar in your heart, and everyone’s heart. Um, Ovetchkin. No, because Ovetkin’s team is not crap. Uh, who else is the best guy on crap team? Brady? No, I think Brady’s a dog. If If Tage is up here, Brady’s up here. Where’s JT Miller, though, now? Maybe JT Miller is an underperforming all-star because him one him and Paneran have to be like a 2A 2B on the Rangers. We can’t have them in the same tier and honestly I don’t think either are almost elite if their team is playing the way it’s playing. Tough calls, tough choices making all the tough decisions tonight. Um, what about Kyle Connor? I want to find Kyle Connor’s picture because I think I think he’s a dog. He belongs in there. Where is he? Blondie. Is this him without a beard? No. Yes. This is Patterson. Where do we get Patterson? Underperforming allstar. Definitely him and JT Miller go beside each other. That’s perfect. Match made in heaven. Two fighting teammates. Who’s washed? Can’t wash. No, I think Obie’s still got to be a superstar until the caps fall off and are bad. Obie’s a superstar. Dry’s also a superstar. Why not? He is. Kale and Nathan are both superstars. Mike Sullivan is absolutely [ __ ] pissed. We’re watching his uh he’s giving his like post postgame interview and he’s just furious. Where’s pasta? Is that pasta? He’s picture. I mean, I need my glasses, man. I’m showing how old I am. I think this is pasta. And if that’s pasta, he is now the best guy on a crab team, which is insane because he’s also a superstar. Pasta could be a superstar, but so could Sid, right? So Sid could also be a superstar, but we’re going to leave him in the best guy on a crap team category. Um, I think Tchuck’s got to go under superstar. He just has to be. Matt Chuck, you win backtoback cups. You are a superstar. Yeah, Mar’s up there for sure. Is this Mar? Is this the Mar pick? I can’t tell. I’m sorry. I got to apologize. My I should like put on my glasses like an old man here. Is that Mar? Ah, we’re pretending it’s Mar if it’s not. Um, nurse. Where did we put nurse? That’s Rantin, right? Brandon is a a dog. Is that Mo Raton? Oh, I’m the worst. It’s hard to tell. He’s smiling. Who’s this? Is this Michael Misa? Is that their new draft pick kid? This looks to me like it’s Michael Misa. Who’s putting the him on a tier list? I don’t know. Uh, and are these the two Mammoth? Is this Peter and Dylan Gwenthther? Yeah, that’s okay. Is he the best guy on a crap team or almost elite? I think we’re going to leave. Bottom row for Gwen. Crap. Okay, we can say not there yet. He could fit the not there yet bill. This is another shark. I think it’s Michael Misa, their new draft pick. Uh Kandre Miller, he’s a cane now, but he fits right under the underperforming allstars bill for sure. I can’t see Kier Caprosoft here. Am I insane? I lost my mind. We’re going to put Petusi here just because he belongs there and he’s not an all-star that’s for sure. Is this Anders Lee? I think that’s Anders Lee. He’s a underperformer. There’s a lot of caps here. I see a lot of players, a lot of Washington caps here. I want some better players. Am I losing my mind? Why? It’s like we’re missing a lot of serious players here. Where’s Cooch? You see Cuch on there? Can’t see any. Is this Coov with hair? It’s like an old photo of Cuch with hair and a beard. Maybe. Oh no, there’s Kale Mar. See, I can’t get That’s Kale Mar. I have no idea who this is. Get him out of here. Is this Malcolin? This is like a 10year-old photo of Malcolin. This seems whoever made this tier list and put in these photos is definitely like favoring extremely young players and players on certain teams. Like this just looks like how many koxs do we have? Right. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Eight kucks. That’s a bit weird. This is someone on the Kraken. Is this Maddie Ben? No, he’s 21. Is this Clayton Keller? getting. We’re getting there on the third period. I want to get back to this game. See if the Kings can bring it back or not. I think this is Clayton Keller with his hairbrushed. If this is Clayton Keller with his hair brushed for Utah, he is right on the fence here between the best guy on a crap team and almost elite. I’ll say this, too. If Utah is a playoff team, I think it’s because Clayton Keller has to step up and be an elite scorer. Um, game three of the opening night triple header almost into the third period. We are back. Kale Mar on the ice. The ABS. ABS start on a power play. Nas drops to McKinnon. Nelson behind the net here. We just dug in behind Keer now. Sounds funny. Back to the blue line. McKinnon misses the puck. Turnover down now. Nelson battling beneath the net with Anderson. Puck slides out to the blue line. ABS getting reset on the power play into the slot. Brock Nelson back to the blue line to McKinnon beneath the red line. McKinnon dances out, fires it to Lean and shot on goal. Nice chance there. This Nas McKinnon combo on the power play is pretty filthy with Macar back there behind them like it. So it’s Mar and Nas on the blue line together. Uh and it just looks vicious. And then they’ve had Brock Nelson on the right side in the slot and McKinnon just sort of dancing around and circling and it looks it looks pretty killer, man. I don’t know why, but our NHL edge still says it’s between periods. It’s definitely not. I’m starting the game. Mckinnan facing off against Copitar here. Kopitar wins it. Goes behind the net. Can LA clear it? Yes, they can. Kale Mar now skates it out. Nis drops to McKinnon. McKinnon takes the zone. drops to Nelson. Nelson comes down on the boards. Going to try and work it around. Gets back to Kale Mar. He’s dancing into the middle. Drops for Nelson again. Nelson circles back to Mar. Shot coming. McKinnon missed the rebound there. Comes out to Nelson. McKinnon beneath the red line again. Dancing around. Fires out front. Lechin. Shot on net. Juicy. Juicy. Big saves here from Keer. The shots are only 18 to 11, but it’s been a lot of great chances in this game. Both teams are so good skating. There’s a bunch of Kings players in front of the net, but McKinnon just threads the needle, gets the puck to Lean, and he gets a shot on. No space though. He couldn’t get out the night. Kings kill off another penalty, but ABS still have the zone. Shot coming. It’s Burns. Burns tries to dance infield on the back check. Nice. Just takes it away from Burns. And the Kings look like they’re going to get their first penalty here. Burns hooked by field after he was dispossessed. Delayed penalty coming finally for the Kings. Um I don’t know. To me, it’s crazy. How do you go 42 minutes without calling a penalty on a team? Popitar in front shot delayed penalty whistle goes. Okay. 40-year-old Brent Burns hooking penalty. I bet it feels hard to keep up with other guys sometimes these days. Is it a bit of a makeup call? Um, I don’t know. It’s a little bit weak. It’s just sort of Brent Burns with his stick in Bfield’s hands. I mean, I’m sure if they felt like it, they could have called two of those penalties earlier and given the Kings another shot on the power play, but it’s how it is some nights. Wins the face off. Kee now on the blue line. He dances in down to the slot. First time we’ve seen the power play. Kusmanco to Kee. Campe to Fiala. Fiala dances in, tries his shot, gets deflected. That’s not going to make it through. So, I mean, it’s just it’s kind of wild because the Kings were a really good scoring team last year. They were like top five. Oh, chance for Copar. Oh, and he loses the puck. Oh, just sloppy there. Back to Camp ate at the blue line again. He fires it in, but it’s high. Much too high to get net. Kuzeno has it. Copitar behind the net. Kismano in the slot. Loses it. Fiala dances in and takes it. Fiala to Copitar behind the net. Back to FIA gets by him and it’s going to clear the zone again. The Kings just kind of look like they’re not ready to play. I don’t know how else to say this. Yeah. Deno walks in here. Second unit on Dowy. Dowy’s trying to skate it up. Drops for Clark. I’m excited to see Brandt Clark on the power play. He walks it in here down to the red line all the way in deep. Pass it across to Deno. Deno gets it back. Brandt Clark is on the blue line with Dowy. Laferier to Dowy to Clark. Clark tips it down low to the no. Back to Clark. Over to Dow. He shot one timer. Oo, nice save there from Wedgewood. Wedgewood’s been good. He’s only faced 12 shots, but he has been good. Arma now on the power play out with Dowy. Lefer Clark. Pucks cross to Clark. Downloaded the no opportunity here. Pass. Arot. Save. Wedgewood again. Nice save. Back to full strength. King still in the zone though. Kept in. Joel Arma cycles it. Great shot there and a chance for Arma but they cannot get past Wedgwood to know attacking now. Kings have the zone drop for Dowy. Touch pass over. The ABS have been in the zone a long time. Chance. It’s loose in front of the net. Kale Mar jumps in it. He’s skating with it now trying to clear. ABS get a change in front. Kings shot. They thought they’d scored there. Wedgewood’s on top of it. Where’s the puck? Kings think they might have scored here. It looks like Wedgewood got on top of it in time. Now Kale Mar is getting a penalty. So back-to-back penalties here for the ABS. You can tell the Kings are really pushing coming out of third period, but also the refs look like they might be trying to give us a bit of a game. Dumlan just stick handles right down to the red line and cuts in hard on Wedgewood. Mar does hook him. Again, kind of a soft call, but at this point in the game, they’re going to try and get it going. For some reason, our ticker isn’t working up here. Still got the Zambonis up, but we’ll ignore it. Copitar on the faceoff. Two minute power play. Minor backto-back power plays for the Kings. Can they get a goal? Give something to all the fans here at Crypto.com in LA. Cleared to begin the penalty kill there. Biffield, Kempe, Copitar, top line. Fiala is playing point across the net. Fiala Kuzno down low to Copitar. Nice cycling here. Kazenco back to Copitar in the slot. Kopitar is going to dance high. Put it back down low to Fiala. Fiala circles. They switch. Cross the ice to Kazmano. Kazenco to Kee. Kuzeno. Campe shot. Ooh, looked like it was tipped. Didn’t quite find the back of the net there. That was close. I think it was Biffield, but the tip in front of the keeper. Wedgewood remains clean on the night. Puck is cleared now. LA’s going to get another chance here. A full minute left on this power play. Biffield now dances up middle ice. Dropstick is Manco. Biffield goes in, puts it low. Going to be circled around and cleared off the boards. Copitar steps off the ice. He looks tired. Looks a bit defeated. It’s going to be the young fella Brandt Clark with Lefari Deno. You have 40 seconds left to put something together. These Kings puck comes loose in net. Back to Dowy. Dowy shoots. Save by Wedgewood again. He does not look like he’s going to let anything through tonight. He’s uh making a case for himself. 16 saves now for Wedgewood. He has been rock solid to know now on the boards battling Dowy. Aria drops to Dowy. Cross to Clark. Clark’s pushing in here. Clefair. They’re cycling. Dowy again. Shooting. Blocked. Dowy gets it back. Third time shot. Dowy can’t find its way through again. Another save by Wedgewood. This is the clock is ticking. We’re going to say that the clock is definitely ticking on the Kings. Open a night at home here. Scott Wedgewood going to be the star here with Blackwood out injured. He is uh pitching a shut out as they say. 16 shots, 16 saves. ABS only have 19 shots. You can see though the Kings have been hitting more. They’ve been the aggressor, but couple more giveaways. More takeaways, too, though. Going to be a disappointing night, I think, if you’re a Kings fan, especially if you bother going down to the arena. Going to review our tier list. How’s our tier listing? There’s too many superstars. Although league is a superstar league these days. Okay. Did we get the game center? No. It’s like the game center here is frozen for some reason on the ABS and Kings. So what do we get tomorrow? Right. Tomorrow Leaves Canadians early game going to be good. Bruins cap going to be a dumper dumpster fire. And then Flames Oilers. Maybe I’ll call this game on the channel. Not sure. Thursday night, a full slate of games. Okay. Wow. Wow. Wow. This I want. Flames can 1000 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday night. That’s a lock. Oh, it’s my getting another error message here from YouTube. Hopefully, I’m not cutting out too bad, but Yeah, that’s us, though. We’re going to be back Thursday night, 1000 p.m. Eastern for Flames and Canucks. That’s a lock. There’s also going to be the Sharks Sharks Knights. Should I watch Sharks Nights just to watch Marner face off against Mlin Cabbrini and the kids? That could be fun. Let me know in the chat. I think I’m going to go Kucks Flames though, even though Yeah, that that’s a real up or down kind of game. shot here from Cody CC. Fog will has a chance. Another penalty here coming. Kings are going to get a third chance on the power play. Or no, this one’s going against the king. Sorry. This is going to be the end. This is going to be game over, I think. Fogle is going to get a minor for holding here. The kings are blowing it. This game is definitely getting away from them at this point. Yeah, fair game. Warren Fogle pulls down Nes. He grabbed his arm, brought him down, and that’s going to be game. I think I’m also losing my data. Doesn’t make sense. All right, Colorado power play. Their power play, the top unit has looked absolutely awesome today. So, this is a real chance for them to just absolutely finish him off. Put the nail in the coffin for the Kings car now. right side cuts in. Mar dancing around. Always dangerous. Has the puck. He holds. Dowy’s there with him now. Gets it back to McKinnon on the blue line. McKinnon into center ice to Lechanin. Lechinan has the puck. Loses it. Kings are going to clear. 12 minutes left in the game. One minute left in this power play now. Burns second unit out. drops NIS. NIS to McKinnon. There’s a collision in the middle of the ice here. Whistle’s going to blow. Yeah, Landiskoff went offside. He crashed into someone there. Awkward bit of play. Yeah, Landisaw goes offside running into two Kings defenders. Gets the whistle blown. 37 seconds left here. Olives dumps it in. Now it’s first we’ve seen a him on the power play tonight. And it comes all the way around Nishuskin. So Nishuskin burns Olivesson. Full second unit out here for the ABS. and it’s going to get cleared again for the Kings. Getting a little bit sloppy here as they wind things down in this game. 11 minutes to go. 3 nothing. And the N the NHL game center scoreboard does not appear to be working. No shots at all on the app/ power play. So, their power play went looking like absolute fire for the start of the match to just being, you know, mid mid to average. Kind of like my internet. My internet’s been cutting off, too. I don’t know what to say about it. It’s not the service. The speed is flying when it works and then it just dips out. This is Atlanta’s first regular season game since 2022. That is absolutely wild. Kings now regrouping. They’re just trying to figure something out here to get something past Wedgewood. I think they need to just start firing the puck at the net. Dumlan fakes, dances into the red line. Shot coming. Save. Kings now doing a little bit of defense. ABS are checking but slowing things down. Seeing a lot less of that McKinnon net just leaning a nine here in the third period. Got the checkers out the third and fourth line out for the abs. Just putting a little bit more body around Taves and Burns. Abs coming back now. Get the zone. Dump it in there. Three second period goals by the ABS here. Completely flipped this game on its head. ABS again going to come back, try again. They are just cruising now, taking their time. Oh, ice is opening up though. Sloppy stuff. Is there another penalty coming? Yeah, Fiala took one for the Kings. O, this is getting sloppy, gents. This is getting very sloppy. Fiala. Oh, yeah. He cross checks him in the face behind the play. Two-minute minor for roughing. Could have called crosschecking. Fiala behind the play just sort of Colton slipped and fell and he was standing up and Fiala decided to cross check him in the face. That is a classic end of the game frustration kind of penalty. Not much going on. Just take a shitty penalty and give yourself a two-minute break in the box. Well done, Fia. Well done. Oh, too much. All right, gents. Let me know. You give me your chat comments. Player of the game here. I think the player of the game for me has got to be Martin Nis. He has been everywhere. Interesting. I mean, Mckennon gets two assists. Mar made the play of the night on the leaning goal, but honestly, I think Martin Nees, he opened the scoring, made a 10. If that stands, it’ll be the game winner, and he has just looked awesome. Looked like if he plays like this for the rest of the season, he is going to be an absolute game changer on their top line. I mean, they looked deadly against a very good set of Kings defenders. Let’s bring up the old Marty Ness. Mark Ness. We’ll pull up his card here. Look at some of his stats from last year. See where he falls relative to some of the other players in the league. Well, what do you think, Jack? Is Martin Netas going to be the guy that gets them over the hump? I mean, you can see he’s getting he’s getting better, which I’m actually surprised that he got that much better last year. I mean, this this data shows him taking a huge leap last year, especially offensively. And I mean, he’s looked like a absolute stud out there tonight. He’s been leading the attack. Uh often it’s him taking the puck through the middle zone, through the neutral zone, and then getting the puck to McKinnon and McKinnon whipping it around. Uh terrible defender, but that doesn’t really matter. That’s not what he’s It’s not what they got him for. Um interesting. And finish. Nate just scores. Oh, talk about timing. We’re talking about N just being a game changer. He absolutely finishes off. That’s it. Player of the game. No doubt he’s our man of the match. Martin Nas scores his second goal with 917 left in the third period. This guy has been everywhere tonight. He takes one in the slot. Steps up and just pushs it high left side over Keer’s shoulder. Martin Nis, your new Colorado AB star. He is sending and packing at crypto.com. There is Copitar, Kempe, and Keer jerseys walking up the stairs and heading for the parking lot. They don’t want to don’t want to deal with that LA traffic tonight. Wow, look at that. Martin Net just as we have him up on the screen, he puts in an exclamation point goal. Nine minutes left, but this one is absolutely over, folks. Four nothing. Dang. Cole Mar with a second assist. Kale Mar if you want to call in properly. Hello game unboxer. What’s up? How you doing? Thanks for saying hi. Hey, welcome to the channel. It’s a brand new channel. Give it a sub and a like. I’m going to be streaming a bunch of late night hockey games. So, I think mostly Tuesday and Thursday nights, those midweek Pacific Coast games. Uh, you know, the ones the kind that are always on cable TV. Think maybe I’ll do the Sharks Knights uh this week, this Thursday. Either the Sharks and Knights or the Flames and the Canucks. You let me know whichever one you want to watch. If anybody has any kind of opinion, maybe I’ll run a poll on the channel for all 15 subscribers or whatever we’ve got in the first week. Again though, I do appreciate you. I’m Evan. This is Late Night Hockey. And uh I promise you by by playoffs, we’re going to have a thousand [ __ ] people in this chat. And uh hopefully we’ll be watching a Battle of Ontario in the East and a Battle of Alberta in the West. That would be that would be my dream scenario. Doing back-toback hockey games, the Battle of Ontario and the Battle of Alberta. Their chances of coming back are so low. putting in $200 on the return $18,703. Oh, no. They’re worse than that. So, what are you saying? You’re saying uh that’s about $1,800. No, 18,000. Yeah, there’s no chance. There’s absolutely no chance they’re coming back. If you watch the game game unboxer, we’re giving him a big fat zero. Thanks for joining us though, man. Appreciate it again. We’ll be back here in a couple nights with another game, another stream. It’s been a fun one tonight. The ABS just dominated the second period. They really won this game in 20 minutes. Uh there was a couple couple power plays that turned it around for them. The first one after a big fight that ended the first period. Kings in now pushing FIA shot. Loose puck. Can they break the ice? No, they cannot. Man, you don’t want to get shut out at home on your opening night though. Kings buzzing a bit here. We’re going to get another penalty which is 640 left in the game. I think we’re going to get the Kings are going to get one more chance going the power play here. Who’s going to box? Oh, it’s McKinnon and he’s hot. McKinnon is going to the bench and he’s hot. He’s yelling at Edmonson. He’s yelling at the ref. He wants to win. I’ll turn on the notifications. Do you have a Discord server channel? I don’t have a Discord server, Game Boxer. And I I do have another channel though. Uh my channel is @ Evan A. I do like travel advice and stuff about living in Southeast Asia cuz I’m a Canadian who has figured out the good life and retired early. Oh, that’s why McKinnon is hot. The Kings ran Wedgewood, knocked away his stick, and then McKinnon sort of bounced back and got a little bit fighty about it. Interesting. Oh, and Wedgewood looks like he’s a bit hurt. He’s holding his hand. So that could be a a real gamecher for this team. LA Kings gonna get a twominut opportunity to save their dignity even if they can’t pull out a wing. Here come the ABS short-handed chance. No. Kings get back in time. Break it up. No, they’re going to go back. It’s Lefari. Power play here. Aria gets it in. 620 to go. Burns clears. Dell’s in the ice. Okay, minute and a half left. Come on, Kings. Save your uh save your opening night. The Frier charging up for another attack here over the blue line. Steps in, gets it down low, taking digging it out to Arma. Ar on the boards. Back to Clark. The youngster to Dowy. Dowy just turns around, drops it. Load to the fairer. Back to Dowy. Dowy’s going to do a little spin move. Test it. Can’t get by. Back to Clark. Across to Deno. Deno going to circle across the ice to Dowy. Dowy’s there on the slot. Back to Deno. Shoots short. Puck is loose in front of the net. They’re fighting for it. Arma flips it up. It’s still there. Still loose. The ferry air recovers back to the blue line. Arma down to Deno. The Kings are buzzing. Can they get one or not? Oh, and a delayed penalty. There’s going to be a twoman advantage here for the Kings with 5 minutes left. If they can’t score here, they truly need to turn tail. 42 minor for crosschecking. Cross check from the net. So, twoman advantage is going to be for 43 seconds here and then there’ll be about four and a half minutes left in the game afterwards. Uh, no Discord yet. Should I start a Discord? Is it worth it? Uh, all right. So, two ABS in the box. A massive cross check there. Oh, he [ __ ] destroyed the kid. Clark. Holy. Clark was just standing in front of the net and got lit up. Five on three. Kempe at the blue line now. Holds down low to Kuzmano. Kuzmano to Campe. Down low to Kuzmano. Cross the red line to Copitar. Coped Kusmano dances out open in the middle byfield shoots can’t score. Close back to Fiala to Kee. They’re all over him now. They’re getting closer. Fiala and Kee just closing the box. Fiala Kee shot scores. Fiala gets the Kings on the board for one to save their opening night and their dignity wearing these black and silver Raiders knockoff jerseys. Well, they’re going to be losers, but they’re not getting shut out. There goes Wedgewood’s shut out, too. Wedgewood just got ran, had his hand run over, and then gave up a goal. As you grow your community and your channel, it’s great to have community development. Okay, that sounds good. All right, man. Thanks for the tip. I think that the Discords are more popular with sports channels than with like travel, the other niche where I make videos. I will get it set up though. Camper to the bench now. King still on a power play. So they’re buzzing all of a sudden like they can save this game and pull pull some horseshoes out of their ars. 4-1. Keer back in the net for a minute. They were going to pull Keer out and go up for the 6-4 advantage with four minutes left. Not a bad idea. FIA’s first goal of the season. Obviously, he scored 40% 38% of the Kings goals on the power play last year. What a stat that is. Cleared here by Gerard. Comes to Kee. is going to turn around. Kings reloading here in the neutral zone. Biffield’s going to lead the attack. He dances in, drops hero. Kuzmanco puts it behind the keeper. Going to come back out to Fiala. Fia’s on the boards fighting for it. Kings got a bit of energy after that goal. Kee fires in the net. Oh, it’s loose. Kuzmano’s there. On the boards to Kopitar. Back to Campe. Fiala again. They’re setting it up. Campe playing point to Fiala. Fiala dances back to the blue line here. Puts it low to Copitar. Kopitar is going to circle. He’s on the boards. He steps in. Drops for Biffield. Biffield circles. Puts it to Fiala. Across to Kempe. Let’s see it. Shot coming off the deflection. Not quite. 25 seconds left in the power play. Now Kouseno drops for Kee. Koozeno on the boards. She’s looking. He’s looking. He passes to Kee. Campe drops. Fiala. One-time broken stick. defender without a stick here. Kismano back on the boards. He’s pushing in across the ice. Kopitar drops to Fialis. Shot coming. Kuzno missed the net. He had half the net to shoot there and he missed it. Full strength now. Shot coming again. Defenders racing back in. Six on five now. Keeper is out. Kings with the oneman advantage. Here they are. They are absolutely buzzing. Kuzmano wants it low. Shot on Wedgewood. Wedgewood saves it. Drops it into the red ice. Keeps the play alive. Biffield doesn’t have a stick. Someone’s missing a stick. Taken down. They’re scrapping for it now. Last couple minutes here are absolute fire. This game is great. Got a whistle now. [Music] Buzzing. Kings are buzzing at the end. This is nice, folks. Well, again, I appreciate the two or three of you been watching tonight and stuck with me. Jack Game unboxer, whoever the the silent watcher is, you too, bud. Even if you don’t feel like chatting, appreciate you hanging out. Just uh give a like and the sub. There’s also some real pushing and shoving happening now. Burns and Nelson are both given the business here to M Aria and Laierre. Everyone’s fired up. It’s good that that goal that one goal for LA has got them back in the game. Well, that one, let’s be honest, running Scott Wedgewood. Someone ran over Regwood, knocked his stick over and and uh ran over his hand with their skate and it looked like it got both teams fired up to [ __ ] play. Love it. Okay, draw coming here. Even strength, but the kings have their goalie pulled. So we’re seeing six on five hockey. 250 left on opening night. Kings take it. Mo down low. Clark gets it around. Hit by Lechinan. Comes back to Lefar on the boards. He drops to Dowy. Dowy puts it across fast to Clark. Who’s that shot coming? Deflected. Lefar has it again. goes low across the ice shot coming. Oh, big save by Wedgewood there. He closed the door and there’s a fight coming now. Penalties and fights. Oh, they are going. Everybody’s out there. Dowy’s got someone hauled into the ice. Dano is pissed. Gerard looks like he wants that to know. Everybody’s banging on the board. The fans in LA are finally loving it. They got a goal and they’re getting some scraps at the end. Enjoying their money’s worth tonight. even though he’s wearing these terrible uniforms. I might have to buy one of these. They’re like some LA Raiders. LA Raiders on Ice Escapades. Starscapades. Silver Pades. Little over two minutes to go here and it is getting scrappy. The Kings, by the way, are wearing silver chrome helmets. Yes. Yes. That is real. 2025. Can’t just wear black. Oh, he’s going to call a penalty on LA here for crosschecking on Clark. Clark got absolutely destroyed and cleared out. And it looks like he’s a I mean, he’s a kid. He’s a good good hockey player, but he’s a kid. I think he just got a little bit revved up at the end of the game there. and uh wanted a little bit of revenge, a little bit of vindication. Might cost his team any shot they had, but like we said, the shot was pretty steep. $18,73 steep. Well, thanks again for joining me. We’re going to get one more little flurry of play here. Hit the sub, the likes, all that. I’m Evan A. This is late night hockey. I’m going to be streaming all freaking season, especially the Tuesday and Thursday Pacific Games. Um, we’ll see how it goes. You know, Olympic break. I would love to do some of the national games and stuff if we make it to Olympic break. Maybe if the channel kicks up a bit by Christmas, we’ll start doing double headers, but where I’m at, I got to wake up early to do East Coast games. So, that’s a tough cell. Tough cell. Get more with Geico. Oh man, my guy Josh Allen is doing some ads. Josh Allen and the Bills stunk one out the other day against the Pats. I don’t know if anyone watched that. We got NFL fans in the chat. Very disappointing to see my Bills blow what should have been a fifth win and put them at the top of the NFL. Should be the only undefeated team left. Instead, they let uh Drake definitely maybe. [ __ ] Okay, back to hockey game. Two-minute power play coming for P the ABS. So we’re seeing an earlier highlight of Brandon Clark cross-checking Lechanin. Second time for So McKinnon’s penalty earlier was he was pissed off that Clark cross checked Lechanin and he came back and destroyed Clark. Just absolutely [ __ ] lit the kid up. Good for McKinnon. That’ll be a nice highlight to watch. Then Clark came back another cross check. just about started a bench clear and brawl here. And he is now going to take a twominute breather. Yeah, indeed. Vindication. Two minutes left. They’re going to finish this game on the power play. Are the abs. They’re up 4-1. And there’s a bit of bad blood now. So, I wouldn’t be surprised if we see them pour it on and try and really try and score a fifth goal here and light up the Kings. They look pissed off uh about this kid cross-checking people. They’ve got the top line out there. It’s McKinnon. It’s Marty Netas looking for a hat-tick. He’s been the player of the game. Kale Mar is out there. Brock Nelson, the power plays look great. Here’s Mar on the blue line shoveling it low to McKinnon. McKinnon’s going to cycle it down to Brock coming to Nachis. Netchas on the point of this power play has look awesome. Gets it across to Kale Mar McKinnon now dancing. Shoots short and Keer drops it and then covers up. Jack Esquire Ravens are one and four. Not good. Agreed. Discord is dope. Then if you really want to make money, add a gambling part. Yes. Well, we do love gambling indeed. Um, Ravens are looking pretty trash at one and four. You know what though? I kind of blame them. I think they should have just rolled with Tyler Huntley as their backup and drafted Shidar Sanders. Instead, they bring in Cooper [ __ ] Rush from the Cowboys. No offense, Cooper Rush, but you’re not a pro QB. All right, Nch is here on the point. Can’t hold the line and have to drop it back to Kale Mar. Mar is going to dance forward here. 50 seconds left in the power play. A few more seconds in the game. Nelson down low now battling for it. Taves out here for the first time all night on the ABS power play. Nelson with a chance. Drops it to Kale Mar. Marta McKinnon. McKinnon is there and it’s intercepted. Nice defensive play there. Just under a minute now. We’re counting down on this. The end of NHL opening night has been great. An awesome way to kick off the new channel. Having tons of fun. Appreciate you guys watching with me. Olison now across the ice to Gerard. Gerard back to Olivess. Olison drops. Burns big shot. 40-year-old on the blue line. This guy’s my age. The shoin to Olison. Shot coming. Yeah, the ABS are pissed. They’re really trying to score right now. Even though they’re 4-1 with 20 seconds left, they’re not wasting time. They’re like objectively angry about this Clark Brandt Clark kid cross-checking people. Shot coming. Big save there. 3 seconds left. Even strength. Are we going to see another scrap at the end of the game? A little bit of chippiness, but nothing untoward. All right, gents. Again, thanks so much for watching. That was fun. I appreciate it. Jack, thanks for the help on the tier list. I’m going to clip that tier list video and try to try and post that to the channel. A little conversation about tier list. We’ll put that up on the screen one more time for you all to look at. So, again, I’ll revisit this every week or two for the rest of the year. Do the power rankings. I do think Yeah, I Why did [ __ ] Sanders go in the fifth round? I know it’s off topic, but that’s that’s stupid. The NFL is just stupid sometimes. You look at the quarterbacks playing right now in week five, like 10 teams should have drafted him in the second or third round. Anyways, uh Caps, I think you’re right, Jack, that the Caps could be the team that really bomb out of here, unless the Panthers injuries get too much. But yeah, the Caps maybe need to be replaced by the Leafs or the Senators come rising up out of nowhere or maybe the Devils with those Hughes brothers all locked in become the next Real Cup contender top eight team. But for now, keeping the caps up there. Thanks so much for watching. By the way, my Blue Jays blew a lead, lost late, so they’re going to lock it up tomorrow. They’ll chalk it in. Take care. Peace.

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