We TOLD You: The Red Wings Dominant Start Means Playoffs Are Back In Detroit

We TOLD You: The Red Wings Dominant Start Means Playoffs Are Back In Detroit

Welcome to the Empty Netters podcast. Can you believe what this has become? There was a full 48 hours where I felt like I was like literally Superman. Jumbo loves playing Fortnite. So, you know, he gets on the stick. Did TR show you the Sauna cycle or was that all? No, I invented that almost a year now that I haven’t taken a body check. That’s kind of nice. Finished tonight with some chicken fingers and a few Guinnesses. Ran into you guys. Uh, that’s where this pod came to life. Ice is ready and we are back with another episode of the Empty Netters podcast brought to you by Bet MGM. I’m your host Dan Tickle Me Powers. Redmond is on the sticks. Didn’t wasn’t phased by that nickname at all. And with me over here, a man who once derailed a river float for an hour and a half so he could land a backflip on a rope swing, Chris Powers. as always. That was an embarrassing moment for you. Yeah, it was. Yeah, it was. Yeah, does. You got You got it, though, dude. Here’s the thing. Sometimes you got to derail [ __ ] And I got no problem with that. Well, of course you have no problem. No, I’m saying sometimes people got to derail [ __ ] And I’m I’ll live. You know, you can derail things. Red can derail things. And I’m like, okay, sometimes you got to derail. Huh? You can’t do it all the time. Sometimes you’re always derailing. And I’m like, bro, now that’s just railing now. You’re railing is you are railing. Yeah. But if you occasionally derail, that’s fine. I’m okay. As long as you rail a lot, you need to be railing most of the time. Okay. Or surround yourself with people who rail. Yeah. Because then then shit’s getting done still. Yeah. We had a crazy week. Crazy. Crazy week in the NHL. We’re going to get right into hot ice. Waste no time. Start talking to you about all the goods. First, dude, I do want to say though, awesome to launch week one of Net’s College Pop Drop. Oh my god, dude. And I’m so excited for week two. Me, too. The feedback was awesome. Can’t wait for it to just get better, get cooler, and the season to get more intense. We’re going to have another new number one, dude. We might already. Damn right. It’s unbelievable. But let’s get into NHL action. I feel like there’s a lot of hot topics already. Oh, yeah, dude. which is phenomenal. There’s We say this every year. It gets late early, you know? And it’s I love the like it’s so early. It’s so early. And I’m like rarely though, barring injury, rarely did these early trends completely 180, you know? Like you don’t often see a team be like, “Oh, we were actually awesome to start the year and then we’re actually terrible.” Um, and reverse. Notable exceptions, the Oilers start 0 and n we’re going to the cup. Like it it happens, but I’m just saying it’s not like the [ __ ] standings flip after the first. It’s like one team a year. Yeah. Yeah. Right. It’s not like, “Oh my god, after the first 10 games it was like this and then but it’s obviously going to switch this way.” I’m like, “No, if you’re bad in the first 10 games, you’re bad. You’re bad. Period. You’re dead. Your whole season’s over.” I’m so glad that you guys said this. You guys are you’re on fire already. Uh it’s been funny how many Oilers fans are already being like, “Who cares?” And I think they’re the only they are the only fan base who’s allowed to say that because a ton of fans are right now going doesn’t matter, dude. Look at the Oilers. And I’m like, but I do think Oh, do you have Conor McDavid, too? Yeah. I’m like, I think they’re an exception. And it’s it’s actually funny. It’s a perfect segue into the first team that we’re going to talk about, but I’m not going to talk about them. I’m not going to talk about them. Was talking to Larks over the weekend, and he was like, one of my favorite quotes, dude, you got to have a hot start to have a hot season. And we’ve got a hot start. Detroit Red Wings are hot, bro. They are redot cooking after they got but we’re not talking about it. They got pumped in that first game of the season and everybody was like, “Dude, I I I put them on I I warned them. I went, you have two games. your next two games need to be wins otherwise you were on fraud watch because after all all the talk about how the the ship was gonna get writed and then the amazing you know putting certain guys on waiverss and giving opportunities to the youth to the youths youths and it started bad and I was like two games and now they’ve won three in a row and I’m like dude they’ve won five in a row or yeah sorry they’ve won and I’m like here we beat the Leafs they beat the Panthers they beat the Lightning they beat the Oilers and I know some of the like the lightning have skidded a little bit, but those that’s a [ __ ] hell of a resume right there. Five straight, five and one. I mean, and dude, here’s the best part. Plus six gold diff. Here’s the best part. There’s two best parts, actually. One, Dylan Larkin, five goals, six assists, 11 points in six games. Third in the league. That is Captain America. That is exactly what you need. What did I say, dude? I said, remember he said fourth line, I’ll show you fourth line, you [ __ ] fat pig, buddy. I said that. And then he goes like this. Suck me. Now he’s started hot, dude. He’s got Milan in the brain. He’s started hot just like I said. Then I said, Gibson, three shout outs in October. Just kidding. Gibson stinks. But that’s okay. So far, two-1 873 save percentage 299 goals against. I also want to take this opportunity to say this. Someone in the comments the other day when I’m talking about goalies, I’ll do this a lot. Gibson 873 299. And someone in the comments goes, I can’t believe this kid gives a six-digit save percentage. And I’m like, “Bro, that is so embarrassing for that commenter.” I actually had I gota I got to try to find it because someone replied to him with having my back, but but incorrectly having my back. He was just trying to support me no matter what. But he goes, “I don’t know, dude. Maybe like there’s more to learn from a six-digit. Like give the [ __ ] give them a [ __ ] break. Like they’re actually working hard.” What a ledge. And I was like, “You’re my boy, dude.” But I am I am giving goals against now. That’s ride or die. These are two statistics. Yeah. But Dan Cam Talbet 3 and 0 932178. The [ __ ] dude? I’m not surprised by this at all. He did this for He did this for the Kings just He’s old though. Happy Gilmore did that merely an hour ago. Here’s the This is actually perfect. You know why it’s perfect? Because Cam Talba is an old and he is he can’t play. You know what he’s doing? I’m going to go I’m going to give you another golf reference here. Cam Talbot is Freddy Couples right now. Yes. Yes. Freddy Couple’s day one of the Masters. Thursday at Augusta. Day one of the Masters. He is coming out hot and and Cam Talba is going to give you 20 to 30 phenomenal games. And that and that, sir, is all I need from you. So, Gibber, you’ve got you’ve got 30 games to get your head right and you you need to because I’ll tell you what Detroit Red Wings fans will not handle well. Yeah. Is Cam Talba going, “I did everything you need from me.” And then he falls off because he’s asked to be the responsible number one goalender. And Gibber comes in when he’s an old and Gber doesn’t have it figured out. So I’m like, “Hey, Gibber, just you’ve got plenty of time.” Yep. You got plenty of time, but make sure we lock in. Make sure we lock in because Freddy’s back’s about to go. Freddy’s back’s about to go come Saturday morning. Come the Saturday morning tea time, he will not be able to swing a club. Correct. And that is Cam Talbot. He cannot swing a club. Gibson, we’re good. We’re good. We’re five and one. Look at us go. Look at Dylan. Look what he’s doing. Yeah. But I just need you to be ready. Um I also am willing to get seed for this. But whoa. The I am already as of right now accepting apologies. Oh. From kind of you frankly, but certainly Johnny Laz because I went on my Red Wings rant and said they’re finishing four seed and making playoffs. And Laz commented, “Incredible rant. Still six in the Atlantic.” Did you see his he made a comment on it on that post? Yeah. What did he say? He was like, “What kind of an idiot would say this?” So he already apologized. Thank you, Johnny. I appreciate that. I am accepting apologies. I have received apology. Apology accepted. How dare you ask for an apology from me. This is my team. You went reverse jinx then because you also picked them to miss. You said sadly yes. Missing playoff. But I was like that said you hoped they would make it but you were like they will not make it and I was like this year I know for a fact faith is a fact. I am and I knew for a fact that this was the playoff year. I said it and no one else said it except for me. I I am giving you that. Yep. But I was not like they’re missing. I was like the way I see things shaking down they might miss and I want that to not be the case. Yep. So I’m not I wasn’t I didn’t put any evil in there. No, no, no. You would never evil them. You would never evil them, but you I’ll evil someone else. Yeah. But you could pick them to miss, which you did. And luckily for the Red Wings, they have me who knew via faith, via facts that this was the playoff year. And if this all blows up, I will [ __ ] we’ll replay this. Hey, no, you know what happens. I’ll eat it. If this all blows up, I will be there holding the door open to the infirmary wait going, “Welcome.” Yeah. I’ve been here for three years. Yep. It’s It’s tough. This this it was our time, Detroit. It was our time and I knew it and I knew it and I knew it and it’s incredible. And I think Dan, that they could I can’t tell you how good it feels to have you on the bandwagon. They could be top three. I was I was pitching wild card. Shame on me. Actually, shame on me for pitching only wild card when it turns out they’re the class of the Atlantic. It’s really phenomenal. Larks is, you know, top player in the league right now. Unbelievable. EMTT Finny though deserves I mean we’ve got there there’s three rooks that are really special. Finny has five points, two goals, three assists in six games. Uh we got P with his first goal. We haven’t seen MBN pop off yet. He will. And that is what I love. The team is doing really really well and we’ve got guys like Lucas Raymond’s doing his thing. Cat’s doing his Cat doesn’t even have goalie. I know. Six assists. Six apples. Um, I think Mason Appleton has been an amazing bright spot to this team that I think people were like, whoa. But I look at Mo Cider with only two assists on the season. Like I said, I I expect um Brans [ __ ] to do better and he will. I’m telling you, he will. But it’s like there’s more to come. Marco Casper only has one goal. No. Like they’re they’re doing so well and they’re not even fully buzzing. Yeah. And that’s going to come up with another team. I know. I know. And it’s just it is very exciting. It’s awesome, dude. But we’re not talking about it. It’s awesome. They got it’s an important season. It’s an important season in Detroit. It’s a special season. Special anniversary season. We got to go. We got to go. We got to go. We are not talking about it. But I I do think that there’s a chance that the trash patch was a curse. Yep. There’s a chance. And sometimes you need to do things to exercise the demons. Yes. And I think retiring Federov’s number might have done that. Little bit of a little holy water, little holy hair gel. It’s the uh the wings. It’s the uh uh um Madam Zerone was not carried up the mountain. Oh [ __ ] dude. We going holes. We’re going holes. We got holes. Madam Zerone was not carried up the mountain. And then the Yell Nances were were cursed. Y and Sergey Federov was not retired and the Detroit Red Wings were cursed. not brought to the top of the mountain. Federov was finally brought to the top of the mountain and now the curse is lifted. The curse has been lifted and we are back. We’re going to the cup. We going to the cup. Detroit’s back in the playoffs. The other team that is not quite buzzing just yet fully and they are the only undefeated team in the NHL, the Carolina Hurricanes. The Carolina Hurricanes. Seth Jarvis scored an OT goal against the uh Los Angeles Kings and curled and popped himself right into the glass. Gave a little bit of this and who was literally standing right in front of him, but you’re yours truly. I was just like, “Oh my god, that’s incredible.” It was unbelievable. Six goals in five games for Jarby. Road to 50. Road to 50. People used to laugh about road to 50. People used to have a big chuckle about road to 50. It’s, you know, it’s tough though because we were on pace for 40. It was the road to 40 year. But unfortunately, Seti, yeah, set, you jumped the gun. You’re too hot. You jumped the gun now to 50. Now you have to score 50. And unfortunately, he will do it. Unfortunately for the haters. Unfortunately for all the jokesters who thought we were jokesters, saying road to 50, road to 40, but it turns out they are jokesters because he’s about to do it. I Is there anyone with a more given the circumstances impressive career than Taylor Hall? No. Well, Taylor Hall has been through How many teams has Taylor Hall been on? Half of them. Half of them. Right. Let’s start. Taylor Hall has been on the Edmonton Oilers. He’s been on the New Jersey Devils. He’s been on the Arizona Coyotes. He’s been on the Buffalo Sabres. He’s been on the Boston Bruins. He’s been on the Chicago Blackhawks. He’s been on the Carolina Hurricanes. Is that it? I think that’s it. Definitely been a journeyman since I think I did that in order. That’s what I was trying to do too. That was really good. I think you were out of order when the Sabres. No, I think the Sabres was right after because that was and everyone was like he’s going to sign with Boston and then he signed with Buffalo and then he got traded to Boston for Andre Bork. Oilers. Got it. Devils got it. Y got it. Sabres, got it. Bees, got it. Hawks, got it. Got it. I did it in order. Unbelievable. And he’s what, 32? 33. Yeah. Hold second. same age. So like he’s not even old. He’s not an old yet. He’s 33. And what I love about Holly is Edmonton was supposed to be the guy. Went number one overall. Edmonton was in a bit of a disaster. Yeah. So things didn’t work out. Goes to Jersey. Wins a heart. Oh my god. He is the guy. But that was crazy. Yeah. Goes to Arizona. Everyone knew it was a pit stop. Goes to Buffalo. Things don’t work out because Buffalo’s a disaster. Yeah, I say all all with all due respect. No. Goes to Boston. Phenomenal. Was phenomenal with Boston. Great in the playoffs. Boston fell short. So then he goes to Chicago. Things didn’t work out. They were a bit of a disaster. Is Taylor all stuck in the time loop? Yes. Goes to Carolina, signs a great extension. Like what a great extension. What a deal. They look great. And he he just looks awesome on this team. Two goals, two assists, four points in five games. playing a very significant role. He looks he looks young out there. He looks spry. He looks excited. It’s unbelievable. Uh Jary looking incredible. AO one goal but six apples in five games. But that’s exactly what I need from Aaho. Like I need like 20 goals from Aaho. That I’d like 30 from Aaho. What’s the deal with dude? That that Redmond. God. It would just be so nice if David J. Redmond was our producer cuz he pays attention to hockey and watch hockey. Take notes Baker. If this team had everyone buzzing and they do notetch zeros 14 minutes average ice time as well. Nikolai Eers zeros. True. And that’s your toy. That’s your brand new toy who everybody was [ __ ] losing their mind about and he’s playing with Aaho and Jary who are pumping in goals and points. Can you imagine when these guys start going cuz like I I I I’ve got news for you. Nikolai Eers is not a player who’s not going to get going. Andre Fetchnikov is not a player who’s not going to get going. So it’s like they’re undefeated and Eers and Svetch who are arguably top three play like as in like they’re they’re first line guys but they’re top both top six forwards and they’re not going at all yet. Like holy hell, brother. And dude, Slavven I want to get sure I get this facts right. Yeah. Only two games has like a knee issue. Like there’s like oh Slavven’s knee is hurt. And I’m like what happened? And they’re like we don’t know. So I’m like I got a [ __ ] slaving knee injury. I have a ghost eers. I have a ghost and I’m like dude if on paper you go like this. The Can’s start to the season is a [ __ ] disaster. And I’m not being hyperbolic. A disaster. Because as amazing as Jary is and how his six goals are incredible, Svchetnikov is supposed to be your goal guy, right? Like that’s where I’m getting you want 50 from that’s where I’m getting my goals from. I’ve lost my goal guy. I’ve lost my new free agent and the best defenseman alive is hurt. I’m like, “Wow, what a nightmare season.” They’re like, “Actually, we’re five and0.” Yeah. I’m like, “Oh, oh my god, what?” So, we’re cooking. This is amazing. Yeah. Fetch is on the [ __ ] fourth line. Brandon Busy’s playing goal, but he might be the goat, dude. He looks so good. He might be the goat. Like, so like I I went I went crazy yesterday. Brandon Busy is the dude that I have talked about on this podcast for three years. Yep. You have talked about for three years and he’s finally when he got picked up by Florida, we were like, are you kidding me? They’re going to go and in a in a good way like well done Florida. You’re going to just let this guy take over after Bob and then he gets let go and he gets scooped up by Carolina and now he’s been in. He looks phenomenal, dude. Like I said, under the radar. I didn’t even know. He looks phenomenal. Brandon Busy, he finally gets his shot. And what a perfect team to get your shot in. But I will say this, I’m gonna need the young man to get a helmet. He’s currently rocking the white helmet cuz I, you know, he was I don’t know who I play. Just got on this team. He hasn’t had his custom mask made yet. Can someone expedite that custom mask? But that’s what I was about to say, Dan. I know what you’re I We’re going We got shipping issues. Yeah, we got shipping issues. There’s always shipping issues. Apparently, the Carolina Hurricane shipping system is the same as the Almost Friday media uh merch shipping system. If if you change it up now, that’s what I’m saying. Do you mess up the vibes? That’s what I’m saying. Busy looks great through two games. Two games, but he looks great. He’s given me Scott Darling vibes with the white mask. And I’m like, maybe you just stay. And I know you guys don’t talk about injuries on this show, but he’s going to need to possibly play 40 games this year. 100%, dude. Like Freddy, I love Freddy, dude. Go up to 50. Wish the best for Freddy. But it’s like if we could give Freddy some time. Like I don’t think I don’t think Freddy Hey, I’m telling you this, man. I love Freddy, but if Busy is good, you have to start him in PL. Are you kidding me? Are Are you kidding me? Like legitimately, this is a You’ve been Wally pipped. Yeah. You’ve been pipped. This is This is Tom Brady. Wow. I if if Busussy is good, if you get Busussy playing in the season, he’s playing over 30 games and he has NHL starter numbers. You do not go, “Well, Freddy’s back. You know whom whomever is back?” No, no, no. Try that again. This dude is your goalie now. I’ve seen that movie. We the the yearly. Yeah. Every year I see it. I go to see it every year. It’s one of my favorite traditions. Down in Carolina, they’ve been praying to something higher, looking for a new goalender, and they finally found one. You don’t bench that guy. You bench him. You bench him for Freddy. Your prayers have been answered. Freddy deserves it. Freddy will get his name on the cup still. And you know what? He’ll go like this. People will go, “Oh, you won. You were playing.” He goes, “I know. I give it my best shot. I wouldn’t actually play that year, but I still got to lift it.” And I say, “That’s fine.” To me, I say, “Freddy, that’s just fine. That’s going to be okay. Just fine. Put some mac and cheese in that [ __ ] Lay some barbecue sauce on it and suck it down because you won the cup with that. That’s what he wants. Mac and cheese.” But I just thought maybe in Carolina. That’s cool. Before we uh move on to some not so good vibes, I know we’re going to get yelled at. Can we just give a couple of couple stick tabs to the Montreal Canadians? Oh yeah, Habs are [ __ ] we’re we’re we’re talking about but not talking about Detroit. We got to give a little bit of stick taps to the Habs. Number two team. I mean like they’re right here. The Habs are great, dude. you know, but they they look phenomenal. And I will I think we’re going to kind of get to him later because there’s a few team I I always say in the predictions, something crazy always happens, right? And obviously I had I think we actually both had Habs sixth or No, you had him fifth, so they had a chance, but we both had them being like, no, no, there was a lot of hype. I’m afraid that that was going to be too much hype for them so far. So far, not too much hype at all. They look fantastic. They look fantastic. And it’s just like Suzuki and Cole. Say what you will about Brendan Gallagher. I think Brendan Gallagher is a Brad Marshand, Tom Wilson. He’s a If you don’t like Brendan Gallagher, you’ve got a big dump in your pants because he’s not on your team. Yeah, he is the if he’s on your team, you love him. He is third in points. Like he like this. He’s one of the olds on that team and he’s third in points. I think that legitimately the Montreal Canadiens might be the most likable team in the NHL. Yeah, there’s not a guy on this roster that isn’t the best. That’s so sick. They’re just so cool and fun and they got Marty St. Louis behind the bench, which is incredible. What the [ __ ] are we talking about? Love them. Got the best jerseys in the league. Best rink. Best rink. Come on. Have the Montreal Canadiens been the coolest team in the NHL this whole time? Yes, but that’s that was always true. But they did have they used to have rats. They had more rats in the past. And Gallagher was kind of a rat when he was younger, but they they had rats. I’ve just learned to love a rat. Yeah, I know. Same. Damn it. Even though I killed all of them. Oh, yeah. [ __ ] Well, those were mice. Yeah, I don’t like mice, apparently. Rats are so much worse than mice. Yeah, but rats are gritty. They are gritty, but they are gross. Oh, they’re disgusting. And they’re [ __ ] huge. They’re huge, man. If that’s uh We can’t even get into rat talk right now. That’d be a whole There’d be a whole Let’s talk diminishing vibes. Yep. I don’t want to do it to him. I have some things to say about this, dude. We officially have a Vibes issue in San Jose. Yeah. The All Vive team, the 2024 2025 all vibes team officially has a Vibes issue. Yeah, things are decidedly not that tight. Yeah, they have a Santa’s infected. They have a vi they have a virus. They have a virus. A vibes. A virus. Did you see my son’s interview? Yes. That was awful. I couldn’t watch it. I turned it off. He looked He looked like sophomore season uh Connor Bard. He looked dead. He looked He just looked so He looked so disinterested. Wasn’t He was not I He was straight up not having a good time. That’s the most accurate description of anything I’ve ever seen. Um the San Jose Sharks only winless team in the league. Um, Mac and Will are leading your team in points. Yep. Win. Yep. But one goal for Mac, no goals for Will. Coach telling him I need more from them. Coach talking about selling kids. Coach talking about selling his kid. Making comments saying I’d sell I’d sell my kid for a win for a couple question. Is he married? I don’t know. Look that up. Does he have kids? He better have kids. That’d be [ __ ] hilarious. Play from I I agree because it’s You know what? Because it’s an empty gesture. It’s an empty gesture if you don’t have kids. Whoa. This This can’t be right. Do we need to start establishing rules on comments like that? Like if you go, I’d sell my firstborn for blank. You need to have a firstborn to say that. Of course. Right. And I think it’s like when people go like this, oh, if something if s such and such happens, it’s going to hit like crack. I think you need to have done crack to start to say that. Okay, hold on. The direct quote is interesting. The direct quote is, “It sucks. I keep telling myself that there’s got to be a reason why this keeps on happening in a sense. I’d give up one of my children for a [ __ ] win.” Sounds like he’s got kids. And then Wikipedia says, “Woroski and his wife have one child.” Hm. Maybe that’s outdated because he said I’d give up one of my kids. Yes. But maybe to your point he’s being like I’m including any future kids in here. Interesting. But now I’m like what dude? You give up the one kid. You have one kid. Now you have no kids. Guy wants to win. And actually I love it. I actually there’s a guy there was a coach. [ __ ] I forget who it was but there was a was a football coach who like they were losing and then got divorced want asked for a divorce because they were losing. like he was like, I need to focus more on this. Like I we got to split up. You are you are actually hurting the football team. And I think maybe that’s what he’s saying here. I think Ryan’s like my kids my kid singular. Maybe he’s light of my life, but man, the the the bedtime stories, the feeding. Like I got so pickups. I got so much [ __ ] to do. How am I supposed to scheme? How am I supposed to get Mac more goals if I’m feeding [ __ ] applesauce to my kid? Get him out. Get rid of him. What do you think? Do you like it or it’s too much? No, I love it. Yeah, I love it. Like I said, it’s like it’s not an empty gesture. Uh it’s not an empty gesture. It’s legit and that you’re you’re putting real chips on the table. But here’s my question. I don’t think one win is a fair price for your child. I think he should have asked for more. I think I give up my kid to make playoffs this year. Okay, now we’re having a negotiation. I might go as high as the cup for your child, but one win is is selling low. I think I think that’s selling low. I think his kid will see that and go one win. They’d be like, “Dude, one. What does that even get you? One [ __ ] win.” Yeah. Interesting. But who do they play next? Is is tanking for McKenna too much? Like is that too many of these young gun top? I think about that all the time. Like if you all of a sudden have Mlin, Will, Misa, and it’s too much. Um yeah, we we’re like you’re going to be in cap hell if these guys develop like you think. But at the same time, no, it’s not too much, right? Because you can just trade one of them. I guess like if you needed to. But hell, I I thought that when it looked like the Hawks might get Mac where I was like, what? This is insane. But I mean, like, well, two is doable because like the Hawks got Taz and Kane and Sid and Gino, you know? It’s like, yeah, when the Oilers did this, too, and then they traded all of them. Yeah. Right. So, that’s actually a good comp where it’s like, that kind of went to hell and look at them now. Yeah. Back to back. Only one puck. Only one puck. So Ryan trade his child, his potentially one child for a road win against the Islanders. Who who where does the kid go? Yeah. Okay. Does he go to the Islanders? Yeah. Like does the team you vanquish acquire your kid or does he become an employee of the NHL? Yeah, he’s just in the league. He’s the league’s problem now. I think he gets adopted by Schaefer by the team mascot. Oh, okay. Let’s see. New York Islanders. Yeah. What’s his name? Is it a fisherman? Sparky the dragon. You got to be [ __ ] kidding me. [ __ ] What are we doing? That’s brutal. So, dude, now this kid is a dragon. You’re telling me the New York Islanders mascot is a dragon named Sparky? There he is. Definitely should be a fisherman. Absolutely insane. Yeah, you should be a fisherman. So now this kid is a dragon. He’s raised by dragons. Yeah. Cool. Cool. Learns to breathe fire and saves. Does this kid become the father of dragons? Yes, he does. Like he is now Daenerys Stormbborn. Do you think it’s a Are we merging universes? Like does do we live in Thrones universe now or? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So then he challenges Jon Snow cuz he’s a bastard now. And he’s a bastard of the sea. So his name is John Storm. Is that what it is? It’s Sand Snow. [ __ ] Rivers is another one. Rivers. It might be Rivers. Kid Rivers. Sparky the dragon. Son of Sparky the Dragon. Breathes fire, melts snow, takes over. takes over as the one true. Well, actually, John’s not even king. He gives it to [ __ ] Bran. Spoilers. Spoilers. 10 years late. Spoilers. It’s probably Where do we think the Iron Islands must be the islanders, right? Yeah, I think so. So, his last name is Pike. Pike. His name is John Pike. John Pike. Sparky the dragon’s son. First of his name. He’s gonna take over, dude. He’s gonna take over Long Island. Do you think he’ll have and he’s gonna come and kill the Sharks? Do you think Ryan will have um regret when he hands his son, they beat the Islanders in overtime and he hands his son to Sparky? Do you think he’ll be like, “Fuck.” No, I should have asked or the the power of that win will be enough. It’ll be like well, thank you for your service. It will be crazy though when it changes vibes in San Jose. They start winning and everyone’s all happy, but he’s like looking at his wife and she’s just like, “Are you [ __ ] kidding me, dude?” Sparky, was this worth it, Sparky? And he’s he just goes, “Yes, we we we have to we we need this job. We get fired. We need this job. And then all of a sudden, the Sharks are in the Stanley Cup final and he’ll go against Matthew Schaefer and the New York Islanders.” And he just looks at his son, John Pike, rooting for the Islanders, standing on the bench. Yeah. Yeah. And he’s like, “Oh my god, dude.” Breathing fire. Yeah. He’s like, “Look how much he’s learned. I’m proud.” Unbelievable. No. No. He’s devastated. Yeah. You’re right. Sun kills him. All right. I will say this. Nice surprise with Jeff Skinner. Three goals. Tooff two and one. You’re always going to get that. Yeah. Ascarov so far 833647. the [ __ ] savior of Rome, comma, yeah, comma 833 save percentage, 6.47 goals against that is astounding. The savior of Rome, dude. Yeah. And and that’s what we’ve got so far. Well, listen, I’m all about Danny’s positivity these days, okay? You just you can’t put goals against on attendee when the team is they’re in a rough they’re in rough pumpkins. It’s a rough patch. What was that from again? I think it’s uh she’s out of my league. Rough pumpkins. Uh you can’t. But I wrote this down. Sharks third worst goals against fifth worst goals for. So, it’s not good obviously, but I was expecting when I looked it to be like dead last, dead last and it’s not. So, like that’s kind of where I expected themish, you know, maybe a little you want a little better goals against because Ascro’s not doing anything. But, dude, the the real killer here as you opened this segment with is the Hawks are fourth in the central at 32 and two. I know. Hawks fives are sick. Are completely like we’re pesky. The Hawks are in the playoffs. They’re a wild card team. They’re 100% like we’re not an easy out anymore. They have a winning record and and I was like the division previews are so hard. There’s so many questions. The league is in such a good place of like man every there’s no roll over teams. Yeah. Literally walking into the previews I was like the only easy pick is Hawks eighth. They are horrible and will win 18 games in McKenna. And they’re like no we actually are. We’re hard to play now. Yeah. They’ve fixed their vibes and the Sharks are like we’re terrible. We’re awful. And that I think not that you’re like your whole season hinges on you versus the Hawks, but I just do think you two are the ones with all this young talent and you you were body bagging them in terms of where you are in the rebuild as of last year. And keep in mind, they both were [ __ ] terrible last year, but it just felt like the Sharks were on the way to something. And through six games, you’re like, “Oh [ __ ] that swung violently in the other direction.” Oh man. I mean, we the the this happens every year and not not just to us to be very clear. This happens to every happens to boys. It happens to Elliot. It happens to everyone who does division previews. But it is truly hilarious how upside down everything is. Yeah. It’s like the Atlantic right now is Detroit, Montreal, Toronto, Florida, Boston, Buffalo, Ottawa, Tampa. Insane. Excuse me. Yeah. The the the Met is Carolina, Jersey. Pretty normal. Pit, Washington, New York, Philly, Columbus, Islanders. Central, Winnipeg, and Utah. Winnipeg, Colorado. Obviously, Utah is in playoffs. Chicago is right behind them in a wild card spot. Minnesota dead last. as I told you. And it’s just like it there’s so much [ __ ] that’s all over the place and it’s crazy. It’s absolutely crazy. So, get the vibes up, dude. But it’s it’s um they do need a win. Might cost them a kid, but they do need a win. Yeah. I I think the the takeaway for me is last year being terrible, but being the All Vives team, it worked. Yep. Now, one year doesn’t mean it’s like, well, playoffs are kill yourself. No, but dude, but there the the the we suck, but vibes are tight. It’s not going to work this year. Not again. It’s not going to work this year. So, we got to figure out how to change keep the vibes up. You’re again, you’re not going to make playoffs. We I assume you’re going to be last in the Pacific, but keep vibes up, but you can’t suck. You cannot be this bad. Ask if you suck. Can’t be having a tough go like this. So, they got to figure stuff out. And I’m telling you right now, it’s not going to be something like another sleepover. Yeah. That [ __ ] ain’t gonna work. Don’t go back to the Well, figure out vibes, but you gotta It’s got to be new stuff. Yep. Got to be new stuff. You want to talk about Marshy and Dene? Well, I just thought it I kind of want to talk about the Panthers, but I did think that was hilarious. I’m sure everyone saw if you haven’t go watch it, but Marshy and Dene got into it over the weekend. Dene kind of like cross-ch checked to Marshy’s back and then kind of popped him again. I was about to say not kind of. Yeah. That was a full-on cross check to the small of the back on a guy who’s eight inches shorter than you, which I’m finally. Yep. But let’s call it what it is. Wasn’t a kind of. It was 100% a cross check away from the pocket. Buried him. Got him. Then kind of gets him again. And then Marshy jumps him. Scrum, whatever. People getting pulled off. Marshy takes helmet with him to the penalty box and rips it to shreds and throws it on the ice which is so incredible dude. Like he got fined the maximum five grand [ __ ] whatever just signed a contract till he’s 80 years old. He’s good. But dude is laughing cuz I just I love it so much because he’s like there are other helmets obviously but it’s just so hilarious that he’s like do I have to go get a new helmet? I’m like yes yes you do. [ __ ] you. the the he is one of one man. No one else in the national would think to do that to go to go take take the helmet to the box. There’s a few guys who might do that, but then Marshy’s like, I’m going to I’m going to rip this to shreds like a new puppy. Yeah. And it was remarkable. So [ __ ] funny, dude. I loved every single thing about it. I The only thing I didn’t like about the whole ordeal was Dene turtling. Yeah. Yep. Brad Marshian was on top of him throwing punches and Dene fully turtled and I’m like dude you started this you are twice his size just you know get in the mixer with him the uh I wrote down when it was I saw it happen and I was like I got a text she’d be like this dude imagine if that had been a bubble how much more fun you could have had you could have there would have been way more shits to grab to shred could have smashed come on dude get on board with this bro if that had been a bubble it would have been [ __ ] amazing uh oh god The Panthers, we were laughing it up, yucking it up. Oh, the Panthers are for all these injuries. They’re going to start slow. Psych. Three and 0. [ __ ] you. The Panthers are never going anywhere. Look at them now. Four straight L’s all on the road. But Flyers, Red Wings, Devils, Sabres with goal totals of 21 1 0. Yeah, not great. Caught up to him. Worried? Definitely not worried. I I know we just said that the Oilers are the only team who starts this slow and they’re fine, but I’m really not worried if I’m Florida. You’re you’re three and four. Like it it’s that is I mean they win two in a row and you’re five and four and like you’re like oh okay. But I do think but it will be kind of like this till Kachchuck’s back. I think the three and0 start I’m like everyone I was like oh my god the Panthers are so inevitable they don’t even care and now I’m like no I think this is your life. I don’t think that but I mean dude they’ve got a lot of injuries. It’s not just it’s not Barov and um Kachchuck like they have a ton of injuries now and it’s not great. Uh like Mika just got hurt and that is really really bad but like Kulakov is out. Mika is out. No six out. Barov’s out. Kachchuck is out. Combined with three years of a ton of hockey. I’m like, “Oh my god.” My big thing for me is like we saw Bob be a little slow last year. Oh yeah. And he’s been a little he’s not he’s not playoff Bob. And we kind of knew he was not going to be playoff Bob. when you have five important players out with injury and you don’t really have playoff Bob now I’m like yeah this is going to be a little bit tough but at the same time it’s like Marshy has six points in seven games Lindell has five and seven RO it’s buzzing you know but it’s like other than that dude like Reinard has two and one uh Forsling three assists going all the way down here Verhagy has two points um Ecklad only has two points Benny only has one point you you’re you’re not getting anything. Y and it’s just dude, you’ve been in the cup three straight years. It’s I’m not saying things are catching up to you. They’re just I’m sure they’re tired, dude. It’s so much hockey. So much hockey in three years. And I I I give the same excuse to the Oilers. You know, it’s they’re they’re not in as bad of a spot. But I don’t I I am not worried at all. Um, it is going to be tough for the next two months though. No doubt. No, nothing is Larry Bird ain’t walking through that door. Yeah. You know what I mean? Till December. So, it’s it’s going to be gritty for the next two months, but I just I would be blown away if this team is sub 500. And listen, if through 20 games they are sub 500, then I am like, okay, this Well, no, it’s just like, holy [ __ ] after the new year, you better hope that things really turn. But I just don’t think that’s going to be the case. Me neither. It’ be sick if they had Busy. That would be sick. You could just put in Brandon Busy and let him walt you to the playoffs by himself. True. All he needed was a shot. So, not worried about the Panthers, but are you worried yet about a few other teams? Yeah. Are you worried? We’ve got to start having conversations with some people. And I’ll take a bow, please. About the Minnesota Wild. You know what is so frustrating? You’re such a rat pig cuz where they are is nowhere near why what you predicted. I know. Uh but I will say this. I will say this because right now they’re they’re last in the Central, but that’s not it’s a fake last because they’re tied with like everybody, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The or actually no, I guess they do have least amount of points, but it’s like the the team in four in fifth has one point more than them. Yeah. Um but I will say this, they’ve lost three straight. 5-1 to Dallas, 5-2 to the Caps, and 2-1 to the Flyers in OT who are not good. Yeah. It’s it’s unacceptable loss. They’ve got Rangers and Devils on the road to close out this road trip. Um, but the Devils are buzzing. Oh, dude. And the and the Rangers are great on the road. Yeah. And they just started getting people going. Yep. I just want to say this. I’m not grave dancing on Minnesota that they’re in eighth. They can easily pull this back, but I just think that they aren’t as good as everyone thought. And I do feel right about that. Like I I just like listen, the this Wild team’s exciting. They got they kept Krill. That’s amazing. Gus is good. They extended Gus. All things happy in Minnesota. Baldi’s [ __ ] awesome. There’s great players in the Wild. But I’m like, that’s a tough division. I’m not sure that picking them to miss playoffs was the craziest thing ever said by anybody, which is how I was treated by people. They are absolutely horrendous at defense, and I’m trying to be Danny Positivity, so I’m I’m I’m positive they’re bad at defense. I am positive that their defense is horrendous and I want to it sucks to see but if you go if you look at their stats like guys are playing well Krill and Baldi nine points same stat line four goals five assists Krill is a -6 on the season and then let’s let’s talk about some of their best defenders Chris Zeve five points by the way everyone was like can’t wait for Zeve7 uh let’s go to Broaddin-4 Spurgeon dash six. They their like best players are just in a miserable way as far as how many goals are being given up when they are on the ice and that is that that is why they are where they are at like those losses that you just let like they gave up five goals in back-to-back games like what what are we doing guys? So that when you ask, “Am I worried?” That feels like something that could get figured out. You have a good goalender and I think that these players are good at hockey. I think they’re good at defense. Hopefully that’s something that could get figured out. And when you have guys scoring, you know, Krill and Baldi are going, Rossi is got uh is just under a point per game. Zeve is great. Eriken is is pretty solid so far. I’m like, you could figure this [ __ ] out. It’s not like they’re not scoring. They’re No one’s going, but the the the D is playing so poorly. It’s like genuinely insane. Every time I turn on a game, they’re just like it’s a slot machine. Yeah. Uh, okay. We had mentioned this one in a previous set, but the LA Kings lost to the Jets, lost to the Wild in a shootout, lost to the Penguins, lost to the Canes and OT after a nice comeback. You were there, Jary, right in your grill. Yeah. They’re starting a five-game road trip right now. Yeah. That weirdly feels like if you don’t come out of that, like let’s say you go one and four on that trip, now you’re 11 games into the season and things are horrible. Yeah. Um, I still feel I still feel confident about the king’s room, but little leaky. I’m not I’m not in a panic. Yeah. Uh, I have a few things to say here. Not in a panic. Number one, shout out Kelly Cheeseman. Jeez. after 25 years leaving the LA Kings headed to the New York Islanders. Incredible. Absolutely crazy. You’ve lost to injury your VZNA caliber goalender and Darcy Keer and you’ve lost your captain. Yeah. Watching currently one three and two. Yeah. Watching that game against the Canes and you’ve got Kempy and Laugh taking draws. I’m like good God. like this team is desperate for center depth and they lose Kobe immediately and you’re like well [ __ ] you’re dead. He’s going to be fine. He’ll be back soon. So no panic there. So I I am saying I’m not panicking because you’ve lost Copi and Keer. Those arguably those are like the top two guys you can’t lose in this season. Yeah. So that sucks. You play the only undefeated team in the league. Sure, you’re at home, but like that was a great fight against Carolina after going down 02 early. So like they are a solid team. Kemp is playing great. Q is playing great. FIA is playing great. That that for me is those are your three most important forwards who need to play well. They are all playing great. Drew’s playing great. He looks so fresh. Fantastic. Immediately the part of this team that over the summer we were like, how in the world does that the roster moves that you’ve made? How is this the defensive core that you’re putting together? That is the biggest issue like instantly. Instantly, third pair D is a [ __ ] nightmare for the Kings and it’s a nightmare every night. Yeah. So, can everyone going Ken Holland, he’s got he he’s he’s got a plan. There’s a master plan intact. He’s going to make these trades. He’s going to do this. He’s going to do that. I think I worry that Ken Holland, this was the plan. Oh, dude. And I’m like, “Oh, whoa, whoa.” I I worried I worry that that is [ __ ] copium straight to the veins. It’s genuinely people going, “No, no, no. There must be something in the works.” And there is nothing in the works. Now, prove me wrong, but I am very, very worried that it’s like, “Nope, you made some insane moves and it’s [ __ ] bad.” Yeah. Uh, I also think there is a man named Peter Dbor who is without a job and that King’s head coaching job looks very attractive to him for a lot of reasons. It looks very attractive for Ken Holland if something has to be done. I said that preseason, remember? I was like, I don’t think I don’t want this, whatever. But I was just like, if that goes just with the nature of Kopi and what’s happened with the Kings last few year, it just felt like one of those tenuous seats where you’re like with what happened with what happened with Jim against the Oilers. I mean, like, there were people being like, he’ll get fired for this. Yeah. And I’m glad he didn’t because that would have I feel as though that would have been too knee-jerk. Y and it sucks, right? A coach doesn’t determine the roster. No, but um again, I am not panicking in LA. I think this team’s notori has historically been good on the road. So, big road trip coming up here. Let’s see what you can do. Uh but you are worried. So, yes, worried. Another one three and two team who we’ve also mentioned before, the Lightning. Their only win is against the Bruins. Since then, they’ve lost to the Caps in OT, the Wings and OT, and the Blue Jackets who have also not started that great. Uh we had said not worried before. I’ll even go as far as not worried still. Oh, I’m the worried. Okay. I uh if uh I I said on Hockey Talk yesterday, someone asked someone was like, “Did a Lightning suck?” And it was so funny. They were playing the Sense and I I tweeted they they had like the three power play goals immediately. Yeah. And I was like, “Jesus, Bolts are a wagon.” And then Sense came back and won 5-3 or something. I was like, “Sens are a wagon.” It is so funny now looking at this team when I was like, “They’re a [ __ ] wagon. They’re dead last in the Atlantic 1, three, and two. And you want to pull up your six-digit Vassie numbers. Those don’t look great. And I’m I’m officially v worried about this team. Like they, you know, Hegel, our boy, one assist in six games. That’s a dude I expected to have 40 tucks. Dude, I told my boy Matt to hammer him in fantasy and he didn’t. I went the other way and I was like, “Oh, wow. That’s crazy. And then now I’m like, good job. You’re better at that than me. Uh, Cooch, one assist, two goals, but one assist and a dash eight in four games. And like Cooch is all has like missed some time. Brain point. Dash8. Like that is insane, dude. Like they they look terrible. But I was saying in hockey talk I I was like, this is the biggest head scratcher in the world to me. Like I I literally picked this team to finish first for a couple of reasons. Not because I thought they were going to be the biggest wagon. Just situationally. I think they’ve got a great opportunity to finish first. They are dead last through six games. The reason I had them in the cup and man, I we talked about the Oilers being the one team that has the excuse of slow starts. Someone in the DMs last night during hockey talk slid in and was like, “Dude, so much hockey for these.” And I was like, “Wrong.” Yeah. [ __ ] incorrect. Wrong. The Tampa Bay Lightning do not have the so much hockey excuse. If you want to give that excuse to Heedman and Vassie, sure, maybe. But they they got rinsed in the first round last year and then what? Second round the year before. Yeah, maybe. God, maybe even first. But like they they do not Did they lose to Toronto? Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. First round. I think so. So, back-to-back first round exits for Tampa. You do not have a too much hockey excuse. Sorry. Yep. You do not have that excuse. Do you think you’re in like need new voice territory? Dude, that’s what’s easiest thing because that was swirling at the end of last year and I was like that’s insane. Like it’s like nothing against Cooper at all. It’s just like a time thing. No, he’s an amazing coach. But I completely agree and it’s I I said it would be [ __ ] mental. But it is we just see it everywhere. Like it is a time thing sometimes. Sometimes it’s just like too comfy. Yeah. If someone’s there, they’re too comfy. And obviously in How long has he been with Tampa? God. So yeah, it’s probably six, seven year. I I mean that might be so [ __ ] wrong. It might be like way more like 10. I don’t know. But you’re right. Like inevitably you’re going to have player shuffle there and that is what changes and that is where it’s like, oh yeah, maybe you need you need to to mix things up. But I don’t know if that’s going to happen. But if you are Cooper became the head coach in 2013, dude. Yeah, I’m an idiot. Seven years. Just give me a [ __ ] break, dude. It’s [ __ ] 12 years. Crazy. That’s amazing. 12 years he’s been there. So, like, think about the player turnaround since he’s been there and since he kind of started this amazing movement. God, that’s wild. It’s interesting. Y and dude, what would have to happen for the Lightning to fire Cooper mid-season this year? Oh, 20 games, dude. Like you think in 20 in 15 more games if they’re in last if they’re if at 20 the 20 game mark and the Tampa Bay Lightning with this roster is in last place in the Atlantic. I don’t know how you justify not firing him genuinely. It’s like do you talk to him and be like we love you. Can you move to this higher up position? Literally just not behind the bench. But yeah, but what’s crazy is he’s too young for that. Like I I I I I genuinely think like C I mean isn’t he about to be one of the coaches of the [ __ ] Olympics? Like he he’s the head coach of the Olympic team. Like you’re not he’s 58 yet. I wonder if the [ __ ] life of a coach is so crazy. John Cooper and you’re like I’m so fine. He might be kind of it’s trickling in his head maybe a little bit right now. Everyone’s picking finish first and you start the season like this and you’re like wait am I about to get fired and you’re like yes. But dude, it’s back-to-back first round exits with this team. You went out and you got Gensel. You’re still losing in the first round. And 100% man, I think we the these talks happened last year. And I remember being like with the Bruins especially, I remember going, if you [ __ ] hire a coach and there’s a chance John Cooper is about to be available, you are the biggest ADA franchise in the world. And they did wait. Cooper did not get fired, but people were talking about Coupe potentially being fired for a reason. Yeah. And he didn’t get fired, but I I don’t think it’s a good idea. But to your point, Red, if you if you get 20 games in with this roster and you are in LA, if you’re in sixth, seventh, eighth through 20 in the Atlantic, I it’s definitely on the table. I’m not saying I I definitely would like it’s one of those things where you go, are you honestly about to let John Cooper go, but at this the the the followup to that is, are you honestly going to lose or miss the playoffs with this [ __ ] team? Okay, I don’t want to linger too long on this, but you just opened up a new door for me. I Here’s the rub because I felt exactly this way with the Bruins where I go, “Are you honestly about to fire Jim Montgomery?” Yeah. And then the response is, “Are you honestly about to miss the playoffs?” And the Tampa Bay team is much better than the Bruins team was last year. Think about the Bruins last year coming into the season. Yeah. Lind Holmes, Adoroff, Swayman. Like, but I wish gave me a hard time for this, but like I thought the bees were going to be very good last year. Yeah. And they were horrible. And firing Jim Montgomery, you still you actually got worse. That was no not a knock on Saco at all. Just like the you finished [ __ ] dead last. We were horrible. So, I’m like there’s it’s usually harder to go, oh, mid-season we just fire John Cooper and promote someone or hire Dbor or do whatever and then oh, and now we’re in playoffs. Like, I almost think you’ll miss playoffs anyway and then you lost John Cooper, you buffoons, which is how I felt about Montgomery. And if Jim if John Cooper gets fired mid-season, exactly what happened with Montgomery will happen where a team will literally fire their coach on the spot just to hire John Cooper. Yeah. Like some team will go, “Oh my god, you’re fired. Give me him right now.” That’s that’s how quickly he will get scooped. Yeah. And that’s the dice roll where you’re like, “Well, we need to make playoffs.” And I’m like, “Firing the best coach in the league might not make you playoffs and then you’ve lost the best coach in the league.” I know. I know. And who who in the world do you hire if you fire John Cooper? And like think about Pasta and all those bees guys. I mean, I don’t want to [ __ ] air any [ __ ] out, but like there was a lot of like, “Oh man, that sucks.” when when Monty got fired. Oh, I mean from player, you know. I mean, everyone said like, you know, Sway was like, “We fired the wrong guy.” Like, you know, uh uh uh Makavoy was like, “Dude, a a great coach just lost his job because we [ __ ] up.” Yeah. So, like, how does Headman feel if they’re like, “Hey, we fired John Cooper.” Yeah. Is Heman like, “Bro, don’t do that.” But I think it’s on the table. I legitimately think it’s on the table. It I mean, it simply has to be. But I think that is the big question is like who in the world do you hire and how can you justify missing playoffs with this team? Yeah, that would be [ __ ] insane. That would be the biggest like if you look at the standings right now and this the big ones we’re not going to talk about today. Kraken, shout out Spunk like hell of a start. But if the Tampa Bay Lightning finished last certainly, but even if they miss playoffs, that will be the that will be the shock of the last few years. For sure. I said they’re the biggest head scratcher in the league for me so far. It’s like you have such good [ __ ] players and holy hell. Wild wild wild. Keep an eye on it. Okay, next thing I want to talk about the Utah Mammoth surprised their fans over the weekend. I think it maybe was Thursday. I can’t quite remember. At Delta Center, a Vegas level production, a Vegas level pregame production. a an an explorer was going through the Arctic ice cap and made a discovery. They flew a block of ice to the Delta Center. Incredible. And something exploded out of it. Their new mascot, a mammoth Tusky. Are you mad his name isn’t Woolly? Yes. It’s this this mascot. The way he looks, the way he was unveiled gets a 10 out of 10. Yes. Some people were mad he didn’t have a tail. That tails get in the way of [ __ ] dude. It’s a person. It’s a practical thing. Also, elephants, mammoths, they don’t really have that long of a tail. Very get [ __ ] Uh not naming him Woolly. is [ __ ] crazy town. Is that the Is that our mountains guy’s name? Uh there’s a guy at Mammoth Mammoth that that skis around. He has a name. Yeah, he’s the man. Look it up. I think it might be Woolly. Let me check. So Tusky, I’m actually I don’t hate Tusky. I It’s so [ __ ] lazy. Maybe it was Maybe Woolly is too big of a layup and they’re like, “Let’s we can’t do the obvious one.” Mammoth Mountain. Woolly. It is Woolly. Yeah. Yeah. And he’s [ __ ] skiing all over the place, dude. He’s actually gas. Does he have a tail? Jesus [ __ ] Christ. And he’s got tiny tusks. See, like Tusky’s tusks are legit. They They went hard on the tusks. Yeah. Tusk up. Saying that just feels lazy. But like if you’re going to do it for Tuskup and all this and all that, I [ __ ] with him, dude. Incredible reveal. Yeah. What? Real quick, what could it be if not Tusky or Woolly? Um, what’s the [ __ ] mammoth’s name in Ice Age? Ray Ray Romano. Okay. How has he not been invited to a game yet, by the way? Um, that’s a really good question, Dan. That’s a tr that’s a question. Trying to look it up on IMDb, but IMDb’s website is having more issues than the San Jose Sharks right now. It’s [ __ ] remarkable. Okay, this won’t even load. Um, Manny. Manny. Manny the Mammoth. That’s pretty good. I mean, listen, Woolly is the answer. Tusky. Tusky. Tusky’s It’s not the worst, but it’s pretty lazy. I I’m not thrilled with it. I like it. That’s good. Tusky the mammoth. Otherwise, it’s like I said, 10 out of 10. The unveiling I have fully come around to mascots are for kids. Make them as silly and funny and and wacky as humanly possible. Yeah, maybe maybe they did some sort of um polling system. Oh, I wonder I wonder if they did, Red. I bet they did. And kids liked Tusky. Someone in literally did it with men. Like they they pulled the fans for [ __ ] for the franchise name. Yeah. Someone in Utah hit us up in the comments to see if you were if you were aware of a poll that went around. Yeah, because then then it’s like the people have spoken. Yeah, they did it with the team name. They’re doing it with the mascot name. That’s fine. Dude, I love how the people have the people spoke and it was Yeti and they were like us. We forgot to trademark that. Yeah. And I was like, oh, they got a lawsuit with Mammoth, too, apparently. What did the people say next? Yeah. Do you know that? Yeah. What was it? There’s like some like random [ __ ] team called like Utah Mammoth or something. Yeah. Yeah, dude. I did see this [ __ ] insanity. Like what is going on? You know, everyone shut up. Uh, another cool thing I saw on the interwebs. I saw it via Johnny Laz, but he saw it from Hockey Forever. This is gold. Yeah, they last night was Hawks Ducks. Yeah. And Hawks won. Shout out Chicago. Pesky as [ __ ] Pesky as [ __ ] Macy Mcavish first goal. Yep. How are you? Welcome back. Uh, but they were like the they should wear these jerseys. Every time the Hawks and Ducks play, they should wear the Hawks and Ducks Mighty Ducks jerseys. Yeah. And that is I don’t know who we got to call Disney probably, but like that is the biggest no-brainer of all time. It’s the biggest no-brainer of all time. We’ve talked about it for years. And uh it’s just [ __ ] mental that we haven’t made it happen. And then yeah, it’s got to be some stupid [ __ ] Disney thing. But I’m like, who who at Disney is like, we can’t let that happen. Yeah. License the [ __ ] jersey. Yeah. I mean, just do a rev share with the Jersey sales or something. Is the is based on that team? One of the teams in question is based on that team. Yeah. It’s it’s [ __ ] lunacy. So sick. It’s absoluty. Um and then I don’t even I haven’t said asked you this in our prep yet. Do you can I reveal No. The movie part? No, because it’s not confirmed from his mouth. Correct. We can’t talk about any of this. Frankly, the first part definitely not. But the second part, I can’t even say. No, I just feel like we I feel like that was confirmation and you’re just mad. Oh, no. No, it wasn’t. Absolutely not. I think it was. Absolutely not. We We can say this. penguins were in town and uh got a visit from some of the boys and the discussion of whether or not Sid has seen Lord of the Rings was brought up to a very close friends of him and he was like I don’t know. I don’t think so. That that’s that’s okay. So, we can say that that I’m like I’m like [ __ ] you cuz you’re No, you No, no, no. You’re trying to get a win in a greasy area and you’re you’re [ __ ] rat, dude. Okay, I’ll be a rat, but I just want to know. I want people to know that we spoke to someone who would know. No, that’s what you don’t [ __ ] know that. That’s what he said. He goes, “I would know.” No, he said verbatim, “I would know.” Someone said, “If anyone here would know, it’s him.” And he says, that guy said, “I would be extremely surprised if somehow what he said. He slipped it past me.” No. Yes. It’s not at all what he said. Sid. He said, “I don’t think he has.” For everyone that cares about this, which I know is a lot of people. You’re such a I will get my scouts honor. I will remain on the hunt to get it out of Sid’s mouth, but a huge step in the CP direction last week. A huge step. It was a step, not a huge step. Boom. Sid not seen Lord of the Rings. Thank you. Duh. Your hottake was you just saw the third one, wasn’t it? I said if he’s seen any of them, it’s just three. But I knew but I knew in myself. Keep spinning it to your narrative scumbag. He’s never seen him. You know, this guy came over to my house this weekend, my my new place when I wasn’t there and then left at an absolute pigsty. I left before the last person. You think I would do that? You think I left [ __ ] Lucy? I don’t even Lucy that part. No. But uh before we go to an ad break, we do just want to shine a light. We should have done this when we’re talking about Florida. Florida headed to Boston. First game of the season. First time Marshy returning to Boston to tonight when you’re listening to this. Oh yeah, it’s happen. Yeah. Yeah. Um I obviously he will get the biggest ovation of all time. Uh I hope that there’s a great tribute video. I hope that there’s all the love in the world from the Boston side. Mh. I do think I would not hate if Marshy was still a little bit like, “Fuck you.” Yeah, same, dude. That actually would be awesome. It’ll be so lovely to c to certain people for sure. But I hope he’s buzzing around with the boys during warm-ups, giving giving fist bumps and all that. But, uh, I hope he scores so bad. It’ll be sick to see him. I hope he scores so badly. I can’t wait to see the video. All right, let’s take a quick ad break, then bring it on back. Hockey season is back, which means Bet MGM hockey action is back. And oh my god is it fun. I am loving it. All the promotions, all the tokens, all the boosts parlays coming out my ears. But the greatest contribution from Bet MGM to the hockey world is the hattick jackpot. What you do is you bet on an anytime goal score. And if that person scores, congratulations. Bang. You won your bet. Here’s some money. But if that person scores three or more goals, you get your share of 10 G’s in bonus bets. 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And then I saw like something else happen with 67 and then I was like what is 67? like I know it’s a thing and I know the dance and whatever, but I was like, “Oh, I think I like missed the origin.” Usually I’m well aware of the origin stories of these things, but I was like, “I think I actually missed this.” So, I like a boomer looked it up. I’m not going to lie. This is the first This is the first time I’ve felt old, dude. I was like, “What is this?” Yeah. So, the first hit like what it what it reads online, which is [ __ ] hilarious, is 67 is a nonsensical phrase that has become a viral slang term among teens. Like literally, it doesn’t mean anything. That’s not true. Is it from a rap song? Yeah. Well, it’s from a rap song from the Philadelphia rapper Skrilla. But Dan, it was intended to have no specific meaning. He almost didn’t even release this song. And just in the song, occasionally he goes like a 67. But doesn’t he like do a thing? Not really. A the couple times in the music videos, people are going like this, but not even while 67 is being said. I’ve watched the video over and over. So, this really is just like a Tik Tok thing that got literally means nothing. And there are some interpretations. Um, it comes from the song, but and and the rapper himself has said it does has no meaning. He goes, “It doesn’t mean anything. I’m not referring to anything.” Then why does he say 67 and it’s the possible meanings? One, nonsensical. The most common understanding is this phr. The point of this phrase is to be nonsensical. It’s an inside joke that means nothing. And he was wondering if people would just start saying it. Some people say it means so so or weighing my options. Some people speculate that it could refer to a height of a tall basketball player because NBA players are tall and some of them are 67. That it got really popular because people on the internet started making sick um NBA player edits to this song because they were like, “Oh, this guy’s 67.” Melall specifically. So there’s South Park just came back and the the first episode of South Park, which is like on the pulse of the cultural zeitgeist. Yeah. is everyone at class going like like Butters is like six7ing everybody and like Cartman’s like I don’t it’s too funny. It’s too funny. Oh my god. Like every character is just 67ing and anytime someone says six7 like a teacher the whole school’s like 67 and which which means it’s killer. Uh I don’t know if you guys saw this video this past weekend at In-N-Out. Kids are packed inside of In-N-Out waiting for the guy to call order 67. Come on. and he’s like this uh number 67 and the entire In-N-Out is like this. Oh 67 losing their [ __ ] Like literally people are going to In-N-Out to hang just to be able to scream 67. They’re not eating there. They’re not doing anything else with their night. They just wait to hear the 67 call. My biggest boomer vibe is that I hate kids now. Yeah. Because listen, we did some dumb [ __ ] and like boring [ __ ] But kids now, and I include [ __ ] like Baker in this, like B, I wish you were here, Baker. You [ __ ] loser. Gen Z [ __ ] Gen Z and below are the biggest punk ass [ __ ] losers I’ve ever seen in my life. It’s crazy, man. They they they are such socially inept boners. Yep. And they don’t do anything fun. They don’t drink. They don’t party. They’re not cool. They have stupid haircuts and wear dumb clothes. And they pack an In-N-Out to hear 67 be called. I’m like, “Here’s an idea, you [ __ ] tool. Go into the woods and drink 30 beers.” Yeah. Oh, you you absolute narp. It’s crazy how [ __ ] lame these kids are. that going I’m going to spend my weekend with all my little idiot friends to go into an in an in-n-out to wait for a number to get called just so we can post a TikTok about it. You’ve got to be the lamest person I’ve ever heard in my entire life. That’s actually that is crazy, bro. So I South Park making an episode I’m like, “Yep, of course it’s in the zeitgeist. Make an episode about it.” But to spend your time of your life to go to an to go, “Here’s a sick idea, guys. I God, if I if I were an adult in that [ __ ] restaurant getting my food, I would have beat the [ __ ] out of every kid, dude. And damn, there’s so much [ __ ] online. I would have grabbed a tray and molly wpped every kid in there. There’s so much [ __ ] online. This is what scares me of parents Google like asking for help on TikTok being like, “What? What? What is it? Like why? What if what did my kid what is my kid yelling? Like I don’t know why he’s yelling it, when he’s yelling it. Because they can say it. The best part of it being nonsensical is they can say it literally anytime they want. Like you say, you’re like, “Hey, do you want chicken?” And they’re like 67. And I’m like, “No, dude.” To come to their defense, [ __ ] with people [ __ ] with olds like me. That’s cool. If you’re just [ __ ] But doing the [ __ ] in and- out, that’s crazy, man. Go hang out with someone. I also saw a really funny Tik Tok that was like a it’s fake obviously but it was like a math teacher and he’s doing the pro problem on the board and he’s like okay so like how do we solve this one and it’s like x equals and it’s about to be 69 and the teacher’s like oh no and he’s like69 and like turns to the class and they just don’t react and he’s like oh amazing we’ve matured and then the next another piece of evidence that these kids are tools you don’t think 69 is cool you don’t think 69’s funny what if I said 420 in front of you wouldn’t You wouldn’t laugh. You [ __ ] piss. Pick the number 69. It’s hilarious. God. And then the next question is 67. And the whole class loses. Then like literally jumping on tables like 67. The teacher’s like, “Dude, what happened?” That honestly that one I’m okay with. Like it’s if it comes up in class, at least you’re in school. Yeah. But it’s the In-N-Out story is making my brain. I’m going to Red, you’re going to I’m going to send you the link to this In-N-Out video. You got to put it in. Six. Seven. I don’t I don’t buy. We got to get a hold the Skrilla. Yeah. Is his name. You said it. You girds. You said it for a reason. 67. Yeah, but he it doesn’t mean anything. Oh, okay. But you know what I’m saying? Why? Why did you say it in the in the song? Why did you say that? Like it’s Yeah. Does he just randomly say it or is it in a verse? Is it in a sentence? Bro, no. It’s like randomly. Think about how many like adlibs rappers do and none of them mean anything. This one just so happened to But that’s, you know what I mean? Like Fetty [ __ ] does the like 1738. That is Remy Martin. Yeah. There is no way. It’s nonsensical D that he just went six. I think he literally just said 67 for no reason. I need him to say that. Yeah, he did. He did. He said he goes it means nothing. I just I know. But he keeps saying it means I need him to get on a microphone and go, “Dude, I my brain was just firing and I just randomly said 67.” I’ll go, “Okay, but I need to hear that.” Okay, here’s here’s my I have a because I am I’m I went through a weird like what has happened to the world moment. I mean, I just that just happened to me because dude, the 69 is the funniest number of all time. I I I actually Googled what are the funny numbers and they were like that they think Google thinks this has happened because we’ve only had 69 and 420. Can I tell you so long? We need a new funny number. That I love that take by Google. Can I tell you guys a funny story about 69? Yeah. Um had this chick over. Let me tell you a funny story about 69. When I was really young, the first time I watched uh Billy Madison, there’s a scene when he gets into the I think it’s third grade, Veronica Von’s classes. No, no. Uh second grade, right? I think second I think second. Well, he gets into Veronica Vaughn’s class. And they begin reading from a book called I believe it’s My Sister Fanny. And when she says, “Uh, all right, we’re going to be reading My Sister Fanny,” the whole class laughs. She’s like, “All right, all right.” And Billy’s kind of like looking around because he’s like like why is that funny? Yeah. And then she’s like, “All right, we’ll begin on page 69.” And then Billy goes, “69.” And obviously no one laughs. And she stares daggers into him. When I was young, such a good joke. Was so good. When I was young, first of all, a a children’s book in second grade class having 69 pages is preposterous. And starting it. And starting it. Like, did they take a break in my system? Of course they did. It’s a [ __ ] 300page book. I I was so young. I did not know what 69 meant. And I I interpreted that scene as Billy was just trying to fit in. Like the whole class laughed about something, he didn’t laugh. Now he’s embarrassed. So he’s like, I’m just going to laugh the next thing they said no matter what. And then I distinctly remember that the the next time I watched that movie after I had learned what 69 was, I was like, “Oh, that’s [ __ ] gold.” I did not get that joke at all. So funny. That story is so good. Oh, it’s great. Uh the 69420 gold someone had wrote um it’s like 5,800. No, 58,08 is a funny number. Why? Oh, cuz it’s boobs. Yeah, boobs. I’m do the boobs. Do that in the calculator. In the calculator. I was like the font of those numbers in the calculator. That’s a good answer. That was classic comedy. So really it’s 69420 58,08. Those are our only funny numbers now. 67. So, I’m I was like, I hate the world. What are we doing? But now I’m like, we do need new funny numbers. Yeah. So, now I’m back in on 67. Start 67. I want to give uh PFT a shout out here. I was listening to pardon my take and he was like, how much of a [ __ ] chump does the number 68 feel and it’s it’s a great point. It’s a great take. It’s like now we got 67 now 69 has been goated for a long time. 68’s coming. Maybe 68’s just like Okay, so here are my two things now for to make it about hockey. I was e either because that’s such a good idea. Either we need to make our mission to make 68 a thing for hockey people because 68 is the missing number and it’s like an iconic hockey number. We could we could play around with um like eight is a big thing around that being like, “Oh, she ate when she had a sick outfit on.” Yeah. Like we turn into I was like, “Oh, 68.” 68. We’re like, “What? 68?” Yeah. That could be a fun thing. Okay. So, maybe that. And then my other take was going to be in hockey, seeds one through three automatically make playoffs, right? Seeds four and five can because you can be a wild card. Six through eight is out and eight you’re you have a chance for the first overall. So 67 are the worst possible finishing spots in hockey. If you’re 67, you’re in hell. You’re in purgatory hell. So, I might make 67 if I’m going to start referring to teams as 67. If you’re like, “How how is this team?” I’m like, “Dude, 67, you suck.” And that goes into the so thing and you’re not even bad enough to get McKenna, you know? I’m like, “Oh, shit.” 67. That’s a disaster. Like, how the wild I’m like purgatory, dude. You’re 67, dude. So, that that actually might be my hockey. So, until we solve 68, I’m 67. CP. I love that. 67. The way 67 in the hockey world is going to be if you were just one of these purgatory teams, dude. S dude, like no ma and no. Oh, yeah. Like tell tell how are we feeling about the you know the Flames are in a tough spot. Yeah. But it’s like how you feeling about Let’s get the [ __ ] uh Canucks 67 67 dude stuff for the Canucks. They’re in playoffs right now. Yeah. Are great. That’s IPO. No, I like that. That’s a good take. 67 changed the world. All right, we’re gonna try to figure out how to do 67 more, but that might be the answer. Uh, quick ad break. We’ll come back with a beer hotline. Time to talk about the best thing going on in the nicotine world right now, and that is Lucy. If you need scientifically crafted, always tobaccof free, clean nicotine, Lucy is taking care of you. They got all of the best flavors. They’re hitting you with the milligrams from 4 8 to 12. No matter what type of buzz you’re feeling, if you want to relax, if you want to feel sharp, energized, sometimes you want to laser focus yourself in, that’s me on the golf course. Lucy has got you covered. They got the pouches, they got the breakers. These things are unbelievable. Like I said, the flavors, winter green, unbelievable. 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What’s the etiquette here? Can you chirp family or is it crossing the line? And is Uncle Tony a snitch? Nothing too bad. Just on the edge. That That is a savage chirp. Yeah, but but it’s it’s in good fun. In good fun. I doubt he Dan. I doubt they live in a shack by the river. Like I’m sure they live like It actually depends on what the actual house is. Sure. If they live if they live in a an apartment with a leak and uh uh but it’s a literally falling apart, then yes, he’s crossed the line, man. Uh for it’s you. It’s okay to chirp family, first of all. Yeah, that’s that’s the initial question. You’re your best friend’s family. chirp him worse than anyone in the world. But unless Uncle Tony lives in an objectively nasty house, this chirp is not cool. What if it’s what if it’s a completely fine house? And everyone knows it’s not a dump. He knows it’s not a dump. No, but that’s what I’m saying. It has to be an objectively disgusting house. As in like a sick house. No, but No, no, no. You’re an idiot, dude. Think No, think about this. As an adult man, as an as a married person, I imagine with kids, maybe not with kids. Providing a home is like the number one important thing in your life. And like you just said, everyone knows it’s not bad. That’s what I’m It’s It needs to be like objectively sick. But dude, like that this is probably the biggest insult you could possibly come up with. Like that is how you measure yourself as a man. Attacking his home. No, I thought that was your lawn mower. No, dude. Think of just stop stop being a [ __ ] for five seconds and think about this. So someone coming up to you and going like this, your apartment’s a dump. That is so insulting. How how often if you interrupt me one more time with something stupid, we’re going to have problems and then family chirps are going to come out. Think about it. It’s it’s like it’s the most that is your home. That is your haven. That is where you lay your head to rest. and with a when he has a wife and I again I assume kids you’re you are you put so much stock and take so much pride into providing a nice place and your nephew goes considering the dump you make my aunt live in I think you could afford LASIK that is dude that is the most cutting insult I’ve ever heard first of all great sure great sure but like if you weren’t expecting this to explode your family you’re out of your mind so here are my questions is though if you if one of my boys if I was in a completely fine apartment not sick but but not a literal dump if one of my boys if we were and we were out to brunch and I go I’m not going to do the bond unless mimos and one of my boys went like this considering the dump you live in I’m sure you can afford mimos I wouldn’t go sir you have crossed the line because I’m like I know I don’t live in a dump that was a good chirp and we are boys may I respond yep okay couple of things. Number one, credit to you because that would bother me because I I take a lot of I I put a lot of effort into making sure my place is sick and if someone chirped and was like, “Your place sucks.” It would bother me. And now I I wouldn’t immediately lash out, but I’d be like, “That was [ __ ] up. My place is super nice.” That I think is a different situation because we’re all just hanging out having mimos and it’s just like someone being like, “I’m going to throw out a friendly chirp.” This is a hot situation. You were just given a penalty that you didn’t think that’s a bad call. That you don’t think was a penalty. This isn’t, oh, we’re hanging out at brunch having some booze. Friendly ch. Dude, if you’re a ref and someone is chirping you for a bad call, you know that they’re actually pissed. Yeah. And we always talk about it. It’s like if you’re actually pissed, you’re saying some [ __ ] that you mean. I guess I don’t know how he’s had this in the tank for a while. Yeah. I guess I don’t know how much of boys they are cuz he and he’s also in-law. Like it’s not like it’s his actual uncle. But again, I don’t care, dude, because it’s like you are pissed, bro. you you just got a penalty. Like you’re if you get a penalty that you don’t think you should have got, you’re not smiling being like, “Oh yeah, I’m going to chirp you. Haha, this is all fun in games.” If it’s like a missed call maybe, but getting a penalty, you’re actually pissed. So Uncle Tony knows that he means that. Yep. I kind of read it too like it was from the bench like someone else took the penalty and he’s like and he’s giving it to Tony on the way by and he’s like, “Hey Tony, get get your eyes fixed.” I think either way, this is not a fun happygolucky scenario. The scenario you just painted is kind of happy golucky. Is Tony Okay, so I still disagree with you, but I’ll live in the world where like, hey, that was too mean. Should Tony have [ __ ] sorted this with his nephew and not go running home to to the aunt? Cuz he is a snitch. Why is he a snitch? So he got So you’re telling me he got home and he goes, “You will not [ __ ] believe what Dan said to me on the ice.” Dude, this kid challenged his entire existence as a man. Yeah. So, hit him. Go over and hit him in the face. Then you lose your job. You lose your Also, I’ve got news for you. If you’re [ __ ] a Beer League ref, you probably don’t have a sick house. That’s not necessarily true. Not necessarily. I said probably. I said probably. And dude, I think it stays on the ice. I think it stays on the ice. I think you can’t go home and tell and tell your wife. What? What? What can Uncle Tony the ref do? No. Yell at him, dude. You’re right. Don’t lose your job. You guys say stay on the ice. Like two you what are you going to do? Two and him. What are you going to do? No. No. After the game. I go that was [ __ ] up, dude. I go, you can talk. I know we’re family. You can talk to me all you want, but don’t [ __ ] don’t say [ __ ] about my [ __ ] house. I don’t think he’s a snitch. He’s a snitch. I don’t think he’s a snitch because when you get married, you’re allowed to tell your wife anything. When someone goes like this, don’t [ __ ] tell anyone this. Not even your wife. You go like this. Okay. And you tell your wife if you want. Yeah. If you want. So he he gets home and he goes, “Hey baby, sorry I make you live in a dump.” which has just been confirmed to be. No, he goes, “What? What is this kid’s name?” Who knows? [ __ ] We’ll call him You get to make up this name. Jared. Jared. So, he’s a douchebag. You just You just universally declared him a douchebag. If your name is Jared, you hit on the douchebag scale 90% of the time. Who’s saying [ __ ] like this, dude? I had to go Jared. Okay. So Jared says that and we’re assuming that that aunt did he say the aunt’s name? No. The aunt is his blood. Tony married into the family two years ago. They don’t have kids. I bet. Like he literally just married her. So Tony goes like this. You wouldn’t believe [ __ ] Jared said to me today. I don’t think that’s that snitchy. What if what if the answer’s like, “Well, she obviously didn’t, but what if she’s like, well, he’s right.” Yeah. Then you get then you dude, you shouldn’t have brought it up. No. No. Not risky. I think it’s a G it’s genius because if she goes he has a point. Divorced. Boom. You you ungrateful cow. Yeah. Cow. Move back to the shack you were living in. Yeah. Go back to your trough. Step off. Go back to the farm, you pig. Go back to your shanties. What if though? But now she she won’t speak to Jared now. Yeah. What’s the etiquette? Like she [ __ ] freaked out. So you shouldn’t have told her cuz clearly this overstepped. And also he’s got to Lisa. Yeah. You’re you’re like you just married this guy. You want the family to be friends and we’ve got [ __ ] we’ve got [ __ ] Jared out here calling out this guy as a man as an act of love. I think the chirp was an act of love. I could never have said that to someone else. I genuinely can’t believe this take from you. I I I’m going to finish up by saying number one incredible chirp. Yeah. Like it’s that is off the cuff. Kudos. Off the cuff that is a 10 out of 10 chirp. But number two, I am not surprised at all that Uncle Tony and Aunt Lisa are like, “What the [ __ ] bro?” She’s not speaking to him, though. A little aggressive. So, do you have to apologize? That’s the etiquette here. It’s like, “You have to go home. You have to apologize to It depends on how important your is if if Aunt Lisa is a bitch.” Yeah. She saw Christmas time. She Aunt Lisa is a [ __ ] and Uncle Tony’s a a dead beat. Clearly, he likes her, though. Like, why would he say that chirp, though? Yeah. Or or he’s just hitting up the the the the chat being like this. Are they like I don’t give a [ __ ] but are they overreacting? Listen, if you don’t give a [ __ ] [ __ ] him. Yeah, keep sewering this guy. Mentally berate him to the point where he gets divorced and blows up his whole family. Great chirp over the line. Great chirp over the line. I think Aunt Lisa is overreacting and Tony’s a snitch. Unless this this couple is like really grinding out here trying to make ends meet and they’re living as best as they possibly can, but they’re working really hard, then that’s a [ __ ] up thing to do. Oh my god, dude. Okay, let’s finish up with a Bower Hockey blind ranking brought to you by our good friends at Bower. They got the Twitch coolest stick in the game until the Pulse, which is now the coolest stick in the game. Holy [ __ ] God, dude. Pulse’s gonna keep me alive. Pulse’s gonna keep me alive. I actually broke my Twitch last game. You weren’t there. Hit my first one-time in 20 years. Shattered myself. Oh, that sucks, brother. I’m sorry. You should have given yours away to uh someone’s kid. Yeah, that’s what I did. So, in honor of the Utah Mammoth unveiling Tusky. Nice. We are blind ranking the best mascots in the NHL. Red, take it away. Let’s start there. Tusky. Wow. Good start. Uh, I’m gonna go, I’m gonna go high. Okay. I kind of agree. I think he’s awesome. I love the blue. I think the blue because I could have gone brown. Woolly at Mammoth Mountain is brown. Yeah, he’s electric. I I was loving the blue. He’s electric. He’s fun and kooky enough. He was found in a block of ice. He was frozen in a block of ice. The unveiling was amazing. The name’s okay. Uh, he’s similar. He makes sense. Yep. Um, he’s got sick tusks, too. I would go I would go as high as two. And I I I don’t even go one. I don’t hate three, but I don’t love three. So I think two. Two. Two. Tusky. Two. Okay, we’ll go Bailey Kings. Um I think Oh man. Ba Baileyleyy’s um Baileyy’s very regal. He’s gonna Bailey’s gonna see this too. I gonna see this. Baileyy’s very regal. Uh what is the what is the backstory behind the name? Yeah. Uh let me look that up. I looked it up once. I can’t remember cuz he looks awesome and he’s king of the jungle. Like I get it. Everything is awesome. I just don’t understand the name. Uh that would go a long way. Yeah. I was like it’s a it’s a it’s um Yeah. So the LA Kings mascot is named Bailey in honor in honor of Garnet Ace Bailey, the team’s former director of pro scouting who died on 911. Sick. Oh, okay. Well, one. Yeah. One. Well, the name one. Yeah. Um, Bailey is a little down the middle, though. Yeah. But it’s cool that he’s a lion. Yeah. Kids probably love a lion because it’s like the junk. And I’ll give I’ll give Bailey credit. Bailey’s really fun. Bailey’s an awesome hang. I love seeing Bailey’s really fun. He’s always doing fun stuff. Um, I’ll give him a three if you want. I was thinking three or four. I know. Oh, and I I almost want to save room, but the name and the whole thing and I’m friends with Bailey, but we got to go three, I think. Okay, three. Three. Uh, Chance Vegas. Great name. Great name. Also, incredible lore. Yes. Share the lore again. It’s How do you say it again? I [ __ ] say it wrong every time. It’s like I want to say Gila monster, but it’s like It’s like, isn’t it a Gila, but I don’t think you like say the G like I do. But the the Vegas mascot red has I think it’s a Gila monster, but maybe it’s a Gila monster. Say it differently. Yeah, a Gila monster is the venom in those things. Um, does something to your um like hunger enzymes and that venom is how they developed ompic. Give me it. Give dude chance. Chance goated. Uh, here’s the [ __ ] problem now, Dan. There’s a couple that I feel like should probably be one like even over Tusky. Yeah. So, I can’t put him here. But now he feels like a hard done by four. He’s a hard done by four. We probably should have done Bailey four. Chance four. Sick name. Yeah. I love I think Chance is pretty solid. [ __ ] Chance four. But also Chance doesn’t look that cool. Like he looks like a lizard. Like you don’t know that he’s lizards everywhere in Vegas. You ever been to Vegas? Well, but he’s a he’s a a a he’s a Gly monster, so I don’t know. Four. Four pretty one. I think he’s not even close. I think he does have to be watch. He’s an agent of chaos. It’s not even close. And what sucks is I [ __ ] know you, you son of a [ __ ] And I think I know what you’re about to do at five. But like I I will live with this list because Gritty is one that’s not deserves like ev every every single step of the way with how Gritty was unveiled, what Gritty does, where Gritty has been featured, and the bits that they do. It’s the most perfect mascot in the history of for Philly. Yes, it’s he Gritty is perfect. One, and it’s not one. Okay, who’s five? Sharky. Actually, I was expecting Buoie and I was like, you’re gonna sue her? Perfect. Sharky is, you know, we love the Sharkies. I mean, you’re the the team is called the Sharks and your mascot is a shark and your name is Sharky. Easy. Yeah. It’s a little too easy. Sometimes it’s a little too easy. I mean, the shark. Yeah. You’re the sharks. I’m like, “Yeah, okay.” That is a five. Like, I almost wish he was like a a fin. Yeah. Hey, you’re a good dude. He’s a great dude. Hey, you’re a nice guy, Sharky. We all love you. You’re a nice guy. Yeah, but it don’t make up for you bullshitting and [ __ ] around with your mascot duties. I need you to be better. Sharky V. That’s not a bad list. It’s not a bad list. It’s not a bad list at all. Not a bad episode at all. Some great 67 debate here. Unbelievable stuff. Make sure folks to tune in tomorrow, Wednesday, for Neters College Puck Drop episode two. We’ll see you later in the week for our Thursday episode. We’ve got a bunch of great stuff coming out. 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(0:00) – Intro
(3:46) – Red Wings Scorching Hot
(11:50) – Canes Still Undefeated
(22:06) – Sharks Are Sacrificing Kids
(31:56) – Burning Hockey Questions
(1:06:45) – What is 6 7?
(1:21:10) – Beer League Hotline