The Reports Of The Lightning’s Death Were Greatly Exaggerated

The Reports Of The Lightning’s Death Were Greatly Exaggerated

Welcome to the Empty Netters podcast. Can you believe what this has become? There’s a full 48 hours where I felt like I was like literally Superman. Jumbo loves playing Fortnite. So, he gets on the stick. Did TR show you the Sona 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. It is officially Christmas time, baby. We made it. I’m the happiest boy on earth. And I’m also your host, Dan Powers. We’ve got Buffy the Vampire Slayer on the sticks. Sean, can’t wait to hear about your Thanksgiving. And then over here, he may be deep into his 30s, but he still every single December sends an email to our parents that says Christmas ideas for me because he loves getting presents. Chris Powers as always. You’re down bad. I I almost quit today. You had a You had a deep Sunday night. You went deep. Too deep. Some might say you don’t know how to say no. Some might say too deep. What? Uh did you just did you get have a couple too many Sunday night pops? Well m you know I don’t believe in that. I think there are never enough oh Sunday night pops. But I I tried to find that number. You went searching for it. I searched for it far and wide and now here you are. Do you regret it? Nope. Did anything bad happen? Yep. What happened? Lost my credit card again. I just got it back. You just had a false alarm. Got it back for one day. Had a false alarm of losing your wallet, but you actually found it. It was stuffed in your golf bag. Yeah. And then you just lost your card. And I didn’t even do the forget to close the tab thing. Yeah. I closed the tab and signed the bill and then left it in the book. They handed me the book with the bill in the card and I said, “I’m a genius. I’ve closed my tab.” You got to take the You got to take the card immediately. Handed it back to And they’re closed today. So, I can’t even I can’t even go get it. I might never get it. I don’t deserve it. I don’t deserve a card. Yeah, you’re a mess of a human. I don’t want to do this today. I want to go home. It’s going to be go. Okay, we’re going to fire through it. We’re going to get the spirits up. It’s December 1st, you know. That’s great. I got to say happy birthday to so many people today. So many people have birthdays today that I’m friends with. Really name them right now. You don’t even know. I don’t know a single one. Tommy Olsen. [ __ ] Pat Curry. [ __ ] Dan Mcdes. [ __ ] I know all three of those people. And I should know it’s their birthday now. They know. No, I know that. I don’t know. How could you do that to me? Why didn’t you just say three random names? Make up three names. Make up three completely out random names. Sean, how’s your Thanksgiving? Excellent. Fantastic. Uh went to uh a friend’s parents’ house. Uh the freeloading continues. Freeloading continues as is tradition as an immigrant on Thanksgiving. Um it was fantastic. I Did you get your glazed carrots? I did and they were the best glazed carrots I’ve ever had in my entire life. And while I ate them, I thought, I can’t believe Dan and Chris don’t put this as number one. Had it five. Is this a person’s Thanksgiving you’ve been to before? No, this is my first time there. And it was the best one yet, which is sorry to everybody else whose theater Thanksgivings I’ve been to. When you saw the glazed carrots, were you laughing or were you like, well, I knew this was coming. I Well, I saw the glazed carrots and I thought, here we go. I know what to expect here. But they they blew my expectations out of the water and I just reinforced in me that you guys messed up your list. Honestly, credit to us for calling them five to lower your expectations. Yeah. Really height injured waste carrot eating experience. If we had said one, you might have got in up here and been disappointed. Yeah. But we gave you a five. Yeah. Well, I’ve I’ve had them before and I would have put them at at least like a three, but I don’t know if it necessarily won. But this year for sure one. Jesus Christ. Fantastic. Blazed carrots. I wish we had heads. It’s unbelievable. How was yours? It was great. We went to a friend’s house. Uh he had just bought a new house. Congrats to them. So, it was like a housewarming and Thanksgiving. There were so many devild eggs. Your head would spin. It’s unbelievable. But the best part about Thanksgiving for me is we get out the other side and it is officially Christmas. No one can No one can say a damn word. Yeah, dude. What can you say? No one can say a damn word. I went to a Christmas tree farm yesterday, got my tree. Nice. So did you. So did I. So to shout out Sean’s Sean’s Christmas. Yeah. It’s called Sean’s Christmas. Yeah. It’s a side hustle I have going. Yeah. Because again, you guys are [ __ ] lose my mind if I had got there and it was you and I would be like, “What? It’s always been Sean.” Could you imagine? That would be insane. Uh but I also went uh I walked to the British pub by my house and had a Sunday roast last night by myself. Very nice. Very nice. Solo dining. It was Yeah. I brought my book. Yeah. Okay. Was reading my book, eating. It was lovely. It was like very quiet. The Sunday night football game was ending, so I was like, “This is great. There’s only like 20 people here.” And I, to be very clear, I love this pub. So, I’m I’m not saying anything bad. As I’m finishing or or as the game finishes and I’m like deep in my book, and I’ve got a great rotation of five pages, turn, take a bite of my meal. Five pages, turn, take a bite of my meal. the bar at like 1000 p.m. on a Sunday starts doing karaoke. And I was like, “What the [ __ ] is happening here? How is this a thing? How are there enough people here at 10 p.m. on a Sunday night for them to participate in karaoke? And why is anyone doing it?” But it happened. That’s what you get for being a performative male and reading pooked in public. That dude I couldn’t believe how many people came up and talked to me because they were like, “You’re just reading a book here.” And I don’t think I’ve I don’t think I’ve ever solo dined and read the book. But let me tell you what, dude, it was performative mail stuff clearly because everyone needed to talk to me about it. Can you imagine if I was reading on my iPad? Can you imagine if I had like an actual paperback book and people could see what it was? No. Be [ __ ] insane. Wasted enough time. And we got to get into the hot ice. Lots going on in the league. And we will start with the hottest team in the NHL possibly. The Tampa Bay Lightning 7game Hetorial. What is that? Uh I I did a meme about it. Uh reports of my death. Yeah. Mark Twain. Mark Twain. Yep. Were grossly exaggerated or something. Over the seven games, they’ve only given up more than one goal twice. Yesesh. Vassy. 915 save percentage. 232 goals against. Here comes the boogeyman. That is straight up boogeyman [ __ ] And he’s he he’s on the way, dude. He like at the start of the year we were like Tampa stinks and so does Vassie. Yeah. Wrong. Incorrect. Cooch 29. We weren’t saying that. Yeah. I never said that. I would never wear a [ __ ] clown nose again. This is People said that. Yep. Cooch 29 points. Gent 26 points. Hegel 13 and 12 25 points. Dude, Point’s not even doing anything. Yeah, Point has three goals. He’s got 11 points. He’s a dash 11. He’s not even doing anything. Every week people are hitting us up being like, “What is wrong with Point?” Uh, the Lightning there was, remember, we looked at the Atlantic and every team was a negative gold def. Every single one. Yeah, that was like the other day. That was That was one day ago. I know, dude. Now Tampa plus 19. Boom. Four points clear in the Atlantic. Boom. Everything we expected. Boom. Yeah. It’s unbelievable. Remember this, dude. Cooper should get fired. Get [ __ ] Is it time to fire Coupe? Are you in think about it? Isn’t it funny that not a single team in the Atlantic other than Tampa is in a plus gold differential right now? Not a single one. It’s a joke, dude. It was it was none of them and then they they were like this actually we’re disgusting. It it’s uh the Pacific is all basically the same too. The Ducks have plus N. Everyone else is dash other or Vegas who’s zero. Like what what is going on? Teams are leaky, man. But Tampa is um yeah, they are they’re top the Atlantic and they are truly on fire and they feel ripe for someone doing something horny, making a move, making a trade, adding a big dog. You think so? Yeah, I do. I mean, I think we are we’re 25 games into the season now, and there’s there have been there’s been a lot of this lot of up and down. A lot of up and down. It’s hilarious. 10 games into the season, we both picked Tampa to win the Atlantic. Yeah. And 10 games in, people were like, “How’s that looking, boys?” And we looked dumb. Yeah. We looked real dumb. And now we look like smart boys. Now I’m a genius. No, we look like smarties. Now John Cooper’s the best coach to ever live, but now’s the MVP in 10 games. We might be wrong again. That’s how this this is a crazy time. That’s life. But it’s this season. It’s life, you know, poof could all go away. But that’s that’s the crazy part is this season in basically every division it feels like I don’t know what to expect except the unexpected. Expect the unexpected. There’s like two teams in the league who have just like really been consistent the whole time. It’s wild. Then this Tampa team feels like they were slow to start. They’ve got it now figured out and they might coast. I think there’s a world where Tampa kind of coasts through the rest of the season at the top of the Atlantic. Now with the way the Atlantic has gone Yeah. with the Leafs being horrible and the Panthers being injured and inconsistent but injured. Montreal cooling I’ll say cuz there was a stretch where we were like oh they wow they took another huge step. Yeah for sure and then Ottawa Boston Detroit being like Detroit cooling whatever. Yeah is and Boston slightly cooling. Yeah, but they shouldn’t even be here and to the point that I’m like, “Oh my god, Tampa could could run away with this division.” Yes. Yeah. The way it’s gotten, there’s a chance that I look up in 10 more games and I go, “Oh, the Atlantic is over and or at least the one seed in the Atlantic is over and we’re figuring out everything else.” We had a couple of interesting games like uh it was it was um Edmonton’s game against Seattle where they really they popped them four nothing. I think it was Saturday night and I was like, “This is the type of game that makes you go, “Yep, see, Edmonton’s fine. They played really well.” Connor was on basically involved in every point and you’re like, “Oh [ __ ] Toronto on Saturday beat Pit 72.” But what’s funny is, and I’m not trying to talk [ __ ] here, that didn’t have the same vibe of like, oh, Toronto’s got it figured out. Yeah. I do want to give flowers to East Cow. He’s been getting some reps and he’s playing really well. But the Toronto Maple Leafs are not a serious team right now. No, they’re they they’re not serious people. They’re a completely unserious team right now. And I am waiting to see them win four in a row. And maybe it starts now. Maybe it starts now. Credit to Marner actually because I feel as though he was often looped in justifiably or not in the unserious conversation. Yeah. As as one of the kings of unseriousness. Yeah. Mr. Video Games. He loves his video games. And and you know what? Don’t we all? Can you blame him? Don’t we all? Can we stop shaming? We got to get him and Dolan on some Fortnite. Can you imagine him? What is What’s the What’s the female video game? Uh, what is a thing? No. Literally video game. No. Are there female video games? That’s what I thought you were asking. Like, are there video games that are objectively for women? Do you think more women play The Sims than men do? I’d say that The Sims is a perfect example of a game where I would bet that more women play it than men do. That and like Stardew Valley. I [ __ ] So, Dude, John’s always got some [ __ ] I’ve never even heard. No, Stardew Valley is like Harvest Moon on crack. Oh [ __ ] And I was going to say it’s pretty tough looking. Oh, here you go. Yeah. So, this says that like my two favorite video games on earth are which is Stardew Valley and The Sims. I just love building houses, dude. I wouldn’t even do anything with the people. I would put in the cheat code. It was like exclamation point semicolon exclamation point semicolon. You did that. You know it off by heart. You you Dude, you did that a billion times and you just have a billion dollars. Uh I would just build cribs, dude. Just absolute cribs. It was awesome. This says Fortnite. A lot of women play Fortnite. Really? Uh actually, no, that’s wrong. That’s a bad That’s just got to be everyone on Earth. Yeah. Here it is with a large female uh player base. The Sims 4. Yeah, you got it. We got it. We are on it. Minecraft. Minecraft. Wait, what? I suppose it’s kind of similar. You’re like building things, right? Yeah. Anything that involves patience and attention to detail. Yeah. And building stuff. Women are crushing those games. I’m sure the male dominated games are the opposite of that where it’s like first person shooters maybe. Like it’s just ridiculous. Roblox. Roblox. Ro L O X. Roblox. Roblox is that it looks like Minecraft. Like everything’s all blocky. But uh And you just build Yeah. It got a lot of bad press recently. The first time I ever heard about it was uh apparently it’s a lot of groomers go on Roblox looking for young kids. They got a lot of trouble over it. Yeah. Well, that’s all I know about it. that. Can you imagine going uh being a groomer? Look at you. You look like one right now, dude. He looks like the uni bomber. Yeah, you I wish I was the uni bomber. Look at this. Look at that. Look at that. You look just like the uni bomber. What the [ __ ] Yikes, dude. But imagine being a groomer and being like this. You know what? I heard about this game Roblox and there’s a lot of young kids on there and I’m going to get in there and I’m going to give them some tips about how to build. Next thing you know, they give me their phone number and then I’m calling the house landline going, “Hey, is Timmy home?” Yeah. Can I ask a kid voice when you call? Yeah, you got to Yeah, you got like what if the parents answer? No one has a landline anymore. This is ridiculous. But but maybe these kids don’t have their own cell phone. So, you got to call mom’s phone. You got to call He goes He goes, “What’s your number?” He goes, “Here’s my mom’s here’s my mom’s number.” And that guy, it doesn’t skip a beat, dude. He goes, “I’ll call it. I’m on a mission. Out of control.” Stardew Valley is four. Animal Crossing is five. A social simulation game known for its relaxing atmosphere. Animal Crossing makes sense. My my I got my girlfriend a Switch a few years ago, Nintendo Switch. And she just immediately just raged out of Super Mario. Just could not handle the platforming, jumping around. And so I got her. I said, “All right.” Like Animal Crossing has to be the chillest game ever. Got that? She’s addicted. Really absolutely addicted to Animal Crossing. Can I ask a question? Is Animal Crossing exactly what it sounds like? Is it about animals like crossing a street? It’s like a little It’s like kind of like The Sims in a way. Maybe it’s like a little town and you’re kind of like doing gardening and stuff around the town. Okay. It’s a [ __ ] Harvest Moon. Oh, they’re cute as hell. Look at those [ __ ] things. Do you know what Harvest Moon is? Uh, I’ve only I’ve never played it. I’ve never seen people play it. I know it because everyone seems to play it. I’ve talked about this on the podcast before, haven’t I? Harvest Moon was a game on N64 and this hockey talk is out of control. I’m sorry to the listeners. Like, we are completely off the rails. Harvest Moon was a game on N64. It was like a classic Japanese story, you know, like just the way the characters looked and like the storyline you can tell is like from these amazing Japanese video game creators. It starts out you are a little character and like you can name yourself but he looks exactly the same for everybody and your dad dies. No, your grandfather dies and he gives you his farm and you you then move to this farm and you have to like start making the farm prosperous. Like that’s it. There’s a town you can go in, you can talk to people, you can make friends, you can find a wife, you can literally flirt with like five or six different girls in town. And the more you flirt with them, of course you were, Dan. And the Oh yeah, dude. I was a dog. I was a dog in that game. And what’s funny is when you talk to them, if you give them stuff and everyone in the town, they’re like the little like of the things that they say pop up and there’s a little heart in the bottom. Uh that’s like the press A to continue talking. The more you give them and the more you talk to them, the heart changes color. And when it gets to like a big like blinking pink red heart, you can then propose to them and you have like there’s like a feather you buy and you give it to them and propose to them. And dude, you can get every single girl in town to all bright red pink. It’s [ __ ] gnarly. But what’s also crazy is if you do other things, I can’t talk about Harvest Moon this long. It’s a great game and I think you should play it. We got to move on. Sorry everyone, but Harvest Moon [ __ ] rocks. God, dude. Okay, the Tampa Bay Lightning are out of control good. Now we need to talk about something that is out of control bad, and that is Adam Fox. We’ve got another injury on the books. A lot someone was asking this the other day. Feels like a lot of injuries are happening right now. I think this happens every year. Condense season. No more Olympics. No, we got to ban the Olympics. It happens every year. Get rid of Olympic International best on best has ruined everything. No one will ever play again. And we got to stop. This is why we we didn’t do it for 10 years. That’s one take. Adam Fox left the game Saturday in a 4-1 loss to Tampa. Tampa’s just waxing everybody. um hit with Hegel, looked clean, was fine. It’s said to be a shoulder injury. He’s been placed on LTIR. He is going to miss 10 games minimum. He has been the best shining spot of this Rangers team. Yeah, he he is pretty much and I’ve been critical of Fox’s game, but I would say he is the He’s been the only thing maybe Chesty you would say too, but Chest is kind of But Chess is almost like what you expect. But that’s not fair. I should just he deserves credit still even though he’s doing what you expected. No, Shesty is like God he has been keeping them in the you know so many games but Fox leading the team in points tied with Breadman is was dreamland was fairyland fairy tale stuff for the Rangers. Um, so he goes out not good at all. Not only because he was producing, but also because he’s he runs the power play. And I know you can switch they switch to like a five forward thing, but he just he it’s losing a guy that quarterbacks the power play is a double whammy. Yeah. Uh the rags are five and five in their last 10. They’re 13 12 and two and seventh in the Met. If there’s a chance that you thought they were dead anyway. If you didn’t, are they dead now? I Yes, I think so. Uh, it’s kind of simple. Um, I mean, they are the Met is really good. Yeah. Yeah. Met Central. Um, I mean, dude, there’s a reason the entire Atlantic and the entire Pacific has a negative gold def. It’s because the entire Met and the entire Central have positive gold. Exactly. The Mets sneaky good. Every single team in the Met is above 500. Uh, and the Rangers are, you know, like I don’t want to sewer Laz here, but like going into that game, Laz is doing his uh, Rangers nut hugging and he was like, “The hottest team in the league faces the second hottest team in the league.” Talking about Tampa and the Rangers. And I’m like, Johnny, the Rangers are one of the hottest teams in the league. Get, give me a break. Dallas and Colorado, Minnesota haven’t lost in five years. and the Rangers are hotter than them according to Johnny. Uh but it’s like I do think people forget that the Rangers are above 500. It’s like they the the the home record and the home scoring is just so bad. The way that every one of the players talks to the media, they feel so frustrated that it feels so bad. But at the end of the day, they do win some important games and they’ve played some good hockey here and there, but at the end of the day, they I think that they are just going to hover around this like 500 vibe all season long. And and I I don’t see that really changing. I don’t see them catching fire, but Fox being out is brutal. I will say uh in and I’m going to give Laz another tire pump here. He pointed out out in the 2023 2024 season when when Foxy got hurt, the Rangers went 72 and one in their 10 games without him. I’m not saying that that is the same team. It’s not the same team at all. But they have in the past been able to adjust without him. A great stat. I do think though that was a season when they were really, really strong. This is a bit different. Fox has been quarterback in that power play. he’s been having one of the best seasons he’s ever had. And uh it just sucks for a number of reasons. It sucks because it’s great to see a player, a US player in an Olympic year firing on a team that’s struggling. And it sucks because this could be very detrimental for the Rangers. I think I always had the Rangers be being exactly this. I was like, “Yeah, they’re going to miss playoffs and, you know, hover in 67.” Yeah. And uh stop. You keep doing it. Yeah, cuz I said that’s what I said. I’m taking it to hockey and you said I love this CP. Play the clip. Someone John, play the clip. But but Chris, I love this. But you’re not No. [ __ ] you. You’re not allowed to take it. But then do the same thing. Yeah, we are doing it for hockey. You are 67 if you miss. It’s the worst thing you can do. We took it and you like it. No, I don’t enjoy this. I don’t like it if you keep doing that. Don’t do it. Suck. Uh, so I still think they stink, but the if they do, this is the moment. Put it this way. This is the moment. If you lose Adam Fox and you and you go two and eight in the next 10, you your season is over and and you might as well start trying to get Gavin McKenna. Or you go you go eight and two without Fox and then you welcome him back and I go, “Oh, wow. Now you can actually make a run cuz now you have your guy back.” Yeah. If Okay. in the next 10 games that Fox is out or maybe more, right? Like, but let’s call it 10. Yeah. Yeah. What record do they have to have in that 10 for you to go that this was a huge huge boost for them? Rangers are very much back in the mix. Seven and three. Seven and three, right? I don’t think six and four does it for me. Seven and three in the next 10 for the Rangers. And the season is [ __ ] back on playoff games. MSG. All right. Well, we’re going to put it’s 10ame watch for the Rangers. Okay. Okay. Seven and three and and we are No, no, not Oh, or you’re dead, but seven and three and we are back. Another injury that absolutely stinks. You hate to see it in New York as well, but led to one of the coolest plays the hockey has ever seen. Kyle Pelary tears his ACL. Absolutely brutal. Going to be out six to eight months. You went into the boards hard. Really ugly play. What, you know, no one’s fault, nothing like that. but goes down, gets up, defenseman takes the puck back into his own zone. Doesn’t see Pal Mary sneaking up behind him. Little cheeky stick lift, dishes the puck over, gets an assist as he’s getting off the ice with a tornado. Is that the most hockey guy [ __ ] you’ve ever seen? It’s so sick because the the ACL is a weird injury where um you can move kind of, right? So it’s like like Tom Brady I remember when Tom Brady tore his ACL it was like uh uh he was walk he walked off the field and everybody was like he’s okay he’s okay and I was like no you can you can walk. So, it’s kind of it’s a funny injury in that regard, but that’s walking off the field during a stopped game. And we stroked off justifiably Dwey when he I don’t even know if his injuries public, but like whenever whatever happened to him happened to him and then he uh broke up a two-on-one and like made the pass and I was like what a legend. Yeah. And this though is all time. This is this is so all time. This is literally the game is going on. I have shredded my knee ligaments. Boom. Apple. It is so crazy. I mean, my god. I I I love it so much. And he’s been good, man. Um, my question is someone said this in uh it must have been during hockey talk, but someone was like, is that it for Palm Mary? Does he retire? And I’d like to say definitely not. He’s tied for third on the team. Uh but in points y tied second, I think. Uh yeah, maybe someone had a point. But he’s he’s about to be 35. Do you think there’s any chance that this is it for him? Um yeah. I don’t I’m not saying I think it is. I’m just saying there’s a chance because next year sucks. That’s what people forget. [ __ ] sucks. And then you’re like, uh, yeah. 6 to 8 months in December. Like, you know, so he’s he’s like he’s done for the year. Oh my god. Yes. And not even and then all summer like let’s say it is an eightmon recovery that puts you in August and you’re like, “Okay, now I’m getting getting back into the swing of things.” Oh man, that would suck. That would absolutely suck because he’s been playing great. He’s an awesome dude. Gritty guy. Gritty. But hate to see it. I got his contract right here. How many more years? Kyle Palmary, he has 4.75 this year and next. Okay. So, see, that’s why it sucks. It’s like you come back next year and you’re probably not that good because you’re recovering and then you’re a free agent and everyone goes and you go, “Give me a deal.” And teams go, “No, you stink. Your your ACL uh you never recovered fully from your ACL and you’re not it.” And then you go, “Dude, what are you talking about? I’m good.” That’s so harsh, dude. Yeah. And then they go, “Well, we don’t care. And the league is fast and young now.” And he’s that guy that’s kind of like everyone goes, “Did he retire?” And he’s like, “Well, no, I didn’t mean to.” Yeah. But no one will give me a [ __ ] deal. That’s that’s my fear. Yeah. What What do you think for the New York Islanders now? They were obviously buzzing. They were so exciting, but they have slowed down a bit. I think they’re 54-1 in their last 10. They are sixth in the Met. Tied right now. They’re tied with the Penguins with 29 points. Uh which and the Penguins are in playoffs. They’re right on the playoff line. Um, and not that Paul Mary is like [ __ ] incredible, but he’s a massive piece and he’s one of their most efficient players, right? Like 18 18 and 25. It’s like Horvat’s playing, you know, some of the best hockey he’s ever played, but and obviously Schaefer is unbelievable, but they are kind of interesting in that no one on that team is really way overperforming. It’s like Horvat leads the team with 26 points. After that, it’s Schaefer with 19. And then it’s like Barczel and Palmary tie for 18. Heinaman 16, Druan 15. And it’s like Lee 13. You know, it’s like this is a tough loss. Tough loss. The team’s been pretty injured. They’re slowing down a little bit. You wonder if this hurts them. I think it not only I’ll go further than that, dude. Well, the good the only good news is the the Russian moves up to the second line. Max, I always say his name wrong, but I always say Shaburnov, but he is the man and he hasn’t done I said he was going to score 40 this year and he hasn’t quite done that. But I’m actually excited to see him get this burn because he’s very good. Uh but I will go as far as to say that they’re they are out now. Yeah, I think that I think playoffs might be a little bit of a stretch for them now. They can make a move, but I’m just like I think but also they don’t need it. I wouldn’t Yeah, they don’t need it. teams that are not struggling at all heading to the central. Last week we talked about the ABS and how they are just firing. They continue to do so. We also talked about the Wild CP and how they are on fire and just doing everything right. A team that we need to give a quick spit job to is the Dallas Stars. Yes. Everyone singing the praises of the Colorado Avalanche as we should. They are 9 and1 in their last 10. But a team right behind them with four straight wins. Dallas 81 and one in their last 10. We talked about how they were leaky. My god, did they plug the leaks. And everyone on this team seems to be playing so goddamn well. Your boy Otter looking pretty good. Looking better. Looking better. Yep. I mean, pretty good is what all I said. Yep. But I think you think of the big boys on this team and I think of Miko Ranton. I think of Jason Robertson. I think of Wyatt Johnston. I also think of Miro Hkin on defense. And I’ll throw Rupe Hansen there. Robo has 35 points. Ranton has 33. Wyatt has 30. Rupe has 22. Miro has 22. All the big dogs are [ __ ] buzzing and Dallas is right up there in best teams in the league. Uh do you put them behind Colorado as like if you’re talking and coming out of the West? Are they the second best team in the league right now? Yeah. Yeah. But I I think I would have got it’s so I won’t remember now but based on the injuries and stuff I feel like I might have said that anyway and I what I’m not remembering is Vegas. I know everybody Vegas Vegas but I was like that injury is so big that a and and goalie is not you would think goalie for Dallas would be a massive we win this one. You would think when comparing that to the team. So, yeah, I think they’re the best team, but they they [ __ ] should be. I say this all the time. Their roster is insane. Yeah, that’s the most insane roster I’ve ever seen. Colorado is so good, but I look at their roster and I’m like, you shouldn’t be as good as you are. They just are. Yeah. Dallas I’m like, Dallas should never lose. Dallas should never lose. So, what’s funny is you look at the league right now and if I were to ask you like don’t don’t look at any uh standings or records right now. I would say who’s the best team in the league? You would say Colorado. If you if I’m not looking at standings. Yes. Yeah. Okay. I think I think I know what you mean. Yeah. Colorado. Obviously, you would say Colorado. If you’re going to look at me right now through those sunglasses, you unibbombing [ __ ] and say that anyone other than Colorado is the best team. I didn’t know what you mean. You mean if I’m watching hockey? Yeah. Like I’m I’m asking you. I’m asking I’m talking to you right now. Who is the best team in the league? If I’ve been watching Colorado. Yeah. And then if I were to ask, who’s the second best team in the league? Dallas. Would you say Dallas? I think so. So, Colorado is, if we’re just looking at, let’s look at standings and we’re looking at points. They are the top of the league with a plus 48 gold def. Dallas is second with a plus 22 gold diff. And that is the second best in the league. Like, they are statistically the two best teams in the league. And then also, they feel like the two best teams in the league. And what’s funny, dude, is at the beginning of the season, we had D Colorado and Dallas one-tw in the Central. Both of us, I think. Yeah. And here they are, one-tw in the league. And then on the East side of things, it this is where I find it interesting. I picked Tampa to be first in the Atlantic. I think so did you. Yep. I picked Carolina to be first in the Met. I think so. Did you? I might have. No, I think I went Devils. Oh, yeah. I think you did. But I was, you know, Devil’s Canes. Well, let’s say Devils. Yeah. Again, only 25 games, but if you’re looking at the league standings, best records in the league, it goes Colorado, Dallas, Tampa, Carolina, New Jersey. Yeah. And like it doesn’t feel that way. Yeah. If that makes sense. like Tampa and Carolina are the two top teams in the East as far as record and I’m like [ __ ] All right. But Dallas is just like with the Wild who who are, you know, absolutely surging. Dallas just deserves a pump up because they’re doing everything right. They’re winning great games. But it goes back into the [ __ ] we’ve talked about of like it is is it nut up or shut up time for Dallas? It’s like how many times can we see this group do this? Also, how do you keep Robo? Because all the [ __ ] we heard about him and now he’s doing this. In what world do you let this guy leave? He is he has 7.75 on his contract. He is RFA. People always forget about that. But like you’ve got to sign Robo, but I don’t know how you do it. You know, you don’t have a lot of cap going on. But at this point, are we like obviously he gets resigned? Yes, Judy. That should have always been the case. They should have always done that. They should have always done that. And I love to Three stars, three separate stars lead the league in one thing each. Can you guess what they are? Oh, it’s not easy. So, you can just say no if you Okay. No. Jason Robertson shots on goal. Oh, nice. 109. And we’ve we’ve talked before about the JD Robo uh saga. Yeah. After he had him on a show, but remember he had said it’s like some of his goals just were going in that year. That year he had 40. And I’m like, you know what’s one way to not care to fix that? Shoot. shoot. He has the It’s Mo has 66, Y Johnson is 75, Rupe has 60, Ro has 109. And I’m like, “Yeah, dude. His shooting percentage isn’t as high as the other guys, but it doesn’t matter. He has 16 [ __ ] goals cuz he gets the puck on net.” The other one, Wyatt Johnston, power play goals. 12 of his 16 are power play goals. And as we’ve said before, dude, [ __ ] cares. He scores every power play. It’s amazing. That was always the funniest thing in the world to me when people would talk about Chris Crider on the Rangers and they’re like, “He’s a power play goal merchant.” And I was like, “Let me ask you a question. Wouldn’t you love it if your team scored when they were on the power play?” Yeah. And it’s I don’t care when you [ __ ] score. Get goals. And the last one is Mo Ranton pimps. Dude, I am so glad that you brought this up because we’ve got to talk about it. It’s the funniest thing in the world. Nico Ratin pibs. Rat. Rat. Rat. Is he a rat? No, he’s never done that in his career. He’s never never He’s never eaten cheese. We’ve got the two sussies and we’ve got that Mark play when he sk when he skates by Mark, grabs his blocker, pulls him down. I think Miko is getting in the mixer. Would this be the best rat in NHL history because of the the um I’m I’m saying the best quality hockey player who’s also doing rat stuff. Yes. Because Brad Do you think Brad has that title? We’re definitely forgetting a lot of like guys of old. Yeah. And and it’s going to skew it because the point totals were insane back then. Yeah. But Brad is very good. Let’s say of the last like 20 years. Okay. It might be Brad. Yeah. But I’m saying it might be Moose. Oh, no. If Moose if Moose transitions from a moose to a rat, then then yes, it will be him. Yeah, it could be. It’s unbelievable. But they’re they’re cooking. But dude, it’s Here we go again. Here we go again. Dallas, Colorado. see you in the first or second round and beat each other to oblivion and then the winner the loser goes home a [ __ ] and the winner loses to Edmonton in the West Conference finals because they’re too tired. That is a perfect ending of this Central talk. Again, I know we’re not even we’re not at like trade deadline or anything, but when I look at the Central and look at these three teams, I look at Colorado, Dallas, and Minnesota who are playing so so well. And then I look at the Pacific and it’s like the Ducks are amazingly fun. The Kings we’ll get into in a second here. I look at these three teams in the central, Chris, and I’m like, if you three [ __ ] let any team other than you go to the cup, you are the biggest clowns are disgrace. It’s a disgrace. And who do you mean third? The Wild. Yes. Yeah. And dude, and I feel like Wild fans think I don’t like them because of my prediction. I love the Wild, but they are it they are not part of this conversation. If Dallas or Colorado doesn’t go to the wet to the cup from the west, they are both a disgrace. One of them is going to be I I you know what I am I am here and prepared to completely agree with that. We are 25 games into the season, but I am going to sit here and say Dallas or Colorado, one of you needs to be representing the West in the Stanley Cup final or you are you have disgraced your families and you have disgraced this league and this league and this nation and you will not be welcome home for the holidays. Let’s get into quick jersey talk that you wanted to bring up. We’ve got some Olympic sweaters dropping. The Sweden I just want to know what you thought about Sweden when they finally released it. Uh I think the Sweet I mean I think the Swedish international hockey jersey is the maybe the best uh the three crowns is always so elite. I can’t get a good picture of it here. Like you gave me a link and it’s absolutely terrible. It shows like a zoomedin photo of snhl.com. It’s absolutely awful. Have you clicked that link? It’s it’s the most like zoomed in. It literally just shows the three crowns. Hey, we love NHL.com. We do. I’m not I’m not saying NHL.com made a mistake. I’m saying just the picture is bad. Yeah, the photographer. Yeah, the photographer that was hired. [ __ ] up. But it’s uh to me it’s a good um convo to have in general about the jerseys. I need to know what the [ __ ] is going on with the collar right here on some of them. Okay. I think USA’s are so clean, but they’ve got this weird collar thing and I don’t like it. The France jersey has it as well. I think the Swiss jersey has it as well. It’s just like this weird like vented plate thing. I’m not into it. Dude, the the French jerseys are it’s some of the worst jersey I’ve ever seen in my entire life. It’s absolutely insane. Why did they do that? They It literally just says France and I’m like with a bunch of lines. Yeah, it’s crazy. Um I don’t like the collar either. Oh yeah, I see it here. Yeah, it’s bizarre. I don’t have much to say on them. Uh I think Sweden is amazing. I think the Sweden is is one that I’m like don’t ever mess with this. But you know what I will say? I I liked this from Foreign Nations. Like the texture on the crowns in formation more than this the texture on the crowns for the Olympic ones. Yeah. But it’s still a cool texture. Agree. But it looks like what the Canadian what Canada did with the with the leaf? Yeah. It’s almost like a raised 3D. Yeah. It’s like um dude, you know when you fight the Polygon team in Super Smash Brothers? Yeah, I sure do. We’re talking done a lot of N64 talk. That’s how I I think I think the all the Olympic jerseys have become the Polygon team. Yeah, it’s very Olympic of them. Is it? Yeah. The Polygon team was just Olympic athletes. Everyone knows that. You’re right. I don’t know. Maybe you’re right. Maybe you’re right. Something about the rings feels very geometric. I’m just telling you. 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So download that Ben MGM app, use that promo code nets, and activate those tokens and get paid. It has gotten to the point where it is simply not something we can ignore. Morgan Geeki, league leader in goals. Oh, dude, what does that mean? When you say that, what does it mean? It means that he has Hold on. Let me just get this stat up. I want to just make sure that I read it correctly. When I say that, uh, okay, Morgan Geeky, hold on. I’m just looking at the looking at the NHL.com stats. Okay. Uh Morgan Geeki has 20 goals and that is tied with Nathan Kender for most in the NHL. But but how many does Krill have? Krill has 17. But how many? How many does Sid have? That’s three less. Uh Sid has 16. That’s four less. But what about Bedsy? Uh uh he has 16 as well. Also less. Yeah. Morgan Geeky going, I will score. How many will he score, Dan? Like, how many goals is he about to score? Be honest. I think there’s a chance that Morgan Geeki scores like 60 goals. He Here’s his totals. He had he played two games when he was 21 for Carolina. He had three goals, which is actually sick. Then he played 36 games. He had three goals, not sick. Then he played 73 games for the Kraken, had seven goals. Then he played 69 games for the Kraken, had nine goals. Then he played 76 for Boston, had 17. And you kind of felt like, wow, that was actually a great signing. Yeah, cuz he could be a 20 goal guy. And now he has he has 20 goals on November 30th. And then he had 77 games for Boston, 33 goals. And I was like, please God, don’t overpay for him. Please, please. He will regress to the mean. And he goes, “You’re mean, dude. You’re mean. You’re mean. If you think that I am can’t keep this up. I am about to score 50.” He is. Yeah. I think I mean 50 is like if you have 20 goals on December 1st, I think you have to be like, I need to score 50. I also say this I say this in baseball all the time where because it’s such a long season but the trends don’t really go away within a season. All the time you’ll see a guy hit 320 or no one hits 320 anymore but like hits 305 one year and then 270 the next year. That happens all the time. But rarely is someone a quarter of the way through through the year hitting 305 and then goes, “Oh, I I lost it.” It’s like what you’re doing that year usually kind of just stays barring injury or whatever. So point being, I don’t think Morgan Geeky is going to go super hot start and now I suck. I think this is his goal pace this year legitimately. Will he score 50 from now on? I I don’t think so. But this year he’s going to 15 or even strength. Dan, we were just talking about Wyatt. He leads the league in even strength goals. like he’s just he scores he scores goals. He’s a great great great goal scorer. That that is just like the simple fact right now. Like the last two years he’s just got a good scoring touch. He’s in the right place all the time. He is what’s funny is he’s having exactly the Chris Krider 50 goal year. 20 He’s got 20 goals and six assists. Yeah. Like he’s he’s legitimately on pace for like a 20 he’s on pace for 20 or 50 goals and like 24 assists. What do you which I I’ve said so many times I genuinely don’t get how players do this but it does feel like Geeky is in a situation where he’s like listen dude like Pasta is the best goal scorer on this team. He is one of the most gifted goal scorers of all time and I need to be a goal scorer as well. Like I need to make sure we’ve got goals coming from other places and that’s exactly what he’s doing. And it is just like it’s truly electric that he scored 33 last year, like you said, got rewarded with that contract and immediately has made it pay off for the Bruins. He’s like, “Yep, and I have 20 already.” Crider’s shooting percentage the year he had 52 was 20.2. Yeah. And this year, by the way, Crers is 26.1. Yeah. He’s buzzing. Geeky last year was 22. Yeah. And this year 28, dude, he shoots the puck and it goes in. He shoots four times. He’s scoring. Shoot. Shoot more, dude. That’s exactly what he’s doing. Just keep shooting. Shoot, dude. We got to be Bruins fans. Everybody hates the shoot fan. Yeah. Bruins fans need to become the shoot fans when Geeki is out. Yeah. No. No. No other time. But if Geeki has the puck, I need literally all of TD Garden screaming shoot. Oh, yeah. I mean, it’s like it’s it’s absolutely unbelievable. And I I I don’t want to do this because I feel like every single day all people do is talk about uh Olympic roster [ __ ] but it is one of those funny things where this man leads the NHL in goals right now. He has to be being talked about with Team Canada, but I don’t think they are legitimately, dude. I know that sounds insane. I think that I think he could have [ __ ] 40 at just whenever the rosters are due and they would go like this. No. Yeah. Yeah. It’s like the guys picking the team for for those listening this this is confirmed like have heard it from their mouths. The guys in charge of these rosters are not going, “What have you done for me lately?” Yeah. Are they considering people who are playing well or not well right now? Absolutely. They’re not looking for hot hands. Yeah. But they’re they’re not literally going down the stat sheet and going, “Oh, Mlin Selbrin and Conor Bard are at the top of the league in points. They’re obviously on the team. It’s that’s not what they’re doing. Just so people know.” Yeah. So Morgan Geeki leads the NHL in goals and you would think like I’m dead ass, dude. He could have 40 and they would literally go like this, you’re not coming. I just think he’s playing so well. He’s a great hockey player and it’s just it’s cool to see. Um maybe goals that are not going in as frequently. The Los Angeles Kings, it is time for a conversation, dude. The Kings have gone to overtime 12 out of the 25 games this season. What in the world? It that’s insane, dude. Like every game goes over, every time I’m watching, I’m like, “Oh, another tight one.” And then boom, here we go. Uh, it’s exhausting. It’s absolutely exhausting. The silver lining is Adrien Kempy is an OT. Remember when we called empty net goals Kempt Net Goals? Kemp net goals, dude. Kempty Nuts. We need to figure out a way to turn his name into an OT goal pun. Yeah, and we’ll get on that. I’ll I’ll have you think about that now. Begin. Uh the silver lining is he has just scored his 10th career OT goal. Puts him second all time. He passed Kopi who could who could catch him who could catch him immediately because they go to overtime every night and Dustin Brown. Carter has 11 franchise lead. So Kemp is going to break that. Yeah. This year because they go I mean they go to overtime 50% of the time. They go to overtime half of their [ __ ] games. Um, unfortunately for them, for their offense, they go to overtime because they don’t score that much, dude. They don’t score that much. And what’s frustrating is, uh, I was at the game on Saturday. Uh, Anton Forsber played incredible and Darcy has been playing really well. It’s, it’s funny, his numbers don’t look stellar. Y, but you ask any member of that Kings team and they’re like, Dar is stealing us games left, right, and center. And what I find interesting about this team is fans always are going, “What do we need to do? Where’s the goal scoring coming from?” Like, “What move do we need to make?” And I’m here to tell you this team, Kevin Fiala leads the team with 10 goals. And we talked about like Morgan Geeki has 20. So like that’s that’s your league leader, 20. Yeah. So the the Kings who are in second in the Pacific, their league lead or their team leader has half of what the league leader has in goals. Kempy has eight, Cory Perry has seven, Laugh has six, Kopi has five, and then you’ve got like some of your other big dogs. Biffield four, Trevor Moore three. He got a goal taken back on Saturday, Koozco three. So, I’m see I’m here to tell you when you have at 25 games of the season, Kempy with only eight, laugh with six, even Kopi with five. I’m I say even Kobe because he’s more of a dish man. Uh Q with four, Morzy with three, Kusmano with three. Y your goal scoring is on this roster. It is on Don’t Should No, you’re right. You’re right. It is on this roster. You’re right. The issue is not we don’t have goal scorers. The issue is this system that the [ __ ] Kings are playing and I’m done. I’m done with it, dude. Yeah, I’m done with it. Dowy had that let him free. Dowy had that funny quote uh I think it was two years ago. Maybe it was last year where people were talking about the one 121 whatever or 131 and he was like dude like if people want to [ __ ] about it because it’s hard for them to play against and beat then they can do that all they want. I’m I’m going if you are doing this same system like we saw Todd have it. Now Hiller gets the job. It’s the same [ __ ] There’s so much line jumbling that doesn’t make any [ __ ] sense and you are not dominating. You are in playoffs but you are not dominating. And it just feels like every few games they go on a road trip and they do great on the road and they just like save the vibes. They save people’s jobs, but it’s always this [ __ ] It’s like hammer the [ __ ] under every single Kings game. And I’m just saying this can’t last and you are just wasting players potential and players abilities with this system. And if you are not dominating in it, it you got to change it. And don’t this sound like the Nashville situation where I go you have these guys who have scored everywhere and they’re older, you know, slightly different I guess in that regard, but there you have these guys who have scored everywhere and now you’re doing something where they’re not scoring and you’re not winning. So do something different. Yeah. And the Kings win enough, which is what you just argued, where they win enough to make everyone happy and in the mixer and believe. We’re talking to guys in the league, like we are having a conversation yesterday with a very good player in the NHL and he was talking about the Kings and he was like, “Dude, Kempy is unbelievable. He said he could completely change a game by himself and he’s not allowed to in this system.” And that is where I’m like, I dude, if you have a gimmicky I I’m sorry, I hate that word. If you have a unique system that’s boring or like frustrating and it suppresses high-flying offense, you better be [ __ ] top of the league. Yeah. You better be so good and so annoying to play against that people are like, “Ah, [ __ ] It’s it’s ass.” But they’re I mean, they’re crushing. And you’re not. Yeah. So, I I just like we we are I I am I am officially here saying to you guys that the Kings are on like any day now, any two bad two game stretch of like they score one or two goals and lose both those games, things could happen. Yeah, that’s absolutely correct. What is a Canadian goodbye? This new move might be my go-to from now on. This blew my mind, boys. Is this like an Irish exit type thing? So, uh, on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, is that what it was? Blackout Wednesday. Yeah. To all those who celebrate. On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, uh, we were out with QB having a classic QBDPC mess around classic. And at one point in the night, Q goes I’m I’m not even talking to him. I’m I’m doing something. I’m looking this way, whatever. And Q taps me on the shoulder, gets my attention, actively gets my attention, and goes, “Yo, I think I’m going to Irish.” And I go, “Oop, you just didn’t though, cuz now you told me.” The Irish is actually you just leave. And he goes, “Ah, yeah, you’re right. Sorry.” And then he goes like this, dude. Actually, I’m going to do a Canadian goodbye. And I go, “What’s a Canadian goodbye?” And he goes, “I tell everyone I’m leaving, but I just say sorry. I I got to go. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Just apologize to everybody. Make it seem like something bad happened.” You don’t Irish because then people are like, “Fuck, dude. You [ __ ] Irish. You left.” And you don’t walk up and go, “Hey, I got to go.” And everyone’s like, “No, dude. Like, this sucks.” You go, “I’m leaving. Sorry. Sorry. I’m leaving. I’m leaving. Sorry.” and he did it to everyone and everyone went like this that’s all right and it was flawless. I I text him in the morning. I was like Canadian goodbyes are the only thing I will ever do. You know how much I hate leaving. I I always I get stuck so long at places cuz I’m I’m too uncomfortable to leave. But I also passionately hate Irishing because then everyone gets mad at me later. This has changed everything, dude. Sorry. Sorry. This is Sorry. This is genius. This is revolutionary for me too because I Irish all the time. All the time. You Irish all the time. I Irish all the time. And you know what bothers me is I Irish and nothing stresses me out more than when my phone lights up and it’s a text from someone at the place I just because I know that that text is like, “You did not just leave.” Yep. And frankly, QB sent me one of those cuz I I that night he actually sent me the funniest text I’ve ever got in my life. So I go, to be clear, we go out. I’m texting him all day. Like, come out, come out, come out. He was golfing, doing a bunch of [ __ ] And then he was like, all right, fine. I’ll come. Like, I’ll But to be fair to me, I was like, I have to leave at a certain time. He showed up like an hour and a half before I had to leave. And then I left and I Irished. I want to say though, I knew he had to leave. And I And QB is going to Well, I don’t know if he’s going to listen to this, but he’s about to find out if he does. I lied to his face because I knew you had to leave. You left. And he goes, he noticed and goes, “Where’s Dan?” I’m like, “Oh, I think he’s taking a lap because I knew I knew what was going to happen.” I was like, “He’s gone. I’m trying to cover for you.” It was genuinely, it was the funniest text I’ve ever got on an Irish. I left and then as I’m leaving, I am in my Uber and I just my phone lights up with a text from him and it just says, “No way.” Like couldn’t believe. He was like, “You son of a bitch.” Scumbag. You scumbag rat. And I was like, “I you came too late.” So you Irish. Yeah. And you felt shitty about it. And I did. That’s what I was getting into is like that getting that text from people who you have just Irished on and they’re like, “Did you leave?” The did you the incredulous did you leave? And then you just have to go dude. Yeah. Or you ignore it and be even like more of a piece of [ __ ] which I’ve done and do often. This is a This is revolutionary. Quinn Bfield is a genius, dude. He He literally goes He goes, it was the same night. You Irish. And then he goes, I’m going to Irish. And then he goes, I’m going to Canadian goodbye. Canad I’ve invented the Canadian goodbye. We need to And I’m this we making this a thing. Like this is now a thing. This is the Canadian goodbye is now a thing. I’m going to do this all for the rest of the month. Sorry. Sorry. You walk up to people like this. Hey, I’m so sorry. I got to go. Sorry. Sorry. You add the sorry. [ __ ] This is genius. I I I add the sorry when I’m getting through a big group. If I’m at a bar and you’re trying to get from one end to the other, I you would not believe the amount of sorryries that come out of my mouth. I’m sliding by I go, “Hey, I’m so sorry.” So I’m so sorry. And people are always like, “Oh, yeah. No, you’re good.” I say, “I’m just going to sneak right back.” I think they think people I think they think something’s wrong. Yeah. So they’re like, “Oh, no. Is everything okay?” Like, “Yeah, go for it.” So if I go like this, I’m so sorry. I got to go. They go, “Oh, yeah. It’s all right.” Yeah. He This This is what This is revolutionary. Sometimes you see a move and you Oh, we got to call Dolan. We got to tell Dolan about this. Yeah. Sometimes you see a move that is so genius after you think about it later and you’re like, “Oh, wow. That was awesome. This was a bright shining star in the moment.” The second he said it to me and then started executing it, I realized I was witnessing greatness. And that is a special feeling. And I feel honored to have seen I feel honored to have seen the first ever Canadian goodbye. And I feel proud to know that I will be Canad I will continue this tradition through the years and through the generations and people will be Canadian goodbying until the sun burns the earth up and Canada’s the last place left cuz it’s so cold. This is one of the greatest moves I’ve ever heard in my entire life and I can’t wait to implement it every single time I go anywhere for the rest of my life. Thank you, Cube. Unbelievable. Okay, taking a quick break and then we will be back. All right, folks. It is time to talk about skims. Now, I know what you’re thinking, boys. You’re thinking, “Uh, Ski, not for me. This is a segment for the gals.” You would be wrong, sir. 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So order yours now to get it in time for the holidays and support the show by mentioning us at checkout. Terms and conditions apply. You’re going to love these babies. Now it is time for Netters College Puck Drop. We had a Thanksgiving weekend packed full of college hockey action. Let’s get into everything that happened. CP, take us through some of the games and we’ll get into our new ranking as well. Well, the one I highlighted for Friday for Black Friday was the Dartmouth boys. And Dartmouth stay hot, dude. Dartmouth stay very hot. I named them 10 in my in our rankings last week. And uh they beat in the game I picked out they beat Vermont 7-2 on Friday and then dude uh one nothing win Marramac Saturday. So it’s now they I know the haters are still going to be there because those weren’t massive ranked wins but you play to win the game. Correct. And they have won. They have won every game. They have won every single game. It’s unbelievable. Michigan State after a frustrating weekend. They bounce back. They get wins against Colgate 5-2 on Wednesday and 4-1 on Friday. Huge bounce back. And that’s what we talked about, right? These good teams. If you want to be a great team, you’ve got to respond to your losses. Uh North Dakota takes care of Baiji 5-3 and 2-1. And then we got a split. Providence and Colorado. Colorado College has been funny this year, right? You keep saying they’re so good. They’re so good. And they are, but they’re not that good, but they are such a tough game. I’ve seen a lot of really good teams have trouble with them. Uh Providence went there, beat them 3-2 on Friday, but then lost to one on Saturday. Colorado College, you cannot sleep on them when you see them on the schedule. Yeah, absolutely true. Uh I I I like their their game. Like they’re gritty. They’re they’re uh they’re one of those teams that’s like feels like a trap to everyone. Anytime someone’s playing Colorado College, I’m like that could be a loss. Uh BEu, this was the game you highlighted. Really fun game here. BU Cornell. Cornell heads to BEu. BU gets a two-1 win on Saturday. Cole Eisermanman with the winner in the third period. You’ll love to see it. Little Netters bump, but that’s a big BU win. Yeah, they needed that. They actually top 20 ranked Cornell going into BEu when they’re 19. That is a monster monster win. But the game that I really loved was Denver. Oh yeah, the one you highlighted. Yeah, Denver Minnesota had an all-time jersey matchup. Number four Denver at home to Minnesota lost 65 in OT in a [ __ ] crazy game, bro. That was [ __ ] was nuts. Denver goes down 3-1, 4-2, and 5-4. They battled until the end, but the Gophers were just [ __ ] going crazy. You mentioned if this is the time where Minnesota turns their season around, that would be wild. But that is a big win and a big loss for Denver. And so much preseason hype for Minnesota, which I’ve said so many times. So, and who did they just beat? remember we were we were chirping another team. I’m going to check right now. Um but if if they string a few together, I think they started like [ __ ] three and five or something or two and five is so bad. Okay, right now they’re 79 and one, which is still not good. Yeah, not good at all. Especially with their preseason ranking and what everyone expects from Minnesota. They beat Denver. Oh yeah, and they beat Penn State. So they got a split with Penn State who you know they got their own issues but it like maybe you roll that into win against Penn State 2-1 loss but tight tight game against Penn State beat Denver and then you got Ohio State Ohio State Biji two more against Penn State Michigan State Michigan State like if you can string imagine they sweep Ohio State tough on the road sweep or get the one win against Biji and then god if you could get the split against Penn State tough schedule but I just think that’d be that would be really fun story if the Gophers got back in the mixer here. It would be unbelievable. Uh Den and your boys, the Michigan boys, they went to Cambridge and uh beat Harvard twice 5-1 and 4-3 in overtime. Will Horcraftoft four goals on the weekend, including the OT winner, which is just a hell of a trip to Boston. It is unbelievable. You love to see it. The OT1 uh freaks me out a little bit. Um but you know, that’s There’s always tight games. Those are tight games. Those are tight games that you, you know, you need to uh handle and they did. Yep. And that’s that. And uh yeah, Horov is just my god. He’s he’s just a phenomenal player and he’s just scoring at an unbelievable clip. And you love to see when Michigan gets that number one spot, they don’t slip up. So I needed that too after the Ohio State football game. Yeah. Yeah. You actually did could not have Michigan just like slump in against Harvard. So that’s huge. Uh, Quinnak beats Holy Cross 76 and OT in an insane game. Uh, up 3. Holy Cross ties it. Q goes up 6-3. Holy Cross ties it again. QUU wins it. Eight goals scored in the third period. [ __ ] actually the sickest game I’ve ever true madness. The highlights are bed. Yeah. Two win week. They beat Stonehill as well. Uh BC big Notre Dame victory. You’ll love to see it. Nor Eastern big win over Brown. Um Clarkson dude beats UMass number 18 UMass LOL two nothing and Clarkson continues to be this interesting team where it’s like it on the on the uh schedule it’s like yeah it’s an easy one. Yep. And then bang they just like beat teams and it’s like what the hell is going on? Um and then dude your boys Minnesota State. Yeah. No, looking good. Went to Northern Michigan over the weekend. Won four nothing on Friday, 3-2 on Saturday. I always say this, if you can just take care of those of those quote unquote winnable weekends, right? Like just get do your job. I don’t care. You just said the Michigan Harvard thing over time. It doesn’t matter. Just [ __ ] win those games. Find a way to win those games because that’s what all adds up at the end because only a few teams are going to win their conferences and you just want these at large bids and you do that by being like we are consistent. they they they at large people the the teams that make it at large get in because tournament values consistency and that’s that’s how you prove it. Um some other cool things Union uh had a game on Friday um number 20 Union they beat Sacred Heart 8-1 beat down and then this just pumped me up. Arizona State beat Ohio State at home 3-2 in overtime on Friday and 4-3 in overtime on Saturday. Similar to the Gophers, if Arizona State, which had a lot of preseason hype, could pull their season out of the gutter, that would be sick and an awesome comeback story. And I don’t even know how it will end, but the Minnesota and Arizona State being in the tournament conversation come March would fire me up. Even if they don’t make it, I just want it to be a real sweat for everybody. So, I’m rooting for him on that front. Yeah, me too. Do you want to get into our new rankings? Yes. Who do you have as one? Michigan stays one, obviously. Michigan stays one, obviously. I think Wisconsin stays two. Didn’t Didn’t we have Wisconsin at two? I think we did not. Did we not have Michigan State? No, I think we had I think we put Wisconsin at two. Maybe we put No, I think we put Wisconsin at two. And I want to keep them at two. No. Yep. I have to go I have to go Michigan State, dude. So, you’re just going to punish Wisconsin for not doing anything? Yeah. And like Michigan State wins. They won games. Like they bounce back. Like Michigan State is like we keep getting into conflict over like what this what our ranking is. And I do think it needs to be a ranking of the best teams in college hockey, not based on what happened last weekend. Okay. Then Michigan State is one. No, Michigan is obviously one. They were one the previous week and they just won two games. Are you an idiot? But are you No, but if you’re saying nothing matters about what they’ve done this past week, just who’s better? Michigan State is the best team in the in the country. Even though that they just got whacked by Michigan. Michigan State is the best team in the country. Yes. This is absolutely insane. Michigan is one. Michigan State is two. Okay. It’s got to be a combination of both. Okay. Then Wisconsin’s two. Absolutely not. What is wrong with your idiot brain? What do you mean? Wisconsin just beat the wheels off Michigan State. Why would Michigan State be ahead of them? You Your level of stupidity is so remarkable sometimes. How how how is that stupid? Like what what what do you want to if it doesn’t matter what’s happened then fine, I’ll just No, it’s a combination. Okay, but Mi Wisconsin pumped Michigan State twice in Michigan State. So certainly, but then they’ve lost bad games that Michigan hasn’t. They can’t say it. I mean, I would go Wisconsin over Michigan State considering they beat them twice in Michigan State and and then and then haven’t lost since. Yeah. Like they’ve done nothing wrong. Okay, just give me your top 10. Oh, I’m doing it by myself. No, no. Michigan, Wisconsin. Now, is Michigan State Is Michigan State out of the top 10 for you? No, they were three last week. I will probably keep them three for winning again. Okay. So Michigan, Wisconsin, Michigan State. Where do you have Denver and Duth? Like does Quinnipiac jump up way high for you here? Does Dartmouth jump up way high for you here? Yeah, Dartmouth deserves to be maybe not Quinnipic deserves some love. Like I want to punish Denver for a Minnesota loss. Um I want to put North Dakota pretty high for their because they just keep winning, dude. Like they I would actually go I’d be down to go them four. Damn. I’d be down to go North Dakota four and then then I can get into a duth. Noak high. I like that. I like that call. I think Dartmouth is like I I want to go Dartmouth top five. I love it. Okay. North Dakota 4, Dartmouth five. Okay, sweet. So, we’re going Michigan, Wisconsin, Michigan State, North Dakota, Dartmouth. Yep. Okay. Quinnipak 6. Quinnipiac 6. Duth 7. Oh, [ __ ] No. Duth. Duth 6. Okay. Duth 6. Quinnipiac 7. Denver. Denver. Denver 8. But that Yeah, but they should get they should get punished though. Denver 8. Um, where’s Western Michigan in Maybe they come in nine. Maybe Western Michigan comes in nine. That feels fair. Yeah. And then do you want to go Minnesota State? Do you want to go Penn State? Yeah, that’s what I’m trying to figure out. If you bump Penn State out, I would go I would go Let’s go or Nor Eastern, though. Nor Eastern’s been pretty good. Nor Eastern has been pretty good, but at the same time, let’s go Minnesota State, dude. Uh, let’s go Minnesota State 10 over Nor. I kind of like where your head’s at with Nor Eastern. Okay, fine. Nor Eastern 10. Yeah, Nor Eastern. Michigan, Wisconsin, Michigan State, North Dakota, Dartmouth. Yep. Duth. Yep. Denver. Western. No, no. Quinnipic. Duth. Quinnipak. Duth. Quinnipak. Duth. Denver. Western Michigan. Nor Eastern. Nor Eastern. That is our new top 10. Love to see it. All right. And now games of the week. Uh, DUTH at Western Michigan. Going to be an absolutely unbelievable weekend of college hockey. Psych. It’s obvious. Michigan State. Michigan. Top two teams in the country. Unless you’re Austin and you think Wisconsin is number two. Now we’ll know. Michigan. State. East Lancing on Friday, Ann Arbor on Saturday. If there is, like we said, if there is any game that you are watching, it is this matchup this weekend. [ __ ] unbelievable. Quick ad break and then we are back with some games. It is about that time to talk about our new favorite sponsor of the pod and that is Lucy giving us the best nicotine experience in the game. Always satisfying and always tobaccof free. 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A teammate goes up to the guy and says, “What’s your [ __ ] problem?” Turns out the guy had taken his hearing aid out and wasn’t wearing any contacts. He was playing completely deaf and basically blind. Our goalie was suspended for one game for starting the fight. We appealed and he was reinstated, but nothing for Helen Keller. Curious about your thoughts. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. What the [ __ ] is going on here? I’m too hung over. I’m too hung over for this. What? We got to talk about what happened. Guy Guy clear whistle comes in offside. Whistle. Clear whistle. Everyone stops. Takes a shot on the goalie. Fires slapot. fully charges him and which I completely support. I know you laughed, but like hammer slap shot, clear whistle, hammer, slapshot on goal. I go, you’re now going to get punched. And and that’s expected. Yeah. So, goalie charges him. Brawl ensues. Someone on the team goes up to the guy and goes, “What the [ __ ] your problem?” The guy goes like this. I literally can’t hear or see anything. I didn’t hear the whistle, dude. I couldn’t hear the [ __ ] whistle. I don’t have my hearing aids in. What? What are you doing? Taking What are you doing on the ice? I can’t believe any of this. There’s a chance the the context throws me a little bit because I don’t know how blind he is. Well, clearly he was good enough to play without anyone questioning it previously. That’s what I’m saying. It’s a great point. the contacts. He can’t be that blind because he’s playing he he hit the puck. He swung a stick and yeah, a puck. So, he can’t be that blind. Do you think that this Okay, I’ve got it. There’s a chance that the hearing aid just puts you helps you just get in the zone. Clear the mechanism. You know, you can’t hear anything. I can believe that he could play throughout the game without a hearing aid, but like at certain point like communication’s important. Like, how is he not hearing teammates yell if he can’t hear the whistle? I’ve got what’s happened here. Keep in mind, at the end of this, the goalie was sussied. Yes, cuz he he he ran and punched someone. Then they appealed and he was reinstated because they went the man was But that’s not what that doesn’t make sense. Like the guy shoots the puck. Yeah. Goalie charges him. Brawl happens. goalie is suspended and then they appeal and like there’s no new information for the goalie. Yeah. Right. The only the only appeal should have changed if the guy got suspended and he was like, “Dude, I’m deaf.” And they went, “Oh, sorry.” So, this is what’s crazy is like the goalie was the only one who saw ramifications here. Y and then he gets reinstated so all is all all is fine. And they’re going nothing for Alen Keller. I am I’m We’ve got a Kaiser So situation on our hands. This guy is not deaf, nor is he blind. Yeah, he doesn’t even wear contacts. He correct. They go He go They go He didn’t have his contacts. I forgot to put He doesn’t need contacts. I forgot to put my contacts in. Psych. I never wear them. In 2020 2020, dude. This guy just came with the best excuse in the book. They went like this. What the [ __ ] are you doing? And he goes like this. I am literally blind and deaf. And someone went, “Oh, sorry. He could talk.” Actually, I No, I’m not going to do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. No, do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. Not going to do a deaf voice. You were You were about to do it. Do it. I’m not going to do a deaf voice. Do it, Chris. Everyone wants to hear it off camera. Maybe do No, do your deaf voice. Come on. That That’s That’ll be great. See how that goes. I’m not going to do it. You sure? Yeah. All right. But here’s the thing. Uh I did the league revoke the suspension because they went like this. We We don’t like this. We don’t like the situation. We got a deaf guy playing. That’s not proper equipment. We got to you’re not suspended anymore because we got to this can’t be a story. We can’t have the goalie telling everybody that I got suspended because I punched a guy who who was playing deaf. They immediately they just washed all the I can’t believe they suspended the goal. I can’t believe they didn’t just go like this. Everyone forget this happened and started playing again because we can’t have abbleist issues here. Yes. Yes. Like this rink folds if they go they’ve banned they’ve someone uh is getting in trouble for being deaf. Here is the painful reality. This guy is a liar. Yeah. and also a genius. He is a complete faker. He’s not blind or deaf. I want to see a photo of your hearing aid, sir. Otherwise, this is just Kaiser. So, say on ice. The hearing aids I can understand more. Right. So, if you’re putting on a helmet, I could see how hearing aids could like impede that. And then, especially if it’s like one of the wraparound ones. Also, you don’t want that to fall out on the ice. Someone runs that over. That’s got to be like There’s no reason why contacts if you’re already wearing contacts. There’s no reason where you’re like, “Well, can’t have these on the ice.” You know, this guy went home. He had a 10:30 p.m. game. He Well, he he was winding down for the night, dude. He was winding down. Took out his hearing aid, took his contacts out. He was lying down. He’s like, “Shit, I got a game, dude.” Buddy, so then he drove to the game blind to death at night. Buddy never passes either. You know, you’re open all game. Oh, yeah. He can’t see. Hey, Steve. Steve. It’s just like nothing. Can’t Can’t hear anyone. Doesn’t cover anyone in the D zone. Doesn’t rotate. Can’t hear anything. Can’t hear a whistle. Dude, the whistle’s loud as [ __ ] to be honest with you. That’s the That’s the thing is like if you can’t hear the whistle, then you’re not hearing any of your teammates for sure. Can’t hear anything. He probably didn’t even know what they were yelling at him when that guy came up and said, “What’s your [ __ ] problem?” He must lipre. He must lip read because otherwise like I didn’t even hear that. I mean, this is insane. Put the contacts in. Yeah, put your contacts in. I’m going to use that excuse in my life going forward. Next time I do something bad and people like, “What the fuck?” I’m going to go like this, dude. I I took my hearing aids out and I have no contact. Canadian goodbyes and I’m deaf. Yeah. And blind and blind. It will get me out of everything moving forward. Also, if you go like this, I forgot to put contacts in. You’re not lying technically. Yeah. Like I don’t wear contacts. I don’t wear glasses, but I can be like this. I I’m not wearing a hearing aid or contacts. Yeah. Yeah. That’s the way you say it. I I don’t have a hearing aid in and I don’t have contacts on. That would work for most situations. I think people go like this. Oh. Oh, okay. All good. Just like be more careful, dude. And I go Sorry, Sean. There’s an emoji on Apple where uh it’s it’s for being deaf and the emoji is a is a guy, you know, there’s like the dude, the little guy doing [ __ ] Yeah, the emoji. Well, no, the emoji is like a face. Like there’s a guy. Well, he’s like the guy like the head and shoulders. Yeah, the head and shoulders. That’s what I was trying to say. And there’s one where the guy’s going like this cuz he’s deaf. He’s being like, “I’m deaf.” And our boy Christian thought it was like number one. Like this is dope. So he always sends it for like we’d be like, “Oh, dude.” You know, like this sick thing happened. He’d be like, and I’m like, “Are you are you deaf, dude?” Like what is going on, but now it’s our thing. Like it’s my favorite emoji in the [ __ ] phone. Boom. Number one. Incredible. Okay, we got to go to a Bower Hockey Blind ranking because our boys at Bower give us everything. They literally give me everything. They give me life. They let me play hockey. They give me gloves, uh, skates, pants, helmets, and especially the pulse, the greatest stick on earth. And today they’re giving us a blind ranking. We are doing best passers in the league. Come on. Number one. Well, the first one I’m saying, not necessarily number one. Adam Fox. Ah, RIP. RIP. RIP. Thoughts and prayers. Incred. He’s having such was RIP having such a good season that it makes me want to go higher than I was going to go. He because there are visionaries out there. I I agree. Um yeah, like we’re we’re doing right now. Yeah, right now. That’s National League right now. I mean, Foxy’s got like 23 assists. That’s what I’m saying. So now I’m kind of like three. Yeah. Yeah. I normally I hate a three, but I this he moved himself up from a five to a three. Yeah. Three out of five. He’s dishing. All right. Troy Terry, man. What? So, amidst all of the electric factory action going on in Anaheim, Troy Terry gets left out of the conversation far too often. I know. And they have it. It’s great to have a guy like him who has his skill set as a goal scorer, which he does. Yeah, but he doesn’t even need it because you have a cutter goier who is a [ __ ] laser rocket machine. You have a Chris Crider who all he does is score. You have you have a Frank Vrono who [ __ ] wires the puck, right? Troy Terry can actually be like I’ll just I’ll dish. But he’s got seven goals, 22 assists. Troy Terry better than Fox. [ __ ] I almost want to go no because because they’re are visionaries. I think we go four. I think we go four. Okay. Conor McDavid. And I think league leader. Yep. But he’s not the best passer. Oh, I think you’re wrong. I think he does crazy things with the puck. Me, too. I think I’m talking in the league. I’m not talking. I think he’s probably a top three passer in the league. I think he’s three, but I would go I would go two here to save room for that. But if you want to go one here, I’ll I’ll happily be I’ll happily die with Conor McDavid as my best passer, man. I will go too. Yeah, same. Same. Great. Two. I don’t know why I’m doing that though. I gave you one if you wanted. I can There’s only like one guy that I’m like And again, it’s right now too. Like we have to we have to live in the right now. Right now. And that is tough for me. Two. Two. Okay. [ __ ] Uh Nathan McKinnon. [ __ ] Cuz that’s not who I wanted up there. Yeah. And you’re going to put him five. You maybe you have to. Maybe you have to. No. He gets his assist by just being a bull. Oh, he’s a bull. And he’s he’s a willing passer, Dan. He’s a willing passer, but he’s a goal scorer. Nathan McKinnon is a goal scorer. This This blind ranking is absolutely [ __ ] This is so bad. Only because we didn’t put Connor one. Yeah. I think we got to go Nate five. I I just He’s a bull. He’s a bull, Dan. He’s a bull. Bulls don’t pass. Actually, they do pass. They pass the guy. We are going one. Bulls pass all the time. We are going one because there’s just no nothing could come that would fix this so well that we can live with Nate F5. But something could come that would be even worse. If the best passer, if one of the best two passers in the league comes and you put them at five, then I will quit this show. You keep threatening that. You can’t threaten that. This might be my last day on the job. I almost quit before I came in today. I think I think I want to go on. Okay. No, but you can overrule me if you feel strong. You gave me two. I’ll give you Nate at one. Who is five? Number five is Connor Baddard. I did it. I did it. And he I want to say on record, I’ve said this many times, people think Baddard is Matthews where he just scores and scores, but he is not. He’s not incredible. He passes the puck all the time. He’s a willing passer. He’s a great passer. But for how badly I thought this maybe was about to go, I I can live with that. That’s a good result. I can live with that. I am going to say again, however, this is a very bad list. Y not good. Well, it’s actually not that bad. It could have been worse. Got to put McKinnon number five. Yeah, that would have been one. You know what? It’s not that bad. This list isn’t that bad. I think a lot of Colorado fans will be like, “Nate is better at passing.” Yeah. And they’re wrong, but this is not that bad. Okay, that is a fantastic, fantastic episode of the podcast. Beautiful stuff, folks. Go on to the merch store. It is going to be. We still got a bit of a sale going on. It’s Cyber Monday recording, but you know, it’s December when you’re listening. But rocking the hat, rocking the shirt. CP’s got one of the hoodies on. Great merch. Guys, go give us five star reviews on Spotify and Apple. Please, please, please go subscribe to the YouTube. Please, please, please. We love you so much. Got some fun stuff. New interviews coming out this week. New drops coming this week. 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19:40 – 31:14: Fox / Palmieri
31:14 – 44:57: Central Chat
44:57 – 01:06:54: Geekie / Kempe
01:06:54 – 1:20:45: Netters College Puck Drop
1:20:45 – 01:34:19: Beer League Hotline / Blind Ranking