Canucks Sign Kampf, Injuries Galore, Sports Betting Issues

Welcome back. All right, news of the day video for all you fine people on the internet. There’s that one spot there. See, I always look I always look at the camera when I start a video and it always bugs me if there’s there’s like a spot and it’s one of those things. Anyways, uh so news of the day video. It is Sunday. It is November the 16th. We’ll go ahead. We’ll start at the top of the board. That is normally how these things work. A lot of injuries to talk about from yesterday’s games. Starting with Kirby Dock. Uh he’s dealing with a fractured foot. He’s going to be out four to six weeks. So, we know Kirby Doc gets injured. There’s always those long-term injuries with him. It’s just it’s it’s just part of having Kirby Doc on your team. Uh fractured foot, four to six weeks, not as bad as some of the other injuries he’s had in his career. And it’s too bad because I thought Doc’s having an okay year and so hopefully he’s able to return as soon as possible. And, you know, hopefully this doesn’t negatively impact Montreal over the next four to six weeks while he’s out. Uh Thomas Harley of the Dallas Stars dealing with a lower body injury. He is week to week. So uh for the Dallas Stars, this is a nice test of their depth on the blue line, which I think has been good. I think they’ve been playing really, really well over the last 7 to 10 days. So without Harley, we’ll see if that affects it. Uh Nick Felino, who it feels like just returned from injury for Chicago, uh he’s dealing with a hand injury. He’s going to miss four weeks. So for Felino, who is an excellent veteran leader for the Chicago Blackhawks, they’re definitely going to miss him while he’s out. Um, we’ll see how things go. They they hold a playoff spot right now in the West. So, as crazy as it sounds, Chicago could very well end up being a playoff team in the West. Um, which would be a huge surprise. It’d be nice to see Nick Fino play a playoff game for Chicago cuz at the time he signed in Chicago, I didn’t think there was a chance he’d get into a playoff game with Chicago for where they were in the rebuild at the time. Uh Charlie Makavoy, scary incident last night where he took a slap shot to the face. Um he was able to travel with the Bruins after taking that puck to the face last night. So that’s good news. At least he’s able to travel with the team. Uh Arvidson dealing with a lower body injury. They’re just saying he’s going to miss some time. So they’re getting more and more vague on the injuries. It’s just he’s going to miss some time. Cool. So how many games? I don’t know. Maybe four, three, maybe six. Might be 20. I had no idea. Uh but at any rate, yeah. So Arbitson’s going to be out for a bit for Boston, but for Boston, the way that they’re playing, I don’t know that losing one player, as long as it’s not posternoc, losing one player shouldn’t make a huge difference to their attack because it’s just been next man up. Um, it has been very much a team effort for the Boston Bruins to get them to where they are in the standings right now. Um, bewildering and baffling at the same time for me as a Bruins fan, but all right, cool. Uh, Drew Dowy was seen in a walking boot after that game against Ottawa. I did report that last night in the review. Figured I would put that on the board here for people who did not watch the review. Uh so Dowy’s going to miss some time for LA as a result. Uh and Michael Castle Ring, who it feels like just returned from injury. Uh he was seen in a walking boot after the win over Detroit. So Castle Ring’s going to miss some time as well. In Dowy’s case, there’s been talk about him being on the the short list of potentials when it comes to Canadian Olympians in 2026. So, we’ll see if an injury here scuttles his opportunity to be on the Canadian Olympic team or not. Um, I am sure that if he gets named to the team, there will be some some re reactions. Some of them may not be entirely positive, but it’s it’s sort of the nature of the beast. Uh, picking teams for the Olympics is tricky. You want to balance the veterans and the youth. You want to balance the experience with the exuberance of the youth. And so guy like Dowy may end up on the team ahead of somebody else that um might be having a really good rookie year with the Islanders. Um at any rate, um not that that’s necessarily he bumps out, but it’s possible. Uh David Camp yesterday signed a one-year contract with Vancouver. Rudely did so after I was done that news video. So here we are today talking about it. Um one-year $1.1 million deal for David Camp. Uh Camp is a center. The Conucks definitely needed a center. Uh Camp is a penalty killer. If you haven’t seen the Canucks penalty kill, it is uh it is not good. So, uh the Canucks penalty kill definitely needs a guy like Camp and so uh it is it’s a good signing from that that side of things. And a $1.1 million contract makes a heck of a lot of sense. Uh definitely makes sense not to pick him up at the 2.5 million he was making from Toronto. And so with that contract out of the way, now he has the $ 1.1 million deal with the Vancouver Conucks. Uh Quinn Hughes is a game time decision today against Tampa. My guess is he’s not going to play. Um just just gut feeling is he’s probably not going to play. When it’s game time decision, I just I lean towards they’re probably not in the lineup. Uh Heedle is skating, but it’s a slow slow recovery process for Heedle at this stage and we know it’s going to be a long process. It is a concussion. He’s had a lot of head injuries in the past. So, all the best to Heedel in his recovery and hopefully he doesn’t feel rushed in his recovery uh from this injury. The Utah Mammoth have recalled Kevin Rooney, an NHL veteran uh from the AHL. So, Rooney could very well be in the lineup for Utah for their next game. Um Rooney’s fine as a as a fourth liner and and a little bit of sandpaper in the lineup as well. So, uh we’ll see how he does for Utah and sometimes he scores the goals, too. There are times where he actually gets some pretty nice opportunities. Um, so I wanted to talk about this today. So I was reading an article in The Athletic and The Athletic was talking about how sports betting has done something that we we’ve talked about. It’s not just a sports thing. It’s just in general that line between people that watch television, movies, and everything. And the celebrities who are in them, and we could be talking about athletes, we could be talking about actresses, singers, whoever, actors, um, directors, you name it, right? Um, politicians, everybody. There’s just there isn’t that line. And what we’re seeing is that sports athletes, uh, the players in the NBA, NFL, Major League Baseball, and the NHL, since sports betting became legal, they’re getting harassed a lot more. Uh, 60% of player respondents to the athletic, uh, they they surveyed, I think it was 135 players, I think it was somewhere in that region. Uh, these the 67% of the respondents say they’ve received more harassing messages since sports betting was legalized. They mentioned how there was one that I saw that said that that uh they were messaged that um this guy had lost $9,000 and you know he’s going to lose everything because of this this bet that he’d made and that this player owed him. And this was a baseball player. This was a pitcher uh who owed him because you know you threw that pitch and because of that that home run that was hit and you know guys lost the game and it’s your fault. So, since you blew it and I spent the money betting on the game, now you owe me the money. It’s not really how anything works. Uh, it’s just it’s not it’s not how anything works. Um, goalies in the NHL apparently feel more exposed to it because they’re the last line of defense. I’ve talked about that before, too. How goalenders get picked on a lot. Um, and I I try not to do that when I’m, you know, reviewing games or I’m talking about goalenders. I try not to dump on the goalenders. They get that enough. Uh, but apparently if you mess up somebody’s parlay or the game ends up being over instead of under on the over under you got, then you message the goalender and you tell him off because it’s not your fault that you made that bet. It’s their fault you made that bet. I I don’t understand. And apparently um Venmo and Cash App requests are common. So that means you’re just saying, “Hey, you owe me this money, so give me this money because your your effort at that sporting event wasn’t good enough.” Um, it it is another example of why I will never do the sports betting thing. One thing that I’ve always said is I would hate to stand here and say, “Hey, my bets for today are,” and put teams up on the board, and then have somebody message me and say, “Yeah, so I I took your ideas for the bet. I I wagered $1,500. I don’t I don’t know what I’m going to do now. I don’t have any money for food and I got kids and like I don’t I don’t ever want to see any messages like that. So, that’s part of the reason why I don’t do it. Um, in fact, when I started doing the previews many years back, I used to talk about which teams I thought were going to get the win, but then uh the sports betting was getting bigger and bigger and I stopped. I was like, I I have to stop. So there will never be a time where I’m I’m I’m with the sports gambling and the betting. So I just I just wanted to just assure people that this this is this is a whole realm I have no interest in in being involved in. I don’t I in fact I’m quite proud to say I I don’t really get parlays. I don’t really care. I don’t have anything to do with it. I don’t have any sports gambling apps on my phone. All the apps on my phone are just silly little games I play and and hockey stuff and various things that just aren’t related to sports gambling. Never. Never. Um I still get the requests daily from them of hey sign on with us and and you know we’ll we’ll work together and it’s like you guys don’t even watch my videos. If you watch my videos you know I am not going to partner with you guys. Uh which usually it’s my wife that’ll respond and let them know that’s not going to happen. Interestingly enough, when we tell them we are we don’t support sports gambling and we don’t like what it does to people’s lives, the answer we always get is totally understood. I respect that. Thank you. So, for what it’s worth, that’s what they say when we tell them that. Don’t like it. It’s it’s something it’s something that um I I just I I do worry there are people who are losing a lot on these apps. Like when I hear how much money these apps are making and how profitable they’re becoming, I’m thinking, “So that’s how much money people are losing and people will get desperate.” So right now these players are receiving threats and everything. But some of the responses underneath that article are what I’m worried about. What’s going to happen when somebody in the real world loses everything on their sports gambling and they decide the reason I lost everything isn’t because I gambled it. It’s because that goalender didn’t make that save. It’s because that player had an open net and he missed it. He didn’t get that goal. They lost the game. That player is the problem. And the the danger of that becoming a realworld situation that those players then have to deal with through no fault of their own. They didn’t make those bets. They didn’t care about any of the rest of it. It’s just it’s tough. And then the other side of it is that with all of these companies being intertwined with all these professional leagues, it does make it easier for people to say, “Well, these results are illegitimate.” So, I I I don’t know. Other than money, I don’t see the benefit. And and to me, uh, money’s great and everything, but I I I can’t and I’m not going to. So, don’t worry about it for me. But, uh, I I do have some concern. I don’t want to be standing in front of this board, you know, months, weeks, years from now saying this player had somebody, you know, try to take them out because they lost a bet. I don’t want to be, you know, in that position. But with how the sports gambling is growing exponentially, it’s just you get more and more people that are doing it because these commercials tell you you’re going to make money. They don’t show people losing. They show like money falling from the sky. What about that bad MGM where like jackpots, jackpots? All these jackpots. Look at this jackpots. Uh-huh. Yeah. Okay, cool. Um, but how about all the people that are losing money because these companies are spending all this money on advertising? They’re making a ton of cash or else they wouldn’t be spending all that money advertising and they wouldn’t be able to talk a lot of influencers into pedalling their crap. So, yeah, I said pedalling their crap because to me, that’s what it is. It’s all the same crap. It’s just can we have your money. We will let you gamble on absolutely everything. You just have to give us all your money and then you can gamble on whatever. You can gamble on how many times the guy’s going to kick his foot before he delivers a pitch. You can you like sure why not? You can make up your own bet. You can bet on whether or not a guy’s going to get get busted for using sandpaper on the ball. Like you sure why not? Why not? So I just it’s insane to me. It’s absolutely insane. Uh, but that’s that’s just from my own personal experience and knowing how this can get really really dangerous and seeing that sporting personalities are being targeted by people. I I just don’t get it. But anyways, that’s me. Let me know your thoughts in the comment section below. As always, hit like and subscribe in the event that you may not have done so already. Uh, thank you guys so much for all your support. It’s greatly appreciated. I will talk to you again soon.

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28 comments

  1. I don’t understand sports betting, I’ve sat next to people at Hockey games who just talk about their parlays the entire time and not what’s happening in the game. They bet that the game wouldn’t go into OT and celebrated when the team hit the empty net.. not because the team was winning, but because it coincided with their parlay…

  3. Gambling destroyed soccer leagues in Asia, and you can now see it corrupting baseball in America. You can bet the NFL isnext and likely the NHL, although the money in hockey is peanuts compared to the NFL…

  5. In terms of players being threatened or attacked because of a mistake that cost bettors: Andres Escobar of Colombia in 1994.

    Second, first the NBA and now MLB have seen players and coaches charged with involvement in betting rings. This is the tip of an ever-growing iceberg. If the example of the NBA from years ago when one referee, Tim Donaghy, was charged and convicted of influencing outcomes because of payments he received. Very quickly the league shut the investigation down as other referees and perhaps players were going to be named. The NBA did not want its product tainted–remember this was 2007 before the siren song of massive gambling had hit sports.

    It is inevitable that we will start questioning whether sports is on the up and up, and I don't mean the way I think Gary Bettman, a man of no principles beyond enrichment, will ensure that no Canadian team wins the Stanley Cup while he is in charge. Once people believe on a large scale that the results are pre-determined sports will die.

  6. The betting scene is truly a dark spot for humanity. So many entitled man-children or narcissists putting out death threats or demanding recompense for their own idiotic decisions. Will never bet a penny. I do feel for the athletes, especially those in highest leverage situations you mentioned i.e. pitchers and goaltenders.

  9. Talking sports betting, how about that delay of game call on Seider last night? Pretty egregious, if you ask me. Some day the truth of gambling's insidious reach into hockey will out, and it's going to be ugly.

  13. Big ups to you not going with sports betting. I know people who have an addiction to it and have ruined friendships/relationships with it. The occasional $1 or $2 lottery game is one thing, but to risk everything financially on something as random as hockey or even the lastest world series, it's dangerous territory.

  14. And thanks to the algorithm I just got a betting ad in the middle of watching this. It has become ubiquitous. I try not to watch any pod cast/show that supports it and try to walk away when the adds come on the games I watch. Good for to not promote this addictive activity.

  15. Imagine being dumb enough to bet on game then expecting an athlete to pay for your foolishness? I hate how every game and most sports podcasts endorse it!

  16. Thanks for being vocal about your stance on sports betting and the companies behind it. It's a predatory practice and not only ruins the integrity of sports, it ruins people's lives.
    Society has enough issues, we don't need ever more gambling addicts where lives get ruined.

    To know Sheldon doesn't support the practice and won't accept their sponsorships, is refreshing.
    Thanks, Sheldon.

  17. The owners (and college administrators) are the ones who jump-started the gambling stampede, all because of greed. Unfortunately, many, many others will pay the price.

    It is guaranteed that about 6% of the adult population will have some gambling issues, up to and including full addiction. That's many, many broken relationships, lost homes, suicides.

    No person should ever be allowed to place a legal bet without being required to take and pass a class on gambling probabilities.

  18. Sports betting ruins the game. I am saddened by the apparent warm embrace sports organizations have made with online sportsbooks. The amount of corruption is palpable and I have a feeling it will eventually come crashing down. But I feel there is too much money being made that even when the corruption is put on full display it will be buried and sportsbooks protected. Please dont gamble and enjoy the game for the game.

  20. Not surprised at all that players are getting hassled by the crazy folks who obsess over betting. I have a friend I played hockey with that – for the past 4 years – he incapable of having a "normal" converation about pretty much anything. With him, eventually any topic will return to sports betting. He's convinced of his "systems" and all that crap. I don't know if he's crazy enough to hassle athletes over his betting, but I wouldn't be surprised at all.

    People who place bets and obsess over them are beyond help. They don't want help. They don't want anything…except to win their next bet. And legalized sports betting has only made it worse. There will be thousands of families horribly affected by gambling, and pro-sports are acting like psychopaths who simply want more money.

  21. Thank you for discussing sports gambling and for not promoting it. I was raised in Vegas, and I don't gamble except for maybe a bet on the Super Bowl (win/loss). I don't gamble because I have no luck. My mother and grandmother had all the luck, and that gene was NOT passed on to me. The lack of taking responsibility for one's actions on the part of sports bettors is alarming.

  26. GREAT editorial on the Betting connection with sports and even worse, the broadcasters of sports promoting it so unappolgetically; it's quite sickening. It forever astounds me how human beings can't make the math work: when ANY company is making THAT MUCH MONEY for "providing a service", you're probably being cheated somehow… YA THINK? (When "cheating" is defined as: being unfair / unequal compensation).

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