Spittin' Chiclets Episode 642: The Chug Heard Around The World

Summary

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Spittin' Chiclets Episode 642: "The Chug Heard Around the World"

Release Date: April 30, 2026
Hosts: Ryan Whitney, Paul Bissonnette ("Biz Nasty"), Rear Admiral (RA), Mike Grinnell, Merles, Yanni Gourde, Army
Main Theme: A wild playoff week featuring viral moments, playoff heartbreaks, and deep dives into multiple NHL series—all through the irreverent, outspoken Chiclets lens.

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Episode Overview

This episode revolves around “The Chug Heard Around The World,” an instantly viral moment courtesy of Ryan Whitney’s ill-fated beer chug from a Buffalo Sabres’ sword. The crew breaks down the fallout, embraces the chirping, and transitions into in-depth but characteristically unfiltered analysis of current NHL playoff series. The banter is high, the insights frequent, and the stories classic Chiclets, from calling out infamous fan bases to inside-the-room playoff breakdowns.

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Notable Segments & Memorable Quotes

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1. "The Chug Heard Around The World" – Viral Buffalo Beer Chug

Timestamps: 02:22–13:54

• Setup: Ryan Whitney details being given the Sabres’ sword as a beer vessel at a Buffalo event, not realizing how hard it is to chug from. A disastrous attempt ensues, caught on live TV and blowing up online.
• Whitney’s Self-Mockery:
  • “Buddy, I've never been a great beer chugger. ... I must’ve got maybe one tiny sip in my mouth...” (06:20, Whitney)
  • "If you can't own up to just looking like a fool ... what are you doing on the internet, boys?" (09:27, Whitney)
• Fan Reaction:
  • Fans in Buffalo were universally positive despite the mishap. “The people there were amazing ... just positive, good people that treated me phenomenally well.” (12:13, Whitney)
• Biz and Merles Pile On:
  • “I almost think holding it closer to where it comes out would have been easier ... plus, you don’t want to create the visual of holding a dick and balls…” (09:07, Biz & Whitney banter)
• Aftermath:
  • Ownership, memes, texts from old teammates—and the Sabres lose.
  • “There’s not much else to say besides an all-time fuck up, an all-time clip...” (09:54, Whitney)

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2. Buffalo–Boston Playoff Breakdown

Timestamps: 13:54–23:47, 121:35–126:55

• Swayman’s Dominance:
  • “He’s a dog ... he’s gonna feast off that... being up for the Vezina, he is up for the Vezina right? ... Yeah, I think that it was pretty much a gimme he was going to come in and give his best.” (15:41, Biz)
• Playoff Atmosphere:
  • “The beginning of the game ... this is as loud as Edmonton was in the finals.” (19:30, Whitney)
• Sabres’ Collapse:
  • Darlene scores, but Swayman’s “dialed.” “The way he’s able to track the puck right now... it’s going seven, buddy.” (14:35, Whitney)
• Injuries:
  • “Oslund was probably their best player...he goes down, four doctors rushing to the tunnel—never a good sign.” (18:06, Merles)
• Pastrnak’s OT Heroics:
  • “He became the first Bruin to score multiple OT goals to stave off elimination.” (121:35–123:00, RA)
• Fan Culture & Anthems:
  • “Shout out the fans for just picking up the Canadian anthem when the mic didn’t work—that was cool.” (20:23, Whitney)

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3. Blade Gang & Buffalo Hockey Culture

Timestamps: 29:02–33:36

• Blading Buffalo:
  • Blade Gang (local kids) join the Chiclets gang for stunts; four brothers, epic backyard rink, Sabres superfans.
  • “This was the hockey house ... all came here, skated every night, mini sticks upstairs...” (29:22, Whitney)
  • “They have a free invite... I think it's a strong possibility we honor these guys and do it in Buffalo.” (32:27, Biz)

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4. Playoff Series Deep Dives & X-Factors

Minnesota-Dallas (34:03–45:15)

• Minnesota’s Vengeance:
  • “Minnesota fans ... they're ruthless, they're personal ... they look great, but I won’t give up on my Dallas stars.” (34:11–35:37, Merles & Biz)
  • “Five on five ... Dallas can't do anything ... if Minnesota stays out of the penalty box, I can't see them losing.” (36:37, Whitney)
• Boldy’s Breakout:
  • “This is his coming out ... proving he’s a superstar in this league.” (38:27, Yanni)
• Goaltending Debate:
  • “Ottinger, you can’t blame him ... but two of those goals, I think they could have been stopped.” (40:05, Whitney)
• Suspension Drama:
  • "That’s a suspension... a cross-check to the head ... just like, hello?" (42:04–43:12, Whitney, Biz & Yanni)

Montreal-Tampa (45:43–57:04)

• Gallagher’s Redemption:
  • “Did you see his teammates around him during the interview? That’s what they think of this guy.” (45:43, Biz)
  • “He came in and just brought an extra little bit of juice for them.” (48:52, Yanni)
• Fans, Coaching & Special Teams:
  • “Montreal blocked everything ... you have to know who you’re playing against—if you chase, a seam’s going to open...” (48:15–49:43, Biz & Yanni)
• Tampa’s Struggles & Vassy’s Leaks:
  • “That Texier goal, that's a save when they’re winning cups, he makes every single time—it just squeaks through.” (51:22, Whitney)

Flyers-Penguins: Battle of Pennsylvania (69:02–106:15, Army’s Segment)

• Army’s Recap:
  • “Pens battled but in the end it wasn’t enough ... Flyers, first three games they were on a mission ... some good young players coming in right now.” (69:13–71:17, Army)
• Physicality and Scumminess:
  • “Do you feel like they were being a little greasy early on? Scumbag city ... they do play a little scummy.” (76:03–77:42, Biz)
• Goaltending as Storyline:
  • “Vladar ... never started a playoff game, got two shutouts in the series ... Flyers could have fooled the refs, and did.” (78:28–79:11, Whitney)
• Fans & Intensity:
  • “Gritty was like beating the shit out of a penguin ... eight-year-old kid yelling ‘Malkin, you suck’ … battle of Pennsylvania.” (87:00–88:12, Army & Whitney)
• Flyers Future:
  • “Philly’s got something special cooking … no one really picked them. They’re used to being doubted.” (99:59–100:39, Whitney)

Vegas–Utah: The Most Underrated Series (109:05–120:25, RA Segment)

• Late-Night Heroics:
  • “Bretty Howden shorty wins it ... only the second player ever to do so in a multiple-OT game.” (109:05, RA)
  • “Utah’s power play is at 7% ... minus one on the power play, it’s killing them.” (111:16, Biz)
• Vegas’s Clutch & Utah’s Pain:
  • “Utah is so much faster than Vegas ... they just have to figure out how to end it … you can’t do it three times in a row.” (120:25, Whitney)

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Other Noteworthy Moments

• Playoff Ratings Up:
  • “The NHL’s buzzing ... 83% up from last year’s million-plus viewership ... Buffalo, Philly, Pittsburgh all big markets.” (126:31, Whitney)
• Cheech Garrett Tributes:
  • “A legendary voice ... great stories, sad loss for the hockey world.” (133:12–134:52)
• Leafs Rumors:
  • “Sundin & Chayka teaming up in Toronto front office ... but let's stay focused on the actual hockey.” (135:19, Biz)
• Best Small US Cities Discussion:
  • “Charleston, SC; Bozeman, MT; Highlands, NC; Newport, RI ... everyone’s sneaky travel favorites.” (138:03–143:11)

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Classic Chiclets Quotes

• “This is life now. All the things you’ve brought up … I’m just going through everything on the flight home like, ‘what was I thinking?’” (09:27, Ryan Whitney on the viral chug)
• “I think the blade gang have a free invite ... I wish we could send them a jet.” (32:27, Biz)
• “If you could go back, I do think had I chugged it and spilled ... I’m still getting chirped, but one tenth of what it looked like.” (12:48, Whitney)
• “He should be on a private island somewhere ... the fact he still gives back to the game is incredible.” (04:02, Yanni Gourde on Wayne Gretzky)
• “Playoff hockey man... they’re yelling ‘shoot’ immediately when they get in the offensive zone.” (23:33, Whitney on Boston fans)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Introduction & Viral Chug: 01:47–13:54
• Buffalo–Boston Playoff & Swayman: 13:54–23:47
• Minnesota–Dallas Playoff Drama: 34:03–45:15
• Montreal–Tampa Series: 45:43–57:04
• Vegas–Utah late-night action (RA segment): 109:05–121:35
• Army’s Flyers–Penguins Roundup: 69:02–106:15
• Best Small Cities in the US: 138:03–143:11

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Summary for First-Time Listeners

If you missed this episode, you missed:

• The inside story behind Whitney’s viral Buffalo beer chug and the “pinkies up” movement
• Behind-the-scenes fan culture, raw admissions of embarrassment, and how Chiclets owns its mistakes
• Blunt, honest, often hilarious NHL playoff analysis balancing deep hockey insight with the unapologetic Chiclets persona
• Candid takes on physicality, officiating, “scumminess,” and coaching decisions across multiple playoff series
• Memorable tributes to fans (especially Buffalo and Philly), nods to classic NHL rivalries, and to the late Cheech Garrett
• A look at why hockey’s energy, culture, and unpredictable moments are making this playoffs a ratings bonanza

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In True Chiclets Fashion: Embrace the chirps, own your failures, and never forget—playoff hockey is a wild ride best enjoyed with friends, great stories, and a refusal to take yourself too seriously.

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Transcript

[Ryan Whitney]

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[Ryan Whitney]

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[Biz Nasty]

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[Paul Bissonnette]

got a pink whitney out there now the song man is a full time member my religious gang got an assist

[Yanni Gourde]

from chris whoa we're buzzing right now

[Paul Bissonnette]

what is up folks welcome to episode six hundred forty two of the spitting chicklets podcast that's right pinkies up that's what we're talking about here we got so much playoff action so many big series crazy moments but it all involves pinkies up pink whitney merls has the bottle right there merls has joined us colby armstrong's coming on pink whitney was consumed if i could have put pinkies up pink whitney into that fraking buffalo saber sword i might have had a different storyline for myself in the city

[Yanni Gourde]

of buffalo you might be down shout

[Paul Bissonnette]

out pink whitney no don't put that

[Biz Nasty]

down put your put your pinky up

[Paul Bissonnette]

you know what the coolest part of one of the coolest parts of buffalo was there was remember that like he had to be eighty may maybe eighty five and he just came up pinkies up love the show i was like holy man thank you so much so guys a couple of crazy moments from the past few days i mean we chatted monday long show going to be a little quicker today i'm sorry for all you folks listening three hours that's hard you got game notes wednesday we're back at you thursday g be a

[Biz Nasty]

little quicker wayo was on game notes

[Paul Bissonnette]

i know that's what i wanted to shout out the ninety ninth episode you got the great one mercury yeah that

[Merles]

was huge gotta gotta shout out arm dog for getting that done and then g and pasha for for getting across the finish line and yeah go listen to that he's unreal his breakdown we kind of kept it short on him because he was on vacation so we only did a few breakdowns with him but he's so smart it's it's it's

[Yanni Gourde]

incredible it must be nice to take a vacation during playoffs hey wayne oh

[Biz Nasty]

yeah he's he's loving he should he should be on a he should be on a private island somewhere he even

[Yanni Gourde]

talks to us is insane like he should be on permanent vacation and the fact that he still gives back to the game is incredible yeah yeah for

[Paul Bissonnette]

sure and you know he comes in now i think it'll be finals he was one night so far at tnt right and then i'll definitely be there for the finals maybe i think he

[Biz Nasty]

might he might have one for yeah one for the the second round oh

[Paul Bissonnette]

sorry you don't have finals so he'd be conference finals when you conference finals we're going on the road we're going

[Biz Nasty]

on the road blade gang was loving the pink whitney wit we we gotta kind of we have to hop right

[Paul Bissonnette]

yeah we'll have to we'll have to

[Biz Nasty]

go into round of applause by the way for wit for and mer well

[Paul Bissonnette]

yeah hey buddy it was not too many it was a standing i mean just a standing ovation similar to the one mike vrabel got from patriot season ticket holders that was just an incredible video patriots fan we don't care we just want wins for mike v i had a standing o coming i had the internet merls and myself on i mean we're on the i ninety in the most dangerous spot of i ninety apparently and we're rollerblading things are all good we meet blade gang and then and then there was this and this thing right here boys this thing buried me and for people who aren't watching on netflix this is the saber sword the saber sword were you trying to

[Biz Nasty]

play a video or something there i

[Paul Bissonnette]

don't know if you heard the church bells best there were some disgusting scary

[Yanni Gourde]

church bells done like undertaker yeah but

[Paul Bissonnette]

not that undertaker music because you don't want to get in trouble so i found generic on youtube but apparently you guys couldn't hear it that's my bad either way this sword was just now the video is playing right here okay i've gone through this a couple times i made the video we went out and i want to say one thing first off the people in buffalo those might be the best people in the united states of america like the friendliness like i didn't know if i'd get chirped you know i figured we were kind of on decent terms considering they made me look like the fool zero point zero percent they get in they go on this run and now i'm kind of going there belly of the beast as i said on the highway with murr so everyone was so nice like oh wit thanks for coming like i'm talking myr the the people there were amazing and and we go on stage and we try to fire him up a little bit they were actually pumped up they had the clown nose on me on the banner and everything i chugged a beer out of this boys i i must have got maybe maybe this much i'm talking like one tiny sip of my mouth oh like

[Biz Nasty]

a like a like a pre round you did it like pre going yeah

[Yanni Gourde]

at the fan fest it was fan

[Paul Bissonnette]

fest and and i don't know if there was a video that meme said he might have had one but my jersey that they gave me with the zero point zero number it was it was just covered in beer and then the guy who was mc and it's like oh you can't chug out of there and then sabres fans as i'm taking pictures walking on oh you can't chug out of that you can't chug out of that it doesn't work like the way it's now boys i really really wish they hadn't told me that right because i just would have tried it again i would have been like i also want to get ahead of something horkoff called me as he goes wait oh my god i've had phone calls from people i haven't talked to in years same i've never been a great beer chugger he remind i'm not a beer chug guy i'm not good at it right i'm not one of those pros at chugging beers but i would have just tried it again and dealt with the spillage buddy i had i don't know the arm of the pump up arm that was barely moving like a squiggly army my wife said it was i was one of the blow up things outside a car dealership that thing wasn't even work moving and then to try not to chug and spill at one point it's completely horizontal nothing's coming out and i'm realizing like quickly halfway through this i think this is bad news like this is not like look it's not what are you doing what you got to pour the thing you got to pour the thing merle's right when i finish he goes what the hell was that and i'm like oh man this is bad this is bad biz i'll get to you in a second i'll get to you right away when i'm done okay i i figured all right i'm going to get chirped by some fans buddy i got to ask you biz did you tell tnt to put that on how did that make it to tv i

[Biz Nasty]

i obviously told them that you were going to be live in attendance then that anything that happened just have a camera on you just in case did i ever think in my wildest dreams that you would have delivered what you delivered i was in shock and then i saw portnoy's video and then i was laughing my off because you know he's obviously hilarious my question to you though whit is knowing all that information and them handing you the saber at the like the pre event and then explaining to you how hard it is to chug out of it did it ever cross your mind hey i'm just going to shotgun a beer to fire up the crowd without pouring beer into

[Paul Bissonnette]

the sword buddy no and that's what i'll never get over in my head like but they gave me the saber as like man like the i yeah dude there was no there was no expectation from the sabers to use the sword no i don't know merles we were sitting there and we never even we poured him in advance remember we poured him in advance we wanted to

[Merles]

make sure there was no foam that was the only thing we were thinking

[Biz Nasty]

about another thing too it's like i almost think that like holding it closer to where it comes out would have been easier because the the amount of distance between yeah like like that and

[Paul Bissonnette]

and then it wouldn't have created the the visual of like holding holding a dick and balls either you know like that's another good call biz now listen

[Biz Nasty]

i hate to rag on you hey

[Paul Bissonnette]

buddy this is one thing where if you can't own up to just looking like a fool and just take the piss like what are you doing on the internet boys like this is life now all your all the things you've brought up listen i'm sitting on the flight home i got no internet on the flight home and it's just one of those like you know you're just going through everything like what what what was i thinking and i didn't i didn't think anything what we were kind of thinking was we need buffalo to not give up a goal before i go up on the on the big

[Biz Nasty]

screen oh yeah that's a bomb and

[Paul Bissonnette]

they didn't they scored not only did they score they got the penalty kill too so they scored a goal then they got a penalty they got the penalty kill we got through that i'm like oh my god this this place is perfect situation yeah it's like i'm going on and yeah like there's not much else to say besides an all time fuck up an all time clip and and sometimes you know you're you're you're flying high and buddy life's like a roller coaster right like we had that day mer we had that day dominated and it ended up not only with my embarrassment but a loss for the sabers that was the biggest part because i said sitting in the seat once this thing's going viral that's the other part there's like you couldn't twitter wouldn't really load and then it would load it was like you know you're in a stadium and it's just not working very well and but i'm seeing this thing going mega viral i'm like i got to get to make a i got to address this memes is like if you go in the concourse the internet's a little better and i'm sitting there after with murray go they have to win if they win this thing's a non story well it's a story it's a funny clip but it's it's not a big deal they lose we're riding this thing i go when's the next game don't tell me it's two days he goes it's two days

[Biz Nasty]

oh so this just kind of this is i mean this is bigger than bigger than the variable story at this point after that happened and you're like hey man like what the was that like obviously you could sense that like the like there was a lack of aura did you feel the energy in the building just get sucked out because

[Merles]

of that well i i planned on going up there and and chugging mine too so i'm standing there kind of like a dope because i'm just sitting waiting like oh he's going to get done real quick and then i'm going to do mine real quick and and but all of a sudden it was over so that's what the hell's going on there i could have saved the company like pushed him out of the way and done the real chug like

[Biz Nasty]

the guy at the drum but for

[Merles]

us the pressure of the power play was what we were really worried about we were still confident they were going to win the game so we weren't too worried but the sabers could have saved you whip because if they do come back and win that game that could have been like the viral thing for them all playoffs is the slow chug they need a they need a

[Biz Nasty]

rally i think i think they're still

[Paul Bissonnette]

could get there if they they're morons if they can get this series then now now granted it would happen in a loss but that could be and i'm thinking you know what now you want to see you want to hear like how my brain works trying to like you know flip this thing on its side i'm like you know what man i'm a dad three boys and it's responsible chugging that's i'm teaching the youth you don't you don't have to chug you got to be responsible and the kids out there now listen is that a reach or oh hell yeah that's a reach but at the same time if the sabers can get this series still i'm off the hook if the sabers lose this series i can admit not welcome back in buffalo but you know what back to the fans and we'll get into the game in a sec back to the fan philly and everything that's happened the fans even as i'm leaving by the way pasta got the puck he got the puck at the blue line and i walked out i go that's it let's go and i knew it was like that's it and he tuck had just been robbed swayman is an absolute god in this series the fact fact that he's playing like this is just incredible to watch no wonder he's up for the vesna and and pasta got the puck and i bombed down by the time i got around the corner where i'd done the pathetic chug merles is trying to grab up the saber swords and and oh we can't forget these i'm like yeah good point i don't want to leave that there that that really helped me out tonight so and as i'm leaving sabers fans hey thanks for coming buddy i'm like what about my chug i was bad but it's bad buddy but we'll get him we'll get them like just positive good people that treated me phenomenally well and want to say thank you to them and once again i'll apologize and my favorite moment that i addressed i think on part of my take was the guy in the bathroom what's up with that chug man i was like i don't know i was like explaining what happened he's like you got to own the spillage you just got to own the spillage and yeah if you could go back i do think had i chugged it and spilled like i did earlier i think i'm still getting chirped but one tenth of what it looked like yeah

[Biz Nasty]

it would have been like the effort for trying to slam it then you could have just blamed the sword i thought you were almost like jumping on the grenade for for josh allen that's what i thought you were doing to just distract the fact that he kind of had a shitty chug that half of it went on his jersey so i think that when they advance i still think that they're gonna beat the boston bruins i think they need a redemption for you and josh allen same game both of you banging the drum yeah and then into both sword chugs and or if you want to put the sword chug to the side and say hey no more sword i get that but i think it's crazy you got two negatives make a positive and they gotta they gotta make you guys

[Paul Bissonnette]

connect well they have to win first and going back to the game so darlene scores on a beautiful shot posting and nothing swayman could do right and i said to merles it must have been three minutes after that like game clock swayman threw a screen he battled i forget who he saved it on and i'm like dude he looks dialed right now like you know how you could tell with a goalie early on keith i remember last year with bob you were kind of like oh he's got it early in games i'm like i don't think they're scoring again and it turned out to be that was the only thing i got right and like the way he's able to track the puck right now biz you may say that buffalo's still going to win i feel i really hope they do it's going seven buddy this there's no chance the bruins the way they showed up game five at home with i think ar said the worst home performance he's ever seen or they've ever had i just can't picture them not coming out guns ablazing not to mention the pasta interview after the game in which he's like just cheer loud i promise we'll shoot the puck but i don't know if anyone wants to take over what they saw in the game just the pasta goal what a move well

[Merles]

since i had boots on the ground i i can say this that the buffalo crowd yelling swayman sway did not did not help the team do not do that to a guy like swayman he's a dog he's gonna feast off of that once you get three or four on him if you want to have some fun let him sleep that

[Biz Nasty]

that was killer i think that it was expected after you if you're a goalie and you go by the bench and you call out your team you better be the best player on the ice for your team that next game and he was and it kind of people have their initial opinions on that like hey you're a goalie shut the fuck up just stop the puck other like well no like he's in the net and playing a full sixty minutes and he's a true leader on this team and especially the way he played all season being up for the vesna he is up for the vesna right he's one of the top three yes yep yeah i i think that it was pretty much a gimme that he was going to come in and give his best and you know pasta i mean as a leafs fan i've seen that story before and like you went when he got that at the blue and i was just impressed because initially when when he received the pass like keep in mind like it was a great defensive zone play and then the cameras got a pan quick so when you see it pan you're like oh fuck it kind of looked like he was offside but then you go back to the play and it was just great anticipation from him off the bench knowing the turnover was coming he gets going and then he actually as he's crossing over he gets his left leg back and he hovers it some people still confused with the rule obviously they're like oh his skate was off the ice it's like ah they change that three years ago and it's just it i would i would say he was onside by a country like like literally that much the the the the blade of his skate and just an unbelievable move and lion i thought lyon was solid too man this is these are two good goalies going at it and this is going to be a difficult closeout for the buffalo sabers especially at the fact like they put oslin in right and he was tremendous in the game prior and and fit right in he had a great regular season fans were really happy with him of course that was with norris coming out well apparently norris was ready to go like he could have played but they're like hey we're up three one let's get him a couple more days rest especially with the two day layover in between games five and six and he fucking gets injured like five minutes into the game i don't know if you guys hurt caught wind on what happened no

[Merles]

but he he was probably their best player leading up to that we we were so impressed with him i saw him play two years ago in sweden after he got drafted he was this tiny little boy and what he's become he he was their most effective player we didn't see the play what happened to him but we saw him at the bench limping behind the bench down

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tunnel casey middlestadt fell on his knee

[Ryan Whitney]

is what it was yeah it looked

[Biz Nasty]

like it was like an mcl type of thing where it opened up and

[Merles]

what we knew is when he go down the tunnel all of a sudden you see four gentlemen in suits just fall basically out of the stands into the tunnel it was the four doctors from the sabers and we're like oh they know that's not good if they're all four are rushing down right away down the tunnel so i don't expect to see him for a long time that stinks because he was playing on the first power play they got they finally got a goal on the power play what hasn't been there so that's going to be a tough loss for

[Yanni Gourde]

him to make that to make that move the pasternock made on the like to have a guy draped on your back that close to the goalie his edge work and hands like that that's such an elite move that he's maybe one of five guys in the league that can make that such a sick move and to bury that in his celebration in the stand guy giving him the finger he's yelling back i think

[Biz Nasty]

he was looking for wit you were the is that with the guy yeah

[Paul Bissonnette]

i was on the way home another thought i'm like you know cam neely he just looks grumpy up in the box even when they're winning he's just grumpy and i just pictured like seeing my chug and like how pathetic it was like maybe he just like gave a little smile yeah we're winning this one tonight yeah i don't think the saber they didn't have their best game right like it was just kind of they they turned it on late i mean swayman made that save on who's the kid from check that like threw it behind him late in the third period and then overtime he had a couple obviously and it was just it was an atmosphere they were ready to explode but they were ready to just go nuts the beginning of the game merles and i were saying like this is kind of as loud as edmonton was in the finals like it was it was a crazy atmosphere shout out the fans for just picking up the canadian anthem when the microphone didn't work

[Biz Nasty]

yeah the fact that happened when you stepped in the building i was like this is something's off yeah there's a bad electrical current coming in that building when does that ever happen there and the one game you step in the building it's going down but they picked

[Paul Bissonnette]

it up they picked it up for

[Biz Nasty]

they crushed it very very very cool moment a lot of people confused as to why they sing the canadian national anthem it's a border town they get tons of canadian fans going over they even were i don't know if they still do it but kind enough in the past where maybe they weren't drawing as well they would sell tickets at parents so if you were a canadian and the dollar exchange is you know one hundred and thirty and it's they would say hey don't worry your canadian dollar is just as good here at at even that's pretty nice the other guy there was rumblings g you mentioned it you thought lindholm wasn't one hundred percent he was getting bumped down in the lineup a little bit maybe to to alleviate some of the pressure from tougher matchups well he comes through with that big tying goal on that net front scramble so as a bruins fan is maybe hard as some fans have been on him for the lack of production and where he's at hey man he he's he he helped extend your

[G]

season yeah i like seeing sturm i thought the the good coaching moves that sturm made was playing zaka and kuznetsov alongside posternach that was the point i was really making last show is lindholm he doesn't play with enough pace for posternach like he need we need a faster pace alongside posternach so and then kuznadinov i mean he doesn't have a point this series but i i think he's one of the bruins best players like he hunts pucks he's a out there he just battles non stop i love this kid but yeah i thought i don't think lindholm played the best game ever i thought he had a good goal but i love what sturm did with the lines i think for

[Yanni Gourde]

buffalo too it's and we talked about it with philly is these young teams and teams that haven't been in the playoffs is figuring out a way to win and figure you saw philly last night like that game was so boring they're just trying to figure out how to close out a series and i think buffalo had a little bit of that in that game obviously losing in overtime hurts but i think it's just one of those steps that you got to make as an organization to get better get on to the next round figure out how to win and i think i think they take care of

[Biz Nasty]

them next game well we got a few young teams in these playoffs i mean utah one of them where they've given up some leads crazy stat we'll get to it later with them but kind of similar to anaheim in buffalo two young teams that are up three one that okay you get three chances to close this thing out let's see how you handle it and how you can you know how you can figure it out with a young group of

[Yanni Gourde]

guys not to mention there's a lot of pride on the other teams too like no one wants to get beat four one no one wants to start their summer like all these guys out there have pride and want the extend these series as long as they can

[Biz Nasty]

so based on pasta's comments boston's the type of crowd where they they yell shoot a lot yeah

[Paul Bissonnette]

for an original sixteen they might be the worst i

[Yanni Gourde]

think they started watch the game with

[G]

ra ra is i've never we've done streams with him before where we've had to mute him in the back because he's just like shoot shoot shoot even on twitter he's tweeting shoot shoot shoot

[Paul Bissonnette]

playoffs playoff hockey man shoot the puck but at some point you got to give you know you got to give pasta coming over the blue line like three seconds to maybe make a player or toe drag that thing into a release in the slot they're yelling shoot immediately when they get in the offensive

[Biz Nasty]

zone so i oh i was going to ask you one question where because i obviously we were all kind of chirping you on twitter having fun with this thing and you did i wasn't well except for yance because he doesn't have twitter which we hope he gets pretty soon me on text that would but one of your comments you said you were getting a lot of texts that i was blowing bruce cassidy oh yeah i'm interested to hear who who

[Paul Bissonnette]

was texting you no tweets random tweets like wow biz said all this guy's teammates hate him no i didn't no

[Biz Nasty]

i never said that i said his

[Paul Bissonnette]

shelf life or something i said your shelf life whatever they said and then apparently apparently you were just just just really really really just playing a bruce what do you think he asked him

[Yanni Gourde]

to sit on his lap at once

[Biz Nasty]

this guy's gonna come in the studio

[Paul Bissonnette]

and i'm a little sensitive here busy

[Biz Nasty]

boy no i wanna buddy if we first of all he's coming on the

[Paul Bissonnette]

podcast he was also pretty good on tv i'll give him that he was

[Biz Nasty]

unbelievable but if you think for a minute when we get him on after i asked him to come to the podcast that was my first question or one of my first questions i'm going to say just like i did with hitch say hey you know it is that you it's ten that you you ride your players hard and you know you wear on them same thing that we went over in an interview with hitch no that we talked about this yes sir so you're acting like i'm and dragging this guy through the mud on the podcast where all i've said is that he rides his players hard and that he's got a short shelf life the same thing we said about ports the same thing we've said about hits like what what coach that does that have we not said that about on this podcast did i say anything personal towards him where people i don't

[Paul Bissonnette]

remember any personal attacks any personal okay at all so you're saying i'm being

[Biz Nasty]

sensitive about it i just had i just had to have the conversation about like oh i'm blowing them what am i supposed to do not be a nice guy to him because i think he rides his players i never played for him bates battaglia was the only guy who came on here saying he's the worst guy ever i forgot about

[Paul Bissonnette]

that interview yeah that was up when i that was when i was up in my attic still recording this show back in the day you're acting like

[Biz Nasty]

i was the guy saying it but now that i'm blowing them well i think that people tweeting at you think that i'm bates battaglia that's what i think's going on right now that that

[Paul Bissonnette]

could be i mean i could see that so much similar looks i'm very excited though to have bruce on that's great that you locked that interview in good job well we're gonna come on

[Biz Nasty]

now that he hears that we're talking about this he did say that i think his daughter or one of his kids follows us on tick tock he's like you guys do the tick tock stuff i'm like yeah that's like one thing that we do but i'm not sure what what clips are coming out on tiktok that is it's just memes

[Yanni Gourde]

going out get ready videos like makeup tutorials

[Biz Nasty]

how is me how was memes

[Paul Bissonnette]

through all that non buffalo he was he was crying we we because we went back to watch the oilers which by the way oilers are up three nothing as i'm not watching any of it i'm like i don't know if i can watch these guys and i go back home anaheim gets one but then obviously four one get to that but memes was crying laughing like like just going over our night together he's like that was but what were you doing she kept saying what were you

[Yanni Gourde]

doing i was more disgusted with your stride than the than the beard yeah

[Biz Nasty]

you were playing that up a lot

[Paul Bissonnette]

i know shocking you're like the one buddy of mine that didn't realize i was playing that one up now granted the skates were probably two sizes too small to that there was an aspect of that but i'm doing the we're talking before about doing the nineteen seventies stick swing short stride i got hork laughing you played up perfect biz and then keith what is up with your stride i'm like dude you gotta i'm on the highway there's cars going seventy five miles an hour past us beeping let's go buffalo that horn and i got keith calling out my stride that was actually maybe the only look at that stride right there you thought that

[Yanni Gourde]

was real i don't know i figured maybe on the highway you'd give it your best effort to get off the

[Biz Nasty]

highway i had the rumble strips i

[Yanni Gourde]

knew the one at the house when you left that guy's neighborhood that was fucking hilarious that they were waiting for you and shit but i knew that one was fake but the one on the highway i was like oh no whit what's going on here merle's looked

[Paul Bissonnette]

like my car by the way yeah mer go yeah so we got to

[Merles]

shout out memes it was his idea to get us on on the road like that with a buffalo sign but we almost had even a better clip because we had to stop it there and whit hasn't been on the rollerblade so he didn't know how to stop on them so he just peels off down into like a trench by like

[Paul Bissonnette]

a seven foot ravine buddy then i stepped a thing of mud where my skate went all the way in no but but but it was almost an all time like i i saved myself from going face first into a giant mud pile last second with like amazing flexibility with the left leg stepped up

[Biz Nasty]

went back you were like pasternock went that was the foreshadow stayed online i

[Paul Bissonnette]

stayed on side in the mud pit so yeah just a great day hey

[Biz Nasty]

well fuck i gotta ask you though before we move on the blade gang the one in the risto jersey with the bottle of pink whitney the fold out chair i would i would adopt them i'd pay i would pay his parents a million bucks to keep them

[Paul Bissonnette]

and the way he said like those guys what did he say they skate

[Yanni Gourde]

like they played in the nhl so

[Paul Bissonnette]

we told them what to do right like just guys kind of be chirping us and we're just gonna come bombing down the road ten out of ten and and they yeah they overd delivered so that family great people so the blade gang four of them are brothers and that's the house that's their house they got an unreal backyard rank and all all those kids played hockey together growing up south buffalo what a cool little neighborhood i guess kane grew up maybe one or two streets down and they were like dude this was the hockey house we all came here skated every night the rink we played at's about a mile that way we watched all the games we played mini sticks upstairs i mean there's ten kids that shout out them they called the sabers oh too the sabers invited them to bang the drum and they said like for you and i think it might have been risto he's like no no it's like we're not we all fly together yeah he's like we all fly together buffalo's like oh sorry like we can't get that many tickets or whatever it was and they called him back twenty minutes later they go all you guys are all wow love that the loyalty between the blade gang was great

[Biz Nasty]

i don't know if the the guy in the darlene jersey was just extra buckled but when they went out for the drum thing it was clear the risto in the in the lawn chair like he's he seems like the captain leader of the group oh yeah yeah like he's the he's the alpha male and then the darling one was buckled and he was like kind of in front of the drum and then the other one just grabs him and pulls them to the back so just from start to finish from like the content from the highway you meeting up with them doing the skits you mocking the pre game hot dog going to the i just that's what that that's the one thing i i want people to remember is that when you got to the game that's not when your day started you were on the highway at noon everyone's going to remember the light the saber sword and i tweeted out you were like evan bouchard that night you played thirty five i know buddy incredible hockey and you have this one blunder and it's all people you're you're you're basically the the buckner paul coffee

[Yanni Gourde]

paul coffey said to boosh as long as the good outweighs the bad where

[Paul Bissonnette]

and by the way bush had the best game i think i've ever his assists in game five were out of control like but so but last thing on this merles biz texted me yesterday he goes how you feeling buddy great job man all time day couldn't have scripted any better i go oh i could have scripted a little better bro buffalo would have won he's like true

[Merles]

just one more thing on the blade gang how about the other two videos they showed us the first night risto they wouldn't they didn't publish it he's getting carried home leg i don't know

[Paul Bissonnette]

why they didn't release that they had a video of them carrying aristo home and then later he's at a bus stop and i'm telling you if this bus stop pole isn't there the kids on the on the ground like the bus the bus stop is holding him up and his buddy drives by videoing him just chirping him instead he doesn't pick him up he's like i need it why didn't you get me he's

[Yanni Gourde]

like ah off dude so winner winner of chiclet's cup should get to play

[Paul Bissonnette]

them yeah that it was they had

[Biz Nasty]

they have a free invite and and and and listen i don't know what the plan was i can't really divulge it you know for next chicklets cup but man i think that there's a strong possibility that we honor these guys and do it in buffalo buffalo loses

[Yanni Gourde]

whit can't go back i think if

[G]

buffalo won that game it was decision was made after the game we announced it after the game buff we're going back to buffalo but now it's it's up in the air it's kind of who wins this series right are they

[Biz Nasty]

heading to to boston they're looking to

[Paul Bissonnette]

go i don't know yeah i wish we could send him a jet i

[Merles]

got one more thing and it's the perfect segue to our next topic though because we came out of that rank with everybody and at the same time there was more people outside the rink i think partying watching the game than inside but we all met in the same spot and i thought maybe now you were going to get some hate no you were still getting it was almost like you were lifted through the street still thanks for coming with thank you thanks for coming to buffalo thank you for everything so the fans there are amazing a little different than another fan base that i'm in a battle

[Paul Bissonnette]

with right now and merles what merles is talking about and pittsburgh philly fans or philly fans really we got army coming on to chat we're going to get to that minnesota mer is is really really running your show and i've been there i'm there right now i i've lived in the bubble you're in right now of just terror and fear they look amazing they have matt boldy zuccarello's back and they got a chance to end this thing tonight buddy yeah

[Merles]

these fans are like ruthless they're almost like they're like personal like where you know some of these fan bases we have fun we're joking with each other

[Biz Nasty]

you call them frauds mer i didn't

[Merles]

realize that was that big of a bad the stuff they're saying to me is a lot worse biz you wouldn't want to be and said about you and your family but

[Biz Nasty]

your wife and

[Merles]

kids they look they they look great and and i i was afraid of the x factor line felinos and mccarron the mutants and and they have been producing the big goals but yeah i'm i'm in i'm in a lot of trouble here minnesota looks faster but i don't give up on my dallas stars miko ranton he's been a little quiet he's going to have one of those nights tonight like he did against colorado

[Biz Nasty]

last year you you have the opportunity right now to change your mind and flip the script and go on the minnesota train are you taking it i

[Merles]

will i will i would take back the fraud comment you can't do that

[Biz Nasty]

you can't take that it's either they're still frauds or you're hopping on the train you we're not playing middlemen we

[Yanni Gourde]

don't girls they're going after your family don't dart forward into this they're zero

[Merles]

and eleven in the last eleven playoff series so add that into it the pressure we just talked about and then biz there's one thing i got i got an ace up my sleeve if minnesota does get through this series and it's that hat right back there the colorado avalanche as an alumni of four preseason games i just i just flip the script real quick and just jump

[Biz Nasty]

on that you're gonna sick your avalanche

[Paul Bissonnette]

on him after this well the original number twenty nine of we're talking to here b you know that mckinnon took his fraking number now dallas right now boys they stink five on five they they they can't do anything five on five and we've brought up hints not only is he a hell of a player he's fast as so like the team speed on minnesota is obviously better than dallas just bonehead mistakes go back to the first goal in game five tyler myers has the puck behind the net nobody on him and he fires it off the wall with nobody near him right to hartman who throws it in front caprisov gets a shot gets his own rebound unreal pass over to zuccarello who's back he's back he had three assists in the first game then he doesn't play scores the big goal there makes it one nothing and you're like what is going on like dallas is making mistakes that you just all year they didn't really make they were i i don't know their five on five numbers all year i'm sure somebody will be able to fill us in on that maybe you could check g but if minnesota stays out of the penalty box like i can't see him losing this game because dallas has nothing going five on five which is i mean buddy that's playoffs that's how you win in in the playoffs biz you've seen these games it's like think think back to right so who got the double overtime winner was it wyatt johnston in game was that game four or

[Biz Nasty]

game three that was game three two or three yeah it was three because yeah because they got worked and worked

[Paul Bissonnette]

yeah he got game four baldy got the ot winner in game three four so i i man like i well

[Biz Nasty]

hints makes things a lot easier to to to carry it through the neutral zone right so you're getting easier better cleaner zone entries and it alleviates a lot of pressure off of you know a lot of the other guys and also like i thought that duchenne's played a hell of a series like he's been good he's been very visible but you know ultimately you get a bumped a little bit more down the lineup and get some you know get some pressure taken off of him like how much can you really take and i tell you what man big sexy like he's he's brought a lot like the trades right now that minnesota made are are paying dividends and it was i mean that goal the other night he had a unreal goal earlier in the series that was like superstar style goal it looked like boldy going on out there but but yeah it's it just feels like it feels like the superstars are taking over for for many as well yan's you could touch on zook like i know it did it wasn't on his side when they scored on the power play but he's still out there and all of a sudden he's a threat so maybe it's in the back of their mind and yeah he ended up having a pretty good impact game one yeah i think he just

[Yanni Gourde]

and we've talked about he just settles everything down so much especially for a guy like kirill a guy like boldy boldy this is his coming i know he played in the olympics he was amazing in the olympics but this is him right now proving that he is a superstar in this league he is so damn good like if you look at them right now and you say if we don't if we can choose one guy kirill or baldy for the next eight years who are you taking

[Biz Nasty]

carell really well i think that that baldi's obviously this series like recency bias right it's probably the same reason that

[Paul Bissonnette]

well money wise maybe baldy if you had but like this is they got them both locked up that's true if

[Biz Nasty]

you include money i think i think people are definitely saying boldy because like just like he's a game breaker now we we were expecting a little bit more from kirill even though he had an okay game or solid game one and then he maybe disappeared a little bit for a few games but i mean if you look at his stat if you look at his stat line he's found a way to make an impact in in a lot of the games i think he's at what eight points at this point now so not like the worst series for for caprisoft but as far as like individual efforts and what he's been able to do obviously this has been a major major coming out party this season for baldy including the olympics not that we didn't know this guy was talented what he could do it's just like hey man going against dallas first round dallas has home ice everybody's probably leaning that way thinking they're going to be able to get it done minnesota with all the reputation they have of getting beat out in the first round he's just elevated his play and yeah that's that's an absolute dog gamer right there i know we're using the word dog a lot playoffs but ottinger you can't blame him

[Paul Bissonnette]

man i don't know man i was just gonna say the exact opposite a

[Biz Nasty]

little bit the game before an overtime buddy minnesota was peppering him he might have made like four or five game

[Yanni Gourde]

saving saves that was the most lobsided overtime i've ever watched it was yeah

[Paul Bissonnette]

until last night when pittsburgh did that and philly still won which is kind of what happens but biz i agree with you on game four but game five all right think of this that baldy shot while perfectly placed it's he's got a hell of a shot there was no screen okay and it was like it wasn't like boldy really leaned into that one so whatever maybe that one's just that good of a shot the mccarron one now first i want to talk about lindell maverick bork and the other defenseman there was who i wrote it down here the bishop myers again and and mccarron they just stop at the blue line completely skating mccarron goes by him not only does he get by him tarasenko beat all three of the stars back to the net and then it goes in five hole kind of squeaks through i get you this is not like dallas fans i don't think they're sitting there like oh otten just losing us this series no way but in game five i thought two of those goals i think i think they could have been stopped that that now minnesota okay pete

[Yanni Gourde]

who's pete

[Paul Bissonnette]

minnesota boys tonight this is the biggest game in franchise history i'm so happy for them i'm so happy it's fired up and merles i actually think based on what i get online a lot you you if you went to minnesota dude it's it's different like people would people would love to have you there i'm telling you yeah you'd get chirped but they would it's not the same as the things people say on twitter but but they got they got to get through this series man and if they go back to game seven in dallas then you're thinking of the ronton and dame seven against colorado like he could do it again he hasn't been the same final thing i don't get jamie ben that kind of looked like

[Biz Nasty]

a suspension to me that's a suspension

[Yanni Gourde]

that's a regular season that's a three to five game that's a straight cross

[Paul Bissonnette]

check to the head it's one of

[Biz Nasty]

those things where game one i believe maybe it was game two he goes after boldy when they're crossing and over the blue line okay you get your you know you get your shot in on the superstar try to get under a skin earlier in the season or in the series and then the accidentally on purpose one where you can't really pin it on him i know minnesota fans are like are you kidding me look at this guy's history it's a laundry list he obviously when he was you know pretending to jump out of the way he kind of gives him that little rabbit punch in the back of the head boldies down the tunnel if they lose boldy there it might be series over right so that's what minnesota fans have a massive gripe about even though they don't know what delay a game penalty is but that one last game like listen i'm not here saying that hartman doesn't play with an edge and get underneath guy's skin but clearly he went over the line and ben already gave him the shot back so the cross check to the net the neck was just like like hello

[Paul Bissonnette]

and you could tell he kind of panicked right away he realized like that was really bad and like you could see him kind of like he's like oh no like if you ask right then if you ask him right then he said he'd say i'm getting suspended like and then it was just a fine i i was surprised i'm seeing

[Merles]

from pasha friedman here that brodine is out tonight oh no yeah that's that that's a serious five on five shutdown

[Biz Nasty]

d man so do you split up faber and hughes now i don't think

[Yanni Gourde]

so or at least maybe sometimes you can keep them together for seventy percent of the time and then spread the love maybe other places but they've been so good together i think you got to keep them together as long as

[Paul Bissonnette]

you can oh that's a tough loss

[Yanni Gourde]

brody's such a tough loss quiet incredible

[Paul Bissonnette]

defensive defenseman that can skate like the wind like just least a big time if you don't notice him he had

[Biz Nasty]

another great game yeah now not like obviously i didn't really want to on ottinger because i wouldn't put the series on him but going to the other net we didn't even think walstead was going to get to start this series what a what a job by this young netminder like it's kind of nice man it's like he's looking out the other end he's like that guy you know he's been a playoff so many times and there's a little bit of pressure on him especially with how the how the prior season and postseason had fizzled out he's just sitting there chilling being like i'm playing with the house's money man i'm a young goalie now if i let in a bad one we still got another guy we can go to like i feel bad for that guy at the other end one

[Merles]

more thing on on your i remember from back in the game notes daily days the stats they used to chat used to give us the stats on ottinger after a loss and it was something incredible so look for him to to have the game of the series he hasn't had one of those games where he just steals he could he could have forty fifty saves tonight steal that game ratnan gets the game winner for us and then just like all these playoffs soon as we think we know something it goes the other way it's ups it's downs it's adjustments it's just one little injury like that changes

[Biz Nasty]

everything so minnesota closes out at home

[Paul Bissonnette]

okay you think so well mini wins game one they lose two in a row they win two in a row it would almost make sense that then dallas gets the one because everyone in the world i feel like picked this thing to go seven but what an atmosphere it's going to be in minnesota i mean these fans deserve it the what billy g's done to the team it's going to be a it's going to be a special one tonight i know you guys have the call of both games tonight biz minnie and edmonton

[Biz Nasty]

we do we got both yeah nice and then and then we got the next four or five days off thank

[Paul Bissonnette]

god oh nice buddy good for you good for you okay another team that took the lead in their series that is i think surprising people the montreal canadiens boys and man when you get older and you lose a step and you're not the player you once were it's hard you've seen so many different guys go through it and brendan gallagher yeah played a long time he's played nine hundred eighty eight regular season games i think it's his fifteenth season and he hasn't been in the lineup and for a guy that wears a letter like that's it's hard and i think being in montreal too like addressing the media when it first started where he was getting scratched it's like you feel for that you feel for a guy like that and and you then you see him just being kind of a the ultimate pro right like based on last night and montreal gets the win we'll get into the game he scores the first goal did you guys see his teammates around him during his interview after the game with kyle bukowskis beautiful i mean that's like that just shows what they think of this guy and they're all waiting for him they're all celebrating with him and that was a big goal coop was disgusted with tampa start that's the picture right there like by the way line is outfit and just straight jeans unbelievable i mean he was probably playing video games till five minutes before then and he's like oh i love galley we'll go say hi to him he had a big goal

[Biz Nasty]

but he hooked it up his playstation in the press box he wasn't even

[Paul Bissonnette]

watching the game he somehow hotwired the jumbotron and so it's like just fortnite like on the everyone's like what the but he drives to the net the first couple minutes coop talked about it after he's like we lost every race every battle they're out skating us and the gallagher goal was that he just came flying in nobody picks him up buries it one nothing but that series these have been i think these have been the best most entertaining games maybe i'm just maybe i'm not you know biased talking about it but every single game one goal game and before i throw it to one of you guys after the game i tweeted out what a job by montreal at the end of that game and i thought it

[Biz Nasty]

was awesome but that's how you close out a game i got crushed for

[Paul Bissonnette]

that comment by by montreal fans and tampa fans like that was ridiculous they let him snap it around i'm like whoa now they were a little passive on the six on five okay but you either decide we are going to be aggressive and chase which then opens up tic tac plays here and there or we're gonna pack it in and we're gonna block a ton of they

[Biz Nasty]

blocked they blocked four shots man i know blocked everything and and you know who you know who wasn't passive utah exactly yeah they were running around trying to force them and then you have good skilled players like marner and theodore who are like oh yeah watch this guy running around like he's chasing a a dog bone and then boom they exposed them open up the seams and they put it right in the back of the net so i agree with you whit they they don't argue about anything those montreal fans they don't they just want to argue on they were

[Paul Bissonnette]

still upset at the end of the game that they won but you you'll

[Yanni Gourde]

have to know who you're playing against if you're playing against a guy like kirill caprisov and you're chasing him if he can get the slipped by one guy a seam's going to open he's going to hit somebody back door for a tap and so i thought they played it perfectly and going back to gallagher i know a lot of montreal fans were wanting him in the lineup after doc made that he iced it and then went out to the point they want to dock out and gallagher in shout out to marty for keeping doc in waited a game and then gallagher came in and just brought like an extra you know extra little bit of juice for them like a guy that's been around for so long you could tell like there was a little more they were playing for when a guy like that in the lineup you want him to stay in the lineup i thought doish was their best player tampa probably i'd give him the edge in that game thought they played a better game but i thought doish was unreal for them last night or was

[Paul Bissonnette]

that last night yeah i know i

[Biz Nasty]

mean it's been a it's been a great redemption series for some canadians like you talk about gallagher like being a healthy scratch and accepting it but still being a leader in the locker room and you know i don't know obviously he's on the back nine but kirby dock again scores a goal like listen he's a free agent at the end of this season man like a couple games ago after that icing and that tough play off of the face off you might never see him in a canadiens jersey again and all of a sudden he bounces back with the goal and assist game and then has another big one that fourth line for montreal or some people are saying hey it's not the fourth line like i don't know exactly if i want to call the deno line the fourth line like either way they're getting limited ice they're a bottom six line and they are bringing the noise with texier and bolduc which i'll never understand that trade by saint louis

[Merles]

yeah that was a tough one for me to go back to that six on five at the end it was it was crazy how close matheson was playing into the net just leaving kucherov over there and i was like what are they doing what are they doing but then i thought back to the small stat i happened to see before that texier goal kucherov one goal in his last nineteen playoffs he's

[Biz Nasty]

a passer he's looking for haggle so

[Merles]

that's what they just let him they sunk in and let him let him go shoot go shoot cooch and he didn't want to and he hasn't wanted to and and that was just great coaching there by whoever runs their five on six in montreal i was wondering

[Biz Nasty]

if it was marty exactly they radish

[Paul Bissonnette]

didn't even really get i think one shot radish might have hit dobush in the head but they packed it in and they let i think it was radish going down to hagel and dobush did make a great save he came in with the backhander maybe it was gensel but i was like man you can't chase him and they know you chase cooch he's gonna find somebody you've already seen the back doors to hagel but for montreal if you told me that through five games caulfield had one suzuki had no goals demidov had no goals new hook has no goals hudson hudson's been their best player he's got two and three and five games and i don't think you'd think that they'd be up in this series right like it's been it's been surprising now vasilevsky he's he's also announced as a vesna finalist but that texier goal man it's just that's that's a save when they're winning cups he makes every single time hits his glove shot from the outside squeaks through and they got the lead with about i think there was about what eighteen minutes left when he scored that early in the third and they hold on and i think tampa has a lot more to give i i think i picked this one in seven i think i did i i wouldn't be surprised if they go in there i'll put it this way i don't think both mini and montreal close their series out at home i i i don't know the teams they're playing against are too good but based on last night like if caulfield can pop off or suzuki can get his first then then we could see this thing ending the crowd's going to be wild but dovish man we thought i thought at times coming down the stretch at the end of the regular season that it would be fowlers in that dobush have been great as well and then they went with dovish he got so hot and biz you said it he was he was nails at the end you're

[Biz Nasty]

seeing a few teams get it be able to get it done without like their first line taken over right like montreal may be a little a little more surprising based on how dominant they were in the regular season but you saw it with carolina in the first round where you know it's it's a very comforting thing knowing that you don't need your first line going like a ho and jarvis and it to me it was it was stank and hall that carried them through that series rather than the big guys so this time of year man you need everybody stepping up in montreal specifically between the the fourth line and now obviously between those other guys they they get it done yeah lane hudson's been crazy what a what a what a playoff for him so far the amount of ice he's lugging he's like a he's like old

[Paul Bissonnette]

school carlson right now yeah jake evans on the ice for one scoring chance against and won eighty five of his face off so like that's a guy that just he's a playoff type player do you remember last year they were talking about trading him at the deadline no they resign him great idea great move by montreal to keep him and what was the last thing oh so canadian fans have been calling for lightning fans diving and they still think cooch dove on that cross they've had a few themselves exactly that bullduke won yesterday yeah cooch the lumberjack just gives him a whack but it was he sold it he sold that one that's part of this game this series has been intense great games one goal games i would think we see another overtime game in game six just based on how even these two teams are but anything else in this series from any of you guys

[Yanni Gourde]

no excited for game six

[Paul Bissonnette]

yep gensel most goals per game by an american in the history of the stanley cup playoffs got his forty third goal in his i think it was like his seventy ninth playoff game something

[Biz Nasty]

like that i'll never i'll never understand why why pitt didn't sign him yeah that's i'll i'll keep just because of he's automatic in playoffs like i don't know if you're worried about you know his regression as he gets older but he's just one of those players that has a knack for he's he's always going to be in the right place like he's not afraid to go to the hard areas like he just like he's a gamer i love jake the

[Yanni Gourde]

snake and his his hockey iq like i know we talk about it a lot and some guys aren't as fat like you look at a guy like mark stone not that fast but their hockey iq and that takes over in playoffs right when the game's faster and everybody else is panicking with the puck and you look over at jake gensil and he's just cool as a cucumber just doing his thing scoring goals but he also plays fucking hard like he gets in the like he's in every scrum that there's going i mean there's a ton of scrums in this series alone but he's not afraid to get in there he obviously knows what it takes to win crazy crazy biz that pittsburgh got rid of him but he he's doing his thing once again in

[Paul Bissonnette]

tampa he was chirping the canadians after he scored that goal he went by his bench and was giving it to their bench so yeah you see some intensity coming out of him but but he is just money in the playoffs and we'll see if cooch can i think we could all agree based on his regular season there's a little more

[Yanni Gourde]

for cooch yeah i think cooch and bassey is the biggest they they got to be their best players these next

[Paul Bissonnette]

two games even coach losing the puck at the blue line when i think evan's got that like i've never seen

[Biz Nasty]

him do that oh i i like obviously there's been a few games where we've been on air on tnt like we didn't have that game it could be like a classic case of the top lines going at one another and like canceling each other out right like so that's like these guys are so good i mean i think that suzuki is probably going to win the selkie is that kind of i think we can all agree well he's going to be top three right so all of a sudden maybe he's taken on more of a defensive responsibility rather than focusing on getting his cookies hoping that the other guys can kind of figure things out and so far that's been the case so you know you don't know you don't always need to make an impact on the score sheet to have a big impact on the series

[Paul Bissonnette]

yep

[Merles]

no doubt any thoughts on the russians being checked out ready to go home already got a stanley cup i don't

[Paul Bissonnette]

know it used to be that they'd really want to play in the world championships but they can't do that either so i don't know no based on how they've played in prior years but but they can't win games at home in the playoffs for four years now they do not have a good record in that arena our my buddy maxime lapierre funny tweety biz biz tweeted out his pajama montreal canadians i think he's got pajamas for every team effort they win he's got his pajamas with his coffee he said stay away from my team but he's been going at the crowd in tampa saying how quiet it is just a dead arena which i mean that place has been buzzing before

[Biz Nasty]

but but here's a stat right here tampa has lost ten of its last twelve home games in the postseason despite four hundred and sixty consecutive sellouts we should get max le perrier on oh

[Paul Bissonnette]

yeah he said he would and he's got a show i want to go on i want to i said i'd go on his once playoffs like cools down a little bit but yeah tampa

[Merles]

even tried they had our boy gruden come on before the game to fire them up and did you hear about it whitman no so in tampa they got these big lightning chugs like these beer things lightning that you can drink out of he probably said he declined it he said no i'll just do

[Biz Nasty]

the horn did he actually and he

[Yanni Gourde]

skateboarded to the game you're around that

[Biz Nasty]

ain't true what a legend oh my

[Paul Bissonnette]

god all right my oilers boys they stayed alive they did it they weren't going down at home it's an uphill battle we're going into the pond we're back to anaheim tonight ten o' clock eastern i don't know what to think

[Biz Nasty]

i think they're gonna win this series oh what do you mean i'm not even trying to buddy date after oh

[Paul Bissonnette]

tell me why tell me why because

[Biz Nasty]

conor looked like he was not hurt anymore like one thing he looked like he was skating better he looked way more confident and they just looked like they kind of just finally just settled in i don't know and i feel like i feel like anaheim like you'll see a push here but i just i think it's that point where edmonton's like ah we got to get our juices flowing to really find our game like kind of like boosh like i gotta be last man back toe dran really get my juices flowing to get in get involved in playoff hockey and i just feel like they're there and i yeah i just they're good ingram looks solid he looked great he looked he looked great right it was a good call to go back to him although like i other than the last goal i didn't think jari was that bad but no i think they looked a lot more sound defensively a lot less and it seems like they've they've figured things out that's why i think

[Yanni Gourde]

that doe style has given up the first shot of a goal of a game twelve times this year he's been

[Paul Bissonnette]

he's been not good in this series

[Biz Nasty]

like he he was big in the game was it the one that went

[Paul Bissonnette]

to overtime the ot yeah the the other viral clip i had yeah the

[Biz Nasty]

couple saves david and yeah no he yeah he looked good in that game but other than that i i kind of agree with you it's been a bit of a show in that this

[Merles]

series i gotta ask where was it stoff that put out that connor mcdavid is a game time decision i think

[Biz Nasty]

that's gamesmanship i think they did that on purpose because i feel like maybe you know you have a younger group we've talked about the leaders they have in anaheim but there's probably a lot of younger players and i i would assume that they're on social media and they're probably here and there's oh oh and then all of a sudden their focus goes to that rather than the fact that they got to close out and win a game regardless if he's in the lineup or not i think that that is pure pure gamesmanship along with dickinson right they said the same thing about dickinson and he played i

[Paul Bissonnette]

think dickinson though is like he looks

[Yanni Gourde]

a little more banged up he's he's

[Paul Bissonnette]

obvious like he had that game one where he was dominant and then he doesn't even play game two he's hurt the entire end of the regular season he's legit probably like going out in war ups like i think i could do it but really hurt where you knew mcdavid was playing i agree with you though biz gaymanship and and shout out knobloch i mean he put mcdavid and dry saddle together from the start of the game i don't think you can do it tonight based on like having not having the ability to throw them out there with last change but you know nugent hopkins with pod colson and hyman that looked pretty good that pod colson man i don't know what vancouver was thinking he fights he hits he scores but bouchard player of the game in my mind the first the first assist he fires it through the zone to paul's an unreal pass that was a great shot that assist at the end when he dishes it to mcdavid who goes over to leon i think it was the fourth goal buddy look like having been a defenseman the balls this guy has to fake a behind the back pass on a rolling puck at his blue line to then take a very quick like forward stride and open open up the hips and then snap it over that was that was sick and then i think that's a set play you think so no

[Biz Nasty]

no i think well you see mcdavid he like goes outside the blue and then now he's going towards the ducks net so i think that that that it's like his job there is to bait one of them i think because of of paling and how fast he is and how fast he closed on him kalorn ended up biting as well i think that they're like we got him we got him so then the the goal there is to bait one of them and then get that puck over the other side as mcdavid skates into it i'm not saying like it's a perfectly set play but like there's really no reason for mcdavid to be outside the zone and getting speed to come back towards anaheim's net unless they're trying to do that play where they go back over to him right i

[Paul Bissonnette]

agree that it's like set up for him to get going downhill just but to get it to him that way was incredible like it's still up to boost to somehow figure it out yeah and that that that play by the

[Yanni Gourde]

play by mcdavid too like a lot of guys would get that and either pass it right away or shoot it but he held on to it for that one extra second to make those styles set yeah right in the middle of the net and then he know you know he's gonna pass it but he has to set in the middle and can't move his feet and then he slides it over to leon and obviously that's leon's spot he's like he's like gunther over there and buddy you

[Biz Nasty]

just said there though like like we know he's passing it but when you look at the replay he's looking right at the goalie he's like ready to shoot it where these guys work on selling it and that's why we talk about like pasta sometimes his playmaking ability and you see him coming off the wing sometimes where you're like oh he's gonna zip that thing and then it's like boom he changes his wrists over and he's zipping it back door right on the tape to somebody so these guys have fine tuned those skills to make the goalies bite come out set their feet and it makes a world of difference because these guys are such good skaters and they get such a good push these goaltenders where if you don't do that they're gonna get over and make that save like so it's yeah it's remarkable it was like the

[Yanni Gourde]

vassal remember the anderson goal i think it was game one or something when anderson went short side he had someone back door but vassi cheated it a little bit but he's got eyes on the goalie these guys are so good at just knowing they have that option to pass it but they're also forwards where they're thinking shot first yeah that's

[Biz Nasty]

a great that's a great call on that anderson goal big time he cheated on that one if you want to

[Merles]

use your back channels to win this game for us tonight and they are splitting up leon and mcdavid i'm going to teach the coach what to do okay if mcdavid's lines out there you can have leon dry seidel changing for mcdavid leon changes for the first forward that comes so that way there is some overlap on their lines i see it every time they're changing for each other so there's none of that overlap okay and that could be the the

[Yanni Gourde]

x factor tonight get them twenty seconds maybe together snapping around that's a great

[Biz Nasty]

call you should i love that i

[Paul Bissonnette]

would say like like just oilers score first they've scored first in every game the ducks are just they come back it seems like they were the number one team this year they just come back all the time in the third period too in this series they've done it but should be a great one i think that crowd i mean they've been waiting for a series win for a long time and quenville being there that's what's scary like just the ability to calm down a team trying to close it out he looked he looked

[Yanni Gourde]

fuming i thought his mustache was gonna

[Biz Nasty]

fall off i thought he gets like

[Paul Bissonnette]

this with his mustache it's so funny

[Biz Nasty]

he's doing the dive

[Paul Bissonnette]

hey do we

[Yanni Gourde]

know anything about the butcher what's his

[Paul Bissonnette]

status i don't know i i think he's still hurt right he'd be in the lineup right if unless he comes back tonight that means he'd been a scratch just don't lose to the fourth line for the ducks that line finally was a little more quiet if they go out and beat us again it's it's just a tough feeling but very excited for tonight merles thank you so much for hopping on buddy we're gonna bring in the arm dog now great

[Merles]

trip with you buddy before i go go over to game notes we had wayne gretzky on last week out this shirt i have and i know there's a draft king ad read coming up it's kentucky derby weekend so make sure you you got to take two of our horses you got to take dave's horse on on friday the gray horse lovely gray race thirteen to fifteen and then in the derby we got you guys talked about them before the one horse renegade mike rapoli's horse so those are my horse picks for the weekend but go to game notes and you get the hockey picks for tonight all

[Paul Bissonnette]

right thank you mer you guys do you guys remember school lunches as a kid you guys do you remember when you had the reese's look at that oh buddy the easter egg oh my god the miniature reese's cup you were basically the king kong of school when you had a reese's reese's is dropping two limited edition cups the return of the reese's strawberry pb and j and the all new reese's marshmallow cup younger you would have done anything to get one of these luckily adults you can buy them whenever you want but only for a limited time so grab one before they're gone reese's the official candy partner of barstool sports get reese's at hersheland dot com reese's and draftkings merle's just mentioned it the derby week is here dk horse awesome new aspect of the app one of the biggest events of the year the fastest two minute in sports and when it comes to betting the derby draftkings is your home for horse racing gentlemen suit up ladies bring out those wide brim hats because when those gates open it's not just a race race it's the best sweat in sports and it's not over till it's over picking your horse is half the fun name jockey number colors everyone has a different reason for why they pick the horse they pick all the odds all the races and the best promos with the same draftkings experience you know and love right now draftkings has brought back their king of the track promotion all draftkings customers can opt in bet five dollars or more on a hearse to win the derby if your horse wins or crosses the finish line first you'll win a share of one million dollar prize pool boys so who will reign supreme download the dk horse racing app and use code chiclets that's code chiclets on dk horse bet five dollars or more on a horse to win the derby for your shot at a piece of one million dollars only on draftkings the crown is yours gambling

[Army]

problem call one eight hundred gambler eighteen and over twenty one and over in certain states to open owner access an advanced deposit wagering account in resident of state where dk horse or dk race eligibility restrictions apply void where prohibited first eligible bet only must win to share prize pool cash reward via click to claim that expires in thirty days limited time offer see terms at dk horse dot com bet offer details or racing dot draftkings dot com bring in the

[Paul Bissonnette]

armed dog he's going to have to do an obituary for his club for his team the pittsburgh penguins they battled buddy they made it a series but in the end it wasn't enough enough

[Army]

yeah it wasn't enough boys thanks for having me on merle's great job what a beauty hey can you believe we got ninety nine on our show i know great work by you guys merle's idea too with the ninety nine cup which we did like a snake draft of picking players gretz actually pardoned me for my punishment i was supposed to have to score nine hundred ninety five goals and and pass to someone like two thousand billion times to do all this my back would have been blown

[Biz Nasty]

out oh god you'd have to make your own you'd have to go to wit's house you would have looked like

[Paul Bissonnette]

me on the rollerblades that's what i

[Army]

would have had i would have been skating like that absolutely so pretty amazing i and and he also said and i know merles has this rule right and i think we all kind of agree you can't wear ninety nine because it's the great one's number like yeah

[Biz Nasty]

tj watt did it but yeah he

[Yanni Gourde]

wants guys to wear it he told

[Army]

me he said hey army like like i know you guys say this but if you want to wear ninety nine in beer league army you can wear ninety wow buddy i almost melted it's a great one you know and he's just on there telling great stories you know how he is he's he's amazing so that was amazing for show ninety nine for game notes but the that night after i did that show game six for the pens boys and i'm telling you like i had high hopes like when they won game five and they started to look good i'm like oh okay here we go we got something cooking i went from like if we win game five it's gonna go seven that's how i felt and then going into game six i'm like if we win game six we're winning the series the pens are winning the series like they just had mojo they had momentum and i i give the flyers a ton of credit man like we have to buddy holy first of all games one to three they were on a mission like they were feeling it they were rolling couturier amazing they're young guys amazing they put bump in the lineup and scratch mechkov bump scores amazing like everything like they got some good good young players coming in there right now and then they put mechkov in and he sits on the ot winner

[Paul Bissonnette]

last night he was dangerous couple chances

[Army]

yeah he had a breakaway i can't believe he didn't tuck that one in on the goal he's pretty crafty in and around the net like down low

[Paul Bissonnette]

oh the later one when he was

[Biz Nasty]

behind the same shift he had the breakaways later in the shift yeah he

[Army]

came out from behind he kind of went down low and then had had she loves kind of look like out of position and kind of did like a little sneaky little maneuver to try to tuck it in behind him somehow it stayed out but those goalies were keeping everything out last night it was it was insane that was a great zero zero like it got it got

[Biz Nasty]

a little uneventful i would say in the last half the game i would say after the first five minutes for the last fifteen minutes of the first period flyers were coming hard on the forecheck like they were getting pucks turned over i felt like flyers were the better team probably the first half of the game and then things kind of got in that stalemate situation where especially in the third like it's like oh they're like nobody wants to make a mistake but yeah the two stars of the game were the goalies i felt like both teams like they weren't getting the puck up enough like there was a lot of like like like pad saves where it's like you just got to elevate it and it's a free goal army i gotta ask you though like there were some career years for players on the pittsburgh penguins that i was a little underwhelmed with come playoff time and it's hard right like some of these guys aren't experienced a few other guys are but maybe haven't found their their playoff game yet very disappointed in mantha chenikov was was not the same player he was in the regular season let's let's start there well yeah

[Army]

and career years from both of them chinikov came over he had eighteen goals and i think forty three games with the penguins when he came over man the career year thirty three goal regular season free agent at the end of the year as well oh by the way twenty career playoff games seven assists zero goals for manta he had an unbelievable opportunity also in that game it puck kind of popped to him out

[Biz Nasty]

of the audience at the end his brain died like there's never scored a

[Army]

playoff goal no he's never scored a playoff goal can you believe in twenty

[Biz Nasty]

games there was three times he was around the net where i'm like oh this guy just like legit forgot how to play hockey for five seconds in

[Paul Bissonnette]

that in that well the winner the winner i don't know he's you just got to be in the lane of york okay so michkov has the puck over there i forgot who's on him and he's standing he's standing in the middle of the ice where he's not he doesn't have his head on a swivel so he's not seeing that york's moved over if he slides over new york gets that he's not shooting it or he's at least maybe missing the net if you're in the right lane but he got it and then man the panics to get over it's like oh bud you just gotta you gotta know where you are as meechkov dishes it across or don't even let him

[Yanni Gourde]

dish it across and mitchkov mitchkov made that pass on his backhand that should

[Army]

he never ever yeah like was that a pretty risky pass by meech coba was nowhere yeah i know but like it was a danger zone his own kind of play you know but like for him he just got healthy scratch he's back in the lineup he was buzzing pretty good obviously has offensive confidence in himself like he's he's an offensive guy but to make a backhand pass at that stage of the game manta

[Yanni Gourde]

was in the corner had no stick you know when you have no stick and you don't know what to do that's what he looked like you have to either be in the lane or be low enough so if york does get in you're in the lane to come out and block that he would was he was just straight up in

[Biz Nasty]

no man's land he was not only was he not in the lane he was he was backed off like he was like yeah i would say he probably had ten feet to get that backhand over to york where he had no pressure on him and and like you said when you have that angle from behind the net you're seeing you're like why is he standing where he is from antha so i would say a very a very forgettable series where you could it's almost like you could visibly see that the moment was getting to him a little bit yeah he's

[Army]

he's very casual you know i think through his career he looks casual like he's big and he's like he has pretty silky mitts you know he has pretty good hands like on that chance out front he went to go like to his backhand quick and it just like duffed it like like the urgency to like score like pounded in like you know to do that he's just different that way he was like that all year but he scored thirty three but in the playoffs when it ramps up and it got a little tighter it was hard it's same with chinikov like the flyers were were really good in the neutral zone early in that series he's an off the rush guy great skater smart heads up guy had pretty good chemistry with novak and malkin on that line but they couldn't get anything going like the flyers talk has them playing like a really good brand of hockey to get in the playoffs they lost it for a little bit after they got up three nothing they lost that that what is it scumbag you call them busy we all call

[Biz Nasty]

them that because like they do play a little scummy i was gonna ask you about that like do you feel like they were being a little greasy early on like to me to me i go back and listen pittsburgh had its moments too right like you saw the hair pull like even last night even though lazotte didn't get him clean like he kind of missed him and then and then martin gino shooting it

[Yanni Gourde]

into the coach

[Army]

yeah yeah i mean it was chippy early and definitely flyers kind of carried that early and that was kind of a thing that was it worked for them it really worked for them then the penguins started to turn it they started to get their legs i don't know if they were like totally like my feeling is i don't think they were like they had time off they clinched early they sat guys going into the playoffs and i think it just like they were caught flat early

[Paul Bissonnette]

you gotta shout out vladar and and i wonder on pittsburgh side i wonder if you go to she loves a little earlier he was i mean he was great that saved last night when he dropped his stick and oh my god tone hit his stick out i thought he saved it live like with this with his pad but he was unreal like i mean yeah but vladar boys had never started a playoff game before this series didn't have a shutout this year in fifty one games got two in the series penguins were out shooting the flyers ten to one at one point in overtime and he just stood tall gave some great interviews after the game i think there was a moment in that game when he kind of was bark yeah biz throw it on he was barking at his team a little bit wake the up it wasn't at the bench but i think it was like around his net i mean how about this stat he became the fifth goalie in franchise history with a series clinching shutout and the most saves by a flyers goaltender in a series clinching victory so so nine hundred and thirty seven one hundred and sixty one this series just an incredible display and i don't know if this was gamemanship or talk being a veteran but when they iced that puck i think it was the second period and they'd had about a three minute shift i don't know how they didn't get a penalty dude i know and i couldn't believe muse wasn't flipping out more that he just he just kind of figured out a way to get these guys all this extra s oh no he wasn't on the ice he's supposed to be on the ice place i think talk was telling the ref like oh let me help you i'll tell you who's supposed to be out there and i came over with the paper i thought muse would be snapping and he could tell he was upset but at that point another coach is screaming at the ref like they're resting right now like get them back out

[Biz Nasty]

there oh yeah talk let's explain that for people who don't maybe know exactly

[Paul Bissonnette]

what you're talking about yeah okay so when you ice the puck you have to keep all the guys on the ice that have been out there right you cannot change after an icing an old rule now a great rule i think and there never can be a tv timeout after an icing either or in the middle of a power play because they don't want the chance for the guys to rest and stuff like that well i i want to say it was around a three minute shift those guys were caught out there oh yeah and they iced the puck i think tippett might have iced the puck and all of a sudden philly just caused enough madness and like commotion that they were they they fooled the refs they basically fooled the refs well it's

[Biz Nasty]

kind of like like teams do it all the time right you throw it a couple so all of a sudden there's nine guys on the ice and then the linesmen are trying to like be like no no no no you can't go and then they got to figure that out and it's been happening since they they obviously came up the rule because anytime you do you find a way to try to abuse it and get away with it and what sometimes happens is when you do that and you're being scummy about it then then they'll give you a delay a game penalty because that's exactly what you're

[Paul Bissonnette]

doing which i thought they could have got one there man sometimes it's a

[Biz Nasty]

little bit more obnoxious than others and then the refs and and you know they do enforce it it to call that type of penalty in playoffs in a big moment like that talk in coaching staff very smart because a lot of refs don't have the balls to do it in that moment although yeah

[Army]

let me ask you this do you think it's like now like you see them coming over with their they have to get everything right you know when that big scrum happened in philly too brian russ and kinectne were going at

[Paul Bissonnette]

it that was a ten minute delay

[Army]

that was insane the numbers and everything like they have to get it right i think back in like you know a few years ago the refs would have been like you five guys get

[Biz Nasty]

in there you know it's it's it's a hard job and this has been what rod's been trying to enforce and every time he gets asked about it he goes buddy i've been saying this since i came into league as a head coach like we asked so much from these referees where you want them to get it right but there's a million things going on it's going a million miles an hour we use video replay for for a offside why wouldn't like for instance in the scrum that they had where their player walker got sucker punched just go to the video go to the video you'll see exactly who did what in the scrum it'll be solved way faster than it was it won't take ten minutes the the refs will be able to see oh this is what went down when i was scrumming it up trying to separate delorier and brady tkachuk throwing bombs and i was trying to survive and and keep my own life going here here so what happened there that was a

[Army]

big moment though whit to your point though because it was the penguins fourth line actually the flyers fourth line played really good too and they put forester down on that fourth line last night and that was a big difference maker but at that moment in the game too it was it was a penguins fourth line which was really good for them all year long just a great

[Biz Nasty]

energy they were awesome last night yeah

[Army]

achari doer lazotte they've been great all year and they they they started looking and started dictating like energy they're kind of like an identity line for the penguins a little bit it but they had the shift and then what they would do is they they'd stack a shift and then boom crosby's line would come out and that was the one time in the game though where they really had him drinking out of a fire hose and they got that icing and then the three minute talk delay on the who's who's out here funniest

[Paul Bissonnette]

clip was talks like i can help i i'm pretty sure he's like let me help you out i can tell it was like oh this veteran dinner

[Biz Nasty]

reservations i got a great speakeasy for you after the game hey but to

[Yanni Gourde]

brenda morgan his point like especially during playoffs there's always an extra ref anyways have him with an ipad in the room with a microphone that says hey it was tippett connect me barky and like it can be two seconds and they can tell you who's on the

[Paul Bissonnette]

ice that's a good call i mean you see the world championships and they they got the microphones the refs and you could have that backup ref in case of injury just watching everything that's a good idea and then you don't even really have to go to the box and review it you're just getting word in win but let's talk philly and their fans for a second i was very happy for them i know i've said scumbag scumbag city not a big fan but i saw a video it was a cell phone video from maybe last row in the balcony of when that goal went in and buddy they went nuts they were so fired up and what's crazy is we were texting on the group chat that they were panicked during all oh yeah you could watching eggshells watching on tv you could sense like this is the series almost like if we're going back to pittsburgh i don't know if we're getting this thing done the reverse sweeps there's a chance for a reverse sweep and it just seemed the nervous energy couple let's go flyers chance got started they'd end quick and not to mention like how are you supposed to not be panicking as the penguins are peppering them i think biz sent to the group that through about ten to twelve minutes of ot achari lazotte and they played more than crosby but but they they deserve to be out there they had the puck in the zone the entire time i know there was a couple chances achary had a one timer and vadar just stood tall and then for cam york to get that goal so when they interviewed him on the bench after it said six career playoff goal i was like what i i was so confused it was wrong it was his first he hadn't scored since january this year just the perfect shot we talked about not the correct coverage wasn't there but but man he snaps that one who was screening in front it was

[Army]

it might have been shayzy for

[Biz Nasty]

the pens i forget which wasn't it

[Yanni Gourde]

no no mar was it forester i

[Paul Bissonnette]

think it might have been forester

[Biz Nasty]

another

[Yanni Gourde]

guy i know we talked about him earlier with the blade gang ristalignan for he's never played in the playoffs six games one goal four assists him him and sanheim were unbelievable this series like like another one of those guys you talk about it with manta like when you look at him you're like oh my god this guy's built for playoffs like risto's regular season like the during the regular season he was okay one goal thirteen assists but like just a guy when you can get him in the playoffs and i know he has never played in the playoffs he he was unbelievable for them and obviously a a guy that can clear the front of the net so vladar can see everything him and sandheim doing such a good job against sid yeah so shout out to him like especially waited fifteen years or what what is it ten years to play in the playoffs he

[Army]

made like one mistake like when mantha like bumped him off the puck in game five and they scblom scored to start game five like that was time but he was he would like ristalan was rock solid like i thought he was more like thinking of him you think of him more as like a big rock steady physical guy that could move pucks he can fly too like he pumps it through the neutral zone and he takes it in the offensive zone and he did a lot of really good things for them he was super important for them it's crazy he hasn't had playoff games no question but like he was good the one guy that was like unbelievable like kind of redemption in a different role than people are probably used to see like sean couturier was unreal he was unbelievable like so impactful in games one two and three didn't notice them the next few games the penguins won then last night game that game six he was a horse like selkie like he's so good at stripping pucks like wedging the little can openers on the wall like stripping it off guys he's so big he's just crafty and smart and then when he was when he's going like that hanging on the pucks he settles the game down he has poise he can take contact like he settled the game down for them a lot they use the line a lot but when he was going like that he changed like the flyer's game kind of like at times they're drinking out of a fire hose air mailing pucks out of their zone the penguins had some good stuff going but they they shut it down like it was hard for the penguins to get inside man it was it was hard they had shots and stuff but like they made it hard all series and and then vladara was a brick wall so like pretty amazing their fans though gritty was like beating the out of a penguin like doing crimes on him throwing the penguin off the top deck down on the fans fans were grabbing the penguin in the ring rink and they were doing crimes like insane beatings on these penguins when gritty would show up malkin's walking into the rink before game six last night and like a eight year old kid is yelling malkin you suck on on social media like that's right that was battle

[Paul Bissonnette]

of pennsylvania the flyers fans they put the phillies on the big screen they're

[Biz Nasty]

booing the phillies yeah no it was it was a battle it was definitely a great battle of pennsylvania i was hoping it would go seven but the way that it ended to close it out you got you guys nailed it going back to like risto's got pretty like you would think for a big mutant like that pretty underrated puck skills like he's not like he's decent with really good makes the great first pass like you guys said i thought that their their their big mutant d just really showed up i was very very impressed with sealer and the way that he's close off shots he move he moves pretty good like defensively he moves a bit like a gazelle man he like closes on guys quick no time and space i mean you guys slanheim it speaks for itself and i think

[Army]

those i think those other two like york and drysdale moved great dancers good skater puck movers but they played they played gritty yeah they played hard they blocked shots they took hits to go back and get pucks and move them like they played a hard game and it was i was curious with those guys because i don't think we look at those two guys as those kinds of players but talks got him oh

[Biz Nasty]

he's got them bought in yeah he's got him bought in and listen man we talked about it right away like like mechkov was a non factor in the first four games of the series talk it like taking him out of the lineup like he knew he was gonna get scalded and the fan base was going to turn that into a massive show online he still did it anyway he let him get the reset and then he put him back in and i loved i love the line he put him on because you mentioned forester i actually thought that he fit better on the couturier line like i i liked him where he was at and like it's not even it's kind of like it's kind of like the penguins like yeah i guess in in the kirby dock like you can call it a fourth line but when they're playing and they're going they're throwing them over the boards like they're not just

[Paul Bissonnette]

treating them like this it's not an old school fourth line it's not an

[Biz Nasty]

old school fourth line felt that forester and couturier they were vibing well and like were having good shifts just the same way that bump and mechov were and and ultimately i thought that he hit all the right buttons and he had him playing the way that he they did and yeah what a remarkable job from top to bottom for that

[Army]

desperate like they had to win that i feel they had to win it

[Paul Bissonnette]

and they did and and and when things are going right as a coach which they are right now for talk talk when he scratched me cough bump comes in and scores a beauty it's like that's just when you're everything you

[Army]

touch back in and mechkov gets the assist on the ot winner what do

[Biz Nasty]

you what do you guys want to see make of how much noise came out of like online when when he

[Yanni Gourde]

did that i think it just shows me how confident talk is in his cell in himself in his own skin knowing what's better for the team is maybe setting this guy out for one game you knew he probably wasn't going to take it the right way he might have had a toy i heard he stormed out of the room no

[Biz Nasty]

i think all that was just rumors and okay all right hopefully he took

[Yanni Gourde]

it the right way it is kind

[Army]

of crazy though that like in philly there's like a i wouldn't say it's all their fans but there's like a a crazy section of fans that are like crazy like you can't do anything to me he's like an untouchable guy and it's like the social media stuff with them and like they're like a gang it's like a meech cop gang

[Paul Bissonnette]

well i think they they we've said all year they've they're very very desperate for a young superstar yeah and well

[Yanni Gourde]

they got it that way and that's

[Paul Bissonnette]

marketed as martone and he slowed down a little bit as a series on it's still really good but the points stopped the last few games as he gets better it might quiet down a little bit if they're like oh my god it's this guy but you know what i as a guy who started the michkov can't skate thing he was

[Biz Nasty]

good last night yeah we've already said that i was just more asking like man like i've never seen where it's like taking what he did in the first four games and then taking him out it becoming such a story and a distraction online i think is the craziest i've ever seen for somebody who it's like he didn't do anything for four games like why are you saying

[Army]

you want what are they seeing what

[Biz Nasty]

are they seeing they're like like they're literally like we want the coach fired again it's like he just took you from being a lottery team to the second round of playoffs he's done this with two teams that he's taken over in their in their first year like

[Paul Bissonnette]

i actually think no matter what biz that he would have played next game had they won in pittsburgh he's in the first game against carolina and then if they lose he put them back in obviously so i think it was a one game reset and it worked so fires fans i think they're fired up today and they deserve to be

[Yanni Gourde]

another thing couturier seventy three point one percent in the face off yeah that's

[Army]

decent horse horse like he looks huge on the ice too he looks huge so i want to say this too it's sorry to flyers fans and yans you know this you played there but like i sent out that tweet after game five sids on a three game point streak like he kind of willed the team to a victory to take it to game six like just leadership i sent out that tweet of like his eyes you know when he was

[Paul Bissonnette]

on the bench that thing went viral

[Army]

and i was like oh oh no and and all the flyers fans and they didn't really say much and it was mostly positive like yeah sid's sid's unreal ot winner york throws a stick off a guy's dome and then all of a sudden i opened my social media they were waiting two days these guys are psychos they're sick fuck puppies

[Paul Bissonnette]

man i can't believe we didn't mention the stick throw yeah why throw it like that he threw it i don't know if he meant to hit the bench but he said after he's like i hope i don't get a lawsuit or anything i saw the video in the stands of like i think an older guy in front ended up getting it somebody caught it maybe off the head i'm not exactly sure but i don't think there was any problem everyone's so fired up they don't care now you knock somebody's teeth out maybe you got a different story he hummed that

[Biz Nasty]

thing they would let you baseball swing them in the face to go to the second round of playoffs are you

[Yanni Gourde]

kidding me me but like you think of like when i think of the stick throw mark savard did it but like he threw it nicely if you throw someone a golf club or a stick you throw it like that he hum chuckled it sideways like a death star trying to kill someone it was

[Army]

a australian boomerang i couldn't believe how it just snapped out of his hand like that was not that was a laser beam sizzler right in there boy

[Biz Nasty]

they were all taking pictures and videos and passing it around after hitting each

[Paul Bissonnette]

other with it like it was an infinity torch yeah give me that penguin stuffed penguin again i can choke it out with this stick from cam york but army i know that you know you're a penguins guy you work for them but happy you had to be a little happy for your brother i know he works for the flyers and that's awesome for him and let's kind of bring it into next round i mean this is i don't know if i remember seeing and correct me here g the canes are minus two hundred seventy five i think the whole world's picking picking carolina now i'm wondering on business pick here with the vidar if they can keep it running but i think it's going to be tough man like yeah maybe the rest in the first game philly haven't buzzed i don't know when that series will start maybe on monday so they're going to have a little rest too i'm picking carolina i'm kind of bought into carolina they they made me just look like a complete fool against ottawa philly's got something special cooking but man you look at how good sandheim and ristalide and were they're playing twenty six minutes a game carolina doesn't really need to do that that they they got more depth up front more depth in the back if ladar could keep this up that would be a big moment i don't know who wants to kind of start it with your thoughts on this series i

[Biz Nasty]

think that ehlers is banged up right now they're saying he might not play in the second round yeah that would be a pretty significant loss of speed to that third line he'd been playing with stallsy who else is who else

[Army]

is they have that hall they have that hall shankov and that was their

[Biz Nasty]

best that line's going that line oh

[Army]

nikitian got knocked out yeah yeah so

[Biz Nasty]

he might not be playing either i

[Paul Bissonnette]

think skating but in a yellow jersey

[Biz Nasty]

go ahead go go ahead yance we'll let you talk on this first i

[Yanni Gourde]

think i honestly think in the way carolina played obviously they they worked over ottawa but i don't think ottawa was a test test where we can really really see what carolina is made of i don't think they you know created enough offense got enough ozone time stuff like that so i i think it's going to be a better series than people think i think the speed of philadelphia the coaching with philadelphia the way that their d can move they got big d so i honestly think this is going to be a lot tougher series than people think i think people think this is going to be a cakewalk for carolina into the conference finals but but i truly think the way the mojo is going in philadelphia right now the way that if the young guys can continue to help out if coots can continue to play the way that he has obviously we talked about resto and sanheim if those guys can do what they did against sid i i think this is going to be a really good series and i think i think philly can pull it off

[Biz Nasty]

in seven yeah oh wow okay okay i was thinking about going philly and seven i'm i'm gonna the reason i'm gonna switch i'm gonna go over to carolina and seven i agree with you guys like some people think this will be a cakewalk i'm gonna give edge to the flyers and net although anderson was he was great he was he he was great but i'm gonna give it to vlad the way that he played in round one and all season long i think that the problem here is though boys is phillies power play is absolutely dog and carolina has one of the best penalty kills so unless like something miraculous happens overnight that's not going to solve itself so i think overall special teams carolina is going to dominate and i just think that ultimately the speed will wear philly down and the fact that they had to go a little deeper and they've been playing they've been playing playoff hockey for basically the last two months i hate to go against my boy talk it's not that i'm doubting the philadelphia flyers here i just think that experience energy and special teams and will play a major factor in this one so i got i got carolina hurricanes in seven games

[Paul Bissonnette]

i i go ahead go ahead army

[Army]

i just i i think that like i think the flyers play a certain style of hockey that it like i i did game three ottawa carolina in ottawa i was down between the benches was awesome i i think ottawa tries to play more like that rotatey like offense and stuff and on the outside yeah they get the they're trying to you know get skilled and they easily frustrate like stutzel and these guys and you know fancy couple guys on the outside yeah brady's running guys over but i think philly like plays a more of a team style suited to to to kind of battle it up battle it out a little bit with the canes do i think they're going to beat the canes i don't know i think i think canes will win in like six games tops but i think it'll be more better than you think i think philly matches up better all

[Yanni Gourde]

you guys i'm turning into the biggest scumbag of all time yeah yeah exactly

[Paul Bissonnette]

you are a scumbag i my my thought process on this series and biz you said it last episode svetchnikov aho and jarvis being quiet in the first round like yeah it's not gonna stay that way i just can't imagine those guys like not kind of lighting this team up if philly can split in carolina which has has looked impossible for teams in the playoffs right in the first few rounds then we got a series on our hands if they go down there and they lose those first two like you're not beating that team four out of the next five games and that's how it would maybe end in five i got carolina in six i think it's going to be a good series but it's that top line being quiet with a sweep it's like

[Biz Nasty]

apparently jarvis is battling something too oh he is that's what i forgot to say yeah that's okay okay now i heard some listen like i i don't dig hey i don't dig i heard it might be a little bit of a like a shoulder or something that's what somebody said that's a that's a

[Paul Bissonnette]

big deal if him and eaters are both battling something and ehlers isn't even

[Biz Nasty]

playing could be dead wrong though could also be just like an internet idiot

[Yanni Gourde]

but at that point do you put cottorier on the hall line like do you sick him against that line they'll

[Biz Nasty]

have a plan they'll have a plan to slow that line down i'm looking

[Paul Bissonnette]

at the flyers lineup and how they just like have bought in and what they're doing i'm taking carolina i'm going back to seven games i'm going to seven games i think it's going to be a hell of a series i just caroline i think i'm just so scarred from what i just witnessed in ottawa they didn't have they didn't trail for one second guys no i know and going into the playoffs you're like ottawa is a better team than philly it's like i but philly just completely flipped everything on its side nobody really picked him i think i saw the espn picks they had twenty nine people twenty six of them had the penguins so they're used to they're used to being doubted i can't wait till this starts i think it is you know

[Army]

they're writing a great story man it's like they're probably the best story of the playoffs that they're writing nine points out after sixty games played nhl record to battle back and in and like they're they're they're the one team that's really writing an awesome story for themselves especially with a lot of their young guys too like a lot of their young guys kind of coming on the scene here and they have a chance to really like make something for themselves in their first experience in the playoffs you know it's it's it's it's pretty cool like from vladar to york to martone to bump to i don't know bonk almost got in they got all these guys so they got a lot

[Biz Nasty]

of bees yeah bumps and bumps and boxes okay so who's carolina's mascot because right now i have the x factor in the series

[Army]

hamilton the pig it was did they retire him they still

[Paul Bissonnette]

have the pig on the shoulder patch

[Biz Nasty]

no it's like it's like come on it's not even close to as cool as gritty as much as i hate

[Yanni Gourde]

normally the ice hog stormy yeah should

[Army]

you guys know this aren't you guys

[Biz Nasty]

affiliated no we got doyle like our echo mascot is twenty times cooler than the carolina hurricanes mascot no offense but i think an x factor for sure is gritty yeah it's almost like trip tracy's gonna have to like somehow combat that and i'll tell you this for free i'd suck a hammer right now to get his breakdown like right literally right now i want to hear that what that guy has to say about this fight series holy i wouldn't give anything to hear that oh buddy it's almost like we need trip versus gritty that's what the they should just get

[Yanni Gourde]

well then it'd be the flyers in four

[Biz Nasty]

you legends i don't know about that i don't know about that yans

[Paul Bissonnette]

terrific now i'm start now i'm starting though to think like because i'm talking about the first line in carolina like can stankhoven hall and blake like keep that pace up yeah we come over

[Yanni Gourde]

to the dark side side you want

[Biz Nasty]

to come you're going over the dark

[Paul Bissonnette]

side i just want a good series

[Army]

billy's got to muddy the water they gotta muddy the water but you kind of can't push carolina around no ottawa

[Paul Bissonnette]

tried that ottawa tried muddying it army

[Biz Nasty]

where would you rank this the scumminess in the first series against pittsburgh like if you had a pie graph what

[Army]

percent first three games super scummy well

[Biz Nasty]

give me a percentage based on the overall series who who was scummier and by what percent oh i think philly

[Army]

was scummier i the geno shooting the puck thing but that wasn't like that wasn't some of the other stuff like

[Yanni Gourde]

you know cross check on sid at

[Army]

the end he's cross check he kicked rust rust went crazy then then he tried to fight him in front of the whole crowd and they showed it on jumbotron a million times him yelling eight like six and six in the box that was crazy it was a fifteen minute delay and it was on and on just other other incidences of stuff like that that they were that they were doing that they were good at it it and it worked for them early penguins found their game they got a little rust pulling martone's hair we had a little action on the other sides but i think that was kind of philly's calling card i think they're they're they're pretty good at it like they're engaged up and down their lineup they're good at it and i i think it would be wise for them i know ottawa tried that i think they should stick to that it's hard to get through the neutral zone on them it's hard to get into the middle on them ours rock solid but then you've got to be scumbags and kind of slow it down and and grind it up and philly can

[Biz Nasty]

do that where do you guys think the scumminess pie chart needs to be for philly in order to win this series by the end of it yance

[Yanni Gourde]

i think it's got to be sixty sixty forty i i think a little honestly i think like tk a guy like connect me needs to do a little less scumminess and and and play his game because he's so good he can take over a game he can score you big goals goals but he he realized like to get through this first round they had to scum it up so i respect the way he played but i think if he focused more on what he really is really good at scoring goals you know creating offensive opportunities then they'll be much better off so i think a sixty forty i don't need a seventy thirty a sixty sixty forty arm dog thank you

[Biz Nasty]

i think we're gonna i think we're gonna need hathaway hawk another loogie in somebody's face in order for exactly to

[Yanni Gourde]

pull this off let him do it that's what i'm saying like let let guys like him handle that k loogie

[Biz Nasty]

in the face mission first game can

[Army]

i give a shout out before i go boys yes just to to our penguins team we're done for the year great group of people that i worked with awesome awesome times and to the flyers joe seville he hooked me up to do game notes while i was on the road at the rink at morning skates in philly it's kind of like everyone kind of pulls on the rope together so he hooked me up give him a shout out he's kind of their media communications lead guy there good dude dude and chef greg wanted me to say hi to you yeah and so i saw him in the parking lot yesterday honked at me i came over he's like yeah how you doing you know he's a beauty you

[Biz Nasty]

know that was philly's omelet guy yeah

[Yanni Gourde]

yeah yeah he's the best top to bottom that organization one of the best like they're just a classy organization all started with ed schneider but i'm rooting for them man i hope they can pull this one off it'd be a massive upset what'd you say it was with minus two hundred seventy minus two

[Paul Bissonnette]

hundred seventy five canes are favored i know ra is gonna be i would

[Biz Nasty]

be happy with either team advance dancing

[Paul Bissonnette]

in this series yeah army thank you buddy great job on game notes getting gretzky and crushing it hopefully we see a little bit more on tv i'm not sure but love you yeah are

[Biz Nasty]

you in studio at all i don't

[Army]

know i'm waiting here blocked you from

[Biz Nasty]

coming in right well i was i

[Army]

was dedicated to doing the first round i was dedicated to doing the first round so they held me to that i snuck away for one game we had two days off in between games so thank you for that so yeah now i'm available for come one come all you know hey boys oh yeah right now so i got to get

[Paul Bissonnette]

some sun careful all right thanks all right so before we get to i said montreal and tampa's been the best series but utah vegas has been out of control ra is a night owl so i want to have him a part of the discussion of this series but right before we go to him we got an awesome new sponsor guys and for anyone who's ever enjoyed a non alcoholic beer oh i love these athletic is the king athletic brewing company crafts great tasting award winning non alcoholic beer that means no compromises on flavor and no consequences later for enjoying the celebration this is a full flavor non alcoholic beer that never feels out of place there's always a seat at the bar for you not drinking or cutting down on drinking fit for all times can drink anytime anywhere and still go right back to whatever you were doing biz you've loved these on the golf

[Biz Nasty]

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[Paul Bissonnette]

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[Yanni Gourde]

had like six of those one time i thought they were regular beers i'm like oh this is a great beer next morning no hangover and i looked at the thing zero alcohol yeah no

[Biz Nasty]

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[Paul Bissonnette]

it all right

[Ryan Whitney]

hello everybody what's going on welcome to our ra world here on the spitting chickens podcast what is up all what a front first round we had so far seventy five percent of the series are going to two at least six games i gotta think we're getting at least two game sevens out of that the fifth time in nhl history with all eight series in a playoff round to feature at least one ot game and when a best of seven playoff round was tied two two the game five victor goes on to win the series nearly eighty percent of the time that is probably good news if you're a vegas fan we should jump in a vegas utah boys we haven't got to that yet with that one yet brett howden shorty you're right with i was up late i was fighting a little bit fighting a little bit but i stayed up brett howden shorty wins it the second player to win a multiple overtime game with the shorty since his teammate thomas hurdle back in twenty nineteen versus ironically vegas pavel dorofev became the fourth player in nhl history with three tie in goals in a playoff game and so far in nhl history there have been twenty nine instances of a team trailing in the third period in each of the first five games of a playoff series of those twenty nine teams twenty eight were behind in the series that had already lost the series after five games the loan exception this year's vegas golden knights some wild stuff that series people are sleeping on it it's been great the goaltenders numbers aren't particularly pretty but i think it's just been terrific shooting by it by each team so i've been enjoying the hell out of that one biz what do you got for

[Biz Nasty]

us buddy yeah no i agree probably the most underappreciated underrated series so far especially with like the crazy twists and turns to me right now the story is boys special teams i can't believe how dog utah's power play has been i think right now as it stands seven what do you mean seven percent that's when they're at one buddy they're at seven percent they've also gave up two shorties yeah so they're they're minus one on the power play i believe right now the special teams goals are five for the vegas gold knights compared to one for utah draw and boys they had a power play in overtime last night and they lost the game with a shorthanded goal by losing a draw in the offensive zone or the defense utah's defensive zone and they never got out alive it's and biz they

[Paul Bissonnette]

had just weger had just turned it over for a breakaway for eichel too it was like oh you get out of that and you're like thank god for velka here and and then off the draw dude the way marner passed it over i was it theodore i don't remember it's like what is it looked like they were on the power poll play and and i'll say man paterka he's skating around on that winning goal just doing nothing it was if you go back and watch that goal by howden like watch where paterka is it's kind of similar to manta like dude pressure or at least get in the slot instead of standing to the outside doing nothing there's no team trailing in a series that that should be more frustrated than utah right now oh yeah they've had this this this series it should be over even though they

[Biz Nasty]

came back from three zero the last game whit in yans i find this sometimes when teams are on the power plays like when they lose it and the other team has it in in their end sometimes like you see one guy going to it and you're kind of just like oh he'll figure it out or he'll get it done and then even sometimes when they have two it's like they just expect that the puck's going to come to them where they get a little bit lazadaisical hank brought it up on the broadcast and i agree i was never a power play guy guys did you feel that way like did you sometimes fall victim

[Yanni Gourde]

to it i think more so the forwards wit no i love blaming forwards

[Paul Bissonnette]

i remember thinking that in the offensive zone good power plays you lose the puck it is at least two guys if not three and you're working your dick off to get the puck back and in the defensive zone sometimes it's the exact opposite where you're just like oh like i'm not gonna have the chance to get it and make a quick move at the net net and create offense like we'll figure it out yeah biz i do agree with that that at least in your own zone there's times it's just like oh no worries usually there's only one guy down there vegas is realizing like utah can't do anything on the power play let's pressure him as much as we can up ice specifically and they get they get the winner out of that but i mean i was actually amazed throughout this game that the amount of like two on ones they were giving up too and i'm talking i'm thinking odd man rushes on both side but you saw the gent the gunther biz the gun are you calling him gunthvechkin well

[Biz Nasty]

yeah thought of the guns vetchkin because he was chirping me about calling him

[Paul Bissonnette]

well it was the release last night on that one goes a joke bar down and then carconi gets the other one and it was just i was like what is vegas doing but they come back again i think theodore's been phenomenal in this series and what's interesting about vegas at least last night was was echel was a little sleepy he was i don't know like there was moments in that game where he didn't really look like himself he picks it up big time and dorothy of for forgetting i think it was one shift in the third period of the game before or something like that he barely played and he responds with a hat trick dude and and he could have had the overtime winner in the first ot i think tort said after like credit to him i've been i've been on him a little bit about upping his game and and and then he did it and i just can't believe the way utah like to come back in game four how they did and then still lose that game i mean that game i saw biz i think i think biz tweeted it was over and then next thing you know it's four through utah he's got the tusk on he's got the tusk thong on and they still lost so it was like you had the call correct without seeing a a a three goal lead collapse but i don't think it's over i think this one's going seven based on the way these games have been

[Biz Nasty]

i can't i i i said before the game started i thought that vegas was going to win the series in six really yeah i have utah winning the series but i just think that the experience has taken over the clutchness if you if you if you're watching the games not only with like the the way that the turn of events and stuff but you're just like man utah is so much faster they're more skilled like i feel like they're getting more scoring chances and on top of that like carter hart's not playing that well like like his his save percentage is below eight hundred eighty yes maybe he's made a couple clutch shaves but like ultimately you're not getting the goaltending that you may be expected like if they haven't if they have a nine hundred save percentage right now like they're on to the next round already like that's you know he i think that he's he's probably let up what like four goals in in most of the game so for for utah it's just these these brain farts and you saw one at the end of the second period last game tourney calls the timeout and then they figure it out and i agree with you like vegas man they love they love playing with death eh the two two on ones they gave up like the one they got the lead hannifin gets caught in the middle gunther does a great job of tying up a stick and next thing you know he's on a two on one that yamamoto has impressed me me yeah this series he's been a dog on a bone he's been for checking and getting pucks turned over and making great plays and setting guys up but going back did you guys i mean i'm sure you saw the the tying goal six on five they over pressure a little bit they never really get like the two hundred foot clear because they had to punt in the neutral zone and it's just a great write up i go gets the blue line stops up goes cross side to the weak side to alleviate a little bit of pressure but to me man like like marner made a great play the game prior where he turned it over in the forecheck to set up a goal and then on this tying goal i don't know if he ends up i don't think he gets an assist on it but when theodore moves it to him on the wall the job by that middle winger is to get middle ice and then force him flush him down the wall and marner knowing that when he gets it on the wall as soon as that guy turns around to put his stick in the lane marner one touches it back to theodore he doesn't even give him an opportunity to get that stick in the lane and even closing them so all of a sudden that guy trying to force marner down the wall is out of the play gets it to the middle that's when they work it over to eichel and and hank touched on this as well and and and obviously i would have picked it up pop like jack eichel jack eichel's not shooting that puck to score he knows that he has a guy at the net and he knows that he has dorothy going north right down fucking broadway if there is a big juicy rebound off of him going far side pat and what happens the middle guy in front of the net gets tied up and score a fee of pounces on the rebound so what a what a like what a fascinating like player what is what is scorfia gonna get this summer now that he's a free agent he started the year we started our broadcast with tnt in vegas bluntman calls a hat trick pregame he said that he's gonna get a hattie or maybe he said there's gonna be a hat trick tonight night but his guy gets one in the opening night and then boom last night he gets one on our broadcast again just an absolute one of those guys where if he gets one it's like okay he's getting four he's

[Paul Bissonnette]

fine well our guy blutman i watched the game the beginning of the game with him monday night and he's like this guy can't play in the playoffs this guy cannot play playoff hockey and and and buddy's then telling me i just i was just firing him up i was just getting him going like like he was talking talking to him but it doesn't really matter because what he needed to happen actually happened and he got going i even go back to this series has been crazy it's it sucks it's it's so late because a lot of people out east like you know last two go to overtime they're starting late and you're missing just if you're not watching it's incredible hockey i mean utah won the one game getting out shot thirty five to twelve so it's it's just been weird like they've blown leads they've won a game they shouldn't have won yeah biz you're right i will say the heart has made key saves like he's made key

[Biz Nasty]

ones but he's yeah but he's also like on that slide on the one timer from kirkoni like he's like he's flopping like a fish yeah but it's

[Yanni Gourde]

a two on one like you got to expect you're going to have an because i disagree with you like the maybe the marino goal last night i would want back but the other ones they're two on one they're you know they're nhl players you got to expect them to score on a two on one if they're going to make a good passover and then you think he

[Paul Bissonnette]

should have had the krause one last

[Biz Nasty]

night you look at it that one

[Yanni Gourde]

got the number oh it did but his own d man skates right in front of him one mile an hour and takes away his eyes so i don't i think maybe the first one the marino goal you can put on him and then i don't know i i think he's been pretty good but

[Biz Nasty]

then the other night in in utah like the crouser goal there when they went up four nothing like that game he wasn't good that game's on him so i would say that i i think that the fact that they're up three two and it's gone this way and net for them is a major major positive for them because i think that he's gonna go he's gonna go to utah i think he's gonna have a great game six and like i said i i think that they're gonna close out i pick utah to win the series boys but they've squandered their opportunity and i don't think there's a chance that vegas doesn't doesn't clinch this

[Paul Bissonnette]

thing i in utah you think it's

[Biz Nasty]

over i i think it's over man i think i yeah i i i said that after they lost game four

[Paul Bissonnette]

i know based on them just getting leads every game the last two at least i think i think they're winning this game at home they like they just have to close out a game dude they just have to figure out how to end it and you can't do it three times in a row they are so much faster than vegas vegas but there's times vegas looks i mean mark stone out there that guy is so good at hockey talk about hockey iq i mean him on that back check what who had that breakaway

[Yanni Gourde]

it was the funniest schmaltz schmaltz he's

[Paul Bissonnette]

trying and yeah and on that one heart made a big save yeah right and he's stone he's like oh you just see his face as he realized i'm not catching him but he's still stone had to break away himself last night i believe because he's so good with his stick and so smart but vegas is kind of slow i think yeah like they don't come off as like a super quick team and i know last year when edmonton beat him that's what it was it was just edmonton out skated him and utah's done it they just can't finish these games off i think it's going back to i think it's going back to vegas i i hey i think so but all right we've kind of hijacked you here i'm sorry go ahead that's all

[Ryan Whitney]

right that's why i just did a little a little sniffle behind the scenes hey biz we gotta update the motto from pray and sway and pasta souffle after the other night just an unreal goal probably scared the shit out of my neighbors whatever ten thirty at night yelling and screaming after that big goal i gotta think that the bonnie and the team are going to be off the wall tomorrow night huge game six like i said the crowd was as bad as the team last game like the is a word for somnambulent which means like basically sleepwalk sunday afternoon probably not the best time for a boston crowd unless they get up with a little hair of the dog for the night before but after the other night i can't i can't see the bond in the team not responding swayman has been unreal once again we've been saying that every game but how about possibly he became the first player in bruins history to score multiple overtime goals to stave off elimination his other one of course game seven so i trigger one of biz twenty twenty four and this just the seventh overall in history that's kind of wild i mean i mean it's you know to stave off elimination twice at overtime you'd think maybe you know a guy like gretzky or mario might have done it five six times but no only the seventh guy to do it and he's done it twice so good stuff there the bruins penalty killing has been stellar the power play not not ideal but as long as you're not like giving them up on the other end too too bad i don't know i thought it was just the response i expected the game before but yeah i'm feeling really good about it going back to buffalo for a game seven wood what do you got

[Paul Bissonnette]

flag i agree with you i i think it's going back to buffalo i got a buddy here i mentioned who went to the sabers game with the horse face on and i see saw him last night he's like oh this thing's going back to buffalo this just that's just how this is going to play out for the sabers to finally win a series it would be at home i think in game seven all right i do need like give me your thoughts as you saw me on tv with that chug or were you watching nessen no i i i i

[Ryan Whitney]

i prefer the the national broadcast when when it's an option so i i had it on man i was just like what the is he doing like i and i get like but at that point hey who cares it's not like like i don't wear jerseys i don't have a lot of them but i don't win to games specifically because i know either me or somebody else is going to spill beer all over it fucking dollar two hundred fifty you know mitchell nez camili or bob your jersey but like that's a freebie you got from the team it's buffalo too it should smell it surety smell like fucking alcohol when they hand it to you and you know spill it all over you but i know it was a tough visual but you know what you like you always do you step up you owned it it was a up you you you owned up to it right away and that's you know that's all you can ask for but but it was an ugly ugly visual oh by the way the the bartender who you know at the speakeasy who you know was giving me my cadillac margaritas like i'm not gonna outer she's a sweetheart i said hey i goes if it goes seven get a cadillac cadillac margarita or an ice one we so we'll see what happens there i don't know if she's even still working

[Paul Bissonnette]

with the same oh they i i was saying to murray you got to be up there for game seven buddy and have memes follow you around memes is excellent at the at the just getting all the footage dude it's been

[Ryan Whitney]

great yeah it's been a lot of that that that how how much like you know people following other boston characters like oh shout out to ohio state i know people don't like the hell the bastille gossip yeah but he's done a great job with that right there's so much to be found just even little like small conversations and memes is awesome with that no surprise there shout out to memes all right if this

[Yanni Gourde]

goes to seven are you packing the goldfish and going up to buffalo i

[Ryan Whitney]

think i think yeah i'm weather yeah i think i think pretty much at this point i would have to get up there you know like i have no excuse not so the only thing i had penciled in the old man and my bro paulie won that we're gonna go up to the former seabrook racetrack which is now you know our sponsor draftkings they have the casino there so my dad like you know he the dog tracks like closed so my dad started going back when they opened the casino up because you know they got the race the race book and it's the kentucky derby so the boys were going up there and i was like i texted the old man last night or the night before hey what time you guys leave it he's like friday morning and i was like okay like and now the you know the bruins won this game six at home possibly could end up going to that game game seven and also one of my castmates i'm sure he's going to be in town too so he was like hey if you're around let's hang out so i'm like yeah you know and i'm not the biggest horse guy like i'll bet the derby for shits and giggles but like you know so i'm probably gonna hang local this weekend who knows you might see me at six and seven ky so would game

[Paul Bissonnette]

seven be sunday night i believe so

[Biz Nasty]

sunday yeah i think we have it

[Ryan Whitney]

yeah yeah because there were there were there were two two days in between like with that series and what you that was a great point isn't the

[Yanni Gourde]

derby isn't the derby saturday saturday yeah

[Ryan Whitney]

well yeah but like well then well also i don't know this is probably a good time to put it i don't own a vehicle either so i don't want to take a a eighty eighty dollar uber from seabrook you know if like i don't have it's not that far but i don't want to have to go up and back and like i said a buddy reached out said he was going to be a town this weekend so that might sway sway it this way but i still bet the derby yeah leo and poly wlis they love the ponies keith how

[Yanni Gourde]

do you not all right how about

[Paul Bissonnette]

this one and you probably you probably had this the nhl's buzzing you guys bill shout out you guys at t man shout out espn man maybe the olympics i have to think has something

[Biz Nasty]

to do with this gave everybody a

[Paul Bissonnette]

bump eighty three percent up from last year games with one million games with one million plus viewers twenty twenty five there was one right now there's nineteen and now granted buffalo being in philly being in pittsburgh being in big time hockey markets that that matters but hockey's in a great spot and people are loving i even saw our guy min see say oh my god the nhl playoffs are incredible i'm watching more and more every year so it's you guys are doing a great job there biz

[Biz Nasty]

and oh it's the whole league man the league's thriving it's great to see and it's it's nice to see that like our amazing sport is getting acknowledged where i think a lot of people just see like the blood sweat and tears and how much people care and how invested the fans are and i think that there's like the fans reciprocate the energy of the players and i think that that's just how sports is and yeah i think that other sports may be not showing that and lacking that i think that we've benefited from it benefited from us and i hope that the players continue to to represent our game the way that they they have because it's just going to keep bringing it to the moon right and like yeah it's it's actually crazy i i tweeted out that that that video of brady on the four check going in to kill taylor hall all and i'm like could you imagine being just like a regular person at the airport watching this sport and being like what the what are they doing these guys are just trying to kill each other like what are they even playing for just a big mug yeah even like

[Ryan Whitney]

ocho cinco you know the former chad johnson he he tweeted about nhl hockey i was trying to like engage him in a little conversation there but so you know i i think just they're like new audiences seeing this game and they realize especially if you see in person just how how awesome playoff hockey is and again i know i just said don't have a dick measuring contest with the nba but when we're talking about first rounds then we you literally

[Biz Nasty]

don't want to have one with them but i get it yeah viewer wise

[Ryan Whitney]

like total viewership wise but like we'd be in trouble versus versus we be

[Biz Nasty]

mandingo over hey but even all ours

[Paul Bissonnette]

together we might not one even lightheaded

[Yanni Gourde]

from that one holy last night dvorak on the bench bleeding out of his eyeball he has to change his jersey because he has to you can't go out there with blood all over your jersey and he's out there the next shift like these guys are complete and utter warriors and like if you don't enjoy that and seeing what these guys do to you know win a game win a series if you can't respect that you don't know what sports is and i think finally now hockey's getting the respect that it deserves i forgot

[Paul Bissonnette]

to mention with merles too that we were sitting there and ten minutes into the game i was like i cannot believe the pace of this game so fast there was zero room on the ice and i know this is about being there in person and i get these tickets are ridiculous we're lucky enough to get tickets from the sabers for that night and it's just so ridiculous to be at a playoff game in person and you see the size of the guys the speed and the lack of room you have to make plays and even having played i was in a different league league than than what's going on right now it it was incredible like seeing the size of tage thompson flying through the neutral zone yeah he got the puck in front of the net took four strides he's crossing over the offensive blue line i'm like what like it's just wild it's so

[Biz Nasty]

cool yeah i i went and did that buffalo game live it was actually against philly and i i i paige was the one guy i was like holy this guy's a house out here and he can move so so yeah great job and i think that i mean the way that they do the brackets like i know we're not crazy about it sometimes but i feel like this year gary maybe deserves a little credit maybe gary deserves a little credit

[Ryan Whitney]

yeah i think that was always sort of overblown like the thing is there's so many good teams in the league right now that yeah good teams are going to lose early like you got to beat four fucking nhl teams to win the stanley cup and sometimes the toughest round is your first round sometimes it's the fourth usually early so i thought that criticism was overblown biz and you know i don't think there was any rush to go back to you know one through eight and right now like like whoever like well i mean we still have boston montreal and buffalo from the old adams division whatever if any two of those three teams were to play each other in the next round that's like hockey porn to an old fuck like me like an old adams division thing what do you got

[Paul Bissonnette]

witty a sabres fan came up to me me and he's like hey think of this think of what could happen with us the old adams division right we take down in the first round the bruins and then the next round we take down the habs and then the next round we take down the old hartford whalers and then in the cup final we take down the old quebec nordics holy wow wow wow was that gift i was like oh he's like we're gonna run through the whole adams division for our cup and then i chucked that beer and they lost

[Ryan Whitney]

that that's still even to come up with that like i can't believe i haven't seen that somewhere else out there holy that is wild mind blowing this

[Biz Nasty]

can't be the way though that that the the buffalo sabers lose out this

[Ryan Whitney]

can't be the way that's what mer

[Paul Bissonnette]

said but it would be the way it's like it's buffalo that's the scary

[Ryan Whitney]

thing it's buffalo man i know you guys mentioned the awards earlier a couple we do have a few finalists out obviously they do these i believe right around the stanley cup final i know they've changed it the last few years but for the vesna yeah jeremy swayman ilya sorokin and vasilevsky those are the three finalists no shock there the ted lindsay award which is the mvp award which a lot of people give this more credence than they do the hot trophy because it's voted on by peers and not media guys who don't see everybody play as much much kucherov mcdavid and our boy celebrini who just had a magnificent incredible insane year for a nineteen year old kid and the lady bing just came out a few minutes ago g setarova cole caulfield andre kopita and jake sanderson i think pretty much without even looking at the pims i think we know who's probably going to get this one this year and i know we gave him his flowers last week anze kopita also we want to send our condolences to the family and friends of john cheech garrett he was a longtime canucks analyst passed away at seventy four and it was a great highlight someone shared online i'm sorry i forget who shared it but it was gordy howe's last ever goal in the nhl was during a playoff game when he was playing with hartford versus montreal and and cheech assisted on it he was the second assist on gordy how's last right last ever goal so yeah man that that that's a great legacy right there thanks i know he was

[Paul Bissonnette]

terrible he was in utah in the middle of doing that series and i i was just crushed that's that's brutal got to to meet him you know playing against the canucks and i love i loved him on the call you'd go to the late night game when it was in vancouver hockey night in canada he was awesome and that was it was so sudden and it's just yeah i'm glad you brought that up

[Biz Nasty]

so that i mean yeah like obviously the sports that guys covered it and and spoke about him juice obviously when he was playing with the canucks he talked about how he when he would when he would walk on the plane he'd have a flight full full thing of wine all the way up to the brim ra and he was just one of those guys too like very quick witted and would like on you and you know obviously juice is that type of guy too so they developed a really good relationship and obviously sportsnet murph and those guys so our heart goes out to everybody in the hockey community who knew him and loved him apparently he was just like the best guy i got to meet him a few times very briefly never got to have have like like long long interactions but even jeff jacobson got to go to to meet him for lunch i think it was like six weeks ago and he said couldn't have been a nicer guy and and just like just like you said like a great storyteller and an unbelievable person was it too

[Paul Bissonnette]

that he was seventy four he was still doing games and he still had it yeah i know i didn't realize he was he was you know seventy four because because of how quick witted he was everything and he wasn't slowing down at all just a gut punch

[Biz Nasty]

right there if you yeah if you if you guys haven't seen the clip anybody listening of of kevin bxa talking about him on the hockey night in canada panel go check that out and i'm sure that any of those podcasts or are you know any of the people that knew him who do media i'm sure they're going to have great stories about them from behind the scenes as to what as to how they he brightened up their day so just a really a really shitty thing and thanks for covering it ra i knew

[Ryan Whitney]

you no of course plus i nickname like cheech he's got to be a pretty cool guy right yeah with the stash and also that yeah sad news again our sympathies to all friends family and of course the canucks family as well some you know news bubbling out of toronto we'll keep it to a minimum because it's the leafs but it looks like john shaker and matt sundin are going to sort of team up and take over the maple leafs front office here matt sundin with like minimal or no like front office experience which i don't i think we've seen enough guys in the past past where it might not necessarily matter marty saint louis behind the bench of montreal from keith jones with you know taking over in philly things have been going so far so good under him so that's sort of be the scuttlebutt business are you okay with this it feels like almost like they're combining the chicken formula combining a jock and a nerd you know me and wit with like sundin and

[Biz Nasty]

shaker yeah and like i think it's like obvious that his first first stint in arizona i don't think that he had that or maybe be had the ability to have that and and neglect it if not pigeon tossed it i'm i don't i'm not going to really comment it until it's kind of science sealed delivered and i've also just been so much more focused on like the gameplay and everything going on that like i'll i'll formulate like a a better opinion once i kind of get information and talk to some people once it's all said and done but yeah i mean just also just because someone made some bad decisions and up and you know know maybe wasn't the best of guys when they were younger and handed the keys at a very young age and and can you know you could be negligent at that time i don't think he should have been in the position he was in arizona to begin with so not saying i i'm not saying like you know like the him getting fired and everything that happened in arizona and like all this like the the fine and all the from like the the quote unquote cheating all that was obviously deserved but you know people can live and learn right so we'll we'll see i'll talk to some more people and formulate a better opinion on it but i'd rather just focus on the awesome hockey we got going on now who gives a about the leafs

[Ryan Whitney]

right now oh wow oh let's get that on record hey best time to up is when you're younger then you get more time for forgiveness right yeah yeah i guess hey we'll do like i know we're wrapping up here let's do one quick all right hamilton i know yandeli was asking for a little while back let's be nice here we don't want to dump a of these cities i thought this was an interesting one it's from mitchell at m prude home seven what is your favorite underrated or smaller destination you've been in to been to in the us favorite mid to large city you've been to so obviously throw new york chicago vegas miami boss like you know throw those out and you know something a little under under the radar that you would say hey man that's a great place to go go there i'll go i'll go

[Yanni Gourde]

first i'll go with the highlands in north carolina amazing amazing spot like unreal you can go on your busy hikes they got great hikes golf's amazing food's amazing and it's like a quiet little quaint little area where not a ton of people around but yeah beautiful friendly people i'd probably put that as my my one a for a little quiet little quaint little town where exactly is

[Ryan Whitney]

is that north carolina i have like

[Yanni Gourde]

it's like the highlands like you fly into hold on let me try to

[Ryan Whitney]

look yeah no yeah i'm not not being a geography dick i honestly i'm

[Paul Bissonnette]

going to stay in the carolinas and go charleston i heard i heard it's beautiful there it's just amazing beautiful it's it's they got king street down there restaurants bars they got great golf the weather's phenomenal obviously the summers are real hot but those shoulder seasons down there are awesome been over to daniel island where our boy creche and krug live that's somewhat near charleston it is is it is awesome and like you know it's about forty minutes i think from the kiawah area it's it's a great place down there and i i'm sure that the population has exploded a little bit in the past five six years but it it's a hidden gem busy

[Biz Nasty]

boy interesting i gotta check that out i i've heard nothing but good things and they have like beautiful architecture there

[Paul Bissonnette]

like all the old like the college of charleston's right there it's yeah the old southern look with the big tree i don't know what trees but it's

[Biz Nasty]

great for me i would i mean i obviously i would say jackson hole wyoming if you haven't been there it's a very small quaint place it's not a big population i've talked about driving through bozeman i love bozeman i think it's like one of those like throwback cities where they kept the integrity of all the old buildings and it's just like a beautiful downtown area they got like a great main strip and then of course around it like you can go to big sky not too far away and you just see the beautiful beautiful mountains and stuff i'm a big west guy like i like the west

[Paul Bissonnette]

for that reason bozeman these pictures of the bozeman downtown it's stunning their main

[Biz Nasty]

drag is is awesome that's in montana yeah yeah yeah just like if you it's about four hours from jackson actually i drive up through the park and then come out that side and like if and then obviously i think that big sky is like obviously they got the great skiing but it's it seemed like they very cookie cutter in the way that they built it up i was actually pretty shocked as to how like like it just like it looked like a makeshift part of the like makeshift city people might correct me here there's like a different area to in big sky where you're like oh no you gotta go here but i went to the resort and and checked like just checked around that area and i was a little bit let down outside of how beautiful and like huh predominant the mountains were outside of that sedona sedona is a fun place arizona arizona is a very very underrated state between flagstaff sedona there's some other little pockets as well you can go up to page where they're you're like right on the border of of utah yeah i can ab is a cool place because the part the national parks right there there i'm drawing a blank on on

[Ryan Whitney]

what the park's called keith i saw you furiously on google maps there did you come up with where where where the highlands are we'll go to g

[Yanni Gourde]

in a second i was trying i was trying to remember the hotel that i stayed at there it's called the old edwards inn it's incredible but i i'll look up where you fly in

[Ryan Whitney]

scottish highlands all right g g what did you got for us buddy i

[G]

would have to say and i'm not just saying this because i'm getting married there but newport rhode island it's yeah i've been going there in the summer since i was you know in in college with buddies getting a place down there going out downtown you got o' brien's where saturdays are for the boys was famously invented unreal golf great food great great downtown you got the landing which is that unreal bar with the live music right on the water so yeah newport rhode island is is the top of the list for me good

[Ryan Whitney]

good stuff i i got i mean i got a couple new england spots first comes to mind portland maine which extremely underrated city tremendous restaurants beers like anything you want to go on vacation for scenery water's a little chilly if you want to go for a dipski but that also in new england burlington vermont where uvm is just sort of a quintessential college town but a quintessential new england town as well i don't get up there too often but when i do i enjoy it and then out of new england i love the saint pete florida area you know even like say from saint pete down to sarasota i'm pretty familiar with anything around there the gulf coast i i you know like it much more than the atlantic side just for the seas the sunsets alone it's a true actual sunset you know that you can actually see the sun almost hear it sizzling when it hits the water but yeah those three spots right there i would tell people if you go to any of them you'll have a great time no matter what so well boys it's been a ripper of a playoff so far love doing this twice a week it's been fun three coffees man to get

[Paul Bissonnette]

me jacked up monday we got we got whatever happens with the oilers we got whatever happens with the bruins we monday show there's gonna be storylines boys there's gonna be plenty of them no matter what and thank you everyone for tuning in once again thanks to merle's thanks to army thank you to ra g memes for following me around making a fool out of myself love you all have a great great weekend

[Yanni Gourde]

happen

[Paul Bissonnette]

again it won't happen won't happen won't

[Yanni Gourde]

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[Paul Bissonnette]

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[Army]

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[Paul Bissonnette]

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[Army]

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