Local Hour: CUT HIM OFF!

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Episode: Local Hour: CUT HIM OFF!
Release Date: June 5, 2025

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Introduction

In this episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, broadcasted from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, hosts Dan Le Batard and Stugotz dive deep into the world of sports, with a particular focus on the recent postseason hockey clash between the Florida Panthers and the Edmonton Oilers. The duo, alongside their co-hosts, dissect the game's pivotal moments, analyze player performances, engage in light-hearted segments, and explore a brewing feud in the sports journalism community.

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Postseason Hockey Analysis

Panthers vs. Oilers Game Recap

The episode opens with a spirited discussion about the Florida Panthers' recent loss to the Edmonton Oilers in the postseason. Stugotz initiates the conversation by highlighting the concept of "bad beats" in sports—those heartbreaking moments that linger in fans' minds. He states:

"The ending of a game that's going to have you lose sleep, most likely that night is blank anywhere in sports because I think the hockey overtime goal that kills you on the road is something that makes sports fans sleep less than anything except maybe like a buzzer beater."
—Stugotz [01:01]

Key Players and Moments

Dan Le Batard and the hosts delve into the specifics of the game, emphasizing the performance of star players. Sam Bennett's record-tying postseason goals are lauded:

"When Bennett scored that second goal, though, I cameth. He's so good. You gotta pay him what he wants. That is a franchise record for postseason goals. Quietly, Sam Bennett has. It also ties an NHL record for goals by a single player on the road."
—Dan Le Batard [28:40]

Connor McDavid's dual role as both offensive dynamo and a formidable defensive forward is a focal point of their analysis:

"He has all the tools. He has the instincts. He has the speed to make up for mistakes. He showed you why he was much better defensively than Draisaitl, who's awesome this year. He was much better than Barkov, who's an all-timer defensively. He was incredible last night."
—Dan Le Batard [19:12]

Coach’s Perspective

The hosts reflect on Coach Paul Maurice's post-game comments, noting his acknowledgment of the team's shortcomings:

"It's the first time a long time that you can say that about a postseason Panther run where the other team was better than you on the night."
—Dan Le Batard [03:03]

Impact on the Series

The loss is characterized as both a "good" and "bad" one. While it’s a setback, it also serves as a wake-up call for the Panthers:

"They might be better. And if that's how this ends, I guess, yeah. Shit. We ran into the player of his generation that is peaking at 28 years old and doing all the things..."
—Dan Le Batard [14:43]

Fun Segment: Perfect Hockey Player Names

Shifting gears, the hosts engage in a light-hearted game where they suggest the most perfect names for hockey players. The segment is filled with humor and creative nomenclature:

"Number five, Leon Draisaitl."
—Billy Gill [05:50]

"Number three, Jeff Bukaboom."
—Billy Gill [07:01]

This playful exchange showcases the hosts' camaraderie and ability to entertain beyond intense sports analysis.

Other Sports Highlights

Marlins vs. Rockies Baseball Series

The conversation briefly touches on the Miami Marlins' recent sweep by the Colorado Rockies, highlighting the Rockies' surprising performance despite a historically poor start to the season:

"Rockies are coming. Just like that. The rocks are back."
—Billy Gill [33:00]

Dodgers' Performance

A quick analysis of the Dodgers' season follows, noting their unexpected slump:

"The Dodgers are playing another sport? Like, don't. Dodgers aren't in major league baseball enough for the Dodgers."
—Billy Gill [33:46]

Feud Analysis: Pablo Torre vs. Bill Simmons

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to dissecting the feud between sports journalist Pablo Torre and media personality Bill Simmons. The hosts express surprise and criticism over the escalating tensions:

"We're bringing in people just to be Panthers fans."
—Stugotz [26:08]

Jeremy Tache, another co-host, voices his frustration with the show's stance:

"The moment things got difficult for the Miami Heat, you guys jumped ship and all of a sudden embraced this Broward county team. And I'll tell you, it just doesn't sit right with me."
—Jeremy Tache [25:19]

Dan Le Batard underscores the unnecessary nature of the feud:

"This was very stupid... All of this is very stupid."
—Dan Le Batard [42:24]

Conclusion

The episode wraps up with reflections on the emotional toll of the Panthers' loss, the unpredictable nature of sports, and the importance of resilience. The hosts maintain a balance between in-depth analysis and engaging banter, ensuring that both avid sports fans and casual listeners find value in their discourse.

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Notable Quotes:

• "The overtime goal that kills you on the road is something that makes sports fans sleep less than anything except maybe like a buzzer beater."
  —Stugotz [01:01]

• "Jeff Bukaboom. Did it be Dry Seidle? What. What are we doing here?"
  —Dan Le Batard [07:19]

• "You have to tap into something extra. And it may be that they have nothing left after a three-year run."
  —Dan Le Batard [14:43]

• "Pablo Torre is the 50 cent of journalism."
  —Billy Gill [42:57]

• "That is after a Heck of a game, though."
  —Chris Cody [12:21]

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This episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz masterfully combines passionate sports analysis with engaging discussions, providing listeners with both insightful commentary and entertaining segments.

Transcript

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[Stugotz]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Stugotz]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Stugotz]

I'm going to take off the table. Stugatz. The bad beat at the end of the night. The terrible gambling bad beat that costs you a lot of money. I'm going to take that off the table as one of the options in the question I'm asking you guys. Okay, all of sports, basketball, soccer, football, whatever sport you wish to choose. The ending of a game that's going to have you lose sleep, most likely that night is blank anywhere in sports because I think the hockey overtime goal that kills you on the road is something that makes sports fans sleep less than anything except maybe like a buzzer beater.

[Billy Gill]

I think a buzzer beater for me. But especially when you're up 3:1 in that game.

[Stugotz]

Well, but just, just the over the fear in overtime. Okay. That the game can just end and exactly that way. Because that right there last night is why that's the only team I fear if I'm the Panthers because they can do that to you when you're up 3:1 and no one else can do that to you. There's not another team in the. No one else has not. There's not another team in the sport that can do that to them. Have Sam Bennett talking after the game about, usually we don't let up, but we let up. No, you didn't let up. It's. They shot a bunch of times because they're. You were gassed and you had a power play and you can't allow a power play in overtime against that team.

[Dan Le Batard]

You're describing letting up them getting gassed. Yeah, it was uncharacteristic. But to your point, I think that was the first Panther loss of the postseason, of the last few postseasons, really, where I'm like, yeah, we could maintain possession a little bit more. We were a little sloppy with the puck in our own end, but we got beat. Like, this wasn't like the Toronto series or when we effed around with Carolina playing with our food, where I'm like, yeah, we. We'll tighten that up. We know what's wrong. We made some lazy passes in the neutral zone and we got beat. That's a really one of the first times a long time that you can say that about a postseason Panther run where the other team was better than you on the night.

[Chris Cody]

That was just a great game, though.

[Dan Le Batard]

Fantastic.

[Chris Cody]

I think I'm like, I have the. The prism of. We won the championship last year, so.

[Billy Gill]

You have a cup in your pocket.

[Chris Cody]

I had all the fear. I had all the fear last night, but I was able to kind of step back and just be like, holy shit, overtime, Game one. Like, this is going to be an excellent series.

[Dan Le Batard]

Thank God it wasn't. Carolina, Dallas. Can you imagine? Right.

[Billy Gill]

Who.

[Dan Le Batard]

Who in their right mind's like, man, you know what I wish I saw right now? Jamie, Ben. That would really do it for me.

[Mike Ryan]

Really makes game two a must win.

[Dan Le Batard]

It really does, Duke. It really does.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, from your lips, my man.

[Stugotz]

Can you guys give me another sport that you think?

[Dan Le Batard]

Because the way the Bills lost to the Chiefs were, like, a drop, or we could have gotten to that. Yeah, that was a pretty brutal way for the Bills to. To lose. A controversial call. So wakes me up at night.

[Chris Cody]

A bad air in baseball. Like, I know people don't care about baseball, but, like, the Buckner situation, bottom of the ninth, bad air. And you're like, that's a bad game.

[Billy Gill]

Six of the World Series, though.

[Chris Cody]

It takes that, like, just losing on an air like.

[Dan Le Batard]

Like David Freese. The. The. The Rangers are an out away from a strike, away from a World Series. Twice in a game, and then they end up not winning the World Series at all.

[Chris Cody]

But your points taken, Dan. That sucked.

[Dan Le Batard]

Not great. But it was game one, and that's what Panthers in seven can look like.

[Stugotz]

Everybody's rooting against the Panthers. And I will tell you, I had a thought that I haven't had until now last night, because I am scared of what Edmonton has become. My thought was man, it would suck and feel like underachievement if the last three years only ended in one title. With as good as this team is like, it would. It would hurt to have only one title in three years. But I'm telling you that. I'm not saying it has to be like this, but if you told me, what would it look like to recreate my fears in a way that would make me think that the Panthers are not gonna be able to overcome this.

[Billy Gill]

It would look like last night.

[Stugotz]

It's McDavid to Draisaitl at the end. And the reminder. Oh, Draisaitl didn't do shit in that series. Last.

[Mike Ryan]

This is the Dan levatar show with the Stugats podcast.

[Stugotz]

Put it on the poll, please. Juju at LeBatard show. Given his name, shouldn't Dalton Kincaid be better at football given just his name? I was thinking about great names, Stugats, because Draisaitl, we're gonna try and fix that echo. Is everyone getting that echo, or am I the only one getting that echo? Draisaitl is a pretty perfect name for a hockey player, and I wanted to ask all of you to give me what you believe to be the most perfect name hockey of hockey players.

[Billy Gill]

Oh, wow.

[Stugotz]

Do you want to play this game? I believe it's an eternal game. Men of our age can play at any time. It can break out anywhere you are and be fun for the whole family.

[Billy Gill]

I've been waiting for this game and this show my entire life. I have five. I mean, how about that?

[Stugotz]

You have five. Yes. Five perfect names.

[Billy Gill]

Well, five cool hockey names is what I have.

[Stugotz]

Okay, so you're claiming. Because I think I have one that will be the winner.

[Mike Ryan]

Johnny.

[Stugotz]

No winner. Better than the one that I.

[Dan Le Batard]

Rest in peace. I was actually trying to go draw.

[Stugotz]

You want to start with number five?

[Billy Gill]

Sure. Number five, Leon Draisaitl.

[Stugotz]

You need the fanfare, Roy.

[Billy Gill]

He hit the fanfare. I heard it. I got it.

[Stugotz]

I can't hear fanfare.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, what's going on, Robert?

[Stugotz]

We got. We got dj. We got a team of people coming in here and fix the echo. So it's not just my echo here.

[Chris Cody]

Echo.

[Mike Ryan]

Echo. Wait a second. I heard that one.

[Dan Le Batard]

There's. There's one name that if it's not on your list, shame on you, Rick Talkett.

[Billy Gill]

It's not on the list. I was just asking Mike a question.

[Dan Le Batard]

Get ready. Get ready to be shamed.

[Billy Gill]

Huh? Number four, Darius Casperitis.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm glad that's on there.

[Stugotz]

An echo. Echo chamber. I Don't hear the fanfare. I'm just letting you guys know.

[Billy Gill]

Number three, Jeff Bukaboom.

[Dan Le Batard]

That was a name. That was the name, Yes.

[Stugotz]

I don't. I don't think. I don't think that you're going to be able to beat mine. But let's see. Let's see.

[Dan Le Batard]

Jeff Bukaboom. Did it be Dry Seidle? What. What are we doing here?

[Stugotz]

I'm going to beat Dry saddle. I've got one better than Dry Seidle.

[Billy Gill]

Really?

[Stugotz]

Yes.

[Billy Gill]

Number two, Billy Smith, islander goalie. I named my cat after him. He died.

[Dan Le Batard]

Screw you. If you're going islanders, you go Ziggy Palfi. You go Ziggy Palfi if you're going islanders.

[Billy Gill]

And number one, the great one.

[Stugotz]

That's not a name.

[Dan Le Batard]

Ziggy Palfy. Billy.

[Stugotz]

What? What do you guys have? What do you guys.

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean, there's no better name than Jeff Bukaboom.

[Stugotz]

I disagree. What if I counter your bookaboom with Ray Jo Ruzzolainen?

[Billy Gill]

Oh, wow. Roots of waning.

[Dan Le Batard]

Given the confidence behind that one, I feel pretty good about Jeff Bukaboom.

[Stugotz]

You want to spell. You want to try this I don't know how to spell Rayju Rajo routine?

[Jeremy Tache]

Careful.

[Billy Gill]

That's the tough part of the name to spell.

[Dan Le Batard]

Jeremy's birthday yesterday. You'd be damn careful. No, Jeff Bukaboo is a name.

[Billy Gill]

It's a good one.

[Stugotz]

How about Nikolai Hobby Boulin?

[Billy Gill]

Oh, wow.

[Stugotz]

That's a great name.

[Dan Le Batard]

Good name, good hand.

[Billy Gill]

It's a great day.

[Dan Le Batard]

It doesn't bring the book a boom, though.

[Stugotz]

Jeremy did just turn 30 and made us feel old by saying he had his first professional thought post 30. What was your first professional thought post 30?

[Jeremy Tache]

I'm a little bit afraid to say it because I think Sampson will use it against me inevitably, in working here. But at 30, you go from being like a young person to young for a person. And professionally, what I realized is I'm no longer a young star in this business. I'm just a star. And, like, that does not feel the same way. Nobody likes a star.

[Mike Ryan]

Is that what it is with you?

[Stugotz]

You just called yourself a star.

[Jeremy Tache]

A lot of people were calling me a young star. And, I mean, I'm not young anymore.

[Mike Ryan]

So I thought you were like 34.

[Chris Cody]

Easy to him.

[Stugotz]

I don't care. Good luck.

[Jeremy Tache]

I've aged a lot in the last.

[Billy Gill]

Few years working here at old 34. Yeah, you did think.

[Stugotz]

You did think he was over 30, right, Billy? That he just looks over 30.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. You have a look like you're over 30.

[Jeremy Tache]

Thanks.

[Stugotz]

I'm a little bit stunned that he just called himself a star. I don't think I've ever heard anybody do that.

[Chris Cody]

The echo's gone though.

[Stugotz]

Ishbia is fun to say. I mentioned this yesterday. Do you have. And all these names that we just said are fun to say.

[Billy Gill]

The great one, I mean, Zoli, Zelapski. Oh my God.

[Stugotz]

Wow. Look how pleased Roy is with himself.

[Billy Gill]

As he should.

[Chris Cody]

I mean if we're playing fun owner names to say, I nominate Tillman for Tita.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah.

[Roy Bellamy]

Oh, that's good.

[Stugotz]

It's just owners. You just.

[Chris Cody]

You're just doing what we were doing yesterday with hp. So I want to play that game.

[Mike Ryan]

How about Garth Butcher?

[Billy Gill]

Pretty good name.

[Stugotz]

The Butcher.

[Mike Ryan]

They actually called him the Garth.

[Jeremy Tache]

It's weird.

[Stugotz]

That game last night. When I tell you guys, and I know you've been tired of this analysis of fearing hockey throughout the last two playoffs because it can be so random, but it hasn't been that random this year. The two best teams have buzz sawed through the playoffs and they've gotten to face each other. And that result, Roy, is exactly what I was afraid of in all of the ways the Panthers keep in mind. So they get the goals from Bennett and Marchand and it makes them a team that now has 50 road playoff goals. That hasn't happened since the 93 kings. Okay, that team had Gretzky on it.

[Roy Bellamy]

The great one that is most all time.

[Stugotz]

I know that that team had Jari Curry on it. That team had McSorley on it. Like that team was basically the champion Edmonton Oilers scoring on the road in 1993. The Panthers get the two road goals go up 3 1. They had been under Paul Maurice 180 when they got the lead at the start of the third period. They'd been 310 when they've got the lead after the first or second period and what happened to them is 46 shots and they got those two guys and I'm telling you there hasn't been a feeling in Edmonton since they had the great one that felt as good as McDonald as Draisaitl scoring that goal. The smoke blowing in the horn going off and he spreads his arms in the photo behind me. That's going to be a classic photo in Edmonton of him scoring that goal. And that goal was beautiful. And the Panthers were done like they. It's a dumb. You can't allow that power play. And they were going to lose anyway because they had no legs and they were fried. And I'm not used to it because they're the boa constrictor. In the third they, they crush everybody in the third. They're not the ones who get tired.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah, they look absolutely exhausted. The breakouts were basically flipping the puck in the air like what they did against Carolina. And when he actually tried to get into Edmonton's own, it was a dump in and they couldn't support their own 4 check. It just looked like the legs weren't under them at all.

[Chris Cody]

I feel like it's a credit to the Panthers though how much they were in that game last night. That thing felt from the beginning like this could be bad. This could be a 5 1.

[Stugotz]

Edmonton, they scored in the first two minutes.

[Chris Cody]

They got outplayed that whole first. Outside of like a three minute stretch, that first period was dominated by Edmonton. We're up after that first period. We dominate the second period. The third period was not good. But I just, I take away from that. Like we're right, like yes, Edmonton is better, but we are too. Like I feel good about the Panthers after that.

[Billy Gill]

That's a bad loss, man. They're 180 under Paul Maurice when they lead after two periods.

[Chris Cody]

They were due. It's a bad, it's not a bad loss, dude. That is a tough game. That is a great team. They're playing on the road.

[Billy Gill]

Chris. I'm just game one, Stanley Cup Final, right?

[Chris Cody]

And they play, you're up 3:1. I just, I'm not going to like, yes, we lost. They didn't play well in that third period and yes, I'll give you that. But I'm not going to sit here and say like this, like this is going to be a long. This is a 21 period series.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. Game seven with the context of they don't blow two goal leads. It hurts, but that was the deserved result. Edmonton was better on the night. Ron Tugnut.

[Billy Gill]

Oh, wow. I mean, wow.

[Stugotz]

That is asinine. What he just said.

[Billy Gill]

Tug nuts.

[Stugotz]

Do you know how bad Tug nut, not tug nuts. That's the whole family.

[Billy Gill]

I didn't say nuts.

[Stugotz]

That's the whole family.

[Billy Gill]

Tug nuts.

[Stugotz]

The whole family is the tug nuts. What he just did is perfectly Chris Cody. He says it's a 21 period series after an overtime game.

[Chris Cody]

21 and a half wasn't a full period.

[Stugotz]

So how many periods is it if there's another overtime game?

[Dan Le Batard]

There is something a little liberating about how Chris said you have the cup in your back pocket and yeah, it would stink that if this run after three years concludes with just one cup, I mean, they made it as an eight seed to a much better, much healthier Vegas Golden Knights team. They were broken in that final. That was the achievement to finally get there and get past the Tampa Bay Lightning, at least in the bracket, and they got their cup. But this time they're running into someone that you look across the ice at and you're like, damn, they might be better. And there's something kind of. There is relief in that. Okay. It's not something stupid. We're not beating ourselves. Those are two of the best players in the world and you gotta. You gotta tap into something extra. And it may be that they have nothing left after a three year run. It may be that Jonathan Chichu. Well, it was stupid.

[Stugotz]

What?

[Roy Bellamy]

The delay a game penalty by Tomas Nosek.

[Dan Le Batard]

That was. You're a fourth. I know he's been dependable. Your fourth liner in overtime. That's the kind of stuff that. That happens. And as soon as it happened, you realize we're not gonna cost you the game. Yeah.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

But we can't play this game, though. I was with. I was with Panther fans last night, and they start doing the thing.

[Greg Cody]

Why is our fourth.

[Chris Cody]

It's like this fourth line has been carrying us this entire playoff.

[Dan Le Batard]

We.

[Chris Cody]

We don't. They have one bad game and you're gonna be like, get this fourth line. No, this is why we're so good. We play our four lines and they've played well. Yes, that's a bad penalty, but I'm not gonna punt on no sick after one bad play.

[Dan Le Batard]

Paul Maurice was very quick in the post game to highlight we're not in this position. We're down two goals against Toronto in Game 3. We go to overtime. That fourth line saved our bacon. No shik was a huge part about that comeback and eventual series win. Yeah, it was an unfortunate penalty. You knew they would make you pay for it. But whatever. Those are the breaks. Thankfully, they got to win three more games.

[Stugotz]

So when you guys say good loss or bad loss, I think it's a crushing loss. And it's because it's the first time in this postseason where a champion can look across the ice and be like, oh, shit, they might be better. It hasn't happened. They haven't had any reason to think that through everything they've been doing. But when you're the best at something and in game one, they erase that because they're the one team in the sport that can. 3:1 doesn't matter against Them.

[Roy Bellamy]

That's a fine stigots P up.

[Billy Gill]

I'm not certain it was my phone.

[Roy Bellamy]

I mean, why are you holding it?

[Billy Gill]

I know, but like, how do you know my phone is the one that buzzed? I don't know. I always have it on silent. It was me.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah. Anyway, the Panthers, obviously, they gave up that early goal in the first period, but they quickly raced that. So I'm not really worried about them going into game two. They're going to adjust and they're going to play better.

[Stugotz]

Okay, you say that, but you also would acknowledge that what I'm saying is something that is totally reasonable.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

That the Panthers can look across the ice and think that they're facing something that might be better. But they.

[Chris Cody]

But I think Edmonton can do that too.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Billy Gill]

Let me explain something here. They're not giving you what you want. What you want is tears. They're giving you confidence.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm not giving confidence. Like, he literally just sold my take. Yeah, they might be better. And if that's how this ends, I guess, yeah. Shit. We ran into the player of his generation that is peaking at 28 years old and doing all the things and Greg Cody should shut his mouth when it comes to Connor McDavid's defense. He showed you that was the best offensive forward, mcselke on the ice. He saved several plays, several chances for Edmonton. I don't understand why there is this notion, because maybe he's not winning the Selkie award and people aren't talking about it because he's a demigod offensively. But there is no reason for Connor McDavid to not be one of, if not the best defensive forwards in the league. He has all the tools. He has the instincts. He has the speed to make up for mistakes. He showed you why he was much better defensively than draisaitl, who's awesome this year. He was much better than Barkov, who's an all timer defensively. He was incredible last night.

[Chris Cody]

What do you guys yell when. Whenever McDavid gets the puck around, like mid ice and he's. He's getting going, like, I'm always like, cut him off. Like, it's so hard to do this. Go with like a beer in my hand, cut him off. Like, as if that's an easy thing to do.

[Stugotz]

It's good coaching. It's good. It's good advice.

[Dan Le Batard]

Be faster than the fastest.

[Chris Cody]

Every time he gets the puck, he gets going with the speed, I'm like.

[Dan Le Batard]

Cut him off, Radek. Bonk.

[Stugotz]

That's good. I. I Just. I just sor. Try to catch my breath and gasp a little bit and. And whimper.

[Chris Cody]

I put my hands on my head. I'm like, ah, Jerome. And when they are on a power play and they have possession, I am just hands on head like.

[Stugotz]

They have the thing every team wants. It's not just the greatest player ever. It's not just the player. It's not just the player. It's what they are on the power play. It's basically your entire fan base feels like it's on skates going backwards. The entire. The entire fan.

[Billy Gill]

We're all skating together.

[Stugotz]

The entire fan base is backpedaling like.

[Dan Le Batard]

How it's the greatest player ever. I know draisaitl is really good. He's won the horror trophy, which is the MVP of that league. The west was so competitive this year. I'm not exactly sure Edmonton gets into the playoffs without Connor McDavid. They have the best player. They have the best player that it doesn't matter how good your defense is. He's.

[Stugotz]

They.

[Dan Le Batard]

You know where the puck is going and he's terrifying every timeout. His best is better than your best. Every time you have to win when he's off the ice. That's what they have. They have the best player. They are in this position because they have Connor McDavid. It's not anything else. Yes, you can pull puppet strings and other guys can make contributions. They're probably not even a playoff team without that guy.

[Stugotz]

I thought both goalies were great last night.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, they were. Skinner made some big time timely saves. I thought Bobrovsky was probably playing a little fast and loose and sloppy with the puck. That was a little throwback to last postseason. He became someone that you can trust. And this was the messiest he's been with the puck, but he still saved us. Yeah, he was huge. He was huge.

[Roy Bellamy]

Rebound control has always been an issue with him. And you saw down the first goal and there were screens in front of him. He could not see the puck for the other two goals in regulation, so that's what happened. But Bobronski, he was. He looked pretty good tonight. I think he sold it in and obviously mistakes by the Panthers kind of wrecked.

[Stugotz]

You have been stoic. You've been all bravado. You say no fear at every turn. What would I have had to do last night to place fear in you? Is there a result? I don't think I believe no.

[Roy Bellamy]

Because last season there were a couple of blowouts in Edmonton. I wasn't phased about it at all.

[Dan Le Batard]

With a 30 lead. Yeah, we were good. We can survive this. 6 1.

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[Stugotz]

DAN LEBATARD. There is no question, Dan Lebatard show included anybody else, that this guy is the best player on the planet. Whether he wins the Stanley cup or the contest mic this year, there is no question about it. St overrated. Wait, what's going on?

[Dan Le Batard]

Dan Lerd, how you doing?

[Stugotz]

Altered World or oh, my goodness.

[Mike Ryan]

This is the D Ler show with the two gods.

[Stugotz]

The thing about last night, I think you would all agree with this part. Those things that Edmonton specifically did to beat you are the most demoralizing of the things. It's their two best players you had a confidence about. We're unbeaten with Maurice if we lead after two periods. If we're unbeaten with Maurice in the playoffs, if we lead after one period, after two periods and obviously after three. Three periods, you have a situation where they took from you the stat you guys loved. They took one game into the series and in the most heartbreaking way, it's overtime. How did you guys sleep last night? I'm dead serious about this. When you lose that drunk, you can't get right back. You can't get right to sleep, can you?

[Billy Gill]

I slept like a baby. There's a funny thing that happens to you as you get older because I don't care about either of these teams. I was just rooting for that game to be over and over.

[Stugotz]

This is what's happening around Here you had Stu got for no double overtime and you had Jeremy. And I don't know what we did to make this. So although I can guess, Jeremy found himself rooting against the Panthers last night just because of our show.

[Jeremy Tache]

Just a little bit. Like, I really love that team. I enjoyed covering them. But what this show has done in terms of the bravado around this team and more importantly, this was a show that hated on Broward county to a point where it made me a self hating resident of Broward County. And now the moment that this Miami Heat show. Welcome to Heat everybody faces a difficult moment. The moment the Miami Heat face even a little bit of turbulence, it's oh, we're gonna jump ship and go all be Panthers fans. A thing that was never spoken about on this show until very recently. And then we're bringing in people just to be Panthers fans.

[Chris Cody]

We have to pick between teams. Then why can't we?

[Stugotz]

Sure.

[Dan Le Batard]

What happened?

[Jeremy Tache]

You guys are quitters. You quit on your franchise and you jump over over to this other team. Billy, you were the one who was right. It was a must win.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yesterday they were in the finals at the same exact time as eight seeds.

[Jeremy Tache]

But at this, at this moment, the moment things got difficult for the Miami Heat, you guys jumped ship and all of a sudden embraced this Broward county team. And I'll tell you, it just doesn't sit right with me.

[Dan Le Batard]

No. The moment they acquired Terry Rozier. You idiot, get out of here. Can you send him away?

[Jeremy Tache]

I started far before then.

[Dan Le Batard]

What was that?

[Stugotz]

He hasn't been here all week. Although I did like Billy in the background doing this saying, speed it up, speed it up.

[Dan Le Batard]

You know, Right.

[Jeremy Tache]

They're front runners.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm a captain of efficiency.

[Stugotz]

Dan, I know this about you, Jeremy's.

[Jeremy Tache]

Star efforts, but not me.

[Stugotz]

I think Jeremy's criticism is fair one. I will tell you, and I don't mind saying this out loud, what I'm seeing out of Edmonton, you will see no bravado. For me, there will be no you will see no bravado. I've watched enough hockey in my life to know to respect what is at the center of that team.

[Chris Cody]

But we were right there with them. You should respect the Panthers to do.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. Or should we put up the MC overrated graphic behind you. This is what we told you.

[Stugotz]

This is not me. This is Greg Cody's opinion that he. Oh, you to wait, what do you mean me?

[Dan Le Batard]

I know to respect what is at the center of that team.

[Chris Cody]

Billboards.

[Billy Gill]

I do.

[Dan Le Batard]

Should we do more billboards?

[Stugotz]

Well, wait a minute. Doesn't mean I respect it more than my commitment to the joke when Greg Cody can make himself the middle of the Stanley Cup Final.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, cool. Little footnote to that statement then.

[Stugotz]

But when I'm watching and you know, you guys have made fun of me the last couple of days because I continued to give him what I believe is bestowing my highest reverence by continuing to say, oh, McDavid, what cometh? This way I'm describing it, it's the.

[Billy Gill]

Way you have to say.

[Stugotz]

It's because I hear dinosaur steps. Like they sound like dinosaur steps.

[Chris Cody]

I said it last night. I was like, he's cometh.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, cut him off. Don't let him cometh. Don't let him cometh.

[Dan Le Batard]

When Bennett scored that second goal, though, I cameth. He's so good. You gotta pay him what he wants. You know? That is a franchise record for postseason goals. Quietly, Sam Bennett has. It also ties an NHL record for goals by a single player on the road.

[Chris Cody]

Can the TNT crew stop talking about him making money this offseason? Every time he has a good period, they go. They go to TNT and they're like, man, Sam Bennett's gonna get the bank this year.

[Dan Le Batard]

They're trying to blow our thing up.

[Jeremy Tache]

He'll stay because he represents my city.

[Stugotz]

I don't know exactly what it is that Jeremy is doing with this.

[Jeremy Tache]

Neither do I.

[Dan Le Batard]

We're not talking about the Heat because they were.

[Jeremy Tache]

I got up in the air with it, but I'm leaning in my city.

[Stugotz]

You know what? I gotta get rid of him. I'm sorry. I was so.

[Roy Bellamy]

He hasn't been here all week.

[Stugotz]

I don't. I know, but.

[Dan Le Batard]

Hold the umbrella. Just get some. Final penalty, two minutes. Rambling.

[Stugotz]

The face behind Billy Gill right now.

[Chris Cody]

Are they still celebrating at that arena?

[Stugotz]

That face right there. That is.

[Billy Gill]

That one.

[Stugotz]

That is. Those people are so happy. That dry Sidle moment, that goal is something.

[Chris Cody]

That guy.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's the guy.

[Chris Cody]

Freezing on that guy.

[Stugotz]

It is so Edmonton right there. Look at the diversity of that crowd. It seems like it's people from all over the world enjoying hockey.

[Roy Bellamy]

Three Canadas.

[Dan Le Batard]

People in the hockey chair were like, man, look at that crowd. You think there's a crowd like that outside of the, you know, the Amaranth Bank Arena? I'm like, there's one place to go in Edmonton.

[Jeremy Tache]

It's that building.

[Dan Le Batard]

Of course they're all going to be there.

[Mike Ryan]

Look at that guy.

[Stugotz]

What is the age. What is the correct age for the feeling that Stugatz is Talking about which he's. He's laying on the couch and he's actively rooting for no double overtime. He's rooting against the game being better. I remember. Can you guys look up for me? I remember my first hockey game. First hockey game I ever saw was Billy Smith's Islanders. And I believe it was like a three or four overtime game that they had with Mike Bossi and somebody else.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's a good name.

[Stugotz]

I didn't even know. I didn't even know Gretzky.

[Roy Bellamy]

No, that's Gretzky. Dean Poppin.

[Stugotz]

I didn't even know that there could be such a thing as a playoff game. That. Because I just didn't know anything about hockey. I'm literally watching on network television. There are three channels in whatever year it is that it would be that they would be showing the hockey finals. I'm not even sure it wouldn't have been on tape delay. Right? That was basketball back then. That would have been on tape delay. But there was a three or a four overtime game, and it just kept going and going and going. At what age do you become so old that you don't even want double overtime anymore? You don't even care about the investment that you've made. Like, to me, that's like walking out of a movie three minutes before it's over, right?

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean, when it's a Stanley cup, you. You don't want it to end. But when that goal went in, well, actually, when the penalty happened, I'm like. It saves me like 40 bucks on the sitter.

[Chris Cody]

Let's beat traffic.

[Dan Le Batard]

This rate is friendly.

[Billy Gill]

It's game one.

[Dan Le Batard]

Bill has won half of the Sticky Bandits over my shoulder.

[Billy Gill]

But Dan, if you're into the game, I don't think you care. Like, I don't. I'm. I'm not certain if this is the game you're talking about, but. The Islanders first cup was a goal by Bobby Nystrom from John Tonelli, which happened, I know. With seven minutes left in overtime. The first overtime. But you'll stay up. When you're young and you care about the team that's playing for the Stanley cup, you'll stay up all night and watch the game. I'm just getting old.

[Dan Le Batard]

Game 4, the 96 Stanley Cup Final against Colorado. It's like the latest I had ever stayed up during a school night.

[Stugotz]

So, Billy, we did not talk about this yesterday. Your Marlins were swept by the Colorado Rockies, who came into that series not having won a series in more than 250 days. Yeah, they sweep your Marlins. Did you pay attention to that series? Did you. Have you wandered over to where the Panthers are with any kind of caring or were you just wounded from being swept by the Rockies and had no time for any sports last night?

[Mike Ryan]

No, I had the. I had the hockey game on the Stanley Cup. The Panthers and the Oilers. Marlins had a nooner yesterday. I think it was like a 1240. They were done early. They're done like 2:30.

[Chris Cody]

I get away day.

[Mike Ryan]

Rockies came in. Rockies had won, I believe nine games coming into the series. And they won three games this series. So a third of their wins. Well, now a quarter of their wins of the 12 have come in the last three games. Don't look now.

[Dan Le Batard]

Don't look now.

[Mike Ryan]

Rockies are coming.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah, here come the rocks.

[Mike Ryan]

Just like that. The rocks are back.

[Stugotz]

So you do realize that the Rockies, because they started 8 and 50, started worse than any team in the history of our most historic sport.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, it's too bad. People should have taken the over on the series season wins. I think it was 37 and a half. Who knows what it is now? I'm going to look into this now. It's probably damn near 39 after that series.

[Stugotz]

Well, this. This is weird, right? Because the Dodgers were. The win total for the Dodgers this year was over 104 and a half. Do you realize what the Dodgers are in their last 18 games to guts?

[Billy Gill]

I'm going to say like 15 and 3.

[Stugotz]

They're 8 and 10. What?

[Mike Ryan]

Dodgers are playing another sport? Like, don't. Dodgers aren't in major league baseball enough for the Dodgers.

[Chris Cody]

How you play the game stuff?

[Stugotz]

They're eight. They're eight and 10 in their last 18. What do you mean they're playing another score? They lose more than Karl Anthony.

[Mike Ryan]

No, Dodgers will be fine. Don't worry about the Dodgers. That's. If you're worried about the Dodgers. You're being a silly boy. The Dodgers are gonna be just fine. Dave Roberts is gonna be there forever. Dodgers, I'm gonna start on.

[Stugotz]

Okay.

[Chris Cody]

Do you just call Cataloo loser?

[Stugotz]

I said they win less than Karl Anthony Towns because I was making a call back to Carl. Anthony Towns has a winning record, but only if you include his college career. He has a losing record in the pros, but if you include what he did, what you call. I didn't call him a loser. I don't. I only called the city of Toronto losers. The Maple Leaf franchise. I only call franchises losers and cities. I do not call individuals losers. It's a little life rule where you.

[Billy Gill]

Draw the line that I have.

[Stugotz]

Yes. It's easier to take out a whole city without taking out any one person personally.

[Mike Ryan]

But what if it's an individual sport where the person is the franchise? Then can they be a loser? Like, can a golfer be a loser or tennis player be a loser?

[Stugotz]

I don't call human beings losers.

[Mike Ryan]

But they're the franchise, Dan.

[Stugotz]

I call.

[Chris Cody]

You're not better than me.

[Stugotz]

I didn't say I wasn't.

[Mike Ryan]

That's a good take, Chris.

[Stugotz]

I didn't say.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't know if I agree with it, but it's a good take.

[Dan Le Batard]

You don't call people losers. Do you call people stars?

[Stugotz]

I don't call myself a star. I don't.

[Chris Cody]

Neither do I.

[Jeremy Tache]

A whole bunch of other people did, including you.

[Dan Le Batard]

Come here. Let me. Ya.

[Mike Ryan]

There was a reason you two were in together.

[Stugotz]

Today, Mike Ryan has an exclusive Ronaldo report. How are we dressing these up? How are we. Are we dressing up? Your exclusive report.

[Dan Le Batard]

So I put on the journalism cap.

[Billy Gill]

Wow.

[Dan Le Batard]

As you know, I broke the biggest story in soccer history when I was on the Messi beat for a year and a half, nailing it. Right as other reputable reporters were telling you the opposite. I was telling you Messi to Miami is a real distinct possibility. And then I broke that Messi was coming.

[Billy Gill]

This is a big name we're talking about. Is this a bigger story?

[Stugotz]

No, no.

[Dan Le Batard]

Cristiano Ronaldo is out of contract. He's renegotiating with his current club, Meisei in Saudi Arabia. He wants to play in the Club World Cup. And I happen to know Johnny Infantino, the head of FIFA, is kind of pressuring teams that are in this Club World cup to sign Ronaldo. They have this media rights package that's on the zone here in this country, like 24 of the games on TNT. He wants this to be big. This is the first Club World cup, and he wants the face, the co. Face of a generation, Cristiano Ronaldo, in it. So if he's pressuring all these clubs, one would wonder, hey, Inter Miami is one of these clubs in the Club World Cup. Might they have interest in potentially loaning Cristiano Ronaldo for just this tournament and perhaps form a super team of Messi and Ronaldo? Yes, they're up there. But how incredible would that be? An olive branch, the two most divisive fan bases coming together. Inter Miami. No interest.

[Mike Ryan]

What?

[Stugotz]

What you happen to know?

[Dan Le Batard]

No interest. Why no interest in Cristiano Ronaldo? I think the reason is pretty obvious. So we'll leave it at that.

[Billy Gill]

That's Messi saying he wants. He has no interest.

[Dan Le Batard]

Is that no. No interest in Cristiano Ronaldo here at Inter Miami. Maybe he'll find another club in the Club World Cup. We'll see. I don't know where he's going, but I'm pretty sure ain't Inter Miami.

[Billy Gill]

So close to being back.

[Stugotz]

What is your. What is your highest report? Is it. I happen to know, or I know for a fact, like, what is your highest. What is the highest?

[Dan Le Batard]

This one I kick the tires on. I was like, hey, you know, I hear Infantino is pressuring these clubs in the World cup to sign Ronaldo. Anything? No. Okay, cool. I'll just see myself out. That was kind of. That was kind of how that one went.

[Billy Gill]

That's kicking the tires.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, Yeah, a little kick of the tires. And I'm here to exclusively report. Don't Photoshop. Cristiano Ronaldo in Miami Jersey. I don't think that's going to happen.

[Stugotz]

The kicking of the tires, that has to be bicycles, right? That tells you nothing. If you kick an automobile tire. Correct. It will tell you much of nothing.

[Chris Cody]

Sometimes it hurts.

[Stugotz]

The kicking of tires has to be a bicycle. Before you realize whether tire. You can't tell totally. You can either see that an automobile tire is flat or you can feel it from driving. But kicking a tire, that's not going to have anything to do with an automobile tire, is it?

[Jeremy Tache]

The phrase dates to the earliest days of trucking, when a tire might look inflated but actually be flat because the other tires on the same axle were holding it up. So drivers would strike the tire with a tool. Tool called a tire billy, which resembles a billy club, to determine whether you had a flat.

[Stugotz]

Thank you, Jeremy. That's why you're the star that you are.

[Billy Gill]

So it's not bicycles. It's the biggest vehicle we have.

[Stugotz]

It is. It's a truck. Yeah, it's a truck. I wouldn't have known that. You mentioned journalism. And I was listening to some sound here, Stugatz, and I wanted to get your thoughts before I play this sound. The feud between Pablo Torre and Bill Simmons that has now ended because Bill Simmons hadn't actually seen any of the reporting Pablo had done and just had commentary that wasn't informed by anything.

[Billy Gill]

And that's how you do it, Dano.

[Stugotz]

They reconciled. If I tell you the sports hub in Boston was talking about this feud between. Pablo Torre finds out and Bill Belichick and Bill Simmons, can you tell me where you think The Sports Hub in Boston would side in this particular feud.

[Billy Gill]

I think they'll side with Pablo over Bill Simmons. I don't think. I'm not certain the guys at the Sports Hub really like Bill Simmons that much. I don't know.

[Stugotz]

Is a Boston icon, is he not? He's. Bill Simmons is the Sports Hub. I would assume that the Sports Hub would be a. A place where you would find a haven for Bill Simmons, but I was a bit shocked when I heard the commentary on the Sports Hub. I get it.

[J]

You're so much better than this, but you're doing a podcast on a movie from 1978.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, you got.

[J]

That's what everyone's got time for. You know what. What the hell is he talking about? During a podcast, referring to a movie that no one's seen for 40 years. You've got the audacity that. A movie that came out when I was three, that's not the Godfather or something that you're. During that exercise you're talking about, Pablo Torre is wasting everyone's time with the Belichick story. You're literally doing something, the most frivolous thing that you could ever do. So Pablo Torre is the 50 cent of journalism. Pablo, anything you need from me, baby, you reach out. We're all here for you. We got your back. Palvatore. The greatest sports journalist in the world.

[Stugotz]

That's just shocking to hear.

[Billy Gill]

The world.

[Dan Le Batard]

What does he mean by that?

[Stugotz]

He said no one wants to beef with him. No, you can't beef with him. You shouldn't beef with him. He's gonna break. He's gonna open up his briefcase, and he's gonna say, I happen to have a few questions for you.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

And then you're just gonna melt in his journalistic breath.

[J]

Anything you need from me, baby.

[Stugotz]

Billy, why are you shaking your head? I don't know.

[Mike Ryan]

What I just heard is an odd turn there.

[Stugotz]

It. The ending of that is where it crescendos. I was not expecting any of those people to say any of that, but for it to end with, he's the 50 cent of journalism, which means no one wishes to beef with him. He has escalated to that point very quickly.

[J]

So Pablo Torre is the 50 cent of journalism.

[Mike Ryan]

Boston's also out on Belichick, though, right? Like, that didn't end great. Like they're looking for things to make Belichick look bad.

[Stugotz]

Well, that's one of the things they did in sideswiping Simmons is they kept saying, if you were still from here, you'd know how people Hollywood. If you know how people here feel about Belichick and that story, Mike, I.

[Billy Gill]

Hate it as well. It doesn't matter that Bill moved across the country to la, to the place that Boston hates the most. He could still cover Boston sports in 2025 and do it very well. But that's where I knew those guys would go.

[Dan Le Batard]

You know what I think? Anytime I see Bill Simmons, I'm like, this guy doesn't rep Boston enough. That's what I think. Anytime. What are we doing? Like, we're gonna hipster shame. As if, like, you know, I like Bill Simmons first couple albums. What are we doing?

[Stugotz]

Well, Pablo Torres. Boston years were Harvard, which we got your back. Tend to be things that annoy people. How often he reminds, right at the top of the Simmons podcast, he says, I didn't fly in for this. I was here for the people.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, that was. That was a flex.

[Billy Gill]

Well done.

[Dan Le Batard]

That was a mad flexible and also like a good. A good shame card to pull. Like, you kind of ruined that for me a little bit by not calling me a journalist. The whole thing was silly. And I think they both reacted in kind when they recorded the podcast. And you realize all of this is very stupid.

[Billy Gill]

Congratulations to Pablo for winning the big trophy. Huh? Peabody.

[Stugotz]

He didn't win it, but.

[Dan Le Batard]

But Awful enough did put out a story saying that he won the Beef, so.

[Stugotz]

Oh, really?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, yeah. They said decisively, he won the Beef.

[Stugotz]

Wow.

[Dan Le Batard]

I wrote the article under my nom de plume. I have seen an uptick. What's going on here? We must be doing numbers.

[Stugotz]

Congratulations to Pablo Torre for officially winning the Beef. According to Awful announcing a giant victory. But to win it in Boston.

[Billy Gill]

If he could only win one. The beef with Bill Simmons or the Peabody? Which one do you think Pablo would choose?

[Dan Le Batard]

The Peabody.

[Billy Gill]

Really? I choose Simmons.

[Chris Cody]

Fun game, though.

[Dan Le Batard]

Peabody. Peabody.

[Stugotz]

Pablo really wanted the Peabody.

[Dan Le Batard]

Really does.

[Mike Ryan]

But he likes the attention too.

[Stugotz]

He does like the attention. He does. Pablo. I remember this is a funny memory. It used to be behind me in the coloring book of Pablo crowd surfing at the mosque, Miami. But the funny memory is him standing at the end of the stage and whispering before turning his back and allowing those people to just carry him across the crowd on his back. He just says, the child in me is a kindergarten kindergartner who always wanted to be seen. Wouldn't even recognize this person I've become who wants to do this thing where he crowd surfs. He loves attention so much.

[Billy Gill]

Jesus Christ, man. Just crowd surf.

[J]

I mean, anything you need from me.

[Stugotz]

Baby, that was the part that feels a little bit like insincere.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's the most Hollywood thing that I have heard.

[J]

Anything you need from me, baby?

[Dan Le Batard]

They're criticizing the Hollywood bona fides of Bill Simmons while sounding like a producer.

[Stugotz]

This is really a spectacularly insincere overreach.

[J]

Anything you need from me, baby?

[Dan Le Batard]

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