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breaking newsroid is out. So no structure, no rules. So this is gonna be the most dangerous episode of the Hawkeye.
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Hi, welcome to the hockey show. I'm David. On the other side of the glass is our driver today. That's Rose. Rose is going to be taking over in just a second. In the back, we have Ethan and Jason holding it down for us. But Roy, we miss you. You're sick. It sucks. Get better soon.
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You make it sound like he's dying.
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He's not dead.
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You missed still alive and he's not dead.
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I did.
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I'm sorry.
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Crazy.
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We have a guest host today since Roy is not here. And it's Adnan at Nan Verk. Mlb, everybody, prime hockey is here to help me get through this. And on that note, Rose, take it away.
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Okay, so before we start, we want to just take a minute for Jessie Pierce and her kids because they died on a fire last week. That was it. Last week.
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Yes. So earlier this week.
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Yeah, this week. So we just want to take a moment there.
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Yeah, that one hurt. Man. That was. That was rough.
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Tragic story. No question about me. Three kids dying in a fire like that.
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Awful, awful story. Yeah, a lot of the. The wild were in town last night, so a lot of the Minnesota media were. Were here. I was talking to a few of them after the game, and it was just, you know, it's just an awful, awful story. It's nice to see that the, you know, the hockey world is kind of rallied around, you know, the wild. The family. That's always nice to see. But this one, it really gutted me at in.
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Yeah, I mean, Michael Russ, I'm a huge fan of, does a great job, obviously, covering the wild. Once I saw his tweets about it. I was just in shock and. And it's really unimaginable. I mean, for any of us who have kids suffer this kind of atrocity, it's just tragic. So rest in peace to Jesse and obviously her children.
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Oh, man. So after that, like we have, and we're entering this period of time where teams are downfalling, so I'm going to give you some stats and then I'm going to ask you boys, because the Red Wings look back to back, lose back to back games 3, 13 of their last 20 games. Then you have the Kraken that lost four in a row before their Tampa win last night. Same with the Kings, lost four in a row until they beat the Canucks. Canucks.
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No, you got it.
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The Canucks Penguins lost 11 of their 19 games and Sydney left the game with an injury. And then you have the Sharks with losing six in a row and knocking themselves from the playoff contention. So now I ask you, which of these teams are already lost and which ones just had a bad week?
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Oh, that's.
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That's tough. Rose. I. I wanted to say the Sharks were going to be bouncing back, but they've really kind of screwed themselves with their losing streak. The Kings always seem to be meandering around the playoffs. I feel like they're probably going to find a way in, but the team that I just can't stop, like staring at Adnan and the one that just really surprised me this year and maybe, you know, it's fool me once situation, but the Detroit Red Wings, like, this is a team that I thought was in the driver's seat for so much of the season. I mean, they were tied with Carolina for first in the east as recently as January 25th, which is two months ago. That's not that long ago with a giant Olympic break in the middle. I was kind of went down the. The, the rabbit hole a little bit yesterday, but since the Olympics, they're 5, 6 and 2 under.500. Not good enough. They've dropped from second in the division when the Olympic break started to all the way out of the playoffs. Now I think they're two. What are they? Three points, two points back of the
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Islanders, three points back of a playoff spot.
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Currently three points back to the Islanders
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with two games in hand. To be fair to them, their scoring
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is falling off a cliff, though. Like, they're 31st in goals per game over the last six weeks at 2.22 goals per game. Their power play is third from bottom in the league. 13%. Their trade deadline ads Justin Falk, David Perron, they haven't done much. So I don't know how Detroit's going to bounce back from this, but this would be the third straight year where they've been in a playoff spot for much of the year and then down the stretch they just fell off a cliff.
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Yeah, I remember Talking to Todd McClellan, their head coach in late January, right around the time you were talking about when they were just rolling. And he said, you know, the key is coming out of the Olympic break in March. You're basically playing 14 games in 31 days. You're playing every other night. And he was well aware of the fact. You look at the record, the Detroit Red Wings the last three years, March has been like that cliche in like a line out like a lamb. They've been off on the month of March. And so Todd was well aware of the fact, hey, we got to avoid that pitfall again. Even with as well as we're playing and what's happened, they've again fallen apart in March coming at Olympic break. Losing Dylan Larkin hurts. I totally get it. Mo sider for much of the season. Look at Norris Trophy candidate John Gibson was a terrific pickup for much of the year, but they've completely fallen apart. As you said. It's not complete doom and gloom as Ethan said, they do have a couple games in hand, but I think it's a big deal when you go from a sure to playoff spot to on the brink to outside looking in like once you start to need a little bit of help, it's tough. Fine. You win those two games in hand, theoretically one point up on the Islanders. But it's a logjam right now between the Islanders, the Senators, the Bruins, the Flyers, even still alive. It's really been disappointing for Detroit and you have to think what does this mean for Steve Eiserman? This is year nine of the ISER plan. He's an all time great player. We know he's beloved in Motown with. We saw success in the front office at Tampa Bay, but he has not turned around this Red Wings team and clearly the criticism is on him. I don't know if he can survive this if the Red Wings fall out of the playoffs again.
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Adnan, it's not only year nine of the ISER plan, it will be year nine without the playoffs for a franchise that had made the playoffs 26 times in a row prior to this massive rebuild that they underwent. Right. So this really feels like a make or break year for the Red Wings. And if they don't do it, considering how much ground they. How much breathing room they built up for themselves at the beginning of the year. And if they just epically collapse down the stretch like this and they don't make the playoffs, I mean, look, they still have a lot of great building blocks. Marit Cider is a fantastic player. Lucas Raymond, Dylan Larkin, Alex Debrinc, it's a great player, but it's. It's almost like a. Where do you go from here? Like, something has to change. And I think they might have to take a big swing and say, look, I know we've got this pipeline that we love with all this talent in it, but it's tough time to take a swing and go after a big time superstar, to pair with this nice core that we have because it's not working. Whatever they've been doing is not working and they're falling apart. Like I said, they. Luckily they built up a bunch of breathing room for themselves because they were one of the best teams in the league for the first couple months of the season. But, man, if they miss the playoffs, it'll be an absolute disaster.
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Now, on the flip side, just kind of perusing the standings, you've got Anaheim, who have climbed the standings slowly but surely to where they're now in first place in the Pacific Division. And then we've been talking about them a lot, but Buffalo just will not stop. They are now tied with Carolina for the top spot in the Eastern Conference. And also, we haven't mentioned them yet, but Columbus, now third in the division, one point back at Pittsburgh. They are right there. And what a fun story that has been in Columbus. I mean, Zach Morenci has been having a Norris worthy season. It's just been a lot of fun watching them succeed. And I would love to see Columbus in the playoffs, obviously with all the Johnny Goudreau stuff from last year, but how much fun would that be? And then to see Columbus back in the postseason.
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I'm with you, David. People have said that Columbus is one of the most irrelevant sports franchises. I mean, they've been on for 20 years. Yeah. They've won one playoffs in 25 years. Sergeant Rossi. Exactly. You got to call him. He did it. You go to Columbus, Ohio, and you go, okay, they're known for the Buckeyes. What else you got? The Blue. We have a hockey team here. I'm like, oh, yeah. So I'm like, I would love to see some love giving to Columbus beyond the fact they have a cannon, which is obviously a great attraction there. When you go to games, you Know, I think a lot of this goes to Rick Bonus. There's no question about it with Dean Evanson. The fact that they've got the stones to pull the plug and fire him mid season and bring him bonus and no bones about it. Rick has been tremendous. This guy's in his early 70s. He was on a boat with his wife, just enjoying life. He gets the phone call. Took him over 10 seconds because I'm in and they've taken off. He's a player friendly coach. Player friendly coach, I should say. And they've had a lot more offense with him at the helm. They're playing loose, and yet they still have a structure, which is a tough thing to do. I'm with you. I think Columbus ends up being second in the Metro. I got the Penguins at third in the Metro. Columbus is going to be a playoff team, which you could not have said a couple of months ago. Full credit to Rick Bonus for the way he's turned it around.
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How about the emergence of Adam Fantilli as well? This guy has really turned himself into a star player in this league. And you look at this lineup like this is a talented team. This is. No, you know, last year they kind of surprised everybody. People felt like they kind of rode the emotion of the Johnny Goudreau tragedy into nearly making a playoff spot. And they've done the same exact thing this year in terms of they really struggled out of the gates, have been one of the hottest teams in the league the last couple months, and now they have themselves in a playoff spot. I agree with you, Adnan. I think they're going to sail by the Penguins here in the last couple weeks of the season, end up in the second spot in the Metro, and they're going to be a tough out for Carolina in that second round if they get past their first round matchup, whoever that may be. But there's not. There's not many players I love in the league right now more than Zach Orinski. Watching him is an absolute joy. And he's really parlaying what he did in the Olympics in terms of kind of maybe, you know, announcing himself to the general American public as a superstar in the NHL. He is an incredible player.
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Yeah, I'm with you. Orinski is a guy, you know, oftentimes the Norris becomes a popularity contest or people make it very easy on themselves, while there's nobody better than Cal Makar. Yeah, Quinn Hughes. But if ever there's year that Orinski was going to break that log, Gym is saying those two guys are Always going to win the Norse. This would be that year. Especially if Zach catapults his team to the playoffs. I think it'd be a great story to see him win the Norris. He was great a year ago. Even better this year.
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Okay, so we can say that the NHL is either broken or drunk or both. But since the Panthers are not defending the Stali cup and Edna, we know that your leaves are not that good, we are going to do something.
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Rosie, I'm a Flyers fan. That's an often mistake. I am from Toronto, but I am a Flyers fan. But go ahead. The Leafs stink. I'm thrilled. The Leafs are terrible. Go.
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Oh, beautiful. So your team is going to the playoffs, right?
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No.
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Flyers right now have a 12% chance of making the playoffs.
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Still a lot. Five points out. Okay, five points out with 11 games to go. So it's a very, very Panthers type of situation before the Palmarese Bill Zito era.
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Oh, okay. So what we're doing here is we are each of us are picking a team emotionally of who we want to see in the playoffs. Since the Panthers, they're not going to be there. And then in two weeks, when we do really have the teams, we're going to let the helmet speak our fate. But. Right. I think we're gonna go one on one to see who are they rooting for. And I'm gonna read to you first, Royce, because he sent it and he doesn't want anyone to take his. So Royce says, I'll start with the Buffalo Sabres. I've liked the Sabres since 1993, so there's history there for me. The NHL, quite honestly, is better when the Sabres are good. So that is Roy's pick. Ethan. What's yours?
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Rosie? I am all in on the Minnesota Wild. They have four for like some of my favorite players in the league. When you talk about Gorill Kriov, Matt Baldi, Brock Faber, Quinn Hughes, I really love that combination of players and they're just a fun team to watch. And the other team, I'm really in.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Who?
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No, no, no, no. You're not taking two teams off the map. That's not.
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There's two teams.
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What is this?
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There's two teams. I've claimed them once. You're not. I claimed these teams months ago.
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Swear to God.
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Months ago. It's the Anaheim.
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I knew it. I knew it.
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Nobody don't get.
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I'm gonna take two teams. Yeah.
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Let's know everything now.
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Yeah.
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Okay. Everyone gets to go one around Then the Ducks aren't taken anything.
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The first team I'm taking, the first team I'm taking is the Minnesota Wild. I love that team. I love that roster and I really hope I just like. I like new blood. I always am going to root for the new blood and I look, Colorado's a fun team, but I would rather see a new team like Minnesota rather than just watching the same old Colorado versus Edmonton or, you know, Dallas versus Edmonton in the Western Conference final. Like, give me something new.
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Yeah, exactly.
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All right, your turn.
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So obviously I'm a Flyers fan. I'm sharing for Philly. But if I can't pick my team, I'll go with the Montreal Canadiens.
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There's nothing better than in Montreal trying
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to get back to the playoffs. Obviously face the Leafs a season ago. Cole Caulfield, first 40 goal scorer for this Montreal team. So Vincent donfus back in 93, 94. That whole top line, by the way, is incredible. Slavkowski's had a great season as well might be the top line of hockey. So Montreal's been a little bit up and down. Right now they're third in the Atlantic. They got 90 points, two points up on Boston. Got to see the Habs in the playoffs. David.
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I'm going to take a page out of Ethan's book. I'm going to take the Pacific Division as my playoff teams. So no, I'll take Anaheim. I like the Ducks a lot. I love, you know. You okay back there, Rose?
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Sorry, sorry. I was going to give you a second round, but it's taken.
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That's fine. We only need one. We only need one.
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No, it's been really fun watching the Ducks this year. They off to a great start. They kind of fel off a little bit, but they bounced right back around.
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What was it around?
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I guess Valentine's Day. When they've really turned it back up in a corner. But I mean, Cutter Galtier is so much fun to watch. Leo Carlson, Lucas Stal has been great in net. And you got to give Joel Twenville some props. He's done a great job with the Dutch this year. So. Yeah. And you know, at least they'll be in the playoffs for sure. So something to root for. But yeah, shout out.
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Leo Carlson, Cutter Gaultier, who else? I love Jackson Lacombe on that team. That team is a fun watch.
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Troy Terry, Chris Prider, Chicken Wing, Truba.
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Well, I'm going for. I. I don't know if they're gonna make the playoffs, but I love the ocean, so I'm Going for the Seattle Kraken.
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Wow, they're three.
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That's a shocking choice. The Seattle Cracker are not a fun team to watch. Not an exciting team. I love Joey Decord because we had him on the podcast. Great guy, can handle the puck well. I love goalies. I can handle the puck well. And John Forsyth, of course, the bracket. My colleague and teammate on Prime. So those are the things I like about Seattle. But you tell me as a hockey fan, Rose, you want to see the Kraken in there?
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Yeah. Just because I love the ocean.
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Rose, do you know the name of the Kraken mascot? Wow.
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No. But I know there was a very handsome guy that I don't think is there anymore.
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Yeah, Vince Dunn. He's still there.
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Vince Dunn.
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Yeah, yeah, he's still there. I thought you were like sweet on Matty. Veneers.
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Can we just shout out real quick the Nashville Predators and the fact that they're currently holding down the final playoff spot in the Western Conference. A disaster last season. Complete and utter disaster. Looked like they were heading for the same thing. And very quietly. I don't think we've talked about them on this show at all this year. Very, very quietly. Have played really well the back end of the season and currently find themselves one point up on the Los Angeles Kings for the final playoff spot. Now they would run into the Colorado Avalanche in the first round, but still, what an accomplishment that would be for that team if they're able to rally and will themselves in the playoffs at the back end of the season.
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Specifically, Ethan Stamkos has been revitalized. Look like he was done a season to go. He's actually a terrific season for them. I'm with you, Nashvill. Pretty shocking. Andrew Burnett has got that team. Looks like a play.
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Crap. Steven Stamkos is 36 goals this year.
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Shocking.
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How did I miss that fact?
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He could be a 40 goal score this year. Like I'm stunned by it.
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Where the hell did that come from? Props to you, Steven Stamko.
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Well, here we go.
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He's got two, three, four, five goals in his last four games. But still. Good God, man. Way to go.
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Philip Forsberg. Also quietly with a 33 goal, 65 point season. That kid is. That guy is a student.
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It's a mustache. It's a mustache Power.
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Okay, so those are our teams. And next, next two weeks we will have control because the helmet is gonna tell us what and we're gonna have to. I wish the Penguins get there and Roy gets the Penguins and he cannot change it. Because that's his helmet. I would love that. So maybe, maybe it happens.
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But, well, you control the bag, so, you know.
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I know, maybe, maybe I'll do something there.
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Hey, Roy, buddy. Yo.
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You know that energy shift when the game gets good and everybody all together in unison knows to stand up on their feet?
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Oh, absolutely. Mike.
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Yeah.
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Oh, delicious.
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It's the signal that says, we're not checking the time anymore, pal. It's when small talk turns into stories. Cuervo, man. It's that high five. A random stranger effect. That's right. The game is popping. You're hugging people you never met before. That's the kind of energy that Cuervo brings. It's so smooth, so delicious. That's the Cuervo effect. Keep it Cuervo.
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Oh, folks, look at me. I'm in my 30s, which is old enough to know better and somehow still young enough to ignore that information pretty regularly.
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Like you know me.
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Now we're gonna get to the Panthers dance because they're still playing. I don't know why we suck, because
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you have to play 82 games. No matter what, you have to play 82.
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Why don't you leave this guys? Because the only thing I want to see is Barky.
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Thank you. Well, you might. I mean, there's still 11 games left and he's been stating, you know, he's going to show up and there's not going to be anybody left. The Panthers lost another player last night, probably for the season. Evan Rodriguez broke his finger. So he joins an incredibly long list of players. Who's on this list? Ethan, you got Barkov, Reinhardt, Martian, Rodriguez.
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Let's see, Reinhardt's probably going to be
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on the Schwint, Samoskevich, Gadovich, all these guys. Long term injuries. The Panthers still, I mean, give them credit, they're fighting back. Last night they were down two nothing. They fought back and almost forced the game to overtime. The 3 1/2 seconds or whatever, it was away. But one thing that I liked last night, adnet and Ethan, when we were speaking to Matthew Tkachuk in the locker room, one, one of the things that he said was the reason or one of the reasons that they're still pushing so hard and that they're still kind of trying to do their thing is the culture that they've built in this team. Like, you can't compromise that right now with so many players that are there. You know, from Charlotte, some of their young and up and coming guys, like, they have to see that even when the chips are down, everybody in that locker room is still giving everything they have toward what this team tries to accomplish and that's building toward the future. That's why this team is probably going to be a Stanley cup contender for a long time. So even at a down moment, it was really kind of refreshing to hear Matthew Tachuk say those things. But, man, it just feels like if there really is an injury bug, there must be a huge nest inside that locker room because they just won't leave.
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Yeah, I mean, Chuck is like the last of the Mohicans at this point. Now he's back. They're just hanging on valiantly, but you could really see in a quick way, David, they come back to you being A Stanley cup champion next season. Right. It would be such an anomaly, but three straight Stanley Cup Finals, back to back champions, you missed the plastic. You hit hard by injuries, but then healthy and rejuvenated, you can still make a run next year. So this isn't like the end of a dynasty and you go, oh man, let's just savor the good times and mourn the, the fact that this is over. Like, no, this is just a hiccup and aberration and hopefully Florida gets back to being the team that we all expect to be. I'm actually fascinated about Barkov if he comes back because Jason DeMur said to me back in February, my podcast partner, he's going to be back no matter what I said. Even if Florida is out of. Because even if Florida is out of it, he wants to just prove he can do it.
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Yeah.
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As a player, even if you could play six or seven games, that's better than waiting six months and not coming back till September. So I'm really curious if Barkov plays. I think he will.
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I don't see why he wouldn't. He's been working his ass off to come back six months now. So regardless of the season being over, I mean, the guy has been putting in the work. Let him go out there and skate for 10 games or seven games or whatever it might be, just so we can do it.
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100 as a fan. Personally, though, I don't want to risk it because it scares me personally to have a guy with an ace. Like, if it's the playoffs, obviously, well,
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what are you risking? But they're not going to let him back in unless he's 100.
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Good to go. That's. That's, that's totally fair, Dave.
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This isn't a training camp practice. We don't have to worry about him tearing his ACL again. This is NHL hockey.
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Yeah, I just wise. I, I get what you're saying. I just want to touch real quick on the. I want to touch real quick on the idea of the Panthers and the Tank and how what Tkachuk said and they're in such a different spot than any other team is when they're out of it at this point in the season. Usually where, like Adnan said, they're a team that feels they could win the Stanley cup next year. They could have won the Stanley cup this year had they not been bitten by this crazy injury bug. One I've never seen the likes of before. Really. So it will be interesting to see they're going to play their asses off the next couple of weeks no matter what happens. But they do want to end up in that top 10 spot because that could be a huge asset that could help them win the Stanley cup next year one way or another.
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Okay, it is time for Puck lock. Puck lock, kids. It's Presented sponsored by DraftKings. DraftKings. The Crown is yours, David. Are you making us money this time?
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D
I sure as hell hope so, Rose. Oh, I've got four picks for you today. There's only two games so I went with some alternate lines. But I got us some value. We're going to start with Detroit. The Red Wings are desperate for points as we've talked about. So I'm going to take their man Dylan Larkin to go over three and a half shots. He's hit that number in five straight games, including his first game back from injury on Tuesday in Ottawa where he ripped five shots on nine attempts. Detroit needs everything they get and Larkin will be the man to carry them. Also in Detroit, we're going to take Alex the Brincat for an anytime point. He's got a point in seven straight games and 11 events last 12. The cat is on fire. So we're going to loop those two in and then we're going to go to the Rangers Blackhawks. We're going to take Mika Zibinijad to go over two and a half shots on goal. He's hit that in fourth straight and Chicago gives up the second most shots in the NHL. Mika had three and the Rangers three nothing loss to Chicago in December and he's been shooting a lot lately. And in that game we're also going to take Connor Bedard's alternate line at 2 1/2 shots. He's hit that in 5 of 6 and 8 of 10 on the road. And the Rangers allow a shit ton of shots as well. Parlay odds in this one +667. Go make yourself some money ahead of a fun weekend.
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C
Give us the start of the day of the week. Sorry.
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A
Hello, guys. Hi, David.
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C
Hi.
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A
So the hockey stat of the week this week. Vegas is really struggling, huh guys? What a weird year they're having out there. It looks like Mitch Marner and the Maple Leafs were really just kind of better off with with each other, huh? So this stat from Puck Empire. For the first time in franchise history, the Vegas Golden Knights will not finish with more wins than losses in an NHL season. Obviously Vegas has had unprecedented success for an expansion team. Won a Stanley cup very, very fast. Went to the Stanley cup final in their first year, weird year out there in Vegas. I don't know if it's aging. I don't know if it's an injury to Mark Stone, what the deal is out there. But they've just never gotten off the ground. And a thing they don't do, Adnan, they don't beat good teams. It's really, really weird.
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D
What do you think the odds were before the season. I'm sorry. That Steven Stamkos would finish with twice as many goals as Mitch Marner.
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C
That's crazy.
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B
That's a crazy step. That's what.
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C
Again, I dare you.
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A
I double dare you.
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D
Nice.
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B
Well, listen, I'm not going to mess with Sam Jackson as a Pulp Fiction, but I think when I look at Vegas, I was talking to Shane 91 of our colleagues on Prime. He obviously does a lot of the Vegas games. They always are behind. Then they have a crazy push to at least get in overtime and they lose in overtime. Like it's been such a frustrating situation for Vegas. They're not very good. They're clinging to a playoff spot. But I could wouldn't be shocked if they're falling out of the playoffs. Feels like Anaheim wins the Pacific, then Edmonton and Vegas trying to hold on that third spot. Maybe a wild card. But yeah, shocking how bad they've been.
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C
Oh, beautiful. Now we're gonna.
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D
I'm not gonna fall asleep at the wheel. Come on.
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C
Something. I'm not gonna give you a minute of rose because too much rose now. So I'm gonna save you from that. But we're gonna go to wins and fails of the week. And because Ednan is our guest here, Adnan, I'm gonna go first to you, to your, to your win.
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B
Okay. Brandon Montour, your favorite team, Rosie the Kraken. I was watching the game last night and the highlights. He scores a terrific goal in overtime. I just thought it was a great hockey move. You hear this oftentimes in basketball. As far as having a no look pass. That, that is the no look shot there, David. He's got two guys he's potentially looking at including Shane Wright and then just wires the puck pass. Andre Vasilevsky. Kraken had lost four straight games and this was a critical win, critical win at the loss for straight against one of the best teams in hockey in beating the Lightning. So that is my win of the week.
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D
Nice.
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C
David.
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D
My win of the week also. Goal. Well, I guess that wasn't a goalie. We're kind of riding on Vasilevsky. But my win of the week is a Goaltender Flames. Young goalie Devin Cooley spoke about goaltenders showing emotion after giving up goals. Like, why can't we get pissed off? Like, what's wrong with that? I loved what he had to say, so let's play it real quick.
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A
I think goalies should be allowed to show a little bit of emotion, like, when they get scored on. You know, I don't really like the narrative that, oh, if they show emotion, that means, like, they're down and out and they're mentally soft or whatever. Like, I think if you get scored on, like, you should be allowed to be pissed for like five, ten seconds. Like, throw a tantrum on the ice. I do it all the time practice. I scream and I yell, and I would love to do that in a game without people, like, judging, being like, oh, he's mentally soft, you know, because you, instead of internalizing it, you get it all out and then like 10 seconds later, then you can smile about it and have a good time about it.
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D
I love it. I love what he had to say there. I thought that was great. I think that he's right too, like the idea that a goalie can't show emotion. Look, I, I, I used to kind of have that mindset where I'd be out there and I didn't want to, like, get pissed off and slam my stick against the post because I didn't want my teammates to be worried that I wasn't focused back there. But I think that was almost the detriment on my teammates that, why can't they be mentally strong? Why can't I be mentally strong? So I'm with you, Devin Cooley. Let's roll.
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C
Okay, my win goes to the guy that I said was gonna win the Cutler trophy. So if he wins it, I'm gonna take a winning lap. So it's, it's this video here where he is trying to dunk it or I don't know what he's trying to do and he went into the face. Look at that.
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B
He's very good.
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C
Yeah. Matthew. Matthew Schaefer is unbelievable player.
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A
Matthew Schaefer.
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D
That was a one handed backhand with his wrist turned down. That was nuts.
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C
Yeah. No, I'm telling you, I called it. E. What's yours?
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A
My win of the week. Guys, Nobody is having more fun than Matthew Tkachuk since the Olympics and he deserves it. You know, first of all, he's playing really well. Like, he's backing up all the talk that he had after the Olympics and kind of, you know, all the celebration that he did. He's playing really well. He's got 10 goals and 25 points in 24 games. But the other night before the Wild and Panthers played put. We'll put this picture up here from the elbow room camera. There's Matthew Tkachuk, Brock Faber, Quinn Hughes, Matt Boldy, Kirill Caprizov and inexplicably Mark Cuban hanging out at the elbow room. I'm not really sure why Mark Cuban was with this group, but I just love this. Teammates at the Olympics still just embracing each and enjoying life in the NHL and having a couple beers with the guys before the, you know, you go out and play them the next night. So I thought it was really cool to see those guys hanging and maybe doing a little recruiting for Quinn Hughes, who's the free agent in two years. But we can talk about that later. Rose, you're fail or Rose who's next for fails?
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C
We're going to fails because without fails the wins don't feel wins. So Ednan, what's your fail?
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B
I was at the game Rosie on Monday Senators against the Rangers is the only hockey game that night and the Rangers were absolutely atrocious. They managed to at least the time we thought. Nine shots on goal, which would have been a franchise low. After the game they got another shot awarded them. Are you kidding me? Just a pity shot. So 10 shots on goal. An absolutely atrocious performance against the Ottawa Senators on a night David and Ethan and Rosie, which Mika Zabenishek gets honored for playing in his 1000th game, which is already strange by the way. Normally you play the thousandth game, they honor you the next night. But of course Ottawa is the team that drafted him. Okay, fine. We'll have the ceremony beforehand. Clearly wasn't going to be going hard out there in game 998. Game 999. Didn't want to get hurt with game number 1000 on the horizon. But just a putrid performance by the Rangers. Love Madison Square Garden, but that was an awful fail of the week.
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A
I was watching that game too, Adnan. I couldn't believe the effort level for Sabana Jad's thousandth game. That was crazy to me. Like they just did not show up at all. They had like four shots half through two periods. It was yeah, yeah, David.
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D
My fail of the week. We're going to the ahl. Another goaltender, Cal Peterson of the Iowa Wild was kicked out of a game earlier this week for spearing the Chicago Wolves Noel Gunler. Now in Peterson's defense, you can see Gunler Giving two or three good whacks at a loose puck, hitting Peterson in the upper body before Gunnler was shoved into Peterson from behind. And then chaos ensued. Still, this is a big no, no. But I kind of get where he was coming from and I may have speared somebody once or twice in my lifetime. So. Yeah.
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C
Oh, no.
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A
Ethan, my fail of the week goes to something we talked about on the big show earlier today. This tweet from the Minnesota Wilds. Play by play guy, I just did understand it. There were 18,000 people in the barn last night on a Thursday during Miami music week. And we're still trying to do digs at the Florida Panthers attendance after they've won two Stanley Cups. Now, I just don't understand what we were going on here. So this was a really lame moment for me taking a shot at the Panthers attendance. Rosie, all you, before I close, my
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C
fail of the week is this video where the puck didn't go in. I don't understand how. Because he was in. In the back and he never got in.
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D
So, yeah, make it make sense.
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C
I don't play. I don't play hockey, but that's my fault of the week. So thank you very much for surviving this episode with us. Thank you, Adnan, for joining us. It's always a pleasure having you.
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D
Good job, Rose.
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B
Good stuff, Rosie. Thank you guys.
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D
Appreciate you, Adnan, you're the best.
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C
And yeah, to close it up, there's all mark on shootouts. I landed. I landed 15 seconds.
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A
Make sure that we don't have enough time to play that video. That video is too long. But make sure to subscribe to the Hockey show on YouTube and watch us on DKN every week and on YouTube, Instagram, Twitter. Yep. And he's ad hoc DLs. We love you, Adnan. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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B
Love you guys.
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E
Mike, you know I have one rule to live by, right?
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A
Don't place parlays on multiple long shots. Don't say a game is won when it hasn't hit triple zero.
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E
Always drink your Jagermeister ice cold. That's the rule. Everything else is merely a suggestion.
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A
Everything else?
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E
Everything else.
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A
Wearing clean underwear every day, well, that's
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E
just a personal day decision. Brushing your teeth, obviously smart, but not a rule.
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A
Never pee pee on an electric fence.
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E
Okay, Maybe there are two rules, but the one that is 100% that I insist on completely. Jagermeister must be drank ice cold or don't drink it at all.
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A
Damn, that's cold.
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E
Exactly. You're finally starting to get it.
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A
Drink responsibly. Jagermeister liqueur, 35% alcohol by volume. Imported by Mass. Jagermeister, U.S. white Plains, New York.