Host (2:04)

What is it? The, the Pro Bowl.

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Pro Bowl.

Host (2:06)

But it was like first team all pro. Make it make sense.

Wingo (2:09)

You know, I got a, I got an underrated athlete for you. Not just somebody in specific, but all hockey players. I think hockey is one of the Most I agree. For one, you're learning how to be coordinated to skateboard. You're hit, you're hitting each other, you're using the puck, you're. There's so many different things that go into hockey I think is very difficult. And then we got to give a shout out to our boy Chucky, right. When you look at somebody who was coming off an injury, right, he was out for most of the season, comes back to play with the Panthers and then just gets thrown right into this, this trip with United States. I mean, shout out to him. I, I think people aren't giving him the kudos that he deserves there. Obviously he's a top player in the NHL, but look at someone who was just coming off a major injury. He got back mid season for his regular season team, is now playing for the Olympics. I think that's something definitely that hasn't been highlighted as much going into how difficult hockey really is for guys and the toll that they take on their bodies. I mean you get to the end of the season, you realize that you have six bruised ribs, a concussion, you have all these no teeth. You got fake teeth in and dentures. So I think that's something that's definitely underrated that people don't realize.

General (3:14)

Yeah. To piggyback on you, Wingo, I like

Host (3:16)

that's a great take.

General (3:18)

That's. I was actually going to go the hockey route as well. And the fact that you took all the hockey players is actually like. It's true though.

Host (3:24)

It is, bro.

General (3:25)

It's almost underrated sport.

Host (3:27)

And obviously playing with like broken stern.

General (3:29)

Crazy. It's crazy. But for me, kind of like you mentioned Chucky, right. Somebody who I don't think is as underrated anymore because of the run that we've had these last two years. But people are always, always sleeping on Barkov. Right. And Barkov is somebody that in these two years people have come to realize obviously how good he is now. Right. He's not as underrated as he was maybe just two years ago, but Barkov has been this guy for years, like eight years at this point. And, and I think it's even. You're even seeing it now with this current Panthers team. Like obviously we've missed him the entire year and not that like we're not like fully struggling, struggling, but like we're, we're going to have to make a big push again to the playoffs and missing Barkov is such a huge piece. So I think like in pairing with Chucky because Chucky's also been out like how important those two guys are to us. But also just like league wide. Because everyone talks about obviously McDavid, dry seidel. Like in my opinion, I think Barkov is the second best player in the NHL. And that's my take. I. I think Barkov. Conor McDavid is number one. Like he is. He's ridiculous. Barkov for me I think is it should be in the discussion for the second best player in the NHL. And he. He's rarely was in that conversation now. He's kind of entered it in terms of like people consider him like probably top five, I would assume five range. But I think he's number two. So.

Host (4:47)

Yeah, no, I. I agree. Hockey players are at another level as far as like athletic abilities. Cuz they're doing all that on ice. Yeah, like. Yeah, it's insane.

Wingo (4:57)

People don't want to do that on land, you know.

Host (5:01)

You know what's funny is that by the way underrated. Well you know what? I'm going to make this as my take.

General (5:05)

I'll make it after one of the. One of the early thing. You guys remember the show Sports Science. So one of my favorite. I just. I remember this like vividly is they had a thing about what sport gen like who sweats the most after a game. And the winner was actually hockey. Like they had technically the least amount or one of the least amount of time because they're always interchanging. But even those short spurts that they're on there, they are. They are doing so much. Exactly. That they actually even being in the ice, in the cold, they are. They finish a game and like they are the one, the most. The sweatiest athletes of all. And then two, you look at like you hear stories of. Of these goalies who will drop like £15 in a game throughout a game. Like and they're. You just think like they're just there, right? All those little moves constantly being like

Host (5:57)

it because drainage you're. You're balancing the whole time. Like you got to be engaged at all times. You're not on flat land. Like it's. It's absurd.

General (6:05)

It is crazy.

Host (6:06)

Which I was gonna go you know, very similar route to like Wingo General, you know, general athlete. Which I'm gonna give him a little love right Is. Is those PGA Tour guys that are 100, 140 right. Where shit's coming out of their pocket. No one's really seeing the grind that you know those guys are going. And they're expensive. Fighting to make cuts. It's expensive. You pay for your Travel, you pay for your caddy, you pay for your coach, right? All these things. You might get some sponsors and stuff like that that help eat some of the cost throughout the year. But those guys are grinding, right? And you've seen guys like Jake Knaps, right, that they come out of nowhere, 150 plus, and then all of a sudden are now in the thick of it and making a ton of money, right? But it is a grind to be those guys. But when we were having this hockey talk, the referees, bro, are freak athletes, bro.

General (6:50)

Yes, freak.

Joe (6:51)

Those.

Host (6:52)

Those pucks are coming under. They're jumping up in the air, landing smooth on their feet, dodging pucks, sprinting up and down the ice. Like, talk about athletes, bro. Those. I picture myself being a referee on ice, and you're just thinking, oh, you just got to watch the game, make sure no penalties. Break up a fight here or there's no, bro, those guys. Every time I see that guy jump clear in the air over a puck and land one, the instinct to react in real time to a puck coming God knows how fast at you and then land on the ice and then just keep moving like if nothing happened. Breaking up fights, being in the thing, always on.

General (7:27)

On the ice, up and back, up and down, bro.

Host (7:29)

And they. They don't have those intermission periods, you know? Like, some of these players have, like, obviously intermission of the actual periods ending. But, like, they're not getting on and off the ice. Like, they're up and down the whole time. So shout out the refs in hockey, because it is impressive what. What they do.

General (7:45)

Yeah. Well, since we. Since we are. Oh, go. Go for Bob.

Joe (7:48)

I was just. Me and Joe was actually on the phone this morning, and we were talking about the kid from Oregon coming out in this draft. He's a white safety. And I remember at first, I really didn't like him, and then I was like, man, we got to get him in the second round. And this morning, a report that came out said after the combine, he might be a top 20 pick.

General (8:06)

Wow.

Joe (8:06)

And I was like, dude, it's so crazy. And we started thinking about it. When was the last, like, real good, like, white safety. There's not. There's only a few, and there's, like, one for every decade. And that made me realize the most underrated player in the league might be Harrison Smith for the Vikings.

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General (8:23)

I think you're gonna go.

Host (8:25)

He's a dog put.

Joe (8:27)

No one talks about Harrison Smith. That dude has been a dog for 15 straight years. Yeah, that dude is like, will come down and knock a motherfucker's head off and then take a pick six, 90 yards. And he's like 33 at this point. And like, no one talks about Harrison Smith. That dude has had no decline in 12 years.

Host (8:43)

He is a dog.

General (8:44)

That's a dog. That's a dog.

Host (8:46)

People do not talk about him enough as being like one of those safeties. Like, like you said. How long has he been in the in the league now?

General (8:52)

Been for a while, dog.

Host (8:53)

Been there for three, huh?

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Wingo (8:55)

He's 33. Almost nine years. Nine, 10 years.

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Host (8:59)

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