May 9, 2024 • 39 mins
Chris Plank & Eddie Garcia are in for Big Ben as they discuss the NBA vs. NHL playoffs, Rick Carlisle lamenting the uneven officiating against his Pacers, Rudy Gobert missing a playoff game for the birth of his child, Puck the World, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Well, this is the best of the Ben Maler Show
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Speaker 3 (00:35):
Here we go, Addie, There we go, baby. I was
debating with Loraina before the show started. What no was
in earlier this week, Bernie's in tomorrow and then obviously
the Bernie Fratto Show on the weekends. Where is nos
like in Nomad? Is he in the Pacific time zone now?
Or is he in the Eastern times zone? Do we
(00:56):
even know? We do know?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
So he was joining us the last two nights from
South Bend, Indiana, where he hails from. But he's in
the process of moving to New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
So he had gone to South Bend for something, some
family business.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I know.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
He was at his dad's house and so that's.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Where he was just temporarily. But he's he's in he's
in transit. I guess he's uh. He said he would
normally have been back in New Orleans but decided to
do the show while he was at home for some reason. Anyway,
he's he is a nomn he is. He's a mover
and a shaker.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
He's been around. He's I'm at Portland for a while.
You mentioned me, and I think there was a stop
like in Michigan somewhere. But my point was, I feel
like the Central time Zone, God's time zone as we
not as is, is arguably the most challenging for this
show because it is legit the middle of the night.
(01:53):
It's when ninety nine point nine percent of the time
you're in bed, at least on the Eastern time zone.
You can get an hour when normal people are up
right five am to six am in the Pacific time
zone when you guys hail from live from the tyraq
dot com studios in Los Angeles. But I mean is
that I don't know my off Do you agree with that?
(02:16):
Because it's not necessarily like I changed everything today, Eddie.
I changed my sleep pattern, which by the way, was beautiful.
I could fill in more. I had to do zero
fatherly duties and everyone is like, yeah, you just go
ahead and go to bed, like, okay, let's do that.
Got to watch all the Knicks game fit in a
quick little nap after that, watched I had. I tried
to get as smart as I could on hockey, Eddie
(02:38):
to sounds smart tonight, but I'm gonna sound dumb. I
don't know what agree or disagree. The most challenging time
zone to be a true fan of the Big Ben
Malors Show is the Central time Zone. Well, I want
to be honest with you, I've never thought about that really.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah, so I'll have to give it some fun thought
apps now. And yeah, I don't know. I'm so focused
into me. I'm the opposite of Brian No. I have
lived in the Pacific time zone that literally from birth.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
So hey, I'm sore. There's where we're very similar. You've
been in one time zone your whole life. I've been
in one time zoned my whole life. You've been in
the Pacific time zone. I've been in the Central time zone.
So maybe this is just my way of trying to
feel sorry for myself that there's a full day that
lies ahead of us. Early Bird gets the worm, Eddie.
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I'm out grinding everyone else at the Central time zone today,
let's go. How you been. By the way, it's been
a little bit rough for me on the hockey site
since our Kings got eliminated. It's been been a little
bit tough to draw me in, and of course I can't.
I'm jumping on the thunderbandwagon. So I'm suddenly offended by
everyone who doesn't say great things about Shay, Gilgess, Alexander
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and things of that nature. But how's life for you, Eddie?
How's the hockey? How's the wife? How's the hardball off
season going so far? It's been a minute since we've
got to hang. Yeah, everything's going good.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I'm bummed as well with the Kings exiting there in
the first round, but otherwise everything's just fine.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Life is rolling. I wish I had more football tonight.
There's just you really got to reach for football, which
is fine, right, I mean, it's it's okay to not
go the talking heads. You look at some of the networks.
I don't know how much I don't think, Eddie, you
can see how much I don't know how much. I
don't think Lorani consumes in a coup. Probably isn't sit
(04:28):
around and go, man, do you hear what Steven A.
Smith had to say? But I know the talking heads
are consumed with some sort of Dak Prescott narrative and
than anytime anything controversial seems to happen with anyone else
that circles back to Dak Prescott, and they're infatuated with
someone trying to come up and get the chiefs and
making the bills. So that or not. But I don't
know about you, Eddie. I feel like this is a
(04:48):
fun time to talk to some NBA and NHL. It's
okay that the NFL isn't on the top ledger of
all the takes. It still finds its way right. Every
so often. We can dip into a steal, have a
new quarterback situation, Raiders have spent a little bit. You
got a coin toss story about a draft pick that
we'll get to later. You got controversy about why the
(05:09):
schedule hasn't been released yet. But I come to you
as someone who loves talking NFL and loves talking college football,
and I feel okay that there's just not a ton.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Going on with it right now. No, because it's playoff time.
I think you know I'm not a big NBA fan
as you as you know. But NBA playoffs, NHL playoffs.
I think it's a fun time, you know, you mixing
a little Tom Brady roast or something like that here
and there. I know we've been talking about that the
last couple of days. But yeah, it's okay to take
a little bit of a break from the NFL.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I think it's been hard though, I'm not gonna lie
to you. It's been rough. It's been rough because the
NFL has dominated the new cycle twenty four to seven,
three sixty five, just dominated. And it's nice to see
a story like the Knicks being quote unquote back. It's
nice to see new blood in the West. It's nice
(06:00):
to see the sports that get dominated a lot of
times in the news cycle. At even though, like you said,
you're not the biggest NBA guy on the planet, I'm
suddenly one. I'm suddenly all in. But it's okay to
not have to pigeonhole and Sheeharren not pigeonhole, shee warn
a conversation about the NFL at Oh, let's be outraged
that they're gonna play on Christmas, or let's be outraged
(06:22):
that it's not necessarily gonna be something where the schedule
is out yet let's just kind of enjoy Jalen Brunson
and let's enjoy what's going on with the NBA playoffs
right now, or they let's create maybe a little bit
of drama with the way that's officiated.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Now.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Do I have some NIL stories for you tonight? You bet? Do.
I have a few scheduling stories absolutely that we'll get
to later. But I'm okay with that. And I've thoroughly
enjoyed the NBA Playoffs. I think it's been an absolute
one sided s show in some instances, but I love
some of the stories that have developed out of it.
Every year, every year we have this debate about the
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Stanley Cup Playoffs being infinitely more entertaining than the NBA Playoffs.
Right every singly I heard you a note talking about it.
I think it was on Monday night, I'm sorry, Sunday
night in a Monday morning, and I was sitting there
giving a Hallelujah to the radio, right, Eddie, Because here
we are in a time where the NBA is king.
Every show is gonna lead with the NBA and talk
(07:22):
about NBA. But then when we pull back You're like,
no one's really done anything that they're not supposed to yet.
The home team has won every single game in this
second round. There hasn't really been a buzzer beater our
last second game. Dallas looks like they're playing a team
that is infinitely faster than them. Jalen Brunson has been
(07:43):
just jaw droppingly impressive. The Tea Wolves are running the
Nuggets out of the gym right now, and I don't
really know if anyone thinks the Cavaliers have a shot
against the Celtics. It's been boring, right, but yeah, you
just you talked about it in your update. The Canucks
behind one zip tonight to the Oilers. Wait for to
one tonight, right, Yeah, the for to one and out
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and score the final four goals to win it. Sure,
the Panthers and the Bruins was a route, but oh
did you have a brawl. So I'm not trying to
play kate you here, Eddie, I'm not trying to kiss
up to you too terribly early in the show though
you deserve it. But why is it every single year
we sit at this point where we have the NBA
Playoffs that can't reach the level of entertainment and excitement
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of what the Stanley Cup Playoffs is doing at the
exact same time, Yet no one really seems to be
motivated to dive into hockey talk. Why do we still
struggle with that?
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Well, because I think part of it is well, but
this is kind of evening out. It used to be that,
you know, you would talk about the NBA a little
bit during the regular season. Now it seems like it's
completely pushed back to just the playoffs for the most part,
unless there's some drama more off the court than on
the court. Really, I've always thought being someone who didn't
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grow up as a hockey fan but found it later
in life, and now is you know, it's a huge
part of who I am as a sports fan that
you know, people don't grow up with it and so
they just don't, you know, want to take the time
to learn it. And you know, I was intrigued by it,
you know, in the nineties I was in college and
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started getting into it and the fact that I didn't
know anything about it really other than just you know,
Gretzky and Lemieux and stuff like that. That as someone
who loved the other sports and knew and felt like
I knew a lot about it that made me want
to know more about it. But I think a lot
of other people are like, no, I didn't grow up,
but that I don't really know some of the rules.
I don't know the players, so I'm I'm just not
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going to invest the time in trying to figure it out.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
That's that's my take on it. I think one of
the most frustrating things for diehard hockey fans. And I
don't know if I don't know if Ben has built
a wing of the Malord militia that loves hockey as
much as Eddie does, or if he's trying to push
everyone against it, and it's somewhat tongue in cheek, but
(10:05):
I also know that I feel like every single time
I sit down on a show here or whenever talking
with my friends or anyone, we're having to pull something. Well,
I'm in Oklahoma City, all right, So everyone's gaga over
the Thunder right now. They're the greatest roster ever put together.
Shay Gilders, Alexander got screwed out of the MVP Award.
You know, all these things that generate topics and conversations,
(10:27):
but you pull back from it, and they've played five
playoff games so far. One of them has been good
one and it was good for maybe three and a
half quarters. Meanwhile, you look around in hockey, it seems
like every single game is tight and dripping with drum.
And now I know I say this after six to
one Panthers win tonight, but I just.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
But even that game, yeah, there was a lot of
drop out of the gloves and we had what star
player fighting with another star player, even though one of
those guys really does fight every once in a while,
but even that was entertaining to a point.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah. So I sit here tonight as somebody who is
wanting to get learned up on how I can get
more in on the Stanley Cup playoffs, even though both
of my teams suck this year, and wondering what it's
going to take to continually. It's not like the NBA
is killing it with the ratings either. It's just somehow
it becomes the major topic. And again it's not putting
(11:25):
the best product out there, but it's in some people's eyes,
the most compelling. I just find it to be the
most fascinating debate. I feel like we've had quite a
bit here of the last couple of years, Eddie. They're
putting the best product on in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
It's the most entertaining matchups, and yet no one ever
wants to really seem to talk about it outside of
Still Canada. I'm sure, I'm sure Edmonton Radio today is
(11:49):
going to be on fire with that absolute implosion from
the Oilers. I'm sure that things are going to be
all over the map in Vancouver today whenever they talk
about the comeback. But here in the state, unless your
market and you have a team in it, it's tough
to really generate any kind of response.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Well, I would agree with that as far as what's
going on north of the border, all the all Canadian
matchup there with Vancouver and Edmonton, that's going to be
a big up there. But we do our little part
here on the Ben Mall Show. I know you're gonna
accommodate me, and that's final hour of the show with
the Puck the World segment, and I do get some
pretty decent feedback on social media from people about that.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
So, as you know, there is a very loyal core.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Group of hockey heads out there, So we'll try and
do what we can to expand, but you know, people
are kind of setting their ways, and that's I tried
for a long time to convert a lot of people,
and then I just kind of got tired of and say,
you know what, I'm just going to enjoy it. If
you don't want to, that's fine. I could not agree
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to sell you Nascar talk.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Right, And I don't even really know how I would
do it. It's like, boy, Eddie, what's up about that
pitch stop? Man? Why didn't they not get it in
a half a second? Left? Left? Or why do they
not get their cambra right? There's just there's not a
lot of angles to get into. But yet I really
get angry whenever you'll hear this faction of people that
are like, oh, all the Dews turn left. Yeah, really good.
(13:34):
It's but in the same vein, I also understand that
I'm not gonna be able to change anyone's mind. Just
all right, let's ping pong it back. I'm not a
big soccer guy. But yet I'll have people that just
act AGAs that I can't sit around and watch a
soccer match because I have no idea what league gets
in or what tournament it's in. Because there's eighty six
things going on. There's well no, no, no, no, that's not
(13:56):
the tournament. That's a lot of legal and that's very well.
I don't know. I don't like soccer, and I the
more on because I don't like soccer, right, But yet
I'm not gonna try to turn anyone to do a
NASCAR fan. I think it's okay to sit back at
you and say everyone's gonna have their own thing. There's
gonna be people tonight and throughout the next month that
are kind of out in the sports world. Why because
all they want to wait for is football. There's people
(14:18):
I live in a college football community, and we're gonna
sit here. When I'm done with this show tonight, I'm
gonna go and do my local show, and we're gonna
talk about college football for three hours. You might say how,
and I'm like, well, you don't understand. There's this story
out of Boise State. This guy is set in the
college football world on fire, and I don't even know
if it's real right now. But I'm not gonna try
to change your mind on it, because I, like anyone
(14:41):
has to hear about it tonight whenever, we've got the
NBA playoffs and the NHL playoffs, and we're not gonna
sit here and try to change your mind on anything
because we know it's not gonna. I'm not gonna. I'm
not converting anyone to NASCAR to college football talk in
the middle of May here on the show tonight, Eddie,
that ain't happening.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Yeah, And I you know what, I I don't want
to be a hypocrite, and I ask, you know, people,
just give it a try, and if it's not for you,
then that's fine, but don't just say I don't like
it and you've never really, you know, to try to
give it a chance. So in that vein, I did
give NASCAR a chance and decided it was not for me.
So there there's that I did give it an honest chance.
(15:18):
I watched some of that. I picked a driver and
just followed them and then just it just didn't didn't work.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I get it, I get it. I try to turn you.
I even try to turn you in softball, right, and
had you had a family friend that played on the
Oklahoma Sooner National Championship softball team. Couldn't do it, Eddie,
I couldn't do it, man, Yeah, I tried.
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Speaker 3 (16:26):
For the second game in a row, we have a
bit of a conspiracy moment. Game one, you had the
handball or excuse me what it said soccer. You had
the ruling of the kickball whenever the pacer player I
think it was Miles Turner at touched with his hand,
but they still called it a kickball that would have
been a turnover. You had the quote unquote illegal screen.
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That was the least illegal looking screen I think I've
ever seen on what could have been the go ahead possession,
and tonight's I don't think was as bad as what
we've seen in the pass. But with one twenty one
to go, after what looked like a turnover on a
double dribble or a carry in a six point game,
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two possession game, the Pacers would have got the ball
back Eddie. Somehow the officials came together and I don't
think I've ever seen this happen on just a routine call,
and he called double dribble. Well, the replay showed that
there wasn't a double dribble, but there was a carry.
I mean, the dude carried the basketball and that happens
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every play in the NBA, and they got together and
they gave the ball back to the Knicks. Now again,
six point game, no doubt about it. It would have
taken a herculean effort for the Pacers to get back
in that game. And oh, by the way, they weren't
necessarily shooting the lights out at that point from three either.
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What do we make of some of these officiating inconsistencies
in that series? Does it make you feel some sort
of way about maybe wanting to make sure the Knicks
are in a position to make the Eastern Conference Finals
because they are New York and because it is in
high school. But I don't believe the conspiracies. I don't
think anything is fixed. But it just those are three
(18:13):
major moments in two games that really seem to kind
of lead fans to feel what the hell's going on
here with this right now because they seem like pretty
obvious mistakes that were made by the officials.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Well, as you mentioned, we do live in a world,
it seems like where it doesn't take much for people
to believe in conspiracy theories these days. And if there's
any sport other than boxing, I guess that lends itself
to conspiracy theories. I mean, we did have a referee
who was proven to have you know, fixed games.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
We have him done.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
He baby, yeah, so it is the NBA. So I mean, look,
Rick Carlisle basically said it after the game. He took
the high road after Game one and this one he's like,
screw that. You know, it's talking about how you know
they deserve a fair chance even though they're a small
market team. So he pretty much said, and look, I'm
not saying, you know, he's necessarily right, but he went
(19:09):
on the record as saying that he believes that New
York is getting calls because they're New York.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
So after oh, sorry, I'm sorry. We're working on the timing.
We haven't worked together since Christmas. All right, here's exactly
what Eddie was talking about.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
After Game one. We we always go through the film
and games where it felt like, you know, the whistles
weren't balanced, and we pulled the clips and there's a
there's a way you can submit them to the to
the NBA office. There were twenty nine plays in game
one that we thought were clearly.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Called the wrong way.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
I decided not to submit them because I just felt like,
you know, we get a more balanced whistle tonight. It
didn't feel that way. A couple of examples, five away.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
To the third.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
You know, the whole world knows that Hellburn's got a
bad back and heart comes up and shoves him in
the back. And and it's all over Twitter right now
because a couple of people, a few people have showed
it to me. And JB. De Ros is looking right
at it. You can see him. He's got he's got
vision of the play. And he shoves Ty right into
the corner. And there's no whistle right in the back.
And so that was that was shocking, you know. And
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there there are many others. But I can promise you
that we're going to submit these tonight. New York can
get ready. They'll see him too. You know. I'm always
talking to our guys about not making it about the officials,
but you know, we just we deserve a fair shot,
you know. And and it's just it's just not it's
just there's not there's not a consistent balance, and that's disappointing.
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Give New York credit for the physicality that they're playing with,
but you know, their their physicality is rewarded and and
ours is penalized just you know, time after time, and
so I'm just really disappointed, just really disappointed.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Brilliant strategic move, question Mark, are just whining? Question Mark?
Which way would you go on this one? Eddie? I?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Well, I will say I won't say it's whining because
of what you just talked about it because of the
listing of the calls. And we'll get the two minute
report tomorrow. Right, how many missed calls at the end
of you're gonna admit that there were. They did it
in the first game, Right, they do it all the time.
We we debated what the what is the why do
they do this? We were talking about this on the
show with Brian No. Why why does the NBA insist
(21:27):
on pissing their fans off by admitting our referees suck? Uh?
You know, what's the what is the point of that?
And you know we talked about it, you know, transparency
and all that seems like a good idea.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
I don't know that it is.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Uh So, Yeah, I think he's obviously trying to politic
for some calls for his team.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah, I would add this. I've watched every minute of
this series. I've watched every minute of the thunder run
so far, I can't say I watched every minute of
the Celtics. There are some really bad games that heat series,
and I've watched a lot of the Knicks first round.
This has been one of the most poorly officiated series
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I think I've ever seen, and it seems very one sided.
I know I'm not here to try to stir you
up tonight, Knicks fans, but even you've got to step
back and say, yeah, I got a few breaks. Now.
Is any game ever gonna be officiated perfectly? Nah, It's
just not the reality of it, even with all the
technology we have today. But I have never ever seen
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a crew get together to overturn a double dribble call.
I've never seen, all right, care, I have never seen that,
And it just seemed to come at the oddest time
in that game, two possession game, big turnover would have
given the Pacers the ball back with a chance to
cut it to a one possession game or a four
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point game, and you overturn a traveling call. You know
what are we even doing on that front? So good luck,
Rick Carlyle. I feel like it's always that fine line
to walk because there's a faction of fans that say, yeah,
you can never blame the officials for anything, but Eddie,
at some point, you got to stand up and be
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heard because you feel like it's just wrong. And I
think that's the level of frustration that they've reached in Indiana.
Are they blaming the officials because they lost the game? Nah,
but they are saying, listen, they're doing things that they're
getting away with, and when we do them, we're getting
we're getting called for fouls. And I wonder too if
that's also kind of a home court thing as well, right, Yeah,
(23:29):
probably a little bit being an MSG there. Yeah, I
think so. I think so. But this is this one.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
I mean, look back when I used to watch the NBA,
this went on all the time, Right, this went on
all the time. The coaches will always do this, and so,
I mean, and I always wondered, I mean, do they
really think that the uh, the referees are watching Sports
Center or whatever? I mean they But I guess you know,
what's what's the harm in trying?
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Right?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I mean, you're gonna get fined, right, He's gonna get
fine about that, gets fine, and he's fine with.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
But yeah, he's trying to trying to get some calls
for the next game.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven
nine ninety six sixty three sixty nine. You hear that
from Rick Carlisle. Do you say good for him, fight
for your team, Let's go. Do you hear and say
shut up, stop whining? Be better?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
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Speaker 3 (24:19):
Edi. I want to hit the Rudy Gobert story because
it's everyone's had their take on it. I feel like
it's been a three day conversation. I don't know how
much you would know ended up getting into it the
first couple not too much. Okay, So today today Rudy
Gobert spoke about missing Game two. He missed Game two.
I had a quote from David mcminnimon of ESPN. It
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was incredible. I was exhausted, obviously holding the baby and
watching the game at the same time. But I had
a little bit of emotions at the end because it
felt like there was something special their energy, that they
put in their focus, that they had the determination. I
don't know, there was just something special with the way
they came out, and not just the way they came out,
the way they played for forty eight minutes that night.
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It was an incredible day. It was incredible. It was
an incredible way to end the day for me and
obviously for the whole Let's take one step back, you okay,
Eddie with the missing a playoff game. Now, let's not
even say game in general, a playoff game for the
birth of his first child or in general. Do we
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have a problem with that as a show.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
I I don't think I do.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
But then I realized it's the playoffs, man, right, It's.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Like a yeah, it was a regular season game, I
would definitely have no problem with it. The fact that
it was a playoff game does make me kind of
pause a little bit.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
I don't blame anybody for Look, I don't blame anybody
for doing it, and I don't blame anybody for playing,
you know what I mean. I could see it either way.
It's a personal decision. If it were me, personally, I
think I would be there for the birth of my kid.
But I don't have any kids, so I don't. I
can't really speak on it for sure, but you do, Lorena,
does I think your guy's opinion would be at.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
I don't think Lorena would have a choice.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
I'm just I'm not asking you if she if she
had her husband was a professional outflecy.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Okay, how would she feel about it? Oh gosh, that's
a great Lorena. Well, don't she taco here yet? I
don't want to dinner. I failed.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
I didn't even try blasphemy. Uh no, Okay, So actually,
when I did give birth to my daughter, this is
totally lame. My baby daddy only worked at A and
W and they forced him to go to work the
next day.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
And I just looked at him.
Speaker 8 (26:35):
I'm like, you're really gonna leave me? Like, I get
it if you're gonna make millions of dollars like who said?
But also the player, Like this is your first baby,
you're going to play in multiple games, and you already
have so much money just from being a signed player.
Like what is this moment more important to you? I
don't know, I don't know. Also, maybe you should have
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timed out your pregnancy better. Yeah, maybe you shouldn't have
gotten her pregnant nine months before you knew you were
going to be in a finals.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
You know.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
That funny thing is I always I have three kids.
None of them were and none of them. Was there
ever a moment in any of the three where I
looked at my first wife at the time and my
current wife three by two what's up?
Speaker 6 (27:21):
NBA?
Speaker 3 (27:22):
But I where we're like, hey, you know, nine months
from now, this would be a perfect time to have it.
You would think, you would think, though, I don't have
to worry about a season, right, I mean, yes, I
cover football, Yes I cover softball, but I'm not an
integral part of anything. I can call a boss and say, hey,
can I have this day off? I want to go
out of my kid and probably get it. This is
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a dude that I mean, let's I mean what the
Timberwolves give up five first round picks to go get him?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
He makes like sixteen million or something, A seasoned seasonal player.
Speaker 8 (27:52):
He knows when he has.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
To be on You got to plan a little bit
better eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, Chris. I
want to get right to you, but Coop, I want
to get your take on this because you actually inspired
me to want to dive into this, because I didn't
realize how kind of opinionated many people were on this.
Because you're you're of the thought, if I was understanding correctly,
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that you don't think he has any business missing the
game at all.
Speaker 7 (28:15):
Right, Well, I mean, I just I don't know. I
think it just there's levels to this. Go ahead, So
it depends if she's going into labor at you know,
around game time.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
M h.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
Okay, fine, Like I get it. You want to be
there for the birth of your kid. But from what
I understood, and maybe I was wrong about this, but
I remember hearing this is that she had already had
the baby before the game started, right.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
So like the hockey player, like the hockey player, right right,
And so if that's the case, all right, you were
there for the birth. Now I'll go to your yes, exactly,
I can get on board with that. You know, I
don't know, Lorraine. You tell me if you think I'm
incorrect on this. Your main goal as the father in
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a birth, it's not really anything to do with the baby.
It's taking care of the mom. So whenever you're like, hey,
the baby was born, so go. If you have a
good support system there, right, Like if her mom is
there and she's got sisters and they got family there,
then maybe you feel a little bit more comfortable.
Speaker 8 (29:28):
Right, and if there was no complications too.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Right, exactly exactly if it was a smooth birth. I
get that too. So I dug into a little bit
of history on this because you were talking Eddie trying
to remember some NFL ones, and I forgot how slippery
of a slope this was and still seems to be
for the NFL. I'm looking at old stories about a
guy named David Williams, whom many of you probably have
(29:52):
never heard of before. He was an offensive lineman for
the Houston Oilers, who are now the Tennessee Titans. Do
tell people that I really need to make that. I
think everyone knows the Oilers were the Titans. Anyway, David
Williams missed the game when his wife gave birth to
their first kid, and the owner, Bud Adams, not only
find him one hundred and eleven thousand dollars, but then
(30:15):
publicly took shots at him for choosing his family over
the Oilers. I mean, I understand, I think there's one
thing to where you can kind of say, hey, listen
that we really need you here, but when you publicly
like go out and basically say yeah, he's not a
true team player. That's what Bud Adams did in ninety three.
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We apparently had a myriad of issues in twenty and
twelve in the NFL. And that's only going back math
twenty four, twelve years ago. Not quite twelve years ago yet.
But Charles Tillman said that he might miss a big
Sunday night game with a potential Super Bowl preview with
the Bears in the Textans think about that, Eddie. They
were trying to sell the Texans and Bears as a
(30:58):
Super Bowl preview in twelve. Pina Chulman later said the
baby will be born Monday and he'll be ready to play,
but not before, not before, basically laying out, hey, if
the baby comes early, I'm not missing it. Ben Roethlisberger
said the same thing. Darryl Tapp said the same thing.
But those are all a little bit different because what
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are they not? They're not playoff games, right, So do
we have a little bit more leniency and understanding when
it's not a playoff game? It is there that role.
Is it right? Is it wrong? I don't know. I'm
intrigued by kind of to see what the responses have
been because I feel like everybody's dancing around how they think, hey, bro,
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you need to be playing in that game because you're
a key part of it, and we're just in an
era that is very cool in allowing you to have
the opportunity to go do it, or at least very
lenient in allowing you to have the opportunity to do it.
And I'm not saying that's my take, Eddie. I just
feel like everyone kind of looks at it and says, oh, dude,
(32:01):
I mean, you're planning around this was kind of odd
timing wise, but at that same vein it is the playoffs,
and you don't know how many more of these opportunities
you're going to have.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Yeah, I mean, I think Lorraine and Coop both brought
up really good points. I just think again, it's you know,
your life does need to be more about your job,
even if your job is really important. Uh. And you know,
I don't know how many kids Rudy Gobert has or
will have.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
I think this is his first.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Yeah, I think if I mean, if it were me, yes,
I would try and plan it better if I could,
and if and if she did already have the child,
I would be like the hockey player and go afterwards, right,
I've seen it. You're good, I'm gone, But ultimately I
have to.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Be there for the for the birth of my first child.
For sure, I'm gonna be there. Yeah, I think so too.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
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Speaker 4 (33:00):
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, without further interruption,
the Puck the World Report. The Stanley Cup playoffs are
into round number two, but we're going to quickly recap
the first round for Chris Plank and others.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
In the Eastern Conference, the New York Rangers, your President's
Trophy winners best record in the regular season, swept to
the Washington Capitals in four games. Only first round series
to be a sweep. Panthers eliminated the Lightning four games
to one. First ever playoff series went for Florida over
their in state rivals. They were zero three before this season.
Hurricanes took out the Islanders four games to one, and
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in the highlight of round number one, the Bruins beat
the Maple Leafs four games to three into deciding Game
seven went overtime. David Pasternag for Boston scores in sudden
death as Toronto has now lost seven straight elimination games,
six straight game sevens, and four of those who are
at the hands of the Boston Bruins. Toronto has extended
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the longest streak in the NHL of having won a
Stanley Cup, now fifty six years and counting.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
In the West.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
In the first round, Ye had the Oilers beating the
Kings four games to one. Edmondon Is scoring nine power
play goals. The Kings had zero. Avalanche eliminate the Jets
four games to one. The first game was seven to
six Winnipeg. After that, coloradoutscored them twenty two to eight.
The rest of the series, Canucks down the Predators four
games to two. Vancouver used three different goalies in the
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series due to injury. Rookie Archer Sieloffs won the clincher
in a shutout. Games three, four, five, and six all
decided by one goal, and the road team won each
of the final five games in that interesting series. And
then there was a Game seven out West between the
Stars and the Golden Knights. Dallas gets the victory in
Game seven. The defending Stanley Cup champs, Vegas out in
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the first round. Second time, our second straight year that
the Stanley Cup champs have been ousted in the first round.
Last year it was Colorado against the Seattle Krackett. So
we're in the second round. All four matchups are between
the same opponents in the same division, which is due
to the NHL interesting playoffs setup, but this is what
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they want and they got it. In the East, you
got the Rangers against the Hurricanes. That's not only the
top two teams the Metropolitan Division, but the top two
teams in the Eastern Conference meeting in Round number two.
Rangers are up two games to nothing, winning both games
four to three. Special teams the stories so far. Rangers
are four for nine on the power play and Carolina
is zero for ten. He also got the Bruins against
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the Panthers, a rematch of last year's series, which was
won in seven games by Florida. These are the top
two teams in the Atlantic. The series is tied at
one one. Boston won the first game pretty handily, five
to one. They got to come back and win the
second game handley last night, six to one. In the West,
you've got the Stars against the Avalanche, top two teams
in the Central Division Colorado with the one zero series advantage.
They were down three to nothing on the road in
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Dallas in Game one, rally back for the four to
three overtime win. And then last night they bid comeback
by the Canucks against the Oilers, top two teams in
the Pacific Division. You've got the all Canadian matchup. Last
Canadian team to win the Stanley Cup, unfortunately, Chris was
the nineteen eighty three Montreal Canadians against r LA Kings,
but Vancouver up one game nothing, they were down four one,
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scored four and answered and win it by a score
of five to four. So there's your update on the
Stanley Cup playoffs. For some hockey news, the coaching carousel
is spinning. Winnipeg Jets head coach Rick Bonus announced his
retirement after thirty eight seasons behind an NHL bench. Sixty
nine year old was the head coach of the Jets.
This year, they had fifty two wins, they had one
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hundred and ten points, and he was nominated for the
Jack Adams Trophy for Coach of the Year. But he's
calling it quits after a two thousand, seven hundred and
twenty six games on the bench as an assistant or
a head coach. Outawa Centers hired Travis Green to be
their next head coach. He gets a four year deal.
This is his second time being an NHL head coach.
He previously coached in Vancouver, mixed results there. He was
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most recently an assistant in New Jersey as Saint Lewis
Police took the interim tag off of Drew Bannister, so
he's now their head coach.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
He gets a two year deal.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
He took over for the fired Craig Barube back in
this We still have coaching vacancies in New Jersey, Seattle,
San jose A, Winnipeg. There's an interim coach in LA
who may or ray not get the job, and we
could see a firing in Toronto of their head coach. Frankly,
I'm kind of surprised it hasn't happened to this point.
All Right, your Heart Trophy finalists and your Ted Lindsay finalists. Now,
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if you don't know, there are two awards for MVP.
Ones voted on by the media, one's voted on by
the players. So you've had two of the same finalists
for the Heart and the Lindsay that was Nathan McKinnon
to Colorado, Nikita Kutral of Tampa Bay. The media voted
Connor McDavid at Edmonton as the third finalist. The players
voted Austin Matthews of Toronto as their third finalist.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
They had sixty nine goals this year for the Leaps.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
There was zero drama or intrigue in the NHL Draft lottery.
San Jose Sharks had the best odds to win it
with the worst record, and they won it. They'll get
the first overall pick for the first time in their
franchise history. There was zero change in the draft order
as far as where teams finished in the standings. Macklin
is reportedly going to be the number one pick now.
He does have ties to the San Jose area. He's
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the son of Rick Celebrini, who is the Golden State
Warriors Director of Sports Medicine and Performance.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Lived in San Jose for a while, played.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
For the Junior Sharks growing up, so kind of cool
that he does have ties to the Bay area. He
was a freshman at Boston University this season won the
Hobie Baker Award as the NCAA's top men's college player
could become the first player ever to win that award
and then go number one overall in the draft. Gonna
make a decision on whether he return to college or
turn pro. He's only seventeen years old, so him going
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back to college for another year might not be the
worst idea ever. And finally, you may or may not know,
the Arizona Couties are moving to Utah for next season. Now,
the logo and the name Coyotes are staying in Arizona,
so Utah looking for a new team name. They announced
that next year they're gonna do a Washington football team
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move and go Utah on the front of the Jersey's
not gonna have a nickname next year, but they are
having fan voting to decide what the nickname will be,
and you can vote online on this. So here are
your list of choices. You can vote up to four,
but you can only vote once. Here're your list of
twenty potential names. Utah Hockey Club Boo oh Gosh, here
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you go, Blast, Powder Hive, Caribou, Black Diamonds, Squall, Fury,
Frost Canyons, swarm Ice, Mountaineers, Freeze Outlaws, Mammoth, Venom, Blizzard Glaciers.
(39:38):
And the one the one selected by our own Lorena,
which we are one hundred percent behind the Yetti Utah.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Yetie, you got my vote and that's your puck. The
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Well, this is the best of the Ben Maler Show
on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Here we go, Addie, There we go, baby. I was
debating with Loraina before the show started. What no was
in earlier this week, Bernie's in tomorrow and then obviously
the Bernie Fratto Show on the weekends. Where is nos
like in Nomad? Is he in the Pacific time zone now?
Or is he in the Eastern times zone? Do we
(00:56):
even know? We do know?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
So he was joining us the last two nights from
South Bend, Indiana, where he hails from. But he's in
the process of moving to New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
So he had gone to South Bend for something, some
family business.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I know.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
He was at his dad's house and so that's.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Where he was just temporarily. But he's he's in he's
in transit. I guess he's uh. He said he would
normally have been back in New Orleans but decided to
do the show while he was at home for some reason. Anyway,
he's he is a nomn he is. He's a mover
and a shaker.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
He's been around. He's I'm at Portland for a while.
You mentioned me, and I think there was a stop
like in Michigan somewhere. But my point was, I feel
like the Central time Zone, God's time zone as we
not as is, is arguably the most challenging for this
show because it is legit the middle of the night.
(01:53):
It's when ninety nine point nine percent of the time
you're in bed, at least on the Eastern time zone.
You can get an hour when normal people are up
right five am to six am in the Pacific time
zone when you guys hail from live from the tyraq
dot com studios in Los Angeles. But I mean is
that I don't know my off Do you agree with that?
(02:16):
Because it's not necessarily like I changed everything today, Eddie.
I changed my sleep pattern, which by the way, was beautiful.
I could fill in more. I had to do zero
fatherly duties and everyone is like, yeah, you just go
ahead and go to bed, like, okay, let's do that.
Got to watch all the Knicks game fit in a
quick little nap after that, watched I had. I tried
to get as smart as I could on hockey, Eddie
(02:38):
to sounds smart tonight, but I'm gonna sound dumb. I
don't know what agree or disagree. The most challenging time
zone to be a true fan of the Big Ben
Malors Show is the Central time Zone. Well, I want
to be honest with you, I've never thought about that really.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah, so I'll have to give it some fun thought
apps now. And yeah, I don't know. I'm so focused
into me. I'm the opposite of Brian No. I have
lived in the Pacific time zone that literally from birth.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
So hey, I'm sore. There's where we're very similar. You've
been in one time zone your whole life. I've been
in one time zoned my whole life. You've been in
the Pacific time zone. I've been in the Central time zone.
So maybe this is just my way of trying to
feel sorry for myself that there's a full day that
lies ahead of us. Early Bird gets the worm, Eddie.
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I'm out grinding everyone else at the Central time zone today,
let's go. How you been. By the way, it's been
a little bit rough for me on the hockey site
since our Kings got eliminated. It's been been a little
bit tough to draw me in, and of course I can't.
I'm jumping on the thunderbandwagon. So I'm suddenly offended by
everyone who doesn't say great things about Shay, Gilgess, Alexander
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and things of that nature. But how's life for you, Eddie?
How's the hockey? How's the wife? How's the hardball off
season going so far? It's been a minute since we've
got to hang. Yeah, everything's going good.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I'm bummed as well with the Kings exiting there in
the first round, but otherwise everything's just fine.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Life is rolling. I wish I had more football tonight.
There's just you really got to reach for football, which
is fine, right, I mean, it's it's okay to not
go the talking heads. You look at some of the networks.
I don't know how much I don't think, Eddie, you
can see how much I don't know how much. I
don't think Lorani consumes in a coup. Probably isn't sit
(04:28):
around and go, man, do you hear what Steven A.
Smith had to say? But I know the talking heads
are consumed with some sort of Dak Prescott narrative and
than anytime anything controversial seems to happen with anyone else
that circles back to Dak Prescott, and they're infatuated with
someone trying to come up and get the chiefs and
making the bills. So that or not. But I don't
know about you, Eddie. I feel like this is a
(04:48):
fun time to talk to some NBA and NHL. It's
okay that the NFL isn't on the top ledger of
all the takes. It still finds its way right. Every
so often. We can dip into a steal, have a
new quarterback situation, Raiders have spent a little bit. You
got a coin toss story about a draft pick that
we'll get to later. You got controversy about why the
(05:09):
schedule hasn't been released yet. But I come to you
as someone who loves talking NFL and loves talking college football,
and I feel okay that there's just not a ton.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Going on with it right now. No, because it's playoff time.
I think you know I'm not a big NBA fan
as you as you know. But NBA playoffs, NHL playoffs.
I think it's a fun time, you know, you mixing
a little Tom Brady roast or something like that here
and there. I know we've been talking about that the
last couple of days. But yeah, it's okay to take
a little bit of a break from the NFL.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I think it's been hard though, I'm not gonna lie
to you. It's been rough. It's been rough because the
NFL has dominated the new cycle twenty four to seven,
three sixty five, just dominated. And it's nice to see
a story like the Knicks being quote unquote back. It's
nice to see new blood in the West. It's nice
(06:00):
to see the sports that get dominated a lot of
times in the news cycle. At even though, like you said,
you're not the biggest NBA guy on the planet, I'm
suddenly one. I'm suddenly all in. But it's okay to
not have to pigeonhole and Sheeharren not pigeonhole, shee warn
a conversation about the NFL at Oh, let's be outraged
that they're gonna play on Christmas, or let's be outraged
(06:22):
that it's not necessarily gonna be something where the schedule
is out yet let's just kind of enjoy Jalen Brunson
and let's enjoy what's going on with the NBA playoffs
right now, or they let's create maybe a little bit
of drama with the way that's officiated.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Now.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Do I have some NIL stories for you tonight? You bet? Do.
I have a few scheduling stories absolutely that we'll get
to later. But I'm okay with that. And I've thoroughly
enjoyed the NBA Playoffs. I think it's been an absolute
one sided s show in some instances, but I love
some of the stories that have developed out of it.
Every year, every year we have this debate about the
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Stanley Cup Playoffs being infinitely more entertaining than the NBA Playoffs.
Right every singly I heard you a note talking about it.
I think it was on Monday night, I'm sorry, Sunday
night in a Monday morning, and I was sitting there
giving a Hallelujah to the radio, right, Eddie, Because here
we are in a time where the NBA is king.
Every show is gonna lead with the NBA and talk
(07:22):
about NBA. But then when we pull back You're like,
no one's really done anything that they're not supposed to yet.
The home team has won every single game in this
second round. There hasn't really been a buzzer beater our
last second game. Dallas looks like they're playing a team
that is infinitely faster than them. Jalen Brunson has been
(07:43):
just jaw droppingly impressive. The Tea Wolves are running the
Nuggets out of the gym right now, and I don't
really know if anyone thinks the Cavaliers have a shot
against the Celtics. It's been boring, right, but yeah, you
just you talked about it in your update. The Canucks
behind one zip tonight to the Oilers. Wait for to
one tonight, right, Yeah, the for to one and out
(08:05):
and score the final four goals to win it. Sure,
the Panthers and the Bruins was a route, but oh
did you have a brawl. So I'm not trying to
play kate you here, Eddie, I'm not trying to kiss
up to you too terribly early in the show though
you deserve it. But why is it every single year
we sit at this point where we have the NBA
Playoffs that can't reach the level of entertainment and excitement
(08:27):
of what the Stanley Cup Playoffs is doing at the
exact same time, Yet no one really seems to be
motivated to dive into hockey talk. Why do we still
struggle with that?
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Well, because I think part of it is well, but
this is kind of evening out. It used to be that,
you know, you would talk about the NBA a little
bit during the regular season. Now it seems like it's
completely pushed back to just the playoffs for the most part,
unless there's some drama more off the court than on
the court. Really, I've always thought being someone who didn't
(08:59):
grow up as a hockey fan but found it later
in life, and now is you know, it's a huge
part of who I am as a sports fan that
you know, people don't grow up with it and so
they just don't, you know, want to take the time
to learn it. And you know, I was intrigued by it,
you know, in the nineties I was in college and
(09:20):
started getting into it and the fact that I didn't
know anything about it really other than just you know,
Gretzky and Lemieux and stuff like that. That as someone
who loved the other sports and knew and felt like
I knew a lot about it that made me want
to know more about it. But I think a lot
of other people are like, no, I didn't grow up,
but that I don't really know some of the rules.
I don't know the players, so I'm I'm just not
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going to invest the time in trying to figure it out.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
That's that's my take on it. I think one of
the most frustrating things for diehard hockey fans. And I
don't know if I don't know if Ben has built
a wing of the Malord militia that loves hockey as
much as Eddie does, or if he's trying to push
everyone against it, and it's somewhat tongue in cheek, but
(10:05):
I also know that I feel like every single time
I sit down on a show here or whenever talking
with my friends or anyone, we're having to pull something. Well,
I'm in Oklahoma City, all right, So everyone's gaga over
the Thunder right now. They're the greatest roster ever put together.
Shay Gilders, Alexander got screwed out of the MVP Award.
You know, all these things that generate topics and conversations,
(10:27):
but you pull back from it, and they've played five
playoff games so far. One of them has been good
one and it was good for maybe three and a
half quarters. Meanwhile, you look around in hockey, it seems
like every single game is tight and dripping with drum.
And now I know I say this after six to
one Panthers win tonight, but I just.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
But even that game, yeah, there was a lot of
drop out of the gloves and we had what star
player fighting with another star player, even though one of
those guys really does fight every once in a while,
but even that was entertaining to a point.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah. So I sit here tonight as somebody who is
wanting to get learned up on how I can get
more in on the Stanley Cup playoffs, even though both
of my teams suck this year, and wondering what it's
going to take to continually. It's not like the NBA
is killing it with the ratings either. It's just somehow
it becomes the major topic. And again it's not putting
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the best product out there, but it's in some people's eyes,
the most compelling. I just find it to be the
most fascinating debate. I feel like we've had quite a
bit here of the last couple of years, Eddie. They're
putting the best product on in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
It's the most entertaining matchups, and yet no one ever
wants to really seem to talk about it outside of
Still Canada. I'm sure, I'm sure Edmonton Radio today is
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going to be on fire with that absolute implosion from
the Oilers. I'm sure that things are going to be
all over the map in Vancouver today whenever they talk
about the comeback. But here in the state, unless your
market and you have a team in it, it's tough
to really generate any kind of response.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Well, I would agree with that as far as what's
going on north of the border, all the all Canadian
matchup there with Vancouver and Edmonton, that's going to be
a big up there. But we do our little part
here on the Ben Mall Show. I know you're gonna
accommodate me, and that's final hour of the show with
the Puck the World segment, and I do get some
pretty decent feedback on social media from people about that.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
So, as you know, there is a very loyal core.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Group of hockey heads out there, So we'll try and
do what we can to expand, but you know, people
are kind of setting their ways, and that's I tried
for a long time to convert a lot of people,
and then I just kind of got tired of and say,
you know what, I'm just going to enjoy it. If
you don't want to, that's fine. I could not agree
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Speaker 3 (13:09):
Right, And I don't even really know how I would
do it. It's like, boy, Eddie, what's up about that
pitch stop? Man? Why didn't they not get it in
a half a second? Left? Left? Or why do they
not get their cambra right? There's just there's not a
lot of angles to get into. But yet I really
get angry whenever you'll hear this faction of people that
are like, oh, all the Dews turn left. Yeah, really good.
(13:34):
It's but in the same vein, I also understand that
I'm not gonna be able to change anyone's mind. Just
all right, let's ping pong it back. I'm not a
big soccer guy. But yet I'll have people that just
act AGAs that I can't sit around and watch a
soccer match because I have no idea what league gets
in or what tournament it's in. Because there's eighty six
things going on. There's well no, no, no, no, that's not
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the tournament. That's a lot of legal and that's very well.
I don't know. I don't like soccer, and I the
more on because I don't like soccer, right, But yet
I'm not gonna try to turn anyone to do a
NASCAR fan. I think it's okay to sit back at
you and say everyone's gonna have their own thing. There's
gonna be people tonight and throughout the next month that
are kind of out in the sports world. Why because
all they want to wait for is football. There's people
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I live in a college football community, and we're gonna
sit here. When I'm done with this show tonight, I'm
gonna go and do my local show, and we're gonna
talk about college football for three hours. You might say how,
and I'm like, well, you don't understand. There's this story
out of Boise State. This guy is set in the
college football world on fire, and I don't even know
if it's real right now. But I'm not gonna try
to change your mind on it, because I, like anyone
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has to hear about it tonight whenever, we've got the
NBA playoffs and the NHL playoffs, and we're not gonna
sit here and try to change your mind on anything
because we know it's not gonna. I'm not gonna. I'm
not converting anyone to NASCAR to college football talk in
the middle of May here on the show tonight, Eddie,
that ain't happening.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Yeah, And I you know what, I I don't want
to be a hypocrite, and I ask, you know, people,
just give it a try, and if it's not for you,
then that's fine, but don't just say I don't like
it and you've never really, you know, to try to
give it a chance. So in that vein, I did
give NASCAR a chance and decided it was not for me.
So there there's that I did give it an honest chance.
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I watched some of that. I picked a driver and
just followed them and then just it just didn't didn't work.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I get it, I get it. I try to turn you.
I even try to turn you in softball, right, and
had you had a family friend that played on the
Oklahoma Sooner National Championship softball team. Couldn't do it, Eddie,
I couldn't do it, man, Yeah, I tried.
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Speaker 3 (16:26):
For the second game in a row, we have a
bit of a conspiracy moment. Game one, you had the
handball or excuse me what it said soccer. You had
the ruling of the kickball whenever the pacer player I
think it was Miles Turner at touched with his hand,
but they still called it a kickball that would have
been a turnover. You had the quote unquote illegal screen.
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That was the least illegal looking screen I think I've
ever seen on what could have been the go ahead possession,
and tonight's I don't think was as bad as what
we've seen in the pass. But with one twenty one
to go, after what looked like a turnover on a
double dribble or a carry in a six point game,
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two possession game, the Pacers would have got the ball
back Eddie. Somehow the officials came together and I don't
think I've ever seen this happen on just a routine call,
and he called double dribble. Well, the replay showed that
there wasn't a double dribble, but there was a carry.
I mean, the dude carried the basketball and that happens
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every play in the NBA, and they got together and
they gave the ball back to the Knicks. Now again,
six point game, no doubt about it. It would have
taken a herculean effort for the Pacers to get back
in that game. And oh, by the way, they weren't
necessarily shooting the lights out at that point from three either.
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What do we make of some of these officiating inconsistencies
in that series? Does it make you feel some sort
of way about maybe wanting to make sure the Knicks
are in a position to make the Eastern Conference Finals
because they are New York and because it is in
high school. But I don't believe the conspiracies. I don't
think anything is fixed. But it just those are three
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major moments in two games that really seem to kind
of lead fans to feel what the hell's going on
here with this right now because they seem like pretty
obvious mistakes that were made by the officials.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Well, as you mentioned, we do live in a world,
it seems like where it doesn't take much for people
to believe in conspiracy theories these days. And if there's
any sport other than boxing, I guess that lends itself
to conspiracy theories. I mean, we did have a referee
who was proven to have you know, fixed games.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
We have him done.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
He baby, yeah, so it is the NBA. So I mean, look,
Rick Carlisle basically said it after the game. He took
the high road after Game one and this one he's like,
screw that. You know, it's talking about how you know
they deserve a fair chance even though they're a small
market team. So he pretty much said, and look, I'm
not saying, you know, he's necessarily right, but he went
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on the record as saying that he believes that New
York is getting calls because they're New York.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
So after oh, sorry, I'm sorry. We're working on the timing.
We haven't worked together since Christmas. All right, here's exactly
what Eddie was talking about.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
After Game one. We we always go through the film
and games where it felt like, you know, the whistles
weren't balanced, and we pulled the clips and there's a
there's a way you can submit them to the to
the NBA office. There were twenty nine plays in game
one that we thought were clearly.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Called the wrong way.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
I decided not to submit them because I just felt like,
you know, we get a more balanced whistle tonight. It
didn't feel that way. A couple of examples, five away.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
To the third.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
You know, the whole world knows that Hellburn's got a
bad back and heart comes up and shoves him in
the back. And and it's all over Twitter right now
because a couple of people, a few people have showed
it to me. And JB. De Ros is looking right
at it. You can see him. He's got he's got
vision of the play. And he shoves Ty right into
the corner. And there's no whistle right in the back.
And so that was that was shocking, you know. And
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there there are many others. But I can promise you
that we're going to submit these tonight. New York can
get ready. They'll see him too. You know. I'm always
talking to our guys about not making it about the officials,
but you know, we just we deserve a fair shot,
you know. And and it's just it's just not it's
just there's not there's not a consistent balance, and that's disappointing.
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Give New York credit for the physicality that they're playing with,
but you know, their their physicality is rewarded and and
ours is penalized just you know, time after time, and
so I'm just really disappointed, just really disappointed.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Brilliant strategic move, question Mark, are just whining? Question Mark?
Which way would you go on this one? Eddie? I?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Well, I will say I won't say it's whining because
of what you just talked about it because of the
listing of the calls. And we'll get the two minute
report tomorrow. Right, how many missed calls at the end
of you're gonna admit that there were. They did it
in the first game, Right, they do it all the time.
We we debated what the what is the why do
they do this? We were talking about this on the
show with Brian No. Why why does the NBA insist
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on pissing their fans off by admitting our referees suck? Uh?
You know, what's the what is the point of that?
And you know we talked about it, you know, transparency
and all that seems like a good idea.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
I don't know that it is.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Uh So, Yeah, I think he's obviously trying to politic
for some calls for his team.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah, I would add this. I've watched every minute of
this series. I've watched every minute of the thunder run
so far, I can't say I watched every minute of
the Celtics. There are some really bad games that heat series,
and I've watched a lot of the Knicks first round.
This has been one of the most poorly officiated series
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I think I've ever seen, and it seems very one sided.
I know I'm not here to try to stir you
up tonight, Knicks fans, but even you've got to step
back and say, yeah, I got a few breaks. Now.
Is any game ever gonna be officiated perfectly? Nah, It's
just not the reality of it, even with all the
technology we have today. But I have never ever seen
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a crew get together to overturn a double dribble call.
I've never seen, all right, care, I have never seen that,
And it just seemed to come at the oddest time
in that game, two possession game, big turnover would have
given the Pacers the ball back with a chance to
cut it to a one possession game or a four
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point game, and you overturn a traveling call. You know
what are we even doing on that front? So good luck,
Rick Carlyle. I feel like it's always that fine line
to walk because there's a faction of fans that say, yeah,
you can never blame the officials for anything, but Eddie,
at some point, you got to stand up and be
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heard because you feel like it's just wrong. And I
think that's the level of frustration that they've reached in Indiana.
Are they blaming the officials because they lost the game? Nah,
but they are saying, listen, they're doing things that they're
getting away with, and when we do them, we're getting
we're getting called for fouls. And I wonder too if
that's also kind of a home court thing as well, right, Yeah,
(23:29):
probably a little bit being an MSG there. Yeah, I
think so. I think so. But this is this one.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
I mean, look back when I used to watch the NBA,
this went on all the time, Right, this went on
all the time. The coaches will always do this, and so,
I mean, and I always wondered, I mean, do they
really think that the uh, the referees are watching Sports
Center or whatever? I mean they But I guess you know,
what's what's the harm in trying?
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Right?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I mean, you're gonna get fined, right, He's gonna get
fine about that, gets fine, and he's fine with.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
But yeah, he's trying to trying to get some calls
for the next game.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven
nine ninety six sixty three sixty nine. You hear that
from Rick Carlisle. Do you say good for him, fight
for your team, Let's go. Do you hear and say
shut up, stop whining? Be better?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
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Speaker 3 (24:19):
Edi. I want to hit the Rudy Gobert story because
it's everyone's had their take on it. I feel like
it's been a three day conversation. I don't know how
much you would know ended up getting into it the
first couple not too much. Okay, So today today Rudy
Gobert spoke about missing Game two. He missed Game two.
I had a quote from David mcminnimon of ESPN. It
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was incredible. I was exhausted, obviously holding the baby and
watching the game at the same time. But I had
a little bit of emotions at the end because it
felt like there was something special their energy, that they
put in their focus, that they had the determination. I
don't know, there was just something special with the way
they came out, and not just the way they came out,
the way they played for forty eight minutes that night.
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It was an incredible day. It was incredible. It was
an incredible way to end the day for me and
obviously for the whole Let's take one step back, you okay,
Eddie with the missing a playoff game. Now, let's not
even say game in general, a playoff game for the
birth of his first child or in general. Do we
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have a problem with that as a show.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
I I don't think I do.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
But then I realized it's the playoffs, man, right, It's.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Like a yeah, it was a regular season game, I
would definitely have no problem with it. The fact that
it was a playoff game does make me kind of
pause a little bit.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
I don't blame anybody for Look, I don't blame anybody
for doing it, and I don't blame anybody for playing,
you know what I mean. I could see it either way.
It's a personal decision. If it were me, personally, I
think I would be there for the birth of my kid.
But I don't have any kids, so I don't. I
can't really speak on it for sure, but you do, Lorena,
does I think your guy's opinion would be at.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
I don't think Lorena would have a choice.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
I'm just I'm not asking you if she if she
had her husband was a professional outflecy.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Okay, how would she feel about it? Oh gosh, that's
a great Lorena. Well, don't she taco here yet? I
don't want to dinner. I failed.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
I didn't even try blasphemy. Uh no, Okay, So actually,
when I did give birth to my daughter, this is
totally lame. My baby daddy only worked at A and
W and they forced him to go to work the
next day.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
And I just looked at him.
Speaker 8 (26:35):
I'm like, you're really gonna leave me? Like, I get
it if you're gonna make millions of dollars like who said?
But also the player, Like this is your first baby,
you're going to play in multiple games, and you already
have so much money just from being a signed player.
Like what is this moment more important to you? I
don't know, I don't know. Also, maybe you should have
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timed out your pregnancy better. Yeah, maybe you shouldn't have
gotten her pregnant nine months before you knew you were
going to be in a finals.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
You know.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
That funny thing is I always I have three kids.
None of them were and none of them. Was there
ever a moment in any of the three where I
looked at my first wife at the time and my
current wife three by two what's up?
Speaker 6 (27:21):
NBA?
Speaker 3 (27:22):
But I where we're like, hey, you know, nine months
from now, this would be a perfect time to have it.
You would think, you would think, though, I don't have
to worry about a season, right, I mean, yes, I
cover football, Yes I cover softball, but I'm not an
integral part of anything. I can call a boss and say, hey,
can I have this day off? I want to go
out of my kid and probably get it. This is
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a dude that I mean, let's I mean what the
Timberwolves give up five first round picks to go get him?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
He makes like sixteen million or something, A seasoned seasonal player.
Speaker 8 (27:52):
He knows when he has.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
To be on You got to plan a little bit
better eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, Chris. I
want to get right to you, but Coop, I want
to get your take on this because you actually inspired
me to want to dive into this, because I didn't
realize how kind of opinionated many people were on this.
Because you're you're of the thought, if I was understanding correctly,
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that you don't think he has any business missing the
game at all.
Speaker 7 (28:15):
Right, Well, I mean, I just I don't know. I
think it just there's levels to this. Go ahead, So
it depends if she's going into labor at you know,
around game time.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
M h.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
Okay, fine, Like I get it. You want to be
there for the birth of your kid. But from what
I understood, and maybe I was wrong about this, but
I remember hearing this is that she had already had
the baby before the game started, right.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
So like the hockey player, like the hockey player, right right,
And so if that's the case, all right, you were
there for the birth. Now I'll go to your yes, exactly,
I can get on board with that. You know, I
don't know, Lorraine. You tell me if you think I'm
incorrect on this. Your main goal as the father in
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a birth, it's not really anything to do with the baby.
It's taking care of the mom. So whenever you're like, hey,
the baby was born, so go. If you have a
good support system there, right, Like if her mom is
there and she's got sisters and they got family there,
then maybe you feel a little bit more comfortable.
Speaker 8 (29:28):
Right, and if there was no complications too.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Right, exactly exactly if it was a smooth birth. I
get that too. So I dug into a little bit
of history on this because you were talking Eddie trying
to remember some NFL ones, and I forgot how slippery
of a slope this was and still seems to be
for the NFL. I'm looking at old stories about a
guy named David Williams, whom many of you probably have
(29:52):
never heard of before. He was an offensive lineman for
the Houston Oilers, who are now the Tennessee Titans. Do
tell people that I really need to make that. I
think everyone knows the Oilers were the Titans. Anyway, David
Williams missed the game when his wife gave birth to
their first kid, and the owner, Bud Adams, not only
find him one hundred and eleven thousand dollars, but then
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publicly took shots at him for choosing his family over
the Oilers. I mean, I understand, I think there's one
thing to where you can kind of say, hey, listen
that we really need you here, but when you publicly
like go out and basically say yeah, he's not a
true team player. That's what Bud Adams did in ninety three.
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We apparently had a myriad of issues in twenty and
twelve in the NFL. And that's only going back math
twenty four, twelve years ago. Not quite twelve years ago yet.
But Charles Tillman said that he might miss a big
Sunday night game with a potential Super Bowl preview with
the Bears in the Textans think about that, Eddie. They
were trying to sell the Texans and Bears as a
(30:58):
Super Bowl preview in twelve. Pina Chulman later said the
baby will be born Monday and he'll be ready to play,
but not before, not before, basically laying out, hey, if
the baby comes early, I'm not missing it. Ben Roethlisberger
said the same thing. Darryl Tapp said the same thing.
But those are all a little bit different because what
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are they not? They're not playoff games, right, So do
we have a little bit more leniency and understanding when
it's not a playoff game? It is there that role.
Is it right? Is it wrong? I don't know. I'm
intrigued by kind of to see what the responses have
been because I feel like everybody's dancing around how they think, hey, bro,
(31:39):
you need to be playing in that game because you're
a key part of it, and we're just in an
era that is very cool in allowing you to have
the opportunity to go do it, or at least very
lenient in allowing you to have the opportunity to do it.
And I'm not saying that's my take, Eddie. I just
feel like everyone kind of looks at it and says, oh, dude,
(32:01):
I mean, you're planning around this was kind of odd
timing wise, but at that same vein it is the playoffs,
and you don't know how many more of these opportunities
you're going to have.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Yeah, I mean, I think Lorraine and Coop both brought
up really good points. I just think again, it's you know,
your life does need to be more about your job,
even if your job is really important. Uh. And you know,
I don't know how many kids Rudy Gobert has or
will have.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
I think this is his first.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Yeah, I think if I mean, if it were me, yes,
I would try and plan it better if I could,
and if and if she did already have the child,
I would be like the hockey player and go afterwards, right,
I've seen it. You're good, I'm gone, But ultimately I
have to.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Be there for the for the birth of my first child.
For sure, I'm gonna be there. Yeah, I think so too.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, without further interruption,
the Puck the World Report. The Stanley Cup playoffs are
into round number two, but we're going to quickly recap
the first round for Chris Plank and others.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
In the Eastern Conference, the New York Rangers, your President's
Trophy winners best record in the regular season, swept to
the Washington Capitals in four games. Only first round series
to be a sweep. Panthers eliminated the Lightning four games
to one. First ever playoff series went for Florida over
their in state rivals. They were zero three before this season.
Hurricanes took out the Islanders four games to one, and
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in the highlight of round number one, the Bruins beat
the Maple Leafs four games to three into deciding Game
seven went overtime. David Pasternag for Boston scores in sudden
death as Toronto has now lost seven straight elimination games,
six straight game sevens, and four of those who are
at the hands of the Boston Bruins. Toronto has extended
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the longest streak in the NHL of having won a
Stanley Cup, now fifty six years and counting.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
In the West.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
In the first round, Ye had the Oilers beating the
Kings four games to one. Edmondon Is scoring nine power
play goals. The Kings had zero. Avalanche eliminate the Jets
four games to one. The first game was seven to
six Winnipeg. After that, coloradoutscored them twenty two to eight.
The rest of the series, Canucks down the Predators four
games to two. Vancouver used three different goalies in the
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series due to injury. Rookie Archer Sieloffs won the clincher
in a shutout. Games three, four, five, and six all
decided by one goal, and the road team won each
of the final five games in that interesting series. And
then there was a Game seven out West between the
Stars and the Golden Knights. Dallas gets the victory in
Game seven. The defending Stanley Cup champs, Vegas out in
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the first round. Second time, our second straight year that
the Stanley Cup champs have been ousted in the first round.
Last year it was Colorado against the Seattle Krackett. So
we're in the second round. All four matchups are between
the same opponents in the same division, which is due
to the NHL interesting playoffs setup, but this is what
(35:03):
they want and they got it. In the East, you
got the Rangers against the Hurricanes. That's not only the
top two teams the Metropolitan Division, but the top two
teams in the Eastern Conference meeting in Round number two.
Rangers are up two games to nothing, winning both games
four to three. Special teams the stories so far. Rangers
are four for nine on the power play and Carolina
is zero for ten. He also got the Bruins against
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the Panthers, a rematch of last year's series, which was
won in seven games by Florida. These are the top
two teams in the Atlantic. The series is tied at
one one. Boston won the first game pretty handily, five
to one. They got to come back and win the
second game handley last night, six to one. In the West,
you've got the Stars against the Avalanche, top two teams
in the Central Division Colorado with the one zero series advantage.
They were down three to nothing on the road in
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Dallas in Game one, rally back for the four to
three overtime win. And then last night they bid comeback
by the Canucks against the Oilers, top two teams in
the Pacific Division. You've got the all Canadian matchup. Last
Canadian team to win the Stanley Cup, unfortunately, Chris was
the nineteen eighty three Montreal Canadians against r LA Kings,
but Vancouver up one game nothing, they were down four one,
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scored four and answered and win it by a score
of five to four. So there's your update on the
Stanley Cup playoffs. For some hockey news, the coaching carousel
is spinning. Winnipeg Jets head coach Rick Bonus announced his
retirement after thirty eight seasons behind an NHL bench. Sixty
nine year old was the head coach of the Jets.
This year, they had fifty two wins, they had one
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hundred and ten points, and he was nominated for the
Jack Adams Trophy for Coach of the Year. But he's
calling it quits after a two thousand, seven hundred and
twenty six games on the bench as an assistant or
a head coach. Outawa Centers hired Travis Green to be
their next head coach. He gets a four year deal.
This is his second time being an NHL head coach.
He previously coached in Vancouver, mixed results there. He was
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most recently an assistant in New Jersey as Saint Lewis
Police took the interim tag off of Drew Bannister, so
he's now their head coach.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
He gets a two year deal.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
He took over for the fired Craig Barube back in
this We still have coaching vacancies in New Jersey, Seattle,
San jose A, Winnipeg. There's an interim coach in LA
who may or ray not get the job, and we
could see a firing in Toronto of their head coach. Frankly,
I'm kind of surprised it hasn't happened to this point.
All Right, your Heart Trophy finalists and your Ted Lindsay finalists. Now,
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if you don't know, there are two awards for MVP.
Ones voted on by the media, one's voted on by
the players. So you've had two of the same finalists
for the Heart and the Lindsay that was Nathan McKinnon
to Colorado, Nikita Kutral of Tampa Bay. The media voted
Connor McDavid at Edmonton as the third finalist. The players
voted Austin Matthews of Toronto as their third finalist.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
They had sixty nine goals this year for the Leaps.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
There was zero drama or intrigue in the NHL Draft lottery.
San Jose Sharks had the best odds to win it
with the worst record, and they won it. They'll get
the first overall pick for the first time in their
franchise history. There was zero change in the draft order
as far as where teams finished in the standings. Macklin
is reportedly going to be the number one pick now.
He does have ties to the San Jose area. He's
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the son of Rick Celebrini, who is the Golden State
Warriors Director of Sports Medicine and Performance.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Lived in San Jose for a while, played.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
For the Junior Sharks growing up, so kind of cool
that he does have ties to the Bay area. He
was a freshman at Boston University this season won the
Hobie Baker Award as the NCAA's top men's college player
could become the first player ever to win that award
and then go number one overall in the draft. Gonna
make a decision on whether he return to college or
turn pro. He's only seventeen years old, so him going
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back to college for another year might not be the
worst idea ever. And finally, you may or may not know,
the Arizona Couties are moving to Utah for next season. Now,
the logo and the name Coyotes are staying in Arizona,
so Utah looking for a new team name. They announced
that next year they're gonna do a Washington football team
(38:53):
move and go Utah on the front of the Jersey's
not gonna have a nickname next year, but they are
having fan voting to decide what the nickname will be,
and you can vote online on this. So here are
your list of choices. You can vote up to four,
but you can only vote once. Here're your list of
twenty potential names. Utah Hockey Club Boo oh Gosh, here
(39:17):
you go, Blast, Powder Hive, Caribou, Black Diamonds, Squall, Fury,
Frost Canyons, swarm Ice, Mountaineers, Freeze Outlaws, Mammoth, Venom, Blizzard Glaciers.
(39:38):
And the one the one selected by our own Lorena,
which we are one hundred percent behind the Yetti Utah.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Yetie, you got my vote and that's your puck. The
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