Gene Principe and Kenny Albert discuss incredible start to Stanley Cup Final

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Energy Line is a production of the NHL and iHeart podcasts.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Turned Back to McDavid against Marshan uses the screen McDavid
dishing off, NuGen Hopkins waits and bumps it back.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
From bouch Yard.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
NuGen Hopkins on the left half hoards under pressure, turns it,
gives it up, beautiful pass, mccame it in front.

Speaker 5 (00:31):
What turns.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Leon try Suddle four.

Speaker 5 (00:38):
Three hit the ten.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Vertown. Cory Parry made the play of the left side
half parts with the death little interior pass to Conter
McDavid and he finds Leon Dreisa Cory Parry.

Speaker 6 (00:57):
Behind the back pass and Dry.

Speaker 7 (01:00):
Suddle was awake. The feed.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
From carniv David at Edmonton. This bord back for three
one down It seats of Florida.

Speaker 6 (01:10):
Panthers in overtime.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
That was Jack Michaels and Bob Staffer of the Edmonton
Oilers Radio network on the call of Leon Dry titles
overtime game winning goal in Game one of the Stanley
Cup Final.

Speaker 5 (01:22):
Welcome to Energy Line with Dayton JSB.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
I'm Julie Stewart, Banksy's former NHLR Nate Thompson. We will
have full reactions to Game one look ahead to Game
two and the rest of the series with a couple
of awesome guests you don't want to miss it. Sportsnet's
host Gene Principe, the One and Only, will join us
from Edmonton, as well as the newest voice of the
New York Rangers for MSG Network and calling the Stanley

(01:46):
Cup Final for TNT broadcaster. The Great Kenny Albert Energy
Line is a production of the NHL and iHeart podcasts.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
So Nate Nader Taytor.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
We saw an overtime goal from Leon Drivesitle and it
looked like pure poetry on the power play, Corey Perry beautiful,
Like okay, thoughts, just tell me how you felt.

Speaker 8 (02:12):
It all starts with Connor McDavid and the entry he
has into the zone. I mean, you see, like and
I go back to what Eddie was saying, is like
when when Edmonton needs something from him, he delivers and
he did. It was like, okay, they had nothing going
on on that power play, and then all of a sudden,
there's like forty seconds left, Bouchard drops it to him
and he just dices through, just cut cuts through. Is

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their whole team makes a play. Nugent Hopkins gets it
on the wall and then like you said, poetry in motion,
puck goes down the wall. Corey Perry the worm gets it,
little backhand baby sauce.

Speaker 7 (02:47):
No look to McDavid.

Speaker 8 (02:49):
He gets it, doesn't even dust it off, and then
he throws.

Speaker 7 (02:52):
Sauce a little sauce.

Speaker 8 (02:53):
It just lands perfectly, lands like sore, like a butterfly
with sore feet, and Leon Drysidle buries it and wow,
like I was just like chef's kiss like that. It
was it that that play. All of it was amazing.
And then I think it all started with Connor McDavid.
Though I think everything in this game was centered around him.

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He seemed to be the guy that we talked about
it when Edmonton needed something or Florida was taking over.
It was like Connor be like, okay, I'm gonna do
something now. It was it was a play he made
to a comb too, right. He makes that play to
at com same thing. They score a goal and it
gets him going. I don't know, I'm sorry that was
long winded. I was just super exciting.

Speaker 5 (03:35):
No, that's perfect, that's what you're supposed to do.

Speaker 7 (03:37):
It's a podcast.

Speaker 8 (03:40):
Oh, it was amazing that it was such a good
hockey game, and like I Julie, I think, honestly we
we we could possibly have every game going overtime. Yeah,
that's how evenly matched these two teams are. It's wild.
Like he was just back and forth like Okay, you're
gonna get a push from Florida, Okay, you're gonna get
a push from Edmonton, and I mean so much drama too.
And on top of that, like I think Edmonton like

(04:03):
the Brazilian sin Edmonton right now we're seeing because that
goal I think that Florida scored, I don't think should counted.
I think that should have been I think I should
have been goali interference. From my point of view, I
listened to.

Speaker 5 (04:16):
A lot of different reactions.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Bill thought that that was goalie interference as well.

Speaker 7 (04:22):
So I just think that with the rule, I mean,
that should have been.

Speaker 5 (04:27):
We just want to know what it is and then
be able to follow it.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
But I think to your point what Edzo had said,
like about so if anyone didn't listen to the last episode,
shame on you go back and listen to it. But
Edzo talked to Eddie Elchick talked about how Conor McDavid
is kind of like Patrick mahomes or, I mean kind
of you said a little bit like Michael Jordan, but
a guy that like you can rely on in the clutch.

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He's going to come through, going to do something for
his team. And when you mentioned that on that final
on the power play at the very end of overtime,
I was watching that and I was literally like, Okay,
where is Conor McDavid right now? Like right before he was,
before he started the play and entered his zone.

Speaker 5 (05:07):
I'm like, isn't he supposed to be? Where are you?
Where are you?

Speaker 4 (05:11):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (05:11):
There you are?

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Oh And then it was like you could see it
almost unfold as he was I was like, I was like,
this is it's happening.

Speaker 5 (05:18):
It's happening. It's happening.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Like felt like Michael Scott, just like it's happening.

Speaker 5 (05:23):
It's happening.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Like Conrad David is going to make this play happen.
If not, he's going to score it. It's going to
end right now. And I like what you said the
resilience because it was like they score first early in
the game, but then Florida answers, but then they're down
three to one and they're like, oh no, they're like, Okay, boom,
we may get three two, boom, we may get three

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to three and then we go to ot and we win.
And that's different than last year when they got shut
out in the first game.

Speaker 7 (05:52):
Much different.

Speaker 8 (05:53):
And also too, I would say the physicality for Bevington,
Like we're used to Florida being the team that initiates
everything and they're the ones that started.

Speaker 7 (06:01):
But I didn't see that last night.

Speaker 8 (06:03):
It wasn't like Florida was Boston or pushing Edmonton around.
Like there were some massive hits being thrown by Edmonton,
like Jake Wallman uh by the bench over there, massive
hit like people. And then you see Evander Caine every
single scrum like he's in there, he's punching guys like
Edmonton is, uh, you know they're here like they are
here in this finals.

Speaker 7 (06:26):
Yeah, they're they're they're ready to roll.

Speaker 8 (06:30):
But you know it would still as much as you know,
like I said, Edmonton, the resilience and everything. I do
believe that that game was more important for Edmonton than
it was Florida. You know, having the first game under
the belt at home to win that one, where Florida
you know, they you know, they they know that. Okay,
we lose the first one, we can still get to split. Yeah,

(06:52):
it's Florida. They're scrappy team. We know we're gonna you know,
we're gonna get that. We're gonna get much of the
same in game two. I just think that these teams
are so evenly matched. And I have to mention too,
I thought both goalies Lebrovski and Stuart Skinner were fantastic
last night as well, making huge saves of key moments.

Speaker 7 (07:10):
And how don would else to say like this?

Speaker 8 (07:12):
I mean, there's so much there's so much information and
so many things in my head right now.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
But the thing that was interesting is like Panthers have
not lost in the postseason after the first period, after
the second period when they have a lead in the
Paul Maurice era. This was the first time ever And
some people had said and Sam Bennett like, oh, we
sat back, like we didn't really come out with kind
of that fight.

Speaker 5 (07:34):
Do you think like maybe because they have.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Been here, they know they can do it, they've already
won it, Like is there a sense of maybe like
a little bit of complacency because they know how good
they are, like in a way not like oh, we
don't care. It's just like maybe we aren't at the
like when the when the gun goes off to run,
they're just like, we know we're gonna speed up at

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the end.

Speaker 5 (07:58):
Is there something like that?

Speaker 8 (07:59):
I think they were a little guilty of that, especially
in overtime. I thought I thought they sat back a lot.
You could see it how many times Florida kept iceing
the puck and overtime and Edmonton kept getting offensive own
face offs over and over and over again.

Speaker 7 (08:13):
You could feel.

Speaker 8 (08:14):
The momentum coming from Edmonton, and I think they were
little guilty that.

Speaker 7 (08:19):
I do think.

Speaker 8 (08:20):
Florida, though, like they had their pushes even a little
bit and overtime and over the course of the game.
I do think we're going to get a better Florida team.
I mean, I'm sure they're saying, you know, we can
play better. I just have to say, though, I think Edmonton,
the way they you have to give them credit because
the way they played, like the pace they played with,
the physicality, you know, the way they're d jumped into play.

(08:41):
You saw the play from Evan Bouchard and over time
how he almost scores it was you know, it was
all hands on deck from Edmonton Oilers last night.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, they they didn't seem to really let up at all.
I mean other than moments when Florida was able to
capitalize and get up in the three one position. But like,
they just look like the better team overall. And I
think that we are going to see a better Florida
team in the second game because that's just like who
they are. I mean, look, I'd say Edmonton's been their

(09:12):
toughest opponents so far in the playoffs and Florida's down
to nothing to the Leafs and that didn't mean shit,
So that doesn't really like I'm sure they're just you know,
very unfazed by that. Also, by the way, Toronto and
Edmonton very different teams. But the biggest question I got
to ask you, Nate is do you know who sings

(09:34):
Pink Pony Club?

Speaker 7 (09:37):
I do not. I do not know who sings I
just I mean, I don't know who.

Speaker 8 (09:42):
I've heard about it since they've had Mond Oiler has
been talking about how it's, you know, their win song
in the locker.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Even have a two year old daughter, she would be
dancing around this.

Speaker 5 (09:52):
Kids love this song too. You don't know, you don't know.
Chapel Roone.

Speaker 8 (09:57):
No, I'm sorry, I'm sorry all The only thing I
knew about this song was when the Oilers were gonna
gonna use as their win song, and then obviously they
won't use the details of how they came up with
a wind song.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
It's literally played every ten seconds all over the world,
and no guy seems to fuck well know chapel Rone's name,
as evidenced on the TNC.

Speaker 7 (10:18):
I'm not the only guy I was.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
Literally I was so fucking mad last night watching Like,
so Gretzky obviously was like Pink.

Speaker 5 (10:27):
Ponies, like who are they or whatever?

Speaker 1 (10:29):
I was like, I love this just already from the start,
and then Biz had to explain Pink Pony club song
from a woman in and then I.

Speaker 5 (10:38):
Love how gretz was like Canadian or American?

Speaker 1 (10:42):
Like first question, such a fan and then yeah, she's American,
she's one Emmys, And I was like, say her fucking name,
it's chapel Rone.

Speaker 5 (10:51):
Can no one on that desk? Does no one on
that desk know who chapel Rone is?

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Like That's that's my biggest takeaway from last night's game.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
I was like, put some respect on Chapel.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Roone, all right, Okay, that's obviously maybe a bit of
a niche topic, but not because it's very important because
the Great One needs to know who chapel Rone is,
especially because Edmonton Oilers be playing that song when they win,
which they did last night. And we have someone who
was there, witness all the action, has been around the
Oilers for his entire life, and that is Gene Principe

(11:24):
from Sportsnet.

Speaker 5 (11:24):
He's coming up right after this welcome back to the two.
I thank you, JSP.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
We are so thrilled to have our esteemed guests. This
guy was at the game Game one.

Speaker 5 (11:44):
He's been a.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Part of the Oilers fabric of their identity for really,
I guess as long as I've been alive, and he
knows everything about the Edmonton Oilers none other than Sportsnet's
Gene prince Ave, who has been on the national broadcast
of Game one. And Gene, first of all, thank you
so much for giving us your time after such an

(12:06):
exciting and thrilling and long Game one. And what I
really love is seeing you being a part of the
national broadcast as someone who has been in and around
the Oilers for really eternity, and you really have seen
everything and everyone when you saw last night's game, and
you heard last night's game. What was that like versus

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every other game that you have ever been a part of.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah, it's Nate and Julia, thanks for having me on.

Speaker 9 (12:36):
It is different. I've covered Stanley Cup finals. I've been
lucky enough to cover a number of them as a
reporter for Sportsnet, and certainly ones that didn't involve the Oilers.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
You're as well.

Speaker 9 (12:48):
You are neutral. You might cheer or like certain players
that you get along with, but for the most part,
it's you don't let the games go and we see
whether it's four, five, six or seven. And this one
is different, and you know last year. I have to
admit I was born and raised Edmontonian, so for sure
you have this. Well, you've grown up with them. I

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remember when I was seventeen and celebrating the first Stanley Cup,
the first of five, and so.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
There is some history.

Speaker 9 (13:17):
But I think it's important to understand that the Florida
Panthers have worked really hard to get where they are.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
And you know this.

Speaker 9 (13:26):
You know, Matthew Kachuck's actually not a bad guy, you know,
like you know people sort of you know, that's one
of the things I learned Nate when when covering the
NHL and Julie is that, you know, when you're born
and raised in Edmonton, you're supposed to not like Calgary
and then and then I met Jerome mcginlan, I'm like, well,
who doesn't like Jerome mcginler, And so you end up
liking people on teams that in theory you're supposed to.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
Not cheer for.

Speaker 9 (13:49):
But you know, at the end of the day, I'm
here to be a broadcaster and right down the middle.
But it was different, you know, especially in overtime, because
now you're waiting for someone to be the overtime hero
and you're like, who you're going to get to interview?
Is it going to be Carter ver Hagey or Aaron
Ekblatt or Leon Drystile or Evan Bouchard. So it was

(14:10):
a lot of fun and certainly the building, as so
many of these playoff buildings are, are so loud and
energetic that you can't help but be, you know, feeling
goosebumps and so excited about what's ahead to start this
series and what's ahead to continue it.

Speaker 8 (14:28):
Yeah, Gean, it's great to have you here. And you
talk about growing up in Edmonton, And obviously you're being
an Oiler fan and witnessing the eighties and and them
losing the Islanders and then coming back and beating the Islanders,
and now you're seeing this team a little bit. Are
there any similarities from you know, you being in Edmonton
for so long and you're seeing the team in the

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eighties and you're seeing this team now. I know they
haven't won anything yet, but you know, are you seeing
any similarities from both teams?

Speaker 3 (14:54):
Well?

Speaker 9 (14:54):
And I think Nate, that's a great question, right that
that's the thing that this team wants to have similar
to the team and the era that you spoke of.
And for sure, you know, Connor is Wayne, and Leon
is Mark and Evan is Paul.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
I know they're not, but the modern day.

Speaker 9 (15:16):
Version of those guys that helped the Edmonton Oilers win
those Stanley Cups and Stewart is Grant and they're not,
but they are because I think when you have a
history like Edmonton does that it's hard not to compare.
And then you end up getting these players that sort
of kind of lean you towards that just sort of

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organically because of who they are and how they play,
they remind you a little of those players that helped
the Edmonton Oilers become a dynasty.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
So I do see that that sort of that drive.

Speaker 9 (15:49):
And Paul Coffee had a great comment the other day
and he talked about losing, as he said, Nate and
then winning against the Islanders, but after they lost, Wayne
Gretskin and paraphrasing here said, you know, I'm my legacy
and who I am is never going to be what
it should be unless I win a Stanley Cup. And
I feel like those would be the exact words that

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you would hear out of Conomic David's mouth. And so
to me, there's an incredible comparison between the two. I
know that they are, you know, friends, acquaintances, texts, get along,
and so it's neat to see being compared to anyone
can bring about an incredible amount of pressure. I'm not

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sure it's something that you want to do to the
average person, but I wouldn't consider Leon or Connor, or
Evan Bouchard or any of those players average to get
to this point in their careers.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
Right.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
Such an interesting analogy there. I love you talking about
the three of them in regards to that. So we've
talked a lot about conomic David So is everyone the
entire world has, and it seems as though he has.
He has gone to a different level this year, especially
scoring the game winning goal for Canada at the Four Nations.
You're there at the rank every day you see these guys.

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In what way do you feel Connor McDavid is different
than he was last year?

Speaker 3 (17:11):
Well?

Speaker 9 (17:12):
I think you know, And I love that question because
it's true when you watch someone over and over again,
I know they grew up, and sure they start to
add to their numbers, and you get one hundred assists
one year, and you score sixty four goals one year,
and you score Four Nations overtime winner, and you start
to wonder like what how many.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
Levels does he have? Like how high can he get?

Speaker 9 (17:34):
And every time you think that there isn't something more
that he can do that, he can will himself to
do that. More importantly, he can will the Oilers to
do He does it. I mean Dallas was pushing, it
was a tight game. In game five, he gets a
bounce and scores what Leon Dreisiddel said was probably either
the most amazing goal he's seen Connor score or one

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of the most amazing and he's seen him score all
of them, and I just think there's you know, I
think back to when he was named captain at nineteen,
and I think it's almost unfair to have someone that
young have that kind of pressure. But the belief is
that you grow into that role with support staff as
you've been on teams Nate, that it's not just the
guys that wear the letters, it's everyone that can be

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a leader and can pitch in with that leadership role
or roles. I just think he's like, I don't know
if driven seems like understating it. I would say driven
in these huge block letters would best describe Connor and
where he's at. And to think that a year ago
they suffered their most you know, debilitating, difficult, depressing loss

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of their professional careers and here they are.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
It's a long RoadMate, as you know.

Speaker 9 (18:48):
And to get back there and to start the series
with the lead, which I never had in last year
series is well.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
They couldn't ask for anything better.

Speaker 9 (18:57):
Overtime game at Rogers's Place with thousands of people inside
and outside, it was a wonderful night. But in Florida
was they came out hard and they start of that overtime,
and they had some great chances and it looked like
Florida was intent on ending it early. So it bodes
well for a great series and likely a long one.

Speaker 8 (19:15):
Yeah, And you talk about and the greatness, and I
think everyone wants to witness the greatness of Connor McDavid.
I mean, whenever Edmonton needs a play or needs some
kind of defensive play, back check, whatever it may be.
He's been there and he's been getting better as a
series or as every playoff series.

Speaker 7 (19:33):
Has gone on, He's getting better.

Speaker 8 (19:34):
And I want to talk about my former teammate and
Corey Perry, and we talk about levels and how long
he's been playing and what he's been doing, and even
the play he made last night to Connor McDavid on
the power play for Leon Dreys as overtime goal. And
you know, you see how Connor McDavid and Leon Dry
said a look to him in different situations. And I
just want to talk and elaborate on Corey Perry what

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he's meant to Edmonton Oiliers this season.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
Well, you know, Nate was funny.

Speaker 9 (19:59):
I saw another one of your former teammates last night,
Ryan Getz Laugh, who's involved with the league now. And
you know, Ryan looks great, looks like he could probably
still play. But I thought, look at him, he's in
a suit. He's been retired now, I want to say,
a couple of years, two or three years, and here's
Corey Perrin still going, you know, and sometimes you forget
how long's he's been around.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
But he's a guy that just I mean, you know,
you talk.

Speaker 9 (20:25):
To him and he's forty going on fourteen. Just his enthusiasm,
his exuberance, he has love for the game. And I know,
Nate you had it too, and at some point, you know,
I remember hearing you never want to give up your jersey.
You want somebody to rip it off your back. And
I feel like Corey's like that. He just he's not

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giving it up. And I know he's changed some teams,
but he had a wonderful year with very little, minimal
playoff or power play time, and yet he's come in now,
and especially with the unfortunate injuries that time. I mean,
he's on the number one power play unit with Evan Bouchard,
Conor mc david Leon and generally Ryan Nugent Hopkins. I mean,
what's a forty year old doing you know amongst this group,

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but Corey has earned everything. And I will also say,
and as you know, Nate, there's things that are seen
by the team and felt by a team that we
never hear about, that.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
We never have access to.

Speaker 9 (21:22):
And there is an incredible level of respect for Corey
and what he's done. And I think they respect him
just because he's forty and still playing in the NHL.
But it's the fact that he once was a fifty
goal scorer and won the Rocket for Shard Trophy, and
was a Hard Trophy winner and a Stanley Cup winner
and Junior gold and you know, he's done it all,
and he's been nothing short of you know, sensational Freedmonton.

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And that continued in Game one with his help on
the overtime winner.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
John Cooper had said stuff like that about Corey Perry
when I'd talked to him when he was with the Lightning,
just in terms of him being such a difference maker
in different ways. And that's like, that feels like a
long time ago too. But when you mentioned Perry and
gets laugh and of course Nate's here, Jean, I got
to ask you about Hey, I just sent Nate pictures

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of it. But New Year's Eve twenty fifteen, we did
a game Anaheim at Edmonton and I was the.

Speaker 5 (22:15):
Ringside reporter for the Ducks.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
You're with the Oilers, and I just have this photo
of you on the ice with a New Year's hat on, and.

Speaker 5 (22:22):
I was like, yes, that's like just perfect.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
Of course Gene Prince ive has a New Year's hat
on before he's introducing a game, like it was just
chef's kiss.

Speaker 5 (22:32):
I loved it. And as someone who was a fan of.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
The Flamboyant in broadcast, like I think personality is King
and Queen, I love it when you come up with
the things that you want.

Speaker 5 (22:46):
To do that are outside of the box.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Let's say, what's your process with that, and also do
you have to like run anything by people?

Speaker 9 (22:54):
Well, let's start with the back half of that, and
the answer is yes. There was a time where I
would just virtually do kind of whatever I wanted, but
you know, times have changed, and to be honest with you,
at first it was a little bit strange, but I
think they're you know, like anything that the layers are
are for yourself, you know, they they're better for you

(23:17):
than to do something and someone after to say, well
you know, why did you do that? How did that
come about? But instead now it's like having a goalie
on the team ready to make the save in case
you're doing some things in front of them that you
know isn't right, nothing, nothing bad. But it's it's just
the world, you know, it's changed.

Speaker 5 (23:36):
Like how something will come across.

Speaker 9 (23:38):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, and that's you know, I would say this,
and I'm not lying. I've never come across or had
any intent to alienate, to disturb, to upset anyone, or
more importantly, offend anyone. But it's sometimes not how you've delivered,
but how it's received. So yes, there are some different layers,

(23:59):
and I think that's important, you know what. Some are
natural and I can think of them ahead of time.
I have a great crew, television crew that we work
with that I feel like it's like planting a seed
and everybody just waters it and so it grows into
this beautiful plant or opening. And so I get help

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from them, and I've got lots of support at home. Generally,
I'll pass by things that I want to do to
my family, and the more they've grown, the more that
I think, Okay, I got to make sure I do
that you know what, honestly, it's you know and I
got to thank Sportsnet because they've allowed me to be
me and I've had a ton of fun with it.

(24:43):
And I think it's important Julian Nate, whether you're a
player or a broadcaster, a banker, a teacher, that you
need to show who you are and what you're about,
and that's how you can live your sort of.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
Life with the most fulfillment.

Speaker 9 (24:59):
And then I think that carries over to any career
that you pick and try and be successful.

Speaker 8 (25:04):
Okay, I have to ask, is you know your recent
hits and I love watching your guys's feet, especially on
sports Net with you know, Jack Michaels is too, especially
we have a connection from Alaska.

Speaker 7 (25:16):
Used to cover the Aces and I've known him for
a long time.

Speaker 8 (25:20):
You know, when you're doing your hits from say, you know,
the crowd or the moss pit, like it, has there
been any incidents or issues? Because I have I have
loved those hits whenever it comes down to Eugene and
you're in the middle, there's people going crazy and you're
trying to get out what you got to say, I
mean just absolutely perfect.

Speaker 7 (25:39):
Is there has there been any incidents.

Speaker 9 (25:40):
Yet with their well, other than a little bit of
dry cleaning with some skill or toss bear that you know,
the kids have been and you know, really respectful. So
you get into a moss pit and you know, you've
got five, six, seven thousand people that are crammed in
side by side, shoulder to shoulder, and I have to
tell you, you know, the kids were incredibly respectful. I

(26:01):
think part of that, Nate Julie, is that they literally
grew up watching me, and so there's a there's a
sense of hey, we know this guy, we've seen him
on TV.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
And they were gray. You know.

Speaker 9 (26:13):
It was interesting because when we did that hit in
the moss pit, and then I ended up going to
Vegas for Game five and there was a reporter down
there so we would never do that, And I said, well,
why wouldn't you do it? He said, our producers would
have been worried about somebody, you know, spewing expletives in
same words, it shouldn't be heard on TV. And I said,
you know what, I never even I never even thought
of that. The kids were so kind and if this

(26:37):
makes any sense, welcoming to their area that it was.
It was a blast and I feel like, you know,
I coached my daughter's soccer team. She's an adult, but
a young adult, and I feel that young people they
energize you, right, They just give you a certain feeling
and a certain vibe because they're you know, they're young,
and they're passionate and yeah, maybe a little bit naive,

(26:59):
but when you're around so many people with a common
interest in this case.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
The old or when you go to Vegas or you
go to.

Speaker 9 (27:06):
Florida, and you just see the passion that people have
for their team. Yeah, I kind of feel like it's invigorating.
So so far, no mishaps, but we still have some
games to go in the Stanley Cup finals.

Speaker 7 (27:19):
You do.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
I like how you brought that up with your colleagues
in Vegas, had said, because when Nate just mentioned that,
when I was working at ESPN and it was we
were opening Orlando City Stadium and I was in the
crowd where they had like this is soccer. So it
was like, you know, smoke bombs and drums and all this,
and the fans wanted to put the Orlando City scarf

(27:42):
on me, and I was like, oh no, like I can't.
I can't wear an Orlando City scarf, like I'm on
a national broadcast, and then they just like all turned
on me, like right before I was going on air,
and they're just like giving me the finger and I
was like, oh, no, okay, like we can't come on
with the jip camera like that comes down with like
a bunch of fans just giving the finger camera. We

(28:04):
thankfully were able to like get out of there before
the whole crowd decided like that they hated ESPN in
that moment just because we weren't, you know, the local broadcasters.
So that that is something that I definitely thought of
when I see people in the crowd. But I want
to just I mean, you've workshop a lot of ideas.
I like doing this kind of stuff too. I think

(28:26):
it's as you said, when your authenticity comes out regardless
of what you're doing. It's not only it empowers you
to do your best job, but other people feel it,
and people love to see other people doing what they love.
Like that's I think the best thing. When I see
someone so dialed into what they're doing, I'm like, I
just love that for them.

Speaker 5 (28:47):
So what do you.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Think has been What's your favorite moment that you've done
on TV that's been in that realm of the whimsical
different outside of the box.

Speaker 9 (28:58):
Well, I think one of the things, you know we
were talking earlier about, you know, when you're thinking of things,
is it natural?

Speaker 6 (29:06):
You know?

Speaker 9 (29:06):
I feel like sometimes, like anybody, you have sort of
a writer's block or a creativity block as to how
you're going to do something. I think one of my
one of my favorites because I enjoyed doing openings that
sort of involve other people. And once Todd mcclollan was
hired by the Edmonton Oilers and I thought, when Todd
plays his old team, I want to do a scene,

(29:28):
and being Italian, I want to do a scene out
of the Godfather. So we called it the Todd Father,
and you know, so it was great. I had a little,
you know, a little espresso glass and a little bikadinu.
I had a friend of mine playing the trumpet and
the theme to the Godfather. And you know, as it
turned out, too, the Oilers had won four in a row,

(29:49):
which is important, you got to you know, if the
Oilers had lost four in a row, I'm not sure
I would have done it. So everything kind of laid
out perfectly and I remember about two days later because
sometimes I think, and Nate you would know this, but
coaches are on and into what they do. Todd had
no idea that I had done that. And then we
were finishing an interview with a bunch of us and

(30:11):
he said, did you do something on the Todd father.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (30:14):
One of my kids said that, so that was kind
of a form of a compliment that he sort of
heard about it.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
But that's one of my personal favorites.

Speaker 9 (30:22):
It involved music, it involved my heritage, it involved other people.
So that's yeah, one of my ald timers from when
I think that would have been around twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
And listen, you know, I want to be clear just
like you were.

Speaker 9 (30:36):
You know, we were discussing about authenticity and doing the
best we can and what we do.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
There's you know, there's failures.

Speaker 9 (30:42):
There's ones that don't work, and you can feel it sometimes,
just like a play, a penalty kill or a five
on five shift. Nate, You're like, this isn't going so well.
You know, I need to get off the ice. And
I feel like that sometimes too, like this isn't going
so well.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
Let's get through it.

Speaker 9 (30:57):
Then let's turn things over to Connor Leon in the
game and go forward from it.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Yeah. SNL has that problem too many times in an episode,
so don't worry.

Speaker 3 (31:07):
That does make me feel better.

Speaker 8 (31:10):
Yeah, the last question here for your genie is your
sense from Florida and Edmonton going into game two. You know,
hearing from coaches and players, especially Florida, you know, other
adjustments they need to make and Edmonton, are there any
adjustments that need to make, if any, going into game two?

Speaker 9 (31:27):
Well, I would say from Florida's standpoint, you know, I
feel like their sense was they were and it always happens,
and it happens to the best teams. When you have
a lead, it's hard to just keep playing the same way.
And I think their sense was that it wasn't so
about a three to one, but at three two they
really got conservative. They mishandled the puck more than they're

(31:50):
used to. So that's a couple of the.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
Things that the Panthers want to do.

Speaker 9 (31:53):
From the oiler standpoint, boy, that for check of Florida
is they know it.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
They know that it is a.

Speaker 9 (32:00):
Challenge and that they have to find a way to
handle it. Because when they start rolling through their not
only one line, but one line after another after another.
It seems like you're hemmed in there. And there was
a point last night where I'm watching Florida, I'm like,
do they have an extra man out there? Because they
seem to have just an inateability part of the pun
to for check And so I think those are a

(32:24):
couple of the things.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
But the one thing I would say listening to Florida
is some people think.

Speaker 9 (32:29):
Oh, you've won it once and you're you're happy, but
they're not satisfied. I can't tell you how many of
the players have said, we're hungry, like we want to
win this again. And so that advantage that Edmonton has
it may still be there because they've never won. But
to think that Florida's you know content, you know, absolutely not.

(32:51):
And I think with guys like Sam Bennett and Matthewkachuck
and you know, Brad marshand, there's no chance that that's
the case going into Game two.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
Yeah, definitely feel that way too. Okay, So I have
just two more questions. One, what can you tell us
about the Pink Pony Club song?

Speaker 5 (33:09):
And this is actually a two parter, and do you
know who sings it? That's my first.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
I want to say, not Raquel, Rachelle. What's her name?
I've seen it. What's the girl's name?

Speaker 9 (33:23):
It's like a I'm going to give you some time
drawing a blank on these.

Speaker 5 (33:27):
You got to change.

Speaker 9 (33:29):
I'm I'm in the vicinity, but I might have to
google it now. The history of it, you know, it's
interesting because the oilers are wonderful at, you know, explaining
their story individually or as a team. But Nate, you've
been in room sometimes and even you know, there's certain
things that you want to try if you can kind
of keep to the team. But nowadays with so much access,

(33:53):
you know, live interviews inside dressing rooms and cameras go
in just after the players go in that you end
up hearing and seeing things.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
That you know. In the past, we never did enough.
From what I can understand.

Speaker 9 (34:04):
It started late in the regular season and one of
the players was saying that some of the kids on
the team. So the players kids, whether it was one
or a few, like that song, and so that's how
it sort of became part of the postgame repertoire. You know,
I want to be clear that our good buddy Ben Stelter,

(34:25):
who you know, Connor McDavid and the Oilers fell in
love with you know, play Lebamba Baby. That is That
is the main song, and that is their their theme
song after wins. But they found some room and apparently
Darnel Nurse and Brett Kulak are kind of the DJs
of the room that they're the ones that I guess
either decided or had the final decision on bringing in

(34:47):
the Pink Pony Club.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
And you know, it was funny.

Speaker 9 (34:50):
I was driving to a game with my son, my
oldest son, and I think it was the second round
and he was dropping me off and he said, hey, Dad,
didn't mind if I listened to some music, you know,
And what's the first song he puts on? The Pink
Pony Club. You we're hearing it everywhere. Sometimes I wake up,
honestly the first thing in the morning and I can
hear Pink Pony.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
It's everywhere.

Speaker 5 (35:12):
Well, that's why I asked Nate ahead of time.

Speaker 7 (35:14):
Like Julie, he didn't know. He didn't know.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
I know.

Speaker 5 (35:18):
And I'm going to say, Geane, it's Chapel Rone Chapel, Yeah,
I knew you were you were.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
There's no no men have been able to identify that
that is the singer, which really that really grinded my
gears last night. Not gonna lie, but I will say
when you said some of the player's children listen like
we're singing it or listen to.

Speaker 5 (35:41):
It, like because Nate has a two year old daughter,
and I'm like, I haven't. Hasn't the song kind of
come up at home?

Speaker 1 (35:47):
Because all my friends with kids have been like, all
my kids want to listen to his Pink Pony Club
like it's a chill Like kids are dialed in to
Pink Pony Club like no other they play it. If
you look at tiktoks and stuff, it's just like baby
singing Pink Pony Club. It's really quite wild.

Speaker 5 (36:03):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
I think Chapel Roone is fantastic. I think it's going
to be a surprise when Wayne Gretzky finds out who
Chapel Rone is and you know everything about her, because
I feel like it might be a little different than
what I assume Wayne Gretzky thinks or might be interested
in music, and I will I got to ask this

(36:25):
question because on the energy line we got you know,
we give zero fucks. So what I'm gonna say to
your gene is can you and I give zero fox.

Speaker 5 (36:37):
I want to know this question. I want to know
the answer to this.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
Okay, Obviously, there's been a lot of criticism of Wayne
Gretzky in Canada. Like I'm not saying that's just that
is a fact, that's objective. However, he is an oiler's
great and he's back there and it's the Stanley Cup
and let's just you know, Edmonton's a little bit more

(37:02):
like Florida than other provinces. Let's you say, what has
the reception been like that you've noticed with Wayne Gretzky
amidst like so much talk about him in Canada.

Speaker 9 (37:12):
Yeah, I would say from what I saw yesterday, it
was same old, same old. You know, it's Wayne Gretzky,
it's Edmonton, it's the Stanley Cup Final. I mean Wayne
has been I love the post game of the Dallas
series when they knocked off Winnipeg and they you know,
they said, hey, well you're cheering four in the Western
Conference Final and Wayne laughed it off. I mean, Wayne

(37:35):
has been quite clear on TNT that you know, he's
a fan of the NHL for sure.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
There's no doubt about it.

Speaker 9 (37:41):
It's you know, he provided a lot to the league,
and the league provided a lot to him. But he
is an Oiler fan through and through, and so I
have not seen or heard anything differently, I think, to
be honest with you, Julian, you know, and Nate, it
is a point certainly around the Four Nations. Things were
different then, but right now it's it's about hockey, and

(38:03):
if you love hockey, there's a good chance that you
love Wayne Gretzky, especially in this town. I mean, he
is true royalty followed by people, whether it's a photograph,
a handshake, you know, a fist pump. Yeah, I mean
people love Wayne and I always have from when I
was a kid growing up in Edmonton, and.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
I try not to mix those two.

Speaker 9 (38:27):
I'm a fan of the sport and those that are
involved in it and those that have grown the game
more than anyone else.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
Wayne's done that.

Speaker 9 (38:36):
But it is neat to see him on TV and
talking about the series, and you know, I think we
know who he's pulling for, but he's professional. I mean,
he lives in Florida now, so I'm sure there's a
connection to the Panthers as well. So you know, another
great storyline going into a series with so many of them.

Speaker 5 (38:53):
Yeah, and I appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (38:55):
Ambassador of the game.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
Sorry, Nate and I are on a bit of a delay,
like I think with us talking, but I do want
to say I appreciate that answer, and that's I feel
that way as well. And Four Nations was different. I
just was like, I was just back in Canada reading
a whole bunch of newspaper articles and I was just curious.
But I assumed what you said that, Like, I mean,
Wayne is the Edmonton Oilers. It feels like just like he,

(39:21):
I mean, he put them up there right like and messy.
I too, but Wayne Gretzky obviously just royalty.

Speaker 5 (39:26):
I can't even.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
Imagine the people that were like around where that TV
set was just even trying to get like a glimpse
of him would have been insane.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
It really is like a you know, like a movie star.

Speaker 9 (39:39):
You know, people just want some kind of I don't
know if it's a story to tell, but a moment,
right I looked at Wayne, he looked at me.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
I saw him.

Speaker 9 (39:49):
Maybe I got a photo, but I mean the security
around him. And when I say security, I don't I
don't mean like security because there's going to be anything
to bad. It's just he need you know, he can't
get through. Yeah, he wouldn't be able to get where
he needs to get. So it's it's neat to see
you never forget. And I mean, like you were saying,

(40:10):
I mean, he truly put Edmonton on the map with
what he and his hockey playing friends were able to
do in the eighties. And now everyone knows where Edmonton
is on the map. But Connor and Leon and his
buddies are just trying to remind the hockey world exactly
where it is.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
Yeah, it's like way up, way up there, way up
in it Alberta.

Speaker 7 (40:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (40:31):
And I just had to say one more thing about Wayne,
Like he's one of those guys that I mean, he's
one of those people that you whenever you have a
conversation with him, you remember that exact conversation forever. I mean,
I went to a wedding he happen to be there
and we talked for like thirty minutes, and I'll always
remember every single word for that thirty minutes.

Speaker 9 (40:49):
You know what, you know what, You're so right because
I know a lot of people, you know, they know Wayne,
they know his stats, I remember we were in Nashville,
and I'll never forget it. Like you said, We're standing
around the oiders his skate and Wayne, hey, anybody who
want to go for lunch? And I was like, oh
my god, Wayne Gretzky kind of asked me to go
for lunch. Thought this is amazing, right, And so he's

(41:14):
such a gracious, kind, nice man. I mean the stuff
that I see him do for people, and so yeah,
it's great to have him around. To be honest with you,
I've usually seen him maybe a couple times a year,
depending on the rinks in the schedule.

Speaker 3 (41:30):
But yeah, and to have the entire TNT grew up here.

Speaker 9 (41:35):
You know they you know Biz and Anson and Liam
and Henrik, they do a wonderful job, and you know
Eddie and Kenny and the booth and and it's just
been it's just having them around has helped grow the game.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
So at the end of the day, I think you me,
all three of us agree that that's that's what we
want to see.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
Yeah, I love that. And I'll give you my Gretzky
story very quickly. On the NHL alumni boat at the
al our game in Fort Lauderdale, which was one of
the highlights of my life getting to be on there
because uh, Glenn Heally was supposed to interview all of
these Hall of famers, you know, Coffee, Chellio's, Messier, Gretzky,

(42:17):
and then Luongo was there, and then at the last
second he handed me the microphone. He said, you do it,
and I remember being like, wow, okay, I'm gonna I'm
just gonna talk with them, and okay, okay, so many
memories from that. But when you say that he's such
a good guy. One guy on the boat had won
in the in the Silent auction of Gretzky jersey, and

(42:37):
we were just standing and he just I have a
video of me filming Wayne and filming the jersey. And
then he once he noticed the guy was wearing the jersey,
he went over to him and then he got it.
He was like, let's get a picture, let me sign
it for you, like just went out of his way
to then make sure that this person who'd spent money
on this had the best possible time they could with that.

(43:01):
And then one last thing, I have to tell you
this because it's it honestly doesn't even feel real. We're
on the boat and they start playing Sweet Caroline, and
Paul Coffee is pushing me and Ajmlesco to go up
on stage and sing it, and Wayne Gretzky's there, and
I remember being like, oh no, no, no, I'm like,
I'm not, I'm not gonna. I'm I'm not anyway, Paul

(43:24):
Coffee push us up and then he was up there,
messy I is up there, and Shelley's up there and
it's me. Me and Aj are the only non Hockey
Hall of famers. She won a gold medal in the
ninety eight Olympics.

Speaker 8 (43:34):
I did not.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
And then you know how in the song it's like
hands touching, hands reaching out.

Speaker 5 (43:39):
I'm standing beside Way Gretzky.

Speaker 1 (43:41):
Do you think I'm gonna be like hands touching Wayne
Gretzky's I remember being like, where do I put my hands?

Speaker 5 (43:49):
Because I can't.

Speaker 3 (43:50):
I can't.

Speaker 1 (43:51):
Just this will be the first time I ever see
Wayne Gretzky, and it's in this Neil Diamond song and uh,
there's video of it, so it's like just this awkward.

Speaker 5 (43:58):
Like okay, I'll scratch my head here. Anyway.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
He's a great guy and he was very fun and
down for whatever anyone was interested in doing so. Long
story short, Gene, thank you so much for joining us
here on the show.

Speaker 5 (44:13):
You do an incredible job.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
You're a wonderful person and we appreciate everything you do.
And keep up the great work and we'll be watching
you for the rest of the Stanley Cup.

Speaker 9 (44:22):
Julie Nate, thanks very much, and enjoy the rest of
the Stanley Cup Final.

Speaker 5 (44:31):
All right, welcome back into the Energy Line with Date
and JSB.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
And we're thrilled now to be joined by someone who
called Game one of the Stanley Cup Final between Edmonton
and Florida. And he has called one thousand, four hundred
and eighty three games in his career.

Speaker 5 (44:51):
That is a lot of games.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
And you know who that is, none other than Kenny
Albert who's working with TNT. Thank you so much for
joining us here on the show. We just were mentioning
that after Game one, even in overtime Edmonton, it was
still light out after such a long game and it
was kind of a bit of a surprise. But tell
us a little bit about what it was like calling
Game one in Edmonton.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
Well, first of all, Julie Nate, great to be on
with you guys. Thanks for having me on the show.
It was a tremendous game, so exciting right from the
start the first period. You could just feel the excitement,
the anticipation in the building. It almost felt like an
extension of last year's Cup Final, like it was game
eight after they went seven last year, and such an

(45:35):
exciting series. Once Edmonton came back and won three in
a row after Florida had won the first three. But
and you're right, it was still light out when the
game ended at ten o'clock local time. It started at
six point twenty here in Edmonton and it was still
light out, which is neat.

Speaker 6 (45:50):
But the game seemed to have a little bit of everything.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
You had the early goal from Drycidle a minute six
seconds in, and then just the intensity the hitting.

Speaker 6 (46:00):
Florida winds up taking a three to one lead.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
The second goal was challenged and the goal obviously stood
bet it on the deflection, and then Florida goes in
the power play due to the unsuccessful challenge, They score
another goal, and then Edmonton comes back. Florida had the
seventeen shots in the second period, but seems to run
out of a little bit of steam in the third.

(46:24):
Edmonton had the better of the play in the third period,
they limited Florida to two shots, and then Drysidel, who
started the scoring, ended it in the final minute of
overtime and onto Game two.

Speaker 8 (46:35):
Yeah, and Kenny, you know, we you've you've been around
for so long. And Julie fun fact, he called my
first NHL goal Madison Square Garden.

Speaker 7 (46:46):
But we'll we'll get back into that.

Speaker 8 (46:48):
But I want to talk about you know, you've witnessed
so many greats, and you know we had ed Zoon
previously and we talked about Connor McDavid, and I don't know,
I want to know if you get the sense, you know,
whenever Edmonton needs something, you know, from all your games
you've you've in different sports really too, where you know
the greats, you always sense this feeling like something's coming.

(47:10):
And I know you're sitting up there in the booth
with you know, with Ed Zoe, and I want to
know if you guys have that same feeling as you
guys are watching the game with Connor McDavid.

Speaker 6 (47:18):
You do get that sense.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
And it was fun reminiscing last summer about that first
NHL goal. I forgot about that, uh, that Nate scored
with the Islanders right, that's right d in the Islander
days and Edzo picked up on it right away last
night when Chris Knoblock would go to McDavid and Drysottle together.
You know, as we see throughout the season, throughout the playoffs,

(47:41):
they usually start the game on separate lines, and then
you know, it's really neat to watch how it develops.
A lot of times after a penalty kill where maybe
Drysottle wasn't out on the ice, they'll put them together
for the next shift. But also the game management when
when Chris Noblock knows this is going to be a
TV time out, for example, at a certain point, up

(48:03):
with McDavid and Drysottle together, or coming out of a
TV timeout when they had a little bit.

Speaker 6 (48:09):
Of a rest.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
And we saw them with different linemates last night, Connor
Brown on a number of occasions, Evander Kaine on one
or two shifts. You know, obviously Zach Hyman's a big loss,
he's not there, but you do kind of get that
sense sometimes that the play the energy level when the
building just ramps up when those two guys are on
the ice together. And I was talking to one of

(48:30):
the officials last night after the game. Who's involved in
the series. And you know Nate, you and know because
you played against him, you were on the ice so
many times in games against Edmonton. But I think McKinnon's
the only other one that when you watch them from
up top from the booth like we do, that has
that extra gear. McDavid, you know, maybe the fastest player

(48:53):
to ever play in the NHL. And the official I
was speaking with said, yeah, when you're on the ice
with him, it just feels different when McDavid's out there.
And then when you look at the key goals Ryottle
scored last night. He wasn't healthy in the final last year,
and we actually talked about this with na Bloc yesterday morning.
They're a lot healthier. Aside from Hymen who's out, they're
a lot healthier than they were in the final last year.

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Drystotle did not score a goal in last year's Cup. Finally,
at three assists, Evander Kine only played in the first
two games, he missed the next five. So from Evington standpoint,
you know, again, aside from Hymen, they feel like they're
in a lot better shape health wise than they were
in last year's final.

Speaker 1 (49:34):
Kenny, because you mentioned Chris Nablock. I was just thinking,
I remember covering him for so I'm the female peer maguire.

Speaker 5 (49:40):
By the way, I remember covering.

Speaker 1 (49:43):
Him for the Coot and the Ice when they were
in the Memorial Cup in twenty ten, which was fifteen
years ago. And I also love dating myself on this show.
So when you're talking when you have your meetings with
the coaches, Chris Knoblock versus you know, Pal Maurice, who
many of us have kind of seen his personality, seen
him kind of out there. What is the biggest difference

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in your mind between the demeanor of the two now.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
Blocks definitely more low key, you know, at least in
the meetings that we have. You know, Paul Maurice has
twenty seven years of NHL experience. He has so many
stories and different experiences to draw back on. I mean,
he coached in the Stanley Cup Final in two thousand
and two, you know that was twenty three years ago
with Carolina, and just that wealth of knowledge that he's

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built up. Chris Noblock has only run one NHL training camp,
but he's coaching in a second Stanley Cup final. He
took over during the season last year. Noilers were in
thirty first place in the league and they go all
the way to the Cup final. And here he is
again a little insight into the broadcast meeting that we

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had with him yesterday, and I brought this up on
the air on the telecast. But the coolest thing I
heard from Chris Noblock yesterday was about the hour he
spent with Scottie Bowman the day of.

Speaker 6 (51:04):
They had never met before.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
Stan Bowman, Scotty's dad is the general manager of the
Oilers and Stan Bowman, by the way, his name Stan
because of the Stanley Cup. His name is Stanley Glenn
Bowman and when Scotty Bowman won his first Cup as
a coach in nineteen seventy three, Stan was born a
month later and they named him Stanley after the Stanley Cup.
But scot Scotty Bowman's in town, he's ninety one years old,

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came in to visit his son. Stan invited him to
the game and Chris Nablock is the first coach to
make it to two Stanley Cup finals in his first
two years as an NHL head coach since Scotty Bowman.
So they got to spend an hour together and Scotty
Bowman from the couple of instances that I've had to
be around him. He's often in the press box in

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Tampa because he lives down in that area during the season,
so he's always up in the press box at Lightning games.
And you know, he's the greatest coach in NHL history,
nine Cups as a coach.

Speaker 6 (52:00):
And five more as an executive.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
But his memory, you know, Julie, you were talking about,
you know, remembering Chris Nablock from twenty ten. Scotti Bowman's memory.
The only phone conversation I've ever had with him. And
it's funny you mentioned Pierre Maguire because he set it up.
Pierre and Scotti are very close. In twenty nineteen, during
the Saint Louis Boston Final, there were a lot of

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flashbacks to when Saint Louis had gotten to the Cup
final their first three years as an expansion team. Scotty
Bowman was the coach. So Pierre set up a phone
call and I had some questions for Scotty about that series,
some of his memories from fifty years prior. He remembered everything,
you know, goals that were scored. I looked a lot
of this stuff up, and he was. He was one
hundred percent. He remembered what hotels they start at, what

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restaurants they ate at. His memory, you know, for for
a forty year old, let alone a ninety one year
old is so sharp. And Chris Noblock got to experience
that during the hour they spent together on Tuesday. That's
so cool.

Speaker 8 (52:58):
I had no idea about stan Bowmen being named after
the Stanley Cup.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
That's I never knew this until yesterday. His middle name
is Glenn, after the Hall of Fame goaltender Glenn Hall,
who was Scottie Bowman's goalie with the Blues, who Scotti
Bowman actually visited this week as well.

Speaker 6 (53:15):
He lives here in Alberta. So Stanley Glenn Bowman the only.

Speaker 8 (53:20):
Other Scotty Bowman story I know, and I've heard it
from players over the years.

Speaker 7 (53:22):
I'm sure you guys have too.

Speaker 8 (53:24):
Is when I guess guys will obviously be you know,
out after curfew and he.

Speaker 6 (53:29):
Had hockey stick story.

Speaker 8 (53:31):
Yeah, he would have people out front to you know,
make sure that they get autographs some players coming in, so.

Speaker 7 (53:36):
He would know which guy.

Speaker 8 (53:38):
Because we're coming in later, because he's the autograph guy.
Would have the autographs on later from those guys, which
is genius.

Speaker 7 (53:48):
I guess.

Speaker 8 (53:48):
I'm going into this series, Kenny, and you know you're
talking about these coaches, and I want to get into
Paul Maurice and the Florida Panthers. Is you know, after
this first game, you know, is it.

Speaker 7 (54:01):
Is it a little bit of panic from them? Not panic, i'd.

Speaker 8 (54:03):
Say, but a little bit of like, Okay, we're in
for a bigger, harder series. And maybe we thought, you know,
just from seeing their sense in overtime especially, it just
seemed like they sat back and they were, you know,
letting Edmonton come to them, which is not like the
Florida Panthers at all.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
Right, And you know, the game ends on an unfortunate
to lay a game penalty, you know, So that's one
way to look at it. But and you would know,
you know a lot better than me, having been in
locker rooms for your whole life. But I get the
sense that both teams know how good the other team is.
I think both teams expected a really long series. So

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for Florida, you know, unfortunate to lose Game one on
the road where you're now in danger of going down
to nothing on the road, but you know they battled
back before.

Speaker 6 (54:51):
You think back to.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
The second round against the Leafs when they lost the
first two games and then we're down by two goals
and came back to winning overtime in game three. Even
two years ago against Boston in the first round when
they were down three to one in the series and
Marshan had a chance to end it and he was stopped,
and then Florida comes back and won that series.

Speaker 6 (55:11):
They're resilient team. You know.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
Paul Maurice yesterday was actually talking with us about a
similar question, and his point was, you know, we won
the Cup last year, but we lost three games in
that series, so you're going to lose games. And you know,
I even think back to the team Ediolchek was a
member of a ninety four with the Rangers. Those last

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two rounds, they lost three games in each series. They
were down three to two to the Devils and then
tied at three apiece with Vancouver.

Speaker 6 (55:43):
So you know, when you think.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
About it, it's not always an easy path to the championship. Now, Edmonton,
they had to rough start in the first round against
the Kings and battle back to win that one. But
you know, another point now Bloc made is they're a
lot more rested this year in the playoffs than last
year when they had some seven game series. They had

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a battle back to beat the Kings this year, but
then they beat Vegas and five, had some time off,
beat Dallas in five and had four or five days off.
So aside from the health, they had some more rest
time this year. But getting back to the original question, Nate,
you know, I think Florida they'll say all the right
things today.

Speaker 6 (56:22):
You know that they were right there.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
You know, they did blow a three to one lead,
but they had chances to win in overtime, although Edvington
had the better chances. But like Maury said yesterday, it's
a long series and you can even lose three games
and still win.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
Love talking about these games, but I'm way more interested
in Kenny Albert, and I believe Kenny.

Speaker 5 (56:44):
I have your Yeah, I got your book. Yeah, I
got your book right.

Speaker 1 (56:49):
Behind me here right there, Doc Erick, and then Kenny Albert,
and then I haven't read my Ken Morrow book yet.

Speaker 5 (56:55):
I'm going to. But I with Ken Morrow, Alan created
a very good job.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
And so I find your life, your career, everything you've
done so fascinating. I know I've tweeted about it. When
I first met you in twenty fourteen, I was like,
there's no one that works harder than Kenny Albert because
you are literally first of all, you work so hard,
but you never even you never discuss it, You never
talk about it. You're very you downplay it a lot. However,

(57:24):
I was thinking about it the other day watching you
call a game, and I was thinking, the amount of
games that you've called and the amount of players that
you've seen, do you start to know or predict or
feel how a play is going to go because you've
watched so much film on some of these guys, and
you're like, Okay, this guy's got the puck. This is

(57:45):
what's going to happen because your brain just has seen
so much of it.

Speaker 6 (57:52):
You know.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
I wish I could say that's the case, Julie, but
I'm terrible at predictions. We went through a stretch, you know,
with Eddie and Brian Bouchet and Jackie Redmond. We work
some of the games late in the Flora Toronto series,
and then we moved on to Carolina, Florida, and we
would sort of make predictions to each other on the
way to the game, and I think for about four
straight games most of us got it totally wrong. So no,

(58:17):
but I appreciate in the game. I mean, sometimes you
have a feel with momentum going a certain way. But
you know, I think guys like Eddie and Boos, who
I work with all the time, you know, as long
time players, former players, they probably have a better feel
about that kind of stuff, you know, than I would.
I'm kind of focused concentrating on calling the game, but

(58:40):
you do, you do sense the momentum shifts, and you know,
once in a while you might kind of have a
good feel about what's going to happen next. But I'll
leave that to the experts. I'll leave that to the
former players. But I appreciate the kind words. I remember
when we first met during the Cup final in twenty fourteen,
and you know, when I look you referred earlier to

(59:01):
the number of games and when I look at some
of those lists, you know, it's almost surreal to be
included with some of those great names that are on
there as well. Just very fortunate to work, you know,
for great networks and with great people through the years,
and it is a bit of a jigsaw puzzle of
a schedule, you know that I have to figure out sometimes,
but never feel like I'm working. There's a lot of

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work and a lot of travel that goes into it,
but never really feel like I'm going to work. It's
it's such a fun profession to be involved in. And
you know, I'm sure you know, Julie, if you read
part of the book at least, yeah, you know, some
of the greatest years I had. When I think back,
we're the two years in the American Hockey League with

(59:44):
the Baltimore Skip Jacks. You mentioned your days covering junior hockey,
and you know, when I think back to the to
the two years in Baltimore, I just.

Speaker 6 (59:52):
Learned so much.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
And you know, spent ten hour bus rides, you know,
going from Baltimore to Portland, Maine, and you know, six
hours up to other cities in upstate New York. And
you know, I think we've talked about this before. Barry
Trotz was my road roommate. They stuck the radio guy
with the assistant coach, so learned a lot from him.

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And you know, it all started back then and somehow
here we are over thirty years later.

Speaker 1 (01:00:19):
I love that and sorry Nate, I'm gonna I want
to know, Jim. That was a very Kenny Nate and
I are on a delay right now. Just apologies. That
was a very Kenny Albert answer to that by saying, like, Okay,
my colleagues deserve the credit on these different things, which
I was like, perfect Kenny Albert answer at the beginning
of that.

Speaker 5 (01:00:39):
But I as I like to think about in.

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
When I watched Jim Nantz call golf, and he always
has like a great line, you know about whomever, like
that final putt going in and they win whatever, like
Masters or whatever, like do you what's your process for
coming up with I know you're gonna say, okay, what's

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your process for coming up with guys who might score
a goal that could be life changing?

Speaker 6 (01:01:11):
Right? That's a great question, and I get that all
the time.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
I don't necessarily write something out, you know, I don't
want to have a whole paragraph for a big moment,
like like the end of the Stanley Cup, you know, championship.
I've been fortunate enough to call two this is the
third on the TV side, and several others on the
radio side. But I do start to throw around some

(01:01:35):
phrases in my mind. I remember calling the Tampa Bay
Montreal Cup in twenty twenty one, and you.

Speaker 6 (01:01:42):
Want to be ready. You don't want to be totally unprepared.

Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
So I started throwing around some words and phrases, and
the Lightning had won the year before, so.

Speaker 6 (01:01:52):
I wound up as the time wound down.

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
In Game five in Tampa that year, my line as
the game was coming to an end was Lightning strikes
twice the Tampa Bay Lightning when their second straight Stanley Cup,
And ironically I ran it to Chris Cuthbert the next day,
the tremendous play by play man in Canada, and he
actually said something really similar, so that made me feel good.

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We hadn't talked about it before, but we both used
that line lightning strikes twice when Vegas won.

Speaker 6 (01:02:24):
I was kind of.

Speaker 2 (01:02:24):
Throwing around some keywords earlier in the day and I
was thinking Golden Knights and the Stanley Cup, and I
said something to to the effect of and the outcome
was never in doubt. They won the game nine to three,
So you know, from the middle of the second period
on you could be.

Speaker 5 (01:02:39):
Working on that one for a while.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
Yeah, part of my call was the Silver Trophy to
the Golden Knights, you know, using silver and then golden.
But I got the question a lot around the Ovtchkin
game in early April.

Speaker 6 (01:02:55):
Our crew was so fortunate to be there. You know.

Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
He tied the record on a Friday against Chicago, and
I'm in a hotel room in Atlanta of watching that game,
just praying that he doesn't score three because we wanted
to be there for the for the call a ant
on the Sunday on Long Island.

Speaker 6 (01:03:13):
So he scores the first goal early, eight ninety three.

Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
And then he ties it with eight ninety four in
the second period, and you know then, you know, I
knew he didn't want to do it into an empty net,
so I was pretty confident he wouldn't score when they
pulled Spencer Night. But then in that last minute when
Night came back in, he almost scored it. He had

(01:03:37):
three chances in that last minute, which was crazy, and
my heart was pounding. But you know then I start
to think and I'm gonna have to it was so good.
Yeah for a second, because I see battery. My battery
is low on the computer, so give me one second.

Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
Does you know this happened with Edzo too, You guys
are really a pair.

Speaker 6 (01:04:00):
I mean, I have to just stick in the plug.
Sorry about that, kindreds.

Speaker 1 (01:04:05):
Yeah, you guys are on the same wavelength.

Speaker 5 (01:04:08):
There's sticks out.

Speaker 6 (01:04:10):
All right, there we go perfect Getting back to Ovetskin.

Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
So now we have the call on Sunday, and again
I have been thrown around some words and phrases. Earlier
in the week, I was thinking the Grade eight and
then of course you have the great one Gretzky in
the building.

Speaker 6 (01:04:27):
But then Joe Beninati, who does a.

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
Terrific job on Capitol's broadcast, when when Oveskin tied the record,
his call involved the Grade eight and the Great One,
So I figured, all right, I can't steal it from
Joe now he's already used it. So to be honest,
when when Ovetskin scored that goal, I kind of just
let the call come about naturally. I called the goal,

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you know, with excitement in the call, hopefully, and then
I got out of the way what we call laying
out in the in the TV world, because I felt
at that point the pictures and the sounds from the
building would tell a better story than anything I could
possibly say. So I called the goal. I included the
number eight ninety five in the call, and then I

(01:05:10):
shut up for about thirty or forty five seconds, And
it's ironic. There have been a couple of other times
in my career. I called the Bautista home run in
twenty fifteen, the home run bat flip.

Speaker 5 (01:05:21):
Yes, of course I remember that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:25):
And then ar Temi Paneren with the overtime game seven
winner in twenty twenty two against Pittsburgh in the first round,
similar to the Ovechkin. I called the goal, and I
called the home run and then got out of the way,
and there was a reporter in New York who actually
timed it.

Speaker 6 (01:05:42):
No one said anything.

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
I didn't say anything for a minute fifty six seconds
after Paneren scored because the crowd's going crazy and the
directors doing his thing in the truck, showing the celebration
on the ice in the crowd.

Speaker 6 (01:05:53):
Now, it's a much different story if.

Speaker 2 (01:05:55):
That were a road game and the road team won,
because then you won't have the crowd reaction, it won't
be as much of a celebration, So I would come
back in a lot earlier. Would have also been a
lot different if it's a radio call where you have
to pretty much talk the entire time. But because it's television,
with that medium, you don't have to say anything. And
it's funny in this business, play by play announcers sometimes

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get the most praise for saying nothing, which is pretty ironic.

Speaker 8 (01:06:23):
I want to know how many game notes you have, Kenny.
And I want to preface this duly because I went
to the broadcasting camp NHL put on last year and
you know, got to hang out with Kenny and learned
some stuff from Kenny. Before we sat down, he pulled
out this sheet and showed me and it was the
night he called my first NHL goal.

Speaker 5 (01:06:44):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 8 (01:06:46):
At the bottom of it, he at the bottom of it,
he had he had the lines, and on the bottom
of the lines it had you know, Nate Thompson zero
points still you know, still new the NHL, and and
he hadn't pulled it out, and I couldn't believe it.
So I guess my question is, Kenny, is how many
game notes do you have?

Speaker 7 (01:07:04):
And are they all still saved?

Speaker 6 (01:07:08):
So this is an example.

Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
So when the week starts leading up to a game,
hockey game of football game, I probably read through this
much material, whether actually on paper or on the iPad,
or on the computer article statistics, etc. But by the
time the game starts, I have it narrowed down to
this one sheet. So this is last night. It's basically

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front and back. It's like the size of a Manila
folder basically, so I have a lot of general team
information on the front. I have the score sheet on
the back where I keep track of the goals, assists, penalties.

Speaker 6 (01:07:45):
And then in the middle.

Speaker 2 (01:07:48):
This is the Edmonton side, this is the Florida side,
and it's basically set up by line combinations, defense pairings.
I probably have more notes on here than I would
for a regular season game because it is a Stanley
Cup final, a lot of different colors. They don't they
don't really mean much, just to kind of differentiate some
of the notes.

Speaker 6 (01:08:08):
The stats are in green.

Speaker 2 (01:08:10):
But you know, this is my sheet from last night,
and as the series goes on, I won't have as much,
you know, moving forward, for each specific game because I'll
refer back a lot of the general informations on the
game one sheet. So I have a file cabinet at home,
pretty big file cabinet. I have about ninety five percent
of my.

Speaker 6 (01:08:31):
Cards.

Speaker 2 (01:08:32):
Some people call them boards sheets you want to call
them game notes. I have about ninety five percent of
them from throughout my career. I do refer back the
next time I have a specific team, so I use
some of the information. My kids will kill me someday,
hopefully about forty years from now, when they have to
clean out everything and we won't have any meeting to

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anybody else except me.

Speaker 5 (01:08:54):
You could they could sell them.

Speaker 6 (01:08:55):
What I did.

Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
Yeah, I don't know how much valuabley'll have. Maybe a
couple of them would, but.

Speaker 6 (01:09:02):
Julius.

Speaker 2 (01:09:02):
So, last year when I was in along with with
Eddie and Boush and some of the others uh to
take part in the NHL broadcast camp with Nate and
several other either current or retired players, I had the
list of the of the nine players who were coming
into this camp in New York. So I spent a
little bit of time a couple of days prior going

(01:09:24):
through the files and I actually would look up, you know,
for Nate for example. You know, I wanted to find
a specific game, you know, maybe in which he scored
a goal that I was calling, and I noticed that
his first goal came against the Rangers. And I've done
the radio for the Rangers for a long time. I'm
not there for every game. I missed some, so I

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was hoping that I would be able to pull out
something good. And I noticed that he scored his first
goal against the Rangers. So I went to the file
cabinet and sure enough there it was awesome.

Speaker 5 (01:09:54):
That's so cool.

Speaker 2 (01:09:56):
I do say I have a missing There are three
missing years from hockey when I moved about twenty five
years ago. They're probably in a box somewhere, so I
haven't been able to locate those. And ironically, it was
Wayne Gretzky's three years with the Rangers.

Speaker 6 (01:10:11):
So I don't have any of those sheets.

Speaker 5 (01:10:13):
I know I have them somewhere, but someone took them.

Speaker 6 (01:10:18):
They're in a box.

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
I know I have them somewhere, so but yeah, I
have about ninety five percent of them.

Speaker 7 (01:10:25):
That's amaz wow, Kenny Will actually, but that was that
was just awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:10:30):
I you did tell me that, and I thought that
that's I mean, what a full circle moment now for
also Nate to be into the broadcasting sphere and kind
of seeing all that. But Kenny, you at this point
sometimes I feel like you probably don't even need the
boards because you would have so much of the information
just like.

Speaker 5 (01:10:49):
There in your head.

Speaker 1 (01:10:49):
And and I'm curious, now, do you retain as much information,
say about your family or the rest of your life
like you do for sports.

Speaker 2 (01:11:00):
Yeah, I probably do have a lot of useless information
up there about sports and names and numbers and everything
else that you mentioned. But that's a good point, you know,
I probably only use about ten percent of what's on there.

Speaker 6 (01:11:15):
And you do remember a lot of it. I'm old school.

Speaker 2 (01:11:17):
I write a lot of it down as opposed to
typing it all out on a computer, so it's there
if you need it.

Speaker 6 (01:11:24):
You don't have time to look down during a hockey game.

Speaker 2 (01:11:26):
I might look down during a commercial break for something specific.
But and then we also have you know, people helping
out and looking stuff up during the game. You know,
for example, last night, when Sam Bennett's scored a second goal,
I was curious when the last time a player had
a hat trick in Game one of the Stanley Cup Final,
And it turns out it was Mike Bossi in nineteen

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eighty two. So things like that that I wouldn't necessarily
think about leading up to the game, you wind up
asking for during the game.

Speaker 6 (01:11:56):
You know, one thing that crossed my mind.

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
Yesterday I was thinking about Corey Perry and I was wondering,
if he scores a goal in the Stanley Cup Final,
how many forty year olds have done that? And it
turns out he would be the fifth, Mark Reki Igor Lariyanov.

Speaker 6 (01:12:14):
It's Dan o'chara and one other.

Speaker 2 (01:12:17):
I'll have to check the notes, but there have been
four players over forty, so he would be the fifth.
And I got that ready just in case. You know,
a number of the notes on here are sort of
the just in case notes, you know, just in case
something happens. You want to be prepared, like I already have.
The fact that the last game seven, I'm sorry, not

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the last game seven, but the last Stanley Cup winning
goals scored in overtime was Alec Martinez in twenty fourteen.

Speaker 6 (01:12:44):
Just in case teams wins the Cup, you know, overt
no matter what game it's in. I have on here
that you might not believe.

Speaker 7 (01:12:54):
This one.

Speaker 2 (01:12:54):
There's only been one penalty shot goal in a Stanley
Cup final ever. There have been thirteen penalty shots, only
one goal Chris Ponder two thousand and six.

Speaker 6 (01:13:04):
The other twelve were stopped by the goalie.

Speaker 2 (01:13:07):
So in case there's a penalty shot, I can look
down quickly or I remember this one. But you know,
that's another one that I have on here, just in case.
I have a list of all the overtime goals that
have scored, you know, been scored by the players in
the playoffs, just little notes like that, just in case
they happen.

Speaker 1 (01:13:26):
Just in case. Okay, oh my gosh, Like there's so
many different scenarios where you're like, just in case, I
don't know what happens someone scores ten goals, Like what
other do you have any other examples that you can
I mean this, I want to know this.

Speaker 5 (01:13:41):
I want to know you're just in case.

Speaker 10 (01:13:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:13:46):
So I also I take all the notes on here,
and I have a couple of pages typed out which
is pretty much the same stuff that's on my board.
But I'll share this with the with the producer and
the graphics people so that we're all on the same page.
So you know, one of the other ones I have
on here teams that win Game one of the Cup

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Final win seventy seven percent of the series. I used
that one on the air last night. I hate that
I have just in case. Longest Stanley Cup Final game
all time was in nineteen ninety Edmonton Boston. It went
fifteen minutes into the third overtime. So in case we
have a game that goes pretty long or gets to

(01:14:31):
a third overtime, I would be able to reference the
longest game ever played in the Stanley Cup Final. Just
various other notes. Oh, I had one on Sergey Brabrowski.
He shut out the Oilers in Game one last year
in the Cup Final, so just in case he had
shut out last night. Never had to use this one,
obviously because reis Otel scored early. But only one goalie

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has multiple Game one shutouts in the Stanley Cup Final,
and I was back in the nineteen twenties. The goalie
named Clint Benedict, the only goalie to have more than
one shutout in Game one of the Stanley Cup Finals.
Some of these are pretty obscure, but you have them,
you have them ready to just in case. Here's another
good one you'll let you guys will love this one.

(01:15:18):
Only twelve defensemen have ever scored a hat trick in
the playoffs, not just the final, any round in the playoffs,
twelve defensemen have scored hat tricks. The only one with
more than one is Sam Reinhart's father, Paul. Oh wow,
he had two playoff hat tricks. That's kind of a
neat note. Either if a defenseman scores a hat trick

(01:15:40):
or if Sam Reinhard happens to score a hat trick,
I might drop that in that his dad is the
only defenseman in history to have two playoff hat tricks.

Speaker 1 (01:15:47):
Kenny, we would love just a series with you just
called justin case, and I just want to know, just like,
because you I feel like you're coming up with these rights.
You could be like, hmm, just in case a player
was eating a sandwich, like on the bench or something
like the most obscure random things like how do you
come How would you come up with them?

Speaker 5 (01:16:08):
Because there's so many just in cases?

Speaker 2 (01:16:10):
Yeah, some of them I just think of on my own.
Sometimes I'll read something that might give me an idea.
The NHL does a great job putting out some nuggets,
you know, throughout the day, throughout the series on their website,
on their Twitter site, so it might give me an idea.
One that I one that I didn't have ready last
night actually, which I used when it was passed along
by the NHL. Bennett tied the record for most goals

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on the road in the playoffs. Ever, he has eleven
goals on the road this year in the playoffs. That
tied Mark Scheifeley who did it in twenty eighteen. Eleven
goals on the road. So that was one I didn't
have ready, but we were able to use when it
was passed along.

Speaker 7 (01:16:49):
Last one.

Speaker 8 (01:16:49):
The only just in case I have for is I
think possible is a game seven overtime Stanley Cup Finals.

Speaker 7 (01:16:58):
That's that's my just in case. That's all I got.

Speaker 6 (01:17:02):
Yeah, well, we'll have that one and ready.

Speaker 2 (01:17:05):
We had the Saint Louis Winnipeg game in Round one,
which is a Game seven that went overtime.

Speaker 6 (01:17:11):
So we have the list.

Speaker 2 (01:17:13):
I don't have it off the top of my head,
but there have been game seven overtimes, not that many
of them, but we do have that list ready when needed.
So we'll have that for Game seven.

Speaker 7 (01:17:22):
Here we go.

Speaker 6 (01:17:23):
Wow, here's one. There's never been.

Speaker 5 (01:17:25):
Yeah, let's keep going.

Speaker 6 (01:17:26):
Let's keep has never been a.

Speaker 2 (01:17:28):
Game seven overtime goal on special teams. There's never been
a power play or short handed game seven overtime goal
in NHL history.

Speaker 10 (01:17:40):
And I'll give you one more on ed Ready for
this one, Eddie and Julie growing up, you know as
a lead stan So Eddie Olchek is the only player
in NHL history We've talked about this on the air
to have a playoff hat trick, which included a power
play goal, a short handed goal, and an overtime goal.

Speaker 6 (01:18:00):
He's the only one to ever do that.

Speaker 5 (01:18:02):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (01:18:04):
Of course I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:18:05):
Know toronto my belief doing something at least that's probably
I was standing up right there.

Speaker 2 (01:18:09):
Yeah, it was with the Leafs against the Red Wings
in nineteen eighty eight.

Speaker 6 (01:18:13):
Eddie o power play, shorthanded, overtime.

Speaker 7 (01:18:16):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:18:17):
Well, Kenny, thank you so much for giving us this insight.
Like we Nate and I could sit here all day
and just be like.

Speaker 5 (01:18:25):
Yeah, another one and another one and another one.

Speaker 1 (01:18:27):
Because it's just wonderful to get to hear inside your
thought process the things you're thinking of. And now we
can watch the games and we'll be like, hey, like
Kenny had that stat ready, Like you know, if Evan
Bouchard has a hat trek or whatever or something like that,
or Samurai Heart whatever, all these different just in cases,
but I'm gonna go trademark that line so that.

Speaker 5 (01:18:48):
We can come up with the show with you featuring.

Speaker 1 (01:18:50):
You giving just blowing, blowing our minds with crazy stats.

Speaker 5 (01:18:54):
Kenny just in case. We love it. Thank you very
much for taking the time to be here day.

Speaker 6 (01:18:59):
Let's let's make up great to be with you guys.

Speaker 2 (01:19:05):
Congratulations under success, love love watching the podcast, and let's
do it again next week.

Speaker 1 (01:19:12):
Yeah, I have a great Stanley Cup final and continue
you crushing it. We're massive fans and you deserve everything
because you're you're a great person and you're also obviously
a great professional.

Speaker 2 (01:19:24):
Well, I appreciate it, guys, a great job, enjoy chatting.
Thanks Julie, Thanks Nate. Joy the rest of the series.

Speaker 5 (01:19:37):
Well, that was Kenny Albert from TNT and MST Networks
and Nate.

Speaker 1 (01:19:42):
I think I can speak on both of our behalf
that our mind was blown by the fact that Kenny
Alberts is a consistent surprise of information. The just in
case stuff is I didn't know that.

Speaker 7 (01:19:57):
Yeah, it's crazy.

Speaker 8 (01:19:58):
I mean just like the story I told about, like
when I was at the broadcasting camp and how are
you just like pulls a sheet out, hands it to me,
has his notes and I'm thinking after the fact I'm
thinking how many of these does he have? And just
goes to show like that is a true pro right there,
Like that guy is a legend, Gonna be a Hall
of Famer for sure, just just all time. Like those

(01:20:21):
stories and everything he was saying, like the justin case
and having the notes, I mean, it's pretty amazing and
the stories he like this guy probably has too. I
mean we could have been on all day with Kim
just with stories and his notes and everything.

Speaker 7 (01:20:35):
It was. That was incredible. What a great interview.

Speaker 1 (01:20:39):
He is so fascinating too, because when I interviewed him
a couple of years ago, he told me during the Olympics,
he was on like two channels, like there was like
a replay of him calling a game while he was
also calling something else, and someone was like, I'm literally
flipping back and forth between two games that you were
the voice of, and like that is Kenny Albert in

(01:21:00):
a nutshell, because you know he's got also NFL baseball,
hockey obviously, then he's calling Olympic everything, basketball, whatever it is.
And and also Nick's like he's just like save some
jobs for other people, can't guy? And now he's a
new Rangers guy.

Speaker 3 (01:21:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:21:18):
Yeah, his resume is the most most letters of networks
like to work for.

Speaker 5 (01:21:24):
But he deserves it all.

Speaker 1 (01:21:25):
He's an incredible guy as this I mentioned, like he's
ever since I met him at the twenty fourteen Stanley Cup,
Like he's gone out of his way to help me
on anything I've needed. And that guy is so busy
and he's you know, working so hard to That's why
I say he's such a great person too. People need
to know that this guy, he's not flashy. He wants

(01:21:45):
his teammates to have the spotlight. He works his fucking
ass off like I've never seen anyone in their entire life.
He's flying here, he's flying there. He's got five games
and one day, he's got five games the next day
and then he comes home and he's like a great dad.

Speaker 5 (01:21:58):
Like I can't even get out of bed in the morning,
Like what Like this guy's.

Speaker 1 (01:22:02):
Like already done five games before I've had a sip
of coffee.

Speaker 5 (01:22:05):
Like it's amazing.

Speaker 8 (01:22:07):
Yeah, he's he is the man Kenny Albert's and man,
I mean he I learned a lot in just a
short amount of time being around him. But he's uh, man,
we're we're lucky to have him call in our games,
especially for the Stanley Cup Finals.

Speaker 5 (01:22:19):
We are lucky.

Speaker 1 (01:22:20):
We're lucky to have him calling the games, and we
were lucky to have him as a guest on the
Energy Line, because boy does he he has a lot
of it to sustain all of that. That's another That's
another episode I'd like to know more about on Kenny Albert, But.

Speaker 5 (01:22:34):
This is that'll do it for us.

Speaker 1 (01:22:36):
Here on episode twenty three of The Energy Line with
Nate JASB.

Speaker 5 (01:22:40):
Thank you so much for listening.

Speaker 1 (01:22:41):
Energy Line is the production of the NHL and iHeart podcasts.
Thanks to Gene Principe and Kenny Albert for joining the
Energy Line. Thanks to Jake Brown and Bob Bender for
producing the show.

Speaker 5 (01:22:51):
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Speaker 1 (01:23:02):
Nate now be back onesday as we react to games
two and three of the Final and we look ahead
to Game four. Holy smokes, we're already rocking and rolling.
Thanks for tuning in. To the Energy Line and enjoy
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