Despite losing his passport, Adnan Virk makes it home in time to talk to Jason Demers about some big new contracts (Kaprizov, McTavish, Hughes) and some brutal injuries (Barkov, Samberg, Hoglander). Then Jets star Josh Morrissey talks about Winnipeg's upcoming season, new teammate Jonathan Toews and his 4 Nations Face-Off experience. Finally, Adnan and Producer Tal gush over One Battle After Another before Jason shares his favorite prank from his playing days.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
NHL Unscripted is a production of the NHL and iHeart Podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Episode forty nine here of NHL Unscripted, almost at the
half century mark Cinephile sixty.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
It is the movie of the year.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle after Another ninety eight percent
Rotten Tomatoes. Me Andtal have seen it and loved it.
Also mad Max Fury Road hangs them up. We'll talk
to a top ten defense from the NHL. Josh Morrison
how the Jets can get through to the next level,
and wild Hogs. Let's write some injuries, including Neil's hoglender,
and of course carollkaprisof We'll get to in just a second.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
J D.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I got a story for you.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I don't know if you lose things often. I had
to fly home yesterday. Amazon wanted me to just literally
host a ten minute introduction to Faceoff, which you talked
about previously, Season two coming, so I sorry, they go.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
We have an option.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
You can do it in Halifax, autow Art, Toronto. Of
course the other option would be zero because they're not
paying me. And I was like, well Halifax, not sure,
but the Newark to Halifax, so that's gonna go otto.
I'm going in a couple of weeks. Anyways, Toronto always good.
Could go see my parents, go see some bodies after
it great. So I fly home to Toronto yesterday. They
got a car service for me, lovely little chauffeur taping
(01:21):
to my parents' house.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Had lunch. I said to my dad, just dropping off
the subway, I'll head downtown.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And as I'm walking out, I was you know, I'm
always double checking para it right, Okay, yeah, I got
my phone, yep, okay, I got my keys.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Where's my passport? Double check in the bag. No passport.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I'm like, okay, hope it's my parents, says, but I
already know it isn't like I walked in exhausted. I
remember hugging my dad and going repsters and going to bed.
I'm like, that passport's not on that bed. I call
him just an answer right away. I'm like, I'll hop
in a cap go back to my parents' place twenty
mites away, walking.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
And he's like, yeah, I don't see it anywhere.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I'm like, oh no, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
So now don't do the back trick. Let me call
the show fur. The guy dropped me off, I got
the number.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
No nothing here.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I'm like all right.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
My dad looks up and my dad cool as a cucumber.
Except right away Pierce International called not his passport, call
the Lost and Found'm like, okay, call Aston Found. You're
on whole for ten minutes, goes busy. My mom also
springs to action.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Just go to the airport.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Just just go right there in person, hopefully it's there.
Like yeah, on the drive there, I'm like thirty percent
chance it's there. My dad again, Resource will already on
the phone be like all right, here's how you get
a new passport. You have to go to Victoria Street,
downtown eight am, twenty four hours expedited.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Amazon will have to push push the flight back a day.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
And I see, if there's only one big issue, ISAC Yeah,
goes pasport one hundred fifty bucks you'll get in twenty
four hours.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I go my green card was in there too.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
He's like oh.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
He's like oo, He's like no green card. Now he goes,
you're not. No, he goes, you can, you can, you
can get on the plane to the New Jersey. You're
not gonna get in the No.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
And Trump's not letting you in.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Considering heightened sensitivities in our two countries right now. He's like, ooh,
it could be strained in Canada. I go to the
Lost and Found, take a deep breasts, say a prayer.
Of the guys like, no, we wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Have it here.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
You have to go like whatever, there's a special area.
I go up there and walk in and I start
describing it. It's in a black case, little airplane. Guys like,
can asist it?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I go, oh my god, oh my god. I almost
fell over.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I pulled a fifty dollars bill. I go, hey, you
gotta have this. You no, no, no, I can't.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
No, you take this.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
He goes, it's illegal. You can't accept these things as
a you know, what's your part of your job?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I'm like, do you like coffee?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
He's like, yeah, Tim Horton's double double coming up because
I like it black. I go, no propt, because if
there was a coffee here.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I'd drink. I got some donuts.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
How about some donuts because I do like a chocolate donut.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
I go get a chocolate glaze, chocolate dip, large black coffee.
Ja do you think of the things you can lose
in life. I think number one is the phone, but
a close number two would be passport at Green Card.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I mean phone nowadays at the iCloud. I mean, you're
kind of good, but but to me, it's passport. And
then wallet like wallet, just the fact that you have
to call the credit card companies, cancel all your cards,
get new cards. Then from there you have to also radio.
But passport, I mean that's you're screwed, Like you're screwed,
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like you're really screwed. You are you are the poster
child for for the government wanting us all to be
on digital passport.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
And again my dad deductive reasoning.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
He was a go through because you couldn't have gotten
out of the airport without your passport, So it's not
on the plane.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
You would have been. Tom Hanks in the terminal.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Just said, this worst movie the last thirty years.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That's what I've been really liiving KOs And I'm not
going to blame them.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
But you know, when you go to the kiosk, because
because I figured I go, it's at the kiosk, because
you go to the kiosk and it goes No, I
don't have farms, No, I didn't just visit a farm.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
No, to all.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Then they just print out the paper and you just
hand the paper the guy and walk out.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
They should you should hand the paper and the passport
just to verify. But they're like, had the paper.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I'm like, I know it's at the kiosk, but I'm like,
that is that is relying on the trust of strangers.
Someone just saw that unbelievable. Have you ever lost a
passport or a green card or known any teammate. There
must have been a situation, somebody's alving somewhere. Oh shit,
my passport expard.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Nothing like that. Traveling secretary had to flag it.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I just had. I just had the like, I don't
know what happened to my passport, like three four years ago,
but it was either some water fell on it or
and it got like kind of muddy, screwed up a
little crinkly. Yeah, And I was like, this is weird.
But I just kept traveling. I was I was so busy,
and I was also playing a little bit at that time,
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so I didn't think much of it. And I get
to the airport once and the the you know, you
get the right TSA or not, sorry, the right customs
agent and he's like what is this. I'm like, what
do you mean? What is this? And he goes, uh,
this is not this doesn't work like yeah, like like
(05:54):
I can't let you through. And I was like no,
like what what? I'm like, you got my information everything.
He's like he's like listen all this one time. But
he's like he's like, I'm basically gonna mak it out,
like if you don't get your passport changed, like you're
not getting through. And I was like, oh my god,
like I had to go somewhere serious, and I was like,
holy crap. So I had to end up going to
the whole process to get a new passport kind of
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like you did. Like I had to do it all
like within a day because I had to fly out
like the next day, so I had to go downtown
get everything done. Craziness.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You have been in that situation, you feel that stress.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Tw Ever, lost a passport, green card, phone wallet.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
We moved once and the passport didn't make the move
with us. I'm not sure exactly where it moved to,
but it wasn't a big deal. I didn't have any
major travel plans at that time, probably because we were moving,
so I, you know, reported it was lost and ordered
a new end. And this was actually around the time
of COVID, so it took probably close to six months
to get a new passport around that time. And it
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got to the point where I had no travel plan
and you know, months passed and there was some travel
on the horizon, and I was calling Canadian Customs saying, hey,
am I going to get this thing in time? I'm
fortunately I did, but yeah, I'm a paranoid freak when
it comes to checking for my passport or my green
card if I'm traveling.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Question for both of you. When Ad then told that story,
because it's more for you, tell as soon as you
started telling the story, in my head, I went, where's
my passport? It's like, it's like that thing, it doesn't
matter where you are. If somebody tells you a story.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Tell me check my passports over there, We're gonna put.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Honey, where's the fucking passport.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
I was just traveling, so I know exactly where my
passport is, and I knew where I was pretty much
the entire time I was away.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I was.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
What would a quick question?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Can I ask a really quick question about your shirt?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I was just gonna say, would you agree with JD
that the phone is not as bad because with the
iCloud you can back it up.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
You can go my new phone. Yeah, yeah, retail.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Actually, if you're traveling abroad and you don't have a passport,
that's or you know some sort of id like that's.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
I mean if I'm yeah, if I'm in Italy though,
I'm like, all right, folks, i ain't never coming back.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah, that was my thing. I'm like, I guess I'm
stranded in Canada.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Definitely, it'll be a tough, tough bounce for you.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, go ahead, tell he's your questions, Jady.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Just quick question.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
It looks like you were rocking a Lulu Lemon Canadian
Olympic team apparel. Did Lulu Lemon design Canada's Olympic apparel
when you were there?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Yes, when in twenty twenty two, Lulu Lemon did design
all of the gear that we're in and you get
so much swag it is absolutely incredible, A lot that
you can never wear because you know, the moon boots
snowsuits that they made were were an interesting choice, but
all their workout gear, I mean, I it was just
(08:45):
it's I'm still using it's still rocking, and it's the best.
It's it was awesome. So we just got everything from them,
you know, Duffel bags. It's crazy. You're walking out of there.
You're like, how do I even like? I came here
with two Duffel bags? How do I get the rest
of them out?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Like?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
How do I get these others six out?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Nothing feels as good as free. I don't care. What
is your artoaps, what do you have?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Nothing feels as good as free. All right, let's get
to the pucks. The Thriller is back, following reports he
had turned down what would have been the biggest contract
in hockey history. JD was talking with this last week.
Elliot Friedman just pouring cold water on the story to
Mesters divers damas eight years, one hundred and thirty six
million dollar contract, the biggest bag in league history, both
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in terms of total dollars and average annual value.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Early Heart Trophy frontner last year.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Then he got hurt twenty five goals, fifty six points
and forty one games overall, three hundred and eighty six points,
three hundred and nineteen career games over his five seasons.
We'll get to how this impacts McDavid, Kyle Connor, et cetera.
But if I said to you JD, maybe a couple
months ago, capries is gonna get seventeen million dollars a year,
one hundred and thirty six million, what would your reaction
have been?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Well, we kind of we we said it, when we
talked about it. We're like, that's probably the number. But
it was never offered to him because our inside source
within the wild told us that that was never ever
offered at that time. But I guess it sparked something
and sparked the conversation. But this is just what we
were waiting to happen. This is now gonna be the
(10:17):
catalyst and now the next I mean, capriceoffs set the
market for all the guys coming up in free agency.
You know, I don't look so much at Capriso. I
think he's deserved it. I think, you know, he is
a premier player in the NHL.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
So if I said you overrated, underrated, or properly raded,
you'd say Caprice Off is properly rated.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
He's a properly rated. Yeah, he's I mean, listen, that guy,
that guy healthy is so incredibly dominant on the offensive,
side of the puck, and he's such a focal point
of that offense. And I mean we talk about wingers
influencing the play, you know, like Kutrov, There's not many
like that in the NHL that are as dynamic offensively
(10:57):
and the offense runs through him. So for that, that's amazing.
But I just more think it's exciting because I'm like,
all right, now, the market's you got Jack Icele, you
got Connor McDavid. Who who's next up to sign in
these top guys that are all coming up at the
end of this season. You know, we have an amazing
free agency class this coming year in twenty twenty six,
(11:19):
so we're gonna wait and see. But it's your move, Edmonton.
Your move. By the way, Edmonton picked up a goaltender
as well, Connor Ingram.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yes, not just great.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah, I was hoping to be Carl Harp, but as
you said, he was not gonna be signing with the CADI.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I love Connor Ingram, so just that was just a
side cabot. So before I go back to Connor McDavid,
but yes, your move Edmonton. Mick Jesus so the chosen one,
the Messiah.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Right, So Connor McDavid potential you have after this year,
Jack Icel, Kyle Connor, Ur, Timmy Panaira.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
So all these guys arrow pointing up thanks to caprice Off. McDavid.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Nostra Demer's prediction was a short term deal before the
season starts.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
You're still holding true that we have like a week.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I think he'll now sign a three year you know,
eighteen million dollars, twenty million dollar deals, something like that.
I think he goes that way. Maybe I could see
it now that I think it. I think it's gonna
happen sooner rather than later. I don't think I think Connor.
Everybody was playing coy and we're gonna play this season
out and all there. Everybody's waiting for caprice Off. That
(12:25):
was the number. That was the number we wanted to
see as NHL players to increase the cap. This should
improve the livelihoods of a couple guys that are undeserved
of getting a big deal, but will now because the
market has been set. Because I love when players get
their bag, get your paper, boom poop the.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Rise and tide lifting all boats. I hope you're wrong.
I agree with you. I think he'll get a deal,
but I hope you're wrong. Tal.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I want to see this entire season Connor McDavid not signing,
and then if he resigns, fine. I want to see
a full season of rampant, reckless speculation. Where's McDavid gonna go.
All these leaf bands be losing their minds. Connor McDavid's
go to Toronto. I want to see it all year.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
If that is the case, I'm pretty sure by March
we're gonna have Connor McDavid yelling at reporters for asking
him about his contract.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Yes, yes, just leave me alone. What could last? What
could last longer? You know, Connor McDavid's resolve in the
face of the media, it's just bashing him or his
resolve towards the fan base, throwing their Edmonton orders Jersey
on the ice. And because because again, the longer he waits,
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the more the oilers fans will turn on him, I feel,
and the more, you know, because there'll be more questions
and then you know this, it's like no news, they're
not hearing anything. They start speculating, they start getting angry
because there's no news, and then you know, Connor's getting frustrated, like, oh,
my god, he's not coming back. He's not coming back,
and you know they're Toronto Maple Leave's friends that are
(13:52):
on the group chat with him or like he's coming
to Toronto, He's coming to Toronto, and then that just it
just turns into just a boiling point for all of
these fans. And I don't I don't see if they're
trying to win a Cup, it's not induce if Connor
sits out the whole year, So it not sits out
the whole year, but doesn't sign all season long. Like
it's just not good for this team, Like they need
(14:13):
to win now, if they need to win now, and yes,
they still have a window, but this is an important
year for them.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
So speaking of important years for teams that want to
win right now. Stunning what happened to Florida Panthers. We
got word of the injury last week. You don't know
how serious it is because you're like, all right, well,
you know it's season hasn't ben begun yet, but Alexander
Barkoff likely out for the season undergoing knee Jergeela Panthers
trying to win a third straight Stanley Cup. Matthew could shock.
We know JD is out until December. Now Barkie done.
(14:42):
I love to say Florida's next man up. They find
different guys. They're well coached, they but I mean, dude, Barkoff,
that's a massive injury to me.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Yeah, you can't win a Cup with a Sasha Barkoff.
So again, now they say done for the year nine months.
He's one of those freaks. And they do have a
kind of a voodoo trainer over there that's really really
incredible with like recovery and injuries. So I'm not ruling
he's coming I'm not ruling out that he's coming back,
(15:11):
but I do just think that this might be we
were wondering all last year. When is it gonna be
too much hockey? When is the when is finally the
camel's back go to break? You know, they've been so good,
they played so much meaningful hockey, so much hard hockey.
I know, this is unfortunate how it happens. You never
want to see it. First day of training camp for
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them because they took an extra week off. First day
of training camp, you get injured in the little nothing
burger drill your best player. So I don't know. I
think the door is open in the Atlantic now, and
the door is wide wide open for somebody to come up,
and I'm off if I'm any other fan base, I'm like, wow,
the king is dead right, Long live the King.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
And maybe now that door is open for the Tronowe beliefs.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
They signed Golton Anthony Stolar's four year, fifteen million dollar extension.
One A cup is a backup in Florida before you
went to Toronto. Career highs last season starts, wins, shutouts.
At one point Toronto was like, well, who's the guys
at Joseph Walls and still Arts Now feels like still
Arts is officially the man.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
He's the guy in Toronto.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
If you can stay healthy. They have two goalies that
are a little bit injury prone, but when Stolars is on,
he's on, He's He's very good. I do like the
changes they made on the Toronto mapleafs. I know people
are like Mitch Marner's gone. I think they really shored
up the third and fourth lines and their decore I
think will be the same, so it'll be decent and
it'll be good. I think they have enough to get there.
(16:37):
It's going to require big Poppy Chulo awsesome Matthews to
have a career year and really carry them. But again,
of the two best arguably two way centers in the league,
Barkoff and Matthews, one's out for the year. So now
you got essentially one of the best in the division
two way centers in Austin Matthews and a matt So
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this would be a no excuse kind of year. But
there's a lot of teams that are sniffing. Montreal looks
great right now in preseason. Tampa Bay looks really good.
Tampa Bay thinks five and zero preseason. I know that
doesn't mean shit, but they're gonna kinda they're gonna kind
of want to, you know, have a better year and
you know, better showing than they did, even though you
know in the playoffs last year they just fell flat.
(17:19):
You know, this is kind of their last chance as well.
So I don't know, it's gonna be interesting. I don't
think Toronto's like gonna waltz their way in, but I
think it's gonna be a big loss for Florida. But
you know, going back to Florida, listen, they got Anton Lundell,
they call him Minnie Barkie. They got Brad Marshan, They
got Sam Bennett, Matthew Chuck will be back in December.
They still have a great hockey team. I don't think
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it's like, hey, they're dead in the water, but they're
a lot less intimidating than I think, in a lot
less deep than they were with Barkoff missing. So door
is open. Somebody's gonna jump up and seize the moment.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Seize it open. The West of team that you like
to make a push this year the Ducks.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
We talked about Mason McTavish sitting out Ducks training camp.
Now he signed six years, forty two million dollars cent
you get seven million a year.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Jersey also signs that they're big.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
RFA Luke h is getting nine million dollars a year,
seven years, sixty three million dollars. You want to go,
Hughes first, McTavish, The way you gave me the oof, I
think you want to go a little Look Ques here.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I mean you know me.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
We are we are.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
We are a podcast that advocates for the NHL player.
We are all for them getting paid, even though we
do not get paid. Well here we are advocating for
them to get paid.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
But when you smell a rat you get like Jesus
sixty five billion, I mean nine a year is a lot,
Like that's a lot.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
You have Dougie Hamilton also at nine. I mean two
guys that aren't necessarily the biggest bruisers out there. And
Luke Hughes, who I had the pleasure of filming with.
Great kid. I hope he can stay healthy, you know,
I think he's had some bad injuries and I think
he needs to get his get his body right, and
(19:01):
I think it'll it'll pay off. I mean as as
a skill guy, you can gate like that and you know,
can influence the playoffensively. But you know, he's very long
and rangy. He I think if he continues to improve defensively,
he could become a good, very good solid you know,
a Thomas Harley, a you know, Devon Tave's s kind
of player. But yeah, I just don't know what they
(19:23):
do now. I think Dougie Hamilton the writings on the wall,
but you know who's going to take that contract. They
might have to eat a little bit. So yeah, so
it's it's interesting times in on the Devils. But they
got to listen their decorse short up, they got all
their defense. Their top six is signed for at least
two years, good veteran decorps, some young young pop there
and we're gonna see what they can do.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
But that is a lot of womp them, My friend,
it wasn't that long that that Dougie Hamilton, he was
the prize freasion available.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I remember Ken Danic was falling about this.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Yeah, like, oh we got Dougie Hamilton number one defense,
And I'm like, m it's a lot of money and
a lot of term. Back to McTavish, I'm generally of
the opinion in sports when guys hold out, I'm like,
it's not as big a deal as fans think, meaning
spring training is like six weeks.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
My guy misses a few weeks. MCAS's not a big deal.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
And football got like, these guys are in shape all
the time. Having said that, I may be wrong because
in hockey, the last couple of times that guys have
held out, Jeremy Swayman off here, Trevor Ziegres off here,
do you think impacts Mason McTavish more than people might realize.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I think goaltender is more than anything like goalies. You know.
I talked to Corey Schneider about this a few times
on the Innhel Network, and he's like, it affects goalies
the most because you need to feel the puck. You
need to feel it in training camp. I think a
centerman like him, I think he'll be fine, you know,
I think they have enough depth that you'd be able
to get his legs going. But yeah, it's always an
interesting you need to in hockey. You know, you could
(20:44):
train all summer long, you can skate at you know,
five times a week, but if you're not like feeling
the body and you're not getting into these battle drills.
And also again there's levels I can skate. For some reason,
that's the weirdest thing. I always used to tell people
like I could go on an empty sheet of ice
and skate as hard as I can down and back.
But for some reason, when you're in training camp and
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you're around all the guys, it's that little bit faster,
and it's that little bit more fatiguing, just because the
excitement the guys are around. You're also pushing a little
bit harder because there's always like another level to get to,
because when you're skating by yourself, you can never really
get that high end level. You need to compete with
other guys and feel it. So so yeah, so I
think it it'll be a little bit of a learning curve.
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I think he's They obviously have to get him into
one preseason game, hopefully maybe two and probably listen, you
got little Carlston though so and you got a lot
of good talent there. But I'm bullish still on the
Anaheim Ducks.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Bullish, bullish And last time before we get to our
special guest, Josh Morsey, you hate to see this during
the preseason kicking off, by the way, you're actually being
in this October seventh already a rash of injuries. Matts
Decrella is a seven to eight lower body injury, Jets
defenseman Dylan Samberg missing six to eight broken wrist, Coppo
Coco out six weeks to the broken hand, and Connects
(22:02):
for Neil's The Hog Hoglander out eight to ten weeks
after surgery. I mean, I know these are not major
injuries per se, but like four to six for some
of these guys, that's not great. But all of a sudden,
you know, guys that you're relying on is top six
players are not showing up till December.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yeah, I think Dylan Sandberg is gonna hurt big time.
I think he's you know, their top four that they
need a big start to the season, and that's central.
That is just a killer. But yeah, anytime you're missing
these players for four to six weeks, I mean, it's
not great. And I know this is going to bring
up some more conversation on preseason and the importance of preseason.
And you know, you look last night, Nick Cousins takes
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a whack at I haven't deemed off, you know, and
that's like a dangerous play. And you know, there's different
rules in preseason with suspensions, and sometimes it's overlooked, but
it's always tough when you got guys, and whether it's
on purpose or by accident, but you can't bubble rap guys.
It is what it is. It's the nature of the beast.
It's the same thing in football. I get upset in
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football because they really bubble rap guys. And then some
teams go, you know, get off to awful starts because
they haven't done any practice or real time, real world
kind of play. But you know, hockey is so tough.
You need to get up to speed. So I do
think It's just part of the game. It's part of
the it's the nature of the game. If fans get
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mad at it, and it's unfortunate, but that's the only
way that guys can get ready for hockey. And it's
a long season, but you can. You can. You go
zero to ten to start the year, or you're five
hundred before November. I mean, it's even tougher to get back.
So you need to have all your ducks in a row,
and you know, just hope guys don't get hurt. But
it is what it is. You know, Samdberg takes a
puck off the wrist, and you know Barkoff falls down
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in practice. I mean there's listen, you can get hit
by a car just walking out acrossing the street. So
it is what it is. So what you signed up for.
It's part of the game.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Cubs win, Okay, I love the Nothing worse than NFL preseason.
By the way, you used to be four games and
the third game all the regulars to play. Now they
don't even play it, to your point, like I don't
even like it's like the most pointless thing for sport
in which is the most popular in the country.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Precise is just dog water.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
It's it should just be I would just like intersquad
practices and then go like, you know, but you can't.
You just can't stop it because eventually it's a physical game.
You can't protect against that, and you need to You
need to kind of get those reps and of hitting
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guys getting hit, feeling it. Your body needs to feel
that kind of tension and that stress on it. Otherwise
you're just when if you just go into game one
you haven't done anything and it ramps up, it's like,
I mean, you're in trouble. It might end up being worse.
So so yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
We shall see. Good news is actual hockey is right
around the corner.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
That means when it picked, Jets fans cannot wait to
go watch Josh Morris who play. We'll talk to the
Jets defenseman, do a little Jim Morrison's style, break on
through to the other side, how the Jets break on
through it come playoff time, and also ask thembot's four
Nations experience.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
All that more coming up next.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Oh Dude of a Side.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Our special guest today on NHL Unscripted.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Drafted thirteenth overall in the twenty thirteen NHL draft by
the Winnipeg Jets for developing h one of the league's
best defenseman. Last season, Josh Morrisy enjoyed his third straight
sixty plus points season in Winnipeg and was a member
of the Canadian team that won the historic Four Nations
face off. You know him, you love him, Josh Morrisy, Josh,
great to see him.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Man, Hey, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Before you and Gid start chopping up, because you're already
calling you momos. I know there's a bunch of inside
jokes coming up here.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
But how is the summer? What did you do?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
What did you do after a pretty exhausting NHL season,
especially with the Four Nations?
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Yeah, that summer was good. Spent a little time back
in Calvary. That's kind of where hangout in the summertime.
So just you know, usual lot of training, skating all
that stuff, but coming off the lost to Dallas, had
some injury rehab to get done as well. But there
was some fun in there, a little Ireland golf trip
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with some guys overseas for Leon's wedding. So it was
a good summer, a little bit, a little bit of fun,
a lot of training and happy to be back.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Now, Well, we got to talk a little bit about
the playoffs and your season last year. I mean, historic
season for the Jets. I mean, you got one hundred
and sixteen points, win the President's Trophy, get to the playoffs.
I mean that first round took a lot out of
you guys. I feel like, and you know, how was
it and how's the vibe in the locker room to
start this season? And is it very much so a
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we got to repeat what we did or hey, guys,
let's just get to the playoffs and keep building on
what we already built last year.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
Yeah, I mean, you know what, that series against Saint
Louis was an absolute war war. We played I don't
know how many series and whatever over the last ten years,
but that was that was the most physical series have
been a part of. For sure. It was, you know,
just to grind everybody, whether you know, quote unquote skill
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forwards were all playing physical. I mean, that's playoff hockey,
but it was definitely the physical side was taken to
another level in that series. So it was a grind.
You know, obviously took us right down to the wire
in Game seven and overtime. You know, for us looking
at the last number of years prior, getting through the
first round was something that we'd heard a lot about,
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and so I think, you know, of course, just because
you get to the second round doesn't mean you've won anything.
But I think it was a you know, a good
moment for our team, and that's something I think we're
kind of trying to build off, as Hey, we had
a great year last year. You know, we found a way,
you know, in a crazy comeback to get through the
first round and uh, you know, obviously ran into good Dallas.
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Team still felt like, uh, you know, we were right
there and that series, and so you know, I think
it's exciting coming back this year. I think, you know,
the ultimate goal, of course, hey, you'd love to win
the Presidence Trophy again, you'd love to win the Stanley Cup.
But ultimately it's how can we grow off you know,
last season, How can we build to try and to win,
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you know, in the playoffs and be ready to come
playoff time and and win the Stanley Cup. Obviously that's
that's what we're what everybody's here for. And so I
think just uh yeah, like I said, it's it's a
long season, it's a tough road, to get there. I mean,
making the playoffs is not easy, but you know, I
just want to build off last season and lots of
the good things we did.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
As a team.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
And to your point, Josh, it wasn't like Chevy Blue
things up. You know, it pretty much is the same team.
One notable exception, Nikolai Eelers leaves in free agency, but
you're bringing three time Cup champion Jonathan Taves.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
What's been like, you know, captain Sirius.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
Yeah, I mean, you know, it's tough losing Eeler, obviously, Nick,
He's a great player, and that's just the business we're in.
Guys are leaving everywhere all the time, so you know,
gonna miss playing with him. But you know, as you
mentioned bringing in Johnny Taves, I mean, you know when
he came into the league, and I remember the first
Cup there in twenty ten, you know, and I think
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they won Olympic gold that year as well. I mean
I would have been in grade.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Ten, so he swept me in that they swept me
in the conference finals. Thanks for bringing that one up.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Yeah, But nonetheless, I mean just absolute legend and guy
that I looked up to a lot, love watching play,
you know, of course his Winnipeg roots, growing up here
and kind of being the prodigal Sun. So there's a
ton of buzz here in Winnipeg. Fans are really excited
and yeah, it's been awesome, you know, getting to know
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him a little bit before camp and through camp. You know,
he's just got so much experience. You know, two Olympic
Golds recups, Stanley Cup Champ. I just saw a graphic
the other day on maybe the NHL or something like that,
fifteen year captain. So you know, the resume speaks for itself.
And you know, we talked about some of those big
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moments in the season and you know, obviously of course
playoff time, and you know, you can't help but think
that a guy like that in the locker room is
going to just provide so much help, you know, beyond
just the stuff he can do on the ice, which
he looks great and is back to health again. So
really excited to have him.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
That's so great to hear. And it is interesting because
you know, Winnipeg's gotten such a knock on them for
not you know, they have to grow the talent from within.
It's hard to get guys to sign in free agency,
but talk a little bit about that and like what's
different there and what do you see as like maybe
a determining factor of why you guys grow your talent
from such a young age and you guys have so
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many guys that are homegrown from Manitoba and that have
now just become these these stuff us and these contributing
players in the NHL. Is there anything that's done differently
and what do you feel is really the thing that
separates Winnipeg from other organizations and developing players.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
Yeah, I mean, you know, I think it starts obviously
with the draft. You know, when you look back at
sort of when the Jets move from Atlanta, you know,
guys like Mark Scheiff, Lee, Adam Lowry, Jacob Truba, Connor Hellibuck, myself,
Nick Heelers, Kyle Connor, you know, and and more guys
beyond that as well. Like that kind of set the
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stage I think in those drafts for really a lot
of the core players that have been here for a
long time, And you know, I think when I reflect
on my time this far, it's you know, I think
a lot about the leadership guys that were here. You know,
Blake Wheeler was a guy that really pushed us. This
guy looked up to a lot. It was obviously our captain,
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and I think just that kind of culture environment of
like continuing to push yourself. You make the NHL, you
play a year, you play two years. I mean, you
know that's great, but at the end of the day,
you can never stop working on your game and trying
to get better. And so, you know, I think when
you when you look at a lot of the guys
that are sort of have been here for a while
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and you know, are kind of well into their prime
to their career, you know, they have improved throughout that
time window. They haven't just kind of gotten comfortable. The
organization has given them opportunity to kind of grow in
the role as well. But you know, I think it's
it's obviously it's on the players for taking that initiative
and wanting to get better and continue to grow. Like
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I said, I think it's on the leadership. This is
here when we came in as young guys, and I
do think it's the organization for drafting well, but also
you know, kind of giving us an environment promoting us
to you know, improve and grow with from within and
and also have that patience too. I mean, you know,
it's easy for an organization to turn the page on
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a player early in their career, and I think they've
done a good job of sticking with guys. So you
know it's now as sort of veteran player, you know,
you want to try to return the favor and create
that environment for the younger guys where obviously they come
in they feel good about their game, but also you know,
we have a certain expectation here, you know, how hard
we work and how we prepare and how we come
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in you know, in shape and all those different things.
And so yeah, it's been fun to kind of see
that progress now over ten years. I guess Josh, you'ra
you know you're from Calgary, northern boy. You played Prince Albert, Manitoba.
You've you've spent so much time in the North, you know,
Winnipeg as well. You know you probably noticed my little
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shirt here, no big deal representing the Olympics. You go
and represent Canada. You're a Canadian boy.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Through and through, you bleed the mayple leaf. Talk to
me a little bit about you know, you know you've
represented your country a couple of times. I have you
already in my early window for the Olympics. But talk
about the four nations last season. Just how amazing that
was to see just the high stakes nature of the
nations representing each other and just how fun was that.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
Yeah, I mean, uh, you know it was incredible. You know,
you and I met JD at World We did. We did,
we did. We had a little bit of fun there,
that's for sure. Almost one almost one shootout bullshit, such
a joke should have just been unlimited.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Ot. We would have won, for sure, crushed him.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
One Quest was pretty good in that final, so.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Well, yeah, well Nate Dogg missed the wide open net
Nate McKinnon and that was a tap in, so that
would killed us. But you talk about four nations and
we don't need to talk about the one where you won.
That's more important. But just how crazy was the vibe
there man Boston, Montreal, like that the roof was coming
off the building. And just take us through that tournament
and what it meant to kind of represent on you know,
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that big a stage. Because World Championshi is great, but
I mean this is a different level.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
Oh for sure, it was a totally different level. I mean,
I think just the anticipation of having the NHL Best
on Best again was a huge part of the build
up and excitement. I mean last time was what twenty
sixteen World Cups, so it had been a while and
a lot of the generation of players. I mean, you know,
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on our team Canada, I think there was only three
guys that were part of the sixteen World Cup team,
so you know, kind of a whole new new generation
of players. First opportunity to represent Canada on that stage,
and you know, to do it in Montreal and Boston,
I mean, you know, two insane hockey markets.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 5 (35:49):
It was the most fun I've had playing the game,
that's for sure. Just coming out in the Bell Center
thinking about it gives me chills. Obviously wearing the maple
leaf and representing Canada with all those guys and doing it,
you know, in that arena and environment was insane, and
obviously just uh, the hockey itself. I mean we were
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sitting around after the first game and I think everyone
was kind of we played Sweeten in game one and
everyone's kind of thinking, man like, that was so fast,
We're all kind of out of breath, and we had
this crazy ot win with Martins and and Sid said
something like that was the fastest game he'd ever played,
and I think, then, wow, if Sid's saying it, then
you know we can think the same game. But yeah,
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it was just crazy crazy the speed, the physicality, intensity.
Like I said, it was the best, by far, the
best quality of hockey I'd ever been a part of
and and played, you know, And so yeah, definitely, Uh
when we won in Boston and Davo scored the ot winner,
it was a huge moment and you know, it just
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makes uh makes you want to be a part of
and have a chance to do it this coming year
at the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
How many beers were drank after that one as nice
to see Davo get the Monkey office back to it
felt like, yeah.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
I mean, you know, I think just special players are
kind of built for those moments and you know, step
up in those moments and obviously, you know that's what
he did and uh, you know, secured that that win.
But yeah, I definitely it was a huge party after
I was under the weather unfortunately, so I didn't get
to see too many of those beer. The Jordan flu
(37:26):
game nice, but but yeah, I think the guys had
a pretty good celebration and and enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
That's an amazing quote, by the way, from Sidon, and
you're right, it means more of pieces at first if
you say it first, that's the fastest talking ever. And
he's like, I wasn't that bad, Like myself looked bad
for us, But for him to point that, it shows
the level of competition. We all know your career and
how fabulous suspend Josh, but honestly, it really changed for
everyone you played with JD Team Canada twenty seventeen World Championships,
Nate McKinnon, Mitch Marner, Markshifleet, Brayden Point, Matt Tuson, More importantly,
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Jason de Murz.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Talk to me. What was he like as a teammate.
Speaker 5 (38:02):
Yeah, he was unreal. I mean, you know, going there.
That was just after my rookie year in the NHL.
So he took you under his wing, he did, no,
I think he did. He took a lot of us
under his wing. And you go to that environment. I
mean a bunch of the names you mentioned, but guys
like Kloe Drew, you know, yeah, and you know Ryan O'Reilly,
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like some veteran guys that you know are kind of
already legends, right, and so I think, you know, coming
in there, I was pretty nervous. I'm not gonna lie,
you know, coming in as a twenty one year old
or whatever into that environment with those players, and JD
just was unreal at kind of breaking the ice obviously
(38:45):
on the ice, off the ice, you know, in the
locker room, but definitely I felt like, you know, I
I'd always looking back and in the moment, I always
was really appreciative for how you kind of brought everybody together,
and especially you know, these younger guys and as younger
d Man back there, you know, kind of brought us together.
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So it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Well you I mean Adnan like he played with Mike
Matheson for most of the tournament, and you look at
these two guys and you know, it was like me
and Calvin Dehan playing ahead of them and we're like
kind of laughing, me into Han and being like these
kids are gonna they're they're coming to take Yeah, we're
times up. But I don't know if you remember that
Russia game where you and Mikey Mattz had like an
unreal game a couple of points, you know, take us
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through that game a little bit because that was like
an insane comeback that we had, and I always forget that. Yeah,
we lost in the finals, but like that game, we
were down against Russia, and you know, we kind of
was like a collective effort, but you guys stepped up
huge in that moment for us and and really brought
us back. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (39:46):
I mean, uh, it's been a while obviously now and
then like and you're right, I think we think a
lot about or I think about the final, but obviously
I think Russia had a really good, really good team.
I think Coach might have been playing for them. Yeah. Yeah,
I just felt like it was a really a close group.
I mean, uh, you know, we.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
It was a close group and too close.
Speaker 5 (40:10):
Yeah exactly, but uh no, it was a good time
and I think just yeah, we we came together, Coop
was coaching, and I felt like we never really didn't
believe we could win. We thought it was always possible,
and you know, it was a huge comeback, you know,
and and like I said, I felt like, you know,
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it's just too bad we didn't obviously find a way
to win in that final, because all in all, it
was really one of the kind of great hockey experiences I've.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
I've had uh yeah.
Speaker 5 (40:42):
Those guys and and then you know, we were in
Paris for two weeks, I mean and Cologne was an
amazing city too, So yeah, it was a ton of fun.
But yeah, that Russia game was was definitely a special one.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Well, we'll talk a little bit, you know, getting outside
of hockey, and you know, I had a ton of
interest when I played outside of hockey and just didn't
want to be limited to one kind of thing. And
and it's something I did not who I was, but
talk about you you know, you're kind of have a
lot of food and hospitality ventures kind of going in
your portfolio. Talk about that, the forty four, all the
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kind of initiatives you're a part of because it's it
looks really cool and it's kind of something of you know,
telling the fans you're listening of just what you're up
to and what you're doing to kind of extend your
brand outside of the game of hockey.
Speaker 5 (41:28):
Yeah, so the forty four specifically, a friend of mine
here in Winnipeg runs a number of restaurants. You've probably
had some when you were here on the road by.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
Sneaky Restaurant City.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
So he said that Winnipeg better food than you realize.
Speaker 5 (41:44):
For sure.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
It is for sure.
Speaker 5 (41:46):
So anyway, we kind of talked for a long time.
You know, he's a big idea guy, and you know,
I go in for an espresso or something in the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
Oh kind of chop it up.
Speaker 5 (41:55):
But you know we were talking about we kind of
had the idea, man, And there's this rate kind of
attached to the arena art by a play fifteen or
the Skywalk, whatever you call them.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
There's sort of a big.
Speaker 5 (42:09):
Court or food hall where people kind of hang out
before the game. So basically, yeah, we were like, you know,
it'd be cool to kind of create something in there.
Obviously him on the restaurant side, food side, and you
know me basically just totally on I guess bring you
some attention to it. But it was fun to kind
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of go down that path. We ended up opening in
there just before the playoffs a couple of years ago,
sort of game day food. And basically it's a food
hall where you go up, you've got like a couple
of chefs work and somebody work in the till and
so it's pretty lively in there before and after games.
And yeah, it's been kind of interesting to just learn
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a little bit of the business side of you know,
how to make that work, and then on the menu
side as well, given a little bit of input. So
that's been been a fun venture and something that I
think a lot of the fans here in Winnipeg have
actually brought up to me, you know, when we interact
with people in the community at restaurants or coffee shops
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or whatever. You know, people have enjoyed kind of that
connection with the players and so excited to keep that
going here in the next year's to come. And then
outside of that, just you know, typical stuff. I think,
just trying to keep options open and I enjoy sort
of turning my brain off outside of the game sometimes
(43:34):
and need it, you know how those things can kind
of keep you balanced. So that's been been something I've
gotten better at throughout my career, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
I love the link on the forty four from your Instagram,
so it goes to Josh's signatures.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
The first thing that you get is wings.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
One pound of wings tossed in your choice salt and pepper,
salt and Venitor buffalo sauce and blue cheese dip. Also
among Josh's favorites prime rib sliders, pop shrimp, and then
there's the sandwiches served in a house sourdough. So listen, Josh,
everyone loves wings. What makes the wings the forty four special?
Speaker 2 (44:04):
Do you give input on this?
Speaker 5 (44:06):
Well, I think it's definitely the chefs back there that
make it special. I mean, we really wanted to do
something that was you know, kind of lends itself to pregame, postgame,
you know, what you want to eat in that environment.
So all those things I think kind of hit the
nail on the head. But also, you know something that's
I mean, you can have there's a range of wings, right,
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there's a range of prime rib sliders, let's say. So
they try to do really upscale, high end ingredients and
so something that's even as simple as a slider, let's say,
they're they're trying to make with you know, great quality
beef and and whatnot. So yeah, I think it's just
that attention to detail that probably makes the food what
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it is and the passion from the chefs. Thankfully, I'm
never back there. I've had some fans and people in
the community kind of ask if I'm ever back there,
you know, working the grill.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
Boiler, just boiling some hey, exactly.
Speaker 5 (45:06):
Yeah, I don't even think I could do that, so
but yeah, it's been fun. And the one thing that's
probably best for me is that the delivery at radius
doesn't reach my house, so otherwise I'd be ordering all
the time and i'd be uh, you know, maybe a
little bit slower out there. So that's probably for the best.
Speaker 2 (45:25):
The forty two Hard Grave Street.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
Check it out Winnipeg, Manitoba, and check out Josh Morsey
on the ice at Canada Life Center, and we'll be
seeing you of course in Amazon Prime Mindy Night Hockey.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Honestly, this was so much fun, Josh.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
It was a great season last year, really broke out
in a big way and continued success not only in
the regular season but also of course playing for Canada
at the Olympics. This is great man, Thank.
Speaker 5 (45:44):
You, Yeah, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (45:53):
Thanks once again at Josh Morsy was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
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Speaker 2 (46:14):
See you have a straw, and then I have a straw. Uh.
The guy's a hell of a filmmaker.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
And originally, as I told you guys before, I'm like
JD a big fan of trailers.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
Talent's a good trailer. I used to love.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
I used to love trailers. Say if I'm gonna see
the movie, I don't want to watch the trailer. But
then everyone kept saying, have you seen the trailer for
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if I hear Paul Thomas Anderson, I'm in. I don't
need to see the trailer. I saw the trailer, Like,
holy shit, I'm excited. I gotta go see this car.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
Yeah, it is a great trailer and it's a hell
of a movie.
Speaker 1 (46:43):
I haven't been easy to now going in it is
a bit concerned because some of the critics say, well,
it's his most commercial movie, I e.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
Selling out a little bit.
Speaker 1 (46:51):
One hundred and seventy million dollar budgets and action movie
action comedy. I I like the esoteric, idiosyncratic behavior of
frogs falling from the sky at Magnolia. I like a
movie about the porn industry, like Boogie Knights, like I
hope My Man isn't going too far off kilter, but
Tellum happy to report while the film is definitely more mainstream,
more accessible, one might say it still has a lot
of subtext going underneath.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
Real simple. Leonardo DiCaprio is part of a radical.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
Group, gets hooked up with a young lady and they
start doing some bad things. The film fast forwards years
later and Sean Penn, who's playing one badass of the
hell militaristic figure, is on the hunt to find Leo
and this young lady. And I think what smart with
the movie is. Yes, it's really funny. Yes, it's got
some incredible action set pieces which we haven't seen from
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Pete Anderson before. But it's also really subversive. It's making
comments about authoritarianism, about racism, of what's happening today.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Smart, funny and highly entertaining.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
Two forty five run Time didn't feel it, which is
always a great conflict to his movies.
Speaker 4 (47:48):
You, Yeah, that was the big takeaway for me. I
mean it flew by the pace is just relentless. I
was joking with you before you hear that sort of
the reviews.
Speaker 2 (48:00):
Saying an action packed thrill ride.
Speaker 4 (48:02):
This actually was an action packed thrill ride, and it
was kind of unusual because my biggest criticism of Paul
Thomas Anderson often is that his films are too slow,
and this one just was NonStop, like it flew by
for for a longer film.
Speaker 3 (48:16):
Definitely.
Speaker 1 (48:17):
How about the rave reviews, I mean richally, like I said,
more a commercial film, ninety percent Rotten Tomatoes. Now he
might finally win an Oscar. I mean, it's been a
pretty lean year as far as it's concerned.
Speaker 2 (48:25):
JD. You can't wait to see it. Obviously you've got
a lot going on, But you're gonna watch this in theaters? Yes,
I'm ast.
Speaker 3 (48:30):
Yes, I've watched the trailer multiple times. We'll probably watch
it tonight. Everything I saw was like all the reviews.
A lot of the reviews was that this is going
to win all the awards, all the oscars, like already,
like like basically, lock it down. They got it.
Speaker 2 (48:47):
I loved.
Speaker 3 (48:47):
I'm such a big fan of Benisio del Toro and
his evolution as an actor as well, Like I just
think he's he's so good as a like comedic as
well as he is serious, like he plays such a
blurs the lines very well. So I'm excited. And obviously Leo,
Leo DiCaprio de bang every chick in the world do Yeah,
I did. What a great actor?
Speaker 2 (49:08):
I oh what?
Speaker 3 (49:09):
I looked at my last thought. Sorry, I looked at
my wife and I said, I think this saga of
Leo's life now, like going now in the next twenty
years will be his like best acting in his biggest roles,
because I think he's really got some depth and I
think he's gonna hit some really big He's gonna hit
some movies out of the park.
Speaker 2 (49:29):
I think it's amazing thing.
Speaker 1 (49:31):
But he's going a handful of movies with Scor says
he's hoping to make another one with him as well.
He's worked with Steven Spielberg obviously, catch me if you
can now, work with Paul Thomas Anderson, like he's worked
with all the greatest filmmakers out there. Obviously, when An
Oscar work with Alejandro Gonzalez and Retoo for wrestling a
bear in the Revenant, and I'm with you, Like for
a guy who's a good looking guy who bangs models
half his age, he's a hell of an actor man
period like.
Speaker 2 (49:50):
He takes the craft seriously. Is he like to get
after it? Sure, we all do. Is he a little
more Jordan Belfort Wolf of Walshot than you might think? Probably?
But the guy brings it in this movie. He's hysterical, underrated, comedic.
Speaker 3 (50:01):
Chops, missile, Calevin Candy.
Speaker 4 (50:06):
We finally get to answer the question what would happen
if if The Big Lebowski was about an anti government
oh revolutionary who turns into a paranoid burnout dad.
Speaker 1 (50:16):
Leo plays the stoner well in this And now I'm
going to listen to all the reviews and all the
publicity because Leo's been out there. This is an expensive movie.
He knows you wants to try to help Peta Ters
to make this a hit. He was all the Kelsey brothers,
who I've never listened to their podcast, of course I
love Jason and An Eagles great. And they asked him about, Hey,
what's tough for like some of the scenes to what
Tal's referencing running around your bathroom or the kulude scene
(50:37):
in Wolf of Wall Street. He goes, listen, the quaalude scene,
he goes was supposed to be like I thought it
was a couple hours and Marty's likes, no, we gotta
do more.
Speaker 2 (50:43):
You gotta call the car, you gotta do this because
it was like four days.
Speaker 1 (50:46):
So because that was unbelievable physical exertion I had to do,
which I didn't realize it was that kind of effort
because I was not prepared for it. But to this
day people think I'm on Kuela's or did a reasonablef
fectsimly of it.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
It's a hill work.
Speaker 3 (50:58):
He went on The Kelsey Show.
Speaker 2 (50:59):
Yeah, Kelsey podcasts.
Speaker 3 (51:01):
I come with, like, Wow, that show should just be
Jason Kelsey and yeah, Travis Kin thank you.
Speaker 1 (51:07):
I mean he's a dud, right, Jason's auestme. He's funny,
He's that's Travis dud.
Speaker 3 (51:10):
I mean, Travis probably a nice guy, but he's a
duty He's bringing nothing, nothing but Fizer commercials.
Speaker 1 (51:16):
Right, And they've got a little bit of sports talk,
Like I thought they were talking more football Leo's he
doesn't have it, doesn't have a team. They talked more Lakers.
He said, best Foreman sports moment you've been a part of.
He goes Kobe shack the Lab against the Blazers two
thousand Western Conference files.
Speaker 3 (51:29):
Because I was there.
Speaker 2 (51:29):
They went insane.
Speaker 1 (51:31):
He's like, the only sport I really truly follow properly
is basketball and the Lakers, because otherwise I just wear
like cool swag because like we saw, because we saw
a picture of you wearing like a Chief sat He's like,
I don't know, because I was probably Leo's the guy,
because I was probably in case someone gave me the hat,
Like whatever, it's I don't you know.
Speaker 3 (51:45):
Yeah, he's just hiding from paparazzi exactly.
Speaker 1 (51:50):
All right, From Leo to Max Paturetti. Retiring after seventeen
seasons with five teams, Patrirett has announced his retirement, aged
thirty six. First round pick by Montreal and O seven,
went on to become the Canadian's captain before being traded
to Vegas, where he played four seasons, then bounce between Carolina,
Washington and Toronto. Unfortunately, JD injuries really did derail in
the last few seasons. You look at his numbers overall
(52:11):
and you go, Okay, he definitely took a downturn. But
for his career three thirty five goals, six d eighty
one points, nine hundred and thirty nine games, what's he
going to now? He's returning to his alma mater at
the University of Michigan. He'll serve as a special assistant
to the head coach there. You played against PATRIRETTI give
me your mad Max stories.
Speaker 3 (52:29):
Congratulations, sir, great career. We will you rest easy now
we have the watch. We will see you in Valhalla.
No great, great career for him. And we had a
lot of good battles when he was in Vegas and
I was in Arizona. Obviously the team won, but us
(52:50):
personally had some good battles. I met him a few times.
Great guy, you know. So I think he's going to
be a very good coach for this team and a
special assistant. I think he's going to help these young kids.
I like seeing when the guys go back to their
alma mater, going back to University of Michigan and kind
of painted for it a little bit. So it's going
to be interesting to see. Can't wait. So congratcha fucking elations.
Speaker 1 (53:13):
Do you think there's a chance to join us at
NHL Network. I mean, Tron's like's bringing people in maybe, I.
Speaker 3 (53:17):
Mean, why not. We're at six hundred analysts, might as
well bring six hundred and one.
Speaker 2 (53:23):
You never know well.
Speaker 1 (53:24):
In addition to Max patch Ready also stepping away from
the game of hockey, Avalanche defenseman Eric Johnson announcing retired
from the game of hockey after seventeen seasons first overall
selection JD back in the six draft. He played over
a thousand games Blues, Avs, Sabers Flyers, dressed in fifty
seven career playoff games, including all twenty games in twenty
twenty two, helping Colorado win the Stanley Cup. Johnson saying,
(53:47):
after eighteen incredible years in the NHL, I'm retiring with
a heartfull of gratitude, of course, mainly known with the
Ads fourteen of his seventeen seasons of the Avalanche, only
Adam Foote played more seasons among Avalanche slash Nordique defenseman
onlyfoot In Joe Sakik among all Colorado Slash Quebec skaters.
Speaker 2 (54:03):
So obviously below it there.
Speaker 1 (54:05):
When you think about his career, what stands at to
you but egypt the native of Bloomington, Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (54:10):
Bloomington, Minnesota. I just a great teammate, great player, you know,
a guy that stood the test of time, had a
great run, obviously culminating in a nice Cup win. With Colorado.
I think nobody was happier for him than that team.
And and you know, he's just he's just a fun
loving guy. He's one of those guys that you know,
(54:30):
you could see when he the NHL posts his retirement,
how many guys repost it and just call him a
legend and and say how great a guy. He was
just very fun, happy, you know, never taking himself for
the game too seriously. And you know a guy that's
a that's kind of a i'd say a renaissance man
a little bit. You know, look at Tyson Barry, guys
(54:50):
that have it's always fun to see guys that play
hockey that aren't just hockey players. Right. So he's got
the he loves the ponies, you know, he's horse race guy,
loves he owns some horses, I think, and just one
of those people that you know, the game doesn't define
him so and I think it's just a it's nice
to see the career he had in the length of time.
And it's always nice to see guys that when they
(55:11):
leave their they're beloved and and you know they left
the game in a better place than when it started.
Speaker 1 (55:17):
But the horse is a common theme today aj loves
the Ponies and Josh Morris in our interview over his
shoulder a picture of a horse. So horses right now
in hockey, it's all coming together right now.
Speaker 3 (55:27):
You see everything, You're like, yeah, that's your background in
film studies.
Speaker 2 (55:34):
The attention to detail.
Speaker 1 (55:35):
One of the thoughts I will say again, We're all Canadian,
but for all the American listeners, Johnson and Brian Bard
the only US born defenseman to be taken first overall
in the draft, and overall Johnson just a sixth number
one overall defenseman address and over a thousand games.
Speaker 2 (55:48):
You play a thousand games at NHL. Hat tip to you.
Speaker 3 (55:51):
Yeah, if you play a thousand games in the NHL,
everybody could kiss your ass.
Speaker 1 (55:56):
And one last thought here Florrie's final prank love the
taling flude of this, as mentioned in a previous episode,
Legendary goldtender Mark Andrew fleuries off one final time. Suiting
up for a Penguins preseason game Saturday against the.
Speaker 2 (56:08):
Columbus Blue Jackets.
Speaker 1 (56:10):
The retired Floory is serenated by chance from his home crowd.
Even got one final prank in against his Pittsburgh teammates,
placing number twenty nine and flower decals on all their
cars leading up to the final game. A great farewell
if here Lebron the athletic maintains that teams are gonna
come calling for him, said Lebron on x last Twitter.
I don't know what he will say, but I'm telling
you teams will call one hundred first off decal's on porsches.
Speaker 2 (56:34):
Not a good idea. Do you think this is the
end we've seen from Mark Condrey to Florida?
Speaker 3 (56:38):
I think so. I think unless something crazy happens and
it's like the perfect fit for him, like a couple
goalies go down on one team and you know, it's
in Minnesota or it's in Pittsburgh and he needs to
save the day. I think he would potentially do it,
but I don't know. I think I still don't believe it.
But you know, I love that the pranks. I love
(56:58):
that he pulled that off. I mean, he was a
prankster and I liked pulling pranks, and it was it
was a great great you know, I mean, he was
he was just he broke the mold and for athletes
of being serious versus you know, guys that could perform
but also could be happy, go lucky, and like be
fun and make jokes. And that was always a fun
(57:19):
thing for me because I tried to kind of tow
that line my whole career and he did it so
perfectly and obviously a way better, more story career than
I had, But it was just always fun to watch
a guy like that that just kind of was like,
it's his hockey guys like and just played it so
good for him. But I don't think. I don't think
he comes back. I think he's done.
Speaker 2 (57:39):
Made more than enough money, He's played for long enough.
Speaker 1 (57:41):
I mean, I don't understand why there would be some
sort of burning yearning desire for him to come back,
But we shall see. Thanks once again to Josh Morrisey
was fantastic Thanks to jd Intel Episode forty nine of
NHL unscripted Episode fifty Coming down the Pike once again
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Speaker 3 (57:56):
And place you want. Do you want to prank my
last story prank?
Speaker 2 (58:00):
Please?
Speaker 3 (58:01):
I'll do my best prank before you go to sign
us off.
Speaker 1 (58:03):
Best you did or prank that you did that went
horribly awry, like someone just didn't take it well.
Speaker 3 (58:10):
Uh, that went horribly right. No. So the best one
I have was my first year in the miners in Wooster.
We had this kind of prank war with this house
and we came out of the rink one day and
they'd put a box of chicken wings, eating chicken wings
on our car in the middle of winter in Wooster.
So we went back to our house. I was meet
(58:30):
Derek Joslyn, Mike Moore, and Jamie McGinn, and we said,
we got to get these fucking guys. And we said,
what do you think we do? And I said, well,
I said what if we Because Mike Moore at the
time was injured, one of the guys in our house.
I said, We're going to go skate tomorrow at this rink.
You go into the room, you grab their house key,
(58:51):
go get it, run to a key store and get
it copied. So get their house key copied and we'll
figure out a time to break into their house. So
we ended up getting the copy of the key. We're
all skating that day, you know, and practice finishes and
Mike Moore walks back into the rink and he's like
giving us the thumbs up like he he got the key,
Like you got the copy of the key. We're good.
(59:12):
So we all sprint off the ice and we're like,
why don't we just do it now? So we drive
like mad men all the way to their house, break
into their house, and uh before they get home, and
we were like the night before, we're like, how do
we do this? Like we want to make this like
we want them to be like weirded out, but also
be like like what the fuck's going on? So we're like,
(59:32):
we took all their spoons, we we took all the batteries,
We took all the batteries out of all their remote controls,
all of their all their Xbox stuff. We took all
the light bulbs out that anywhere that had a light bulb.
We unscrewed the light bulb, took the light bulbs, and
then we so.
Speaker 2 (59:51):
Nothing valuable, but very frustrating if.
Speaker 3 (59:53):
It's not there, but frustrating and also like people think
like did somebody break in?
Speaker 2 (59:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (59:58):
And then and then we, uh, what do we do?
We took we took one of the guys bed because
we're like, who's the dumbest guy that probably like jumps
onto his bed when he comes home. And we basically
flipped the box spring on top, and he just and
we made the bed with the box spring on top
of the mattress. Yeah, and then and then we walked out.
(01:00:22):
So we had all that done. I think we did
some other shit. I can't even remember what it was,
but it was like we were like lubing up door
knobs and like.
Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
You should have got like sex toys and stuff like everyone.
Speaker 3 (01:00:34):
So we get we obviously complete this and we get
to the rink, and for like a week, they kept
coming to the rink and pretending like nothing happened, and
we were pretending like nothing happened, and they were trying
to get information out of us, until they finally were like, guys,
did you fucking take our We're like, and they're telling
us the story. They're like, you know, like, guys walk
home and they're like the one guy jumps on the couch,
(01:00:56):
goes to turn on the TV. He's like, oh, that's weird.
He's like he's like oh, He's like, guys, like you
gotta get new batteries. And he goes looks for the
batteries like he's like, oh, we have no batteries, guys.
Then the other guy's like, fuck, I want to make
some soup and he goes, no spoons. There's no spoons.
Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
Then no spoons is a new one. It's just weird.
It's weird, incredibly frustrating.
Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
But you think we just realize you need spoons for everything.
Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
Yeah, silver spoons.
Speaker 3 (01:01:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:01:25):
To tallas point mentioned the Big Lebowski, I wish you'd
pissed on the rug or at least taken the rug right,
really ties the room?
Speaker 3 (01:01:30):
Well we might, we might have still left a couple
upper deckers as Big Lebowski. Are you missing on my rug?
Just want my name, presence felt? Yeah, what was my prank?
Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
All right? Thanks so much for checking out on Scripted
episode fifty. Coming at to you next week.
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Episode forty nine here of NHL Unscripted, almost at the
half century mark Cinephile sixty.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
It is the movie of the year.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle after Another ninety eight percent
Rotten Tomatoes. Me Andtal have seen it and loved it.
Also mad Max Fury Road hangs them up. We'll talk
to a top ten defense from the NHL. Josh Morrison
how the Jets can get through to the next level,
and wild Hogs. Let's write some injuries, including Neil's hoglender,
and of course carollkaprisof We'll get to in just a second.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
J D.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I got a story for you.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I don't know if you lose things often. I had
to fly home yesterday. Amazon wanted me to just literally
host a ten minute introduction to Faceoff, which you talked
about previously, Season two coming, so I sorry, they go.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
We have an option.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
You can do it in Halifax, autow Art, Toronto. Of
course the other option would be zero because they're not
paying me. And I was like, well Halifax, not sure,
but the Newark to Halifax, so that's gonna go otto.
I'm going in a couple of weeks. Anyways, Toronto always good.
Could go see my parents, go see some bodies after
it great. So I fly home to Toronto yesterday. They
got a car service for me, lovely little chauffeur taping
(01:21):
to my parents' house.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Had lunch. I said to my dad, just dropping off
the subway, I'll head downtown.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And as I'm walking out, I was you know, I'm
always double checking para it right, Okay, yeah, I got
my phone, yep, okay, I got my keys.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Where's my passport? Double check in the bag. No passport.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I'm like, okay, hope it's my parents, says, but I
already know it isn't like I walked in exhausted. I
remember hugging my dad and going repsters and going to bed.
I'm like, that passport's not on that bed. I call
him just an answer right away. I'm like, I'll hop
in a cap go back to my parents' place twenty
mites away, walking.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
And he's like, yeah, I don't see it anywhere.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I'm like, oh no, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
So now don't do the back trick. Let me call
the show fur. The guy dropped me off, I got
the number.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
No nothing here.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I'm like all right.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
My dad looks up and my dad cool as a cucumber.
Except right away Pierce International called not his passport, call
the Lost and Found'm like, okay, call Aston Found. You're
on whole for ten minutes, goes busy. My mom also
springs to action.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Just go to the airport.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Just just go right there in person, hopefully it's there.
Like yeah, on the drive there, I'm like thirty percent
chance it's there. My dad again, Resource will already on
the phone be like all right, here's how you get
a new passport. You have to go to Victoria Street,
downtown eight am, twenty four hours expedited.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Amazon will have to push push the flight back a day.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
And I see, if there's only one big issue, ISAC Yeah,
goes pasport one hundred fifty bucks you'll get in twenty
four hours.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I go my green card was in there too.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
He's like oh.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
He's like oo, He's like no green card. Now he goes,
you're not. No, he goes, you can, you can, you
can get on the plane to the New Jersey. You're
not gonna get in the No.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
And Trump's not letting you in.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Considering heightened sensitivities in our two countries right now. He's like, ooh,
it could be strained in Canada. I go to the
Lost and Found, take a deep breasts, say a prayer.
Of the guys like, no, we wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Have it here.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
You have to go like whatever, there's a special area.
I go up there and walk in and I start
describing it. It's in a black case, little airplane. Guys like,
can asist it?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I go, oh my god, oh my god. I almost
fell over.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I pulled a fifty dollars bill. I go, hey, you
gotta have this. You no, no, no, I can't.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
No, you take this.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
He goes, it's illegal. You can't accept these things as
a you know, what's your part of your job?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I'm like, do you like coffee?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
He's like, yeah, Tim Horton's double double coming up because
I like it black. I go, no propt, because if
there was a coffee here.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I'd drink. I got some donuts.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
How about some donuts because I do like a chocolate donut.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
I go get a chocolate glaze, chocolate dip, large black coffee.
Ja do you think of the things you can lose
in life. I think number one is the phone, but
a close number two would be passport at Green Card.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I mean phone nowadays at the iCloud. I mean, you're
kind of good, but but to me, it's passport. And
then wallet like wallet, just the fact that you have
to call the credit card companies, cancel all your cards,
get new cards. Then from there you have to also radio.
But passport, I mean that's you're screwed, Like you're screwed,
(04:09):
like you're really screwed. You are you are the poster
child for for the government wanting us all to be
on digital passport.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
And again my dad deductive reasoning.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
He was a go through because you couldn't have gotten
out of the airport without your passport, So it's not
on the plane.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
You would have been. Tom Hanks in the terminal.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Just said, this worst movie the last thirty years.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That's what I've been really liiving KOs And I'm not
going to blame them.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
But you know, when you go to the kiosk, because
because I figured I go, it's at the kiosk, because
you go to the kiosk and it goes No, I
don't have farms, No, I didn't just visit a farm.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
No, to all.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Then they just print out the paper and you just
hand the paper the guy and walk out.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
They should you should hand the paper and the passport
just to verify. But they're like, had the paper.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I'm like, I know it's at the kiosk, but I'm like,
that is that is relying on the trust of strangers.
Someone just saw that unbelievable. Have you ever lost a
passport or a green card or known any teammate. There
must have been a situation, somebody's alving somewhere. Oh shit,
my passport expard.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Nothing like that. Traveling secretary had to flag it.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I just had. I just had the like, I don't
know what happened to my passport, like three four years ago,
but it was either some water fell on it or
and it got like kind of muddy, screwed up a
little crinkly. Yeah, And I was like, this is weird.
But I just kept traveling. I was I was so busy,
and I was also playing a little bit at that time,
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so I didn't think much of it. And I get
to the airport once and the the you know, you
get the right TSA or not, sorry, the right customs
agent and he's like what is this. I'm like, what
do you mean? What is this? And he goes, uh,
this is not this doesn't work like yeah, like like
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I can't let you through. And I was like no,
like what what? I'm like, you got my information everything.
He's like he's like listen all this one time. But
he's like he's like, I'm basically gonna mak it out,
like if you don't get your passport changed, like you're
not getting through. And I was like, oh my god,
like I had to go somewhere serious, and I was like,
holy crap. So I had to end up going to
the whole process to get a new passport kind of
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like you did. Like I had to do it all
like within a day because I had to fly out
like the next day, so I had to go downtown
get everything done. Craziness.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You have been in that situation, you feel that stress.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Tw Ever, lost a passport, green card, phone wallet.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
We moved once and the passport didn't make the move
with us. I'm not sure exactly where it moved to,
but it wasn't a big deal. I didn't have any
major travel plans at that time, probably because we were moving,
so I, you know, reported it was lost and ordered
a new end. And this was actually around the time
of COVID, so it took probably close to six months
to get a new passport around that time. And it
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got to the point where I had no travel plan
and you know, months passed and there was some travel
on the horizon, and I was calling Canadian Customs saying, hey,
am I going to get this thing in time? I'm
fortunately I did, but yeah, I'm a paranoid freak when
it comes to checking for my passport or my green
card if I'm traveling.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Question for both of you. When Ad then told that story,
because it's more for you, tell as soon as you
started telling the story, in my head, I went, where's
my passport? It's like, it's like that thing, it doesn't
matter where you are. If somebody tells you a story.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Tell me check my passports over there, We're gonna put.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Honey, where's the fucking passport.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
I was just traveling, so I know exactly where my
passport is, and I knew where I was pretty much
the entire time I was away.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I was.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
What would a quick question?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Can I ask a really quick question about your shirt?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I was just gonna say, would you agree with JD
that the phone is not as bad because with the
iCloud you can back it up.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
You can go my new phone. Yeah, yeah, retail.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Actually, if you're traveling abroad and you don't have a passport,
that's or you know some sort of id like that's.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
I mean if I'm yeah, if I'm in Italy though,
I'm like, all right, folks, i ain't never coming back.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah, that was my thing. I'm like, I guess I'm
stranded in Canada.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Definitely, it'll be a tough, tough bounce for you.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, go ahead, tell he's your questions, Jady.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Just quick question.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
It looks like you were rocking a Lulu Lemon Canadian
Olympic team apparel. Did Lulu Lemon design Canada's Olympic apparel
when you were there?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Yes, when in twenty twenty two, Lulu Lemon did design
all of the gear that we're in and you get
so much swag it is absolutely incredible, A lot that
you can never wear because you know, the moon boots
snowsuits that they made were were an interesting choice, but
all their workout gear, I mean, I it was just
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it's I'm still using it's still rocking, and it's the best.
It's it was awesome. So we just got everything from them,
you know, Duffel bags. It's crazy. You're walking out of there.
You're like, how do I even like? I came here
with two Duffel bags? How do I get the rest
of them out?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Like?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
How do I get these others six out?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Nothing feels as good as free. I don't care. What
is your artoaps, what do you have?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Nothing feels as good as free. All right, let's get
to the pucks. The Thriller is back, following reports he
had turned down what would have been the biggest contract
in hockey history. JD was talking with this last week.
Elliot Friedman just pouring cold water on the story to
Mesters divers damas eight years, one hundred and thirty six
million dollar contract, the biggest bag in league history, both
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in terms of total dollars and average annual value.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Early Heart Trophy frontner last year.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Then he got hurt twenty five goals, fifty six points
and forty one games overall, three hundred and eighty six points,
three hundred and nineteen career games over his five seasons.
We'll get to how this impacts McDavid, Kyle Connor, et cetera.
But if I said to you JD, maybe a couple
months ago, capries is gonna get seventeen million dollars a year,
one hundred and thirty six million, what would your reaction
have been?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Well, we kind of we we said it, when we
talked about it. We're like, that's probably the number. But
it was never offered to him because our inside source
within the wild told us that that was never ever
offered at that time. But I guess it sparked something
and sparked the conversation. But this is just what we
were waiting to happen. This is now gonna be the
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catalyst and now the next I mean, capriceoffs set the
market for all the guys coming up in free agency.
You know, I don't look so much at Capriso. I
think he's deserved it. I think, you know, he is
a premier player in the NHL.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
So if I said you overrated, underrated, or properly raded,
you'd say Caprice Off is properly rated.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
He's a properly rated. Yeah, he's I mean, listen, that guy,
that guy healthy is so incredibly dominant on the offensive,
side of the puck, and he's such a focal point
of that offense. And I mean we talk about wingers
influencing the play, you know, like Kutrov, There's not many
like that in the NHL that are as dynamic offensively
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and the offense runs through him. So for that, that's amazing.
But I just more think it's exciting because I'm like,
all right, now, the market's you got Jack Icele, you
got Connor McDavid. Who who's next up to sign in
these top guys that are all coming up at the
end of this season. You know, we have an amazing
free agency class this coming year in twenty twenty six,
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so we're gonna wait and see. But it's your move, Edmonton.
Your move. By the way, Edmonton picked up a goaltender
as well, Connor Ingram.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yes, not just great.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah, I was hoping to be Carl Harp, but as
you said, he was not gonna be signing with the CADI.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I love Connor Ingram, so just that was just a
side cabot. So before I go back to Connor McDavid,
but yes, your move Edmonton. Mick Jesus so the chosen one,
the Messiah.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Right, So Connor McDavid potential you have after this year,
Jack Icel, Kyle Connor, Ur, Timmy Panaira.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
So all these guys arrow pointing up thanks to caprice Off. McDavid.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Nostra Demer's prediction was a short term deal before the
season starts.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
You're still holding true that we have like a week.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I think he'll now sign a three year you know,
eighteen million dollars, twenty million dollar deals, something like that.
I think he goes that way. Maybe I could see
it now that I think it. I think it's gonna
happen sooner rather than later. I don't think I think Connor.
Everybody was playing coy and we're gonna play this season
out and all there. Everybody's waiting for caprice Off. That
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was the number. That was the number we wanted to
see as NHL players to increase the cap. This should
improve the livelihoods of a couple guys that are undeserved
of getting a big deal, but will now because the
market has been set. Because I love when players get
their bag, get your paper, boom poop the.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Rise and tide lifting all boats. I hope you're wrong.
I agree with you. I think he'll get a deal,
but I hope you're wrong. Tal.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I want to see this entire season Connor McDavid not signing,
and then if he resigns, fine. I want to see
a full season of rampant, reckless speculation. Where's McDavid gonna go.
All these leaf bands be losing their minds. Connor McDavid's
go to Toronto. I want to see it all year.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
If that is the case, I'm pretty sure by March
we're gonna have Connor McDavid yelling at reporters for asking
him about his contract.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Yes, yes, just leave me alone. What could last? What
could last longer? You know, Connor McDavid's resolve in the
face of the media, it's just bashing him or his
resolve towards the fan base, throwing their Edmonton orders Jersey
on the ice. And because because again, the longer he waits,
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the more the oilers fans will turn on him, I feel,
and the more, you know, because there'll be more questions
and then you know this, it's like no news, they're
not hearing anything. They start speculating, they start getting angry
because there's no news, and then you know, Connor's getting frustrated, like, oh,
my god, he's not coming back. He's not coming back,
and you know they're Toronto Maple Leave's friends that are
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on the group chat with him or like he's coming
to Toronto, He's coming to Toronto, and then that just it
just turns into just a boiling point for all of
these fans. And I don't I don't see if they're
trying to win a Cup, it's not induce if Connor
sits out the whole year, So it not sits out
the whole year, but doesn't sign all season long. Like
it's just not good for this team, Like they need
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to win now, if they need to win now, and yes,
they still have a window, but this is an important
year for them.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
So speaking of important years for teams that want to
win right now. Stunning what happened to Florida Panthers. We
got word of the injury last week. You don't know
how serious it is because you're like, all right, well,
you know it's season hasn't ben begun yet, but Alexander
Barkoff likely out for the season undergoing knee Jergeela Panthers
trying to win a third straight Stanley Cup. Matthew could shock.
We know JD is out until December. Now Barkie done.
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I love to say Florida's next man up. They find
different guys. They're well coached, they but I mean, dude, Barkoff,
that's a massive injury to me.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Yeah, you can't win a Cup with a Sasha Barkoff.
So again, now they say done for the year nine months.
He's one of those freaks. And they do have a
kind of a voodoo trainer over there that's really really
incredible with like recovery and injuries. So I'm not ruling
he's coming I'm not ruling out that he's coming back,
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but I do just think that this might be we
were wondering all last year. When is it gonna be
too much hockey? When is the when is finally the
camel's back go to break? You know, they've been so good,
they played so much meaningful hockey, so much hard hockey.
I know, this is unfortunate how it happens. You never
want to see it. First day of training camp for
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them because they took an extra week off. First day
of training camp, you get injured in the little nothing
burger drill your best player. So I don't know. I
think the door is open in the Atlantic now, and
the door is wide wide open for somebody to come up,
and I'm off if I'm any other fan base, I'm like, wow,
the king is dead right, Long live the King.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
And maybe now that door is open for the Tronowe beliefs.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
They signed Golton Anthony Stolar's four year, fifteen million dollar extension.
One A cup is a backup in Florida before you
went to Toronto. Career highs last season starts, wins, shutouts.
At one point Toronto was like, well, who's the guys
at Joseph Walls and still Arts Now feels like still
Arts is officially the man.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
He's the guy in Toronto.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
If you can stay healthy. They have two goalies that
are a little bit injury prone, but when Stolars is on,
he's on, He's He's very good. I do like the
changes they made on the Toronto mapleafs. I know people
are like Mitch Marner's gone. I think they really shored
up the third and fourth lines and their decore I
think will be the same, so it'll be decent and
it'll be good. I think they have enough to get there.
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It's going to require big Poppy Chulo awsesome Matthews to
have a career year and really carry them. But again,
of the two best arguably two way centers in the league,
Barkoff and Matthews, one's out for the year. So now
you got essentially one of the best in the division
two way centers in Austin Matthews and a matt So
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this would be a no excuse kind of year. But
there's a lot of teams that are sniffing. Montreal looks
great right now in preseason. Tampa Bay looks really good.
Tampa Bay thinks five and zero preseason. I know that
doesn't mean shit, but they're gonna kinda they're gonna kind
of want to, you know, have a better year and
you know, better showing than they did, even though you
know in the playoffs last year they just fell flat.
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You know, this is kind of their last chance as well.
So I don't know, it's gonna be interesting. I don't
think Toronto's like gonna waltz their way in, but I
think it's gonna be a big loss for Florida. But
you know, going back to Florida, listen, they got Anton Lundell,
they call him Minnie Barkie. They got Brad Marshan, They
got Sam Bennett, Matthew Chuck will be back in December.
They still have a great hockey team. I don't think
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it's like, hey, they're dead in the water, but they're
a lot less intimidating than I think, in a lot
less deep than they were with Barkoff missing. So door
is open. Somebody's gonna jump up and seize the moment.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Seize it open. The West of team that you like
to make a push this year the Ducks.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
We talked about Mason McTavish sitting out Ducks training camp.
Now he signed six years, forty two million dollars cent
you get seven million a year.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Jersey also signs that they're big.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
RFA Luke h is getting nine million dollars a year,
seven years, sixty three million dollars. You want to go,
Hughes first, McTavish, The way you gave me the oof, I
think you want to go a little Look Ques here.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I mean you know me.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
We are we are.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
We are a podcast that advocates for the NHL player.
We are all for them getting paid, even though we
do not get paid. Well here we are advocating for
them to get paid.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
But when you smell a rat you get like Jesus
sixty five billion, I mean nine a year is a lot,
Like that's a lot.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
You have Dougie Hamilton also at nine. I mean two
guys that aren't necessarily the biggest bruisers out there. And
Luke Hughes, who I had the pleasure of filming with.
Great kid. I hope he can stay healthy, you know,
I think he's had some bad injuries and I think
he needs to get his get his body right, and
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I think it'll it'll pay off. I mean as as
a skill guy, you can gate like that and you know,
can influence the playoffensively. But you know, he's very long
and rangy. He I think if he continues to improve defensively,
he could become a good, very good solid you know,
a Thomas Harley, a you know, Devon Tave's s kind
of player. But yeah, I just don't know what they
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do now. I think Dougie Hamilton the writings on the wall,
but you know who's going to take that contract. They
might have to eat a little bit. So yeah, so
it's it's interesting times in on the Devils. But they
got to listen their decorse short up, they got all
their defense. Their top six is signed for at least
two years, good veteran decorps, some young young pop there
and we're gonna see what they can do.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
But that is a lot of womp them, My friend,
it wasn't that long that that Dougie Hamilton, he was
the prize freasion available.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I remember Ken Danic was falling about this.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Yeah, like, oh we got Dougie Hamilton number one defense,
And I'm like, m it's a lot of money and
a lot of term. Back to McTavish, I'm generally of
the opinion in sports when guys hold out, I'm like,
it's not as big a deal as fans think, meaning
spring training is like six weeks.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
My guy misses a few weeks. MCAS's not a big deal.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
And football got like, these guys are in shape all
the time. Having said that, I may be wrong because
in hockey, the last couple of times that guys have
held out, Jeremy Swayman off here, Trevor Ziegres off here,
do you think impacts Mason McTavish more than people might realize.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I think goaltender is more than anything like goalies. You know.
I talked to Corey Schneider about this a few times
on the Innhel Network, and he's like, it affects goalies
the most because you need to feel the puck. You
need to feel it in training camp. I think a
centerman like him, I think he'll be fine, you know,
I think they have enough depth that you'd be able
to get his legs going. But yeah, it's always an
interesting you need to in hockey. You know, you could
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train all summer long, you can skate at you know,
five times a week, but if you're not like feeling
the body and you're not getting into these battle drills.
And also again there's levels I can skate. For some reason,
that's the weirdest thing. I always used to tell people
like I could go on an empty sheet of ice
and skate as hard as I can down and back.
But for some reason, when you're in training camp and
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you're around all the guys, it's that little bit faster,
and it's that little bit more fatiguing, just because the
excitement the guys are around. You're also pushing a little
bit harder because there's always like another level to get to,
because when you're skating by yourself, you can never really
get that high end level. You need to compete with
other guys and feel it. So so yeah, so I
think it it'll be a little bit of a learning curve.
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I think he's They obviously have to get him into
one preseason game, hopefully maybe two and probably listen, you
got little Carlston though so and you got a lot
of good talent there. But I'm bullish still on the
Anaheim Ducks.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Bullish, bullish And last time before we get to our
special guest, Josh Morsey, you hate to see this during
the preseason kicking off, by the way, you're actually being
in this October seventh already a rash of injuries. Matts
Decrella is a seven to eight lower body injury, Jets
defenseman Dylan Samberg missing six to eight broken wrist, Coppo
Coco out six weeks to the broken hand, and Connects
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for Neil's The Hog Hoglander out eight to ten weeks
after surgery. I mean, I know these are not major
injuries per se, but like four to six for some
of these guys, that's not great. But all of a sudden,
you know, guys that you're relying on is top six
players are not showing up till December.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yeah, I think Dylan Sandberg is gonna hurt big time.
I think he's you know, their top four that they
need a big start to the season, and that's central.
That is just a killer. But yeah, anytime you're missing
these players for four to six weeks, I mean, it's
not great. And I know this is going to bring
up some more conversation on preseason and the importance of preseason.
And you know, you look last night, Nick Cousins takes
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a whack at I haven't deemed off, you know, and
that's like a dangerous play. And you know, there's different
rules in preseason with suspensions, and sometimes it's overlooked, but
it's always tough when you got guys, and whether it's
on purpose or by accident, but you can't bubble rap guys.
It is what it is. It's the nature of the beast.
It's the same thing in football. I get upset in
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football because they really bubble rap guys. And then some
teams go, you know, get off to awful starts because
they haven't done any practice or real time, real world
kind of play. But you know, hockey is so tough.
You need to get up to speed. So I do
think It's just part of the game. It's part of
the it's the nature of the game. If fans get
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mad at it, and it's unfortunate, but that's the only
way that guys can get ready for hockey. And it's
a long season, but you can. You can. You go
zero to ten to start the year, or you're five
hundred before November. I mean, it's even tougher to get back.
So you need to have all your ducks in a row,
and you know, just hope guys don't get hurt. But
it is what it is. You know, Samdberg takes a
puck off the wrist, and you know Barkoff falls down
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in practice. I mean there's listen, you can get hit
by a car just walking out acrossing the street. So
it is what it is. So what you signed up for.
It's part of the game.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Cubs win, Okay, I love the Nothing worse than NFL preseason.
By the way, you used to be four games and
the third game all the regulars to play. Now they
don't even play it, to your point, like I don't
even like it's like the most pointless thing for sport
in which is the most popular in the country.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Precise is just dog water.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
It's it should just be I would just like intersquad
practices and then go like, you know, but you can't.
You just can't stop it because eventually it's a physical game.
You can't protect against that, and you need to You
need to kind of get those reps and of hitting
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guys getting hit, feeling it. Your body needs to feel
that kind of tension and that stress on it. Otherwise
you're just when if you just go into game one
you haven't done anything and it ramps up, it's like,
I mean, you're in trouble. It might end up being worse.
So so yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
We shall see. Good news is actual hockey is right
around the corner.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
That means when it picked, Jets fans cannot wait to
go watch Josh Morris who play. We'll talk to the
Jets defenseman, do a little Jim Morrison's style, break on
through to the other side, how the Jets break on
through it come playoff time, and also ask thembot's four
Nations experience.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
All that more coming up next.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Oh Dude of a Side.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Our special guest today on NHL Unscripted.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Drafted thirteenth overall in the twenty thirteen NHL draft by
the Winnipeg Jets for developing h one of the league's
best defenseman. Last season, Josh Morrisy enjoyed his third straight
sixty plus points season in Winnipeg and was a member
of the Canadian team that won the historic Four Nations
face off. You know him, you love him, Josh Morrisy, Josh,
great to see him.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Man, Hey, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Before you and Gid start chopping up, because you're already
calling you momos. I know there's a bunch of inside
jokes coming up here.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
But how is the summer? What did you do?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
What did you do after a pretty exhausting NHL season,
especially with the Four Nations?
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Yeah, that summer was good. Spent a little time back
in Calvary. That's kind of where hangout in the summertime.
So just you know, usual lot of training, skating all
that stuff, but coming off the lost to Dallas, had
some injury rehab to get done as well. But there
was some fun in there, a little Ireland golf trip
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with some guys overseas for Leon's wedding. So it was
a good summer, a little bit, a little bit of fun,
a lot of training and happy to be back.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Now, Well, we got to talk a little bit about
the playoffs and your season last year. I mean, historic
season for the Jets. I mean, you got one hundred
and sixteen points, win the President's Trophy, get to the playoffs.
I mean that first round took a lot out of
you guys. I feel like, and you know, how was
it and how's the vibe in the locker room to
start this season? And is it very much so a
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we got to repeat what we did or hey, guys,
let's just get to the playoffs and keep building on
what we already built last year.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
Yeah, I mean, you know what, that series against Saint
Louis was an absolute war war. We played I don't
know how many series and whatever over the last ten years,
but that was that was the most physical series have
been a part of. For sure. It was, you know,
just to grind everybody, whether you know, quote unquote skill
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forwards were all playing physical. I mean, that's playoff hockey,
but it was definitely the physical side was taken to
another level in that series. So it was a grind.
You know, obviously took us right down to the wire
in Game seven and overtime. You know, for us looking
at the last number of years prior, getting through the
first round was something that we'd heard a lot about,
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and so I think, you know, of course, just because
you get to the second round doesn't mean you've won anything.
But I think it was a you know, a good
moment for our team, and that's something I think we're
kind of trying to build off, as Hey, we had
a great year last year. You know, we found a way,
you know, in a crazy comeback to get through the
first round and uh, you know, obviously ran into good Dallas.
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Team still felt like, uh, you know, we were right
there and that series, and so you know, I think
it's exciting coming back this year. I think, you know,
the ultimate goal, of course, hey, you'd love to win
the Presidence Trophy again, you'd love to win the Stanley Cup.
But ultimately it's how can we grow off you know,
last season, How can we build to try and to win,
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you know, in the playoffs and be ready to come
playoff time and and win the Stanley Cup. Obviously that's
that's what we're what everybody's here for. And so I
think just uh yeah, like I said, it's it's a
long season, it's a tough road, to get there. I mean,
making the playoffs is not easy, but you know, I
just want to build off last season and lots of
the good things we did.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
As a team.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
And to your point, Josh, it wasn't like Chevy Blue
things up. You know, it pretty much is the same team.
One notable exception, Nikolai Eelers leaves in free agency, but
you're bringing three time Cup champion Jonathan Taves.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
What's been like, you know, captain Sirius.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
Yeah, I mean, you know, it's tough losing Eeler, obviously, Nick,
He's a great player, and that's just the business we're in.
Guys are leaving everywhere all the time, so you know,
gonna miss playing with him. But you know, as you
mentioned bringing in Johnny Taves, I mean, you know when
he came into the league, and I remember the first
Cup there in twenty ten, you know, and I think
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they won Olympic gold that year as well. I mean
I would have been in grade.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Ten, so he swept me in that they swept me
in the conference finals. Thanks for bringing that one up.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Yeah, But nonetheless, I mean just absolute legend and guy
that I looked up to a lot, love watching play,
you know, of course his Winnipeg roots, growing up here
and kind of being the prodigal Sun. So there's a
ton of buzz here in Winnipeg. Fans are really excited
and yeah, it's been awesome, you know, getting to know
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him a little bit before camp and through camp. You know,
he's just got so much experience. You know, two Olympic
Golds recups, Stanley Cup Champ. I just saw a graphic
the other day on maybe the NHL or something like that,
fifteen year captain. So you know, the resume speaks for itself.
And you know, we talked about some of those big
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moments in the season and you know, obviously of course
playoff time, and you know, you can't help but think
that a guy like that in the locker room is
going to just provide so much help, you know, beyond
just the stuff he can do on the ice, which
he looks great and is back to health again. So
really excited to have him.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
That's so great to hear. And it is interesting because
you know, Winnipeg's gotten such a knock on them for
not you know, they have to grow the talent from within.
It's hard to get guys to sign in free agency,
but talk a little bit about that and like what's
different there and what do you see as like maybe
a determining factor of why you guys grow your talent
from such a young age and you guys have so
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many guys that are homegrown from Manitoba and that have
now just become these these stuff us and these contributing
players in the NHL. Is there anything that's done differently
and what do you feel is really the thing that
separates Winnipeg from other organizations and developing players.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
Yeah, I mean, you know, I think it starts obviously
with the draft. You know, when you look back at
sort of when the Jets move from Atlanta, you know,
guys like Mark Scheiff, Lee, Adam Lowry, Jacob Truba, Connor Hellibuck, myself,
Nick Heelers, Kyle Connor, you know, and and more guys
beyond that as well. Like that kind of set the
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stage I think in those drafts for really a lot
of the core players that have been here for a
long time, And you know, I think when I reflect
on my time this far, it's you know, I think
a lot about the leadership guys that were here. You know,
Blake Wheeler was a guy that really pushed us. This
guy looked up to a lot. It was obviously our captain,
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and I think just that kind of culture environment of
like continuing to push yourself. You make the NHL, you
play a year, you play two years. I mean, you
know that's great, but at the end of the day,
you can never stop working on your game and trying
to get better. And so, you know, I think when
you when you look at a lot of the guys
that are sort of have been here for a while
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and you know, are kind of well into their prime
to their career, you know, they have improved throughout that
time window. They haven't just kind of gotten comfortable. The
organization has given them opportunity to kind of grow in
the role as well. But you know, I think it's
it's obviously it's on the players for taking that initiative
and wanting to get better and continue to grow. Like
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I said, I think it's on the leadership. This is
here when we came in as young guys, and I
do think it's the organization for drafting well, but also
you know, kind of giving us an environment promoting us
to you know, improve and grow with from within and
and also have that patience too. I mean, you know,
it's easy for an organization to turn the page on
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a player early in their career, and I think they've
done a good job of sticking with guys. So you
know it's now as sort of veteran player, you know,
you want to try to return the favor and create
that environment for the younger guys where obviously they come
in they feel good about their game, but also you know,
we have a certain expectation here, you know, how hard
we work and how we prepare and how we come
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in you know, in shape and all those different things.
And so yeah, it's been fun to kind of see
that progress now over ten years. I guess Josh, you'ra
you know you're from Calgary, northern boy. You played Prince Albert, Manitoba.
You've you've spent so much time in the North, you know,
Winnipeg as well. You know you probably noticed my little
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shirt here, no big deal representing the Olympics. You go
and represent Canada. You're a Canadian boy.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Through and through, you bleed the mayple leaf. Talk to
me a little bit about you know, you know you've
represented your country a couple of times. I have you
already in my early window for the Olympics. But talk
about the four nations last season. Just how amazing that
was to see just the high stakes nature of the
nations representing each other and just how fun was that.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
Yeah, I mean, uh, you know it was incredible. You know,
you and I met JD at World We did. We did,
we did. We had a little bit of fun there,
that's for sure. Almost one almost one shootout bullshit, such
a joke should have just been unlimited.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Ot. We would have won, for sure, crushed him.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
One Quest was pretty good in that final, so.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Well, yeah, well Nate Dogg missed the wide open net
Nate McKinnon and that was a tap in, so that
would killed us. But you talk about four nations and
we don't need to talk about the one where you won.
That's more important. But just how crazy was the vibe
there man Boston, Montreal, like that the roof was coming
off the building. And just take us through that tournament
and what it meant to kind of represent on you know,
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that big a stage. Because World Championshi is great, but
I mean this is a different level.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
Oh for sure, it was a totally different level. I mean,
I think just the anticipation of having the NHL Best
on Best again was a huge part of the build
up and excitement. I mean last time was what twenty
sixteen World Cups, so it had been a while and
a lot of the generation of players. I mean, you know,
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on our team Canada, I think there was only three
guys that were part of the sixteen World Cup team,
so you know, kind of a whole new new generation
of players. First opportunity to represent Canada on that stage,
and you know, to do it in Montreal and Boston,
I mean, you know, two insane hockey markets.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 5 (35:49):
It was the most fun I've had playing the game,
that's for sure. Just coming out in the Bell Center
thinking about it gives me chills. Obviously wearing the maple
leaf and representing Canada with all those guys and doing it,
you know, in that arena and environment was insane, and
obviously just uh, the hockey itself. I mean we were
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sitting around after the first game and I think everyone
was kind of we played Sweeten in game one and
everyone's kind of thinking, man like, that was so fast,
We're all kind of out of breath, and we had
this crazy ot win with Martins and and Sid said
something like that was the fastest game he'd ever played,
and I think, then, wow, if Sid's saying it, then
you know we can think the same game. But yeah,
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it was just crazy crazy the speed, the physicality, intensity.
Like I said, it was the best, by far, the
best quality of hockey I'd ever been a part of
and and played, you know, And so yeah, definitely, Uh
when we won in Boston and Davo scored the ot winner,
it was a huge moment and you know, it just
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makes uh makes you want to be a part of
and have a chance to do it this coming year
at the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
How many beers were drank after that one as nice
to see Davo get the Monkey office back to it
felt like, yeah.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
I mean, you know, I think just special players are
kind of built for those moments and you know, step
up in those moments and obviously, you know that's what
he did and uh, you know, secured that that win.
But yeah, I definitely it was a huge party after
I was under the weather unfortunately, so I didn't get
to see too many of those beer. The Jordan flu
(37:26):
game nice, but but yeah, I think the guys had
a pretty good celebration and and enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
That's an amazing quote, by the way, from Sidon, and
you're right, it means more of pieces at first if
you say it first, that's the fastest talking ever. And
he's like, I wasn't that bad, Like myself looked bad
for us, But for him to point that, it shows
the level of competition. We all know your career and
how fabulous suspend Josh, but honestly, it really changed for
everyone you played with JD Team Canada twenty seventeen World Championships,
Nate McKinnon, Mitch Marner, Markshifleet, Brayden Point, Matt Tuson, More importantly,
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Jason de Murz.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Talk to me. What was he like as a teammate.
Speaker 5 (38:02):
Yeah, he was unreal. I mean, you know, going there.
That was just after my rookie year in the NHL.
So he took you under his wing, he did, no,
I think he did. He took a lot of us
under his wing. And you go to that environment. I
mean a bunch of the names you mentioned, but guys
like Kloe Drew, you know, yeah, and you know Ryan O'Reilly,
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like some veteran guys that you know are kind of
already legends, right, and so I think, you know, coming
in there, I was pretty nervous. I'm not gonna lie,
you know, coming in as a twenty one year old
or whatever into that environment with those players, and JD
just was unreal at kind of breaking the ice obviously
(38:45):
on the ice, off the ice, you know, in the
locker room, but definitely I felt like, you know, I
I'd always looking back and in the moment, I always
was really appreciative for how you kind of brought everybody together,
and especially you know, these younger guys and as younger
d Man back there, you know, kind of brought us together.
(39:05):
So it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Well you I mean Adnan like he played with Mike
Matheson for most of the tournament, and you look at
these two guys and you know, it was like me
and Calvin Dehan playing ahead of them and we're like
kind of laughing, me into Han and being like these
kids are gonna they're they're coming to take Yeah, we're
times up. But I don't know if you remember that
Russia game where you and Mikey Mattz had like an
unreal game a couple of points, you know, take us
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through that game a little bit because that was like
an insane comeback that we had, and I always forget that. Yeah,
we lost in the finals, but like that game, we
were down against Russia, and you know, we kind of
was like a collective effort, but you guys stepped up
huge in that moment for us and and really brought
us back. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (39:46):
I mean, uh, it's been a while obviously now and
then like and you're right, I think we think a
lot about or I think about the final, but obviously
I think Russia had a really good, really good team.
I think Coach might have been playing for them. Yeah. Yeah,
I just felt like it was a really a close group.
I mean, uh, you know, we.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
It was a close group and too close.
Speaker 5 (40:10):
Yeah exactly, but uh no, it was a good time
and I think just yeah, we we came together, Coop
was coaching, and I felt like we never really didn't
believe we could win. We thought it was always possible,
and you know, it was a huge comeback, you know,
and and like I said, I felt like, you know,
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it's just too bad we didn't obviously find a way
to win in that final, because all in all, it
was really one of the kind of great hockey experiences I've.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
I've had uh yeah.
Speaker 5 (40:42):
Those guys and and then you know, we were in
Paris for two weeks, I mean and Cologne was an
amazing city too, So yeah, it was a ton of fun.
But yeah, that Russia game was was definitely a special one.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Well, we'll talk a little bit, you know, getting outside
of hockey, and you know, I had a ton of
interest when I played outside of hockey and just didn't
want to be limited to one kind of thing. And
and it's something I did not who I was, but
talk about you you know, you're kind of have a
lot of food and hospitality ventures kind of going in
your portfolio. Talk about that, the forty four, all the
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kind of initiatives you're a part of because it's it
looks really cool and it's kind of something of you know,
telling the fans you're listening of just what you're up
to and what you're doing to kind of extend your
brand outside of the game of hockey.
Speaker 5 (41:28):
Yeah, so the forty four specifically, a friend of mine
here in Winnipeg runs a number of restaurants. You've probably
had some when you were here on the road by.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
Sneaky Restaurant City.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
So he said that Winnipeg better food than you realize.
Speaker 5 (41:44):
For sure.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
It is for sure.
Speaker 5 (41:46):
So anyway, we kind of talked for a long time.
You know, he's a big idea guy, and you know,
I go in for an espresso or something in the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
Oh kind of chop it up.
Speaker 5 (41:55):
But you know we were talking about we kind of
had the idea, man, And there's this rate kind of
attached to the arena art by a play fifteen or
the Skywalk, whatever you call them.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
There's sort of a big.
Speaker 5 (42:09):
Court or food hall where people kind of hang out
before the game. So basically, yeah, we were like, you know,
it'd be cool to kind of create something in there.
Obviously him on the restaurant side, food side, and you
know me basically just totally on I guess bring you
some attention to it. But it was fun to kind
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of go down that path. We ended up opening in
there just before the playoffs a couple of years ago,
sort of game day food. And basically it's a food
hall where you go up, you've got like a couple
of chefs work and somebody work in the till and
so it's pretty lively in there before and after games.
And yeah, it's been kind of interesting to just learn
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a little bit of the business side of you know,
how to make that work, and then on the menu
side as well, given a little bit of input. So
that's been been a fun venture and something that I
think a lot of the fans here in Winnipeg have
actually brought up to me, you know, when we interact
with people in the community at restaurants or coffee shops
(43:12):
or whatever. You know, people have enjoyed kind of that
connection with the players and so excited to keep that
going here in the next year's to come. And then
outside of that, just you know, typical stuff. I think,
just trying to keep options open and I enjoy sort
of turning my brain off outside of the game sometimes
(43:34):
and need it, you know how those things can kind
of keep you balanced. So that's been been something I've
gotten better at throughout my career, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
I love the link on the forty four from your Instagram,
so it goes to Josh's signatures.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
The first thing that you get is wings.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
One pound of wings tossed in your choice salt and pepper,
salt and Venitor buffalo sauce and blue cheese dip. Also
among Josh's favorites prime rib sliders, pop shrimp, and then
there's the sandwiches served in a house sourdough. So listen, Josh,
everyone loves wings. What makes the wings the forty four special?
Speaker 2 (44:04):
Do you give input on this?
Speaker 5 (44:06):
Well, I think it's definitely the chefs back there that
make it special. I mean, we really wanted to do
something that was you know, kind of lends itself to pregame, postgame,
you know, what you want to eat in that environment.
So all those things I think kind of hit the
nail on the head. But also, you know something that's
I mean, you can have there's a range of wings, right,
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there's a range of prime rib sliders, let's say. So
they try to do really upscale, high end ingredients and
so something that's even as simple as a slider, let's say,
they're they're trying to make with you know, great quality
beef and and whatnot. So yeah, I think it's just
that attention to detail that probably makes the food what
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it is and the passion from the chefs. Thankfully, I'm
never back there. I've had some fans and people in
the community kind of ask if I'm ever back there,
you know, working the grill.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
Boiler, just boiling some hey, exactly.
Speaker 5 (45:06):
Yeah, I don't even think I could do that, so
but yeah, it's been fun. And the one thing that's
probably best for me is that the delivery at radius
doesn't reach my house, so otherwise I'd be ordering all
the time and i'd be uh, you know, maybe a
little bit slower out there. So that's probably for the best.
Speaker 2 (45:25):
The forty two Hard Grave Street.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
Check it out Winnipeg, Manitoba, and check out Josh Morsey
on the ice at Canada Life Center, and we'll be
seeing you of course in Amazon Prime Mindy Night Hockey.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Honestly, this was so much fun, Josh.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
It was a great season last year, really broke out
in a big way and continued success not only in
the regular season but also of course playing for Canada
at the Olympics. This is great man, Thank.
Speaker 5 (45:44):
You, Yeah, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (45:53):
Thanks once again at Josh Morsy was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
Speaking of fantastic, Paul Thomas Anderson is one of our
most gifted tours ever since Oh heart Ache, Oh Hard Magnolia.
There will be blood the mass, licorice pizza. I'm a
bad child, I'm a bad d my boy, I drink
your milkshake. I drink it up.
Speaker 2 (46:14):
See you have a straw, and then I have a straw. Uh.
The guy's a hell of a filmmaker.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
And originally, as I told you guys before, I'm like
JD a big fan of trailers.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
Talent's a good trailer. I used to love.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
I used to love trailers. Say if I'm gonna see
the movie, I don't want to watch the trailer. But
then everyone kept saying, have you seen the trailer for
One Battle leptrill? This is a couple months ago. Listen,
if I hear Paul Thomas Anderson, I'm in. I don't
need to see the trailer. I saw the trailer, Like,
holy shit, I'm excited. I gotta go see this car.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
Yeah, it is a great trailer and it's a hell
of a movie.
Speaker 1 (46:43):
I haven't been easy to now going in it is
a bit concerned because some of the critics say, well,
it's his most commercial movie, I e.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
Selling out a little bit.
Speaker 1 (46:51):
One hundred and seventy million dollar budgets and action movie
action comedy. I I like the esoteric, idiosyncratic behavior of
frogs falling from the sky at Magnolia. I like a
movie about the porn industry, like Boogie Knights, like I
hope My Man isn't going too far off kilter, but
Tellum happy to report while the film is definitely more mainstream,
more accessible, one might say it still has a lot
of subtext going underneath.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
Real simple. Leonardo DiCaprio is part of a radical.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
Group, gets hooked up with a young lady and they
start doing some bad things. The film fast forwards years
later and Sean Penn, who's playing one badass of the
hell militaristic figure, is on the hunt to find Leo
and this young lady. And I think what smart with
the movie is. Yes, it's really funny. Yes, it's got
some incredible action set pieces which we haven't seen from
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Pete Anderson before. But it's also really subversive. It's making
comments about authoritarianism, about racism, of what's happening today.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Smart, funny and highly entertaining.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
Two forty five run Time didn't feel it, which is
always a great conflict to his movies.
Speaker 4 (47:48):
You, Yeah, that was the big takeaway for me. I
mean it flew by the pace is just relentless. I
was joking with you before you hear that sort of
the reviews.
Speaker 2 (48:00):
Saying an action packed thrill ride.
Speaker 4 (48:02):
This actually was an action packed thrill ride, and it
was kind of unusual because my biggest criticism of Paul
Thomas Anderson often is that his films are too slow,
and this one just was NonStop, like it flew by
for for a longer film.
Speaker 3 (48:16):
Definitely.
Speaker 1 (48:17):
How about the rave reviews, I mean richally, like I said,
more a commercial film, ninety percent Rotten Tomatoes. Now he
might finally win an Oscar. I mean, it's been a
pretty lean year as far as it's concerned.
Speaker 2 (48:25):
JD. You can't wait to see it. Obviously you've got
a lot going on, But you're gonna watch this in theaters? Yes,
I'm ast.
Speaker 3 (48:30):
Yes, I've watched the trailer multiple times. We'll probably watch
it tonight. Everything I saw was like all the reviews.
A lot of the reviews was that this is going
to win all the awards, all the oscars, like already,
like like basically, lock it down. They got it.
Speaker 2 (48:47):
I loved.
Speaker 3 (48:47):
I'm such a big fan of Benisio del Toro and
his evolution as an actor as well, Like I just
think he's he's so good as a like comedic as
well as he is serious, like he plays such a
blurs the lines very well. So I'm excited. And obviously Leo,
Leo DiCaprio de bang every chick in the world do Yeah,
I did. What a great actor?
Speaker 2 (49:08):
I oh what?
Speaker 3 (49:09):
I looked at my last thought. Sorry, I looked at
my wife and I said, I think this saga of
Leo's life now, like going now in the next twenty
years will be his like best acting in his biggest roles,
because I think he's really got some depth and I
think he's gonna hit some really big He's gonna hit
some movies out of the park.
Speaker 2 (49:29):
I think it's amazing thing.
Speaker 1 (49:31):
But he's going a handful of movies with Scor says
he's hoping to make another one with him as well.
He's worked with Steven Spielberg obviously, catch me if you
can now, work with Paul Thomas Anderson, like he's worked
with all the greatest filmmakers out there. Obviously, when An
Oscar work with Alejandro Gonzalez and Retoo for wrestling a
bear in the Revenant, and I'm with you, Like for
a guy who's a good looking guy who bangs models
half his age, he's a hell of an actor man
period like.
Speaker 2 (49:50):
He takes the craft seriously. Is he like to get
after it? Sure, we all do. Is he a little
more Jordan Belfort Wolf of Walshot than you might think? Probably?
But the guy brings it in this movie. He's hysterical, underrated, comedic.
Speaker 3 (50:01):
Chops, missile, Calevin Candy.
Speaker 4 (50:06):
We finally get to answer the question what would happen
if if The Big Lebowski was about an anti government
oh revolutionary who turns into a paranoid burnout dad.
Speaker 1 (50:16):
Leo plays the stoner well in this And now I'm
going to listen to all the reviews and all the
publicity because Leo's been out there. This is an expensive movie.
He knows you wants to try to help Peta Ters
to make this a hit. He was all the Kelsey brothers,
who I've never listened to their podcast, of course I
love Jason and An Eagles great. And they asked him about, Hey,
what's tough for like some of the scenes to what
Tal's referencing running around your bathroom or the kulude scene
(50:37):
in Wolf of Wall Street. He goes, listen, the quaalude scene,
he goes was supposed to be like I thought it
was a couple hours and Marty's likes, no, we gotta
do more.
Speaker 2 (50:43):
You gotta call the car, you gotta do this because
it was like four days.
Speaker 1 (50:46):
So because that was unbelievable physical exertion I had to do,
which I didn't realize it was that kind of effort
because I was not prepared for it. But to this
day people think I'm on Kuela's or did a reasonablef
fectsimly of it.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
It's a hill work.
Speaker 3 (50:58):
He went on The Kelsey Show.
Speaker 2 (50:59):
Yeah, Kelsey podcasts.
Speaker 3 (51:01):
I come with, like, Wow, that show should just be
Jason Kelsey and yeah, Travis Kin thank you.
Speaker 1 (51:07):
I mean he's a dud, right, Jason's auestme. He's funny,
He's that's Travis dud.
Speaker 3 (51:10):
I mean, Travis probably a nice guy, but he's a
duty He's bringing nothing, nothing but Fizer commercials.
Speaker 1 (51:16):
Right, And they've got a little bit of sports talk,
Like I thought they were talking more football Leo's he
doesn't have it, doesn't have a team. They talked more Lakers.
He said, best Foreman sports moment you've been a part of.
He goes Kobe shack the Lab against the Blazers two
thousand Western Conference files.
Speaker 3 (51:29):
Because I was there.
Speaker 2 (51:29):
They went insane.
Speaker 1 (51:31):
He's like, the only sport I really truly follow properly
is basketball and the Lakers, because otherwise I just wear
like cool swag because like we saw, because we saw
a picture of you wearing like a Chief sat He's like,
I don't know, because I was probably Leo's the guy,
because I was probably in case someone gave me the hat,
Like whatever, it's I don't you know.
Speaker 3 (51:45):
Yeah, he's just hiding from paparazzi exactly.
Speaker 1 (51:50):
All right, From Leo to Max Paturetti. Retiring after seventeen
seasons with five teams, Patrirett has announced his retirement, aged
thirty six. First round pick by Montreal and O seven,
went on to become the Canadian's captain before being traded
to Vegas, where he played four seasons, then bounce between Carolina,
Washington and Toronto. Unfortunately, JD injuries really did derail in
the last few seasons. You look at his numbers overall
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and you go, Okay, he definitely took a downturn. But
for his career three thirty five goals, six d eighty
one points, nine hundred and thirty nine games, what's he
going to now? He's returning to his alma mater at
the University of Michigan. He'll serve as a special assistant
to the head coach there. You played against PATRIRETTI give
me your mad Max stories.
Speaker 3 (52:29):
Congratulations, sir, great career. We will you rest easy now
we have the watch. We will see you in Valhalla.
No great, great career for him. And we had a
lot of good battles when he was in Vegas and
I was in Arizona. Obviously the team won, but us
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personally had some good battles. I met him a few times.
Great guy, you know. So I think he's going to
be a very good coach for this team and a
special assistant. I think he's going to help these young kids.
I like seeing when the guys go back to their
alma mater, going back to University of Michigan and kind
of painted for it a little bit. So it's going
to be interesting to see. Can't wait. So congratcha fucking elations.
Speaker 1 (53:13):
Do you think there's a chance to join us at
NHL Network. I mean, Tron's like's bringing people in maybe, I.
Speaker 3 (53:17):
Mean, why not. We're at six hundred analysts, might as
well bring six hundred and one.
Speaker 2 (53:23):
You never know well.
Speaker 1 (53:24):
In addition to Max patch Ready also stepping away from
the game of hockey, Avalanche defenseman Eric Johnson announcing retired
from the game of hockey after seventeen seasons first overall
selection JD back in the six draft. He played over
a thousand games Blues, Avs, Sabers Flyers, dressed in fifty
seven career playoff games, including all twenty games in twenty
twenty two, helping Colorado win the Stanley Cup. Johnson saying,
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after eighteen incredible years in the NHL, I'm retiring with
a heartfull of gratitude, of course, mainly known with the
Ads fourteen of his seventeen seasons of the Avalanche, only
Adam Foote played more seasons among Avalanche slash Nordique defenseman
onlyfoot In Joe Sakik among all Colorado Slash Quebec skaters.
Speaker 2 (54:03):
So obviously below it there.
Speaker 1 (54:05):
When you think about his career, what stands at to
you but egypt the native of Bloomington, Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (54:10):
Bloomington, Minnesota. I just a great teammate, great player, you know,
a guy that stood the test of time, had a
great run, obviously culminating in a nice Cup win. With Colorado.
I think nobody was happier for him than that team.
And and you know, he's just he's just a fun
loving guy. He's one of those guys that you know,
(54:30):
you could see when he the NHL posts his retirement,
how many guys repost it and just call him a
legend and and say how great a guy. He was
just very fun, happy, you know, never taking himself for
the game too seriously. And you know a guy that's
a that's kind of a i'd say a renaissance man
a little bit. You know, look at Tyson Barry, guys
(54:50):
that have it's always fun to see guys that play
hockey that aren't just hockey players. Right. So he's got
the he loves the ponies, you know, he's horse race guy,
loves he owns some horses, I think, and just one
of those people that you know, the game doesn't define
him so and I think it's just a it's nice
to see the career he had in the length of time.
And it's always nice to see guys that when they
(55:11):
leave their they're beloved and and you know they left
the game in a better place than when it started.
Speaker 1 (55:17):
But the horse is a common theme today aj loves
the Ponies and Josh Morris in our interview over his
shoulder a picture of a horse. So horses right now
in hockey, it's all coming together right now.
Speaker 3 (55:27):
You see everything, You're like, yeah, that's your background in
film studies.
Speaker 2 (55:34):
The attention to detail.
Speaker 1 (55:35):
One of the thoughts I will say again, We're all Canadian,
but for all the American listeners, Johnson and Brian Bard
the only US born defenseman to be taken first overall
in the draft, and overall Johnson just a sixth number
one overall defenseman address and over a thousand games.
Speaker 2 (55:48):
You play a thousand games at NHL. Hat tip to you.
Speaker 3 (55:51):
Yeah, if you play a thousand games in the NHL,
everybody could kiss your ass.
Speaker 1 (55:56):
And one last thought here Florrie's final prank love the
taling flude of this, as mentioned in a previous episode,
Legendary goldtender Mark Andrew fleuries off one final time. Suiting
up for a Penguins preseason game Saturday against the.
Speaker 2 (56:08):
Columbus Blue Jackets.
Speaker 1 (56:10):
The retired Floory is serenated by chance from his home crowd.
Even got one final prank in against his Pittsburgh teammates,
placing number twenty nine and flower decals on all their
cars leading up to the final game. A great farewell
if here Lebron the athletic maintains that teams are gonna
come calling for him, said Lebron on x last Twitter.
I don't know what he will say, but I'm telling
you teams will call one hundred first off decal's on porsches.
Speaker 2 (56:34):
Not a good idea. Do you think this is the
end we've seen from Mark Condrey to Florida?
Speaker 3 (56:38):
I think so. I think unless something crazy happens and
it's like the perfect fit for him, like a couple
goalies go down on one team and you know, it's
in Minnesota or it's in Pittsburgh and he needs to
save the day. I think he would potentially do it,
but I don't know. I think I still don't believe it.
But you know, I love that the pranks. I love
(56:58):
that he pulled that off. I mean, he was a
prankster and I liked pulling pranks, and it was it
was a great great you know, I mean, he was
he was just he broke the mold and for athletes
of being serious versus you know, guys that could perform
but also could be happy, go lucky, and like be
fun and make jokes. And that was always a fun
(57:19):
thing for me because I tried to kind of tow
that line my whole career and he did it so
perfectly and obviously a way better, more story career than
I had, But it was just always fun to watch
a guy like that that just kind of was like,
it's his hockey guys like and just played it so
good for him. But I don't think. I don't think
he comes back. I think he's done.
Speaker 2 (57:39):
Made more than enough money, He's played for long enough.
Speaker 1 (57:41):
I mean, I don't understand why there would be some
sort of burning yearning desire for him to come back,
But we shall see. Thanks once again to Josh Morrisey
was fantastic Thanks to jd Intel Episode forty nine of
NHL unscripted Episode fifty Coming down the Pike once again
looking for some of proficient in thumbnails let us know.
Speaker 3 (57:56):
And place you want. Do you want to prank my
last story prank?
Speaker 2 (58:00):
Please?
Speaker 3 (58:01):
I'll do my best prank before you go to sign
us off.
Speaker 1 (58:03):
Best you did or prank that you did that went
horribly awry, like someone just didn't take it well.
Speaker 3 (58:10):
Uh, that went horribly right. No. So the best one
I have was my first year in the miners in Wooster.
We had this kind of prank war with this house
and we came out of the rink one day and
they'd put a box of chicken wings, eating chicken wings
on our car in the middle of winter in Wooster.
So we went back to our house. I was meet
(58:30):
Derek Joslyn, Mike Moore, and Jamie McGinn, and we said,
we got to get these fucking guys. And we said,
what do you think we do? And I said, well,
I said what if we Because Mike Moore at the
time was injured, one of the guys in our house.
I said, We're going to go skate tomorrow at this rink.
You go into the room, you grab their house key,
(58:51):
go get it, run to a key store and get
it copied. So get their house key copied and we'll
figure out a time to break into their house. So
we ended up getting the copy of the key. We're
all skating that day, you know, and practice finishes and
Mike Moore walks back into the rink and he's like
giving us the thumbs up like he he got the key,
Like you got the copy of the key. We're good.
(59:12):
So we all sprint off the ice and we're like,
why don't we just do it now? So we drive
like mad men all the way to their house, break
into their house, and uh before they get home, and
we were like the night before, we're like, how do
we do this? Like we want to make this like
we want them to be like weirded out, but also
be like like what the fuck's going on? So we're like,
(59:32):
we took all their spoons, we we took all the batteries,
We took all the batteries out of all their remote controls,
all of their all their Xbox stuff. We took all
the light bulbs out that anywhere that had a light bulb.
We unscrewed the light bulb, took the light bulbs, and
then we so.
Speaker 2 (59:51):
Nothing valuable, but very frustrating if.
Speaker 3 (59:53):
It's not there, but frustrating and also like people think
like did somebody break in?
Speaker 2 (59:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (59:58):
And then and then we, uh, what do we do?
We took we took one of the guys bed because
we're like, who's the dumbest guy that probably like jumps
onto his bed when he comes home. And we basically
flipped the box spring on top, and he just and
we made the bed with the box spring on top
of the mattress. Yeah, and then and then we walked out.
(01:00:22):
So we had all that done. I think we did
some other shit. I can't even remember what it was,
but it was like we were like lubing up door
knobs and like.
Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
You should have got like sex toys and stuff like everyone.
Speaker 3 (01:00:34):
So we get we obviously complete this and we get
to the rink, and for like a week, they kept
coming to the rink and pretending like nothing happened, and
we were pretending like nothing happened, and they were trying
to get information out of us, until they finally were like, guys,
did you fucking take our We're like, and they're telling
us the story. They're like, you know, like, guys walk
home and they're like the one guy jumps on the couch,
(01:00:56):
goes to turn on the TV. He's like, oh, that's weird.
He's like he's like oh, He's like, guys, like you
gotta get new batteries. And he goes looks for the
batteries like he's like, oh, we have no batteries, guys.
Then the other guy's like, fuck, I want to make
some soup and he goes, no spoons. There's no spoons.
Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
Then no spoons is a new one. It's just weird.
It's weird, incredibly frustrating.
Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
But you think we just realize you need spoons for everything.
Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
Yeah, silver spoons.
Speaker 3 (01:01:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:01:25):
To tallas point mentioned the Big Lebowski, I wish you'd
pissed on the rug or at least taken the rug right,
really ties the room?
Speaker 3 (01:01:30):
Well we might, we might have still left a couple
upper deckers as Big Lebowski. Are you missing on my rug?
Just want my name, presence felt? Yeah, what was my prank?
Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
All right? Thanks so much for checking out on Scripted
episode fifty. Coming at to you next week.
Speaker 1 (01:01:49):
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