Jason Demers and Adnan Virk break down a lopsided Florida Panthers win in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final and look at what the Edmonton Oilers need to do in Game 4 to even the series. Then Kelly Chase checks in to provide an update on his courageous cancer battle and tell great stories about Brett Hull and Jon Hamm. Finally, Adnan honors the 25th anniversary of The Talented Mr. Ripley and Jason gets some time with Panthers general manager Bill Zito.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
NHL Unscripted is a production of the NHL and iHeart Podcasts.
Episode thirty six of NHL Unscripted coming at you.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
What a great episode we have today.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
One of the great fighters both on and off the ice,
Kelly Chase has in the joyce. He's got unbelievable stories
from paling around from the likes of Brett Hull to
John Ham.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You're gonna love Chaser.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
More hilacious travel dates for Jason Demurs coming up. We'll
find out right now. He's in Sunrise, Florida. As we'll
be talking plenty about what happened in game three and
looking ahead to game four. Also centiph and sixty on
the talented mister Ripley twenty fifth anniversary.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Had to watch it. It's great that David mans it's nothing.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Good movie.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, it's great. I do enjoy it. Chick movie.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Let's talk hockey, my friend, before we get to the
silly stuff Panthers rolled in game three. Man, Games one
and two could not have been better, right, we're talking
to this as an epics Dalley Cup file in game three,
so much for that shit. Panthers just kicked their ass
off the races. Ste Skinner gets chased in the third
Florida powery specifically three for eleven and a game that
got awfully nasty.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
The third praise. We'll talk undisciplined play here JD.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Edmonton took twenty one penalties, which is tied for the
second most by one team in a Cup final game.
The two teams combined for one hundred and forty penalty minutes,
fourth most in a.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Cup final game.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I'm assuming you didn't see this coming as far as
far as a one sided game, but after two tight
games like that, sometimes abrot happens.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
What do you make of the physicality, Well.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
When you look at it, it's it's Edmonton finally getting
frustrated or they've been getting it's just boiling over, and
it's it's kind of classic Florida. People try to out Florida,
the Florida Panthers, and you can't do it. They're like
the younger brother that just kind of poke, say hey, hey,
what are you doing, Like, come on, give me the remote,
Give me the remote, Give me the remote. And then
all of a sudden you turn around smack them in
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the head and they go, ah, oh, I'm not doing anything,
And mom and dad yell at you, which is the
ref's giving you penalties.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Excellent analogy, Thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
And it's just funny because you know it's it's I'm
more of the air, and it'd be funny to you know,
ask anybody that played back in the day. It's if
you're gonna kind of take your pound and flash show
to speak. And you know, at the end of the
game they start going after Florida. But like, if you're
gonna do it, just do it all the way, like
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go get take a suspension or something, because if you're
gonna kind of slash a guy, you know, I vander
Kain slashes Cardiver Hagen kind in the face a little
bit like a little love tap gets kicked out, and
like if you're gonna get kicked out, make sure there's
some teeth falling out, make sure that you make it worthwhile.
Because when you're going and you're just kind of cross
checking in the arm and they're obviously not gonna engage you,
they're just you're they're up six to one, they're just
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kinda they're just gonna kind of float through. And now
they got you mentally, and you know, the Edmonton Oilers
just kind of man they just came undone completely and
I think, listen, you have you have the chance to reset.
It's one game and it's amazing how the narrative changes.
But that was just a bad games start to finish
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for the Edmontonals and they could not find their footing
and then they just were little bitches.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, and to your point of how the narrative changes,
it's funny how it's gone from like, oh my god,
those two games are so tight, this is going six
probably seven.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Now it's it could always be done in five.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
And that's where it gets interesting because I say to myself,
j Dy, well, the others can't possibly be worse. They
were dominated. I think Skinner's back in that. I do
think he bounces back. But this Game four is truly
must win because you lose this game. I know you
still have two games at home in Games five and
game seven, but you're not gonna win.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Three straight against the defanning Steley Cup champions. This is
truly a must winning Game four for the Olders.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Yes, yeah, I don't think they can do what they
did last year coming back from down three to nothing
and bringing it to seven. It's just a lot of
hockey and it's tough to everything needs to work that way.
This is it for them in the sense of, like
this is a big game. I think they wanted to
come back and split. You know, Stuart Skinner, what six
to zero in games game fours and he's just lights
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out goals against under one point three. He's he's so
dialed in in game fours, and this team is. And
I think this team kind of figures, you know, teams
out slowly but surely, and I expect their best effort
in game four. And I expect you know, Connor and
Leon who kind of been a little bit quiet, we're
a little bit quiet last game and we're't able to
generate much.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I think they're gonna be flying.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
I think there's gonna need to be some changes on
the defensive side, on the decor. But yeah, this should
be a desperate, urgent team because you know, going back
to Edmonton especially. The thing to remember too is like
this game four and five one one day in between.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
It's a travel day.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
So it is going to be a difficult game for
guys to kind of bounce back from. And it's gonna
be tough, I think physically and mentally to stay locked
in even though so for me, I'm like, looking at Edmonton,
we win this game, We're flying back to Edmonton, go
one day. Home is where the heart is. You know,
we'll have the mental edge and you know we can
quickly be up three to two in the series and
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be in the driver's seats. So but it starts with
this game starts at game four.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
No doubt about. It's your point. But Skipper how Skinner?
Excuse me, Kimpert, Yeah, give a Hipper this deal. Let's
call it Skipper Skinner five and zero in game four
with two shutouts, so he's been at his best in
those game forts it's always seems so pivotal. Quick thought
of Marshan first player in hockey history scoring overtime Golden
Stanley come filed, then scoring in the next game in
the opening minute, also becomes the oldest player at age
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thirty seven, to scoring the first three games of a final.
But I want to get to silly stuff, which is
Paul Maurice, who's always a great quote even in game.
I mean normally, yeah, some guys postgame, they're good in game. No,
Greig poppitsrmally they're very serious guys. He's cracking wise with
Jackie Redman, friend of the show here who told us
when we asked you, who's your favorite coach?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Dodger said, palm Maras is the best.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
In an in game interview, when Redmand brought up Bennett's
upcoming free agency.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
To about Sam Bennett, pal Marie said, I don't think.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
His agent's gonna have to work that hard this summer.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
But I'll move on a horrible altitude. I think he's
got beavonic player.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I see what you're doing, the nine fever.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
He's got a whole bunch of things.
Speaker 7 (05:59):
We're not sure he can be cured.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Play the game, Paul, play the game.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Thank you for.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
This dangy dangy fever to Dang.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
You are sipt Danang all the place here. What you
mean having some fun during the game?
Speaker 7 (06:15):
What's Danang fever?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
That's uh topic. I got this, but I got this
booty sweat I got back in d Nang.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I said, it's definitely a Vietnam thing.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I think Robert Williams too good morying Vietnam. Dang Yeah,
uh yeah. Why wouldn't you say every bad thing about
Sam Benning and the media the way he's played. I
think he's like, what the odds for him to win
kan smythe are like down to like plus one seventy five.
He was like fifteen thousand or thirty thousand at the
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start of these playoffs, and we talked about it on
the network, where like, this guy should be in the
consideration for the con smythe easily the way you know,
set set the record NHL history most roade goals. I
mean that shift of his uh to score that goal,
or he goes in absolutely truck sticks Pod Coles and
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truck sticks. Klingberg then almost takes out Drysdal and then
a shot out of a fucking cannon on the breakaway
and goes, eh, backhand, forehand, where's the jackstrap.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
It's in the back of the net.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Danang, danang, danangh But no, I think, uh, you know,
Paul Maurice is very smart.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
He's become this kind of quote machine.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yea, I feel like he's got the he's got a
joke writer in the back. That's right and stuff for
him because everything seems way too quick and quippy for
it to be legitimate. But yeah, that was pretty good.
He's just like, yeah, he's a great guy. Does all
the right things. And then Jackie's like, his agent's gonna
really be uh really be excited, and he's like, no
bad guy, danang fever. Now I'm saying it, dang dang faver,
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and you got me all fucked up.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
But I love the idea of him having a show Grier.
That's great. These guys making dollars a day, give me
some good quotes. I got a guy.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I bet you imagine I have a punch up guy
as you're going to do these coaches interviews.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I love that idea, great concept.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
They got an ifp guys some of the writers from
Fould feeding me jokes, that would be amazing.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
If Palmers seriously had a joke writer, it'd be so good.
All right?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Coming up next Kelly Chase, an absolute fighter both on
the ice and off. We're talking with Chaser about his
battles coming up next right here on NHL inscripted right
after this. Our next guest was signed in nineteen eighty
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eight by the Saint Louis Blues as.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
An undrafted free agent.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Went on to play four hundred and fifteen NHL games
for the Blues, Whalers and Maple Leafs during his eleven
seasons in the NHL, he was regarded as one of
the toughest and most respected people in the game, and
that sentiment has not changed it all since he retired.
He was the Pride of Porcupine playing Saskatchewan Kelly Chase Chaser.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
It is great to see how are I, my friend?
Speaker 8 (09:03):
I'm doing I'm doing great. But you know, the amount
of times you guys changed this podcast and everything I
thought I was going on with two Hall of Famers,
I'm gonna get you guys were doing. I'm like, who
are these guys anyway? Amount of times they've changed.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I think that's important, you know, have The answer is no,
But you're right. We cause a lot of chaos.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
We're gonna get to the hockey to sect can I
But of course everyone's following you and your health of
these last few years.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Give us an up. How you feel right now?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Not bad?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I I've got.
Speaker 8 (09:32):
A a little bit of a setback. I got the
graph host disease, which is called it's called graph host GVHD,
which is sort of a little bit of a It's
where your stomach kind of fights the enzymes that your
brother had, My brother and I had. He was the
transplant for me, he was one hundred percent match. So
(09:53):
I've lost a lot of weight, which I kind of
joke because that some people are going on a zempic.
I went with chemo and lost you know, sixty five
or seventy pounds here. But I'm starting to come out
of it a little bit now. I am at the
hospital now, but I but again, it was one of
those things where.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I think.
Speaker 8 (10:13):
The chemo and everything in the in the in the
clinical trial drug that I went that I needed to
combat the leukemia has worked. So from a cancer perspective,
it seems like it's all gone and it's in remission,
which is a blessing.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
The GVHD still there, so uh, we're still working through
that and trying to get myself so I'm not in
a situation where I can't swallow or I can't eat
or whatever, and uh and and so we're still.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Having to work through that. It's work in progress right now.
But I feel pretty good.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
And I've been treated great here at Sitement Cancer Institute.
So just keep batting and and hopefully we keep going down.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
The right path.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
You're You're a tough bastard man and an inspiration and
I love hearing that you got some good, good, positive news.
And you know, we spoke with Pat Maroon last week.
Speaker 9 (11:06):
And I can see why all this outreach for him
with his charity events and everyone that comes and the
people that show up, and he deserves it more than
anyone because he's he's the one that probably did something
for all those people before that, you know, So that's
just the kind of guy he is. And you know,
hopefully he can keep fighting here and he can battle
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his way out of this because he is a fighter.
And we're all thinking of him, and you know, lots
of prayers for him, but you know, he's a fighter though,
we all know that, so he'll get through this.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
He told some great stories about you, and you know,
talked about why the hockey community is so great and
and everybody's been so eager to rush to support you
because you know, the resounding thing is everybody says you'd
be the first one to be there if anybody needed
any help. And what's it mean to you and what
do you make of the way that hockey community has
supported you so much during this.
Speaker 8 (11:59):
Yeah, it's pretty remarkable. I mean, you get up in
the morning and have you know, twenty thirty. Sometimes text messages.
It's one thing to know that you have support.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
And I say this a lot.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
I think a lot of the people in here will
make it out of here because they they die a loneliness.
And I think in the hockey community, the one thing
that we have is this unique brotherhood of people that
that have constantly just check in with you. Pat's one
of those guys that. You know, Pat was, you know,
a young kid that didn't really know the direction he
should take. And and I was fortunate enough to I
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owned a junior team, and I was fortunate enough to
be able to bring him to camp and and sort
of give him some direction and some guidance because I think,
you know, in Saint Louis, there wasn't a lot of that.
I think you could it was. It's easy to just
fall into a situation in Saint Louis where.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
You know, you don't really know the direction.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
It's changed quite significantly, and Pat's one of the reasons why.
But you know, you'll see the Kit Chuck Boys, Clayton Keller, Brick, Trent,
Frederick Logan down, a lot of those guys, you know,
they kind of took the direction from Pat and so
like when Pat was starting, he didn't really have a
clue what to do. We basically had to tell his parents,
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like you got first of all, you got to stop
feeding him, because that's the first thing you gotta do,
or we're gonna move him out of your house. And
then the second thing was is just you know what
direction he should take. So Pat's one of those guys
in the hockey world that has always checked in with me.
Is funny because you brought it up what it means
the hockey community. I just heard from Osh who just
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retired and had his party. I hear from a lot
of the young guys that that I didn't even play
with that I just I would say, kind of mentor
through Saint Louis, And it's just great to see the
success a lot of these guys have had. I think
that's the one thing that I think. I'm sure you
realize when you retired, you don't miss the game as
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much as you miss the guys.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 8 (13:59):
So for me, knowing I've said this before in this
chair that I'm saying in right now, I wake up
one morning and I fought Grimsom like eleven times, and
he's sitting beside my bed and I look over and
I'm like, oh, Jesus, I must be sick if you're here.
And he starts laughing and he says, Chase, I want
to kiss you on the lips right now, and there's
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nothing you can do about it. I said, well, you're
zero and eleven so far, so you might as well
get it in now, because this is your best chance, buddy.
So you know, just knowing that that there's so many
guys that care around the hockey community is pretty.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Special, no question.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
But you mentioned tj Oshan announced his retirement on Monday.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
You play with some major personality during your time in
Saint Louis, Chase or Brett hol obviously, Brendan Shanahan, Chris Pronger,
Mark Bershman, Basima Craye, Tony Twist.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Who stands out of that list, Well.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
I mean you mentioned a lot of great guys and
a lot of guys that were great players too, you know,
like I played, I was lucky because you think about it,
you play with I played with mckinni's hole Pronger, all
those guys at the same time, you know, that's a
those hall of famers and guys those guys are special,
pretty pretty neat, you know. And you look at a
power play and you know you got mckinnison Pronger on
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the back end, you got Hall Tours on Demetra, and
you know you're kind of sitting on the bench going, man,
I feel pretty confident right now, like we we got
a chance here. And uh, and you know, you see
some of those guys, Mark Berzwan just a character Twister.
I don't think there's anybody mentally tougher or tougher in
the game than Tony Twist. I mean just the Race
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for Chase they used to call it. Guys would try
and come out and get their fight in and they
would race to fight with me so they didn't have
to fight with Twister. That was real, real, The Race
for Chase was a real thing where guys, uh, you know,
it's funny. Mark Bergerman was telling the story rob Ray
and and Twister got into a fight, and and Twister
broke rob Ray's cheat book. And Bersion was telling the
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story last year, and there was Rob Blake and Nelson
Emerson and Todd Calling and trent Yannie, myself, Twister and
and burs says uh Shassar you know, he calls me
Chaser and Chaser instead of Chaser.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Shassar Shassar.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
Remember when the big guy going to fight with Rob
Ray and he fight him and he breaks his cheek
bone and I said, yeah, Burish, I remember Twister breaking
his cheek bone. He goes and then we go to
Buffalo and the next time we played them, then they're
running around and it is the race for Chase and
and so Razor and and Brad May and Boogner and
Barnaby and all these guys are running around and and
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they're and they're trying to get after me. And Twist
is on the trip and he says, and he says,
and you take them to the timeout and you elbow
Brad May and the nose and you say, that's all right.
I fight with all you guys, but the big guy
at home right now and he's watching the game. And
when we play you next week, he's going to be
in the lineup, So don't worry. At which I did.
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I got into it may Day and I said, don't worry, guys.
I said, I'll fight with all of you tonight, but
big guys watching on TV right tonight at home. Next
week we got you guys again, and he goes and
then the next thing, you know, Pavel's score tree goal
and we win the game and no fight, and we
win the game and it was nothing because we calmed
the big guy calm everything down from home.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
It was hilarious.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
You know, He's basically saying, like Twister scared everybody, and
he just all I had to do was threatn the guys, saying, yeah,
Twister was at home watching it, watching on TV, and
and he was going to make sure everything was cleaned
up next week. So how it was with him, I mean,
he was just that tough. So you know, I roomed
with Hull for seven and a half years. So the
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stories are endless, and I'm pretty fortunate to uh to
play that long, and especially playing in city that loves
sports like it doesn't say Louis. So I had a
lot of characters that I played with it.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
There were a lot of fun you you.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
I read a story about you and Brett Hall stealing
Bob Barry's.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Car, yeah and his Jaguar.
Speaker 8 (18:05):
Yeah yeah, we uh well he we went to the
game one night and I came to the game with Shanahan.
I live with Brendan and Hali asked me if we're
going out after and or you know, we're going to
ride together. I said sure. So I went up to
the offices where he cut out of the rink all
the time. He went in a different exit out of
the rink, and he said, where'd you park? And I said,
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I don't have a car. What do you mean I
have a car? I said, I'm in a car. He
said Jesus, and he said, I'll be right back. So
he comes back and he's got the keys to a car.
We go out to the parking lot and he goes,
come on, let's go, and he jumps in Bob Berry's jag.
So I get in the jag and him and Bob
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were kind of close. So I mean, I don't know.
I mean, I don't think he's stealing the thing. I
just figure, you know, he's just talked to Bob and
whatever the deal they made. He's got a car. So
I get in the car. We go down down to
the landing and you mixing. You know, it's you know,
two am, and we're not done. So we go to
the east side. We're gonna go to Pops. It's twenty
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four hours joint, so we get over the pops and
it's like it's the lowest form of life. It's it's
basically it's everybody that shouldn't be out that is still out,
Like it's just it's just in place that you just
shake your head.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
You're like, what the hell. And it's a.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
Mixture of guys in suits to people living on the
street in this place, you know. And it's now it's
like four point thirty in the morning, and I'm like, dude,
we got to go, like, we got to get out
of here.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
We got practice in the morning. So he throws me
the keys.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
I get out in the parking lot and I'm having
trouble with the lock and I'm jiggling it around and
the key snaps in the door lock.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Now we got Bob Barry's Jaguar.
Speaker 8 (19:51):
It isn't like we you know, we got some rental
car that we could just leave over in East Saint Louis. Like,
there's no way you leave the Jag over there, and
it's not on blocks.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
When we get back, we go.
Speaker 8 (20:03):
To the secure and we finally convinced some guy at
security that he needs to let us in and get
over with the door locks, and he needs to make
this key, so the guy doesn't believe it's Brett Hall.
Find you know, no cell phone, so we're calling from
the desk in the security office at Pops, which is again,
these guys are some rugged customers, right yea. Polly's then
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holding court out in the parking lot. He's got a
burning barrel going burning whatever is in the burning barrel,
and he's got cases of beer and he's telling stories
and these people are sitting there like they're having story
time with Brett Hall. The sun's starting to come up,
this guy's making keys. I'm like, this is a disaster.
And he promises that he's going to get everybody at
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breakfast at eat Right, which is just across the river
into Saint Louis, into Missouri, and it's his famous place.
It's just a little it's about the size of my
hospital room. But he's going to buy everyone breakfast. So
I'm like, just shut up already, and he's like, ah, cares,
don't worry about it, you know. So pretty soon they
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got the door lock unlocked, they get the door the
key made, we get into Bob's car. We're driving across
pull In. I'm like, Holly, we're not stopping it. Eat right,
He goes, of course we are. So we pull in
and all of these people, I mean, guys that are bartender, security, lawyers,
that have had a big night, strippers, you name it.
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Every form of life is at the eat right okay,
And it is just like people are walking. I'm like
Jesus and he's just like, whatever they want, and he
just shorter. This guy's they're shorter chef, cooking way, cooking away,
cooking away. Everybody's getting fed. Next thing, you know, Holly's
inviting them to practice. I'm like, Holly, that's inviding everybody
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to the rink to practice. So we practice up rent
with ice rink and we come in and we're there
before everybody, and I just want to get in and
get out of my suit because it's the suit I
wore the night before and I don't want the coaches
to see me. And Holly just walks in could care less,
walks right in the coach's office and throws the keys
on Bob Barry's desk, and Bob Barry goes batshit crazy.
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He's reported his car stolen. He's going nuts. I can
hear him yelling. All I want to do is get
out of my fucking suit and get into my underwear.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Okay, just not have him see me in but in
this suit.
Speaker 8 (22:30):
And he comes around the corner and he sees me
just getting out of my dress pants.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
He looks, he goes you.
Speaker 8 (22:36):
You, of all fucking guys, you're not good enough to
hang around with him.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
I'll fucking send you to the miners. I don't know
who you think you are.
Speaker 8 (22:44):
And he starts yelling at me, and Holly's like, relax,
and you know he can't.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
He could care less. He's got eighty six dolls he
could carry.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
At that point shit from the coach. He hasn't even
given Brett shit. He's reported the car stolen. But the
worst part about the whole thing was we went out
on the ice and all of these people are around
the glass waiting for Holley Stick like they're.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Banging on the glass, hey Chase, you know, great breakfast.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
And they's just like security wearing the orange Pops security
jackets and strippers and and like every single.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Like from Pops, like just everything.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
And Garth Butcher was the captain and he just skated
out on the ice and he looked around. He watched
this throw up five minutes he comes over and he goes,
what the fuck did you guys do last night?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I said, Butcher, you.
Speaker 8 (23:37):
Wouldn't believe it if I told you, and Holly could
care less. He couldn't care that I was getting it.
I got into it, I got all of the shit
for it. But Holly could care less. He was just like, man,
that was fun hunh And I'm like, dude, they're still here.
It's practices over. Get him out of here. Oh what
a day.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
You great characters, what a great story.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Uh so you just did in the vedical weeks of
the Make a Wish Foundation.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
What keeps you so active with charities like that?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Man, it's funny. You know, when we're playing, we try
and do as much as we can.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
I think in a charity world, and I say this,
a lot were an inch deep and a mile wide.
We never really dig in and know exactly where money's
going or what it's going for. And I think just
being this this has changed me a lot. I think
I have a lot more. I can recognize when people
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are hurting a little bit more now, I think, and
when you need to take a little bit more time
for people. But also following the money and watching how
you deliver. You know, I think five minutes of your
time is worth more than five thousand year dollars lots
of times. And so I think being able to do
something cool with the kids that make a wish event
(24:49):
we just did was really cool event.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
We did it at airline.
Speaker 8 (24:52):
Hey, they'd put a golf stream in for kids to
look through the plane. They had all these Perraris and
Lamborghinis and McLaren's and rolls everything around for the kids
to look at. And I think, speak go for a ride,
and it was amazing to watch the kid's spirits and
to know that there was kids that were on that
make a wish list and their wish was to just
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meet the Saint Louis Blue.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
It's like, how easy is that for us? Right meet
the speaker.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
It was like, shit, I could organize that in fifteen seconds.
And you know, and so when you hear like a
lot of these wishes cost ten thousand dollars and stuff
like that, well not for us to show up. And
so I think I think Robbie Thomas, Perico Steen and
Falker were guys that showed up at it, and again
it meant so much to them and we moved the
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program around so they could get there and leave because
they had a second event during the day. And to
speak volumes about them just losing out of the playoffs,
being at event, taking the time for it, and then
having to go to a second event that day and
show their faces and be around kids again, I think
speaks volumes about the way hockey players think.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Does that lift your spirits a lot too? You jumping
into those things that I know kind of when I,
you know, was playing and doing a lot of that
stuff with the teams, It always, you know, the perspective,
but also gave me a boost of energy knowing that,
like you're helping people with people's spirits as well.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
Yeah, I think so. I think I think I've touched
on that a little bit. About being at the hospital here,
I think there's lots of times where you can walk
around here and recognize when there's people that need a
little bit of a brous You know they're here and
they're lonely, and lots of times you can die in
here because they're lonely, not because of the cancer, because
the cancer is tough and chemo is really tough, and
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then having to do it for I think I've been
here off and on for the last year and a half,
just over a year and a half, a year and
eight months. It can it can beat you up. And
so for me, I've got that entire I've got my family,
I've got the people of Saint Louis, but I've got
that hockey family, you know, that supports me where a
lot of people don't. And like you said, going into
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one of their rooms and having that conversation, I think
it's good and healthy for people and if you can
help pick them up. I mean, it's just your time
you're in here anyway. So for me, I find it.
I find it, you know, more an obligation more than anything.
I think when you put on your jersey, you have
an obligation to give back. And the fact that you
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were talking about you did it and it made you
feel good, it should make you feel good. And but
then on the flip side of it too, I don't
think sometimes we recognize just how valuable we are from
a mental standpoint to people, how many people we can
do something for by just taking a little bit of time.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
So we all said last one for me, Kelly any good,
John Ham stories, Well.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
The funny thing about him was like he was just
our bartender.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Like he like crazy, It's it's crazy.
Speaker 8 (27:45):
The craziest thing is is the first time I seen
him on TV. We were in Hartford. Shanahan' been traded
to Hartford. I've been traded to Hartford. And I look
at the TV. I'm like, what the fuck? And I'm
looking at him and I called Shanahan Cable TV. Of course, right,
I called Shanahan and Hartford. I go, hey, you got
your TV on? He goes, yeah, I go put it
on a fifty one. He's like, what, I go put
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on a channel fifty one. He's like why, I go,
just do it. So he puts it on. He's like,
what the fuck? And like, I'm honestly, God, didn't even
know he acted.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
I didn't even know he acted. Give me, dude.
Speaker 8 (28:20):
He would wake up on our couch in the morning,
we'd have a party, he'd be one a couch in
the morning, and he's just one of our buddies.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
I thought he's just the bartender at Cardwalls. I had
no idea.
Speaker 8 (28:30):
I don't know if he was just like embarrassed to
say something, or I don't.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Know what the hell it was.
Speaker 8 (28:35):
With him, but all of a sudden, I'm like, dude,
there's ammer And it was unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
And and you know, and I mean, I love the.
Speaker 8 (28:43):
Guy to death, like like we have some we've had
some great time since then too, but we had great
times prior to that. And he there used to be
this thing called party in the Park and it was
that and here his restaurant was kind of a collecting,
a collection of where the younger people went. Yeah, and
he would just literally be pointing out girls, going, hey, listen,
there's a girl over here in the back at the restaurant.
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You know, you got to see her. She's unbelievable. Great
gallat known he for. You got to see her. She's unbelievable.
So he was like the scout, the head scout for
the freaking hockey players. We were just coming in this
place and Ham would be bartend and he'd have everything
already set up. It was unbelievable. And then to know
that he was, you know, and to see how the
success he's having now is awesome.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
You know.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
So it's pretty easy to get him to come back,
come back and do things too. Because we've always included
him as one of the alumni who knew who knew.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I saw him at your at your event at Winter Classic,
and that's exactly the feeling I got. I was like,
this guy, you could put skates on him in difference.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Yeah, No, he loves it. He loves it.
Speaker 8 (29:48):
And and it's funny because you know, like I've been lucky,
I've been lucky in the in the in the event
we did in Saint Louis, the Cancer of Incitans event,
calling guys in them showing up and completely name dropping. Now,
but when you see those guys show up, like on
Peyton show up and and Garth Brooks and Dirk Spentley
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and those guys show up, it makes you feel good.
But it also puts things in perspective of just what
kind of people these guys are? You know, Ham showing
up at you know, all kinds of event. He's done
so many events for our alumni. Matter of fact, we
purchased a ring for him, the alumni did. I don't
know if you guys know, a Stanley Cup ring. Yeah,
we did a thing at the at the event, we
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bought him a We bought him a ring and presented
it to him. Our our alumni had a huge event
in Kathy Napple and and him and his wife were
there and we did a little presentation and Hammer got
a ring and he was emotional, of course, but it
was like he's done so many things for our alumni over.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
The years that it was like easy.
Speaker 8 (30:50):
We're like, you know, Lord knows the amount of money
we've raised because he showed up.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
You know, he showed up.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
We did an event one night called the Dining Draft,
and you basically you show up at this event and
you draft a guy that you want to have dinner with,
and then you go to that restaurant and have.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Dinner with him.
Speaker 8 (31:05):
So like we had Hull and Ozzie Smith and mckinnis
and Tory Holt and like all these great athletes, and
then of course Hammer, we sell him for eighty five
thousand bucks. You can go to dinner with Ham for
eighty five grand. The guy pays eighty five grand. Someone
pays eighty five grand for the Stanley Cup. It turns
out it's the same table they pay. They pay eighty
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five So they get paid one hundred and seventy grand
to take the cup and and uh John Ham to
dinner and they buy one more player and they pay
five grand for Danny Cox to go for dinner. Danny
Cox is like, yeah, Ham and I raised one hundred
and seventy five grand with the Stanley Cup to go
go to go fucking dinner and and uh and we
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had the dining draft and he goes amazing, that chunk
of metal can raise the same amount of money as
John Ham did. But those guys and Danny Cox raised
one hundred and seventy five thousand. So Cox he tells
everybody that, hey, you know what, Hamm and I and
the Cup we raised one hundred and seventy five It's
no big deal, A no.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Big deal though.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Kelly Chase obviously a great entertaining personality, a terrific player,
a wonderful human and an absolute fighter Chaser can't thank
you out man.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
This was awesome.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
Thanks a lot guys and that, and like I wasn't
knowing what to expect on this show. In a lot
of times, you guys canceled. I asked, I said, is
your hall of fame by one of their names or something?
I don't know about These fucking guys aren't that important?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
All right? Thanks to Kelly Chase. Again, what a great storyteller.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
He is, and we'll get to a little bit more
here involving some hockey news. But first will set of
file and sixty the twenty fifth anniversary of the talented
mister Ripley, which was sparked by the fact I read
this great book called The Yellow Face rf Quong came
in a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
I've got this cool little thing I'm.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Doing here tal at the library because they know I'm
an avid reader, so they said, we gent to sign
up for our concierge special.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I'm like, what is that?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
They go, will we recommend a book for you, book
of fiction every month?
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Like all right, fine. So the first book they recommend
it was awful, like anybody what it was.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
But I'm like, I read like twenty pages ago this
was about idea, Like no, But since then, shout out
to my local library. They've like they're on a hater
four for four just great books from all over place,
different different genres, crime, fiction, history, novels, excellent.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
So anyways, this one, yellow Face, I don't know what's about,
but it's a really great story came a couple of
years ago.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Fictional story about a writer who is very jealous of
another writer, their friends with kind of friend of me
is to hang out together. The one friend is incredibly successful,
rich author, the other one is an aspiring author, and
wes are having drinks one night, and the rich author
is a choking, dying.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Unbelievable story. The woman's you know, heartbroken, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Kita also kind of really didn't like her that much
because they kind of have this love hate relationship. Before
she died, though, she was telling her about this manuscript
she had, this is this is my next book.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
They're a little blitzed, but she's reading it.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
She could tell you because this is awesome, this is
a great book, but she doesn't tell her friend that
because you kind of hate each other.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
She's like, it's not bad. I'm a little drunk on
what's happening.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Friend dies, She steals the books, publishes the book under
her own name, ends up becoming a cause celebra Oh
my god, unbelievable book, and she's ratizes it by saying, well,
the actual book was still a little bit unfinished, like
I had to go.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Through it, clean it up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Change this, change that, like her writing is incredible, but
like I am an author. In part, however, she doesn't
admit it, but becomes a sensation to all the amotter
of times someone finds out that she ripped it off.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
The story goes in there. Great book check out yellow Face.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Anyways, the reason why I mentioned it is in the
blurb they said, well, it's kind of Patricia Heismanth style,
like a Patricia Heismith.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
She wrote the talent to mister Ripley, speaking of assuming
one's persona stealing someone's work. So amazingly it tell I'd
never actually seen it. I remember when it came out.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
It was in theaters.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Anthony Mangello directed the English Patient obviously, I remember Matt
Damons and.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
It's just one of those moayes that kind of slipped
through the cracks.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Did It went in the Oscar So I didn't end
up watching it, but finally got around of seeing a
twenty fifth Unders and it was fantastic. I mean, what
was so great about watching it now is you know
all these actors are, but back then there's just so
fresh faced Damon Jude Law, Kate Blanchett, Gwyneth Baltrow and
of course two of my favorite actors, the incredible Philip
Seymour Hoff and showing up as Freddy and the great
investigator Philip Baker Hall. Great character actor Passway a few
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years ago loved the movie. I love the glossy direction
of anthy Man Galiic got I should I should have
watched it years ago, just for the jazz and the
setting in Italy. Oh my god, it's gorgeous through in
Vanas shooting it there in Rome. Great cast again for
those who don't know the story, Damon is the talent
to mister Ripley. He assumes the prisona of Dickey, who's
played by Jude Law, the rich playboy. Another great character
actor James Rebhorn loved him from Stead of a Woman.
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He plays the father of Jude Law, who sends him
over there to try, you know, get his son to
come back. But he assumes Dickie's identity. He got this
whole is he isn't He's gonna get caught, is gonna
catch up to him. But I thought it was an
excellent thriller, really fun. Damon seems to be having a blast.
This was two years after Good Will Hunt You, so
this really kind of establishes Chops as a leading actor.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
With ut Ben Affleck and.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Again everything with Philip seemer Hoff and he's only in
at three scenes, but he's absolutely hysterical.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Go ahead, tell.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
One of my favorite lines from Philip seymour Hoffman those
you wish you could fuck every woman just once.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
That's got to me.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
I was thinking of it.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
I go, that's gonna be a list of greatest opening
lines ever by a character, because it's the first thing
he says in English. He pulls up and he goes, oh,
look right now, pretty said comes to DJ and he's right.
He gets out the car on the first thing he said,
just leering at the woman. I'm like, PSA, it's all
time great. But the reason also e J Reddick second
men she's getting He was talking about Ripley, the limited
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series which Steve Zellien did Oscar winning writer of Schindler's List.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
I know that came out a couple years.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
I don't know what it was on Netflix, Apple TV
plus give Up last year, but been a lot of
talk around Ripley and Ripley such but the talented miss
Ripley absolutely fantastic. I encourage people to check her if
they have not yet done so, really really well done.
Congratulations to Lane Hudson named the recipient the Calder Trophy.
As expected, j D wins a top rookie out of
maclan Celberty and Dustin Wolf first HAPs put it win
the award since Ken Dryden back in nineteen seventy two.
(36:45):
Unbelievable season obviously for Lane Hudson and a great moment
for the Abs, right.
Speaker 7 (36:49):
H Yeah, great mom for the Abs.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
All the other voters can will fuck themselves that celeb
that Dustin Wolf is second in macklean Celberny's third. I
mean the fact that McLean Celburgny wasn't second, it wasn't
a tighter race is crazy.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
To me U.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
But nothing taken away from Laye Hudson. I think Lane
Hudson was the winner clear cut. I mean he brought up,
he brought the Canadians, helped the Canadians. I mean what
seventy points helped him get to the Stanley Cup playoffs,
and I mean he's credible, talent, amazing they got to
build around him in Montreal. But yeah, congratulations of that
little fucker.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
No doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
And lastly you get to talk to billsy though again
doing a raat job the Steley Cup playoffs, and you
talked to bilsy To, who is the architect of Florida
Panthers team.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
What was the big nuggets?
Speaker 1 (37:34):
We're going to play a clip of it here, but
what was the main thing you gleaned from him?
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Panthers on the Prowl. He's doing an amazing initiative with
his wife. They're selling these like ceramic panthers. I think
it's five grand for a panther and you're able to
paint it and design it any way you want, and
then it becomes like something and all the sport goes
to cancer research and cancer prevention. So it's it's a
(37:59):
very cool seems very close to his heart, like like
very very sincere interview, and he's an amazing man. He's
very nice to talk to and you're gonna hear some
great stuff here. So here's more Panthers on the Prowl
with Billy Zito.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
But tell us.
Speaker 10 (38:15):
About Panthers on the Prowl. You and your life started this.
We're gonna make sure the cameras can pick this up.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
But tell us a little bit about this initiative and
why it was so important for you to start it.
Speaker 6 (38:24):
Well, it's so important because it affects.
Speaker 11 (38:26):
Look, I've never met you, and I know what affects you,
and I know what affects you, whether it's your family
or your friends. We had occasion to use this opportunity
to try to do some good and the American Cancer
Society asked us to share the campaign for the year.
And what a better way than for fund raising to
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have everybody get a panther that buys the panther effectively
and then personalizes it.
Speaker 6 (38:54):
And it might be fun.
Speaker 11 (38:55):
It might be six Morning Goods or something like that, right, well,
paint it right, or the children's hospital and then someone
might buy.
Speaker 6 (39:02):
One for Grandma. I'd be very personal. But it brings
people together in the community in a creative way.
Speaker 11 (39:08):
We're trying to raise a million bucks and we're gonna
we're pretty much half way there, and it's just a
nice way to pull people together to do something decent
and celebrate our.
Speaker 6 (39:17):
Great game and the community that is hockey.
Speaker 11 (39:21):
Yeah, I mean, the community that is hockey is so tight,
But talk about the community here that you've seen grown exponentially,
that you've been a part of this organization. I think
the best part about it is I just start crying
the sincerity of the fans and the people that you mean,
and they come right up to you. I really don't
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know much about hockey, or I don't still really don't
know much, but I love the Panthers.
Speaker 6 (39:47):
I love what you're doing.
Speaker 11 (39:48):
There's ball hockey in my kids' school, you know, the
guys in my neighborhood there, and it's just it sort
of transcends the excitement of the sport. Yeah, I mean,
I don't know how many people have told you Games
one and two. Oh my god, I never know it
was that good, right, And then so you've got the
entertainment and the sport.
Speaker 6 (40:07):
We're growing the game, and then you have that relationship.
Speaker 11 (40:12):
I may misuse the word symbios, but the way.
Speaker 6 (40:16):
That the players in the community have come together.
Speaker 11 (40:18):
And if you had occasion to see our parade last year,
did Yeah, it was travesty right, like thunderstorms, lightning. Oh
my god, it's awful. It was the best braid of
all time because everybody was in it together, and it's
just you could just see, you could just see how
the players in the community came together, and then it's
it's it's here.
Speaker 6 (40:36):
It's real.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Well.
Speaker 7 (40:37):
I played in a lot of non traditional hockey markets.
Speaker 11 (40:40):
I played here, and I just find the connection with
the fan base is always almost deeper at times because
you really have to do a lot of outreach and
the fans when they come in, they love.
Speaker 7 (40:50):
It because there's one of other.
Speaker 11 (40:51):
Things that could be doing, but they just support so heavily,
so amazing work.
Speaker 7 (40:54):
That you guys are doing.
Speaker 11 (40:55):
And I think it's because of that, because of the
work you guys did, the players appreciate. Hey, wait a minute,
these fans are they're all in, they're coming, and it's
the buildings going.
Speaker 6 (41:04):
To be loud. It's it's it's a lot of fun.
Like it's just it's all about.
Speaker 5 (41:08):
The hockey community is special.
Speaker 10 (41:10):
Also supporting your panthers on the Prowley saw Michael Boogley,
I saw NFL stars as well.
Speaker 5 (41:14):
How special is it to have across.
Speaker 10 (41:16):
Different platforms, across different sports than supporting your great cause.
Speaker 11 (41:20):
Humbling, exciting, but really kind of brings the whole message
back everybody, everybody and that that is scary, scary, but
there are solutions and if you go to almost any on.
Speaker 6 (41:37):
College and you say, if I give you the funding,
can you improve our odds?
Speaker 11 (41:41):
So that's what it's all about as well, Like what
does this mean this to you and your wife Julie
like doing this and being a part of this.
Speaker 6 (41:53):
I can speak for her on this. She's a survivor.
I'm not.
Speaker 11 (41:57):
But when you have children, you know, when you have daughters,
mom whose mom is that? Geane and breastkets that dropped
the mic? You don't need to ask why.
Speaker 6 (42:07):
And I don't know you guys do you have daughters?
Speaker 11 (42:11):
But I mean I got a little seven weeks you right,
it's somebody And so we can do this in a
fashion will raise money, The money will say it lies, but.
Speaker 6 (42:21):
We can bring people together, can actually ironically have fun
doing it.
Speaker 11 (42:26):
And when you see some of the panthers, it's bread taking.
Speaker 10 (42:31):
You've got one of the panthers here with you. I
think we got some camera angles.
Speaker 5 (42:34):
But what do you hold it up for?
Speaker 7 (42:35):
Hold it up for everybody?
Speaker 11 (42:39):
So you and then you would you would the fulize
it however you want. It's amazing off the charge. Yeah,
it's a little intimidating. I mean that's incredible to have
and gifting and I mean just incredible stuff what you're
doing and you and your wife Juliet, and just amazing
things with the panthers.
Speaker 7 (42:59):
Organization. I want to talk a little bit about hockey.
Speaker 11 (43:02):
You coming in here and firing from the hymn and listen,
A lot of people would have said trading Jonathan Hubert
Oak matthew a Chock, Well, that's an industry trade.
Speaker 7 (43:10):
Why did you do it?
Speaker 11 (43:11):
It's great, but you understood that this team needed to
get to the next level. And nothing against Jonathan, but
that was the trade that needed to happen, and it
seems to have just galvanized your group. And how do
you come to terms of making a decision like that. Well,
I think maybe the process is probably what drives it.
(43:32):
And so the way that at least we go about
our business, certainly on the pro level, the detail, the
I'll use the word severity, of the of the work
that the scouts do, the comparing contrast against alternative information sources, analytics,
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other scouts, it's a it's a pretty thorough process as
far as beating up a nocean, or should we do this?
Speaker 6 (44:02):
Why okay? Why not? Okay? Why not? Back and forth,
back and forth.
Speaker 11 (44:07):
It can get personal too, but at the end of
the day, that group works so hard that if we
come to a conclusion on something, it's generally pretty effective.
So I would say that that makes things a lot
easier when you have so many smart people who we're
committed and hardworking and virtuous in their emotion like this,
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they'll give their opinion that Bill's needle can't play, but
he might be a nice guy, but he can't play right,
and then the other guy will advocate what he likes.
Speaker 6 (44:38):
It's a pretty thorough process.
Speaker 10 (44:40):
Well, as a wife married to a professional scout in baseball,
I appreciate that process and love that they're a part
of the decision making. You got some of the core
still together, Brad Marshans some added pieces.
Speaker 5 (44:49):
Just tell us.
Speaker 10 (44:50):
About the group that you have together and what makes
them so special.
Speaker 6 (44:54):
Marshans Kenny him still a rat.
Speaker 11 (44:57):
I just did an interview and I asked, and I said, who, Yeah,
Well it's I'm sure you guys know as talented as
an on ice hockey player as he is who he
is as a person, and the way that he's managed
to come to a new team and fit in, not
just fit in seamlessly, but.
Speaker 6 (45:17):
Actually have a role in the fiber of the team.
It's extraordinary, Like it's it's really something.
Speaker 7 (45:22):
It's cool.
Speaker 6 (45:23):
Man, just.
Speaker 11 (45:26):
I think if you look at the interviews and you
ask any of the teammates.
Speaker 6 (45:30):
About Brad, no one talks about hockey.
Speaker 11 (45:33):
It's all about who he is as a person and
his character, what he does for a two and anton,
how he pulls them in and empowers them as hockey players.
Speaker 6 (45:42):
It's it's just, uh, he's a special soul.
Speaker 7 (45:46):
We just interviewed. We talked to a couple of the
draft picks coming up. James Hagen.
Speaker 6 (45:50):
Okay, I'm gonna interrupt you. I walked in. Hello, nice
to meet you guys. No, no, no, and out of
the corner of my eye, mind if I.
Speaker 5 (45:58):
Sit with you.
Speaker 7 (46:00):
Yea, he told me that.
Speaker 11 (46:02):
I said, I said, hey, you're not playing on the Panthers.
I know he's nice now, but you make sure you
go in the corner.
Speaker 7 (46:08):
Don't let him off the hooks. He's not gonna let
you off the because he's such a competitor, which is
the duality of him, which is so great.
Speaker 5 (46:14):
Yeah, that's a good guy.
Speaker 6 (46:15):
I don't think he can help that competitive part of his.
Speaker 7 (46:17):
Name, just the way it is.
Speaker 5 (46:20):
Well, Bill, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 10 (46:22):
And if fans are interested, the Panthers on the prow
where can they find out more information if they're interested.
Speaker 6 (46:28):
I want to say panthers on the Problem dot com,
but I'm not sure that's what website.
Speaker 11 (46:34):
Yeah, Panthers website, America Cancer Society website.
Speaker 6 (46:37):
I always said it like.
Speaker 10 (46:38):
Yeah, everybody has Google, they know how to find they
can google.
Speaker 7 (46:42):
Our chats on Google.
Speaker 6 (46:44):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (46:44):
Thank you so much for stopping by. We appreciate it.
We're an incredible cause for good luck.
Speaker 7 (46:49):
Rest of the way.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
Thank you, all right, thanks so much. The bills you
know there with Jason Wurz. Thanks to everyone for listening
to NHL Unscripted. Our next episode is coming at you
Saturday morning, Brightenerly, because of Jad's travel schedule, he'll be
flying back to Edmonton on Fridays, So Saturday morning, coming
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Episode thirty six of NHL Unscripted coming at you.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
What a great episode we have today.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
One of the great fighters both on and off the ice,
Kelly Chase has in the joyce. He's got unbelievable stories
from paling around from the likes of Brett Hull to
John Ham.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You're gonna love Chaser.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
More hilacious travel dates for Jason Demurs coming up. We'll
find out right now. He's in Sunrise, Florida. As we'll
be talking plenty about what happened in game three and
looking ahead to game four. Also centiph and sixty on
the talented mister Ripley twenty fifth anniversary.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Had to watch it. It's great that David mans it's nothing.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Good movie.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, it's great. I do enjoy it. Chick movie.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Let's talk hockey, my friend, before we get to the
silly stuff Panthers rolled in game three. Man, Games one
and two could not have been better, right, we're talking
to this as an epics Dalley Cup file in game three,
so much for that shit. Panthers just kicked their ass
off the races. Ste Skinner gets chased in the third
Florida powery specifically three for eleven and a game that
got awfully nasty.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
The third praise. We'll talk undisciplined play here JD.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Edmonton took twenty one penalties, which is tied for the
second most by one team in a Cup final game.
The two teams combined for one hundred and forty penalty minutes,
fourth most in a.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Cup final game.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I'm assuming you didn't see this coming as far as
far as a one sided game, but after two tight
games like that, sometimes abrot happens.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
What do you make of the physicality, Well.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
When you look at it, it's it's Edmonton finally getting
frustrated or they've been getting it's just boiling over, and
it's it's kind of classic Florida. People try to out Florida,
the Florida Panthers, and you can't do it. They're like
the younger brother that just kind of poke, say hey, hey,
what are you doing, Like, come on, give me the remote,
Give me the remote, Give me the remote. And then
all of a sudden you turn around smack them in
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the head and they go, ah, oh, I'm not doing anything,
And mom and dad yell at you, which is the
ref's giving you penalties.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Excellent analogy, Thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
And it's just funny because you know it's it's I'm
more of the air, and it'd be funny to you know,
ask anybody that played back in the day. It's if
you're gonna kind of take your pound and flash show
to speak. And you know, at the end of the
game they start going after Florida. But like, if you're
gonna do it, just do it all the way, like
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go get take a suspension or something, because if you're
gonna kind of slash a guy, you know, I vander
Kain slashes Cardiver Hagen kind in the face a little
bit like a little love tap gets kicked out, and
like if you're gonna get kicked out, make sure there's
some teeth falling out, make sure that you make it worthwhile.
Because when you're going and you're just kind of cross
checking in the arm and they're obviously not gonna engage you,
they're just you're they're up six to one, they're just
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kinda they're just gonna kind of float through. And now
they got you mentally, and you know, the Edmonton Oilers
just kind of man they just came undone completely and
I think, listen, you have you have the chance to reset.
It's one game and it's amazing how the narrative changes.
But that was just a bad games start to finish
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for the Edmontonals and they could not find their footing
and then they just were little bitches.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, and to your point of how the narrative changes,
it's funny how it's gone from like, oh my god,
those two games are so tight, this is going six
probably seven.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Now it's it could always be done in five.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
And that's where it gets interesting because I say to myself,
j Dy, well, the others can't possibly be worse. They
were dominated. I think Skinner's back in that. I do
think he bounces back. But this Game four is truly
must win because you lose this game. I know you
still have two games at home in Games five and
game seven, but you're not gonna win.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Three straight against the defanning Steley Cup champions. This is
truly a must winning Game four for the Olders.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Yes, yeah, I don't think they can do what they
did last year coming back from down three to nothing
and bringing it to seven. It's just a lot of
hockey and it's tough to everything needs to work that way.
This is it for them in the sense of, like
this is a big game. I think they wanted to
come back and split. You know, Stuart Skinner, what six
to zero in games game fours and he's just lights
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out goals against under one point three. He's he's so
dialed in in game fours, and this team is. And
I think this team kind of figures, you know, teams
out slowly but surely, and I expect their best effort
in game four. And I expect you know, Connor and
Leon who kind of been a little bit quiet, we're
a little bit quiet last game and we're't able to
generate much.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I think they're gonna be flying.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
I think there's gonna need to be some changes on
the defensive side, on the decor. But yeah, this should
be a desperate, urgent team because you know, going back
to Edmonton especially. The thing to remember too is like
this game four and five one one day in between.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
It's a travel day.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
So it is going to be a difficult game for
guys to kind of bounce back from. And it's gonna
be tough, I think physically and mentally to stay locked
in even though so for me, I'm like, looking at Edmonton,
we win this game, We're flying back to Edmonton, go
one day. Home is where the heart is. You know,
we'll have the mental edge and you know we can
quickly be up three to two in the series and
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be in the driver's seats. So but it starts with
this game starts at game four.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
No doubt about. It's your point. But Skipper how Skinner?
Excuse me, Kimpert, Yeah, give a Hipper this deal. Let's
call it Skipper Skinner five and zero in game four
with two shutouts, so he's been at his best in
those game forts it's always seems so pivotal. Quick thought
of Marshan first player in hockey history scoring overtime Golden
Stanley come filed, then scoring in the next game in
the opening minute, also becomes the oldest player at age
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thirty seven, to scoring the first three games of a final.
But I want to get to silly stuff, which is
Paul Maurice, who's always a great quote even in game.
I mean normally, yeah, some guys postgame, they're good in game. No,
Greig poppitsrmally they're very serious guys. He's cracking wise with
Jackie Redman, friend of the show here who told us
when we asked you, who's your favorite coach?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Dodger said, palm Maras is the best.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
In an in game interview, when Redmand brought up Bennett's
upcoming free agency.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
To about Sam Bennett, pal Marie said, I don't think.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
His agent's gonna have to work that hard this summer.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
But I'll move on a horrible altitude. I think he's
got beavonic player.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I see what you're doing, the nine fever.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
He's got a whole bunch of things.
Speaker 7 (05:59):
We're not sure he can be cured.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Play the game, Paul, play the game.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Thank you for.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
This dangy dangy fever to Dang.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
You are sipt Danang all the place here. What you
mean having some fun during the game?
Speaker 7 (06:15):
What's Danang fever?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
That's uh topic. I got this, but I got this
booty sweat I got back in d Nang.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I said, it's definitely a Vietnam thing.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I think Robert Williams too good morying Vietnam. Dang Yeah,
uh yeah. Why wouldn't you say every bad thing about
Sam Benning and the media the way he's played. I
think he's like, what the odds for him to win
kan smythe are like down to like plus one seventy five.
He was like fifteen thousand or thirty thousand at the
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start of these playoffs, and we talked about it on
the network, where like, this guy should be in the
consideration for the con smythe easily the way you know,
set set the record NHL history most roade goals. I
mean that shift of his uh to score that goal,
or he goes in absolutely truck sticks Pod Coles and
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truck sticks. Klingberg then almost takes out Drysdal and then
a shot out of a fucking cannon on the breakaway
and goes, eh, backhand, forehand, where's the jackstrap.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
It's in the back of the net.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Danang, danang, danangh But no, I think, uh, you know,
Paul Maurice is very smart.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
He's become this kind of quote machine.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yea, I feel like he's got the he's got a
joke writer in the back. That's right and stuff for
him because everything seems way too quick and quippy for
it to be legitimate. But yeah, that was pretty good.
He's just like, yeah, he's a great guy. Does all
the right things. And then Jackie's like, his agent's gonna
really be uh really be excited, and he's like, no
bad guy, danang fever. Now I'm saying it, dang dang faver,
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and you got me all fucked up.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
But I love the idea of him having a show Grier.
That's great. These guys making dollars a day, give me
some good quotes. I got a guy.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I bet you imagine I have a punch up guy
as you're going to do these coaches interviews.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I love that idea, great concept.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
They got an ifp guys some of the writers from
Fould feeding me jokes, that would be amazing.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
If Palmers seriously had a joke writer, it'd be so good.
All right?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Coming up next Kelly Chase, an absolute fighter both on
the ice and off. We're talking with Chaser about his
battles coming up next right here on NHL inscripted right
after this. Our next guest was signed in nineteen eighty
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eight by the Saint Louis Blues as.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
An undrafted free agent.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Went on to play four hundred and fifteen NHL games
for the Blues, Whalers and Maple Leafs during his eleven
seasons in the NHL, he was regarded as one of
the toughest and most respected people in the game, and
that sentiment has not changed it all since he retired.
He was the Pride of Porcupine playing Saskatchewan Kelly Chase Chaser.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
It is great to see how are I, my friend?
Speaker 8 (09:03):
I'm doing I'm doing great. But you know, the amount
of times you guys changed this podcast and everything I
thought I was going on with two Hall of Famers,
I'm gonna get you guys were doing. I'm like, who
are these guys anyway? Amount of times they've changed.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I think that's important, you know, have The answer is no,
But you're right. We cause a lot of chaos.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
We're gonna get to the hockey to sect can I
But of course everyone's following you and your health of
these last few years.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Give us an up. How you feel right now?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Not bad?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I I've got.
Speaker 8 (09:32):
A a little bit of a setback. I got the
graph host disease, which is called it's called graph host GVHD,
which is sort of a little bit of a It's
where your stomach kind of fights the enzymes that your
brother had, My brother and I had. He was the
transplant for me, he was one hundred percent match. So
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I've lost a lot of weight, which I kind of
joke because that some people are going on a zempic.
I went with chemo and lost you know, sixty five
or seventy pounds here. But I'm starting to come out
of it a little bit now. I am at the
hospital now, but I but again, it was one of
those things where.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I think.
Speaker 8 (10:13):
The chemo and everything in the in the in the
clinical trial drug that I went that I needed to
combat the leukemia has worked. So from a cancer perspective,
it seems like it's all gone and it's in remission,
which is a blessing.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
The GVHD still there, so uh, we're still working through
that and trying to get myself so I'm not in
a situation where I can't swallow or I can't eat
or whatever, and uh and and so we're still.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Having to work through that. It's work in progress right now.
But I feel pretty good.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
And I've been treated great here at Sitement Cancer Institute.
So just keep batting and and hopefully we keep going down.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
The right path.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
You're You're a tough bastard man and an inspiration and
I love hearing that you got some good, good, positive news.
And you know, we spoke with Pat Maroon last week.
Speaker 9 (11:06):
And I can see why all this outreach for him
with his charity events and everyone that comes and the
people that show up, and he deserves it more than
anyone because he's he's the one that probably did something
for all those people before that, you know, So that's
just the kind of guy he is. And you know,
hopefully he can keep fighting here and he can battle
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his way out of this because he is a fighter.
And we're all thinking of him, and you know, lots
of prayers for him, but you know, he's a fighter though,
we all know that, so he'll get through this.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
He told some great stories about you, and you know,
talked about why the hockey community is so great and
and everybody's been so eager to rush to support you
because you know, the resounding thing is everybody says you'd
be the first one to be there if anybody needed
any help. And what's it mean to you and what
do you make of the way that hockey community has
supported you so much during this.
Speaker 8 (11:59):
Yeah, it's pretty remarkable. I mean, you get up in
the morning and have you know, twenty thirty. Sometimes text messages.
It's one thing to know that you have support.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
And I say this a lot.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
I think a lot of the people in here will
make it out of here because they they die a loneliness.
And I think in the hockey community, the one thing
that we have is this unique brotherhood of people that
that have constantly just check in with you. Pat's one
of those guys that. You know, Pat was, you know,
a young kid that didn't really know the direction he
should take. And and I was fortunate enough to I
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owned a junior team, and I was fortunate enough to
be able to bring him to camp and and sort
of give him some direction and some guidance because I think,
you know, in Saint Louis, there wasn't a lot of that.
I think you could it was. It's easy to just
fall into a situation in Saint Louis where.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
You know, you don't really know the direction.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
It's changed quite significantly, and Pat's one of the reasons why.
But you know, you'll see the Kit Chuck Boys, Clayton Keller, Brick, Trent,
Frederick Logan down, a lot of those guys, you know,
they kind of took the direction from Pat and so
like when Pat was starting, he didn't really have a
clue what to do. We basically had to tell his parents,
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like you got first of all, you got to stop
feeding him, because that's the first thing you gotta do,
or we're gonna move him out of your house. And
then the second thing was is just you know what
direction he should take. So Pat's one of those guys
in the hockey world that has always checked in with me.
Is funny because you brought it up what it means
the hockey community. I just heard from Osh who just
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retired and had his party. I hear from a lot
of the young guys that that I didn't even play
with that I just I would say, kind of mentor
through Saint Louis, And it's just great to see the
success a lot of these guys have had. I think
that's the one thing that I think. I'm sure you
realize when you retired, you don't miss the game as
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much as you miss the guys.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 8 (13:59):
So for me, knowing I've said this before in this
chair that I'm saying in right now, I wake up
one morning and I fought Grimsom like eleven times, and
he's sitting beside my bed and I look over and
I'm like, oh, Jesus, I must be sick if you're here.
And he starts laughing and he says, Chase, I want
to kiss you on the lips right now, and there's
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nothing you can do about it. I said, well, you're
zero and eleven so far, so you might as well
get it in now, because this is your best chance, buddy.
So you know, just knowing that that there's so many
guys that care around the hockey community is pretty.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Special, no question.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
But you mentioned tj Oshan announced his retirement on Monday.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
You play with some major personality during your time in
Saint Louis, Chase or Brett hol obviously, Brendan Shanahan, Chris Pronger,
Mark Bershman, Basima Craye, Tony Twist.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Who stands out of that list, Well.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
I mean you mentioned a lot of great guys and
a lot of guys that were great players too, you know,
like I played, I was lucky because you think about it,
you play with I played with mckinni's hole Pronger, all
those guys at the same time, you know, that's a
those hall of famers and guys those guys are special,
pretty pretty neat, you know. And you look at a
power play and you know you got mckinnison Pronger on
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the back end, you got Hall Tours on Demetra, and
you know you're kind of sitting on the bench going, man,
I feel pretty confident right now, like we we got
a chance here. And uh, and you know, you see
some of those guys, Mark Berzwan just a character Twister.
I don't think there's anybody mentally tougher or tougher in
the game than Tony Twist. I mean just the Race
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for Chase they used to call it. Guys would try
and come out and get their fight in and they
would race to fight with me so they didn't have
to fight with Twister. That was real, real, The Race
for Chase was a real thing where guys, uh, you know,
it's funny. Mark Bergerman was telling the story rob Ray
and and Twister got into a fight, and and Twister
broke rob Ray's cheat book. And Bersion was telling the
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story last year, and there was Rob Blake and Nelson
Emerson and Todd Calling and trent Yannie, myself, Twister and
and burs says uh Shassar you know, he calls me
Chaser and Chaser instead of Chaser.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Shassar Shassar.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
Remember when the big guy going to fight with Rob
Ray and he fight him and he breaks his cheek
bone and I said, yeah, Burish, I remember Twister breaking
his cheek bone. He goes and then we go to
Buffalo and the next time we played them, then they're
running around and it is the race for Chase and
and so Razor and and Brad May and Boogner and
Barnaby and all these guys are running around and and
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they're and they're trying to get after me. And Twist
is on the trip and he says, and he says,
and you take them to the timeout and you elbow
Brad May and the nose and you say, that's all right.
I fight with all you guys, but the big guy
at home right now and he's watching the game. And
when we play you next week, he's going to be
in the lineup, So don't worry. At which I did.
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I got into it may Day and I said, don't worry, guys.
I said, I'll fight with all of you tonight, but
big guys watching on TV right tonight at home. Next
week we got you guys again, and he goes and
then the next thing, you know, Pavel's score tree goal
and we win the game and no fight, and we
win the game and it was nothing because we calmed
the big guy calm everything down from home.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
It was hilarious.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
You know, He's basically saying, like Twister scared everybody, and
he just all I had to do was threatn the guys, saying, yeah,
Twister was at home watching it, watching on TV, and
and he was going to make sure everything was cleaned
up next week. So how it was with him, I mean,
he was just that tough. So you know, I roomed
with Hull for seven and a half years. So the
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stories are endless, and I'm pretty fortunate to uh to
play that long, and especially playing in city that loves
sports like it doesn't say Louis. So I had a
lot of characters that I played with it.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
There were a lot of fun you you.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
I read a story about you and Brett Hall stealing
Bob Barry's.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Car, yeah and his Jaguar.
Speaker 8 (18:05):
Yeah yeah, we uh well he we went to the
game one night and I came to the game with Shanahan.
I live with Brendan and Hali asked me if we're
going out after and or you know, we're going to
ride together. I said sure. So I went up to
the offices where he cut out of the rink all
the time. He went in a different exit out of
the rink, and he said, where'd you park? And I said,
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I don't have a car. What do you mean I
have a car? I said, I'm in a car. He
said Jesus, and he said, I'll be right back. So
he comes back and he's got the keys to a car.
We go out to the parking lot and he goes,
come on, let's go, and he jumps in Bob Berry's jag.
So I get in the jag and him and Bob
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were kind of close. So I mean, I don't know.
I mean, I don't think he's stealing the thing. I
just figure, you know, he's just talked to Bob and
whatever the deal they made. He's got a car. So
I get in the car. We go down down to
the landing and you mixing. You know, it's you know,
two am, and we're not done. So we go to
the east side. We're gonna go to Pops. It's twenty
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four hours joint, so we get over the pops and
it's like it's the lowest form of life. It's it's
basically it's everybody that shouldn't be out that is still out,
Like it's just it's just in place that you just
shake your head.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
You're like, what the hell. And it's a.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
Mixture of guys in suits to people living on the
street in this place, you know. And it's now it's
like four point thirty in the morning, and I'm like, dude,
we got to go, like, we got to get out
of here.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
We got practice in the morning. So he throws me
the keys.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
I get out in the parking lot and I'm having
trouble with the lock and I'm jiggling it around and
the key snaps in the door lock.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Now we got Bob Barry's Jaguar.
Speaker 8 (19:51):
It isn't like we you know, we got some rental
car that we could just leave over in East Saint Louis. Like,
there's no way you leave the Jag over there, and
it's not on blocks.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
When we get back, we go.
Speaker 8 (20:03):
To the secure and we finally convinced some guy at
security that he needs to let us in and get
over with the door locks, and he needs to make
this key, so the guy doesn't believe it's Brett Hall.
Find you know, no cell phone, so we're calling from
the desk in the security office at Pops, which is again,
these guys are some rugged customers, right yea. Polly's then
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holding court out in the parking lot. He's got a
burning barrel going burning whatever is in the burning barrel,
and he's got cases of beer and he's telling stories
and these people are sitting there like they're having story
time with Brett Hall. The sun's starting to come up,
this guy's making keys. I'm like, this is a disaster.
And he promises that he's going to get everybody at
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breakfast at eat Right, which is just across the river
into Saint Louis, into Missouri, and it's his famous place.
It's just a little it's about the size of my
hospital room. But he's going to buy everyone breakfast. So
I'm like, just shut up already, and he's like, ah, cares,
don't worry about it, you know. So pretty soon they
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got the door lock unlocked, they get the door the
key made, we get into Bob's car. We're driving across
pull In. I'm like, Holly, we're not stopping it. Eat right,
He goes, of course we are. So we pull in
and all of these people, I mean, guys that are bartender, security, lawyers,
that have had a big night, strippers, you name it.
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Every form of life is at the eat right okay,
And it is just like people are walking. I'm like
Jesus and he's just like, whatever they want, and he
just shorter. This guy's they're shorter chef, cooking way, cooking away,
cooking away. Everybody's getting fed. Next thing, you know, Holly's
inviting them to practice. I'm like, Holly, that's inviding everybody
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to the rink to practice. So we practice up rent
with ice rink and we come in and we're there
before everybody, and I just want to get in and
get out of my suit because it's the suit I
wore the night before and I don't want the coaches
to see me. And Holly just walks in could care less,
walks right in the coach's office and throws the keys
on Bob Barry's desk, and Bob Barry goes batshit crazy.
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He's reported his car stolen. He's going nuts. I can
hear him yelling. All I want to do is get
out of my fucking suit and get into my underwear.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Okay, just not have him see me in but in
this suit.
Speaker 8 (22:30):
And he comes around the corner and he sees me
just getting out of my dress pants.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
He looks, he goes you.
Speaker 8 (22:36):
You, of all fucking guys, you're not good enough to
hang around with him.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
I'll fucking send you to the miners. I don't know
who you think you are.
Speaker 8 (22:44):
And he starts yelling at me, and Holly's like, relax,
and you know he can't.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
He could care less. He's got eighty six dolls he
could carry.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
At that point shit from the coach. He hasn't even
given Brett shit. He's reported the car stolen. But the
worst part about the whole thing was we went out
on the ice and all of these people are around
the glass waiting for Holley Stick like they're.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Banging on the glass, hey Chase, you know, great breakfast.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
And they's just like security wearing the orange Pops security
jackets and strippers and and like every single.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Like from Pops, like just everything.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
And Garth Butcher was the captain and he just skated
out on the ice and he looked around. He watched
this throw up five minutes he comes over and he goes,
what the fuck did you guys do last night?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I said, Butcher, you.
Speaker 8 (23:37):
Wouldn't believe it if I told you, and Holly could
care less. He couldn't care that I was getting it.
I got into it, I got all of the shit
for it. But Holly could care less. He was just like, man,
that was fun hunh And I'm like, dude, they're still here.
It's practices over. Get him out of here. Oh what
a day.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
You great characters, what a great story.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Uh so you just did in the vedical weeks of
the Make a Wish Foundation.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
What keeps you so active with charities like that?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Man, it's funny. You know, when we're playing, we try
and do as much as we can.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
I think in a charity world, and I say this,
a lot were an inch deep and a mile wide.
We never really dig in and know exactly where money's
going or what it's going for. And I think just
being this this has changed me a lot. I think
I have a lot more. I can recognize when people
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are hurting a little bit more now, I think, and
when you need to take a little bit more time
for people. But also following the money and watching how
you deliver. You know, I think five minutes of your
time is worth more than five thousand year dollars lots
of times. And so I think being able to do
something cool with the kids that make a wish event
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we just did was really cool event.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
We did it at airline.
Speaker 8 (24:52):
Hey, they'd put a golf stream in for kids to
look through the plane. They had all these Perraris and
Lamborghinis and McLaren's and rolls everything around for the kids
to look at. And I think, speak go for a ride,
and it was amazing to watch the kid's spirits and
to know that there was kids that were on that
make a wish list and their wish was to just
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meet the Saint Louis Blue.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
It's like, how easy is that for us? Right meet
the speaker.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
It was like, shit, I could organize that in fifteen seconds.
And you know, and so when you hear like a
lot of these wishes cost ten thousand dollars and stuff
like that, well not for us to show up. And
so I think I think Robbie Thomas, Perico Steen and
Falker were guys that showed up at it, and again
it meant so much to them and we moved the
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program around so they could get there and leave because
they had a second event during the day. And to
speak volumes about them just losing out of the playoffs,
being at event, taking the time for it, and then
having to go to a second event that day and
show their faces and be around kids again, I think
speaks volumes about the way hockey players think.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Does that lift your spirits a lot too? You jumping
into those things that I know kind of when I,
you know, was playing and doing a lot of that
stuff with the teams, It always, you know, the perspective,
but also gave me a boost of energy knowing that,
like you're helping people with people's spirits as well.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
Yeah, I think so. I think I think I've touched
on that a little bit. About being at the hospital here,
I think there's lots of times where you can walk
around here and recognize when there's people that need a
little bit of a brous You know they're here and
they're lonely, and lots of times you can die in
here because they're lonely, not because of the cancer, because
the cancer is tough and chemo is really tough, and
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then having to do it for I think I've been
here off and on for the last year and a half,
just over a year and a half, a year and
eight months. It can it can beat you up. And
so for me, I've got that entire I've got my family,
I've got the people of Saint Louis, but I've got
that hockey family, you know, that supports me where a
lot of people don't. And like you said, going into
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one of their rooms and having that conversation, I think
it's good and healthy for people and if you can
help pick them up. I mean, it's just your time
you're in here anyway. So for me, I find it.
I find it, you know, more an obligation more than anything.
I think when you put on your jersey, you have
an obligation to give back. And the fact that you
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were talking about you did it and it made you
feel good, it should make you feel good. And but
then on the flip side of it too, I don't
think sometimes we recognize just how valuable we are from
a mental standpoint to people, how many people we can
do something for by just taking a little bit of time.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
So we all said last one for me, Kelly any good,
John Ham stories, Well.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
The funny thing about him was like he was just
our bartender.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Like he like crazy, It's it's crazy.
Speaker 8 (27:45):
The craziest thing is is the first time I seen
him on TV. We were in Hartford. Shanahan' been traded
to Hartford. I've been traded to Hartford. And I look
at the TV. I'm like, what the fuck? And I'm
looking at him and I called Shanahan Cable TV. Of course, right,
I called Shanahan and Hartford. I go, hey, you got
your TV on? He goes, yeah, I go put it
on a fifty one. He's like, what, I go put
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on a channel fifty one. He's like why, I go,
just do it. So he puts it on. He's like,
what the fuck? And like, I'm honestly, God, didn't even
know he acted.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
I didn't even know he acted. Give me, dude.
Speaker 8 (28:20):
He would wake up on our couch in the morning,
we'd have a party, he'd be one a couch in
the morning, and he's just one of our buddies.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
I thought he's just the bartender at Cardwalls. I had
no idea.
Speaker 8 (28:30):
I don't know if he was just like embarrassed to
say something, or I don't.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Know what the hell it was.
Speaker 8 (28:35):
With him, but all of a sudden, I'm like, dude,
there's ammer And it was unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
And and you know, and I mean, I love the.
Speaker 8 (28:43):
Guy to death, like like we have some we've had
some great time since then too, but we had great
times prior to that. And he there used to be
this thing called party in the Park and it was
that and here his restaurant was kind of a collecting,
a collection of where the younger people went. Yeah, and
he would just literally be pointing out girls, going, hey, listen,
there's a girl over here in the back at the restaurant.
(29:05):
You know, you got to see her. She's unbelievable. Great
gallat known he for. You got to see her. She's unbelievable.
So he was like the scout, the head scout for
the freaking hockey players. We were just coming in this
place and Ham would be bartend and he'd have everything
already set up. It was unbelievable. And then to know
that he was, you know, and to see how the
success he's having now is awesome.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
You know.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
So it's pretty easy to get him to come back,
come back and do things too. Because we've always included
him as one of the alumni who knew who knew.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I saw him at your at your event at Winter Classic,
and that's exactly the feeling I got. I was like,
this guy, you could put skates on him in difference.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Yeah, No, he loves it. He loves it.
Speaker 8 (29:48):
And and it's funny because you know, like I've been lucky,
I've been lucky in the in the in the event
we did in Saint Louis, the Cancer of Incitans event,
calling guys in them showing up and completely name dropping. Now,
but when you see those guys show up, like on
Peyton show up and and Garth Brooks and Dirk Spentley
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and those guys show up, it makes you feel good.
But it also puts things in perspective of just what
kind of people these guys are? You know, Ham showing
up at you know, all kinds of event. He's done
so many events for our alumni. Matter of fact, we
purchased a ring for him, the alumni did. I don't
know if you guys know, a Stanley Cup ring. Yeah,
we did a thing at the at the event, we
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bought him a We bought him a ring and presented
it to him. Our our alumni had a huge event
in Kathy Napple and and him and his wife were
there and we did a little presentation and Hammer got
a ring and he was emotional, of course, but it
was like he's done so many things for our alumni over.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
The years that it was like easy.
Speaker 8 (30:50):
We're like, you know, Lord knows the amount of money
we've raised because he showed up.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
You know, he showed up.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
We did an event one night called the Dining Draft,
and you basically you show up at this event and
you draft a guy that you want to have dinner with,
and then you go to that restaurant and have.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Dinner with him.
Speaker 8 (31:05):
So like we had Hull and Ozzie Smith and mckinnis
and Tory Holt and like all these great athletes, and
then of course Hammer, we sell him for eighty five
thousand bucks. You can go to dinner with Ham for
eighty five grand. The guy pays eighty five grand. Someone
pays eighty five grand for the Stanley Cup. It turns
out it's the same table they pay. They pay eighty
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five So they get paid one hundred and seventy grand
to take the cup and and uh John Ham to
dinner and they buy one more player and they pay
five grand for Danny Cox to go for dinner. Danny
Cox is like, yeah, Ham and I raised one hundred
and seventy five grand with the Stanley Cup to go
go to go fucking dinner and and uh and we
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had the dining draft and he goes amazing, that chunk
of metal can raise the same amount of money as
John Ham did. But those guys and Danny Cox raised
one hundred and seventy five thousand. So Cox he tells
everybody that, hey, you know what, Hamm and I and
the Cup we raised one hundred and seventy five It's
no big deal, A no.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Big deal though.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Kelly Chase obviously a great entertaining personality, a terrific player,
a wonderful human and an absolute fighter Chaser can't thank
you out man.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
This was awesome.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
Thanks a lot guys and that, and like I wasn't
knowing what to expect on this show. In a lot
of times, you guys canceled. I asked, I said, is
your hall of fame by one of their names or something?
I don't know about These fucking guys aren't that important?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
All right? Thanks to Kelly Chase. Again, what a great storyteller.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
He is, and we'll get to a little bit more
here involving some hockey news. But first will set of
file and sixty the twenty fifth anniversary of the talented
mister Ripley, which was sparked by the fact I read
this great book called The Yellow Face rf Quong came
in a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
I've got this cool little thing I'm.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Doing here tal at the library because they know I'm
an avid reader, so they said, we gent to sign
up for our concierge special.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I'm like, what is that?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
They go, will we recommend a book for you, book
of fiction every month?
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Like all right, fine. So the first book they recommend
it was awful, like anybody what it was.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
But I'm like, I read like twenty pages ago this
was about idea, Like no, But since then, shout out
to my local library. They've like they're on a hater
four for four just great books from all over place,
different different genres, crime, fiction, history, novels, excellent.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
So anyways, this one, yellow Face, I don't know what's about,
but it's a really great story came a couple of
years ago.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Fictional story about a writer who is very jealous of
another writer, their friends with kind of friend of me
is to hang out together. The one friend is incredibly successful,
rich author, the other one is an aspiring author, and
wes are having drinks one night, and the rich author
is a choking, dying.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Unbelievable story. The woman's you know, heartbroken, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Kita also kind of really didn't like her that much
because they kind of have this love hate relationship. Before
she died, though, she was telling her about this manuscript
she had, this is this is my next book.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
They're a little blitzed, but she's reading it.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
She could tell you because this is awesome, this is
a great book, but she doesn't tell her friend that
because you kind of hate each other.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
She's like, it's not bad. I'm a little drunk on
what's happening.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Friend dies, She steals the books, publishes the book under
her own name, ends up becoming a cause celebra Oh
my god, unbelievable book, and she's ratizes it by saying, well,
the actual book was still a little bit unfinished, like
I had to go.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Through it, clean it up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Change this, change that, like her writing is incredible, but
like I am an author. In part, however, she doesn't
admit it, but becomes a sensation to all the amotter
of times someone finds out that she ripped it off.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
The story goes in there. Great book check out yellow Face.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Anyways, the reason why I mentioned it is in the
blurb they said, well, it's kind of Patricia Heismanth style,
like a Patricia Heismith.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
She wrote the talent to mister Ripley, speaking of assuming
one's persona stealing someone's work. So amazingly it tell I'd
never actually seen it. I remember when it came out.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
It was in theaters.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Anthony Mangello directed the English Patient obviously, I remember Matt
Damons and.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
It's just one of those moayes that kind of slipped
through the cracks.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Did It went in the Oscar So I didn't end
up watching it, but finally got around of seeing a
twenty fifth Unders and it was fantastic. I mean, what
was so great about watching it now is you know
all these actors are, but back then there's just so
fresh faced Damon Jude Law, Kate Blanchett, Gwyneth Baltrow and
of course two of my favorite actors, the incredible Philip
Seymour Hoff and showing up as Freddy and the great
investigator Philip Baker Hall. Great character actor Passway a few
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years ago loved the movie. I love the glossy direction
of anthy Man Galiic got I should I should have
watched it years ago, just for the jazz and the
setting in Italy. Oh my god, it's gorgeous through in
Vanas shooting it there in Rome. Great cast again for
those who don't know the story, Damon is the talent
to mister Ripley. He assumes the prisona of Dickey, who's
played by Jude Law, the rich playboy. Another great character
actor James Rebhorn loved him from Stead of a Woman.
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He plays the father of Jude Law, who sends him
over there to try, you know, get his son to
come back. But he assumes Dickie's identity. He got this
whole is he isn't He's gonna get caught, is gonna
catch up to him. But I thought it was an
excellent thriller, really fun. Damon seems to be having a blast.
This was two years after Good Will Hunt You, so
this really kind of establishes Chops as a leading actor.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
With ut Ben Affleck and.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Again everything with Philip seemer Hoff and he's only in
at three scenes, but he's absolutely hysterical.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Go ahead, tell.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
One of my favorite lines from Philip seymour Hoffman those
you wish you could fuck every woman just once.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
That's got to me.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
I was thinking of it.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
I go, that's gonna be a list of greatest opening
lines ever by a character, because it's the first thing
he says in English. He pulls up and he goes, oh,
look right now, pretty said comes to DJ and he's right.
He gets out the car on the first thing he said,
just leering at the woman. I'm like, PSA, it's all
time great. But the reason also e J Reddick second
men she's getting He was talking about Ripley, the limited
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series which Steve Zellien did Oscar winning writer of Schindler's List.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
I know that came out a couple years.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
I don't know what it was on Netflix, Apple TV
plus give Up last year, but been a lot of
talk around Ripley and Ripley such but the talented miss
Ripley absolutely fantastic. I encourage people to check her if
they have not yet done so, really really well done.
Congratulations to Lane Hudson named the recipient the Calder Trophy.
As expected, j D wins a top rookie out of
maclan Celberty and Dustin Wolf first HAPs put it win
the award since Ken Dryden back in nineteen seventy two.
(36:45):
Unbelievable season obviously for Lane Hudson and a great moment
for the Abs, right.
Speaker 7 (36:49):
H Yeah, great mom for the Abs.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
All the other voters can will fuck themselves that celeb
that Dustin Wolf is second in macklean Celberny's third. I
mean the fact that McLean Celburgny wasn't second, it wasn't
a tighter race is crazy.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
To me U.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
But nothing taken away from Laye Hudson. I think Lane
Hudson was the winner clear cut. I mean he brought up,
he brought the Canadians, helped the Canadians. I mean what
seventy points helped him get to the Stanley Cup playoffs,
and I mean he's credible, talent, amazing they got to
build around him in Montreal. But yeah, congratulations of that
little fucker.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
No doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
And lastly you get to talk to billsy though again
doing a raat job the Steley Cup playoffs, and you
talked to bilsy To, who is the architect of Florida
Panthers team.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
What was the big nuggets?
Speaker 1 (37:34):
We're going to play a clip of it here, but
what was the main thing you gleaned from him?
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Panthers on the Prowl. He's doing an amazing initiative with
his wife. They're selling these like ceramic panthers. I think
it's five grand for a panther and you're able to
paint it and design it any way you want, and
then it becomes like something and all the sport goes
to cancer research and cancer prevention. So it's it's a
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very cool seems very close to his heart, like like
very very sincere interview, and he's an amazing man. He's
very nice to talk to and you're gonna hear some
great stuff here. So here's more Panthers on the Prowl
with Billy Zito.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
But tell us.
Speaker 10 (38:15):
About Panthers on the Prowl. You and your life started this.
We're gonna make sure the cameras can pick this up.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
But tell us a little bit about this initiative and
why it was so important for you to start it.
Speaker 6 (38:24):
Well, it's so important because it affects.
Speaker 11 (38:26):
Look, I've never met you, and I know what affects you,
and I know what affects you, whether it's your family
or your friends. We had occasion to use this opportunity
to try to do some good and the American Cancer
Society asked us to share the campaign for the year.
And what a better way than for fund raising to
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have everybody get a panther that buys the panther effectively
and then personalizes it.
Speaker 6 (38:54):
And it might be fun.
Speaker 11 (38:55):
It might be six Morning Goods or something like that, right, well,
paint it right, or the children's hospital and then someone
might buy.
Speaker 6 (39:02):
One for Grandma. I'd be very personal. But it brings
people together in the community in a creative way.
Speaker 11 (39:08):
We're trying to raise a million bucks and we're gonna
we're pretty much half way there, and it's just a
nice way to pull people together to do something decent
and celebrate our.
Speaker 6 (39:17):
Great game and the community that is hockey.
Speaker 11 (39:21):
Yeah, I mean, the community that is hockey is so tight,
But talk about the community here that you've seen grown exponentially,
that you've been a part of this organization. I think
the best part about it is I just start crying
the sincerity of the fans and the people that you mean,
and they come right up to you. I really don't
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know much about hockey, or I don't still really don't
know much, but I love the Panthers.
Speaker 6 (39:47):
I love what you're doing.
Speaker 11 (39:48):
There's ball hockey in my kids' school, you know, the
guys in my neighborhood there, and it's just it sort
of transcends the excitement of the sport. Yeah, I mean,
I don't know how many people have told you Games
one and two. Oh my god, I never know it
was that good, right, And then so you've got the
entertainment and the sport.
Speaker 6 (40:07):
We're growing the game, and then you have that relationship.
Speaker 11 (40:12):
I may misuse the word symbios, but the way.
Speaker 6 (40:16):
That the players in the community have come together.
Speaker 11 (40:18):
And if you had occasion to see our parade last year,
did Yeah, it was travesty right, like thunderstorms, lightning. Oh
my god, it's awful. It was the best braid of
all time because everybody was in it together, and it's
just you could just see, you could just see how
the players in the community came together, and then it's
it's it's here.
Speaker 6 (40:36):
It's real.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Well.
Speaker 7 (40:37):
I played in a lot of non traditional hockey markets.
Speaker 11 (40:40):
I played here, and I just find the connection with
the fan base is always almost deeper at times because
you really have to do a lot of outreach and
the fans when they come in, they love.
Speaker 7 (40:50):
It because there's one of other.
Speaker 11 (40:51):
Things that could be doing, but they just support so heavily,
so amazing work.
Speaker 7 (40:54):
That you guys are doing.
Speaker 11 (40:55):
And I think it's because of that, because of the
work you guys did, the players appreciate. Hey, wait a minute,
these fans are they're all in, they're coming, and it's
the buildings going.
Speaker 6 (41:04):
To be loud. It's it's it's a lot of fun.
Like it's just it's all about.
Speaker 5 (41:08):
The hockey community is special.
Speaker 10 (41:10):
Also supporting your panthers on the Prowley saw Michael Boogley,
I saw NFL stars as well.
Speaker 5 (41:14):
How special is it to have across.
Speaker 10 (41:16):
Different platforms, across different sports than supporting your great cause.
Speaker 11 (41:20):
Humbling, exciting, but really kind of brings the whole message
back everybody, everybody and that that is scary, scary, but
there are solutions and if you go to almost any on.
Speaker 6 (41:37):
College and you say, if I give you the funding,
can you improve our odds?
Speaker 11 (41:41):
So that's what it's all about as well, Like what
does this mean this to you and your wife Julie
like doing this and being a part of this.
Speaker 6 (41:53):
I can speak for her on this. She's a survivor.
I'm not.
Speaker 11 (41:57):
But when you have children, you know, when you have daughters,
mom whose mom is that? Geane and breastkets that dropped
the mic? You don't need to ask why.
Speaker 6 (42:07):
And I don't know you guys do you have daughters?
Speaker 11 (42:11):
But I mean I got a little seven weeks you right,
it's somebody And so we can do this in a
fashion will raise money, The money will say it lies, but.
Speaker 6 (42:21):
We can bring people together, can actually ironically have fun
doing it.
Speaker 11 (42:26):
And when you see some of the panthers, it's bread taking.
Speaker 10 (42:31):
You've got one of the panthers here with you. I
think we got some camera angles.
Speaker 5 (42:34):
But what do you hold it up for?
Speaker 7 (42:35):
Hold it up for everybody?
Speaker 11 (42:39):
So you and then you would you would the fulize
it however you want. It's amazing off the charge. Yeah,
it's a little intimidating. I mean that's incredible to have
and gifting and I mean just incredible stuff what you're
doing and you and your wife Juliet, and just amazing
things with the panthers.
Speaker 7 (42:59):
Organization. I want to talk a little bit about hockey.
Speaker 11 (43:02):
You coming in here and firing from the hymn and listen,
A lot of people would have said trading Jonathan Hubert
Oak matthew a Chock, Well, that's an industry trade.
Speaker 7 (43:10):
Why did you do it?
Speaker 11 (43:11):
It's great, but you understood that this team needed to
get to the next level. And nothing against Jonathan, but
that was the trade that needed to happen, and it
seems to have just galvanized your group. And how do
you come to terms of making a decision like that. Well,
I think maybe the process is probably what drives it.
(43:32):
And so the way that at least we go about
our business, certainly on the pro level, the detail, the
I'll use the word severity, of the of the work
that the scouts do, the comparing contrast against alternative information sources, analytics,
(43:55):
other scouts, it's a it's a pretty thorough process as
far as beating up a nocean, or should we do this?
Speaker 6 (44:02):
Why okay? Why not? Okay? Why not? Back and forth,
back and forth.
Speaker 11 (44:07):
It can get personal too, but at the end of
the day, that group works so hard that if we
come to a conclusion on something, it's generally pretty effective.
So I would say that that makes things a lot
easier when you have so many smart people who we're
committed and hardworking and virtuous in their emotion like this,
(44:28):
they'll give their opinion that Bill's needle can't play, but
he might be a nice guy, but he can't play right,
and then the other guy will advocate what he likes.
Speaker 6 (44:38):
It's a pretty thorough process.
Speaker 10 (44:40):
Well, as a wife married to a professional scout in baseball,
I appreciate that process and love that they're a part
of the decision making. You got some of the core
still together, Brad Marshans some added pieces.
Speaker 5 (44:49):
Just tell us.
Speaker 10 (44:50):
About the group that you have together and what makes
them so special.
Speaker 6 (44:54):
Marshans Kenny him still a rat.
Speaker 11 (44:57):
I just did an interview and I asked, and I said, who, Yeah,
Well it's I'm sure you guys know as talented as
an on ice hockey player as he is who he
is as a person, and the way that he's managed
to come to a new team and fit in, not
just fit in seamlessly, but.
Speaker 6 (45:17):
Actually have a role in the fiber of the team.
It's extraordinary, Like it's it's really something.
Speaker 7 (45:22):
It's cool.
Speaker 6 (45:23):
Man, just.
Speaker 11 (45:26):
I think if you look at the interviews and you
ask any of the teammates.
Speaker 6 (45:30):
About Brad, no one talks about hockey.
Speaker 11 (45:33):
It's all about who he is as a person and
his character, what he does for a two and anton,
how he pulls them in and empowers them as hockey players.
Speaker 6 (45:42):
It's it's just, uh, he's a special soul.
Speaker 7 (45:46):
We just interviewed. We talked to a couple of the
draft picks coming up. James Hagen.
Speaker 6 (45:50):
Okay, I'm gonna interrupt you. I walked in. Hello, nice
to meet you guys. No, no, no, and out of
the corner of my eye, mind if I.
Speaker 5 (45:58):
Sit with you.
Speaker 7 (46:00):
Yea, he told me that.
Speaker 11 (46:02):
I said, I said, hey, you're not playing on the Panthers.
I know he's nice now, but you make sure you
go in the corner.
Speaker 7 (46:08):
Don't let him off the hooks. He's not gonna let
you off the because he's such a competitor, which is
the duality of him, which is so great.
Speaker 5 (46:14):
Yeah, that's a good guy.
Speaker 6 (46:15):
I don't think he can help that competitive part of his.
Speaker 7 (46:17):
Name, just the way it is.
Speaker 5 (46:20):
Well, Bill, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 10 (46:22):
And if fans are interested, the Panthers on the prow
where can they find out more information if they're interested.
Speaker 6 (46:28):
I want to say panthers on the Problem dot com,
but I'm not sure that's what website.
Speaker 11 (46:34):
Yeah, Panthers website, America Cancer Society website.
Speaker 6 (46:37):
I always said it like.
Speaker 10 (46:38):
Yeah, everybody has Google, they know how to find they
can google.
Speaker 7 (46:42):
Our chats on Google.
Speaker 6 (46:44):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (46:44):
Thank you so much for stopping by. We appreciate it.
We're an incredible cause for good luck.
Speaker 7 (46:49):
Rest of the way.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
Thank you, all right, thanks so much. The bills you
know there with Jason Wurz. Thanks to everyone for listening
to NHL Unscripted. Our next episode is coming at you
Saturday morning, Brightenerly, because of Jad's travel schedule, he'll be
flying back to Edmonton on Fridays, So Saturday morning, coming
at you with a new episode of NHL Unscripted. NHL
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