Jason Demers is on site at the Stanley Cup Final in Edmonton and has some thoughts about his hotel. He and Adnan Virk break down Game One between the Edmonton Oilers and Florida Panthers and Jason shares his interviews from Media Day with John Klingberg, Brett Kulak and AJ Greer (who gave us an "inside scoop" about Brad Marchand). Then Phil Pritchard tells us how he became the keeper of the Cup and shares his favorite moments from three decades as Stanley's chaperone. Finally, the guys discuss the Brock Nelson signing and Pittsburgh's big coaching hire before Producer Tal offers his review of Paul Rudd's newest film.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
NHL Unscripted is a production of the NHL and iHeart
Podcasts Unscripted Stanley Cup Final Time, Baby, Let's get after it.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
As always, the NHL and I Heart Podcasts are putting
this thing together. This is the time of you if
you're a hockey fan, if you love it, it's verkin de
merz as we get after it. Let's clarify our new
schedule right now. NHL Inscripted is all of this st
of files. JD is at the Finals, boots in the ground,
getting a great sound, the perfect bird's eye view of
what is happening the best and for the duration of
the series, we will be posting a new episode on
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the off day before every game, so that means our
next episode will be available on Sunday before game three Monday.
Episode after that will be Wednesday before game four Thursday.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
We're crushing at JD.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
This is gonna be epic, oh crushing it as much
as I am staying at the Varscona Hotel. Okay, beautiful, beautiful,
not downtown Edmonton, outside of downtown Edmonton where the lights
are bright and no, let's let's crack crack.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
One game one can wait more finish my line.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I was gonna say the crackheads are plentiful. Let me
finish that. Edmondson.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I've been to twice this year. I went Framizon on Prime.
It's ever been previously. Everyone's listening and you, I think
you said this too. Ever totally got the best thing
about it is you'll never have to leave the hotel.
They go, the JW. Maria is connected to the arena.
It's amazing, Like.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
A while, be there.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
They go, No, I know it's cold, it's miserable. Hey man,
they've got a nice little fire. Two minutes to go
in there.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Me and Hicks, Jody Shelley, John Forston. So when you
went there, I'm like, God. The first thing he says
the hotel like wait, no JW Marriot, Nay, nay, where
are you?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
How far are you? Dude? You work for the NHL.
Come on. They they had some like convention in town
that's been booked for a year, like real estate and
also it's like agricultural and so it was like we're
thrown out way out into the stay. You know. We're like,
you know, we're I mean, we're fifteen minutes. We're on
white Avenue. So there's some restaurants here, but there's like
the funniest thing is like, I guess TNT is out
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here too, sotes away with you. So yeah, so we
had players only with with Henrik Lunquist, so you know
boy Brian Boyle and Mike Ruppead. Henrik lunk was on.
So I was doing part of the show. So I
got up and Hank came in and as he's leaving,
I heard he was staying like a hotel near us.
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It's like kind of dodgy too. So as he's getting up,
I'm like, Hank, I said, how's the hotel? And he goes,
are you fucking kidding me right now? And I was like,
are you staying out there? Big Hank T and T Crew?
I heard gretz is out here too, and I was like,
there's no way Gretzki's out here. I'm like, he's he's
for sure, there's some billionaire here that will house him easily.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Correct, he's not staying in the hotel.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, but no, I who knows. Apparently his security guard
was in the hotel, so if he's there, I can't
say of the hotel because the rabbit unscripted fans, smart fan.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, oh you're gonna find out Gretz is there.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
This is amazing. He's taking hotels the rest of you guys,
fucking real estate convention. I love it. Let's get to
the game and bumps it back for Bouchard.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
NuGen Hopkins on the left half boards under pressure, turns
and gives it up.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Beautiful pass, but gave it in front.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
What turns?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Leon tri subtle four three edit ten.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Over listen.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
High expectations going into this one. It went to overtime.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Really was like great momentum shifts right Edmonton fourteen seven
out shoot to the first prid, as you expect, house
on fire, Panthers come back at seventeen shots in the
second Skinner Weather's the stormut really Florida had their four
check back, third perid. Edmonton really takes over and then
the end of the game, you know, you go to overtime.
It ends up being a careful play, which is frustrating.
I wanted it to end. I mean there was there
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was a several moments like that bouoch shirt looked like
he's Bobby or almost aid in overtime, like, oh my god,
this game ends now, epic move right. Who was to
split the d cast and yeah, amazing is the on
mikel On Jones and oh my oh that that's the
way we end. It's like a final game. Instead, no
check carelessly flips the puck. He's a fourth lottery played
under ten minutes of the game. Delay a game and
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then the actual goal was great McDavid drives, Ottle, quick
touch passes overtime winner.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
But I'm left feeling jad listened. It's a great win Fremonton.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
They deserve the win, certainly the way they played, especially
a third period on But for Florida, a goo man,
you lose on a penalty like that overtime tough pill
to swallow.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Well, I mean, you know it's a team that something
has to had to break twenty nine and oh when
they're leading after two crazy uh and listen, no sick.
Paul Marie said something pretty nice after the game. You know,
they asked and they said tough bounce for no sick.
You know what'd you tell him? And he just said, listen,
he goes. I told him about the Toronto series when
and they got inserted the lineup and Florida's down to nothing.
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He's like we're not here without that line, that fourth line,
and he goes, it's a mistake. He goes, hopefully he
doesn't need a loan. Guys are going to be there
with him tonight. Yeah, hopefully he you know, hope just
check on your teammate. And that's a beautiful thing about
hockey and and and the great thing about Paul Maurice.
You know, he could say what you want about sometimes
him going overboard with like the handshake line and like,
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don't make it about you. But he's always understanding and
I think he always at the end of the day
has the players his best interest at heart. And you know,
you could see him supporting Thomas Noschik there because you know,
that's that's an unfortunate play. It happens careless, you can
call it. But in the heat of it and the overtime,
the ice is snowy, what he didn't look great the ice,
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you know, and this goes over and you know you're
giving the best power play and arguably the league and
opportunity and overtime when everyboy's a little fatigue. So knew
what was gonna happen. But yeah, like I thought Edmonton
could have enit. It a lot of times before that,
I thought they were the better team, you know, for
other than the second period, for you know, every other
period they were the better team, and I thought they
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were really pushing. So I don't I don't chalk it
down to that flip. I think that was just a
a you know what do you want to call that?
Just a kind of confidence of events and this is
what happens. So but yeah, it's uh, it was a
great It was a great atmosphere, a great game too. Honestly,
I think that was a great you know, somebody looked
over at me, like in the second third period, and
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I don't know if it was Mike Johnson or because
we all were watching it together.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Or Johnny Rupper and Boyle together.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, yeah, or it was one of our producers and
he just said he was like, you know what, the
best part about this? He goes, the two best teams
are here and he goes, it's actually like that, that's
that's a good part. So at least the fans are treated.
But Edmonton Oiler's baby yeah in six swinn.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Okay, well, Erry Carrier on the Oilers try sell fire.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah yeah. The moon.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Sam Bennett, by the way, leads all players. There were
twelve playoff goals. I know E've been impressed up great
has been from Florida and and just Acond. We've set
this over and over and we'll keep saying at the
depth of the Oiler scoring, this was not a game
where a pair of bases carried the day. They're now
twenty different unique goal scorers. That's like on the all
time list in terms of different players contributing for this
Oilers team.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Well, well, you know, touch on Sam Bennett first. You
know ties Mark Stiffey for the all time road goals
lead in the NHL playoffs. So you know, no one
else in NHL history has more road goals than Sam
Bennett in a playoff you know, playoff series round, you know,
over over the course of the playoffs. Uh, he's unbelievable,
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Like this guy. Every time his he's just you can
just see every goalie scorers is like one million more,
five hundred thousand more, every hit two fifty more a year. Yeah,
he's just right, DG. You can see his agent they're like, oh, oh,
more more and then you know he's just you can't
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find a player in the playoffs that plays like you know,
that's that. He's so good. I'm such a fan of his.
He's always impactful in playoffs. He's just he he demands
so much respect and fear and he just is able
to also be so skilled and you know, great, I
mean what a goalie scorer to that goal dragon his
leg just enough and then goes blocker side. Amazing finish.
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And and to your point, the depth of Edmonton Evander Kaine.
You know, you look at the two guys that were
probably most impactful for me in those games, with Sam
Bennett kind of a gritty, hard nosed guy that can
score Vander Kaine all those goals. The Ech home goal
is Vander Kain driving to the net and taking out
three people. The Leon Dry side of goal at the
start of the game is Evander Kaine driving through to
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the net, taking out Gustav Forsling and just you know,
doing what Florida does to them. And that was the
thing that was missing from Edmonton last playoffs against Florida
was an Evander Kaine that's healthy and you could see it.
He is killing guys, he's playing dirty, he's getting to
the Naties, getting tourr entents and it's just opening up
the ice for everybody else. That's like the intangible thing
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that an Evander Caine or Sam Bennett does. They just
open it up for the other guys to to kind
of play because everybody's worried about Evander Kaine. You know,
they're all chasing him, they're all trying to slash them,
and this is just what he does. So yeah, depth
pieces for Edmonton again. You know, you can, you can
go down the list of guys, but you know, Vander
Kain for me was great. Caspiy kappenan great game. On
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the D side, John Klingberg and Jake Wllman were fantastic. Again.
I thought they're very very good, very solid, And I
mean this is a team that's ready. We've been saying
at the last couple episodes. This team looks ready.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
If only a Phil Pritcher doing a Harry Cary impression.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
The keep of the cop is to join us coming
up later here on NHL unscripted. He's great in terms
of challenges. We saw how that King's Oilers series changed, right,
Jim Hiller made that just a disastrous decision, Jim Hiller,
and he's still getting.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Crushed for it this time.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Bennett ties again, maybe through the prairie bumps in his
two skinner on the play a fit Oilers coaches asked
for a review.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
The call stands, Vonton takes a penalty.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Brad Marshank gives Flord of the lead on the power
play a buck forty one later.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Now, Chris Dopplin said, all challenge any day of the week.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
He had no.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Regrets about it. But what do you think about his
decision and the call from the officials.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
It's tough. I think I think they're banking on the
history of Sam Bennett coming into effect, and you know,
Brett Koolak gets escaped behind so and it kind of
trips him. But then you know Sam Bennett casually falls
back and he's not gonna hold himself up, so he
falls in. You know, it was more of the turnover
and shot. It's a tough one. I just don't know
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that early in the series if you're calling it. But
at least you know Chris non Block was ready and
to do it. And also, you know, the video coaches
in Edmonton probably were pretty adamant about it, because a
lot of the time they leave that up to them,
so they were probably adamant that this was the call
to make. You know, the ensuing power play where they
give one up is not great. But this team, man,
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they early in the series, they're not scared. That could
have went the wrong way fast, and you know, the
good thing is is up until that point and then
you go through the second period like Stuart Skinner kept
him in that game after because that game could have
been over, that could have ran away with it and
all off another coaching calls, so port Jim Hiller. If
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only Quentin Byfield that chipped it out, you know, we
would be in LA right now instead of Edmonton at
the VARs Gona end. But shit happens. And you know,
as long as naw Block owned it and didn't bear anybody,
he owned it, did it. Boys got it back for him.
This fucking team, man, fucking team.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
They're feeling pretty good right now.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Now. Again, I mentioned off the top, Jady is there.
It seemed like a file for us. And also you
were there at media day, so we want to take
full advantage of you being there. It's a really unique
experience for anybody who hasn't covered it. You're there talking
to different players throughout the day and kind of getting a story.
Great storytelling more than anything. First, tell us about John Klingberg.
You mentioned the factor impressed by his play with Walman
in game one. How about Klingberg's NHL journey. People remember
(12:25):
him with the stars and how he's coming to this
moment now in his career.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Well, when I played with him in Dallas in twenty
fourteen fifteen, his hip, his hips were bothering him then
like he was in pain. Then ended up playing another
six years with it. Great defenseman was in that hip
resurfacing surgery is so difficult to do and come back from.
So we were able to talk to him and it
(12:50):
was good to see him. Mysel's wife yesterday and Choose
talking about how much he loves it here in Edmonton
and loves the team and the wives, and which is great.
He's found a home. But his last two years he
didn't play much hockey. When you think about it, He's
played like thirty games in the life last like two years.
So we did. I kind of resonate with that, just
because you know what I went through with my back
surgery trying to get my seven hundred game and and
(13:11):
he comes back and you know, they give him a
shot at seven hundred and fifty grand Everybody's like, what
the hell's going on? And I, you know, I was
on a oiler's podcast and I was like, if this works,
this is like a win win, like get Klingberg in
the league if this, if it works, you know, they
look like the smartest team alive. And if it doesn't,
it only cost them seven hundred and fifty grands. So
so it's it's it's great, and it's an amazing story.
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And and he was very kind of vulnerable with his
story of like coming back and not knowing if he
would and talking to He talked to Patrick Kane as
well as the other guy that got the hip surf
resurfacing surgery. I can't remember who it is in the moment,
but you'll hear it in the audio clip.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Just reach out a the process and all that.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
It's a little bit different obviously for starting six middle
and in the hips now, so also get used to
and I, I mean, I knew it was gonna be
a process when I signed him coming back as well.
But I think over the course of this playoffs, who
coming in I feel like over over a week.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Spas is getting better and better by every.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Week too, So I'm very excited where it is at.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
I feel like he's just gonna continue to get better
and better, which is exciting. I mean, it's like as
he you played it, you're so proud to kind of
see where you're at. But like just talk mentally. But
I went through a ton of surgeries when I was playing,
and it is hard to stay kind of even keel
and leading on families so important. Yeah, how much did
you learn about yourself just keep you back from that injury?
Speaker 5 (14:48):
I mean a lot, And I think obviously coming up
in the league, the timing of it and.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Dallas was perfect. I got a gold right away, and
obviously at that time I thought I was gonna be
a Dallas Stars for life.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
But well, yeah, well the things happen, and I mean,
it was.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Just getting more supports. There's just.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
It was just an amazing moment and and vulnerability, and
it's always nice to hear guys talk about like they
think faire out and then how they had to battle
back and and and really be mentally strong and lean
on their support system. So it was it was a
cool interview. That's definitely very cool.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
You able to talk to me again.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
You had that personal relationship with the him with his
wife as well being able to see that the maturation
of his career. Every time you see Paul Coffee, like, man,
that's so cool just to seeing Paul Coffee is there
as a coach right now the Oilers team and specifically
you can imagine the players just loving getting the advice
from an all time great.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
What did Brett Kol actually about Cough telling him to
cut his stick?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yeah, there's there's a lot of coaches that played that
you know, really like to influence them on the and
insert themselves on the on the stick length and stick curve.
And you know, Rick Tockett when I played, was trying
to get me to change my curve and I ended
up doing and I ended up doing it and and
didn't score for the next two years. So you know,
(16:40):
sometimes it works, sometimes it does it so, uh yeah,
but he was talking about, you know, because I kept trying.
I know Cough a little bit just from being around
the team for training camp and and also, uh you
know seeing him around last year and he's very like
blunt with what he says, and he's a walking quote
and he says so many good funny things. And I
(17:01):
was trying to get the guys that gave me one,
like because we interviewed a lot of a d man
and they're all like every single guy was like nothing
would be good for TV or media. Like I can't
tell you what he says because it's it's very blunting
to the point, but cool act started talking. He's like
he was chasing me around, trying to get me to
put the length of my stick down, and he's like caught.
He's like Paul, Like, he's like, I can't play with
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like a mini hockey stick like you did. Like he's like,
I need to have it a little bit longer. So
he finally like kept he kept bugging and bugging him,
and he changed and he said this year he played
with it the whole season with a shorter stick in
a and a and a better curve, and I mean,
he's played great.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Last year.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
It's funny how you could play your whole career with
a certain curve and stick and then on the fly
some Hall of Famer shit talks to you and you
end up changing and it works. So you know the
lore of Paul Coffee, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
As you say that like athletes can be superstitious. One
thing is working, I want to change it. Whit you know,
if it ain't broke, don't fix it. But then if
you are struggling, I'll take what everydvice you can't find.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Great.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Once you figure it out, you can do it.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Ag Agreer was not in the line for the Florida
Panthers for Game one, but you got some thoughts on
him and Dairy Queen if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yeah, well, everybody knows the Dairy Queen story, the Dairy
Queen Club with Marsha. So we go and we're asking.
I just asked him. I was like, hey, what's the
what's the Dairy Queen story? And he had an amazing
scoop for us and even said at the end of
He's like, this is a scoop about Brad. Marsha's pretty
(19:03):
She's a huge friend.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
The biggest fact Blizzards. He loves that.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
That's pretty stunning listening to that clip through.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Well, he I've never heard of anyone now that I
think about it, and I've been to Dairy Queen many
of the time.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
It is it is solely a place that went for
ice cream cakes.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
I just went and they have burgers and hot dogs.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
And I know that guy was even aware of that.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
If you said to me, if you had dry Queen
hot dog, but I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I know goes there for that.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
That is that that's that's poor for him.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
By Brad, I don't mean to you know, maybe it's
a don't knock it till he tried it.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
But I can't see the angel and.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I might go try the burger. No, there's no way,
just to do it, just to do it once. Just
take a bite. I mean, you're gonna grow, You're gonna
grow a nose like his.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Still to come here.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
In hl and scripted, everyone always needs to find every
artist he has to find their new muse. Maybe the
Penguins have found it in the person of Dan muse
for Sidney Cross. We will talk about that move. Plus
you smell the Brock is cooking. Brock Nelson re upping
with the colorda Avlane. Coming up next it is Phil Pritcher,
the Keeper of the Cup, with great stories and all
the discussing things guys have done with the Stanley Cup,
some of the inspiring things they've done with the cup.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
How we got the job plus the.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Phil Pritchard Lookalike contest all that were coming up after
this a NHL in scripted.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Our next guest is the curator of the Hockey Hall
of Fame, where he has worked since nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Is known around the world as the Keeper of the Cup,
a duty he has performed since nineteen ninety four. He
is the personal bodyguard for the most incredible trophy in
all the sports.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Ladies and gentlemen, Phil Pritchard.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Phil, it is great to see you as the Stanley
Cup Final is going to be really the focus of
the hockey world right now and you will be in
the focus as well.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Great to see how you been.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Thanks for having us on.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
You know what, it's always an exciting time of year
in June when the Stanley Cup Final is on and
who would have.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Fought at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
We'd have a repeats of both teams and then so
it's fun for Canada, it's fun for the US, it's
fun for the North and South, and it's got everything
going so.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Exactly thirty two years Canada's drout.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
We're hoping it is at least here as Canadians, where
is Lord Stanley, right now Phil.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
It's getting ready to go actually to the Edmonton right
now for the final media days later on today and
then Game one, Game two, then back to Florida, and
you know the drill.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I'm gonna be there media day, so I'm gonna get
a hopefully get a piece and see it and see
you as well. But I want to ask little you
started in ninety four, and you know ninety four is
where Glenn Heally, Nicky Kyprio's famously they lost the cup,
And what do you remember that story? And like how,
you know, how did your kind of gig come to be?
Speaker 6 (22:09):
Well, you know what I mean.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
I know Glenn and Nick pretty well now and have
heard all the stories of Glenn taking it to pickering
outside of Toronto and Nick traveling around in New York
with in Uh with Mark Messi and that. But it's
funny the I started at the Hockey Hall of Fame
in nineteen eighty eight and my first week on the job,
(22:31):
we had to do a minor hockey banquet in Newmarket,
Ontario for those listeners that don't know where, that is
about an hour north of Toronto.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
And it was a Friday night.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
I started on the Monday, and we had to take
the Cup up north, and nobody wanted to do it.
So I sheepishly put up my hand and said, mister Morrison,
I'll go. And I was the new kid on the
block and okay, kind of card he got, you got
to put it in your car. And so I went
up there, and I mean it was it was great.
It was a great event, very low key and everything.
(23:03):
And then on Monday morning when I came in, he said,
I heard everything went well, and he said, yeah, it
was good. I want to go to Dallas this weekend.
And it was something I didn't I didn't apply for
to say. I mean, I was working there in public
relations and kind of the historic side at the Hockey
Hall of Fame, and next thing, I'm hanging out with
(23:26):
the world's greatest trophy going this is this is all right.
This wasn't on the job job qualification process when I started.
But that's so long ago now, so he jump up
six years to ninety four. We had taken it to
the Cup final obviously the previous years, but it was
a it was a different format at the time. When
(23:47):
Commissioner Batman started, he got into the red carpet type
of thing, and we we had calls how to make it.
Specially wanted to make it. He wanted to make it
like it should be exactly what it is now, like
it was. It's the prominent trophy of hockey. Let's make
it that way. So by nineteen ninety four, the Rangers
(24:08):
in Vancouver are in the Stanley Cup Final and here
we go again, Canada versus US, you know, East versus West.
It goes seven games and everything, and you look back
at it now and you thought, think, wow, if that
series could have gone nine games, it would have gotten
nine games, like if they were.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
So close it.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
But to have the Rangers win it on Broadway and
everything like that, it was pretty spectacular. But they the
stories from all the guys and all that. So the
evolution of the day with the Cup kind of started dead.
It obviously had its roots before that and everything, but
it wasn't until nineteen ninety five that actually each person
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on the team, each player on the team got a
chance to keep the cup for a day, and that
was the new Jersey Devil. So it I'd love to
say I can tell you it started on this moment
and this time, but it kind of evolved over time.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
That was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Do you want to say that?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yeah, Well, it's amazing because you always hear these stories
about players, as you said, taking it back to their
hometown in different locales, and sometimes it can be a
little silly and certainly parties and stories like that.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
But I thought of a moment which.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Really filled me with pride and joy as a fellow Muslim,
and Nawson Condrey took the cup back to his mosque
in London.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
That was a real touchdown, wonderful moment, wasn't it.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
It was?
Speaker 7 (25:27):
It was pretty incredible. I remember in uh when we
were in Colorado and we went over to his house
a day or two after they had won in that
and he was saying what his plans were in that.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
And he's totally different off the ice than he is
on the ice.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
He's very quiet, very laid back, great guy, great family.
But I think more than anything to do, it really
shows how this game is growing worldwide. It's no longer
just a northern city game longer, or just the outdoor
ice rink. I mean, the game has evolved. It's playing
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in ninety six countries around the world now. Everybody couldn't
put on a pair of skates and pick up a stick,
so not and paid paved the way in that way.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
But and there's going to be a whole bunch more.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
Nathan Walker from Australia is playing on the Blues, was
with a Cup team with the Capital a few years ago,
so it's it's really growing. And hey, if you're playing
hockey as a kid and you want to play and
arguably the best league in the world, the National Hockey League,
and win that chance to bring the Cup home, I
mean I think everyone would be putting their hands up
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to do that.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Oh one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
I wanted to ask you, like, you know the Nas
and Kadri one that's so unique. Is there any other
stories it's kind of your favorite to tell about a
player hosting the culture in the summer, You.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
Know what Jay it was.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
I think every time we go to a new city
or a new country, it's pretty spectacular on Coppatar when
he took it back to Slovenia for the first time,
being the only Slovenian in the league, and then when
it twice in three years to bring it back there
to fly in a Jubilllana and go from there.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
It's it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 7 (27:20):
But he was so honored obviously to win the Stanley
Cup and bring it home, but to be a Slovenian
and be honored by everybody.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
I mean, as we.
Speaker 7 (27:30):
Know, anyone, anytime anyone gets to wear their national flag
on their heartage special, and Tron's it was special. The
first time we went to Russia in nineteen ninety seven
with the Red wings, it was unique. I mean, all
of those are so special. But we can break it
down further and go down to states or provinces, to
little towns in that when it's the first time it's there,
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the adults are so excited, their kids are.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
I mean it it really brings this town to life,
or the village or whatever.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
Might be, and everyone gathers around and it shows I
think and Tay you probably know this as good as anyone.
You can't get there by yourself. Someone had to help
you put on skates when you were a kid, someone
had to tie them, They had to drive you to
their work.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
All of these people are.
Speaker 7 (28:16):
All part of it, and they all they all celebrate
in that Stanley Cup moment, So it's pretty special. Wherever
it is, the Cope Tar one special, obviously the Russian
one going to Finland. We were up in northern Finland
last year for one of the first times. We've been
in the South a lot, but we don't get to
all parts of Yeah, exactly, Yeah, it was exactly.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Sandy didn't show up. I was waiting for him. There's
a couple of guys with beers, but they weren't sad.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, Bill, I want to ask you if the winning
the Cup in twenty twenty one, the lightning dented the
trophy during the Cup presentation, what went through your mind
when you saw that?
Speaker 6 (28:54):
So?
Speaker 7 (28:55):
Actually so the lightning they they dented it after their parade,
that avalanche dented.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
It during the Stanley Cup presentation. You got your dents
mixed stup.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
There not the only one that happens.
Speaker 7 (29:07):
Yeah, you know what it's I guess if the Stanley
Cup could talk guys, it would be a best seller
because the dings and dents it has.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
Uh, how do we when you and.
Speaker 7 (29:20):
I are one hundred and thirty two, one hundred and
thirty two years old, we're going to have dings and
dents on us? If we could tell each story it'd
be amazing. The Stanley Cup story much more better than
that that that one that happened in Tampa, h southern Florida.
You know, in the summer the weather changes so fast.
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The parade went great. It was on the it was
on the bay in Tampa. It was fine, Sonny, and
all of a sudden a storm came and started pouring
down and the ground was slippery in that. And I
remember Pat Roon there was he was watching this little family.
They were trying to get up to the cup, a
little girl, and he went over and he did the
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right thing. He said, do you want a photo with it,
I'll bring it down to So he stood down and
bent down. But as he did, he slipped. And it's
one of those, you know stories that will live forever.
And there's Pat room names three times on it. Everyone
knows him as a Stanley Cup champion three times, but
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they also know him as the guy.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
To put the dent in which.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Phil I want to ask you. We talked to you
last year on Stanley Cup Live, and I've seen like
a video about it. But I love when you talk
about you know, how you've kept all your white gloves
and from your time with the cup, and is there
is there a pair that you know is the most
sentimental to you or the one that kind of sticks
with you. I know, there's just it's endless.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
Yeah, you know what. It's funny because my wife was
here right now.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
I'd put her on and she'd tell you every pair
should go in the garbage, get rid of them.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
They have here at home.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
But it's funny because we the white gloves in museums
date back a long time. We've been wearing them well
before we walked out in the ice with them, and
every curator at every museum in the world, whether it's
an art gallery, hockey Hall of Fame, whatever it is,
they wear white gloves and basically our fingerprints have oils
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in them. So we kind of brought them from behind
the scenes to in the forefront. Tried to pay the
respect that the cup we think deserves and should demand
type of thing by carrying it with white gloves. So
my first pair I ever wore with the Stanley Cup
I've kept. That's probably the.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
One that means the most because way back then.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
I kept that pair, and then I kept the next pair,
and I thought, well, okay, I keep the next pair
and I keep.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
What I mean, I'm up to like four hundred and
fifty two pairs. It's ridiculous, but I've got them all,
and all the final ones I have tagged in the
bags of what what it was? The final? The rest
are per season type of thing.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Ah, so I guess as a whole day they're They're
all pretty special.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
But the first pair were pretty unique.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
And who knew that all these years later, I'd still
be hanging on to them.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Never forget your first time?
Speaker 6 (32:25):
Well well said, Well said, you know, six.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Weeks ago in Toronto, you appeared a Phil Pritchard lookalike
contest at Keep Her Con. How surreal was that it was?
Speaker 7 (32:37):
I remember when the league brought up the idea and
I kind of laughed and no one else laughed.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
And I'm thinking, okay, what kind of joke is this?
Speaker 7 (32:46):
And they said it'd be pretty cool like people, I mean,
this is a fun thing to do. And it became
a fun thing to do and people showed up with
bad haircuts like mine, and.
Speaker 8 (32:59):
You know it was it was good and I think
more than anything tall it it showed that hockey is
is fun as well, and people had a good time
with it.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
I brought my daughter out to it.
Speaker 9 (33:15):
And she knew more people than I did there and
I don't know how, and that my daughter is mid twenties,
so it really shows the age, the broad range of
age that people were.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
Attracted to it by it.
Speaker 7 (33:28):
It was fun and I hope we do it again
next year and maybe more people will come out and
we can go from there.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Have you did you see anybody there that was like
a little creeper? And I was wondering, like, do you
ever do you have like has there ever been any
like stalker incidences or anything like that of people like
trying to track your movements or you know, I don't
feel like there'd be a couple of fanatics around, you
know what.
Speaker 7 (33:52):
I uh, it scared me when I you know, I
came outside and the event was outside.
Speaker 6 (33:58):
It was a beautiful afternoon, and there's all these people
dressed like me. I'm thinking all the smokes am. I
look in the mirror a whole bunch of times here,
like what's happening?
Speaker 7 (34:07):
I think that the stalker things probably a bit watch
Hockey fans, as you know, are so passionate and so honorable,
and they see us pushing the case and they got
a ton of questions and then they start sharing memories
with you, and then you we kind of come out
and ask them, Hey, do you want to see it
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in that? And they're they're just so thrilled, And I
think it really brings out the humanity side of people.
And as we know, hockey fans are around the world
are so passionate not only about the players, but the
teams and the history and the evolution of it and everything.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
So to be a little part of the history of
the game, it's it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Of fun People often joke pil what they would do
if they had a chance to win the Stanley Cup.
You know what they would put in the cup? You've
seen it firsthand? What's the most unique?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Should I put it?
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Food or drink that you've seen consumed out of the cup?
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Still go unique?
Speaker 7 (35:04):
Me disgusting, Stay away from unique.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
You know what.
Speaker 7 (35:08):
It's funny because a lot of the a lot of
the players and the staff and that have different things
out of it. And you ask them why do they
want to do that, and then they explained the history
behind it, and then it makes a lot of sense.
I remember years ago Thomas Kopecky won the Cup of
the Blackhawks, and he's from the middle of Slovakia and
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his mom is makes this traditional Slovakian soup and he
wanted to put it in and he wanted to serve
it to all his family. The soup that mum made
and translated to English, it's the inside of the stomach
of a cow soup.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
Wow. I don't know how to pronounce it in Slovakia,
but it was.
Speaker 7 (35:52):
It was really good soup, Like there was dumplings and
all sorts of that in there.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
I didn't eat it out of the cup.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
I mean, they gave him more than that.
Speaker 7 (36:01):
But at first, you I tell someone that's the inside
of the stomach of a cow soup, and they.
Speaker 6 (36:07):
Think why why would he do that?
Speaker 7 (36:09):
But then he explains what what his mom meant to
him and they would play hockey and they'd come in
and get warm, and his mom would have the soup
and it means a whole bunch. And that's I think
that's pretty cool because the guys all of these moments
throughout their life, they're important to them.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Yeah, there's no question about it. H talgo ahead, you
got a couple fours, so close it up.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Yeah, I just uh had a couple of quick ones.
Speaker 10 (36:36):
I've I've been fortunate enough to actually be at certain
players or executives' days with the cup after they've.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Won it, and the most nab.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 10 (36:46):
Working working for NHL dot Com, I was with Jonathan
Tays in Winnipeg one day, and I was with Dean
Lombardi of the former GM of the Kings when he
took it to his small hometown in Massachusetts, and he
took it to his youth hockey coach's house, and it
was incredible, like the whole youth hockey team was there
with the cup at this you know, eighty something year
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old men's house in smalltown Massachusetts. I'm just curious if
there's a moment where someone shared the cup with a
family member or a friend or whatever it may be
where you, even with all the experience you've had, Phil,
you were there and you were getting goosebumps.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Thinking, Wow, this is a special moment right here.
Speaker 7 (37:22):
I like you gave Dean's an example that youth hockey
coach meant so much to Dean and other people in
that town that that's an important part of his growing
up and turning into a GM. To me, the most
passionate ones are when they take it to cemeteries for
past ones and they sit in quietness and just reminisce
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over everything.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
That is so powerful to me.
Speaker 7 (37:50):
Yeah, they all have parties at night in that and
they're great, But it's the moments like that that you said,
hell and the cemetery visits and the eating soup out
of it with your family, those are the ones that
are really really important. And I go back to the
beginning when I said if the cup could talk, those
stories are the ones that need to be shared more. Yeah,
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there's great parties in that and everyone can have a party,
but it's those moments that the guys think about, and
I'm sure they think about it a lot.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
If I get that chance to bring it home, what
am I going to do? And that makes it so unique.
Speaker 10 (38:27):
And last one for me, Phil, I just was curious.
You know, we talked about Glen Helly and Nick Kippios
losing the cup. What moments do you recall were for
even a moment you looked around and thought, where's the cup?
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Where is it?
Speaker 7 (38:40):
You know what a Timo Solani's kind of city hall
party party in Helsinki, Finland. I think like ten thousand
people showed up and Timo, you know, an ugly guy.
Speaker 6 (38:52):
Nobody likes.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
What a bad guy.
Speaker 6 (38:57):
Everybody hates it. He's not nice or anything. He's tied
up with everybody.
Speaker 7 (39:03):
And we had the cup up on this stage and
all you could see was people everywhere and it was
like there's team of where's the cup at? And it's
really cool in filing because like Canada, that's the national sport,
I mean, and they love it. And to for have
everyone there saluting and cheering team that I In some
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aspects I wish I could speak more languages because I'm
sure the stories that are told all then I could
share all of.
Speaker 6 (39:30):
Them as well.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Bill Pritcher, the keeper of the Cup, this was awesome
and you've got stories for days. We can't think enough.
Have a wonderful Stanley Cup final. Phil, We watch and
thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
All right, guys, thanks a lot. We'll pat with you soon.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
JD was convinced that brock Delves was going to return
to his hosted in Minnesota and side with the Wild
as a free agent.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Never made it to the market, though the.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Avalanche pooning up three years twenty two point five million dollars. Reportedly,
they acquired Nelson the Islanders to trade deadline to make
it run it back this year.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
As a number two center behind Nathan McKinnon.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Your thoughts on Nelson getting over seven million dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Well, Billy Garon and the Minnesota Wild, what a fucking
miss this was? Uh, this is what happens. Uh. We
had Alex Kolgowski on the show, and I don't know
if he said it on the show, but he said,
he's he you know, we've we've kind of talked, and
it's just one of those things like if the guy's
available at the deadline and you want him and you think,
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don't wait to free agency to sign him, you're giving
a team the opportunity to woo him for six months
and woo him. They did, because Brock Nelson ends up signing,
stays in Colorado, you know, and now you look at
the Minnesota Wild, I'm more, I'm more look at the
Minnesota while they need a centerment because Carol caprice Off
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is not going to stay if they don't get him
a centerment. He ain't staying. He's going somewhere else. Uh,
He's gonna take the show. The Caprice off show in
the road, and I think they missed very, very you
know it was it was a huge miss by Minnesota
because they didn't do anything at the deadline, and I
thought they should have chased at least a big name
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because you were getting all that dead cap money coming off,
as well as career was getting healthy. You saw what
they did with the limited team in Round one. They
had a chance to beat Vegas. They would have added
at Powerhouse, they could have won a nice run with
this great team that they have. So I just think
this is what happens when you stand pat and you
risk the you risk not getting the guy you want ultimately,
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and that's the guy they wanted was Brock Nelson. I
think Bill Geron was pretty convinced he was coming. But again,
you give six months to a team to you know,
tickle the taint, so to speak, and this is what happens.
The taint was tickled, and the money was spent and
the contract was signed, and uh yeah, everybody came.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Good alliteration there, especially at the ending.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Nelson, by the way, fifty six points, twenty six goals,
thirty six eighty regular season games, thirteen points in nineteen
games with the Avalanche after he was acquired in that
trade could have been a UFA had four assists and
seven Stelely Cup playoff games.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
So you're right, you got a.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
Little taste of Colorado. Loves thee loves being there like
the right rock.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Yeah, they get their center depth, right, So it's like,
now they got three centers. You know, do I think
signing Charlie Coyle and Brock Nelson to twelve and a
half million when you could have just had Miko rant
In for that money. Yeah, you two players for the
price of one. But Mico Ranton's pretty pretty good. Yeah,
So I kind of like we just did a whole
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roundabout circle. But you know, they got their center depth.
Now they're just gonna have to build that out. But
it was a lot to give up Callum Ritchie first
round pick, second round pick, and now he spent seven
and a half sch million dollars.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
Meantime, the Pittsburgh Penguan was finally replacement for Mike Sullivan.
Sullivan's travels, he moves on to New York Damn Hues
with a team's new head coach, Salvan. The Penns part
ways April twenty eth ten, seasons and two Stanley Cups.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
He's the Rangers coach. Muse by the way, forty two years.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Of age, young man, assistant coach of the past few
seasons with Peter Laviolette and the Rangers. Was also an
assistant under lavvy for three seasons in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
Off the board, pick Jad.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
He did not hear many people talking about Dan Mues
being a head coach in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Yeah, muse boosh, yes, uh yeah. Not much on him,
not much scouting report on him. You know, I think
he was. He's been part of the US development program,
so he knows a lot. He deals with young kids,
whatever that means to you young hockey players. I think
this is more of a pick like Bill Armstrong did
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in Utah with Andre TURINGI nothing against either one of
these coaches, but I think it's a coach that is
super excited to get the job is going to make
a little bit less and Kyle Dubis can kind of
pull the strings a little bit and he'll understand, and
Dan Muse will understand, and they will kind of be
like one brain and he will play the team as
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Kyle dubases fit like moneyball, where it's like you can't
put Carlos payn on first because they traded Carlos Paana.
Nice there you go. Hold so so yeah, so I
think it's uh, it's one of those hopefully, you know.
I'm just it's an interesting one because you look at
you know, Kyle dubis is really putting his mark on
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this team, and you wonder what's next for the older
guys there, the Crosby's, the Malkins, the Latang's, and you know,
I could see a world in which Latang and Malkin
are not there come Game one of the season.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
And I mean just the amount of parel they have
that you spoke about Minnesota having dead money coming out
the cap. With Pittsburgh, it's like they've got so much
money right now locked up in those major players. Obviously
sinking it whatever he wants. But you're right when it
comes to Latang, malcol and others, it's it's gonna take
a little bit of creativity.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
There from Kyle dupis.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
A couple more thoughts here, Nikita kuchro Off, your boy
wins The Ted Lindsay wore most of the standing players
voted by members at the NHLPA t end of the
last eleven Lindsay Award winners have gone to win the
Heart Trophy as League MVP, including Kutrop who won it
back in twenty nineteen. I think Hellibuck's still the favorite
to win. He's a finalist alongside Leon drys Little. But
are you convinced now, Jad the Kutrov will win the Heart.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
No, he's gonna get robbed again. They're gonna rob him again.
This poor guy should have won the Heart last fucking
three years and he's just gonna get robbed just because
he didn't want to try at the All Star Game.
So that's on him. This is the consequences of those actions.
But yeah, I think. I mean it was funny sing
him with no beard. He looked like looked like a
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used car salesman there. I was like sending Kat to Koutrov.
I just like a little scruff. He had nothing. He
was down to the wood. I didn't love it. He
looked like he you know, he's shaved down like you.
And I was like it was weird, weird.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
It's true, certain guys just look better with facial hair,
Like I just take it, like I think Tali the
mustache should be awful.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
Oh my god, he'd be chinless. He's got an some mustache.
Speaker 6 (46:05):
Though.
Speaker 2 (46:05):
I can't go down to the wood. I can't go
down of the wood either. If I go down to
the wood, I look like I'm one years old, and
I got like my neck gets like bread. It's oh,
it's awful. Oh oh yeah, babyface. But yeah, he should
win it. He's gonna get robbed. It'll be Connor hellibuck.
You heard it here first fans.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
And last night before we get to centophon sixty. You know,
both teams looking for any sort of home ice advantage.
What about the Oilers though, ice from the hometown rinks
of six Oilers players Connor mc David, Ryan, hug and
Hopkins ever edricated among them and they shipped the water
to Edmonton as it was added to the ice surface
at Rogers's Place for the series. Makes me think about
the Olympics, Memember Gretzky playing with the magic Looney there
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in that game at Salt Lake against America. You think
of teams doing things like this, but rather unique tactic.
I've never heard of this one.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
JD. This is so stupid. There's something that they were
so dominant, There's something in the world they were so
dominant at home. Why are you bringing ice? Why are
you changing the ice surface? And I didn't think the
ice was great history and nothing. You know, they do
magic over these ice crews, but I just did feel
like it's doing a lot. But listen, we're all pulling
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for we need Canada win one. And I think it's
fucking anything. You know, it's anything. We'll do anything, We
will do anything to get that. Gosh, darn Stanley Cup
on this side of the border. But yeah, I was
kind of like, what was like Calvin Pickard's hometown, Darnell Nurse.
I just kind of like, gee, Judas Priest, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
A little yeah, all right, last that I want to
tell the way and I'm friendship Paul Rudsny movie. But
a quick cent of file in sixty Matt doc Russian
was here. We were talking about Gene Hackman. He was
telling me how Ben Manko WIT's my buddy from TCM
on and talk about Hackman's career, and he said he
mentioned a couple of movies most people don't know. One
of them is called Night Moves, which I did end
up watching. It's available Criterion, excellent Gene Hackman movie. It's
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funny because that era.
Speaker 3 (47:55):
You know, he won the Oscar for French Connection. He's
great in The Scarecrow.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
The Conversation is a great Copla movie from nineteen seventy four,
but seventy five was Night Moves.
Speaker 2 (48:02):
It's a really good thriller.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
You know, he's he's she's gene hack, but he's brash,
he's tough, he's not gonna take any shit. You know,
he's gonna face like a beer mug. What's also notable
about it is Melanie Griffith plays this runaway teenage girl
in the movie. And I'm watching you know when you
watch me go she looks a little young for this
start and then go, yeah, he's the mid seventies. Wait
is that her ass? I hope it's a body double.
Wait that's a little side tits. Wow, it's a lot.
I look up Baffords to Go Home. Was Mellie Griffith born.
(48:23):
I'm like, okay, the math on this. The movie came
out in seventy five. That means she would have been eighteen.
The movie, of course, was not shot in seventy five,
so I'm like, that means that's seventeen.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
I really hope it was.
Speaker 3 (48:33):
A Body Double. I know it was the seventies, A
lot of different shit went on.
Speaker 1 (48:35):
Julia phllips Is, you remember her memoir, But Melie Griffith
showed a lot and really getting it done.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
Night moves. Yeah, Well have you ever seen I feel
like there's no all that young kids shit was going on.
You've ever seen the video of like uh with Demi Moore,
like kissing with the like twelve year old boy they're
playing like piano like it's uh litt Like Hollywood's fucked
greasy man, especially people with especially in the seventies.
Speaker 3 (49:00):
Yes, anything goes, but it's a really good movie.
Speaker 2 (49:02):
I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (49:02):
So thanks to Matt dog Russa for commending Piece of
Ben make Witz Criterion.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
The best take he's ever made.
Speaker 1 (49:08):
Absolutely in a good movie recommendation for me and Tal
just saw Friendship.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
We love Paul Rudd. He's a huge can say rule.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
Yes, he was at the Royals game last year You're
doppel Ganger. He ran, by the way in the hot
dog race.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
Rudd won.
Speaker 3 (49:19):
I think he was ketchup. I'm not sure which one
he was, but he won.
Speaker 2 (49:21):
He was great.
Speaker 3 (49:22):
And Tal just saw his new movie Go ahead, Tell.
Speaker 10 (49:24):
Yeah, Friendship with with Paul Rudd kind of playing his
character from Anchorman Brian Fantana a little bit. He's even
got the the moustache to go with it and the
hair do and it's you know, you're a yeah, oh
yeah sex Panther. Was that the name of his fragrance anyways? Yeah,
(49:48):
so very you know it's it's it's Paul Rudd and
and Tim Robinson. Snl'm Tim Robinson. If a lot of
people know him from his I Think Hilarious show on
Netflix I Think Leave So good and also on Netflix
if you haven't seen it, count rec enough Detroiters with
Tim Robinson and his buddy Sam Richardson, who are both
(50:08):
huge Detroit sports fans, and it's this. This is basically friendship.
It's basically a ninety minute sketch from I Think You
Should Leave, which, if you love the show, is a
great thing. Tim Robinson kind of plays this buffoonish, clueless
guy in a dead end job where no one takes
him seriously. His wife, who's played by Kate Mara, who's
(50:30):
excellent actually in the film, is kind of a woman
who's starting to tire of her buffoonish husband, and he
meets his new neighbor played by Paul Rudd, and the
craziness just kind of escalates from there. Dark but hilarious
at the same time. An interesting combination, and it really
(50:52):
plays into like all these unique concepts of what quantifies
or qualifies like male friendship, you know, balancing like vulnerability
with the toxic masculinity.
Speaker 2 (51:04):
It's it's really interesting.
Speaker 10 (51:06):
It's it's written and directed by this guy, Andrew DeYoung,
who has directed a lot of hilarious TV shows like
Our Flag Means Death and UH and Penn fifteen and Shrill,
And you know, if you're a Tim Robinson fan, you
gotta see it. I'd say, if you're a Paul Rudd fan,
it's worth checking out. If you're not a fan of
(51:26):
kind of dark, bizarre comedy, it might not be your thing.
But I loved it because that's my jam.
Speaker 2 (51:33):
So I can't wait. I can't I can't wait to
watch it. In a very a very astute review, tell
like those up pins and needles that whole time, we
can tell that you're Trent Yanni right now and you
got through that him gotta get him a cafe ola.
I mean, I think his sketch show, Tim Robinson is
(51:54):
so funny. It's it's so good of like, there's so
many it's so stupid, but gosh, there's just some good ones.
But the ones that can you even fucking drive? He's like, no,
I don't know how to I don't know how He's like, what,
I don't know how to drive? And I'm really scared
right now. This sketch where he's on like a folks
I could be a comedian.
Speaker 10 (52:15):
He's a like a Bachelorette style show and all he
wants to do is a zip line into the pool,
and the bachelorette just so is she just during elimination
just says I think you're just here for the zip
line and it's just I could watch that over and
over again.
Speaker 2 (52:31):
Amazing. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:34):
Check out Friendship and check out NHL and script Our
next episode coming at this Sunday again, we'll be pre whewing.
That'll be before Game three on Monday.
Speaker 2 (52:42):
Enjoy episode.
Speaker 1 (52:43):
Hopefully you'll see Wayne Gretzky in the Hotel Goose after
a buddy we'll talk.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
Are we are we pre pre wooing. We'll see next.
Speaker 3 (52:50):
Emmle in scripted.
Speaker 2 (52:53):
Cop Limb cob Limb.
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
As always, the NHL and I Heart Podcasts are putting
this thing together. This is the time of you if
you're a hockey fan, if you love it, it's verkin de
merz as we get after it. Let's clarify our new
schedule right now. NHL Inscripted is all of this st
of files. JD is at the Finals, boots in the ground,
getting a great sound, the perfect bird's eye view of
what is happening the best and for the duration of
the series, we will be posting a new episode on
(00:45):
the off day before every game, so that means our
next episode will be available on Sunday before game three Monday.
Episode after that will be Wednesday before game four Thursday.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
We're crushing at JD.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
This is gonna be epic, oh crushing it as much
as I am staying at the Varscona Hotel. Okay, beautiful, beautiful,
not downtown Edmonton, outside of downtown Edmonton where the lights
are bright and no, let's let's crack crack.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
One game one can wait more finish my line.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I was gonna say the crackheads are plentiful. Let me
finish that. Edmondson.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I've been to twice this year. I went Framizon on Prime.
It's ever been previously. Everyone's listening and you, I think
you said this too. Ever totally got the best thing
about it is you'll never have to leave the hotel.
They go, the JW. Maria is connected to the arena.
It's amazing, Like.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
A while, be there.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
They go, No, I know it's cold, it's miserable. Hey man,
they've got a nice little fire. Two minutes to go
in there.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Me and Hicks, Jody Shelley, John Forston. So when you
went there, I'm like, God. The first thing he says
the hotel like wait, no JW Marriot, Nay, nay, where
are you?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
How far are you? Dude? You work for the NHL.
Come on. They they had some like convention in town
that's been booked for a year, like real estate and
also it's like agricultural and so it was like we're
thrown out way out into the stay. You know. We're like,
you know, we're I mean, we're fifteen minutes. We're on
white Avenue. So there's some restaurants here, but there's like
the funniest thing is like, I guess TNT is out
(02:13):
here too, sotes away with you. So yeah, so we
had players only with with Henrik Lunquist, so you know
boy Brian Boyle and Mike Ruppead. Henrik lunk was on.
So I was doing part of the show. So I
got up and Hank came in and as he's leaving,
I heard he was staying like a hotel near us.
(02:34):
It's like kind of dodgy too. So as he's getting up,
I'm like, Hank, I said, how's the hotel? And he goes,
are you fucking kidding me right now? And I was like,
are you staying out there? Big Hank T and T Crew?
I heard gretz is out here too, and I was like,
there's no way Gretzki's out here. I'm like, he's he's
for sure, there's some billionaire here that will house him easily.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Correct, he's not staying in the hotel.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, but no, I who knows. Apparently his security guard
was in the hotel, so if he's there, I can't
say of the hotel because the rabbit unscripted fans, smart fan.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, oh you're gonna find out Gretz is there.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
This is amazing. He's taking hotels the rest of you guys,
fucking real estate convention. I love it. Let's get to
the game and bumps it back for Bouchard.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
NuGen Hopkins on the left half boards under pressure, turns
and gives it up.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Beautiful pass, but gave it in front.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
What turns?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Leon tri subtle four three edit ten.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Over listen.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
High expectations going into this one. It went to overtime.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Really was like great momentum shifts right Edmonton fourteen seven
out shoot to the first prid, as you expect, house
on fire, Panthers come back at seventeen shots in the
second Skinner Weather's the stormut really Florida had their four
check back, third perid. Edmonton really takes over and then
the end of the game, you know, you go to overtime.
It ends up being a careful play, which is frustrating.
I wanted it to end. I mean there was there
(04:07):
was a several moments like that bouoch shirt looked like
he's Bobby or almost aid in overtime, like, oh my god,
this game ends now, epic move right. Who was to
split the d cast and yeah, amazing is the on
mikel On Jones and oh my oh that that's the
way we end. It's like a final game. Instead, no
check carelessly flips the puck. He's a fourth lottery played
under ten minutes of the game. Delay a game and
(04:29):
then the actual goal was great McDavid drives, Ottle, quick
touch passes overtime winner.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
But I'm left feeling jad listened. It's a great win Fremonton.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
They deserve the win, certainly the way they played, especially
a third period on But for Florida, a goo man,
you lose on a penalty like that overtime tough pill
to swallow.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Well, I mean, you know it's a team that something
has to had to break twenty nine and oh when
they're leading after two crazy uh and listen, no sick.
Paul Marie said something pretty nice after the game. You know,
they asked and they said tough bounce for no sick.
You know what'd you tell him? And he just said, listen,
he goes. I told him about the Toronto series when
and they got inserted the lineup and Florida's down to nothing.
(05:07):
He's like we're not here without that line, that fourth line,
and he goes, it's a mistake. He goes, hopefully he
doesn't need a loan. Guys are going to be there
with him tonight. Yeah, hopefully he you know, hope just
check on your teammate. And that's a beautiful thing about
hockey and and and the great thing about Paul Maurice.
You know, he could say what you want about sometimes
him going overboard with like the handshake line and like,
(05:27):
don't make it about you. But he's always understanding and
I think he always at the end of the day
has the players his best interest at heart. And you know,
you could see him supporting Thomas Noschik there because you know,
that's that's an unfortunate play. It happens careless, you can
call it. But in the heat of it and the overtime,
the ice is snowy, what he didn't look great the ice,
(05:51):
you know, and this goes over and you know you're
giving the best power play and arguably the league and
opportunity and overtime when everyboy's a little fatigue. So knew
what was gonna happen. But yeah, like I thought Edmonton
could have enit. It a lot of times before that,
I thought they were the better team, you know, for
other than the second period, for you know, every other
period they were the better team, and I thought they
(06:12):
were really pushing. So I don't I don't chalk it
down to that flip. I think that was just a
a you know what do you want to call that?
Just a kind of confidence of events and this is
what happens. So but yeah, it's uh, it was a
great It was a great atmosphere, a great game too. Honestly,
I think that was a great you know, somebody looked
over at me, like in the second third period, and
(06:34):
I don't know if it was Mike Johnson or because
we all were watching it together.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Or Johnny Rupper and Boyle together.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, yeah, or it was one of our producers and
he just said he was like, you know what, the
best part about this? He goes, the two best teams
are here and he goes, it's actually like that, that's
that's a good part. So at least the fans are treated.
But Edmonton Oiler's baby yeah in six swinn.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Okay, well, Erry Carrier on the Oilers try sell fire.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah yeah. The moon.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Sam Bennett, by the way, leads all players. There were
twelve playoff goals. I know E've been impressed up great
has been from Florida and and just Acond. We've set
this over and over and we'll keep saying at the
depth of the Oiler scoring, this was not a game
where a pair of bases carried the day. They're now
twenty different unique goal scorers. That's like on the all
time list in terms of different players contributing for this
Oilers team.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Well, well, you know, touch on Sam Bennett first. You
know ties Mark Stiffey for the all time road goals
lead in the NHL playoffs. So you know, no one
else in NHL history has more road goals than Sam
Bennett in a playoff you know, playoff series round, you know,
over over the course of the playoffs. Uh, he's unbelievable,
(07:52):
Like this guy. Every time his he's just you can
just see every goalie scorers is like one million more,
five hundred thousand more, every hit two fifty more a year. Yeah,
he's just right, DG. You can see his agent they're like, oh, oh,
more more and then you know he's just you can't
(08:15):
find a player in the playoffs that plays like you know,
that's that. He's so good. I'm such a fan of his.
He's always impactful in playoffs. He's just he he demands
so much respect and fear and he just is able
to also be so skilled and you know, great, I
mean what a goalie scorer to that goal dragon his
leg just enough and then goes blocker side. Amazing finish.
(08:37):
And and to your point, the depth of Edmonton Evander Kaine.
You know, you look at the two guys that were
probably most impactful for me in those games, with Sam
Bennett kind of a gritty, hard nosed guy that can
score Vander Kaine all those goals. The Ech home goal
is Vander Kain driving to the net and taking out
three people. The Leon Dry side of goal at the
start of the game is Evander Kaine driving through to
(08:59):
the net, taking out Gustav Forsling and just you know,
doing what Florida does to them. And that was the
thing that was missing from Edmonton last playoffs against Florida
was an Evander Kaine that's healthy and you could see it.
He is killing guys, he's playing dirty, he's getting to
the Naties, getting tourr entents and it's just opening up
the ice for everybody else. That's like the intangible thing
(09:22):
that an Evander Caine or Sam Bennett does. They just
open it up for the other guys to to kind
of play because everybody's worried about Evander Kaine. You know,
they're all chasing him, they're all trying to slash them,
and this is just what he does. So yeah, depth
pieces for Edmonton again. You know, you can, you can
go down the list of guys, but you know, Vander
Kain for me was great. Caspiy kappenan great game. On
(09:43):
the D side, John Klingberg and Jake Wllman were fantastic. Again.
I thought they're very very good, very solid, And I
mean this is a team that's ready. We've been saying
at the last couple episodes. This team looks ready.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
If only a Phil Pritcher doing a Harry Cary impression.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
The keep of the cop is to join us coming
up later here on NHL unscripted. He's great in terms
of challenges. We saw how that King's Oilers series changed, right,
Jim Hiller made that just a disastrous decision, Jim Hiller,
and he's still getting.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Crushed for it this time.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Bennett ties again, maybe through the prairie bumps in his
two skinner on the play a fit Oilers coaches asked
for a review.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
The call stands, Vonton takes a penalty.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Brad Marshank gives Flord of the lead on the power
play a buck forty one later.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Now, Chris Dopplin said, all challenge any day of the week.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
He had no.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Regrets about it. But what do you think about his
decision and the call from the officials.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
It's tough. I think I think they're banking on the
history of Sam Bennett coming into effect, and you know,
Brett Koolak gets escaped behind so and it kind of
trips him. But then you know Sam Bennett casually falls
back and he's not gonna hold himself up, so he
falls in. You know, it was more of the turnover
and shot. It's a tough one. I just don't know
(10:58):
that early in the series if you're calling it. But
at least you know Chris non Block was ready and
to do it. And also, you know, the video coaches
in Edmonton probably were pretty adamant about it, because a
lot of the time they leave that up to them,
so they were probably adamant that this was the call
to make. You know, the ensuing power play where they
give one up is not great. But this team, man,
(11:20):
they early in the series, they're not scared. That could
have went the wrong way fast, and you know, the
good thing is is up until that point and then
you go through the second period like Stuart Skinner kept
him in that game after because that game could have
been over, that could have ran away with it and
all off another coaching calls, so port Jim Hiller. If
(11:41):
only Quentin Byfield that chipped it out, you know, we
would be in LA right now instead of Edmonton at
the VARs Gona end. But shit happens. And you know,
as long as naw Block owned it and didn't bear anybody,
he owned it, did it. Boys got it back for him.
This fucking team, man, fucking team.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
They're feeling pretty good right now.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Now. Again, I mentioned off the top, Jady is there.
It seemed like a file for us. And also you
were there at media day, so we want to take
full advantage of you being there. It's a really unique
experience for anybody who hasn't covered it. You're there talking
to different players throughout the day and kind of getting a story.
Great storytelling more than anything. First, tell us about John Klingberg.
You mentioned the factor impressed by his play with Walman
in game one. How about Klingberg's NHL journey. People remember
(12:25):
him with the stars and how he's coming to this
moment now in his career.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Well, when I played with him in Dallas in twenty
fourteen fifteen, his hip, his hips were bothering him then
like he was in pain. Then ended up playing another
six years with it. Great defenseman was in that hip
resurfacing surgery is so difficult to do and come back from.
So we were able to talk to him and it
(12:50):
was good to see him. Mysel's wife yesterday and Choose
talking about how much he loves it here in Edmonton
and loves the team and the wives, and which is great.
He's found a home. But his last two years he
didn't play much hockey. When you think about it, He's
played like thirty games in the life last like two years.
So we did. I kind of resonate with that, just
because you know what I went through with my back
surgery trying to get my seven hundred game and and
(13:11):
he comes back and you know, they give him a
shot at seven hundred and fifty grand Everybody's like, what
the hell's going on? And I, you know, I was
on a oiler's podcast and I was like, if this works,
this is like a win win, like get Klingberg in
the league if this, if it works, you know, they
look like the smartest team alive. And if it doesn't,
it only cost them seven hundred and fifty grands. So
so it's it's it's great, and it's an amazing story.
(13:35):
And and he was very kind of vulnerable with his
story of like coming back and not knowing if he
would and talking to He talked to Patrick Kane as
well as the other guy that got the hip surf
resurfacing surgery. I can't remember who it is in the moment,
but you'll hear it in the audio clip.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Just reach out a the process and all that.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
It's a little bit different obviously for starting six middle
and in the hips now, so also get used to
and I, I mean, I knew it was gonna be
a process when I signed him coming back as well.
But I think over the course of this playoffs, who
coming in I feel like over over a week.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Spas is getting better and better by every.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Week too, So I'm very excited where it is at.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
I feel like he's just gonna continue to get better
and better, which is exciting. I mean, it's like as
he you played it, you're so proud to kind of
see where you're at. But like just talk mentally. But
I went through a ton of surgeries when I was playing,
and it is hard to stay kind of even keel
and leading on families so important. Yeah, how much did
you learn about yourself just keep you back from that injury?
Speaker 5 (14:48):
I mean a lot, And I think obviously coming up
in the league, the timing of it and.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Dallas was perfect. I got a gold right away, and
obviously at that time I thought I was gonna be
a Dallas Stars for life.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
But well, yeah, well the things happen, and I mean,
it was.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Just getting more supports. There's just.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
It was just an amazing moment and and vulnerability, and
it's always nice to hear guys talk about like they
think faire out and then how they had to battle
back and and and really be mentally strong and lean
on their support system. So it was it was a
cool interview. That's definitely very cool.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
You able to talk to me again.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
You had that personal relationship with the him with his
wife as well being able to see that the maturation
of his career. Every time you see Paul Coffee, like, man,
that's so cool just to seeing Paul Coffee is there
as a coach right now the Oilers team and specifically
you can imagine the players just loving getting the advice
from an all time great.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
What did Brett Kol actually about Cough telling him to
cut his stick?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yeah, there's there's a lot of coaches that played that
you know, really like to influence them on the and
insert themselves on the on the stick length and stick curve.
And you know, Rick Tockett when I played, was trying
to get me to change my curve and I ended
up doing and I ended up doing it and and
didn't score for the next two years. So you know,
(16:40):
sometimes it works, sometimes it does it so, uh yeah,
but he was talking about, you know, because I kept trying.
I know Cough a little bit just from being around
the team for training camp and and also, uh you
know seeing him around last year and he's very like
blunt with what he says, and he's a walking quote
and he says so many good funny things. And I
(17:01):
was trying to get the guys that gave me one,
like because we interviewed a lot of a d man
and they're all like every single guy was like nothing
would be good for TV or media. Like I can't
tell you what he says because it's it's very blunting
to the point, but cool act started talking. He's like
he was chasing me around, trying to get me to
put the length of my stick down, and he's like caught.
He's like Paul, Like, he's like, I can't play with
(17:22):
like a mini hockey stick like you did. Like he's like,
I need to have it a little bit longer. So
he finally like kept he kept bugging and bugging him,
and he changed and he said this year he played
with it the whole season with a shorter stick in
a and a and a better curve, and I mean,
he's played great.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Last year.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
It's funny how you could play your whole career with
a certain curve and stick and then on the fly
some Hall of Famer shit talks to you and you
end up changing and it works. So you know the
lore of Paul Coffee, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
As you say that like athletes can be superstitious. One
thing is working, I want to change it. Whit you know,
if it ain't broke, don't fix it. But then if
you are struggling, I'll take what everydvice you can't find.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Great.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Once you figure it out, you can do it.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Ag Agreer was not in the line for the Florida
Panthers for Game one, but you got some thoughts on
him and Dairy Queen if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yeah, well, everybody knows the Dairy Queen story, the Dairy
Queen Club with Marsha. So we go and we're asking.
I just asked him. I was like, hey, what's the
what's the Dairy Queen story? And he had an amazing
scoop for us and even said at the end of
He's like, this is a scoop about Brad. Marsha's pretty
(19:03):
She's a huge friend.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
The biggest fact Blizzards. He loves that.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
That's pretty stunning listening to that clip through.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Well, he I've never heard of anyone now that I
think about it, and I've been to Dairy Queen many
of the time.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
It is it is solely a place that went for
ice cream cakes.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
I just went and they have burgers and hot dogs.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
And I know that guy was even aware of that.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
If you said to me, if you had dry Queen
hot dog, but I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I know goes there for that.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
That is that that's that's poor for him.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
By Brad, I don't mean to you know, maybe it's
a don't knock it till he tried it.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
But I can't see the angel and.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I might go try the burger. No, there's no way,
just to do it, just to do it once. Just
take a bite. I mean, you're gonna grow, You're gonna
grow a nose like his.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Still to come here.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
In hl and scripted, everyone always needs to find every
artist he has to find their new muse. Maybe the
Penguins have found it in the person of Dan muse
for Sidney Cross. We will talk about that move. Plus
you smell the Brock is cooking. Brock Nelson re upping
with the colorda Avlane. Coming up next it is Phil Pritcher,
the Keeper of the Cup, with great stories and all
the discussing things guys have done with the Stanley Cup,
some of the inspiring things they've done with the cup.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
How we got the job plus the.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Phil Pritchard Lookalike contest all that were coming up after
this a NHL in scripted.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Our next guest is the curator of the Hockey Hall
of Fame, where he has worked since nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Is known around the world as the Keeper of the Cup,
a duty he has performed since nineteen ninety four. He
is the personal bodyguard for the most incredible trophy in
all the sports.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Ladies and gentlemen, Phil Pritchard.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Phil, it is great to see you as the Stanley
Cup Final is going to be really the focus of
the hockey world right now and you will be in
the focus as well.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Great to see how you been.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Thanks for having us on.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
You know what, it's always an exciting time of year
in June when the Stanley Cup Final is on and
who would have.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Fought at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
We'd have a repeats of both teams and then so
it's fun for Canada, it's fun for the US, it's
fun for the North and South, and it's got everything
going so.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Exactly thirty two years Canada's drout.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
We're hoping it is at least here as Canadians, where
is Lord Stanley, right now Phil.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
It's getting ready to go actually to the Edmonton right
now for the final media days later on today and
then Game one, Game two, then back to Florida, and
you know the drill.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I'm gonna be there media day, so I'm gonna get
a hopefully get a piece and see it and see
you as well. But I want to ask little you
started in ninety four, and you know ninety four is
where Glenn Heally, Nicky Kyprio's famously they lost the cup,
And what do you remember that story? And like how,
you know, how did your kind of gig come to be?
Speaker 6 (22:09):
Well, you know what I mean.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
I know Glenn and Nick pretty well now and have
heard all the stories of Glenn taking it to pickering
outside of Toronto and Nick traveling around in New York
with in Uh with Mark Messi and that. But it's
funny the I started at the Hockey Hall of Fame
in nineteen eighty eight and my first week on the job,
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we had to do a minor hockey banquet in Newmarket,
Ontario for those listeners that don't know where, that is
about an hour north of Toronto.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
And it was a Friday night.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
I started on the Monday, and we had to take
the Cup up north, and nobody wanted to do it.
So I sheepishly put up my hand and said, mister Morrison,
I'll go. And I was the new kid on the
block and okay, kind of card he got, you got
to put it in your car. And so I went
up there, and I mean it was it was great.
It was a great event, very low key and everything.
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And then on Monday morning when I came in, he said,
I heard everything went well, and he said, yeah, it
was good. I want to go to Dallas this weekend.
And it was something I didn't I didn't apply for
to say. I mean, I was working there in public
relations and kind of the historic side at the Hockey
Hall of Fame, and next thing, I'm hanging out with
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the world's greatest trophy going this is this is all right.
This wasn't on the job job qualification process when I started.
But that's so long ago now, so he jump up
six years to ninety four. We had taken it to
the Cup final obviously the previous years, but it was
a it was a different format at the time. When
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Commissioner Batman started, he got into the red carpet type
of thing, and we we had calls how to make it.
Specially wanted to make it. He wanted to make it
like it should be exactly what it is now, like
it was. It's the prominent trophy of hockey. Let's make
it that way. So by nineteen ninety four, the Rangers
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in Vancouver are in the Stanley Cup Final and here
we go again, Canada versus US, you know, East versus West.
It goes seven games and everything, and you look back
at it now and you thought, think, wow, if that
series could have gone nine games, it would have gotten
nine games, like if they were.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
So close it.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
But to have the Rangers win it on Broadway and
everything like that, it was pretty spectacular. But they the
stories from all the guys and all that. So the
evolution of the day with the Cup kind of started dead.
It obviously had its roots before that and everything, but
it wasn't until nineteen ninety five that actually each person
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on the team, each player on the team got a
chance to keep the cup for a day, and that
was the new Jersey Devil. So it I'd love to
say I can tell you it started on this moment
and this time, but it kind of evolved over time.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
That was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Do you want to say that?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yeah, Well, it's amazing because you always hear these stories
about players, as you said, taking it back to their
hometown in different locales, and sometimes it can be a
little silly and certainly parties and stories like that.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
But I thought of a moment which.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Really filled me with pride and joy as a fellow Muslim,
and Nawson Condrey took the cup back to his mosque
in London.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
That was a real touchdown, wonderful moment, wasn't it.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
It was?
Speaker 7 (25:27):
It was pretty incredible. I remember in uh when we
were in Colorado and we went over to his house
a day or two after they had won in that
and he was saying what his plans were in that.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
And he's totally different off the ice than he is
on the ice.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
He's very quiet, very laid back, great guy, great family.
But I think more than anything to do, it really
shows how this game is growing worldwide. It's no longer
just a northern city game longer, or just the outdoor
ice rink. I mean, the game has evolved. It's playing
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in ninety six countries around the world now. Everybody couldn't
put on a pair of skates and pick up a stick,
so not and paid paved the way in that way.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
But and there's going to be a whole bunch more.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
Nathan Walker from Australia is playing on the Blues, was
with a Cup team with the Capital a few years ago,
so it's it's really growing. And hey, if you're playing
hockey as a kid and you want to play and
arguably the best league in the world, the National Hockey League,
and win that chance to bring the Cup home, I
mean I think everyone would be putting their hands up
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to do that.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Oh one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
I wanted to ask you, like, you know the Nas
and Kadri one that's so unique. Is there any other
stories it's kind of your favorite to tell about a
player hosting the culture in the summer, You.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
Know what Jay it was.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
I think every time we go to a new city
or a new country, it's pretty spectacular on Coppatar when
he took it back to Slovenia for the first time,
being the only Slovenian in the league, and then when
it twice in three years to bring it back there
to fly in a Jubilllana and go from there.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
It's it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 7 (27:20):
But he was so honored obviously to win the Stanley
Cup and bring it home, but to be a Slovenian
and be honored by everybody.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
I mean, as we.
Speaker 7 (27:30):
Know, anyone, anytime anyone gets to wear their national flag
on their heartage special, and Tron's it was special. The
first time we went to Russia in nineteen ninety seven
with the Red wings, it was unique. I mean, all
of those are so special. But we can break it
down further and go down to states or provinces, to
little towns in that when it's the first time it's there,
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the adults are so excited, their kids are.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
I mean it it really brings this town to life,
or the village or whatever.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
Might be, and everyone gathers around and it shows I
think and Tay you probably know this as good as anyone.
You can't get there by yourself. Someone had to help
you put on skates when you were a kid, someone
had to tie them, They had to drive you to
their work.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
All of these people are.
Speaker 7 (28:16):
All part of it, and they all they all celebrate
in that Stanley Cup moment, So it's pretty special. Wherever
it is, the Cope Tar one special, obviously the Russian
one going to Finland. We were up in northern Finland
last year for one of the first times. We've been
in the South a lot, but we don't get to
all parts of Yeah, exactly, Yeah, it was exactly.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Sandy didn't show up. I was waiting for him. There's
a couple of guys with beers, but they weren't sad.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, Bill, I want to ask you if the winning
the Cup in twenty twenty one, the lightning dented the
trophy during the Cup presentation, what went through your mind
when you saw that?
Speaker 6 (28:54):
So?
Speaker 7 (28:55):
Actually so the lightning they they dented it after their parade,
that avalanche dented.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
It during the Stanley Cup presentation. You got your dents
mixed stup.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
There not the only one that happens.
Speaker 7 (29:07):
Yeah, you know what it's I guess if the Stanley
Cup could talk guys, it would be a best seller
because the dings and dents it has.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
Uh, how do we when you and.
Speaker 7 (29:20):
I are one hundred and thirty two, one hundred and
thirty two years old, we're going to have dings and
dents on us? If we could tell each story it'd
be amazing. The Stanley Cup story much more better than
that that that one that happened in Tampa, h southern Florida.
You know, in the summer the weather changes so fast.
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The parade went great. It was on the it was
on the bay in Tampa. It was fine, Sonny, and
all of a sudden a storm came and started pouring
down and the ground was slippery in that. And I
remember Pat Roon there was he was watching this little family.
They were trying to get up to the cup, a
little girl, and he went over and he did the
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right thing. He said, do you want a photo with it,
I'll bring it down to So he stood down and
bent down. But as he did, he slipped. And it's
one of those, you know stories that will live forever.
And there's Pat room names three times on it. Everyone
knows him as a Stanley Cup champion three times, but
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they also know him as the guy.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
To put the dent in which.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Phil I want to ask you. We talked to you
last year on Stanley Cup Live, and I've seen like
a video about it. But I love when you talk
about you know, how you've kept all your white gloves
and from your time with the cup, and is there
is there a pair that you know is the most
sentimental to you or the one that kind of sticks
with you. I know, there's just it's endless.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
Yeah, you know what. It's funny because my wife was
here right now.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
I'd put her on and she'd tell you every pair
should go in the garbage, get rid of them.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
They have here at home.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
But it's funny because we the white gloves in museums
date back a long time. We've been wearing them well
before we walked out in the ice with them, and
every curator at every museum in the world, whether it's
an art gallery, hockey Hall of Fame, whatever it is,
they wear white gloves and basically our fingerprints have oils
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in them. So we kind of brought them from behind
the scenes to in the forefront. Tried to pay the
respect that the cup we think deserves and should demand
type of thing by carrying it with white gloves. So
my first pair I ever wore with the Stanley Cup
I've kept. That's probably the.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
One that means the most because way back then.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
I kept that pair, and then I kept the next pair,
and I thought, well, okay, I keep the next pair
and I keep.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
What I mean, I'm up to like four hundred and
fifty two pairs. It's ridiculous, but I've got them all,
and all the final ones I have tagged in the
bags of what what it was? The final? The rest
are per season type of thing.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Ah, so I guess as a whole day they're They're
all pretty special.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
But the first pair were pretty unique.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
And who knew that all these years later, I'd still
be hanging on to them.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Never forget your first time?
Speaker 6 (32:25):
Well well said, Well said, you know, six.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Weeks ago in Toronto, you appeared a Phil Pritchard lookalike
contest at Keep Her Con. How surreal was that it was?
Speaker 7 (32:37):
I remember when the league brought up the idea and
I kind of laughed and no one else laughed.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
And I'm thinking, okay, what kind of joke is this?
Speaker 7 (32:46):
And they said it'd be pretty cool like people, I mean,
this is a fun thing to do. And it became
a fun thing to do and people showed up with
bad haircuts like mine, and.
Speaker 8 (32:59):
You know it was it was good and I think
more than anything tall it it showed that hockey is
is fun as well, and people had a good time
with it.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
I brought my daughter out to it.
Speaker 9 (33:15):
And she knew more people than I did there and
I don't know how, and that my daughter is mid twenties,
so it really shows the age, the broad range of
age that people were.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
Attracted to it by it.
Speaker 7 (33:28):
It was fun and I hope we do it again
next year and maybe more people will come out and
we can go from there.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Have you did you see anybody there that was like
a little creeper? And I was wondering, like, do you
ever do you have like has there ever been any
like stalker incidences or anything like that of people like
trying to track your movements or you know, I don't
feel like there'd be a couple of fanatics around, you
know what.
Speaker 7 (33:52):
I uh, it scared me when I you know, I
came outside and the event was outside.
Speaker 6 (33:58):
It was a beautiful afternoon, and there's all these people
dressed like me. I'm thinking all the smokes am. I
look in the mirror a whole bunch of times here,
like what's happening?
Speaker 7 (34:07):
I think that the stalker things probably a bit watch
Hockey fans, as you know, are so passionate and so honorable,
and they see us pushing the case and they got
a ton of questions and then they start sharing memories
with you, and then you we kind of come out
and ask them, Hey, do you want to see it
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in that? And they're they're just so thrilled, And I
think it really brings out the humanity side of people.
And as we know, hockey fans are around the world
are so passionate not only about the players, but the
teams and the history and the evolution of it and everything.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
So to be a little part of the history of
the game, it's it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Of fun People often joke pil what they would do
if they had a chance to win the Stanley Cup.
You know what they would put in the cup? You've
seen it firsthand? What's the most unique?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Should I put it?
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Food or drink that you've seen consumed out of the cup?
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Still go unique?
Speaker 7 (35:04):
Me disgusting, Stay away from unique.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
You know what.
Speaker 7 (35:08):
It's funny because a lot of the a lot of
the players and the staff and that have different things
out of it. And you ask them why do they
want to do that, and then they explained the history
behind it, and then it makes a lot of sense.
I remember years ago Thomas Kopecky won the Cup of
the Blackhawks, and he's from the middle of Slovakia and
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his mom is makes this traditional Slovakian soup and he
wanted to put it in and he wanted to serve
it to all his family. The soup that mum made
and translated to English, it's the inside of the stomach
of a cow soup.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
Wow. I don't know how to pronounce it in Slovakia,
but it was.
Speaker 7 (35:52):
It was really good soup, Like there was dumplings and
all sorts of that in there.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
I didn't eat it out of the cup.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
I mean, they gave him more than that.
Speaker 7 (36:01):
But at first, you I tell someone that's the inside
of the stomach of a cow soup, and they.
Speaker 6 (36:07):
Think why why would he do that?
Speaker 7 (36:09):
But then he explains what what his mom meant to
him and they would play hockey and they'd come in
and get warm, and his mom would have the soup
and it means a whole bunch. And that's I think
that's pretty cool because the guys all of these moments
throughout their life, they're important to them.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Yeah, there's no question about it. H talgo ahead, you
got a couple fours, so close it up.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Yeah, I just uh had a couple of quick ones.
Speaker 10 (36:36):
I've I've been fortunate enough to actually be at certain
players or executives' days with the cup after they've.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Won it, and the most nab.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 10 (36:46):
Working working for NHL dot Com, I was with Jonathan
Tays in Winnipeg one day, and I was with Dean
Lombardi of the former GM of the Kings when he
took it to his small hometown in Massachusetts, and he
took it to his youth hockey coach's house, and it
was incredible, like the whole youth hockey team was there
with the cup at this you know, eighty something year
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old men's house in smalltown Massachusetts. I'm just curious if
there's a moment where someone shared the cup with a
family member or a friend or whatever it may be
where you, even with all the experience you've had, Phil,
you were there and you were getting goosebumps.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Thinking, Wow, this is a special moment right here.
Speaker 7 (37:22):
I like you gave Dean's an example that youth hockey
coach meant so much to Dean and other people in
that town that that's an important part of his growing
up and turning into a GM. To me, the most
passionate ones are when they take it to cemeteries for
past ones and they sit in quietness and just reminisce
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over everything.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
That is so powerful to me.
Speaker 7 (37:50):
Yeah, they all have parties at night in that and
they're great, But it's the moments like that that you said,
hell and the cemetery visits and the eating soup out
of it with your family, those are the ones that
are really really important. And I go back to the
beginning when I said if the cup could talk, those
stories are the ones that need to be shared more. Yeah,
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there's great parties in that and everyone can have a party,
but it's those moments that the guys think about, and
I'm sure they think about it a lot.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
If I get that chance to bring it home, what
am I going to do? And that makes it so unique.
Speaker 10 (38:27):
And last one for me, Phil, I just was curious.
You know, we talked about Glen Helly and Nick Kippios
losing the cup. What moments do you recall were for
even a moment you looked around and thought, where's the cup?
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Where is it?
Speaker 7 (38:40):
You know what a Timo Solani's kind of city hall
party party in Helsinki, Finland. I think like ten thousand
people showed up and Timo, you know, an ugly guy.
Speaker 6 (38:52):
Nobody likes.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
What a bad guy.
Speaker 6 (38:57):
Everybody hates it. He's not nice or anything. He's tied
up with everybody.
Speaker 7 (39:03):
And we had the cup up on this stage and
all you could see was people everywhere and it was
like there's team of where's the cup at? And it's
really cool in filing because like Canada, that's the national sport,
I mean, and they love it. And to for have
everyone there saluting and cheering team that I In some
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aspects I wish I could speak more languages because I'm
sure the stories that are told all then I could
share all of.
Speaker 6 (39:30):
Them as well.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Bill Pritcher, the keeper of the Cup, this was awesome
and you've got stories for days. We can't think enough.
Have a wonderful Stanley Cup final. Phil, We watch and
thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
All right, guys, thanks a lot. We'll pat with you soon.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
JD was convinced that brock Delves was going to return
to his hosted in Minnesota and side with the Wild
as a free agent.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Never made it to the market, though the.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Avalanche pooning up three years twenty two point five million dollars. Reportedly,
they acquired Nelson the Islanders to trade deadline to make
it run it back this year.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
As a number two center behind Nathan McKinnon.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Your thoughts on Nelson getting over seven million dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Well, Billy Garon and the Minnesota Wild, what a fucking
miss this was? Uh, this is what happens. Uh. We
had Alex Kolgowski on the show, and I don't know
if he said it on the show, but he said,
he's he you know, we've we've kind of talked, and
it's just one of those things like if the guy's
available at the deadline and you want him and you think,
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don't wait to free agency to sign him, you're giving
a team the opportunity to woo him for six months
and woo him. They did, because Brock Nelson ends up signing,
stays in Colorado, you know, and now you look at
the Minnesota Wild, I'm more, I'm more look at the
Minnesota while they need a centerment because Carol caprice Off
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is not going to stay if they don't get him
a centerment. He ain't staying. He's going somewhere else. Uh,
He's gonna take the show. The Caprice off show in
the road, and I think they missed very, very you
know it was it was a huge miss by Minnesota
because they didn't do anything at the deadline, and I
thought they should have chased at least a big name
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because you were getting all that dead cap money coming off,
as well as career was getting healthy. You saw what
they did with the limited team in Round one. They
had a chance to beat Vegas. They would have added
at Powerhouse, they could have won a nice run with
this great team that they have. So I just think
this is what happens when you stand pat and you
risk the you risk not getting the guy you want ultimately,
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and that's the guy they wanted was Brock Nelson. I
think Bill Geron was pretty convinced he was coming. But again,
you give six months to a team to you know,
tickle the taint, so to speak, and this is what happens.
The taint was tickled, and the money was spent and
the contract was signed, and uh yeah, everybody came.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Good alliteration there, especially at the ending.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Nelson, by the way, fifty six points, twenty six goals,
thirty six eighty regular season games, thirteen points in nineteen
games with the Avalanche after he was acquired in that
trade could have been a UFA had four assists and
seven Stelely Cup playoff games.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
So you're right, you got a.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
Little taste of Colorado. Loves thee loves being there like
the right rock.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Yeah, they get their center depth, right, So it's like,
now they got three centers. You know, do I think
signing Charlie Coyle and Brock Nelson to twelve and a
half million when you could have just had Miko rant
In for that money. Yeah, you two players for the
price of one. But Mico Ranton's pretty pretty good. Yeah,
So I kind of like we just did a whole
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roundabout circle. But you know, they got their center depth.
Now they're just gonna have to build that out. But
it was a lot to give up Callum Ritchie first
round pick, second round pick, and now he spent seven
and a half sch million dollars.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
Meantime, the Pittsburgh Penguan was finally replacement for Mike Sullivan.
Sullivan's travels, he moves on to New York Damn Hues
with a team's new head coach, Salvan. The Penns part
ways April twenty eth ten, seasons and two Stanley Cups.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
He's the Rangers coach. Muse by the way, forty two years.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Of age, young man, assistant coach of the past few
seasons with Peter Laviolette and the Rangers. Was also an
assistant under lavvy for three seasons in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
Off the board, pick Jad.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
He did not hear many people talking about Dan Mues
being a head coach in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Yeah, muse boosh, yes, uh yeah. Not much on him,
not much scouting report on him. You know, I think
he was. He's been part of the US development program,
so he knows a lot. He deals with young kids,
whatever that means to you young hockey players. I think
this is more of a pick like Bill Armstrong did
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in Utah with Andre TURINGI nothing against either one of
these coaches, but I think it's a coach that is
super excited to get the job is going to make
a little bit less and Kyle Dubis can kind of
pull the strings a little bit and he'll understand, and
Dan Muse will understand, and they will kind of be
like one brain and he will play the team as
(44:08):
Kyle dubases fit like moneyball, where it's like you can't
put Carlos payn on first because they traded Carlos Paana.
Nice there you go. Hold so so yeah, so I
think it's uh, it's one of those hopefully, you know.
I'm just it's an interesting one because you look at
you know, Kyle dubis is really putting his mark on
(44:29):
this team, and you wonder what's next for the older
guys there, the Crosby's, the Malkins, the Latang's, and you know,
I could see a world in which Latang and Malkin
are not there come Game one of the season.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
And I mean just the amount of parel they have
that you spoke about Minnesota having dead money coming out
the cap. With Pittsburgh, it's like they've got so much
money right now locked up in those major players. Obviously
sinking it whatever he wants. But you're right when it
comes to Latang, malcol and others, it's it's gonna take
a little bit of creativity.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
There from Kyle dupis.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
A couple more thoughts here, Nikita kuchro Off, your boy
wins The Ted Lindsay wore most of the standing players
voted by members at the NHLPA t end of the
last eleven Lindsay Award winners have gone to win the
Heart Trophy as League MVP, including Kutrop who won it
back in twenty nineteen. I think Hellibuck's still the favorite
to win. He's a finalist alongside Leon drys Little. But
are you convinced now, Jad the Kutrov will win the Heart.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
No, he's gonna get robbed again. They're gonna rob him again.
This poor guy should have won the Heart last fucking
three years and he's just gonna get robbed just because
he didn't want to try at the All Star Game.
So that's on him. This is the consequences of those actions.
But yeah, I think. I mean it was funny sing
him with no beard. He looked like looked like a
(45:41):
used car salesman there. I was like sending Kat to Koutrov.
I just like a little scruff. He had nothing. He
was down to the wood. I didn't love it. He
looked like he you know, he's shaved down like you.
And I was like it was weird, weird.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
It's true, certain guys just look better with facial hair,
Like I just take it, like I think Tali the
mustache should be awful.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
Oh my god, he'd be chinless. He's got an some mustache.
Speaker 6 (46:05):
Though.
Speaker 2 (46:05):
I can't go down to the wood. I can't go
down of the wood either. If I go down to
the wood, I look like I'm one years old, and
I got like my neck gets like bread. It's oh,
it's awful. Oh oh yeah, babyface. But yeah, he should
win it. He's gonna get robbed. It'll be Connor hellibuck.
You heard it here first fans.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
And last night before we get to centophon sixty. You know,
both teams looking for any sort of home ice advantage.
What about the Oilers though, ice from the hometown rinks
of six Oilers players Connor mc David, Ryan, hug and
Hopkins ever edricated among them and they shipped the water
to Edmonton as it was added to the ice surface
at Rogers's Place for the series. Makes me think about
the Olympics, Memember Gretzky playing with the magic Looney there
(46:46):
in that game at Salt Lake against America. You think
of teams doing things like this, but rather unique tactic.
I've never heard of this one.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
JD. This is so stupid. There's something that they were
so dominant, There's something in the world they were so
dominant at home. Why are you bringing ice? Why are
you changing the ice surface? And I didn't think the
ice was great history and nothing. You know, they do
magic over these ice crews, but I just did feel
like it's doing a lot. But listen, we're all pulling
(47:13):
for we need Canada win one. And I think it's
fucking anything. You know, it's anything. We'll do anything, We
will do anything to get that. Gosh, darn Stanley Cup
on this side of the border. But yeah, I was
kind of like, what was like Calvin Pickard's hometown, Darnell Nurse.
I just kind of like, gee, Judas Priest, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
A little yeah, all right, last that I want to
tell the way and I'm friendship Paul Rudsny movie. But
a quick cent of file in sixty Matt doc Russian
was here. We were talking about Gene Hackman. He was
telling me how Ben Manko WIT's my buddy from TCM
on and talk about Hackman's career, and he said he
mentioned a couple of movies most people don't know. One
of them is called Night Moves, which I did end
up watching. It's available Criterion, excellent Gene Hackman movie. It's
(47:54):
funny because that era.
Speaker 3 (47:55):
You know, he won the Oscar for French Connection. He's
great in The Scarecrow.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
The Conversation is a great Copla movie from nineteen seventy four,
but seventy five was Night Moves.
Speaker 2 (48:02):
It's a really good thriller.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
You know, he's he's she's gene hack, but he's brash,
he's tough, he's not gonna take any shit. You know,
he's gonna face like a beer mug. What's also notable
about it is Melanie Griffith plays this runaway teenage girl
in the movie. And I'm watching you know when you
watch me go she looks a little young for this
start and then go, yeah, he's the mid seventies. Wait
is that her ass? I hope it's a body double.
Wait that's a little side tits. Wow, it's a lot.
I look up Baffords to Go Home. Was Mellie Griffith born.
(48:23):
I'm like, okay, the math on this. The movie came
out in seventy five. That means she would have been eighteen.
The movie, of course, was not shot in seventy five,
so I'm like, that means that's seventeen.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
I really hope it was.
Speaker 3 (48:33):
A Body Double. I know it was the seventies, A
lot of different shit went on.
Speaker 1 (48:35):
Julia phllips Is, you remember her memoir, But Melie Griffith
showed a lot and really getting it done.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
Night moves. Yeah, Well have you ever seen I feel
like there's no all that young kids shit was going on.
You've ever seen the video of like uh with Demi Moore,
like kissing with the like twelve year old boy they're
playing like piano like it's uh litt Like Hollywood's fucked
greasy man, especially people with especially in the seventies.
Speaker 3 (49:00):
Yes, anything goes, but it's a really good movie.
Speaker 2 (49:02):
I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (49:02):
So thanks to Matt dog Russa for commending Piece of
Ben make Witz Criterion.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
The best take he's ever made.
Speaker 1 (49:08):
Absolutely in a good movie recommendation for me and Tal
just saw Friendship.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
We love Paul Rudd. He's a huge can say rule.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
Yes, he was at the Royals game last year You're
doppel Ganger. He ran, by the way in the hot
dog race.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
Rudd won.
Speaker 3 (49:19):
I think he was ketchup. I'm not sure which one
he was, but he won.
Speaker 2 (49:21):
He was great.
Speaker 3 (49:22):
And Tal just saw his new movie Go ahead, Tell.
Speaker 10 (49:24):
Yeah, Friendship with with Paul Rudd kind of playing his
character from Anchorman Brian Fantana a little bit. He's even
got the the moustache to go with it and the
hair do and it's you know, you're a yeah, oh
yeah sex Panther. Was that the name of his fragrance anyways? Yeah,
(49:48):
so very you know it's it's it's Paul Rudd and
and Tim Robinson. Snl'm Tim Robinson. If a lot of
people know him from his I Think Hilarious show on
Netflix I Think Leave So good and also on Netflix
if you haven't seen it, count rec enough Detroiters with
Tim Robinson and his buddy Sam Richardson, who are both
(50:08):
huge Detroit sports fans, and it's this. This is basically friendship.
It's basically a ninety minute sketch from I Think You
Should Leave, which, if you love the show, is a
great thing. Tim Robinson kind of plays this buffoonish, clueless
guy in a dead end job where no one takes
him seriously. His wife, who's played by Kate Mara, who's
(50:30):
excellent actually in the film, is kind of a woman
who's starting to tire of her buffoonish husband, and he
meets his new neighbor played by Paul Rudd, and the
craziness just kind of escalates from there. Dark but hilarious
at the same time. An interesting combination, and it really
(50:52):
plays into like all these unique concepts of what quantifies
or qualifies like male friendship, you know, balancing like vulnerability
with the toxic masculinity.
Speaker 2 (51:04):
It's it's really interesting.
Speaker 10 (51:06):
It's it's written and directed by this guy, Andrew DeYoung,
who has directed a lot of hilarious TV shows like
Our Flag Means Death and UH and Penn fifteen and Shrill,
And you know, if you're a Tim Robinson fan, you
gotta see it. I'd say, if you're a Paul Rudd fan,
it's worth checking out. If you're not a fan of
(51:26):
kind of dark, bizarre comedy, it might not be your thing.
But I loved it because that's my jam.
Speaker 2 (51:33):
So I can't wait. I can't I can't wait to
watch it. In a very a very astute review, tell
like those up pins and needles that whole time, we
can tell that you're Trent Yanni right now and you
got through that him gotta get him a cafe ola.
I mean, I think his sketch show, Tim Robinson is
(51:54):
so funny. It's it's so good of like, there's so
many it's so stupid, but gosh, there's just some good ones.
But the ones that can you even fucking drive? He's like, no,
I don't know how to I don't know how He's like, what,
I don't know how to drive? And I'm really scared
right now. This sketch where he's on like a folks
I could be a comedian.
Speaker 10 (52:15):
He's a like a Bachelorette style show and all he
wants to do is a zip line into the pool,
and the bachelorette just so is she just during elimination
just says I think you're just here for the zip
line and it's just I could watch that over and
over again.
Speaker 2 (52:31):
Amazing. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:34):
Check out Friendship and check out NHL and script Our
next episode coming at this Sunday again, we'll be pre whewing.
That'll be before Game three on Monday.
Speaker 2 (52:42):
Enjoy episode.
Speaker 1 (52:43):
Hopefully you'll see Wayne Gretzky in the Hotel Goose after
a buddy we'll talk.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
Are we are we pre pre wooing. We'll see next.
Speaker 3 (52:50):
Emmle in scripted.
Speaker 2 (52:53):
Cop Limb cob Limb.
Speaker 1 (53:10):
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