June 24, 2024 • 41 mins
Ross Tucker keeps it rolling for Dan Patrick this morning and gets back to the NHL. He speaks to NHL analyst Jason Demers and NHL insider Matt Rose about tonight’s epic Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final between the Florida Panthers and Edmonton Oilers.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Final Hour on a meathead Monday. Ross Tucker filling in
for Dan here in the big chair, and we have.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
One of the true treasures in sports tonight, Game seven,
winner take all Stanley Cup Final, and the storylines are
just ridiculous. Thirty one years since a team from Canada
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has hoisted the cup, and we know how much they
love hockey. There's obviously a lot of other really good
sports over the weekend. We talked about the soccer, Scottie Scheffler,
the Olympic Trials. We also have the Aggies and the
volunteers in Game three for the National Championship College World
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Series tonight. But I'm just telling you this is as
exciting is I've been for a hockey game in a
long long time. I've heard people say, I've read people right,
read people right, Yeah, that this is the biggest Stanley
Cup Final game ever, biggest Stanley Cup Final game of
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their lifetime. Let's talk about it with Jason Demarez does
an excellent job not only for NHL Network, but had
an incredible career. Exactly and I think I have this right,
exactly seven hundred games in the NHL, which is very cool.
He's played for the Panthers, his last game was for
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the Oilers, and he is the man. Jason, thanks so
much for coming on the show. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
What's going on, Ross, How you doing? My man?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I doing awesome, So exactly seven hundred. That does that?
Obviously by design?
Speaker 5 (01:52):
It was not, no, it was I ended up having
a pretty bad injury that kept me out for about
a year, and then I came back and Edmonton was
gracious enough to give me a tryout. I spent the
year in the minors and then they gave me my
last game in San Jose where I started my career.
So it was incredible. I got to go out on
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my own sword and kind of choose the way I
wanted to end my career. What you know, as athletes
is so hard to do and we're not always allowed
that privilege. So for me, it was incredible and I
really do so grateful that I was given that opportunity.
So I have a little stock in both teams right now,
Panthers and Oilers, so it's it's tough for me to
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pick who I want to win.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah, really, I want to get to that and I'm
curious your thoughts of what I've seen some of your
colleagues say about this being the most anticipated end or
the biggest Stanley Cup Final game ever or in their lifetimes.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Are you on board with that?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I just I do think, especially this generation, and you
can even go back within this century, just because there's
so many incredible storylines. You know, the down three, there's
only two teams that have come back in the Stanley
Cup Finals. Both of them were nineteen forty five and
nineteen forty two, and only the Maple Leafs have done that.
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So typically when you're down three, it's all but over.
They've managed to scratch and claw. You know, Connor McDavid's
having a historic year. It's you know, and you look
on the panther side, you know, Bobrovski was probably the
odds on favorite to win the con smythe and then
all of a sudden, Connor McDavid takes it from him.
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Paul Maurice, the head coach, hasn't won in his whole
career and this would be his second back to back
finals loss.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
So there's just so many.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Incredible storylines, and obviously you touched on it, it's Canada.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
You know, it's it's Canada. This is our sport.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
It's been thirty years since there's been a Canadian team
to win Edmonton, forty years that they've won, so's it's
typically a sport that we should be winning every year.
And obviously the players that are within each organization are Canadian, American, European.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
So you know, it's a little bit different. But just
to be in that building in game.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Six at Rogers' Place and to hear those fans how
bad they want it and the sound pales in comparison,
and listen, the Panthers Ammerant Bank. It's a great rink,
it's really loud, but it's nothing compared to Rogers Place
and Canadian fans. So it was just amazing to see
and they want this so bad, so it'd be great.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I'd be happy with either one.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
It's been a phenomenal series and it's going to be
a barn burner tonight.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
So, Jason, why do you think it's been thirty one years?
I mean, you are Canadian, You've played for Canadian teams
and teams in the States. Is there anything you can
put your finger on as to why none of the
Canadian teams have won it in so long.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
I mean, there's so many factors, like obviously the way
organization has run. There's a lot of pressure in Canada
that potentially could hinder teams because media, as you know,
can be such a vacuum out there and they just
want the teams to win so bad and sometimes put
unwanted pressure in the players. And you know, honestly, I
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it's just one of those there's more American teams than
there is Canadian teams, so it really, you know, they're
kind of at odds, but it for it to be
this long is pretty wild. So if we could see
this then pull this off, I mean not only a
historic comeback, but a historic comeback for a Canadian team
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being this long of a drought. I mean, there's something
poetic about it. So we're gonna we're gonna see what
they can do tonight. And obviously Connor Mcjesus McDavid is
going to have a big hand in that. So if
he could also get the points record for a single
playoffs that would be pretty awesome as well. But like
I said, there's just so many different storylines at so
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many angles of this and it being Canadian team first
time thirty years. I mean, it would be just so
such a beautiful ending to the season.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
We're talking with Jason Demarez does a terrific job for
NHL Network, covering the entire league especially. I guess I'm
curious what happened Jason. I filled in for Dan ten
days ago. It was Friday, June fourteenth, and it was
three oh. The Panthers were up and I said, you
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know what, They're not going to sweep them. I think
the Oilers will get one. I had Steve Levy on
the show. I said, the Panther's just that much better,
and he's like, yeah, they are, Like they just have
this well rounded team and their goalies better And how
did it just flip like a switch like that.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Well, you're obviously the Jinks. Well we figured that out.
I mean not it was wild. They're down three nine.
Then Chris Nablock comes out and says, you know, we
still have ten days of hockey left, and we're all.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Sitting there like this guy's delusional.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Like they're getting worked in every aspect of the game,
and you look at some of the underlying numbers and
they're actually outperforming Florida for big chunks and they kind
of just found something in that room. They put together
in game near the end of game three, they put
together this HENRYK. Brown, the Tsnmark line, and this line
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kind of just flipped the script and they got started
getting some great goaltending and it just seemed like they
game four, that building was rocking in Edmonton, and it's
like they just took that energy and they've just been
riding that for the last three games. And you know
how it is being a player momentum that people say, oh,
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it's not a thing, it's it's game to game, But
momentum and confidence are different. But when you have the
confidence level higher than the other team, you're probably going
to outperform them. And right now, it just seems like
the confidence for Edmonton is through the roof and they've
really caught Florida off guard. So they got to figure
something out soon Florida because the last game it just
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seemed like they've forgotten kind of how to play and
they're doing a lot of uncharacteristic things. So and usually
when I see that, being a former player and now commentating,
I'm like, well, when they're making the same mistake over
and over, again, it's typically they're feeling the pressure and
their confidence levels are low. So that's a scary thought
when you look at that, because for huge parts of
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the season, this Florida team's like the most consistent team
and probably wire to wire, one of the better teams
in the league, if not the best. So you think
they're going to figure it out. I do think they're
going to have their best game of the series tonight,
but Edmonton is just on a different level. So if
they keep riding that momentum, I mean again, it's just
it's crazy to think, like, you.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Know, I was part of a reverse sweep.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
I unfortunately was the guy that got reverse swept, and
you never think it's going to happen till it happens,
and it's one of the worst feelings, and the pressure
gets so big and inside that locker room and around
because you're expected to win. It's your up three nothing,
it's you should win. Then you lose game four, you
lose Game five, and then game six you're like, well,
if we don't win this one, it's a coin flip,
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and and everything's they're coming downhill. So you got to
think in that room, there's a lot of doubt and
they got to quell those those thoughts quick because otherwise
it's going to be a short night for them.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That is great stuff, Jason.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I'm curious, you know, with this being game seven, I'm
assuming this will be the best ratings for a hockey
game in a long, long time.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yeah. Well, I was saying earlier in the show.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I got tickets in the second row for the Hershey
Bears in the AHL. That's where I live, and I
love It's a great the Giant Center in Central Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
It's an awesome arena. I love it. But I feel
like on some level TV doesn't.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Do it justice to just how fast you guys are
flying around the ice. I feel like, is there anything
that could happen tonight or anything that you have an
idea that could help grow the game even more from
a television perspective.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
I mean, unless you're strapping a go pro to the guys.
Many cameras, it's too hard. It's one of those I
always tell people.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
They should do that. Why not do that?
Speaker 4 (10:29):
It should just have cameras all over the place.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
I mean, you could maybe bring the camera closer and
have one of those, you know, on a wire kind
of like they did in the NFL, where it's just
it's kind of traversing the whole rink. But I don't know,
it's it's one of those sports that you know you
need to be live just to feel it.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
And feel the energy.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
And I mean, listen, Connor McDavid's best player right now
and maybe of all time, and to watch him live
is something special, just to just to iso cam him.
So I always tell people if you can get out
to a game, that's always a good way to kind
of get you, get you locked in and and start.
But it does it zero justice on TV. It's a
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great product on TV. I love what they do, but
it's it's just a different animal when you're in person,
and one of those sports that feel in the crowd
and hearing the hits and the boards and the puck
hit the glass.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
It's just it's it's poetry.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Man.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
It's a great thing to watch and a great thing
to be a part of.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Wait did you say Conor McDavid might be the best
player of all time? I mean, you know, I knew
he's the best player now, but we're talking like Gordie
Howe and Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, doesn't he need to
win for us to make a comment like that.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
He's really that good, Jason.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
He's I mean, I know I catch so much flak
for this, but and it could be recency biased, but listen,
he needs to win, he needs to put it, have
his name on a cup.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
But just.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
The level of the players now, the equipment that the technology,
it's so much far advanced then it was back in
the day in years priors, and the Gretzkare and things
like that. And not to say that if you put
Gretzky and Lemieux in this era, would they do as well.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Sure they'd probably they'd be up there.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
But for what Connor is doing in this era and
dominating this much, it just goes without saying, like, we
haven't had a player this dominant ever in such a
long time. You could say Sydney Crosby, but by winning,
but just purely on his own, he is just so
talented and so incredible, and I mean, what he's done
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in this playoff, in this era, it just can't be denied.
He's incredible. The things he does every game, it's it's
I can't even explain it. And we sit up there
as analysts, and we played the game, and I played
against him and felt what it was like to play
against him, and watching him every night in and night out.
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We just sit up there every night we're like, this
is a joke, Like he's playing a video game and
we're just we're just players in this game, and he
just does what he wants. So for him, I just
I think right now he's the best player in our game.
I think if he wins, I mean, he's in my
top three already. If he wins, I would probably and
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he's still got, you know, another eight to ten years,
so I do think he'll win again if he doesn't
win tonight, and by then, I mean it's hard to
deny him. So I don't think the records of Gretzky
will be touched. But again, he's shooting on guys that
could even go down. The butterfly wasn't even invented back then,
which is when the goalies go down in that little position,
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they just laid down or kicked their legs out, So
I mean it's it was a little bit. I won't
say it's easier to score back then because the technology
wasn't there, but it just was a different era of
scoring and goaltenders and defenders. So I do I kind
of stand on that that pedestal saying I do think
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Connor's up. He's top three for me right now and
wins tonight. I'd be hard not to say he's the
greatest right now and then given another eight to ten years.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Jason, we showed a picture of your headshot. You got
no front teeth. Now I'm looking at you right now,
You've got a great smile, good looking guy. How many
of those are your your your own teeth?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
These four are not mine. They got fixed up and
then parts of the couple on the bottom. But yeah,
I was sitting on the dentist chair this off season
and getting these things fixed, and then I was like, well,
I think I'm retired because there's no way I'm letting these.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Things get up. I had enough of this, so I
just said that's it.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
I called my wife and I was like, I think
I'm done.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
I way too good now.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
So hockey hockey guys don't file retirement papers.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
They just send in their their dentist bill. Yeah, and
that's how that's how the league knows they're done.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Said, I submitted to insurance and I said, well, well,
I said, thanks, guys, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
That is incredible, Jason, thanks so much the time man.
Check him out at NHL Network and enjoy the game tonight.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Thanks Ross. Having good on all right.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Absolutely, what awesome guy.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
That's one of the cool things about the show is
number one that Fritzy's incredible. But I never talked to
that guy before in my life. Now I want to
hang out with him. At some point he was larried.
It's so funny that he said that Connor McDavid is
like a video game.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Did I or did I not say?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
On the pre show production, meaning that Connor McDavid reminds
me of me playing Sega Genna says NHL.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Ninety four back in when I was fourteen years old.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
I mean, that's what it reminded you that when he
has the puck and he's weaving in out of guys,
you're not really supposed to do that other than on
the video game, and he's actually doing it.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
It's incredible. Marvin.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
In every sport and even ones that you don't know.
So I saw a MESSI maybe twenty sixteen. I don't
know anything about soccer, but I knew he was the
best player, right is that saying with like Connor McDavid like,
I don't know any think about hockey, but after watching
four about three or four minutes, Oh, that's the best player.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
How about you know we were talking about Usain Bolt
earlier and like how he's the fastest guy out. You know,
that guy played seven hundred games in the NHL and
he's sitting up there with other NHL guys and they're
watching McDavid being like, this is a joke. This is
a joke that he's able to do whatever he wants
against guys.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
It it is if you want.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I mean, look, there's a lot of reasons to watch tonight.
That is a big one. I'm curious though about what
he said, and we can talk about this later. And
I want to get to some of the callers as well.
Eight seven, seven to three DP show or maybe hit
me up on social at Ross Tucker NFL at DP
show on Twitter or whatever social platform. Is there anything
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they can do to make the TV probably better? Why
don't they put GoPros on the guy's helmets? I mean
that that feels like they could easily do that, and
then you'd have a better idea of just how fast
they're flying around the ice.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Any ideas, Fritzy Seaton, paul Y Marvin, you got an idea?
You know what? Yeah, put it on the stars.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
Don't put it on the enforcers because you don't want
to see the fists coming at their faces during the show.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Why not? That's exactly what I want to see. What
are you talking? I'm not sure if the NHL. Does
the NHL want that. I don't think they even have
that many fights anymore.
Speaker 9 (17:24):
Doesn't seem to be not embracing the right.
Speaker 10 (17:28):
How about this, then, to implement cameras without messing with
the players, put a camera on a referee and give
the fans a like an option, like a second screen
option to get the referees camera view.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I feel like they try that and it never like
it's just like so discombobulated. I feel like I wanted
on McDavid. Those cameras are so small. Now, I want
it on McDavid's helmet while he's weaving in and out
of these guys.
Speaker 10 (17:54):
Let's make it more exciting to have a cameraman skating
on the ice amongst the action.
Speaker 11 (17:58):
I just have his head on a swim.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
If you've ever been to a live hockey game. Watching
the refs is bananas. When they see the action coming and.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
They do that thing where they they prop up their butt,
they prop up their butt on the side.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Of the window so they don't get run over.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
Seating especially I like too when you see like a
NHL ref get in the middle of a fight and
try and break it up or whatever. And then you
juxtapose that to say the NFL official who just gets
bumped slightly from behind, and they're like, yellow flag comes out,
and you're like, dude, come on, you know that. In
the NFL, you know the guy didn't mean to really
hit you, you know what I mean. They're like, the
NFL refs are so soft compared to the NHL one
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who gets right in the middle of the fight.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
If you if you touch the ref in the NFL,
it's an automatic ejection.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
In the NHL, sometimes those guys catch an open hand
when they like when they wipe their face with the glove, like, yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
It's so funny.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Because I was at Last Two days after I was
in Last Time for day I went to Jason Kelsey's
charity golf tournament and I was talking with Eric Lindross
and John Leclair, and I was telling them how I
always kind of wish I could have tried to be
a Goon defenceman. I think I could have been a
good Goon defenceman. Anyway, that's either here or now. We
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the rest of Canada is rooting for the Oilers or not.
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the big chair.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
And this is.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Pretty cool because we wanted to get a radio host
on from Calgary because there's a big rivalry with Calgary
and Edmonton. And so they say, we got this guy,
Matt Rose, co host of The Big Show with Russick
and Rose on sports Net nine sixty in Calgary, the
radio home with they I'm like, his name's Maddie. It's
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George Russeck and Maddie Rose. I go on weekly during
the NFL season. No idea what he looked like, by
the way, until this second right now, and he looks
like he is straight out of Canadian radio host casting.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It's unbelievable, Maddie. It's Ross Tucker. Nice to see you man.
Thanks for coming on my show for once, I guess
not really my show whatever, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Well for today right.
Speaker 14 (21:42):
Yeah, that's how I feel with George Leams.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
It's it's all good. It's great to talk to you man.
It's been far too long. I'm excited for the NFL
to come back so we can start having you on
our show. But yeah, things are good. Thanks for having
me excited to be here.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Are you in Calgary right now? Or are you in Okatokes?
Speaker 6 (21:58):
No Irony Calgary, No Atlas today? No, no down in Oaks.
Toot's getting our pizza.
Speaker 14 (22:03):
Downtown Calgary's where you'll find you today, all right, to avoid.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
All these Oilers jerseys that are.
Speaker 14 (22:09):
On the sidewalk there are there, seriously keeps tons because
a lot of people will move from Edmonton down to
Calgary just a few.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Hours down the road.
Speaker 14 (22:20):
You know, I'm obviously biased, but personally it's a better city,
So people typically move from Edmonton.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Down to Calgary and not the other way. So yeah,
we got a lot of Edmonton fans around here wearing
their jerseys very proudly.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
All right, So explain that it's a couple hours away.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Is it the only two cities in Alberta with NHL teams,
So I would say they probably hate each other, but
maybe not.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
You guys are just so nut. Do you guys hate anybody?
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, I think we do.
Speaker 14 (22:52):
I think that there's a certain amount of like when
when someone new is coming into our country, you got
to treat them with respect. And we have this Canadian
identity that we have to uphold when we go abroad.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
But there are certainly very strong regional rivalries.
Speaker 14 (23:05):
People out here do not like Toronto and Eastern Canada
a whole time. And the Battle of Alberta is the
biggest sporting event that we have in our entire province.
The whole country or the whole province gets together for it.
When they played three to four games they'll play in
the regular season. When they played that playoff series a
couple of years ago, that both cities were just nuts.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Obviously that one didn't end well, to end too well
for the.
Speaker 14 (23:29):
Calgary fans, But yeah, it's one of those things that
kind of takes over our province for sure. Obviously, Auki's
the big one up here and those are the two
biggest teams that you'll see in these two demographics.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
We're talking with Matty Rose, co host of The Big
Show with Russik and Rose on Sportsnet nine to sixty
in Calgary. So you just got off the air, okay
a little bit ago, right, and I'm sure you took
a lot of calls and you're talking with all the fans.
They're really Flames fans for the most part in Calgary.
Are they rooting for or against the Oilers tonight?
Speaker 14 (24:07):
Well, we were doing a little giveaway on the show
today and our text topic was if.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
The Oilers win tonight, it'll be worse than Blend. And
we had all sorts of things.
Speaker 14 (24:19):
We had a lot of people call in about having
to remarry their ex wives. We had people talking about
having their in laws move in permanently. Like this is
not going to be good for Calgary fans because it's
one thing to have the Oilers win it, it's another
thing for the Flames to be in a little bit
of disarray right now. So if the Oilers fans win,
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Flames says, don't really have anything to stand on. There's
nothing good that we've done. We've got a bad long
term signing after the Kachuck trade, he was obviously the
superstar of the Panthers now and just the way that
everything is kind of snowballed since then, bad signings, having
to trade away, but trade away their best goaltender just
last week.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
So who knows what the season's going to be.
Speaker 14 (24:58):
And now you got the Oilers win the championship. There's
gonna hold that over our heads. So that's gonna be
a little rock for sure.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
But wait a minute, maddie, it's been thirty one years
since a Canadian team has won the Cup. Don't you
guys want to bring the Cup home? Don't you have patriotism?
And don't you want to see the Cup in Canada
for the I mean, there's a lot of people that
are alive that have never seen the Cup in.
Speaker 13 (25:21):
Canada, myself included.
Speaker 14 (25:25):
And I would prefer it to be my team that
does that, because, like I said, I don't want to
have to deal with all of these fans being like
we were the first.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Team to bring it back and it was all us
and you can thank us, and oh.
Speaker 14 (25:38):
I don't want to deal with that all the time
when these guys have their ring.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
If it goes that way.
Speaker 14 (25:43):
So that's one thing that I think a lot of
people in Calgary are nervous about. But I will say,
like the family conversations have been interesting of that exact
kind of dichotomy. Do you want the Cup back to
Canada or do you want your biggest rival to be
in I've said before, if there's like Winnipeg or Ottawa
that brings a Cup back, like, I'm like, whatever, I
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don't really there's no rivalry there.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
But if it's Vancouver, there's a rivalry. If it's Edmonton,
there's a rivalry. If it's Toronto, there's a rivalry.
Speaker 14 (26:12):
And I just don't want those fan bases to have
that extra achievement to hold over the head of Flames
fans if they do do it.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
So that's what it all comes down to.
Speaker 14 (26:24):
But a lot of people, I will say, not a lot,
but there are certain amount of people who, even though
they're Flame fans, will be cheering.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
For the Cup to come back to Canada.
Speaker 14 (26:31):
It's tough for me because whenever the Flames get eliminated,
I try and find the team in the States that
has the most Canadians left on it, which typically there's
one that has like twelve or fifteen. Unfortunately, this year,
the Panthers, I think, only have two Canadians and the
Oilers have all Canadians essentially.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
So that argument has also gone out of the window
for me. But some people are cheering for the Oilers.
I just can't do it as someone who has grown
up with the flame and sea on my chest.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
So what do you think like the rest of the
or do you think like the people in Vancouver or
the people in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island. I'm trying
to name as many random provinces. How about the people
in Hamilton, Thunder back up in.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (27:17):
What about all the.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
All those people, all the ones out east?
Speaker 14 (27:21):
Saying it before Whistler, I think that a lot of
people will be cheering for the.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
Cups come back to Canada.
Speaker 14 (27:27):
There's a lot of guys from Ontario on the team,
so I'm sure there's a certain.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Amount of that.
Speaker 14 (27:31):
I find the Leafs fans once their team gets eliminated,
they generally just checked out of everything else anyways, So
that would be one.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Thing that I'm kind of thinking with that over there.
Speaker 14 (27:40):
But the Vancouver fans are like if you think flight
fans are down. Then the Vancouver fans are way worse
because they actually lost to the Oilers as part of
this run and they didn't have their best goalie.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
So they're saying to themselves, if we had our best goalie,
like they have that.
Speaker 14 (27:53):
Injury excuse, right, if we had our best goalie, we
could have been there, we could have beat the Oilers.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
We would have definitely beat the Pan And now they're
watching the Oilers win hits. So that's another rivalry. Like
BC and Alberta.
Speaker 14 (28:05):
There's certainly different points of view that you'll see between
those two provinces, so.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
There's a rivalry there as well. And when Vancouver lost
to Edmonton, that was big.
Speaker 14 (28:13):
But I think they're even Vancouver fans and everyone out
in DC is probably having a pretty hard time coming
to terms with how this has changed.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
Like they're up, like they were up three nothing two.
Speaker 14 (28:25):
This is supposed to be like a week ago, Like
we're not supposed to be here, This isn't supposed to happen.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
But blow in the hold.
Speaker 14 (28:32):
You got the best player on the planet and eventually
you can go video game mode and here's where you
end up.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
It's so funny you just said that Maddie because I
just had Jason Demaerz from ANHL network on and he said,
not only is Connor McDavid the best player in the
world right now, he thinks he might be the best
player ever. Is that just from a former player's perspective
or is that how fans are thinking or is that
just ridiculous since he hasn't won a Cup yet.
Speaker 14 (29:01):
I like it kind of depends in my opinion. It
depends on how do you want to look at the
best player ever. Obviously you have to win a Stanley
Cup to be the best player ever. Gretzky had a
handful of them, but it's very different now, like the
way that Connor has been able.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
To dominate this league, where even Sidney Crosby wasn't at
this level for being kind of head and shoulders ahead
of everybody else. It's fascinating to watch. Like I didn't
really get to see Gretzky in his prime.
Speaker 14 (29:28):
I was like just single year age when he was
retiring from the NHL.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
So there's obviously the era adjustments.
Speaker 14 (29:36):
Nowadays you have the salary caps with teams aren't nearly
as loaded as they could be back in the day. Listen,
I certainly think he's in the conversation. The way that
he's produced points, the way he has broken Gritzky's records
is he's kind of gone throughout the first half.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
Of his career here.
Speaker 14 (29:51):
The only thing he's been missing is the Stanley Cups
and a run like this, especially if they do end up.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Pushing this thing over the edge.
Speaker 14 (30:00):
This is the type of thing where you start to
wonder if it's almost like a down that breaks and
now Connor is going to constantly be back in the
Cup final irrelevant of what if his team around him is.
Because I really didn't think this blue line was going
to be good enough to get the.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
Oilers to the Stanley Cup Final.
Speaker 14 (30:17):
I thought that they were to turnover prone, so they
made bad decisions under pressure.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
I didn't think they defended their netlinder well enough.
Speaker 14 (30:24):
And sure enough, they've all found a way to figure
it out. And it's all based on, for me, the
fact that a lot of these players believe that if
they make a mistake, Connor can go out and fix
that and get them right back into a game which
allows them to play a little bit freer maybe, and
to have that effect on everybody around you is something
pretty special and pretty important. It helps that he's got
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Leon dry Settle, there's another top ten player, but he
also had top ten players around him his entire career.
By the time Connor's done, he very well could be
named the best player. But it's so hard to ju
justin eras and without the Stanley Cups. I just find
it hard to say that for Connor right now.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Maddie really appreciate the time. Man, Thank you so much
for coming on the show. Good to see and talk
with you.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
This has been a pleasure. Man.
Speaker 14 (31:09):
We'll see you soon, hopefully chat soon. Cam's underway for
the NFL and all that stuff. So enjoyed Game seven
tonight and the start of everything else we got, I
guess the Olympics, although we're gonna be cheering for different teams.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
There, but there he is.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Matty Rose, co host of The Big Show with Russick
and Rose on sports Net nine to sixty in Calgary,
the radio home of the Calgary Flames. You know, he
said something that reminded me about Connor McDavid. It reminds
me a lot of Tom Brady. I'll tell you what
that is and we'll find out what everybody learned when
we return here thirty eight minutes past the hour, It's
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The Dan Patrick Show.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan
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Speaker 3 (31:56):
Final segment here on a meathead. Ross Tucker filling in
for Dan Patrick. I'll be back tomorrow, by the way,
so feel free to hit me up, whether it's Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, whatever.
You can email me over at Ross Tucker dot com
if you got anything in particular you want us to
get into. Maybe we can get into some food topics,
(32:18):
some beverage topics, adult beverages, perhaps little Daddy soda talk
should be fun.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
We've had a couple of things that we need to
do in this segment.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
To wrap up the show and finish strong, including today
in sports history.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Why don't we start with that, Paul, I love this
part of the show.
Speaker 10 (32:36):
You're gonna like this, Ross. In nineteen twenty two, the
NFL became the NFL. Does anyone know the name of
the NFL before it was the National Football League.
Speaker 11 (32:45):
I don't think I've ever heard this before.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
I feel like I have heard it, but I can't
name it right now.
Speaker 10 (32:51):
The APFA, the American Professional Football Association.
Speaker 15 (32:55):
Glad that didn't steak NFL is better, much better, all right,
I'm a big appha though the nineteen seventy one the
NBA allowed hardship cases the four year eligibility eligibility rule
for college nineteen seventy one, so underclassman could get into
the draft.
Speaker 11 (33:09):
Here's one.
Speaker 10 (33:10):
The Calgary Flames became the Calgary Flames in nineteen eighty
Atlanta Flames franchise moved to Calgary, Alberta.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
And is there ay, wait, there was an Atlanta Flames.
Speaker 11 (33:21):
I don't remember it.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Before my time in the seventies, there was a team
called the Atlanta Flames.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
That's interesting.
Speaker 10 (33:27):
Twenty ten, remember this tennis match John Isner Nicholas Mahoot
eleven hours, one hundred and eighty three games. It was
five sets, and you know they go tiebreaker with the
games and set five seventy to sixty eight.
Speaker 11 (33:39):
Isner versus Mahoot. Twenty ten.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Is there any part of you that would have been like, yeah,
I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna.
Speaker 10 (33:46):
We were watching that in studio at our old studio.
We had it on the screen and I think it
continued maybe to the next day or something.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
That is bananas.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
I think I remember that those guys are both like
big servers, right.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
So they just kept winning their own.
Speaker 11 (34:01):
Holding their sins like six ' eight.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Right, Fritzy, And I hear what you're saying.
Speaker 8 (34:05):
Once it gets like the thirty seventh deuce, You're like,
you know what, maybe I give him this point.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
This is just ridiculous. Yeah, like, how much of I
gonna how much do I get if I win this match?
Like it's extremely hot, I have a dinner reservation. This
is just going on for now. Wimbledon.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Okay, well, wimbled that's kind of a big one. You
might want to hold onto that. That's an iou such
a good movie. All right, let's see you know what
I feel like, Sometimes we get rushed into what we learned.
Let's take our time with the what we learned, which
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Speaker 2 (35:01):
You know, it's interesting.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
One of many reasons why Dan is incredible is that
when you listen to the show, he always times though
what we learned with you guys and the last ones
right when the music starts, that there's thirty seconds left,
and then he does the commercial right as it's ending.
(35:25):
He's like a ninja, and I'm not like that.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
I'm not gonna try to be a ninja.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
So we got that out of the way, so now
we can start with Seaton and what he learned today.
Speaker 9 (35:36):
I learned that for some Canadians, Edmonton winning is like
remarrying your ex.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Marvin hilarious.
Speaker 8 (35:47):
Our new buddy Matt Ro says Calgary is a better
city than Edmonton. He said he might be a bit biased, though.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Well, is it fair to say that you can document
that based on more people moving from Edmonton to Calgary
than vice versa. Is that a fair way to decide
which city is better? Or is that weather related or
is that perhaps economically related? And just because people more
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people move to a city, does that mean it's better
or not?
Speaker 8 (36:20):
Marvin, then we better have a talk about Charlotte being
better than New York City or Atlanta being better than Yeah, so,
PAULI what I learned.
Speaker 10 (36:31):
I still don't want to pronounce Calgary. I've heard Calgary
down a year. I've heard Calgary.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
The guy is from Calgary.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
You wanted me to ask him the question, but he
had already said Calgary five times.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
He already says Calgary. Is it Calgary or Calgary?
Speaker 11 (36:45):
I heard pew some areas of Canada they call Calgary.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
No, that's never happened. That's like a movie.
Speaker 11 (36:51):
All right, I'm gonna look that up.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
By the way, I feel like it would be awesome
to live in Canada. Oh well, maybe not weatherwise, but
do they ever have any conflict or like, do they
have like any issues up there?
Speaker 2 (37:07):
I feel like they all just walk around like ice
skating or skiing, eating.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Doughnuts, drinking beer, being like, have a great day, you
want you just walking about town.
Speaker 11 (37:18):
So a more low stress environment.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
It just seems like everybody's so happy, like even that guy, Like,
I would love to know how many people are unhappy
in Canada. They just seem like they're happy. People check,
they're very neutral, they're the world's friends, and they're just
I bet you.
Speaker 8 (37:33):
Everything's really clean and there's nothing like all over strewn
all over the floor like litter.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Just get that feeling.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
You know, what, have you ever been any Canadian cities?
Toronto it's a very clean city. I went up there
several times I played for the Bills. I thought it
was a beautiful, very clean city.
Speaker 11 (37:49):
I went to Quebec City. Holy Cow. Is that nice?
It's very historical?
Speaker 6 (37:55):
You know.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
One time, this is crazy. I'm driving with my wife
to Newark Air because one of her business school friends
is getting married in Montreal. Okay, as we're driving, the
flight gets canceled and it's the only direct flight from
Newark to Montreal.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
So we look at each other. We're having from Pennsylvania,
and we thought okay, and we went. We made a
left and we.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Went due north and we drove up through Lake Placid
all the way up there. This is bizarre if anybody's
ever done this before. You're driving, you go past Lake Placid,
you're in the United States. Thirty seconds later there's a
sign in French and you're.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Like, whoa, what just happened there?
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Like it's just so interesting that Quebec is French speaking
and the signs are in French.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
It's just weird that you can drive You can drive.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
North in upstate New York and next thing you know,
you're seeing signs in French.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
That's bizarre, Fritzy. What did you learn today? Greg Cosell
of NFL Films doesn't have thoughts or takes.
Speaker 8 (39:03):
The tape tells the story and Greg relates what he's watched.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
What did I learn, Fritzie?
Speaker 8 (39:08):
We all learned that you don't understan why people from
Florida don't have a Southern accent. Perhaps it's all the
Northeastern transplants to the area.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Well, I did get a text message from a buddy
who does radio in Tampa, and he said, people in
northern Florida absolutely.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Have deep South accents. It's what Seaton said.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
It's the only state where you drive north and you
go further south, which is such a great way to
put that.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
I'm gonna steal that for the rest of my life, Seaton.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Anytime I'm ever talking to somebody about Florida, I'm like,
you know, it's the only is that direct your credit?
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Seaton?
Speaker 9 (39:39):
No, I stole it from somebody, so I'm really just
passing it on to you, and then you pass it
on to someone else.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
It's got it. Okay. So will you guys all watch
the whole game to night?
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Yeah, yeah, okay, and you'll you'll all root for We'll
all root for Edmonton. Are you all rooting for Edmonton
for the show tomorrow or just for the people of Edmonton?
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Seaton, you know what.
Speaker 9 (40:02):
I gotta admit though, I kind of want to root
for Matt Rose now, so I'm not sure if I
am rooting for Edmonton anymore for Calgary.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Matt Rose is Matty Rose is now my hedge.
Speaker 9 (40:13):
I kind of love that guy, and I'm like, oh,
you know what, I kind of want to be on
his team.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
So whoever he's rooting for. Yeah, but there's there's thousands
just like him in Edmonton.
Speaker 7 (40:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Every Canadian is just like that guy. They either play
in the NHL or they're like Matti Rose.
Speaker 11 (40:28):
I love that guy.
Speaker 6 (40:30):
Either.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
That's a fact. Okay, that's a fact.
Speaker 11 (40:33):
I'm rooting for overtime overtime.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
No, yes, well see that's I have mixed emotions on that.
On the one hand, hockey overtime is the greatest thing
of ever. I saw a guy one time say why
why jump out of a plane naked while you're on cocaine,
when you can just watch hockey.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Overtime that online.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Some tweet that was like a which I loved, But
I don't know overtime, Paulie.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
We got to show you next day.
Speaker 11 (41:07):
Oh it's worth it. That's that's the best kind of tired.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Yeah, I guess you're right. I guess you're right. I
won't overtime provided both teams agree.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
To let somebody score a goal within the first two
minutes of overtime.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
That's that's what I need. That music means.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
We're wrapping up a fun meathead Monday edition of The
Dan Patrick Show. We'll talk College World Series tomorrow, and
the NBA Draft is Wednesday as well. There's a lot
to get to. It'll be a fun Tuesday as well.
Have a great day, everybody,
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Final Hour on a meathead Monday. Ross Tucker filling in
for Dan here in the big chair, and we have.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
One of the true treasures in sports tonight, Game seven,
winner take all Stanley Cup Final, and the storylines are
just ridiculous. Thirty one years since a team from Canada
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has hoisted the cup, and we know how much they
love hockey. There's obviously a lot of other really good
sports over the weekend. We talked about the soccer, Scottie Scheffler,
the Olympic Trials. We also have the Aggies and the
volunteers in Game three for the National Championship College World
(00:54):
Series tonight. But I'm just telling you this is as
exciting is I've been for a hockey game in a
long long time. I've heard people say, I've read people right,
read people right, Yeah, that this is the biggest Stanley
Cup Final game ever, biggest Stanley Cup Final game of
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their lifetime. Let's talk about it with Jason Demarez does
an excellent job not only for NHL Network, but had
an incredible career. Exactly and I think I have this right,
exactly seven hundred games in the NHL, which is very cool.
He's played for the Panthers, his last game was for
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the Oilers, and he is the man. Jason, thanks so
much for coming on the show. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
What's going on, Ross, How you doing? My man?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I doing awesome, So exactly seven hundred. That does that?
Obviously by design?
Speaker 5 (01:52):
It was not, no, it was I ended up having
a pretty bad injury that kept me out for about
a year, and then I came back and Edmonton was
gracious enough to give me a tryout. I spent the
year in the minors and then they gave me my
last game in San Jose where I started my career.
So it was incredible. I got to go out on
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my own sword and kind of choose the way I
wanted to end my career. What you know, as athletes
is so hard to do and we're not always allowed
that privilege. So for me, it was incredible and I
really do so grateful that I was given that opportunity.
So I have a little stock in both teams right now,
Panthers and Oilers, so it's it's tough for me to
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pick who I want to win.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah, really, I want to get to that and I'm
curious your thoughts of what I've seen some of your
colleagues say about this being the most anticipated end or
the biggest Stanley Cup Final game ever or in their lifetimes.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Are you on board with that?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I just I do think, especially this generation, and you
can even go back within this century, just because there's
so many incredible storylines. You know, the down three, there's
only two teams that have come back in the Stanley
Cup Finals. Both of them were nineteen forty five and
nineteen forty two, and only the Maple Leafs have done that.
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So typically when you're down three, it's all but over.
They've managed to scratch and claw. You know, Connor McDavid's
having a historic year. It's you know, and you look
on the panther side, you know, Bobrovski was probably the
odds on favorite to win the con smythe and then
all of a sudden, Connor McDavid takes it from him.
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Paul Maurice, the head coach, hasn't won in his whole
career and this would be his second back to back
finals loss.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
So there's just so many.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Incredible storylines, and obviously you touched on it, it's Canada.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
You know, it's it's Canada. This is our sport.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
It's been thirty years since there's been a Canadian team
to win Edmonton, forty years that they've won, so's it's
typically a sport that we should be winning every year.
And obviously the players that are within each organization are Canadian, American, European.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
So you know, it's a little bit different. But just
to be in that building in game.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Six at Rogers' Place and to hear those fans how
bad they want it and the sound pales in comparison,
and listen, the Panthers Ammerant Bank. It's a great rink,
it's really loud, but it's nothing compared to Rogers Place
and Canadian fans. So it was just amazing to see
and they want this so bad, so it'd be great.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I'd be happy with either one.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
It's been a phenomenal series and it's going to be
a barn burner tonight.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
So, Jason, why do you think it's been thirty one years?
I mean, you are Canadian, You've played for Canadian teams
and teams in the States. Is there anything you can
put your finger on as to why none of the
Canadian teams have won it in so long.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
I mean, there's so many factors, like obviously the way
organization has run. There's a lot of pressure in Canada
that potentially could hinder teams because media, as you know,
can be such a vacuum out there and they just
want the teams to win so bad and sometimes put
unwanted pressure in the players. And you know, honestly, I
(05:19):
it's just one of those there's more American teams than
there is Canadian teams, so it really, you know, they're
kind of at odds, but it for it to be
this long is pretty wild. So if we could see
this then pull this off, I mean not only a
historic comeback, but a historic comeback for a Canadian team
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being this long of a drought. I mean, there's something
poetic about it. So we're gonna we're gonna see what
they can do tonight. And obviously Connor Mcjesus McDavid is
going to have a big hand in that. So if
he could also get the points record for a single
playoffs that would be pretty awesome as well. But like
I said, there's just so many different storylines at so
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many angles of this and it being Canadian team first
time thirty years. I mean, it would be just so
such a beautiful ending to the season.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
We're talking with Jason Demarez does a terrific job for
NHL Network, covering the entire league especially. I guess I'm
curious what happened Jason. I filled in for Dan ten
days ago. It was Friday, June fourteenth, and it was
three oh. The Panthers were up and I said, you
(06:35):
know what, They're not going to sweep them. I think
the Oilers will get one. I had Steve Levy on
the show. I said, the Panther's just that much better,
and he's like, yeah, they are, Like they just have
this well rounded team and their goalies better And how
did it just flip like a switch like that.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Well, you're obviously the Jinks. Well we figured that out.
I mean not it was wild. They're down three nine.
Then Chris Nablock comes out and says, you know, we
still have ten days of hockey left, and we're all.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Sitting there like this guy's delusional.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Like they're getting worked in every aspect of the game,
and you look at some of the underlying numbers and
they're actually outperforming Florida for big chunks and they kind
of just found something in that room. They put together
in game near the end of game three, they put
together this HENRYK. Brown, the Tsnmark line, and this line
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kind of just flipped the script and they got started
getting some great goaltending and it just seemed like they
game four, that building was rocking in Edmonton, and it's
like they just took that energy and they've just been
riding that for the last three games. And you know
how it is being a player momentum that people say, oh,
(07:48):
it's not a thing, it's it's game to game, But
momentum and confidence are different. But when you have the
confidence level higher than the other team, you're probably going
to outperform them. And right now, it just seems like
the confidence for Edmonton is through the roof and they've
really caught Florida off guard. So they got to figure
something out soon Florida because the last game it just
(08:09):
seemed like they've forgotten kind of how to play and
they're doing a lot of uncharacteristic things. So and usually
when I see that, being a former player and now commentating,
I'm like, well, when they're making the same mistake over
and over, again, it's typically they're feeling the pressure and
their confidence levels are low. So that's a scary thought
when you look at that, because for huge parts of
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the season, this Florida team's like the most consistent team
and probably wire to wire, one of the better teams
in the league, if not the best. So you think
they're going to figure it out. I do think they're
going to have their best game of the series tonight,
but Edmonton is just on a different level. So if
they keep riding that momentum, I mean again, it's just
it's crazy to think, like, you.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Know, I was part of a reverse sweep.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
I unfortunately was the guy that got reverse swept, and
you never think it's going to happen till it happens,
and it's one of the worst feelings, and the pressure
gets so big and inside that locker room and around
because you're expected to win. It's your up three nothing,
it's you should win. Then you lose game four, you
lose Game five, and then game six you're like, well,
if we don't win this one, it's a coin flip,
(09:17):
and and everything's they're coming downhill. So you got to
think in that room, there's a lot of doubt and
they got to quell those those thoughts quick because otherwise
it's going to be a short night for them.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That is great stuff, Jason.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I'm curious, you know, with this being game seven, I'm
assuming this will be the best ratings for a hockey
game in a long, long time.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yeah. Well, I was saying earlier in the show.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I got tickets in the second row for the Hershey
Bears in the AHL. That's where I live, and I
love It's a great the Giant Center in Central Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
It's an awesome arena. I love it. But I feel
like on some level TV doesn't.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Do it justice to just how fast you guys are
flying around the ice. I feel like, is there anything
that could happen tonight or anything that you have an
idea that could help grow the game even more from
a television perspective.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
I mean, unless you're strapping a go pro to the guys.
Many cameras, it's too hard. It's one of those I
always tell people.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
They should do that. Why not do that?
Speaker 4 (10:29):
It should just have cameras all over the place.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
I mean, you could maybe bring the camera closer and
have one of those, you know, on a wire kind
of like they did in the NFL, where it's just
it's kind of traversing the whole rink. But I don't know,
it's it's one of those sports that you know you
need to be live just to feel it.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
And feel the energy.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
And I mean, listen, Connor McDavid's best player right now
and maybe of all time, and to watch him live
is something special, just to just to iso cam him.
So I always tell people if you can get out
to a game, that's always a good way to kind
of get you, get you locked in and and start.
But it does it zero justice on TV. It's a
(11:10):
great product on TV. I love what they do, but
it's it's just a different animal when you're in person,
and one of those sports that feel in the crowd
and hearing the hits and the boards and the puck
hit the glass.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
It's just it's it's poetry.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Man.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
It's a great thing to watch and a great thing
to be a part of.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Wait did you say Conor McDavid might be the best
player of all time? I mean, you know, I knew
he's the best player now, but we're talking like Gordie
Howe and Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, doesn't he need to
win for us to make a comment like that.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
He's really that good, Jason.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
He's I mean, I know I catch so much flak
for this, but and it could be recency biased, but listen,
he needs to win, he needs to put it, have
his name on a cup.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
But just.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
The level of the players now, the equipment that the technology,
it's so much far advanced then it was back in
the day in years priors, and the Gretzkare and things
like that. And not to say that if you put
Gretzky and Lemieux in this era, would they do as well.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Sure they'd probably they'd be up there.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
But for what Connor is doing in this era and
dominating this much, it just goes without saying, like, we
haven't had a player this dominant ever in such a
long time. You could say Sydney Crosby, but by winning,
but just purely on his own, he is just so
talented and so incredible, and I mean, what he's done
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in this playoff, in this era, it just can't be denied.
He's incredible. The things he does every game, it's it's
I can't even explain it. And we sit up there
as analysts, and we played the game, and I played
against him and felt what it was like to play
against him, and watching him every night in and night out.
(12:55):
We just sit up there every night we're like, this
is a joke, Like he's playing a video game and
we're just we're just players in this game, and he
just does what he wants. So for him, I just
I think right now he's the best player in our game.
I think if he wins, I mean, he's in my
top three already. If he wins, I would probably and
(13:15):
he's still got, you know, another eight to ten years,
so I do think he'll win again if he doesn't
win tonight, and by then, I mean it's hard to
deny him. So I don't think the records of Gretzky
will be touched. But again, he's shooting on guys that
could even go down. The butterfly wasn't even invented back then,
which is when the goalies go down in that little position,
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they just laid down or kicked their legs out, So
I mean it's it was a little bit. I won't
say it's easier to score back then because the technology
wasn't there, but it just was a different era of
scoring and goaltenders and defenders. So I do I kind
of stand on that that pedestal saying I do think
(13:56):
Connor's up. He's top three for me right now and
wins tonight. I'd be hard not to say he's the
greatest right now and then given another eight to ten years.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Jason, we showed a picture of your headshot. You got
no front teeth. Now I'm looking at you right now,
You've got a great smile, good looking guy. How many
of those are your your your own teeth?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
These four are not mine. They got fixed up and
then parts of the couple on the bottom. But yeah,
I was sitting on the dentist chair this off season
and getting these things fixed, and then I was like, well,
I think I'm retired because there's no way I'm letting these.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Things get up. I had enough of this, so I
just said that's it.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
I called my wife and I was like, I think
I'm done.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
I way too good now.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
So hockey hockey guys don't file retirement papers.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
They just send in their their dentist bill. Yeah, and
that's how that's how the league knows they're done.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Said, I submitted to insurance and I said, well, well,
I said, thanks, guys, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
That is incredible, Jason, thanks so much the time man.
Check him out at NHL Network and enjoy the game tonight.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Thanks Ross. Having good on all right.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Absolutely, what awesome guy.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
That's one of the cool things about the show is
number one that Fritzy's incredible. But I never talked to
that guy before in my life. Now I want to
hang out with him. At some point he was larried.
It's so funny that he said that Connor McDavid is
like a video game.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Did I or did I not say?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
On the pre show production, meaning that Connor McDavid reminds
me of me playing Sega Genna says NHL.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Ninety four back in when I was fourteen years old.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
I mean, that's what it reminded you that when he
has the puck and he's weaving in out of guys,
you're not really supposed to do that other than on
the video game, and he's actually doing it.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
It's incredible. Marvin.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
In every sport and even ones that you don't know.
So I saw a MESSI maybe twenty sixteen. I don't
know anything about soccer, but I knew he was the
best player, right is that saying with like Connor McDavid like,
I don't know any think about hockey, but after watching
four about three or four minutes, Oh, that's the best player.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
How about you know we were talking about Usain Bolt
earlier and like how he's the fastest guy out. You know,
that guy played seven hundred games in the NHL and
he's sitting up there with other NHL guys and they're
watching McDavid being like, this is a joke. This is
a joke that he's able to do whatever he wants
against guys.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
It it is if you want.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I mean, look, there's a lot of reasons to watch tonight.
That is a big one. I'm curious though about what
he said, and we can talk about this later. And
I want to get to some of the callers as well.
Eight seven, seven to three DP show or maybe hit
me up on social at Ross Tucker NFL at DP
show on Twitter or whatever social platform. Is there anything
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they can do to make the TV probably better? Why
don't they put GoPros on the guy's helmets? I mean
that that feels like they could easily do that, and
then you'd have a better idea of just how fast
they're flying around the ice.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Any ideas, Fritzy Seaton, paul Y Marvin, you got an idea?
You know what? Yeah, put it on the stars.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
Don't put it on the enforcers because you don't want
to see the fists coming at their faces during the show.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Why not? That's exactly what I want to see. What
are you talking? I'm not sure if the NHL. Does
the NHL want that. I don't think they even have
that many fights anymore.
Speaker 9 (17:24):
Doesn't seem to be not embracing the right.
Speaker 10 (17:28):
How about this, then, to implement cameras without messing with
the players, put a camera on a referee and give
the fans a like an option, like a second screen
option to get the referees camera view.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I feel like they try that and it never like
it's just like so discombobulated. I feel like I wanted
on McDavid. Those cameras are so small. Now, I want
it on McDavid's helmet while he's weaving in and out
of these guys.
Speaker 10 (17:54):
Let's make it more exciting to have a cameraman skating
on the ice amongst the action.
Speaker 11 (17:58):
I just have his head on a swim.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
If you've ever been to a live hockey game. Watching
the refs is bananas. When they see the action coming and.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
They do that thing where they they prop up their butt,
they prop up their butt on the side.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Of the window so they don't get run over.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
Seating especially I like too when you see like a
NHL ref get in the middle of a fight and
try and break it up or whatever. And then you
juxtapose that to say the NFL official who just gets
bumped slightly from behind, and they're like, yellow flag comes out,
and you're like, dude, come on, you know that. In
the NFL, you know the guy didn't mean to really
hit you, you know what I mean. They're like, the
NFL refs are so soft compared to the NHL one
(18:38):
who gets right in the middle of the fight.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
If you if you touch the ref in the NFL,
it's an automatic ejection.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
In the NHL, sometimes those guys catch an open hand
when they like when they wipe their face with the glove, like, yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
It's so funny.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Because I was at Last Two days after I was
in Last Time for day I went to Jason Kelsey's
charity golf tournament and I was talking with Eric Lindross
and John Leclair, and I was telling them how I
always kind of wish I could have tried to be
a Goon defenceman. I think I could have been a
good Goon defenceman. Anyway, that's either here or now. We
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got still a lot to get to. We've got what
we learned today sports history. But let's find out if
the rest of Canada is rooting for the Oilers or not.
Matty Rose, the radio host up in Calgary, Well Joyce
when we come back twenty minutes past the hour here
on the Dan Patrick Show.
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the big chair.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
And this is.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Pretty cool because we wanted to get a radio host
on from Calgary because there's a big rivalry with Calgary
and Edmonton. And so they say, we got this guy,
Matt Rose, co host of The Big Show with Russick
and Rose on sports Net nine sixty in Calgary, the
radio home with they I'm like, his name's Maddie. It's
(21:17):
George Russeck and Maddie Rose. I go on weekly during
the NFL season. No idea what he looked like, by
the way, until this second right now, and he looks
like he is straight out of Canadian radio host casting.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It's unbelievable, Maddie. It's Ross Tucker. Nice to see you man.
Thanks for coming on my show for once, I guess
not really my show whatever, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Well for today right.
Speaker 14 (21:42):
Yeah, that's how I feel with George Leams.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
It's it's all good. It's great to talk to you man.
It's been far too long. I'm excited for the NFL
to come back so we can start having you on
our show. But yeah, things are good. Thanks for having
me excited to be here.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Are you in Calgary right now? Or are you in Okatokes?
Speaker 6 (21:58):
No Irony Calgary, No Atlas today? No, no down in Oaks.
Toot's getting our pizza.
Speaker 14 (22:03):
Downtown Calgary's where you'll find you today, all right, to avoid.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
All these Oilers jerseys that are.
Speaker 14 (22:09):
On the sidewalk there are there, seriously keeps tons because
a lot of people will move from Edmonton down to
Calgary just a few.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Hours down the road.
Speaker 14 (22:20):
You know, I'm obviously biased, but personally it's a better city,
So people typically move from Edmonton.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Down to Calgary and not the other way. So yeah,
we got a lot of Edmonton fans around here wearing
their jerseys very proudly.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
All right, So explain that it's a couple hours away.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Is it the only two cities in Alberta with NHL teams,
So I would say they probably hate each other, but
maybe not.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
You guys are just so nut. Do you guys hate anybody?
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, I think we do.
Speaker 14 (22:52):
I think that there's a certain amount of like when
when someone new is coming into our country, you got
to treat them with respect. And we have this Canadian
identity that we have to uphold when we go abroad.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
But there are certainly very strong regional rivalries.
Speaker 14 (23:05):
People out here do not like Toronto and Eastern Canada
a whole time. And the Battle of Alberta is the
biggest sporting event that we have in our entire province.
The whole country or the whole province gets together for it.
When they played three to four games they'll play in
the regular season. When they played that playoff series a
couple of years ago, that both cities were just nuts.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Obviously that one didn't end well, to end too well
for the.
Speaker 14 (23:29):
Calgary fans, But yeah, it's one of those things that
kind of takes over our province for sure. Obviously, Auki's
the big one up here and those are the two
biggest teams that you'll see in these two demographics.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
We're talking with Matty Rose, co host of The Big
Show with Russik and Rose on Sportsnet nine to sixty
in Calgary. So you just got off the air, okay
a little bit ago, right, and I'm sure you took
a lot of calls and you're talking with all the fans.
They're really Flames fans for the most part in Calgary.
Are they rooting for or against the Oilers tonight?
Speaker 14 (24:07):
Well, we were doing a little giveaway on the show
today and our text topic was if.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
The Oilers win tonight, it'll be worse than Blend. And
we had all sorts of things.
Speaker 14 (24:19):
We had a lot of people call in about having
to remarry their ex wives. We had people talking about
having their in laws move in permanently. Like this is
not going to be good for Calgary fans because it's
one thing to have the Oilers win it, it's another
thing for the Flames to be in a little bit
of disarray right now. So if the Oilers fans win,
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Flames says, don't really have anything to stand on. There's
nothing good that we've done. We've got a bad long
term signing after the Kachuck trade, he was obviously the
superstar of the Panthers now and just the way that
everything is kind of snowballed since then, bad signings, having
to trade away, but trade away their best goaltender just
last week.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
So who knows what the season's going to be.
Speaker 14 (24:58):
And now you got the Oilers win the championship. There's
gonna hold that over our heads. So that's gonna be
a little rock for sure.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
But wait a minute, maddie, it's been thirty one years
since a Canadian team has won the Cup. Don't you
guys want to bring the Cup home? Don't you have patriotism?
And don't you want to see the Cup in Canada
for the I mean, there's a lot of people that
are alive that have never seen the Cup in.
Speaker 13 (25:21):
Canada, myself included.
Speaker 14 (25:25):
And I would prefer it to be my team that
does that, because, like I said, I don't want to
have to deal with all of these fans being like
we were the first.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Team to bring it back and it was all us
and you can thank us, and oh.
Speaker 14 (25:38):
I don't want to deal with that all the time
when these guys have their ring.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
If it goes that way.
Speaker 14 (25:43):
So that's one thing that I think a lot of
people in Calgary are nervous about. But I will say,
like the family conversations have been interesting of that exact
kind of dichotomy. Do you want the Cup back to
Canada or do you want your biggest rival to be
in I've said before, if there's like Winnipeg or Ottawa
that brings a Cup back, like, I'm like, whatever, I
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don't really there's no rivalry there.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
But if it's Vancouver, there's a rivalry. If it's Edmonton,
there's a rivalry. If it's Toronto, there's a rivalry.
Speaker 14 (26:12):
And I just don't want those fan bases to have
that extra achievement to hold over the head of Flames
fans if they do do it.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
So that's what it all comes down to.
Speaker 14 (26:24):
But a lot of people, I will say, not a lot,
but there are certain amount of people who, even though
they're Flame fans, will be cheering.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
For the Cup to come back to Canada.
Speaker 14 (26:31):
It's tough for me because whenever the Flames get eliminated,
I try and find the team in the States that
has the most Canadians left on it, which typically there's
one that has like twelve or fifteen. Unfortunately, this year,
the Panthers, I think, only have two Canadians and the
Oilers have all Canadians essentially.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
So that argument has also gone out of the window
for me. But some people are cheering for the Oilers.
I just can't do it as someone who has grown
up with the flame and sea on my chest.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
So what do you think like the rest of the
or do you think like the people in Vancouver or
the people in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island. I'm trying
to name as many random provinces. How about the people
in Hamilton, Thunder back up in.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (27:17):
What about all the.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
All those people, all the ones out east?
Speaker 14 (27:21):
Saying it before Whistler, I think that a lot of
people will be cheering for the.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
Cups come back to Canada.
Speaker 14 (27:27):
There's a lot of guys from Ontario on the team,
so I'm sure there's a certain.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Amount of that.
Speaker 14 (27:31):
I find the Leafs fans once their team gets eliminated,
they generally just checked out of everything else anyways, So
that would be one.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Thing that I'm kind of thinking with that over there.
Speaker 14 (27:40):
But the Vancouver fans are like if you think flight
fans are down. Then the Vancouver fans are way worse
because they actually lost to the Oilers as part of
this run and they didn't have their best goalie.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
So they're saying to themselves, if we had our best goalie,
like they have that.
Speaker 14 (27:53):
Injury excuse, right, if we had our best goalie, we
could have been there, we could have beat the Oilers.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
We would have definitely beat the Pan And now they're
watching the Oilers win hits. So that's another rivalry. Like
BC and Alberta.
Speaker 14 (28:05):
There's certainly different points of view that you'll see between
those two provinces, so.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
There's a rivalry there as well. And when Vancouver lost
to Edmonton, that was big.
Speaker 14 (28:13):
But I think they're even Vancouver fans and everyone out
in DC is probably having a pretty hard time coming
to terms with how this has changed.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
Like they're up, like they were up three nothing two.
Speaker 14 (28:25):
This is supposed to be like a week ago, Like
we're not supposed to be here, This isn't supposed to happen.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
But blow in the hold.
Speaker 14 (28:32):
You got the best player on the planet and eventually
you can go video game mode and here's where you
end up.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
It's so funny you just said that Maddie because I
just had Jason Demaerz from ANHL network on and he said,
not only is Connor McDavid the best player in the
world right now, he thinks he might be the best
player ever. Is that just from a former player's perspective
or is that how fans are thinking or is that
just ridiculous since he hasn't won a Cup yet.
Speaker 14 (29:01):
I like it kind of depends in my opinion. It
depends on how do you want to look at the
best player ever. Obviously you have to win a Stanley
Cup to be the best player ever. Gretzky had a
handful of them, but it's very different now, like the
way that Connor has been able.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
To dominate this league, where even Sidney Crosby wasn't at
this level for being kind of head and shoulders ahead
of everybody else. It's fascinating to watch. Like I didn't
really get to see Gretzky in his prime.
Speaker 14 (29:28):
I was like just single year age when he was
retiring from the NHL.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
So there's obviously the era adjustments.
Speaker 14 (29:36):
Nowadays you have the salary caps with teams aren't nearly
as loaded as they could be back in the day. Listen,
I certainly think he's in the conversation. The way that
he's produced points, the way he has broken Gritzky's records
is he's kind of gone throughout the first half.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
Of his career here.
Speaker 14 (29:51):
The only thing he's been missing is the Stanley Cups
and a run like this, especially if they do end up.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Pushing this thing over the edge.
Speaker 14 (30:00):
This is the type of thing where you start to
wonder if it's almost like a down that breaks and
now Connor is going to constantly be back in the
Cup final irrelevant of what if his team around him is.
Because I really didn't think this blue line was going
to be good enough to get the.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
Oilers to the Stanley Cup Final.
Speaker 14 (30:17):
I thought that they were to turnover prone, so they
made bad decisions under pressure.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
I didn't think they defended their netlinder well enough.
Speaker 14 (30:24):
And sure enough, they've all found a way to figure
it out. And it's all based on, for me, the
fact that a lot of these players believe that if
they make a mistake, Connor can go out and fix
that and get them right back into a game which
allows them to play a little bit freer maybe, and
to have that effect on everybody around you is something
pretty special and pretty important. It helps that he's got
(30:45):
Leon dry Settle, there's another top ten player, but he
also had top ten players around him his entire career.
By the time Connor's done, he very well could be
named the best player. But it's so hard to ju
justin eras and without the Stanley Cups. I just find
it hard to say that for Connor right now.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Maddie really appreciate the time. Man, Thank you so much
for coming on the show. Good to see and talk
with you.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
This has been a pleasure. Man.
Speaker 14 (31:09):
We'll see you soon, hopefully chat soon. Cam's underway for
the NFL and all that stuff. So enjoyed Game seven
tonight and the start of everything else we got, I
guess the Olympics, although we're gonna be cheering for different teams.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
There, but there he is.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Matty Rose, co host of The Big Show with Russick
and Rose on sports Net nine to sixty in Calgary,
the radio home of the Calgary Flames. You know, he
said something that reminded me about Connor McDavid. It reminds
me a lot of Tom Brady. I'll tell you what
that is and we'll find out what everybody learned when
we return here thirty eight minutes past the hour, It's
(31:45):
The Dan Patrick Show.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan
Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific
on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio w APP Busy.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Final segment here on a meathead. Ross Tucker filling in
for Dan Patrick. I'll be back tomorrow, by the way,
so feel free to hit me up, whether it's Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, whatever.
You can email me over at Ross Tucker dot com
if you got anything in particular you want us to
get into. Maybe we can get into some food topics,
(32:18):
some beverage topics, adult beverages, perhaps little Daddy soda talk
should be fun.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
We've had a couple of things that we need to
do in this segment.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
To wrap up the show and finish strong, including today
in sports history.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Why don't we start with that, Paul, I love this
part of the show.
Speaker 10 (32:36):
You're gonna like this, Ross. In nineteen twenty two, the
NFL became the NFL. Does anyone know the name of
the NFL before it was the National Football League.
Speaker 11 (32:45):
I don't think I've ever heard this before.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
I feel like I have heard it, but I can't
name it right now.
Speaker 10 (32:51):
The APFA, the American Professional Football Association.
Speaker 15 (32:55):
Glad that didn't steak NFL is better, much better, all right,
I'm a big appha though the nineteen seventy one the
NBA allowed hardship cases the four year eligibility eligibility rule
for college nineteen seventy one, so underclassman could get into
the draft.
Speaker 11 (33:09):
Here's one.
Speaker 10 (33:10):
The Calgary Flames became the Calgary Flames in nineteen eighty
Atlanta Flames franchise moved to Calgary, Alberta.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
And is there ay, wait, there was an Atlanta Flames.
Speaker 11 (33:21):
I don't remember it.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Before my time in the seventies, there was a team
called the Atlanta Flames.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
That's interesting.
Speaker 10 (33:27):
Twenty ten, remember this tennis match John Isner Nicholas Mahoot
eleven hours, one hundred and eighty three games. It was
five sets, and you know they go tiebreaker with the
games and set five seventy to sixty eight.
Speaker 11 (33:39):
Isner versus Mahoot. Twenty ten.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Is there any part of you that would have been like, yeah,
I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna.
Speaker 10 (33:46):
We were watching that in studio at our old studio.
We had it on the screen and I think it
continued maybe to the next day or something.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
That is bananas.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
I think I remember that those guys are both like
big servers, right.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
So they just kept winning their own.
Speaker 11 (34:01):
Holding their sins like six ' eight.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Right, Fritzy, And I hear what you're saying.
Speaker 8 (34:05):
Once it gets like the thirty seventh deuce, You're like,
you know what, maybe I give him this point.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
This is just ridiculous. Yeah, like, how much of I
gonna how much do I get if I win this match?
Like it's extremely hot, I have a dinner reservation. This
is just going on for now. Wimbledon.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Okay, well, wimbled that's kind of a big one. You
might want to hold onto that. That's an iou such
a good movie. All right, let's see you know what
I feel like, Sometimes we get rushed into what we learned.
Let's take our time with the what we learned, which
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Speaker 2 (35:01):
You know, it's interesting.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
One of many reasons why Dan is incredible is that
when you listen to the show, he always times though
what we learned with you guys and the last ones
right when the music starts, that there's thirty seconds left,
and then he does the commercial right as it's ending.
(35:25):
He's like a ninja, and I'm not like that.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
I'm not gonna try to be a ninja.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
So we got that out of the way, so now
we can start with Seaton and what he learned today.
Speaker 9 (35:36):
I learned that for some Canadians, Edmonton winning is like
remarrying your ex.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Marvin hilarious.
Speaker 8 (35:47):
Our new buddy Matt Ro says Calgary is a better
city than Edmonton. He said he might be a bit biased, though.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Well, is it fair to say that you can document
that based on more people moving from Edmonton to Calgary
than vice versa. Is that a fair way to decide
which city is better? Or is that weather related or
is that perhaps economically related? And just because people more
(36:17):
people move to a city, does that mean it's better
or not?
Speaker 8 (36:20):
Marvin, then we better have a talk about Charlotte being
better than New York City or Atlanta being better than Yeah, so,
PAULI what I learned.
Speaker 10 (36:31):
I still don't want to pronounce Calgary. I've heard Calgary
down a year. I've heard Calgary.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
The guy is from Calgary.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
You wanted me to ask him the question, but he
had already said Calgary five times.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
He already says Calgary. Is it Calgary or Calgary?
Speaker 11 (36:45):
I heard pew some areas of Canada they call Calgary.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
No, that's never happened. That's like a movie.
Speaker 11 (36:51):
All right, I'm gonna look that up.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
By the way, I feel like it would be awesome
to live in Canada. Oh well, maybe not weatherwise, but
do they ever have any conflict or like, do they
have like any issues up there?
Speaker 2 (37:07):
I feel like they all just walk around like ice
skating or skiing, eating.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Doughnuts, drinking beer, being like, have a great day, you
want you just walking about town.
Speaker 11 (37:18):
So a more low stress environment.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
It just seems like everybody's so happy, like even that guy, Like,
I would love to know how many people are unhappy
in Canada. They just seem like they're happy. People check,
they're very neutral, they're the world's friends, and they're just
I bet you.
Speaker 8 (37:33):
Everything's really clean and there's nothing like all over strewn
all over the floor like litter.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Just get that feeling.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
You know, what, have you ever been any Canadian cities?
Toronto it's a very clean city. I went up there
several times I played for the Bills. I thought it
was a beautiful, very clean city.
Speaker 11 (37:49):
I went to Quebec City. Holy Cow. Is that nice?
It's very historical?
Speaker 6 (37:55):
You know.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
One time, this is crazy. I'm driving with my wife
to Newark Air because one of her business school friends
is getting married in Montreal. Okay, as we're driving, the
flight gets canceled and it's the only direct flight from
Newark to Montreal.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
So we look at each other. We're having from Pennsylvania,
and we thought okay, and we went. We made a
left and we.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Went due north and we drove up through Lake Placid
all the way up there. This is bizarre if anybody's
ever done this before. You're driving, you go past Lake Placid,
you're in the United States. Thirty seconds later there's a
sign in French and you're.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Like, whoa, what just happened there?
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Like it's just so interesting that Quebec is French speaking
and the signs are in French.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
It's just weird that you can drive You can drive.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
North in upstate New York and next thing you know,
you're seeing signs in French.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
That's bizarre, Fritzy. What did you learn today? Greg Cosell
of NFL Films doesn't have thoughts or takes.
Speaker 8 (39:03):
The tape tells the story and Greg relates what he's watched.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
What did I learn, Fritzie?
Speaker 8 (39:08):
We all learned that you don't understan why people from
Florida don't have a Southern accent. Perhaps it's all the
Northeastern transplants to the area.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Well, I did get a text message from a buddy
who does radio in Tampa, and he said, people in
northern Florida absolutely.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Have deep South accents. It's what Seaton said.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
It's the only state where you drive north and you
go further south, which is such a great way to
put that.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
I'm gonna steal that for the rest of my life, Seaton.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Anytime I'm ever talking to somebody about Florida, I'm like,
you know, it's the only is that direct your credit?
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Seaton?
Speaker 9 (39:39):
No, I stole it from somebody, so I'm really just
passing it on to you, and then you pass it
on to someone else.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
It's got it. Okay. So will you guys all watch
the whole game to night?
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Yeah, yeah, okay, and you'll you'll all root for We'll
all root for Edmonton. Are you all rooting for Edmonton
for the show tomorrow or just for the people of Edmonton?
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Seaton, you know what.
Speaker 9 (40:02):
I gotta admit though, I kind of want to root
for Matt Rose now, so I'm not sure if I
am rooting for Edmonton anymore for Calgary.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Matt Rose is Matty Rose is now my hedge.
Speaker 9 (40:13):
I kind of love that guy, and I'm like, oh,
you know what, I kind of want to be on
his team.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
So whoever he's rooting for. Yeah, but there's there's thousands
just like him in Edmonton.
Speaker 7 (40:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Every Canadian is just like that guy. They either play
in the NHL or they're like Matti Rose.
Speaker 11 (40:28):
I love that guy.
Speaker 6 (40:30):
Either.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
That's a fact. Okay, that's a fact.
Speaker 11 (40:33):
I'm rooting for overtime overtime.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
No, yes, well see that's I have mixed emotions on that.
On the one hand, hockey overtime is the greatest thing
of ever. I saw a guy one time say why
why jump out of a plane naked while you're on cocaine,
when you can just watch hockey.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Overtime that online.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Some tweet that was like a which I loved, But
I don't know overtime, Paulie.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
We got to show you next day.
Speaker 11 (41:07):
Oh it's worth it. That's that's the best kind of tired.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Yeah, I guess you're right. I guess you're right. I
won't overtime provided both teams agree.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
To let somebody score a goal within the first two
minutes of overtime.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
That's that's what I need. That music means.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
We're wrapping up a fun meathead Monday edition of The
Dan Patrick Show. We'll talk College World Series tomorrow, and
the NBA Draft is Wednesday as well. There's a lot
to get to. It'll be a fun Tuesday as well.
Have a great day, everybody,
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