The Fighty Pucks is the story of the most violent hockey team on the planet. A team of lovable bad boys, misfits and bruisers, led by a teenage boy - AJ Galante. Together with his father, a powerful business man with a dark past, AJ ran the team as they went rampaging on a path to glory. But all the while, the team was being secretly watched by their toughest opponent of all - the FBI.
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Episode Transcript
In two thousand and four, the world of ice hockey
was in for a shock.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
And we are live at the Danbury Ice Arena.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
A sleepy city in Connecticut called Danbury was getting its
first ever professional hockey team. And the president was this guy, Hey,
how you doing, pal, seventeen year old Aj Galante. But
the real boss was AJ's dad, Jimmy, a big shot
garbage hauler loved and feared in Danburry. She was intense.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
He can tell you about the weather and it looks
like he's staring into your soul.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
And when Jimmy bought his son hockey team, the world
was watching.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
It was a tabloid story that you're going to read
no matter what.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
And it's not just the teenage team president that caught
people's attention. He wanted to break every bone in his body.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Bone popped out, blood spurred it all over the place,
throwing him like a rag doll.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
It was the violence.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
It was a very ugly night head hitting the ice,
shoulder hitting the ice.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
The very ice.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
For they can't right now, I'm Claire Crofton from the
teams at Novel and iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
This is the fighty Pucks. Join me for the story.
Of the most violent hockey team ever. It's a story
about what happens when you're prepared to win at any cost.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Everything was going great until literally one day, it's all over.
Everything's quoting secrecy. I don't know what to say and
I don't want to get shot.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Was there any part of you that felt like the
cost of winning was too high? Never?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
That was guerrilla warfare at its highest.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
There's the FBI side, there's my side, and somewhere in
the middle of the truth.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Listen to the Fighting Pucks starting on the eleventh of
May on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you
get your podcasts.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I couldn't believe this.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Believe it.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
It's the end of the world.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Believe it.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
We'll come by the jungle.
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