March 19, 2025 • 45 mins
Voice of the Roadrunners Jonathon Schaffer and Co-Host Kim Cota-Robles had forward Curtis Douglas on this week's show to talk about his March Mullets 4 Mental Health Fundrwaiser that benefits the Centre of Addiction and Mental Health Foundation. If any listenders would like to donate us this link here, https://gofund.me/a5f8bbd7.
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Fox Sports fourteen fifty am our usual Tuesday night get together,
Roadrunners Happy Our My name is Jonathan Schaeffer. Alongside me
as always, Kim Coder Robliz and off the top of
the hour once again, very special guests this week, number
twenty eight, Curtis Douglas. Curtis, first off, congratulations just on
your recent run. Man, it has been so awesome to
(00:50):
see that the five goals in the last four games,
great homestand for us overall, great sweep over San Jose,
probably one of the some of the best games that
we've seen this season. Just what your overall reaction to
all of it and just getting those big wins against
San Jose.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Yeah, thanks for having me it's been Uh, it's been
awesome to see. I think we've really came together of
the last a few games, and uh, I think it
just shows with the end result. But I think with
the comeback win on Sunday, Sunday was pretty cool to see,
just to see the team kind of like rally around
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one another, and I think that was one of the
most more fun games I've been a part of. So
it's it's been really special. And uh, yeah, we're looking
to make a push and make the playoffs and and
see what we can do.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, I feel like we we've been through so much
this season already, right, you know, with the with the
eight game losing streak and rebounding from that, having a
good Gem Show trip, good homestand good other trip after that,
and now we're we're going on another tough five gamer
coming up, you know against the Colorado Eagles. But does
that adversity, you know, just kind of bring the team
together a bit more, And you know, just knowing that
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the pressure is on, you know, going and making this
playoff push, how much has that brought this team together,
you know as we're in the late stages of the season.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Yeah, I think throughout the universities where the team gets
to grow and I think I think these games there
is kind of what you visualize and and like when
you're in the summer preparing and and and growing up
is kind of where you really get excited to play.
And when it's crunch time and the pressures on is
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really when you see people's true colors. And I think
we're seeing what our group is made of here and
this this stretch, and I think we're just really excited
to go into a home sorry away team away games
where a team is really good at home, and we're
excited to see what we can bring together for those ones.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
So, curtis kind of a layered question for you because
this is going to be along along road trip and
this March, which means that you're doing mental health awareness
and mullets for March, So kind of too too pronged
question in how do you take care of yourself mentally
when you're on the road and kind of what does
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that look like for you? And then tell us tell
us about mullets for March, so everybody knows who hasn't
heard about it before.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Yeah, I think on the road it's a little bit
weird because we stay with roommates, so I'm with mcgret
Ryan McGregor the whole time. But it helps in a
sense where we're all a really close group and and
we kind of get stuck together, so we kind of
get to feed off one another in that sense, and
if someone's feeling down or feeling out of it, or
whatever the case may be, we're kind of pretty easily
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able to spot that and and kind of bring our
guy back into the mix and and be able to
offer support mentally. And and but I think I personally
love to read, and so on the road, I like
to try and find some time to myself and maybe
go outside and just kind of be be with my
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thoughts and and read and and do that sort of thing.
And then I think, yeah, so it is March, and uh,
every March for the last four years, I think three
or four years, I've done March mallets for mental health,
with the main goal being, uh, just the main goal
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being with the tagline is hashtag asked me about my mullet,
and and the me and my my mom and family
kind of sat together and came up with that one, and.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
The main the main goal being.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
A lot of like a lot of people come up
and ask like, hey, like what's going on with the mullet, this,
this and that, And then almost every time it ends
into some sort of conversations surrounding mental health, and whether
it's they were affected or or one of their family
members or or or whether it just be me talking
about about the whole kind of movement thing, and it
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just kind of starts this conversation surrounding mental health. And
that the main goal was to just start conversations that
are somewhat uncomfortable and and uh and sometimes tricky situations.
But at the same time, you never really know how
much that person that you're talking to needed that conversation.
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And so the main tagline being to to go and
ask people that you're close to that that you care
about how they're doing, and not how they're doing on
the surface level, like not a hey.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
How are you, more more so being like a hey,
how are you really.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Doing with with everything that's going on, And and it
usually comes into comes into topics that they don't generally
share on the surface level, and and I think that's
really important and and like I said, and some people
can can really put on a brave face and and uh,
and and really seem like they're just totally fine, but
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but underneath they're they're struggling, and and sometimes just those
little conversations and and showing that you can be there
for them and with them and not necessarily need to
to command and help them through, but just to be
there to listen and and be a personal support and
and can really really tremendously impact someone's life in a
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positive way. And that's been the main main piece of
of Marshmallets for Mental Health. I mean, I do have
the stupid mullet going on, but it's it's very good
cause and and I I get a lot of questions
about it, and that's the that's the that's the positive
effects that I think it has brought on. And the
other part of it is UH. The mullet itself, I'm
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raising money for UH. It's called cam H, the Center
for Addiction and Mental Health UH Foundation, and it's a
it's a charitable it's an organization from where I'm from,
in in UH in Canada, and it it does a
ton of a ton of organizations and and fundraising opportunities
and and UH just overall like groups and movements around
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mental health and and they're they're very underfunded in in
most places, so any bit of donation or money helps.
But like I said, it's not really the main goal
for the donation's part. It's just kind of to me,
it's kind of like a side side, kind of side
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kind of thing. It's it's more so about the conversations
and and awareness kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
So if you go to if you go to Curtis's
socials on his Instagram handle is Curtis Douglas twenty one
and there's a link to his go the GoFundMe in there.
I don't know about you, Johnny, but Curtis, I'm so
your mullet doesn't phase me anymore. I remember when when
you first did it, I was like, oh my gosh,
that's such a specific choice here. And at this point
(07:47):
it's just like, yeah, it's March, there's a mullet, and yeah,
I don't even think about it anymore. But do do
you like how often I I, honestly do. I see
the pressure that you guys are under, and not just
external pressure, but the pressure that you kind of put
(08:07):
yourselves under being a professional athlete. It's a lot. I
think people see you from the outside and are You know,
you're kind of living people's dreams, like you get to
play hockey, and people see it as this incredibly wonderful
life that you get to live, but the reality of
it is it's your job, and jobs are stressful, and
(08:27):
then most of us don't have somebody watching us do
our job and making and making decisions, and you know,
a lot of have a lot of opinions about it.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Right, So.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Do you feel like in March more people and your
teammates kind of talk about mental health and are more
open about it.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Yeah, I was gonna say, it's it's pretty cool to me, Like,
obviously it's not the it's not the end all be all,
like it's not what I'm what I'm going for, but.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
It's pretty It's it's really cool.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
When when people come up to me at the rink
or or see me in public or whatever, and and
they come and ask, like even if it's February, December
or whatever, and they come up and they're like, hey,
like you're still doing the mullet thing for March, Like
when's the mall at coming or whatever, And and then
we get to talking and and usually it ends up
ends up getting to the point of mental.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Health, which is really cool to me.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
And I've had a few people that have even came
up and kind of told me their stories and confided
a little bit in me, which which I think is
just so cool. And and it's been really uh really
uh like so much of a blessing in uh in
doing this that I honestly didn't anticipate, which was really
really cool. And and uh yeah, like I think, uh,
(09:48):
I think a lot of people come up, like people
on the team and stuff. They come and ask like
how the thing is going, and and like I said,
just talking about the mental health piece, like you get
to get kind of behind the curtains sometimes and.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
It's it's just such a special experience.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
And it's so cool, like I said, to see people
do like like some of that can fighting and and
talking a little bit about whether it be themselves or
family members or friends or whatever, and it's just it's
it's really like I said, it's a blessing.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
And I.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Urge people to do the same with doesn't have to me, obviously,
but with people that they're close to and and and
just just getting things off their chests, whether it be
to someone that they can help or whether it be
a mental health professional or or whatever. I really think
it it could do a lot of people some wonders
and and and benefit a lot of people tremendously. And
(10:45):
I think seeking help is one of the most courageous
things that you can do. And I think a lot
of people see it, see it when they're thinking of
themselves as being being being the opposite, which which is
just such a such a sad way to rationalize things,
(11:06):
I think. And and like I said, like seeking help
is just so.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
It's so.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
It's so underrated, like it just it can help people
so much, and I just urge people to do that
if they can.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Love the message. And I was just thinking while you
were talking, actually you had a birthday a couple of
weeks ago, right, so you just from twenty five happy
late birthday. I was reading as you were talking. I
was like, man, this is so deep and this is
so this is like emotional. And then I realized that
you're Pisces and you probably don't know' I'm sure Johnny
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doesn't know, but Pisces are extremely emotional people and they
kind of wear their hearts and their sleeves. I had
to look it up because there's a lot of you
on the team that are prices.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
You can late, and.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Julian and Montana are all pisces men, which I think
is really really interesting. That didn't have anything to do
with the question that I was about to ask you.
I just thought i'd bring it up, but I was
going to say when we talked to Cameron, hepiged ut
too long ago. He mentioned that he was reading a
book called one hundred and one Short Essays that Will
(12:21):
Change Your Life. I think it's called and I started
reading it and it's so good. It's so so good.
I just needed to let people know about it because
now you said, you're a reader, what are you reading
right now? I need I need the next thing to
move on to.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
I'm kind of in a bit of a classics grind
right now. I was a little bit stuck with.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
With what to go to next.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
So honestly, I just searched up something like one hundred
books to Read before you die or something like that,
and I've just been kind.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Of picking through that list. But I just finished Three Musketeers,
oh wow, and it was really good.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
It's a little it's a little uh, it's a little
history ish. It was a little bit of a hearty
but and then I'm reading Sherlock Holmes right now.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Oh, interesting, are going to classics.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Yeah, yeah, Sherlock Holmes is great. I'm just about done
that one. It's great.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
That's awesome. Wow, I'm surprised. That is not what I thought.
I will have to I don't I don't know that
I've ever read. If I read The Three Muskets years
it was years ago, so I might have to read
that again. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Yeah, it's great. It's uh, it's cool.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Yeah, it's basically just four guys that one for all
for one or all for one, one for all area.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Well, and it's a lot of political intrigue too, right,
it's in France, there's a lot. I mean, they're the
they're the King's protection, protective guard, right. So yeah, no,
I love the story, big fan. I'm have to revisit it.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I wanted to go into what Kim said earlier, just
you know, playing the playing the game we love, you know,
as professional athletes, but people don't see the insides of
it all right, but you know, what's it like to
just you know, sometimes on the hardships of the job
at the the end of the day, you are also
making you know, the days of a lot of people too,
whether they come to the game and they see a
(14:07):
fantastic one or you know post game when you know,
kids come by and you guys give them signed sticks
and take pictures and it's just all great.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
You make people's days doing that.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
So what's that part of the job, like, you know
when sometimes these can be a little rough, you know,
when you don't know what's going on behind the scenes,
But just at the end of the day, you are
making people's people happy, and you're making kids smile, and
you're making parents happy as well when their kids get
to see these awesome professional athletes. You know, just you know,
be people, because at the end of the day, I
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don't think people realize that all athletes are just people too,
And you know, just seeing what a lot of you
guys do in the community and stuff just shows that,
you know, we just want to make everybody happy at
the end of the day and show that we're still
all just a great community here.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I think I was saying to someone the other week
that's sometimes you can get into your own head with
all the hockey stuff and and all the all the
standings and points or whatever, and and uh, you kind
of forget what it's all for.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
And like I said, with the fans stuff.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Like I remember a few weeks ago, as an example,
we had like I was pretty tired. We had a whatever,
and then we had a community event and I was
like not dreading going, but I was pretty tired. And
then we got there and and someone came up to
me and they were like, hey, like I wanted to
let you know, like like the stuff we're doing for
the mental health, like I've been on the other side
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this this, and that I just like to like thank
you or something, and like that that made my year
and that like that was really special to me. And
and I kind of got to take a step back,
and I and and just think about where we're at
and and what's going on and just kind of at
the end of the day being grateful and and got
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to just like I said, take a step back and
look at what's going on. And the portion is just
so cool. And sometimes we can take for like I said,
take for granted. What's like the position that we're in
and able to make these people happy is so cool.
And seeing like the kids and being in a position
to make someone stay a little better is really special,
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and I think sometimes we gotta, like I said, take
a step back and and and really cherish that because
it's not gonna last forever.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Do you. I'm gonna completely take you off the path
that you're on right now. Do you watch F one
at all?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
No?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
I watched like an episode or two of the first
of that Netflix show, but I never really uh not
that I didn't like it. I just I was doing
something else at the time I got to get into it.
But I've heard it's awesome.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
It's amazing. It's absolutely amazing. Saturday was the season started
in Australia, and that this is my question. I'm getting there.
The f I, a who oversees all of the rules
of Formula one, recently implemented that if the drivers swear
that there is going to be a fine associated to swearing,
(17:08):
and some of them are have horrible mouths. It's it's fantastic,
it's fantastic. But I was thinking during I was actually
watching the game during the game, or watching the race
during the game. If if the HL implemented something like
that on you guys, who on the team would be
paying the highest fines?
Speaker 6 (17:29):
I think Hunter, Drew would be killed.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Do you have to pay to actually play hockey? Yeah,
all the time or is that only like during games?
Speaker 4 (17:44):
During games, No, he's a sweetheart away from the rink,
But on the ice, I think yeah. Like I said,
I think he'd be in jail.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
I think that you might be right, Yeah, because I
hear him in the box and I actually, every once
in a while when it goes on for a little while,
it's very entertaining to me. I will take snapchats of
it because it's just hysterical and he's very good at you.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
But I think he's a little, uh, a little more
foul mouth than me.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
I appreciate that. I'm a big fan of it. So, okay,
I have I have a fictional scenario that I'm gonna
hit you with it. I want you to tell me
what your response would be that if this happened. Who
has more kids? Kevin or Andrew? They both have two kids,
(18:34):
two small kids, right, Okay, So let's say Kevin calls
you it's an emergency, he needs you to watch the
kids overnight. Can you do this and keep them alive
and keep yourself alive?
Speaker 6 (18:47):
They'd have the best night of their lives.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Really what.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
We're going. We're going ice cream, We're going ice cream, We're.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Going movie, We're going whatever they want to do until
keV gets home or until they get fall asleep.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Okay, so they're they're running the show.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Yeah, you make it so they would.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah, they would ask Kevin like, hey, when's uncle kurtis
coming back?
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Exactly, all right, and now I have a and now
I have a Would you rather? But yeah, I think
Kevin's kids would have a fantastic time with you. Okay,
would you rather only be able to wear skinny jeans
for the rest of your life when you're not in uniform? Wait,
(19:40):
I haven't finished jeans?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Have you ever?
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Have you ever even tried?
Speaker 6 (19:45):
No, I haven't worn jeans since I was fifteen.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Wait are you just wearing I'm trying to think, like,
I see you in shorts all the time.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Shorts or pants. That's it. I don't wear jeans.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Okay, so I didn't even but I didn't even finish
the Okay, skinny jeans or every time uh Hot to
go by Chapel roone came on, no matter where you were,
no matter what you were doing, you had to dance.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
I do that anyway, So.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
That man, all right, I gotta I gotta ask you.
I gotta ask you. Are you Are you still in
charge of the OX in the locker room? I remember
last time, I think they say that some of the
guys said, you were Are you still in charge of that?
Speaker 4 (20:31):
It's uh, it's a it's a it's a team team
OX sort of.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Now I'm I'm more of a hype guy. I don't
do mornings, okay, it I don't.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Are you like, are you like the pre game?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Then yeah, I can get the guys going, but uh,
I can't do uh relax music.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
I can't do that.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
What's what's the song that gets everyone really into it? Like,
what what's the song you're gonna you know, maybe test.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
Card?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Okay, okay, I like it.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
What's the what's the vibe of that song?
Speaker 6 (21:06):
It's like a like a.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
M hmm, It's like, I get the guys going kind
of song.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
I gotta get a liston after.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Okay, I talked to you recently. We did a real
quick postgame radio interview. Those are sometimes my least favorite
part of the night or my my most favorite part
of the night really kind of depends on how the
game goes. But I'm curious do you guys get do
you or have you had any sort of media training
(21:41):
where because I feel like sometimes I get very very
hockey answers to my questions. Do they teach you guys
to say that stuff? Uh?
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Not really? I think I think some guys are a
little more nervous to do.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Not nerves, but but they have kind of like they're
they're like they're like scripted responses.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
That's why you always get like the get pucks in
deep and like that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Yeah, but I feel like a lot of some other
guys are pretty comfortable to kind of go off the
off off your own opinions and ideas and and just
kind of free ball it.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
It kind of depends on how you get I.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Think, Oh, definitely, yeah, it really does. It's funny too,
because sometimes I talk to a guy or like I
think I know what to expect and then like we
just have a really viby interview and everything works well.
But then every once in a while, I'm like, oh,
I know what to expect from this guy, and then
it falls apart and I don't know what happened. So
I was just curious what that looks like for you
guys I have. I know that we've talked in the
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past about stoic philosophies, and I know that that's something
that Steve's super into. I made the mistake. I ran
into Steve Pregame on Sunday and he asked me how
I was, and I said I was tired, and he
was like, never know if we're not tired.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Number one told you're tired.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Yeah, you can't do that, yep, yep. I don't know
what I was thinking. Like literally as the words were
coming out of my mouth, I was like, Oh, this
is not going to go well for me. But I
was curious, do you have a favorite stoic philosophy, like
something that you're like every day kind of focus on.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
For sure. I just find it really interesting.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
I find like one of I have a few tattoos
from the like I have Mark, so really it's on
my arm with a quote, and I just love the
theories and and kind of opinions that they had, especially
with what they're going through at at that period of time.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
I think it's so cool because a lot of the
a lot of.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
The the the theories in the books can still be
applied to everyday life now, which is crazy, I think,
because it's legit like a totally different world now, but
there's still so many things that you can apply it
into your daily life from them, which I think is
so cool. And I think their minds are just so
ahead of their time. So I try to, like I said,
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taking a step back and and kind of just appreciating
and being grateful is like a big thing.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
And yeah, I try to.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
But yeah, I actually just finished reading I'm not going
to say his name, right, but.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
Epititius, I think it is something.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
It's he's a stoicism guy.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
I don't know what. I don't know I actually pronounce
his name, but.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
I think you're really close Epictitis.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, something like that. I can't pronounce his name,
but the book was great.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
Okay, all right, I'll have to check that one out too, Johnny.
I could ask a few more, just a.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Real yeah, I know, go ahead, go ahead, you're good.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Questions, Curtis. I feel like you'd have a really good
answer to this, because I've asked this to some of
the other players and they pretend like they've never seen
a Disney movie before. So but I feel like you're
gonna you're gonna nail this. Which Disney Prince matches your
vibe the most? Do you think.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Disney Prince? Probably Shrek is a friends.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Now he's not Disney, and he's not a Prince, But I.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
Think right, maybe Prince Charming.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Okay, Prince CHARMI from Cinderella.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
No, from from Shrek, So you gotta go between Shrek
and Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
We're big Shrek guys in the McGregor douglas household.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
So oh, I love that.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
I love Are you guys ever not together? Uh?
Speaker 6 (25:40):
Not really?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
We've uh we had that fifteen day road trip or whatever,
and it was pretty funny.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
I almost killed him in the room one night.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
It's because like, because you guys already lived together and
then go on these road trips, it's like, oh my gosh,
I asked him.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
I asked him a question and he had he had
his air pods in right as we got into the room,
and he didn't answer me. And then we had a
back and forth and I almost wraffled them into into
a Kimora in his bed.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
So let us know. If that ever happens, I would
love to hear about it. I jokingly say that if
Netflix did like a drive to survive with hockey. It
would need to be at the HL level because I
feel like there's just so much insanity and chaos and
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trauma at this level. And you and Ryan McGregor, I
feel like would be definitely two of the high points
of that show for sure.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Yeah, I don't think they want to see any insight
into this house.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Here you with the you guys, with the Canaton kids.
I would watch that show. I would watch that show. Okay,
my last question for you that I'm gonna leave you alone.
If there was a door in your house that went
anywhere anywhere in the universe, where would you want to go?
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Probably in my house back home.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Yeah yeah, and my uh my uh my parents place
back home.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
It's pretty sweet. My I get to see my pop,
which would be nice.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
Your your house right now, or your house like in
the past, like if you could time travel.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Also, probably my house in the past then yeah, the
whole family would be there.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
That'd be nice.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Yeah. I love that answer. That's a great answer. You're
the first person who said that answer. It's usually beach
beat your golf course.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
You already got a golf course here, we got we
got Yeah, Well, Curtis, thanks so much for joining us, man.
I really appreciate it, and I really appreciate you know
what you've what you've been doing this month of March.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
You know, just great all around.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
And we really appreciate you, uh, you know, just opening
up to us a little bit and just continue to
push on and let us know if you need anything.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
Yeah, thank you guys so much. How to get the
rest of your day.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
We are moving on here, We just head forward.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Number twenty eight Curtis Douglas on the show and Kim, Uh,
you know it's you. I loved I liked your question
earlier on in the in in the interview. Just you know,
we the fancy the outside of it, all right, they
see just the hockey, the fun of it, and you know,
working with the team, you know, we see more of
the backside of it. But then we don't really see
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that the end depths of it, right, of what these
guys really do go through every day. And you know,
it's it's so much pressure on them right to not
only make the playoffs, with literally everyone into soon with
their eyes on them saying like like make playoffs, you know,
and we're constantly asking them about playoffs and their performance
and everything, and you know it's it's pressure and you
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know for curs open up a little bit like that
and just you know, make sure that everyone's okay, like
you're just asking, you know, how are you really?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
It's it's great.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
And we're gonna put a we'll put the link to
his GoFundMe on this episode if you're listening here on
Apple Podcasts. So yeah, it's March Molds for Mental Health
these Uh he's raised a good amount so far, So
we'll put the link on this show. So if you
guys can go to that and and donate, that would
just be fantastic. Uh, I don't I think it's going
all the way till till the end of March. If
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I'm not mistaken. Unless she's an open you should have
acust him that too, But uh yeah, so we'll put
the link in there. It would be awesome if you
you guys can donate back if you're listening in on this,
because it's a it's a really good, really good charity
and it was just.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Yeah awesome having am on talking about it all.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Yeah, and even I know he's the goal. He's close
to the goal, but more than anything. Like he said,
it's about just making sure that the people in your
life are okay. And I know, Johnny, we talked about
this a little bit before we got on the air,
that we see, you know, we see the pressures, you know,
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in a little bit of a different lens than some
of the fans, but we still don't know everything that
that the guys go through. And they're very young, and
it's Curtis is so incredibly emotionally intelligent. And I love
that he's become a spokesperson in the community for mental
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health awareness because it is so important, and I love
being able to ask him questions about Chapel Roane and
there is no such thing as toxic masculinity. When talking
to Curtis, he's like, he's.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
The biggest guy on the team, right, Like yes, you first,
you know, first meet Curtis Douglas is like, oh my gosh,
like this guy, this guy is huge. And then and
then you get to talk to him, it's like, oh,
this guy's a sweetheart, you know. And that's that's every
guy on the team right right. You know, you you
saw it all, Kim, You saw everything on that ice,
you know, when Hunter Drew and Scott Staburne both got
(30:48):
thrown off. Yeah, I just I looked down and I
even mentioned on the broadcast. I'm like, well, Kim cold
Rollaz is hearing stuff that we cannot repeat on air.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
But I'm sure she's hearing it, all right.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
Did I not snap it to you? I meant to
snap it to you because they know, well, you send.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Me a Montana on yr Buccie fight from a few
years back here into some but no, you didn't send
me that. Yeah, but yeah, and it's just crazy because yeah,
you see all of that. You see them put their blood,
sweat and tears into the play on the ice, and
then you meet them off the ice and it's like
they're the nicest dude ever, and you know, and it
it just comes to show.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
And I, you know, mentioning it earlier to Curtis, like you.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Know, you're not You're not just hockey players, like you're
you're you're Hunter Drew, You're Curtis Douglas. You know, you're
you're everyone's names on the team. You know, you're your son,
your your husband, you're a boyfriend. You know you're everything
to to other people. So you know, we again, we
see them as the hockey players, you know, the fans
do of course, but then getting to know them that
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you realize like, yeah, no, they're just people and uh,
you know everyone goes through.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Uh hardships in their lives.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Uh. You know, it's a long grind in the season.
All these guys are away from home. Uh you know
a lot of these guys are literally from the the
east coast side of of both America and Canada, and
it can't be easy. So I think, you know, the
importance of you know, having having good friends on the team,
like with Curtis Douglas and Ryan McGregor being best friend
so long. And you know, we talked about Matthew Waalts
and Hunter Drew's friendship. And you know, even the Vets too.
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You know, they have their families, but they're still away
from their their parents and their families back at home.
And yeah, they have their families with their kids and stuff,
but I think they also do rely on you know,
maybe the other Vets who have families too, and you know,
getting close with them. So it's uh, it just shows
that it's that's what's important for a team, but just
that having that close, tight knit group and this group.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Is uh is as tight as ever right now.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
And I think the way that we had those two
great games against San Jose, the way we're pushing for
the playoffs right now, the way we'll we've been through
so much really shows the home connected this team is.
And I was I was telling James Kelly early when
we record our insider podcast.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
That was earlier on today.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Lots of radio stuff happening, and this is the most
cliche thing ever, but when you truly believe in one
another and believe in your locker room and have that
you know, tight knit group, you can do it all.
Like That's why we've seen so many, you know, these
wild card teams go all the way in the past
and all kinds of leaves of sports is because that
locker room all believes in one another. And I think
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that's exactly what we have here, and it's it's going
to be great, just again for the mental health of
the team and the mental health of the players, and
then to also go on and try to win this thing.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
I think I know that I've talked in the past
about kind of the militaristic vibe between professional sports and
the teams and just being in the military in that
it is very much about the person next to you.
And when I interviewed Egor post game, I can't even
remember when that was. I'd have to look back through
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my notes. I interviewed Egor post game weeks and weeks
and weeks ago, and that was the first time all
season that I had heard any of the players say
that they figured out their identity. And to me, that
was such a lynch pin in just kind of that
my set where you start get the players start to
believe that they can win and can control more of
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the outcomes of the games. So I think that that
was whatever happened in that time, whatever you know internally
in the team, mentally and emotionally happened with them, it
was absolutely pivotal to the results that we're seeing right now.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Yeah, and and what the results right those two games
against San Jose, I think Sundays was probably the game.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Of the year.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
Kim was amazing, so amazing, fantastic.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Comeback one of them.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
The shootouts Sammy Walker and Maximilian Zoo were absolute huge
penalties monsters, and then Matthew.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
A lot to save at the end of the game.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
On the top score of the entire American Hockey League
Andrew Polarowski, which is also funny to Kim and I
think I mentioned this on the pre game show. So
Andre Gazino got the hat trick against San Jose on Saturday, right,
and up to that point, Agazino was the lone was
the lone goal scorer of all time scorer for the
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Sanse Bear Could in the season that he played there.
Also Agassino was added He got an assists too on
that night. He was added to the score sheet on
that Ben McCartney goal at the end of the night
on that at empty netter, so technically got four points
with three goals and one assists.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
But besides that, he was the.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Top scorer for the Sansee Bear Could in a single
season until Polowski scored that goal against US in Game
one and then he broke that record. And then now
Polarowski broke his record for the goals on Sunday as
well with a with a couple. So it was all
just a cool, weird, full circle moment for Agasino being
the you know, single season lead scorer for Sansee Bear
(35:52):
Could have the year I was there my last season
with San Jose where I met Andra Gazino and now
here Tucson, we play Andrew Polowski who brings that record,
but Agasino gets four points on the first night and
at five points in total against his former team San
Jose because he didn't play the first series in February.
So it was like cool, full circle moment. That's why
I love about working in this industry. You get you
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get to meet these guys. You sometimes see him again
on the team a few years later, and then you
get that with the guy we were playing against breaking
his record, but then end of the game, Matthew Volalta
stops him in the shootout and wins the game for us.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
Podolski. The amount of times I said that man's name
this weekend, it was too much. It was too much.
There was a handful of Barracuda where I was like, oh,
if these guys were not here, the outcome of this
game would be wildly different. Number one and he was
definitely one of the one of the reasons that we
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had as much of a barn burner on Sunday as
I think we did. But also Number two talk about
a full circle moment, and I sent this snapchat to you,
so when I'm in the box, if there's nothing happening.
If I don't have, you know, reads to make I
will snap I will take Snapchat videos of fun things
that are happening. And then if you don't have Snapchat
(37:13):
and you don't know this, one of the things that
Snapchat does for you is it saves those video memories
and puts them all together for you and says, hey,
three years ago today, this is what you were doing,
or nine years ago today, this is what you're doing.
So it's really kind of fun. And then you can
like share that with your friends and family and be like,
oh my god, remember we were at the Grand Canyon,
you know, in twenty twelve, here's a snap of it
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three years ago yesterday. Montana Onyabuci was here in a
bar Barracuda uniform playing against US and had a fight
with one of our players at the time who's no
longer with us. I don't know, I can't remember his name.
But it was just so funny because I was just
randomly flipping through my memories and I was like, oh,
(37:57):
wait a minute, and I didn't send you the video
before this one where I'm taking a video of something
else and Montana just skates by and I just I
just clocked the back of his uniform and I was like,
oh my gosh, holy smokes, wait a minute, I think
that's Booch. And then and then the next snap that
came through with him fighting, and I was like, Man,
if you had asked me three years ago today, if
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you know, this would be somebody that we know, you know,
in the building and that the fans would be cheering for.
And I think, I think, if I'm not wrong, Johnny,
when we did the jersey auction on Sunday night, I
think Montana's jersey went for the highest amount. If it
wasn't him, it was Maddie. I can't remember that two
of them were the really really up there.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Yeah, I don't have anyo Boucci's number, but Maddie I
think went for like sixteen hundred.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
So that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
You know, that's all the proceeds go to local charity,
so that that's just awesome to raise that money. And
I mean, yeah, when you when Matthew Willalta makes the
game winning shootout save, but I think you want his
jersey for that game because.
Speaker 5 (39:01):
You know he had it had a puck mark on it,
his jersey talk mark on it.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Yees. Jerseys come with the memories of that game, and
every time you wear it, say oh, where's that jersey from,
It's like, oh, yeah, Like we came back in this
game and it was five to five and overtime and
then we wanted to shootout and bilotimate the final save
on the top score in the entire league, you know,
and so it's, uh, it's it's just awesome. So I
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goodoes to the fans coming to that post game jersey
auction and bidding for the jerseys I always see when
I'm doing post game, I'm like, that looks so chaotic
because you have Beef doing the doing the like I.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Got five hundred.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
I got to like he like the what moderators always
called him.
Speaker 5 (39:39):
In that that's crazy. I can never do that, no,
And he does it very well, like it has a
name and like an auctioneer, and now he's the auctioneer.
That's what it is. Like I introduced the guys because
I know who they are, because Beef doesn't know who
they are, and then he does the auctioneer part.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Then you're down there.
Speaker 5 (39:57):
Yeah, he always looks at me, like guys walked towards us.
And then he looks directly at me. And also, I
don't know if people know this Beef has like mild
hearing loss in one of his ears, so he has
a hard time hearing things. Oh my gosh, yeah, yeah,
I have to make eye contact with him and be like,
this is Andrew Agazino.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Oh my god, cool too, Kim going back to like,
you know, on you that memory of Anyabucci with San
Jose fighting, you know, and I think that the three
years ago is when I was an intern with the team,
and I remember when it was the off season, I
didn't know I was going to coming to Tucson yet,
I was My initial plan was to go back to
San Jose for another year of the internship, and then
any Bucie signed with Tucson. I was like, oh, like, man, like,
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I'm gonna miss that guy so much. And then when
I got the job, he I was like, oh, no way,
get to see on you, Bucci. And then when when
I was gone over the summer again not knowing where
I was going to be at this upcoming season, and
then I saw Andre Gazino sign here and I was like, oh, like, that's.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Gonna be so awesome.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
He's gonna be so good for them, Like I might
be missing that then I end up coming back again
and I have now I get to you know, work
with both of them, and we've been kind of joking around.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
And for Andrew Polarowski.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Uh again, if you don't know him, he's he's probably
one of He's an Andre Ragazino level kind of player. Uh,
just a slight bit younger than him, but he's he's
had some pretty phenomenal seasons. He had one hundred and
one points in the twenty one to twenty two year.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
Helped that Chicago Wolves win the Calder Cup.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
No players had that many points since Andrew Polarowski's one
hundred and one point season. And we made jokes because
I don't know, sometimes these guys just kind of make
their way around the Pacific Division, right like Paularowski, you know,
sometime with the San Diego goals before going to Chicago
Wolves and then Coachella Valley and then now he's with
San Jose for at least you know, another season after this,
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and it's like, don't be shocked that this guy ends
up in Tucson. I don't know, you know, it's like,
you know, all these Pacific Division guys go around and
then eventually they end up in two song because you know,
why not. It's so beautiful out here and it's a
great organization, and you know we have Agazino for for
another season after this name with Kevin Cannan and who
literally spent time with the Ontario Rain season prior.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Right, So, uh, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
In a few years time, don't be shocked to maybe
at Paulowski U ends up being ends up being a
road runner.
Speaker 3 (42:15):
We'll see, and if that happens, I'm.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Gonna go back to this recording and I'm gonna play
it and saying I told you so.
Speaker 5 (42:24):
But no, no, no, no, no, I think I think
you're one hundred percent, one hundred percent right. It is
very but I don't want to say incestuous division. But
it's real hard to hate any of the guys when
you know, at some point did might end up here
or if they leave us and end up with another
like like I love when we get the old when
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the guy's back come back. Who you know, like Dyson Mayo.
I love having Dyson Mayo in the building. He was
such an integral part of this team for so long.
So yeah, I do need to share one quick story
with you, Johnny, not related to any of this, because
you know how I like to pull the thread that
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has nothing to do with the sweatshirt that we're talking
about or that we're wearing. We talked about Colossal Cave
with oh my gosh, who was that not Sammy?
Speaker 3 (43:18):
Who did we talk to last Colossal Cave? Was that Sammy?
Speaker 5 (43:23):
Not Sammy? He wasn't gonna take his Travis, Travis. Yes,
we talked to Travis because his parents are here for
so long. And then Cameron hepig shared with me that
he was going to be taking He had heard about
us talking about Colossal Cave and had made reservations to
go to Colossal Cave. So we need to get him
back on the show at some point to give us
(43:45):
a rundown of what that Colossal Cave visit was like,
because I have not been there in literally nine million years,
and Cameron said he went yesterday. He went yesterday, So
I'm I'm super curious what it was like and how
that visit went.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
Closing things out here, Kim, what a great show. Had
Curtis Douglass on earlier talking about uh, you know the march,
Uh gosh, I always forget what is marlets? Yeah, March
for March, mullets for mental health. I just want to
get it all right. Uh, and again we'll put the
GoFundMe link on this show. If you're listening here on
(44:24):
an Apple Podcasts or on the website as well, so
we'll put the link on here.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
Please go donate.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
It's a it's a great charity to support the Center
for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
And uh, yeah, great having them on. Talked a lot about.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
The games this past weekend, and it's a big road
trip for us coming up.
Speaker 5 (44:42):
Yeah, the road trip, it's a big one. We are
in such such the thick of things right now. I
say this kind of often, but I feel like the
boys just love the drama and they're really you know,
drawing it out and making it as marvelously poignant and
(45:06):
giving us all all of the content to talk about
this season. This is a good This has been a
really really this episode of the season is one of
my favorites so far.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
We're like in the play right now, and we are
in the final act and you're just at the edge
of your seat.
Speaker 5 (45:23):
Right yes, exactly.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
Well, games left on the season five game road trip
coming up and we're playing the best team in the
entire Pacific Division, the Colorado Eagles. You can catch it
all right here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty am.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
We will see you later on this weekend.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
Big road trip coming up for the Roadrunners as we
continue to push on for the Calder Cup playoffs steered
there later this weekend in Loveland, Colorado.
Speaker 3 (45:45):
Have a great rest of your night, folks. We'll catch
you later.
It's five o'clock, got yours hues Day's two Sun Roadrunners
Happy Out from Fox Sports fourteen fifty Aye with Jonathan
Shit right, we know.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The story, but you gotta tell the viewers that starts.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
It's so funny.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
It's our usual Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Night, So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Maybe we should start implementing some break dance pre games
during the season and see how that goes.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Right here on Tucson Sports Day yet Fox Sports fourteen
fifty Aye.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Fox Sports fourteen fifty am our usual Tuesday night get together,
Roadrunners Happy Our My name is Jonathan Schaeffer. Alongside me
as always, Kim Coder Robliz and off the top of
the hour once again, very special guests this week, number
twenty eight, Curtis Douglas. Curtis, first off, congratulations just on
your recent run. Man, it has been so awesome to
(00:50):
see that the five goals in the last four games,
great homestand for us overall, great sweep over San Jose,
probably one of the some of the best games that
we've seen this season. Just what your overall reaction to
all of it and just getting those big wins against
San Jose.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Yeah, thanks for having me it's been Uh, it's been
awesome to see. I think we've really came together of
the last a few games, and uh, I think it
just shows with the end result. But I think with
the comeback win on Sunday, Sunday was pretty cool to see,
just to see the team kind of like rally around
(01:27):
one another, and I think that was one of the
most more fun games I've been a part of. So
it's it's been really special. And uh, yeah, we're looking
to make a push and make the playoffs and and
see what we can do.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, I feel like we we've been through so much
this season already, right, you know, with the with the
eight game losing streak and rebounding from that, having a
good Gem Show trip, good homestand good other trip after that,
and now we're we're going on another tough five gamer
coming up, you know against the Colorado Eagles. But does
that adversity, you know, just kind of bring the team
together a bit more, And you know, just knowing that
(01:59):
the pressure is on, you know, going and making this
playoff push, how much has that brought this team together,
you know as we're in the late stages of the season.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Yeah, I think throughout the universities where the team gets
to grow and I think I think these games there
is kind of what you visualize and and like when
you're in the summer preparing and and and growing up
is kind of where you really get excited to play.
And when it's crunch time and the pressures on is
(02:28):
really when you see people's true colors. And I think
we're seeing what our group is made of here and
this this stretch, and I think we're just really excited
to go into a home sorry away team away games
where a team is really good at home, and we're
excited to see what we can bring together for those ones.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
So, curtis kind of a layered question for you because
this is going to be along along road trip and
this March, which means that you're doing mental health awareness
and mullets for March, So kind of too too pronged
question in how do you take care of yourself mentally
when you're on the road and kind of what does
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that look like for you? And then tell us tell
us about mullets for March, so everybody knows who hasn't
heard about it before.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Yeah, I think on the road it's a little bit
weird because we stay with roommates, so I'm with mcgret
Ryan McGregor the whole time. But it helps in a
sense where we're all a really close group and and
we kind of get stuck together, so we kind of
get to feed off one another in that sense, and
if someone's feeling down or feeling out of it, or
whatever the case may be, we're kind of pretty easily
(03:41):
able to spot that and and kind of bring our
guy back into the mix and and be able to
offer support mentally. And and but I think I personally
love to read, and so on the road, I like
to try and find some time to myself and maybe
go outside and just kind of be be with my
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thoughts and and read and and do that sort of thing.
And then I think, yeah, so it is March, and uh,
every March for the last four years, I think three
or four years, I've done March mallets for mental health,
with the main goal being, uh, just the main goal
(04:22):
being with the tagline is hashtag asked me about my mullet,
and and the me and my my mom and family
kind of sat together and came up with that one, and.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
The main the main goal being.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
A lot of like a lot of people come up
and ask like, hey, like what's going on with the mullet, this,
this and that, And then almost every time it ends
into some sort of conversations surrounding mental health, and whether
it's they were affected or or one of their family
members or or or whether it just be me talking
about about the whole kind of movement thing, and it
(04:56):
just kind of starts this conversation surrounding mental health. And
that the main goal was to just start conversations that
are somewhat uncomfortable and and uh and sometimes tricky situations.
But at the same time, you never really know how
much that person that you're talking to needed that conversation.
(05:16):
And so the main tagline being to to go and
ask people that you're close to that that you care
about how they're doing, and not how they're doing on
the surface level, like not a hey.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
How are you, more more so being like a hey,
how are you really.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Doing with with everything that's going on, And and it
usually comes into comes into topics that they don't generally
share on the surface level, and and I think that's
really important and and like I said, and some people
can can really put on a brave face and and uh,
and and really seem like they're just totally fine, but
(05:51):
but underneath they're they're struggling, and and sometimes just those
little conversations and and showing that you can be there
for them and with them and not necessarily need to
to command and help them through, but just to be
there to listen and and be a personal support and
and can really really tremendously impact someone's life in a
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positive way. And that's been the main main piece of
of Marshmallets for Mental Health. I mean, I do have
the stupid mullet going on, but it's it's very good
cause and and I I get a lot of questions
about it, and that's the that's the that's the positive
effects that I think it has brought on. And the
other part of it is UH. The mullet itself, I'm
(06:34):
raising money for UH. It's called cam H, the Center
for Addiction and Mental Health UH Foundation, and it's a
it's a charitable it's an organization from where I'm from,
in in UH in Canada, and it it does a
ton of a ton of organizations and and fundraising opportunities
and and UH just overall like groups and movements around
(06:58):
mental health and and they're they're very underfunded in in
most places, so any bit of donation or money helps.
But like I said, it's not really the main goal
for the donation's part. It's just kind of to me,
it's kind of like a side side, kind of side
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kind of thing. It's it's more so about the conversations
and and awareness kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
So if you go to if you go to Curtis's
socials on his Instagram handle is Curtis Douglas twenty one
and there's a link to his go the GoFundMe in there.
I don't know about you, Johnny, but Curtis, I'm so
your mullet doesn't phase me anymore. I remember when when
you first did it, I was like, oh my gosh,
that's such a specific choice here. And at this point
(07:47):
it's just like, yeah, it's March, there's a mullet, and yeah,
I don't even think about it anymore. But do do
you like how often I I, honestly do. I see
the pressure that you guys are under, and not just
external pressure, but the pressure that you kind of put
(08:07):
yourselves under being a professional athlete. It's a lot. I
think people see you from the outside and are You know,
you're kind of living people's dreams, like you get to
play hockey, and people see it as this incredibly wonderful
life that you get to live, but the reality of
it is it's your job, and jobs are stressful, and
(08:27):
then most of us don't have somebody watching us do
our job and making and making decisions, and you know,
a lot of have a lot of opinions about it.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Right, So.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Do you feel like in March more people and your
teammates kind of talk about mental health and are more
open about it.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Yeah, I was gonna say, it's it's pretty cool to me, Like,
obviously it's not the it's not the end all be all,
like it's not what I'm what I'm going for, but.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
It's pretty It's it's really cool.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
When when people come up to me at the rink
or or see me in public or whatever, and and
they come and ask, like even if it's February, December
or whatever, and they come up and they're like, hey,
like you're still doing the mullet thing for March, Like
when's the mall at coming or whatever, And and then
we get to talking and and usually it ends up
ends up getting to the point of mental.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Health, which is really cool to me.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
And I've had a few people that have even came
up and kind of told me their stories and confided
a little bit in me, which which I think is
just so cool. And and it's been really uh really
uh like so much of a blessing in uh in
doing this that I honestly didn't anticipate, which was really
really cool. And and uh yeah, like I think, uh,
(09:48):
I think a lot of people come up, like people
on the team and stuff. They come and ask like
how the thing is going, and and like I said,
just talking about the mental health piece, like you get
to get kind of behind the curtains sometimes and.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
It's it's just such a special experience.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
And it's so cool, like I said, to see people
do like like some of that can fighting and and
talking a little bit about whether it be themselves or
family members or friends or whatever, and it's just it's
it's really like I said, it's a blessing.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
And I.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Urge people to do the same with doesn't have to me, obviously,
but with people that they're close to and and and
just just getting things off their chests, whether it be
to someone that they can help or whether it be
a mental health professional or or whatever. I really think
it it could do a lot of people some wonders
and and and benefit a lot of people tremendously. And
(10:45):
I think seeking help is one of the most courageous
things that you can do. And I think a lot
of people see it, see it when they're thinking of
themselves as being being being the opposite, which which is
just such a such a sad way to rationalize things,
(11:06):
I think. And and like I said, like seeking help
is just so.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
It's so.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
It's so underrated, like it just it can help people
so much, and I just urge people to do that
if they can.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Love the message. And I was just thinking while you
were talking, actually you had a birthday a couple of
weeks ago, right, so you just from twenty five happy
late birthday. I was reading as you were talking. I
was like, man, this is so deep and this is
so this is like emotional. And then I realized that
you're Pisces and you probably don't know' I'm sure Johnny
(11:48):
doesn't know, but Pisces are extremely emotional people and they
kind of wear their hearts and their sleeves. I had
to look it up because there's a lot of you
on the team that are prices.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
You can late, and.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Julian and Montana are all pisces men, which I think
is really really interesting. That didn't have anything to do
with the question that I was about to ask you.
I just thought i'd bring it up, but I was
going to say when we talked to Cameron, hepiged ut
too long ago. He mentioned that he was reading a
book called one hundred and one Short Essays that Will
(12:21):
Change Your Life. I think it's called and I started
reading it and it's so good. It's so so good.
I just needed to let people know about it because
now you said, you're a reader, what are you reading
right now? I need I need the next thing to
move on to.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
I'm kind of in a bit of a classics grind
right now. I was a little bit stuck with.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
With what to go to next.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
So honestly, I just searched up something like one hundred
books to Read before you die or something like that,
and I've just been kind.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Of picking through that list. But I just finished Three Musketeers,
oh wow, and it was really good.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
It's a little it's a little uh, it's a little
history ish. It was a little bit of a hearty
but and then I'm reading Sherlock Holmes right now.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Oh, interesting, are going to classics.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Yeah, yeah, Sherlock Holmes is great. I'm just about done
that one. It's great.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
That's awesome. Wow, I'm surprised. That is not what I thought.
I will have to I don't I don't know that
I've ever read. If I read The Three Muskets years
it was years ago, so I might have to read
that again. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Yeah, it's great. It's uh, it's cool.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Yeah, it's basically just four guys that one for all
for one or all for one, one for all area.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Well, and it's a lot of political intrigue too, right,
it's in France, there's a lot. I mean, they're the
they're the King's protection, protective guard, right. So yeah, no,
I love the story, big fan. I'm have to revisit it.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I wanted to go into what Kim said earlier, just
you know, playing the playing the game we love, you know,
as professional athletes, but people don't see the insides of
it all right, but you know, what's it like to
just you know, sometimes on the hardships of the job
at the the end of the day, you are also
making you know, the days of a lot of people too,
whether they come to the game and they see a
(14:07):
fantastic one or you know post game when you know,
kids come by and you guys give them signed sticks
and take pictures and it's just all great.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
You make people's days doing that.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
So what's that part of the job, like, you know
when sometimes these can be a little rough, you know,
when you don't know what's going on behind the scenes,
But just at the end of the day, you are
making people's people happy, and you're making kids smile, and
you're making parents happy as well when their kids get
to see these awesome professional athletes. You know, just you know,
be people, because at the end of the day, I
(14:37):
don't think people realize that all athletes are just people too,
And you know, just seeing what a lot of you
guys do in the community and stuff just shows that,
you know, we just want to make everybody happy at
the end of the day and show that we're still
all just a great community here.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I think I was saying to someone the other week
that's sometimes you can get into your own head with
all the hockey stuff and and all the all the
standings and points or whatever, and and uh, you kind
of forget what it's all for.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
And like I said, with the fans stuff.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Like I remember a few weeks ago, as an example,
we had like I was pretty tired. We had a whatever,
and then we had a community event and I was
like not dreading going, but I was pretty tired. And
then we got there and and someone came up to
me and they were like, hey, like I wanted to
let you know, like like the stuff we're doing for
the mental health, like I've been on the other side
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this this, and that I just like to like thank
you or something, and like that that made my year
and that like that was really special to me. And
and I kind of got to take a step back,
and I and and just think about where we're at
and and what's going on and just kind of at
the end of the day being grateful and and got
(15:56):
to just like I said, take a step back and
look at what's going on. And the portion is just
so cool. And sometimes we can take for like I said,
take for granted. What's like the position that we're in
and able to make these people happy is so cool.
And seeing like the kids and being in a position
to make someone stay a little better is really special,
(16:17):
and I think sometimes we gotta, like I said, take
a step back and and and really cherish that because
it's not gonna last forever.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Do you. I'm gonna completely take you off the path
that you're on right now. Do you watch F one
at all?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
No?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
I watched like an episode or two of the first
of that Netflix show, but I never really uh not
that I didn't like it. I just I was doing
something else at the time I got to get into it.
But I've heard it's awesome.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
It's amazing. It's absolutely amazing. Saturday was the season started
in Australia, and that this is my question. I'm getting there.
The f I, a who oversees all of the rules
of Formula one, recently implemented that if the drivers swear
that there is going to be a fine associated to swearing,
(17:08):
and some of them are have horrible mouths. It's it's fantastic,
it's fantastic. But I was thinking during I was actually
watching the game during the game, or watching the race
during the game. If if the HL implemented something like
that on you guys, who on the team would be
paying the highest fines?
Speaker 6 (17:29):
I think Hunter, Drew would be killed.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Do you have to pay to actually play hockey? Yeah,
all the time or is that only like during games?
Speaker 4 (17:44):
During games, No, he's a sweetheart away from the rink,
But on the ice, I think yeah. Like I said,
I think he'd be in jail.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
I think that you might be right, Yeah, because I
hear him in the box and I actually, every once
in a while when it goes on for a little while,
it's very entertaining to me. I will take snapchats of
it because it's just hysterical and he's very good at you.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
But I think he's a little, uh, a little more
foul mouth than me.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
I appreciate that. I'm a big fan of it. So, okay,
I have I have a fictional scenario that I'm gonna
hit you with it. I want you to tell me
what your response would be that if this happened. Who
has more kids? Kevin or Andrew? They both have two kids,
(18:34):
two small kids, right, Okay, So let's say Kevin calls
you it's an emergency, he needs you to watch the
kids overnight. Can you do this and keep them alive
and keep yourself alive?
Speaker 6 (18:47):
They'd have the best night of their lives.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Really what.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
We're going. We're going ice cream, We're going ice cream, We're.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Going movie, We're going whatever they want to do until
keV gets home or until they get fall asleep.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Okay, so they're they're running the show.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Yeah, you make it so they would.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah, they would ask Kevin like, hey, when's uncle kurtis
coming back?
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Exactly, all right, and now I have a and now
I have a Would you rather? But yeah, I think
Kevin's kids would have a fantastic time with you. Okay,
would you rather only be able to wear skinny jeans
for the rest of your life when you're not in uniform? Wait,
(19:40):
I haven't finished jeans?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Have you ever?
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Have you ever even tried?
Speaker 6 (19:45):
No, I haven't worn jeans since I was fifteen.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Wait are you just wearing I'm trying to think, like,
I see you in shorts all the time.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Shorts or pants. That's it. I don't wear jeans.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Okay, so I didn't even but I didn't even finish
the Okay, skinny jeans or every time uh Hot to
go by Chapel roone came on, no matter where you were,
no matter what you were doing, you had to dance.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
I do that anyway, So.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
That man, all right, I gotta I gotta ask you.
I gotta ask you. Are you Are you still in
charge of the OX in the locker room? I remember
last time, I think they say that some of the
guys said, you were Are you still in charge of that?
Speaker 4 (20:31):
It's uh, it's a it's a it's a team team
OX sort of.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Now I'm I'm more of a hype guy. I don't
do mornings, okay, it I don't.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Are you like, are you like the pre game?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Then yeah, I can get the guys going, but uh,
I can't do uh relax music.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
I can't do that.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
What's what's the song that gets everyone really into it? Like,
what what's the song you're gonna you know, maybe test.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
Card?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Okay, okay, I like it.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
What's the what's the vibe of that song?
Speaker 6 (21:06):
It's like a like a.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
M hmm, It's like, I get the guys going kind
of song.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
I gotta get a liston after.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Okay, I talked to you recently. We did a real
quick postgame radio interview. Those are sometimes my least favorite
part of the night or my my most favorite part
of the night really kind of depends on how the
game goes. But I'm curious do you guys get do
you or have you had any sort of media training
(21:41):
where because I feel like sometimes I get very very
hockey answers to my questions. Do they teach you guys
to say that stuff? Uh?
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Not really? I think I think some guys are a
little more nervous to do.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Not nerves, but but they have kind of like they're
they're like they're like scripted responses.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
That's why you always get like the get pucks in
deep and like that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Yeah, but I feel like a lot of some other
guys are pretty comfortable to kind of go off the
off off your own opinions and ideas and and just
kind of free ball it.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
It kind of depends on how you get I.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Think, Oh, definitely, yeah, it really does. It's funny too,
because sometimes I talk to a guy or like I
think I know what to expect and then like we
just have a really viby interview and everything works well.
But then every once in a while, I'm like, oh,
I know what to expect from this guy, and then
it falls apart and I don't know what happened. So
I was just curious what that looks like for you
guys I have. I know that we've talked in the
(22:43):
past about stoic philosophies, and I know that that's something
that Steve's super into. I made the mistake. I ran
into Steve Pregame on Sunday and he asked me how
I was, and I said I was tired, and he
was like, never know if we're not tired.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Number one told you're tired.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Yeah, you can't do that, yep, yep. I don't know
what I was thinking. Like literally as the words were
coming out of my mouth, I was like, Oh, this
is not going to go well for me. But I
was curious, do you have a favorite stoic philosophy, like
something that you're like every day kind of focus on.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
For sure. I just find it really interesting.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
I find like one of I have a few tattoos
from the like I have Mark, so really it's on
my arm with a quote, and I just love the
theories and and kind of opinions that they had, especially
with what they're going through at at that period of time.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
I think it's so cool because a lot of the
a lot of.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
The the the theories in the books can still be
applied to everyday life now, which is crazy, I think,
because it's legit like a totally different world now, but
there's still so many things that you can apply it
into your daily life from them, which I think is
so cool. And I think their minds are just so
ahead of their time. So I try to, like I said,
(24:07):
taking a step back and and kind of just appreciating
and being grateful is like a big thing.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
And yeah, I try to.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
But yeah, I actually just finished reading I'm not going
to say his name, right, but.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
Epititius, I think it is something.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
It's he's a stoicism guy.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
I don't know what. I don't know I actually pronounce
his name, but.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
I think you're really close Epictitis.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, something like that. I can't pronounce his name,
but the book was great.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
Okay, all right, I'll have to check that one out too, Johnny.
I could ask a few more, just a.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Real yeah, I know, go ahead, go ahead, you're good.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Questions, Curtis. I feel like you'd have a really good
answer to this, because I've asked this to some of
the other players and they pretend like they've never seen
a Disney movie before. So but I feel like you're
gonna you're gonna nail this. Which Disney Prince matches your
vibe the most? Do you think.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Disney Prince? Probably Shrek is a friends.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Now he's not Disney, and he's not a Prince, But I.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
Think right, maybe Prince Charming.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Okay, Prince CHARMI from Cinderella.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
No, from from Shrek, So you gotta go between Shrek
and Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
We're big Shrek guys in the McGregor douglas household.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
So oh, I love that.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
I love Are you guys ever not together? Uh?
Speaker 6 (25:40):
Not really?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
We've uh we had that fifteen day road trip or whatever,
and it was pretty funny.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
I almost killed him in the room one night.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
It's because like, because you guys already lived together and
then go on these road trips, it's like, oh my gosh,
I asked him.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
I asked him a question and he had he had
his air pods in right as we got into the room,
and he didn't answer me. And then we had a
back and forth and I almost wraffled them into into
a Kimora in his bed.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
So let us know. If that ever happens, I would
love to hear about it. I jokingly say that if
Netflix did like a drive to survive with hockey. It
would need to be at the HL level because I
feel like there's just so much insanity and chaos and
(26:31):
trauma at this level. And you and Ryan McGregor, I
feel like would be definitely two of the high points
of that show for sure.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Yeah, I don't think they want to see any insight
into this house.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Here you with the you guys, with the Canaton kids.
I would watch that show. I would watch that show. Okay,
my last question for you that I'm gonna leave you alone.
If there was a door in your house that went
anywhere anywhere in the universe, where would you want to go?
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Probably in my house back home.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Yeah yeah, and my uh my uh my parents place
back home.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
It's pretty sweet. My I get to see my pop,
which would be nice.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
Your your house right now, or your house like in
the past, like if you could time travel.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Also, probably my house in the past then yeah, the
whole family would be there.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
That'd be nice.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Yeah. I love that answer. That's a great answer. You're
the first person who said that answer. It's usually beach
beat your golf course.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
You already got a golf course here, we got we
got Yeah, Well, Curtis, thanks so much for joining us, man.
I really appreciate it, and I really appreciate you know
what you've what you've been doing this month of March.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
You know, just great all around.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
And we really appreciate you, uh, you know, just opening
up to us a little bit and just continue to
push on and let us know if you need anything.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
Yeah, thank you guys so much. How to get the
rest of your day.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
We are moving on here, We just head forward.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Number twenty eight Curtis Douglas on the show and Kim, Uh,
you know it's you. I loved I liked your question
earlier on in the in in the interview. Just you know,
we the fancy the outside of it, all right, they
see just the hockey, the fun of it, and you know,
working with the team, you know, we see more of
the backside of it. But then we don't really see
(28:22):
that the end depths of it, right, of what these
guys really do go through every day. And you know,
it's it's so much pressure on them right to not
only make the playoffs, with literally everyone into soon with
their eyes on them saying like like make playoffs, you know,
and we're constantly asking them about playoffs and their performance
and everything, and you know it's it's pressure and you
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know for curs open up a little bit like that
and just you know, make sure that everyone's okay, like
you're just asking, you know, how are you really?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
It's it's great.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
And we're gonna put a we'll put the link to
his GoFundMe on this episode if you're listening here on
Apple Podcasts. So yeah, it's March Molds for Mental Health
these Uh he's raised a good amount so far, So
we'll put the link on this show. So if you
guys can go to that and and donate, that would
just be fantastic. Uh, I don't I think it's going
all the way till till the end of March. If
(29:11):
I'm not mistaken. Unless she's an open you should have
acust him that too, But uh yeah, so we'll put
the link in there. It would be awesome if you
you guys can donate back if you're listening in on this,
because it's a it's a really good, really good charity
and it was just.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Yeah awesome having am on talking about it all.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Yeah, and even I know he's the goal. He's close
to the goal, but more than anything. Like he said,
it's about just making sure that the people in your
life are okay. And I know, Johnny, we talked about
this a little bit before we got on the air,
that we see, you know, we see the pressures, you know,
(29:51):
in a little bit of a different lens than some
of the fans, but we still don't know everything that
that the guys go through. And they're very young, and
it's Curtis is so incredibly emotionally intelligent. And I love
that he's become a spokesperson in the community for mental
(30:15):
health awareness because it is so important, and I love
being able to ask him questions about Chapel Roane and
there is no such thing as toxic masculinity. When talking
to Curtis, he's like, he's.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
The biggest guy on the team, right, Like yes, you first,
you know, first meet Curtis Douglas is like, oh my gosh,
like this guy, this guy is huge. And then and
then you get to talk to him, it's like, oh,
this guy's a sweetheart, you know. And that's that's every
guy on the team right right. You know, you you
saw it all, Kim, You saw everything on that ice,
you know, when Hunter Drew and Scott Staburne both got
(30:48):
thrown off. Yeah, I just I looked down and I
even mentioned on the broadcast. I'm like, well, Kim cold
Rollaz is hearing stuff that we cannot repeat on air.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
But I'm sure she's hearing it, all right.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
Did I not snap it to you? I meant to
snap it to you because they know, well, you send.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Me a Montana on yr Buccie fight from a few
years back here into some but no, you didn't send
me that. Yeah, but yeah, and it's just crazy because yeah,
you see all of that. You see them put their blood,
sweat and tears into the play on the ice, and
then you meet them off the ice and it's like
they're the nicest dude ever, and you know, and it
it just comes to show.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
And I, you know, mentioning it earlier to Curtis, like you.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Know, you're not You're not just hockey players, like you're
you're you're Hunter Drew, You're Curtis Douglas. You know, you're
you're everyone's names on the team. You know, you're your son,
your your husband, you're a boyfriend. You know you're everything
to to other people. So you know, we again, we
see them as the hockey players, you know, the fans
do of course, but then getting to know them that
(31:41):
you realize like, yeah, no, they're just people and uh,
you know everyone goes through.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Uh hardships in their lives.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Uh. You know, it's a long grind in the season.
All these guys are away from home. Uh you know
a lot of these guys are literally from the the
east coast side of of both America and Canada, and
it can't be easy. So I think, you know, the
importance of you know, having having good friends on the team,
like with Curtis Douglas and Ryan McGregor being best friend
so long. And you know, we talked about Matthew Waalts
and Hunter Drew's friendship. And you know, even the Vets too.
(32:09):
You know, they have their families, but they're still away
from their their parents and their families back at home.
And yeah, they have their families with their kids and stuff,
but I think they also do rely on you know,
maybe the other Vets who have families too, and you know,
getting close with them. So it's uh, it just shows
that it's that's what's important for a team, but just
that having that close, tight knit group and this group.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Is uh is as tight as ever right now.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
And I think the way that we had those two
great games against San Jose, the way we're pushing for
the playoffs right now, the way we'll we've been through
so much really shows the home connected this team is.
And I was I was telling James Kelly early when
we record our insider podcast.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
That was earlier on today.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Lots of radio stuff happening, and this is the most
cliche thing ever, but when you truly believe in one
another and believe in your locker room and have that
you know, tight knit group, you can do it all.
Like That's why we've seen so many, you know, these
wild card teams go all the way in the past
and all kinds of leaves of sports is because that
locker room all believes in one another. And I think
(33:12):
that's exactly what we have here, and it's it's going
to be great, just again for the mental health of
the team and the mental health of the players, and
then to also go on and try to win this thing.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
I think I know that I've talked in the past
about kind of the militaristic vibe between professional sports and
the teams and just being in the military in that
it is very much about the person next to you.
And when I interviewed Egor post game, I can't even
remember when that was. I'd have to look back through
(33:43):
my notes. I interviewed Egor post game weeks and weeks
and weeks ago, and that was the first time all
season that I had heard any of the players say
that they figured out their identity. And to me, that
was such a lynch pin in just kind of that
my set where you start get the players start to
believe that they can win and can control more of
(34:07):
the outcomes of the games. So I think that that
was whatever happened in that time, whatever you know internally
in the team, mentally and emotionally happened with them, it
was absolutely pivotal to the results that we're seeing right now.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Yeah, and and what the results right those two games
against San Jose, I think Sundays was probably the game.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Of the year.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
Kim was amazing, so amazing, fantastic.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Comeback one of them.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
The shootouts Sammy Walker and Maximilian Zoo were absolute huge
penalties monsters, and then Matthew.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
A lot to save at the end of the game.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
On the top score of the entire American Hockey League
Andrew Polarowski, which is also funny to Kim and I
think I mentioned this on the pre game show. So
Andre Gazino got the hat trick against San Jose on Saturday, right,
and up to that point, Agazino was the lone was
the lone goal scorer of all time scorer for the
(35:15):
Sanse Bear Could in the season that he played there.
Also Agassino was added He got an assists too on
that night. He was added to the score sheet on
that Ben McCartney goal at the end of the night
on that at empty netter, so technically got four points
with three goals and one assists.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
But besides that, he was the.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Top scorer for the Sansee Bear Could in a single
season until Polowski scored that goal against US in Game
one and then he broke that record. And then now
Polarowski broke his record for the goals on Sunday as
well with a with a couple. So it was all
just a cool, weird, full circle moment for Agasino being
the you know, single season lead scorer for Sansee Bear
(35:52):
Could have the year I was there my last season
with San Jose where I met Andra Gazino and now
here Tucson, we play Andrew Polowski who brings that record,
but Agasino gets four points on the first night and
at five points in total against his former team San
Jose because he didn't play the first series in February.
So it was like cool, full circle moment. That's why
I love about working in this industry. You get you
(36:14):
get to meet these guys. You sometimes see him again
on the team a few years later, and then you
get that with the guy we were playing against breaking
his record, but then end of the game, Matthew Volalta
stops him in the shootout and wins the game for us.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
Podolski. The amount of times I said that man's name
this weekend, it was too much. It was too much.
There was a handful of Barracuda where I was like, oh,
if these guys were not here, the outcome of this
game would be wildly different. Number one and he was
definitely one of the one of the reasons that we
(36:52):
had as much of a barn burner on Sunday as
I think we did. But also Number two talk about
a full circle moment, and I sent this snapchat to you,
so when I'm in the box, if there's nothing happening.
If I don't have, you know, reads to make I
will snap I will take Snapchat videos of fun things
that are happening. And then if you don't have Snapchat
(37:13):
and you don't know this, one of the things that
Snapchat does for you is it saves those video memories
and puts them all together for you and says, hey,
three years ago today, this is what you were doing,
or nine years ago today, this is what you're doing.
So it's really kind of fun. And then you can
like share that with your friends and family and be like,
oh my god, remember we were at the Grand Canyon,
you know, in twenty twelve, here's a snap of it
(37:35):
three years ago yesterday. Montana Onyabuci was here in a
bar Barracuda uniform playing against US and had a fight
with one of our players at the time who's no
longer with us. I don't know, I can't remember his name.
But it was just so funny because I was just
randomly flipping through my memories and I was like, oh,
(37:57):
wait a minute, and I didn't send you the video
before this one where I'm taking a video of something
else and Montana just skates by and I just I
just clocked the back of his uniform and I was like,
oh my gosh, holy smokes, wait a minute, I think
that's Booch. And then and then the next snap that
came through with him fighting, and I was like, Man,
if you had asked me three years ago today, if
(38:18):
you know, this would be somebody that we know, you know,
in the building and that the fans would be cheering for.
And I think, I think, if I'm not wrong, Johnny,
when we did the jersey auction on Sunday night, I
think Montana's jersey went for the highest amount. If it
wasn't him, it was Maddie. I can't remember that two
of them were the really really up there.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Yeah, I don't have anyo Boucci's number, but Maddie I
think went for like sixteen hundred.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
So that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
You know, that's all the proceeds go to local charity,
so that that's just awesome to raise that money. And
I mean, yeah, when you when Matthew Willalta makes the
game winning shootout save, but I think you want his
jersey for that game because.
Speaker 5 (39:01):
You know he had it had a puck mark on it,
his jersey talk mark on it.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Yees. Jerseys come with the memories of that game, and
every time you wear it, say oh, where's that jersey from,
It's like, oh, yeah, Like we came back in this
game and it was five to five and overtime and
then we wanted to shootout and bilotimate the final save
on the top score in the entire league, you know,
and so it's, uh, it's it's just awesome. So I
(39:25):
goodoes to the fans coming to that post game jersey
auction and bidding for the jerseys I always see when
I'm doing post game, I'm like, that looks so chaotic
because you have Beef doing the doing the like I.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Got five hundred.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
I got to like he like the what moderators always
called him.
Speaker 5 (39:39):
In that that's crazy. I can never do that, no,
And he does it very well, like it has a
name and like an auctioneer, and now he's the auctioneer.
That's what it is. Like I introduced the guys because
I know who they are, because Beef doesn't know who
they are, and then he does the auctioneer part.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Then you're down there.
Speaker 5 (39:57):
Yeah, he always looks at me, like guys walked towards us.
And then he looks directly at me. And also, I
don't know if people know this Beef has like mild
hearing loss in one of his ears, so he has
a hard time hearing things. Oh my gosh, yeah, yeah,
I have to make eye contact with him and be like,
this is Andrew Agazino.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Oh my god, cool too, Kim going back to like,
you know, on you that memory of Anyabucci with San
Jose fighting, you know, and I think that the three
years ago is when I was an intern with the team,
and I remember when it was the off season, I
didn't know I was going to coming to Tucson yet,
I was My initial plan was to go back to
San Jose for another year of the internship, and then
any Bucie signed with Tucson. I was like, oh, like, man, like,
(40:39):
I'm gonna miss that guy so much. And then when
I got the job, he I was like, oh, no way,
get to see on you, Bucci. And then when when
I was gone over the summer again not knowing where
I was going to be at this upcoming season, and
then I saw Andre Gazino sign here and I was like, oh, like, that's.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Gonna be so awesome.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
He's gonna be so good for them, Like I might
be missing that then I end up coming back again
and I have now I get to you know, work
with both of them, and we've been kind of joking around.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
And for Andrew Polarowski.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Uh again, if you don't know him, he's he's probably
one of He's an Andre Ragazino level kind of player. Uh,
just a slight bit younger than him, but he's he's
had some pretty phenomenal seasons. He had one hundred and
one points in the twenty one to twenty two year.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
Helped that Chicago Wolves win the Calder Cup.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
No players had that many points since Andrew Polarowski's one
hundred and one point season. And we made jokes because
I don't know, sometimes these guys just kind of make
their way around the Pacific Division, right like Paularowski, you know,
sometime with the San Diego goals before going to Chicago
Wolves and then Coachella Valley and then now he's with
San Jose for at least you know, another season after this,
(41:48):
and it's like, don't be shocked that this guy ends
up in Tucson. I don't know, you know, it's like,
you know, all these Pacific Division guys go around and
then eventually they end up in two song because you know,
why not. It's so beautiful out here and it's a
great organization, and you know we have Agazino for for
another season after this name with Kevin Cannan and who
literally spent time with the Ontario Rain season prior.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Right, So, uh, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
In a few years time, don't be shocked to maybe
at Paulowski U ends up being ends up being a
road runner.
Speaker 3 (42:15):
We'll see, and if that happens, I'm.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Gonna go back to this recording and I'm gonna play
it and saying I told you so.
Speaker 5 (42:24):
But no, no, no, no, no, I think I think
you're one hundred percent, one hundred percent right. It is
very but I don't want to say incestuous division. But
it's real hard to hate any of the guys when
you know, at some point did might end up here
or if they leave us and end up with another
like like I love when we get the old when
(42:45):
the guy's back come back. Who you know, like Dyson Mayo.
I love having Dyson Mayo in the building. He was
such an integral part of this team for so long.
So yeah, I do need to share one quick story
with you, Johnny, not related to any of this, because
you know how I like to pull the thread that
(43:06):
has nothing to do with the sweatshirt that we're talking
about or that we're wearing. We talked about Colossal Cave
with oh my gosh, who was that not Sammy?
Speaker 3 (43:18):
Who did we talk to last Colossal Cave? Was that Sammy?
Speaker 5 (43:23):
Not Sammy? He wasn't gonna take his Travis, Travis. Yes,
we talked to Travis because his parents are here for
so long. And then Cameron hepig shared with me that
he was going to be taking He had heard about
us talking about Colossal Cave and had made reservations to
go to Colossal Cave. So we need to get him
back on the show at some point to give us
(43:45):
a rundown of what that Colossal Cave visit was like,
because I have not been there in literally nine million years,
and Cameron said he went yesterday. He went yesterday, So
I'm I'm super curious what it was like and how
that visit went.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
Closing things out here, Kim, what a great show. Had
Curtis Douglass on earlier talking about uh, you know the march,
Uh gosh, I always forget what is marlets? Yeah, March
for March, mullets for mental health. I just want to
get it all right. Uh, and again we'll put the
GoFundMe link on this show. If you're listening here on
(44:24):
an Apple Podcasts or on the website as well, so
we'll put the link on here.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
Please go donate.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
It's a it's a great charity to support the Center
for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
And uh, yeah, great having them on. Talked a lot about.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
The games this past weekend, and it's a big road
trip for us coming up.
Speaker 5 (44:42):
Yeah, the road trip, it's a big one. We are
in such such the thick of things right now. I
say this kind of often, but I feel like the
boys just love the drama and they're really you know,
drawing it out and making it as marvelously poignant and
(45:06):
giving us all all of the content to talk about
this season. This is a good This has been a
really really this episode of the season is one of
my favorites so far.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
We're like in the play right now, and we are
in the final act and you're just at the edge
of your seat.
Speaker 5 (45:23):
Right yes, exactly.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
Well, games left on the season five game road trip
coming up and we're playing the best team in the
entire Pacific Division, the Colorado Eagles. You can catch it
all right here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty am.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
We will see you later on this weekend.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
Big road trip coming up for the Roadrunners as we
continue to push on for the Calder Cup playoffs steered
there later this weekend in Loveland, Colorado.
Speaker 3 (45:45):
Have a great rest of your night, folks. We'll catch
you later.
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