April 3, 2025 • 47 mins
Voice of the Roadrunners Jonathon Schaffer and Co-Host Kim-Cota Robles has defenseman #42 Lleyton Moore on the show this week before Tucson's two-game series versus the Calgary Wranglers. They talk about his second year in Tucson, his unique name and how the team can really start to push for the Calder Cup Playoffs.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's five o'clock, got yours hues day? Don The's two
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Well, we know 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 night get together.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
So I don't know, maybe we should start implementing some
breakdance pre games during the season and see how that
goes right.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Here on Tucson Sports Day yet Fox Sports fourteen fifty Aye.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Fox Sports fourteen fifty am our usual Tuesday night get together,
Roadrunners Happy our game day edition. Jonathan Shaeffer alongside me
as always, Kim Coda, Robas and off the top of
the hour once again, very special guests this week, Number
forty two Defenseman Layton More Layton, how's it going man?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
We haven't haven't had you on the show for a while.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Last time we had you on was all the way
back even before the season had started at FanFest.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Now we're eight games left to go of the season.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
It's a game day tonight for us, and just how
overall has the second season and Tucson been going for you?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
You know, I can say nothing but good things about Tucson.
I love it here, the guys, the fans, everything about it.
It's just one of the best seasons so far. So
it's awesome.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Yeah, it's been a really good journey for you as well. Again,
coming on the PTO last year, you know, earning a
lot of playing time and coming back this season as well.
And you know, though the playing time hasn't come as
much as usual, You've made most of your opportunities down
this stretch and you know, just what has the development
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process been like for you? And you're kind of full
season now in the American Hockey League.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah, at the start of the season, I wasn't expecting
to stay up. I just kind of battled the entire
season and the start of the season, just trying to
stay in the lineup or even stay up. But when
I was in the lineup all the time at the
at the start of the season, I just try to
play simple and all that and make sure all the
coaches and all the guys could trust me and stuff.
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So as you play more games, you kind of get
more comfortable with yourself and how you play your style game.
So once you have full comfortability with yourself, I feel
like you can do.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Whatever you want on the I So, Clayton, you're a
lot of fun to watch when you're out there. I
know you don't know that because you're out there and
you don't see it, but I love watching you when
you're out there on d and I've had other people
actually mention that to me. So whatever you're doing developmentally,
it's working, it's fantastic. It's fantastic to watch you glow
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up as you are. I'm going to start with less
unhinged questions to begin, and then as we get as
we go, it's gonna get really bad. You're gonna I
feel like you are like the perfect person for the
level of insanity that we're going to get to. That
you you have the mental wherewithal to handle this more
than almost anybody on the team.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
So I love this stuff.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
I love this stuff perfect.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I knew it.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
I knew it. Okay. So first of all, first of all,
your name is so incredibly unique. Is there a story
behind it? Is it a family name?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Like?
Speaker 5 (03:16):
I don't think I've ever met another person with your name.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Like. I wish I could tell you the story behind
my name, but honestly, I don't think there's a story.
But my mom did tell me one time there's a
tennis player called Leyton Hewitt. She just liked the sound
of that. So but at the same time, like my
whole family has unique names. It's it's off the board
with everyone, honestly.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Oh, okay, so what are the other names? And then
do you have siblings?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, I got two siblings. So I got an older sister.
Her name's Parker, okay, which is like a different name
for a girl, I would say, But yeah, I like
the I like the sound of it. And I have
a younger brother named Benson.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Oh that is interesting. Well, I mean, maybe it's because
you guys have kind of a not unique last name,
because your parents have been thinking like that. Because that's
I know that. That's why I have my first name
because my last a lot. Yeah, hopefully gave me a
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really nice first name.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
So I'm not sure. Maybe my parents would like me,
so they could. They could have stuck with like Luke
or Ethan or something like that, but they want to
make it a struggle.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
So do you want us to call you Luke or Ethan?
I don't think you look like either one of those names.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Now that I think I think Layton suits me. You
think so, Yeah, it's it's different compared to everyone else.
So I kind of like that part.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I like it too.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
If you think of another name that you'd rather be called,
let us know, Like, we'll try it out and see
if see if it works.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
See I've never thought of that. But my fake name,
I like, I don't know. So you go to Starbucks
or something. Yeah, always Luke, always nice and easy.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
That's a great one for you. It's perfect.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
If I say my an actual name, they're gonna be like,
how do you spell that? Or because there's so many
like ways to spell my name it's crazy.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
So have you given them your real name? Sorry, Johnny, No,
I was.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
I was just gonna ask, was there ever, like when
you're growing up trying to spell your name, did you
ever get mixed up with the two l's Because that
threw me off a couple of times when I had
to write your name like an article, I'm like, wait
one or a two l's.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
No. A bunch of guys when they didn't know my
first name at the start, Like I had a guy
in like high school or whatever he called me late.
But I've never heard anyone call me in my life.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Yes, because of Lelloyd from the Lego movie.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Wait, someone on this team called you that, or just
be a team in the past, a team in the past.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I was gonna say, like, you guys, tell us who
said that so we can rip on them.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yeah. I'm not sure if anyone on the team actually
calls me by my first name. I think it's just
straight up Morsey, that's it.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Yeah, maybe we need to start calling you La Luke.
You can be double l Luke.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Kind of like that Lloyd la Lloyd And then some
people if your name was Aaron, you go with the
A a Ron or something.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, there's actually another guy named I think his name
is Layton Road on Coachella. Yes, you're right, that's the
first time I've ever seen something like that.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Does he have the double L? Also?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Okay, there you go. Even I didn't even think about that.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Do you guys, like, have you met him? Do you
guys vibe because you're both like, what's up?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
No, I don't think we've ever met, but maybe.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
You know, Yeah, yeah, stick together.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
It's exactly.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Yeah, you're like the opposite of what is that club
of guys? That got together. They all had a very
very common name, and they all just like like, was
it Ryan? All the AND's got together together? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
that would be a very small club for you late. Okay, wait,
so I'm sorry, I've really taken us down an incredibly
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tangentile path. But what are your parents' names?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
So my mom's name is Andrea. Okay, yeah, it's like
kind of normal, I would say, and then yeah, my
dad's name is Quentin. Quentin, Oh, Quentin.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Oh okay, yeah, I recognized that name from from guests
at the games.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah, my mom's kind of like original, I would say, maybe,
but I don't think I've ever heard someone named Quentin before.
So Quentin Byfield, Yeah, besides.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Yeah, that's true. Yeah, yeah, he's the only other Quentin
that I can think. What do your parents do?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
My mom she just she's enjoys life.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Nice. Oh so jelly.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Yeah, it's pretty much just my parents and my sister
that live at home. And then my brother. He actually
just finished his junior career I think a couple of
days ago, so he's hoping to go either pro or
continue to go school route or something like that. So
he's probably going to figure that out in the next
probably two weeks. Oh and then my dad works for
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CN Railway.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Oh interesting, what does he do?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
He handles all the imports and exports that come in
and out of Canada, so he's a big job. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Have you ever talked to heaps? I think his dad
also works or is it somebody's maybe mom?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Maybe?
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Oh it's Maddie. Maddie's mom works on railroad stuff. Also,
I think she does.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Yes, I think she does.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
I don't know how I remember that because maybe it's
because it's so unique.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Yeah, well it's also Maddie. So yeah, I can't expect
anything else from that guy.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Right, you guys, you and you guys, you guys are
rooming this year, right, or do you live in the
same area, because I know you guys carpool a lot too.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Like, yeah, me and Maddy lived together, so we've been
together all season. So, uh, everyone hears that I'm the
chef and he's the little house girl.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
So so he's a perfect house girl.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Oh yeah, Prins.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
When I'm cooking, he's like right behind me, following me
and just cleaning up the dishes. Oh yeah, he loves that.
And then we watch a show or a movie or something.
What we eat, so it's nice.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Nice.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
What do you guys, what are you watching right now? Anything?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Nothing really honestly, like I'm on a show right now
called Ozarks.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Oh yeah, of course that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Oh yeah, and then I think that's about it. Or
we watch a hockey or any type of sport.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
He mentions to us when we talked to him. It
just came to me when you reminded us that you
guys lived together, that you guys were painting at one
point in this season, as like your mental health activity together.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I can actually show you. I guess I'm pain Oh
my god. Yes, yes it's not the greatest, but like
we like to like like mess around, if that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Yeah, right now you won't be able to see this,
but I'll post the clip of this.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
This is see this. I think this is Maddie's best painting.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I believe he likes like, oh it's so good. Oh no,
this is a really good one.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
I love that you have them hanging in the living
room or like post it in the living room. That's solid.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
His next, his next, how many kids you guys got
to put some of those on there? Like that's those
are good.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
He's he's different though. He loves he loves like cars,
the guy named Materer.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
He does in general, he's always on his helmet. Have
you have you talked to Volta since getting back getting
called up to the Utah Hockey Club?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
How's how's he been doing up there?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
He calls me every day saying what's up? I think
he misses us, but uh, he's having a good time
out there. I hope he plays a game. He deserves it.
He's a He's probably one of the best goals I've
ever been with. But yeah, like but even well Z
and Stobs they're all great, great too, But uh, I
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just have more of a connection with uh Maddie because
we lived together. So I just wish that he can
have a couple of games and and wins them both
or whatever, because he just he's that type of guy.
He deserves that. He's a hell of a guy even
as a person. Everyone loves him. He's a he's a
locker room guy. So I miss him here. It's a
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big like mess, but you know, you want to see
your buddy succeeds, so it's awesome.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Yeah, And that kind of goes into my next question
and yes, we do know that stubborn Wells are very
much capable of getting us some wins, especially this probably
this huge week of this season, right for the playoffs.
But well, Alta is a locker room guy, So just
how do we kind of adjust to that, you know,
because this is just part of this league, right, Like
sometimes when you're pushing for the playoffs, you you might
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lose some of your best player with you know, you
have a motive game called up as well, So just
how do we just kind of keep pushing forward and
trying to get some wins This week again, probably most
important home stand of the season, just trailing Calgary and
Bakers really not that by many points for those six
and seven seeds.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I think you just want to do it for not
only yourself but for the team, because who doesn't want
to make playoffs. It's the best time of the year
and you kind of grow together as a team and
as a group. So but at the same time, when
you step on the ice, kind of you kind of
battle for each other, but at the same time, and
you want to battle for your goalies because they're always
on their game. They're playing a full sixty. So we're
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going to try everything in our power to keep the
pucket of our zone and put the puck in their nuts.
So I have nothing but good things about Wellsy and stops.
They're just health goalies and I just want to make
sure they succeed as much as we succeeded as a team.
So that's all I want.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
If each player on the team was a hot sauce,
who would be the spiciest hot sauce and who would
be the mildest hot sauce?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I'd probably say the spiciest spiciest. I would go Dougie. Okay,
he's just that type of guy that likes that. I
feel like he's a big boy, so I feel like
he can handle it. And just from my experience, like
the all this possible is is Maddie maybe. Oh yeah,
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hot sauce.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
He's like cool Ranch. Just give him that guy a
cool R. That's his personality.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
This one time I give him some hot sauce. I'm like, dude,
it's it's not that hot. Yeah, I tell me, he
got so mad at me so spicy.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Wait, you told him that you were going to give
it to him and he still ate it knowing that
he can't handle I.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Hate I hate he too, Like I like a little
bit of heat, but not like a crazy amount. But yeah,
trust me, like, don't worry, it's all good. And then
it was it was spicy. I couldn't even handle it.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Oh that's me okay, yeah, but that definitely makes sense.
What's the what is uh the hottest hot pepper that
needs to be Curtis this new new nickname.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
I don't even know hot peppers. I'm trying to think
of like like a ghost pepper or something like that.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
A ghost pepper because it's just talked about so much
on social media and people eating them and supper the
consequences after.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yeah, but there's a there's a sauce at Buffaled Wild Wings,
like the spiciest sauce. If I could tell us someone
to go have that, that's a good look, that's all.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Ye Oh pepper X that's what it's called. Sorry, I
had to just had to google. It's two point sixty
nine million Scoville units, which is crazy intense.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
I think red, Yeah, Frank's red hot whatever. I think
that's perfect.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
That's a good one. Okay, that's a good one. Speaking
of Curtis Douglas, he's still having that. I think he's
still having that fundraiser for the March Modes for mental Health.
I know it's mainly in March, but I don't think
he's told us of a cut off date just yet.
And he has his mullet for the month of March.
You have a moment the entire season for the most part,
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just as a team. What's it like for for Curtis Douglas,
you know, to go out and really just spread the
awareness for mental health and you know, such a great job,
and you know fundraising, doing that fundraiser and go fund
me and just for the team overall, just for that
morality of it as well.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Mm hmm. Well, I think Dougie does it almost every
year now. The last time I could see I remember
him doing it last year. And if some people don't
know Douggie in the dress room, he's he's our guy.
He's our locker room guy. He's he loves everyone. He
makes sure everyone's included. He's just like he's that guy
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that like make sure everyone's connected. So I love him.
I love him as a guy. So I I made
sure I donated because doug he does everything for me
and make sure that I'm all good and stuff. So
if someone's gonna do that for me, then I'm going
to do it back for them. So but at the
same time, I think it's great that he's been doing
it for a couple of years.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Now, So.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I think it's a big thing. Honestly, Like some people
don't understand that men's mental health doesn't like show a
big thing, but I think it goes a long way.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
It definitely does, and especially I think for young professional
athletes more than not more than other people. But you
guys are under a tremendous microscope, very high stakes jobs
where with lots of eyes on you. So your mental
health is something that I've always been curious about, and
like I want to make sure that y'all are in
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a good place because it's it's a lot. Your job
is a lot. It's a lot of fun, but it's
it's a lot to carry too. So yeah, I'm trying
to figure out like how unhinged I want to be,
and then like whether Johnny's gonna pull us back into
the real hockey stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
I have one more real hockey question, then you can
you can come up with the one.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Okay, okay, cool, then I'll come I'll come back.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Well, it's it's just still with the schedule right late,
and you know, we just got back from a ten
game road trip or ten day road trip with five
games in that ten days and coming back here quickly,
and then all of a sudden, four more games in
six days and then it kind of you know, evens
out the end of the season. But you know, going
back to the whole mental health and you know, being
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with one another so long, how do you guys just
you know, keep the vibes up and you know, have
each other's backs and just make sure everyone is okay
when we have so many games in these strings of
days where we're away from home a lot.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
We're away from our families a lot as well.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
So yeah, going back to that, just you know, how
do you guys stay there for one another and you know,
just get through these thick of it of these games.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I think when we're on the road, I feel like
we tend to do like a lot of team stuff
together or a bunch of group things, make sure like
everyone's included. Like I have a group like I go
out with Dilly, I go with Benny plus Mattie, not
anymore Walker. That's like our golf group two down here
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in too soon. But yeah, we just go out, we
get dinner, we play cards or something like to make
sure we kind of take our mind off hockey, I'd say,
because at the same time we want enjoy life and
not always focus on hockey and talk about different things
as about family and stuff. But yeah, but I feel
like once we once the game is about to happen,
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like two hours before, I feel like everyone's dialed in
and make sure everyone's focused because at the same time
we're trying to make playoffs as well. But I feel
like everyone also has to take care of their bodies.
It's a it's a big thing like cooling down or
warming up whatever. It's like a lot of stress on
your body, which some people don't understand that. And that's
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why I think our season has been still well because
we cool down and we make sure our boys are
all well. That's why we've limited in injuries on our team.
So I think making sure that everyone's like taking care
of their body and making sure everyone's checking up on
each other, I think it's a it goes a long
way as well.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
And we've had so much adversity this season as well, right,
you know, with the injuries at the beginning of the season,
the call ups, you know, just all so much movements
and now that we're starting to find our ground a
little bit, but now we're in another little tough stretch here,
but still so much opportunity to beat these next opponents
and get back into the playoff picture. How did how
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would we use that adversity for kind of momentum for
us to where maybe a team we've potentially facing the
playoffs hasn't gone through any of it and we can
use that to our advantage.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
M hm. Well, with losing two key guys, with Yamamota Maddie,
I feel like that's where some guys that don't get
all the spotlight is their time to shine. I would
say so. Uh Like with Stobs come playing playing today
and most likely playing tomorrow, he's gonna be lights out.
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I believe he just he's that type of guy. He's
always dialed, he always make sure he's prepared for the game.
Then at the same time, like, yeahm was a big
part of our power play, but our power play has
been hot. You have other guys that can also do
the exact same thing that he can do, but some
people don't see that I would say. But yeah, I
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just feel like guys that don't have the most spotlight
are just gonna, let's say, rise upon and make sure
they get the job done. And other teams will see that.
Our coaches will see that, our teams will see that.
So we have nothing but support for everyone on the team.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
So is it me? Are we goody goody? Laton? What
is the longest amount of time that you think that
you could raw dog a flight? See?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I don't know. That's a tough one.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Do you think you could do? Like here, l a
just completely just staring at the seat in front of you. Nothing,
That's what he big guys already, So does he really?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
I'm like or like, I put my headphones in, play music,
and I try to fall asleep the entire time. That's
my that's my thing. But if I know music and
just stared and stayed awake for an hour and a half,
I don't know if I could.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Ever do that?
Speaker 5 (22:15):
What about an hour? Could you do? An hour?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Probably? An hour? Can I talk to people or just stare?
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (22:21):
Yeah? Yeah, no, no, no no you yeah? But no technology,
no book, no entertainment of any other than people sitting
next to you. Because you you seem like you're so
you're so friendly, like you're so chatty with people. Yeah,
I feel like you could go longer. Yeah I probably
could go longer, but I don't know, you wouldn't want to.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Right when I'm sitting down on the plane and I
just put my head back on, lights out, just.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Knock out, who's your plane buddy?
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Because sometimes we sit in specific order, but then obviously
some flights it's free for all, So who's usually sitting
next to you?
Speaker 3 (23:02):
So if it's like if we have seated like arrangements,
it's normally like Booch and Paganski or sometimes our trainer Jimmy. Okay,
he's like super like strange, but like he's not bad.
He just puts in his headphones, watches his show and
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he just vibes. That's what I do too. But if
I had to do like my worst sit wherever, I
just want to closest aisle or window, and I just hit, hey,
that's that's that's the way she goes, I would say.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
That sounds like a very madd thing to say that's
how she goes.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I still like Sir Robbie Russo, he acts like he
hates it. But he likes it because I do the same.
I don't bother him at all.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Plus I'm like, I'm not that big, so it's not
like I'm taking space because he he kind of just
uses both arm res and spreads his arms out, so
I don't really get much out of it. And every
time he sees me walking up to the iss he's like, oh,
come on, I'm like, shut who has died? Because I
always get the window see too. But yeah, yeah, I've
been screen for all kind of just sit wherever I
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can fit my luggage at on the overhead bend. I
don't really mind where I sit at. But yeah, Robbi
Rusto is my plane buddy for most most flights.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
That's not too.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Shabby, Layton. If you got stranded on an island for
five years and you just got off the island, what's
the first meal that you're eating when you come home?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Homemade or dinner? Like going out for dinner or something.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
No, you tell me, what's where are you going? What's
number one priority?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Oh? This place in like where I'm back, like home,
back home, It's called Brangas. Was the best Greek place
you've ever had in your entire life.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Oh, Okay, what are you eating?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
I pretty much you get well, I get a starter,
I get starters. I get a calamari and brushetta. I
said that. Yeah, And then if I'm feeling myself, because
if I'm on an island for five years and I
get back, I'm probably having a nice cold beer, probably
a fixed beer, a Greek beer. That's one of my favorites.
(25:29):
I like that. And then I'm starting with like a
chicken suvlaki, like a big dish rice, chicken, veggies, what else.
But yeah, that's probably my main thing.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
It is so good, and I came, sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
I can't go back to like we're done in playoffs
or at the end of the season.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
There's no there's not anywhere we go to, like none
in an Abbitsburg, Calgary, Manito.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
There's only one spot, I think in don't quote me.
There's only one spot that I enjoy and it's in
uh It's in Burlington, Ontario.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
It's soup Lucky. Your your favorite meal.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
No, I'd say a nice good steak in caesar salad.
I love caesar salad.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Okay, do you have a steak place in Tucson that
you like to go?
Speaker 3 (26:28):
You don't really go. There's like a small spot where
you can get like this nice steak sandwich. It's called Forbes.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Oh yeah, I live right next to Forbes.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
It's so good. It's so good. Uh, let's see, let's see.
Brought me on that and Zoobie so they they said
it was really good. So I won one time, and
it is really good. I don't know because it's oh yeah,
which is crazy. And I've never bought meat from there yet.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
Oh you need to. I just actually had a steak.
I had a porterhouse.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
It's a butcher shop too.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
You can see in their cases. You can see like
every once in a while to have like whole animal
that they're butchering back in there, and they're like prepe before.
It's intense. It's super intense. But yeah, well, you.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Apologize sending vegetarians listening in on the show and.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
The vegans don't forget the begans and began we apologize.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
But that does sound really good. But if you like
me to go there, yeah, you do like to go
there there exactly.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
I've tried to think. I have a few more questions.
How much we've kept lating for so long.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Today let's do let's do one more. We'll send them
out of here.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
Okay, I'm trying to think, Uh, this is gonna be
this is gonna be tough. But give it a second.
If you had to write an autobiography about yourself tomorrow,
what would the title be.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
That's a good question. That's a good Kim question right there.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
It's it's a thinker. So I'm going to try and fill,
try and fill some of the time. While Layton is
thinking of the answer of describing Maddie's painting, which was very,
very cool for being a black and white painting with
just a little bit of color in it. It was
the most Maddie thing ever. I feel like people need
to know about it. Late Lane's still.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Thinking, Yeah, I am thinking, I just saw your dog.
By the way, that's super cute.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
She's got anxiety because it's really windy outside right now,
and so she's trying to crawl into my lap and
she's a sausage, so it's not going to happen.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Is that the one that used to bark at the
Adrian agent.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Yes, she barks at Adrian And anytime we play Henderson,
if there's a horse on the screen, she's losing her mind.
So Henderson and Calgary are her two least favorite teams.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Yeah, this is a tough question. What would yours be?
I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Oh my goodness, to get back to us. I know,
what do you got, Johnny? You got anything?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I would say?
Speaker 5 (29:02):
I'm thinking like a life well lived or I don't know,
like I kind of want to get funny with it.
But also we're on the radio.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
So Jorida.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Well maybe I don't know.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Okay, that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
I would just be.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
A quick, a quick journey to the No, that's that's
too long. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
I'm just trying to make it something where like already
in the AHL as a broadcaster at twenty four, like
something a quick journey or something.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I don't know, not like that would be mine. But
I think that's I think that's good.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Right. Oh that's a hard question.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
It is a hard question. It's a good it's a
good thinker for you. It's gonna make all the neurons
in your brain like like fire in new ways. But
like like I was thinking, like what about like life
as a highway or something like that, Like I don't know,
it feels it feels like something you need to sit
with for a second, So I'll leave you alone.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Well, Laden if you if you come up with one,
text it over to us because we saw some time
to record this show and then we'll let the audience
know later on.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
But we'll let you go for now.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Well it could be Luke, Luke.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Okay, Layne.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Thanks for coming on, man, really appreciate us giving your
time on this game day, good luck tonight, and good
luck the rest of the way.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Man, this is a big four games for us, and
let's push for these playoffs.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Yeah, thank you. I appreciate you guys coming on here
and having me. But yeah, let's get these. Let's get
these Wednesday and tomorrow and the weekend, and let's let's
let's keep running.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
The Roadrunners will be dropping the park against the Calvary
Wranglers on this game. They edition Kim, we just had
lay more on the show. And it's been a while. Again,
we haven't grabbed them since the very not even when
the season had started. That was FanFest, right, so that
was more even training camp starting, and then all of
a sudden we realized we.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Need to get back on. I don't even know if
it was a Happy Hour show. I think, wasn't that
Insider Podcasts.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
I don't remember, but it was with somebody else too,
So it wasn't even just the Layton Show.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Well Gavin, it wasn't just more and so we were,
you know, interviewing them both. You don't get the full story.
And then of course we're trying to cycle through everyone.
There's still some people we haven't gone yet. But then
we realized like, oh, we gotta get Morsey back real Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
For the fans who have never had a chance to
meet Laighton More, especially the season ticket holders, if you
come to a fan event, I highly recommend spending some
time getting to know late Moore because he is so
much fun, such a great personality, and I think that
we're just really lucky to have him down here right now.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Yeah, he was that the Colpiers and Cheeseburgers Dusty Force event,
our spring event not too long ago. So if you
did miss that, I mean that's what the package which
is are you know, being a season ticket member joining
the Dusty Force event, you get opportunities to meet these
guys and really get to know these guys in person,
because at the end of the day, can we always
(32:11):
say it like yeah, to the naked eye of a fan,
they're hockey players. But for us, you get to know them,
get to know their families, their friends, where they come from,
and you realize, like, these guys are just ordinary people
just like me.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
You know.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
So great talking later more If you just missed the interview,
if you're listening live here, we'll have the podcast version
of this episode, probably out by tomorrow at Tucson Roaders
dot com slash happy Hours, so check out that as
well in case you did miss Lights and Moore just
a second ago and Kim, this is a huge This
(32:43):
is a huge homestand for us, this is a home
stand that can very much not going to for sure,
but it can determine if this team makes the playoffs. Right,
you have the Calgary Wranglers tonight and tomorrow. Wranglers are
still in their free fall. They have been losing game
after games since the month of January, allowing so many
(33:03):
goals per game. This is just a big opportunity for
the Roaders to catch that team at a bad time.
Then you have the Baker Show Condors this weekend that
just took our spot in the Pacific Division race. Bakers
Show is playing tonight against the Abbots per Canucks, So
if they lose, we win, we can take it back,
or we at least able to get a point tonight
and they don't, we'll take back that spot.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
So it's just getting crazy.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
We see every single show of what the madhouse of
this division has been, but now just this week, you know,
I was at Morning Skate this morning just talking to
some of the players, talking to Steve Poffin, you can
really tell the seriousness of what these guys know is
coming this week, and they know that if things go
bad here, if it doesn't go well, it's it's gonna
(33:47):
put us in a tough spot for the final four
games of the season.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
I joke about this frequently that this season it was
had to have been written by somebody with Shonda Rhime's
level of intricacy in the drama because and I don't
know if you know who Shonda Rhymes is, Johnny, but
she did Grades Anatomy, I think, and hew Away with
(34:11):
Murder and Bridgard and I think I think I think
that's her anyway, Like literally like Bridgeton Bridgeston level drama
is happening right now because of these wildly important four
games that we're going into starting tonight. I I am yeah.
(34:36):
You can hear my nervous laughter, because it is it
is so important where we are right now, and we'll see,
we'll see what happens. Hockey is such, it's such a
tremendous sport. It's it's why both of us probably love
it so much, is because of the drama of it
and because of the completely unknown possibilities can happen at
(35:02):
any moment in hockey. You know, like you could be
in a game and your team could be down by
four with two minutes left, and it's still possible that
your team could win or at least go to ot.
Speaker 6 (35:12):
Like there's not a lot of sports, I feel like
where you can play the full time of that sport
and you really until maybe the last couple of seconds
of that game, you really just don't know how it's
going to end.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
So that's that's why we're here. It's it's a nail
bier a million percent, but it's those dogs, China, my dog,
Miss Jasmine Jones has a lot to say. She is
also very anxious about the poor game homestand that we're
going to because.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
You know, me I'm usually the optimistic one, right I'm saying,
like we're gonna win every single and I'm not saying
we're not going to. But I feel the same, like
this is such an important homestand like it's it's huge
because you have a chance to get within four of
the Wranglers. If you're able to just clean sweep this team,
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you get four points within the sixth place spot, and
then whatever happens with the Condors, it at least gets
a little you know, you have a little bit more
leeway because and it's crazy to think about too, like
Wranglers can fall out of it. They're they're losing games.
They can't they can't win games right now. Their goaltending
has been one of the worst since the month of January.
And there's a time when they have the best goalie
(36:28):
in the entire league. Devin Cooley is not even the
net tonight because he's been struggling so much. It's Ignatchev
who is their backup. Technically, I mean, Cooley might go
in tomorrow, but that's just how crazy this has been
for the Wranglers and for Tucson. It's not only that
you still remember what happened last year with the Wranglers, Right,
(36:48):
you still remember do you still remember that we've lost
the last four against Calgary in their home barn. We're
undefeated against them at home, so that that's only that.
But how suiting would it be, Kim if we just
beat them in these two games and all of a
sudden they're in a tough spot and they're like, oh,
(37:09):
we might miss this, and then we're in a much
better spot. So that's so crazy that these two games
are gonna be as well. Worry about baggers Field when
we get there this weekend, but this is just as
opportunity for the Roadrunners to maybe trying to kick Calgary
out of the playoff race.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
And how can would that be?
Speaker 4 (37:25):
Right?
Speaker 2 (37:25):
You don't even have to face them in the playoffs,
you just kick them out.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
So there's so much still on the line tonight, and
that's what makes this one exciting because Wranglers are just
that team where you really want to beat, right like Bakersfield, Yeah,
they're they're in the scrap of it for that final
playoff spot, but you get Calgary out, boof, would that
would make this team feel a little bit better?
Speaker 5 (37:46):
Yes, I can't imagine what that would do for the
mental health, like getting back to what we were talking
about with Layton, for the mental health of all the
players on the team right now, Gosh, we are just
so in the thick of it as we come down
to the wire going into the postseason. It would I know,
(38:07):
you know, we had more cushion last season at this
point of you know where things were happening. But again,
like you said, even with some cushion, it's until you clinch,
there's no telling how things are exactly going to go.
And it's it's just bonkers.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
I am.
Speaker 5 (38:31):
You are you going to be cautious and I'm going
to be optimistic or You're going to be optimistic and
I'm going to be cautious.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
What are we doing now?
Speaker 3 (38:38):
There?
Speaker 2 (38:38):
I probly never be a world where I am not optimistic.
Speaker 5 (38:41):
But I think it's I'm good at caution, Yeah, I think,
And I.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Think it's not more of like just pull optimism.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
I'm just excited right Like this is a really just
a big test for this team, right and if we
can pull out a good amount of wins in this
homestand then it would really say like Okay, we we
face we face this and we took it head on
and I talked to ce Pavin at morning skate and
he just told me what an opportunity this is, right,
What an opportunity to come back home after a rough
(39:11):
road trip and to not only again like try to
get our spot back, but to really hand it to
Calgary again, to go up against Bakersfield. Like, imagine, if
we weren't playing the Condors this weekend, then the season
series is already done with them, and then.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
We just we have to rely on them losing games.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
No, we get them, we get to beat them this weekend,
And I think that's what makes this homestand so exciting,
especially how the last home stand went right, where we
lost the first two games against Ontario and we bounced
back so good against the Santos Artcudain probably some of
the best games of the entire season, right, and overall
in our last eight home games we are five to two,
one to zero. We're averaging three point six to two
(39:49):
goals for per game. The PK is the sixth best
at home as well at eighty four point eight percent.
So two Thouands is just generinely a better home team,
and yeah, that's gonna be tough for the playoffs, but
we'll worry about that when we get there. But to
have the next six of the last eight games of
the season at home, it's what makes it more exciting
for Tucson as well.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
And I think that's really going to benefit us.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
There's no more long road trips, there's no more of
the crazy busses back and forth that is over. Even
for playoffs. Road trips aren't bad because you go to
one city. So this is it, like, you take this
opportunity and you have to take it head on.
Speaker 5 (40:23):
Oh yeah, and only six six home games left in
the season. Eight games left total in the season. And
I just want to point out too, not related to
hockey statists, statistics or anything, but tonight is Ladies Night
at the Arena, so hopefully we have a good turnout
for that. Tomorrow night is Veil Community Night. Saturday is
(40:49):
Country Night. Is that right right?
Speaker 4 (40:52):
Yes? Yes, Country Night on Saturday Night. Onto them Acceptance
Day on Sunday, Saturday, Saturday Night for Country Night, first
fifteen hundred fans, we'll get a Roadrunners cowboy have We'll
be wearing Country Night warm up jerseys. And then Sunday
for Autism Acceptance Day, we ask you fans to kindly
not bring your cowboys to the games so everyone can
(41:14):
just have an overall great time. So and then our
last big night after that is our fan appreciation night.
So yeah, Kim, that's also crazy too. Not a lot
of home games, lass, I mean only no.
Speaker 5 (41:25):
Yeah, it's it's sad and people I've seen fans in
the socials talking about it like they need the voice
to feed back, you know, that lot them here, But
we don't want the season to be over. So it's
it's it's a tough one. But also Sunday is postgame
skate right where the ISEP after the game for fans
(41:46):
who want to bring their own skates or you can
rent skates for free from the TCC if you want
to come for that. And then I just noticed on
the website too, and this is the first time that
I'm seeing this is the Cameron he Big two and
eighty games Played commemorative T shirt. Have you seen this, Johnny?
It's so good?
Speaker 1 (42:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
So yeah, So we're selling those t shirts for twenty
five dollars. Part of the proceeds will go to a
charity of Cameron Heebeck's choice, and we're gonna be getting
the players to wear the jerseys, jerseys, the T shirts
when they enter the arena, so those will be coming
in soon. So yeah, Kim, that's a good point. There's
(42:25):
so much going on here at the twos on Arena.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
And no he can't either.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
He is.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
He's not gonna like the attention. You know him, he
likes to just keep to himself.
Speaker 4 (42:35):
But when he asked me why we made these T
shirts from us, say, man, it's too bad, Like we
got to celebrate you.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
You're awesome.
Speaker 4 (42:42):
There's the reason why you've played so many games here,
because you've been such a viable asset to this organization.
I mean, Kim, think about it. He's played more years
than half of this franchise, one more year more than
what this franchise is existing halfway through with the tan
year anniversity coming next year, and he's in year number
five with the team. So yeah, lots of excitement. I'm
we were not short the entire day tire game. I
(43:04):
don't care, there's no now we're but now gonna wear
a butt.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
Of for that? One would wearing that shirt for?
Speaker 5 (43:11):
Wait, what which gamer are we wearing that shirt for?
Speaker 2 (43:14):
It's gonna be April fit. I mean on the weekend night.
Speaker 5 (43:20):
So I didn't start calling Cameron the mayor of Tucson
for no reason, like I feel like he could legitimately
run for office in this town and have a good
chance at winning.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
It's funny.
Speaker 4 (43:32):
I was talking with a local reporter who's covering the
story at our practice the other day and park Parker
Port was talking to him as well, and I got
into the conversation and uh, Parker was like, yeah, Cameron's
pretty much the mayor of TUSA on this one.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
That's what people like to call.
Speaker 4 (43:48):
And Y added, well, especially that Adrian Daddy left for
for the Utah Hockey Club, because Adrian and Heaban were
both kind of the mayors of Tucson. But now that
Adrian is gone, you got Cameron Heave, the full mayor
who is lived in DOWNTIDN Tucson the entire time he's
been here. You see him walking around in this morning
walks Kim, you ran into him. Yeah, it's it's it's
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gonna be exciting. I know Cam's gonna hate it. He
hates the publicity, hates the attention.
Speaker 5 (44:13):
But that makes it even better that I love how
much he's gonna hate it. It's like if he was
like glowing in it, if he was like, yes, bring
me all the riches of attention, Like, he wouldn't be
the player that everybody loves, right, I mean you love
him because he is so humble. He's just he's just
here to produce. He's playing hockey, he got that two
(44:36):
way contract, and he just love. You want all the
good things to happen to Cameron Hebek because that is
kind of kind of like Maddie, Like that's just the
kind of person that he is. And I think that
we were so fortunate on this team to have quite
a few guys on this team who you just want
good things for them because they're just really good people.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
Yeah, I could agree more, Kim. And we want these
guys to make the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (45:00):
So these next four games are huge, and it's really
gonna show if this team is a is ready for
a postseason run or not. When we come back here
to Roadrunners, Happy are right here on Fox Sports fourteenth
at dam we're gonna close. Tonight's episode of this game
Day edition of the Roadrunners will be taking on the
Calgary Wranglers.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
You're just tuning in out and realizing this this entire episode.
Don't fret.
Speaker 4 (45:21):
You can listen to the podcast person coming out by
tomorrow at Tucson roadrunners dot Com Slash Happy Are We
had Leighton More on the show and uh yeah, Kim,
this is this is a big game coming up tonight.
This is a big four game homestand this is a
big opportunity for the Roadrunners to really show that they
are ready for a postseason run. And the pressure is on.
(45:42):
But I feel like this team plays better when the
pressure is on them at the full extent. And let's
just get to work. This is an exciting opportunity for us.
It is.
Speaker 5 (45:51):
It is a good opportunity, and I think it needs
to be seen in that way, hopefully seen as being
a positive. And yeah, the boys need to put their
heads down, go, you know, do whatever they need to
do mentally to get to the place where they need
to be, where they can see themselves on the other
side of this home stand having one and being in
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the postseason. Hopefully that is where they are mentally. Fingers crossed.
I don't know. I haven't seen y'all in so long.
I don't know what anybody's thinking right now, So.
Speaker 4 (46:27):
Honestly, who knows well, Kim, it looks like your dog
is asking you to get off the microphone and attend
to her needs as she's bonding you once again. So
we're gonna send it out here, but we're going to
be back not too long. For an hour and about
forty five minutes with Roadrunners warm Up commencing, Kim and
I will be back to baby once again right before
pup drop as the Roadrunners take on the Calgary rainless
(46:50):
tonight in a huge four game homestand trying to get
back into the AHL Specific Division playoff picture. Have a
great rest of your night, everybody, unless you are joining
us here at the Tucson Arena, we will see you there.
Speaker 2 (47:02):
Huge night coming up for Tucson.
Speaker 4 (47:04):
This has been Roadrunners Happy are We'll catch you for
Roadrunners warm Up in about forty five minutes or so
It's five o'clock, got yours hues day? Don The's two
Sun Roadrunners have me out from Fox Sports fourteen fifty Aye,
Jonathan shit right, Cod Roadblacks.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Well, we know 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 night get together.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
So I don't know, maybe we should start implementing some
breakdance pre games during the season and see how that
goes right.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Here on Tucson Sports Day yet Fox Sports fourteen fifty Aye.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Fox Sports fourteen fifty am our usual Tuesday night get together,
Roadrunners Happy our game day edition. Jonathan Shaeffer alongside me
as always, Kim Coda, Robas and off the top of
the hour once again, very special guests this week, Number
forty two Defenseman Layton More Layton, how's it going man?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
We haven't haven't had you on the show for a while.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Last time we had you on was all the way
back even before the season had started at FanFest.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Now we're eight games left to go of the season.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
It's a game day tonight for us, and just how
overall has the second season and Tucson been going for you?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
You know, I can say nothing but good things about Tucson.
I love it here, the guys, the fans, everything about it.
It's just one of the best seasons so far. So
it's awesome.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Yeah, it's been a really good journey for you as well. Again,
coming on the PTO last year, you know, earning a
lot of playing time and coming back this season as well.
And you know, though the playing time hasn't come as
much as usual, You've made most of your opportunities down
this stretch and you know, just what has the development
(01:41):
process been like for you? And you're kind of full
season now in the American Hockey League.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah, at the start of the season, I wasn't expecting
to stay up. I just kind of battled the entire
season and the start of the season, just trying to
stay in the lineup or even stay up. But when
I was in the lineup all the time at the
at the start of the season, I just try to
play simple and all that and make sure all the
coaches and all the guys could trust me and stuff.
(02:07):
So as you play more games, you kind of get
more comfortable with yourself and how you play your style game.
So once you have full comfortability with yourself, I feel
like you can do.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Whatever you want on the I So, Clayton, you're a
lot of fun to watch when you're out there. I
know you don't know that because you're out there and
you don't see it, but I love watching you when
you're out there on d and I've had other people
actually mention that to me. So whatever you're doing developmentally,
it's working, it's fantastic. It's fantastic to watch you glow
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up as you are. I'm going to start with less
unhinged questions to begin, and then as we get as
we go, it's gonna get really bad. You're gonna I
feel like you are like the perfect person for the
level of insanity that we're going to get to. That
you you have the mental wherewithal to handle this more
than almost anybody on the team.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
So I love this stuff.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
I love this stuff perfect.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I knew it.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
I knew it. Okay. So first of all, first of all,
your name is so incredibly unique. Is there a story
behind it? Is it a family name?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Like?
Speaker 5 (03:16):
I don't think I've ever met another person with your name.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Like. I wish I could tell you the story behind
my name, but honestly, I don't think there's a story.
But my mom did tell me one time there's a
tennis player called Leyton Hewitt. She just liked the sound
of that. So but at the same time, like my
whole family has unique names. It's it's off the board
with everyone, honestly.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Oh, okay, so what are the other names? And then
do you have siblings?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, I got two siblings. So I got an older sister.
Her name's Parker, okay, which is like a different name
for a girl, I would say, But yeah, I like
the I like the sound of it. And I have
a younger brother named Benson.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Oh that is interesting. Well, I mean, maybe it's because
you guys have kind of a not unique last name,
because your parents have been thinking like that. Because that's
I know that. That's why I have my first name
because my last a lot. Yeah, hopefully gave me a
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really nice first name.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
So I'm not sure. Maybe my parents would like me,
so they could. They could have stuck with like Luke
or Ethan or something like that, but they want to
make it a struggle.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
So do you want us to call you Luke or Ethan?
I don't think you look like either one of those names.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Now that I think I think Layton suits me. You
think so, Yeah, it's it's different compared to everyone else.
So I kind of like that part.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I like it too.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
If you think of another name that you'd rather be called,
let us know, Like, we'll try it out and see
if see if it works.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
See I've never thought of that. But my fake name,
I like, I don't know. So you go to Starbucks
or something. Yeah, always Luke, always nice and easy.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
That's a great one for you. It's perfect.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
If I say my an actual name, they're gonna be like,
how do you spell that? Or because there's so many
like ways to spell my name it's crazy.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
So have you given them your real name? Sorry, Johnny, No,
I was.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
I was just gonna ask, was there ever, like when
you're growing up trying to spell your name, did you
ever get mixed up with the two l's Because that
threw me off a couple of times when I had
to write your name like an article, I'm like, wait
one or a two l's.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
No. A bunch of guys when they didn't know my
first name at the start, Like I had a guy
in like high school or whatever he called me late.
But I've never heard anyone call me in my life.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Yes, because of Lelloyd from the Lego movie.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Wait, someone on this team called you that, or just
be a team in the past, a team in the past.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I was gonna say, like, you guys, tell us who
said that so we can rip on them.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yeah. I'm not sure if anyone on the team actually
calls me by my first name. I think it's just
straight up Morsey, that's it.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Yeah, maybe we need to start calling you La Luke.
You can be double l Luke.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Kind of like that Lloyd la Lloyd And then some
people if your name was Aaron, you go with the
A a Ron or something.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, there's actually another guy named I think his name
is Layton Road on Coachella. Yes, you're right, that's the
first time I've ever seen something like that.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Does he have the double L? Also?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Okay, there you go. Even I didn't even think about that.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Do you guys, like, have you met him? Do you
guys vibe because you're both like, what's up?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
No, I don't think we've ever met, but maybe.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
You know, Yeah, yeah, stick together.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
It's exactly.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Yeah, you're like the opposite of what is that club
of guys? That got together. They all had a very
very common name, and they all just like like, was
it Ryan? All the AND's got together together? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
that would be a very small club for you late. Okay, wait,
so I'm sorry, I've really taken us down an incredibly
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tangentile path. But what are your parents' names?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
So my mom's name is Andrea. Okay, yeah, it's like
kind of normal, I would say, and then yeah, my
dad's name is Quentin. Quentin, Oh, Quentin.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Oh okay, yeah, I recognized that name from from guests
at the games.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah, my mom's kind of like original, I would say, maybe,
but I don't think I've ever heard someone named Quentin before.
So Quentin Byfield, Yeah, besides.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Yeah, that's true. Yeah, yeah, he's the only other Quentin
that I can think. What do your parents do?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
My mom she just she's enjoys life.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Nice. Oh so jelly.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Yeah, it's pretty much just my parents and my sister
that live at home. And then my brother. He actually
just finished his junior career I think a couple of
days ago, so he's hoping to go either pro or
continue to go school route or something like that. So
he's probably going to figure that out in the next
probably two weeks. Oh and then my dad works for
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CN Railway.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Oh interesting, what does he do?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
He handles all the imports and exports that come in
and out of Canada, so he's a big job. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Have you ever talked to heaps? I think his dad
also works or is it somebody's maybe mom?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Maybe?
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Oh it's Maddie. Maddie's mom works on railroad stuff. Also,
I think she does.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Yes, I think she does.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
I don't know how I remember that because maybe it's
because it's so unique.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Yeah, well it's also Maddie. So yeah, I can't expect
anything else from that guy.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Right, you guys, you and you guys, you guys are
rooming this year, right, or do you live in the
same area, because I know you guys carpool a lot too.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Like, yeah, me and Maddy lived together, so we've been
together all season. So, uh, everyone hears that I'm the
chef and he's the little house girl.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
So so he's a perfect house girl.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Oh yeah, Prins.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
When I'm cooking, he's like right behind me, following me
and just cleaning up the dishes. Oh yeah, he loves that.
And then we watch a show or a movie or something.
What we eat, so it's nice.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Nice.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
What do you guys, what are you watching right now? Anything?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Nothing really honestly, like I'm on a show right now
called Ozarks.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Oh yeah, of course that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Oh yeah, and then I think that's about it. Or
we watch a hockey or any type of sport.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
He mentions to us when we talked to him. It
just came to me when you reminded us that you
guys lived together, that you guys were painting at one
point in this season, as like your mental health activity together.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I can actually show you. I guess I'm pain Oh
my god. Yes, yes it's not the greatest, but like
we like to like like mess around, if that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Yeah, right now you won't be able to see this,
but I'll post the clip of this.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
This is see this. I think this is Maddie's best painting.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I believe he likes like, oh it's so good. Oh no,
this is a really good one.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
I love that you have them hanging in the living
room or like post it in the living room. That's solid.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
His next, his next, how many kids you guys got
to put some of those on there? Like that's those
are good.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
He's he's different though. He loves he loves like cars,
the guy named Materer.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
He does in general, he's always on his helmet. Have
you have you talked to Volta since getting back getting
called up to the Utah Hockey Club?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
How's how's he been doing up there?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
He calls me every day saying what's up? I think
he misses us, but uh, he's having a good time
out there. I hope he plays a game. He deserves it.
He's a He's probably one of the best goals I've
ever been with. But yeah, like but even well Z
and Stobs they're all great, great too, But uh, I
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just have more of a connection with uh Maddie because
we lived together. So I just wish that he can
have a couple of games and and wins them both
or whatever, because he just he's that type of guy.
He deserves that. He's a hell of a guy even
as a person. Everyone loves him. He's a he's a
locker room guy. So I miss him here. It's a
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big like mess, but you know, you want to see
your buddy succeeds, so it's awesome.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Yeah, And that kind of goes into my next question
and yes, we do know that stubborn Wells are very
much capable of getting us some wins, especially this probably
this huge week of this season, right for the playoffs.
But well, Alta is a locker room guy, So just
how do we kind of adjust to that, you know,
because this is just part of this league, right, Like
sometimes when you're pushing for the playoffs, you you might
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lose some of your best player with you know, you
have a motive game called up as well, So just
how do we just kind of keep pushing forward and
trying to get some wins This week again, probably most
important home stand of the season, just trailing Calgary and
Bakers really not that by many points for those six
and seven seeds.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I think you just want to do it for not
only yourself but for the team, because who doesn't want
to make playoffs. It's the best time of the year
and you kind of grow together as a team and
as a group. So but at the same time, when
you step on the ice, kind of you kind of
battle for each other, but at the same time, and
you want to battle for your goalies because they're always
on their game. They're playing a full sixty. So we're
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going to try everything in our power to keep the
pucket of our zone and put the puck in their nuts.
So I have nothing but good things about Wellsy and stops.
They're just health goalies and I just want to make
sure they succeed as much as we succeeded as a team.
So that's all I want.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
If each player on the team was a hot sauce,
who would be the spiciest hot sauce and who would
be the mildest hot sauce?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I'd probably say the spiciest spiciest. I would go Dougie. Okay,
he's just that type of guy that likes that. I
feel like he's a big boy, so I feel like
he can handle it. And just from my experience, like
the all this possible is is Maddie maybe. Oh yeah,
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hot sauce.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
He's like cool Ranch. Just give him that guy a
cool R. That's his personality.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
This one time I give him some hot sauce. I'm like, dude,
it's it's not that hot. Yeah, I tell me, he
got so mad at me so spicy.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Wait, you told him that you were going to give
it to him and he still ate it knowing that
he can't handle I.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Hate I hate he too, Like I like a little
bit of heat, but not like a crazy amount. But yeah,
trust me, like, don't worry, it's all good. And then
it was it was spicy. I couldn't even handle it.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Oh that's me okay, yeah, but that definitely makes sense.
What's the what is uh the hottest hot pepper that
needs to be Curtis this new new nickname.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
I don't even know hot peppers. I'm trying to think
of like like a ghost pepper or something like that.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
A ghost pepper because it's just talked about so much
on social media and people eating them and supper the
consequences after.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yeah, but there's a there's a sauce at Buffaled Wild Wings,
like the spiciest sauce. If I could tell us someone
to go have that, that's a good look, that's all.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Ye Oh pepper X that's what it's called. Sorry, I
had to just had to google. It's two point sixty
nine million Scoville units, which is crazy intense.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
I think red, Yeah, Frank's red hot whatever. I think
that's perfect.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
That's a good one. Okay, that's a good one. Speaking
of Curtis Douglas, he's still having that. I think he's
still having that fundraiser for the March Modes for mental Health.
I know it's mainly in March, but I don't think
he's told us of a cut off date just yet.
And he has his mullet for the month of March.
You have a moment the entire season for the most part,
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just as a team. What's it like for for Curtis Douglas,
you know, to go out and really just spread the
awareness for mental health and you know, such a great job,
and you know fundraising, doing that fundraiser and go fund
me and just for the team overall, just for that
morality of it as well.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Mm hmm. Well, I think Dougie does it almost every
year now. The last time I could see I remember
him doing it last year. And if some people don't
know Douggie in the dress room, he's he's our guy.
He's our locker room guy. He's he loves everyone. He
makes sure everyone's included. He's just like he's that guy
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that like make sure everyone's connected. So I love him.
I love him as a guy. So I I made
sure I donated because doug he does everything for me
and make sure that I'm all good and stuff. So
if someone's gonna do that for me, then I'm going
to do it back for them. So but at the
same time, I think it's great that he's been doing
it for a couple of years.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Now, So.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I think it's a big thing. Honestly, Like some people
don't understand that men's mental health doesn't like show a
big thing, but I think it goes a long way.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
It definitely does, and especially I think for young professional
athletes more than not more than other people. But you
guys are under a tremendous microscope, very high stakes jobs
where with lots of eyes on you. So your mental
health is something that I've always been curious about, and
like I want to make sure that y'all are in
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a good place because it's it's a lot. Your job
is a lot. It's a lot of fun, but it's
it's a lot to carry too. So yeah, I'm trying
to figure out like how unhinged I want to be,
and then like whether Johnny's gonna pull us back into
the real hockey stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
I have one more real hockey question, then you can
you can come up with the one.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Okay, okay, cool, then I'll come I'll come back.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Well, it's it's just still with the schedule right late,
and you know, we just got back from a ten
game road trip or ten day road trip with five
games in that ten days and coming back here quickly,
and then all of a sudden, four more games in
six days and then it kind of you know, evens
out the end of the season. But you know, going
back to the whole mental health and you know, being
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with one another so long, how do you guys just
you know, keep the vibes up and you know, have
each other's backs and just make sure everyone is okay
when we have so many games in these strings of
days where we're away from home a lot.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
We're away from our families a lot as well.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
So yeah, going back to that, just you know, how
do you guys stay there for one another and you know,
just get through these thick of it of these games.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I think when we're on the road, I feel like
we tend to do like a lot of team stuff
together or a bunch of group things, make sure like
everyone's included. Like I have a group like I go
out with Dilly, I go with Benny plus Mattie, not
anymore Walker. That's like our golf group two down here
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in too soon. But yeah, we just go out, we
get dinner, we play cards or something like to make
sure we kind of take our mind off hockey, I'd say,
because at the same time we want enjoy life and
not always focus on hockey and talk about different things
as about family and stuff. But yeah, but I feel
like once we once the game is about to happen,
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like two hours before, I feel like everyone's dialed in
and make sure everyone's focused because at the same time
we're trying to make playoffs as well. But I feel
like everyone also has to take care of their bodies.
It's a it's a big thing like cooling down or
warming up whatever. It's like a lot of stress on
your body, which some people don't understand that. And that's
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why I think our season has been still well because
we cool down and we make sure our boys are
all well. That's why we've limited in injuries on our team.
So I think making sure that everyone's like taking care
of their body and making sure everyone's checking up on
each other, I think it's a it goes a long
way as well.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
And we've had so much adversity this season as well, right,
you know, with the injuries at the beginning of the season,
the call ups, you know, just all so much movements
and now that we're starting to find our ground a
little bit, but now we're in another little tough stretch here,
but still so much opportunity to beat these next opponents
and get back into the playoff picture. How did how
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would we use that adversity for kind of momentum for
us to where maybe a team we've potentially facing the
playoffs hasn't gone through any of it and we can
use that to our advantage.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
M hm. Well, with losing two key guys, with Yamamota Maddie,
I feel like that's where some guys that don't get
all the spotlight is their time to shine. I would
say so. Uh Like with Stobs come playing playing today
and most likely playing tomorrow, he's gonna be lights out.
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I believe he just he's that type of guy. He's
always dialed, he always make sure he's prepared for the game.
Then at the same time, like, yeahm was a big
part of our power play, but our power play has
been hot. You have other guys that can also do
the exact same thing that he can do, but some
people don't see that I would say. But yeah, I
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just feel like guys that don't have the most spotlight
are just gonna, let's say, rise upon and make sure
they get the job done. And other teams will see that.
Our coaches will see that, our teams will see that.
So we have nothing but support for everyone on the team.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
So is it me? Are we goody goody? Laton? What
is the longest amount of time that you think that
you could raw dog a flight? See?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I don't know. That's a tough one.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Do you think you could do? Like here, l a
just completely just staring at the seat in front of you. Nothing,
That's what he big guys already, So does he really?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
I'm like or like, I put my headphones in, play music,
and I try to fall asleep the entire time. That's
my that's my thing. But if I know music and
just stared and stayed awake for an hour and a half,
I don't know if I could.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Ever do that?
Speaker 5 (22:15):
What about an hour? Could you do? An hour?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Probably? An hour? Can I talk to people or just stare?
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (22:21):
Yeah? Yeah, no, no, no no you yeah? But no technology,
no book, no entertainment of any other than people sitting
next to you. Because you you seem like you're so
you're so friendly, like you're so chatty with people. Yeah,
I feel like you could go longer. Yeah I probably
could go longer, but I don't know, you wouldn't want to.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Right when I'm sitting down on the plane and I
just put my head back on, lights out, just.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Knock out, who's your plane buddy?
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Because sometimes we sit in specific order, but then obviously
some flights it's free for all, So who's usually sitting
next to you?
Speaker 3 (23:02):
So if it's like if we have seated like arrangements,
it's normally like Booch and Paganski or sometimes our trainer Jimmy. Okay,
he's like super like strange, but like he's not bad.
He just puts in his headphones, watches his show and
(23:23):
he just vibes. That's what I do too. But if
I had to do like my worst sit wherever, I
just want to closest aisle or window, and I just hit, hey,
that's that's that's the way she goes, I would say.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
That sounds like a very madd thing to say that's
how she goes.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I still like Sir Robbie Russo, he acts like he
hates it. But he likes it because I do the same.
I don't bother him at all.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Plus I'm like, I'm not that big, so it's not
like I'm taking space because he he kind of just
uses both arm res and spreads his arms out, so
I don't really get much out of it. And every
time he sees me walking up to the iss he's like, oh,
come on, I'm like, shut who has died? Because I
always get the window see too. But yeah, yeah, I've
been screen for all kind of just sit wherever I
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can fit my luggage at on the overhead bend. I
don't really mind where I sit at. But yeah, Robbi
Rusto is my plane buddy for most most flights.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
That's not too.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Shabby, Layton. If you got stranded on an island for
five years and you just got off the island, what's
the first meal that you're eating when you come home?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Homemade or dinner? Like going out for dinner or something.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
No, you tell me, what's where are you going? What's
number one priority?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Oh? This place in like where I'm back, like home,
back home, It's called Brangas. Was the best Greek place
you've ever had in your entire life.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Oh, Okay, what are you eating?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
I pretty much you get well, I get a starter,
I get starters. I get a calamari and brushetta. I
said that. Yeah, And then if I'm feeling myself, because
if I'm on an island for five years and I
get back, I'm probably having a nice cold beer, probably
a fixed beer, a Greek beer. That's one of my favorites.
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I like that. And then I'm starting with like a
chicken suvlaki, like a big dish rice, chicken, veggies, what else.
But yeah, that's probably my main thing.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
It is so good, and I came, sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
I can't go back to like we're done in playoffs
or at the end of the season.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
There's no there's not anywhere we go to, like none
in an Abbitsburg, Calgary, Manito.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
There's only one spot, I think in don't quote me.
There's only one spot that I enjoy and it's in
uh It's in Burlington, Ontario.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
It's soup Lucky. Your your favorite meal.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
No, I'd say a nice good steak in caesar salad.
I love caesar salad.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Okay, do you have a steak place in Tucson that
you like to go?
Speaker 3 (26:28):
You don't really go. There's like a small spot where
you can get like this nice steak sandwich. It's called Forbes.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Oh yeah, I live right next to Forbes.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
It's so good. It's so good. Uh, let's see, let's see.
Brought me on that and Zoobie so they they said
it was really good. So I won one time, and
it is really good. I don't know because it's oh yeah,
which is crazy. And I've never bought meat from there yet.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
Oh you need to. I just actually had a steak.
I had a porterhouse.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
It's a butcher shop too.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
You can see in their cases. You can see like
every once in a while to have like whole animal
that they're butchering back in there, and they're like prepe before.
It's intense. It's super intense. But yeah, well, you.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Apologize sending vegetarians listening in on the show and.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
The vegans don't forget the begans and began we apologize.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
But that does sound really good. But if you like
me to go there, yeah, you do like to go
there there exactly.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
I've tried to think. I have a few more questions.
How much we've kept lating for so long.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Today let's do let's do one more. We'll send them
out of here.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
Okay, I'm trying to think, Uh, this is gonna be
this is gonna be tough. But give it a second.
If you had to write an autobiography about yourself tomorrow,
what would the title be.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
That's a good question. That's a good Kim question right there.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
It's it's a thinker. So I'm going to try and fill,
try and fill some of the time. While Layton is
thinking of the answer of describing Maddie's painting, which was very,
very cool for being a black and white painting with
just a little bit of color in it. It was
the most Maddie thing ever. I feel like people need
to know about it. Late Lane's still.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Thinking, Yeah, I am thinking, I just saw your dog.
By the way, that's super cute.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
She's got anxiety because it's really windy outside right now,
and so she's trying to crawl into my lap and
she's a sausage, so it's not going to happen.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Is that the one that used to bark at the
Adrian agent.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Yes, she barks at Adrian And anytime we play Henderson,
if there's a horse on the screen, she's losing her mind.
So Henderson and Calgary are her two least favorite teams.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Yeah, this is a tough question. What would yours be?
I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Oh my goodness, to get back to us. I know,
what do you got, Johnny? You got anything?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I would say?
Speaker 5 (29:02):
I'm thinking like a life well lived or I don't know,
like I kind of want to get funny with it.
But also we're on the radio.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
So Jorida.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Well maybe I don't know.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Okay, that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
I would just be.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
A quick, a quick journey to the No, that's that's
too long. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
I'm just trying to make it something where like already
in the AHL as a broadcaster at twenty four, like
something a quick journey or something.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I don't know, not like that would be mine. But
I think that's I think that's good.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Right. Oh that's a hard question.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
It is a hard question. It's a good it's a
good thinker for you. It's gonna make all the neurons
in your brain like like fire in new ways. But
like like I was thinking, like what about like life
as a highway or something like that, Like I don't know,
it feels it feels like something you need to sit
with for a second, So I'll leave you alone.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Well, Laden if you if you come up with one,
text it over to us because we saw some time
to record this show and then we'll let the audience
know later on.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
But we'll let you go for now.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Well it could be Luke, Luke.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Okay, Layne.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Thanks for coming on, man, really appreciate us giving your
time on this game day, good luck tonight, and good
luck the rest of the way.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Man, this is a big four games for us, and
let's push for these playoffs.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Yeah, thank you. I appreciate you guys coming on here
and having me. But yeah, let's get these. Let's get
these Wednesday and tomorrow and the weekend, and let's let's
let's keep running.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
The Roadrunners will be dropping the park against the Calvary
Wranglers on this game. They edition Kim, we just had
lay more on the show. And it's been a while. Again,
we haven't grabbed them since the very not even when
the season had started. That was FanFest, right, so that
was more even training camp starting, and then all of
a sudden we realized we.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Need to get back on. I don't even know if
it was a Happy Hour show. I think, wasn't that
Insider Podcasts.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
I don't remember, but it was with somebody else too,
So it wasn't even just the Layton Show.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Well Gavin, it wasn't just more and so we were,
you know, interviewing them both. You don't get the full story.
And then of course we're trying to cycle through everyone.
There's still some people we haven't gone yet. But then
we realized like, oh, we gotta get Morsey back real Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
For the fans who have never had a chance to
meet Laighton More, especially the season ticket holders, if you
come to a fan event, I highly recommend spending some
time getting to know late Moore because he is so
much fun, such a great personality, and I think that
we're just really lucky to have him down here right now.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Yeah, he was that the Colpiers and Cheeseburgers Dusty Force event,
our spring event not too long ago. So if you
did miss that, I mean that's what the package which
is are you know, being a season ticket member joining
the Dusty Force event, you get opportunities to meet these
guys and really get to know these guys in person,
because at the end of the day, can we always
(32:11):
say it like yeah, to the naked eye of a fan,
they're hockey players. But for us, you get to know them,
get to know their families, their friends, where they come from,
and you realize, like, these guys are just ordinary people
just like me.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
You know.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
So great talking later more If you just missed the interview,
if you're listening live here, we'll have the podcast version
of this episode, probably out by tomorrow at Tucson Roaders
dot com slash happy Hours, so check out that as
well in case you did miss Lights and Moore just
a second ago and Kim, this is a huge This
(32:43):
is a huge homestand for us, this is a home
stand that can very much not going to for sure,
but it can determine if this team makes the playoffs. Right,
you have the Calgary Wranglers tonight and tomorrow. Wranglers are
still in their free fall. They have been losing game
after games since the month of January, allowing so many
(33:03):
goals per game. This is just a big opportunity for
the Roaders to catch that team at a bad time.
Then you have the Baker Show Condors this weekend that
just took our spot in the Pacific Division race. Bakers
Show is playing tonight against the Abbots per Canucks, So
if they lose, we win, we can take it back,
or we at least able to get a point tonight
and they don't, we'll take back that spot.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
So it's just getting crazy.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
We see every single show of what the madhouse of
this division has been, but now just this week, you know,
I was at Morning Skate this morning just talking to
some of the players, talking to Steve Poffin, you can
really tell the seriousness of what these guys know is
coming this week, and they know that if things go
bad here, if it doesn't go well, it's it's gonna
(33:47):
put us in a tough spot for the final four
games of the season.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
I joke about this frequently that this season it was
had to have been written by somebody with Shonda Rhime's
level of intricacy in the drama because and I don't
know if you know who Shonda Rhymes is, Johnny, but
she did Grades Anatomy, I think, and hew Away with
(34:11):
Murder and Bridgard and I think I think I think
that's her anyway, Like literally like Bridgeton Bridgeston level drama
is happening right now because of these wildly important four
games that we're going into starting tonight. I I am yeah.
(34:36):
You can hear my nervous laughter, because it is it
is so important where we are right now, and we'll see,
we'll see what happens. Hockey is such, it's such a
tremendous sport. It's it's why both of us probably love
it so much, is because of the drama of it
and because of the completely unknown possibilities can happen at
(35:02):
any moment in hockey. You know, like you could be
in a game and your team could be down by
four with two minutes left, and it's still possible that
your team could win or at least go to ot.
Speaker 6 (35:12):
Like there's not a lot of sports, I feel like
where you can play the full time of that sport
and you really until maybe the last couple of seconds
of that game, you really just don't know how it's
going to end.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
So that's that's why we're here. It's it's a nail
bier a million percent, but it's those dogs, China, my dog,
Miss Jasmine Jones has a lot to say. She is
also very anxious about the poor game homestand that we're
going to because.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
You know, me I'm usually the optimistic one, right I'm saying,
like we're gonna win every single and I'm not saying
we're not going to. But I feel the same, like
this is such an important homestand like it's it's huge
because you have a chance to get within four of
the Wranglers. If you're able to just clean sweep this team,
(36:06):
you get four points within the sixth place spot, and
then whatever happens with the Condors, it at least gets
a little you know, you have a little bit more
leeway because and it's crazy to think about too, like
Wranglers can fall out of it. They're they're losing games.
They can't they can't win games right now. Their goaltending
has been one of the worst since the month of January.
And there's a time when they have the best goalie
(36:28):
in the entire league. Devin Cooley is not even the
net tonight because he's been struggling so much. It's Ignatchev
who is their backup. Technically, I mean, Cooley might go
in tomorrow, but that's just how crazy this has been
for the Wranglers and for Tucson. It's not only that
you still remember what happened last year with the Wranglers, Right,
(36:48):
you still remember do you still remember that we've lost
the last four against Calgary in their home barn. We're
undefeated against them at home, so that that's only that.
But how suiting would it be, Kim if we just
beat them in these two games and all of a
sudden they're in a tough spot and they're like, oh,
(37:09):
we might miss this, and then we're in a much
better spot. So that's so crazy that these two games
are gonna be as well. Worry about baggers Field when
we get there this weekend, but this is just as
opportunity for the Roadrunners to maybe trying to kick Calgary
out of the playoff race.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
And how can would that be?
Speaker 4 (37:25):
Right?
Speaker 2 (37:25):
You don't even have to face them in the playoffs,
you just kick them out.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
So there's so much still on the line tonight, and
that's what makes this one exciting because Wranglers are just
that team where you really want to beat, right like Bakersfield, Yeah,
they're they're in the scrap of it for that final
playoff spot, but you get Calgary out, boof, would that
would make this team feel a little bit better?
Speaker 5 (37:46):
Yes, I can't imagine what that would do for the
mental health, like getting back to what we were talking
about with Layton, for the mental health of all the
players on the team right now, Gosh, we are just
so in the thick of it as we come down
to the wire going into the postseason. It would I know,
(38:07):
you know, we had more cushion last season at this
point of you know where things were happening. But again,
like you said, even with some cushion, it's until you clinch,
there's no telling how things are exactly going to go.
And it's it's just bonkers.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
I am.
Speaker 5 (38:31):
You are you going to be cautious and I'm going
to be optimistic or You're going to be optimistic and
I'm going to be cautious.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
What are we doing now?
Speaker 3 (38:38):
There?
Speaker 2 (38:38):
I probly never be a world where I am not optimistic.
Speaker 5 (38:41):
But I think it's I'm good at caution, Yeah, I think,
And I.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Think it's not more of like just pull optimism.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
I'm just excited right Like this is a really just
a big test for this team, right and if we
can pull out a good amount of wins in this
homestand then it would really say like Okay, we we
face we face this and we took it head on
and I talked to ce Pavin at morning skate and
he just told me what an opportunity this is, right,
What an opportunity to come back home after a rough
(39:11):
road trip and to not only again like try to
get our spot back, but to really hand it to
Calgary again, to go up against Bakersfield. Like, imagine, if
we weren't playing the Condors this weekend, then the season
series is already done with them, and then.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
We just we have to rely on them losing games.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
No, we get them, we get to beat them this weekend,
And I think that's what makes this homestand so exciting,
especially how the last home stand went right, where we
lost the first two games against Ontario and we bounced
back so good against the Santos Artcudain probably some of
the best games of the entire season, right, and overall
in our last eight home games we are five to two,
one to zero. We're averaging three point six to two
(39:49):
goals for per game. The PK is the sixth best
at home as well at eighty four point eight percent.
So two Thouands is just generinely a better home team,
and yeah, that's gonna be tough for the playoffs, but
we'll worry about that when we get there. But to
have the next six of the last eight games of
the season at home, it's what makes it more exciting
for Tucson as well.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
And I think that's really going to benefit us.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
There's no more long road trips, there's no more of
the crazy busses back and forth that is over. Even
for playoffs. Road trips aren't bad because you go to
one city. So this is it, like, you take this
opportunity and you have to take it head on.
Speaker 5 (40:23):
Oh yeah, and only six six home games left in
the season. Eight games left total in the season. And
I just want to point out too, not related to
hockey statists, statistics or anything, but tonight is Ladies Night
at the Arena, so hopefully we have a good turnout
for that. Tomorrow night is Veil Community Night. Saturday is
(40:49):
Country Night. Is that right right?
Speaker 4 (40:52):
Yes? Yes, Country Night on Saturday Night. Onto them Acceptance
Day on Sunday, Saturday, Saturday Night for Country Night, first
fifteen hundred fans, we'll get a Roadrunners cowboy have We'll
be wearing Country Night warm up jerseys. And then Sunday
for Autism Acceptance Day, we ask you fans to kindly
not bring your cowboys to the games so everyone can
(41:14):
just have an overall great time. So and then our
last big night after that is our fan appreciation night.
So yeah, Kim, that's also crazy too. Not a lot
of home games, lass, I mean only no.
Speaker 5 (41:25):
Yeah, it's it's sad and people I've seen fans in
the socials talking about it like they need the voice
to feed back, you know, that lot them here, But
we don't want the season to be over. So it's
it's it's a tough one. But also Sunday is postgame
skate right where the ISEP after the game for fans
(41:46):
who want to bring their own skates or you can
rent skates for free from the TCC if you want
to come for that. And then I just noticed on
the website too, and this is the first time that
I'm seeing this is the Cameron he Big two and
eighty games Played commemorative T shirt. Have you seen this, Johnny?
It's so good?
Speaker 1 (42:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
So yeah, So we're selling those t shirts for twenty
five dollars. Part of the proceeds will go to a
charity of Cameron Heebeck's choice, and we're gonna be getting
the players to wear the jerseys, jerseys, the T shirts
when they enter the arena, so those will be coming
in soon. So yeah, Kim, that's a good point. There's
(42:25):
so much going on here at the twos on Arena.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
And no he can't either.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
He is.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
He's not gonna like the attention. You know him, he
likes to just keep to himself.
Speaker 4 (42:35):
But when he asked me why we made these T
shirts from us, say, man, it's too bad, Like we
got to celebrate you.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
You're awesome.
Speaker 4 (42:42):
There's the reason why you've played so many games here,
because you've been such a viable asset to this organization.
I mean, Kim, think about it. He's played more years
than half of this franchise, one more year more than
what this franchise is existing halfway through with the tan
year anniversity coming next year, and he's in year number
five with the team. So yeah, lots of excitement. I'm
we were not short the entire day tire game. I
(43:04):
don't care, there's no now we're but now gonna wear
a butt.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
Of for that? One would wearing that shirt for?
Speaker 5 (43:11):
Wait, what which gamer are we wearing that shirt for?
Speaker 2 (43:14):
It's gonna be April fit. I mean on the weekend night.
Speaker 5 (43:20):
So I didn't start calling Cameron the mayor of Tucson
for no reason, like I feel like he could legitimately
run for office in this town and have a good
chance at winning.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
It's funny.
Speaker 4 (43:32):
I was talking with a local reporter who's covering the
story at our practice the other day and park Parker
Port was talking to him as well, and I got
into the conversation and uh, Parker was like, yeah, Cameron's
pretty much the mayor of TUSA on this one.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
That's what people like to call.
Speaker 4 (43:48):
And Y added, well, especially that Adrian Daddy left for
for the Utah Hockey Club, because Adrian and Heaban were
both kind of the mayors of Tucson. But now that
Adrian is gone, you got Cameron Heave, the full mayor
who is lived in DOWNTIDN Tucson the entire time he's
been here. You see him walking around in this morning
walks Kim, you ran into him. Yeah, it's it's it's
(44:09):
gonna be exciting. I know Cam's gonna hate it. He
hates the publicity, hates the attention.
Speaker 5 (44:13):
But that makes it even better that I love how
much he's gonna hate it. It's like if he was
like glowing in it, if he was like, yes, bring
me all the riches of attention, Like, he wouldn't be
the player that everybody loves, right, I mean you love
him because he is so humble. He's just he's just
here to produce. He's playing hockey, he got that two
(44:36):
way contract, and he just love. You want all the
good things to happen to Cameron Hebek because that is
kind of kind of like Maddie, Like that's just the
kind of person that he is. And I think that
we were so fortunate on this team to have quite
a few guys on this team who you just want
good things for them because they're just really good people.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
Yeah, I could agree more, Kim. And we want these
guys to make the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (45:00):
So these next four games are huge, and it's really
gonna show if this team is a is ready for
a postseason run or not. When we come back here
to Roadrunners, Happy are right here on Fox Sports fourteenth
at dam we're gonna close. Tonight's episode of this game
Day edition of the Roadrunners will be taking on the
Calgary Wranglers.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
You're just tuning in out and realizing this this entire episode.
Don't fret.
Speaker 4 (45:21):
You can listen to the podcast person coming out by
tomorrow at Tucson roadrunners dot Com Slash Happy Are We
had Leighton More on the show and uh yeah, Kim,
this is this is a big game coming up tonight.
This is a big four game homestand this is a
big opportunity for the Roadrunners to really show that they
are ready for a postseason run. And the pressure is on.
(45:42):
But I feel like this team plays better when the
pressure is on them at the full extent. And let's
just get to work. This is an exciting opportunity for us.
It is.
Speaker 5 (45:51):
It is a good opportunity, and I think it needs
to be seen in that way, hopefully seen as being
a positive. And yeah, the boys need to put their
heads down, go, you know, do whatever they need to
do mentally to get to the place where they need
to be, where they can see themselves on the other
side of this home stand having one and being in
(46:16):
the postseason. Hopefully that is where they are mentally. Fingers crossed.
I don't know. I haven't seen y'all in so long.
I don't know what anybody's thinking right now, So.
Speaker 4 (46:27):
Honestly, who knows well, Kim, it looks like your dog
is asking you to get off the microphone and attend
to her needs as she's bonding you once again. So
we're gonna send it out here, but we're going to
be back not too long. For an hour and about
forty five minutes with Roadrunners warm Up commencing, Kim and
I will be back to baby once again right before
pup drop as the Roadrunners take on the Calgary rainless
(46:50):
tonight in a huge four game homestand trying to get
back into the AHL Specific Division playoff picture. Have a
great rest of your night, everybody, unless you are joining
us here at the Tucson Arena, we will see you there.
Speaker 2 (47:02):
Huge night coming up for Tucson.
Speaker 4 (47:04):
This has been Roadrunners Happy are We'll catch you for
Roadrunners warm Up in about forty five minutes or so
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