September 15, 2025 • 77 mins
In this episode of Royally Quacked, the hosts discuss recent coaching changes in the NHL, including Jim Hiller stepping down as coach of the LA Kings. They cover a variety of NHL news, including player contracts, injuries, and team announcements. The conversation shifts to their fantasy hockey league, where they invite listeners to join. The hosts also engage in a simulation of the NHL season, discussing their strategies and results, leading to a discussion on playoff predictions and the eventual Stanley Cup champion. The episode concludes with a recap of player performances and award predictions for the season
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Welcome back, hockey fans, toRoyally Quacked.
I'd like to start off today'sepisode with just a moment of
(00:45):
silence, for what happened topoor Charlie Kirk this week.
It was sad and he's left twosmall children and his wife.
So if we could just bow ourheads and all of us maybe lift
up some prayers for them and allof America.
So let's have 30 seconds ofsilence and then we'll get
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started, all right.
So welcome everyone to anotherwhat If?
(01:34):
Episode of Royally Quacked.
So there's breaking news JimHiller has stepped down as the
coach of the LA Kings and RollyQuack podcaster Gary Spink has
been named coach of the Kings.
(01:55):
You have any news, cody?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah, it's weird that your coach randomly stepped
down and mine just randomly.
He's like you know what?
I'm going to just retire.
I'm the oldest coach in theleague, I'm going to retire and
I'm going to pick my successorand I'm going to choose Roley
Quack's own diehard Ducks fan,cody Spink.
(02:22):
Yep, he chose me out ofeveryone.
He said he's like no Verbeek,I'm going to choose the next
coach Because apparently youcan't sign people in time, so
I'm going to choose Cody.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
So this episode we're going to see by using NHL 2026
to see with us as coaches if wecould do a better job than the
coaches.
So we've set our lineups, we'vewe've set power play units, and
(03:05):
I know Adam's going nuts, isn'the?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Always.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Captain of chaos.
Yeah, god help you.
You need all the help you canget, anyways.
So you know, the results are in.
I have to say I I think it'sunrealistic, but you know it was
(03:33):
fun.
So how do you want to startthis, cody?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Well, let's do the news first, because I mean we
got tons of it.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Well, you got a ton of ducks news, that's for sure.
You're going to be about anhour.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah, I know, so I guess.
God help us, adam, get yourcamping gear ready, because
we're going to be here for awhile.
All right, ready, all right,let me just crack the back.
All right, I'm ready, all right.
Ryan paling will wear number 25for the anaheim ducks this
season I hear crickets, cody, isthat all the duck zoos, that's?
(04:22):
all the ducks news because we,we still don't have a certain
signing done for Beak.
Yep, you heard it from herefirst or not first, but Yep,
because for Beak doesn't want tosign, mctavish, apparently.
And we're not talking about therookie faceoff games until not
(04:46):
next week, but the week afterokay, let's go to king's news
then.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Uh, kings finally have announced their broadcast
teams.
So tv to start with.
John kelly is going to be ourplay-by-play.
I think he's done the blues anda few other teams, so he's a
veteran of it.
You're still going to have jimfox as the lead analyst and an
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add-on, tony granato, is goingto be an analyst.
Uh, there will be a few othersthat might come in and and uh
spell like jim fox, or like JimFox or Daryl Evans on podcasts,
some of the guys like JarrettStoll and so forth, but on radio
, just like last season, joshSchaefer is going to be the
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play-by-play and Daryl Evans, ofcourse, will be the analyst.
And then I didn't even knowthis news, cody, you must have
thrown this in here.
Kings forward Coreyry waspossibly injured while skating
with his teammates at the toyotasports performance center in el
segundo on friday and he wentunder, underwent successful knee
(05:55):
surgery and will miss six toeight weeks.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
The the, the one with him getting possibly getting.
That one came out late lastnight and then this morning I
saw I don't know if you getnotifications from ESPN or not,
but they also put it on therethat Corey Perry underwent
successful knee surgery and hewas going to be out six to eight
(06:19):
months.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I guess that's going to leave an opening for somebody
else to play.
I guess that's going to leavean opening for somebody else to
play.
I'm assuming that's going tosave one waiver wire thing for
six to eight weeks, because wehad a bunch of guys that could
go on the waiver wire.
One of them is going to get tomake the final roster.
We'll see who that might be.
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And then the last bit of Kingsnews is happy birthday, adrian
Kempe.
Juice, let's get also.
I mean, we also are looking ata signing, but his isn't until
next season, and there was newsthat came out that in fact
Adrian Kempe spoke saying thatright now I mean they're looking
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somewhere to maybe beforetraining camp starts, to even
maybe Christmas time beforegetting his contract finalized
and he's OK with that.
But he does want to stay in LAKing, if anybody was concerned.
Want to stay in la king, ifanybody was concerned.
(07:28):
Um, I think there's actuallymore concern.
What's going to go on with uhmctavish, because they seem to
be just not being able to figureout how to sign him and his
contract's up now.
So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yeah, all right On to league news.
The NHL trade deadline hasalready been set for Friday,
march 6th 2026.
Mark your calendars, guys.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah, that's when some of team-changing trades can
happen, especially if you'revying for a playoff spot.
The 26-27 NHL regular seasonwill be 84 games and begin in
late September instead of earlyOctober.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah, so we'll get an earlier start, early october.
Yeah, so we'll get a an earlierstart.
And they're saying the stanleycup will be handed out mid-june
instead of late jilloon, latejilloon, jilloon, does it really
say, just say jilloon, what Iheard, but I don't know.
I mean late june.
Okay, jilloon, I did say jaloon, what is with me?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
wow, that was horrible.
English is our third languageand then the Ames Fala.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
The Flames re-sign goaltender Dustin Wolf to a 7
year, 7.5 million AAV contractextension and the deal will
begin in the 2026-2027 Jaloonseason, which can just season.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I can't believe I said that you know the
interesting thing about that?
One good season and they justsigned him.
I mean you think they couldhave let him try to have a
second good season before givinghim that much money.
I mean, there there isquestions about the deal.
Now maybe he's going to justprove everybody that he's.
You know, especially all theCalifornia teams that didn't
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draft him Cause he was a seventh, was a seventh round pick, yeah
.
So, you know, and and good forhim.
I I don't have any ill willunless he's playing my team and
tell him he can suck then and hecan be good against everybody
else.
But I just thought, wow,hopefully he's not a Pierre or
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Luc Dubois contract type thing.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Well, the thing is that, uh, dustin wolf has
already had a better career thanpld, in my opinion.
Already, I mean, this wolfliterally almost single-handedly
dragged the calgary flames intoa playoff spot last year he did
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have a great season, I agreewith you.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
So, um, but you know, sometimes you're feeling heat
like they're gonna be.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
In my opinion, they're gonna be the biggest
regression this year, because Idon't think they're gonna be
able to do what they did lastyear, unless their scoring gets
better.
But then again, you know, theygot mor, got Morgan Frost and I
believe it was Farabee, you know, and they'll have them all
through training camp.
It's not like a trade.
You know, midseason tradeaccusation, and then they have
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to try to get used to it.
Now they'll be there for a lotlonger because I mean, they
didn't make any moves reallythis offseason.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
So we'll see.
We're going to see.
We'll see how they did in thesimulation.
After the news so Well, we'llsee, we're going to see.
We'll see how they did in thesimulation.
After the news True, brendanEscott has confirmed the
Edmonton Oilers will debut abrand new alternate jersey for
the 2025-26 season.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah, I'm still waiting to see the Kings one.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yeah me too.
I, I'm, I'm hoping it has some,some old colors in it yeah, I
hope so too.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Um, I think there's already enough black, silver and
white already.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I think you guys, you guys need some color well, even
if it's a, you know, avariation of the gray color.
Gray colors, nothing more.
Black and silver.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah, it makes me wonder what these Edmonton ones
are going to look like.
I saw a sneak peek, like a leak, but I don't know.
I didn't like the sneak peek.
Or the leak one that came out,but it's all right.
Or the leak one that came out,but it's all right.
And then the next one is theNHL and NHLPA have agreed that
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the five acquitted in the 2028London Scandal Assault Trial
Alex Formenton, cal Foote,michael McLeod, dylan Dubé and
Carter Hart will be suspendeduntil december 1st per elliot
friedman but will have theopportunity to sign with nhl
teams as soon as october 15thand the rumor is that the
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edmonton oilers are going to goafter carter hart no, no, that's
not happening.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Really.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
They're not yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
They're they're going to believe in what they have,
huh.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I've seen multiple sources saying that the Edmonton
Oilers are not going afterCarter Hart.
Multiple sources, Wow.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
We'll see what happens.
Maybe that's just the the's,just the way of getting Carter
Hart.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I did see somewhere on Instagram that Carter Hart
already has a verbal deal inplace.
It was like a two or three yeardeal, but I don't know with who
or how much.
They haven't figured out.
I don't know if it was a rumoror not.
Like I said, I'm not saying hedid or not, but they're just
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saying that it could havehappened and but there's no.
They're saying that the I thinkthe Vegas goal, the Knights
were one team looking into himand that's it I.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
He's it's not sitting stone that he's anywhere yet.
Yeah, a little bit betterbackup to aiden hill then yeah I
could.
I see that.
Okay, the blues have signedforward justin carbineau to a
three-year entry level contractyeah, he was their first round
pick in 2025.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
And then also, the sharks have signed their number
two overall first round pick,michael misa, to a three-year
entry-level contract.
We saw him play last night inthe rookie base off game against
the ducks and I can tell youthat was a interesting game to
watch.
I mean, that's all I going tosay on that.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I missed it.
Yeah, you could give us alittle bit.
I guess you could get a littlebit of news about that.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I mean, if you wanted to, Are we going to save that
for next week?
I'll save it for when we do thewhole recap of it.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Okay, so contract extension drama between
Minnesota and Kaprizov yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
So, like last week, from what I heard is that the
Minnesota wild offered Kaprizoveight years by 16 million AAV,
so that came out to $128 millionoverall and he rejected the
contract.
Yep million dollars overall andhe rejected the contract.
(15:10):
Yep and then.
But why would he reject thebiggest contract ever in in the
nhl history?
I mean you know he got the years.
He got the the highest aav sofar.
Is he waiting to see whatmcdavid's gonna do?
Is he gonna wait?
Or is mcdavid waiting to seewhat capri soft's gonna do or
eichel's gonna do, becauseeichel's a free agent after the
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season two, interesting.
So I don't know if someone'sjust trying to say like all
right, once they sign, then I'llknow what to sign for, kind of
thing.
Um, they're saying that maybedoes he want more money with
less years, does he want to dolike a four, three or four year
deal, that way he can make, youknow, 20 million, 21 million
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when that contract's up, perseason.
I like I said I have no idea.
They're saying that the wildasked him for his trade team
list because I guess he has a nomove or no trade list.
But I heard that's not true.
But also the the whole thingwith that was going on with that
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is, bill garen even came on andsaid is like I'm like I know no
one from minnesota said any ofthis.
He's like I know for a factthat nobody from kaprizov's camp
said anything.
So this is just random news.
So we still don't know exactlywhat's going on with between
minnesota and kaprizov, you know, hopefully he's like.
(16:40):
You know what I want to go toanaheim.
Just send me there, okay.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
You keep praying for a superstar.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I do?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
It would be nice.
You know, uh Kings haveobviously had a lot more history
in the ducks and they've neversigned a big Uh contract for any
kind of superstar ever.
So I mean they've traded forthem him.
But they've never signed themfree agent wise.
So here this is per espnretired mark andre flurry to
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suit up in a preseason game withthe penguins to finish off his
hall of fame career.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yep, he signed a pto and will suit up for one game I
think that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I because I agree I, I just he is one funny guy off
off the ice.
I mean him and sydney crosbyused to pick on each other like
crazy that's someone who I donot want to get in a prank war
with.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Let's just put it that way.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah Well, you know what you know.
If you can have fun at work, itsure makes work a lot easier to
do it does.
And I got to tell you he's aHall of Fame, definitely Hall of
Famer.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Hall of Fame.
He's definitely his numberretired in Pittsburgh, so I'm so
glad he did that.
I think that's the best thing.
Then, speaking of goalie news,the Blackhawks have signed
Spencer Knight to a three-year5.83 million AAV contract
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extension, per Scott Powers, andthe deal will begin in 26 27.
So, yeah, they locked upthey're not locked up, but
extended their number one goalie, so that's good news.
So, and that's it for all thenews that we have yeah so, uh, I
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want to take a minute and saythis real quick that, um, we do
have a couple slots open up forfantasy hockey.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
This is this is in our league our league not not
just an open hey, like espn oror yahoo or something saying hey
, come join, you know team.
This is our hockey league,which has been going on for
seven years, very competitive.
Just got to bring your A game,yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
We already had one listener sign up and join.
Thank you, Kevin.
He already signed up.
I already saw, but we do havetwo slots available.
So if you are interested, go toany of our social medias and
send us a message, or you canemail us at royallyquacked at
gmailcom and I will send you theinvite link as soon as you send
(19:38):
it to me.
So if you guys are interested,please let us know.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
First come, first serve.
Please be someone who, ifyou're in last place, doesn't
quit and, like I said, it's freeto join.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
We're not asking, you know, for any money.
It's yes, we know adam, youalready quit once yeah well,
adam, there's still, there'sstill, there's still a spot
available.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
It's all in fun, yeah .
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Like I said, it's free to play.
We're not asking for any feesor anything.
It's just bragging rights.
I know some people like to playfor money.
We play for bragging rightshere.
Of course, one of us has a lotmore bragging rights than the
other, so, um, but like I saidif you're, if you're interested,
(20:27):
just email us at royallyquacked at gmailcom.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Well, you know, the spink name is one six of the
seven seasons Cody.
Yeah, so we have the braggingrights, True?
Um, not not to say that someonecan come in and kick our butts,
because I definitely havestruggled a little.
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I struggled a lot last yearwith it, just because of
everything else in life, Becauseat work it's gotten busier and
I'm in a new position starting aweek from monday which is even
more demanding, so I might beweak enough for everybody to
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beat me next season.
So who knows?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
yeah, so yeah, and especially at my work last year,
we had five drivers during ourbusy year and right now we're
looking to hire one more so that.
But we would only be at fourdrivers.
So we'll see how everythinggoes with that too.
So the only good thing is like,at least with the esbn uh thing
that we use, they added thatfeature where you can hit like
(21:36):
start your whole, like it'llstart all your starting players
for you.
You know at least like it'll dolike the minimum, uh, you know,
but it will play like the bestplayers.
Sometimes you got to go in andswitch it right, exactly what I
was just gonna say, you know,because I had one time where I
think I had matthews and it hadmy worst player starting over
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austin matthews and I was likeuh, no switch.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
So so so.
So, adam, there's a possibilityof you getting a new job.
I didn't even know that was inthe play I hope you get it.
We'd love to have you come back.
You and your dad were always.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
You always worked it hard yeah, um, I I you know it's
funny like this.
This.
This the the Thursday nightfootball game.
We have a fantasy footballleague at my work.
So between my two tight ends Ihad Mark Andrews from Baltimore
and the green Bay tight end Idon't remember his first name,
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craft and I had Andrew startingand I want to say like maybe 30,
45 minutes before the gamestarted I switched it.
I was like not mark andrews,didn't?
They didn't really throw theball to him at all, you know.
So I was like I'll, I'll go to,I'll play craft.
He got me.
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So he got me 24 and a halfpoints on Thursday night.
I was like that was such agreat switch.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I take it, you won, I lost my first.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
No, that was for this week.
I lost my first week One of thewide receivers I had on my
bench.
I had Flowers from Baltimore,he had 28 points and he had on
my bench I had, uh, flowers frombaltimore, he had 28 points,
his, and he was on my bench.
If I and he, he scored morepoints by himself than all three
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of my receivers did.
That I started yeah combined Ilost.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I lost the first week by two points.
Oh, I got demolished.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I I had aj brown, get 1.3 points yeah I played mark
andrews got me one and a half mydefense.
I had baltimore.
They got me negative threepoints.
I had joe burrow who apparentlycouldn't get a single yard in
the second half againstcleveland so yeah, so it was all
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bad for me, but I just wantedto put it out there.
We you know that.
You know we do have a couple ofslots open.
If you guys are interested, letus know.
It said you can haveco-managers so you and your
friend don't have time Like ifyou don't have time but your
friend does, you guys can managea team together.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
You know we can do that, so just I'll put it out
there We've, we've, threatenedto do that, just because it
would be easier.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
If we get more people than me, my dad will team up
and then we'll have a you know,the host versus everyone else.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
And yeah, We'll have the host versus everyone else.
Yeah, if we get enough playerswe'll.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
I have no problem doing that.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Yeah, I have no problem doing that, either
because we'd love to haveparticipation.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
So there could be three spots.
If you guys want it, just letus know.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Yeah, please let us know.
Like I said, we'll be at thegame tomorrow.
If you guys see us, say come,say hi.
I don't.
I still don't know what jerseyI'm wearing.
I think I'm gonna wear my my uhducks orange jersey the new one
.
So if you see me, you know Igot some goodies too.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
I bought some new goodies I'll be in a Copa tar or
Dowdy.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Jersey tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
I haven't decided which one yet.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
So yeah, but yeah, I'm excited for the game
tomorrow.
We'll definitely be there, Ican tell you I probably much
rather watch it live than on TV,because the whoever was working
the camera last night was notvery good.
But then again it's.
You know, it's not professionalwork, it's, and it's a
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different arena too.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
So so, all your Kings fans, la Kingscom does stream
it.
So if you'd like to watch it,you just got to go on LA
Kingscom to watch the Kingsgames, which obviously tomorrow
will be a Kings and a ducks game.
So yeah, and then there's gamethere, the Kings are playing the
Sharks today.
I'm not even sure what timethat one is that one o'clock,
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okay.
Well, we're going to be busytoday, so I'll probably miss
some of that game because wehave extended family business
today.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
So no, and we'll have a and everything in Ducks fans.
Everything is on victory plusand it's not region locked
either.
So if you're in New York as aducks fan, you can still watch
the game, or in another country,you can still go on victory
plus and watch the game still.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
So, uh, we onto our simulation which, yes, so coach
will it will simulation whichyes?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
So coach will?
It will be shocking.
Yes, let's just say I wasshocked, oh I was really shocked
and it wasn't just on ducks andKing stuff and honestly, yes, I
was happy about one part, but Iwas even kind of not happy, but
more my favorite part hadnothing to do with the ducks and
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kings.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
To be honest, um so well, that was pleasing.
I have to admit that part waspleasing yes.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
So, coach gary, yes, um, now, in your first year as
the la kings, uh, head coach, uh, what's going to be your
starting lineup for the season?
In this case, corey Perry isstill completely healthy and
able to play game one.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
My number one line would be the AK line Andre
Kuzmenko, Anze Kopitar andAdrian Kempe.
My number two line will beKevin Fiala, Quinton Byfield and
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Alex Laferriere.
My third line will be TrevorMoore, Philip Deneau and Warren
Fogle a big surprise last yearand the fourth line will be Joel
Armia, Alex Turcotte and CoreyPerry.
My number one D line will beobviously Mikey Anderson and
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Drew Dowdy.
My number two line would beEdmondson and Clark and the
number three line is Dumoulinand CeCe, With Darcy Kemper in
goal and obviously his backupwould be Forsberg.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Forsberg yeah, Good job, Coach, Gary.
Yeah thank you All right.
And for me, my starting lineupas the new Anaheim Ducks head
coach, my starting top forwardline would be Kreider, leo
(29:07):
Carlson and cutter Godier.
Second line I would have aGrandlin, terry and McTavish.
Yes, and we did sign McTavish,don't worry about that guys.
We did sign McTavish in my, inmy scenario.
Um, third line, I would haveStrom, vetrano and Kalorn.
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In my fourth line I would haveColangelo, paling and Nestorenko
.
I don't want the human trafficcone anywhere near my lineup.
And then my defensive pairs.
I would keep pretty much whatwe had last year.
I had Gudis and Lacombe as thetop pair.
Defensive pairs I would.
I would keep pretty much whatwe had last year.
I had, uh, goodison lacombe asthe top pair, uh, truba
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mintikoff as the second pair andthen zellweger and helison as
my third pair and then as ourstarting goalie would be
lukashic.
Did you do your power playunits?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
I didn't.
I don't think that would be.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Let's just put the.
I helped my dad in thissituation too.
I forgot.
I thought I had Fiala in there,but I obviously didn't do it to
start with the number one linewhen I was putting in the
lineups I was like why is Fialain there?
But I obviously didn't do it tostart with the number one line
when I was putting in thelineups and I was like why is
Fiala not on the power play?
And I didn't even start it.
I messaged him.
I was like I'm like no Fiala onthe power play.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
You're lucky.
I even saw that because I wasat work.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Well, I wouldn't have done it until you told me To do
like.
Well, anyways, I did.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Forget Kevin Fiala.
So I ended up doing puttingFiala.
It was Kopitar Kempe, kuzmenko,byfield and Fiala.
I did a five forward line.
My second one was, I think,dano.
Let's see, here was, I think,deneau Moore Fogle trying to
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think to know more Perry Fogleand Clark right.
The surprise was no drew daddyon the power play.
Yeah, he doesn't, he doesn't.
I mean I agree.
I mean, if you guys listen tothe lockdown Kings, eddie says
we got to give Clark more.
We got to, we got to help himgrow.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
And part of that is more.
Dowdy needs less and Dowdy.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Dowdy is, and part of that is more.
Dowdy needs less, and well,dowdy dowdy's going to be more
effective.
He's getting older.
I know he's been a just likethe super trooper for years and
years, but it's time to to sitback and be your best instead of
just throwing it out there 27minutes a night.
Yeah, so that was the, thesecond power, uh, or, yeah, the
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second power play unit.
And then my penalty kill.
You have to remind me, cody,because I left armia off there,
which armia should have been onthe first line.
He was fourth in, uh,shorthanded minutes in the nhl
last year and it's one reasonthat the king signed him to give
kopitar and kempe a break, butI think I had what kempe you had
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to know kempe anderson dowdy onthe first penalty kill.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Yeah, the second.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Second one you had byfield fogel, edmondson and cc
yeah, I didn't even have armiaand any of them and I think that
could have made a maybe apossible difference in some of
the results.
Um, and then I'm assuming that,um, I don't know, in the
simulation cody maybe you couldanswer this quick did the backup
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goalie ever play?
Speaker 2 (32:50):
I I would have to go.
I would have to log in and look, do you want me to start up?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
no, it's all right, we, you know, just with the idea
we probably the number onegoalie played every game.
So, and the nice thing is is,when cody did this, he did take
um pictures of different partsof the season.
So we have like standingsthroughout the simulation, I
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mean certain games, not everygame, and then uh, stats for
that.
And, and I tell you what I mean, I was, I'm, I was disappointed
in some of the results of whathappened.
But I was more different, uhupset with who played well, um,
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not, not that the Kings didn'tplayed well, not that the Kings
didn't play well, they did.
But it had Byfield not evengrow, not even a point, and he
was a minus in the whole season.
I didn't get that and he hadwhat seven ducks outscore him.
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I just I didn't get that and hehad what Seven ducks outscore
him.
I just I don't see that theducks aren't even a great
scoring team.
Now, maybe that's going tochange with Quinville.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Nope, nope, it's changing under me.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Duh.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
If.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
I had to say uh, I I didn't do any better than Hiller
people.
Just to be honest with you, Iactually was just like Jim
Hiller, but I don't know if thatcould have been put in the
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simulation.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Let's see.
I don't know why it's onlygiven.
Am I not able to look up theregular season?
What do you mean?
I'm trying to find the.
I'm on the game right nowtrying to find.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Let's see.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
No, I guess I can't.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
It's only given playoffs now it's all right,
let's go with what we have.
Okay, so I've my first.
Let's just talk about thestandings.
First standings I saw was after23 games is that that's the
American Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Yeah, I understand that, but that's the first
standings that was on here,because I know you sent me
photos and there was a few Icouldn't find, so you sent them
to me after the fact.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
So what I did was I did.
I did one standings afterAmerican Thanksgiving, I did
another one after the Olympics,another one after the trade
deadline and then the end of theseason and then playoffs.
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No, you would not have, adam,because wait to see how I did.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Uh, I, I hate to tell you, adam, we saw you in a
fantasy hockey league.
Yeah, no, I would say no so,but anyway, so you want to.
You guys want to hear thestandings after 23 games.
So guess who's number one?
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And we're just doing thePacific on this one.
After 23 games, 14 wins, 7losses, 2 overtime losses for 30
points are the Quackers.
I'm good.
Number two were the edmontonoilers.
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They had played 25 games.
They were 14, 11 and 0 for 28points.
Yeah, okay, it's not a time formaking excuses, adam, you know
you can always set your lineupbefore the last minute right,
yeah, yeah, you can do that.
Uh, in third place, and afterthis was also at 23 games, was
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the golden knights at 13, 9 and1 for 27 points.
The kraken 23 games 13, 9 and 1for 27 points.
The kings were in fifth place.
Uh, also 23 games 12, 9 and 2for 26 points.
Canucks 12, 11 and 1 for 25points.
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The flames were um um after 25games 10, 11 and 4 for 24.
And of course, the hated Sharks24 games, 10 wins, 11 losses,
three overtime losses for 23points.
And on the top of this is thesuperstar that they haven't
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signed yet, mason McTavish.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Let's get into that right now.
So after 20, the 23 games formy anaheim ducks, where I'm
leading the division at americanthanksgiving, and you know what
that usually means.
That means usually if you're ina playoff spot during at
american thanksgiving, you havea good chance of being in the
playoffs.
So I'm doing good so far.
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So after 23 games, macyMcTavish, who I remember I have
signed to a long-term deal I'mnot disclosing the amount.
You're the GM and coach, right?
Yes, I, I, as a head coach.
I fired Pat Verbeek, I went into, I went into his office.
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I was like look at me, I'm thecaptain now, all right.
So I have Mason Contavish After23 games.
He has 13 goals and 20 assistsfor 33 points in 23 games.
And then second in points, Ihave Troy Terry, with six goals,
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20 assists for 26 points.
Granlin eight goals, 16 assistsfor 24 points.
Leo Carlson four goals, 17assists for 21 points.
And I'm not going gonna do thefull team.
Uh, I'll do like that's acutter.
Uh, he was, let's see one, two,three, four, five, six, seventh
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in points nine goals, nineassists for 18 points.
Crider was eighth in pointswith 11 goals, eight assists for
19 points.
So that's after 23 games.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
So all of those guys either had I don't know all
those guys had more points thanmy leading scorer after 23 games
.
All of those guys?
That's just not going to belikely.
Hey, cope Copa Dar had fourgoals 14 assists for 18.
(40:08):
Yeah, I do.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
No, that's just not, I'm running a different offense
here.
I'm running, I'm running PhilJackson's triangle offense in
hockey.
Okay.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Anyways, my running phil jackson's triangle offense
in hockey, okay.
Anyways, my, my leading scorewas 18 points.
He'd be number 10 on the ducksum.
Second was full goal with fivegoals and 12 assists for 17
points.
More third, with four goals, 13assists for 17.
Laferriere seven goals, nineassists for 16.
Fiala four goals and 12 assistsfor 16.
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Deneau eight goals, sevenassists for 15.
Kempe, the Kings' leadingscorer last year six goals,
seven assists for 13 points.
Joel Armia, the defensivespecialist, had more points than
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Quentin Byfield did Four goals,nine assists for 13 points.
Byfield six goals, six assistsfor 12 points, and he was a
minus 11.
And this is what I get thedefensive, I mean Adrian Kempe,
is just like Kopitar.
He's a 200-foot player, greatdefender.
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He was a minus 7.
That's where I think the game'smissing something, because I
just don't.
I mean, you know, and you lookat Byfield's teammates, plus
three and plus one and he's aminus 11.
There's something missing there.
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But anyways, you know we canmove on to the next set.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
So here is the standings at the after the
olympic break.
Okay, so the olympics alreadyhappened.
The usa won gold.
They beat canada 10.
Nothing because I coached teamusa too.
So, yeah, usa won gold becauseof me.
You're welcome.
Um, here are the standings injust the pacific that was.
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The usa won gold just becauseof me just because of me, I
coached them to victory.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
Oh, god, they saw how I turned around anybody else
laughing with me I mean, theysaw what I was doing with the
Anaheim Ducks.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
They're like, hey, if this guy can turn these guys
into a number one team byAmerican Thanksgiving.
Mike Sullivan, you're out.
Cody, you're in Boom.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Yeah, but what happened after 56 games?
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Hey, let's not get into that, we're going to wait.
So here's the standings afterthe olympic break.
The golden knights are in firstplace with 57 games played and
71 points.
The kraken are in second with56 games played, 69 points.
The canucks are in third with57 games played, 69 points.
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The Kings and fourth 57 games,68 points, the Oilers, uh, and
fifth 58 games played, 63assists.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
The 63 points 63, points I don't know why I said
assist, assist.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
Assist.
Same thing.
There's points In sixth place.
The Anaheim Ducks went fromfirst to sixth between
Thanksgiving and the Olympics.
We're not going to talk aboutthis time of need.
The Ducks, in 56 games, had 62points, the Flames, 56 games, 60
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points and the Sharks sharks,55 games, 48 points.
And then you want to go intoyour, your point totals uh, I
got 62 games.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
Wait a second.
Oh here, it is never mind I gotit yeah, so the point totals 57
games.
Kopitar 16 goals, 43 assists, 59points.
Fiala same amount of games, 19goals, 32 assists for 51 points.
Kempe obviously made aresurgence.
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He had 15 goals, 33 assists for48 points.
Trevor Moore 13 goals, 33assists for 48 points.
Trevor Moore 13 goals, 28assists for 41 points.
Obviously, byfield played alittle better, but I guess he
played even over those games,because he's still a minus 17.
But he had 19 goals, 17 assistsfor 36 points.
Kuzmenko was next with 10, 10goals, 21 assists for 31 points.
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Fogel seven goals, 24 assistsfor 31.
Dino 13 goals, 16 assists for29.
And then la ferriere 10 goals,18 assists for 28 points.
And the funny thing is you, youknow you.
You said Perry's out for 68weeks.
It looks like it already put itinto the game because he hasn't
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been in the top 10 anywhere.
Well, he's a fourth liner.
But yeah, he had 19 goals lastyear.
He wasn't a fourth liner withEdmonton was he.
He was, but he played up when itwas.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
Yeah, but you probably don't need him playing
up as much, unless you need himto take over by Phil's spot.
But Perry's not a center, allright.
So for the Ducks, our leadingpoint person is still Mason
McTavish with 59 points.
And then you got Terry with 56,granlin with 45, cutter with 43
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, crider with 42, carlson with41, strom with 39, but toronto
with 33 and cologne with 29.
The goals mctavish has 29 goals, leading the ducks, and second
you have you have Cutter with 20.
And then Strom with 16, whichthat I don't believe.
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Terry with 15.
Kreider with 15.
And Killorn also with 15.
And the assist McTavish has 30assists, but Terry leads the
whole team with 41 assists.
Granlin has 35 assists, leoCarlson has 29.
Petrano has 27, which that Idon't believe.
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I feel like he would have like27 goals and six assists instead
of the other way around.
And Strome with 23 assists.
So that's our stats right afterthe Olympic break, and now
we're going to move on to whatit would look like right after.
Let's see where are we Rightafter the trade deadline.
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You want to?
Speaker 1 (47:13):
do the standings.
That's 63 games, right, yep, sostill at number one, the hated
ones ones, the golden knights,uh, they had 79 points, the
kraken still holding on tonumber two, which I find that
amazing because they wereterrible last year 76 points
moving up to number three is thekings, uh, with 76 points.
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Can Canucks?
I think the Stars are the wildcard team.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
Yes, I believe that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
The Canucks were 75 points and they were one of the
wild card teams.
The Ducks, with 72 points, werethe other wild card team.
I mean as the standings ofbetween 62 and 63 games, the
Oilers at 71 points, the flamesat 64, and then the sharks at 51
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.
Um, and then you want me to goover my points.
First, yeah, so Andre Kopitar,possibly in his final season
with the Kings, is having apoint-of-game season.
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So far, 18 goals, 45 assistsfor 63 points.
Fiala had 20 goals, 35 assistsfor 55.
Kempe moving up again 16 goals,37 assists for 53 points.
Trevor moore obviously uhplaying better than he did last
year 13 goals, 31 assists for 44points.
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By field uh, 20 goals, 18assists for 38 points.
Vogel nine goals, 26 assistsfor 35 points.
Obviously he's way downcompared to last year.
He had 24 goals.
Last year vogel did.
Hopefully that doesn't cometrue.
Kuzmenko 11 goals, 22 assistsfor 33 points.
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Deneau 14 goals, 17 assists for31.
And then Laferriere 12 goals,19 assists for 31 points.
Speaker 2 (49:24):
All right and for the Ducks still leading the team in
points and over a point-a-gameplayer Mason McTavish with 64
points, with 30 goals, 34assists.
Terry just literally at apoint-of-game 62 games, 62
points, 18 goals, 44 assists.
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Grandlin 11 goals, 41 assistsfor 52 points.
Cutter Godier 22 goals, 29assists for 51 points.
Leo Carlson 16 goals, 34assists for 50 points.
Kreider 18 and 29 for 47 points.
Strom 16 and 27 for 43 points.
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And then Vetrano 7 and 28.
7 goals for Vetrano and 20assists.
That is just like.
Speaker 1 (50:16):
I don't believe that one bit um I still can't believe
that ryan strump still has morepoints than byfield as a yeah,
third or fourth line center.
Speaker 2 (50:28):
This doesn't seem realistic yeah, no, I agree, I
agree with you 100 on that one.
And then, uh, last but notleast, uh calorn.
Uh, 15 goals, 18 assists for 33points.
So, uh, that.
So that's it.
For then.
This is out right after thetrade deadline, by the way.
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I put it so that there was notrades whatsoever, so none of
the teams changed, so the Kings,everyone, stayed on their teams
.
So, just to make it a littleeasier, Byfield's overrated?
Speaker 1 (51:05):
I don't think so, Adam.
Speaker 2 (51:08):
Is that what he said?
Yeah, he said it he's overrated.
Speaker 1 (51:12):
Yeah, All right.
So now I mean, I did ask Codyprivately I go, so would you
trade McTavish for Byfield?
And what did you say?
Who would you take?
Speaker 2 (51:29):
Okay, I didn't answer right away.
I did say I would take Byfieldright now, just because he's
signed.
And not just that, his, his heis, I think, a little bit higher
ceiling he's got a way higherceiling.
Speaker 1 (51:48):
The center he's six five.
So you saw, you saw the secondhalf of last season, what he
could do.
You know.
Hopefully, hopefully, I.
It just looks like he's havingthe same season again in this
one.
I hope that isn't true.
Speaker 2 (52:03):
I mean, is it crazy to see?
Okay, but this is what we'veseen so far.
But now that, after I've seenwhat I can do with Mason
Burtavish, I you know, look whatyou're doing, you can do it.
Speaker 1 (52:18):
You mean a simulation could do it.
Speaker 2 (52:21):
I put him in the right spot to succeed and look
what's going on.
Okay, just saying, just sayingso, let's now.
Let's go into the end of seasonstandings.
So after 82 games, this is thestandings.
I'm going to work my way fromthe bottom to the top.
All right, the Sharks finishedlast in the Pacific with 74
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points in 82 games, so they hada good jump.
The Flames 82 games, 84 points.
The Oilers, who did not makethe playoffs, finished sixth in
the Pacific with 91 points, andthe Ducks, who actually had the
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same amount of points as theOilers, but somehow we made the
playoffs.
I don't know, we must have wonthe head-to-head or whatever,
but the Ducks squeak in as thelast wildcard team and make it
into the playoffs.
In 82 games the Ducks had 91points.
The Kraken were the otherwildcard team.
In 82 games they had 98 pointsIn fourth.
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The Golden Knights in thirdwith 99 points, the Canucks 100
points in second and I think thefirst time ever in LA Kings
history that they won thePacific Division with 107 points
.
So you did take the Kings totheir best ever regular season.
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You outdid what Hiller did lastyear, wow.
But the question is shut up.
So I'll do my stats first.
Okay, End of the season.
Mctavish didn't get to keep thepoint of game, but he was just
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under.
In 82 games he had 80 points,35 goals, 45 assists.
Terry 74 points, 22 goals, 52assists.
Granlin 16 goals, 52 assistsfor 68 points.
Cutter godier 27 goals, 35assists for 68 points.
Cutter Godier 27 goals, 35assists for 62 points and Leo
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Carlson 22 goals, 40 assists for62 points.
Kreider 23 goals, 38 assistsfor 61 points.
Strom 20 goals, 36 assists for56 points, goals, 36 assists for
56 points.
Petrano 10 goals, 42 assistsfor 52 points and Killorn 19 and
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21 for 40.
No, Edmonton did not win in thefirst round because they didn't
make the playoffs.
Adam the Ducks finished justahead of them in the standings.
Yeah, Another thing about thesimulation.
That doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1 (55:13):
But then again finished just ahead of him in
the standings.
Yeah, All right.
Another thing about thesimulation that doesn't make any
sense, but then again it's asimulation.
Speaker 2 (55:21):
It makes sense if you don't think about it.
That's what you always say, Iknow.
And it makes sense if you don'tthink about it.
Speaker 1 (55:29):
So I'll start from the bottom this time LaFerriere
16 goals, 25 assists for 41.
From the bottom this time uh,laferrier 16 goals, 25 assists
for 41.
Brant clark uh, 16 goals and 25assists for 41 points.
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K?
Uh fifth, with 24 goals, 29assists for 53 points.
And I would bet money that hewouldn't be ninth on the ducks
in scoring this year.
Without the simulation.
In the real life he would be.
Maybe might be two or three.
Yeah, I'm betting on.
But and this is if everybodystays healthy so, and we never
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know what's going to happen somore 17 goals, 37 assists for 54
points.
I I bet you Byfield has morepoints than him too.
Now again Fiala and Kempe.
Right there, I will get.
Fiala led the team in goalswith 28.
Kempe only had 26, but theyboth had 75 points.
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And Andre Kopitar.
Speaker 2 (56:50):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (56:51):
Andre Anze Kopitar 24 goals, 59 assists, 83 points.
He was a point-a-game player.
Speaker 2 (57:01):
All right.
So this is the first-roundmatchups I'm going to start.
In the east, you have Canes,the Hurricanes versus the
Capitals, the Columbus BlueJackets versus the New Jersey
Devils.
Do you have Toronto versus theRed Wings?
Yep, the Red Wings made theplayoffs.
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And here's the best one thatmade the playoffs too Tampa Bay
versus the Buffalo Sabres.
In this playoff format we hadwhat Four teams break their
playoff droughts Ducks, redWings and Sabres.
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So in the East, in the firstround, carolina.
Speaker 1 (57:54):
That was only three teams, right.
Speaker 2 (57:56):
That's what I said Three teams I thought you said
14.
Speaker 1 (58:00):
I thought I said 14.
Speaker 2 (58:01):
I meant three.
So here are the first roundwinners Carolina wins in six
games over the WashingtonCapitals, columbus wins in seven
games over the New Capitals,columbus wins in seven games
over the New Jersey Devils,toronto wins in five games over
the Detroit Red Wings and thenTampa Bay wins in five games
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over the Buffalo Sabres and theWest Winnipeg wins in seven
games over the ColoradoAvalanche.
Minnesota I guess they won thecentral they win in five games
over the seattle kraken and thenthe vegas golden knights went
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in seven games over thevancouver canucks.
And it's funny how I didn'tmention two teams Ducks and
Kings in the first round.
Okay, you ready to hear thegame by games.
I don't have the stats oranything, I just have the scores
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.
I guess if you guys see mydad's reaction, you already know
what happens.
So in game one in LA, the Duckswin four to three.
Game two, kings win.
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In LA six to four.
Game three, ducks win two toone.
So two to one.
So two to one ducks.
Uh, in game four, the ducks winin overtime three to two.
So the ducks have a three oneseries lead.
Going back to la now we in la,in game five, kings win four to
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two and in game six uh ducks winfour to two to win the series
over the la kings.
I did not, I swear, I did notplay any of these games.
It was all simulated.
I swear.
Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
Swearing isn't, isn't nice, cody, that's not a nice,
that's not a nice word, mrCooper.
Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
No, that's a stupid, is it?
Oh no, I know I did?
I just left that out but it isstupid, okay, okay.
So round two matchups carolinaversus columbus carolina wins in
seven games and toronto versustampa bay tampa bay wins in six
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games.
So you have the matchup betweenTampa Bay and Carolina for the
Eastern Conference.
Want me to just give you theEastern Conference winner.
Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
You could be a little happier.
Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
So in this simulation , the Florida Panthers don't
even make the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
Oh, I didn't realize that.
Speaker 1 (01:01:17):
I'm just looking at this.
I go really.
Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
The.
Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
Stanley Cup champ.
Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
Wow, back to back.
I just now realized that too.
I didn't realize that Carolinawins in six games over the Tampa
Bay Lightning, so they go on tothe Stanley Cup final.
Finally, all right, bayLightning, so they go on to the
Stanley Cup Final.
Finally, alright, and the WestWinnipeg beats the Minnesota
Wild in seven games.
And then the alright and Iactually have the series hold on
(01:01:48):
.
Alright, ducks play the VegasGolden Knights in round two in
Vegas.
They lose two to one and thenwe win three to two in overtime,
so it's one one, and then theducks lose both games at home uh
, four to two and four to one.
But the ducks do get a win inback in vegas, four to three,
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but then lose, lose back at homesix to three and losing six
games to the vegas goldenknights.
So now you got vegas versuswinnipeg and in the western
conference final and vegas winsfour to one.
So now you got Vegas versusCarolina in the Stanley Cup
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Final and who do you think wins?
Speaker 1 (01:02:42):
Huh, I'm going to say it and mom could be mad at me
the cheaters.
Speaker 2 (01:02:48):
That is correct, the cheaters.
So now let's do the awardsbefore we get into anything else
.
So yes, the loss or the vegasgolden knights are your
2025-2026 stanley cup champions.
All right, now it's time forawards the art roast trophy,
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connor mcdavid.
The heart trophy, connormcdavid.
The Art Ross Trophy, connorMcDavid.
Speaker 1 (01:03:18):
The Hart Trophy Connor McDavid On a team that
didn't even make the playoffs.
On a team that didn't even makethe playoffs.
Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
The Norris Trophy, zach Rowenski, which I'm okay
with that one.
The Lady Bing, connor McDavid,the Calder, Ivan Demidoff, the
Conn Smythe Trophy we're goingto put a hold on that one.
Vesna Ilya Sorokin, theJennings Trophy, aiden Hill, the
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Bill Masterton Trophynor murphyfrom chicago, the selkie trophy
, for the eighth year in a rowalmost feels like um.
Alexander barkoff, the tedlindsey.
Connor mcdavid, the uh, the uh.
Connor McDavid, the MauriceRichard Trophy.
Speaker 1 (01:04:20):
That's the Richard, richard the Rocket.
Speaker 2 (01:04:22):
Richard, yeah, goes to Nathan McKinnon.
And the Conn Smythe Trophy,let's go back to that one.
I did skip that one.
So this was my favorite thingof the whole simulation not the
ducks making the playoffs, notthe ducks beating the kings in
the playoffs and even my hottake succeeding in this, it was
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this the con smith trophy forthe 2025-2026 season goes to
Mitchell Marner of the VegasGolden Knights, which I found
hilarious.
Ducks and Kings losers, oh, wow, okay, thank you, henny.
Speaker 1 (01:05:14):
Oilers own you.
Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
All right, well, I mean, it's not wrong.
At the same time, oh, did welose you, dad?
I think we lost you.
But yeah, mitch Marner won theConn's Moth Trophy.
In the simulation.
(01:05:38):
I don't know if I wouldn't saythe Oilers would be running the
NHL for the next decade.
I mean, you don't even haveMcDavid signed yet, and who
knows if he's staying or not.
(01:05:59):
So, but yeah, but yeah.
If anyone has any questions,put it in the chat right now.
I don't know what happened tomy dad.
Oh, he's gone.
No, that's true.
Edmonton can talk smack whenthey actually win the Stanley
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Cup this century.
That is true, yeah, so I agreewith that and that's actually
great.
And you guys don't even haveyour number one player sign.
So yeah.
(01:06:53):
Well, I don't know what happenedto my dad.
I guess we lost him.
Hopefully he'll be coming backpretty soon.
Let's see.
Do we have anything else totalk about?
Let's see, I'm looking onlineto see if there's anything else.
(01:07:33):
Let's see.
Try to remember if I need to.
So yeah, again, if you guys dowant to play any fantasy hockey
in our royally quack league,please DM us on any social media
or email us at royallyquack atgmailcom.
Like I said, we have about twospots open so far.
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So if you're interested, let meknow.
And again, next week thePatriots hockey do have their
golf tournament.
I'm trying to find the thing.
I kind of swear I had it onhere somewhere.
Let's see, let me go on.
(01:08:20):
Let's see.
There it is.
Nope, that's not.
It all right.
(01:08:41):
I guess my dad's, I guess theirinternet keeps uh going out.
Um, yeah, golf tournament.
Guys, patriots fourth annualgolf tournament.
Uh, it will be at the CrossCreek Golf Club in Temecula,
california.
Please sign up.
You can donate, you can sign up.
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They still need plenty ofgolfers.
It's on September 20th 2025.
I'll put the link in the shownotes.
So please go check out.
Uh, the Patriots hockey, uh,annual golf tournament.
It should be a lot of fun.
Me and my dad will both bethere.
Um, we're, we're lookingforward to it.
(01:09:27):
Uh.
On that, uh, everyone hockey'sback.
I mean, we had the rookie faceoff last night.
We got the uh kings versussharks and about a little less
than two hours, uh, and then wegot the ducks and kings tomorrow
.
Like I said, we'll be at thegame tomorrow, so we're both
looking forward to that.
Um, I don't know when my dad'sinternet's gonna be back on, but
(01:09:50):
, uh, I think we're out of timeanyway.
So, everyone, please, again,please, go check out out the
Patriots hockey golf tournament.
Oh, here he is.
Speaker 1 (01:10:01):
Yeah, my internet went down.
Yeah, no kidding, let me getRiverside back on too.
Speaker 2 (01:10:08):
Oh, don't worry about Riverside, because I was just
about to close this out anyways.
Speaker 1 (01:10:13):
Yeah.
So, but yeah, sorry about that,fans.
Yeah, my internet wentcompletely out.
Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
Yeah, so yeah, I was just about to do the intro.
Speaker 1 (01:10:32):
You mean the exit.
One thing I would like to sayis I I'm gonna bet byfield
wouldn't come ninth on the ducksthis year.
Yeah I can see that yeah, youknow, I can't see all those guys
having great season and him nothaving at least something well,
you want to.
Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
You want to know why I agree with that, because I'm
not coaching the ducks.
Speaker 1 (01:10:55):
So if we was coaching the ducks, it'd be different
well, if I was coaching thekings, he would be the number
one center.
Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
Yeah, this year well, you didn't make him the number
one center.
That was your choice true.
Speaker 1 (01:11:08):
I wonder if that would have changed anything I
don't know, have you run?
Another simulation with thatand see what happens.
Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
Where we have 107 points.
Speaker 1 (01:11:18):
We had 107 points, which is a team record, and you
won the division finally.
Yeah well, that was shocking.
And then we lose to you guys inthe playoffs.
But that's the second timewe've lost to you guys In some
kind of simulation.
Speaker 2 (01:11:33):
No, that was just a you and I simulation thing when
we made a team, the East versusWest one.
Speaker 1 (01:11:43):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
Yeah.
I thought we lost Rememberyou've won every single thing,
except for the East versus theWest, and then this one.
So but all right, I I'm readyto get out of here, are you?
Yes, sir, before you loseinternet again.
Speaker 1 (01:12:01):
Well it's, hopefully that doesn't happen.
I mean, all of it just wentdown like poof.
Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
Yeah, that was us a few weeks ago, so all right.
Well, everyone, um, don't be asore.
Speaker 1 (01:12:13):
All right.
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Well, thank you everyone for joining us on the
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Uh, we really appreciate it.
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Just giving you guys a heads up.
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Um, so just uh yeah, we will, we will still be a
podcast just not a live show.
Yeah, we're going to be at thePatriot hockey golf tournament
in Temecula, or is it Duluth,duluth, right, duluth.
Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
We're going to be there.
Duluth is in Temecula.
Yeah, it's just part ofTemecula.
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We will still have news for youguys and we want anybody and
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We will not be live or on YouTube next week.
If we do video, I'll still post.
I can still post the video onYouTube.
Yeah, it would just be afterthe fact.
So so you guys know, like Isaid, no live stream, everything
will be out, uh, on monday, asadam said, like spike.
So all right, well, before weget out here, uh, do you have a
prediction for tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (01:15:14):
Fun, that's not what I meant, but okay, you know what
I expect a good game.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:15:26):
It depends on who plays.
Speaker 1 (01:15:30):
It should be the same players.
You know they have a lot ofguys on these rosters and a lot
of times.
Uh, well, they're one less gamethis year, so they're gonna
have to figure out how to playthem.
Maybe they'll let more than 23on the roster and be able to
move them in and out.
Maybe I don't know, but uh, I'm, I'm looking forward to seeing
uh, seneca and and green treeplay.
(01:15:51):
Um, I do believe, do believe,carter George is playing right
there.
I think the Kings have anadvantage in goal, uh, cause I
think he's, he's going to beelite.
Um, I would think the Kingswould win, but they've.
You know, after watching thesesimulations, anything can happen
(01:16:12):
, that's true.
Speaker 2 (01:16:12):
But uh, I think tomorrow's gonna be a lot of fun
If you watching thesesimulations.
Anything can happen, that'strue, but I I think tomorrow's
gonna be a lot of fun If you seeus there, come say hi and
everything, and yeah, and I hopetomorrow's a great game.
So, so, until next week, let'sgo ducks, go Kings.
Speaker 1 (01:16:28):
Go See you next week.
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Father and son so strong Outro Music Shout and go
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They cheer my father and son, their passion sincere
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Welcome to the World of Warcraft, episode 1, the
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Welcome back, hockey fans, toRoyally Quacked.
I'd like to start off today'sepisode with just a moment of
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silence, for what happened topoor Charlie Kirk this week.
It was sad and he's left twosmall children and his wife.
So if we could just bow ourheads and all of us maybe lift
up some prayers for them and allof America.
So let's have 30 seconds ofsilence and then we'll get
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started, all right.
So welcome everyone to anotherwhat If?
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Episode of Royally Quacked.
So there's breaking news JimHiller has stepped down as the
coach of the LA Kings and RollyQuack podcaster Gary Spink has
been named coach of the Kings.
(01:55):
You have any news, cody?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah, it's weird that your coach randomly stepped
down and mine just randomly.
He's like you know what?
I'm going to just retire.
I'm the oldest coach in theleague, I'm going to retire and
I'm going to pick my successorand I'm going to choose Roley
Quack's own diehard Ducks fan,cody Spink.
(02:22):
Yep, he chose me out ofeveryone.
He said he's like no Verbeek,I'm going to choose the next
coach Because apparently youcan't sign people in time, so
I'm going to choose Cody.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
So this episode we're going to see by using NHL 2026
to see with us as coaches if wecould do a better job than the
coaches.
So we've set our lineups, we'vewe've set power play units, and
(03:05):
I know Adam's going nuts, isn'the?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Always.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Captain of chaos.
Yeah, god help you.
You need all the help you canget, anyways.
So you know, the results are in.
I have to say I I think it'sunrealistic, but you know it was
(03:33):
fun.
So how do you want to startthis, cody?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Well, let's do the news first, because I mean we
got tons of it.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Well, you got a ton of ducks news, that's for sure.
You're going to be about anhour.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah, I know, so I guess.
God help us, adam, get yourcamping gear ready, because
we're going to be here for awhile.
All right, ready, all right,let me just crack the back.
All right, I'm ready, all right.
Ryan paling will wear number 25for the anaheim ducks this
season I hear crickets, cody, isthat all the duck zoos, that's?
(04:22):
all the ducks news because we,we still don't have a certain
signing done for Beak.
Yep, you heard it from herefirst or not first, but Yep,
because for Beak doesn't want tosign, mctavish, apparently.
And we're not talking about therookie faceoff games until not
(04:46):
next week, but the week afterokay, let's go to king's news
then.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Uh, kings finally have announced their broadcast
teams.
So tv to start with.
John kelly is going to be ourplay-by-play.
I think he's done the blues anda few other teams, so he's a
veteran of it.
You're still going to have jimfox as the lead analyst and an
(05:12):
add-on, tony granato, is goingto be an analyst.
Uh, there will be a few othersthat might come in and and uh
spell like jim fox, or like JimFox or Daryl Evans on podcasts,
some of the guys like JarrettStoll and so forth, but on radio
, just like last season, joshSchaefer is going to be the
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play-by-play and Daryl Evans, ofcourse, will be the analyst.
And then I didn't even knowthis news, cody, you must have
thrown this in here.
Kings forward Coreyry waspossibly injured while skating
with his teammates at the toyotasports performance center in el
segundo on friday and he wentunder, underwent successful knee
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surgery and will miss six toeight weeks.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
The the, the one with him getting possibly getting.
That one came out late lastnight and then this morning I
saw I don't know if you getnotifications from ESPN or not,
but they also put it on therethat Corey Perry underwent
successful knee surgery and hewas going to be out six to eight
(06:19):
months.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I guess that's going to leave an opening for somebody
else to play.
I guess that's going to leavean opening for somebody else to
play.
I'm assuming that's going tosave one waiver wire thing for
six to eight weeks, because wehad a bunch of guys that could
go on the waiver wire.
One of them is going to get tomake the final roster.
We'll see who that might be.
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And then the last bit of Kingsnews is happy birthday, adrian
Kempe.
Juice, let's get also.
I mean, we also are looking ata signing, but his isn't until
next season, and there was newsthat came out that in fact
Adrian Kempe spoke saying thatright now I mean they're looking
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somewhere to maybe beforetraining camp starts, to even
maybe Christmas time beforegetting his contract finalized
and he's OK with that.
But he does want to stay in LAKing, if anybody was concerned.
Want to stay in la king, ifanybody was concerned.
(07:28):
Um, I think there's actuallymore concern.
What's going to go on with uhmctavish, because they seem to
be just not being able to figureout how to sign him and his
contract's up now.
So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yeah, all right On to league news.
The NHL trade deadline hasalready been set for Friday,
march 6th 2026.
Mark your calendars, guys.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah, that's when some of team-changing trades can
happen, especially if you'revying for a playoff spot.
The 26-27 NHL regular seasonwill be 84 games and begin in
late September instead of earlyOctober.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah, so we'll get an earlier start, early october.
Yeah, so we'll get a an earlierstart.
And they're saying the stanleycup will be handed out mid-june
instead of late jilloon, latejilloon, jilloon, does it really
say, just say jilloon, what Iheard, but I don't know.
I mean late june.
Okay, jilloon, I did say jaloon, what is with me?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
wow, that was horrible.
English is our third languageand then the Ames Fala.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
The Flames re-sign goaltender Dustin Wolf to a 7
year, 7.5 million AAV contractextension and the deal will
begin in the 2026-2027 Jaloonseason, which can just season.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I can't believe I said that you know the
interesting thing about that?
One good season and they justsigned him.
I mean you think they couldhave let him try to have a
second good season before givinghim that much money.
I mean, there there isquestions about the deal.
Now maybe he's going to justprove everybody that he's.
You know, especially all theCalifornia teams that didn't
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draft him Cause he was a seventh, was a seventh round pick, yeah
.
So, you know, and and good forhim.
I I don't have any ill willunless he's playing my team and
tell him he can suck then and hecan be good against everybody
else.
But I just thought, wow,hopefully he's not a Pierre or
(10:00):
Luc Dubois contract type thing.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Well, the thing is that, uh, dustin wolf has
already had a better career thanpld, in my opinion.
Already, I mean, this wolfliterally almost single-handedly
dragged the calgary flames intoa playoff spot last year he did
(10:23):
have a great season, I agreewith you.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
So, um, but you know, sometimes you're feeling heat
like they're gonna be.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
In my opinion, they're gonna be the biggest
regression this year, because Idon't think they're gonna be
able to do what they did lastyear, unless their scoring gets
better.
But then again, you know, theygot mor, got Morgan Frost and I
believe it was Farabee, you know, and they'll have them all
through training camp.
It's not like a trade.
You know, midseason tradeaccusation, and then they have
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to try to get used to it.
Now they'll be there for a lotlonger because I mean, they
didn't make any moves reallythis offseason.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
So we'll see.
We're going to see.
We'll see how they did in thesimulation.
After the news so Well, we'llsee, we're going to see.
We'll see how they did in thesimulation.
After the news True, brendanEscott has confirmed the
Edmonton Oilers will debut abrand new alternate jersey for
the 2025-26 season.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah, I'm still waiting to see the Kings one.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yeah me too.
I, I'm, I'm hoping it has some,some old colors in it yeah, I
hope so too.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Um, I think there's already enough black, silver and
white already.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I think you guys, you guys need some color well, even
if it's a, you know, avariation of the gray color.
Gray colors, nothing more.
Black and silver.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah, it makes me wonder what these Edmonton ones
are going to look like.
I saw a sneak peek, like a leak, but I don't know.
I didn't like the sneak peek.
Or the leak one that came out,but it's all right.
Or the leak one that came out,but it's all right.
And then the next one is theNHL and NHLPA have agreed that
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the five acquitted in the 2028London Scandal Assault Trial
Alex Formenton, cal Foote,michael McLeod, dylan Dubé and
Carter Hart will be suspendeduntil december 1st per elliot
friedman but will have theopportunity to sign with nhl
teams as soon as october 15thand the rumor is that the
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edmonton oilers are going to goafter carter hart no, no, that's
not happening.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Really.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
They're not yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
They're they're going to believe in what they have,
huh.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I've seen multiple sources saying that the Edmonton
Oilers are not going afterCarter Hart.
Multiple sources, Wow.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
We'll see what happens.
Maybe that's just the the's,just the way of getting Carter
Hart.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I did see somewhere on Instagram that Carter Hart
already has a verbal deal inplace.
It was like a two or three yeardeal, but I don't know with who
or how much.
They haven't figured out.
I don't know if it was a rumoror not.
Like I said, I'm not saying hedid or not, but they're just
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saying that it could havehappened and but there's no.
They're saying that the I thinkthe Vegas goal, the Knights
were one team looking into himand that's it I.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
He's it's not sitting stone that he's anywhere yet.
Yeah, a little bit betterbackup to aiden hill then yeah I
could.
I see that.
Okay, the blues have signedforward justin carbineau to a
three-year entry level contractyeah, he was their first round
pick in 2025.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
And then also, the sharks have signed their number
two overall first round pick,michael misa, to a three-year
entry-level contract.
We saw him play last night inthe rookie base off game against
the ducks and I can tell youthat was a interesting game to
watch.
I mean, that's all I going tosay on that.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I missed it.
Yeah, you could give us alittle bit.
I guess you could get a littlebit of news about that.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I mean, if you wanted to, Are we going to save that
for next week?
I'll save it for when we do thewhole recap of it.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Okay, so contract extension drama between
Minnesota and Kaprizov yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
So, like last week, from what I heard is that the
Minnesota wild offered Kaprizoveight years by 16 million AAV,
so that came out to $128 millionoverall and he rejected the
contract.
Yep million dollars overall andhe rejected the contract.
(15:10):
Yep and then.
But why would he reject thebiggest contract ever in in the
nhl history?
I mean you know he got the years.
He got the the highest aav sofar.
Is he waiting to see whatmcdavid's gonna do?
Is he gonna wait?
Or is mcdavid waiting to seewhat capri soft's gonna do or
eichel's gonna do, becauseeichel's a free agent after the
(15:33):
season two, interesting.
So I don't know if someone'sjust trying to say like all
right, once they sign, then I'llknow what to sign for, kind of
thing.
Um, they're saying that maybedoes he want more money with
less years, does he want to dolike a four, three or four year
deal, that way he can make, youknow, 20 million, 21 million
(15:56):
when that contract's up, perseason.
I like I said I have no idea.
They're saying that the wildasked him for his trade team
list because I guess he has a nomove or no trade list.
But I heard that's not true.
But also the the whole thingwith that was going on with that
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is, bill garen even came on andsaid is like I'm like I know no
one from minnesota said any ofthis.
He's like I know for a factthat nobody from kaprizov's camp
said anything.
So this is just random news.
So we still don't know exactlywhat's going on with between
minnesota and kaprizov, you know, hopefully he's like.
(16:40):
You know what I want to go toanaheim.
Just send me there, okay.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
You keep praying for a superstar.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I do?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
It would be nice.
You know, uh Kings haveobviously had a lot more history
in the ducks and they've neversigned a big Uh contract for any
kind of superstar ever.
So I mean they've traded forthem him.
But they've never signed themfree agent wise.
So here this is per espnretired mark andre flurry to
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suit up in a preseason game withthe penguins to finish off his
hall of fame career.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yep, he signed a pto and will suit up for one game I
think that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I because I agree I, I just he is one funny guy off
off the ice.
I mean him and sydney crosbyused to pick on each other like
crazy that's someone who I donot want to get in a prank war
with.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Let's just put it that way.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah Well, you know what you know.
If you can have fun at work, itsure makes work a lot easier to
do it does.
And I got to tell you he's aHall of Fame, definitely Hall of
Famer.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Hall of Fame.
He's definitely his numberretired in Pittsburgh, so I'm so
glad he did that.
I think that's the best thing.
Then, speaking of goalie news,the Blackhawks have signed
Spencer Knight to a three-year5.83 million AAV contract
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extension, per Scott Powers, andthe deal will begin in 26 27.
So, yeah, they locked upthey're not locked up, but
extended their number one goalie, so that's good news.
So, and that's it for all thenews that we have yeah so, uh, I
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want to take a minute and saythis real quick that, um, we do
have a couple slots open up forfantasy hockey.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
This is this is in our league our league not not
just an open hey, like espn oror yahoo or something saying hey
, come join, you know team.
This is our hockey league,which has been going on for
seven years, very competitive.
Just got to bring your A game,yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
We already had one listener sign up and join.
Thank you, Kevin.
He already signed up.
I already saw, but we do havetwo slots available.
So if you are interested, go toany of our social medias and
send us a message, or you canemail us at royallyquacked at
gmailcom and I will send you theinvite link as soon as you send
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it to me.
So if you guys are interested,please let us know.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
First come, first serve.
Please be someone who, ifyou're in last place, doesn't
quit and, like I said, it's freeto join.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
We're not asking, you know, for any money.
It's yes, we know adam, youalready quit once yeah well,
adam, there's still, there'sstill, there's still a spot
available.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
It's all in fun, yeah .
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Like I said, it's free to play.
We're not asking for any feesor anything.
It's just bragging rights.
I know some people like to playfor money.
We play for bragging rightshere.
Of course, one of us has a lotmore bragging rights than the
other, so, um, but like I saidif you're, if you're interested,
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just email us at royallyquacked at gmailcom.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Well, you know, the spink name is one six of the
seven seasons Cody.
Yeah, so we have the braggingrights, True?
Um, not not to say that someonecan come in and kick our butts,
because I definitely havestruggled a little.
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I struggled a lot last yearwith it, just because of
everything else in life, Becauseat work it's gotten busier and
I'm in a new position starting aweek from monday which is even
more demanding, so I might beweak enough for everybody to
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beat me next season.
So who knows?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
yeah, so yeah, and especially at my work last year,
we had five drivers during ourbusy year and right now we're
looking to hire one more so that.
But we would only be at fourdrivers.
So we'll see how everythinggoes with that too.
So the only good thing is like,at least with the esbn uh thing
that we use, they added thatfeature where you can hit like
(21:36):
start your whole, like it'llstart all your starting players
for you.
You know at least like it'll dolike the minimum, uh, you know,
but it will play like the bestplayers.
Sometimes you got to go in andswitch it right, exactly what I
was just gonna say, you know,because I had one time where I
think I had matthews and it hadmy worst player starting over
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austin matthews and I was likeuh, no switch.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
So so so.
So, adam, there's a possibilityof you getting a new job.
I didn't even know that was inthe play I hope you get it.
We'd love to have you come back.
You and your dad were always.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
You always worked it hard yeah, um, I I you know it's
funny like this.
This.
This the the Thursday nightfootball game.
We have a fantasy footballleague at my work.
So between my two tight ends Ihad Mark Andrews from Baltimore
and the green Bay tight end Idon't remember his first name,
(22:40):
craft and I had Andrew startingand I want to say like maybe 30,
45 minutes before the gamestarted I switched it.
I was like not mark andrews,didn't?
They didn't really throw theball to him at all, you know.
So I was like I'll, I'll go to,I'll play craft.
He got me.
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So he got me 24 and a halfpoints on Thursday night.
I was like that was such agreat switch.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I take it, you won, I lost my first.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
No, that was for this week.
I lost my first week One of thewide receivers I had on my
bench.
I had Flowers from Baltimore,he had 28 points and he had on
my bench I had, uh, flowers frombaltimore, he had 28 points,
his, and he was on my bench.
If I and he, he scored morepoints by himself than all three
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of my receivers did.
That I started yeah combined Ilost.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I lost the first week by two points.
Oh, I got demolished.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I I had aj brown, get 1.3 points yeah I played mark
andrews got me one and a half mydefense.
I had baltimore.
They got me negative threepoints.
I had joe burrow who apparentlycouldn't get a single yard in
the second half againstcleveland so yeah, so it was all
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bad for me, but I just wantedto put it out there.
We you know that.
You know we do have a couple ofslots open.
If you guys are interested, letus know.
It said you can haveco-managers so you and your
friend don't have time Like ifyou don't have time but your
friend does, you guys can managea team together.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
You know we can do that, so just I'll put it out
there We've, we've, threatenedto do that, just because it
would be easier.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
If we get more people than me, my dad will team up
and then we'll have a you know,the host versus everyone else.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
And yeah, We'll have the host versus everyone else.
Yeah, if we get enough playerswe'll.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
I have no problem doing that.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Yeah, I have no problem doing that, either
because we'd love to haveparticipation.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
So there could be three spots.
If you guys want it, just letus know.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Yeah, please let us know.
Like I said, we'll be at thegame tomorrow.
If you guys see us, say come,say hi.
I don't.
I still don't know what jerseyI'm wearing.
I think I'm gonna wear my my uhducks orange jersey the new one
.
So if you see me, you know Igot some goodies too.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
I bought some new goodies I'll be in a Copa tar or
Dowdy.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Jersey tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
I haven't decided which one yet.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
So yeah, but yeah, I'm excited for the game
tomorrow.
We'll definitely be there, Ican tell you I probably much
rather watch it live than on TV,because the whoever was working
the camera last night was notvery good.
But then again it's.
You know, it's not professionalwork, it's, and it's a
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different arena too.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
So so, all your Kings fans, la Kingscom does stream
it.
So if you'd like to watch it,you just got to go on LA
Kingscom to watch the Kingsgames, which obviously tomorrow
will be a Kings and a ducks game.
So yeah, and then there's gamethere, the Kings are playing the
Sharks today.
I'm not even sure what timethat one is that one o'clock,
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okay.
Well, we're going to be busytoday, so I'll probably miss
some of that game because wehave extended family business
today.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
So no, and we'll have a and everything in Ducks fans.
Everything is on victory plusand it's not region locked
either.
So if you're in New York as aducks fan, you can still watch
the game, or in another country,you can still go on victory
plus and watch the game still.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
So, uh, we onto our simulation which, yes, so coach
will it will simulation whichyes?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
So coach will?
It will be shocking.
Yes, let's just say I wasshocked, oh I was really shocked
and it wasn't just on ducks andKing stuff and honestly, yes, I
was happy about one part, but Iwas even kind of not happy, but
more my favorite part hadnothing to do with the ducks and
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kings.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
To be honest, um so well, that was pleasing.
I have to admit that part waspleasing yes.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
So, coach gary, yes, um, now, in your first year as
the la kings, uh, head coach, uh, what's going to be your
starting lineup for the season?
In this case, corey Perry isstill completely healthy and
able to play game one.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
My number one line would be the AK line Andre
Kuzmenko, Anze Kopitar andAdrian Kempe.
My number two line will beKevin Fiala, Quinton Byfield and
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Alex Laferriere.
My third line will be TrevorMoore, Philip Deneau and Warren
Fogle a big surprise last yearand the fourth line will be Joel
Armia, Alex Turcotte and CoreyPerry.
My number one D line will beobviously Mikey Anderson and
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Drew Dowdy.
My number two line would beEdmondson and Clark and the
number three line is Dumoulinand CeCe, With Darcy Kemper in
goal and obviously his backupwould be Forsberg.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Forsberg yeah, Good job, Coach, Gary.
Yeah thank you All right.
And for me, my starting lineupas the new Anaheim Ducks head
coach, my starting top forwardline would be Kreider, leo
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Carlson and cutter Godier.
Second line I would have aGrandlin, terry and McTavish.
Yes, and we did sign McTavish,don't worry about that guys.
We did sign McTavish in my, inmy scenario.
Um, third line, I would haveStrom, vetrano and Kalorn.
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In my fourth line I would haveColangelo, paling and Nestorenko
.
I don't want the human trafficcone anywhere near my lineup.
And then my defensive pairs.
I would keep pretty much whatwe had last year.
I had Gudis and Lacombe as thetop pair.
Defensive pairs I would.
I would keep pretty much whatwe had last year.
I had, uh, goodison lacombe asthe top pair, uh, truba
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mintikoff as the second pair andthen zellweger and helison as
my third pair and then as ourstarting goalie would be
lukashic.
Did you do your power playunits?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
I didn't.
I don't think that would be.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Let's just put the.
I helped my dad in thissituation too.
I forgot.
I thought I had Fiala in there,but I obviously didn't do it to
start with the number one linewhen I was putting in the
lineups I was like why is Fialain there?
But I obviously didn't do it tostart with the number one line
when I was putting in thelineups and I was like why is
Fiala not on the power play?
And I didn't even start it.
I messaged him.
I was like I'm like no Fiala onthe power play.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
You're lucky.
I even saw that because I wasat work.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Well, I wouldn't have done it until you told me To do
like.
Well, anyways, I did.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Forget Kevin Fiala.
So I ended up doing puttingFiala.
It was Kopitar Kempe, kuzmenko,byfield and Fiala.
I did a five forward line.
My second one was, I think,dano.
Let's see, here was, I think,deneau Moore Fogle trying to
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think to know more Perry Fogleand Clark right.
The surprise was no drew daddyon the power play.
Yeah, he doesn't, he doesn't.
I mean I agree.
I mean, if you guys listen tothe lockdown Kings, eddie says
we got to give Clark more.
We got to, we got to help himgrow.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
And part of that is more.
Dowdy needs less and Dowdy.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Dowdy is, and part of that is more.
Dowdy needs less, and well,dowdy dowdy's going to be more
effective.
He's getting older.
I know he's been a just likethe super trooper for years and
years, but it's time to to sitback and be your best instead of
just throwing it out there 27minutes a night.
Yeah, so that was the, thesecond power, uh, or, yeah, the
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second power play unit.
And then my penalty kill.
You have to remind me, cody,because I left armia off there,
which armia should have been onthe first line.
He was fourth in, uh,shorthanded minutes in the nhl
last year and it's one reasonthat the king signed him to give
kopitar and kempe a break, butI think I had what kempe you had
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to know kempe anderson dowdy onthe first penalty kill.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Yeah, the second.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Second one you had byfield fogel, edmondson and cc
yeah, I didn't even have armiaand any of them and I think that
could have made a maybe apossible difference in some of
the results.
Um, and then I'm assuming that,um, I don't know, in the
simulation cody maybe you couldanswer this quick did the backup
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goalie ever play?
Speaker 2 (32:50):
I I would have to go.
I would have to log in and look, do you want me to start up?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
no, it's all right, we, you know, just with the idea
we probably the number onegoalie played every game.
So, and the nice thing is is,when cody did this, he did take
um pictures of different partsof the season.
So we have like standingsthroughout the simulation, I
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mean certain games, not everygame, and then uh, stats for
that.
And, and I tell you what I mean, I was, I'm, I was disappointed
in some of the results of whathappened.
But I was more different, uhupset with who played well, um,
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not, not that the Kings didn'tplayed well, not that the Kings
didn't play well, they did.
But it had Byfield not evengrow, not even a point, and he
was a minus in the whole season.
I didn't get that and he hadwhat seven ducks outscore him.
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I just I didn't get that and hehad what Seven ducks outscore
him.
I just I don't see that theducks aren't even a great
scoring team.
Now, maybe that's going tochange with Quinville.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Nope, nope, it's changing under me.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Duh.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
If.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
I had to say uh, I I didn't do any better than Hiller
people.
Just to be honest with you, Iactually was just like Jim
Hiller, but I don't know if thatcould have been put in the
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simulation.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Let's see.
I don't know why it's onlygiven.
Am I not able to look up theregular season?
What do you mean?
I'm trying to find the.
I'm on the game right nowtrying to find.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Let's see.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
No, I guess I can't.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
It's only given playoffs now it's all right,
let's go with what we have.
Okay, so I've my first.
Let's just talk about thestandings.
First standings I saw was after23 games is that that's the
American Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Yeah, I understand that, but that's the first
standings that was on here,because I know you sent me
photos and there was a few Icouldn't find, so you sent them
to me after the fact.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
So what I did was I did.
I did one standings afterAmerican Thanksgiving, I did
another one after the Olympics,another one after the trade
deadline and then the end of theseason and then playoffs.
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No, you would not have, adam,because wait to see how I did.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Uh, I, I hate to tell you, adam, we saw you in a
fantasy hockey league.
Yeah, no, I would say no so,but anyway, so you want to.
You guys want to hear thestandings after 23 games.
So guess who's number one?
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And we're just doing thePacific on this one.
After 23 games, 14 wins, 7losses, 2 overtime losses for 30
points are the Quackers.
I'm good.
Number two were the edmontonoilers.
(36:47):
They had played 25 games.
They were 14, 11 and 0 for 28points.
Yeah, okay, it's not a time formaking excuses, adam, you know
you can always set your lineupbefore the last minute right,
yeah, yeah, you can do that.
Uh, in third place, and afterthis was also at 23 games, was
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the golden knights at 13, 9 and1 for 27 points.
The kraken 23 games 13, 9 and 1for 27 points.
The kings were in fifth place.
Uh, also 23 games 12, 9 and 2for 26 points.
Canucks 12, 11 and 1 for 25points.
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The flames were um um after 25games 10, 11 and 4 for 24.
And of course, the hated Sharks24 games, 10 wins, 11 losses,
three overtime losses for 23points.
And on the top of this is thesuperstar that they haven't
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signed yet, mason McTavish.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Let's get into that right now.
So after 20, the 23 games formy anaheim ducks, where I'm
leading the division at americanthanksgiving, and you know what
that usually means.
That means usually if you're ina playoff spot during at
american thanksgiving, you havea good chance of being in the
playoffs.
So I'm doing good so far.
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So after 23 games, macyMcTavish, who I remember I have
signed to a long-term deal I'mnot disclosing the amount.
You're the GM and coach, right?
Yes, I, I, as a head coach.
I fired Pat Verbeek, I went into, I went into his office.
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I was like look at me, I'm thecaptain now, all right.
So I have Mason Contavish After23 games.
He has 13 goals and 20 assistsfor 33 points in 23 games.
And then second in points, Ihave Troy Terry, with six goals,
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20 assists for 26 points.
Granlin eight goals, 16 assistsfor 24 points.
Leo Carlson four goals, 17assists for 21 points.
And I'm not going gonna do thefull team.
Uh, I'll do like that's acutter.
Uh, he was, let's see one, two,three, four, five, six, seventh
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in points nine goals, nineassists for 18 points.
Crider was eighth in pointswith 11 goals, eight assists for
19 points.
So that's after 23 games.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
So all of those guys either had I don't know all
those guys had more points thanmy leading scorer after 23 games
.
All of those guys?
That's just not going to belikely.
Hey, cope Copa Dar had fourgoals 14 assists for 18.
(40:08):
Yeah, I do.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
No, that's just not, I'm running a different offense
here.
I'm running, I'm running PhilJackson's triangle offense in
hockey.
Okay.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Anyways, my running phil jackson's triangle offense
in hockey, okay.
Anyways, my, my leading scorewas 18 points.
He'd be number 10 on the ducksum.
Second was full goal with fivegoals and 12 assists for 17
points.
More third, with four goals, 13assists for 17.
Laferriere seven goals, nineassists for 16.
Fiala four goals and 12 assistsfor 16.
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Deneau eight goals, sevenassists for 15.
Kempe, the Kings' leadingscorer last year six goals,
seven assists for 13 points.
Joel Armia, the defensivespecialist, had more points than
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Quentin Byfield did Four goals,nine assists for 13 points.
Byfield six goals, six assistsfor 12 points, and he was a
minus 11.
And this is what I get thedefensive, I mean Adrian Kempe,
is just like Kopitar.
He's a 200-foot player, greatdefender.
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He was a minus 7.
That's where I think the game'smissing something, because I
just don't.
I mean, you know, and you lookat Byfield's teammates, plus
three and plus one and he's aminus 11.
There's something missing there.
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But anyways, you know we canmove on to the next set.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
So here is the standings at the after the
olympic break.
Okay, so the olympics alreadyhappened.
The usa won gold.
They beat canada 10.
Nothing because I coached teamusa too.
So, yeah, usa won gold becauseof me.
You're welcome.
Um, here are the standings injust the pacific that was.
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The usa won gold just becauseof me just because of me, I
coached them to victory.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
Oh, god, they saw how I turned around anybody else
laughing with me I mean, theysaw what I was doing with the
Anaheim Ducks.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
They're like, hey, if this guy can turn these guys
into a number one team byAmerican Thanksgiving.
Mike Sullivan, you're out.
Cody, you're in Boom.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Yeah, but what happened after 56 games?
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Hey, let's not get into that, we're going to wait.
So here's the standings afterthe olympic break.
The golden knights are in firstplace with 57 games played and
71 points.
The kraken are in second with56 games played, 69 points.
The canucks are in third with57 games played, 69 points.
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The Kings and fourth 57 games,68 points, the Oilers, uh, and
fifth 58 games played, 63assists.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
The 63 points 63, points I don't know why I said
assist, assist.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
Assist.
Same thing.
There's points In sixth place.
The Anaheim Ducks went fromfirst to sixth between
Thanksgiving and the Olympics.
We're not going to talk aboutthis time of need.
The Ducks, in 56 games, had 62points, the Flames, 56 games, 60
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points and the Sharks sharks,55 games, 48 points.
And then you want to go intoyour, your point totals uh, I
got 62 games.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
Wait a second.
Oh here, it is never mind I gotit yeah, so the point totals 57
games.
Kopitar 16 goals, 43 assists, 59points.
Fiala same amount of games, 19goals, 32 assists for 51 points.
Kempe obviously made aresurgence.
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He had 15 goals, 33 assists for48 points.
Trevor Moore 13 goals, 33assists for 48 points.
Trevor Moore 13 goals, 28assists for 41 points.
Obviously, byfield played alittle better, but I guess he
played even over those games,because he's still a minus 17.
But he had 19 goals, 17 assistsfor 36 points.
Kuzmenko was next with 10, 10goals, 21 assists for 31 points.
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Fogel seven goals, 24 assistsfor 31.
Dino 13 goals, 16 assists for29.
And then la ferriere 10 goals,18 assists for 28 points.
And the funny thing is you, youknow you.
You said Perry's out for 68weeks.
It looks like it already put itinto the game because he hasn't
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been in the top 10 anywhere.
Well, he's a fourth liner.
But yeah, he had 19 goals lastyear.
He wasn't a fourth liner withEdmonton was he.
He was, but he played up when itwas.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
Yeah, but you probably don't need him playing
up as much, unless you need himto take over by Phil's spot.
But Perry's not a center, allright.
So for the Ducks, our leadingpoint person is still Mason
McTavish with 59 points.
And then you got Terry with 56,granlin with 45, cutter with 43
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, crider with 42, carlson with41, strom with 39, but toronto
with 33 and cologne with 29.
The goals mctavish has 29 goals, leading the ducks, and second
you have you have Cutter with 20.
And then Strom with 16, whichthat I don't believe.
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Terry with 15.
Kreider with 15.
And Killorn also with 15.
And the assist McTavish has 30assists, but Terry leads the
whole team with 41 assists.
Granlin has 35 assists, leoCarlson has 29.
Petrano has 27, which that Idon't believe.
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I feel like he would have like27 goals and six assists instead
of the other way around.
And Strome with 23 assists.
So that's our stats right afterthe Olympic break, and now
we're going to move on to whatit would look like right after.
Let's see where are we Rightafter the trade deadline.
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You want to?
Speaker 1 (47:13):
do the standings.
That's 63 games, right, yep, sostill at number one, the hated
ones ones, the golden knights,uh, they had 79 points, the
kraken still holding on tonumber two, which I find that
amazing because they wereterrible last year 76 points
moving up to number three is thekings, uh, with 76 points.
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Can Canucks?
I think the Stars are the wildcard team.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
Yes, I believe that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
The Canucks were 75 points and they were one of the
wild card teams.
The Ducks, with 72 points, werethe other wild card team.
I mean as the standings ofbetween 62 and 63 games, the
Oilers at 71 points, the flamesat 64, and then the sharks at 51
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.
Um, and then you want me to goover my points.
First, yeah, so Andre Kopitar,possibly in his final season
with the Kings, is having apoint-of-game season.
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So far, 18 goals, 45 assistsfor 63 points.
Fiala had 20 goals, 35 assistsfor 55.
Kempe moving up again 16 goals,37 assists for 53 points.
Trevor moore obviously uhplaying better than he did last
year 13 goals, 31 assists for 44points.
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By field uh, 20 goals, 18assists for 38 points.
Vogel nine goals, 26 assistsfor 35 points.
Obviously he's way downcompared to last year.
He had 24 goals.
Last year vogel did.
Hopefully that doesn't cometrue.
Kuzmenko 11 goals, 22 assistsfor 33 points.
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Deneau 14 goals, 17 assists for31.
And then Laferriere 12 goals,19 assists for 31 points.
Speaker 2 (49:24):
All right and for the Ducks still leading the team in
points and over a point-a-gameplayer Mason McTavish with 64
points, with 30 goals, 34assists.
Terry just literally at apoint-of-game 62 games, 62
points, 18 goals, 44 assists.
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Grandlin 11 goals, 41 assistsfor 52 points.
Cutter Godier 22 goals, 29assists for 51 points.
Leo Carlson 16 goals, 34assists for 50 points.
Kreider 18 and 29 for 47 points.
Strom 16 and 27 for 43 points.
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And then Vetrano 7 and 28.
7 goals for Vetrano and 20assists.
That is just like.
Speaker 1 (50:16):
I don't believe that one bit um I still can't believe
that ryan strump still has morepoints than byfield as a yeah,
third or fourth line center.
Speaker 2 (50:28):
This doesn't seem realistic yeah, no, I agree, I
agree with you 100 on that one.
And then, uh, last but notleast, uh calorn.
Uh, 15 goals, 18 assists for 33points.
So, uh, that.
So that's it.
For then.
This is out right after thetrade deadline, by the way.
(50:49):
I put it so that there was notrades whatsoever, so none of
the teams changed, so the Kings,everyone, stayed on their teams
.
So, just to make it a littleeasier, Byfield's overrated?
Speaker 1 (51:05):
I don't think so, Adam.
Speaker 2 (51:08):
Is that what he said?
Yeah, he said it he's overrated.
Speaker 1 (51:12):
Yeah, All right.
So now I mean, I did ask Codyprivately I go, so would you
trade McTavish for Byfield?
And what did you say?
Who would you take?
Speaker 2 (51:29):
Okay, I didn't answer right away.
I did say I would take Byfieldright now, just because he's
signed.
And not just that, his, his heis, I think, a little bit higher
ceiling he's got a way higherceiling.
Speaker 1 (51:48):
The center he's six five.
So you saw, you saw the secondhalf of last season, what he
could do.
You know.
Hopefully, hopefully, I.
It just looks like he's havingthe same season again in this
one.
I hope that isn't true.
Speaker 2 (52:03):
I mean, is it crazy to see?
Okay, but this is what we'veseen so far.
But now that, after I've seenwhat I can do with Mason
Burtavish, I you know, look whatyou're doing, you can do it.
Speaker 1 (52:18):
You mean a simulation could do it.
Speaker 2 (52:21):
I put him in the right spot to succeed and look
what's going on.
Okay, just saying, just sayingso, let's now.
Let's go into the end of seasonstandings.
So after 82 games, this is thestandings.
I'm going to work my way fromthe bottom to the top.
All right, the Sharks finishedlast in the Pacific with 74
(52:45):
points in 82 games, so they hada good jump.
The Flames 82 games, 84 points.
The Oilers, who did not makethe playoffs, finished sixth in
the Pacific with 91 points, andthe Ducks, who actually had the
(53:07):
same amount of points as theOilers, but somehow we made the
playoffs.
I don't know, we must have wonthe head-to-head or whatever,
but the Ducks squeak in as thelast wildcard team and make it
into the playoffs.
In 82 games the Ducks had 91points.
The Kraken were the otherwildcard team.
In 82 games they had 98 pointsIn fourth.
(53:30):
The Golden Knights in thirdwith 99 points, the Canucks 100
points in second and I think thefirst time ever in LA Kings
history that they won thePacific Division with 107 points
.
So you did take the Kings totheir best ever regular season.
(53:55):
You outdid what Hiller did lastyear, wow.
But the question is shut up.
So I'll do my stats first.
Okay, End of the season.
Mctavish didn't get to keep thepoint of game, but he was just
(54:16):
under.
In 82 games he had 80 points,35 goals, 45 assists.
Terry 74 points, 22 goals, 52assists.
Granlin 16 goals, 52 assistsfor 68 points.
Cutter godier 27 goals, 35assists for 68 points.
Cutter Godier 27 goals, 35assists for 62 points and Leo
(54:38):
Carlson 22 goals, 40 assists for62 points.
Kreider 23 goals, 38 assistsfor 61 points.
Strom 20 goals, 36 assists for56 points, goals, 36 assists for
56 points.
Petrano 10 goals, 42 assistsfor 52 points and Killorn 19 and
(55:02):
21 for 40.
No, Edmonton did not win in thefirst round because they didn't
make the playoffs.
Adam the Ducks finished justahead of them in the standings.
Yeah, Another thing about thesimulation.
That doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1 (55:13):
But then again finished just ahead of him in
the standings.
Yeah, All right.
Another thing about thesimulation that doesn't make any
sense, but then again it's asimulation.
Speaker 2 (55:21):
It makes sense if you don't think about it.
That's what you always say, Iknow.
And it makes sense if you don'tthink about it.
Speaker 1 (55:29):
So I'll start from the bottom this time LaFerriere
16 goals, 25 assists for 41.
From the bottom this time uh,laferrier 16 goals, 25 assists
for 41.
Brant clark uh, 16 goals and 25assists for 41 points.
(56:00):
K?
Uh fifth, with 24 goals, 29assists for 53 points.
And I would bet money that hewouldn't be ninth on the ducks
in scoring this year.
Without the simulation.
In the real life he would be.
Maybe might be two or three.
Yeah, I'm betting on.
But and this is if everybodystays healthy so, and we never
(56:25):
know what's going to happen somore 17 goals, 37 assists for 54
points.
I I bet you Byfield has morepoints than him too.
Now again Fiala and Kempe.
Right there, I will get.
Fiala led the team in goalswith 28.
Kempe only had 26, but theyboth had 75 points.
(56:48):
And Andre Kopitar.
Speaker 2 (56:50):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (56:51):
Andre Anze Kopitar 24 goals, 59 assists, 83 points.
He was a point-a-game player.
Speaker 2 (57:01):
All right.
So this is the first-roundmatchups I'm going to start.
In the east, you have Canes,the Hurricanes versus the
Capitals, the Columbus BlueJackets versus the New Jersey
Devils.
Do you have Toronto versus theRed Wings?
Yep, the Red Wings made theplayoffs.
(57:23):
And here's the best one thatmade the playoffs too Tampa Bay
versus the Buffalo Sabres.
In this playoff format we hadwhat Four teams break their
playoff droughts Ducks, redWings and Sabres.
(57:48):
So in the East, in the firstround, carolina.
Speaker 1 (57:54):
That was only three teams, right.
Speaker 2 (57:56):
That's what I said Three teams I thought you said
14.
Speaker 1 (58:00):
I thought I said 14.
Speaker 2 (58:01):
I meant three.
So here are the first roundwinners Carolina wins in six
games over the WashingtonCapitals, columbus wins in seven
games over the New Capitals,columbus wins in seven games
over the New Jersey Devils,toronto wins in five games over
the Detroit Red Wings and thenTampa Bay wins in five games
(58:27):
over the Buffalo Sabres and theWest Winnipeg wins in seven
games over the ColoradoAvalanche.
Minnesota I guess they won thecentral they win in five games
over the seattle kraken and thenthe vegas golden knights went
(58:48):
in seven games over thevancouver canucks.
And it's funny how I didn'tmention two teams Ducks and
Kings in the first round.
Okay, you ready to hear thegame by games.
I don't have the stats oranything, I just have the scores
(59:13):
.
I guess if you guys see mydad's reaction, you already know
what happens.
So in game one in LA, the Duckswin four to three.
Game two, kings win.
(59:34):
In LA six to four.
Game three, ducks win two toone.
So two to one.
So two to one ducks.
Uh, in game four, the ducks winin overtime three to two.
So the ducks have a three oneseries lead.
Going back to la now we in la,in game five, kings win four to
(59:58):
two and in game six uh ducks winfour to two to win the series
over the la kings.
I did not, I swear, I did notplay any of these games.
It was all simulated.
I swear.
Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
Swearing isn't, isn't nice, cody, that's not a nice,
that's not a nice word, mrCooper.
Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
No, that's a stupid, is it?
Oh no, I know I did?
I just left that out but it isstupid, okay, okay.
So round two matchups carolinaversus columbus carolina wins in
seven games and toronto versustampa bay tampa bay wins in six
(01:00:52):
games.
So you have the matchup betweenTampa Bay and Carolina for the
Eastern Conference.
Want me to just give you theEastern Conference winner.
Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
You could be a little happier.
Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
So in this simulation , the Florida Panthers don't
even make the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
Oh, I didn't realize that.
Speaker 1 (01:01:17):
I'm just looking at this.
I go really.
Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
The.
Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
Stanley Cup champ.
Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
Wow, back to back.
I just now realized that too.
I didn't realize that Carolinawins in six games over the Tampa
Bay Lightning, so they go on tothe Stanley Cup final.
Finally, all right, bayLightning, so they go on to the
Stanley Cup Final.
Finally, alright, and the WestWinnipeg beats the Minnesota
Wild in seven games.
And then the alright and Iactually have the series hold on
(01:01:48):
.
Alright, ducks play the VegasGolden Knights in round two in
Vegas.
They lose two to one and thenwe win three to two in overtime,
so it's one one, and then theducks lose both games at home uh
, four to two and four to one.
But the ducks do get a win inback in vegas, four to three,
(01:02:14):
but then lose, lose back at homesix to three and losing six
games to the vegas goldenknights.
So now you got vegas versuswinnipeg and in the western
conference final and vegas winsfour to one.
So now you got Vegas versusCarolina in the Stanley Cup
(01:02:36):
Final and who do you think wins?
Speaker 1 (01:02:42):
Huh, I'm going to say it and mom could be mad at me
the cheaters.
Speaker 2 (01:02:48):
That is correct, the cheaters.
So now let's do the awardsbefore we get into anything else
.
So yes, the loss or the vegasgolden knights are your
2025-2026 stanley cup champions.
All right, now it's time forawards the art roast trophy,
(01:03:12):
connor mcdavid.
The heart trophy, connormcdavid.
The Art Ross Trophy, connorMcDavid.
Speaker 1 (01:03:18):
The Hart Trophy Connor McDavid On a team that
didn't even make the playoffs.
On a team that didn't even makethe playoffs.
Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
The Norris Trophy, zach Rowenski, which I'm okay
with that one.
The Lady Bing, connor McDavid,the Calder, Ivan Demidoff, the
Conn Smythe Trophy we're goingto put a hold on that one.
Vesna Ilya Sorokin, theJennings Trophy, aiden Hill, the
(01:03:55):
Bill Masterton Trophynor murphyfrom chicago, the selkie trophy
, for the eighth year in a rowalmost feels like um.
Alexander barkoff, the tedlindsey.
Connor mcdavid, the uh, the uh.
Connor McDavid, the MauriceRichard Trophy.
Speaker 1 (01:04:20):
That's the Richard, richard the Rocket.
Speaker 2 (01:04:22):
Richard, yeah, goes to Nathan McKinnon.
And the Conn Smythe Trophy,let's go back to that one.
I did skip that one.
So this was my favorite thingof the whole simulation not the
ducks making the playoffs, notthe ducks beating the kings in
the playoffs and even my hottake succeeding in this, it was
(01:04:48):
this the con smith trophy forthe 2025-2026 season goes to
Mitchell Marner of the VegasGolden Knights, which I found
hilarious.
Ducks and Kings losers, oh, wow, okay, thank you, henny.
Speaker 1 (01:05:14):
Oilers own you.
Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
All right, well, I mean, it's not wrong.
At the same time, oh, did welose you, dad?
I think we lost you.
But yeah, mitch Marner won theConn's Moth Trophy.
In the simulation.
(01:05:38):
I don't know if I wouldn't saythe Oilers would be running the
NHL for the next decade.
I mean, you don't even haveMcDavid signed yet, and who
knows if he's staying or not.
(01:05:59):
So, but yeah, but yeah.
If anyone has any questions,put it in the chat right now.
I don't know what happened tomy dad.
Oh, he's gone.
No, that's true.
Edmonton can talk smack whenthey actually win the Stanley
(01:06:21):
Cup this century.
That is true, yeah, so I agreewith that and that's actually
great.
And you guys don't even haveyour number one player sign.
So yeah.
(01:06:53):
Well, I don't know what happenedto my dad.
I guess we lost him.
Hopefully he'll be coming backpretty soon.
Let's see.
Do we have anything else totalk about?
Let's see, I'm looking onlineto see if there's anything else.
(01:07:33):
Let's see.
Try to remember if I need to.
So yeah, again, if you guys dowant to play any fantasy hockey
in our royally quack league,please DM us on any social media
or email us at royallyquack atgmailcom.
Like I said, we have about twospots open so far.
(01:07:59):
So if you're interested, let meknow.
And again, next week thePatriots hockey do have their
golf tournament.
I'm trying to find the thing.
I kind of swear I had it onhere somewhere.
Let's see, let me go on.
(01:08:20):
Let's see.
There it is.
Nope, that's not.
It all right.
(01:08:41):
I guess my dad's, I guess theirinternet keeps uh going out.
Um, yeah, golf tournament.
Guys, patriots fourth annualgolf tournament.
Uh, it will be at the CrossCreek Golf Club in Temecula,
california.
Please sign up.
You can donate, you can sign up.
(01:09:04):
They still need plenty ofgolfers.
It's on September 20th 2025.
I'll put the link in the shownotes.
So please go check out.
Uh, the Patriots hockey, uh,annual golf tournament.
It should be a lot of fun.
Me and my dad will both bethere.
Um, we're, we're lookingforward to it.
(01:09:27):
Uh.
On that, uh, everyone hockey'sback.
I mean, we had the rookie faceoff last night.
We got the uh kings versussharks and about a little less
than two hours, uh, and then wegot the ducks and kings tomorrow
.
Like I said, we'll be at thegame tomorrow, so we're both
looking forward to that.
Um, I don't know when my dad'sinternet's gonna be back on, but
(01:09:50):
, uh, I think we're out of timeanyway.
So, everyone, please, again,please, go check out out the
Patriots hockey golf tournament.
Oh, here he is.
Speaker 1 (01:10:01):
Yeah, my internet went down.
Yeah, no kidding, let me getRiverside back on too.
Speaker 2 (01:10:08):
Oh, don't worry about Riverside, because I was just
about to close this out anyways.
Speaker 1 (01:10:13):
Yeah.
So, but yeah, sorry about that,fans.
Yeah, my internet wentcompletely out.
Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
Yeah, so yeah, I was just about to do the intro.
Speaker 1 (01:10:32):
You mean the exit.
One thing I would like to sayis I I'm gonna bet byfield
wouldn't come ninth on the ducksthis year.
Yeah I can see that yeah, youknow, I can't see all those guys
having great season and him nothaving at least something well,
you want to.
Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
You want to know why I agree with that, because I'm
not coaching the ducks.
Speaker 1 (01:10:55):
So if we was coaching the ducks, it'd be different
well, if I was coaching thekings, he would be the number
one center.
Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
Yeah, this year well, you didn't make him the number
one center.
That was your choice true.
Speaker 1 (01:11:08):
I wonder if that would have changed anything I
don't know, have you run?
Another simulation with thatand see what happens.
Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
Where we have 107 points.
Speaker 1 (01:11:18):
We had 107 points, which is a team record, and you
won the division finally.
Yeah well, that was shocking.
And then we lose to you guys inthe playoffs.
But that's the second timewe've lost to you guys In some
kind of simulation.
Speaker 2 (01:11:33):
No, that was just a you and I simulation thing when
we made a team, the East versusWest one.
Speaker 1 (01:11:43):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
Yeah.
I thought we lost Rememberyou've won every single thing,
except for the East versus theWest, and then this one.
So but all right, I I'm readyto get out of here, are you?
Yes, sir, before you loseinternet again.
Speaker 1 (01:12:01):
Well it's, hopefully that doesn't happen.
I mean, all of it just wentdown like poof.
Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
Yeah, that was us a few weeks ago, so all right.
Well, everyone, um, don't be asore.
Speaker 1 (01:12:13):
All right.
Speaker 2 (01:12:17):
Well, thank you everyone for joining us on the
live stream.
Uh, we really appreciate it.
Like I said, uh, fantasy hockeyis up.
If you're interested, uh, likeI said, dm me on social media or
email us at royally quack atgmailcom.
Uh, like I said, go check outthe Patriots hockey golf
tournament.
Uh, in to make it, it's nextSaturday, that's where we'll be.
(01:12:39):
So there, oh, there is no liveshow next week.
Just giving you guys a heads up.
Speaker 1 (01:12:45):
Um, so just uh yeah, we will, we will still be a
podcast just not a live show.
Yeah, we're going to be at thePatriot hockey golf tournament
in Temecula, or is it Duluth,duluth, right, duluth.
Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
We're going to be there.
Duluth is in Temecula.
Yeah, it's just part ofTemecula.
Speaker 1 (01:13:12):
Yeah, we will be interviewing some Patriot hockey
players.
We will still have news for youguys and we want anybody and
everybody to be able to supportPatriot hockey, because this is
the people who keep us free.
And this is their way of beingable to cope with some of the
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You know being in the militaryand making sure each of us are
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Speaker 2 (01:14:51):
We will not be live or on YouTube next week.
If we do video, I'll still post.
I can still post the video onYouTube.
Yeah, it would just be afterthe fact.
So so you guys know, like Isaid, no live stream, everything
will be out, uh, on monday, asadam said, like spike.
So all right, well, before weget out here, uh, do you have a
prediction for tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (01:15:14):
Fun, that's not what I meant, but okay, you know what
I expect a good game.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:15:26):
It depends on who plays.
Speaker 1 (01:15:30):
It should be the same players.
You know they have a lot ofguys on these rosters and a lot
of times.
Uh, well, they're one less gamethis year, so they're gonna
have to figure out how to playthem.
Maybe they'll let more than 23on the roster and be able to
move them in and out.
Maybe I don't know, but uh, I'm, I'm looking forward to seeing
uh, seneca and and green treeplay.
(01:15:51):
Um, I do believe, do believe,carter George is playing right
there.
I think the Kings have anadvantage in goal, uh, cause I
think he's, he's going to beelite.
Um, I would think the Kingswould win, but they've.
You know, after watching thesesimulations, anything can happen
(01:16:12):
, that's true.
Speaker 2 (01:16:12):
But uh, I think tomorrow's gonna be a lot of fun
If you watching thesesimulations.
Anything can happen, that'strue, but I I think tomorrow's
gonna be a lot of fun If you seeus there, come say hi and
everything, and yeah, and I hopetomorrow's a great game.
So, so, until next week, let'sgo ducks, go Kings.
Speaker 1 (01:16:28):
Go See you next week.
Speaker 2 (01:16:55):
Father and son so strong Outro Music Shout and go
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