March 21, 2025 • 12 mins
Revisiting conversations that have been had before in regards to what could the city of Houston do to draw in more attraction, talk has risen with a very popular subject that has been mentioned a ton in recent conversations and recently over the years. Just recently, news broke that Houston Rockets owner Timan Fertitta has previously been in talks with the NHL circling the conversation of owning a hockey team. CEO of the The Friedkin Group and CEO and chairman of Gulf States Toyota, Dan Friedkin has been mentioned as a strong candidate as the hockey teams owner if the league does intend to proceed with the expansion of the league. Following the traction behind this story and with it being an actual possibility with conversations being revisited, Sean and Dan share their thoughts on what could Houston tend to look like if the city so happens to add another pro sports pillar to the city.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
NHL expansion to Houston could possibly be upon us. According
to ESPN, billionaire Dan Freedkin has emerged as a real
possibility to bring said NHL expansion franchise here.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
A lot of people.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
For the longest time Sean thought that it was Tilman Fertita,
but now, at least according to again the crew over
at ESPN, it could be. Billionaire Dan Friedkin is the
guy right good. You've got to be behind your name,
you can afford it. I'm all in.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
He's got plenty of that. As I've said, I love going.
I'm more of a football I want to watch NFL football.
I want to watch on TV college football. I love
the atmosphere. I still want to watch the game on TV.
But I like the tailgating and the fun and seeing
everybody get after it. You know, when you've had kids
go through college and do it, it's like, that's pretty cool.
I love the atmosphere and the tailgating, everything that goes
(00:52):
with getting up at four in the morning on a
game day. You know you lived in Georgia and you're
headed to between the hedges. All the stuff leading up
the games. Actually, the anti CLM acting part. I like
all the prep and the food and everybody how into
it they are bringing their RVs.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It's awesome. With baseball, I love them both. I love
on TV.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I buy the Baseball package if nobody, if the Astles
aren't playing, I'm watching some I just love even if
it's background noise. I love having baseball on TV. But
I also like going in person, and I like sitting
in the stands not in the press box, just because
I don't know, I just if I feel like I
can watch the game better.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Right.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
And then when it comes to basketball, there's nothing like it,
you know, down low and basketball when you get an
appreciation for just how athletic they are. But I watch
hoops on TV. College hoops the same, going to great
buildings like Allen Fieldhouse we've talked about. But when it
comes to hockey, now I watch on TV. I watch hockey.
I'm an avid hockey fan. You say how hockey's in
person the best sports to watch, Maybe you can say
(01:48):
what you want. So if they do get a hockey
low I've stated on this, I'll stand in line outside
and in bad weather or in one hundred and twenty
five degrees to get a seat, to get season tickets,
that is the one season ticket. I've had them in
hoops and I've had them in baseball. But I like
to go. But sometimes you watch on TV. You can't
get there unless you live near the ballpark. You watch
on TV. I will they play what eighty two guys?
(02:10):
So forty one home games?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Right? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I think it's the same as the NBA. That is
exactly the same. I would probably be at thirty five
to forty games a year. I absolutely adore and love hockey.
I want hockey here so badly, and I can't wait
because if it is that is I'm getting four I'd like,
I said, I if I got to walk to work
because I got to get four tickets.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
That's what I'm doing.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
And freakin love it, and please let it happen, and
please let it happen. Don't tell me twenty twenty nine.
Can we get this done sooner?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Please? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And Emily Kaplan of ESPN was the one who had this.
They tried to reach out to Dan and the Freakin
Group but did not get a response, but they did
talk with Bill Day, who's the Deputy Commissioner of the NHL,
and said on a number of occasions they've met with
them about potential interest and an expansion franchise here. However,
(03:03):
then this is the huge capital h However, ANHL commissioner,
Gary Bettman has cooled off expansion rumors recently, saying that
at the recent owners meetings that the topic of expansion.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Was not on the front burner. So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I mean, sometimes there is that of sometimes you know,
there is the pour some cold water on it and
then all of a sudden, Hey, did you hear Houston's
getting a team?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
When did that happen?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Because I thought they said that that wasn't going to
be a possibility. But I mean, it sounds like at
least it's working behind the scenes. And as I mentioned,
I mean, you know, Tillman Fritida has talked about his
desire to be able to bring an HL team here,
and I mean, I'm not really sure how far his
efforts have gone. I don't know if maybe these two
meet up and it's a co ownership type of situation
(03:51):
here that you know, maybe somebody owns fifty one, the
other one owns forty nine. Who knows, But at least
it'll be interesting to see how far this goes. And
the freaking group does have experience in in in sports ownership.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
They own a soccer So what is.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
The Freakin Group? What kind of what kind of what
business is it? We have financial businesses, marketing business with Yeah,
I mean I guess.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I mean it does say that Freakin is the chairman
and CEO of Golf State's Toyota, So I guess if
you bought a Toyota around here, then you've probably put
money in his pockets. But they do have ownership equity
in an Italian soccer team and also in the English
Premier soccer club Everton, So I mean there's a chance
(04:36):
for them to be able to.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Grow their pro soccer clubs aren't cheap, No, they're not.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
But it's also I mean, you've talked about your you know,
you love the NHL. You've you've you know, seen it
in person numerous times. I mean the key is with
hockey wherever you bring it, and the NHL has been
pretty good about this by setting up their expansion drafts
of we want to be able to start off what
they can and shot like when they went to Vegas,
(05:00):
they knew, if we don't have an entertaining product here,
people are gonna have numerous other things to do than
the come watch a hockey team.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
All they do is win there.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
All they do is win, and they won from the
get go, and that building is packed every single night
for that reason.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Place. I've been there and it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Seattle the same deal when they moved up to Seattle.
I mean they wanted to make sure, Hey, I understand
that you want an NBA team, but you get an
NHL team, and if you guys win from the beginning,
then you're gonna have people showing up. So I mean,
I think if nothing else, it gives you reason to
believe that it could be fun. It could be a
fun watch because the NHL would say, hey, we want
(05:35):
to make sure this thing succeeds down there. And I mean,
what was it about the late eighties was when the
expansion the Southern States started to happen for the NHL.
I mean the Kings were kind of the first one.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Go look at how many Stanley Cups have been won
by those expansion franchises in Tampa and Dallas Stars. I mean,
they all these places have won.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Carolina.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I mean, think about the places that have been not
just competitive, but that are dominating hockey Nashville regularly, so
it's impressive to watch, and I love it. It's my
It is my very favorite. And two things. There's a
third thing we need and you could probably it grows
to legalize, but we'll leave that to somebody else. There's
so much money in it, but for me, and I
(06:17):
don't smoke per se, I just don't cigars. But we
need sports betting and a casino here. We need that,
at least online at least. I'm on brick and mortar
as well. That I agree. I agree you're right. If
that's the place to start, I get it. But we
need that, and we need a hockey franchise. You give
me you start there. First of all, I don't know
(06:38):
how you're going to be able to resist, even though
you're in the Bible belt and all that, I don't
know how you're going to be able to resist all
that money that comes through this, that it brings with it.
And I know that there's addiction, but that's you can
be addicted to anything. I mean, that's that's part of it.
I get it. And you're if you're impulsive, I understand that.
But if you're just talking what we always say, follow
(07:00):
the money right. At some point you're going to be
able to resist that money. And I've talked to people
in Vegas that are that, you know, sports book people and.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Do set them.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Do you know that the biggest some of the biggest
gamblers and Vegas will hate it. Some of the biggest
traveling gamblers top three in the country come from this
state to Vegas. So it's a big not only playing
tables and stuff, but it's huge. That's why you see everybody.
Everybody wants a piece of this of Texas that in
a hockey For me, if you went in that order
(07:32):
sports betting, brick and mortar and online one and two,
you have and I'm not if you do it responsibly.
I can say that about anything, your vodka, your bourbon,
and you're betting any anything. So I don't think we
have to preface that. I think that's pretty obvious. And
bring me a hockey franchise. And why would you want
to leave here? You got all this good stuff and
(07:53):
that Come on now, son, those tate income tax. We
we got things going pretty good here. We amaze. If
we play our cards right, we'll get a flat tax
around the world, around the United States, and everybody will
pay fifteen percent or ten percent, we can move on.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
That' that'd be nice. I think I'd like more of
my paycheck, be cool.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Well, what a novel concept. You work hard and you
get to keep it interesting. Who wouldn't want that? Well,
I know something that may not. But who wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Well, I mean, you know, those who don't want it,
then give give it to the rest. I was going
to say, you can check the box. Hey, I want
to give more. That's what I want to have at it. Hey,
God bless you. If you're a giver, then you'll take it.
That's it, right. So yeah, that's something that obviously we'll
be keeping an eye on to see if indeed we
do see NHL hockey here in here?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Are you a hockey guy? I am? I am? I
love it.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I used to be, you know, obviously in the nineties
when it was you know, Joe Sakic, Peter Forstburg, the
Red Wings teams, Luke Robotie, all of those guys. I
mean that that's when to me it was it was
exciting to watch. I cooled off over the years, and
I mean I think I was like most people. A
few weeks ago with the Four Nations that was happening.
(09:00):
Kind of got caught up in it. When the Winter
Olympics come around, obviously, we kind of get caught up
in it because it's US against Canada and you want
the US to be able to win. And that's what
cracked me up. When Canada won the Four Nations Cup,
They're all going on Twitter, Oh, this is what we do.
And immediately us as Americans, we were like, you haven't
want a Stanley Cup since the early nineties.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Which is one of the more shocking statistics in sports.
Right now, I want you to think about what you
just said. If you're not winning your sport, right, that's
tough to do. Brother. Can you imagine at the World
Cup a European franchise or someone in South America saying, well,
(09:39):
we haven't won a World Cup and or across the pond,
sure that the US has won the World Cup sixteen
straight World Cups?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
What that would be like? That's what the equivalent in hockey.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
How you're talking three decades, two plus decades they don't
want a Stanley Cup.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Come on, now, there was a time.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Didn't we have a time where we got to the
final fourard that that it was the first time, and
I mean we have that. We haven't had a Canadian
team playing for an opportunity to get there. I can't
remember what the stat was last year, but it is
alarming how the Americans are beating them at their own game.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
And I'm okay with that too, Hey, guys, that's that's
the terror for putting on them, right, that's it. That's
it yea. And I lived there.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
The Canadian people were awesome to me. I lived in
the Peg. I lived in the Peg. It was cold
as balls, but it was a good place. But yeah,
keep dominating. I love it when we can beat people
at their sport. What's that triply?
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Yeah, Doug, Guy Doug called in. He had a question
he just wanted to know. He Yeah, it was actually
a good question.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
He asked.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
How many expansion teams come out the gate like winning,
like hit the ground, winning like you know, and to
get a like you know, a cup in their first
like follows.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Vegas was one of them. Yeah. They, I mean.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
When they, I mean they were loaded with their roster
in Tampa. They didn't take them long to take care
of their business. I'd have to look that up, but
I know this because I was there. Their first Stanley
Cup when when they got beat by the why Washington
and and uh you know they they when they first
started and every year they're a major threat. And I
went to games one and two in the building against
(11:12):
Washington and it was it's a high. It's a it's
a party dressed up as a hockey game. I mean,
the show going in. I've been to Chicago and I've
been to Detroit's Building, Chicago the National Anthem, and it's
a great you got to get if you go to
watch hockey game, watch black Hawks play, get to make
sure you're there like forty five minutes before. Same thing
in Vegas, it's well, it's all show. It's like you're
getting a you're getting a Vegas show, and then a
(11:34):
hockey game breaks out. And then when the team's good,
freaking golden dude. And it's in a great area right there,
located by you walk. You can get to anything you need. Man,
please let us get a hockey franchise.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I was gonna say, I mean, we don't have the
New York New York right next to us, but you know,
at least that's okay. You can build some things up
out there. Who knows, maybe at the same time.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Maybe there'll be a draft Kings casino or casino sitting
right or the brick and mortar.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Build your lips to God's ears, brother, thank you. Let's go.
Let's head head right over to the book right after all.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Right, coming up next, somebody in our industry got into
it over a fish.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah you heard that right. We're going to talk about
that right here.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Sean Salisbury Show, Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety, home of the Rockets, Astros,
and the best lineup in Houston sports. Now back to
Sean Salisbury
NHL expansion to Houston could possibly be upon us. According
to ESPN, billionaire Dan Freedkin has emerged as a real
possibility to bring said NHL expansion franchise here.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
A lot of people.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
For the longest time Sean thought that it was Tilman Fertita,
but now, at least according to again the crew over
at ESPN, it could be. Billionaire Dan Friedkin is the
guy right good. You've got to be behind your name,
you can afford it. I'm all in.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
He's got plenty of that. As I've said, I love going.
I'm more of a football I want to watch NFL football.
I want to watch on TV college football. I love
the atmosphere. I still want to watch the game on TV.
But I like the tailgating and the fun and seeing
everybody get after it. You know, when you've had kids
go through college and do it, it's like, that's pretty cool.
I love the atmosphere and the tailgating, everything that goes
(00:52):
with getting up at four in the morning on a
game day. You know you lived in Georgia and you're
headed to between the hedges. All the stuff leading up
the games. Actually, the anti CLM acting part. I like
all the prep and the food and everybody how into
it they are bringing their RVs.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It's awesome. With baseball, I love them both. I love
on TV.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I buy the Baseball package if nobody, if the Astles
aren't playing, I'm watching some I just love even if
it's background noise. I love having baseball on TV. But
I also like going in person, and I like sitting
in the stands not in the press box, just because
I don't know, I just if I feel like I
can watch the game better.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Right.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
And then when it comes to basketball, there's nothing like it,
you know, down low and basketball when you get an
appreciation for just how athletic they are. But I watch
hoops on TV. College hoops the same, going to great
buildings like Allen Fieldhouse we've talked about. But when it
comes to hockey, now I watch on TV. I watch hockey.
I'm an avid hockey fan. You say how hockey's in
person the best sports to watch, Maybe you can say
(01:48):
what you want. So if they do get a hockey
low I've stated on this, I'll stand in line outside
and in bad weather or in one hundred and twenty
five degrees to get a seat, to get season tickets,
that is the one season ticket. I've had them in
hoops and I've had them in baseball. But I like
to go. But sometimes you watch on TV. You can't
get there unless you live near the ballpark. You watch
on TV. I will they play what eighty two guys?
(02:10):
So forty one home games?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Right? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I think it's the same as the NBA. That is
exactly the same. I would probably be at thirty five
to forty games a year. I absolutely adore and love hockey.
I want hockey here so badly, and I can't wait
because if it is that is I'm getting four I'd like,
I said, I if I got to walk to work
because I got to get four tickets.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
That's what I'm doing.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
And freakin love it, and please let it happen, and
please let it happen. Don't tell me twenty twenty nine.
Can we get this done sooner?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Please? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And Emily Kaplan of ESPN was the one who had this.
They tried to reach out to Dan and the Freakin
Group but did not get a response, but they did
talk with Bill Day, who's the Deputy Commissioner of the NHL,
and said on a number of occasions they've met with
them about potential interest and an expansion franchise here. However,
(03:03):
then this is the huge capital h However, ANHL commissioner,
Gary Bettman has cooled off expansion rumors recently, saying that
at the recent owners meetings that the topic of expansion.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Was not on the front burner. So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I mean, sometimes there is that of sometimes you know,
there is the pour some cold water on it and
then all of a sudden, Hey, did you hear Houston's
getting a team?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
When did that happen?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Because I thought they said that that wasn't going to
be a possibility. But I mean, it sounds like at
least it's working behind the scenes. And as I mentioned,
I mean, you know, Tillman Fritida has talked about his
desire to be able to bring an HL team here,
and I mean, I'm not really sure how far his
efforts have gone. I don't know if maybe these two
meet up and it's a co ownership type of situation
(03:51):
here that you know, maybe somebody owns fifty one, the
other one owns forty nine. Who knows, But at least
it'll be interesting to see how far this goes. And
the freaking group does have experience in in in sports ownership.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
They own a soccer So what is.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
The Freakin Group? What kind of what kind of what
business is it? We have financial businesses, marketing business with Yeah,
I mean I guess.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I mean it does say that Freakin is the chairman
and CEO of Golf State's Toyota, So I guess if
you bought a Toyota around here, then you've probably put
money in his pockets. But they do have ownership equity
in an Italian soccer team and also in the English
Premier soccer club Everton, So I mean there's a chance
(04:36):
for them to be able to.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Grow their pro soccer clubs aren't cheap, No, they're not.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
But it's also I mean, you've talked about your you know,
you love the NHL. You've you've you know, seen it
in person numerous times. I mean the key is with
hockey wherever you bring it, and the NHL has been
pretty good about this by setting up their expansion drafts
of we want to be able to start off what
they can and shot like when they went to Vegas,
(05:00):
they knew, if we don't have an entertaining product here,
people are gonna have numerous other things to do than
the come watch a hockey team.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
All they do is win there.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
All they do is win, and they won from the
get go, and that building is packed every single night
for that reason.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Place. I've been there and it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Seattle the same deal when they moved up to Seattle.
I mean they wanted to make sure, Hey, I understand
that you want an NBA team, but you get an
NHL team, and if you guys win from the beginning,
then you're gonna have people showing up. So I mean,
I think if nothing else, it gives you reason to
believe that it could be fun. It could be a
fun watch because the NHL would say, hey, we want
(05:35):
to make sure this thing succeeds down there. And I mean,
what was it about the late eighties was when the
expansion the Southern States started to happen for the NHL.
I mean the Kings were kind of the first one.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Go look at how many Stanley Cups have been won
by those expansion franchises in Tampa and Dallas Stars. I mean,
they all these places have won.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Carolina.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I mean, think about the places that have been not
just competitive, but that are dominating hockey Nashville regularly, so
it's impressive to watch, and I love it. It's my
It is my very favorite. And two things. There's a
third thing we need and you could probably it grows
to legalize, but we'll leave that to somebody else. There's
so much money in it, but for me, and I
(06:17):
don't smoke per se, I just don't cigars. But we
need sports betting and a casino here. We need that,
at least online at least. I'm on brick and mortar
as well. That I agree. I agree you're right. If
that's the place to start, I get it. But we
need that, and we need a hockey franchise. You give
me you start there. First of all, I don't know
(06:38):
how you're going to be able to resist, even though
you're in the Bible belt and all that, I don't
know how you're going to be able to resist all
that money that comes through this, that it brings with it.
And I know that there's addiction, but that's you can
be addicted to anything. I mean, that's that's part of it.
I get it. And you're if you're impulsive, I understand that.
But if you're just talking what we always say, follow
(07:00):
the money right. At some point you're going to be
able to resist that money. And I've talked to people
in Vegas that are that, you know, sports book people and.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Do set them.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Do you know that the biggest some of the biggest
gamblers and Vegas will hate it. Some of the biggest
traveling gamblers top three in the country come from this
state to Vegas. So it's a big not only playing
tables and stuff, but it's huge. That's why you see everybody.
Everybody wants a piece of this of Texas that in
a hockey For me, if you went in that order
(07:32):
sports betting, brick and mortar and online one and two,
you have and I'm not if you do it responsibly.
I can say that about anything, your vodka, your bourbon,
and you're betting any anything. So I don't think we
have to preface that. I think that's pretty obvious. And
bring me a hockey franchise. And why would you want
to leave here? You got all this good stuff and
(07:53):
that Come on now, son, those tate income tax. We
we got things going pretty good here. We amaze. If
we play our cards right, we'll get a flat tax
around the world, around the United States, and everybody will
pay fifteen percent or ten percent, we can move on.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
That' that'd be nice. I think I'd like more of
my paycheck, be cool.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Well, what a novel concept. You work hard and you
get to keep it interesting. Who wouldn't want that? Well,
I know something that may not. But who wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Well, I mean, you know, those who don't want it,
then give give it to the rest. I was going
to say, you can check the box. Hey, I want
to give more. That's what I want to have at it. Hey,
God bless you. If you're a giver, then you'll take it.
That's it, right. So yeah, that's something that obviously we'll
be keeping an eye on to see if indeed we
do see NHL hockey here in here?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Are you a hockey guy? I am? I am? I
love it.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I used to be, you know, obviously in the nineties
when it was you know, Joe Sakic, Peter Forstburg, the
Red Wings teams, Luke Robotie, all of those guys. I
mean that that's when to me it was it was
exciting to watch. I cooled off over the years, and
I mean I think I was like most people. A
few weeks ago with the Four Nations that was happening.
(09:00):
Kind of got caught up in it. When the Winter
Olympics come around, obviously, we kind of get caught up
in it because it's US against Canada and you want
the US to be able to win. And that's what
cracked me up. When Canada won the Four Nations Cup,
They're all going on Twitter, Oh, this is what we do.
And immediately us as Americans, we were like, you haven't
want a Stanley Cup since the early nineties.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Which is one of the more shocking statistics in sports.
Right now, I want you to think about what you
just said. If you're not winning your sport, right, that's
tough to do. Brother. Can you imagine at the World
Cup a European franchise or someone in South America saying, well,
(09:39):
we haven't won a World Cup and or across the pond,
sure that the US has won the World Cup sixteen
straight World Cups?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
What that would be like? That's what the equivalent in hockey.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
How you're talking three decades, two plus decades they don't
want a Stanley Cup.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Come on, now, there was a time.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Didn't we have a time where we got to the
final fourard that that it was the first time, and
I mean we have that. We haven't had a Canadian
team playing for an opportunity to get there. I can't
remember what the stat was last year, but it is
alarming how the Americans are beating them at their own game.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
And I'm okay with that too, Hey, guys, that's that's
the terror for putting on them, right, that's it. That's
it yea. And I lived there.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
The Canadian people were awesome to me. I lived in
the Peg. I lived in the Peg. It was cold
as balls, but it was a good place. But yeah,
keep dominating. I love it when we can beat people
at their sport. What's that triply?
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Yeah, Doug, Guy Doug called in. He had a question
he just wanted to know. He Yeah, it was actually
a good question.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
He asked.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
How many expansion teams come out the gate like winning,
like hit the ground, winning like you know, and to
get a like you know, a cup in their first
like follows.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Vegas was one of them. Yeah. They, I mean.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
When they, I mean they were loaded with their roster
in Tampa. They didn't take them long to take care
of their business. I'd have to look that up, but
I know this because I was there. Their first Stanley
Cup when when they got beat by the why Washington
and and uh you know they they when they first
started and every year they're a major threat. And I
went to games one and two in the building against
(11:12):
Washington and it was it's a high. It's a it's
a party dressed up as a hockey game. I mean,
the show going in. I've been to Chicago and I've
been to Detroit's Building, Chicago the National Anthem, and it's
a great you got to get if you go to
watch hockey game, watch black Hawks play, get to make
sure you're there like forty five minutes before. Same thing
in Vegas, it's well, it's all show. It's like you're
getting a you're getting a Vegas show, and then a
(11:34):
hockey game breaks out. And then when the team's good,
freaking golden dude. And it's in a great area right there,
located by you walk. You can get to anything you need. Man,
please let us get a hockey franchise.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I was gonna say, I mean, we don't have the
New York New York right next to us, but you know,
at least that's okay. You can build some things up
out there. Who knows, maybe at the same time.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Maybe there'll be a draft Kings casino or casino sitting
right or the brick and mortar.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Build your lips to God's ears, brother, thank you. Let's go.
Let's head head right over to the book right after all.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Right, coming up next, somebody in our industry got into
it over a fish.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah you heard that right. We're going to talk about
that right here.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
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Speaker 2 (12:16):
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