May 19, 2025 • 4 mins
“If you put this in a movie script, no one would believe it.”What do you get when you mix a playoff sucker punch, a heartbreaking personal tragedy, and one of the most emotionally charged hockey moments in recent memory? You get an episode of The Ben and Skin Show that hits harder than a Jamie Benn sucker punch. In this gripping and unexpectedly moving episode, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray take listeners on a rollercoaster of sports, emotion, and absurdity. Skin breaks down the surreal saga of Mark Scheifele, a Winnipeg Jets star who was sucker-punched by Jamie Benn, lost his father unexpectedly the next day, and still managed to score the first goal in a do-or-die playoff game—only to end up in the penalty box as his team was eliminated. The moment Benn was the first to hug him after the game? Pure sports cinema.Notable Quotes & Moments:
- 🏒 “He had to reach out and trip a guy to save the game… and then watched his season end from the penalty box.”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're gonna be giving away BFD tickets all week long.
(00:03):
Be listening to the show coming up a little bit
later in the show, we'll have a chance for you
to win some BFD tickets. But yeah, we're getting away
all week because again the show is coming up on Sunday.
But right now it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Track, another edition of things skin is tracking all right.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
So at the beginning of the show, Ben was talking
about how he's getting cornered at parties and people are
just forcing the idea that the NBA is rigged, the
lottery is rigged on him, and you know, some of
these things, the stories are just too impossible to believe. Right,
The Mavericks had a one point eight percent chance of
getting the number one pick, and they've never moved up
(00:44):
in the lottery, And after a seismic trade that caused
all these issues and all these stories being written and
all this money being lost on all this stuff, they
get the number one pick, so everyone immediately believes it trigged.
That's fair. There's a lot of stories that are too
impossible to believe. What happened to Shifley for the Winnipeg
(01:05):
Jets and how it intertwined with the Dallas Stars is
borderline unbelievable. Now, if you're not following the story, you
know the you probably saw the Stars one on Saturday
night and they're advancing and they play on Wednesday here
at the American Airlines Center. But for me, the story,
and he's one of their best players, doesn't the story
(01:28):
of how insane this is really begin when Jamie binsucker
punched him with four minutes to go in the middle
of a four or nothing blowout.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
That's who he sucker punched.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
That's who he sucker punched.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Oh wow, So.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
That's why at the if you watch the end of
the game, and we should just say, the guy lost
his dad unexpectedly late Friday night and had to play
in a hockey game, an elimination game, less than twenty
four hours later. How did his dad pass?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I just saw that it was unexpected. I've not seen
a pajia.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I haven't seen the details on that yet. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
But anyways, so it's a heated series. They route the
Stars four nothing with four minutes ago, Ben sucker punches him,
doesn't get suspended. Then his dad unexpectedly dies out of nowhere,
and then within twenty four hours, he has to go play,
and then he scores the first goal of the game,
like this is not even you know, if you put
(02:28):
it's the cliche, if you put it in a script,
no one would believe it. And then he has to
with fifteen seconds and left in the game, extend out
an intentionally triple player to save a breakaway with fifteen
seconds to go, and then all of his teammates feel
the pressure of killing a two minute penalty to keep
(02:50):
their season alive for him, and they're unable to do it.
This is not real life. Then he's in the penalty
box when they lose, when they lose, and they're like,
coach says, go over there and get him, like they
all like, he's just they get him. And then they
line up to do the tradition and that hockey's great.
Hockey's great. But then the first guy to hug him
(03:12):
is Jamie Benn. Wow, he was and they're there. It
felt like two minutes. I mean, I know it was it,
but you're watching this going this is not real life.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
And ESPN made him the story of the game as
they should, as they should.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I couldn't believe he was the one that had to
reach out and what this guy's named Steele, what it happened.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I was like, oh my god, it's the guy his
dad died, you know, yeah, he had to do it.
It's the right hockey play. Oh and did the ref
official like the guy they have on the analyst the expert. Yeah,
it was like, it's a fifty to fifty call. It's
the ref's call. I was like, wait, I have a
take here. Is it a penlty shot or not? Like,
tell us what it should be.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I was in a loud bar.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I was in a loud bar.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
You heard Messier, right, No Messi, I mean I didn't
hear it. I read about later MESSI. I was like, dude,
that's a penalty shot. The rules analyst was like, well,
it's the ref's call. It's the ref's discretion.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
And I was like, well, it's fifty to fifty call, right,
which you know, it ended up working out that it
wasn't a penalty shot.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
But I just I just I thought about that guy
all weekend long. And then you know, at some point
he's going to have to have a reckoning. Like you
can compartmentalize sometimes to go deal with something, but you
know when he's loan is so good.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
They were donating money to the charities that he supports. Yes,
I mean, dude, these hockey fans have it right.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
They did, and it put Shippy back in the news
because remember when Shippy got in trouble and all the
fans came to his rescue and donated to the charity. Yeah, good,
good on you hockey people. Yep, good on you. Good
stuff all right. Coming up next to the Hollywood shuffle,
what would you do for four billion dollars? We'll discuss
next
We're gonna be giving away BFD tickets all week long.
(00:03):
Be listening to the show coming up a little bit
later in the show, we'll have a chance for you
to win some BFD tickets. But yeah, we're getting away
all week because again the show is coming up on Sunday.
But right now it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Track, another edition of things skin is tracking all right.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
So at the beginning of the show, Ben was talking
about how he's getting cornered at parties and people are
just forcing the idea that the NBA is rigged, the
lottery is rigged on him, and you know, some of
these things, the stories are just too impossible to believe. Right,
The Mavericks had a one point eight percent chance of
getting the number one pick, and they've never moved up
(00:44):
in the lottery, And after a seismic trade that caused
all these issues and all these stories being written and
all this money being lost on all this stuff, they
get the number one pick, so everyone immediately believes it trigged.
That's fair. There's a lot of stories that are too
impossible to believe. What happened to Shifley for the Winnipeg
(01:05):
Jets and how it intertwined with the Dallas Stars is
borderline unbelievable. Now, if you're not following the story, you
know the you probably saw the Stars one on Saturday
night and they're advancing and they play on Wednesday here
at the American Airlines Center. But for me, the story,
and he's one of their best players, doesn't the story
(01:28):
of how insane this is really begin when Jamie binsucker
punched him with four minutes to go in the middle
of a four or nothing blowout.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
That's who he sucker punched.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
That's who he sucker punched.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Oh wow, So.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
That's why at the if you watch the end of
the game, and we should just say, the guy lost
his dad unexpectedly late Friday night and had to play
in a hockey game, an elimination game, less than twenty
four hours later. How did his dad pass?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I just saw that it was unexpected. I've not seen
a pajia.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I haven't seen the details on that yet. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
But anyways, so it's a heated series. They route the
Stars four nothing with four minutes ago, Ben sucker punches him,
doesn't get suspended. Then his dad unexpectedly dies out of nowhere,
and then within twenty four hours, he has to go play,
and then he scores the first goal of the game,
like this is not even you know, if you put
(02:28):
it's the cliche, if you put it in a script,
no one would believe it. And then he has to
with fifteen seconds and left in the game, extend out
an intentionally triple player to save a breakaway with fifteen
seconds to go, and then all of his teammates feel
the pressure of killing a two minute penalty to keep
(02:50):
their season alive for him, and they're unable to do it.
This is not real life. Then he's in the penalty
box when they lose, when they lose, and they're like,
coach says, go over there and get him, like they
all like, he's just they get him. And then they
line up to do the tradition and that hockey's great.
Hockey's great. But then the first guy to hug him
(03:12):
is Jamie Benn. Wow, he was and they're there. It
felt like two minutes. I mean, I know it was it,
but you're watching this going this is not real life.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
And ESPN made him the story of the game as
they should, as they should.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I couldn't believe he was the one that had to
reach out and what this guy's named Steele, what it happened.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I was like, oh my god, it's the guy his
dad died, you know, yeah, he had to do it.
It's the right hockey play. Oh and did the ref
official like the guy they have on the analyst the expert. Yeah,
it was like, it's a fifty to fifty call. It's
the ref's call. I was like, wait, I have a
take here. Is it a penlty shot or not? Like,
tell us what it should be.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I was in a loud bar.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I was in a loud bar.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
You heard Messier, right, No Messi, I mean I didn't
hear it. I read about later MESSI. I was like, dude,
that's a penalty shot. The rules analyst was like, well,
it's the ref's call. It's the ref's discretion.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
And I was like, well, it's fifty to fifty call, right,
which you know, it ended up working out that it
wasn't a penalty shot.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
But I just I just I thought about that guy
all weekend long. And then you know, at some point
he's going to have to have a reckoning. Like you
can compartmentalize sometimes to go deal with something, but you
know when he's loan is so good.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
They were donating money to the charities that he supports. Yes,
I mean, dude, these hockey fans have it right.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
They did, and it put Shippy back in the news
because remember when Shippy got in trouble and all the
fans came to his rescue and donated to the charity. Yeah, good,
good on you hockey people. Yep, good on you. Good
stuff all right. Coming up next to the Hollywood shuffle,
what would you do for four billion dollars? We'll discuss
next
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