Radio Voice For The CBJ Bob McElligot 4-11-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Looking at the Masters leaderboard, and it's basically stay in
the same. Rosie's at eight under. You got Bryson d. Chambeau.
He finished at seven under. He's won back again. As
Mister Golf referred to him, a mad scientist out on
the range working.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Last night after eight o'clock.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
The guy finishes his round and then goes out there
and just starts pounding balls. Guy's a machine. Then Rory
finishes six under. Scotty Scheffler is still out there. He
is a few he's probably gonna be I'm gonna go
out on a limb and say he's gonna be tied
for the lead or in the lead by the end.
Because thirteen and fifteen the part fives most of those guys,

(00:37):
you can almost almost guarantee a Bertie. And there is
a little win today, but it doesn't seem to be
affecting them here in the afternoon, but thirteen and fifteen,
and sometimes they'll sneak an eagle.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Even in there.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
So I fully expect for him to be at least
tied for the leader, maybe in the lead by the
end of the round today.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
And I know you were waiting to hear all this.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yeah, I just want to notice a cleaning crew. Don't
the creek it?

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah? Where the guy took a leak in it? Yeah? No,
I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
This is a general rule. Anytime you have to snick
to do something, you shouldn't be doing it. I have
to snick over He's.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
One of my favorite people.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Why because he's a wise ass, but he's really good
at his job. Radio voice for the Columbus Blue Jackets,
Bob mcgallig gets joining us right now.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Bob, have you been watching The Masters? By chance? You don't.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
It's not your I mean I I one of the
first times I met you, we golfed, and so I
figured maybe you'd be watching it, but not your thing.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Huh.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
You just don't understand, right, I.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Guess I don't. That's why I'm asking for clarification here.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
Okay, listen. Yeah, when you're in hockey, yeah, and you
talk about golf at this time of the year, that
means you're out of the playoffs. There's nothing to look
forward to except playing golf. Oh, the Blue Jackets are
still alive in the playoff race, Yes they are. Well,
if I could win money, I would be watching it.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, Well they don't they don't have to be.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
They don't have to being mutually exclusive, is really what
I'm saying, because those can coexist, and let's just get
used to them coexisting, if you know what I'm saying, right,
I mean, you don't have to write off, you know,
hockey because you started playing golf or watching golf.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
But anyway, uh, anyway that.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
Your player a coach, you do well. Yeah, even though
I'm neither, I'm still around right and hear myself of
the same rules, even though it's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
I told Mark the other day, you were, mister hopeful,
not this past game, but the one before the loss.
Before I was listening to you and it's like the last.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Four yeah, yeah, the.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Last forty seconds of the game, and Miguel Gan still
has hope in his voice. It was a beautiful thing.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Let's go. It's got to be that way then, yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
Well yeah, I mean the next check might not come.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Hey tonight, you're bad kidding.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
I you know what, I I can't. I will not
give up on this team until it's official because they've
played too hard, simple.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
As that, they really have, and last night it was
on full display. You know, Jet Greeves plays the night
before he drives down from Cleveland. It's so funny, by
the way, after the game, watching the players talk about
Jet going, yeah, he came up from he came up
over from wherever you could tell like Cleveland, he comes

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down from Cleveland.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Just funny that just has the side note.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
But he comes down from up from the yes, the
HL but but he comes down from Cleveland.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Anyway and challenge. Yes, I know, but that's the thing
that's just kind of uh anyway.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
So anyway, so last night he shows up and clearly
as soon as he kind of gets his wits about.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Him, I think I was standing on his head.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
I I hate to use I know gets used all
the time with regard to goalies, but uh, it was
crazy how he clamped it down there. And then with
what eight seconds left in the first you know, you
have James van Riemsdyke off of that.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Crazy pass from kJ all day.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
And I know I said to you, I said stupid,
But I'm that's like a good term the way that
I was using, because you go stupid question mark.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
But I say, well, I've seen a lot of stupid
passes this year. That was not one of these.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
That was amazing. Man, Let him perfectly, and then yeah,
he said show he said.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
Stupid, I'm about that pass, and he goes well, and
he said, if you've ever talked to catchoffs, and he
has a deeper voice. Yes, And he was like, I'll
be honest with you, I didn't even know he was there.
He said, I'm just trying to get it out of
the zone. So if you think I'm like this, I
was just super player on that pass, I really was.

(04:41):
I just got of lucky.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
You know, what is that refreshing that you have a
guy who's at least being transparent.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
He's being honest about that is hilarious. I did not hear.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
Yeah it is. But you know, he's also played with
Van Riemsdyke enough where if he didn't know he was there,
he knew he could have been there, right, I mean,
they have that kind of synergy between them. So he
got the puck out of danger, which is the number
one thing you're supposed to do there, and he also
happened to throw it into an area where his teammate
was and turned it into a goal.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
So after the second goal, so now the Sabers are
up to nothing. Did you honestly at this point I'm going,
how many times can you, guys, how many times can
you pull out from the depths of hell? You know,
in a game, especially when it's all on the line
and we all I'm holding my breath for I'm just like,
please score first, because it seems like they do better

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by and large in that situation. I'm like please, And
then Sabers score. I'm like no, and then they score again.
I go, come on, and I just I And I
was even telling you, I text you, I'm like, why
can't everybody just shoot?

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Just keep shooting?

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Just pepper the net, you know or whatever. It's so
easy from my couch, Bob, I should be coaching.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
I mean, it's so easy you should be doing of that.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
So what were your thoughts that, seriously, they're down two
to oh and and you gotta be positive. I get it,
But at this point, man, we've witnessed this a lot lately.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Unfortunately.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
Yeah, I was just I was just looking at your
text to see what you actually said, and I wish
I could read this, but I can't.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Please don't. I'll have to du Yeah, I have to
dump you.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
Along with your career. But anyway, what was I thinking?
The I thought of something that you completely forgot what
and you didn't factor into your overall assessment of the situation.
What the Buffalo sabers.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, it's that good.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
Yeah, I know they had one eight of nine coming
into that game, but they I mean, they've been out
of the playoffs since Christmas. You know, if there's a
team you're going to come back against when you're at
home and you have to win and you have almost
mastered coming from behind here throughout the course of the scene,
they were the prime target to be the victim.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
It ain't the Abs you're coming back against, is what you're.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
Saying, exactly exactly right right. You fall down two to
nothing to Colorado and you're like, oh, this is gonna
be a long night. And you fall down two to
nothing to Buffalo and you're like, cause it gonna be
four to two or three to two, not sure.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
So tomorrow is going to be a full house as
the Capitals come to town. A lot of people were
hoping they were going to get to see Ovechkin break
the record, and clearly he did it earlier in the week.
Your thoughts on that, because that's pretty special, no question
about that.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
No, it's really special. I mean, it's you know, it's
it's great too. You know, from my standpoint, I've called
how many games that Alexandrovitchkin has played against the Blue
Jackets in the sixteen years that I've been here, So
you know, at the end, it's cool. I watched Gretzky
on TV and never got to see him live playing
in person, and I've had the opportunity to do that

(07:50):
with Ovechkin. And look, he's a special guy. He's not
a today athlete. He's a throwback guy. I mean, he
you know, he's got a dad bought and ripspucks at
one hundred miles an hour and he's done it more
than anybody else has in the history of the National
Hockey League. So and he loves to score, and he
loves his teammates, and I really loved it last week

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he had the two goals in the game They're playing
at home, and it was going to be an empty
net situation at the end, and he told his coach,
I don't want to score it into an empty det
I want to score it with a goalie. So I
respect him for that, because the last thing you want
is anybody to go well ninety fifth, I mean there
was even a goalie in there.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
That was when I saw that, Bob, I said, that
guy is the real deal.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
And like you just said, old school, I mean it was.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
He did drink like a fish. You see him after
they won the Cup that year, right.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
I love Also the other night, I think it was
Ottawa when they were yeah yeah, yeah, And it was chippy.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
I mean everybody was. It was everybody.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
I thought it was just like, I don't know how
anybody else could have fought. I mean it was and
we didn't have drop the love stuff, but man, was
it chippy.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
And Jody it was TV. He says he talks to.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
A Branson and he's talking to him in between periods
or in between something I don't know. And he was
was during the game and he was saying, how do
you like this? And he goes, this is old schoola hockey.
I love it, man, I love it all the chippiness
and how and I just thought I just thought it
was great watching that.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
The Jackets looked so comfortable playing like that. Bob, you know,
the chippyess.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
Where everybody I know. Man, But here's the thing, and
I agree with you about that, But here's the thing.
Ottawas started that. Okay, that was day to their own
detriment because on Sunday when the two teams played and
always shut him out forward to nothing. There was none
of that really. But David Peran, who in all these

(09:47):
years in the league, he really knows how to get
under your skin. He's not a fighter, but he'll do
these little things.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
And Kenema marchhand almost like.

Speaker 4 (09:54):
Yeah, and he did it, and he woke them up
and it was over from that point in time. So yeah,
I agree. I love when they play those kind of games. Well,
I like the old time hockey games anyway.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
So tomorrow, Yeah, going to be a full house because
a lot of people, uh you know, we're we're buying
tickets or and expect, you know, expecting to see possibly
the record.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
Broke and so on.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Let me ask you with the Caps, you know they're
in the postseason, clearly, will they be starting everybody? I mean,
how's this going to work? We know in football that
a lot of times that you know, coaches will rest
starters just to not as at the end of the
season if the games are not technically needed, if.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
You will in order to secure home field or what
have you.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Are we going to see any of that tomorrow, So
it might not be a full strength Capitals.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
It's possible, okay, especially because it's it's back to back
because we play in Washington on Sunday evening too. But
I don't know. I didn't I didn't look at Capital
stuff today. I want to practice this morning, and was
running around all over town doing errands today and I
just got back home right before you guys called. So
we'll get into that. But that could happen. I mean,

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that's just his time of the year. That's just the
way it goes. So but unlike in football, you're not
going to see it JV team, You're going to see
a couple of guys held out here and there for
the rest of the regular season schedule. If they ought
to do that.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah, you wouldn't want to risk Avetchkin for instance, you know,
ended up in the boards.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Or something to coach.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
I would have told him to stay in Washington, to
be honest with you, I would have today because we're
going to play at home tomorrow, so why you know,
just kick your feet up and wait till we get
home and play on Sunday night. But yeah, that's nobody
wants to hear that he's the high school scorer ever
in the history of the league. Everybody wants to see
him play, so and I understand that too, But I

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think from a if I was a coach going to
the playoffs and he's done what he has done all season,
I would have been you know, I would be one
to say, well, you just enjoy your Friday night.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
At home, and I'd be happy.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
I'd be happy if Akin didn't show up. Okay, I'm
completely fine with that. Jack gets need this game.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
I'm still on the learning curve here. But you were
asking about what the other teams will bring over the weekend.
Am I wrong? Can Montreal make it all a moot
point tonight? If they win, do they never take that
final slot? So no matter that could win out and
it wouldn't matter what you were saying. Yeah, so tonight
in Montreal can lock that last slot and so there's

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no more wild card possibility for him at all.

Speaker 4 (12:27):
No, that is right. All they need is a point.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Who are they playing tonight?

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Who's Montreal Ottawa? Yeah, okay, it's Ottawa.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
They've got Ottawa, Toronto and Chicago coming up.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
And then Ottawa. They they need this.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
Well, yeah, I forget where they are. They were chasing Florida,
they'd almost chase Florida down. That loss hurt them the
other night at Nationwide Arena because they were only two
points behind the Panthers to get into third place. So
uh yeah, they need it and they want to. They
want to be playing their best going into the playoffs
for sure. And listen, it's Ottawa Montreal. There's nobody saying, hey,

(13:04):
you know, I may well just back her down a
little bit tonight. So that doesn't happen when those two
teams play each other. It doesn't.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
So Montreal wins tonight. This is just going to be,
uh well, let's finish the season.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
And instead of who the opponent plays as this weekend,
that makes me wonder who the blue jack are they
going to just come out there and kick but as
hard as they can just to end the season strong,
or where the heart kind of be yanked out of them?
If Montreal is victorious.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
And I I Bob would probably have the most educated
answer here, my guess is they're gonna they're professionals, man,
They're going to.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
Come out and they're going to leave it on the ice.
I just feel like.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
They're going to do They're they're not going to back
down with the you know the games that they have
left with is it now two with Washington, Philly and
New York Island, there's four games. Yeah, They're they're not
going to back it down. They're not going to pack
it in. You know, they have they have a lot
of guys that haven't played in a while, and once
you're if you are officially eliminated, maybe the lineup changes

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a little bit. And some guys like a Christian Fisher
who I think has played one time since they picked
them up off waivers at the trade deadline. You got
this Jack Williams kid who was signed out of college
in Northeastern and he's been here practicing with the team.
You know, probably gets an opportunity to play first NHL game.
I would think it's very possible. That kind of stuff,
I think you will see. But whoever's in the lineup,

(14:19):
you're not going to see them back down on what
they're doing.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
All right, Very good. He's the radio voice for the
Columbus Blue Jackets. Bob mcallaghan, who's going to be uh
in studio.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
With me sitting in in a few weeks.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
Oh really, yeah, what is it any day I'm not here?

Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yeah, figures one of the days you're not here that
wants to me.

Speaker 4 (14:36):
How come you didn't get Trump to come over and
do an interview with me on Sunday in DC?

Speaker 2 (14:41):
I put in my word for you had the hotline.

Speaker 4 (14:44):
I thought when that red phone rings at you, yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
I'm connected to Trump. Sure. Yeah, Oh my.

Speaker 4 (14:51):
Gosh, man, you got that hat? I saw it.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
Yeah I do. Actually, yeah, that's a beautiful thing. All right, Bob,
thank you very thank you very much. And yeah, good
luck to your pirates tonight. They're gonna need it in Cincinnati,
So good luck.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
Man.

Speaker 4 (15:05):
Well, I got nothing to say with that.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Well, we both yeah, we're five and eight, both of us.
We suck right now. So I got five and eight.

Speaker 4 (15:16):
I don't play for them. I'm nothing. I'm just watching Bob.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Thanks brother. Well, I'll probably text you tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (15:24):
All right, all caps, buddy, all right, thanks man,