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Speaker 1 (00:21):
Happy Devils Thursday. This is the State of the Fan
address titled six weeks out. Yeah, six weeks out for
training camp begins. I'm your OT Samboo here with Fox
and pitchforks dot COM's editor in chief Nick Milano. You're
streaming live on Facebook Live, YouTube Live x liven with

(00:47):
John Let's go Devil's Network. Tell me live live from
the primetime radio studios from North Jersey and South Jersey. Boy,
did you get slammed this afternoon? Make with Rains. I
was worried about it so because I didn't hear it
for it.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, I was actually waiting. Good again, there's I've been
a little under the weather, which is why we moved
this from Wednesday to Thursday. But I was I was waiting.
I had I was on stand by. I was like, well,
I might lose power, there might be flash flooding. You know.
We I just had to be on stand by, you know,
with the with the family and everything, make sure that

(01:27):
everybody was was good before we did this. And then
it wasn't that bad. It rained harder on like Sunday
or Monday, I can't remember what day was. It definitely
rained a ton around us. There was a ton of lightning,
a ton of thunder. Well, we didn't get that crazy
rainstorm that that they were predicting here, you know, maybe

(01:48):
a mile down the road. It was where they got
it maybe, you know, I think Queens Queen's New York.
Oh really yeah. I saw they had the rain to
light at Yankee game today and I'm assuming that that
is coming there right again. It was the MLB trade
thatline today, Sam, and both of our teams came out
looking pretty strong. Yeah. Bullpen, Yeah, you know what.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
The Mets bullpen they can run their stars three innings
in the playoffs and they're I'm that bullpen is is
pretty pretty balanced with the two left handed relievers and
you got two right handed flame throwing throwers.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
You know.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Right now on the New York Mets, they got their
center fielder. And you know the great thing about the
Mets what they did is they did not trade any
top ten or top nine prospects in their farm system
to get it.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
I think that the Yanks they only trade what their
seven what they think kept Spencer Jones, that kept a
lot of the really big names. Yeah, and they did
get rid of as a who is the guy that
they've been holding onto and I thought would one day
be a star in the league. And it's you know,
it's it is unbecoming of the Yankees where they are

(03:12):
gripping to a lot of these prospects because they saw
what Aaron Judge turned into, and Aaron Judge was like,
to be honest, was a prospect they weren't really that
high on for a long time. They thought guys like
Gary Sanchez and Greg Byrd and uh, I know those two.
There was another guy that they thought was gonna be
better than Judge from that era, which is which you.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Know, because I think Dominic Smith was ranked higher and
actually the Mets drafted him higher, yeah, than Aaron Judge.
But I don't know how anybody could have thought that
when he saw Aaron Judge's size.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Six seven, he hit hits the ball a mile. I think, yeah,
I think there's a there's a sim more aspect to
NHL prospects, right, You're seeing a lot of really high
hopes for prospects. I saw Mike Moreal, friend of the podcast,
was speaking high on to Kesparry pierinan third round pick

(04:13):
of the Devils, and it's like it's like, yeah, there's
so much things to love about these prospects to think
that it's going to translate. But unless you get like
a Roman Anthony in baseball terms, or unless you got
like a you know, a Mesa, like the guy from
San Jose, like a guy who's like a sure thing,
maybe gripping these prospects isn't isn't the thing, And that's

(04:35):
what I want to get with. You get to Sam
is you know I wrote a piece today on pucksinpatroocks
dot com. By the way, we're just cram our articles today, Sam,
I'm gonna do something that I've never done in the
history of pucksinpittroocks dot com today after this podcast, we're

(04:58):
going to publish our one h drift article this month. Wow,
one hundred articles in a month, first time it's ever
been done. We did ninety eight last month. So we've
been really like we off season. By the way, Yeah,
we're killing We're killing it. Not not to just be
patting ourselves in the back, but we're we're hitting every rumor.
We're really diving deep into the history I was. I

(05:20):
told Sam, Sam is excited because I wrote I wrote
a thousand words on Claude Lemieue today just because you know,
I want to do a retrospective. It's a war week
at fans at but uh Anyway, I talked about three
guys that I think the Devils could trade for during
the season. And I don't usually like to spoil my articles,
but I'm going to tell you who the three guys
are because I kind of want to get your your

(05:41):
thoughts on them. And there's these are guys that aren't
widely available this offseason, like I Skipp, Jason Robertson and
Jordan Kiro because I feel like we've given them so
much air. But the three guys I said are Alex
Tuck or the Buffalo Sabers. He would fit so great
next to jack Us. He's got enough great to keep

(06:01):
guys away from him. But he's a thirty plus goal
scorer Alex to brink it, the Devils wanted him in
twenty twenty two. The price was too high for them.
They let him go to Did you go to Ottawa
first or to go to Detroit? Or was that when
he went to Detroit. I can't remember which Spotty went to,
but he's on Detroit now, Sam. Detroit's in a precarious position.

(06:25):
Ottawa and Montreal got a lot better, and I don't
think Toronto got worse enough to be out of the playoffs.
Florida is going to be great again, and Tampa Bay
is Tampa Bay like they're always going to be one
of those top three teams in the Atlantic. So there's
really no room for Detroit. And honestly, with Montreal and
Ottawa being better, it could push Detroit pretty far down

(06:47):
the standings and make them out of it pretty quickly.
So I think the Brickhead is a guy to watch.
The third guy is I'm going back to as well,
Sam because it just it makes too much sense. But
I'm going back to Ryan O'Reilly of the Nashville Predators. Again,
these aren't guys that are available now. These aren't I
don't even think I Tuck. There's a lot of conversation
around Tuck. I don't think it's available. But I think

(07:09):
these three guys are going to be available tour in
the season. I think all three of those teams are
going to be out of it pretty quickly, and I
think you can make the trade for any one of them. Yeah,
I just think, what do you think? Like, are you
satisfied if Tom Fitzgerald comes out September or October with
this press conference and says, I know we didn't do

(07:31):
enough this offseason. My plan is to go after somebody,
or are you is that not good enough for you?
Are you demanding something happens now?

Speaker 1 (07:43):
No, I wouldn't be demanding, and I'll tell your reason
why I wouldn't be demanding right now.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
If it was.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
I don't think Tom Fitzgerald is at that point where
it's it's either you went in the Stanley Cup now
or you're gone. And the Devils did make the playoffs
last season with guys heard I think right now, I

(08:15):
think with the injuries that they have on the blue line,
I would just stampat at this point. I would not
overpay and I wouldn't make a deal. Just think of
making a deal.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
I think that's that's a good point because since the
team omyer Dale and even the tiam Omyerdal, you have
to overpay to get the good player, well, the team
will just hold on to them and wait like the
unless it's a free agent. And even as the free agent,

(08:55):
we saw a couple of teams just let the free
agent go to free agency because they didn't get their price.
The price is more important than recouping on an asset.
They would rather let the clock strike zero and get
nothing for them over getting a price that they deem unworthy.

(09:18):
And you like think about it, like the Carolin Hurricanes
were held over a barrel with Mikael Rantonan and they
still got Logan stan Covid in the deal they demanded
Logan sink of like you have to come to play
no matter who the player is. And I think you're

(09:38):
going to start hearing like last year, all the names
you really heard were Dawson Mercer and someone emits Like,
those are the names you heard in those trade talks.
You didn't really hear the name like Anton Siliev or
Mikhael y grav or le len me how men, how

(10:00):
are Saint Gris Sick? Like those names? You didn't hear
those names. I think you're gonna hear those names a
little bit more now because I don't think they're gonna
be taken on the table. Maybe not grit Sick. I
think grit Sick they're really happy with. They want to
see him develop. But those other names like Shane la Chance,
like I think they're really happy because they got him
in the Uh what was it the they got it

(10:21):
like just to like cover there with the oilers that
just to cover some some salary cap Is that the
Tanev trade? I can't remember, but it was they were
able to just get a nice little prospect there. I Uh,
I think everybody's on the table during the season because

(10:43):
they just have to be. I think Fitzgerald loves Ciliev
and the thought of Siliev. But if I came to
you right now and I said, you can get the
same player for Nemetz and Silyev, who are you trading.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
I'm training Nemets Are you really sizes everything for me?

Speaker 2 (11:06):
I know, But he's nemetis right handed, he's that small.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Well, still you still have Seamus Casey.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
You still have the it's like five to nine.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yeah, but but he's a right handed. Plus you still
have that potential of Quinn Hughes coming.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Two years from now, who's left handed.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
I know, but I'm just saying, yeah, but dougge Hamilton's
still on the team. He's right handed, you know. So, uh,
Peschi is right handed.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah, I mean you'll you'll still have three right handed
between Peschi, Kola Sevich and and Hamilton. But you know
when when would also ask that can you fit Hamilton's
nine million and whatever you're gonna have to pay Quinn Hughes,
that's all different discussion. I I would think long and

(12:03):
hard about it. I also think it depends on the player,
like and that doesn't make sense, but for some reason
it does to me, Like, if you're doing it for
Quinn Hughes, I would rather trade Nemets. Again, that doesn't
make sense because we're both have handed but I just
think the immediacy of of Hughes and the long term
value that you're going to get out, Like, you know,

(12:24):
Quin Hughes is coming here for ten years, nine years,
whatever it is, to play with his brothers and to
stick around for the long haul. But if you're trading
for say to brink It, it might be two years.
And then I think I'd be more inclined to trade
til Yev because then you still get the the you know,
more of an impact from from Nemets. You kind of

(12:46):
know Nemets is at least an NHL player now, sill
Yev might not be an NHL player. That was the
risk you took is you're you're drafting a unicorn, but
you don't even know if he's an NHL player, Like
the war is very low until you have and the
ceiling is higher than any defenseman that was in that draft. Now,

(13:09):
ze boyem from Minnesota looks like should have been the
pick just through the roof dynamic, looks like he's going
to make the NHL this year for the Minnesota Wild.
But there's you know, Dickinson was was available there. There's
there's a bunch of guys that are that that could

(13:29):
have been really good for the Devil's there. It's I
think I'd rather trade Ciliev for anyone besides like Quinn
Hughes or I don't even know, like you know what
I mean, like somebody who's like more of a long
term aspect, but he's going to make that immediate presence felt.
Somebody who's like a go for it guy, like let's

(13:51):
try to win the Stanley Cup guy. I think I
want to tread.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Hmmm, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
The logic isn't there. I get it, like it's it's
not my best logic, I understand, but that's that's where
I'm going with it. Can I change the subject? Real worried?

Speaker 1 (14:14):
No, it's it's it's you shouldn't be worried. Just I've
been reading on pucksopitchworks dot com. I didn't know if
you knew that David Collins was a good friend of
the podcast. Oh yeah, he took it, took it, took

(14:34):
missus Wu and I UH and Max Uh paid for
dinner when we went to the fore names.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
Yeah you didn't know that, Yeah, didn't tell Oh yeah,
well yeah you know. Now there's no conflict of indurance.
You could take me in to dinner too. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
He he moved on. He he's with the massive square
Garden networks.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
It's in the article.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
But Ted wanted to us to talk about not having
a CFO. I say, missus Wu puts in a resume
to be a CFO of the New Jersey Devils, then
then then there's no conflict of interest there. But I
have her ear.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Lower ticket prices. Now, let's I mean, here's the thing, Sam,
is that when when there's no CFO, it's almost like
there's no buffer to these decisions at the top. I'm
not predicting that prices will.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
Go up, but the the the two plus two equals
four impact on concessions and merchandise and things like that.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
When you raise ticket prices, that's not readily available for
the president of the organization or the owners, you know,
and those are the ones who are going to be
making those decisions. With no CFO, it looks like they
they've added lower level people. And they're not low I'm

(16:06):
sure they're very well compensated, but you know, like if
the CFO is an EVP, you know, it looks like
we're adding just some regular vps, like multiple, like three
different people to kind of fill that role. And I
think that that's usually comes with a lack of decision

(16:27):
making power. And I'll tell you what's Sam like I
I I wrote about it, Sam, with the information I had.
I'll tell you that I wrote it with the information
that I had. It's a good article.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
Un Yeah, I was reading it while on air. You know,
I can multitask. Missus Woo doesn't think I can multitask,
but you know, I was reading on air, and you.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Know, I'm like, you should. I wish. I want to
know what.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
I'm like, I gonna I could possibly get you connected.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
I don't know, ye can you still can? We can?
We can do a follow up and just honestly, like
it would be a good. It would be a good
interview to talk about the inner workings of the organization.
I'll tell you this, Sam, I wrote about it because
I think it's significant. I think we're gonna see some changes,
whether good or bad. I can't tell you what those

(17:24):
changes are going to be. Maybe the lower ticket prices,
maybe they'll go to a you know, we've heard some
complaints about the concessions. Maybe the concessions will go to
like that model that like what is it Mercedes Benztone
in Atlanta has where it's six dollars for a hot
dog instead of thirteen or whatever it is, you know,

(17:44):
where you're paying like normal restaurant markups instead of you know,
crazy stadium markups. And I'll tell you what, Sam, I
I I look at the the I look at the
whole spectrum of things. Basically what I did same is
I looked at the front office last year and I

(18:04):
looked at the front office this year. Mike was the
coaching staff, and some of the decisions they made were interesting.
I wrote another story, Sam, where the way they structured
the coaching staff is I don't want to get in trouble.
How do I say this? I get in trouble. I

(18:26):
don't think I can't, so I'm just gonna say it.
I think they cheaped out. They have won less coach,
one less assistant coach because they let Ryan McGill and
Chris Taylor go and they only replaced him with Bradshaw.
I know, I know why and hold on. So they

(18:48):
let the head video coach go, Jerry Deneen, and they
replaced him with oh man, his name's escaping me. He
basically he announced it again on Twitter today, but they
replaced him with just a regular video coach. So there's
no head video coach. Now there's just two video coaches

(19:09):
instead of a head video coach and a video coach.
Now there's four assistant coaches instead of I think there
was five last year, including the goalie coach. I think
there was five last year and there's four this year.
I don't like that strategy, and I'm sure Sheldon keep

(19:31):
us fine with it, because you know, these coaches are
crazy and think that they can look the way to
the world. But I don't like the strategy of basically,
you know, the right sizing the coaching staff. They're right
sizing the front office. Uh, and you got to you
got an ownership group who's spending his money elsewhere he's

(19:57):
got He's got issues over in in in Philadelphia. He
has issues in Washington where the President is is tweeting
about or whatever, whatever the heck thing he's on.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
Actually, actually that's where I wanted to get into because
you know, there's all there's I'm not going to get
into politics or whatever, but I'm going to get into
the business.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
It's stressful when the president tweets about your your but.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
I will tell but I'll tell you where the business
side is. The President used his company used to run
woman rink and guess.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
Who got it, Harris S. Blitzer.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
So I think there's a lot to it. But I
also have read that there is leverage there where they
may have to flip the names back.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
You know.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
Again, I don't want to get into that.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
But the point is.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
He bought the Washington Commanders, sure, and it's a lot
of money. He had to bring a lot of partners involved,
and he's building a brand new state of the art building.
He's got his cash cows on autopilot right now, one
of them being the New Jersey Devils. Because they make

(21:25):
their money on concerts. That's where they get, they get
they get their real dough because of that sweetheart deal.
And really the Devils are just an anchor and they
want to break even.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
Right they the Devils are a means to a Forbes
list where they don't care if they make money in
the Devils. They don't they care if they lose money
in the Devils. But they don't care if they make
money in the Devils because the Devils. Every time I'm

(22:00):
somebody has to buy a piece of the pie. For
Harrows Splitzer Sports Imporium or whatever it's called, entertain sports
and Entertainment, I like mine better. I think we should
change their name. That's where we should change their name.
Make that the Harrows Splitzer Sports and Porium. But anyay,
I'm all about. But the Devil's going from. I think

(22:25):
they've paid like somewhere like three hundred and twenty five
million or three hundred and fifty million for the Devils.
They are now at two billion dollar franchise. And the
way Harris Splitzer works is you're buying into their conglomerate.
So it's the six billion dollar Washington Commanders, it's the

(22:47):
four billion dollar seventy six years, it's two billion dollar devils,
So you can't buy five percent of the Devils, Like
that's not for You'd have to buy five percent of
the ownership steak within Harris Splitzer Sports Imporium, which means

(23:09):
instead of coming and be like I want five percent
of a sports team, so I would pay you know,
whatever that is, like one hundred million dollars or whatever
it is, now you have to pay seven or eight
hundred million dollars. Just got five percent steak in that
and the added value that all this it's and it's

(23:33):
more than that, because it's a crystal palace, and it's
it's a bunch of you know, I think the Cleveland
Indians part ownership isn't there or maybe that's something Blitzer
has on the side of them. I'm really sure, you know,
it's it's it's all of this and and the fact
that you have to invest in all of it is important.

(23:56):
I think that's all it is. So he does want
the books to look good. And I'm not going to
sit here and say that's why David, your friend or
the friend of the podcast David went to n SG
David Collins.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
But well, you were talking about the staff or you
were talking about like video staff and all that. So
I was just lumping that in and the cutting costs
less is more, you know, efficiency if you want to
call it.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
Right, But that's that all runs up to the CFO. Yeah,
well you run the budget by the CFO, and that
includes staff.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
I wonder if the CFO of the commanders is now
doing the books for the other I don't know how
it works.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
I mean, I wouldn't be surprised. Sam. You know, these
are guys who come from hedge funds, and hedge funds
are I mean, I hate to be this guy and
just lump them all together, but like a hedge fund
is about efficiency straight up. Well, I mean when.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
I use this example all the time, I believe it
was Harris Splitzer's, No, Joshua Harris's hedge fund Apollo. They
one time bought Twinkie, you know, Twinkie. Yeah, and you know,
I guess the confectioner union, baker union. You know, we

(25:29):
won't come back, Okay, we're going bankrupt, and suddenly this
hedge fund buys up and then we suddenly got our
twinkies back.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yeah, that twinkie.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
Today's twinkie does not taste like the Twinkie before the
hedge fund bought it.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
I have a gripe. I have a gripe here that
I want to talk. Can go right ahead, Go right ahead.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
Don't let me interrupt you.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
I used to love and I'm not this guy like
I feel like this is this was my my like
pinky in the air. But I used to love rows
used to love Rowse sauce. And it got bought by
Craft and now it just tastes like ragu There's something

(26:17):
like they use a different kind of oil that's that's
more of an olive oil blend yep instead of you know,
the extra virgin olive oil straight. You know, they you
cut little corners. When you're a conglomerate, you save on
the margins, and when the margins are you know, I

(26:41):
I had a business. You know, I have a minor
in business. So a lot of the business classes you
learn all these stories. If you have the right professor.
And we we learned about strinkflation. It used to be
considered like like this this Titans of Business. They gave

(27:05):
me the uh, this example of this olive company. You
used to have a three hundred sixty jar of olives
like they you know, it's the costco sized jar of olives.
And they were like, how do we save money? Do
we use different packaging? Do we you know, change our lids?
Do we do we change our marketing strategy? Just try
to bring in more money. And this guy is like,

(27:28):
if we removed two olives from everything, over seven thousand
things of olives, you know, we'll save the money that
we need to save. And eventually all companies did this.
But there's shrinkflation in every industry, you know what I mean,

(27:49):
in finance and technology in tech or I guess that's
technology in in in you know, hospitality. You know, you
used to go to a hotel and there's always three
people at the desk and ten people work in rooms.
But now you got two people at the desk and
seven people working rooms, you know what I mean. And

(28:10):
there's it's happening everywhere.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Even AI is going to replace us podcasters too.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
Just watch. We might be AI. You never know, maybe
we're fake. Maybe this is all the matrix. I know,
I'm real. You don't know, though, No, you don't know.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
I saw the funny meme and we're coming towards the
end here, So we'll make I'll make this correct, but
I soa that's funny meme that said, you know what's
a ridiculous conspiracy theory that you listen to and like
Twitter that can go in dark place, but this one
was funny. They said that the Matrix came out in
nineteen ninety nine and in the Matrix the only way
you can get out of the Matrix is about using

(28:54):
a payphone, I guess, or about using a land line.
And they said since the Matrix came out, land lines
have become less and less relevant, and more and more
people are getting rid of their landlines, and payphones are
basically you can't find them. Nobody nowhere has a payphone
that works anymore. So, like you know, somebody saw on

(29:16):
the Matrix the way to get out of the Matrix
is to use use a landline and a payphone. So
they got rid of them. So we're all stuck in
the Matrix. We're stuck, Sam, I don't know. Wow, Wow,
I'll say that, Sam. We haven't brought up Lucus yet.

(29:36):
Do you think that ownership has any reason why this
Lucus thing hasn't signed or they trying to cheap out
on Lucu's.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
No, because I think what's happening is the Devils are
very strategic in announcing their timing. I think the deal
is already done without sources or anything. I bet you
the deal is already done. But because like a good
uh you know. I I think what the problem is

(30:08):
is they probably have something in principle, but I think
it all boils down to Polot.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
Nobody wants them. Yeah, yeah, and you lost. I mean
the buyout wouldn't make it this year.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
And if you announce right now that you have luke
U's on a four year, seven eight year deal X
amount of dollars, you don't want to give the other
team leverage. Oh, I'm gonna trade you a couple of
pucks for Plot because I know you need to unload
them and we got the at this point.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
I would take a couple of bucks. Yeah, you kind
of need that off. I mean, yeah, I would attach
like a six round pick to it. I don't want
to attach something of value because I did think at
the beginning of the off season that you get something
about you got something of value for Halla. Yeah, but
of course Halla has a much super contract. It's only
one year. But yeah, I mean here Here's the thing is,

(31:07):
I think the devils are going to look at this situation.
I think you're not completely wrong. I do think there's
a disagreement on term. I think Fitzgerald is holding out
for eight years because remember this is the only time
ever that Tom Fitzgerald could sign up for eight years.

(31:28):
That becomes seven next year. So like say they sign
a one year deal and they want to do an extension,
it could only be a seven year extension. So it
can't be an eight year extension because July first next year,
when the contract going to effect, eight year deals are outlawed.
They don't exist anymore. So you want to do it

(31:50):
now if you're going to do eight years, And again,
essentially if you sign a one year deal and then
a seven year deal, it's the same thing. But you
also have to remember that if you sign him to
a one year deal, he's off a sheet eligible next year.
Not that any GM really cares about that. Nobody wants
to pay the four first round picks it would take
to get Luke cu'es. But what a desperate Vancouver team

(32:15):
do it. I think, well, it's good. This is how
I'm going to end it. If you're Vancouver. Is there
any reason not to give Luke Ues fourteen million dollars
a year to ensure that he leaves and stays with

(32:35):
his brother. I think the Hughes.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
Family, especially their dad being their agent, would probably yeah, well.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
That has a bit, Yeah, but that's not I think.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
I think they want to see a concrete plan how
they're gonna win the Stanley Cup.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
On top of that, I don't know, go to Colorado,
or they're not going to go to Vegas. I mean,
I guess they could, but.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
You know, I mean what's great about New Jersey is
you got two of them here. They know how the
Harris S. Blitzer Sports Emporium, if you want to call
him that, how they roll.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
And they Jack do pretty much whatever he wants pretty much. Yeah,
I mean he doesn't his credit. He doesn't want to
do anything detrimental. But you know, he's had pretty much
any marketing plan that he's wanted. He's had pretty much
any you know, uh, outside venture that he's wanted. Yeah,

(34:02):
and Jack is a good soldier. He does all the
he does all the charity events, he goes to the hospitals,
he does the the sweep the deck gala. But yeah,
it's it's it's definitely something to just keep an eye on. Yeah,
I think it's term more than it's cash. I'm sure

(34:26):
that they can can agree on the number for cash,
but it's trying to get him signed for eight years.
But anyway, that's all I got. Same. Oh An he
plugs well plugged a couple of articles. But yeah, puckspittricks
dot com has we post every day. We're posting multiple

(34:49):
times a day. Is there an article? Oh? I talked
about the red and the green jerseys for Lore week.
That's up on pucksypittricks dot com. I wrote about NHL
partnering with the z Owne for international streaming. I know
we got some international listeners. So anybody outside of North

(35:10):
America looking for NHL NHL games, there's a new way
to stream them. The toorks dot com there's you know.
John John Bailey talked about Jacob mark Strum Jersey. Joe
wrote something on Bradshaw's impact on the defense. Uh Neil
wrote about Jack Hughes having the most the best contract sport.

(35:32):
We got articles on articles and articles.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
All right, Well, I want to thank all those tuning
in dropping the podcast at midnight.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
You go to Bucks, a pitchforks dot

Speaker 1 (35:44):
Com Until next time, Let's go down.
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