Conference Finals Are Next! - OHL Playoffs: Episode 187 - The OHL In 60 Podcast - The Armchair GM's Sports Network

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to the Armchair GM Sports Network.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
You're listening to the Ohl and sixty podcast. I'm reached
maybe along with Colin Ward, and we are halfway there
to crowning a champion. Round two is complete, Round three
is ready to get underway, the conference championships in the
West and the Eastern Conference getting underway on Friday, and

(01:01):
then we're off into the second half of the OHL playoffs. Yeah,
it's it's amazing that it is April twenty fourth already
and we are closing in on another Memorial Cup tournament,
this time of course, being out east in Ramuski, still
trying to convince my girlfriend to cancel our flights, take
a train to Ramuski and then go to Halifax afterwards.

(01:22):
But well it won't end up.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Anywhere, I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
But yeah, it's it's amazing, and and for us it's
i don't know, kind of crappy. You know, bulldogs aren't
in anymore so, so we're not at the rink, you know,
four or five times a week, which sucks. Yeah, but
but also too when you start to see at least

(01:48):
London has shown it already anyways, you start to see
the Wayne Gretzky Trophy on the ice, and and that
that's that gets bleep the NHL for taking away the
Stanley Cup play offs in the on the thing. You're
trying to do it like on TV, but it looks dumb.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
We're gonna get placed and we're gonna get played.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Introductions.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
I think before game one too, Conference final. We talked
about one. I believe. I mean, I.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Only remember it in the OL finals in twenty two
and I know they do.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
For sure before the finals, but I unless somehow in
a blonde moment. But I always thought, and I mean,
this is a yearly thing. You think I would remember
every once in a while. But there's a lot that
goes on in the season. Yeah, there's a lot that
goes on in the year. There's a lot that goes
on in the day. But I think there's introductions before
game one, not not like they also like the game

(02:44):
one and three. H there's like introductions I believe before
game one.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
So you'll get it at the higher seeds rink. So
Canada Life places again Sade Arena.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, I believe. So I believe it would do it.
I mean, I hope, I hope. Yeah, it makes sense
you have the logos on. Actually thought when the logos
got on the Icey introduction started to happen.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
I thought it was just fine. Again, I could be wrong,
but yeah, you think we'd remember this.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
It's one of those things that there's so much that
happens in the year.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah. And literally it's an innocent mistake. Like it's almost
like a question answer question type thing. You know, that's
kind of what it's like. Yeah, and I uh, yeah,
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
I would hope Friday Price Friday.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, yeah, you know, it might work out As I'm
driving through the Winsor, I'm gonna be in the area
of London Night's Hockey on nine eighty CFBL from a
legally London Night's Hockey to get Yeah, Mike Stubbs and
Jim Van Horne will be driving through to Winsor on
my way for a Tigers game on Saturday.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
But pump for that.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Get the Twitter notifications going to because didn't get the video.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, yeah as well, that's awesome.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah, nine eighty.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
I grew up listening to so many Mike Stubbs playoff games,
either if it was a road game, sitting in the
backyard with my dad playing baseball because it's baseball weather now,
so we'd be we'd be playing catcher, doing something baseball related,
listening to the hockey game. That was always cool. I

(04:15):
remember going from baseball tryouts to uh rushing home listening
to Mike Stubbs on the radio on my way home
from baseball because easily this is around tryout time. This
is like the final cut time. So unfortunately you can't
be skipping baseball for you guys.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Do spring tryouts in the in the Norfolk area, we.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Do winner too, but to be fair, you get a
lot more out of the outside when you get outside,
yet the winner the indoor gets sold. Like I was
actually joking about this today and as we record on Wednesday,
it was joking because I used to always hate this
time of the year because in my area and the

(04:59):
delha end Her area on the Greater Dell High area,
they never let you on the diamond until like May first.
Oh yeah, Branford too, yeah yeah, So this time a
day like on Wednesday, when it's twenty four degrees and
Sonny and you have to go up indoor practice on
a Wednesday night at eight o'clock or seven o'clock was
the worst mood calling wouldever be in because you know

(05:21):
how you.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Know the school gym. Oh that brings back memories?

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Oh yeah, didn't that wasn't that horrible?

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Though? Awful when when you when it was so nice outside,
you'll watch a big league game like for instance, Detroit
a local a local a local big league team or
even Pittsburgh Cleveland, and you watch them playing outdoors at
America Progress Ve PNC, and it's like, why are we
inside right now? Yeah? Like it was so. I used

(05:47):
to not like that at all. I used to always say,
can we can we not just practice in the outfield?
Even do you ground balls in the outfield? Just stay
off the infield? Can we please do that? Can we hit?

Speaker 3 (05:57):
Can we hit from the grass part of the infield?

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Like?

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Can we like? Can we set the l screen up?

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Like? So?

Speaker 2 (06:04):
So that's where you would have to go as a
team and wear no Like for us we wore nothing, Branford,
you'd have to wear nothing. You were just oh, we're
just a group of kids.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Playing and having fun.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, I just having fun for when the city came
by and and you practiced those If you played baseball
in the inter County Baseball Baseball League. The city of
Branford was not good at maintaining fields. It's like the
parks director was in the mafia or something, because he
just wore suits and slicked his hair back and wore chains.

(06:39):
I'm not sure what he actually knew about parks and
rec but they were not very bright and our fields
always sucked. So we we were essentially like, well, you
don't take care of them anyways, so you know, let's
but but we wore nothing Branford and we we would
get out at least a week before they we could,
were we were alive.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Hey, well, yeah, jokes on you guys. Should we come
out doors and wear a bunch of Branford gear? Come
on joking? That would have been hilarious. That had been hilarious.
Did you guys wear Simcoe gear? Oh geez, that would
have been hilarious cause it probably would have worked, probably
for the county workers.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
It definitely would have worked.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Yeah, I was just massive. That would have been hilarious
to say no, to say, you're up there from the
team up the road, let their ball handle it. But yeah, no,
days like this, it's playoff hockey weather and it's hard
not being on the diamond. I used to not like
that as a kid all day in high school, you know,
and you're ready to go, like you want to get
on the diamond. Yeah, and especially like when you're on

(07:43):
the diamond, it's like summer hockey. I never played summer hockey.
I hated it. I always was told, honestly, I was
always told it's nice when you don't and I'm not.
I mean, I mean, as long as you're not your
eight year old kids not on analytics in Kingston, Ontario,
I don't have a problem with it. But anyway, as
we go back to that hashtag memories OHL at sixty,

(08:08):
But uh, I always thought that, like I didn't like
summer hockey because one, it's baseball season, and I was
always taught baseball in the summer, hockey in the winter.
What a Wayne Gretzky do, And that's that's what I
was taught. It was always baseball. And by the way,
any scouts, like you always hear scouts play every sport,

(08:29):
play every sport. Yeah, Like so I was always taught
play baseball in summer hockey in the winter.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
The part that's.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
Frustrated about hockey that I feel like when you play.
I feel like in Ontario is all in Canada. I
feel like it's almost like baseball in the States, to
where you gotta go to the NHL. You gotta go
to the NHL, so we do all this stuff. We
gotta go to the NHL. Baseball, you gotta play college baseball.
You gotta play college baseball. So we sign you up
for every single camp. You're going to every single camp.

(08:59):
Doesn't Hockey is the exact same way in Ontario and
all of Canada. That feels like, But I used to
not like it because you get out there right in
hockey and you're playing in June July like three on
three hockey, and I as a goalies maybe it is different.
But blame the NHL of like the finals go to

(09:24):
the end of June. I actually talked about that the
other day that that's a joke. As a joke, I
wish that the Memorial Cup was a week earlier. I
wish the OHL Playoffs started a week earlier. And that
means the NHL Playoff will start a week earlier. Take
two three games off the NHL schedule, play eighty games,
play sixty six games for the OHL. Put an extra week.
Put an next earlier in September, yeah, or start earlier. Yeah,

(09:47):
start a week earlier. Baseball does that, You'll see him
start in March like this year, because I just think
that it's so hard in June and July to go
to an arena and it's like, okay, we're at your
but why why they go out and play other sports?
Go out fun? And I always thought that, like when

(10:10):
you don't play summer hockey, the time it rolls around,
the time the hockey season rolls around, you miss it again.
I think that's why as a Canadian I love baseball
so much, because we can't go outdoors unfortunately in Canada
in the winter and field ground balls and take batting
practice on the field. We can't hear the best down
in the world of the baseball hitting a baseball bat
in the sweet spot. Yeah, you know, we can't. We
can't do that. And I think that's why this time

(10:31):
of the year, like it's it's the best when baseball starts,
because you actually miss it. And that's what that's my
theory on hockey, where when you play all this summer stuff,
I used to call it summer crap. But I don't
want to trouble. I just now, when you play all
this summer crap, you know what happens. You don't miss
the you don't miss the game. Hockey comes around in September,
it's like, oh, here we go again, and you don't

(10:53):
get away from it, literally get away. You'll love the game.
Baseball analytics.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah, like in baseball growing up before we I mean
before we got to uh, midget and junior, you know,
your your Ontario championships or Labor Day weekend, and then
that was it unless you're playing fall ball like I
did a number of years that that was it. You
were done and it's on hockey or or whatever. And
then there was me in high school play that uh

(11:21):
that curled for a couple of years.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
But then oh yeah that was the time. At least
you do it like playing sports man play sports.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, but like that was your dead your dead stop
from your summer sport whatever it was baseball. We don't
condone soccer on this show. But unless what you want,
you know, you.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Can do soccer and do diving. Maybe make the Olympics.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
True, Yeah, good point.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yeah, yeah, I think those are I think those Olympic
qualifiers are coming up soon. Really no, Winter's next. Sorry,
then it's not for another couple of years.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
The diving Christiano Ronald is he Portuguese? I have no idea.
I don't really care. Yeah, okay, all right, cool diving.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
Oh the diving competition.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Sorry.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
I was at PA for the Olympics.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
There. If the Olympics want to hire me to do
the diving, I got the soccer players down for the dive.
That might pay pretty well, to be honest with you,
and you imagine that experience to pop a guy for diving,
But you know how hard that would be because you
I feel like though they have an English guy, to
have a Spanish guy, to have a French guy, and
I feel like they announced like every different language because
you have to, it's the Olympics. But like, you know

(12:29):
how hard that would be to like you have to
know like a lot of different if it's only one guy,
that guy is probably the smartest man on earth, because
you know, that would be so hard. Like PA is
as hard as it gets. Anyway, It's like it's hard
to do PA because you're out there. You really control
the vibe in the arena or wherever the venue is,
Like you really control it, like if you're if you're

(12:50):
into the game and you.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Like like it's like engaging. It's an extra MP for
the game.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
And man, you might want to apply to be the
PA guy for diving.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
We had a stat the Olympics.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
I'm not sure if this is happening at this stadium,
but I just pulled it up just because we're talking
about it. I pulled up twenty eight Olympic venues.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
And of course you've got LA too. Yeah, he's got
Staples Center, You've got the Into It Dome, and then
you got the other day. Yeah we did.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah, but Sofi Stadium has a pool, but I don't
see a diving board. Did you imagine you're hanging out
at so Fi Sofi Stadium?

Speaker 1 (13:33):
Calling?

Speaker 3 (13:33):
I might slip a couple of Bronco highlights there.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Oh man, next pass completed the call eight Chargers lines
at the Hall of Fame. Yeah, that's cool.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
There's one a preseason schedule that nobody cares about.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah, Peyton Manning and Peyton Mannings. Last year the Broncos
ran in camp five hours from Dalaha. That had been
so cool. It was last year the other the Broncos
won the Super Bowl. Did you go like no, I
want to. I want to go to Canton so badly
because they have Peyton Mannings. Not just because of this,
because but they have Peyton Manning's whole uniform and like

(14:05):
statue from the Super Bowl fifty, I feel like, I
feel like that's pretty cool. He's one of my favorite
He's my favorite athlete of all time. Like that's that's
pretty cool, just because the way he respected the game.
Take notes Marcus Strom on the New York Yankees. But yeah,
that would be cool. The Olympics. I mean, that would
be sweet the day. So maybe maybe uh get the

(14:28):
chance do like the track and field would make bank,
like that would back up the breaks truck for them. Yeah,
that's probably where it's at. Like yeah, but yeah, that'd
be cool.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
But trials are upcoming in twenty twenty seven.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
I'm sure. But yeah, we'll we'll see.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
I know people were complaining about diving Jalen Brunson against
the Detroit Pistons. That was funny, So maybe he wants
to try it.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
We'll see.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
But the NBA's so we're not going to talk about it.
We've got some headlines for.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
You this week.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
We are going to discuss round number two in the
Ontario Hockey League, of course, and then we will break
and then we will come back for the conference finals
and chat about those matchups that start on Friday. So
also want to give a heads up. We'll mention at
the end of the show as well, but a very
special edition of the Ohl and sixty podcast to be

(15:28):
released on Tuesday. Let me confirm what day that is, Tuesday,
the twenty ninth of April. We are joined by GB
Squared and that is of course Gavin Bryant and senior
Greg Bryant.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
It's a special.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
Episode of the Ohl and sixty podcast is set to
be released on the twenty ninth of April, so that
is a regular Tuesday at seven o'clock, so make sure
you tune into that. One kind of a rap on
his Ohl career and what's ahead for.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
For him and for his family.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
And of course he's off to Sacred Heart with a
with a couple of former teammates, which will be pretty cool. So, uh,
former teammates. I guess Molie is still a teammate. You
could say it's just carrying over. But that's coming up
on Tuesday the twenty ninth. But before we get to
the playoffs. Let's let's get to the headlines. Obviously, with
the Stanley Cup playoffs getting underway, people continue to come

(16:23):
at me to say the OHL isn't the best development
league in the world, because you are flat wrong. One
hundred and one OHL graduates are competing in the Stanley
Cup playoffs is pretty impressive if I do say so myself.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
But that you know, that's a lot number and fifty.
Remember you're like when it was like sixty now and one,
that's pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, that's that's a lot. I
wonder how many players you're in the playoffs that.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
Will like sixteen teams, you figure twenty players dress Oh god,
math here. Let's let's pull out the calculator, ladies and gentlemen.
We are doing this live here. We are times sixteen,
so that's three twenty. You have to figure that there's
scratches thrown in there, so let's say three scratches per team,

(17:15):
So that's three twenty. So three times sixteen is forty
eight plus three twenty about three sixty eight, Yeah, give
or take a few. So that's hunting one just under
a third about wild. Yeah, that's impressive. Yep, that's impressive
to be recent. That was that was impressive.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
Math. Hey, when we recall.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
The iPhone, I can't remember what year it is or
what model it is. It's red though, but I genuinely
don't care. And I own it too. The phone company
doesn't own it, so I don't got to pay for
the phone. I just gotta pay for the stupid plan.
But yeah, yeah, hey man, you know what, it's frustrating
when you've all these ads on, like the MLB package

(18:03):
and it shows you can get four lines for twenty
five bucks a line.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
It's like, well, what the heck? Yeah, like, no, no, no, yeah,
what are we doing in Canada?

Speaker 2 (18:12):
I pay fifty five fifty five or I don't know,
six or five or sixty two something like that.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
I don't know. There's a lot of like internet, yeah,
like internet and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah it sucks.
Technical technical stuff isn't fun, not even a little bit now.
But no, that's impressive. One hundred and one. Yeah, if
we were telling, if I were to guess, I would
not have said one hundred and one. Even without knowing,

(18:38):
I wouldn't have said a hundred. Probably I probably said
like eighty. But that's why on one hundred and one
that's cool. Yeah, that's great for the league speaking it
great for the league. The two game sevens, yes, I
know we'll get I know we'll get to it, but
how and the Barry Kingston game was incredible, But how
great was that? Wins your kid in your game for

(19:00):
the league? For everything that was such a that was
such good hockey. I will put that against any single
NHL playoff game in so far that's happened. Yeah, any
game that was better. And there were no unreal I
love that. Why were all these people and I'm not

(19:20):
throwing anybody under the bus, but why were people online
across and I know maybe keyboard heroes possibly, but why
were people complaining about not making calls? And I honestly
and I honestly know that, Like, yeah, referees are gonna
be in the wrong either way if they don't if
they didn't call any penalties, yeah, if they called ten
penalties in the game, either way. But I love that

(19:42):
they called the four like they gave a little four
on four late the third too, which was incredible.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
I thought that, man, I was waiting when that happened.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
I was waiting for the uh four on four goal
playing the third. I was just waiting for like five
seconds left, the dramatic action at the end of the second. Yeah,
yeh end of the second. Yeah yeah. I was just
waiting for something like that because like we've seen that
all the time in the entire hockey We see that
like once or twice a year, and it's so rare,
but it's so engaging and it's so cool to see.

(20:16):
But Game seven, I mean Kitchenaire Windsor and maybe we
can start with that series. But that was that was incredible. Man,
that was such good hockey. Yeah, Like I like I was,
like I was watching the game with my girlfriend and
we're watching the game and like I said, like five times,
like this is why I don't watch the NHL. Like

(20:36):
this is one thousand percent why they're playing. Like the
guys are playing for everything. They're not playing for money,
there's no contracts involved. They're playing for everything, you know,
and you have the dramatics, you had the coaching staff
like you say, a hocus, what he did the job
He's done them by the way. Congratulations Coach of the
Year this year. Well deserved. Jamickee Dale Hunter brand for

(20:58):
Bulldogs and London Nights Running. But I thought that was
pretty cool though. I thought that series. I thought that
game was everything we needed, similar to when you said
reason about twenty twenty two, we needed a game seven
that year out of COVID that was incredible. We needed
that series. We all said that before the series, no
matter who we picked, wins your your kitchener, it didn't
matter who we picked. Yeah, we both had it going

(21:19):
seven and that's what we That's what that's what everyone wanted.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah, Like, and it's it's tough to say, and this
isn't the case at all, but after what we saw
in round number one, it wasn't the most competitive round
we've ever seen, and that's what I expected. Yeah, So
so I think I think the fact that we got
two game sevens in round number two really, I don't know,

(21:44):
I don't know, helped made up for it. Like I
don't know if that's the best way to put it,
but it definitely added dramatics, for for sure in the
round number two. And and to think of of both
of those series, you think of Barry Kingston home team
won every game. The road team was not able to
be victorious in any of those games. And then you

(22:04):
think of the Winsor Spitfires going up three to nothing
and wondering what the heck happened to the Rangers, What
the heck happened to Parsons? You know, the top three
guys for the Spitfires have essentially said, screw the Rangers,
We're taking this over. We're gonna win in four. Well
that doesn't happen because Jackson Parsons comes alive. He gets
two shutouts in the next three games, and they tie

(22:24):
the series. It's at three, go to a game seven
that finishes in overtime. Like, I think the storylines as
those two series progressed made it more intriguing to be
a part of and to watch, because again, and you
can also throw in the fact that Winsor did this
exact same thing to Kitchener in the twenty ten season.

(22:46):
Winsor ended up winning the Memorial.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
Cup that season just six times. They're the complete reverse sweep.
And we've uh, how many times?

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Recent would have been London? Well most recent, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
That's was it? Twenty nineteen, Yeah, twenty nineteen. I keep
forgetting that thing that happened to the world called COVID.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
I keep forgetting and whistle Suzuki was there rat Cliff
rat yep Ratcliff for SNAr yep man that that year
was crazy.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
Not to bring it up. That was the Ice Dogs
up tow O two an Oshawa.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yes, that was one reason I was not in the
building for the Game six against the Bulldogs in generals because,
like I can, I was horrible through through a mirror
ball or whatever the heck they call those things. I'm like,
this is gonna give me flashbacks at twenty nineteen. I've
got no interest to be in that building if the

(23:42):
Bulldogs end up losing.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
Had a horrible experience. I heard. I heard those fans
are really classy there. Yeah. Oh yeah, bad bad, bad news,
bad news. Man. Yeah, I was getting messages in crap
on like on social media and everything.

Speaker 3 (23:59):
It was bad, like the comments like it was bad.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
But well, I've got something for when we get to
Barry an oshaua series, so we'll wait.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
I'll wait for that. But by the segment of the show,
yeah it might be.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
But yeah, cup, I'll get to a couple more things
here before we get into round number two. Pierce Bowie,
the OHL Rookie of the Year from the Owen sound Attack.
He led rookies and goals with twenty nine end points
with fifty two over sixty three games for the Attack,

(24:32):
a new single season points record buying No One sounds
sixteen year old as well. It's impressive. And after January first,
get a load of this. In thirty three games, he
had thirty eight points January first on that included three
hat tricks. He was Rookie of the Month in February
and he was Rookie of the Week three different times.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
Man, you know what's crazy about Peers Boe He's so
so mature to his game as well, his game so
well put together at such a young age. You can
see it, and it's so impressive. Like I mean, when
one sound and when they made the moves they made,
I mean, yeah, they moved McHugh, they moved Smith and defenseman,
but McHugh like someone had to step up and get
that opportunity to make make the postseason. And without Booie,

(25:18):
without the guys like that stepping up, I mean, they
don't make the postseason. It was very, very slim right
down to the water. We were talking about it for
the last three weeks of the season. How long that
playoff race it went right down to the end and
almost in a playoff game to get in. But I
just think that with what he brought to the table
this year, I think it mean it was unanimous. I
don't know how many people wouldn't have voted for him.

(25:39):
The Belch has injury and stuff like that is unfortunate.
But I think that with Pierce, I mean everything to
his game. He's so well put together. He has every
piece in the world to be to be a great
player at the next level. And honestly, he's probably one
of the players if you're No. One sound Attack fan
that you're most excited to see him in the training
camp because draft of your time, maybe in Draft of
your time. We all and we always that in Reece.

(26:02):
We and it's not even just with the Bulldogs. We
see this every single year summer camps. When and obviously
at the start of the show, when I was bashing
summer camps, these guys are going to the NHL. These
guys want to go to the NHL. Obviously you're training
and stuff to make the NHL. I'm not I'm not
bashing that. I'm more talking about grassroots level being a
kid but and.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
Playing tournaments in the summer and games in the sea
like summer for eight.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
Year olds with analytics. Yeah, there's levels, you gotta get
there first. But I just think that with I just
think with this situation, I mean, I'm so excited to
see what he looks like at camp. Did you imagine
he gets bigger, he feels that, it becomes more of
a pro You get in your draft year, we know
all about that year one to year two, that change
in your game is dramatic. And then you're two to

(26:47):
year three. Once you're drafted, it's either really good or
really bad. Either see the either see the Nick Clargis's
of the world who just take over, or or you
don't write like it's kind of the way. That's kind
of the way it goes. And I think that I'm
really excited to see what he can do. I think
he can be an elite playmaker for owin Sound next year.
Hopefully they get pieces around him and we'll see what happens. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
Also, Ilia Protis was named the William Hanley Trophy winners
the OHL's most Sportsmanlike Player. Joins the likes of White
Johnson and Kyle Wellwood, who also won the award as
members of the Windsor Spitfires, and we have maybe seen
the last of Ilia Protis as an Ohler on on Tuesday,

(27:35):
and I'm sure we'll we'll get into it a little
bit more once we get into the Windsor Kitchener Series.
But I want another year of Ilia Protis in the league.
I'm sure the Winter fit Fires do. Greg Walter's one
hundred percent. Bill Bowler, Yeah, signed me up for that.
But uh, team yeah, it's uh, that might be the
last week we see of him. And and and Colin

(27:55):
you mentioned it a couple of months ago. There were
a couple of people on social media that agreed with
you that he one of the more least talked about
slash underrated players in this in this league. And again,
whether that's because he plays for winsor you know, whether
it's just oh it's his first year, it's gonna be
his last year. What what's the point of even even
mentioning him, which is obviously stupid because of what we

(28:20):
saw him do And and yeah, you might say the
most sportsman like player, Oh, that's not a real trophy.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
Well no, it it is.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
And you know, there's there's a certain level to somebody's
personality where you know, award like this, coaches want that guy.
They don't want the guy who's a who's an a
hole all the time. If you have this on your record,
that bodes well for you for a coach that looks
for that for for number one.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
You know what, you know what really stands out to
me with the Leadership Award? Respect, respect from your opponents,
respect from opposing coaches, respect from posing organizations in a hole.
It's kind of it's really like, that's kind know what
it is? How much your opponents GMS. Yeah, it's almost
it's not a it's almost a good popularity vote. You
like to win this award. It's a big deal to

(29:10):
win the award. It shows that you're a good person.
It shows it like a humanitarian award in the in
the NHL. That's kind of what it's like. Barn ice
play in the league, how you conduct yourself off the ice.
I would imagine now general manager's no off ice issues
and stuff like that as well. I would imagine that
has something to do with it as well. But that's incredible,
that's cool, Uh, to win that award. I mean, like

(29:31):
you said, it's a big it's a big deal. I mean,
it's about respect and that's gotta be an honor to
win that award because it shows how much respect that
you have around from other organizations, not only your own.
And that's why I think that's a cool one because
he's such a good player, such a good talent, but
the personality as well behind it is huge and that's
it's nice to have that award and it's cool to
win it.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Yeah, absolutely, players of the week here quickly. Cameron Arquette
wins o HL Rookie of the Week, of course, remember
of the Kitchen Rangers. He's off to the Western Conference
finals along with along with his fellow teammates, but our
Quet takes home Rookie of the Week. Jackson Parsons no
surprise area a couple of shutouts, he is OHL Goaltender

(30:14):
of the Week, and then Kobe Barlow is the OHL
Player of the Week for last week, of course. But
calling any other headlines that you'd like to get to
before we before we head to round two.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
Not really, I think that's it. I think that's it cool.
Ontario Scholarship program is continuing, But that was a couple
of weeks ago. I don't know it was in between.
I think it was like a day after we released
the last show. Yeah, so it's a little older. But yeah,
other than that, I don't I think we covered it all.

(30:49):
Look at us go. It's interesting in the postseason, right,
The postseason is so interesting because the game goes by
so quick and so much that happened in the game.
It's more analysis at this point in the games, which
is cool.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yeah, oh god, yeah, absolutely, let's let's get right to it.
Round number two is in the books. We've got four
matchups to look ahead or look back at. Uh, we're
gonna look ahead to two matchups after we're done and
after we take a break, but uh, might as well
start with it. Kitchener and windsor Colling. Now, this one
was obviously with the three game comeback for the Kitchen

(31:22):
Rangers winning four straight. That's one thing on its own.
The way I think and the way I think the
league standing should be. Game seven should have been at
the Kitchen Meremorial Auditorium. Oh I don't like because there
because the Rangers had more points. They should have been
the number two seeds. I get you want to reward

(31:43):
a team for winning the division. I totally understand that.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
Yeh, but.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
Maybe it'd be different if it was like maybe only
like one or two points that we were talking that
the difference was, you know this, where is it?

Speaker 1 (32:01):
Playoffs? Man?

Speaker 2 (32:02):
Why did that pop up?

Speaker 1 (32:04):
You know?

Speaker 2 (32:05):
Four points? Albeit it isn't that much more, but I
think that's a big enough gap. We're like, absolutely, Pitchener
should probably be the number two seed. They had two
more wins on the year. You know, I'm not a
huge fan of it. I hope that's something that comes
with some realignment of divisions that we get rid of
the automatically get second.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
But I also reeson turned off by the points I
want to go about watching baseball. I want to get Yes,
I want to go off by point. This is that
time of the year, this and in September, and I
don't even look at the standings until November, so this
is this is not like this is the only time

(32:46):
it'll come in because literally we can't talk it, talk
about it in an opening day because we're not looking
at standings in baseball and obviously not even now.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
But at the same time, it's like, after.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Seeing a glimpse, it's like, yeah, we need to go
Like I don't want anything.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
You get half a game, if you win in overtime whatever.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
No, no, not no, you lose perfect, you get a lot.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
Don't trying to be a nice guy.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
Everyone gets a trophy, man, you get trophy for eighth
place nowadays, Well I didn't.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
I'd throw it in the garbage. But I never I
never got one. They were like, oh, it sucks to
be you try again next year. That's what I got.

Speaker 1 (33:25):
I don't think I ever got a consolation trophy, and
if I did, I didn't keep it. I think no
offense that one time a one time at one time
this high school that I wasn't going to go to.
So I'm not gonna mention it because I'm from the
Della Ontario, so why wouldn't I go to my local school.
But I didn't try and field. We got third, but
that was it. We got first, second and third and

(33:45):
that was it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
I don't remember ever getting consolation prize now again, like you,
I didn't want one.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
I lost.

Speaker 3 (33:52):
That's the worst thing in the world.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
Man, What do you say to gain in I don't
think I've ever played in a consolation game, But what
would you like?

Speaker 3 (34:00):
I wouldn't even want to play, sorry, and no offense.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Sorry if anyone's I'm not meaning it in an offensive
way to anyone who loves consolation games. I just don't
support them, man, they're yeah, yeah, I don't. I don't
support them personally. And I also don't support eight year
olds on analytics and yeah, eight year old and the
father go have a colder one though for.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
Some For some teams, they don't even want their second
place medals. The uh oh the twenty who was it
the twenty eighteen sixteen I graduated.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
Fifteen twenty four?

Speaker 2 (34:37):
The twenty thirteen Brampton Royals did not want their second
place OBA medals after losing to Bramford in the Double
A OBA finals too. Uh And on that Brampton Royals
team was a former blue Jay legend, not really, Zach
Popp was on that team. They buried their medals in
the outfield at George Henry because they thought they got

(34:58):
screwed because the tournament was in Bramford. Well, if you
didn't want that, you should have put up the money
and hosted the tournament, so shut up. But yeah, some
teams don't want their second place medals either. Not that
I'm salty at all, but Branford won, so sucks to
be them.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
Yeah. Remember remember Anderson on Sweden World Juniors.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
Twenty eighteen.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Not to bring that two up, but that's going on
in London right now in the courts, uh right, but
uh yeah, that's I forgot about that. That was I caught.
That might be the all time metal throw. Put that
in the Olympics. Go back to the thirteen minute mark,
Brandon and clip that and clip that because that might
be that might be the best, one of the best

(35:42):
metal throwing moments ever. I mean, you're gonna regret that
down the road. Yeah yeah, but yeah, that was that
was quite the moment because my dad and I were
at that game live and remember he's those metal in
the stands. You could obviously live you don't know Canada's
gold medals, so you're pumped. Yeah, it's like he's through
his metal in the stands. Then this guy in an

(36:03):
American like old school like American sweatshirt just had it
around his neck. And then when you come home and like,
yeah and doing the games, that was so cool to
hear that. But no, that was me one of the
best metal throwing incidents in the world.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
But but yeah, let's let's get back on track here,
windsor Spitfires take the first three five to one, five, one,
and six three. And this is kind of what I
had talked about going into this series, is can the
Rangers handle Protus, Morna and green Tree the way they
were playing three man? Yeah, it just it seemed like
they were. They were just on a you know, a

(36:43):
direct flight right to the Western Conference Final. Those first
three games went, and you know, looking into game four,
him like, if Kitchener can't find a way to keep
these guys off the board, it's it's gonna be a
clean sweep at the odd And I didn't mean, I
didn't mean literally because the Rangers put up a zero,
but the Rangers Rangers gonna boost Jackson Parsons again question marks.

(37:07):
Throughout the first four game or first three games, you're like,
what the heck happened to Jackson Persons? Where's the where's
the ten bell saves that we're used to seeing. You know,
he's not making those saves, those extra saves that a
goalie has to make to help his team win. And
you get to game four and it it sixty minutes
is done, and you're thinking, all right, he's back. We're

(37:28):
gonna have ourselves a series now, and they get a
win in winsor they win back on home ice, another shutout,
this one for nothing, and then he gets a job
done in a two to one overtime overtime win after
Costanzo made an absolutely unbelievable save on a breakaway.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
Yeah. Man, we knew, like going into the series, I said,
Kitchener in seven because of Jackson Parsons goaltender. But oh
my gosh, like Jackson Parsons only gave up three goals
in four games to avoid elimination. You talk about finding
it like, okay, boys, I guess we better get to work.

(38:08):
Like it's almost as if it's like the old like
elite quarterback in football, where it's like Tom Brady Peyton Manning,
where it's like, okay, we need to drive. We're gonna
go win the game, like you're never out of a game.
That's kind of what it was like. I mean, that's
so cool to see, like the desperation hockey and like
so common poison. I mean, Joey Costanzo is well in
the winter End was incredible. He was fantastic. Change. Yeah, man,

(38:30):
Windsor is gonna be a wagon winsor these two teams
are gonna be back next year and probably the conference finals.
I hope that's saved because a year from now, don't
be surprised if we're previewing windsor Kitchen your conference final,
because these two teams have a bright, bright future and
the Windsors spit Fires are right there at the top.

(38:51):
Green Tree, I mean, with the way he played in
the postseas, he deserves a shot at tryouts with LA.
He deserves a chance. He deserves it compared to other
gu you get nine games, I mean Jella Chanco nine
games with Philly. Obviously Philadelphia a different team right now
roster wise and stuffed in LA. But the way green
Tree played, man, he's gotta get an opportunity aj Spellacy

(39:12):
with try it with Rockford right now in the American
Hockey League. He gots have back Wednesday. But Protus, what's
up with him? I mean, we'll see with Washington, But
I just think that it's so they're such, they're in
such a good spot, winsor such a good spot, and
to see where they were a year ago compared to

(39:32):
winning a playoff series and then going within one game,
multiple opportunities to get that chance to go to the
third round. Win two rounds against the damn good Kitchener team.
It's an incredible year and they had nothing to be
down about. But Jackson Parsons man on the Kitchener side,
three goals and four games facing elimination. But the team
on your back, young man, and go to work. This

(39:52):
kid's getting an NHL contract. I don't think he's ever
stepping foot on the NCAA turf. I know the commitment,
but man, Jackson Parsons, he can sign a contract. I
think he's gonna take it. He has to. There's no
way and that and this is the thing that's tough,
the only the only reason. And this is where the
political talk gets into it. Not to get too political,

(40:13):
hate politics and sports, but it happens. It's one of
those things where you can only have, you can only
carry two goalies. Michael Simpson up and down the AHL
East Coast this year. Michael Simpson was damn good last
year for the London Knights, damn good for the Peterborough Pets.
He won two OHL championships. But we see where he is.
It's hard to get there. It's no offense, but Michael
Simpson probably would have benefited. Now looking at it, you

(40:34):
probably would have benefited more in the NCAA road getting
that opportunity to play in the NHL or make a
decision two three years down the road from now instead
of right out of the OA year. That's the one
benefit of having this agreement in place. That's where Jackson
Parsons comes in. I think he's damn good. He deserves
an opportunity similar to Jacob Auster. The two goalies to
me who deserve to sign the pro deal Jacob Austerer

(40:57):
the Oshawa Generals and Jacoba of Jake Looser and Jackson
Parson sorry of the Kitchen Rangers.

Speaker 3 (41:05):
I believe that those are two goalies who.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
Have to sign who I have deserved to sign a
pro deal. Yeah, here's the thing. Swedish leagues, Finnish leagues,
Czech Republic, there's a goalie w HL, the Q College.

Speaker 3 (41:21):
There's a lot of different leagues now competing. That's six,
that's seven leagues I.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
Mentioned right off the top of my right, off the
top of my noggin, which I mean, that's tough.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
Hopefully the ladder goes to the top tonight.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
But I think that when you see all those opportunities right,
only each HL team you only have two goalies, third goalie,
third goalie.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
You can be this sure Detroit, your organization has like eight.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
Yeah, you got guys in Toledo in the East Coast,
which is fine, which is fine.

Speaker 3 (41:52):
But those guys are drafted by the Red Wings.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
Those guys are drafted, and to be a free agent signing,
it is hard to have that opportunity. It's hard to
find a spot in the top two of any of
thirty two AHL teams. And do you want to be
a backup goalie in the East Coast or gonna get
an education? Because here's the thing, this is no knock
on the East Coast, no knock on the East Coast.

(42:16):
I respect the heck coud of players that play there.
It's a tough league, it's a respectable league. I'm not
disrespecting it at all. But you're playing in the East
Coast for two seasons and we see this every single
time with players and anyone listening, hit us up, let
us know on this conversation, please, because I would love
to hear from a play a parent perspective on Tuesday

(42:37):
not to give too much away. But we talked to
the Bryants. Great, great discussion with them on this matter.
Not gonna spoil it, no spoilers, But I just think
that that conversation that we had rees ever since then
and before that throughout the season. If you can't get
the contract, it's a numbers game. At the ah EL,

(42:57):
it's a numbers game. They have numbers two. If you
can't get the contract, is it worth it to play
in the East Coast for two seasons? Make nothing? Yeah,
make nothing, but they pay for your Some teams pay
for your living yeap. But you're like, you're pretty like
at this point it's barely a living wage. If it is, yeah,
oh one hundred percent, you're going off. You're pretty m too,

(43:19):
Like being a Canadian playing in the East Coast is tough.
It's American dollar, Like, it's tough. America. Yeah, America, Holy yeah.
But like I just think that is it worth it
to have it? To make a decision. So you're twenty
years old, you go to the East Coast, twenty one,

(43:39):
twenty two, you play in the East Coast. Okay, I'll
give you till twenty three, even worse, maybe Okay, twenty two,
give the benefit of the doubt. Twenty two you have
no college degree. You have your high school, but you
have no college degree at twenty two years old in
the East Coast, are you making the NHL.

Speaker 3 (43:58):
It's tough.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
It's how it's happened a ton, But you have to
have a conversation. That is a tough conversation, right, And
I think that's the thing with the NCAA. That's so
great having this agreement because it gives players that opportunity. Hey,
scouts don't stop scouting, so I'm not gonna stop playing
until the scouts stopped comming.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
Logan Thompson went from from Brocky University to now being
the number one guy in Washington.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
Yeah, yeah, Like it happens rarely, rarely, but it happens. Yeah.
And goalies, it's probably easier than a skater. It's definitely harder.
If I mean, if you're on the fourth frontal the
East Coast, there's a decision to make, right, Yeah, Like,
there's a decision I just think, and someone's got to
do it.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
That's why I say I respect the heck of the league.
It's a good league, it's a good league to watch.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
But do you know how many dominoes have to fall
in your way for you to get to the NHL.
Like that's like you're and I'm gonna go back to
the one eight format.

Speaker 1 (44:56):
That's like saying you are in.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
I don't know, twelfth place and you're you're that close
to a playoff spot, to the number eight spot. But
there's those four teams that are in front of you
that have to do worse than you, and they're both fighting.
They're all fighting for the same goal, much like fourth
liners in the East Coast or third liners in the
East Coast, Like you're all fighting for the same goal,

(45:23):
but you have to stand out from the crowd.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
It's hard. It's doable, but it's hard. It's really hard,
really hard. And that and that's why I say it's
not a shot at the East Coast. But if I'm
Jackson Parsons, if I'm Jacob Auster, two guys that I'm
pulling for to get contracts. Personally with the bull Dyves,
we had Patrick Thomas last week get a contract. Yeah, pumper,
Patrick Thomas, he deserves it. Those are three guys to
me that deserves to get a contract, that deserve to

(45:47):
get a contract. So you get a contract and it's great.
And the players, in my opinion, have leverage. And this
is another question that I would love to get answers
from them. For anyone listening to the show, please reach out,
because players would have leverage in this no, because they
have the options now for the NCAA. They don't have
to sign to play in the East Coast on the

(46:08):
third line, right, they don't have to. They can go
to college. They can get their school up paid for
and do that right. And that's why I think that's
the beauty of it. So if I'm Jackson Parsons Jacob
Ouster as a goaltender, if I don't get an AHL deal,
i am, I'm not signing it. Unfortunately I'm not. I'm
pulling for them. Like I said, there was three guys
I want to get a contract. Jacob Ouster and Jackson

(46:30):
Parsons are two of those guys after Patrick Thomas. Like
those are guys that I want to get contracts. I
think I believe that in this situation that they're in,
they have leverage. They are elite over agers in this league.
They have all put up great numbers throughout their careers.
They are all in the top OA category. Look at
Jackson Parsons and Patrick Thomas runner up. I think that
that's the way it goes, and I hope they get

(46:52):
a contract, but I hope they also have leverage in
the situation because I hope they get an opportunity to
play in the AHL, because we know how the East
Coast HL train goes up and down, up and down. Yeah,
it's hard. You gotta be getting a tardy, get consistency,
and next thing you know, you're two years into the
league and you got to make a decision and that's tough. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
Well, and to think about the overragers specifically as a goaltender,
you've got kids entering college at eighteen years old. Sometimes
they're seventeen and they don't turn eighteen until the fall
or the beginning December, whatever the case might be. As
an OA guy, you've already got too, I guess, two
extra years of playing because you're two years older. But

(47:32):
you've already played at a high enough level and you've
got a little bit more age than say true freshman's
at eighteen years old. You can go be a number
one in college right off the start, where if you're
coming in from high school, you're not gonna be a
number one. Maybe year two, more than likely year three.
You know there's no waiting man.

Speaker 3 (47:52):
I know for yourself. With Michigan it'd be a lot harder.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
But honestly, for Ohio State, if Jacob Austri Partson went
to Ohio State, they'd be the number one goalie. Yes,
like they'd be the number one goalie. Agree, Like in
Ohio stated a good year, ranked they were ranked tenth,
like they got a good year, Like you would be
the starter. Like Michigan State would be hard because Augustine,

(48:17):
but like you would, you would have an opportunity. And
even at Michigan this year's Michigan team, Jacob Austar Jackson
Parsons would probably be the starter by the end of
the season, like the way this season went, like there
would an opportunity. So that's why I think you're gonna
have a better shot. You're gonna get to play more
and you still have a chance and hit free agency

(48:37):
and stuff like that and have options is.

Speaker 3 (48:39):
Huge, and you got in.

Speaker 1 (48:42):
I believe the players have the leverage and I hope,
I hope Jackson Parsons gets signed because he deserves it.
In that series that series for the Kitchener Rangers. He
was incredible and honestly the impressive part for the Rangers
Man Tanner Lamb was absolutely flowing in Romana as well.

Speaker 3 (49:01):
Those guys were flying in Game seven like.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
Luke Ellenis scoring twice like yeah, leader veteran like man,
they're like they're big players like Predam as well, had
like seven to eight shots on goal, probably more like
had a.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
Big penalty shot goal at the odd.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
Yeah, like Man. Like the Kitchener big players stepped up
and won them a series. And it was almost as
we talked about before. We talked about this a lot
throughout the game, throughout the season, throughout games, big games
you market on the calendar head to head. It's almost
as if the Kitchener veterans said, Okay, we see what

(49:41):
Winsor's top six are doing. We have to elevate our
game and be better. And that's what happened. It wasn't
that I mean Winsor. Obviously every team battles, injuries and
things happened, and you'd get grain Tree out of a
game like Spellacy like not one hundred percent Belchaz out
like Kitchener head guys missing as well, not to miss that.

(50:01):
But with that series, Kitchener's veterans came up to play
in elimination games and it almost as if Game seven
it felt like when Windsor got chances and Parsons, especially
in overtime, when it Windsor had like three shots in
a row and they were from wide and it felt

(50:23):
like they would have a chance. I think it was
why at Kennedy who had a shot from the point,
you know, it was literally like a rister right into
the glove of Parsons. And once that didn't once that
opportunity goes to the wayside. But then again when ellen
Is got the breakaway or whatever hit the post, like
when Constanzo made that incredible save and point blank, but
once that never happened. Once Winsor didn't capitalize on that,

(50:45):
I thought, uh uh, you know what's gonna happen when
you get a chance and it's a great a chance
and you kind of rush the pocket, you kind of
do something you and you don't really you don't really
convert on a good chance. Yeah, well it's coming the
other way.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
And the way that overtime was going, it wasn't a
one chance at one end, one chance.

Speaker 1 (51:04):
It was.

Speaker 2 (51:05):
It was you're gonna have three chances and then the
other team's gonna go they're gonna have four, and the
other ones back, they're gonna have two to three. And
you know, it was that kind of game. So you're right,
like Winsor didn't get their opportunity with all of the
chances they had at once. Yeah, that come the Rangers,
Let's see if they can can get one. And they did,
and they did. It ended up being a block shot

(51:25):
that ended up going to the side of the net.
That it was just a simple chip. Wasn't he a
full shot? It was just a simple chip over the
path of Joey Costanzo by len Us. But uh no,
I just I want to mention how well the d
was able to contain that top line for the Spitfires
through games four through seven and Anofski Cameron Reid. It

(51:47):
was a whole group effort from the Rangers D. I
thought they played phenomenal in the last four games, especially
you know, obviously Jackson Parsons a big part of those shutouts,
of course, but I'm sure he's gonna be the first
one to say I'm probably not gonna get a shutout
without the defense in front of me and how well
they played, So it was it was a collective effort

(52:08):
on the back end, including a goaltender. The fact that
Winsor was shut out twice in the last four games
says a lot about how much they clutched up, because
that's what they did. They clutched up in the right time.
And you know what I liked about, And it was funny.
There were two overtime winners in hockey that night. And

(52:29):
I mean, obviously I didn't watch the Leaf game, but
I watched the Max Domey goal former London night. Did
you see the defenseman for Ottawa on all Mark on
that goal? If you watch the if you watch the
replay of it, and I know it sucks, but if
you watch the replay of it, man, the defense's right
on top of all Mark and then on the flip

(52:49):
side Kitchener man, the defense was the opposite let Parsons
see the puck. I used to hate that as a goalie,
the defenseman backs right up onto me.

Speaker 1 (52:59):
Man.

Speaker 3 (52:59):
I used to hit my defenseman in the ankles that
they screened me.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
So the way Stolars was acting, I can't remember who
the Ottawa skater was, Greg Ridley greg that was your defenseman,
not the opponent.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
Not that your way. No, no, I know, I know,
oh yeah, but like man, that would have been the opponent.
But I just think that, I know, I never liked that.
I'm the goalie. I got the pads on. Don't back
into me. Let me have the freedom, let me see
the puck. It's already hard enough. Yeah, prop to the
Rangers defense man. They were on top off the blue line.

(53:34):
The boxed out really well and over especially in overtime
both teams, but they really cleared the lane so Jackson
Parsons didn't see the puk in ot and that was
really impressive. That part was really cool to see that
from from their side. From Kitchener's defense, yeah. Uh.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
Next up in the Western Conference. These guys have been
done for a few days.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
The London Knights complete the four games over the Ariatters.
They went on home ice six to three in game one,
seven to two in game two, and then they win
in eerie for nothing in game three, and then they
win in overtime on their second try. They had scored
once it got pulled back, but they score after another
review to make it a four to three final into

(54:18):
complete the sweep we had to cover, so Getty got
to yeah yeah, and get him on video too. But uh,
I think we mentioned it before the playoffs started that
it's gonna be hard to see the Knights lose a
game before they get to a conference final matchup or
even at this where at this pace in ohl final,

(54:39):
And that kind of continued into the round against the Ariatters.
You know it, it was gonna be a different challenge
from Owen Sound. I think you give Owen Sound the
the better goaltending, so better, so check mark in that category.
But the Ariatters had had some strengths of their own
and and you know, I'm I'm I'm not I'm gonna

(55:00):
say it was going to be an upset for the Eriadders.
If Schaeffer, if Rant's played in this in this series,
it wouldn't have been a sweep, I don't think. But
it's amazing what a difference those two guys make for
the Ariadas not being in the lineup. But the London Knights,
I mean, they continue to roll on, no hiccups along

(55:20):
the way. So far, they're eight to know. In the postseason.
They score thirteen seventeen twenty one goals in four games
against the Ariatters, and yeah, they're they're rested, that's for sure.
They're rested for the kids range just to come into
town on Friday.

Speaker 1 (55:37):
Oh, absolutely they are. I mean, that was a great
series I mentioned earlier on that shout out the panel
famous with the way the way he was in that series.
I mean, so much pressure without tarrants, without the number
one offense from Matthew Shaffer. I mean, to be able
to win that many drows against one of the best
players in the league, the best line in the league,
possibly with O'Reilly, Barky and Cowen, I mean, to be

(55:59):
able to be that success on the face offf thought
and to control the play and play that well is incredible.
Plus put up points as well from Panel femois so
shout out to panel in the Aeradders. I mean, he's
had a great Ohl career, a tough Ohl career, probably
one of the toughest careers you could have. I like,
I mean, so many different coaches, so many low points
and organizations, like there's been so many opportunities, There's been

(56:20):
so much adversity that Panels had to go through in
his career, which is incredible to see him overcome it,
but that was pretty cool, Like that was pretty cool
to see that with with panel femus and the way
he could play, and that against his brother as well
in a lot of nights. But here you give him everything.
They had Charlie Burns in game four. I mean, man,

(56:43):
how can you can't You can't fault him. He played
so well and to lose like that, it makes it.
It's a gut wrencher. It really stings when you lose
like that and you play so well. But the lot
of Niger Boss uh good, we'll get to our picks.
London is really good. It almost feels like London isn't

(57:05):
gonna lose a game until the Memorial Cup, if they
even lose at all. It feels like this team remembers
last year the Memorial Cup finals and they are not
accepting anything but a Memorial Cup championship. This year, it
feels like they'll win the j Ross title and not
touch the trophy. That's how in are to win the
mem Cup and I and it's weird, but is that
not the vibe again about the London Knights, Like yeah,

(57:26):
it's cores won everything, yeah, yeah, like won everything but
the mem Cup.

Speaker 2 (57:31):
Yeah, the last time we saw a run like this,
at least in the Ontario Hockey League. Of course, Hamilton
Bulldogs twenty twenty two didn't lose a game until Game
one of the OHL Finals against the Windsor Spitfires.

Speaker 1 (57:43):
Not saying the.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
Knights are are are exactly the same, completely different teams,
but in terms of runs, yeah, I mean yeah, it's
you know, I don't want there to be as sweep
at the OHL Finals. Again, it wouldn't surprise me if
there was one, it wouldn't. The way the Knights are
playing like, I think their toughest opponent was either gonna

(58:05):
be the kitchen Rangers or windsor Spitfires, and it's gonna
be the Kitchener Rangers. I think that's gonna be their
toughest opponent, uh for for the entire playoffs until they
get to the mem Cup. Just the way they're playing,
and that's no Knocket, the Barry Colts, so the Oushawa Generals,
whoever takes on I'm kind of foreshadowing to my pick,

(58:25):
but whoever would would take on the London Nights. Yeah,
it seems like Kitchener is gonna be their toughest opponent
and it was gonna be the same with Windsor. If
Windsor got past the Kitchener, their toughest opponent is gonna
be in the Western Conference finals.

Speaker 1 (58:39):
Absolutely, this is gonna be the biggest test to their season.
I can't wait to watch it. You know, it's cool.

Speaker 3 (58:44):
It's my birthday on Friday, so yeah, it.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
Is game one, Game one. It's my birthday, so it'll
be a lot of hockey. Maybe I don't know your
rails in front of the tv. Oh yeaht My girlfriend
Liza says she has something playing. I don't even know.

Speaker 3 (59:00):
Yeah, I don't even know.

Speaker 1 (59:02):
Wonder what it could be all beer town. Hey, that'd
be a time.

Speaker 3 (59:10):
The barbecue brisket burger, it's my go to. I make
it at home, though. You know what's tough.

Speaker 1 (59:14):
When I started making that burger at home, it's hard
to go out and have it when I like it
better at home.

Speaker 3 (59:20):
That's tough. Maybe it's a cost.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
Of restaurants could be when you can make it at home.
It's like, it's tough when you go to a restaurant.
You can make that at home. And when you not
to be not to be cough over confident or ergon,
there's things I cannot make it all. But you know
what's tough when you go to a restaurant, it's like, oh,
I could have made this at home. Yes, you probably
would have been the same. Like there's things, well I

(59:44):
can't cook at all.

Speaker 2 (59:46):
Yeah, I mean, I mean, I don't mean to brag either,
but like I think I'm a pretty damn good uh
good cook in the in the kitchen.

Speaker 1 (59:54):
I think I could.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
I can think I could make quite a bit of
stuff I can get at a restaurant. So yeah, you're like,
I get that feeling too. It's like hard you got
to Boston Pizza and you bingo.

Speaker 3 (01:00:03):
Uh but hey, you can't get those tall beers though.

Speaker 1 (01:00:06):
Well no, that's exactly it. You can. You can have
the glasses. I've got tall glasses here in my bar cart.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
But it's it's it's not the same. It's not it's
not draft draft beer system. And yeah, if you're listening,
and we should just win the lottery, Like.

Speaker 3 (01:00:23):
Yeah, whin the win the lottery.

Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
If I won the lottery, man, I'm telling you right now,
there'd be a draft beer system. Maybe I got I'd
have the man, I'd have the I have the coolest
man game of all like the sports teams on each wall.
Then in the season that one kind of shines and
I moved the goal like each wall, whatever season it
is sick, and then I would I have it all
planned and then I'd have a bunch of beer kegs.

(01:00:48):
But yeah, that'd be awesome to have. You have to
find the handles everywhere to for when you pull them down.

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
And yeah, well the match. Remember you'll have to find
a yingling.

Speaker 1 (01:00:59):
Oh yeah, man, handle that's a good one. That's a
good one. But I mean when I do go to
the States and I have the yngling, that's the best
part of road to Erie. Here.

Speaker 3 (01:01:09):
He's Erie's a lovely city. Lovely city.

Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
Don't get me wrong. Hey, if you want to go
an Erie Sea Wolves game, I'll go.

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
Yeah, I'm in, man, I'm in. I want a hat.
Those hats are sick. Oh okay, we're alcoholics, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 3 (01:01:24):
No, no, no, yeah no no.

Speaker 1 (01:01:25):
Sometimes you like the responsible You have a have a pop,
get an uber, get a hotel, and find a local establishment.
Support the Erie economy. There you go anyone in Erie.
But no, yngling is the best, and it's one of
the best parts with the Erie road trip no tax too,
that's nice. Yeah, doesn't doesn't come in in New York
or Michigan, so you gotta go to Ohio or horrible Pennsylvania.

(01:01:49):
And yeah, I mean it'll never come to Canada so
especially now. But no, it would be a treat to
have a draft meer system of youngling for sure. That'd
be my number one for sure on my ranking.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
But so though that is Colin's Colin Ward's plan, at
least we think it could be. I guess you'll tell
him on Friday. But when the London Nights take on
the Kitchen Rangers in Game one on Friday, you will
not see him at Canada Life Place. You might see
him at the local watering hole or just in his apartment.

(01:02:25):
Haven't had time dive bar what Stock's got a few
of those?

Speaker 1 (01:02:28):
I think, Oh man, there's a few. I don't really
go out much here other than a couple of places,
only go to a couple. Yeah, I don't really go
to like the local establishments too much. It's quite the scene.
But I got a couple of places that I go
to for sure, But I don't go all the time
but special occasions. Chucks after nine. Baby, yep, big time,

(01:02:53):
and I'm with you. I did that in Brandon. I
don't say Catherine sucks, but that's too bad. Yeah, what'sall?
But it's really good?

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
Yeah yeah, not to not to start talking about food
and drinks. But Game seven in the Eastern Conference or
the second seven game matchup, I guess in the in
the twenty twenty five playoffs, Berry Colts and Kingston front Knacks.
Home team won every game. Colts wins six to two
and seven to four in games one and two, Kingston

(01:03:25):
wins five to three and nine four in games three
and four. Barry wins two to one in overtime in
game five, Kingston wins three to two in overtime in
Game six, and that is a six to four final
for the Colts over the front Nacs in game number seven, Colin,
first thing I want to touch on the goalie rotation

(01:03:47):
is still there for the Colts.

Speaker 1 (01:03:49):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
Now, I'm this will be more of a discussion, I
guess for when they take on Oshawa. But did that
surprise you at all that that Marty Williamson still went
that way.

Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
No, Because it's Marty Williamson. I feel like any coach
I mean, there's a couple of coaches in the league
you'd expect to do this in Mary Williamson's one of them.
I don't mind it. I really don't mind it. I mean, personally,
if I was playing good, I would love to be
the guy give me the opportunity if I play a
game has any but to be honest, have any of
the goaltenders, in your opinion Reees made a case to

(01:04:21):
be the to be the load carrier in it's my net.
I think it's been pretty even. Yeah, there hasn't been
one that's been better.

Speaker 2 (01:04:30):
They've been yeah even. Yeah, that's a great way to
put it. Yeah, like it's been even.

Speaker 1 (01:04:34):
I feel like in that opportunity, what do you what happens?
And I think that I just said, well, and we
were recording this daylight now starting to get dark. I
sent my girlfriend at text saying, hey, can you quietly
come in here and turn the light on with the assist? Thanks?

(01:04:56):
But yeah, no, I uh, I think that with the
goaltending matchup, I I think that you'll you'll keep riding
it until you have to make a decision. I don't
think the Barry Cults have to make a decision even
in Game seven, they didn't really have to make a decision.
They kind of have their guy. Now we're gonna see
if they hit they hit adversity. I mean, they won

(01:05:17):
the first two games at home, right lost the next
two games, win the next home game, lose next road game.
So it kind of worked out the way it went,
you know. But OUSTAUA series is gonna be tough. If
they hit adversity, they got to pick a guy. They
have to and if the team and now I think too,
you have to start to wonder if the team plays
better with one guy than the other, if there's a

(01:05:38):
different confidence level or a different swagger to a team
in the lineup, in the down the lineup, when this
certain goaltender plays compared to another. If they're better with
the Rebic, you gotta go with Rebic. I they're better
with hillan brand you gotta go with them with hilly Brandt.
You know who controls a game better, who manages the
game for you. That's what's confidence level in front of you.
And I think that's kind of gonna creep into it
as well, if you have to make a decision. But

(01:05:58):
I don't think they have to make a decis until
they have to, If that makes sense, I don't think
they really do right now. I don't think I don't
think they have to make a decision. I mean, I
don't think we're complaining about their goaltending in the playoffs,
like I know, like, yeah, you had some games the spot,
Yeah yeah, other than the nine spot, like other than that,
like it's been respect the ball, like you have won games.

(01:06:19):
I mean to be honest. On the Kingston side, man
Shanko's first two games, yep, like we were questioning it,
like we were texting back and forth saying, I don't
know what the heck, Like what the heck happened? What
it's gonna happen in the postseason. We see all the
time good goaltenders that struggle. It happens, but they're good.

(01:06:39):
That's what. That's what makes goalies so good. And like
when you can struggle and still be effective, that's that's
a tough tool. There's a lot of goaltenders man, Like
I remember even the twenty eighteen run them with the Bulldogs,
Kane Folcher had games where he had to make some
ugly saves, but he got the job done. Yeah, and
you saw it was Stephen Dylon like, you can make

(01:06:59):
some ugly stays, but you get the job done. It's
not about style, it's about making the save, which is
the most important part. And Shankles showed that in on
the very side. I mean, you'll make it, You'll make
a goaltending decision eventually, but who knows. Who knows what
happens Oshawa. I think if you it's almost like the
Boston situation last year with swaymon Olmark, where Omark just

(01:07:21):
played his way out of it, and that's what's happening
in Ottawa as well. Yeah, he's just not a playoff goaltender.
But I think that if that decision Montgomery all off
seas all season right long, we're riding two goaltenders. We're
riding two goaltenders all of a sudden game one goaltender
plays good Game two, the other goaltender doesn't. Okay, we
gotta pick a guy. Roddy Williamson has stayed with it

(01:07:44):
a lot longer than that, But I think right now
they don't have to make a decision until possibly now.
With Oshawa, we'll see what happens. You'll know when the
first three games. I don't think they'll make a decision
until Game five. I think he'll rotate until Game five
and then they will make a decision. I don't think it's
to be a sweep. And if it's a sweep, well
then we'll know.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
Yeah, And you know, for the Verry Colts, essentially you
can consider them facing adversity being down one game to none,
because they have not trailed in the postseason yet lead
Niagara all the way through, lead or were even with
the Kingston Front and Acts in their series. So maybe
that's the adversity. Who knows, But yeah, I mean I

(01:08:26):
I don't see any reason why it's gonna stop now.
You know, like you said, you have bad games. It
is what it is. You get passed it and you
move on. And the Colts, I think have done a
really nice job of you know, it happened, it's over,
let's move on.

Speaker 1 (01:08:39):
That's very hard to do, very very hard. In the postseason.
There's there's no middle ground. There's no there's either lows
or highs, but there's no middle ground. You lose a
game you're low, you win a game in the highest
of highs. There's no middle ground, and that's where it's
so important in the playoffs. If you get too low,
it catches up with you. Then all of a sudd

(01:09:00):
it's a short playoff series, a short playoff. It happens.

Speaker 3 (01:09:03):
And we've saw that for a long time. You see
it every year.

Speaker 1 (01:09:07):
It happens. And that's kind of another part too with that,
where like you can't get too high, you can't get
too low. You gotta find that middle ground because it's
so hard. I mean, look at the Kitchen Rangers, you
know what. I gotta find that. You say a Hocus
quote too as well, with about how losers quit and
read because I gotta do him justice.

Speaker 3 (01:09:26):
I saw that quote somewhere.

Speaker 1 (01:09:28):
Yeah, and if it's Josh Josh, I'm sorry if you're
not crediting you right away. You're a guy, But I
I gotta look that up.

Speaker 2 (01:09:39):
That losers give up and we're not losers or something
like that.

Speaker 3 (01:09:42):
Yeah, yeah, but who was that was it?

Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:09:47):
This is frustrating because I it's right on the.

Speaker 1 (01:09:49):
Top of my head and I want I gotta credit
the correct the correct source on who posted this and
on their work, but I'm just trying a blank and
I'm so sorry to that person. But it's that was
an incredible quote, and that that's accurate of the playoffs, right, Like, yep,
losers get too low. And I think that that's kind
of where we're at. And I think that when you

(01:10:11):
hit adversity, it's uh, it's cool to see teams persevere
because that's the beauty of winning, because every team that
wins a championship hits adversity. Obviously London Knights have not
hit adversity yet, but they've hit adversity right now because
they're playing their toughest opponent and their biggest rivalries and
their biggest rival in the entire hockey league in the
Kitchen Rangers, and the Kitchen Rangers are gonna come out

(01:10:31):
and trying to smack them in the mouth on Friday
night at the Butt or at Canada Life Place.

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
Yeah, yeah, no, I'm just reading through Josh Brown's article
now a second time. One of my other favorite quotes
from a Hocus. Of course it had to go to overtime.
That one was awesome too.

Speaker 1 (01:10:50):
Yeah, I want to meet, I want to meet.

Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
You'd say so bad, Remember we talked about it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:53):
Yeah, yeah, via Josh Brown in the kW or Waterloo
Region Record.

Speaker 1 (01:10:57):
I guess.

Speaker 2 (01:10:59):
Losers quit. We're not losers. You have to believe we
had to go to the heart. We had to go
the hardest way forward. But it shows how big this
team is. We want to keep going.

Speaker 1 (01:11:09):
That's incredible.

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
Josh Brown And obviously you see a hokus for providing
that quote. But uh, Josh Brown writing the great article
post series against the Spits.

Speaker 1 (01:11:21):
Yeah, he's good, a good at that. Ah, you know
it's a it's a really good coaching matchup in this
conference final. Not bad. Ah, you're not gonna get anything.

Speaker 2 (01:11:28):
We got to get the tablets back though, Like we
got to get some pointing at the tablets again because
that was awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:11:33):
Yeah, there's gonna be no emotion unless it happens, but unless.

Speaker 1 (01:11:37):
Those damn referees. Yeah, off my yard unless those unless
those referees kick in again. Yea, but I mean the
best officials. Now you're in the conference final, it keeps
getting shorter and short of the window. But I think
that that unless there's that, we're gonna have one of
the most calm coaching matchups there could be. Yeah, and

(01:11:58):
even in the East, Marty Williamson can get fiery, but
I mean that's the guy's play.

Speaker 2 (01:12:03):
Marty Williamson has been kicked out of a game before
U for banging sticks on boards and yelling, and there.

Speaker 1 (01:12:10):
Is a video of it if you want to look
it up on you gus. It's actually really enjoyable.

Speaker 2 (01:12:14):
But uh yeah, back at the old Jack and Saint Catherine,
so uh yeah, it should be fun. And I mean
one last series to look back at for round number two,
the Brentford Bulldogs in Oshawa Generals. It is the Generals
prevailing in six games. Bulldogs take the first two, Generals
take the last four uh five to two in game one,
eight five in game two, and then the Generals win

(01:12:37):
seven to two, four to two, three two, and four
to one. Ryerson Leanders leaves in game one, comes back
for game five. Nick Lartis leaves in game two and
does not come back due to a brutal kneeing hit. Yeah,
Andrew Gibson, that was quote unquote a hockey play.

Speaker 1 (01:12:56):
Okay, I can't comment. Yeah, we're not gonna comment. Then
I believe six to eight weeks timeline, yep, yep.

Speaker 2 (01:13:05):
But but for this one, I mean, for how good
the Bulldog's power play was in the regular season, it
wasn't nearly good enough. To win this series. And sure
not having largest games, uh three through six doesn't help.
He was a big part of that power play, but
you gotta find ways. Especially Yeah, yeah, like they they

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had plenty of opportunities to score on the man advantage
and they just didn't. Whereas Oshtawa was was really good
on the power play. It looked dangerous every single time,
every single time, even if they didn't, it looked dangerous
the entire time.

Speaker 1 (01:13:41):
That was a big part of this series was the
fact that.

Speaker 2 (01:13:43):
Oshawa was able to capitalize on on more of the
power plays than the Bulldogs were. And you know, at
the end of the day, yeah, it's it's a huge
part of the playoffs. You know, we can talk about
how good a penal power play is in the regular season,
We could talk about how good a penalty kill is
in the regular season. Doesn't make a difference when did
you get to the postseason. And to be honest with you,

(01:14:05):
the Generals were really good on the face offs, that
opening face off of a power play. The Generals were
really good at winning that face where Bulldogs you mentioned it,
the General scored two power play goals to start a period.
And the amount of times we talk about how.

Speaker 1 (01:14:20):
You can win the faceoff.

Speaker 2 (01:14:21):
Seeing teams start a period with a power play because
it leads to nothing. Well, generals want to face off.
They got the puck in, they got pressure on net,
they scored. They did that twice. That winn off was
a huge.

Speaker 1 (01:14:32):
That's it. Forsa, that's a thirty second swing. Talked about
it the I talked about it on my Twitter and
obviously we talked about it on the dog Cast as well.
So if you want to hear more for Bulldog fans,
go there on the Bulldogs Audio Network. But we we
chatted about this at lengths at games and stuff too,
where it's like those thirty second swings, and this is
in hockey in general. To start a period when you

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can win any time, to start a penalty kill from
the penalty kill time, if you can win a draw,
get it clear, you kill twenty to thirty seconds. With
the drop off, you're killing thirty seconds. If you're in
the right place, there's no need for you not to
kill thirty seconds. Bulldigs could not find a way to
do that in the series. They could not. Oshawa to
me shot the score and once Nick Clardis went down

(01:15:16):
for the Bulldogs. The Bulldogs passed the score. It felt
like the Bulldogs were playing not to lose. When Nick
Clardis went down and Oshawa had everybody that that's kind
of what it looked that and that's what it looked
like watching the game at what that's what it looked
like the Bulldogs. It was a And it was the
first time the second half of the year, and we

(01:15:37):
watched every single game with the team. It was the
first time the second half of the year that the
Bulldogs didn't look right without Nick Clardis. You could tell.
And when the in the moment when he took the
kneon knee, it when it was a knee. I know
Oshawa fans have been coming after me for the last
fifteen days. It was an ee on knee. Yep, there's

(01:15:57):
another angle. There's a knee knee. I wish I could
show it. I wish we could. I really do. We're not,
but I wish we could and show you it was.
I feel like we're honest. People take pride in that
there's no bias at all, but there was. And I'm

(01:16:19):
that's it. I'm gonna leave it at that. I'm not
responding no more, no more d MS about it, not responding,
no more comments about it. That's that's what happened. And
I think that you could you felt the air come
out of the sales when it happened. And it sucks
to talk about, but it did. He's a seventy one
goal scorer, and I guarantee you in Game five when

(01:16:43):
the Bulldogs were all over the Osawa Generals in the
third period, Nick Claridis scores at least a goal or two.
He's did it. He's done it all year. Yep, he's
done it all year. And I feel like most definitely
there's a way. But now he's out six to eight
weeks and uh, we'll leave it at that. And I
think that on Oshawa standpoint, they are humming. Jacob Auster

(01:17:05):
has played the best games the last Game five. In
Game six, he was lights out and he got better
since from Game one on he was lights out. In
the series is going to be a very tough out
with the Barry Colts, like the Barry Coults are gonna
be a very tough out for the Oshawa Generals. That's
why we have a heck of an Eastern Conference Final
and I cannot wait for that I think it's gonna

(01:17:26):
be really good. I think they are the two best
teams in the league in the Eastern Conference, and I
think they are the two best teams in the Western
Conference as well. I don't think there is any upsets
so far in the playoffs other than SAG and I Eerie.
And that's a very minoral miminal, mimial, minimal, minimal, minimal.
Oh my gosh, sorry, I've been up since four. I

(01:17:49):
think it was a very minimal, uh upset. Like I
think that's the lowest one, four or five, like, yeah,
other than that, maybe in the amount of games that happened.
Other than that, I don't see any upset so far
in the first round. Correct me if I'm wrong, But
are in the playoffs, but I don't see any upsets.
And I think these are the two best teams in
the postseason in each conference going at it, and that's

(01:18:11):
and I think the best teams deserve to win, and
that's why they have so far. It's been incredible hockey
and I cannot wait to see this conference final.

Speaker 2 (01:18:20):
Yeah yeah, which which we're gonna discuss next the Western
Conference final on the Eastern Conference final. We look ahead
after this break here on the ohl In sixty podcast.

(01:18:48):
Welcome back to the ohl In sixty podcast Armories Domania
along with Colin Ward prediction time for round number three.
We'll start with the Eastern Conference finals for the Bobby
Your Trophy schedule looks like this. Friday, April twenty fifth
at Barry, Sunday April twenty seventh at Bury. Tuesday April

(01:19:10):
twenty ninth will be in Oshawa. Thursday, May first also
in Oshawa, and then May third is in Barry, May
fifth is in Oshawa and May sixth is in Barry.
And according to some people, the Gens got screwed with
the round three schedule because they don't have a single
weekend game. Yeah, you're fourth, you don't have home ice.

(01:19:31):
Shut up, stop being an idiot.

Speaker 1 (01:19:35):
Get your money to that Bena. What a stupid thing
to say, Come on, marget down, what a stupid thing
to say. Hey, man, No, it's that level of stupidity
that the question the future of six of society. Absolutely, man,

(01:19:56):
I agree with you. I'm stupid. I'll admit it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:59):
I'm stupids in school. I'm not the brightest kid in
the world. Trust me, he's getting degrees.

Speaker 1 (01:20:05):
But that whoa, man, I don't think degrees.

Speaker 2 (01:20:10):
I don't get out degrees in college.

Speaker 1 (01:20:12):
Hey clip it. But like, that's a level of stupidity
that I get tired of. Stop being stupid. You didn't
get screwed.

Speaker 2 (01:20:22):
You got screwed because you finished fourth and you don't
have home.

Speaker 1 (01:20:25):
You didn't like it. You want to finish first. Okay,
so shut up. So let's make the series. So let's
make the series right here. Friday Sunday, five days off,
Friday Sunday, five days off. Let's play it. That's what
I have to be. There we go.

Speaker 2 (01:20:44):
It's like somebody's got a bedtime and they can't stay.

Speaker 1 (01:20:46):
Up that late on the weeknights. True, but I did
the very oh my gosh, man, like the schedule. I
know you read it, but like, man, that's if I'm Barry.

Speaker 2 (01:20:59):
I sports not talking about the NHL schedule at the
start of U whenever it's released. My dad used to
call it the official NHL jockstrap show because it's a schedule.

Speaker 1 (01:21:11):
What what are we doing? It's who canst Who cares? Man?
The one thing about the postseason that I would that
I actually look at at the at the schedule, When
is that back to back. Yeah, yes, same, that's exactly
until game six and seven. If it happens. If I'm Barry,
if I'm Barry, they are the home team in the series, yep.

(01:21:32):
Finished second, I want. I want that home game on
the back to back. I want the second game at home,
which is the case in this series. It wasn't around two.
The General's got the back to back, the home game. Yep,
I don't. I will at their stupid six oh five start. Yeah, yeah,
why not seven? But anyway, I just think that when

(01:21:53):
you look at the situation with that, that's the only
thing I look at at the schedule, because you're gonna
have to play week night games.

Speaker 3 (01:21:59):
You were the four seed, good luck.

Speaker 1 (01:22:01):
Yes, wait till next round, big time, Wait till next
round when you want the series to start, like yeah,
And if I'm Barry, and if I'm Barry, I'm the
home team in the series, I want and I have
every right, and I believe this, I truly believe this.
The home team in the Ontario Hockey League should have
the extra de should have the UH should have the

(01:22:25):
home game for the second of the back to back. Yeah,
especially in especially early on in the playoffs too. Earlier
on in the playoffs one thousand percent. The home team
should have or the number the number one team like
the higher seed should have the home game on the
second of a back to back, and either game five
or game seven. It should never be game six is

(01:22:46):
on a back to back as a second on the
road team, unless it's a one verse two, then it's different.
I can see that if it's very close, but that
I don't. I that's the only thing I look at
in the schedule.

Speaker 2 (01:22:58):
Yeah, I uh, well, will give a shout out to
the person that sent us a screenshot of that, because,
uh the meat button is h fully involved on that account,
because I refuse to look at his crap. But uh
uh we know why I can't. I can't believe we
just had a conversation about the schedule. Oh my god,
the big deal, man, what's the uh? What's the newest

(01:23:18):
model jockstrap coming out? Might as well have tweeted about
that too.

Speaker 1 (01:23:22):
Golf City Jockstraps the Royal City Jockstraps one of the
best promotions of.

Speaker 2 (01:23:26):
The year, just as a relevant tweet as uh as that.
But uh yeah, so prediction time, Colin, who do you got?

Speaker 1 (01:23:34):
Well? I I think I'm sticking with its six. I've
done this every round. I've had oshawas series going six games.
I had them meeting Branford and six, I had them
losing to Branton in six. I have them beating Barry
in six, goaltending for Barry. So then reverse.

Speaker 2 (01:23:55):
Psychology would be burying six and thensa and six in
the finals if.

Speaker 1 (01:24:02):
They get there. Not like the cooking, not like the
chef Colin. But I would love to be a coach
because the reverse psychology I would play with the media
would be incredible. It'd be It'd be almost like the
John Cooper ask a couple of years ago with the
leafs uh. Just the stuff it would be. It would
be fun. I would have fun with media, And to
be honest, there were some things behind the scenes that

(01:24:24):
I would have loved to do in the series on
the bulldog side of things too, that we've talked about
off air, talked about it at their ranking on the dodcast.
But anyway, I just think that six way they're playing
the firepower they have up front, now that Barry doesn't
I mean, and he can't say firepower up front. I
just think Oshawa is a better team and I love
Jacob Austro in a series. In a series, I mean,

(01:24:45):
who's gonna be the guy for Barry. Yeah, they don't
need a guy, but there I think they're gonna need
a guy against Osawa. That's why I have Oshawa in six.

Speaker 2 (01:24:55):
So for me, I think they're there is a little
bit of an extra boost for any player that came
over from North Bay at the deadline is this is
a revenge series for them. And I can't remember who

(01:25:15):
said this from the from the Eastern Conference uh presser,
but they want revenge on the Generals for for beating
them last year. I like the Barry Colts win this series.
I think Herebic and Hillebrandt still play every other game
or every second, whatever the case might be.

Speaker 1 (01:25:35):
They all the way out.

Speaker 2 (01:25:36):
Yeah, but I I I really like the Colts in
this matchup. Home ice obviously helps, but to be honest
with you, and you know they ousta general staff being
what they are, they haven't been together a full season.
It's kind of been strange, I guess the way they've

(01:25:57):
gone about it.

Speaker 1 (01:25:59):
I like Mardy Williamson in this matchup.

Speaker 2 (01:26:02):
I've been a fan of his since I was introduced
to him in twenty sixteen when he took his ice
dog to the OHL Championship. Give me the Colts in
six games. I think they win it on Monday, May fifth,
in and they head to the OHL Championship.

Speaker 3 (01:26:16):
And honestly, it's hard not to agree with you.

Speaker 1 (01:26:18):
Like I said, I just saw, I just saw what
they're capable of. I really like Barry as well. And
it's not knock on Berry at all. I'm going Oshwa,
I said Oshawa, but man, i'd love to pick him.
With the North Bay guys, we've been we've played, we've
played sports before.

Speaker 3 (01:26:35):
You know what it's like when you lose to a team.

Speaker 1 (01:26:37):
Yeah, that ends your season, yep, and you know what
it's like. Let alone. I'm sure North the North Bay
alumni on Barry have a lot of memories about playing
in that building. Also for the Barry Colts that lost
them in the first round last season. Bo Jelzma, you
know like also that it's got to be a bitter

(01:26:59):
It's got to be a bitter taste in your mouth
and you gotta be ready for it. I like that
pick Grease. Like I said, I have Oshawa in six,
but I wouldn't mind seeing an upset either. I think
that'd be really cool if all upset for my pick. Yeah, yeah,
I gotcha. I wouldn't mind seeing that either because either way,
it's gonna be a really good final.

Speaker 2 (01:27:19):
Yeah, Western Conference Finals. The Wayne Gretzky Trophy up for
grabs April twenty fifth and twenty seventh at Canada Life
Place in London, Monday April twenty eighth and Wednesday April
thirtieth at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium and then May second
in London, May fourth in Kitchener and May sixth in
London if necessary. So calling the back to back for

(01:27:42):
this one goes Sunday Monday, games two and three. The
Rangers getting home ice off the back to back.

Speaker 1 (01:27:50):
And complaining anyone in kitchen or complaining on about the
schedule and we talk about the series now, or do
we got to talk about the schedule? Is everything okay?
Lightning and he wouldn't get screwed playing? Yeah, they're an
hour away over Gonna be able to sleep tonight? Yeah, Yeah,
there's more than twenty four hours in between games, so

(01:28:11):
you have to call your guardian and you get tucked
in the night, you'll be okay.

Speaker 2 (01:28:17):
Who's your pick for this one? And why call him?

Speaker 1 (01:28:19):
I I think a London night, it's your wagon, I
really do. I think they win in five. I I
would I picked I picked them in five against Erie
with that and I think Kitchener's a lot better than Erie.
No offense to Eara. I think he's a good team.
But the way London's playing, maybe they lose one, but

(01:28:43):
the way they're playing, man, yeah, they're okay. There's Barkie,
there's cow and there's O'Reilly, there's Alton, and there's Julian,
there's Nurmi. You know, the list goes on. There's so
many levels. Their defense mank Dickenson and Woolly you know, Oh,
we're gonna add Femus. Also up front you have Montgomery, yep,

(01:29:06):
London in.

Speaker 2 (01:29:06):
Five, Austin Eli, who's lost one game all year, Yeah
at least so yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:29:11):
Backup, who's the backup? I think the future possibly top
pick in the for goalies in the Ohl Yeh laxeym Medvedev.
I think Medvedev fits the mold to be an NHL goaltender.
We've talked about that a lot. On the number one
guy in London for the next two years, and man,
I think Medvedev and it's no offense to Ivan Kobch.
I really like Ivan Kobe's game. But man, the way

(01:29:31):
Medvedev just looks compared to Ivan Kobch, he looks like
an NHL goaltender just looks alone. And I just think
the London Nights in five. I really like Kitchener, I
really do, And like I said, I have a lot
of respect for that organization, like they've been great for us,
They've been great to me personally, like i'd like to.
I love the organization in Kitchener, but London's a buzz saw.

(01:29:54):
I have them in five, maybe four, but I add
them in five. I think Lonons loaded.

Speaker 2 (01:30:00):
H yeah, if did not lose a game, man, well,
I I agree with I think they will in this
series too. Like like I said, I think Kitchener or
Winsor whoever they played. To be honest with you, I
think Winsor might have had a better chance with that
top line. It's hard because your pitcher is a little

(01:30:20):
bit deeper, whereas Winsors more top heavy.

Speaker 1 (01:30:22):
I think.

Speaker 2 (01:30:25):
I think London loses a game. I think they lose two.
I think this is a London win in six. They
went in at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium on May fourth,
Star Wars Day.

Speaker 1 (01:30:38):
Holy wow, I didn't realize that. I think they went.

Speaker 2 (01:30:41):
I think the Knights winning six games because I think
I would have picked the Knights in six games against
the Spitfires. I think the Rangers and and Spitfires whoever
it was, are good enough to win a couple of
games against the Knights. It'll be a challenge that the
Knights haven't faced in the playoffs yet. It's another Midwest
Division rival for the Knights. There's third straight. All they
need is Gwelf. They were the only Midwest team not

(01:31:04):
to make the playoffs, so I mean it's a different
challenge for the Knights. And this isn't to say that
it's a bad thing for London because I have them
winning this series. I have them winning the Octal Championship.
But but I think the Rangers. I think the Rangers
take two. I think they do against the London Nights.
So give me the Knights and six.

Speaker 1 (01:31:24):
Nice, I like you know, and like I said, it's
gonna be a series. It's never no teams. Yeah, didn't
matter who, It didn't matter when London won the series
against here. It did not matter who won wins or Kitchener.
We knew it was gonna be an iconic series. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:31:40):
Like, to be honest with you, I kind of wanted
to go seven. I wanted to go. I don't think
it will, but I wanted to last time. That'd be awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:31:48):
Kidding me.

Speaker 2 (01:31:49):
May six the London seven o'clock for a game seven six, Like,
sign me up. May Tuesday six is a Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (01:31:58):
Okay, Tuesday night game sevens are all it's iconic Kitchen
Rangers winsor Smiffires kicking some front ass Berry Cults. You
just saw it two weeks later.

Speaker 3 (01:32:08):
Can't wait, can't wait?

Speaker 1 (01:32:09):
Man, gonna be a great conference final. My last question
is do you touch the trophy? Do you touch the
trophy if you win the conference? Finally?

Speaker 2 (01:32:21):
I think you touch it, but don't lift it over your.

Speaker 1 (01:32:23):
Head, I know, you know, like that's it and take
it right to the room. Yeah, yeah, yep.

Speaker 3 (01:32:28):
Maybe the captain shows the fans.

Speaker 1 (01:32:30):
Yeah, if you're on home ice, Yeah yeah, if you're
on home ice, you show your fans. It means more
to the fans. You're you're gonna buy Western or Eastern
Conference champions an, I guess yep, yeah, and you take
it off the ice, you give it to the you
put it in the equipment management, equipment manager's office or
wherever it goes. That's where it goes, and uh, you

(01:32:52):
put it away and then when you hope you win a
bigger one.

Speaker 2 (01:32:55):
Yeah, yeah, but yeah, no, I don't put it over
your head. Yeah no, you can carry it, yeah, that's fine,
but yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:33:00):
No, don't don't put it over here. Yeah no no.

Speaker 2 (01:33:03):
Colin Ward has the London Knights visiting the Oshawa Jet
or meeting the Oshwa Generals. It won't be visiting because
London and they'll probably get the weekend home games for
anyone wondering, but Colin has the Knights in General's meeting
in the HL Championship Series for the second year in
a row. I have the rematch of twenty thirteen between
the London Knights and Barry Colts. Colin Ward has his

(01:33:25):
hand up on week.

Speaker 1 (01:33:28):
On weekday games in the finals. If I have Oshawa
going to the finals with lonon on weekday games in
the finals, tessendas, the games, the commercial breaks, the extra
commercial break.

Speaker 3 (01:33:38):
Is that going to be a problem with bedtime?

Speaker 1 (01:33:41):
Because if so, if we had to change the game
there we go might have to we might have to
have a month long OHL Finals up for my finals.
So yeah, have a good night.

Speaker 2 (01:33:56):
Okay, we're there, fans, thanks and much for tuning in.
I mean, we're we're halfway there. We've got two more
rounds to go before we hand out the j. Ross
Robertson Cup, and then we're gonna head to the Memorial
Cup out East and in Ramuski. Out East it's in Quebec.
I act like out East is Wayne Halifax. But yeah,

(01:34:18):
we're halfway there. So so again, we are releasing a
special episode on Tuesday at seven o'clock. Gavin Bryant and
Greg Bryant join joining us on the show. Like I said,
it's our normal time that well that we release shows,
so make sure you stay tuned in for that. But
in terms of OHL talk and content and updates, we

(01:34:39):
will chat again after round three is over and we
get you ready for the OHL Championship. So enjoy the
Conference Finals. Everybody enjoy seeing writing on the ice just
inside the blue line stating which trophy they're fighting for
because it looks awesome, and maybe we'll get two game
sevens again we'll see. We don't have any game sevens,

(01:35:00):
but you never know, so enjoy it, everybody. It's gonna
be one heck of a round, and yeah, we will
chat after it's over, So enjoy it, everybody. You've been
listening to the ohl in sixty podcast. I'm Maurice Demanie
along with Colin Ward, and we will chat again after
the conference finals.

Speaker 1 (01:35:18):
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