Alright everybody, welcome back to your new episode
of the Buck podcast where we talk about anything
and everything hockey. I am Jeff, followed by
Colin and Kyle. What's going on? I'm doing research,
let me be it. So how are you guys doing? Good.
We're getting ready for the holidays here. Oh
yeah. Three days away until the main one, obviously.
Then you have what eight nine days until the
big party one. Yeah, it's gonna be a blast. Oh,
yeah Always is when they wouldn't hear that when
you're the weenie boys. There's no such thing
as a boring New Year's No, there is we oh, there's
always something I think that's the one we always
go everybody goes the hardest on New Year's like
it's it's just a death the unspoken rule of the
group like we just go so hard that day I said,
I think that last year was an exception. I know
I didn't last year's because I was starting out
feeling good. Yeah, everybody just wasn't, I
think last year everybody just wasn't feeling
it. Plus I wasn't, I was against, I was coming
down sick that night and I was like ugh. We came
here for a short amount of time and I think everybody
was gone by midnight. Yeah, cause I remember
we watched the first track that night. I do remember
we did watch it. I was gone early, so I was gone
by like 10, 10 .30 that night. I was back home.
Yeah, that last year was kind of a lame New Year's
with our standards of... We'll have to make up
for it this year, for sure. Yeah. We'll really
have to make it up this year. So have a good
time. But yeah, we're back in the studio for
the final time here in 2024, about to be 2025.
This year went flu by. Thank God. We just saw
that TikTok just a little bit ago. Kids born
in 2010 will be going into high school here soon.
Fuck, man. And here I am, six years, seven years
graduated. Almost 10. So the front half of 2010,
up till August, are technically freshmen in high
school, as of right now. I'm teaching kids almost
half my age. Half my age. Fuck! SHIT! That's
wild. I was like, my youngest sister's let you
have freshman this year in high school. Which
is... Which is insane. It's wild. It's... It's
crazy to think. What was the other thing, like,
kids born in 2009 can drive next year? Like,
oh my god. It's so insane. That's not the end.
Yeah, let's not think about that. Nah, let's
get through this final episode of 2024 before
we jump into 2025. Jeff? Real quick before we
get into milestones for the OHL. One big thing
actually just came out yesterday as a recorder
on the 21st. This is by Elliott Freeman of Sportsnet.
Obviously the OHL did approve, they recently
did approve that they would accept Muskegon and
Youngstown, but the USA Hockey League, they actually
declined it at the moment. So there will be no
OHL expansion quite yet. What a bunch of problems.
Because I know they should, because I know obviously
about a month ago the commissioner and a bunch
of the Board of the OHL, they obviously looked
at Muskegon. Youngstown they went actually went
to Their arenas and just kind of looked it over
and stuff like that But really man, at least
at the moment it sounds like we're no expansion,
but there's But it doesn't mean it's out of it.
It's not not not yet Yeah, I'd say It's still
under future considerations as you know, I'm
able to say enough In the trades future. We'll
give you future considerations. Yeah, we'll think
about it But yeah, we can we give London to to
that league? And London just go to the eat like
just they're good enough as it is man. Just just
bump them up to the ECL So they don't they they
never have a rebuild year apparently all their
their cocky fans like we don't we don't rebuild
we just reload pretty much just kind of true
Just pretty much guys that have built up. I mean,
yeah, you can't even get mad at that because
it's true. It's a very good way to put it, honestly.
It frustrates me, but at the same time. Especially
seeing what they did to our auditors here this
past week on Wednesday. Let's not talk about
it. Rough game to be at. Yeah, that was rough.
I think it's another one of those, kind of another
reality check that we needed, you know, coming
off that high from Saturday night's win. And
yeah, just I think more of a reality check like,
hey. Not all games are gonna be like that. Yep.
You're gonna have these tough teams coming in
and out, you know, you gotta be ready for it.
Let's get back to working. Honestly, I was kind
of looking at the standings. Which is crazy the
thing, like just looking at how close the east
is right now, like Erie currently sits fourth
in the west. Literally right now, if they were
in the east right now, they'd be eighth. Wow,
so the east is strong this year. Yeah. Wow. Because
they're all completely flip -flopped from last
year. yeah so obviously as we go into the winter
break on in the east from 10 to one it's peterborough
7 22 and 4 with 20 points north bay ninth play
which honestly i was surprised with them being
this low um but they're currently 13 15 3 with
29 points brampton who's an eighth 32 um 14 -14
-4. The Autos 67 -7 with 13 -12 -2 -5 with 33.
Brantford 17 -13 -3 with 37 points. The Sudbury
Wolfs 31 -17 -18 -4 with 38. And then Kingston.
17 .95 and 241 points for Barry 21 .91 and 144
also in second with 2011 to 143 in Niagara 22
.91 and 146 points. Let's go back and look at
my my only two predictions. I had North Bay finishing
first so yeah that worked out pretty well. Kind
of curious what it... I have them second right
now. I had to Niagara dead last night. I had
Niagara a little bit higher than everybody you
guys thought I was crazy. I didn't expect them
to do this well, but... Pizza actually, right
now, I'm kind of... Pizza had them in ninth,
so it could still happen. Yeah. And then obviously
in the west, we got it currently in 10th place.
Owen's done a tack 9, 19, 2, and 3 with 23. Ninth
place is the Wolf Storm. Ten nineteen two one
twenty three points the Sarnia sting with that
final Playoff spy on 11 18 205 29 points to sue
Greyhounds 15 18 With 30 they've not yet gone
to overtime or shoot this season Oh sue sue really
they've not had an overtime more sheet again.
Nope. They have not yet And then on sixth place
is the Flint Firebirds 15 -15, 1 -1, 32 points.
The Saginaw Spirit in fifth was 16 -16, 1 -0,
33. Erie's in fourth with 16 -10, 3 -1, 36 points.
Kitchener in third place with a record 23 -7,
2 -1, with 49 points. Windsor, second place.
23 7 2 1 with 49 points and then London currently
in first 27 6 and they actually also haven't
gone to an overtime or shoot I either Just haven't
lost it. I'm sure they've gone to some That's
probably you're right now. I think about it But
London's currently 27 6 in 6 with 54 points Wow
That's kind of what it's looking at going into
into this This break in the halfway Christmas
break Yeah, so the otters are even with help
with their Couple inconsistent games like Kitchener
and London stuff Also that bad loss against Windsor
last week. I'm still honestly proud of this team
still I don't know. They've I mean they're they
had they had their They can work on the consistency
then I think we have an all -around team But
you know, a lot of these younger guys that have
been coming up like de lesio. I think has been
One of our best defensemen, at least the past
couple games. He's outperforming some of the
veterans back there. I mean, literally just,
they literally just signed another. Just signed
another defenseman. What was it? I can't remember
his name, I already have to top my head. Quinn
McCall. Quinn McCall. Yup. And obviously he's
already committed to the Holy Cross for next
season and that. That's awesome, yeah. On Panathena,
yes she has a recording, before recording on
Panahee. officially Committed to Notre Dame and
I'm happy to see that I'm so happy for I enjoy
watching me some Notre Dame hockey. So that'll
be that'll be pretty cool to see No, which one
play up there and it was it another OHL player
with Kevin he officially signed a contract with
the With what page yes the first Asian born player
in NHL history to sign it on NHL That's really
cool. It's awesome to see that and he's right.
He's really good But yeah, that's one thing I
was excited about. But as we go into milestones
and news, one thing I did miss on last week's
recording on the 15th, the Astro General's head
coach, Brad Malone gets his first OHL win as
head coach. Then multiple December 18th milestones,
Ben. Or Arabic of the Barry Colts and 4 to 5
C gets his first career. Oh, he'll shout in a
4 -0 victory Adani Femis of the London Knights
gets his first career. Oh, he'll point off an
assist of Sam O 'Reilly gold first theory otters,
so it's kind of Cool to see his panel's younger
brother Playing for the in his like first game
and that releases first time in Erie Chicago
Blackhawks prospect Nick Lardis of the Brantford
Bulldogs playing in his 200th career OHL game
versus the Brantford Steelheads and then multiple
and then on the 19th Alex Azeroth Rodin of the
Niagara Ice Dogs gets his first career OHL hat
trick versus the Barry Colts Oh and Flores of
the Niagara Ice Dogs sets a franchise record
for most assists by a goaltender with eight.
Braden Jenkins of the Guelph Storm gets his first
career OHL goal versus the Sioux Greyhounds.
Chad Reed and Hunter Saltman of the Sioux Greyhounds
get their first career OHL goal in that exact
same game. Ben Radwell. Radley of the Brantford
Bulldogs gets his first career to a goal versus
Oshawa Generals Jack Darst saves the Flint Firebirds
gets his first career to a goal versus Saginaw
Spirit and Mike Stubbs at the London Nights radio
play -by -play called his 2 ,000th game Hayden
Ellis of the Kitchener Rangers gets his first
career to a goal Avadaski of the Ottawa 67's
gets his first career OHL goal. And then Ottawa
Senators prospect Luke Ellis played in his 100th
career OHL game versus the Kitchener Rangers.
And then Seattle Krakens prospect Nathan Valnevue
of the Sudbury Wolves gets his first career OHL
hat trick versus North Bay Battalion. And that's
all. Oh! One thing I did see that which I kind
of I did expect to happen that Bring up his name
again real quick Hang on one second here On that
Demian's the zealot of the satan spirit he was
officially suspended one game for that boarding
penalty on Nick Kalanago just one game? yeah
which I still think honestly and I will admit
I know we talked about last week I still don't
think it was the right call I still don't see
I still see what was wrong about that hit I mean,
I still I think the home eagle was back into
the next game. So he was badly he was seriously
injured Yeah, he was just out for the rest of
that game. Yeah, but he was back against London
So I really all know did not see anything wrong
with that hit that hit that happened At first
I initially thought again is because they were
reviewing those first little foot and that clear
But they cleared he called it a boarding which
I don't I don't agree with which I haven't seen
how spirit fans are reacting to that but I mean
if they are pissed off I don't blame them like
it was a very clean hockey play like I don't
think he made contact with them at least it didn't
look like it from I'm sure they have a bunch
of different angles but from what all the angles
we were able to see you know on the screen or
you know just watching it watching the replays
on our phones you know I did not see anything
wrong yeah whatsoever neither did I Alright,
we're gonna jump into the new one that we've
been doing that we did last week. We're gonna
jump over this hurdle. I'm trying to picture
who that could be. I have a potential idea. I
honestly think it could be your boy John Murray
now. I was thinking also Tage. I was thinking
Eichel as well. Can't do him, all right. Okay,
he's in the East and he's an American player.
All right. Older than age 27, but under the number
22. 72. Okay, so that's not one of my predictions.
He's not a center, so he's in a metro. player
over the age of 27 who's American and under the
number 72. And is not a sentiment. Not a sentiment.
Not a sentiment. Pull it up again. I'm thinking
somebody in, I don't know, somebody like Will
Coley, but I don't think he's that old. Sean
Monahan is pretty short hair or shorter hair
or if it's long it's not that it could be because
he's getting up there in age Throw it on there.
I don't know his position is but Okay, so we
were getting closer on the age so he is 31 32
years old Still still lower lower than 20 for
the number because it's still not yellow so it
could be lower than 19 21 are below i'd say 20
because i think it's either 20 if i think it's
within three it would be yellow all right so
it could be lower than 20 or lower for the jersey
number all right we're running through metro
teams pittsburgh doesn't have anybody with a
fat ruley hair no right now i have many americans
on the tape either jersey numbers that could
be that low We have Caramanda I'm just like Jersey
Nevers is what throws me off and then the nationality
you can never really tell between like American
and Canadian. We have Columbus. They'll be Dribbers.
Well it's not Columbus. We already know that.
Oh. Someone could be Barzal. Matt's Barzal. How
low is his number? 13, I believe? 13. I'm pretty
sure he's American. It is on the Islanders. Okay,
we got the team. Cool. His number is between
20 and 16, so it's a pretty... Never mind, never
mind, never mind. Yeah, it's a single digit.
Single digit. Single digit. Possibly 10 or a
single digit. I'm trying to think of... It's
not Matt Martin hair. Well, Matt Martin was I
13 oh no, see No, he's a team, okay Well, you
know what I'm srogan the srogans like 30 No,
what no adoption. Oh, it could be no adoption.
He's younger though. Is he I thought he was younger.
I thought he was like 20 like 24 25 our age Yeah,
24. He's a defenseman now, okay. So we're making
some... And his number's lower than 8. It's lower
than 8, so it's gonna be like 5, 4, 3. I don't
even... That's such a fucking boring team. Could
it be Adam Pelleck? Is he still over there? Yeah,
he's still over there. Could it be Adam Pelleck?
I thought his numbers were in his 20s. I thought
it was 3. His number's low, a single digit. Nope.
three so it's his number two or one it's a defenseman
who's like 32 years old his number is number
two or number one i'm trying to think who's even
over there now again the islanders are such a
fucking boring team i don't i don't ever pay
attention to them they're very boring the only
ones i ever honestly really pay attention over
there oh is um no noah gragoire i think he's
in um Calgary. I don't know anything about the
Islanders' defense. Neither do I. Nothing's coming
to me for names. Yeah, there's... Just like Colin
said, they're such a boring team. It's probably
number two, because I don't think a skater would
wear the number one. Nine out of ten times sounds
like a goaltender number. This film is guaranteed
that the jersey number is two. But who the hell
wears it? I don't think it's Noah Gregor. I'm
pretty sure he's still, I think he's over Calgary.
I'm trying to think of like number two's. It's
not like Ole Mata. He's, where is he now? West.
West. Like Seattle or Utah isn't it? Utah. I
think it's Utah has like six former penguins.
Always like the new team new team that comes
in they always have like I know when Vegas first
started They have like five former penguins last
year the year before at some point Seattle had
like six former penguins now No, you still have
like four or five former penguins. I Don't even
know No Gabor, I don't think it's him but fuck
i mean we know it's an islanders defenseman so
like we don't know his name we just look it up
at this point that's honestly what i was want
to do but i yeah i mean we just don't know his
name we know it's the number two defenseman on
the islanders so i'm just looking it up because
i don't know any names Why should be like a dumb
obvious one that we should have known? Never
would have gotten that. It's Mike Riley. Yeah
Mike Riley Never would have gotten that. Yeah
Dude looks stoned as shit. Let's do an unlimited
one. This one can be tough That fat fucking cheeky
bones and no neck Not a bad guess. Ivan Barber,
chef. We got the conference and the vision correctly.
Okay, so he's not a forward, or he's not a center.
He's over 30 and he's not Russian. His number
is below 36, 45, below 46. And he doesn't play
for Vegas. He does not play for Vegas, but he's
in the Pacific. Just based on how fucking big
his head and neck looks, I'd more or less say
it's some sort of goaltender. Like initially
when I saw the hair I immediately thought of
Robin Leonard because I remember... I was gonna
say that but he's not currently active. Yeah.
And even if he was, you know, Vegas is out of
the option. Yeah. That's when I saw the silhouette,
that's who I immediately thought of. Who's Minnesota's
starter? No, it can't be because it's Pacific.
It would have been Gustafson. It would have been.
This just gets a random goalie in the... in the
pacific. Thatcher. Dr. Demko? I don't think it's
anybody. Now I can guess him. All right um who's
is not Talbot. Talbot's over in Detroit. Who's
the king starter right now? Thank Dave shit big
save Dave or No go go right go David What a guess
we're gonna pull that out there man, oh my god
sort of blow your all ears out there, but my
god what a guess oh my god How did we get that
one two guesses? Oh my gosh, he's Czech? Yeah.
Wow. Let's do another one. Let's do one more.
One more. Oh, that was good. We got to now. What
type of hairdo is that? It's fucking sticking
up and setting away from Sunday. I would just
say Jonathan Marsha show. There's a third guess
out there. A random guess. It's in the West.
And it's Canadian. It's in the Pacific again.
Canadian in the Pacific. Pull it up again. I
had a name in anyway. Here we go. Being William
Carlson, yeah You know, I like half these players
like you can't even name That's stupid do will
a carrier he's on Vegas, isn't it? No, he's on
Carolina hurry no, he used to play for Vegas.
Okay, so he is 28 29 Jersey numbers 26 27 maybe
25 He's Canadian, plays in the Pacific. He's
not a center and he's not a left winger. He'd
be another goalie. Again, like neck. That fucking
fat neck would say he could be another goaltender.
Who's the other one in LA? I was actually thinking
of Darcy again. Do it. Do Darcy Kemper. I sort
of fucking got off leaving if it's Darcy Kemper.
Oh, I almost went for a one. No, okay. It's not
a goalie. Alright. So he's 27. I guess we could
have wasted a guess. I knew he was older. But
we've guessed three Canadian goaltenders without
even looking. Not in goaltenders, but three Canadians.
So it could be a right winger or a defenseman.
Defenseman in the Pacific. Evan Bouchard. No,
but he's a defenseman. OK. He's a defenseman.
So, his number is definitely between 5 and 31.
Or 5 and like 25. Well, I was saying 31 because
of... Or, I'm sorry, I didn't even see that.
Oh yeah, his number is 26, 27, maybe as low as
25. A defenseman in the Pacific. Who is 28, 29
years old. Let's go Calgary. Can we like... Rasmus
Anderson? Seen it still there. I think his numbers
a little higher, but All right, we're getting
close to the age So it's 20 he's 29. You know,
that's perfect. He's 29 years old. Oh, I guess
I'm what he I guess he's not Canadian but Let's
know if we got we got some So the only only thing
we don't well, the only category is obviously
we don't fucking know our team and player All
right number. We're not confident number yeah
well it's well we know it's 27 26 25 right around
that area so let's go to let's think like san
jose mario ferrero i think he's like 48 though
his number i'm trying to think it could be way
up yeah no i don't think it's i don't think it's
mario ferrero or we could just do it for the
guess or for the name darnell nurse is he canadian
yes yeah he is canadian it could be darnell nurse
Oh my god, it's all green except for the damn
team. And we know he was 25, so we know his number
is 26 or 27. Not Darlene, obviously. What is
um... Oh, we already did Edmonton. We wasted
that guess. Oh, fuck me. I didn't even see that
until just now. What number is... I'm trying
to remember what Quinn's number is. 43. Yeah,
43. He says 43. Okay. I can't remember what...
Some other defensemen in Vancouver. So it could
be Vancouver, it could be the Sharks, the Ducks.
Utah's in the Pacific. Whatever's... No, it obviously
can't be Sergeychev because he's like... Not
you. Logan Cooley, is he defenseman? No, he's
a forward. I've seen enough shards games. No,
it's not a shard. It's you. Either way, I've
seen enough garbage games. Let's just guess a
random player on any of the remaining teams.
At least try to get the team. So let's just guess
locally. Okay, he's not on Utah. Alright. And
he's way younger too. So we have Vancouver, Anaheim,
San Jose, I just don't - Utah's in the fucking
central. I'm stupid. Oh my god, yeah they are.
So do I have - I don't know, Anaheim? Anaheim,
San Jose, Vancouver. Vegas. Vegas. Seattle. Seattle.
Okay, so it could be Seattle. Oh, um, maybe Vince
Dunn. What's his number? Uh, sir, Vince Dunn.
I mean, it's worth a guess at the last chance.
Because I don't, because the thing is, I would
have said Truba. Shave Theodore, oh my god, okay.
Pretty easy one. I feel like we could have gotten
that if we knew it was Vegas. I think we could
have gotten it All right, we do one more to win
to go to do go. Let's go to do go. Let's give
us a little bit of break Well, then that David
already went out of our house party. All right
for the for the columns we have Washington Minnesota
and 50 past minute how many minutes in a single
season and for the roads we have Boston San Jose
and Florida Boston, Washington, Chara. They have
Char - yeah. We also have Yager. I'd do Chara.
We'd do Yager from Florida, Washington. Oh, that's
right. Then, yeah. Then Boston, Penalty Minutes,
Marshawned. Boston, Minnesota, Felino? Nick Felino?
Or no. No, no, no, no. Marcus and Flano played
for Minnesota, not Nick. I say, um... Capitals,
um... No, did he? I... Did he? Who do you think
it? Nick Benino. For San Jose. I don't think
he ever played for the Capitals, no. That's what
I was trying to think. Did he play for Minnesota?
No. No? If... Either the Capitals or Wild were
switched for San Jose... We could we could do
Matt Cook, but yeah What if he had 50 penalty
minutes in the season for the Sharks? How long
did he play for the Sharks for? Matt Cook didn't
play for San Jose. I'm saying for Washington,
Minnesota. Oh, yeah. Okay, so he could technically
go to fit there. Brendan Burns, I'm sure he had
quite a few penalty minutes at some point. Him
or Jumbo Joe. That's where my jojo penalty minutes
Like he had to have at some point in his career
had that many in a season Yeah, okay And Florida
Minnesota Florida penalty minutes Should be of
somebody who played for Florida that would have
been had a lot of penalty minutes Chuckie Matt
Kachuck. Yeah, I'm sure probably Yeah The whole
Minnesota column and then San Jose, Washington
So this is not even one that you can go back
to like a previous franchise because that's that's
that's it franchise. Yeah, that's it. That's
not like Dallas Yeah For Florida and Minnesota.
Good point. I don't know if it's going to be
anybody current. I feel like this goes back a
little bit. It's like the beginning of Minnesota.
San Jose, Washington, I feel like should be easy.
Kemper never played for San Jose. Niemie, I don't
think he ever played. Definitely played for Washington.
Nabakov, I don't think he would have ever played
for Washington. Hagman was only Anaheim, Pittsburgh.
Rangers. Rangers and Washington. It came for
a little bit, I believe. Yeah, one of those things
we flew through the first four or five, now we're
sitting here struggling. San Jose. I feel like
San Jose, Washington, one of those should be
easy. What about Eric Fair? Did he ever play
for San Jose? I know he bounced around. I don't
think so. I'm thinking Matt Cullen, although
he had a very long and luxurious career, paid
for Carolina, he paid for Minnesota, Pittsburgh.
What did he ever play for? Like San Jose? Boston.
Or Boston, yeah. Are we sure Marcus Flito never
played for Boston? I thought he spent most, if
not all, of his career in Minnesota. His office
in Zuccarello is just ranger's and wild. Slurry
is just Minnesota, Pithbridge, Chicago, Vegas.
Not in that order, obviously. No comment, Your
Honor. Well, I'm done. What about like Frederick
Goudreau? I think he's Pittsburgh, Minnesota.
I don't know if he's been any time anywhere else.
Danton Hyden, I don't think he ever played for
Minnesota. Yeah, I'm dead. Matt Cook, where are
we confident that he played? Pittsburgh, Minnesota.
Vancouver, Washington. Did he play for Boston
at some point? No. No? Olmark obviously just
Boston, Buffalo, Sens. Man. Yeah, I know. That
and the other was San Jose, Pittsburgh, who was
that other team he played for? Don't think it
was Minnesota. Again, I tapped out a long time
ago, my guy. Do Antini Emi first hit in Hosea,
Minnesota? I don't think it's right, but. See
San Jose Washington one is killing me. Yeah,
someone should be like right in your face easy
Boston Minnesota should know and It's just not
coming to me in Washington and San Jose too Yeah,
I got nothing they just get some random names
Imagine if one of those random cliques ends up
being in it someday. Pat Maroon. Pat Maroon.
Yeah. Oh my god. Oh Fucking Brent Burns. We were
just talking about him in the fucking uh, the
other one Boy, when was he with Minnesota? He
was drafted by Minnesota. Who? Brent Burns. Yeah,
he's drafted by Minnesota. I didn't even realize
that. I was always nervous. I think he played
for one, played for one year. If he even played
for them. Mikael Grandlund. Let's do the pyramid
one just to get one last little thing in here.
Alright, so any player that has had 40 assists
in a season. Sidney Crosby. Anytime you can choose
Sidney Kid, you're going to choose Sidney Kid.
So anybody with 40 assists and played for...
Actually, I was going to say put them for...
500 points in a season? Yeah. Then we should
do... Would you put Lindros here cuz Lindros
played for the blues, didn't he? I do that. I'm
Tom's back mentally spent Yeah, you didn't do
what you're doing dresser I'm almost positive.
He played he did play. No it Never played the
blues I did I'll say he had 500 points in his
career. Yeah. That's a given. Maybe he never
had a 40th season. But I doubt that. Because
he was originally going to be drafted by Quebec,
but he refused to go there. Play for Philly,
Rangers, Toronto, Dallas. Dallas? That's it.
Huh. That's it. The blues. F -f -f -filling in
the blues. Not Brendan Saad, not J .V .R. Not
somebody like Simone Gagné. Use one of our lifelines
for this one. At least we can't get all anyway.
I'll do Thumbelike. Adam Oates. All right, yeah,
that makes sense. I know he played for Philly,
I knew he played for... All right, the Stanley
Cup winner, so would that one be... Do the other
lifeline, because we're not gonna do 100%, so
do 50 -50. Ron Suter, Ron Sutter, or Steve Duchesne?
Well, I'm familiar with the Steve Duchesne, but...
Thing in Ron Sutter, that's the answer. It's
hot. I was deep to shame And Rod Brendan more.
Yeah, that makes sense. What do you think the
fires though? Raiden Shen for a long time? Okay,
all right. Well, that's a bummer Alright, we'll
move on to some NHL milestones from the past
two weeks, because I did not do mine last week,
because there weren't a whole lot. And there
really still isn't for two weeks worth. Starting
with the goals, Mika Rankin recorded his 10th
career hat -trick versus the Penguins. Mikas
Abanajed scored his 300th career goal versus
the Sabres. And Liam Bischel of the Dow Stars
scored his first career NHL goal against the
Predators. Scott Lofton recorded his 100th career
goal and his second career hat -trick. Brian
Rust recorded his sixth career hat trick as well
as Jake Gensel recording his sixth career hat
trick. Max Sassen of the Canucks scored his first
career goal against the Bruins. Lane Hudson scored
his first career goal against Winnipeg. Declan
Carlisle of the Lightning scored his first goal
against the Kraken. Kafer Sherwood of the Canucks
recorded his first career hat trick. Adam Wellesby
of the Nashville Predators, scored his first
career NHL goal against the Rangers. Nolan Allen
of the Blackhawks, scored his first career goal
against the Kraken. Coming back to it, Gage Goncalves
of the Tampa Bay Lightning, scored his first
career goal, apparently I put against the Tampa
Bay Lightning, and Isaiah George of the New York
Islanders, scored his first career goal against
the Maple Leafs. Just a couple of point milestones,
Jesper Bratt surpassed the 400 point milestone.
Mason Diktavich got 100 points and Leon Dreisaitl,
just the other day, passed the 900 point milestone.
For games played, Dmitry Veronikov played in
his 100th game. Owen Tippett played in his 300th
game. Brock Besser, Andrei Vasileski, Evan Rodriguez,
and Neil Plonk all played in their 500th. Diego
Terevinen and Artemi Panarin. Played in their
700th. And Marcundry Flurry made his 1004th career
start, taking sole possession of third, all time
surpassing the great Patrick Law. Flower. Just
one little assist milestone, Ryan O 'Reilly just,
I believe as of yesterday, recorded his 500th
career assist. And earlier on, I think this is
more closer to what should have been announced
last episode, Sebastian Cosa of the Detroit Red
Wings. Recorded his first career win against
the Buffalo Sabres. I believe that was in his
first start as well. Yeah, that is all for those.
Nice. Do we want to do Jeffy's thing again or
do we do Colin's blind ranking first? Let's do
Jeffy's thing. All right. We're doing that same
thing we did last week with the higher lower,
correct? Yep, higher lower neutral if they happen
to be the same. First one is, was Brandpoint
higher or lower? neutral to Ryan O 'Reilly. Oh!
Reading point to Ryan O 'Reilly. Higher. I'm
taking the higher in this one. Did he use you
have to higher than O 'Reilly? Mm -hmm. Or...
Because I want to say I think I want to say O
'Reilly was like mid to late second. Point was
bird view so that will be high high. Was red
point that high? I thought it was earlier second
round. Early second round? Yeah. Okay, I'll agree
and go higher. O 'Reilly, Brandpoint was actually
lower than O 'Reilly. Brandpoint in 2014 drafted
by Tampa, setting 9th overall, 3rd round, 19th
overall pick that round. Ryan O 'Reilly was 2009
by Colorado, 33rd overall, 2nd round, 3rd pick
of the 2nd round. Okay, so we were both, I was
a little bit wrong on O 'Reilly, but I knew it
was 2nd round. But you at least were correct
on it. O 'Reilly being the 2nd round, yep. Eric's
higher low or neutral Eric's stall or Mark's
stall? Who was drafted higher? Eric's stall or
Mark's stall? What do I say Eric's stall was
drafted higher? I want to say Eric's stall was
like top five in his class. Eric's stall was
top five. I think Mark was until eight or nine.
So Eric is higher. You guys are both correct.
Eric Stahl was drafted higher in the 2003 draft
by Carolina, second overall in the first round,
where Mark Stahl was picked in 2005, 12th overall.
And then this one is Goaltender's. This one is
either higher or lower. Ilya Sorokin or Ivo Shosturkin.
I feel like this one would make you want to thank
Igor Shosturkin. So I'm gonna say Sorokin. Sorokin
was drafted higher. You guys are correct. They
both were drafted in 2014, but Sorokin was drafted
78th overall in the third round, 18th pick, where
Igor was picked in the fourth round, 28th overall.
Okay, cool. Awesome. I'm gonna pull these notes
up. Alright. We'll bear it back. All right. I'm
gonna do one. I only have the energy and patience
for one tonight. The best active, active players
to be wearing the jersey numbers zero through
nine. Okay. Active players wearing jersey numbers
zero through nine. Wearing the jersey number
five, Aaron Ekbada. Oh, okay. I mean, overall
career, he's been around for a while. I think
he's drafted first overall in 2013, 2014. So
he's been around for about 10 years now. I think
he's stuck, I think he's been with Florida the
whole time. I think he's good right in the middle.
I would agree. I think he's good right in the
middle, at three. Just a hint, only one player
on my list has moved. by the second person up
on the list, number four, Miro Hyskinen. Hyskinen,
okay, I already have a feeling who the one that
moved might be. Yeah. Miro Hyskinen. He's actually
been pretty solid. He's been very solid. His
entire time with Dallas and that. I mean, he's
only been around for four years now, three or
four years. I want to say he might have been
drafted same year as Kaprizov. I think he had
a kid's rookie year might have been the COVID
year. Can you guess who? Why that Paris? No,
he's actually next to my list. Jack Heichel?
Yep. Yeah, I think he's number one. Yeah. I mean,
he was great in Buffalo. He's the only reason
Buffalo had life, if you can call it that. They
failed him. They failed him and he's putting
up great numbers this year in Vegas in one of
his first four seasons. Hopefully he can stay
away from injury. Don't get me wrong, I didn't
like him in Buffalo. I wanted him to have success
and Buffalo didn't. Mean I want Buffalo in general.
I just like you still bad for the fans at this
point and I guess dedication you got you got
one fantastic team in the bills and one shit
team in Every game we've gone to Buffalo whether
our penguins were playing or the game Ryan Miller
and I like those fans were just No matter what
position their team is in that fan base is that
another I don't count this but funny enough between
the bills and the Sabres the Bills are between
i think i said november 27th between november
27th and present day which is december 22nd The
sabers have more bosses in that time than the
bills do in the last three regular seasons combined
Super dave is insane But yeah, like what we said
with michael like i'm glad that he got what he
was asking like when he got traded like his Actual
surgery and he's now look at him like he's thriving
in Vegas That's why I agree number one. Yeah,
and he won his first day in the cup in his first
payoff. Yeah, so Number the fourth man on the
list is number seven Brady Kachuk Even's favorite.
As much as we don't like the guy. I mean, he's
a great player I mean, he's one of the only reasons
I think that Ottawa has life He's one of the
only people that brings life to that team. So
I think you've got to put him at four here. No
offense to this last guy, but I'm trying to think
of who it could possibly be. Do you guys have
guesses? I don't have a guess. Well, the guess
would be that you put your boy Marino, but I
don't know what his number is over in Utah. Well,
he hasn't played yet. He hasn't played yet? He
had hip surgery. Oh, that's right. He played
in September and hasn't started seeing ice time.
I'm trying to think of... Other players that
are... Yeah, I don't... I'm gonna wait. One of
the guys that helped save us out of the 0 -4
-0 -5 lockout, the Grady himself, Alexander...
Oh my god, oh boy. Yeah, yeah, I'm sitting here
like I gave you guys hints in the past couple
weeks. I gotta wait and see anyway, so... Oh,
ow. Yeah, that one's rough. It's I I want to
be almost as upset as Ryan Miller. I really Yeah,
you were just fucking Jersey, too But you know
Unfortunately, we said that one hurts. Yeah Bob
say if we were to actually rearrange it if this
wasn't a blind one I'd say only one I cool to
you just bump OV up to one and drop everybody
down. Yeah. Yeah How do we not think of the over
how do we not think of Mexican is gonna come
up? Yeah, you got payers in the single digits
You think the great eight is always gonna be
out there? I just wasn't even thinking of them.
I don't know how we how we couldn't You got anything
any more news any more stats any more Jeff you
got anything while he's looking over the The
pair I think just a pair of small trades that
went on earlier this week What do I mean Capo
Caco going to Seattle? Oh, I doubt was just one
of those completely random ones that I did not
see coming No in exchange for Will Borgen the
third round pick in 25 in the sixth round pick
in 25 All in exchange for Capo Caco If I wouldn't
only the Penguins Reuniting with PO Joseph in
exchange for just future consideration. So at
the time considerably nothing And then the Montreal
Canadiens acquiring Alex carrier for the Predators
in exchange for defenseman Justin Barron. Yeah,
the Capo one kind of took me by surprise. If
I would have known he was on the trade block,
I would have wanted Pittsburgh to go after Capo
Capo. Bring in some young talent. Yeah, somebody
who's actually under the age of 35 on the roster.
We're starting a little bit younger. We're getting
there. Well, we still got, I mean, Krosby, LaTang,
Malkin themselves are going to bump up that average
by three themselves. No pun intended, but baby
steps. No irony in that. Those big four, LaTang,
Carlson, Malkin, those four alone are going to
bring up the average age above 30 themselves.
And we can have the rest of the team being 25
years old. Those four alone are going to make
the average age 30. When you're almost 40 years
old, obviously you're going to... Carlson's 37,
Malkin's 38, Carlson's like 35, Tang's like 36,
37. Yeah, that's what I think that's not all
ahead Yeah Don't think I'm just gonna scroll
through here real quick. Just see if there's
anything else that It catches our eyes that we
can discuss Maybe bring us up to here to an even
hour But uh, you don't see much I have this one
that I saw that which holiday dinner table are
you sitting at? The only problem is I don't know
some of the other people at the tables. Oh, I
saw that and I'm just like, I would bring it
up if I knew the players, if I knew the people.
I'm going to go over them. Unfortunately, I just
don't know some of them. Table 1, you've got
Austin Matthews, Ryan Reeves, Justin Bieber,
and some other fellow that I'm not too familiar
with. The only person in the table I talk to
is Ryan Reeves. Table 2, we have Connor McDavid,
Leon Dreisaitl. Beyonce. That's not Beyonce.
That's not Beyonce. From a distance. I want to
say that's like Lainey Wilson or something. I
don't know. And then I don't know who the other
guy is. I don't know who that one is. Table three,
we have Willie Nylander, David Pasternak, Tate
McCray, and I'm not sure who that fourth guy
is. Is that a good one? That's not a good one.
No, it's not. Table four, we have Kendall Coyne,
Sidney Crosby, Marc -Andre Flurry, and I'm not
sure who the second woman is. Right now, that's
obviously the winner. Just sitting at a table
with Crosby and Flurry alone is ridiculous. Table
five, we got Alex Ovechkin, Wayne Gretzky, Michael
Buble. And again, don't know who that fourth
guy is. And then table six is honestly closed.
You got Jack and Quinn Hughes, Bobby Liu, and
I'm not sure who that fourth guy is. I know who
he is, but I can't think of his name. I mean,
table four alone just... You're gonna hear some
of the conversations and laughs that cross being
flurry would be sharing Probably flurry putting
something across these food for a prank against
his reaction And that alone would be worth this
sitting there, you know Just yeah getting to
engage in conversation with those two who were
teammates for 14 years years You know still are
great friends to this day. They still see Flurry
pulling pranks on him, you know, and to this
day, like, it's crazy. You love it. Yeah, I mean,
you gotta love the flowering, I know, and this
being, most likely being his last year, which
sucks, you know, definitely my favorite goaltender
of all time. Yeah. Probably next to Ryan Miller
that we, you know, we saw his number go up, so.
I would be willing to pay an unreasonable amount
of money to go watch flurries after we go up
into the rafters. Same. I would pay a ridiculous
amount of money. I'm upset that I missed the
yonder one. People also miss the bobbleheads,
but here we are. A lot of people do. I think
that does about do it. All I can really say is
hope everybody listening has a great holiday,
great New Year's. Just enjoy your time to finish
off 2024 as a whole. And cheers to the second
half of season five coming up here. And just
a quick thank you for all the support that we
were able to get. If you guys did not see it
yet, we got our blue check mark on Twitter, which
that's huge for us. That's fucking awesome. never
would have think that we would have gotten that
which is it's awesome to see that next to our
name on twitter that is awesome that's so cool
that that happened now but uh you know we just
gotta do facebook next and here i don't know
if you can get like a verification on spotify
or not That's an after holiday project. I'm sorry,
I barely got through Twitter. Okay, that's an
after holiday project. That's awesome that we
got that. Thank you to you guys for that. I know
we just recently surpassed 3500 total downloads
of all time, and that's just downloads. I wish
we could see the amount of listens or plays that
our episodes have had. But like I said, hope
you guys have great holidays, Merry Christmas,
Happy New Year's, and live your life to the fullest
here for the new year. Bring in 2025 with a bang,
and go out with a bang, bring in the new year
with a bang. I don't know if you all believe
in superstitions, but I know there's superstition.
Do not wash your clothes. I think it's on New
Year's Day. You're not supposed to do laundry
on New Year's Day or something like that. No
matter what I'm doing, my ear is going to be
fine. We've got a plan on doing some fun stuff
in here. Makeup for last year. Not doing much
last year for it. Plus we've got a lot of exciting
things coming up in the coming weeks. A lot of
threat in later in the year. There's a lot more
exciting things to come as well. Number one thing
that we're looking forward to is Connor McDavid
night in the ear. It'll be 10 days into the new
year, January 10th. Thankfully that's going to
be after our first recording of the new calendar
year. So we'll kind of get to... Maybe we'll
have to do a recording on the 11th the night
after, so it's fresh in our minds and we can
talk about it. 12th. Is it on a Friday night
we're doing it? It's a Friday night. Oh, Friday
night, but the 10th is a Saturday, okay. Yeah,
because the start of the new year is Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, which as far as I know, what
the fuck. Oh yeah, I saw that. And you know what
the last year to start off with that was? 2020.
I saw that and I was like, oh god damn it, no!
March 15th, if you have any life in this, please.
Please. Just stop. Don't. Don't even think. Alright,
now that we've bladdened to get to that hour
mark, you're welcome for the last two minutes.
Thank you guys again for everything, man. We'll
see you in 2025. Lick it up and go out with a
bang. Alright guys, we'll see you later. See
ya. Bye.