All right, everybody welcome back to this week's
episode episode 11 of season 5 of the Buckbuster
podcast before we talk about anything and everything
hockey My name is Kyle surrounded by the co -hosts
Short week here back -to -back weeks when I'm
done this one in since last year's linear I think
we did like two or three straight weeks before
the winter break or the Christmas break that
is. But yeah, we are back here again. Hold on,
we got an error. Kong got a new soundboard, so.
He's been playing with that a lot. That's how
Laker fans are reacting to the new that look
at Donchit Street. Like, me and Kong were talking
about those like, what, how would? How would
you describe that in NHL terms? Luka Doncic going
to LA for Anthony Davis. How would you describe
that in NHL terms? It'd be like, I don't know.
Ken Wacar going to, like, who's one of their,
like, rivals? Dallas, maybe? Ken Wacar going
to Dallas for Tyler Sagan or something. Like
the age -wise, I think that matches up decently
well. Yeah, because Sagan, I mean, although Anthony
Davis really wasn't the number one guy out there,
because it was LeBron, he was a good number two
guy to kind of fill in as needed. Whereas Anthony
Davis is the number two in LA. Lucas, the number
one guy in Dallas right now. He's debatably the
number one in basketball right now. He's like
top three in the league right now. I'd say top
five. With due respect to him, he's a good player.
Do not get me wrong. But he's not, I don't think
he's exactly top three yet. He's still young
though. I don't watch basketball to be able to
argue that enough. I mean, you got the one -two
punch in, you know, as much as I hate to say
this because I don't fucking like LeBron anymore
ever since he left Cleveland the second time,
LeBron and Steph, although they're old for the
NBA. I mean they're 30s, mid -30s. He's the best
of that age, like that younger upcoming age bracket.
Yeah, if you want to classify it into age brackets,
sure. He's great for his, you know, mid to late
20s age bracket. He's the number one guy, but
I think overall, collectively... I don't watch
basketball enough, but I know enough to know
that that trade is fucking horrible for Dallas.
I mean, I guess I mentioned the stars, so I didn't
even realize that. I did another horrible trade
for what Dallas would do. No, it'd be great for
Dallas. You're getting somebody like freaking
Kayle McCarr. Well, yeah, for Dallas. This one
would be good for Dallas, yeah. But somebody
like Kayle McCarr for Tyler Sagan or something,
I think that's a... a pretty comparable you know
a trade there and even like nfl terms imagine
trading like they'd be like trading josh allen
for fucking i don't know well i'd be like trading
josh allen for russell wilson or something like
i mean age -wise that's a little bit i think
josh allen's already pushing 30 by this point
i mean russell's like 27 2018 draft Allen was
in the 2018 draft, so he's not old. I think he's
going to be 30 this year by the time the next
season starts. We'll turn 30 during the next
season. No, he's currently 28. May 21st of 1996.
So he'll be 29 by the time the next season starts.
So, wow. Josh Allen's almost 30. I think Mahomes,
I think Mahomes was the same year. I think Mahomes
was also 2018. Soon to be three -peaked Super
Bowl champion, because, you know, the league
is rigged and that's how it's going to be. He'll
be 30 by the time the next season starts. Mahomes?
Yeah. Yeah, Mahomes. And 2017 for Mahomes. Because
17 was... You're telling me he's going to have
his fourth ring, but that's happened before.
He's even 30. Because I'll say keep in mind my
homes is the same draft as Miles Garrett's which
was 2017 I Know Lamar now Yeah, and then yeah
Allen's 18 because he was say I remember that
was draft for Baker one number one over She was
like no god damn it even my grandfather like
it's weird how like He knows who to pick. He
said, we should pick Josh Allen. Josh Allen should
be number one. He'll be the leader of the next
franchise. And guess what they did? They drafted
Baker. And as great as he's doing down in Tampa,
he is cocky as shit in Cleveland. Granted, Cleveland's
a shit town, but... I mean, wouldn't you be if,
you know, the team you just got drafted to went
0 -16 the previous season, all of a sudden you
come in and you're fighting for a playoff spot
your first year as a starter? I'd be a little
cocky too. But no, even coming into... So even
before the season even started. Cocky shit, arrogance,
didn't get along with that coach Kevin Stefanski.
Stefanski doesn't know what the fuck he's doing
out there, by the way, but that's Stefanski.
I'm surprised he hasn't gotten fired yet. I think
he's gonna be soon. He has one or two head coaches
that shouldn't have a job going into next year.
One or two, and you guys know what my one is.
I'm kind of on that boat. There's one kicker
in the AIC North now that shouldn't have a job
anymore, but we're not gonna touch on that. Unintended.
Anyways! Let's keep our hands to ourselves here,
okay? Hands on our own sport, right y 'all? Yeah,
I can't, uh, can't speak for... for, uh, for
that or, uh, for nine other massage therapists,
but, um... Anyways! Back to hockey, Erie Otters
hockey to be specific. I think one thing we need
to address is that as we talked about last week,
pretty much right when our episode uploaded,
we got the news that Stan Butler was officially
released by the Erie Otters. Which is unfortunate.
It was a long week, I forgot that happened this
week. It was literally Monday morning. You know,
like Jeff said, right around the time when the
last week's episode drops, so... I assume if
they were going to do it this week, they were
going to wait until the end of that road trip
last weekend. But yeah, that's crazy. I mean,
we kind of all stopped coming. Everybody's like,
yeah, we're not really surprised that this happened.
I mean, if you didn't see it coming, then you're
kind of oblivious to what's happening in here.
You mean you were dead and you didn't know? I
was too focused on getting my free chili in.
Chirrado! Yeah, I mean still haven't released
much and there's still people bitching like oh
we deserve to fucking know like It's none of
our fucking business to know what happened Like
I mean if it is what people are saying it is
should he have you know Should we have every
right to throw his ass onto the bus for those
actions? Yes, absolutely But if it wasn't something
like that, you know, just personal reasons then
you know, whatever Anyways Yeah, moving on, talking
more otter talk. This week we won one and two,
three games this week. Beating Owen Sound was
at Wednesday night in overtime. Beautiful goal
by Meziak there, though. Absolutely gorgeous.
Danced around formal otter. Dangled city there.
Yeah, around formal otter. Brews! And then proceeded
to the blues in regulation, and Monday and on
Friday night, 4 -2, and again on Saturday night
in regulation. 4 to 1. To Sarnia, right? To Sarnia,
yeah. Let's say our 5 and 9 since the New Year
turned. We said 23 and 23 overall. So I mean
500, that's how we've been the last two years,
is a 500 team. Definitely better than two years
ago or even four or five years ago. And as of
right now, they sit solely in the fifth place
position with Sarnia's win earlier. Or not sorry,
Saginaw's won earlier. So Saginaw officially
is the number four spot in the west. 52 points
at the moment. I know we were paying attention
to the London -Windsor game because if London
wins that game, they already clinch a playoff
spot. First team to clinch a playoff spot. And
it looks like Windsor just did take the 4 -3
lead. 5 minutes to go in the third. So we'll
try to keep an eye on that throughout the night.
Yeah. Yeah, other than that, um, there are not
much home games this week for the Otters, so
we can't really speak of how they're looking.
I mean, I watched a little bit of that win against
Owen Sound. I watched both the Owen Sound game
and the London game. I know they took some really
stupid ones in Owen Sound, and right after Alfie
scored his goal, Like he obviously gave a little
tap to Bruce McDonough when they were skating.
I think it was nothing but a little bit of a
love tap. They're such a swore family. It was
just stupid that they called him. Bruce did nothing
about it either. Bruce didn't care. He just took
it and skated it off. As former teammates, you're
still going to have jokes amongst yourselves.
You're still going to poke at each other in good
meaning. Like, hey dumbass or whatever. Both
date on the way five. Be able to fucking know
and do the research but hey, those are former
teammates and not oh he just sloshed the player
for no reason No, they're former fucking you
know, it's like that was like stupid. That was
kind of stupid not on now, but just Just in general,
but yeah, but Edwards took a really like not
even Shortly after took a like on sportsman like
conduct like reading the internet like After
the plays. I mean, I kind of like it though.
I mean I like that he's been kind of getting
a little more physical. He's sticking up for
himself. He's not... I noticed when he first
came back into Eerie last year, he's taking heads
and just kind of letting it happen and not standing
up for himself. People were jumping in. We were
probably getting unsportsman -nice for that.
T -Lane's jumping and standing up for him. But
yeah, he's been standing up for himself a lot
more. He's not taking no shit. We saw his Corey
Howe hat -trick at the end of last season. Just
how raucous that readout was. Well that readout
went fucking nowhere. Like that's Edwards! That's
a fucking Gordie Howe! Yeah, like it took us,
I think all of us that were sitting in our section,
it took us a second. We were like, oh there's
a fucking, like, holy shit that's Dylan! Like,
don't fuck it away! And then Anthony was the
one that pointed out, he's like, you know that's
a Gordie Howe, right? You know that's a Gordie
Howe. Hell yeah, that was fucking awesome. Coolest
thing that I've witnessed in an owner's game
in a while. When the smalls guy on the team is
going out and chucking munch. This is fucking
no taller than me or Jeff. Like, it's kids 5,
6, 5, 7. Like, probably 140 pounds soaking wet.
Like, he's a small, big kid. I was like, he was
making a name for himself after being called
back up. Like, hey, I got my opportunity to be
here. I'm gonna fucking keep it. If I'm going
down, I'm going down swinging. Literally swinging.
Well, no pun intended. Yeah, he's going down
swing, so. Yeah, what do we got for Mouth Sounds
this week, Jeff? Not too many this week, but
we'll start back on the 26th of January. Charlie
Paquette of the Gulf Storm gets his first career
at OHL Hatchery versus the Austro -Generals.
On the 29th, Jack of... Karonik of the Catcher
Rangers played in his 150th OHL game versus Sue
Grahams. On the 30th, San Jose Sharks prospect
Igor Shamsarov of the Saginaw Spirit gets his
first career OHL goal. And in that same game,
Tyler Hopkins of the Kingston Frontenac gets
his first career OHL hat -trick versus Saginaw.
On the 31st, Quinn Bacall of the Eriotters gets
his first crew, which are Gold versus the London
Knights. That was actually a nice shot. I did
not see it. I did not either. It was really nice.
On the first, Ethan Weir of the Saginaw Spirit
gets his first crew, which are Gold versus the
Kitchener Rangers. Sean Doherty of the Niagara
Ice Dogs gets his first career OHL hat trick
versus the Barry Colts. And as of today, the
second, Chris Barless of the Auto 67 played in
his 200th career OHL game versus the Guelph Storm.
And Quentin Burns of the Kings and Frontenacs
played in his 200th career OHL game versus Sarnia
Sting. What was the thing you pointed out? A
little bit of Google. I can't believe he played
his 250th. Game consecutive game. Yeah, and he
like right now. It's been like the Iron Man of
it which oh, yeah, like in his four years He's
not missing. Yeah, I said to the group chat,
but yeah Kingston front next forward Cedric gundam
We'll play in his 250th consecutive OHL contest
or has painted against fence tonight The 20 year
old has not missed a single game in his four
seasons and has produced a point per game pace
Over the span of his OHL career between Kingston
and Owen sound which is fucking insane By the
way, like I said, four to three of Windsor right
now. London blue with three nothing lead. Gotta
love that. Three, yeah, fuck you, London. That's
why. Gotta love it. Yeah, jump ring to some NHL.
We don't rebuild, we reload. Yeah, you reload
to fucking class to Windsor, so. Jump into some
NHL. Let's do some puck doko first. I feel like
I should know it, but Welcome back to Pittsburgh,
Nathan. I haven't updated it yet, but Alright,
we'll get to that Number is lower than that.
We know his jersey number is similar to teens
18 or 19. You know the late teens. Yeah I think
Jersey can be within five like within four or
five So it can be as low as maybe 16 So he's
in the East He's not Canadian. Hey And he's below
the age of 27 He's 26 to 11 and he's not a left
winger. Should we get somebody random on, maybe
somebody random on the penguins then? Like...
Because if I have enough data to get, just do
DOC, I guess. Yeah, I was actually just about
to... He's metro American, he's either 24 or
25, and he, his number, yes. Yeah, he always
let me know the number, so okay. He's how young
is Drew O 'Connor like oh, I'm gonna look this
up 26 No, he's younger than 26 obviously the
players younger than 26. Oh Do you do you see
26? Yeah, June 9th? He'll be 27 this year. Fuck.
Yeah, he's almost a four -year man. Damn Somebody
in the metro that is 24 25 years old That's American
That's numbers are either 18 or 19 and it's not
a left winger Well, that's don't show That's
not like the hair but now he don't strolls to
old Are you sure? Don't strong was older than
me. Is he he aged out in 2017? Don't know a year.
Yeah, this is oh a year. So he's a lot he's older
than 26. Okay He's also Canadian. He's not American.
Is he? I don't know. I I the way that that eliminates
I think his number is 13, but I mean it's worth
the guess to try to get the team. No it is 13.
Yeah. So he's either 20, 40, I've already said
this already. Team That's why I did laugh in
here just try to get the age in that Now he's
a center man, he's a center man. He said we know
24 25 years old his number is 18 or 19. Oh What
about like um, oh no, cuz he's with the Rangers
I was gonna say Riley Smith, but he's with the
Rangers and he's the older than yeah He's a center
Thanks for your American. So we got what Islanders
Devils? CBJ and Carolina in Philly What about
like um Yeah, just got traded over to Philly
Morgan from he has to trade out of Philly So
it could still be him if the team hasn't updated
yet, what's the one that trade happened? What's
that? It's Adrian. That was yes I was laying
down to go to bed and I got the notification
that Pedersen was trading. I was like, what the
fuck? But we'll get to that. We'll talk about
that in a bit. Here, shortly. Um, how's the cherry
promise? Sure. Not here. Did you get a guess
out there yet? Not yet. It's not Columbus. Monaham's
dirty. Wow. How'd they use that old? So, trying
to guess somebody out of Philly. Joel, what's
Joel Farabee's number? Let's see, like, 18. Go
Joel Farabee. I don't know what his number is,
but... Hell, he is American. He's a little younger,
though. Okay. So it's a sentiment on either Carolina,
the Islanders, or the Devils. And that is 25
years old. 25 years old. His number is 18 or
19. It's American. All right, well try to think
of care about no Cuz all who is an American no,
he's Swedish or finish finish. Well, he's 25.
I had number 25, right? Yeah, who's 20 20 Jersey
numbers 20 and he's finished Well, I'm just I'm
just trying to think is like if we can learn
to need the Jersey number Then we know it'll
be the other team between the Islanders and Carolina
and the Devils Oh, what about, no. Jack is American.
And he wears a number C6. The age bracket's close.
No, I think Jack's only like 24. I just know
that Jack's young as well, so that's - I'm actually
Luke's youngest. Well, young in NHL experience.
I was gonna say youngest. No, no, no, no. He's
young in the NHL. I knew it wouldn't be Jack,
because he also wears his number 86 and that,
so... Oh, God. I'm just trying to think of players
on these teams. I know, never mind. Barzell's
13. Yeah. That's the reason why I hate him. I
have to just say Barzell just didn't get the
team. And we have what? This is our second to
last guess, and we'd have to throw one out if
it's not the Islanders. Parasol's 27 now. He's
Canadian. Parasol's American. Okay, well, we
know it's not the other, so it's either the Devils
or Carolina. I'm just trying to think. I don't
know. Oh, um, no, nevermind. He's not American.
I'm gonna go with that, like, Andre Pallotti,
because I believe his number's 18, but he's not
American. Nope, you're right. Oh, that's Chinese
and New Jersey, isn't it? Yep. I'm pretty sure
his number is 18. It is. So it almost makes me
want to guarantee that it is Carolina now. But
who the hell wears 18 or 19 on Carolina? Oh,
it's not Svec and he's not American. He's like
36 or something, can you remember? Could be like
one of the new guys that they got in. Obviously
can't be Jordan Stalks. He's 49 now. You're right.
Nico Heesher. He's 13, I believe, his number.
He's not American. No, I thought Dawes was American.
Who? Nick Dawes. Alright, there's somebody out
there in Jersey. Dawes and Mercer? Yeah, yeah,
Dawes and Mercer. I believe his number is like
26. Also, I thought Nick Dowd out of, I think
he's Washington, but also he can't be Washington.
Oh my god, I have no clue. Neither do I. I'm
trying to picture him with probably like a bottom
six defenseman, like, or bottom six forward.
I can almost, I can see his friggin' face, man.
Oh! No, nevermind, he's a defenseman. His number
nor age would match up, I don't think. I have
no clue. Tim Stufel is, what, German? Well, he's
not awesome. Not at all, yeah. I got nothing.
Matthew Kachow, number, age, everything adds
up, but he's in Florida. Yeah, Atlantic. I got
nothing. Yeah, I got nothing either. Your best
guess I have is like a Dustin Mercer, but I'm
all... It's worth a guess, but I'm almost positive
his number's like 26. Oh, shit! Jack Drury. Out
of Carolina. Okay. Okay. Oh, Dustin Mercer's
91. That was way off. Holy fuck. Damn. All right.
All right, well, Puckdoku, let's redeem ourselves
here. Alright going across is the columns Washington
Vancouver and a five -test wins postseason career
Okay, and for the Rose we have Philadelphia st.
Louis and Colorado We're gonna go tender for
Philly who would have been there who'd been there
go tender in their cup run to beat for that team?
I believe so. You don't believe so? One of their
wins had to have been at least with one of that
team. Well, who? I'm not trying to tell, but
no. Fuck, who? Steve Mason. Yeah, maybe Steve
Mason. Or who in that 13 run? Or that 2010 run?
That's what I'm trying to think. Or the 2013
series with Pittsburgh. That's what I'm trying
to think. Yeah. because i think they want i don't
know well here let me let me knock this one out
of the way because he can't go anywhere else
so oh uh capitals blues oshi oh that's right
i think you're rocking the jersey right now so
oh shit that's right capitals capitals um burkowski
yeah i was blanking i was down new andre i couldn't
think of his last name All right Biddington back
on their cup run five postseason wins. Oh, that's
right the baby back bitch Guru who was grew bar.
It's a goal in their cup, right? Yeah Screw me
then. Oh, it's two P's. Oh, my bad. I mean, Steve
Mason's the only, like, the best guess I'd have.
But let's save that for last so we don't... Yeah,
we don't screw up. Colorado, Vancouver. Heinen
never played for Vancouver, I don't think. Heinen?
Ganton Heinen. We caught him in a trade for Vancouver.
I meant Colorado. I was going to say Kyle. How
high are you right now, man? Yes. No, it's high
R. St. Louis, Vancouver, you can get Ryan Miller.
Mm -hmm. Wait, Ryan Miller picked for St. Louis?
Briefly. Very brief. Really? He was a trick.
He went from Buffalo to St. Louis at the trade
deadline that of 2014. Jeff. I had no clue. Jeff,
he's right. Good shit. All right. Oh, um... I
know Vancouver just got somebody who was a keeper
Shearwood. I know he got, I think he got traded
there. But from where? Was that from Colorado?
I'm not confident enough. Jack Johnson never
played for Vancouver. Obviously not like the
guys I have right now. Like, you know, McKinnon,
McCarr, Landis, Cog. Brayton in Not ranked anymore.
What's that? Not ranked anymore. Oh yeah, I know.
Cause you know, he's not supposed to say shit
about Adelphi, but he's in Carabina. That's another
one we'll fucking get to. That happened last
week. That happened... Was that this week? I
thought it was. That was last week. We just forgot
to cover it last week. We covered it? I thought
we covered it briefly. If not, we'll talk about
it later. Philly and Vancouver. I'm trying to
think of both current and former. Let's try January
24th. Which, okay, what's that? Trevor Van Rinsdijk.
I don't know if he ever played for Philly. I
know he played for Washington. I'm pretty sure
he played for Vancouver. I don't think you played
for Philly. I don't, James played for Stikless
and Philly. I don't know about Trevor. Philly,
Boston, Toronto. I think that's it. Almost got
traded to Detroit at the deadline that year.
Remember, I was the one who hung up the phone.
Savage. I'll call or I don't pay a coon. This
one is like, it's right there in your face. I
feel like it's an obvious one, but I can't, you
know. Think of it. I mean this one could go as
far back as like Where was Colorado before they
were in Colorado? Quebec? How about Vancouver?
I know Vancouver goes far back to like the 70s
80s so could be someone from Quebec, Vancouver.
Yeah, because Vancouver came in the same time
and league as Buffalo did which was 74. I thought
Buffalo came in the 67 with the Penguins. Nope.
Buffalo didn't. Did they not sell 74? Oh no,
70, sorry. I was going to say their 50th anniversary
was the 1920 season. I got to see the one we
went to in Pittsburgh there celebrating their
50th. Yeah, so it was... In the game against
Pittsburgh we went to in Buffalo. First time,
or first visit to Buffalo. There was like 80
-20 Penguins fans, 80 % Penguins fans in their
arena. That was great. Let's go a bit as we've
gone. It's been majority Sabres fans. Well, I'll
finish it after this. Oh my god. Philly, Vancouver.
That's another one that should be like right
there in your face. I didn't go to Vancouver.
Fuck you. Philly and the winds. I mean, that
could be like Camp Talbot, but like... Uh, Sergey
Rapparovsky. I know he's been there for a couple
of the winds. Yeah, but I don't know if it has
to be with that. Click on the how to play down
below and see if it says like stat and team.
Stat and a team, the player's achievement must
have been recorded while they're a member of
that team during their respective season. Okay.
So I mean yeah, Steve Mason would be like, would
fit. Might be the only one that would fit. All
right. So I know he was there for a while. No,
damn. Who the fuck was th - who was there there,
cup run? It wasn't Bobrowski. I think it was
Neuwirth? Yeah. I don't think it was Neuwirth
either. Oh, fuck. It might have been like their
camped halibut days, but... I'll hold. 2013 is
when I came into the league, so. Couldn't have
been. Fuck. Who did they have that year? I'm
blanking on the last three. I am Phil. I feel
like Philly, Vancouver, I can't keep. I feel
like Philly, Vancouver, I should get it. Tyler
Myers went straight over to Vancouver for Buffalo
Real. He also played in Winnipeg, I believe,
didn't he? Oh yeah. I'm gonna stop with Winnipeg.
I don't think he's ever in Philly. I'm trying
to think of all the places... Max Talbot played
for Philly, Pittsburgh. Oh yeah, did he have
a small stint in Vancouver? I'm thinking also
Matt Cook. He did Washington, Colorado, no not
Colorado, Vancouver, Pittsburgh. Did he paint
Colorado? Matt Cook? Matt Cook. He's named Vancouver,
Washington, Pittsburgh. I don't think so. Craig
Adams did Carabao. What about, um, where all
did Koliakovow play? Who? Carlo Koliakovow? Hey,
I don't know. I know it. Rhino Riley never played
for Vancouver. And he never played for Philly.
He's only been Colorado, Buffalo, Nashville,
St. Louis. I think I'm like, um... What's more
goaltenders that... that Philly, or Jesus, Colorado
has gone through? A group hour they had. Um,
Kemper. Kemper. Kemper did Washington. Also did
Washington. Brandon Holtby, Philly, Vancouver.
No, no, Washington. He did for Washington. Never
mind. Are you okay? I saw Washington and I just
saw it thought it was Brandon Holtby. Yeah, Holtby's
only been Vancouver, Washington, Dallas. Yeah,
I was confusing Philly with Washington. I get
that Washington and Philly are our rivals, but
like... I hate them both equally. I got nothing
on these last ones. Oh, come on. Oh, what? Oh,
man! Sergey Bobrovsky. He must have been there,
that cup run, then. Honestly, I never realized
he played for Philly. I know he played for Philly.
He was drafted by Philly or started there at
least. His first season was the 2010 -2011 season.
So the year after their cup run. Did they have
a cup run 2011 season? 2011 playoffs it would
have been. at least one more than a round. I
thought they made it to the second, first, only
the first round, second round that year. If I
remember. So he, Bob Ross, he won at least five
playoff games with Philly. Uh, 2011, that playoff
run, they lost in the conference semi -finals.
It doesn't say who to. Okay. Wow. good pull all
right yeah i and then the following year as well
they lost in the semi -finals so both years that
the bob was there a random name that popped into
my head i don't know if he played for philly
is trevor lyndon i know he i thought he bounced
around a little bit no okay all right let's see
luke shen dilzato sam dungy Thomas Sostito. Mark
Friedman. Yeah, we didn't really miss a lot of
obvious names. Wendell Young. Matt Sundeen. From
Colorado, Vancouver. Ian Cole. Brad May. Keeper
Sherwood, I said that! I fucking said Keeper
Sherwood and I wasn't sure where he came from.
Fuck. Jason, uh, Jason, I hate that. Brad Richards.
Honestly, I'm not too... I'm not too mad about
that, honestly. We could have also done Ron Hexdahl,
Briskolov, Michael Leighton, Bernie Perag, Michael
Leighton and Brea - Carhartt. Carahart, Brea
- Emory, Brian Elliott, Marty Beron, Kam Talbot
could have fit in there, Michael Neuverth! Martin
Jones Every fucking name we said could have fit
in there Peter Morazic I mean I was wrong like
he only played 27 games with Vancouver or with
Colorado for two years He played he's played
more this year with Vancouver than he did with
Colorado for two years, so I fucking said here
for sure one didn't I oh my god Peter Moravzic
splits time between Detroit and Philadelphia
in the 17 -18 season. So that's how he fits.
In that season, he did 22 games to Detroit and
17 games to Philadelphia before moving on to
Carolina, Toronto for a season, and then he's
been to Chicago since the 22 -23 season. So yeah,
he's been on five teams. All right. Well, let's
do the double redeem ourselves. Let's try the
pyramid. Got to do something decent here tonight.
Yeah, go find a mock -up. 50 goals scored in
a career. Anybody that has scored 50 goals in
their career. Jake Gensel. Because he won't fit
anywhere else on that board. 50 goals that has
played for... The Rangers. Right off the bat,
I think JT Miller is going to be the top. Yeah.
Right off the bat, I can tell you that. If we
can get to the top. Yeah, if we can get there.
But we could do Yeah, I was gonna say Mika. Or
do you want to save him for the 500 games played?
The 50 points in the season. We can also do Chris
Kreider. We can also do Panera. Well, let's do
yeah, let's do Kreider for this. We'll do Mika
for the 500 plus and we can do the Panarin for
any team. So we said, what, Kreider? Yeah. It's
EIA. 500 games, Mika. Printing air bread. AR,
P -A -N -A -R. Wait, I'm sorry, what? P -A -N
-A -R. Alright, then this one. Someone that played
for Vancouver in New York. It's not JT Miller.
That's the key. That's not JT Miller. I want
to see if we can get this without you in the
lifeline, too. Um... Here, let me exit out with
this. Vancouver. Rangers. 500 games. 50 points
season. 50 gold season. Alright, it's a career
for the gold career. The Rangers and the Canucks.
Oh! Mark Messier. Yeah? Yeah. Mark Messier, good
pull. And JT Miller at the top, right? Boom.
Yep, there you go. Just like that, let's go.
Alright, we're deemed ourselves. Shocker with
Wayne Gretzky at the number four. Say I he's
only more popular than I'm Panera bread and yogurt
can't miss you. I'm each Savannah check writer
any 50 goals score Somebody fucking Jonathan
Chi Chi was a top five What the fuck Are you
fucking kidding me out of anybody anybody can
make Jonathan Chi Chi was a fucking top five
What? fucking Jonathan cheat you what the fuck
that's hilarious that's the funniest fucking
thing I've heard so far oh yeah that'll jump
us into just a couple of NHL milestones that
happened this week we can jump into me and Colin's
little too many games and then our main topic
for the week Alright, on January 26th, Ethan
Del Maestro of the Chicago Blackhawks recorded
his first career NHL point. On the 27th, Quinn
Hughes became the first Canucks defenseman ever
to record 100 multi -point games. Joining to
the 29th, Linus Carlsen of the Vancouver Canucks
scored his first career NHL goal versus the Nashville
Predators. Dmitry Kulikov played in his 1000th
career game and Adam Larson played in his 900th
career game. On the 30th, Marc -André Fleury
becomes the first goaltender in NHL history to
record a shut -up both as a teenager and as a
40 or older player. Parker Ford of the Winnipeg
Jets scored his first career NHL goal versus
the Bruins. Also in that game Charlie McElvoy
played in his 500th game. Zach Bogosian played
in his 900th and Victor Hedman played in his
1100th. And Marc Gatcombe of the Islanders scored
his first career NHL goal against the Flyers.
On February 1st, Paul Maurice became the fourth
coach in NHL history to reach 900 wins. Brady
Kochuk recorded his 100th multi -point game.
Jake Sanderson recorded his 100th career point.
And Brett Burns recorded his 900th career point.
I know that one's been on the watch for quite
some time now. Tage Thompson recorded his 300th
point. Jonathan quick becomes the 15th goaltender
in history to record 400 wins the first American
born goaltender to do so and Then the defenseman
allies peterson of the Vancouver Canucks recorded
his first NHL point versus the Red Wings A couple
of trades to go over the big one. We just mentioned
that we missed talking about last week somehow
Carolina for Caroline Ford's Carolina Hurkings
acquiring forwards Miko Reintanen from the Colorado
Avalanche and Ford Taylor Hall from the Chicago
Blackhawks. Carolina sends Jack Drury and Martin
H .S. to Colorado with a second round pick in
the 2025 draft and a fourth round pick in 2026.
Carolina also acquires Chicago Ford Prospect
Nils Juntorp and Chicago acquires a third round
pick in 2025 from Carolina. And also 50 % of
reincidence. That was like a what though? What
the fuck just happened? Well, number one, what
is Chicago thinking right now? Like, what are
they thinking? You retain half a salary of a
player you're not even going to talk about, and
a prospect. Wait, who are they retaining? Chicago's
retaining 50 % of Rantons. Yeah. What? Yeah.
He didn't fucking play for them. What? Yeah.
Chicago's getting 50 % of its contracts while...
The other 50 % and the player is going to Carolina.
What? That's fucking wild. I didn't know that.
That's crazy. In one trade, they got Drury. No,
they got Renton in the hall and a Prospect. And
that's nuts, dude. That's the fleece of the century
right there. At least that's worse than what
we just talked about, the Don Chichuan. I think
it was quite con, because con I were... I think
this was like one of the intermissions, first
or second. I think it was the second intermission.
Connor and I were like, what? Like, why would,
as Chicago, why would you accept that trade -off?
You get a draft pick, and you get a salary that
you don't have a player who's not even playing
for you. That's nuts. Like, I didn't know that.
That's crazy. I didn't see more wild. I saw the,
uh, one of the Chicago... Blackhawks fan pages,
they're outraged because of this. They're like,
why? I'd be, yeah. I'd be. That was dumb of them.
A couple more, one that everybody kind of saw
coming and then a couple other ones that were
just like, what the hell? Philadelphia Flyers
acquire Ford's Andrei Kuzmanko in Jacob Pelletier,
a second run pick in the 2025 draft, and a seventh
round in the 2028 from the category Flames in
exchange for Ford's Morgan Frost and Joel Farabee.
That's when I was like, damn. Philly just traded
two of their younger guys that have been there
for a while now. Which I'm only guessing that
both of those guys are due to be free agents
or unrestricted free agents just based on their
time, based on their age. I think they're both
like 24, 25 years old. I didn't realize on Michael
Misa's brother Luke was a prospect for Philly.
I actually didn't know that. His brother was
drafted by Philly. Also on January 31st, the
Rangers reacquired JT Miller and defenseman Eric
Branstom and Jackson Dorrington from Vancouver
for forwards Philip Chittle, defenseman Victor
Mancini, and a first round pick in the 2025 NHL
Draft. That's another robbery from the Rangers.
I think the Rangers robbed them. I think they
could have gone at least a first and a second.
Well, I mean with chiddle going out, I mean I
get it chiddles a middle six forward No, we knew
I mean we knew One of either pete peterson or
Miller's gonna be trading that knew they weren't
gonna treat peterson So so I'm not surprised
about that trade. I wish penguins would have
tried to get GT Miller I've always liked GT Miller,
but instead the penguins got for Denton Hyden,
defenseman Vincent D 'Arne, and for prospect
Melvin Thurnstrom. And a first round pick of
20 -25 for Marcus Pedersen and Drew Connor. That
one kind of stung a little bit. I'm okay with
Pedersen going. I know he's been on the training
block for a while. It's a DLC that we make. That
kind of hurts. I mean, I'm okay with just, DLC
in my opinion has not reached the potential that
he has and does. and has continued to show. I
just don't think he's going to be able to reach
that potential in Pittsburgh, at least not with
the middle of this rebuild that we're in. And
we've been dreading using that word for this
team for the past couple years now. I really
like that first round pick. Oh, I love that first
round pick. When I see the stat the other day,
I saw the thing I told you over the headset there,
the game chat the other day. We have like 25
picks over the first three rounds in the next
three years or something like that. That's wild.
No, I think it's 25 picks overall within the
next three drafts, which is nuts. Which as long
as we're, you know, we don't pull Jimmy Rutherford
and trade all, you know, first round picks away
for the next 10 years, then considering, I think
we've only had one first round draft pick since
he came in in 2013, 2014. Honestly, we had a
first round just when they bought on and got
Jager in it. Yeah, but that was the last one.
That was the last one. Last year we had, we picked
up... Who do we draft first round on this year?
I can't have a first round this past year. I
thought we did They didn't have a first round
this past year. We definitely that's how we definitely
did But I did the trade that went down yesterday
the Dallas door stealth stars acquiring Ford's
Mikael Grandland in defenseman Cody CC two former
Penguins from the San Jose Sharks in exchange
for a first round pick in 2025 in the third round
in 2025 I was actually surprised they got They
got a first round out of them. You get a first
round out of Mikel Grandin and Cody Cece? Yeah,
you got fucking robbed. Yeah. I mean, Grandin
has had a great year with San Jose and he's finally
living up to the potential that he had that I
was excited to see in Pittsburgh and just never
panned out. He was not good as a penguin. Our
first round draft pick in the 2024 draft was
used by Buffalo. Who did they take? Consta Hillinus.
Okay, I thought we swear we had a first pick.
I knew we traded our first round. Who was our
first pick then? Who was in the second round?
Please hold while I answer your call. Yeah, second
round, pick number 12 in the second round. So
44th overall for Harrison Brunneke. Brunneke,
I knew it was like Brunneke, but I didn't know
it was second round. And then we got one two
picks later, Tanner Howe. Tanner Howe, okay.
A defenseman then a left winger. All right, and
now that was it for round two. Gotcha. I mean,
yeah, like I said, I'm excited for the future
of these Penguins games. Obviously right now,
we're just not good. Like I said, we're not used
to this as Penguins fans, to being as bad as
we are. About to be our third straight season
and missing the playoffs after making it for,
what, 18 straight. There are a lot of guys that
kind of hope... There's a handful of guys that
are in... this year's draft they're in the third
and gonna be projecting the first time kind of
a couple form a couple honors matt's matthew
schaeffer but she's not gonna drop that far away
even if we drop all the way down like a sixth
pick he's not gonna drop that far away low like
high t on top if we can get if we can get i think
we can get pick around nine ten eleven i think
it'd be a good time to snipe snipe malcolm But
even if we drop as low as getting the fourth
pick, or even if we get a lottery pick and get
the third, I still don't think Schaeffer's gonna
drop that far. No. I can very honestly say Schaeffer
possibly going first overall. Yeah, at the very
least he'll go number two, number two is number
three. Yeah, unless he has a horrific drop off
like Shane Wright did that one year. He was all
the hype to be the first and he ended up going
fifth or sixth or something like that. Which
I think that's the year what? Yaraj Tsiolkovsky
won first. But yeah, like if they can't snag
like Spencer or anything, like there are other
guys that I kind of... Even like Michael Misa
possibly. I say he'll be top five and then...
Probably him. He was fourth. January was fourth?
Okay. Seattle was. And 2024, yeah. Which was
the same year as you were writing Tsiolkovsky.
Because the top five is... King going either
way. It's Schaefer, Haggins, Marton, and Misa.
I mean, I think Marton is still pretty overrated
personally, but I mean, we'll see. Nicole, you
got your blind ratings this week? Yeah. I mean,
I forgot to do this beforehand, but that's an
easy thing. What do we got this week? That's
the topic. So, it is first overall draft picks
in our lifetime. Going all the way back to the
1997 draft. Coming in, no pun intended, first
overall, in 1997, to Boston, Jumbo Joe Thornton.
Okay. You gotta think, even the past 10 years,
some of the talent that's come out with... Austin
Matthews, Jack Hughes, Niko Heasher, Connor McDavid,
even like Brian Nugent -Hopkins, Taylor Hall,
Connor Medard, Sidney Crosby, all that talent,
all of it, Ledgekin, Flurry, so I mean Jumbo
Joe is great, I mean his career, I mean went
on to have the career, you know, I think like
1200, 1300 career points, whatever, I think he's
Going down is one of the greatest players to
ever not win a cup. But just with how much talent
there has been on the first overall slot, I think
you have to go four, maybe even five. I'd say
I'd push five. Will you put them all the way
at the bottom right away? Yeah. Five, okay. Okay.
I'm just making sure I get to the ball side of
the same right, sorry. All right. Number two
on the list, in 2019, To the Devils, Mr. Jack
Hughes. Regards, I think it's safe to put him
right in the middle at three. I put him at three
He likes to fuck with us though and he's he's
pretty he's gotten pretty good at this I know
we've kind of read through him the first like
one or two of these that he did but He's been
he's been fucking with us. All right number three
In 2024 to the San Jose Sharks Macklin celebrating
it. All right, I mean four. Yeah We've just only
seen this. Haven't seen enough out of them. That's
what I said. I feel like we should have put Thornton
at four, but that's okay. Alright. In 2003, the
Pittsburgh Penguins draft Mark Andre Fleury.
Number one. I mean, regardless, I'm okay. Even
if you give me Obi or Crosby, I'm okay with either
of those guys being at number two. No matter
who you give us, I'm okay with them being at
number two. You are gonna regret that. Even if
it's Crosby, I'm okay with it being number two.
You're gonna regret that. I hope you fucking
know. You're gonna fucking regret that. And going
into number two slot, in 2000, the year 2000,
the New York Islanders draft goaltender Rick
DiPretro. Oh, fuck. Yes! Damn, okay. I mean,
he had a great run there early in his career.
Just, you know. Biggest waste of contract in
NHL history the 15 -year deal and what was it
saying? Well, 2013 20 20 it goes to what? No
fucking pain. I did and he's unbelievable He's
still a broadcaster for them. So he's paying
them and they're still paying him in more ways
than one. So Fuck. I mean, okay, that's I mean
drop it switch D. Pietro and Hughes around And
maybe bump Thor and up. Yeah up to four and that's
not bad. But I mean, I Don't hate that I just
thought the fact I turned it on, I could guess,
like, you're not gonna fucking regret this. Well
I'm glad we didn't put Floria 2 in the DPS trial
once. Holy shit. I'm okay with that. As soon
as I heard 2003, I'm like, number one. Number
one. Yeah. Do you only have one this week? Yeah,
I only have one this week. I also have one of
the same thing I did last week. So, do you guys
remember the rules of what it was last week?
Or not the rules, but what I did last week? No,
I got I listed the ten players in the other guess.
Oh, yeah, that's right. I did the same thing
But uh, obviously new list of players All right,
guess the category first name Thomas Tatar Players
who've played for five plus teams. No, I'm gonna
do that again Former player that played for the
Red Wins. No, okay second Jack Johnson Dead weight.
Players didn't play for five teams. Players didn't
play for eight teams. Oh, God. Stay in the Cup
Champions. Former Stay in the Cup Champions.
Not a bad guess. Mitch Marner. See, I can't say
players who would pick third overall, because
Tatar was not picked third overall. So I can't
go with that. In modern wasn't even third over
on his he was six So it's hot so I think six
or seven so first yeah, and you might you can't
even see he wasn't drafted They were drafted
in the first round because Tatar was never drafted
in the first round. Yep. So that's gonna be wrong
Next thing Matt Martin Jack teams are played
in the metro I mean players that played in the
Metro. Mitch Moran never played in the Metro.
That's the player. That's right. I don't know
why he said that. And we can't say, you know,
players that have played in Toronto because Tatar
never played for Toronto. And Johnson never played
in Toronto. Okay, well, all I wasn't sure of
was that was one of the ten teams that Jack Johnson
played for. You're right. You did say this one
was a little bit tougher this week. Guesses?
No guesses? No. Steven Stamkos. Here's where
Jersey numbers are. Oh, no. Never mind. I was
going to say it because Mitch Warner's number
16. And that doesn't fit. Ontario born players.
Okay. That's nothing. Ricard Raquel. Oh fuck.
I see something and then the next player makes
me look like a fucking moron. That's so frustrating.
A player that's actually won eight rounds. No.
Next name, Brian Boyle. It's so simple that you're
going to fucking hate me, but at the same time,
like, you might, you should get some credit for
thinking of these. Nothing? Nope. Mark Messier.
And finally, Mike Modano. Fuck, you're... Why
are we throwing that through the loop, man? I'll
go through the ten again. Thomas Tatar, Mitch
Marner, Jack Johnson, Matt Martin, Tyler Toffoli,
Steven Stamkos, Ricard Raquel, Brian Boyle, Marc
Messier, Mike Modano. The answer is quite literally
in front of your face. Oh, players where like
the first and last initials are... Alliteration
names, yep. Fuck! I thought while I was trying
to fuck with you guys like those first couple
names and... Damn. I feel so fucking stupid for...
I feel so fucking stupid for saying that. That
was actually a pretty good one. Yeah, I was trying
to fuck with you like putting the names in a
certain order and... Alright, main topic, I know
we really haven't done one these past couple
weeks or months or... It's been a while. It's
been a while since we came in with like, this
is what we're talking about tonight. Yeah, so
it's been a hot minute. And this is what it's
been on our back burner for a couple weeks now.
And what better time to do it than now, the week
before the Super Bowl. It is the NHL to NFL fantasy
draft. We originally were going to do the three
of us. You know, we each pick a player to our
teams for a position, any specific position,
which we'll go over here in a minute. But then
we decided, it's late enough, we're all tired,
we all want to get through this. It's already
about 20 minutes to 11, our time. It's time to
record and so, yeah, Sunday night and we all
work Monday morning, so. So, here are our positions.
We're going to do a quarterback, a running back.
two receivers, a tight end, and a flex position
for our offense. And then for our defense, we're
gonna do three linebackers, which two are the
outside and one is middle, two corners, and two
safeties. And so we're not doing either one of
like the offensive line or the defensive line,
just. Physically because obviously you can't
tell you're not gonna have a 350 pound skater
on me. I said be pretty wide You're only gonna
some of these offensive linemen can be pushing
350 400, you know defensive linemen can be pushing
anywhere from 250 to 350 So you're only gonna
find you know, four or five big boys and I ain't
sure I'm just playing a jump later. You're gonna
find is maybe like 250. So Yeah, good fucking
luck, you know, we want to go in order but this
is a name that immediately popped into my mind
and I'd be like he'd be a perfect edge rusher
you know like that that michael parsons or that
t .j. watt ryan reese yeah i was gonna say he'd
be perfect like a perfect edge rusher like you
know like a t .j. white or a michael parsons
yeah i was gonna say i was gonna put him down
as an outside linebacker an outside linebacker
yeah i was gonna put uh between him and who's
the guy that you jeff i think you said the video
a while ago between him and i think someone in
club is that heavyweight fight yeah that What
was his name? Yeah, Felix. I'll go try to find
it real quick. That's a name that I popped in
my head immediately when I as soon as we thought
about this I'm like if I get the pick, I'm taking
Ryan Rees as an edge roger immediately. I was
gonna say for my first pick I was gonna go QB
but I have Sidney Crosby as QB just because his
mindset his vision to be able to see the playing
surface whatever it is he has the perfect like
I also have some perfect chill in a second. Okay,
you guys follow me. I will lead us to victory
I'll take us to the whole next level and I think
that's something a QB Has to do be calm under
any situation lead it lead them to glory glory
town take all the blame if you lose and you know
Cross be dedicated that's you know, that's dedicated
to not just the sport but the team as a whole
He's been through thick and thin with this team,
obviously seeing the thin the past couple years
here. But he's seen it all from the beginning
of his career to now to the middle of his career
and then during his height, the penguins height.
That's a good one right there at the start. For
running back, I would definitely have to go with
a little bit of speed there, a little bit of
agility. Both running backs and receivers, you
need speed. Well, I'm thinking for agility wise
as well, you know while carrying the ball or
carrying the puck Connor McDavid I have to say
is one of those guys who have obviously has proven
that he has this puck hit the puck handling versus
You know compare that to you know ball carrying
and stuff like that and then just again Running
back to the same time need to be a little bit
more more build and Connor McDavid really isn't
yeah no that's that's fair um so i can definitely
see mcdavid is more of a receiver uh our wide
receiver one i think so yeah um i found who reese
fought that name is from columbus matthew oliver
matthew oliver yeah matthew oliver is he that
big i see he's 61 226 pounds oh wow okay i think
they use that big All right, so for the offense
we still need a running back our second wide
receiver a tight end and our flex Tight end you
want you want somebody that's you know, a little
bit bigger I was there's two the one there's
one. I mean they came to mind to me was page
Thompson Yeah, that's a good one. There's our
tight end the tight end. I like that Jeff I say
Tate's Thompson immediately came to mind when
we for tight end I'm gonna misspell these guys,
I'm sorry. It's T -H -O -N -P. So a flex that
can be, if we're doing this fantasy -wise, your
flex can be either a running back, a wide receiver,
sometimes can be a tight end. Can fit into any
one of your slots. Me personally, when I play,
I usually do a second tight end for my flex.
They're nice, easy, kind of like fill in the
play. Two running backs, two receivers, two tight
ends. depending on the day and the matchups as
well if I start them or not. I usually almost
always have two tight ends in my team. Oh, middle
linebacker, I was thinking Sam Reinhardt. He
might not be the biggest, but he can lay down
a couple hits if he needs to. Yeah, I mean that's
fair. He's pretty quick too. Middle linebackers
are the ones, I mean all the linebackers are
the ones that need to be. fairly quick. You know,
I'd be okay with that. All right, so we need
our two corners, our two safeties, a running
back, or two running backs, a receiver. No flex.
No flex. So I've been trying to think of like,
really somebody who would be a good running back.
Somebody that's quick, but also is, you know,
got a little bit of a build to him. I'm gonna
have Tony from The Otters, but not NHL. One that
I think is Alfie. For his fucking size, dude's
got some speed. He's an all -around fucking dude.
Just how he plays, he reminds me a lot, like
Malkin and T .H. Thompson. Malkin in his prime
days. That's the thing. It's prime, we forget
he Malkin. I assume we're doing current only.
Yeah, that was my thought behind it. Somebody
very quick. I mean, I think he's one fastest
skater in the past in some competitions is Jordan
Kairou. I know he's really fucking quick. Dylan
Larkin's also pretty fucking fast. I think Dylan
Larkin could be. I mean, he's feisty. He's not
a big dude, but he's feisty. You got Mort Sider,
who's currently on an Iron Man streak of his
own. Who's that? Mort Sider. Mort Sider? Mort
Sider, yeah. Oh, really? We forgot something
to order today, by the way, that just popped
up. Jonathan Quick, 400. He actually did that
during my last ones. Oh, I'm sorry. Did I just
miss that? So, my bad. But um, what did I just
say? Yeah, Jordan Kyra. I think he's got speed.
Yeah Which is what you would want in like a wide
receiver So I think I think Jordan Kyra could
be a good second wide receiver Jordan Kyra I'm
just trying to think of like bigger dudes that
can be like a second middle linebacker, you know,
right max, you know big big dude that still doesn't
speed Claude Drew. The one out there. I mean,
I mean, he's a big dude. I mean, for his age,
he's still got a good amount of skill. Yeah,
considering he's, you know, early to mid -30s.
Early -mid. I'm just trying to think of fast
guys that we can fit under that corner position.
Yeah, some really quick dudes, yeah. Okay, this
is a lot tougher than I thought it would be.
This is very tough, yeah. When we had the set,
they were like, oh, this is, it's right on the
Super Bowl, and then they're like, oh, this is
very tough. Um, I mean, not so much anymore for
the speed, but I'm gonna be being pretty biased
here is Evgeny Malkin. Piss him off, I dare you.
I said that's kinda - Put him in a running back
position and piss him off. I dare you, piss off.
Evgeny Malkin has a running back. Just look at
him, get a piss, be like, keep moving, you're
fucking feeding Geno. Hey Geno, this guy said
you're ugly. It's almost like the water boy,
you know? I think Malkin would be a damn good
running man. Piss him off and he's plowing through
anything that's in his way. He'd be like... the
russian version of the boss in that yeah the
russian bus the russian bus i got a new second
running back and then some corners and some safeties
um would be a good just like a second oh and
then a flex too um try to think of another like
big big dude almost funny you don't want to put
like a defenseman on like a flex they can you
know What about a guy like Victor Hedman? He's
got some size to him, he's got some muscle, he
could definitely throw down a block or two, but...
I mean, he can score, he can make plays when
he needs to. Yeah, he's kind of like a two -way
defenseman in Tampa's eyes. And he's not super
quick, which tight ends are, you know, if people
don't necessarily need to be. The tight ends
are thrown in for short passing yards. You know,
a third and short kind of thing, a two, third,
and three. The other one I could think of immediately
as well is Drew Dowdy as well. I mean, yeah,
even for his age, he is still pretty solid in
his... in his position but I do think I like
the um or Brett Burns has some size has a little
bit of speed there as a defenseman so yeah I
like that the first one that we we just said
here I like him at the flex and not somebody
that didn't even know is gonna be there didn't
even need to make a play every show time You
know, even if, you know, maybe the plate you
need him to make is a block, so then you're running
back. Or just kind of like a, hey, the QB scramble.
Here's some quick dump ops to get like two or
three yards. Maybe not the first down, but keep
keeping them wide. We can put somebody like Brett
Burns at running back. At RB2? Or Doughty at
running back. Which one of those two would be
safe? Probably Doughty. I'd say probably Doughty.
Doughty's a little bit quicker. Yeah. Right,
so some corners and some safeties. Another one
that I just thought of that recently participated
in the fastest skater but wiped the fuck out
was Count Lecar. I think he was the one that
wiped the hell out, wasn't he? Yeah, I think
he was. He's quick. He's a defender. He knows
how to play defense. He knows how to take the
puck away from the skaters when he needs to.
That's really what corners and safeties really
need to do. But where are we when it comes to
corner or safety? I think with the speed, he
can definitely keep up with the corners at the
corner slot. I feel like safety, especially that
free room and safety, you've got to have a better
side of the side of the field. You can kind of
flow around and go and run to where you need
it. So I think my car definitely fits better
in the corner. I would agree. So we need another
corner and two more safeties. Mean it's helpful
for like safeties to be a little bit taller.
They don't have to be I'm a different helps if
you're going against a tall fucking six foot
five DK Metcalf, but I'm trying to think of some
other guys that are just some other guys that
have won fastest game and we said Dylan Larkin
is pretty damn quick Yeah, the only thing that
might you know deter him is his size is his height
How tall is Donald Markin? I'd say he's about
5 '10", 5 '11". He might even be like 6 '1".
Sorry, hold on. You're good. 6 '1". He has 6
'1". Okay. I think that'd be a perfect height
for a corner over safety, I think. Being like
a centerman, you kind of... You know you need
to be like it like it's like a city car, but
you almost need to be Ahead of the whole play
you need to be able to see everything you know
with it's coming up on your wing or behind you
you know Well, I think that he does something
like that perfectly which the safety the free
-roam safety would be The the perfect thing for
him he can see the whole defensive side of the
field what's going on offense? Okay, that's why
I need to go for support. That's where I need
to stay or maybe a free safety So you need another
corner and then a strong safety. Those guys are
typically the ones that are a little bit bigger
or that usually stay focused on one area of the
field. Just trying to figure out some other guys
that still got some size and got some speed or
if we wouldn't want to just spot out speed for
another corner. I'm trying to think of some past
participants in the fastest skier as of recently.
I know I was a McDavid, but we already have him
as a wide receiver. Nate Mack, Matt Barzell,
Quinn Hughes, Cael McCarr, Braden Points. Quinn
Hughes would be a good one. To put it in your
second corner. Third fast yeah, I couldn't use
third fastest in 2024. Barzell was the runner
-up in 24. Oh yeah, Barzell too. I'm gonna put
Barzell or Quinn Hughes at the second corner
spot. I think Quinn might be our better option
there as the defenseman. He's a lot better on
one -on -one scenarios than what Barzell might
be. Not just in Barzell because he's a good player,
but like... Overall one -on -ones the defenseman
might know a little bit better, but one -on -ones.
Yeah Strong safety some guy like any really,
you know, really kind of focus on one one spot.
I Think if I'm not saying I think sure see there's
one that typically will stay in like the uh either
man coverage or um like zone coverage compared
to what you know the free safety has can do whatever
uh thus far fastest players this season or fastest
fastest bursts or whatever uh number one Owen
Tippett, Luke Hughes, Brayden Point, Nathan McKinnon,
Connor McDavid, Valerie Nishuskin, Ramis uh Ramis
No, sorry, Rasmus Kupari, Miles Wood, Ryan McLeod,
and Brandon Tanev. Oh, Turbo. Turbo Tanev. Turbo.
Turbo. He's a big boy. He's decent sized. He
knows how to use his size to his advantage. Might
be his mid size, but he knows how to use it.
He's quick. He's very quick at being able to
get... Get to a certain point when he needs to
make a play whether it's a pet to lay down a
hand take a shot Receive a pass, you know, whatever
But I think that's I think turnouts will be a
good a good spot to finish off here All right
Well, we happy with this we have this assist
I was tougher than I thought it'd be very difficult
Yeah, no, you're right but very very age difference
team here i mean you got you got the old guys
that Crosby, Malk, and Downeyer Reeves and then
you got some the offense is looking quite like
the Pittsburgh Penguins well luckily we got some
young guys like McDavid, Thompson, Kyra to kind
of a like bring down the age age gap well just
spread out the age gap but bring that average
down The roster we have at QB is Sidney Crosby,
our running backs are Evgeny Malkin and Drew
Dowdy, wide receivers are Connor McDavey and
Jordan Cairo, tight end is T .H. Thompson, our
flex is Victor Hedman, our outside linemen is
Ryan Reeves and Matthew Oliver, our middle linemen
is Sam Reinhardt, our corners are Kel McCarr
and Quinn Hughes, and then our two safeties are
Dylan Larkin and Brandon Tanna. Which I like
that That's actually pretty that's pretty solid
not bad I mean, yeah, if I think there's definitely
some names that we're missing there that we're
gonna think of tomorrow Like this guy could have
been a good outside linebacker No, I'm pretty
happy with that There's something to get into
the Super Bowl kind of I'm really glad we do
Three of us doing our own, our own separate ones,
because this would have, we would have been here
a while. We probably would have been here just
like midnight or 1 a .m. We would have been here
for a while. I'm glad, I like how this turned
out. Yeah, maybe another time when there's more
time in the day that we don't have to worry about
being adults the next day. So that's the thing.
Yeah. Anything else to add? I don't think so.
Oh yeah. Do a quick scan here. OV counter. 18.
18 goals left until it happens. Beats Wayne's
record. 17 to tie, but 18 to win. I think the
other thing to catch up on is they named... Oh
yeah, I literally just thought of that. They
named the captains of the four nations faceoff
teams. So for Team Finland? The All -Captain
My Captain is Alexander Barkov with the assistants
being Sebastian Aho, Mikhail Granlin, and Miko
Rantanen. For Team Merica, Captain America, Austin
Matthews with the assistants being Charlie McAvoy
and Matthew the Chuck. No surprises here. Captain
for Team Canada, Sidney Crosby. Let me wipe the
shock off my face on that one. Everybody's saying
everybody is saying he should be captain. There's
no there's no assistance being Cal McCarr and
Connor Mcdavid Which I'm very surprised they
didn't give it to to Nate Mack. Yeah, I know
Yeah, either Nate Mack or Marcia. I know there's
a lot of people arguing saying that Mcdavid should
have been captain but Mcdavid himself even said
dude it's Sid. He said there's no other question.
I feel like he said there is no question that
it's Sid. I feel like if Sidney Crosby was not
named captain of this Canadian team. Most of
them would have sat out. Oh yeah. There's no
question. And then team Sweden. Team captain
is Victor Hedman. Jeff, do you want to go off
and read the alternates? The assistants are Matthias
Ackholm, Eric Karlsson, and William Nylander.
It's going to be a fun tourney. I mean it starts
what? The 15th? The 12th. The 12th, okay. I mean
I'd definitely be down to... to get together
and maybe watch a couple of those for sure. I'm
actually excited. Even if we just hop into Discord
and just watch it from the comfort of our own
beds, our own couches at home. But yeah, it'd
definitely be fun to watch and take some notes
together and then talk about it. And kind of
get a preview of what we can see in a couple
years when the NHL returns to the NHL, I mean
to the Olympics. When the NHL returns to the
NHL. I mean, some of these names on here, there's
a good chance that they might not, because the
next Winter Olympics aren't until 28, right?
Last year was the Winter Olympics, wasn't it?
Yeah. Last year was summer. Oh no, 26, right?
Last year was summer? Yeah, because we're not
getting the NHL All -Star Games through 27, because
25 is four nations, 26 is winter. Okay. Because,
yeah, summer was 16 in Rio, should have been
20 in Japan and 24 in France. Okay. Yep. And
now it's going to be a 26 Winter Olympics. Let's
see, a 10, 14, okay, yeah, cause 10, 14, 18,
19, okay, yeah. I expect that though. Cause everything
I was thinking last year was winter, but. Yeah.
Honestly, I'm kind of excited. Yeah, I guess
I remember the craze with a team that was saying
basketball was pretty, pretty hype. So. Yeah,
that's what I was going to say. It makes sense.
This four nations face off gives us a preview
of what we can expect in the. the Olympics next
year or not? Now the only question that I would
have, and it's around the superpower that Russia
has, I wonder if they're able to perform in the
26 Olympics. I know that's a whole political
debate that I'm not going to get into. I know
a lot of Russian athletes are being withheld
from participating in certain things. Just with
all the stuff going down between them. and Ukraine
and stuff like that. But like I said, not our
place to talk politics and get deep into that,
but I know it could very easily affect, you know,
if Russian players, if they even let Team Russia
participate in the Olympics. Which would stick
because, you know, again, Russia is a big superpower
when it comes to hockey. They've produced a lot
of fantastic hockey players in the past, and
they'll continue producing them in the future.
Upcoming Olympics could be the last time Ovi
and Malkin would have a shot. No, it will be
the last time. Ovi said that he's retiring after
he breaks Gretzky's record. Which probably might
be this year. Yeah, depending on if he really
wants the playoffs or not. If he really wants
something big or small. And we know Malkin's
not gonna keep playing. Too much longer after
this season. Oh, we can retire from the NHL but
still stick around in hockey to participate in
the Olympics next year Yeah, he can just retire
from or you know, stop, you know retire from
the NHL do not say I'm hockey as a whole I'm
going back to St. Petersburg Russia to play to
play Nikita I know that's what Malkin said something
he wants to explore to is going back to his hometown
or go back to Russia to play another year or
two in the Russian Super League where he started
play in front of family and friends, which I
completely understand if you want to go home
and play in front of family and friends. The
famous line, me two years super league? Yeah.
Just how he won the who gets to scan out last
between him and Crosby. That's my second year
in Danny Chell, me two years super league. But
yeah, I mean it would be nice to see Russia return
to the Winter Olympics. participate in hockey
because that'll make more fun obviously you got
the Canadian imagine a first line of like Malkin,
Ovechkin and Kucherov oh my god would Malkin
be on a first line on a team like that probably
not but just imagine if he was a line of Malkin,
Ovechkin and Kucherov I would shit breaks if
that ended up being the case. That'd be insane.
Yeah, hopefully. I know, did they not say NHL
players will be allowed to play in the Olympics?
Yeah, it's official. It's official. They didn't
confirm that? Okay. I knew it was in talks that
they may be allowed to return. I couldn't remember
if it was confirmed or not. I remember when they
did officially now. I do remember a couple seasons
ago, we did reveal that. I think that was when
we had the last Olympics. Might have been, yeah.
They revealed that. Season three, right? Season
two or season three. One of those two. It feels
like it's been so long. I think that's about
all we need to discuss and nothing much else.
That's shown all the trades that happened. We're
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