Let's take a fundamental game. You know the betting
apps where they do like the over -under for whatever
category, whether it's shots and goal or rushing
yards by a running back or whatever. Over -under,
12 .5. I'm not going to give you any context
because that will give it away. Over -under,
12 .5. Under. Under. That's your question. Because
it's going to be a spot on. 12 .5%. My success
rate for the Erie Otters going to the second
round is 12 .5%. One for eight. One for fucking
eight. Do you know how long of a wait to see
a series win? Long fucking time. Long goddamn
time! 12 .8%. Do you know the last time the fifth
seed beat the fourth seed? In the Western Conference,
in the LHL, in the first round? I thought it
would be more recent. 2011. Really? 2011, when
the fifth, no joke, the fifth -seeded Saginaw
beat the fourth -seeded Sarnia. Oh, wow. They
advanced to go play London in the second round.
And what did happen there? Saginaw lost 4 -2.
Oh, yeah, okay, okay. If we lose in six, I'll
be okay with that. They're now 4 -2 at London,
and they're going all the way to beat Niagara
in the finals. Beat Niagara? Shocker. But 12
.5%. Wow. I do believe every series is now done,
isn't it? Yeah. I just looked. Everything is
done off, so I just beat Brampton today 4 -1.
So they officially... They officially move on.
Second round is going to start Thursday. Round
one is complete. Most games will start Thursday.
Some will start Friday. Including both series
in the West will start Thursday. So it will be
Windsor and Kitchener. Right? Yep, Windsor and
Kitchener. Yeah, Windsor and Kitchener. And then
Erie and London. Which I think we got damn near
every series right. I think the only one we were
on the fence about was Saginaw and Erie. Yeah,
believe it or not, I'm happy. I think everybody
here said it was going to go to seven. I think
most of us were unfortunately in favor of Saginaw.
I don't think, or none of us really had extreme
confidence that Erie was going to do it. But
we all thought it was going to be seven games.
Not all of us have confidence that, you know,
Cary Trant or Matthew Schaefer even have a hint
or a sniff of seeing action. Obviously, Cary
Trant has a hint of action being back in the
non -contact jersey. But the fact is, without
those two players, I know their excuses. Oh,
we don't have a top goaltender. Okay, cool. You
don't have a top goaltender. We don't have our
captain. We didn't have our number one defenseman.
What's your point? The refs screw American teams.
You're not alone. Two American teams, they didn't
know what to call. You're not alone in this boat
there, pal. I personally think the refs were
heavily favoring Sagadon in Game 5. You ask me
personally, but I guess we still won that game.
I say Game 5, I say Game 4, both 3 and 4, it
seemed like making it a lot of 4 on 4. Two -sided,
you know, just... I was talking about this with
a buddy earlier. Of course, the one and only
game of the series that I went to was the one
game of the series that we lost. Great. I hope
he knows that he is currently banned from the
EIA. Sorry, Kyle. Go fuck yourself. Well, you
can't even be there for the second round. I don't
care. You're not allowed to be there. You're
going alone, Jeff. If I get word that you're
there, I'm going to fly home from Phoenix. And
beat the fuck out of you. But what if they win,
though? That's the thing. What if they win while
you're gone? Like, he's in the building. Yeah,
what if I sit in your seat? That still doesn't
matter. You don't go. Anyways, yeah. We're still
extremely thrilled, obviously, that Eerie's moving
on. I don't think anybody here would have said
it. We're going to do this in five games. Nobody.
Let alone scoring 17 goals in the first two games.
On the road. At the end of the series, we outscored
them 33 -16. Jesus Christ. More than double.
19. 33 -16. Did I say 19? It was 33 -16. Should
have been 19. No. It was 5 -5 and then 3 -3 -3
for them, wasn't it? Hold on. It was 8 -5, 9
-5, and then a 3 -2 loss. 7 -3 win, 6 -3 win?
For a year, it was 8 -9, 2 -7. 5 -5 is 10, 3
-3, oh, 3 -2 is 15, 18. So 5 -5, 3 -2 -3. I'm
sorry, 3 -2 -3. I read that wrong. 3 -3 -3. So
it's 19, okay. Okay. 9 -8 -7 -6 -3. Okay, yeah,
33 -19. 33 -19, and that's in five games, guys.
That's in five games. Four times did the Otters
score more than six or more goals. The four games
we won, we scored five plus goals. Unfortunately,
that's how we had to win. But the fact is we
had to score five plus goals. After the first
two games, there's people making jokes like,
well, I can tell goaltending is not the highlight
of this series. Not wrong. I guess everything
there wasn't okay. Wasn't okay because he wasn't
okay. But the first two games combined, there's
27 goals in the first two games. Five for the
first six periods. And then you come home for
game three and there's five scored. You couldn't
muster any more goals other than five in game
three. All we had to do was just find that rhythm.
First period of game one, scoreless. Second period,
we go in there, we get one, we get two, three,
four, five, six, seven, eight. All eight goals
were scored in the second period of game one.
And then Saginaw started coming back towards
the end. If they had more time, it might have
been a different story. Thankfully, they didn't
have any more time. 8 -5 final game one. Game
two, very similar. As soon as we found our rhythm,
we just kept potting them, kept potting them.
9 -5 final game two. I said Marty and Pano got
a hat check in that game. Yeah, double hat check.
That's right. Game three, the first game back
in Erie. The toughest game. I think the best
game Saginaw played all series. Took down at
the very end, time of the game, with what, 13,
14 seconds, something like that? 13 seconds.
13 and change. Dude, that's the loudest I've
heard that building in quite some time. At least,
personally, being there, at least. That's the
loudest I've heard that place. My heart was pounding.
A very long time. That, by far, was the best
defensive and goaltending showcase. And then
that save from Nola there in the second period.
God damn. We should have called the police on
him. Highway robbery? Yeah, we should have called
him for highway robbery. He should be in jail
right now for what he did to Zach and I. I thought
an issue was in. I was like, I put my hand up.
And in person, we're like, there's nothing to
review. There's no way you can tell that. But
then I got home and I saw the replay. I was like,
I can see why they reviewed that. It was pretty
damn close. It was on the goal line. Very, very
close. Game 4 went out, and again, just second
period, third period, just started going out
and dominating. What, 7 -3 final on that one?
The third period, we were tied at 2, right? Or
tied at 3. We were tied coming into the third
period there. Of course, I had to close out the
app. Just went off. Did somebody get a hat -trick
in that one too? Or no? No. Not that game. Not
in game four. Game five, Marty got a... Yeah,
tie three going into period three. And then panels
two quick goals. That's right. 15 seconds apart.
First one was 59 seconds in. The second one was
a minute 14 in. I remember, yeah. I watched that
one. I watched them score. I got up. My fiance
was in the kitchen. I just started talking to
her. I'm like, I think I'm filling my water bottle
or something. All of a sudden, I hear Sean going,
scores! Then he scored again. I run out. I was
like, are they just doing the replay? I run out
and they're celebrating again. I was like, what
the fuck? I was like, holy shit. Yeah, they got
a couple power play goals in that game, which
I'm fucking surprised. 50 % going into game five.
I think we still are, too. I think we were two
for three or two for four last night. And then,
you know, Eddie on the power play got one. And
then Gabe scored a power play goal. He's been
starting to really heat up here these past couple
games. So hopefully he continues. That's what
happened. The ones he may not expect to shine,
shine in the playoffs. Yeah. Imagine you let
Alex Messier score any last night. His first
fucking playoff goal. First playoff goal ever.
I think only maybe like his fourth or fifth career
goal. He does not score a whole lot of goals.
He's been known to use his hands as fists instead
of hands. A couple too many times that led to
a nine -game suspension. No, that was worth it.
That was fucking worth it. It was worth it. Yeah,
Erie ended up finishing nine for 18 in the five
games played against Saginaw. That's incredible.
I think I said something to Colin at the watch
probably last time. What was that, second, third
time in the series where Erie was let you down
by at least... Early and then came back. First
two goal deficit of the series. When we went
down 2 -0 early, I think I'm the one that said
that. I said this is the first two goal deficit.
The first time we have been down two goals in
the whole series, and I said that can't be good.
But came right back, scored two quick ones, I
think, to start the second. Yeah, number one
power play in the postseason right now. Number
one. And then... Oh, man. Yeah, other series
around the league. North Bay ended up stealing
one from Brantford, which I did not see happening,
but Brantford still went on to win that series
4 -1. Niagara also stealing one from the second
-seeded Berry, but that series still ending 4
-1. Kingston sweeping right past Sudbury, 4 -0.
Brampton keeping Oshawa a run for their money,
pushing that one to 6, but Oshawa wins game 6
in Brampton. Final score of that one was 4 -1,
taking the series 4 -2. Shocker. No surprise.
We knew this was going to happen. London sweeping
right past Owen Sound. Windsor losing one game
to the Sioux. The Sioux Greyhounds winning that
series 4 -1. Flint ended up stealing one away
from Kitchener, but that one's still ending up
4 -1. And Erie Otter is the only lower seed in
the OHL playoffs to move on. and win their series.
It's still sad that it has yet to beat Erie in
the postseason. They have never beat us in the
postseason? They have not beaten Erie in the
postseason. Never, really. Yeah, as of right
now, special teams, Otter Power Play, number
one, obviously. The PK, number five. Number five?
78 .6%. Five out of 16 teams, that's not bad.
Yeah, the teams that are ahead of us are, not
surprising, London. Kitchener's at 100%. Kitchener's
at 100 % on the penalty kill? Remember, Flint
didn't score on the power play. True. Yeah. I
think the other one game that they did steal
ended up being a shutout. Ethan Day just had
a fucking, had a day. Yeah, Kitchener, zero goals
and 21 penalty kills. Other teams that are ahead
of us, North Bay at an 80 .9. Sudbury had a pretty
damn good PK. 87 .5. And a loss. And then London
had 86 .4. Yeah. Erie has three players in the
top ten for scoring for the playoffs so far.
Liam Greenchie leads the way with 15 points in
five games. That's seven goals and eight assists
in five games. Right behind him, teammate Ilya
Protas with 15 points as well, three goals and
12 assists. And then in third, tied for second
technically, but tied for third. All with 12
points are Marty Miziak, Owen Gerfin, Denver
Barkey, Sam Alfano, Dylan Wakely, and Luke Misa
all have 12 points. The highest one being Marty
with seven goals and five assists. And then Pano
down at 10. Pano and Dylan tied for 11 points.
Pena with seven goals, four assists. Dylan Edwards
with five goals, six assists. Kobe Barlow with
six goals, five assists. Noah Morneau of Windsor
with eight goals, three assists. Just unbelievable,
man. Like, whew. It's insane. Made his way up
with two hat trips this series. All right. In
game two and game five. Both on the road. Kind
of funny that Saginaw did not win a home game
in the postseason. We won one, but we only had
two chances at it. And the one went to overtime.
Yeah, when Erie scored in that third period,
that game three to tie with 13 seconds left,
and then Painfully ended up going on to lose
in overtime, just very stupid defensively. I
do not think we played smart at all defensively
in that period, in that overtime period. Yeah.
One thing that I still don't get with LHL is
how or why do they have a piece, a little, a
legit piece of shit on skates, skate around on
that ice? Like Zane, Zane, what's his name? Zane
Per, Per, I don't even want to say his name.
Does it have an actual garbage bag on skates
is all I'm going to say. Like he, it was, I'll
admit it was entertaining on game four. Seeing
him and Malcolm. Him and Malcolm go back. They
were at each other's throats all series, though.
All series, they're at each other's throats.
It started in warm -ups, like, Parekh ran in
and sped Malcolm. Then, obviously, they were
pushed away by the linesmen. And then they just
were at each other all that time. Apparently
during game four there, when they were doing
their 7 for the 10s, there's an Erie fan by our
penalty box, the Erie penalty box, who had a
little phone saying, $100 for you to fight Breck.
And Malcolm looked over and he's like, no, he's
too big of a bitch. No joke, he's saying he's
too big of a bitch. Dude, we've seen Malcolm.
Malcolm can fight. We've seen it. Given the opportunity,
he will fight. Ever since Coach Chris came in,
apparently Erie needs a coach named Chris to
be successful. But I absolutely love every second
of seeing this physical side of Malcolm Spence
ever since Chris Millette came in. I don't know
if it's just something that Stan or even before
BJ just didn't want him to do that. They just
didn't want him to focus on that. But Chris...
Obviously doesn't give two fucks. I actually
sent a screenshot to these guys of Chris Millett's
hockey stats as a player. Do put up some penalty
minutes. Like, I think his model. We're talking
369 penalty minutes in 49 games. Like, I think
his biggest thing is play your game. Do your
thing. Not, oh, obviously eat your emotions and
check, but play your game. If that's a physical
game, Alex Messier. Or just the emotional. McCall,
Wesley Royston. We've seen those probably the
big three physical guys on the team right now.
Or the emotional game, Malcolm Spence. I get
hockey players are emotional beings. But you
need that. You need the emotional cyclist game.
I absolutely love the amount of physicalness
that Malcolm has been showing that he actually
has a coach that is allowing him to show it.
I love every single second of it. When Malcolm
got into that fight, I got up, I was like, holy
shit, that's Malcolm Spence! We were going crazy
up where we were. Yeah, he was throwing. You
could tell he was waiting for that fight. He
just doesn't want to be the one to instigate
and get the 2 -5 -10. Dumbass rule. He was waiting
for his chance. Somebody dropped the mitts. He's
like, alright, fucking bet. There are some situations
where I understand the 2 -5 -10. If you legit
pull, the other player's helmet and gloves off,
sure, give him a two, five, ten. But if you ask
for it for staying up for a teammate, no. I think
Malcolm laid that hit. All of a sudden, the player
came up to him and said something, and Malcolm
went to skate away. But I think in the corner
of his eye, he saw the gloves on the ground.
He's like, all right, fucking bet. He threw his
down and just... Don't have to tell me twice.
You can tell he had been waiting for that fucking
opportunity. And he did not fucking... He did
not disappoint me. I really wish that, you know,
Daniel Breer would have stayed for that goal.
Because, again, I would have turned around, pointed,
had him, you know, out of my chest, and, you
know, fucking dropped this man. Yeah, some of
the names that were at the EIA for Game 3 were
Daniel Breer, Barry Trotz, I think it was Keith
Kachuk, but that was not confirmed if we know
it was him or not, because he's not a GM of anything.
I'm confident, but... I was pretty sure. Kevin
Adams, GM of the Buffalo Sabres. There are probably
more that we didn't realize. For those of you
who don't know, Barry Trotz, GM of the New York
Islanders, or no, Predators. Predators. Predators,
and then Danny Brear, obviously general manager
of the Philadelphia Flyers. All big names that
were all at that game. Calduz has been at the
EAA multiple times, which is why I really think
that Pittsburgh might be interested in Malcolm
Spence. But it makes sense for all those guys
to be there, all going to be getting arguably
the top 12 picks. It makes sense. Guess what?
You're going to have three or four players on
the night. For the love of God, just don't let
fucking Maddie or Malcolm go to Philly. I don't
care if they go to Long Island. I don't care
if they go to Nashville. Do not go to Philly.
Do not be Jamie Drysdale. I know he didn't have
a choice, but do not be a Jamie Drysdale. Anyways,
Jeff, do you want to get us with your OHL milestones?
Not really much because it's playoff time? No.
Well, I guess we can talk about... how we think
round two is going to go. Round two, obviously,
the matchup that we know is going to be a thing.
We'll just go down the road. We know what the
matchup is going to be. We're going to have Brantford
versus Oshawa. Obviously, the first -seeded Brantford
against the fourth -seeded Oshawa. Obviously,
Brantford is going to have home ice advantage.
Seeing how much Oshawa struggled against the
fifth -seeded Brampton, I mean, Brantford even
dropped a game to North Bay. But that was a tight
game. I mean, there was a 6 -3 loss, but they
didn't struggle too much other than that with
a 6 -3 win, 3 -0 win, another 6 -3 win, and a
5 -1 win. Or, sorry, a 4 -3 overtime win and
then a 5 -1 win. A 6 -3 was a loss. But, I mean,
I still think Brantford's going to continue their
run. I can see Oshawa giving them a little bit
of a fight. I can see this one possibly going
to 6. I'd say Brantford in six. They're going
to do, you know, the home team's going to win
the first four, and then that's where Brantford's
really going to take over. Kind of lock in and
be like, all right. Enough is enough kind of
thing. I think it's going to be pretty similar.
I think they might, Oshawa's going to steal one
on home ice. Maybe game four to avoid the sweep,
but I think that it's going to come home to Brantford.
I'm going to say Brantford in five. I'm going
to say Brantford in six. I think Brantford's
going to want to get the job done at home. If
the opportunity's there, obviously if they go,
back home tied, they're not going to want to
do it at 7. But if they come home with a 3 -1
lead, they're going to do everything they can
to win that thing at home and win it at 5. Next,
we'll have the Kingston Frontenacs and the Berry
Colts. I don't have this pulled up quite yet.
Berry Colts won their series 4 -1. Kingston won
theirs, swept through theirs against Sudbury,
4 -0. Obviously, Berry's the higher seed, so
they will get home with advantage. Barry lost
a close game in Niagara. The only game Niagara
won was a 6 -4 win. It was in Niagara. But every
other game, Barry won by at least two goals.
4 -2, 7 -5, 6 -3, and 6 -3. And then Kingston
did a clean sweep of Sudbury. 4 -1, 4 -3, double
OT in Kingston. And then 4 -2, 3 -2 in Sudbury.
A little bit closer on... Yeah, I mean, it's
second and third seed. This is the one where
I think anything could happen here. Kingston,
I definitely think, has a little bit more playoff
experience than Barry does, at least this current
era of those two teams. I don't know, man. I
mean, Barry's still a really good team this year.
I think they were, like, 7th or 8th seed last
year. Yeah, so they've really squawked. It's
not the end there, so... I'm going to say Kingston
in six. No, Barry was the eighth seed last year.
I just pulled it up. Barry was the eighth seed
last year. So they went from the eighth to the
second seed. Pretty impressive. I mean, not as
impressive as Windsor when they went from, what,
worst in the league to second seed. This one's
tough. This one's tougher than you might think.
Yeah. Again, it's definitely a six or maybe seven
if there's a couple bullshit calls throughout
that. But, I mean, they're both Canadians, so
they're not going to be bullshit holes. Yeah.
This is one that I could possibly see going all
the way. I could see this one going to 7. And
I'm going to give... Man. It's just, you know,
what it comes down to is special teams, you know?
Number one, if we can stay the fuck out of the
boxes, you know, keep the game 5 -on -5 as much
as we can, or 4 -on -4 aside. If we want to look
at it further, overall points -wise, they were
the exact same with 88 points. Barry 42 -22,
2 -2, holy twos. And 40 -25 -3 for Kingston.
Let me guess, the only reason why Barry got the
higher seed is because they won their division.
My guess would be for regulation wins. Well,
yeah, Barry won their division, that's why. But
I'm saying that and regulation wins, probably.
Well, it first goes to the division winner, and
then if you're not the division winner, then
regulation wins. Well, Barry has the favor in
both, so. Okay. Either way, it doesn't matter.
Yeah, man, this one could go seven, this one
could go either way. This one, I might give the
lower seed and go Kingston on this one. I think
Kingston in seven. That's the thing, it's like,
I was on the fence about your sack of all series,
like, for the first round. And look, I was wrong,
and I'm happy that I'm wrong, but like... I would
love to be wrong again and say... We couldn't
have been more wrong. We thought it was going
to be hard -fought seven games, but Aries is
going to fall short in game seven or even game
six. We are moving on after five, man. I'm going
to say Barry. I'm going to say seven. The majority
of those games are going to require at least
some extra time. I'm going to say Kingston in
either six or seven. I'm warming towards seven,
though. I don't know, man. Kingston is just,
like I said, the more... playoff experience a
bit of his current teams. But I don't know, man.
We could be surprised. Barry could keep going.
Alright, moving on to the West. The first series
that we're going to go over is the Windsor Street
Fire hosting the number three Kitchener Rangers.
Windsor won their series honestly kind of convincingly
with the exception of game three when they lost
an OT 3 -2 in the Sioux, but otherwise the scores
were 7 -2, 7 -1, 4 -1 and 8 -4 in Game 1. That's
honestly pretty similar to how Erie played Saginaw.
And then Kitchener, same kind of thing. The only
game that was really an OT was Game 1, which
Kitchener took 4 -3. Otherwise, it's Kitchener
6 -1 in Game 2. Flint's only win game in Game
3, 2 -0 in Game 4 and 5, both in Kitchener, with
the final scores of 5 -1 and 2 -1, respectively.
This one, I mean, Kitchener was the better team
in the regular season -wise, but because Windsor
won their division, that's why they got the higher
seed. So, I mean, this one is another one where
you can very easily choose Kitchener, who is
the better team. But, I mean, again, this is
the playoffs, man. I mean, home ice advantage
is very important in these playoffs, especially
in the O. Wow. You can't say that because, again,
going back to the Erie Sack and all series. Well,
Erie's just the best team in the playoffs right
now. No. They are the hottest team coming in.
But, like, when the home team is being scored,
outscored. Matthew. Matthew, stop. Sorry. When
the home team was being scored, outscored 23
to 13. A 10 -goal fucking difference. Man, that
says something. I mean, look in the game. The
Windsor just absolutely blew out pretty much
every single game. 1 -5, 1 -6, 1 -3, and 1 -4.
Kitchener's were a little bit closer. The first
game went to overtime, and then a 6 -1 win, and
then they lost 2 -0, and they won 5 -1, and only
won Friday night 2 -1. So a lot of lower scoring
and really good goaltending. Is Parsons still
in there for Kitchener? Yeah, Parsons are number
one. So, I mean, we've seen how well he can do.
He's done pretty good against Erie in the past.
He's probably, I think, one of the main reasons
that Kitchener beat us last year. So, realistically,
it's how much can you get in front of Jackson
Parsons? Or whatever his first name is. I think
it's Jackson. How much can you get in the eyes
of Jackson Parsons? That's really going to be
the biggest key factor. Get in front of him.
Get in front of him. Screen the fuck out of him.
As they would say to... Big Scott, John Scott,
or Doug Glad, park your ass in front of the net
and stay there. Yeah. Whereas Steve Dingle would
say, if you're a goaltender, which Nolan Lalonde
did not do a lot of that for Sue. Not bad to
say that. Well, you saw that he got ran over
by his own teammate, right? No, I didn't. If
I can find the clip of him getting clobbered,
I'll show you guys. But he got... He got 50 shades
of fucked up on that hit. It looked scary bad.
My heart sank when I saw him get hit. Seriously,
it did. That's rough. Thankfully he got up and
skated off under his own power, but that's definitely
concussion protocol. For this series, do we want
to go more of who's been the offensive firepower
scoring a lot of goals with Windsor? Or a team
that does not allow in a lot of goals with Kitchener
and Jackson Parsons, who is a lot better defensively.
Who also does not score a whole lot of goals,
but... Holy moly, that's a big -ass cat. Oh,
I know. Do you know this? Upstairs in here, running
around downstairs. He jumped off the cat train
right downstairs. I thought he was running around
downstairs. I'm like, how the hell can we hear
that? Again, what it comes down to is, is Windsor
able to get behind their defense and get in front
of Jackson Parsons? That's all it's going to
come down to. I'm sorry. Defense is going to
do great. The offense is going to get their chances
both ways. But how well will Jackson Parsons
hold up for Kitchener? If he's doing what he
did in round one, Kitchener's going to win in
six or seven. If Windsor's going to be able to
do it, they're going to pull in six or seven.
But, again. All it takes is probably maybe these
first two games in Windsor that get in Jackson
Parsons' head, maybe put up seven equals again
twice. This could very easily be a sweep for
Windsor. Who knows? But I don't think it's going
to be that easy for Windsor. I don't think it's
going to be that easy defensively or goaltending
for Kitchener. I'm sorry, but knowing Jackson
Parsons and knowing how well he is and with his
age and his experience, It's going to be really
damn tough to get inside that kid's head. Really
tough. Give him credit to where credit's due.
I think as long as Kitchener's defense can actually
keep up with Windsor's firepower, I honestly
believe defense will win this series. I'm definitely
leaning towards Kitchener in seven. I was actually
leaning more towards Windsor. And maybe six.
I just think... It's just a matter of... I'll
say, I mean, Flint is a good team, don't get
me wrong, but they're obviously nowhere near
as good as what Windsor is. Well, I'm sorry.
When you compare the big three of the league,
you know, London, Kitchener, Windsor, to everybody
else... To Flint, Sioux, and Owen Sac. Well,
no, it doesn't matter if you compare them to.
You kind of feel that those big three teams are
going to win more often than not. But, I mean,
unless you're Niagara with your fourth string
goaltender in, but, you know. That's besides
the point. Went on a 12 -game losing streak.
But, you know. They're like, London who? L. But
that's besides the point. Became the Unden Knights
for a night. Refocus here, refocus here. I think
this one could easily be Windsor in six if they
can find a way to get in Jackson's head. All
right, moving on to the final series of the final
eights. We've got the number one London Knights,
who swept the one sound attack. Surprise. 6 -1,
6 -3, 7 -4, 8 -4. Oh, my God. Versus the number
five Erie Otters, where they obviously won in
five games. The only game they lost, like we
said earlier, 3 -2 in Game 3, an OT by that piece
-of -shit dirtbag, a word that I can't say on
the air, see you next Tuesday, Zach Prek, and
then winning the rest of the games, 8 -5, 9 -5,
7 -3, 6 -3. Yeah, man, I mean, Erie has clearly
been, I mean, the scoring on both sides has been
pretty high, but I mean, Erie was playing a backup
goaltender. You got to, this word will, I'll
let my biased, push my biased aside and talk
for reals. Yes, Demir was playing against a bad
backup goaltender. But yes, at the same time,
London was playing the eighth seed. Well, I mean,
Carter George is still a fantastic goaltender.
I personally believe if Carter George was on
any other team, I think he'd be the best goaltender
in the league. Personally. He's a very, very
good goaltender. Sadly, he's on a not so good
team in LN7. I'd like to see him get traded to
a contender next year. If not London, please
not London. I don't want to see Carter George
go to London. But it sounds like a very London
thing to do, to be the choir in the offseason.
Especially with losing Elliot, because he's in
LA. Is he? Yeah, he's in LA. I can very easily
see them bringing him in and giving him one more
year sitting behind. Somebody big like that.
Now that I say that out loud, yeah, that sounds
like something very possible for London to do.
Fuck. But I think now that we're past the first
round and the bottom three teams are knocked
out, logistically, the bottom three teams are
knocked out, you're going to start to see more
competition. It doesn't matter whether you're
Kitchener or Windsor or Saginaw or Erie. There's
going to be a little bit more fight in it. And
I wouldn't sound... didn't have the fight, doesn't
have the skill. These other teams have that fight.
They have this, well, I can't say they don't
have, they obviously have the fight, they just
don't have the skill to back it up. What I will
say about the series, four days off, five days
off, I think that is plenty of time to get Matthew
and Carrie back to being ready to play a hockey
game. Let alone playoff hockey. Which, by the
way it looks, we're going to get one of them
soon. Hopefully at least one of them. I think
Carey is skating in a contact. Matthew is in
a non -contact still. Or at least as of Saturday's
pregame. Morning skate or whatever. But with
the way that Sodder and Henry have been playing...
They shut Misa down. And you know how scary he
is. What did Misa finish with? Minus 12? Minus
10. Three points and minus 10. Two goals and
assists. So imagine he didn't get those. He'd
have been a minus 13, minus 14. Which I will
give, which I am very impressed with. He literally
shut him down. What I wonder, is that going to
scare away some of the top 10 teams to draft
him early? Is that going to make him drop out
of the top ten? He's still predicted to go top
three. I still think he's going to be top three.
Just based off his regular season. I mean, I
wouldn't hate him coming to Pittsburgh. You know,
we have a lot of draft picks that we can trade
to get a top five pick. Steal somebody like a
Porter Mortone, a Michael Mesa. Don't get me
wrong. I can see him dropping just a little bit
because that definitely does hurt. It's going
to hurt anybody, their draft stock. I don't think
that's going to hurt him too incredibly much,
if at all. Yeah. I can still see him going top
three. He still has at least another year where
he can grow and develop in the O with Sagma or
if somebody is ballsy enough to go out and get
him, then that team, London. I mean, that's one
of those. Mace is one of those players that you'll
see like a break off sized. Return, like, 14
picks for Michael Measers. He's one of those
you'll see a hefty, like, seven picks and two
younger players. Also, I think he is the third
player to get that exceptional, like, status
in the OHL. So, obviously, the last one was McDavid
and the previous was Tavares. So, obviously,
that's going to be kind of a big key. There's
a reason why he was able to do that. He's a good
player. And NHL teams know that they're going
to get an exceptional player out of Michael Mesa.
Yeah, we'll see that. But back to this, London
versus Erie. If we can get both of Matthew Schaefer
and Kerry Terrance back in the lineup, team captain,
huge morale boost, number one defenseman, huge
morale boost on the back end. Do we still have
a chance to win? Probably not. It's going to
take a lot of bounce. It's going to take a lot
of blood, a lot of sweat, a lot of tears. Do
we still stand a chance with those two back in
the lineup? Better, but not great. Still not
great. I'm sorry. If we get one of those, if
we get Carey back and Matthews still out? That's
still a lot of morale boosts, getting your captain
back out there. It's going to be a shorter series
with one of them still being out. Obviously,
it's a stupid short series if both of them are
still out. I do, regardless, even if neither
one of them come back in, I can't honestly see
us stealing one in the EIA. We know, Oliver Bunk
has told us and let us know that they don't like
playing in that barn, that they do not like Erie
fans, they do not like playing in this barn.
Oliver Bunk said it himself. They can say, oh,
one -sided rivalry, all the fuck they want. Oliver
Bunk let us know that that's not true. We can
very easily steal at least one game here in Erie,
whether it's game three or game four. I think
we can steal one here in Erie. If we get both
of them back, it could be possibly coming back
to Erie one more time for game six, I think,
at least. Win that game six and four. Seven is
a different question. That's also assuming Noah
Erdlund pays up to the potential of the, you
know, OHL fans. I've seen him pay. Like, I know
with him being a smaller stature, that really
hurts. He's only, what, 5 '7", a buck 70, I think?
Yeah, he's small. He's a small dude. Like, he's
small for him. I know Burns is a bit taller,
but his, again, size -wise, he's not much better.
I think he's a buck 80, buck 90. He's like 6
'2", 6 '1", 6 '2". You know, other than 5 '11",
a buck 70, soaking wet. That sounds familiar.
I know that really doesn't play in this favor.
London is very good at taking advantage of the
smaller goaltenders. They know exactly where
to be at the net, right place, right time. They
know exactly what to do. That's just the Dale
Hunter way. All in all, if we say going into
the series the exact same way it is at this moment,
I think it's going to be London in five. If we
can get one or if not both of those guys back,
it could go seven. It honestly could go seven.
Again, do I still think we're going to get shut
down if it goes to seven? There's a good chance
of it. I don't think London is going to lose
a game seven on home ice. But again, if we go
in the way it is right now, I'm going to say
London takes it in five. If we get both back,
I say we push it to seven. It would be a miracle
if we end up pulling off with the roster we have.
Yeah. It would be a miracle if we pull it off
with both those guys back on the lineup. If we
pull it off with both these guys still out, you
know I'm going to be running my mouth on Twitter.
I will tell you that right the fuck now. I will
not shut up on Twitter if we win with both these
guys still out. If we win period. If we win period,
I'll still run my fucking mouth. If we win period,
you know... Put the fucking L in the forehead
where it belongs. You do realize, like, if Erie
ends up pulling this off, how much of a... Not
only of a confidence booster will that be to
the team and the organization, but how much momentum
they will have for the third round, regardless
of who comes out of the Windsor Kitchener series.
Yeah, I was saying, regardless... If we survive
this, we are going to be beat the fuck up. We
are going to be roughed up, and we are going
to be a tired... But you're going to have to
be coming out of the West. Like, look at three
of the four final teams. You've got the three
top teams in the O. We beat London and then have
to go on to play either Kitchener or Windsor?
Not only do you have the three best players in
the OHL, you have arguably the three best teams
in the CHL. In London, Kitchener, and Windsor.
You're going to beat the fuck up at the end of
this tournament. I'm sorry, there's nothing around
that. I saw some scouts or some people saying,
like, whoever wins this London Erie series is
going all the way. I saw somebody say that. Somebody
truly believes if we beat London, that we can
beat either Kitchener or Windsor. That's the
thing. Getting over this major sweep up. Getting
over this mountain. My thing is, if we do beat
London, man, are we going to have enough energy
left to try to get through Kitchener or Windsor?
That high. That victory high. Hey, if we beat
London, we can beat anybody. Pretty much. You
know that because London is the heavy favorite
to go all the way. I'm sorry, but they are. I
mean, I said that at the beginning. I said that
still a month left of the season. I said that
they were going to repeat. So if we beat London,
you will go all the way. I mean, I would love
to see it. Obviously, everybody in this room,
everybody in the city of Erie would love to see
that. Everybody that's in that building would
love to see that. Is it going to happen? It is
beyond a dream. But if we can get both of our
guys back, it'll be a fight. But all in all,
for the prediction, I do think London is going
to take the series. I'll put it right down the
middle. I'll say in six, just to call it even
right down the middle. It could go five. But
deep down, biased out the fucking window, I do
not see us getting swept. I really do not see
any scenario where we go down and get swept.
I don't see them being swept whatsoever. I think
I'm also going to be on the same boat with Kyle
being right down the middle in six. I feel like
if we can get both Kerry and Matthew back, it's
a whole new ballgame for that. But... Sorry,
I tried to be calm to it. But I, um... Yeah,
I'll do a rate down the note just because it
can't... Depending, it could be five, it could
be seven. So I'll just say London in six. And
it's tough, man. It's so tough. Five or six in
London. I'm sorry, I'm showing my bias. Five
or six. I'm sorry, I'll try to be more positive.
Everybody knows that we're Otters fans and that
we're all season ticket holders. We don't think
that we've hit, we have not done a good job at
hiding our bias when it comes, especially when
it comes to the Otters. A little bit better when
it comes to the NHL with the Penguins, but very
tough to hide our bias when it comes to the Erie
Otters. A team that plays, that we can walk to
go see. I wonder how you can tell we're a little
biased. that some of us are all biased to otters.
She's got otter shit everywhere. They got the
Erie Panthers one. Yeah. I was going to say,
I have a wall. That wall is all otters. I hope
you know. Mine is a Stanley Cup in the corner.
Yeah, you're right. Stanley Cup, the Penguins,
and then the... Some bobbleheads. The Sabres.
You got a cup, you got a mug, you got some posters.
World's best hockey fan. We got that at the Erie
Otters office night. All right, let's move on
to some NHL talk. We can do some weekly Puck
Doku or Hurdle, whatever we want to do first.
Ready, eeny, meeny, miny, that's the best one.
Okay, cool. Hurdle. Hurdle. I can see it. Not
in close. Sorry. Absolutely nothing. Well, he's
in the West. We know he plays in the West, yeah.
He's in the West. And he's not Swedish. Not Swedish.
Not a defenseman. He's 30 or below, and his number
is 74 or below. Honestly, the one we chose was
Victor Hedman. I was going to say Sean Monahan,
but I can't because he's with Columbus. Just
throw it out there like a Marc -Andre Fleury?
Just try to get the... Oh, no, the age would
be way off, so no. His head's shaped like an
upside -down pear. Why don't we go with, like,
a... How old's, like, a UC Saras? How old is
he? He's younger. Okay, all right. He's in the
Central, and he's 29 years old, and he's not
a goaltender, so we know he's a forward in the
Central division who is not Swedish or Finnish,
and his number is... No, we can say below 70.
70 or below. So he's a forward in the central.
Where's Taylor? No, Taylor Hall got traded to
Carolina. But how updated is this? Well, still,
Taylor Hall's number in Chicago is like 71. I
know the age is going to be off, but it'll at
least give us a position and a nationality. Okay,
he's not a winger. He's not Canadian. He still
could be a right winger, though. A right winger
or a center. Who's 29 years old, could be American,
could be Russian. And not Nashville, not Dallas.
So let's try to guess like an American center.
Up in Winnipeg. Like a Logan Stanley? Well, I'm
thinking of he played for Team USA. Kyle Conner.
Who? Could be. But that's not Kyle Conner, actually.
No. Because he has striped hair. But Logan Stanley
could be a good guess. Is he American? I think
so. He's younger, but I don't know how young.
Is Mark Scheifele American or is he Canadian?
He's Canadian. I thought he was Canadian. Yeah,
because he was on the same team as Crosby in
2010. Does he go for a Logan Stanley? That's
the best guess I got at the moment. No, okay.
He's always a defenseman. He's 26. He's Canadian.
I thought he was a center. Keep in mind his number
is 10 or below. I'm looking at Jamie Benn's number.
10 or below. It could be like 11. I think that
one goes. About a 2? 2 or 3. No, I think it is
10 below. Okay. Yeah, because 11 would be yellow
then. So 10 or below. So he's a 10 or below,
or could even just say single digit. Centerman.
Oh! No, Jack Eichel plays it in the West. In
Vegas. So Pacific. Pacific. I initially was going
to say that earlier. It does look like a Jack
Eichel kind of hairdo, though. That's why initially...
It's a little bit shorter. That's the thing.
Ryan O 'Reilly, but he's Canadian. His number
is 90. Oh, I'm thinking how funny it is. It's
still 90. I thought he was 9 in Colorado. Was
he 9 in Colorado? He was 9 in Colorado and in
the area. I'm just trying to think of centers.
He plays on Chicago that we just played today.
I'm telling you to be dead! No, no. I know one
would be Kairou, because he's Canadian and his
number's 15. Uh, 25. 20. Yeah. Christian is 15.
Who? Exactly. Uh... Could it be somebody on Lake
St. Louis, though? This was tough. I'm trying
to think of... It's probably that fucking fourth
liner that we have no idea. So what are the last
teams? We got Chicago. We got Minnesota. We got
St. Louis. We got Utah. Utah's Pacific. Are they
Pacific? They're Pacific. Colorado. Colorado.
Can't forget Colorado. Can't be, you know, if
they can't be a Cohen car. Once again, I'm trying
to think of an American that plays for Colorado.
What number is Logan O 'Connor? I think he's
like a 9, like 9 or 10. Because both him and
Drew are pretty young. Go for it. Is he on Colorado?
Yeah, he's Colorado. Damn, okay. He's American.
He's American, okay. And he's a center. We know
for sure that he's a center. He's not a defenseman,
left winger, right winger, or defenseman. Or
goaltender. So, he is a center for either Chicago,
Minnesota, St. Louis. Who's that? Who's that
eighth freaking team? Minnesota, Colorado. Winnipeg,
Nashville, St. Louis, Dallas. Are we sure Utah's
not in the Central? I swear they're still in
the Pacific. So I thought Utah bumped over to
the Central when Vegas came in. Oh, but Utah
is in the Central. Okay, so it could be somebody
on Utah. Logan Cooley is number 90. He's still
pretty young. Could be Logan Cooley. Go for Logan
Cooley. That's definitely an American name too.
It's on Utah. Okay. He's number 20. Okay. What
number is like Sean Jersey? I think he's number
21. Logan Cooley is 92. I was looking at the
age. He's 29 -year -old, plays for Utah. He's
a center. He's a number... He's a single -digit
number. Or 10. What number is Clayton Keller?
Oh, fuck. I was just watching one of the games.
Is he 9? I am 9. Could it be Clayton Keller?
It's not Clayton Keller. He is nine. I was right.
Seven or eight. Seven, eight. Could be even six.
Six, seven, eight. Five, three. Three on my own.
That was our last guess. There's two in between
Gunther and Doan. I can't remember what their
numbers are. Josh Doan? Yeah. I want to say Gunther's
like 23, 25 -ish in that range. And Doan's way
too young. Yeah, Doan's too young. Doan's not
29 years old. He must have been the oldest draft
pick then. Yeah. This past draft. Bukestad is
not. He's too old. No, he's way too old. John
Marino's defenseman, but that age would be close.
He's a little bit younger. I would have said
that already. I promise you that. The kicker
for the dolphin. Robbie, I'm going to fucking
kick you. My only name that comes to mind is
like a shot of Jersey, but I think, one, I think
he's a defenseman too. I think he's like 28 or
something. Jersey's a Ford. Is he? Jersey's a
Ford. What's his number? I don't know. Is he
American? I got nothing. We're really right on
the... We're going to be pissed with ourselves.
Just you watch. Again, if it's like a fourth
liner, I can't be that pissed off. I got nothing.
I got nothing. New Jersey's my best guess, but
I don't know what number he is. He's DR? Can't
find his name. I'm going to have to spell check
myself. It says D -U -R -U -Z -I or something
like that. Well, good thing I checked. He's a
divester. Okay. Yeah, I know it's cheating. Nick
Schmaltz. Okay, that makes sense. We cheated
a little bit, but we got 85 % of it. Let's redeem
ourselves with some doku. All right, going across
for the columns, it's Carolina, Smashville, and
the Shorts. And for the Rose, it's CBJ, Calgary,
and under 1 ,000 career games played. Well. Okay.
Well, we can do a Saul Greener for San Jose and
games played. Or Will Smith. 7%. We know Coltender
probably has, so Soros. And then... Um... There's
somebody yellow over there right now. I'm not
staying open. Um... Oh, I can picture... I can
picture his face. Came down from Montreal. Looks
like a fucking troll. I'd say just fetch a cup
just to get one on there. Okay. I can see his
fucking face, too. I'm going to look this up.
I'm sorry. This is going to really piss me off.
Just for a cock and yammy. Cock and yammy, okay.
Not gonna lie boys, the rest of this is looking
pretty tough. Yeah, this one's, I got fucking
nothing. I'm sure they have the, people have
played the Sharks. Mike Hoffman. Nashville, New
York, the Rangers, Montreal. I know he had a
stop in San Jose. Did he have a stop in Columbus?
No. Neither place. Rangers, Bruins, and Blue
Jackets. So only one team on here. This one's
nice. Evander Kane was Winnipeg, Manta, Buffalo,
San Jose, 9 or 10. Mike Sillinger, I want to
say is Nashville, Columbus. I'm pretty sure those
are two of the 10 or 11 teams he played for.
Yeah, I'm... I'm not having a whole lot of guesses
on any of them. These ones are tough. Want to
throw Cylinder on there? My best guess would
be for Columbus. Nashville. Yeah, alright. 90%.
Columbus, Carolina, Columbus, Sharks. We are
not doing good today, boys. No, no, no, never
mind. I don't think Freddie Anderson ever played
for Calgary. No, he... Wasn't he somewhere before
Toronto? CBJ. He was drafted by CBJ. Freddie
Anderson? Oh, no, drafted by Anaheim. Anaheim,
Toronto, Carolina. I'm thinking of Bobrovsky.
That's why. Because Bob did CBJ, Flyers, Florida.
He did Flyers, CBJ. Flyers, CBJ, whatever. Either
way, those are the teams. You sure Mike Hoffman
never touched Calgary or Carolina? Or Columbus,
sorry. No. Okay. Because I know we had a very
short stint. Maybe like a one -year stint with
San Jose. What about like a world in the end
you play? Sharks. Dallas. Pittsburgh. You play
for a lot of teams. Quite a few. A lot of teams.
So let's try to face some of those goaltenders
that jumped around. Mike Smith jumped around
a lot. Cam Talbot's jumped around a lot. Mike
Smith has done Calgary, Edmonton. Is that a hit?
I think he had Arizona. Arizona. It doesn't help
us here. Cam Talbot's done L .A. He's done both
Alberta teams. He's done Minnesota. He's in the
East now, which doesn't help us. Roll did Eric,
where's all his Eric style played? Carolina,
Buffalo, Bluecoats, Minnesota. Montreal. Montreal.
Florida too, right? Yeah, Florida. Mark has done
Rags, Panthers, and Red Wings, Florida, Flyers.
That's what he did a year in Flyers, didn't he?
Or name players that aren't helping us at all.
Oh, finally, I can think of anyone. Tyler Toffoli?
Flames Sharks? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah. Let's get the ball rolling, boys. Let's
get that momentum going. All right. I'm trying
to think. I don't know if Flames or McDonald's
playing anywhere else other than Calgary. Mike
Vernon, I don't know where else he would have
went. Huberto has only been, what, just Florida
and Calgary, right? McDonough's been with Nashville.
Nashville. Rangers. Tampa. Rangers. I think that's
it. I can't remember if he had a small stint
in Calgary. Mark Giordano has done Calgary. Toronto.
Has he done anywhere else? I feel like he might
have been somewhere before Calgary. But where?
Then you got Ethan's favorite player. What about
Ron Hainsey? I was thinking Milo Nunes has been
around a while. Has he played for Carolina or
Nashville? I know he played for Calgary. I thought
he had a small stint with Columbus, didn't he?
I don't remember. Jakub Voracek. He did Columbus.
Columbus. And like you said, Ron Haines was everywhere.
Didn't really do much, unfortunately, other than
in Pittsburgh. Like Billy Guerin, he also jumped
everywhere before finishing off in Pittsburgh.
I got nothing. Small is a little tougher. I'm
just going to say Mike Vernon for Calgary, Nashville.
It's a guess. I don't think he played for Nashville.
But, no, okay. O 'Reilly doesn't fit anywhere.
Yager doesn't fit anywhere. I should probably
drop that. Just a guess. Throw it out there.
That's right, he's retired. I know you don't
like him, but where all has Jake Wallman played?
Sharks, Detroit. Where was he before? I think
he was somewhere before Detroit. I know he got
traded out of San Jose. Where is he now? Where
did he get traded out? I know he got traded out
of San Jose. St. Louis, Nashville, Central. Is
it Central? Central. I thought it was Central.
I got nothing, man. Like a Forbes, like Philip
Forsberg? Well, he only fit in the Nashville
category. Because he hasn't played for San Jose,
he hasn't played for Carolina. Definitely not
for CBJ. I got nothing. My only others would
be like a Ron Francis for... Carolina Calgary,
but other than that, I have nothing. I don't
think he played for Calgary, no. I'm done out.
I'm done. The one that's bothering me is Nashville
Calgary. Yeah, that one's bothering the shit
out of me. Fucking James the Real Deal Neal.
God damn it. I forgot he got him from Nashville.
They don't ever give him to them. He went to
Nashville and we got Horquist, right? Horquist,
right. Horquist. I think Nick Spalling was in
that deal. David Red. Big Save Dave. Mark Jankowski.
Tyson Berry. Callie Arncroft. Eric Branson. Zach
Renato. Damn, dude. That was bad. Dougie Hamilton
for Calgary Carolina. Dougie Hamilton. Dougie.
J .S. Jaguar. Jaguar. Jankowski again. Jack Roslevic,
that's recent. Ryan Dezingle, Jake Bean. Curtis
McElhinney. Damn. Damn it all to hell. Well,
shit. Well, I'll go through my milestones, and
I have two categories of that. I guess the category
game. Milestones. March 23rd, the LA Kings set
a new franchise record for the longest home point
streak with 14 games. March 24th, Stars General
Manager Jim Neal recorded his 500th win, the
first ever Stars General Manager to reach that
milestone. And Alex Dobrynkat suppressed 500
career points with a two -point game against
Utah. What did he bring? March 27th, we are at
that game. With his goal against the Sabres,
Sidney Crosby breaks Wayne Gretzky's record for
the most point -per -game seasons in NHL history
with 20. Again, those are all in a row to start
his career. Just wanted to put that out there.
And again, we just mentioned earlier, Ryan McDonough
played in his 1 ,000th career game. March 29th,
Cam Lund of the San Jose Sharks scored his first
career goal against the Rangers. Queer? Queer.
Queer. And Leon Dreisaitl scored his 50th goal
the fourth time he's reached that milestone.
The only current active player with more 50 -goal
seasons? Alex Ovechkin with nine. March 30th,
Alex Markov played in his 800th game, and Rasmus
Dahling played in his 500th. On the 31st, Matt
Boldy scored his 100th career goal against New
Jersey. And Nathan McKinnon becomes the first
player in Avalanche history to record back -to
-back. 80 assist seasons. March 1st, or April
1st, sorry, April Fool's Day, Mark Stone played
in his 700th career game, and Lane Hudson breaks
the Montreal franchise record for points by a
rookie defenseman with 57. April 2nd, Sergei
Bobrovsky played in his 750th career game, and
JT Miller recorded point number 900 with an assist
against Minnesota. April 3rd, Rutger McGrody
of the Pittsburgh Penguins got his first career
point with an assist to a Brian Russ goal and
would go on to score his first goal all against
St. Louis. And in that same game, Vili Koivunen
recorded his first point with an assist to Rutger's
goal. On March 4th, Ryan Leonard of the Washington
Capitals got his first career goal with an empty
netter against Chicago. April 5th, Brian Russ
scored his 200th career goal against Dallas.
And Mark Scheifele recorded his 800th point against
Utah. And obviously, just earlier today, Alex
Ovechkin, the man, he did it. Broke Wayne Gretzky's
all -time goals record, scoring goal number 895
against the New York Islanders. And Sam Renzel,
the Chicago Blackhawks, scored his first career
point with an assist to an Ilya Mikheyev goal
against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Alex Ovechkin,
man, what? We saw history. History was made.
Again, obviously, did we talk about this earlier?
I think we did. Did we touch on it? No. I don't
think we did yet. We have not yet. We were talking
about doing it off camera. I was telling these
guys, I watched the entire first period, sat
there and watched the whole first period, nothing
happened. I was like, cool. I went up and I had
to go out and do something. Go meet with a mutual
friend, had a party that I had to go attend.
As I'm getting into the car to start driving,
Colin sends a message. He did it. 895. Are you
fucking kidding me? Quickly turn it on on the
channel in the game, and they're in the middle
of the ceremony. I'm like, motherfucker. Son
of a bitch. But we have witnessed greatness.
My only question is, can he hit 900 this year?
He's going to have to push. He's got five goals.
They've got, what, six, seven games left to get
five more goals? I mean. Five. Five more goals,
obviously. Five games? Five games. Five games,
five goals. They can do it, man. The thing is,
though, if he gets stuck at 899, does he call
it a career or does he come back for one more
to break 900 next season? Well, he has one more
year under contract. Does he? After this season.
So, regardless, he's coming back. The question
is, does he do it this season or does he do it
early next season? So, he's going to hit 900,
but does he do it this season? I'm going to go
out on a limb and say yes. I'm going to say he
hits it. I think he'll finish this year with
exactly 900. I think he'll do it last game. I
think he'll hit 900. Ironically against Pittsburgh
Penguins. I think it's kind of crazy. He can
be the first player to ever score 900 goals.
Obviously, he'll be the first player to ever
score 896, 897, 898. But, yeah, he will be the
first and only player to ever score 900 goals,
and he'll do it against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
I think he will. I'd say it's been an incredible
journey just listening. following this storyline
for the last couple years. Three or four years
ago, he still got quite a ways. I don't think
he's going to do it. He's getting old. He's slowing
down. Each of the last three or four seasons,
he's had 30 or 40 goal years. Alright, we'll
shut up. Let's look at the playoff chase, boys.
Let's look at the East first. Currently, there
are five teams locked in. Two from Metro, three
from Atlantic. Top two teams respectively, Washington
and Carolina, both locked in. Washington with
five games left on their schedule. They're sitting
at 107 points, 49 -19 -9. And Carolina is sitting
at 96 points with six games left, 46 -26 -4.
Still waiting for that third team to lock in.
Right now, New Jersey holds it. They have five
games left, 41 -29 -7 at 89 points. The next
closest team in the Metro is New York Rangers
at 79 points, who sit four points out of their
spot with six games remaining at 36 -33 -7. I
doubt New York's going to catch the Devils, but
they could catch Montreal, who's in the second
wildcard spot, which I'll get to later. Atlantic
Division, you know, soccer. Number one, Toronto.
76 games played, 47 -25 -4 from 98 points. Tampa
second, Florida third. Tampa has 94, Florida
has 92. That's something like a more and more
likely matchup. And then the two wild card spots
in the East, Ottawa, Montreal. Ottawa 90, Montreal
83. Ottawa and Montreal, have we ever seen that
coming? I'd say maybe one or the other, but both
Ottawa and Montreal fighting for a wildcard spot.
Well, I mean, there's only two Canadian teams
on the outside looking in, both being Calgary
and Vancouver. And then two teams from the east
already eliminated Philadelphia and Boston. Boston.
I think I read earlier, Pittsburgh has a 0 .2
% chance to make the playoffs right now. Yeah.
I'd say they are currently sitting... Just finish
the season with a tank? Oh no, they're mathematically...
Well, it depends on what Montreal does. But they're
pretty much mathematically eliminated. They have
four games left to make eight points. So, they're
eliminated. Buffalo has a better chance than
us. Eight games left. Eight points out. Or, not
eight. Six. Six. Yeah. And looking at the Central,
again, five in, three left. Winnipeg, Dallas,
Colorado, 108, 105, 98, respectively. Vegas,
LA, the two in the Pacific. Vegas has 100. LA
has 97. I'm pretty sure we're going to get another
LA freaking Edmonton matchup again. Yeah. What
is it, four years in a row now? Something like
that. Something like that, yeah. And then St.
Louis and Minnesota both have wild card spot,
93, 91, respectively. Five teams eliminated.
You can probably guess which five teams, so I'm
not even going to fucking say it. Yeah. Peat
Brig. London. Saginaw, right? Regina Pats. Or
not. The Rooski Oceaniac Otter Pats. The hell
with those moose heads. Yeah. Looking like a
typical NHL playoffs. A couple of new teams rolled
in there, like Ottawa and Montreal. That's going
to be pretty interesting. See if those two can
make it. I really, really do want to have Montreal
jump Ottawa, just so then for the first round
we can have the... Toronto -Montreal. Yeah. Well,
I was thinking Ottawa -Washington. Battle of
the nation's capitals. Oh, yeah. But I think
that would make Toronto -Montreal too then, right?
Yeah, it would. Because technically Washington
would get the lower wildcard spot. But right
now it's Montreal. But Montreal does have a game
in hand. So only time will tell. Pittsburgh's
probably going to be eliminated in the morning.
I'm willing to accept that. And wholeheartedly
will. At this point, just tank. Tank, tank, tank.
I've been standing out for a while now, but obviously
they want to win. Yeah. Right. Category time.
I'm going to name ten players. You guys have
to name what the category is. I have two categories.
One, they're both pretty easy, but the second
one I am looking for an exact thing. So the first
one is a little bit easier, but we'll get started
here. First category. First name, Alex Ovechkin.
Straight in the cup winners. First battle of
all. Eventually first battle of all. No. Austin
Matthews. Piersouf won the Rock of Broussard.
No. Not a good guess, though. Oof. That was not
going to be the one I was going to say, but...
I'm trying to remember if they won the Kohlberger
for rookie years. I think that one would fit
so far, but that's not what I'm looking for.
Okay. Quinn Hughes. Team captains. No. One of
these days I'm going to make it that simple and
you're not going to get it. Nope. Todd McDavid.
First round picks? No, still a good guess. I
was going to say that, but I wanted to wait another
one, so I'm going to pass. Steven Stamkos. Pass.
Pass. Damn right. Kel McCarr. Oh, God. This is
going to... This is going to lock me in. I got,
like, that's recording. It's like that. The hardest
ones I've ever done. You guys got in the first
two, both of them, I think. Yeah, you're welcome.
You're welcome for that. We both nailed this.
Have played international, on the international.
No. Trevor Zegras. Still nothing? Still got nothing.
No. Jack Hughes. Players who have at least led
their teams in points for the season. No. Does
that make sense? No. Ninth name, Patrick Kane.
Damn, I really think I'd stomp against here.
Final name, Vladimir Tarasenko. I really stumped
you guys on this one, didn't I? You're going
to feel pretty stupid. It is very simple. EA
cover athletes. Ovi in 21. Matthews in 20 and
22. Both Quinn and Jack, he's in 25. Austin McDavid
on 18. Stan Close on 12. Zegers on 23. Kane,
you have to go all the way back to 10. Teresanko
on 17. God damn it. Damn, I did not expect to
stump you guys on that one. Wow. All right. And
the second one, this is the one I'm looking for
an exact, like a specific thing. First name,
Jordan Stahl. I'm going to pass this one. I'm
also going to pass. Anders Lee. Pass. Captain
in the Metro. No, that's a good one. Alex Barkov.
Anderson, he spent his whole career in New York,
so that won't make sense. Pass. Pass. Roman Yossi.
I hope we don't have that clock up there. It's
like adding more pressure for whatever reason.
Pass. Made to the conference final. No. Anze
Kopitar. Captains over the age of 35. You're
on the right track. Exactly. You're on the right
track with captains. I'll tell you that right
now. Pass. Connor McDavid. That just threw a
wrench. I was going to say captains that are
the same age, but obviously McDavid is not the
same age as Jordan Stahl or Anze. I'm going to
pass this round. Played over 1 ,000 games. No.
I mean, not 1 ,000 games. 1 ,000 points. No,
still not bad. Yeah, Hunter's league's not even
close. Jamie Benn. Oh, that ain't even worth
it. Every time I'm like, next round I'm going
to do this, and it's wrong. What are you thinking?
Well, originally I was going to say captains
that were drafted in the first round, but Jamie
Benn wasn't a first -rounder. Okay. So that's
not it. I'm not 100 % sure if Anders Lee was
either, but... I think all the other ones do
line up, though. Yeah. Oh, here, hold on. Let
me look that up real fast. I'll pass, but I don't...
After what Colin... Next, Gabe Landeskog. Yeah,
Anders Lee was sixth round in 2009. So you said
Gabe Lanscott. Gabe Lanscott. Can you go through
the list up until this point? Jordan Stahl, Anders
Lee, Alex Barkov, Roman Yossi, Anze Kopitar.
Connor McDavid, Jamie Benn, Gabe Landeskog. Captains
that have played somewhere in the CHL. No. Okay.
Not bad. I was going to say something similar,
but I'll at least try to, like, play board captains
for their specific, doesn't matter what junior,
what league, but at least a captain for their
respective junior league. No, no. Second to last
name, Alex Ovechkin. Oh, of course, if I want
to wait one more. Nothing. Nothing. Final name,
Sid the Kid, Sidney Crosby. I got nothing. I
know. Stumped on both of them. This one I was
looking for. The longest tenured captains from
10 to 1. Oh, oh. So Crosby's the longest tenured
out of those 10, except for him at the bottom.
Jordan Stahl's the most recent out of the 10
longest. Okay. Obviously, Crosby goes all the
way back to, what, 2006, 2007? And then Ovechkin's,
like, 07, 08. I think Landis Clark was 10, 11.
Ben was, like, 10, 11. Ovechkin didn't get it
until, like, 09, 10. Yeah. The first four, I
think Ben was also 12 -13, but then there was
a huge jump. McDavid didn't get named captain
until 17 -18 or something like that. His second
year in the league. And then Kopitar, Yossi,
Barkov, Lee, and Stalov are all within the same
two -year period of 18 -19 to 19 -20. Those are
the longest tenured captains from 10 -1. Oh,
damn. I really thought you were going to at least
get the cover athlete one, but I think I did
good. I think I really did good on the order
for that one. I had to watch after last week
or after last episode putting fucking Alex Lyon
at the second one or third one or whatever it
was. And you are welcome for a completely fucking
good order. But the last thing I think we wanted
to touch on this week was award predictions.
Oh, shit. I completely forgot about that. I'm
not going to lie to you. I mean, Lawnmower is
pretty damn easy to think about. Yeah, we can
go down the list and just name off a couple names
of what we think could. The Art Ross obviously
is the player who leads the league in points.
I think there's only two names that can reasonably
do it. That'd be Nate Mack and Leon Dreisaitl.
Kucherov could, if he has a really good last
couple games, he could do it. But it's really
looking like it's going to be probably Nate Mack.
I think it'd be his second straight. Didn't he
get it last year? I want to see. Or did Cooch
steal last year? I don't remember. Yeah, I mean,
I don't. That one's kind of a given for who can
win that one. Next up, you got the Calder. The
best rookie. This one can go many different ways.
You got Sal Brini, you got Smith, both in San
Jose. You've got that Russian kid out in Philadelphia.
That's who I have. Matthew Michkov. Three names
I have are Matthew Michkov, Lane Hudson out of
Montreal, who's having the year of his life as
a rookie, and then Dustin Wolfe, the goaltender
from Calgary. Dustin can really, really make
a good player. When's the last time a goalie
won the Calder? Was it... Andrew Hammond in,
like, 03, 04. I can't remember. It's been at
least 20 -something years since the goal. It's
been a long time. I have Macklin Celebrini as
an honorable mention. I mean, he's still having
a great year, but, I mean, he did get injured.
But at the same time last year, so did Conor
Bedard, and he still went on to win the Colter.
So that's why I'm still putting Celebrini as
a... Steve Mason in 2009. Steve Mason won a Colter.
Steve Mason in 09. And Rykoff in 04. Rykoff,
not Hammond. You've got Nabokov in 0 -1, and
that's all the goaltenders this side of the Millennium
Tournament. I did not know Steve Mason won one.
Yeah, otherwise you've got Brodeur, Ed Belfort.
I'm going way back. I'm in the 80s now. Tom Brasso.
Okay, back to reality. I mean, Wolf could win
it. He's having a hell of a year. He really is.
If I were to choose out of all those, I'm honestly
going to go to... The Philly guy, I'm going to
say Michkov. But, I mean, popularity contest,
I could see going to Celebrini. You know, just
that first overall pick favorite. I think that's
going to be more of an obvious choice. I think
my three was, of course, obviously, Lane Hudson,
Mitch Jacob, and then Dustin Wolfe were mine.
But I think Salabrini is probably more going
to be the... I can see him winning. It's a popularity
contest. Yeah, that's what I said. It's a popularity...
Well, since we're just talking about Dustin Wolf,
let's stay on that thing and let's go to the
Vesna. Who do we think can win the Vesna? Wow.
I have three clear -cut that I think could win
it. Then I have an honorable mention that I think
should be in the running. I think Dustin Wolf
should be in the running. For Vesna, too? For
Vesna, too. You think so? For what he's doing
as a rookie up in Calgary. I mean, I'm sorry,
Calgary isn't the best team. No. But they're
still in the hunt. They're still a bubble team.
A big part of that goes to Justin Rolfe himself.
I mean, kids won 25 games out of 48 starts. I
mean, he's 25 -16 -7 record. 2 .63 goals against
a .910 save percentage. Pretty damn good as a
rookie. My three frontrunners I have, honestly,
being Conor Hellenbach, Andrzej Bazalewski, I
think, is back in that running, and Jake Ottinger.
The Ottinger, Hellenbach one are up for the cut.
They're the ones you expect to be there until
one of them gets seriously injured or falls off
a cliff. Vassie is back to playing how Vassie
plays, and he's also doing really fucking good
this year. But the honorable mention that I have
that I think he should be in the running, but
it won't because of those three, Darcy Kemper.
He's having a hell of a year up in L .A. Or over
in L .A. He's having a hell of a year. Heck of
a year aside from injuries. Yeah, I mean, he's
having a very good year. And then Big Steve Davis
already stepped in, too. David had a really good
one, too, over there. Big Rich and Kemper. I'd
like to see Ottinger get one. I think Hellbuck
got it last year. But I'd like to see Oninger
win one because he's insane. I think he's still
only 25, 26 years old. Yeah, actually, so Hellbuck
has gotten it twice. He's gotten it twice now.
So going back, you've got Hellbuck, Allmark,
Sterkin, Fleury, Hellbuck, Dassey, Peke, Sergei,
Bobrovsky, Holtby, Price, Rask. Bobrovsky, Dunquist,
Thomas, Miller. All the way back to 2010. Miller!
Miller! Man, Marnie Brodeur won it quite a few
times. Yeah, dude. He was good for a very long
time. I mean, Tim Thomas won it twice. Brodeur's
won it four times. Hasek's won it a handful of
times. One, two, three, four, five, six times.
For Hasek? Hasek, 94, 95, 97, 98, 99, 01. Damn.
It's only like three straight. 97, 98, 99. Damn.
I think my honorable mention is Kemper. I think
my top three are Bobrowski, Hellebuck, and Odinger.
I could see Bobrowski in there too, honestly.
I would say Mazzy is also another honorable too.
Let's switch ships again. I mean, get the quick
one out of the way, the Rocket Richard. I think
there's only one clear -cut winner. It's going
to be Landry. I don't think we need to touch
on that one. But the heart, the MVP. Who do we
think can win MVP? Honestly, after what we saw
today, I think Alex Ovechkin deserves a shot
at it, man. What he's doing at 39 years old,
man, I mean, I really think he deserves to at
least be in the conversation of it. I mean, 42
goals was part of it. He's 42 goals now? 42 goals
at 39 years old. He's top three. In like 65 games
or something like that? And missed a handful
of games because of a broken leg. Broken leg.
Broken leg. Like, I'm sorry, but who the fuck
are you again? And how are you so goddamn good?
I don't get it. He should be in the running.
Do I think he will be at the end of the day because
of some of the other guys? Probably not, but
he 100 % should be. He's on my list for top three.
Round of my top three, I think Nate Mack's obviously
going to be up there as well. You're going to
go with the last five winners. Nate Mack, Connor
McDavid, Matthews, Leon, and Kucherov. I have
Kucherov up there as well. Ovi, Nate Mack, and
Kucherov is my top three. Honestly, I think my
top three was Ovi, Matthews, and McKinnon. But
I think Ovi should be the one to get it this
year. I think only two more that I think we should
touch on that we know most about being the Norris
and the Jack Adams. The Norris obviously being
the best defenseman. I only have two for this
one that I have an honorable mention as well.
My top two being Kel McCarr and Quinn Hughes.
I think those were kind of... Those are no -brainers.
No -brainers. Kel McCarr is Kel McCarr and Quinn
Hughes is Quinn Hughes. They're both very good.
For the system of both these teams, Makar, I
think, is going to be a lifetime Mav. Quinn's
probably a lifetime. He's going to be a Canuck
for at least a long time. Honorable mention,
though, because of how he's been able to carry
this team through everything they've been through,
especially this past offseason, I've seen Zach
Wierenski. Yeah, he's been kind of under the
radar very good this year in a very not -so -good
Columbus team. But you know that this team every
day, they're trying their best to win then for
Johnny. So you know this year was all for pride.
All for pride, not for Johnny, man. I think he
has done a very good job as a D -man. That veteran,
I think probably the most veteran D -man. The
longest tenured player on that team, I think.
He's the number one guy there. Yeah, he's the
number one guy there. I think he is the longest
tenured guy on that team now. I think he deserves
at least an honorable mention to be in the discussion
for it. Finally, the Jack Adams Coach of the
Year. Again, I have three, and then I have an
honorable mention. My top three, I think Craig
Brubé out of Toronto. I think he has it on his
first year coming into that, a team that has
been just heartbroken time after time after time,
first -round exit after first -round exit, still
able to keep this team heads up and pushing them
to the finish line again to take another shot
at it. As your coach, are we going to see a different
result this time? Who knows? Bruce Castillo.
Oh, not Bruce Castillo. Montgomery. Whoever's
in fucking St. Louis. Jim Montgomery? Yeah, Montgomery.
He's in St. Louis now? Remember, he got fired
like three hours later. Oh, hey, he's in St.
Louis now. Oh. So, and the bender that they've
been on as of recently, like... They're on a
10 -12 game winning streak. Yeah, they're on
fire right now. Bennington's been playing out
of his mind, too. So Montgomery deserves to be...
Honestly, now that I think about it, you could
possibly put Bennington as a mention for the
Vesna, too, but he's been playing out of his
mind this year. Ever since Four Nations, he's
been out of his mind. That's definitely a morale
booster for him playing in that tournament. Yeah,
and that final win, man, just... You can tell
he's... Still the same whiny bitch, but he can
back it up. I haven't seen too much of it as
of recently. But, you know, he deserves to run
his mouth after that tournament. But, yeah, I
was going to say, I feel like we can overlook
with how he plays. My other two that I think
are in the front running are Spencer Carberry
from Washington and Scott Arnie, first year out
of Winnipeg. Again. New guy coming into that
team that, again, has had playoff struggles,
was able to go in there and get them right back
into the playoffs, right where they rightfully
belong, I think, with how well they've been playing
this year. I'm going to be an honorable mention
to John Cooper out of Tampa Bay. Losing your
team captain, the guy that literally has been
probably, I think, the captain of the team since
he's been there, that's all he knows. Well, after
St. Louis left. How long has Cooper been there?
Years. I know he's been there for quite some
time. I don't know if St. Louis would have still
been there when Cooper came in. I know Lekevi
and Louise were captains while Stamkos was there.
Early on in his career, at least. I think it's
very possible that any one of those four can
win. Yeah, that's about all I got for now. He
was announced the interim head coach on March
25th, 2013. 2013, okay. 2013. Obviously being
the longest tenure. Why would he still have been
there then? John Cooper, currently 57, has never
seen the Toronto Maple Leafs win a Stanley Cup.
He was born August 23, 1967, out of Prince George,
B .C., Canada. That leaves him to win, what,
May of 67? Yep. They still only won two rounds.
That's still a crazy stat. The fact is, you know...
They have never won more than two rounds in franchise
history. Even though they have won, what, 11
cups, 13 cups? They have never won more than
two rounds. That's an unbelievable stat. They've
won at least 22 rounds between the start of their
franchise and 67. 22 rounds. At least. I'm sure
there's definitely a couple appearance in the
finals and losses, but... Well, that's what I'm
saying. At least. Yeah, at least. And then, you
know, I'm pretty sure they have more... They
have more round wins between their start and
67 from 67 to 2002. Or 2001, sorry. That's crazy.
I think that about does it, boys. You got anything
else to add? Nope. I can do a quick skim through
our chat here, see if there's anything else you
want to bring up. There's a lot of bullshit that
went on in the chat, by the way. Yeah, there's
a lot. I think we about touched on just about
everything. That five -overtime game Colin sent
in earlier. Cape Breton Screaming Eagles winning
in five overtimes. Dude, that's almost three
whole freaking games right there. Could you just
imagine playing three games for the price of
one? Oh, I didn't realize that the OHL had done
this. The Overtime Heroes, where depending on
the playoff round, if a player scores an OT goal,
X amount of money goes to a charity of their
choice. For Game 3, Zach and Ierea, Zach Preck
scored that OT winner. $2 ,000 went to a charity
of his choice. I forget what charity he chose.
That's pretty cool, though. That's awesome. First
round was $2 ,000. Second round was $3 ,000.
$4 ,000 is the third round. And $5 ,000 in the
finals. From the OHL. I hope we get seven overtimes
in the finals. I want all overtimes. All seven
games to go to overtime. All overtimes, every
single game from here on out. It would be, what,
$35 ,000 of charity in the finals alone? Yeah.
That'd be insane. Like, I don't care who wins,
just go for it. Every single game from here on
out, let's go to overtime. It might be kind of
stroke -worthy, but we're going to be like, oh,
God damn it. Why the fuck do we just do this?
Yeah, that is really awesome. That's a good thing
to bring up. That's awesome. I totally forgot
about that. Again, after that game 3, I saw that
pop up from Saginaw's Facebook page. I'm like,
what is this about? Because people were asking
it. I was like, okay, I'll do my research. That's
what I came up as. And apparently every single
player has this picked out. One charity that
they really love and want to go for. That's pretty
awesome. I love that. I think that does it for
this week's episode of the Book Buster Podcast.
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