The Devils are coming off a big win in Nashville, can they keep it rolling against the Avs? The Devil You Know? is back. Lots and lots of trade speculation.
[00:00:00] It's kind of hard to, uh Hey everyone, Mr. Devil here, Kenny Danico, three-time Stanley Cup champion of the New Jersey Devils And you're listening to the Uncle Puckers NJD Podcast, Let's Go Devils! Hi guys Hey boys Hi How's everybody doing today? Hi
[00:00:29] I'm good, I'm feeling brave today, you know what I did? No, I don't I tackled some demons I went ahead and I had another enchilada And I'm happy to report I did not lose a tooth this time Well that's fantastic Yeah I didn't know how long it would be until I, you know, tried another enchilada You don't do that so quickly after Yeah, it was quick That's really weird, I had enchiladas for dinner You don't do that so quickly after, uh
[00:00:59] You gotta face your fears, Tim Yeah, sometimes you just gotta suck it up and eat a fucking enchilada Eat enchilada What's the chances of breaking a tooth on an enchilada? Well, I mean, it's not many foods that are that soft So I don't know Exactly Had to be a fluke I tested that theory It was very, it was very good I was supposed to go back to the dentist today But I did not I just No I'm not in the fucking mood to go get numbed up And go sit there and deal with that shit again
[00:01:27] So I rescheduled So For you I'm always in the mood to get numbed up Now Chris just numbed us up Yeah, I'm a brain numbing I need a I need your opinion on some guys Oh, you just saw that? Um, yeah, Mike's blaming you And then I I concurred with him I So you guys Like We talk all the time And Bobby, you've known me forever I'm a dog person
[00:01:57] And we've always had Like My old dog Like before my kids were born Like when he got to like six or seven We got another dog To kind of Give him somebody to play with Later in his life Extend him a little bit And it worked And then You know, when he passed And then I had the one Uh Then when she got about six or seven I got another one So I've always kind of had two dogs But So now I'm down to one Because my other girl She died about a year or so ago
[00:02:26] So now my dog is about six I work my ass off My daughter's away in college My wife works in the city My son has his own life And school and everything But they want another dog And I want another dog But I just don't know If I can fit the time in What's your opinion, guys? Should I just say Fuck it and do it And get another dog Or do I have to be like The responsible adult In this situation?
[00:02:55] I don't think it's that easy To just say Fuck it and do it Get another dog If Karen's gone Most of the day And your shifts are long The dog needs to go out Especially if it's a young dog It needs to get You know, those breaks I mean Dude, I don't know How you would do it Kids aren't there to help Well, my son would get home From school around Quarter to two So I leave for work Around 8.39 Give or take So from like 8.30 to 1.30 1.45 He would definitely be alone And in his crate
[00:03:25] That's not too bad And my wife gets home Around 4.30 So You know, then Hopefully my son Can chill with him For a while And stuff And then my But I'm not there Like that's the thing Like I've always Trained all my dogs And stuff And I don't have the time And I think that's What's holding me back Because I don't have the time Yeah, it's all It's weird because You are a big dog guy I've always had him As far as I've known you Yeah But yeah I don't know Sometimes you gotta be Grown up about it Now me
[00:03:54] I love my dog But I'm not getting another one Because We can't like Just travel And trying to figure out That sort of thing It's just It's not working And I wanna go places Like Europe Type places You know And just Can't do that We can't do it I mean We don't kennel our dog We don't think it's fair No it's not We leave her with people That we know Neighbors and stuff like that When we do do a One or two day thing But everything else She's with us You know On vacations I mean
[00:04:23] She was in the Wrangler All the way down to Florida Last year You know She did fine But I love her I'm just kinda like Ten years from now When I'm nearing the end Of Working Or whatever Might just wanna travel That's all I wanna do Alright So Tim Should I get the dog Mercer No You shouldn't Like Cause You're gonna feel bad about it When you're on your shift Like Is your son reliable enough To like Yes See his reliable The second When he gets home Yeah
[00:04:53] He is You can't get a puppy Because that's gonna need A lot more Care and maintenance You're gonna need to hire someone To come between You know Eight when you leave And when your son gets home Yeah It's a lot It's a lot So I'm like Unless you're gonna get Like some Middle-aged dog Like Yeah And I don't want A middle-aged dog Yeah You want a puppy Right You want You want a little You want a little Dawson Mercer I don't even know I don't even know Why he asked He's gonna get the puppy
[00:05:23] I don't know yet That's what I wanted Your opinion on And now I have to Mull it over But I All right So I guess we should Jump into the Nashville game Right I mean We have Yeah So I mean What I mean What else can you say Right Just What a bounce back I mean We talked about it Against the Dallas team That Yeah They played all right And And they didn't get the results I mean But holy shit They were finishing on Sunday I mean Be it A really bad Nashville team
[00:05:52] But And I see that You know Talking about the fans The devil fans That were there That was One of the coolest things Is the amount Of devil fans That were at that game Because It was just That's all that was left Halfway through the third period And they were chanting They were having a good time That was super awesome to see But You know What do you guys Takes on On the game Bob We'll start with you Well I like the fact that Yeah It's a bottom It's a bottom Feeding team So we blew them up And I like that We needed a game like that 5-0
[00:06:22] Looks like we destroyed them That's good It's better than Going in there And like Squeaking one out Against that team So I'm fine with the fact That it was a bad team Because of the way The outcome was I'm only disappointed In one thing That we get Five goals from this team And of course None of them are my Prediction that Timo Meier Would get on the board And Tatar getting on the board Before Timo So we gotta talk about That a little more But Otherwise it was just great It was just fun We all wanted that type of game We're all texting each other To say I wanna blow out I wanna see it I was really disappointed When I thought Excuse me
[00:06:51] That Dawgs was gonna lose The shutout And then of course Didn't Good challenge He was money You know Dude he played so good He's played great It's so refreshing Not having to deal With bad defense And bad goaltending This year Yeah what did I What did I send you guys What did Todd Cordell Tweeted out So About 10 games Since Markstrom went down When they're first In save percentage First in high danger Save percentage They've given up Fewer goals Than everybody But the Jets
[00:07:21] And that's in the last 10 games That's since Markstrom went down Dawes and Allen So they've basically been You know The best goaltending Tandem in the league Since Markstrom went down Which is funny And you're right It is nice To not have to Bitch about goaltending But now we have This whole other Fucking problem That we have to Bitch about Which is scoring And of course Then they go out And they Yeah they blew the doors Off of Nashville And Nashville stinks But then Nashville Also just came off Of beating Colorado And that's kind of like Hockey is such a funny game
[00:07:51] It's such a weird game Like they can play great Against a good team Dallas Not win You know Not finish anything Play okay Against Nashville And finish everything And you're just like What the fuck Like what is this team I want to roll those Two games Into a little ball And make that What this team is Moving forward And they dominated Play against Nashville I mean you can even say They dominated play Against the Stars As well But they dominated play Like every
[00:08:20] I mean a couple of times In the second Especially that You know That Casey and Hughes Tandem got a little Pinned back there But Casey's learning And I will take him Any day of the week Over Nemich I don't want to see Nemich back in this lineup I just I like what Seamus Casey brings I like his offense I like everything about The kid Except for his height I mean he What is he He's three and a half feet tall I think he's the shortest Hockey player ever
[00:08:49] And that's on skates He's our height Chris Yeah I know And hey Michael DeCaro's on I was just talking to him today But yeah It is a bit of a curse Right? To have every aspect Of our team playing In top form At the same time We can't do it I'm so tired Of having Like one Massive glaring issue With this team Like it just like Put all the pieces together Please One thing You know And to your point About them dominating I wouldn't say You know Necessarily dominate Dominate on the scoreboard But like play
[00:09:21] I think we were a little Leaky with chances We gave up a few Breakaways A few two on ones There wasn't any real Like They weren't They never really got pinned Very deep And if they did For you know Over 15-20 seconds Guys were eating Pucks for Dawes Like bashing At a couple good blocks Pesci ate a lot of pucks Mercer jumped out of the way Of a couple pucks Because he's a giant pussy Fair enough Boy
[00:09:50] He's falling out of the table Hey I gotta play I gotta play for the crowd here I mean look I'm kind of You know With Mercer and Nemich I would Utica is another team I'd rather trade him though Mike Wouldn't you Like just trade Nemich And try and get Ourselves a nice piece for him I mean I think That's a valuable trade chip I don't know necessarily I just don't see If we sign Kovacevic Extension I just don't see a place Where Seamus, Casey And Nemich
[00:10:19] I don't see both of them Staying with this team You can't There's just The pipeline's too clogged And especially On the defensive end I just don't know How you do it And it looks like They're very interested In re-signing Kovacevic So yeah I mean With the trade deadline A week away I think you have to do something You have Mercer Nemich Those are two Extremely valuable trade chips I think they gotta go out And use them Go and Look The Eastern Conference With the exception Maybe of the Washington Capitals It's wide open
[00:10:49] I mean I think we have Just as good of a shot As anybody So I say do it Yeah I mean Points wise We're tied with Carolina Right now And that Rantanen experiment Is failing miserably And it sounds like It's going terribly Right now Like You know All the chatter about them Potentially flipping him again Which is ridiculous Like that That they would do that But Yeah I'm I'm still of the mind That That we need to maximize The goaltending That we're getting More than anything Like we need to maximize The goaltending
[00:11:19] That we're getting Because I don't know If we're going to get Goaltending like this Next year Or the year after Or the year after that We have no idea And we have duplicative assets In that For one spot We have three players For one spot It kind of sucks That it kind of Happened all this way But nobody saw Koga Savage Become the player That he did this year And I think that was The one One kind of kink And fits his plan So you have to Kind of adapt your plans Right And we need to adjust To what our needs are And our needs are scoring If we can land
[00:11:48] A good Top six Scoring winner Winger You know That with some term And that's the thing It's like I don't I wouldn't flip Nemets For like Brock Besser With no term You know Like I don't think That makes any sense Like if there's someone Like McCann Who has a couple more years left I think that Kind of makes a little bit Of sense Probably not Raquel I think that's probably A lower package for that In a perfect world We hold on to all of them And those two Shut the fuck up And Stu and Utica For another year
[00:12:17] And Cook and Utica For another year So I don't know Seamus Casey Would not have a problem With that Right Whether or not Then Nemets Starts saying That he demands A trade Or whatever And forces your hand So that's why Before things get that way And Nemets then becomes You're not going to get The full value from him Because everybody knows He wants out So you know You're going to get low balled I say move him now If you can And if you can get the piece Like you're saying
[00:12:45] Like a guy like McCann And it's hard Because you know To Mike's point It's like not There aren't many players That like have that actual value That Nemets does A right handed premium Defenseman with good Offensive upside Like that's a very Premium asset to have Unfortunately We're at the mercy Of the current marketplace For that That we have And there aren't a lot of There aren't a lot Of sellers right now Or people that should be selling Because half of them Think they're still in contention You know Like
[00:13:15] Is Seattle even willing To part with McCann You know And In a seller's market You have to overpay For things So I don't want us To fall into the trap Of Of being like Oh I don't like the prices Or I don't You know Like that fits his lines Like I don't like the prices Like we have an immediate need We have Everything Going right for us Except for one This one need Like if we fill that hole I think we can I think we can make A nice little run I don't know It could totally backfire
[00:13:44] But at least he took a shot You have to take a shot Now There was a name Brought up today That I saw And I did not think In any way Shape or form That this guy I don't even think This guy's going to be traded But there was an article Put out today I don't even have it But it was just Brad Marchand Would fit With New Jersey Now I don't know If Boston's going to move him I doubt it But what do you guys Think of that I mean We're talking about Somebody to play with Jack
[00:14:14] And Brad Will Brad Marchand Fit that bill I don't know man No No No Bob It doesn't seem like The right fit I like the player he was And what he can bring to a team Especially In the playoffs But I don't know I don't know if I like that I don't know if I like it either But I mean His old balls And his loose skin Gross He is old I don't know what kind of term he has
[00:14:43] I don't know what kind of money he has Nor do I have any idea What Boston would want for him And I'm just throwing a name out there I mean I like his I think his style of play Would serve us well In the playoffs But That's about it I don't know if I If I would make that move And again I don't know I mean Right now To be honest with you For every trade Out there That we've heard The one that I'm kind of like Maybe we can actually Pull this off
[00:15:12] Is Jordan Kairou I honestly think We can make something happen there What would you give for him? I think you'd have to give Oh Brad's a Martian's a UFA After this year Okay Then we don't want him No Yeah we don't want him I think Kairou Has some term I'm pretty sure He's on 28, 29 Around there 30 Yeah So Jordan Kairou Makes sense
[00:15:42] Well what would you have to give up? It would definitely be A Mercer And You know Some picks Probably Probably one of our Second rounders Mercer I don't know what else Maybe throw in You know Another prospect Or whatever But That one makes sense to me I'm not Was not a huge fan of him But the more I'm thinking of A guy that can play with Jack Has some term Can grow with this team And be there He's a better player Than Dawson Mercer I say If you can do it
[00:16:12] Go get Jordan Kairou What do you guys think of that? Initial thought is that It would be an upgrade You know We'd have to Give away Mercer Like you said for that But I don't think I think it's Advantage us In that situation And Mercer Listen He's still a great player Or a good player Very good player Who may wind up being Better Somewhere else We don't really know But I know that On this team right now Just Seems like we've got some Options To upgrade
[00:16:42] And it's going to take Probably putting him in To do that So I'd be game I don't want to waste These next few years I think we've got to Make some bold moves Probably Bolder than this But I don't know That those are out there
[00:17:24] Do we all agree To get it done They don't seem to me To be a prototypical Stanley Cup winning team What do you think Guys We need guys To revert back To what they're Capable of You know We need Timo to bury His fucking shots We need Holla To not be awful Like Holla Doesn't have a point In like 25 games He's Like If you look at His stat line For the last 25 games It's like he's not Even out there The only reason You know he's out there
[00:17:54] Is because he has Minuses next to his name Like He's Like He's awful Like I don't know What happened to this guy I don't know if he still Has this lingering Ankle issue He's also If you look at NHL Edge The speed data He's also lost Like he His top High end speed Was in the 96 percentile Last year Now he's below 50 So like he's lost A major step I have no idea If it's injury related Or not But It's pretty bad And I just wanted to mention I saw DeCaro Comment about Moving Nemec or Casey
[00:18:24] Up to wing I don't I don't think That ever really Can work At the NHL level Just as a defenseman You're You know And if you've been A defenseman Your whole life Your instincts Are totally different It's almost like The difference Between being a quarterback And a receiver You know You're looking at Looking at the breakout You're receiving As a wing Versus You know Being the Being the distributor From the defenseman You know Your instincts In the offensive zone Are different
[00:18:54] Right It could work Eventually If Casey Got some run At forward In like the AHL And settled into it But the NHL Isn't really a league I don't think Where you can just Experiment like that You know You have to learn And kind of Drive in And going back To the instincts Get the instincts Within the system To just kind of Do things The way That a forward Does things And do things The way That a defenseman Does things And there's a lot That goes into Being a wing Along the boards Little tricks You know When the puck's
[00:19:23] Rimmed around to you How to get it To stop spinning You know How to get it Off that Yellow dasher There's a lot Of things That go into it It's not just As simple as saying Hey just Flip them up Some guys can do it Some Brendan Smith For fuck's sake Played forward In defense So it's possible But he was also A 20 year NHL veteran And so Right I think I've wondered About that Because Casey Did play some Forward In Michigan But I think At the NHL level You can't really Just kind of
[00:19:53] Experiment like that Michael was saying I meant that One of those guys Could be a trade Chip for a winger Now Well honestly Then I'll shut The fuck up Michael Sorry Mike Ruff Writes about Lawson Kraus Like I forgot about him This guy might be The answer He has eight goals This year But he's a big Tough dude Right I mean This is a guy That we're looking Like He's Six foot Four
[00:20:22] 216 pounds He's Thighed through 26 27 Let me see He was taken Number 11 overall Back in the 2015 draft So it says His Elite prospects A big body Power winger With the ability To physically Dominate Making him A prominent Forechecking Presence Every night Possesses good Hands that can Be used to Make crisp Passes To let loose Accurate NHL level
[00:20:51] Shots Paired with His strength And skating Ability His skill set Allows him To contribute Offensively As well as Create space For teammates He's a guy That we've Always Had I've Always Had An eye He's A big Boy Those are Always Attractive Like Trent Frederick Is Attractive To Krause Is a Little Bit More Offensive Upside Than
[00:21:28] That's a Good Question I don't Know Because I'm Pretty Autistic About Them Needing A right Shot I'm Convinced That's What Jack Needs On His Wing I Don't Know If There's Any Truth To It's Just Pure Vibes But You know When Jack Was At The Program With Caulfield As His Wing They Were Nasty Together And When Jack And To Foley Together Even Though A lot Of It Was Power
[00:21:59] But Is He A Right Shot Or Left Shot Doesn't Have That Here So Let's Find Out I Don't Think He Was Watching The Pornos Jay Show I Think He Was Doing The Pornos What Was That Yeah Yeah Unfortunately No He
[00:22:28] But Yeah He Killed Us And There Was Talk Now Carter Hart Coming Back To Philly No Way Really Yes Apparently That He's Going To Have His Court Date Soon And That's Going To Be I Guess If It Really Well For Him They Were Talking About That Yeah Yeah So We'll See I don't Know Maybe There's Incremental Evidence To That He Just Like You You know Delivered Pizzas And Was Like What The Left So AI Just Wrote That
[00:22:59] Lawson Crouse Shoots Left He Plays Left Wing For The NHL Utah Jazz Hmm That's Interesting The Fuck Did The Jazz Go To The NHL So He's A Left Shooter A Left Shot So You're Out On Now Tim You Don't Want Him No No I Take Him But You Know I Don't Know If He's I Still Think We Should Be Aiming Higher Like Crouse I
[00:23:38] Pure Goal Score I Don't Care If They Don't Have Any Other Skill Set Read Michael Dakar's Last Comment Because I Could Not Freaking Agree More And Bobby I Know You Can
[00:24:08] I Don't Know Like I Haven't Watch Him Enough To I Think To To Know What He Actually Play Like I Was Kind Of Impressed With Raquel Like Raquel Has A lot More To His Game Than I Thought He Did Although His He's He's He's He's An Absolute Career Season But He Was Getting In The Corners And Digging Around And Being Kind Of A Prick Too So I Don't Know Besser Is Kind Of That Guy He Can Be A
[00:24:37] Greasy In The Corners Brandon Tanev Is Another Guy That Jace No Just Brought Up Forgot About Turbo Yeah Toss Him In A Package With McCann I Mean I Like Raquel A Lot And If You're Putting Up Career Numbers On That Team And That Team Bad I Mean It's Just Really Bad They Outplayed The Rangers The Other Night I Mean They Dominated That Game And Soderbloom Or Whoever The Hell Was
[00:25:07] In That Seriously Couldn't Stop A Fucking Beach Ball I Mean
[00:25:50] So And We Don't Sign Either Of Them You Know I'm Okay With That Like Then We Have A lot More Money To Go Find Like The Real Peace In Free Agency Or Or Find You Know In A trade In The Off Season But I Don't Know Mike He's Really Good Looking Man You Gotta Get Over It What Do You Think Bobby About Besser Yeah No I'm Fine With Giving Him A Flyer On A One Year Like We've Talked About This Before Even If That Were
[00:26:20] Mercer In That Trade I Agree With Tim Assessment Like You're If You Wound Up Losing Both After The Off Season That's Recoverable And It Gives Us An Option And Something Different Right Now Not Like I Don't Know That I Prefer To Trade Mercer To Get Them But I Understand That That's Something We'd Have To Do Yeah I Mean You're Right You're Not Going To Be In A Position Where Carolina Most Likely Is Going To Be Where They're Going To End Up Losing You Know Ratnan And And And Natchez I Mean
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[00:29:20] I'm Reading All The Stuff That People Okay So Carolina They Send Morning Nature Who Was Having A Great Year For Them They Send Them To Colorado They Get Miko Ran And We All Thought Holy Shit Like Now They Are Set Right This Team Is Definitely Now The Elite Team In The East When You Throw Miko Ran In On There And Like You Said Earlier Tim He's Struggling Something's Not Clicking There If It's Brindamore System Whatever So
[00:29:52] Colorado Couldn't Sign Him Now Carolina Can't Sign Him And Apparently They Offered Him Like A $13 Million Contract So Like Eight Years $13 Million And He's Not Interested So Now They're Talking That By Next Friday Flipping Him Again And Trying To Get I guess Some Of Their Capital Back That They Lost Very Little Some Now Every Team Knows For Sure What They Thought They Knew Which Was That You Can't Make A Deal With This Guy Right Now Right
[00:30:21] And Now It's Even Worse Yeah Yeah They're Not Dealing From Position Of Power They're Kind Of Like Let Let Me Just Get Something Back It Was Really Not A Thought Out Move I Think There's Too Much Of This Hey We Can Just Trade A Guy And Sign It Won't Be A Problem We're Going To Throw Money Out There He's Going To Sign Well Not Everybody Cares
[00:31:02] Like Now Suddenly It's Like He Has To Make A Life Altering Decision You Know In The Next Eight Days Like That's A lot To Sit On And Think About So I Think Eventually He's Going To Sign There With Them Yeah I Think With Them I Think I Think He Might I I Mean He Might I Just Really I Just Really I Just Really Couched That I Think He's Going To Go And
[00:31:44] You Play Your Ass Off To Get Paid This Is A Short Period Of Your Life That You Have To Be An NHL Superstar And To Make A Shit Load Of Money So Yeah I Don't Begrudge A Guy At All For Saying Okay So Like You Said Tim I've Been Here Two Weeks Man Let's Pump The
[00:32:14] You Get Why He Might Be A Little Apprehensive To Signing It I Don't I Think Some Damage To Carolina Free Agency Wise Like If That's How They Treat People Like Hopefully We'll See the End Of This Go ahead Bob He's He's Under No Obligation To Do Anything Like You Said First Of All Carolina Just Set The Bar At 13 Million He's I Think It's The
[00:32:55] Money Is Going To Be There He Can Go In A Free Agency Find Out Nobody Else Cares About Him And Still Go Back To Carolina Because That
[00:33:41] Now
[00:34:11] Put Yeah We Got Somebody Back The Decor Their Decor Is Probably A Little Bit Better But You Know We're On Par There Right Yeah And That's The Thing And You Keep Coming Back To This Third Line Center You Know That's Supposed To Be Holla And
[00:34:42] I Don't Know I Don't Know If Evans Is Good Enough To Take The Reigns In That Role I Don't Think Donato Is I Still Think We Should Aim As High As Brian O'Reilly I Still Like The Idea Of O'Reilly So I
[00:35:12] Frozen Again Yeah There You Are Give Me A Second I'll Be Right Back All Right Go A And Then We'll Play Devil You Know When You Come Back Yeah All So You Know Carolina Has Been Our Achilles Heel Right Bobby Do You Think If All Things We Make The Right Moves You Think That To Me
[00:35:42] Yeah I Mean They Always Do Like You Said Right We Need Something To Change Or Show Me Something In These Next 20 Some Odd Games But Without That Depth 3C And A guy Like Plot Playing On The First Line I'm Just
[00:36:12] 3C I Want To Be Really Strong Down The Middle But Yeah They Totally Scare Me Dude I Don't Know I Mean I'm Gonna Tell You They're Going To Win That Round But I Would Not Be
[00:36:42] Like He Has Been A Waste This Year I Mean Tim Talks About It We All Talk About It Somebody Had Written I Don't Know Where It Is But Would You Make A Move Timo Timo Meyer For Miko Rantanen Like Right Now Oh Boy So You Giving Up Seven Years Of Term For A Guy That You Giving Up Seven Years Of Term For A Rental And He Already Won A Cup And We All Know What Miko Rantanen Can
[00:37:29] Getting I Been Busting His Balls A Lot Lately I Am Tired Of The Narrative That He's Playing Well And All That And I Understand All That But I Mean We Need Production From Big Time And Like You Though I Am Very Excited To
[00:37:59] Years Ago Against The Rangers He Had A Great Series So Brendan Dillon Like I Expect That Physicality To Kind Of Get Ramped Up From Those Guys So I And Timo Is The Big One And You Look At This Team Right Now And If Timo Meyer Was Just Doing His Bare Minimum Of What He's Done Throughout His Career Right We This Team Is A Lot Better Like We We're Not Even Talking About The Winging Scenario We're Really Focusing Straight On A Player Down The Middle
[00:38:29] But That Would Be Our Wish List Yeah Yeah 100% So Like I Still Like Plot And That I Want Him Where The Lines Were Constructed At The Beginning Of The Season How This Was Supposed To Shake Out Is What I'm Really Looking Forward To I Want A Third Line That Is Everything
[00:39:00] About The Playoffs You Know Man That's Our Third Line Has Been God Awful I Left When Playoff Time Comes Trust Me One Thing Rob Brindamore Is Going To Make Sure He Does Is Take Jack And Niko Out He's Going To Do Everything He Can To Make Sure That They Are Not
[00:39:30] Going To Win The Series For The Devils That Might Be Really Bad If Nobody Else Steps Up So Tim I'll Ask You Timo Meyer For Miko Rantan Right Now Right Now Right Now No No No
[00:40:00] Why No Timo Meyer For Miko Rantan One For One Yeah We Have Timo I Mean We Give Up Timo Just For The Potential That He Might Up Timo Seven Years Of Timo Meyer For Miko Rantan For A Playoff Run For Two Months No I'm Not Doing That Okay All Right I Believe In I
[00:40:46] We We We We Have Chat Do We Have Chat Rules Yeah Don't Give The Answer All Right Well Okay So We're Going To Play Devil You Know So I Guess We Don't Want To Give Us The Answer So Tonight It'll Be Tim He's Going To Give Us A Bunch Of Clues For A Former New Jersey Devil Player Myself And Bobby Get Three Incorrect Guesses Before We're Eliminated We Can Ask Tim Any Question He Wants And He Can
[00:41:16] Or Can Answer It Is Completely Up To Him And Basically The Only Rule Is That This Player Has To Not Be A Devil Any More Any Questions No Good Shall We Play A Game Buckle Up Boys And Girls It Is Time For The Devil You Know On The Uncle Pucker New Jersey Devil Podcast
[00:41:52] Alright Mr. Tim Whenever You're Ready Buddy Alright This Former Devil Was Born On April 23rd 1988 In St. Louis Missouri Cam Jansen No No That's Minus One He Was Drafted By The Flyers In The Sixth Round While
[00:42:22] Playing High School Hockey In St. Louis He Was Noticed By Al McInnis And Kelly Chase Who Then Convinced Him To Go Play For Their New North American Hockey League Expansion Team The Tex Arcana Bandits Where He Would Play For His Future NHL Coach John Cooper Went A Long Way On That One I Did Hang on I It Was Fun I Also Got A Call From The Tex Arcana Bandits After College To Go Play For
[00:43:24] say. He won the IIHF Inline Hockey World Championships in 2010. And in seven games, he had 14 points. Or sorry, he had seven goals and 14 points in six games. Over his NHL career, in 829 games to date, he's had 124 goals and 193 assists. How many games? Sorry.
[00:43:52] In 829 games. Oh, shit. He was first in penalty minutes in the entire league in 22-23. First in penalty minutes 22-23. Entire league. He's 10th currently in penalty minutes of all
[00:44:18] active players with 1,061. So there you go. He's still playing, but he's still playing with Tampa Bay. All right, dude. I get it. It's easy. All right? We're trying here. A lot of pressure when you're on camera. All right. These next couple of clues should help. Okay. In 2020, he became the third player to win consecutive cups with two different teams. Patch Maroon. Fuck you. Is that right? God damn it. I was just about to freaking say
[00:44:47] Patty Maroon. All right. Good one, Bob. Good one. He was awesome. He was a good devil. He only played 17 games for us. Yeah. He didn't like it. It was a good 17 games. It was a good 17 game. My next comment's great. In 2022, Jack Edwards called him fat. Is that right? Remember that? And yeah, the Boston guy was like, this is Pat Maroon, that fat fuck. He's going to go eat another slice of pizza or something. Where is he now? Chicago? He's in Chicago. Yeah. That's
[00:45:15] the next thing. He's on his eighth team and his fourth team in four years. Yeah. But for a while there, he did have a little bit of a cup thing going on, right? He won it with the blues. He won it with Tampa twice. He's the only player to win three in a row with different teams. Different teams. That's awesome. Yeah. That's a fun little game. Nice job, Bob. Yeah. That was a good one. I think he only played 17 games. It seems like his tenure was longer. He had knee surgery
[00:45:42] afterwards and that's when he went to St. Louis, I think. He didn't like it here. I don't think he did. He didn't want to leave Edmonton. When I was reading up on him, he didn't want to leave Edmonton, but he was pretty good with us. He had 13 points in 17 games. Yeah. Big net front guy. He did his job well. That was with Taylor Hall, right? Yeah. He made the playoffs. Was he on that team? I don't know. That was a year before. He still played
[00:46:09] with Taylor Hall, but that was a year before. He was like our big trade deadline acquisition. Right. Right. Yeah. I mean, he's definitely like, yeah, you're right. He's slow as fuck, but you know, he was like you said, a fine guy that can just sit in front of the net and he was tough to move. And yeah, I mean, I liked him. I liked him. That's the kind of guy I was kind of need. I wonder if someone's going to trade for him at this deadline. He's
[00:46:35] so fucking slow, man. He is so bad at hockey now. What about Tyler Bertuzzi? Speaking of Chicago, I think he has a big contract, but I mean, I always liked Tyler Bertuzzi. And if you go back two years ago when he was with the Bruins, he had a good playoff. That was even, that was the year that Florida beat them in the first round and Florida lost to Vegas. So in the finals, but he had a good playoff. Like what about Tyler Bertuzzi? Like, is there
[00:47:04] anybody on Chicago that, you know, maybe might be interested in? I think Donato is the name that kind of keeps popping up to fill in that three C. I really don't know much about Donato, but Bertuzzi has always been interesting, but I think that's more because of his last name and he's a kind of a psychopath. And I think Jason knows, right. I know, I know, I pretty sure he does have a big contract. It's a lot of, yeah, I think it's, I think it's a lot of, a lot of money. This was like years ago. We really dialed in on him. Yeah. Yeah. He doesn't, he doesn't
[00:47:34] use tape on a stick and doesn't have a knob on a stick. Like that's real psychopath behavior. Like he just takes it off the rack and just use it. Like that's weird. I have a question. That is really fucking weird. So Conor Bedard has been getting a lot of shit this year, right? Curious what you guys think of him and the fact that he has been getting this shit. Like I'm not a giant fan of Conor Bedard. Like I'll take, I'll take Macklin Celebrini over
[00:48:04] him any day of the week. But like, do you think that it's fair kind of the shit that he's getting or is this just sour grapes from some people or what? Cause you know, PK called him out. I think biz called him out. Biz called him out. Yeah. That was it. Biz. What's he supposed to do? Like that team is awful. The guys he's playing with him are awful. And I feel bad for him. Like, like he's not having a bad season at all. Like, hang on one
[00:48:33] second. I'm pulling up his numbers. Mike, are you saying that Conor Bedard is the biggest stick in the league? I think I'm curious because I have heard that he's not, he is a bit of a dick. So I'm curious if that's what you're talking about. Yeah. You're saying, you know, he said that big as, yeah, he said that, um, yeah.
[00:48:59] I don't know if the YouTube, having the YouTube open is what crashes my computer. And there was, he's got 49 points and 57 games. It's not, he's not awful. I don't know. Yes, he is. He's not doing, he's not awful. No, but he's not doing what they expected him to do. And I get that his team is shit. Look at, look at who he's playing with. I understand that his team is shit, but you do expect Chicago to, at some point get
[00:49:26] better. Even if the guys around him aren't elite players, like you still can't be bottom of the fucking league. But that's, that was what Tyler Pertussi was brought in to be. And he's having a down here. Taylor Hall. Taylor Hall got traded in. I get that. Foligno's old. Seth Jones sucks. Yeah. You know, Tivo Tervainen. Like. How about Turbo? Tervainen. Would you take him?
[00:49:50] Yeah. Maybe. Yeah. I mean, they have some good kind of younger pieces like Reichel and Alex Vlasic. And I think, oh, what's the kid's name? Frank Nazar. And then they have the kid that's at Michigan state, I think, or maybe he's in the AHL now. I forget his name, but they have some good kids coming up, but it's just like the second year of Bedard. Like, you know, I feel like we shouldn't be like judging these kids too early. I feel like we got
[00:50:17] so spoiled with like Sidney Crosby and Connor McDavid and Austin Matthews with the first overall picks. We saw it ourselves with Jack Hughes. Like we shouldn't. So young. We shouldn't jump on these kids. So we're just, yeah, you have this, you know, first round picks need to go right to the NHL mentality and you think they're going to take over. Some kids just take a little more time. It's like a little boy. I wouldn't give Connor Bedard a fucking second thought if he wasn't a dick. And that's like when they, they had a, what was it?
[00:50:47] They were doing, was it like an outdoor game or something that they were doing some kind of special game and they had a bunch of the alumni there. And like Jeremy Roenick was there and said Connor Bedard was the only one that didn't shake his hand. And I know Chelios came out and said that that was a bit over, overblown and Roenick was kind of shitting on them. But, but still, I just think I don't like the kid. I just don't like him. I don't like his attitude. I don't like him. If there are two opinions and one of them is Roenick's and one of them is Chelios's,
[00:51:15] I'm going to believe Chelios. I am too, but I'm just saying, I'm not a, I just not a big fan of them. Like I said, I'll take Macklin Celebrini any day of the week. So in conclusion, you don't like Connor Bernard. Connor Bedard. I do not like Connor Bedard. I don't like him. Just to make that clear. There's not many players. I genuinely just don't fricking like he's one of them in a matter of two short years. I've managed to just not like him at all. Uh, another guy, we got him for a bag
[00:51:43] of pucks. You'd be like, nah, fuck this guy. I don't want my team. Bag of pucks. I don't know. It's a pretty good offer, Bob. I would. Yes. I would take. No, we're talking new pucks. Like what? Hey man, 3C would be a lot better if it was Connor Bedard there. What kind of bag are we talking about? Like a nice nylon bag? Right. That's the other thing. Like, are we talking like a cracked bucket? Yeah. Like if it's a cracked bucket, maybe,
[00:52:10] maybe. Yeah, definitely. If it's a nice bag. I don't know. I don't know. Nice bag and a Mercer. What about Tara Vinen? That's interesting. Yeah. You know, Tara Vinen, he played for Brenda Moore for a long time. So he's got, you know, you know that you're getting guys when they play for Carolina, that they know how to play the right way. They, they work their asses off every shift, blah, blah, blah. Now I don't know what he's doing. I mean, sure. In Chicago, it's probably,
[00:52:35] hard to work your ass off every shift because you, by the time the pucks is dropped in the first period, all you're trying to do is get the hell out of there. So. Yeah. There's just like an embarrassingly bad team. It's, that's gotta be frustrating. Like, that's gotta be frustrating. You know, like you're supposed to be like this, you know, the next generation, you know, the next star coming up and none of the guys around you are fucking worth anything. I'd be kind of a little arrogant about it too. I'd be like, like, who the fuck are these guys that you're putting with me?
[00:53:05] Like, are you kidding? Uh, you don't have that equity in the league to get right. I have no, I have no equity. I don't even have that equity in a beer league. All right. Like, like the guys on my team basically tell me to dress in the toilet because. I go to the mid days to do to the mids when he started wrestling. Yeah. Yeah. They're like, they're like the rest of the room all the time. They say, I'm like the Forrest Gump. They're like, can't sit here. So he's taken everywhere. I went, I was skating. Yeah.
[00:53:35] Hey, I did have a golden assist last night. Uh, he's got, I did. Um, no big deal. You did look at you. Uh, he's got three years left at the 5.4. That's probably a little rich for, for him. And he's 30 already. And to answer your question. Isn't it really? Yeah. We are done with an image. We've seen enough. What Tim? Yeah. I, you know, I, um, again, the per guy for that, that salary.
[00:54:05] No, I'd say no, unless Chicago, Chicago doesn't 5.4 for the next three years. And he's, you know, yeah, they overpaid for a lot of guys. He's a 50 point guy, 20 goals. I don't know. Is that Mercer all over again? Like, I don't know, like maybe a little bit,
[00:54:28] like an incremental, incremental better or more money too. So, uh, so it's a hat on hat here. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. Yeah. All right. I'm just so, so excited to see what he ends up doing Fitz, because I mean, there's so many options and I think we have quite a bit of capital that we can move. Uh, but I think it does come down to what you guys are saying. Like, is he going to have the balls to actually pull the trigger on something big?
[00:54:59] And I don't get into this, like, you know, hoarding prospects and hoarding prospects, you know, you know, that's, you know, look into the future, you know, he needs to balance the longer term and short term. And I think now is the time to tip that scale back towards the short term. Like we've been building for so goddamn long. Like now is the time we only have so many more years of Jack's current contracts, more years of Nico's current contracts, so many more years of their prime that we can't keep wasting that Bratz having the best season
[00:55:27] of his career. He has more, Brad has more assistant Connor McDavid for fuck's sake. Like, you know, the goal tending that we're getting, the decor, the decor that we have, like we, we can't waste this, you know, our only glaring hole is, is scoring. And hopefully there'll be some regression amongst like, you know, positive regression amongst like Timo and Hala and some of those, some of the other scrubs that we have in the bottom six. We get that one more scoring piece and one more kind of three C. I think we're, we're probably one of the back to being one of the best teams in the league. What do you think, Dave?
[00:55:58] Well, I think they have to go for it and make a move, but it doesn't, you're going to overpay, you know, a little bit when you're trying to pull those pieces in at the end of the year. But I would, I would still say it has to make sense because this to me really smells of something we're going to need to address with bigger moves and bigger decisions in the off season. When more people are available, when better trade packages can be put out there. I've been saying it basically all year.
[00:56:23] I don't know exactly what it is, but I feel like we need a big, scary hockey trade. And I don't know who that's going to be. I saw some people commenting about like, would you break up the core if we lost in the first round and things like that? I don't know that I'm going that far because to me, I don't know that the core extends well past two, maybe three, four guys. It's it. I mean, that's what we have to really kind of figure out. Well, who's the core? Because in my opinion, the core is Nico, Bratt and Jack. Those are the three dudes.
[00:56:52] Is there is there anybody else that you would put in that core? I think because of his responsibility and paycheck, a lot of people just assume that Timo is part of that course. He's got length of term. He's supposed to be something different. He's core. But if you ask me core or two people, I'm not moving ever. And that's Jack and Nico. So saying if we lose in the first round of Carolina. Dougie. Well, let's talk forwards right now. I will. I will. I know. I know.
[00:57:21] You fucking jacked off on your fucking couch the other night when he came out. Did you see him shirtless? I know. I know. I'm sure the pants were off and the Juergens was flowing like fucking Juergens. But anyway. I don't get the post game, thank God. I'm just. If we lose in the first round. I saw they had no shirt on too. I was just, you know, when I was fast forwarding through, I was like, why are you doing this? Oh, no, no. I had Nashville. I had Nashville's broadcast.
[00:57:50] Oh, well, we had the Nashville feed for NHL Network. Because for some reason they put Nashville, New Jersey on the NHL Network. Like that's going to fucking attract me. I'll tell you, though. I was telling Tim because I was texting him when I was watching the game. I didn't want to text you too late because I figured that you had to get up for work tomorrow morning. But so it was funny. Like about six minutes left in the third. Spalding and Danico and Bryce are talking about the upcoming schedule. And they're talking about the Colorado game.
[00:58:20] And so he's like, yeah, and both goalies, you know, we remember what Scott Wedgwood did to us, to the Devils when Colorado played here earlier in the season. And then, you know, Mackenzie Blackwood for the Sharks. And he came in and they, you know, they both had shit. They both did very good. He stopped himself from saying shutout. It was so funny. I was like, wow, he caught himself there. Like, you know, and yeah, he's like, I didn't want to be blamed on that one.
[00:58:49] But, you know, if we were to lose in the first round to Carolina, and if we are agreeing that our core is Brat, Nico, Timo, and Jack, then yes, I would consider moving Timo Meyer. It wouldn't be the other three. If Timo Meyer doesn't come through in the playoffs, then he legitimately for two and a half years, a little less than that, has given you nothing from what you've expected from him. So I think at that point, you have to really try and, because look, you know,
[00:59:18] the Rangers probably aren't going to make the playoffs this year. But if they don't make the playoffs, like, you know they're going to go out there and offer Nico Rantan $18 million a fucking year. They're going to go and try and get whoever they can to make this team better. So you're going to have to deal with them. Like, we have to get our pieces in place and we have to start now. The window's open. And like I said, I think the Eastern Conference is wide open right now. And the Devils have just as much of a shot to win it,
[00:59:44] where I think the Four Nations just put the fucking kibosh on Florida going back, because now we don't know if Matthew Kachuk's even going to play again this year. And you still have Brady Kachuk sitting out in Ottawa. Like, was it worth it? Was it worth it? Like, seriously? No. I mean, I'm happy that it's happening to them. I can't stand those guys. So, and or their teams. But I'm just saying, like Michael writes here that Timo's not part of the core.
[01:00:13] I see where he's coming. I said those three. And then, Bobby, you're right. Like, I guess you kind of, you go by his contract and you go by his term, his term and his value. What he's supposed to do. Yeah, he's part of the core. So, in that regard, I'd answer the question, too. If we lost in the first round to Carolina, first of all, I'm not going to be too shocked by that. I would at least expect a good series. But if we legit lost to Carolina and played well, I'm not panicking over that.
[01:00:41] But going back specifically to Timo, I've said it all along. I got a love-hate relationship with this guy. I love the idea of having Timo on this team. I hate the fact that I haven't seen shit from him, basically, outside of getting in people's faces in the Rangers series. And I just feel like for as much as I like him, it doesn't matter. It seems like a failed experiment. It really does. It seems like he needs a fresh start somewhere else. We'd get a, you know, again, a big hockey return type of trade.
[01:01:11] You know, I don't know who that would be. But just something totally different. That would be, I think, if we get, like, the doors blown off us by Carolina in the first round, something obviously drastic has to change. And, you know, I view, you know, Brat, Jack, Nico. But, I mean, I would consider, if Ottawa doesn't make the playoffs, I would consider Brat for Brady. I would consider Timo for Brady.
[01:01:40] You know, I don't, like, that kind of game-changing type of trade. You know, you toss in Mercer there, too, for all the fucking I care. But, yeah, like, you know, I do, you know, Luke will be part of the core. You know, he is going to be a long-term piece. But that's, you know, I don't know. Like, that term has been, I think, kind of overused,
[01:02:11] basically coming from Toronto with their core four nonsense. And, you know, I think we have those three guys that were born and bred with the doubles, drafted, developed here. And that's really kind of it. You know, everything else is sort of a piece around it. And that's why I think Fitz, you know, has such a hard-on for Mercer because he is a double draftee. You know, he is one of his guys, you know. Like, yeah, exactly.
[01:02:39] It's just like, you know, Fitz doesn't have a ruthlessness that some of the other, you know, more destination-y type of GMs have, like Zito or Vegas. And even this, you know, this little neuroscientist in Carolina. He's always predicated his work and the way he views his team building on patients and selling New Jersey as a great place to live. But, you know, I don't know how many other times we can say this.
[01:03:08] Like, he needs to – this is a defining trade deadline for him. Yeah. Yeah. 100%. This is a defining, you know, I think postseason. I mean, even Brat. Like, we can't have Brat do what he did the last postseason, last playoff. Like, he has to contribute. He can't fucking disappear. He can't disappear. And, you know, he didn't even – I think he had two points the whole
[01:03:38] playoff run the last time. Like, you can't – I'm fine with your thousand assists. Set them up then. That's your job. That's who you're going to be. Okay. Then be that. Which he did. Right. And, you know, Michael's writing here about, like, kind of Timo and can he be – and we've talked about this. Can he be Claude Lemieux come playoff time? I think he can. Yeah, and he was, like, against the Rangers. Like, he was so in Igor's head. Yeah.
[01:04:06] But we need that again against Carolina. And I also think that, like, I don't know. I got such a good vibe off of that Nashville game. And just now going on the road, four more games and some tough ones. I mean, you still got to play Dallas again. You know, they beat you a week ago. You still got to beat Vegas who whooped your ass, you know, before the Four Nations. Colorado last time you played them shut you out. All right, you beat Utah. So, basically, the next four teams, three of them beat you bad.
[01:04:36] I feel really good coming out of that Nashville game. I do think that this is going to be the start of a run. You know, get back to three out of four, four out of five for the next, you know, handful of games and start feeling really good. Get the trades done. I'm just getting nervous that Fitz isn't going to do anything. I really hope that's not the case. But that's I'm getting nervous with that. Like, there's the only rumblings that we're hearing are, you know,
[01:05:03] kind of speculating guys that write for bullshit. You know, it's nothing from James Nichols, nothing from Elliot Friedman, nothing from the true insider saying the Devils are big on player X. Yeah. The only guys we've heard are Donato and Evans with any kind of credibility. And, you know, Evans and Evans and Evans and Evans. I feel like he's going to wind up being a double. You know, and if that's him and, like, if there's one other piece, great.
[01:05:31] But, like, the big swings and the big pieces, I don't know if I've ever or can't remember one, and if the chat wants to help us out, like a big trade deadline acquisition lifting a team to a cup, it's always the depth guys. It's always that third line guy. It's always that fourth line guy that kind of helps bolster your depth because those are the sickos that actually win you games.
[01:05:57] Trying to think of a major – I mean, would you consider the Ray Bork trade a big one? I mean, that's probably the last one that I can think of is him going to Colorado and winning the – or Patrick Block. That was a little bit more bigger name than ability at that stage of his career, though. What about Patrick Block? I mean, he came over first year and won the cup in 96 for Colorado. Yeah, that's probably a really good example. But you're right.
[01:06:24] It's usually those, you know, character guys. It's the guys that, you know, play that third or fourth line, the Paul Cotters of the world. Well, it's why I was so up on getting Nathan back here and seeing what he was doing earlier in the year and performing like that on the third line. Because, again, that's just where I want to see him come playoff time. I think there's so much value in having his type of game down there. The problem is we're still trying to figure out who's scoring on the top two.
[01:06:53] Yeah, I mean, yeah, there's a lot of work to be done. But I think that this is now – they're kind of setting them – like I said, I like the way they looked against Nashville. And I think they can go in and beat the Abs tomorrow. I really do. I don't give a shit that, you know, Blackwood is, you know, playing out of his head right now. They've been struggling since the Four Nations. They've dropped both games last weekend. I think – They're very – Colorado's a very top-heavy team.
[01:07:23] They have McKinnon and McCarr. That's it. They're one line. And Blackwood. Yeah, they're one line. Like we can shut them out. You know, Nico – you know, give Nico that assignment and just let Jack run roughshod. You know, we were nervous about that Florida trip and we went in and kicked shit out of all those teams. So – That's true. I don't know. You know, I just – I want to see consistency and I want to see process and I want to see like not getting like –
[01:07:48] and finishing consistently for like three, four, five games in a row. We've been so inconsistent this entire year. It's time to knock that shit off. We need to like win more than three in a row. We have not won more than three games in a row in two years, guys. No, it's about to happen. They're about to win 23 in a row. Then we'll probably get swept in the playoffs. You know, yeah, I don't think that – Jason, no, I don't think that the Devils played horrible defensively against Nashville.
[01:08:19] I think they played like not great in the second period, but I thought they cleaned it up pretty good in the third. I mean, that's just me. I thought they cleaned it up pretty much in the third. They got a little leaky with a couple of chances, but other than that, yeah, they were pretty solid. They're much – I think play-wise, they were much better against Dallas. They just didn't finish. Nashville, they just managed to finish everything. Dawes had an outstanding game against Nashville. Like he was just absolutely outstanding. Yeah, Dawes was fantastic. Yeah, we did give up a lot of grade A chances and Dawes came through. He looked great.
[01:08:48] And I would even consider possibly starting Dawes against Colorado. I mean, why not? Give them a little pat on the back. Congratulations. You had a shutout. Go do it again. I would be fine with that. I like the way that him and Allen have been playing. So I wouldn't have a problem with that. I mean, you do have the back-to-back coming up over the weekend. I think that's Vegas and Utah, and not necessarily in that order. So you're probably going to have Dawes against Utah. So I don't know what they decide to do with them, but I would be okay with that.
[01:09:19] Honestly, I don't mind either goalie. It's not even something I'm really even worried about or considering. I'm okay with both of them. That's actually pretty remarkable. They don't even have to worry about that. Either one of them starts, I'm more than confident. Especially because you're talking about two and three on the chart here. You're not talking about one and two. You're talking about two and three, and you're still equally as comfortable. Yeah, it's great. Yeah, I mean, and I like that Markstrom took the trip. So maybe he'll be back a little bit sooner.
[01:09:48] But that's the one thing we can definitely put our heads on our pillow. That's the last thing we need. Markstrom comes back. We lose like five to four, and everybody freaks the fuck out. And now we're going to run with this guy who can't stop a fuck. It's going to be crazy. Markstrom will be fine. Markstrom will be fine. Vesna winner. Once we get that couple of pieces, hopefully in the trade deadline, Markstrom comes back, come playoff time. Devils should be formidable. Tim, question.
[01:10:17] What's the deal with Lenny over in LIGA Liga? Can he play at the end of the year? I can't remember the rules on that. So I guess he's talking about the guy we drafted two years ago, Lenny Hacko. Lenny Hammaniho. Yeah, who I read a lot is very similar. I've heard comps to him to Sergey Breland, which is very interesting. So what's his story? I'm trying to see when the LIGA season ends. I don't know.
[01:10:46] I don't know if Jay Snow knows. But I'm guessing regular season ends April 2025. So he may come over. And just like Gritzuk, I don't know. Like they'd have to sign their ELCs. It'd be black aces for the playoffs. I don't know if they didn't see the light of day or if it's just end your season
[01:11:14] and we'll sign your ELCs for next season. I think they are eligible once his contract's over. Like they're eligible to come over and do that if they want to. I don't know if we would want to because, you know, their rules run the ELC and when they sign. And when then, like, if they sign and play in a certain amount of games, I'm not sure how that works with playoffs. Burning a year of that first year of the ELC. So I'm guessing we'll see both of them next year.
[01:11:44] But, you know, with as bad as Fitz's first-round draft picks are starting to kind of seem, he really seems to have hit on some later-round picks, which is pretty interesting. So, you know, this kid Herman Traft and there's this Matve Milošov or something like that. Okay. He's tearing up the QMJHL. He's making people up. Yeah, he does that a lot. I know. So we got that guy, Stewie Bonaduce. He's good.
[01:12:13] At least I make it sound like a normal fucking, like, European name. Oh, okay. Not some guy who sells pizza and has a cousin who's a garbage man instead. All right. Well, apparently you just pissed off all the Bonaduce's that listened. So I think we're going to wrap this thing up unless you guys have anything else you want to discuss tonight. No. No. Big game tomorrow. Devils are heading out to Colorado. Play the Avalanche. It's a 930 Eastern start. So everybody make sure that you're on.
[01:12:40] And remember, we will be on any trades, anything that happens. We will do an emergency show, emergency live stream as soon as we are all available and get on and discuss it. So hopefully you guys can come on and hang out with us. Thanks, guys. This was a lot of fun. Love to talk to everybody. Tell your friends. Yeah. Next time maybe we'll get six, seven people. You never know. I mean, who knows? We're blowing the fuck up. Yeah. When fucker nation, you know, we have the OGs. We'll remember you guys.
[01:13:10] Jason, Doug, and Mike Ruff. That's it. That's it. And guys, have a wonderful night. Mercer for toilet bowl cleaner. I can get behind that. All right, boys. Have a wonderful evening. Again, if you're on the YouTube channel, please subscribe, thumbs up, like, download, subscription, positive comment, whatever the fuck it is. You guys know what to do. We appreciate you all. We're the Uncle Fuckers for Tim and Bob. I'm Chris. And we'll see you when we see you.
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