Devils Blue Line Grades Are In

[00:00:06] 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, New Jersey Devils Podcast. Let's go Devils! What is up everybody out there in New Jersey Devil Land? We are The Uncle Puckers, Tony, Bobby, Tim, and I'm Chris.

[00:00:30] We are back to finish our grades for the 2014, 2024-25 New Jersey Devils, but before that, what's up boys? How much? Straight from the work train, man, to the real jobs, this is fun. I think I've been on three shows in a row, I don't know what's going on.

[00:00:54] I know, it is crazy, and we might be seeing Dan back on the podcast at some point, just throwing it out there. Before we begin, did anybody, I was so under rock today at work, anybody actually watch the pressers for the exit interviews? You guys watch that? Yeah, I did. I tried to, I think I had texted you guys, like the sound quality of this interview was horrible.

[00:01:21] I mean, not only could you not hear the questions being asked, which is kind of normal on press conferences, right? Like you can only hear the reporters kind of, you know, occasionally, but you couldn't hear Keith or Fitz either. Like the audio quality was terrible. It's like my audio quality when I first started doing the show with you guys. Yeah, it was actually worse than that. Wow.

[00:01:43] So, I mean, I didn't get a whole lot gleamed from, because I couldn't hear it, and then I just got discouraged, and I started listening to something else. But I think Tim, I think you watched it. Yeah, I did. You know, I don't know what we expect out of these things. It's just kind of a bunch of hockey guys speak platitudes. You know, nothing, you know, he's not going to give us like, well, I'm going to fucking tell Dougie to take a hike and stuff like that.

[00:02:11] But, you know, this guy just puts his foot so fucking far in his goddamn mouth, like, and says dumb shit. Like, he basically made the comment, like, like he was philosophically sitting around, like, what is depth scoring? I do not know what this depth scoring is. Why is depth scoring? Who is depth scoring? He's like, I talked to the analytics department, hockey operations.

[00:02:39] It's like, are you, did you send out a company-wide email? Like, hello, everyone. Please define depth scoring. He said something. Regards, fits. It's like, what? Is depth scoring having 20 guys with 10 goals or 10 guys with 20 goals? I don't know. I heard that one like that. And so I didn't, like I said, I heard very fragmented pieces of this thing.

[00:03:07] So given our theme of a bit that we're doing later, this kind of has a resemblance of what if C-A-T really spells dog? Yeah, it is a little bit. It is a little bit. And Revenge of the Nerds 2, Nerds in Paradise better be on somebody's list. I was going to say, man, you better not take that shit. Better be on somebody's list. You know, but think about it. If you think about the worst, what are the worst sports interviews? Hockey may be one of the worst sport interviews.

[00:03:34] Between every intermission, like, what's the goal? We're trying to put the puck in the net. It pretty much always resorts back to this. I've never seen it no different. I mean, it's probably the worst. Maybe basketball is a little worse, but it's pretty. Paul Maurice is fun to listen to. He at least gives you stuff. He's a guy that, you know, knows he likes to be kind of in that spotlight.

[00:03:57] And he kind of always has a Mauriceism to, you know, especially in a playoff series when they're doing well. I didn't listen to him after last night when they went down to nothing. I'm sure he wasn't very happy. But you're right. They don't give you a thing. It's all GM talk. It's all bullshit, you know, coach speak and stuff. So it's a little bit annoying. And it's funny.

[00:04:26] The Shorzy guys, the actors from Shorzy do, like, little parody locker room interviews where they throw in something, like, really fucked up in the middle of it. It's like, oh, yeah, you know, we've got to get to the front of the net. Got to get pucks in deep. Got to go get a handjob from a cop behind 7-Eleven, you know, and then, you know, got to get some tips and deflections. What movies are you watching, man? You'll have to find out.

[00:04:53] Dude, I have to say, I said it to you guys on the group text, but I'll say it now to whoever's listening. No handjobs behind 7-Eleven. Well, I mean, if you want to go, it's fine. I have no problem. I don't judge, dude. Get handjobs wherever you want. Got to make money how you make money, right? I do not judge. But Andor Season 2 is one of the best shows I have ever seen. I've never heard of it. How stupid I am. I finished it.

[00:05:20] Well, last week, they had three episodes every Thursday. So last week, I watched all three and it ended with, I think the episode was called Welcome to the Rebellion. And it kind of tied up everything. Except for one part that I was kind of like, why did they even put that whole Saw Gerrera thing in there? Because they never finished it. I'm an idiot because three more episodes came out today. And I'm super, super psyched. Is Star Wars related?

[00:05:50] Star Wars, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It is such a great show. So, and it's like, here's the thing, Tone. Even if you're not a Star Wars fan. Love the first, you know. I love the ones that we grew up on. And then after that, I just couldn't do it. But Andor Season 1 and Season 2 can be put in any place in any time frame. There's no force. There's no fantasy aspect to it. It's just about a bunch of people trying to take down an oppressive fascist empire.

[00:06:19] And it's freaking awesome. You remember talking about Rogue One? How I was like, I know some Star Wars fans are like, ah, it's not great. It's not a Star Wars movie. I'm like, as a movie, it's just a great movie. Star Wars or not. Yeah. It doesn't have to be within that same kind of feel of the nine. It's just, you know, just an awesome script. It's more like a war movie. I would say that Rogue One is in my top two or three Star Wars movies. I'm with you on that. Yeah. I'm still watching V on reruns. I mean. Are you watching V? Which one? Yeah. The original? Yeah, the original.

[00:06:49] With Mark Singer? Yeah. Mark Singer. Robert Englund. Robert Englund was in that. The Hot Lizard Lady. I think that was. Diana was her name on that. Yeah, she was so hot when I was a kid, man. Even with the skin off, hey. See, I liked Julie. I liked Julie. She was hot. And they have, it's funny here in Lithuania, they play cops 24-7. But all the old ones. So it's like, you know, we sit back. And my wife just watches on the TV. And I'm like, yeah, these were on when I was a kid. We have this certain channel. And that's on 24-7.

[00:07:19] The Bundys. You know, it's got some of those old school stuff. Do you have actual TV from 2025? Yeah. We have. So we have this thing. I don't know what. Tony's like, have you seen the new episode of Seinfeld? It was awesome. Dude, you know I'm still watching Three's Company every day. That's always been my favorite, man. That's my. Well, you know what I do do, Chris, is whenever someone tells me I should see something, I never watch it. Until years later. Like, I'm just watching The Sopranos now. I've been told for. Like, Seinfeld I didn't watch until like 10 years. So it was out of.

[00:07:48] Out of whatever the hell they call it. But, yeah. I'm always late to the game. But I have not seen Star. The last Star Wars thing I saw was when they killed. They killed Solo, right? And I was pissed off. And I think that was it for me. Force Awakens. I'm a sensitive guy besides everything else. Yeah. I know you are. I know you are. That Han Solo death was. That's crushing, man. Very emotional for you. I can't. Yeah. I didn't know that was coming. I heard people got that spoiled for them.

[00:08:17] But, like, I was like, what? That old yeller. There are certain things that, you know, when you're a kid, you don't forget. And when you killed. Kill Han Solo. I had a cafe at the time. And we were busy for lunch one day. And a bunch of people from the township and stuff all came in for lunch. And I'm talking to them as I'm working. And Force Awakens had just come out. I had seen it, like, probably twice already. And this one dude, Ed, hadn't seen it. And, you know, so he's like, dude, I don't want to hear anything about it.

[00:08:47] I'm like, yeah, no problem. So, you know, we're talking about other stuff. This other guy walks in one of Ed's friends and sits down. And he's like, oh, shit, Chris, I forgot to tell you. How did, what, like, when he killed Han, like, seriously, what were your feelings? And Ed's like, god damn it. And he just throws his sandwich down. That's kind of a big blow there. He was so pissed. Oh, yeah. That was rough, man. And we're adults when we're seeing this, right, when that happens. And it's still like, you're like, what's going on here?

[00:09:13] Remember that Simpson episode where they had the flashback episode of Marge and Homer? And they're out on a date. And they come out of Empire Strikes Back. And there's a huge line of people. And Homer's just like, I can't believe that Darth Vader's Luke Skywalker's father. And everybody's throwing shit at him. Yes. Tim, anything to add on the Star Wars conversation before we get to hockey? No. I have Andor in the hopper to watch.

[00:09:42] So, no more spoilers, please. Did you see season one? Yeah. Yeah. That's good. What I like about it is, you know, all of Star Wars is kind of this, these big sort of grandiose ideas and intergalactic shit and interplanetary. Andor is a very small story with a small group. Kind of a very grounded story. That's kind of what I like about it. It's within the Star Wars universe, but it's not like, it's not as grand a scale.

[00:10:11] And that's kind of what I like about it. That's been the draw with all their little, their spinoffs and their episodes. To be able to take this great universe and just focus in on something with better script writing, frankly, and, you know, better acting. And it's just been, it's been really working. I think some of it gets a little overdone. But for the most part, when they come out, especially the first season of each of these things, they seem to do really well. You guys are so far advanced of us. At our house, we have What's Happening On After This. Different Strokes is coming on after that. Poor Dudley.

[00:10:40] You watch reruns of rerun. Yeah, yeah. I love all that shit, man. I loved all the animated Star Wars shit, too. Like Rebels and Clone Wars. I could watch them every single day. I love it. Did you have the figures, Chris? Oh, did I? Absolutely. Do you remember how, for some reason, Han Solo with the vest was a pain in the ass to get? Yeah, you can always get the Han Solo with the long sleeves back when I was a kid. But the vest one was actually a very difficult one, man. I'll never forget that because it drove me crazy. I had like five. Sorry, kid.

[00:11:09] Do you remember? Now we usually have to have one. Have one what? One Han Solo. One Han Solo. One Han Solo. When they had, like on the back of the boxes, they had like a few characters that you couldn't buy in the store and you had to send in the- Send in the show. Yeah, the little things. I remember Emperor Palpatine was one. I think there was like a Yoda one that was different, like Dagobah Yoda or something that was different that you can get.

[00:11:37] Like I remember I used to send that way for all of them. I had the Emperor. I had it all. I had every action set from Empire Strikes Back that I actually would, as a kid, sit in my living room and redo the whole movie. Like with all the action figures. And yeah. Even the cereal boxes, Chris, if you remember. Sometimes they had the Star Wars masks on the back. Oh yeah. You had that. And I used to love that. I mean, because everything back then, all that stuff was kind of fun, except for those milk cartons with the kids on them. That was pretty depressing while you were eating breakfast.

[00:12:07] But like everything else, like the fucking, all the, they had the cutters. I thought out Star Wars. I think it was like even Ewok faces. Chewbacca. Yeah. Chewbacca. Yeah. McDonald's had the glasses. You know, it was such a fun time. We had them all. I had a whole family of Ewok stuffed animals until I was 37. Princess Leia doll still tied up in his room. Nice 80s thing. She's handcuffed to the bedpost. Yeah. Tim's over the corner.

[00:12:37] All right. So let's, let's, let's jump into some hockey before we do our snake draft of the week, which I think is what everybody's really looking forward to. Fuck hockey. Right. It's been a long year, man. I also have a W now. Okay. Oh, great. So we got a lot to do and Bobby only has till six. So we have 51 minutes here. Let's make it count boys. We ended the last show with the forward groups and our grades. Now we're going to go to the defensive parent or defensive groups and goaltending. So this won't take too long.

[00:13:06] So Tim, you want to start us with your grade on the defensive group and add anything else you want, please. Yeah. So the defensive group, and this is, you know, upgraded in the off season, probably one of the things that fits actually did a good job with, um, it was the strength of our group all season, strength of our team all season. You're one of the top teams and goals against personnel wise kind of fell apart a little bit, um, towards the end there, uh, to say the least. But, um, you know, I gave the overall group a B plus. All right.

[00:13:35] I wrote for the defensive group when the boys were healthy, they were one of the best decors in league a when healthy. That's, that's where I'm giving them. Yeah. I'm closer to you. I think that as a whole, and even when one part or so had to be filled in, they did it and they did it admirably didn't miss much of a beat. Um, what they could have done if they stayed together in the playoffs remains to be seen. But I thought that for the regular season, they were one of the best course. I give them an A minus. Let me go B plus.

[00:14:04] I think everything you guys said actually makes sense. So. And the boys that, the boys that had to step in for the series against the Canes. I mean, they all, they all worked their asses off, man. Every one of them. Uh, there wasn't this loss, uh, in the playoffs was definitely not for a lack of effort. It was just for a lack of talent. Um, yeah. And, and that kind of gets me to the first guy. Um, you know, one of the, the, the only reason I gave them a B plus as opposed to something

[00:14:32] in the A's because the lack of offense from, from the whole group, um, you know, they were in bottom five for goals for, for a group. And you take Seamus Casey out of that, they're bottom three. One of the biggest culprits there was Dougie. Um, I gave him a C minus. He's clearly still affected by his torn titty. Um, you know, shooting was awful all season. He almost hit a career low in his shooting percentage. And this is season three or four with a pretty lengthy, devastating spot on the IR.

[00:15:02] I know they're all different injuries, but I think when you have a series of different injuries, that kind of leads me to think that you are injury prone, regardless of the, if it's the same injury or not. And I think, you know, what I just wrote up and sent to you guys after listening to Fitz fumble fuck through his press conference, I think it's, he's, he's guy number one that, that we need to go to, to free up money. So C minus. Yeah. Yeah. It's really unfortunate because that's a premier player for us.

[00:15:31] It's not like anybody on the team with that kind of injury history. When you're, when you're putting that kind of trust into a player and that kind of money with that kind of role, it really becomes apparent when, when he's sitting out three out of four seasons. Well, I mean, I I'm right with you, Tim. I wrote four seasons, a possible 328 regular season games. And Dougie has played 228 more than a full season loss to injury. And then I wrote with the emergence of Luke Hughes, it's obvious to me that Hamilton gets

[00:15:58] paid too much and is too often injured to remain in New Jersey. Hey Fitz trade him while he still has some value C minus. Yeah. I'm just going to give him a C because I think that a lot of it does have to do, you know, with his injury, which isn't necessarily a character fault or a skill fault, but it just kind of build into the whole package. And right now his package isn't working for me there, Timmy. So just to see. No. Jesus Christ. What are you looking at me for? You kind of love the guy. You do have a thing for Dougie. Have you seen his package?

[00:16:29] Seen his abs. What the fuck is that? Just imagine what's below it. Dougie's fucking ripped. What's your grade on Dougie? I'm going to say C. C. And tone. My traction is not the same as the rest of you for him. So I'm going to say, let's say a C plus injured a lot. You know, I think I've been saying for the last two seasons, actually, that I wasn't a fan really.

[00:16:57] So not, not of him personally, but just of his play. I, yeah. But personally, I'm sure he's a great guy. Yeah. He's our social media admin. Who do we have? Seegs next? No, we're going to go Pesci next. All right. One of our new guys that we brought in. This guy was just a fucking warrior, man. He, I think he, I think he really just elevated our decor as a whole.

[00:17:21] And I know I saw some of the chart boys floating around stuff where some of his analytics may not be effective, but I think Pesci's kind of prime example. Number one of a lot of the shit he does doesn't show up in, in analytics, his stick work, his body positioning, how it kills plays in the neutral zone, how he uses his position. He's kind of forced plays to go a different way. Throwing his fucking life on the line every time, just jumping in front of pucks.

[00:17:51] He introduced himself to us pretty well in that five minute PK against Nashville at the beginning of the year where he just, he had like four blocks in the span of like 30 seconds. And he was unbelievable in the playoffs. So A minus for Pesci. Would have loved to see. He had some, a couple of rough moments, but overall, I think he was as advertised. I forgot to do Pesci for some reason. So I'll do him now, I guess.

[00:18:16] I look, I mean, Brett Pesci was everything that we know Brett Pesci to be in Carolina. He did it for us. I mean, he came in, he was the consummate professional demon that we needed. You know, the guy that just, he shut down plays. He was so good in net front battles and making, you know, how many goals did this guy save just on his, you know, being in the right spot, being in the right position. He's a warrior. Like you said, he'll eat pucks.

[00:18:44] He'll do whatever's asked for him, play on any side. And he's the kind of guy that you want to, you know, everybody else wants to play just as hard when he's out on the ice. I love Brett Pesci. I think it was a great pickup. I'll give him a solid B plus, you know, A minus. I'm around there. Absolutely. No issues with Pesci. I'm going a little bit higher than you guys. I'm going to give him the A. I think it was everything we expected. I think if I had, you know, three Pesci's playing D and three guys with more focus on offense,

[00:19:12] I'd be so happy with that, with the way he plays, everything he did. Tim, you mentioned all that stuff. The things that don't come on the scoreboard, man, that is just, those are the intangibles that you really want to talk about that I feel like get forgotten about when you're over analytical. Just a stud, dude. Just every, he's just so dependable. Loved having him. I think he deserves the A. Yeah. Can't argue with it. I'm going to give him a B plus. I think he, like, he does what he has. He does everything out there and he doesn't stop till the whistle's over.

[00:19:40] Like, you know, he, you can't ask for more from him. I'm going to give him, I would, I'm going to say a B plus. All right. All right. All right. Then Seigs, even though this guy missed a quarter of the season, even though I just shit on analytics, I'm going to use something analytics based to judge him. His cumulative game score, I believe he was still the cumulatively highest rated defensive defenseman in the league, even though he missed about a quarter of the season.

[00:20:08] He had almost lapped the field before he, he went down. Um, this guy was just an absolute rock back there. Reemerged. Like we were concerned last season that, that keeping him around might be a problem, but he reemerged. He seems to have found also a nasty streak, which, um, which I don't think we ever really saw before. He was kind of front and center and a lot of scrums. He's just laying people out, just plastering people against the boards. He does have a little bit of an injury history, but, um, I think this guy is just an absolute

[00:20:37] rock and getting him back fully healthy and pretty hero, heroic return to come back in the playoffs when we didn't think we'd see him again. So I gave him an A minus. All right. For Seigs, I wrote, this is the injury that disrupted the blue line. The most when healthy Seig showed that he's one of the best defensive defensemen in the NHL. Hey, I can't take anything away from him. He was a rock back there this year. And this is the problem with setting the curve to an A with the player preceding it.

[00:21:04] Because now the only way to do justice to what Siegenthaler did is for me to go slightly higher, which would mean he'd probably give you my first A plus ever, um, just by means of doing it. Because if, if he continued the way he was going, those numbers would have been outstanding. I don't think he's an A plus player all of next year, but I guess in comparison to what I just said, he's got to be my A plus. All right. There you go. I'll take it. I'm going to give him an A also. I think if you could think about when it goes back to, he started becoming a D a good

[00:21:34] player for the devils back in those playoffs against the Rangers. Um, and it carried on. And I think this year he just really, he kind of, this year he corrected a lot of shit that was wrong with his play last year. I felt like, right. Yeah. So, I mean, that was, he kind of like learned from this prior season. And I think that, uh, of course the, the injury was a big blow for us, man, you know, and, uh, going to give him an A. Yeah. The other reason I went below an A is because of the injury. Like if he was healthy the full season, I probably would have gone. I thought the same thing for a second, but I was, you know, I was thinking back, like

[00:22:03] I said to actually, even the last year, I was like, yeah, I've seen this guy improve every, every time we've had him every season. We've had him on the team and improvement in his play. So, um, and then next, uh, I have Luke, um, just, I, you know, Luke is one of my favorite players. You'd see the Jersey hanging back there. Um, it's incredible progress from this kid. Like just, you know, he cleaned up so much defensively so quickly.

[00:22:29] And to refer back to Pesci, I think a lot of that was, was his pairing with Pesci. I think he learned a lot from him in terms of body positioning, stick work, but just the, the evolution of his defensive game, and then the reemergence of his offensive game. And he's one of the reasons why I think Dougie is, is, I want to say expendable, but tradable. Um, it's unbelievable. Like the sky, the sky's the limit for this kid. I can't wait to see what he becomes a minus. I love that.

[00:22:57] You said you can't wait to what he becomes because my write-up was kid's going to be a superstar. His sophomore year did not disappoint. He took a huge step forward this year was the, and was the injury to disappointed me personally the most. The defense is going to run through this guy for many years ahead. And I, for one, cannot wait to see how Brady can be a, um, yeah. Um, this kid, like, I don't know if I've ever seen anybody walk the line like him.

[00:23:24] I made the one comment, maybe a couple months back that the NHL could be notorious for making rules to take away people's skills. And I thought to make it fair to the rest of the team, they need to make a wider blue line so other defensemen can walk the line like him. I think he's incredible. Um, and he's only just begun, which is scary. Cause I'm going to give him an a and he has deficiencies. So I'm going to get an a plus plus one year, maybe next year. Plus, plus, plus. I'm going to give him a B plus.

[00:23:51] And only because the window is so big with this kid, like how, you know, how much, what he's going to become. The ceiling. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm going to say, yeah, I'm going to say a B plus. All right. Next guy. I'm going to go with Dylan. Um, I have complicated feelings about Dylan. I think he's a good veteran, great locker room guy. I love the kind of physicality that he brings. I think he makes McDermott expendable, um, because he actually is a guy that, that will drag you into a fight and, and be the fighter that we need.

[00:24:22] He sucks with the puck and is not very good defensively, even though he's physical. Um, I think he handles it a bit like a hand grenade and he got exposed a little bit when Sieg's went down and his role got elevated. So I think honestly, I would rather have Dumoulin long-term than Dylan. I know we have Dylan under contract and Fitz basically indicated today that, that crazier things have happened regarding signing Dumoulin. He basically indicated that, that Dumoulin's going to walk to free agency and got himself

[00:24:51] a new deal somewhere else. But for Dylan, I'm giving him a flat C that may be a little harsh, but that's how I feel. Yeah. I don't, I don't feel, I mean, I get what you're saying, but I'm a little bit more, uh, I like him a little bit more. I wrote, we often wondered last year who was going to emerge as a leader of the devil's blue line in walks, Brendan Dillon. He's the veteran that the team needed. His play can get a little wonky from time to time, but the physicality and leadership he brings is something that every cup contender needs. I give him a B minus.

[00:25:23] Yeah. I'm not, um, overwhelmed by anything he did, but I certainly like, uh, the game that he brings. I think slotted in the right spot, um, would be good for him. Definitely more than a third pairing defense bin. I'm kind of teetering between the B minus and the C plus, but my gut's just saying C plus. So I'll go there. Okay. I'm going to go B. I like him. Um, it's definitely, you know, some stuff that could be improved, but I got to say, I like his personality. I always think we need guys like this on this team.

[00:25:53] Um, you know, he's not afraid to stick up for his teammates. So I'm going to give him a B. I like it. Uh, next we have Kovacevic. So rounding out the kind of the original top six, um, which was a surprise because he was probably the biggest surprise this season. Um, he stole Nemitz's job straight out from under him and training camp became one of the best shutdown pairs in the league with, with Siegenthaler. That's, you know, it can be proved with numbers with the eye test, whatever you're looking at, like he and Siegenthaler just absolutely locked it the fuck down.

[00:26:22] Um, he stepped into battle. He was physical. He fought, um, used this size really well, you know, looking at you fucking Dougie. Um, unfortunately it does sound like this knee injury is gonna be pretty bad. He's going to miss the beginning of the season. Hopefully that won't be too long, but kind of throws a monkey wrench in, in some of the right D plans. So we'll, we'll kind of see what happens. He has gotten some kind of unwarranted hate around the fan base, um, who I think expect too much out of, uh, out of a guy like this.

[00:26:51] Like a lot of people question the extension. I guess it's kind of more Nemitz kind of Casey related. Um, but I think he was great. Uh, B plus, like this is a good addition to our team. So I wrote, what's not to like about Kovie? He was a throwaway seventh defenseman that turned it into a multi-year contract. He was steady all year. Every cup needs, every cup team needs a solid stay at home defenseman. And Kovie is it. He progressed a lot throughout the year, showing his ability to get better. Another guy on the blue line that finally found a home.

[00:27:20] And I think his ceiling can be very high. I give him a B. Yeah. I'm going to give him a solid B too. I think he's just a great kind of everyday player for us. I thought he got a little quieter towards the end of the year. That's not necessarily a bad thing in his role. Um, but I think he spots him nicely in that really good defenseman B. Yeah. B. I don't have much to say about it. I liked him. Okay. You know, I like Kovie. I like Kovie. Mr.

[00:27:50] Vincent D. Yeah. Uh, all right. We'll move on. We'll keep this brief to, um, a couple of guys. Chilowski puzzling ad. Not a good player. F. Um, Chilowski. I wrote who F these nuts. Yeah. I got nothing. Oh, all right. Hang on. I'm writing these down. Cause I'm going to actually. Nemich next. Yeah. Nemich, uh, kind of a whirlwind of the season started an injury.

[00:28:18] And, you know, we were talking about, uh, kind of generic quotes, um, from guys. And then Nemich goes and, and, and says kind of something honest to a reporter and gets fucking ripped to shreds for it. And then you wonder why people fucking just put out generic quotes because that's exhibit at Nemich says exactly what the way he feels and gets, gets ripped apart for it. But, um, I think there were like five people in the fan base, myself included, that kind

[00:28:45] of kept the faith and we got rewarded when he got his confidence back. Just needed that OT goal. Needed a little bit of faith from the, from the staff. Um, I think he's going to stick around. I hope he does. Fitz kind of hinted at that today saying he's got a bright future here. Um, and you know, we're definitely going to need it with COVID-19's injury. Um, I do see a world where he might be a part of a trade to, to get kind of some scoring help up front. I'd hate to see that happen, but I think he's a, I think he's a long-term solution in New

[00:29:14] Jersey, but this is an overall season grade. He was terrible for a couple of months up and down AHL most of the season. I gave him a C. Yeah. I wrote, it was an up and down year for the second year defenseman. He was sent down to Utica and was vocal about his disappointment. He got the call up and look like a deer in headlights. Then it clicked and he was fantastic in the playoffs. I don't know if he will be on the devils after the summer, but whoever lands him is getting someone that has the potential to be a number one defenseman. I gave him a C plus. Yeah.

[00:29:43] See, I can't really grade this one. I don't understand, you know, so much AHL time, a little bit of time in the NHL playoffs was a whole different. I'm going to go with an incomplete because I really don't know. I don't think, I don't think that's enough information for me to give him a grade. I think that he's a future great defenseman and should be part of the devil's longterm, but judging on this year, it's incomplete for me. Okay. I know I'm going to go incomplete too, but I will say that I think that the fan base was kind of hard on him this year.

[00:30:12] And I think now, you know, I think he has a lot of potential and I think that, you know, obviously you can't really go by, it's awesome to see him score that goal, but you can't really go by that as, you know, what he's going to wind up being. But I, you know what? I think he's going to get moved actually. So I, I even heard something today. They were talking about it again. I think he'll be someone that's in a piece because didn't fit say today, Tim, I'm sure you saw it that there's going to be a lot of changes coming. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:30:41] And, and yeah, and I don't, and like I said, you know, right D is a position of strength like organizationally for, for the devils. And that's where we probably have our most, our strongest trade pieces and our position of weakness is upfront where we need, where we need to fill in holes. So that's how trades get made. You know, you trade from a position of strength for a position of weakness. I could see it happening. I hope it doesn't. I hope we find a way around it.

[00:31:07] But, but to be honest, the next guy on this list, I think would be, would be my preference to trade, which would be Seamus Casey. Even though he's great story, you know, he's electric offensively stepped right into our hearts and proud with that, that little pullback top corner short side snipe. But he was shooting 33%. That's not a sustainable model. And Casey's kind of hard. I think too, did we, I do, do you feel like you saw him actually? Cause I don't feel like I saw him enough to really know. No. No.

[00:31:37] And it's kind of in the same boat as Nemitz. You know, he was mostly in the AHL. I get it. You know, maybe incomplete is the right grade, but I think from what we saw of him and I'm grading a little bit on a curve, it's kind of what we saw of him, what my expectation was versus what he delivered. And I think he was an A minus based on what I expected. So with Casey, I wrote kids got game. He can shoot, he can pass. And his defensive game is serviceable. I see some Rufalski in him, but more of a Sammy Votnin type of player said he needs to

[00:32:06] cook some more, but I look forward to watching him develop. And with his limited play this year, I give him the incomplete too. I don't know how I can grade Nemec an incomplete and then go ahead and give Casey a grade because I don't even know who played more. For what Casey showed me on the ice, since this is the only year I've seen him versus pieces of Nemec over the years, which is why it was easier for me to give him the incomplete. I would give him like a B. But I think overall, I mean, I have to just go with an incomplete. I don't know who that hockey player really is. Okay.

[00:32:39] Tom? No, I'm the same. Like I said, I'm incomplete for me because I just didn't see him play enough and, you know. All right. Kind of undecided. I think he has, what we saw, there was certain moments, especially when he first came up, those first couple of weeks were awesome with him. But then I just kind of, you know, not forgot about him, but went down and. You forgot about him. I get it. Forgot about him. All right. So Dumoulin, that'll finish up our defensive. Dumoulin, great surprise. I think we still may have given up a little bit too much more on this, you know, our forward

[00:33:09] our forward depth prospect wise is pretty barren and we gave up Herman Trav for him. But now that it doesn't sound like we're going to resign him, we wouldn't have gone anywhere without him. We wouldn't have been anywhere. We would have gotten the shit kicked out of us in those playoff games without him. He was playing 35, 40 minutes, particularly in those two OT games. I think it was a B plus. It's almost like a veteran presence who's been there before is important. Who knew?

[00:33:38] Well, I put the trade day acquisition. We all scoffed at that ended up being the most impactful. A veteran guy that worked his dick off in the postseason and logging more minutes than any other devil. I'd like to see a world where he is kept on the team as a seventh defenseman B plus. I'm going exactly with you on the B plus, man. This is just that guy you bring in. Just been there before. He knows what he's doing. Solid as all hell. You didn't even have to think about him. He was getting his job done. He did it great. And all those minutes. B plus.

[00:34:07] You also had one of our best overtime winning goals, too. Yeah, that's right. Isn't it? Kind of kept us afloat. That was I think I think the team that we were playing. I forget who was against the Islanders. Was it the Islanders? No, Boston. Yeah. Did they come back on us and then we won in overtime? Yeah, I think so. OK. Yeah. So that was a pretty important game. I think regular season wise because we were circling the drain when that happened. And they just came back on us and we had just gotten a whole shitload more injuries. Yeah.

[00:34:36] And we were like, oh, shit, Brian Dumoulin. How about that? Because I remember watching him play and being like, why the fuck is this guy out there in overtime? Yeah. Well, that's why. All right. Dumoulin. Tone? I'm going to go B. He won me over in the playoffs. I mean, I, you know, I liked him anyway during the season, but he actually really won me over, especially that I think the second to last game, man. He was a maniac in that game. So, yeah. We go with B. He's also very handsome. All right. So let's wrap up with B plus.

[00:35:05] Wrap this up with the goalies. All right. Let's get to the goalies. All right. The goalies were the ultimate strength and backbone of this team. It's so refreshing and nice. To not have to bitch and worry about goalies. I know Markstrom kind of gave up a couple of softies here and there, but you live with that type of shit. Like I said before, point to me or show me a soft goal. I'll show you the eight mistakes that were made right before that. So with Markstrom, he came as advertised.

[00:35:35] He's a stud. I like his attitude. I like his leadership. I like what he brings. He leads these guys on the ice. And I like that and having that in the goalie. It's one of the best goalies in the first round of the playoffs. You know, playing from a disadvantage. B plus. So for the goalies as a whole, I wrote, I cringe to think how the devil season goes without these studs between the pipes. They are my only A plus that I'm giving as a blanket to the gold gold ending this year.

[00:36:03] With Markstrom, I said he showed us why Fitz was adamant about acquiring him. Not only is the guy a great goalie, he's a fiery competitor. Not many net minders are vocal leaders. Marky is. Devil fans should be excited for year two in Keith's system A. When I think of Markstrom, like automatically my first thought is A minus because of the way he would start a lot of games and the goals that would go in. You don't like to see that.

[00:36:32] But then you look that against all the A plus stuff that he'll do the rest of that game, making saves he shouldn't make. And you can kind of soften on that a little bit. So I just took the middle of the two. I'm just going to give him an A. I think he's great back there for us. Solid presence. And I think we can absolutely win. I'm going to go A plus on our both of our goalies, to tell you the truth, because I feel like without them, first of all, we had no shot this year. They would have been done a long time ago.

[00:37:00] I never felt, you know, back last couple of seasons, you're always wondering what you're going to get that night. I felt with these two goalies, I pretty much felt like we were always going to get solid goal. You know, even in the last game, Markstrom, I mean, he was amazing that game. It's just, you know, but I'm going to give them both the same because I think that, like I said, without those guys and after the last couple of seasons, I can't find a reason to go lower. So, yeah.

[00:37:28] We went through so many games this season that were lopsided play-wise and only, I can remember maybe two or three that were lopsided score-wise. And that was because of Markstrom and Allen. And one of them in particular, I forget who it was against, where Allen was fucking outrageous in the third period. Yeah, like two shutouts in a row, didn't he? Yeah, yeah.

[00:37:50] So, honestly, and I say this, like, without any sort of hyperbole, I think Allen might have been the most important guy during this actual season. Because when Markstrom went down, we were ready to fucking fold it and pack it up and say, you know what, season's over, that's it. And he stepped right in and picked this team up and put them on his back. I give Allen a flat A. With Jake Allen, I wrote, when he came from Montreal in the 22-23 season, his impact was felt immediately.

[00:38:18] This year, he kicked it up a notch. When Markstrom went out with the injury, things could have easily fallen apart if not for Allen holding down the fort. I know he's probably moving on this summer. So, allow me to be the first to say, thank you, Jake Allen. He gets the A. I thought Jake, just looking at his play alone, kind of, it's got A material written all over it. And then to back that up, the fact that he's a backup and arguably the best backup in the league this year. So, he was just as solid.

[00:38:48] I felt no different depending on who was starting a game in my confidence level. The only thing that would have changed if he asked me before the playoffs who should get the net, we all agreed. It's Markstrom. It's his net. No reason not to. Other than that, on any game, I would have been just as happy with Allen. So, I'll give him an A as well. I agree. I felt the same way. Antonio, you're an A with Allen. Yeah, I'm the same. Same as I said in the beginning for Markstrom. Fitz did indicate that he's going to talk to Allen's agent and see what they're looking at today.

[00:39:16] So, that's interesting because I also graded Dawes. I think he, when Markstrom went down and Dawes picked up a couple of games, I did give him a grade even though it was kind of a limited sample. Dawes was outstanding. I think he had something like a 950, 960 save percentage or something like that. He was really fucking good. I have all the confidence in the world that he could step in and be the 1B next year.

[00:39:40] You know, the reason why he had some bad games two years ago, A, is because our defense was fucking atrocious. But also, Lindy Ruff tried to ride him into the fucking ground. I think he started him like eight or nine straight games or something. Like right after coming off of that hip resurfacing surgery. So, I think Dawes will be a serviceable high-end backup goalie and a good starter in a pinch. Not our future, but I think he's a good bridge goalie to get to Jagerov.

[00:40:10] With Dawes, I put, I look forward to watching him back up Markie next season. His time's now. It's a B. I like Nico Dawes. Nothing else to say. Yeah, unlike the other two defensemen as a goalie with limited time, at least I got to see him for the full game. You know, not just whatever ice time they got. And I've seen enough of Dawes to know that he's solid. I agree that if he's our backup next year, I'm fine with it. I wouldn't be as confident as I go in with the Marks from Allen situation. But I'd be like, he's a comparable backup. So, I'm going to give him a B.

[00:40:41] Yeah, I'll go with a B, too. If he does want to be in the backup, I'm the same as Bobby. I could deal with that, you know. All right. So, that's our grades for our defensemen and our goalies. And then we're about to do our snake draft of the week. But first, the NBA 82 game grind is done. And now the real fun begins. The NBA playoffs are here. And it's time for all the high stakes drama, clutch moments, and jaw-dropping plays. If you're looking to make the playoffs even more exciting,

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[00:41:36] So, we don't have a lot of time. So, let's... Don't gamble. Yeah, pretty much. Let's do our Snake Draft of the week. Tim, you won last week's most overrated bands. And this year, this week, you had the... You get to choose the topic. So, go for it. Let us know what we're playing with here. We are ranking the top 1980s comedy movies.

[00:42:04] So, the year 1980 to 1989. 1980 to 1989. And we have... I made sure to clarify that because there are certain movies that are just in 1980. All right. Pick a number, guys. One through 10. Tony? Six. Bob? Three. Seven. Ten? Seven?

[00:42:33] I guess I'll go two. All right. Here's our random number generator. And boom. Five. Fuck. That's an amazing... Oh, it's one. One? One. What? Did I hit it first? It says five. It said five first. All right. It said five? Okay. So, let's do five then. It says five. He pulls it off the screen and then it says five. All right. So, we're going to go Tim, Tony. Tony, Tim, Bobby, me. Okay.

[00:43:04] That is... So, Tony, you get the first pick in this week's snake draft for movies. Go for it. Porky's. Nah. Everybody always take my number one, dude. Isn't Porky's in the 70s? No. It's 81. It's 81. Is it 81? I had one of the actresses on. Did you? On the show. Yes. Great. Great. People should listen to Tony's other podcasts. That's going to be fun and interesting. Learn some stuff there. Well, plug it. The Tampa Morgue. Yeah. We had... Yeah.

[00:43:34] We had Jill Whitlow on who was in Weird Science. Porky's. We had Alan Howarth on who did the music for Halloween. Escape from... God. Escape from New York. Gremlins. A bunch of... He did like every... Star Trek. We had a bunch of bands on her too. A bunch of metal bands. A bunch of extreme metal bands. You know. All right. So, then, Tim, your first... Six-round pick. So, this is obviously a very broad category, but I'm going with Fletch.

[00:44:05] Fletch is funny. Didn't make my list, though. Well, because you have no sense of humor. Oh, I do. Bob. I got a real problem with this. I was sharing with you guys. This is just almost impossible. I think that if I ran this list of the top 100, 100 times, I would change my mind 100% of the time. There's just so much good content here. The shame of it is we're only going to get through 12 of the 80s movies, no matter how we slice it with the four of us. So, I love so many of them.

[00:44:34] But if I go back to the one movie quoted probably more than any movie in my lifetime from me, from Chris especially, I can't go anywhere without starting with the godfather of this genre, Airplane. No doubt. It's really hard to not make Airplane my number one pick. Well, now it's easy because you did it. I let you guys take that one, by the way, because we were talking about it so much. Thanks. Shirley, you can't be serious.

[00:45:03] Don't call me Shirley. He is serious. All right. For my first pick, I'm going with a movie that I saw actually in the movie theater, which now when I think about it, I was about eight years old. And why anyone would take an eight-year-old to go see this is beyond me, but it was 1983. I absolutely love this movie. It is hysterical start to finish. Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy are phenomenal. It's trading places.

[00:45:33] It is just one of my all-time favorites. Number one trading places. Great movie. That's a good movie. And I get this first pick of the second round. This is where it kind of gets, because I had Airplane. I had Trading Places. There's a bunch of other movies in there. But I'm going to go with a movie that kind of started like that mockumentary kind of thing.

[00:46:01] It's just funny as hell from start to finish. It's Spinal Tap. That's my second round pick. Nice. Bob. Bob. So this movie is just one of the ultimate cult classic. You don't remember the first time you saw it. You just know that you've seen it a lot. And, gee, I'm real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky. She shouldn't have any spicy foods for a while. And that's better off than it. Fuck. My number one movie on my list.

[00:46:32] Fuck. Wait, that was your number one movie on your list? Well, it's written in the first spot. It wasn't my first choice, but it was like I went through a whole bunch of them. And the first one that came to my head was Better Off Dead. And then I had to go back and look at the years on all these. One of my best friends is Lane. And every time I see him, I'm just like, Lane Meyer. You do your Howard Cosell voice. There he is. There he is. Lane Meyer. The once great champion.

[00:47:01] He's skiing on one ski. Lane, I've been going to this high school for five years. I'm no dummy. Dude, that's just a freaking great movie. And One Crazy Summer, which isn't on my list, is just as funny. I mean, who directed him? We can go four or five rounds if you want. Is that Savage Stevens did those, I think? Summer School was great, too. Summer School was great. That's a good one. All right, Timmy, your second round selection. I didn't get a second round, though. Oh, what?

[00:47:30] We're going back to you. We're going back to you. Oh, I see how this works. You get the next two picks after 10. Oh, okay. Sweet. Trading Place isn't Better Off Dead. We're going to be my next two, to be honest. All right. So this may or may not be off the grid a little bit, but this movie I've watched thousands of times. One of the best Coen Brothers movies of all time.

[00:47:52] And probably it's one of those movies that is designed to be funny, but it's a serious topic. It's Raising Arizona. Ah, okay. One. That is a good movie. It is so, like, just some of the situations. It's perfect Nicolas Cage comedy. And you could put John Goodman in anything. And that guy is just probably, he's probably underrated in terms of one of the best actors

[00:48:22] of all time. And Holly Hunter's just really adorable, isn't she? Yeah. Yeah. I'm with you on that. I like that pick. It wasn't on my list. It was a forgotten movie, but that's an extremely good pick. I got it about 16 down. I knew we wouldn't get to it, but you never know with these lists. You know, I might have to change. Are we doing four each or are we doing three? We're doing three officially. Maybe we can all do one after. I'm on four for this one. We could do four for this one. All right. We'll do four. Okay. So I'll be next two though, right? That's good. Because here's my list. Yeah.

[00:48:52] So I'm going to go The Toy, of course. The Toy? The Toy? The most racist movie ever made. Oh, that's great. I picked Blazing Saddles, but it was in the 70s. Yeah. You know? That's a great one. The Toy is. So you're picking a movie where a rich millionaire allows his rich, entitled asshole son to pick any toy that he wants where he picks the black guy who works at the toy store and brings him home as his property.

[00:49:21] Richard Pryor is fucking king. Love Pryor, man. Love it. Don't. All right. Oh, you ass. It's a great movie. Richard Pryor on that. Oh, this is so funny, man. It's a freaking great movie. Yeah. I absolutely love it. I mean, 70s takeaway. So it's like, look at the jerk. I was totally going to pick the jerk. I'm like, oh, it's 79, man. That's a great movie. I grew up with a poor black boy. My number one was probably going to be Animal House, and that shit was in the 70s, too. I'm like, yeah. There you go.

[00:49:51] All right, Tony, your third pick. I don't know if anybody would pick this, but I don't know why I love this movie still. Johnny Dangerously. You fucking cock. Fuck sucker. Oh, yes. I forgot about that one. That's great. Fuck sucker. You fucking cock sucker. Take down that wall. Take down that wall. Take down that fargan wall. No matter how many times you see that movie, it is good. You could be sitting there after the 20th time and just be like, it's a great movie. The video that he makes his brother watch, the testicle.

[00:50:21] Elephantitis in the nuts, right? Or whatever the hell. The mother is the mother and the woman that I guess the old lady that lives next door or whatever. Those two together, they have that one scene. Oh, my God. That movie is just Michael Keaton at his absolute best. That's so good. Did you guys have that on your list? I totally forgot about it. I looked up top 180s movies and I went through the list.

[00:50:49] Then I started literally Googling what other 80s comedies wouldn't be on the top 100. Just trying to remember all the different shit in there. I would have definitely picked that one too. That was one of the movies when I – my sophomore year of college when I got my first apartment. We couldn't afford cable. So stupidly, we just bought VHS tapes to watch over and over again. That was one of them, dude. So I had seen it a million times when I was younger and I watched it a million more in college. You know the problem with that, Bobby, that list you're talking – if you look at those lists of recommended comedy movies, some of them aren't even funny.

[00:51:17] I love Breakfast Club, but it's not funny. It's funny. I did the same thing, but it's just a reference point. It's just a reference. Yeah, believe me. I did not rank anywhere near what these people ranked. Oh, yeah. I was more like, what the fuck is it? Because, yeah, it was Breakfast Club. Yeah, it's like it's good. There's some funny moments. Whatever the number one movie was, I was like, what? Yeah. Can't go by that. All right. So, Tim, your third round selection. All right. One of my favorite sports movies of all time.

[00:51:46] And, in fact, I have – I know where you're going with this. This guy. Major League. It's racist. Shut up, Dorn. It's a great movie. That's a great movie. A very quotable movie. Bob and I saw it in the movie theater. And then, as we were walking out, our eighth grade science and math teacher was there with her boyfriend. And we got completely weirded out because we never saw a teacher out in public. And then we just all walked out of a rated R movie.

[00:52:17] And we were only in eighth grade. So, that was – But I absolutely love – Back then, they didn't give a shit. I love Major League. It's just – What's there not to like? It's a fantastic movie. Best baseball movie ever. Nice fucking catch. Don't ever do it again. Exactly. Forget about the curveball. See, it's the – Give him the heater. All right, Bob. Your third pick. I don't know. Third and fourth, dude. Third and fourth.

[00:52:46] I'm having a real hard time with. I was going to give away what the fourth will be. But, thankfully, we're going to another round. I'll see if it survives. I'm going to go number three at Top Secret. Another just fantastic. Just one of those movies where it's just like naked guns. Just kind of line after line, joke after joke. Great parody movie. I actually – Dude, this is probably never going to happen again. I literally got my first three in order on this draft. Wow. That's crazy.

[00:53:17] I don't know if anybody other than the Zucker Brothers can sit down and say, let's make a parody of World War II spy movies and Elvis musicals. And you get Top Secret, which is – I mean, I think their best – I mean, Naked Gun and Airplane are there, but Top Secret's got to be right there. You have to be a fucking insane person to come up with some of the shit that they came up with in that movie. That movie is so freaking funny. Chocolate Moose?

[00:53:46] Chocolate Moose? Souffle? Latrine? What a funny dog poop. Oh, God. That movie is just fucking great. I'm going to have to watch all these things. Have you ever been to America? No, but my grandfather was. But he escaped during the Carter years. Oh, he must have some stories. Picks up the phone and he's getting the information from the guy that Val Kilmer supposedly killed. Okay. Let me know if his condition changes. He hangs the phone up. He goes, he's dead.

[00:54:18] That's right. He's fucking hysterical. Okay. All right. So another movie, my third round pick is a movie I absolutely love. Extremely quotable. Rodney Dangerfield at his best. It's got to be back to school. Wasn't easy money out in the 80s too, right? I think easy money came out in the 80s. But I'm going back to school. I saw it in the movie theater and loved it then. I love it now.

[00:54:47] It's not a bad. I mean, there's not a bad scene in it. Everything that Rodney Dangerfield does in that movie is fucking hysterical. All right. So my final pick. This is tough. I mean, I got to go with Naked Gun. I just have to. I mean, we talked about it a million times. Right. Yeah. Like, how do you not? But it's almost like too predictable in a way. I have one other movie on here that I could have maybe put with this. I'll see if one of you guys takes it.

[00:55:16] But yeah, Naked Gun is my round four. So then we go to Bob, your final pick. I have so many. I hate that I can't do them all here. This one is probably a little bit off the mark from a traditional movie standpoint. But when I think back of my youth and just cackling and just absolutely thinking it's the funniest shit ever and doing it in your living room. Amazon women on the moon. Oh, my God.

[00:55:47] In my basement. I can't play it, but I own it. Dude, that movie. I don't even know who did that. But that movie. Tony, ever say it? That movie is absolutely frigging fantastic. I forgot about that movie. I haven't thought of that movie at all. That movie and Kentucky Fried movie. Oh, God. The popcorn you're eating has just been pissed in. News at 11. Just, yeah. I mean, those movies were great. But Amazon women on the moon is fucking fantastic.

[00:56:16] That's a great pick, Bob. Good pick. Wow. I got my first four in order. Man. That's nice. Bob's list is fucking solid. Bob's list is solid. And I mean, if I'm looking at this, I might just, because of Johnny Dangerously alone, just give that one to Tony. I can't believe Johnny Dangerously fell in the third round pick. I can't believe the NFL fell far. That's crazy. Number four now, though. Who goes now? Oh, all right. All right, Timmy. Timmy. So I'm in between two movies right now.

[00:56:46] And I think I have to pick one movie to represent an entire trilogy. Christmas Vacation. Christmas? Yes. Because I had vacation. I think Christmas Vacation is- Christmas Vacation came out in the 80s? Yeah. I like European. 88 or something. Yeah, it was- Yeah, it did. It's surprising. But yeah, it did. I think European Vacation was in the 90s, I think. No, European Vacation was first. Oh, yeah. It was the second one. So European's the second. So Anthony Michael Hall was the first Rusty, right? Yeah, he was the first. Vegas was the 90s. Yeah, sorry. Vegas was the 90s.

[00:57:16] Space and Lively was the second. Christmas Vacation was great. But to me, the original, still the best one. That's on my list. Yeah, it's a few down. That was the one that I was going back and forth between that and Naked Gun. So I'm picking three movies for my fourth pick. I cheated, sorry. Yeah, you kind of did. No, dude. When we were going into this, I was taking sequels out of the equation because then it would have been like airplane, movie, movie, airplane 2. I'm like, I can't do that. And it's just, you know. Fair enough. I just- The whole scene with Randy Quaid and the trailer just- Shitter's full. Shitter's full.

[00:57:45] And the dog just slobbering over everything and the fucking tree that catches fire. It's an extremely underrated Christmas movie, I think. Yeah. I think when people talk about Christmas movies, they need to have Christmas Vacation on their list. I think that's the best. The neighbors being Julie Louise Dreyfuss. It's like, why is the floor all wet, Todd? I don't know, Marco. What's a better Christmas movie than that? Like, Christmas Story's cool, but it's bread and- Like, we've seen it a million times, right? But I think Christmas Story might be the-

[00:58:14] Or is Christmas Vacation. Yeah, Christmas Vacation might be the best one. All right, Tone, your final pick. It's a hard one because I have three that I wanted to. I'm going to go with Police Academy. Great pick. Never liked it. Oh, I love it. Really? Yeah, never did it. Never did it for me. Love it. The Blue Circle? Did it hit the ghost at home? Yeah. There are a few that I'm surprised did not make the list.

[00:58:43] Ghostbusters didn't make the list. That's literally one of my favorite movies. Revenge of the Nerds didn't make the list. Three Amigos, Spies Like Us, Good Morning Vietnam. Caddyshack, Stripes, all on my list. We could have gone on for- The Burbs, The Money Pit, actually, was two I was thinking of. Because I think- Baseballs. Baseballs. Yeah, Spaceballs. It was right there for me. That was Coming to America, Fast Times. Fast Times on it. Is that comedy? Coming to America, I thought it was the 90s. No. No, I had it next to my list.

[00:59:13] Coming to America and Spaceballs are next, too. Coming to America is, again, another one of those Eddie Murphy, nonstop quotable movies. Bachelor Party. I could definitely put Coming to America on this list. So this is awesome. I just, dude, when we were young, I just, I can remember us sitting in your living room. We're watching Kids in the Hall, Amazon Women on the Moon, Coming to America, Spaceballs, just reciting this shit over. And that's how we would talk to each other. I don't think we talked to each other in real language for like two years. We just talked in movies. No. Everything.

[00:59:41] We'd be out and everything would be a frigging airplane movie. Like, I remember one time we were bowling. And I don't know if you remember this, Bob. And it's that stupid scene in Airplane. And we were quoting Airplane all the time. When, you know, he's having a flashback and he's in Vietnam and he's disco dancing to the Bee Gees. And he throws his jacket and he does the pose. And all of a sudden the jacket comes back and hits him. Well, we were bowling. And Bobby took his, like, sweatshirt off. And he didn't even, like, dig it. And he threw it to me.

[01:00:11] He's like, hold this. And he goes to the ball. And all of a sudden I just threw it back to him. And it hits him. And he just started cracking up and dropped the ball. Because he was the only one that knew what I was doing. And it was fucking hysterical. But, yeah, we would talk in Airplane and Naked Gun. There was no actual language. I still talk like that with my brother. It's like, it's all right. I actually ran some of his bio. I'm like, what do you think? They don't make movies like that anymore. These are good lists. These are real good lists. I'll whip this up into one of our pucker graphics.

[01:00:40] And we'll put it on the old Twitter box. Bob, do we have time for a W-no? Or do you got to get out? I'm leaving in three to five or six minutes. Okay. I think we can get through it. I think we can get through it. You think we can get through it? Okay. All right. If you think we can get through it. I think so. I don't know if you've done this guy before or not. Because I am the new guy. And I'm just an employee here. All right. Are you ready? Not yet. I will be in a second, sir. I'm ready.

[01:01:08] 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. Devil Podcast history. Tonight, Tim is our clue giver. He's going to give us clues for a former New Jersey Devil player.

[01:01:39] Myself, Bobby, and Tony can ask him any question we want. He can or cannot answer. It is completely up to him. We get three incorrect guesses before we are eliminated. The floor is yours, Timothy. All right. This former Devil was born on December 14th, 1961. His playing weight was 6'1", 200.

[01:02:02] He was drafted 175th overall in 1980. His brother was also drafted a year later in the third round by the New York Rangers. He played 10 years in the NHL, five of which were with the Devils. Claw the Mew? No.

[01:02:31] I'm taking her brother. I'm taking a Jocelyn the Mew. Aaron Broughton? No. Okay. He had over his career... What year was he drafted, Tim? 1980 in the 12th round. Or sorry, in the 9th round, I believe that was. 175th overall. 175th overall. Did not say by who. He had a good... He was a good offensive producer.

[01:02:59] He had 219 total goals, 369 assists, and 588 total points over those 10 years. And in his best season, he had 38 goals and 91 points. That was his best season? That was his best season. And he was drafted by the Devils? He did not say who he was drafted by. Was he drafted by the Devils? He was not drafted by the Devils.

[01:03:28] He was not drafted by the Devils. He's finished in the top 20 for Selkie voting three times. I feel like we should know this already. This Swede's real name is Olaf. All right. Now we'll... What number was he drafted at? He was drafted 175th overall. A Swede? He was a Swede. He was the first trade... He was the first trade...

[01:03:54] Or the first trade of consequence that Lou Lamarillo made in the September of 1987. Acquiring him for Kirk McLean and Greg Adams from Vancouver. Credits me. He wore an absurd squared off Jofa helmet that looks fucking ridiculous.

[01:04:14] He is probably most famous for having three goals and eight points in game three of the Stanley Cup playoffs against Washington in 1988. Oh my God. He tied a league record with Mary Lemieux surpassing Wayne Gretzky. Fun fact, later on in that playoff round, which I reminded you was an important date because I believe today is the anniversary that Jim Schoenfeld told Koharski to go eat another donut you fat fucker.

[01:04:44] Eat a donut, yeah. I know this, but I can't freaking think of it. Tony, come on, man. This is all you. This is all Tony. Unfortunately, he left the NFL in 1980. 1980, he's drafted, right? What number? 175. 175th overall. His brother was also drafted by the Rangers and played in the NHL. Ten years, five of those were the Devils. So he was traded from Vancouver to New Jersey in September of 87 for Kirk McLean and Greg Adams.

[01:05:14] He's Swedish. He wore a ridiculous... That's correct. Nice. There you go. Man, that took too long, though. Nick Lindstrom. Damn. Good job. That was nice. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good one. That's a good callback on that, Tim. And, of course, Tony got it because that's what he does. Yeah, I just went right down to me. The brother thing threw me off for a while because I wasn't even thinking there. Well, yeah, because I didn't want to say where he was born at first. I wanted to just give you the date so you contextualized the era he was in.

[01:05:44] Sweden kind of helped you at the end. Tony, you are responsible for WNO next week. We are going to wrap this bad boy up. We will be back sometime in the next couple of days, and we will have some more fun and some cool stuff to do. If you're listening to us, a like, a download, a subscription, positive comment, watching us, you know, hit the subscribe, alert bells, all that other stuff. It really does help the little podcast that could. For Pucker Tony, Pucker Bob, and Pucker Tim, I'm Pucker Chris. And we'll Pucker you later.

[01:06:14] Fuck off. Except for you, Valica, you fucking loser. Fuck off. I like that. My new one. And we're out. It's over, Johnny. It's over.