Jack Be Quick

[00:00:00] Yeah, I don't think we know who's gambling.

[00:00:01] I said we'd find it.

[00:00:04] That's not our intro.

[00:00:09] That's our intro.

[00:00:12] Always the beginning.

[00:00:15] Hey everyone, Mr. Devil here, Kenny Danico, three-time Stanley Cup champion of the New Jersey Devils.

[00:00:21] And you're listening to the Uncle Puckers NJD Podcast with Chris, Dan, Bobby, and Tony, the Uncle Puckers.

[00:00:29] Let's go Devils!

[00:00:30] Did you notice?

[00:00:31] Just coughed over a couple of names.

[00:00:34] Oh, except that was.

[00:00:37] Oh, for fuck's sake.

[00:00:38] We get to do it twice.

[00:00:39] Everybody loves that intro.

[00:00:40] They've heard it 249 times.

[00:00:42] Plus the preview shows that you do.

[00:00:44] So let's just roll it again.

[00:00:47] Everything sucks.

[00:00:48] I'm telling you.

[00:00:49] I'm in a little bit of a bad mood.

[00:00:51] Can I share a quick story?

[00:00:52] I would love you to share a quick story.

[00:00:54] So wife was in the mood for like some cheese and crackers, right?

[00:00:58] Is that what you guys call it?

[00:01:00] Cheese and crackers?

[00:01:01] That's what we call it.

[00:01:02] Cheese and crackers time.

[00:01:04] Literally what it is.

[00:01:07] So I'm thinking like, we usually have cheese in half.

[00:01:09] So now I'm thinking like port wine or something.

[00:01:11] I'm like, all right, good.

[00:01:12] Now I got to get crackers, right?

[00:01:13] Because I don't usually have crackers in half.

[00:01:14] Just for the simple fact, I get the crackers, I eat the crackers all the time.

[00:01:17] So I go to this closest grocery store, which is not my favorite.

[00:01:20] It's not the one that I know all the aisles.

[00:01:23] That's the worst.

[00:01:24] There's so many choices.

[00:01:24] It's like overwhelming.

[00:01:26] I just want a goddamn cracker, right?

[00:01:29] So I get Ritz usually, and I've been told there's a lot of crap in the Ritz maybe.

[00:01:33] Maybe not to get Ritz.

[00:01:35] Maybe something with a little less crap in it.

[00:01:36] So I look at the club, right?

[00:01:38] You guys know the club, right?

[00:01:39] This little box.

[00:01:40] I'm going to show you this box, right?

[00:01:41] It's got less crap in it.

[00:01:42] I look at the ingredients.

[00:01:43] So I'm very happy with it.

[00:01:45] Now, if you look at this box.

[00:01:46] If Keebler is listening, we are more than happy to take you on as a sponsor.

[00:01:50] So go ahead, Bobby.

[00:01:50] I know not everybody can see this, but if you look at this box, it does say club.

[00:01:54] It does say minis.

[00:01:55] But look at the size of the crackers on the box.

[00:01:57] It looks like a respectable cracker, doesn't it?

[00:01:59] It should probably say non-actual size on the box.

[00:02:01] See, I didn't have my glasses, right?

[00:02:03] So I get home.

[00:02:04] Not only did they not have the port wine cheese, I had to settle for the spray can cheese, which

[00:02:08] you know, actually is kind of good sometimes.

[00:02:10] But so are you ready?

[00:02:11] This is the cracker I'm supposed to work with.

[00:02:14] Look at the size of this cracker.

[00:02:16] Smallest fucking cracker I've ever made.

[00:02:17] This is literally the size of my pinky fingertip.

[00:02:19] Do you know what it's like to try to scoop cheese?

[00:02:22] Well, for starters, this is all on you.

[00:02:26] Okay.

[00:02:27] It clearly says mini on the box.

[00:02:29] Clearly.

[00:02:30] It says mini, but look at the box again.

[00:02:32] It doesn't matter.

[00:02:32] It's not like that small on the box.

[00:02:33] It doesn't matter.

[00:02:34] They're not.

[00:02:35] It still says mini.

[00:02:37] I understand.

[00:02:38] Mini.

[00:02:39] Yeah.

[00:02:39] That is minuscule.

[00:02:40] Okay.

[00:02:42] That's like a bag of cheese.

[00:02:43] I have seen bigger crackers in Lunchables, to be honest with you.

[00:02:47] That's.

[00:02:48] I've been spraying little cheese on there.

[00:02:50] I've been cutting up like a, you know, you get the pre-cut up slices of cheese, you know,

[00:02:54] like cheddar and stuff.

[00:02:55] I got to like rip it apart into like eight tiny little cheese.

[00:02:58] Like one big slab of cheese on a little cracker.

[00:03:01] Yeah.

[00:03:02] Yeah.

[00:03:02] Like three crackers and one slice of cheese.

[00:03:04] And then.

[00:03:05] You can't do this.

[00:03:06] My nightmare.

[00:03:07] The squeeze, the squeeze cheese is disgusting.

[00:03:09] I mean, you, you, you seriously, you didn't get rid because somebody told you that there

[00:03:15] was some bad stuff in it.

[00:03:17] Instead, you got aerosol cans, spray cheese.

[00:03:20] I know.

[00:03:20] I just caved.

[00:03:22] I wanted port wine.

[00:03:24] I didn't have it.

[00:03:26] And we've got all the other crap.

[00:03:27] And I was just like, all right, well, there's something for my childhood that we haven't had

[00:03:29] in a long time.

[00:03:30] So anyway, the whole, the whole thing was ruined.

[00:03:33] I don't have the right cracker.

[00:03:34] I don't have the right cheese.

[00:03:36] No, you definitely don't have the right cheese.

[00:03:38] It's just going to have to do the euphemism then instead.

[00:03:41] We're using crackers.

[00:03:42] We're usually more cheese aficionados.

[00:03:44] You usually have good cheese.

[00:03:45] And I went out and got, you know, a can of cheese.

[00:03:48] So yeah.

[00:03:48] I have a giant tray in my refrigerator of crackers and cheeses and salamis and pepperonis.

[00:03:57] And oh my God, I am going to house that shit tonight when I get done with this show.

[00:04:02] You're eating cheese the way it should be.

[00:04:04] Well, yeah, because I'm not an idiot and I don't buy fucking spray cheese.

[00:04:08] Tell me you don't get a craving for spray cheese like once in a while.

[00:04:12] Never.

[00:04:13] I think I honestly, and I eat like garbage.

[00:04:15] So I'm definitely not going to sit here and say that I'm, you know, Mr. Fucking all natural.

[00:04:21] But I just don't like it.

[00:04:23] Like, I don't think I've had it since I was probably at 10 or 11.

[00:04:27] Do you know what my dumb ass 10, 11 year old self used to do when that can's emptying?

[00:04:31] It's just sitting there going.

[00:04:32] I cut that thing open with a knife and started like scraping it out from the wall.

[00:04:36] You're not doing like super sharp razor metal in a 10 year old scooping cheese out of it.

[00:04:41] You're not the only one who's done that.

[00:04:42] It's all right.

[00:04:43] That's what the, that's what the minis are good for.

[00:04:45] He just go around with your cheese.

[00:04:48] Well, yes, I do.

[00:04:50] So they're in the same boat, you know, like they're like three grocery stores and there's

[00:04:53] one that like is my preference.

[00:04:55] Right.

[00:04:55] And I went to a different one today, went straight to the aisle because I was where I had buffalo

[00:04:59] wings for dinner and I was looking for blue cheese.

[00:05:02] They're like 15 blue cheeses, not in the spot where they are in the other grocery store

[00:05:06] in this grocery store and the others.

[00:05:08] They're on the fucking complete opposite side of the other grocery store.

[00:05:11] So, and then I got overwhelmed by the amount of blue cheeses and wound up with no blue

[00:05:14] cheese because it's like, I don't want to make a decision.

[00:05:16] I'm exactly like you guys when it comes to grocery stores, right?

[00:05:20] We in, in my town, we have about three or four of them all within driving distance.

[00:05:26] I go to the stop and shop nearest to my house, not because they're the cleanest or the prices

[00:05:32] are the best or any of that.

[00:05:34] It's because I know where everything is.

[00:05:36] And when I walk into a bigger, a bigger supermarket or one I'm not familiar with, I get angry, just

[00:05:42] angry right off the bat.

[00:05:43] Like when the other one, this shit's supposed to be next to this and now you're fucking with

[00:05:47] me.

[00:05:47] But what makes it even worse was about two years ago, I walked into my stop and shop and

[00:05:54] they were moving everything around.

[00:05:58] And I'm like, this is the only reason why I come here.

[00:06:01] And now you're fucking, why, why are you changing it?

[00:06:05] What was the fricking problem that the cereal was two aisles to the right.

[00:06:08] And now you're fucking moving.

[00:06:09] I don't understand when these stores do this stuff.

[00:06:13] I know, Bob, you're in marketing.

[00:06:14] Why is this just a write-off?

[00:06:16] No, dude.

[00:06:17] Is there really some for management say that things placed in certain spots sell better?

[00:06:22] That's exactly what the manager comes in and says, if you lay it out this way, you're

[00:06:25] going to get more impulse buys, more people walking through.

[00:06:28] I'm like you do.

[00:06:28] The closest grocery stores are most hated.

[00:06:30] Both me and my wife.

[00:06:31] The next closest is a shop, right?

[00:06:33] We're familiar with that.

[00:06:35] She likes that.

[00:06:35] I prefer not.

[00:06:36] My favorite giant is the furthest one, but it's still only like two and a half, three

[00:06:39] miles away.

[00:06:40] This is the one I can go to.

[00:06:41] I don't need a list.

[00:06:42] I don't need anything.

[00:06:43] I know what aisles I need to go down, which ones I don't.

[00:06:46] I just know if I need like, you know, pasta or parm cheese and I'm just in and out.

[00:06:50] Everything's good.

[00:06:51] If I go to another store, I guarantee you.

[00:06:52] You get the parm cheese in the spray can?

[00:06:55] No, man.

[00:06:56] I get real cheese on a normal shopping day.

[00:06:57] This was an impulse.

[00:07:00] Very improper impulse.

[00:07:02] It's over now.

[00:07:03] I'm sure there'll be some kind of nicknames coming up.

[00:07:05] Hey, there's all spray cheese, Bobby.

[00:07:07] Cheese was Bobby.

[00:07:09] Cheese was Bobby.

[00:07:10] Cheese was, that's a whole other thing.

[00:07:12] That's got its place too.

[00:07:13] Yeah.

[00:07:13] Chris, they definitely hired some consultant who dazzled them with some sort of cost optimization

[00:07:18] where they're able to, you know, which is what Bobby said.

[00:07:21] They moved the cereal over two aisles, you know, a study show or research show.

[00:07:26] So you'll increase your margins by 2% or something like that.

[00:07:28] Well, that consultant definitely should have said, if you do this, you're going to piss

[00:07:32] Chris off.

[00:07:33] So maybe not do it.

[00:07:34] And it wasn't just me.

[00:07:36] Like, it's like you walk past other shoppers and everyone's angry because it's like you're

[00:07:40] just, you're fucking everything up for no reason.

[00:07:43] And I mean, so anyway, how about those devils?

[00:07:46] I think, sorry.

[00:07:48] Every company, just in this sort of similar tangent, but every company needs like a chief

[00:07:52] degenerate officer who's just like a fucking scumbag who just sits there and is like,

[00:07:58] nope, you can't put that ad out.

[00:07:59] That looks like a dick.

[00:08:00] Can't do it.

[00:08:01] Sorry.

[00:08:01] You know, or like you can't put that copy up because that means this, that is in a Sabrina

[00:08:06] Carpenter song.

[00:08:07] It's talking to her about talking about her dildo.

[00:08:09] Like, you can't do that.

[00:08:10] Like, I don't know.

[00:08:12] You know a lot about Sabrina Carpenter.

[00:08:15] I dildos.

[00:08:16] I work in marketing and media partnerships.

[00:08:19] I need to be up on what's cool.

[00:08:21] Okay.

[00:08:22] Very good.

[00:08:23] Yeah.

[00:08:23] My daughter is a big Sabrina Carpenter fan.

[00:08:26] We, we, uh, I guess I only saw her when the kids were little and we used to watch

[00:08:30] Girl Meets World on Disney.

[00:08:32] And she was on that.

[00:08:33] That's the only thing I know her from.

[00:08:34] I had no idea she was even a singer until recently.

[00:08:37] So yeah.

[00:08:38] Anyway, anyway.

[00:08:40] So last night the devil's headed into Columbus to face the blue jackets.

[00:08:46] And I mean, there are games guys where you sometimes just have to tip the cap and just

[00:08:53] say Elvis Merzliken's job.

[00:08:56] Well done because that man put on a clinic last night.

[00:09:01] That was some of the best goaltending I'd ever seen.

[00:09:04] And yet we'll talk about it and we'll talk more about how the devil's actually almost pulled

[00:09:08] it off.

[00:09:09] But what are you guys, uh, thoughts on just that game and Elvis Merzliken's last night?

[00:09:17] Whatever, whoever.

[00:09:19] Rock, paper, scissors.

[00:09:20] All right.

[00:09:21] Um, yeah, I, I mean, I, you know, I, I kind of touched on it in our recap.

[00:09:26] Like I, I don't necessarily think we, you know, the term goalie gets thrown around a lot, but

[00:09:32] I don't necessarily think we got goalied by like Stolarz and Blackwood and a couple of

[00:09:36] those shutouts.

[00:09:37] I think they made the saves they needed to make, but we didn't really make them move

[00:09:41] side to side a lot.

[00:09:43] You know, the one goal that we scored on Stolarz, we made him move.

[00:09:47] Like the shit that Merzlikens was saving, like was fucking crazy.

[00:09:51] He made like eight or nine, just, you know, sliding across like that glove save he made

[00:09:55] on Jack, the pad save he made on Luke, the blocker save he made on Jack, just like just

[00:09:59] robbing people left and right.

[00:10:01] Like that was literally the definition of getting goalie.

[00:10:04] And like you said, got to tip a cap.

[00:10:06] Yeah.

[00:10:07] I mean, Chris, you nailed it.

[00:10:08] We've had the benefit of seeing the best goalie in the world for two decades and he's

[00:10:15] had some fantastic games too, but I'd be hard pressed to, to say, I've seen him make that

[00:10:20] many saves.

[00:10:21] He shouldn't have like, that was just stupid, stupid, ridiculous how many saves he was making.

[00:10:26] As long as we've all been watching hockey and maybe you guys are different, but I have

[00:10:31] never in my life seen a goalie gassed.

[00:10:34] This dude was hanging on his post at the, after at every whistle to just try and catch

[00:10:42] his breath.

[00:10:43] And that's the only reason I think the devils were able to get those two in because this

[00:10:46] guy had nothing left.

[00:10:48] I mean, I've never seen a goalie like that where they just were like, you know, he's just

[00:10:53] looking at the clock.

[00:10:54] Like at this point, I don't care about the shutout.

[00:10:56] Just get me the fuck out of here.

[00:10:57] He was literally stalling for time.

[00:10:58] He was.

[00:10:59] He really was.

[00:11:00] I actually was, was cursing.

[00:11:02] I was cursing at him when, when he like turned around, slowly turned his mask up, was getting

[00:11:07] water.

[00:11:08] I was like, get your ass back in the net motherfucker.

[00:11:10] But it's off like a man.

[00:11:12] I mean, any other goalie, any other goalie, Jack and Luke combined have six or seven goals

[00:11:19] last night.

[00:11:19] I mean, the way that the devils were moving the puck, especially Jack and Luke, like it

[00:11:25] was, it was a clinic, especially that third period, an absolute clinic.

[00:11:31] How many shots did they have on goal between the two of them, Tim?

[00:11:35] 21, 22, I think you said.

[00:11:37] 19?

[00:11:38] Or 22.

[00:11:39] Yeah, it was 22.

[00:11:40] 22.

[00:11:40] And I think they had, I think they had more shots than Columbus.

[00:11:45] I mean, or real close to it as a team, like these guys were like, it was ridiculous.

[00:11:51] And I'll tell you right now, I feel bad for Tristan Jari tomorrow night at the rock, because

[00:11:58] I think that the devils with the way that they performed that game and not getting the result

[00:12:04] they wanted.

[00:12:04] I feel bad for Tristan Jari.

[00:12:06] Yeah.

[00:12:08] Yeah.

[00:12:10] I think, Tim, did you even put it in your article, I think, about like the expected goals

[00:12:15] for, for Jack and Luke?

[00:12:16] Was that yours?

[00:12:17] Like how many should have likely have gone in?

[00:12:20] I know it was like 15.

[00:12:22] His goal saved above expected was almost five.

[00:12:25] Wow.

[00:12:26] Like that's, yeah, it's just flat out.

[00:12:28] I would have thought it maybe even been more than that.

[00:12:30] Really?

[00:12:30] Yeah.

[00:12:30] The saves he was making were just ridiculous.

[00:12:34] I mean, it's an arbitrary stat.

[00:12:35] You know, it's not a perfect stat, but still.

[00:12:37] Yeah.

[00:12:37] It shows a big picture when usually you're in the 1.5 to like, to be almost five is like

[00:12:44] legit, like an ass kicking by him.

[00:12:46] Like it really was something else.

[00:12:48] This is one of those games you can't script.

[00:12:51] Jack could have easily had a hat trick in the second period.

[00:12:55] Could have easily had a hat trick in the second period.

[00:12:57] Like, I can't believe, like that one glove save, I was like, Jesus.

[00:13:01] When he made that, I was like, oh man, like this guy's dialed in.

[00:13:05] There's just nothing you can do about it.

[00:13:06] Like you just got to keep peppering away like they did.

[00:13:09] And, and, you know, you go to the, he's completely gassed about six minutes left in the third.

[00:13:14] Sheldon Keith pulls Jacob Markstrom because I mean, we did dominate the zone time and I

[00:13:21] would have felt good playing the whole third period without Markstrom the way that the

[00:13:25] Devils were playing last night.

[00:13:28] That's hyperbole just for anybody that doesn't get it.

[00:13:32] But so, you know, they're almost there.

[00:13:36] They had, get the two and you just feel it, man.

[00:13:39] It's coming.

[00:13:40] And just one little misstep, right?

[00:13:43] Jack coming out of the zone, takes that quick look over his shoulder.

[00:13:46] Next thing you know, the puck's off his stick and in the net.

[00:13:49] And that was it.

[00:13:50] And it was like, yeah, okay.

[00:13:52] So that happened at the end.

[00:13:54] It was, do I know whose fault that was?

[00:13:58] Is that what you asked me?

[00:14:00] It's Lindy Ruff's fault.

[00:14:02] It's Lindy Ruff's fault.

[00:14:04] Because when in doubt, it's Jack, Jack, Jack.

[00:14:09] No, no, no.

[00:14:09] Because he was, Jack was making sure that the sixth guy came out on the ice because he

[00:14:14] has so much trauma from when Lindy Ruff didn't send out a sixth guy last year.

[00:14:18] So we're going to blame this on Lindy.

[00:14:20] Nice callback.

[00:14:21] Like it.

[00:14:22] And I, I also, it's not, but no, I know, but Luke losing his shit when the puck went in

[00:14:29] was great to watch too.

[00:14:30] I love the fire, you know?

[00:14:32] And I think he was even like giving Jack a little shit for that.

[00:14:35] Jack was doing it on the wall.

[00:14:37] I just saw that.

[00:14:38] He was smacking a stick on the wall and then the short wall going over the bench while

[00:14:42] Luke was hitting it on the ice.

[00:14:43] So yeah, the two of them look like they look their age.

[00:14:47] They really did.

[00:14:48] Like, I mean, they just got so caught up in the fact that we're actually going to pull

[00:14:52] this off.

[00:14:52] I got there too.

[00:14:53] They still had a minute and 25 left with that.

[00:14:55] They would have done it.

[00:14:57] I think they would have done it.

[00:14:58] It would have been awesome.

[00:14:59] But I, you know what?

[00:15:00] This loss means nothing to me.

[00:15:02] Like this, the team was incredible.

[00:15:05] They literally got goalied.

[00:15:06] Like, I don't care.

[00:15:07] Throw it away.

[00:15:08] Those kinds of things happen.

[00:15:09] I hate it because we can't seem to win four in a row.

[00:15:12] I hate it because it's Columbus, although playing better.

[00:15:15] Like we were supposed to beat these teams.

[00:15:17] And every time we get a chance to get that fourth game and really get that streak going,

[00:15:21] it's a team we should beat and we still don't.

[00:15:23] Or we get shut out.

[00:15:24] We will never.

[00:15:26] But I just don't care.

[00:15:27] I'm so happy with the way that team showed up.

[00:15:30] It's good.

[00:15:30] We move on.

[00:15:32] One of the best bets come playoff time is that the Devils will not get a sweep in the

[00:15:37] playoffs.

[00:15:37] They just cannot win four in a row.

[00:15:39] So, yeah.

[00:15:41] Nope.

[00:15:42] So, how are the Rangers doing tonight?

[00:15:45] I just want to check.

[00:15:46] They're winning.

[00:15:46] They're winning.

[00:15:47] In the intermission.

[00:15:48] Yeah.

[00:15:48] I was watching a little bit of that game.

[00:15:50] They actually showed a little bit of life.

[00:15:53] I saw the Trocek go-ahead goal on Ottinger.

[00:15:58] But I still think that that whole organization seems like it's hanging by an ass hair right

[00:16:04] now and about to snap.

[00:16:05] It really does.

[00:16:06] It's so fun to watch.

[00:16:08] Go ahead, Tim.

[00:16:10] No, no, no.

[00:16:11] I was just kind of concurring with that.

[00:16:12] It's unbelievable how badly they're melting down.

[00:16:16] And because it's New York, I love that all the conversation is around them and how fucking

[00:16:22] badly they're melting down.

[00:16:24] It just warms my cold, dead heart.

[00:16:29] But, you know, it's one of those be careful what you wish for kind of scenarios because

[00:16:34] they can get hot.

[00:16:35] And this team, I mean, I don't know if you'd think that they have what it takes to make

[00:16:40] a run or anything.

[00:16:41] But, you know, it would be kind of fitting for these guys to end up making the playoffs

[00:16:48] and making a little bit of noise with just how fucked up their season is.

[00:16:52] I don't think they're going to make the playoffs.

[00:16:54] I do think that's going to get a little bit worse before it gets any better.

[00:16:57] But I'm kind of dreading that.

[00:16:59] Like, I just don't want to hear Ranger fans if they turn this thing around.

[00:17:03] I just can't handle it.

[00:17:07] Yeah.

[00:17:08] I'm with you.

[00:17:09] I just, I mean, they can possibly.

[00:17:12] I just don't see it anymore.

[00:17:14] I don't either.

[00:17:15] And, you know, I know we're talking about, you know, we're going to take it out on Jari

[00:17:20] tomorrow, but Pittsburgh's been pretty hot recently.

[00:17:23] Ottawa's been pretty hot recently.

[00:17:26] You know, I don't like if those guys keep moving up and the Rangers keep moving down,

[00:17:32] you know, they're going to separate themselves in the pack.

[00:17:34] But they're both 7-2-1 in the last 10.

[00:17:37] Yeah.

[00:17:39] And Boston's been winning again, too.

[00:17:42] So it's like, I think.

[00:17:43] Almost as good.

[00:17:43] 6-3-1.

[00:17:44] Yep.

[00:17:44] Yeah.

[00:17:45] You start.

[00:17:46] Go ahead.

[00:17:46] No, I was just going to say, like, like, Ottawa, Pittsburgh, those teams that, you know,

[00:17:52] for the longest time, there wasn't a spot.

[00:17:54] And now with the Rangers and their fall from grace, like, now they can actually say,

[00:17:59] holy shit, there is a spot.

[00:18:00] And there's one spot available.

[00:18:02] And all these teams are going to be fighting for it.

[00:18:04] And it's going to be a lot of fun to watch.

[00:18:06] And in my heart of hearts, I kind of want to see Ottawa take it.

[00:18:11] I would love to see them actually in the playoffs.

[00:18:13] And I think they can actually be dangerous.

[00:18:15] All Mark's been playing great.

[00:18:17] Travis Green did something right.

[00:18:20] I don't know.

[00:18:20] You know, I guess he can coach in the NHL.

[00:18:24] But, yeah, I mean, he's – they're looking good.

[00:18:27] They've been a fun team to watch so far.

[00:18:28] I'd like to watch Brady in a round or two, too, and see, you know, what he's capable of doing.

[00:18:33] Yeah.

[00:18:34] Well, you say a round or two.

[00:18:35] It might be us in the first round.

[00:18:36] So, hopefully just a round.

[00:18:38] Yeah.

[00:18:39] A round would be great.

[00:18:40] Yeah.

[00:18:41] And I don't want to see him do good either.

[00:18:42] So, fuck Brady.

[00:18:43] And that's our problem.

[00:18:44] Like, you know, we're – you know, the way the playoff, you know, is formatted now,

[00:18:49] because Carolina and Washington are so nasty.

[00:18:52] I mean, I know Washington just beat Carolina tonight.

[00:18:54] But Washington's kicking the shit out of everybody.

[00:18:57] Like, you know, I might just say, honestly, Rangers,

[00:19:01] I don't even think about you anymore because you fucking suck so bad

[00:19:03] and turn my ire to the Capitals because, like, what these guys are doing is nobody saw coming.

[00:19:11] No.

[00:19:12] Nobody did.

[00:19:12] They're playing fantastic.

[00:19:14] Spencer Carberry's got these guys believing.

[00:19:16] Even the young guys they brought up from Hershey, like – what the hell is his name?

[00:19:22] Mick Michael and Protis.

[00:19:23] Mick Michael.

[00:19:24] Yeah.

[00:19:24] And Protis.

[00:19:25] They've been playing fantastic.

[00:19:28] Fucking – the goalie they just picked up, I can't frigging remember anything right now.

[00:19:35] Logan Thompson.

[00:19:35] Yep.

[00:19:36] Logan Thompson's playing great.

[00:19:38] Lindgren's playing great.

[00:19:40] They're a full team, and they're doing it without Ovechkin,

[00:19:43] and they're going to be dangerous.

[00:19:44] But I have to say that right now there's maybe one team in the Eastern Conference

[00:19:49] that if the Devils were going into a seven-game series with would make me nervous.

[00:19:53] No, two.

[00:19:54] Two teams in the Eastern Conference.

[00:19:56] And they're the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Tampa Bay Lightning.

[00:20:00] I think we can hang really good with anybody, but those two teams,

[00:20:04] I don't like the way we match up against them.

[00:20:07] I have no problem playing Carolina in the first round.

[00:20:10] I'd have no problem playing Washington in the first round.

[00:20:12] We've got this – I think we – what do we do at Washington?

[00:20:15] We're – are we one – two, one, and one against them this year?

[00:20:21] Yeah.

[00:20:22] Two, one, and one.

[00:20:23] We lost in overtime.

[00:20:24] We lost in regulation.

[00:20:25] We beat them twice.

[00:20:25] Yeah, we're done with them, right?

[00:20:27] Yeah, we're done with them.

[00:20:28] Yeah.

[00:20:28] So, like, I think seven-game series might go seven, but I like the Devils against all those,

[00:20:34] but they just don't match up well against Tampa Bay, and they don't match up well against Toronto.

[00:20:39] And those are the two teams.

[00:20:40] I mean, Tampa you might see in the first round, depending on where the Devils land.

[00:20:45] That's the one matchup I don't want.

[00:20:47] I'd much rather maybe let Washington take that number one seed, win the Metro,

[00:20:51] Devils get Carolina in round one.

[00:20:53] And I have no problem with that.

[00:20:56] Oh, I don't know, man.

[00:20:58] I – Carolina still gives me nightmares.

[00:21:00] It just – we've talked about it before.

[00:21:02] It just goes – it goes all the way back, you know, almost 20 years now and two years ago in the playoffs.

[00:21:09] And I don't know.

[00:21:11] I'm just not comfortable with them.

[00:21:13] Yeah.

[00:21:15] I agree.

[00:21:16] You know, I'm looking at – I'm just looking at the Eastern Conference right now, and all of them, you know,

[00:21:22] like Toronto, Florida, Tampa, you know, they'll all be very good series.

[00:21:26] And that's what I love about the playoffs is, like, you know, they will all be very good players.

[00:21:30] And I think those – the top six teams in the East are actually all really good teams.

[00:21:35] It's just once you hit that kind of demarcation line, the rest of the teams fucking suck.

[00:21:40] Like, I think, you know, the bottom two teams – and we might see five from the Atlantic

[00:21:45] and three from the Metro make it because Boston's suddenly playing like Boston again

[00:21:50] and the way Ottawa's going right now.

[00:21:52] But Pittsburgh's right there, and the Flyers and Rangers keep kind of falling off,

[00:21:56] although the Rangers are beating – are beating Dallas right now.

[00:22:00] Dallas, yeah.

[00:22:01] Yeah, it's going to be interesting down the homestretch.

[00:22:04] And, you know, I just – I love this devil team right now.

[00:22:07] I love how they're playing.

[00:22:08] I just – the fight in these guys.

[00:22:10] There's no quit.

[00:22:11] But, you know, that's one thing about this team even going back – I'll even go back three years ago,

[00:22:17] which was, you know, the year before the 112-point season.

[00:22:21] You guys remember that team came back a lot against teams in the third period.

[00:22:26] A lot of times we'd be down three or four goals, and they would come back within a goal, you know,

[00:22:30] pull the goalie, get the empty netter on them.

[00:22:32] Sometimes they get this thing into overtime.

[00:22:34] Maybe they're losing overtime.

[00:22:36] They were very young and learning.

[00:22:37] But the one thing about that team, and it's carried over,

[00:22:40] and I think a lot of it is Nico and it's Jack, and it's just the way these guys are built.

[00:22:45] And it has kind of, you know, spread throughout the rest of these – the bench,

[00:22:51] the rest of the locker room, but they don't quit.

[00:22:54] I mean, they easily could have just said, all right, guys, it's not our night here in Columbus.

[00:22:58] Elvis is on fire.

[00:23:00] Let's just pack it in and go home.

[00:23:01] There was none of that, man.

[00:23:03] They were pissed that they didn't get a point out of that.

[00:23:05] And having years like that where you're the nothing-to-lose team, right,

[00:23:10] when there's no expectations and you can just go for it, that does pay dividends going forward.

[00:23:15] So they're not the nothing-to-lose team anymore, right,

[00:23:18] but they're certainly going to look at a game like last night and say,

[00:23:20] let's just throttle it as best we can here.

[00:23:22] What's the worst that's going to happen?

[00:23:24] You know, and the coach has got that mentality too, pulling them early.

[00:23:27] You know, we don't protect losses, right?

[00:23:30] So we go for it.

[00:23:30] It would have been amazing if they had pulled it off, but either way, like I said,

[00:23:34] I'm just completely happy with their effort, completely happy with the team.

[00:23:38] Losses happen.

[00:23:39] I just can't wait to see the next game.

[00:23:41] I'd like to see how it was going.

[00:23:42] I loved watching Jack Hughes go fucking God mode at the end of that game.

[00:23:47] Oh, my God.

[00:23:48] Like watching him play, man.

[00:23:50] Like he – I think Bill Spalding put it out.

[00:23:53] He had the puck on his stick for over two minutes the entire game,

[00:23:56] which is like 5% of the game.

[00:23:57] Like that's obscene.

[00:23:59] And like there was one play where he was just kind of dancing around in the zone,

[00:24:03] kind of fumbled the puck a little bit, got it back, went under, got one guy's stick,

[00:24:07] did a little spin back between his legs, cut back between the two D.

[00:24:10] Remember that play.

[00:24:10] And I was like, if he scores here, this is going to be like the goal of the fucking year.

[00:24:14] Yeah.

[00:24:14] And he kind of lost it off into the offensive zone corner.

[00:24:17] But it's just like, my God, man, when he has that puck on a string and he's dancing,

[00:24:21] man, I don't know if there are a lot of players that are better than him in the league.

[00:24:24] You take Elvis Merzlikens out of the equation.

[00:24:27] There was no time at any point in that game that Jack Hughes was not by far the best player on the fucking ice.

[00:24:35] Yeah.

[00:24:35] Plain and simple.

[00:24:36] And, you know, we've compared him before to like other level of superstar.

[00:24:40] I think I've even said like, he's not McDavid level superstar for whatever that means.

[00:24:43] It's not a knock by any means, but I think everyone kind of follows what that means, at least for now.

[00:24:47] But he's got a skill set that I don't think anybody else does.

[00:24:51] Like, I think everybody watches hockey when they watch Jack like take over a game like that.

[00:24:55] I don't see any other guys doing that.

[00:24:57] McDavid's different.

[00:24:58] He's a bigger guy, too.

[00:24:59] He's got a little bit of that power forward through you.

[00:25:01] He's got more points.

[00:25:02] But like Jack can dance.

[00:25:03] He just makes people look silly.

[00:25:05] Yeah.

[00:25:05] He floats.

[00:25:06] He floats on the ice.

[00:25:07] Like, it doesn't look like just and just, you know, like the way he uses his edges.

[00:25:12] You know, everybody always like, oh, look at his edge work.

[00:25:14] Look at his edge work.

[00:25:15] But it's true.

[00:25:16] It's like he could go backwards and forwards at the same time.

[00:25:18] I don't know how he does it, but it's wild.

[00:25:21] And he remember, I don't know if you guys remember the interview he did with Elliot Friedman a couple years, a couple summers ago, where he talked about stick handling with his feet.

[00:25:31] And the way he, the way his whole body kind of works in kind of fluidly all together with his hands and his feet.

[00:25:41] What are you doing?

[00:25:42] I had to rip one.

[00:25:43] I muted for a second.

[00:25:45] Yeah, same for the mic.

[00:25:47] We got to play games to have a fart sound on this show?

[00:25:50] Tim was talking.

[00:25:51] I didn't want to.

[00:25:52] Okay.

[00:25:53] That's all right.

[00:25:53] That's all right.

[00:25:55] I want to be the games, man.

[00:25:56] That would be the first thing we should do is overlap them with a fart sound.

[00:25:59] You shut up back there.

[00:26:01] I'm just saying it's just so much fucking fun to watch him play.

[00:26:05] And you add on top of that, like Luke himself was doing his own version of Godmoat where he was just kind of like when it all clicks for Luke and he's like, oh, I could just do whatever the fuck I want and nobody can touch me.

[00:26:20] That is fun to watch too.

[00:26:21] Like when he buried his goal finally, you could see him actively process like I can't put this low again.

[00:26:28] Right.

[00:26:28] And I have to step back and I have to fucking bury this high and hard.

[00:26:32] Oh, he learned his lesson.

[00:26:33] No doubt.

[00:26:35] And I believe that Luke Hughes is going to end up being one of, if not the best defensemen in this league at some point.

[00:26:42] I know everybody.

[00:26:44] I mean, he, I think he will be better than Cal McCarr.

[00:26:47] I truly do.

[00:26:48] He's just has every intangible.

[00:26:51] He's going to be a lot of frigging fun to watch.

[00:26:54] So, yeah, I just that whole game, like watching those guys, it's just it was we have never had a player like Jack Hughes on the Devils.

[00:27:03] I mean, everybody else brings, you know, certain things.

[00:27:06] And there's a couple of other guys I do want to talk about a little bit tonight.

[00:27:10] But my God, like how lucky are we that we get to watch this man every single game?

[00:27:16] I mean, it really is a fucking treat.

[00:27:19] It sure is.

[00:27:20] Sure is.

[00:27:20] So I was listening to XM a couple of days ago or whatever, and they were talking about Nashville.

[00:27:29] And it just got me to thinking about they were talking about, you know, a lot of times whenever you build a team out and he was guy was quote when Bill Belichick and saying that this is like one of Bill Belichick's best greatest attributes was when he's building a team out.

[00:27:45] He doesn't look at talent per se.

[00:27:48] It's not just I need the most talented people on my team.

[00:27:51] It's I need a person that can do this job really well.

[00:27:56] And they were kind of comparing it to Nashville and how Barry Trotz tended to build that team out just with talent.

[00:28:04] Like, OK, well, Stamkos is great and Marchessault is great.

[00:28:07] And I already have Forsberg instead of stopping and thinking they're they all play the same position.

[00:28:12] You might want to think about, you know, spreading some stuff out and getting some centermen and filling the gaps.

[00:28:19] And they didn't do that.

[00:28:20] And it got me to thinking just how brilliant the Stephan Nason signing is, because it wasn't just a bring him in for a year because he's a journeyman that hops.

[00:28:33] Give him term.

[00:28:34] Give him three years.

[00:28:34] Tom Fitzgerald brought him in with the express idea that you are going to be our net front presence.

[00:28:43] You are going to be the guy that causes disturbance.

[00:28:46] This is what you do well.

[00:28:48] This is what we need.

[00:28:49] And you're just going to be I hate the cliche, but a line disturber.

[00:28:54] You're going to be the guy and and talk about it.

[00:28:57] And there are other guys, too.

[00:28:57] I'm not just it's not just Nason.

[00:28:59] It's Cotter.

[00:29:00] It's you know, it's other guys, too, that he's brought in to fulfill a specific role that was lacking in the devil's depth.

[00:29:07] And just what a fantastic job the man did building this team out this year.

[00:29:12] Yeah, I mean, with Nason, I mean, he gets to be the benefactor of and I'm sure this was part of the pitch being on a power play with Jack and Luke or Dougie and Nico and Brad.

[00:29:23] And he brings that element that allows the other guys to do what they're going to do, because now he's the best league.

[00:29:29] I mean, yeah, he's he's looking at a career year.

[00:29:31] And I think that was all, you know, foresight on Tom Fitzgerald's part.

[00:29:35] I think he knows he knew his game and he said your game on this team.

[00:29:41] That's where you want to be.

[00:29:42] And I mean, 100 percent right so far.

[00:29:45] Yeah.

[00:29:46] Yeah, I love it.

[00:29:47] He's been like he's been as advertised.

[00:29:50] You know, that's that's what we needed.

[00:29:51] And I think, you know, that Timo Nason switch on the first, second power play was was a stroke of genius by Colton and Keefe.

[00:29:58] Just just kind of opening that up.

[00:30:00] And like, you know, you look at Nashville and I kind of said this in our in our preview.

[00:30:04] It's like you look at Nashville.

[00:30:05] It's like Marsh shows a righty.

[00:30:07] Forsberg's a righty.

[00:30:08] Stamkos is righty.

[00:30:09] They're all shooters or all high volume shooters.

[00:30:11] And it's like that's kind of an easy team to defend against because you just kind of push them off to their backhand side.

[00:30:18] And they don't really have any recourse for that.

[00:30:21] And I think that that's kind of happening in real time with Nashville.

[00:30:25] Yeah, they're a huge disappointment.

[00:30:27] Barry Trott's first chance to actually build a team out and he completely blew it.

[00:30:32] Yeah.

[00:30:33] They were still dead last.

[00:30:36] Yeah, I think Chicago has actually been winning.

[00:30:39] Chicago's strung a couple together.

[00:30:40] They beat Washington the other night.

[00:30:42] Yeah, they're dead last.

[00:30:44] They have 25 points.

[00:30:46] They're below Buffalo and Chicago.

[00:30:49] When you're below a team that has just lost what?

[00:30:53] How many games in a row?

[00:30:54] 12?

[00:30:54] I think it's 12.

[00:30:55] They got the two.

[00:30:57] I think it's a 12.

[00:30:58] Yeah, they're at 12 now.

[00:31:00] And you're below a team that has lost 12 games in a row.

[00:31:05] And you were supposed to be a Stanley Cup contender.

[00:31:10] Like, Buffalo was just maybe they can play meaningful games at the end of the year.

[00:31:15] Like, Nashville was everybody had kind of anointed them already.

[00:31:19] Like, these guys are going to be in the mix.

[00:31:21] And they have...

[00:31:22] Hey, Nashville.

[00:31:22] Do you want to win the offseason?

[00:31:23] Or do you want to win games?

[00:31:24] Offseason.

[00:31:24] I want to win the offseason.

[00:31:25] Yeah, offseason.

[00:31:26] Well, they definitely won the offseason.

[00:31:28] But, you know, I think that that phrase takes a different meaning now after just seeing how terrible that team has been this year.

[00:31:35] They won the offseason because they're going to have the highest odds for the lottery pick.

[00:31:39] Yeah, that's true.

[00:31:40] They are going to have the lottery pick.

[00:31:42] I just...

[00:31:43] I kind of feel really bad for Andrew Burnett because I think that he...

[00:31:48] With what he actually had with a real team last year, he did a really good job with.

[00:31:53] Now you brought all these new guys in and he has to try and take guys that played their ass off for him last year

[00:31:59] and got them into that playoff spot and say, well, now your role is diminished.

[00:32:04] Now we're...

[00:32:04] You know, it's...

[00:32:05] You're stunting development.

[00:32:06] You're pissing guys off.

[00:32:08] And you're not getting the results.

[00:32:10] I feel bad for him.

[00:32:12] Yeah, it's a tough place to be.

[00:32:14] Yeah, you know, it's...

[00:32:16] You need to find the right balance.

[00:32:19] And I think Fitz has done that of...

[00:32:22] There are a lot of, you know, Rumble Rumble hockey guy types that are like,

[00:32:26] I need veterans and I just want veterans and I'm going to bury the kids, you know.

[00:32:30] Like Labby Lett did, you know.

[00:32:34] And I think Trotz is a little bit like that, you know.

[00:32:37] He kind of learned under Lou Lamarillo.

[00:32:39] Like, I need veterans and, you know, I've sacrificed the kids.

[00:32:42] You know, he shipped off Asker Rob.

[00:32:43] He shipped off, I think Thomasino is his name.

[00:32:46] You know, like decent young players that didn't really get much run to develop under him.

[00:32:52] Brought in these older guys, these veterans.

[00:32:54] And they gave them a lot of term.

[00:32:56] Like, I think Stamkos' deal goes into his 40s.

[00:33:00] Yeah, it's a six-year deal, I think.

[00:33:01] Or something like that, yeah.

[00:33:02] That's...

[00:33:04] I don't know.

[00:33:04] I wonder if they're going to just fucking blow it up.

[00:33:09] I'll be honest with you.

[00:33:10] I don't know how you don't just blow it up.

[00:33:13] But in the same breath, I don't know how you just blow it up.

[00:33:16] Like, you have guys with a lot of term for a lot of money.

[00:33:20] And are you going to be able to sell that six-year contract of Stamkos?

[00:33:25] You've got to sweeten that deal now to take him.

[00:33:28] Because he's not doing any favors by the way he's playing either.

[00:33:30] So now it's like, it's even harder to get rid of him.

[00:33:33] You know, like March is so I would have loved to have had on this team.

[00:33:36] I think that he would have...

[00:33:37] I know that Fitz went after him in the summer.

[00:33:40] But that was one guy that I thought could really, really help this team.

[00:33:45] And would have been a great addition playing with Jack and Brad.

[00:33:48] No disrespect to my new favorite devil, Andre Palat.

[00:33:52] Who I've always said should be a devil.

[00:33:55] That I never once thought that would be.

[00:33:56] I would give him more money.

[00:33:58] You should give him more money and more term.

[00:34:01] Can we extend him now?

[00:34:04] No, listen.

[00:34:05] He's been playing fantastic, man.

[00:34:07] What a difference.

[00:34:10] I don't know what clicked.

[00:34:11] Maybe it was just finally everybody kind of giving him some shit.

[00:34:14] And him looking around and thinking, my God, man.

[00:34:17] You know what?

[00:34:18] Now I'm getting it.

[00:34:19] Or a goal or two.

[00:34:21] I think, Bob, I think you talked about it.

[00:34:24] It's like, imagine trying to play with Brad and Jack Hughes.

[00:34:28] That in and of itself is fucking hard to do.

[00:34:32] And it took him a little bit of run to figure out what he needed to do on that line to be able to kind of fit in and really optimize his abilities on that line.

[00:34:43] And it's kind of like what I was saying.

[00:34:44] It's like, go to the fucking front of the net, man, and just stand there.

[00:34:46] Yeah.

[00:34:47] And he's doing a little bit of that.

[00:34:49] And, you know, he's getting in the corners.

[00:34:50] He's digging the pucks out.

[00:34:51] Give it to Jack.

[00:34:51] Go to the front of the net.

[00:34:52] Go to the corner.

[00:34:53] Dig the puck out.

[00:34:53] Give it to Brad.

[00:34:54] Go to the front of the net.

[00:34:55] It seems to be definitely something that's working.

[00:35:01] So I'm very happy.

[00:35:02] I like it.

[00:35:03] The top six.

[00:35:03] It seems a lot more solidified again to me.

[00:35:06] I like Mercer up there where he is.

[00:35:07] But, again, that bottom six, we still do got to get moving.

[00:35:11] We're not producing much.

[00:35:13] Holla couldn't score if he walked into a whorehouse with a million dollars taped to his dick.

[00:35:17] Yeah.

[00:35:18] I give credit to another doubles podcast I listened to.

[00:35:21] It's called The Last Change.

[00:35:22] I was dying laughing when I read that.

[00:35:25] He's the master of the analogy.

[00:35:27] He went into a whorehouse.

[00:35:28] He couldn't score if he went into a whorehouse with a million-dollar bill taped to his dick.

[00:35:33] That's kind of where he's at right now, man.

[00:35:35] It's brutal.

[00:35:36] It's bad.

[00:35:37] Yeah.

[00:35:38] He has two points in his last 20 games and zero in his last 11.

[00:35:44] Like, Cotter.

[00:35:45] You should get points by accident by now.

[00:35:47] Like, seriously.

[00:35:48] Cotter has two points in his last 20 games.

[00:35:52] Cotter has five points in his last 20 games.

[00:35:54] And Cotter's been playing with fucking AHLers and McDermott.

[00:35:57] Like, I don't know how you reconcile that.

[00:36:01] Mercer's got eight in 20 games.

[00:36:02] I'd like to see a little more from Mercer.

[00:36:04] I've seen a lot of people saying, let's get rid of this fucking guy.

[00:36:08] And I'm not quite there yet.

[00:36:10] Like, I think he has more to give.

[00:36:13] But, like, right now he's on pace for under 40 points.

[00:36:17] And for what he's making, I don't think that's enough out of him.

[00:36:20] And playing on that long.

[00:36:22] You know how, like, when you like a car, right?

[00:36:26] And you're interested in maybe buying that car.

[00:36:28] You're just like, you know what?

[00:36:28] I like the Toyota Tacomas.

[00:36:30] I'm going to go look at them.

[00:36:31] And then when you're driving around, that's all you see on the road, right?

[00:36:34] You're just, like, programmed to see them everywhere, right?

[00:36:37] Okay.

[00:36:39] So, you guys had talked recently about Mercer.

[00:36:43] And you guys had said, like, that he's not strong on the puck.

[00:36:46] It was not something that I really paid much attention to.

[00:36:50] Like, he's just, he gets beat on board battles a lot.

[00:36:52] He's not strong on the puck.

[00:36:53] He kind of gets bitched off his shit a lot.

[00:36:55] And since you guys have said that, like, every shift I see him getting knocked off a puck

[00:37:00] or getting strong-armed by somebody else.

[00:37:03] Like, I like Mercer a lot, and I think Mercer has a ton to give to any hockey organization.

[00:37:09] But I think that he's got to do, he's got to take a page out of Jesper Bratt's book.

[00:37:14] I mean, Bratt spent the offseason getting big, getting a lot stronger, and you see it.

[00:37:21] I mean, Bratt will throw a hit.

[00:37:22] Bratt will knock it.

[00:37:23] Bratt is deceivingly strong.

[00:37:25] And you could tell he takes guys by surprise sometimes.

[00:37:28] Jack doesn't have to be.

[00:37:29] He's got a few years on Mercer, too.

[00:37:30] Yeah, I mean, Jack doesn't have to be that way because he's just, yeah.

[00:37:33] Okay, you want to catch me?

[00:37:35] Have fun.

[00:37:36] You know, he's going to, you just.

[00:37:38] Right.

[00:37:38] Mercer needs to go the way of Bratt, and he's got to get stronger and get a little bit more

[00:37:43] of that killer instinct in him.

[00:37:44] I'd like to see that more from him.

[00:37:46] That's it.

[00:37:47] Mercer Hattie tomorrow.

[00:37:48] I'm calling it now.

[00:37:49] Against the bench.

[00:37:49] There you go.

[00:37:51] Suck it, Brattie.

[00:37:53] Yeah.

[00:37:54] I don't know.

[00:37:55] Yeah, we definitely need some help in that bottom six.

[00:37:58] Jack's like, you know, Holla.

[00:38:02] Remember, he was pretty much Jack's, like, concierge center for a year.

[00:38:07] Yeah.

[00:38:07] And last night he was a lot.

[00:38:09] Yeah, I saw that.

[00:38:10] I saw they kind of move things around a little bit last night.

[00:38:13] I think that was just because they wanted Jack out on the ice the entire goddamn game.

[00:38:16] I think he took a.

[00:38:17] They wanted Holla for his face-offs, too.

[00:38:19] Yeah, I think that.

[00:38:19] Well, yeah, and that's the thing.

[00:38:21] It's like, Holla penalty kills.

[00:38:22] He, you know, he has a very good face-off percentage.

[00:38:25] He wins a lot of draws.

[00:38:27] You know, the last thing on Mercer is he, that second, the power play goal, the second

[00:38:32] goal was kind of his fault.

[00:38:34] Like, he got the puck out, got it out of the zone, and just did a soft little backhand

[00:38:39] clear so they couldn't change.

[00:38:41] Right.

[00:38:41] And he needs to kind of dig down and get that all the way down the ice.

[00:38:45] Like, that's just, you know, a detailed mistake that he can't be making.

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[00:40:19] In fact, there's only one sound.

[00:40:20] There's a couple sounds.

[00:40:21] But one in particular I can't stand.

[00:40:23] And that's cannon fire.

[00:40:24] That's amazing.

[00:40:25] I don't like the sound of cannon fire at a hockey game.

[00:40:27] Go figure.

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[00:41:43] I don't know how I want to do that.

[00:41:46] You can practice.

[00:41:47] I don't want to play time.

[00:41:49] You just get in the mirror in the bathroom and just do it like 10 times?

[00:41:53] Just workshop it on the show.

[00:41:54] I think it's great.

[00:41:55] Game Time.

[00:41:57] It's time.

[00:41:58] You know what time it is?

[00:41:59] Not Game Time.

[00:42:00] It's time for the garbage goalie of the week.

[00:42:06] Did you have breaking news?

[00:42:07] Breaking news.

[00:42:08] Matt Rempe got five in a game for boarding and elbowing Miro Haskinen.

[00:42:13] That was the hit you just sent us, right?

[00:42:15] Yeah.

[00:42:16] Yeah.

[00:42:16] That was – yeah, this guy is no good.

[00:42:19] He's a piece of shit.

[00:42:19] It's not really news anymore.

[00:42:21] It's just – he just can't fucking control himself.

[00:42:23] It's like get this fucking guy out of the game.

[00:42:25] Yeah, seriously.

[00:42:26] But the Rangers won.

[00:42:27] Fighting is one thing, but like – yeah, well, that's going to be the thing.

[00:42:30] Larry Brooks is going to – you know, he's jerking off in his basement right now

[00:42:33] writing an article about how Rempe brought grit and physicality.

[00:42:36] If Rempe is in the lineup on Monday, McDermott better be in the fucking lineup.

[00:42:41] Yeah.

[00:42:41] Just plain and simple.

[00:42:43] Yeah.

[00:42:44] Better be in the fucking lineup.

[00:42:45] And it better end early because I just – you know, that – the Devils should fucking

[00:42:51] smoke them again on Monday night, and that's all I want.

[00:42:54] But fuck that guy.

[00:42:56] He sucks.

[00:42:58] Newswire.

[00:42:59] Garbage goalie of the week.

[00:43:01] All right.

[00:43:01] So this is our new game that we play every Thursday, but unfortunately we weren't here

[00:43:06] yesterday, so we're doing it on Friday, but it should be every Thursday for the upcoming

[00:43:09] games on Saturday where the Uncle Puckers celebrate bad goalie play throughout the NHL.

[00:43:15] So what we do is we each pick a goalie to play on Saturday.

[00:43:19] You can only pick that goalie once, and whichever goalie has the lowest – I mean, the worst

[00:43:25] save percentage – is the winner.

[00:43:30] So, actually, I completely screwed up.

[00:43:32] I didn't win.

[00:43:33] I lost.

[00:43:35] The highest save percentage?

[00:43:36] No.

[00:43:37] The highest save percentage wins.

[00:43:39] The lowest –

[00:43:40] No.

[00:43:40] I thought it was the lowest one.

[00:43:42] It's a garbage goalie.

[00:43:43] Oh, yeah.

[00:43:44] You're right.

[00:43:44] I'm right.

[00:43:45] I just confused myself.

[00:43:46] Too many gummies.

[00:43:47] We're not going to work out these games.

[00:43:58] Jordan Binnington had a 946 save percentage, Bob.

[00:44:02] Damn.

[00:44:03] So you pick last this week.

[00:44:05] Yeah, that makes sense.

[00:44:06] Dan took Linus Olmark, and he had a 926 save percentage against the Pittsburgh Penguins

[00:44:13] last Saturday.

[00:44:14] That puts him in third place.

[00:44:16] Tim, you took Vuka Pekalukkanen.

[00:44:18] He had a 900 save percentage against the Washington Capitals on Saturday.

[00:44:23] I took Sam Montembeau against the Jets, and he had an 885 save percentage.

[00:44:29] So I picked first this week.

[00:44:32] Then, Tim, Dan sent me his picks.

[00:44:35] And, Bobby, you are last.

[00:44:37] Big winner.

[00:44:38] Big winner.

[00:44:39] Congratulations.

[00:44:40] For this week's garbage goalie of the week, I was very tempted to take Tristan Jari

[00:44:47] just because I feel like the Devils are going to light him up, but I'm not.

[00:44:52] I'm going to take Alexander Ghegorgiev from the San Jose Sharks against the Edmonton Oilers.

[00:44:59] That is my garbage goalie of the week.

[00:45:02] Did I take your garbage goalie, Tim?

[00:45:04] You motherfucker.

[00:45:06] I mean, I was going fourth, and I was still hoping I'd get him.

[00:45:09] This shit is rigged.

[00:45:11] It's rigged.

[00:45:13] What do you got there?

[00:45:14] Let's do the random number generator again.

[00:45:16] No, no, no.

[00:45:18] That was the one time, and Bobby told me two.

[00:45:19] I was worried about that.

[00:45:20] Only two.

[00:45:21] Fine.

[00:45:21] Was it two or seven?

[00:45:23] What was it on?

[00:45:23] Then I will go with Tristan Jari.

[00:45:25] Okay.

[00:45:26] So you're going to go with Tristan Jari.

[00:45:29] All right.

[00:45:30] And then Dan's next.

[00:45:32] Dan is going to take Joey Decord, Seattle, against the Vegas Golden Knights.

[00:45:37] Good pick.

[00:45:39] And, Bobby, you're up.

[00:45:41] Okay.

[00:45:41] Let me just get to Saturday here real quick.

[00:45:44] Way to prepare, Bob.

[00:45:45] I'm prepared.

[00:45:47] I'm just double-checking who I got.

[00:45:49] Just give me one second.

[00:45:50] Let's go here.

[00:45:51] The best part about the Georgia pick is you get Vanacek if he doesn't start.

[00:45:57] I love it.

[00:45:58] I was like, I really want Jari.

[00:46:00] But you know what?

[00:46:01] I'll save maybe a goalie next.

[00:46:04] Maybe I'll take Shastrk.

[00:46:06] I can't for Saturday game.

[00:46:07] I am on the wrong date.

[00:46:08] The odds spread on that Sharks-Oilers game is ridiculous.

[00:46:12] This isn't like Drysaddle had like 90 points in the last 12 games or something.

[00:46:16] I don't get it because he doesn't – visually when you watch him, you're kind of like, is this guy that good?

[00:46:23] And then he does something ridiculous.

[00:46:24] You're like, oh, yeah, he is really good.

[00:46:26] You know why?

[00:46:27] I think his size is deceiving.

[00:46:29] He's so big.

[00:46:30] He looks like a fucking giant out there sometimes.

[00:46:33] He looks bigger than almost everybody else.

[00:46:35] So you're just kind of like – he looks like a Matt Rempe out there and he plays like fucking Connor McDavid.

[00:46:40] He has goofy long legs, short pants, and really big shoulder pads.

[00:46:45] And his stick is like a fucking boat oar.

[00:46:47] Like the paddle on that thing is ridiculous.

[00:46:51] Here you go, Bob.

[00:46:52] I'm ready.

[00:46:53] I'm going to go with Samuel Erson from the Flyers.

[00:46:56] Okay.

[00:46:57] He's going to go against the Blue Jackets and those little dicks can score.

[00:47:01] That's true.

[00:47:02] They can score.

[00:47:04] I like that one, Bob.

[00:47:06] Not bad for fourth, right?

[00:47:08] Yeah, that's not bad.

[00:47:10] That's a good pick.

[00:47:11] I dropped only to have the highest save percentage last week.

[00:47:13] So not that I know what the hell I'm talking about.

[00:47:17] I thought that Dan was crazy for taking Linus Omar because the night before, that was the second night of a back-to-back for him too.

[00:47:24] And he had a shutout the night before.

[00:47:26] Yeah, I thought his backup was going to go.

[00:47:28] I thought he was going to be the one that gets defaulted down.

[00:47:30] Forsberg was supposed to go.

[00:47:31] And I think he came down with something right before the puck dropped.

[00:47:35] So they threw Omar in.

[00:47:36] And from what I heard, he was completely exhausted.

[00:47:40] Like, people were even saying, like, up on Twitter and stuff, like, Omar looked awful on practice.

[00:47:47] Like, the warm-ups, he was like, just didn't want to be there.

[00:47:50] But once the game started, he was on fire, man.

[00:47:54] He's been on a good little run.

[00:47:55] Yeah.

[00:47:56] I, you know, I have no ill will towards the Senators except that I want Brady Kachuk from them.

[00:48:02] But other than that, like, I'm with you on seeing them in the playoffs.

[00:48:07] Like, you know, particularly from kind of, I like American hockey players too perspective.

[00:48:13] Like, I want to see what this kid can do in the playoffs.

[00:48:15] Because they don't have flappy heads and beady little eyes like those Canadians.

[00:48:19] Oh, fuck you, buddy.

[00:48:23] You guys are dicks.

[00:48:24] Hey, buddy.

[00:48:25] Okay, so that's what this is all about.

[00:48:27] So, Bob, can we play your game with three people?

[00:48:30] We can.

[00:48:31] Do you want to try it with just the two of us?

[00:48:32] Kind of give it a trial run and see.

[00:48:34] It would obviously be better with three or four.

[00:48:36] By all means, I like games.

[00:48:37] So explain.

[00:48:38] All right.

[00:48:39] Shall we play a game?

[00:48:41] We shall.

[00:48:42] So we're going to play Puckers Pick a Season.

[00:48:46] Puckers Pick a Season.

[00:48:47] Puckers Pick a Season.

[00:48:48] This game is going to be similar to what we do.

[00:48:50] Am I right?

[00:48:51] For the devil you know.

[00:48:52] But it's got a couple more rules to engage our audience a little better.

[00:48:56] So here's the general rules.

[00:48:58] You're going to, somebody's going to give clues as to what season they are talking about.

[00:49:04] Okay?

[00:49:04] There are going to be ten total hints each time.

[00:49:08] Eight general questions and two layups.

[00:49:11] Like, a layup being, they won the Stanley Cup this year.

[00:49:15] That gives you one over three.

[00:49:16] That kind of thing.

[00:49:16] I did eight and two for 82.

[00:49:18] Kind of clever.

[00:49:19] I thought so.

[00:49:20] Okay.

[00:49:20] All right.

[00:49:21] I see what you're doing there.

[00:49:22] The questions should maybe be a little less obscure as you go to keep people guessing.

[00:49:28] But it doesn't really matter because we're not shouting out answers this time.

[00:49:32] This will allow all our listeners to play along the whole way and keep track of the clue numbers when they figured it out.

[00:49:39] Like, in case they want to ping us on social media or email, say, I got it on clue number five.

[00:49:43] That kind of thing.

[00:49:44] You only get one answer, though.

[00:49:47] And you're going to do it by putting it in the chat here.

[00:49:51] You're not going to shout it out.

[00:49:52] So, you can say, oh, I was going to say, I said, you're going to put it in the chat.

[00:49:55] So, maybe your answer will influence another pucker.

[00:49:59] Or maybe they'll say, oh, now at least I have the couple of years.

[00:50:05] I wasn't thinking that.

[00:50:06] Oh, that's this year.

[00:50:07] So, that'll help you or tip you off.

[00:50:10] It's a risk you'll have to take depending on how fast you want to try to answer these questions.

[00:50:15] The winner is the correct year or closest.

[00:50:17] In the event of a tie, the first one to key it will obviously win.

[00:50:20] If for some reason there's still a tie, we'll just pick whoever's the cutest.

[00:50:26] The season is the year end, like 1995.

[00:50:29] Meaning, as in 1995, we won the club.

[00:50:31] Right, okay.

[00:50:32] You can't say 1995 as part of the 95-96 season.

[00:50:37] It's one year.

[00:50:39] 94-95 is 95.

[00:50:41] Correct.

[00:50:41] Okay.

[00:50:42] There's not that many rules.

[00:50:43] The best part is you decide when you're going to answer it and when you put it into the chat.

[00:50:49] And obviously, our 12 fans are using the honor code.

[00:50:55] Our 12 fans are using the honor code.

[00:50:57] Now, this would be something that would be better for when we have a live stream going or something, right?

[00:51:06] This would be great for a live stream.

[00:51:08] Yep.

[00:51:09] And again, it would be great for having at least four puckers here to go.

[00:51:14] But I think we'll give it a trial, Ron.

[00:51:16] I think it will work pretty well.

[00:51:17] And one quick thing before we do that, because Tim just alluded to the joke we always say about 12 listeners.

[00:51:29] One of the last shows, I had mentioned that I was just kind of doing a little research.

[00:51:32] And I just want to thank.

[00:51:34] I'm in the spirit of giving right now, holidays.

[00:51:36] Now, I want to thank the listeners because there's kind of an industry standard out there of about two-thirds to one maybe stream over downloading.

[00:51:43] And we get judged almost specifically on downloading.

[00:51:46] And then we did a couple of polls.

[00:51:48] And I found overwhelmingly, you know, like 70% also stream.

[00:51:52] And without giving out any numbers, I'd just like to say that, wow, it's impressive.

[00:51:58] We are being listened to.

[00:51:59] And that's really great.

[00:52:00] So thank you, everybody, for listening to us.

[00:52:03] Because, you know, the numbers don't really lie.

[00:52:05] And quite frankly, I would say the audience is bigger than I would have thought for each show.

[00:52:10] So that's just very exciting.

[00:52:11] So hopefully this is something they'll be interested in and, you know, play along.

[00:52:15] But, yeah, when we're live streaming, it'd be even better.

[00:52:17] Okay.

[00:52:17] So this is –

[00:52:18] Do you want to give me a try?

[00:52:19] We do have the best fans.

[00:52:21] Yes.

[00:52:21] And so this is definitely something we should do on a live stream.

[00:52:25] And this will be like the game that we do whenever we do our one live stream,

[00:52:29] which we're also going to start doing live streams after every playoff game,

[00:52:33] which is going to be a lot of fun because we could probably get a lot of listeners hopping on

[00:52:37] and either really, really happy or really, really pissed.

[00:52:40] It's going to be great.

[00:52:42] So, all right, Bobby.

[00:52:43] And they can chat on the live stream, right?

[00:52:45] So that's perfect.

[00:52:46] Yeah.

[00:52:46] Yeah.

[00:52:47] I'd love to know where people are listening to this.

[00:52:51] Like I want to know how far the pucker reaches.

[00:52:54] Well, I could tell you that I've sent stickers out to South Carolina, to Florida, to Texas,

[00:53:02] to New Mexico.

[00:53:04] Yeah.

[00:53:04] To Massachusetts, Georgia.

[00:53:06] Yeah.

[00:53:07] So a lot of other states.

[00:53:08] All right.

[00:53:08] Yep.

[00:53:09] All right.

[00:53:09] So, I mean, those definitely.

[00:53:12] Every time I go on live, it's all over the country.

[00:53:15] You know, we have a large contingent that's going to be in the Northeast, of course.

[00:53:18] But just to give you an idea, too, I mean, I was popping on the other day when you wrote one of your articles, Tim,

[00:53:22] and I had a person in Oregon.

[00:53:25] I had a person in Arizona.

[00:53:27] And I had a person in New York all at the same time.

[00:53:30] I'm reading that.

[00:53:32] We've had 587.

[00:53:35] People actually read those?

[00:53:36] Yeah.

[00:53:37] I told you.

[00:53:37] The one beatdown at local train station got almost 100 reads or something like that.

[00:53:44] I'm still proud of that title.

[00:53:47] I haven't had a good one since.

[00:53:49] Nah, you got pretty good ones.

[00:53:51] Yeah.

[00:53:51] And for anybody that doesn't know what these two are talking about,

[00:53:54] so after every devil game, Tim writes a recap.

[00:53:58] They are informative.

[00:53:58] They're smart.

[00:53:59] They're really funny.

[00:54:00] They're found on, well, Tim's website or Tim's social, our social, and at theunclepuckers.com.

[00:54:08] So by all means, check them out after every devil game.

[00:54:12] We are primarily in the United States.

[00:54:14] We've had 28 people in Canada, 17 in Switzerland, 16 in China, 12 in Ireland, nine in Lithuania.

[00:54:21] I think Tony's got nine computers.

[00:54:23] There's nobody listening to us in China.

[00:54:26] That's bullshit.

[00:54:26] I don't know, man.

[00:54:27] I know.

[00:54:27] I actually own a bot farm in China.

[00:54:30] I was trying to go to my car.

[00:54:32] Exactly.

[00:54:33] That's exactly.

[00:54:34] But even the bot farm stopped to listen to us.

[00:54:37] But the devils are, they said last year, the devils do have the fastest growing fan base of any NHL team.

[00:54:45] Thank you, Jack and Luke.

[00:54:46] But yeah, so it's growing.

[00:54:48] So it's a good time to be a devil fan.

[00:54:51] You know, the team's doing good, and we love talking about it, and we like that you guys are listening.

[00:54:55] And once we get the live streams going, we get a little bit more interaction with the listeners.

[00:55:00] Like, that's what we want to do.

[00:55:01] We want you guys to be a much bigger part of the show.

[00:55:04] So we're trying to figure all that out now.

[00:55:07] But anyway, Bob, take it away.

[00:55:08] You want to have your chat open?

[00:55:11] I mean, how do I do that?

[00:55:13] It's just a little chat.

[00:55:14] My default's open, but where I just wrote five in a game for Rempy.

[00:55:18] Where'd you write that to?

[00:55:20] To us, in the chat that you don't have open.

[00:55:23] Okay, well, where the hell's the private chat?

[00:55:25] I got you.

[00:55:26] I got you.

[00:55:27] When you get your year, you just plug it in as early or as late as you want.

[00:55:30] Okay, I got you.

[00:55:31] I got you.

[00:55:32] I'm good.

[00:55:33] First time for Pucker Pick a Season.

[00:55:35] Here we go.

[00:55:37] Clue number one.

[00:55:38] This year, the Devils scored 242 total goals, which was good for 18th in the league, a year that saw 314 being the high and 197 being the low.

[00:55:51] Their road record was technically below, quote unquote, NHL.

[00:55:56] Oh, did I have to do the whole thing right?

[00:55:57] Hang on.

[00:55:58] Sorry.

[00:56:01] You guys are actually guessing already?

[00:56:02] Okay.

[00:56:03] You can only guess once, though.

[00:56:04] Well, it's the same one I guessed.

[00:56:06] Oh, you can only guess once?

[00:56:08] Yes.

[00:56:08] I thought we could just keep putting it.

[00:56:09] That's why you want to reserve your questions so you don't answer.

[00:56:12] Are either of us right?

[00:56:15] No.

[00:56:16] Okay.

[00:56:17] Then I should have told you that.

[00:56:18] Yeah.

[00:56:18] Okay.

[00:56:19] Erase those.

[00:56:20] Again, this is why it's a pilot.

[00:56:21] It's a pilot program.

[00:56:22] We've eliminated two years.

[00:56:23] This is not the devil you know.

[00:56:26] You have one answer.

[00:56:27] You've got to decide at what point you're going to clue out everybody else's team.

[00:56:30] We understand now.

[00:56:31] Are you sure?

[00:56:32] Yes.

[00:56:32] Okay.

[00:56:33] Wait.

[00:56:33] So, 242-4.

[00:56:35] Stop it.

[00:56:36] All right.

[00:56:37] Okay.

[00:56:38] Their road record was technically below NHL 500 at 19 wins and 22 losses, but that was really

[00:56:47] in a 19, 16, and 6 version.

[00:56:50] So, slightly above 500, but, you know, NHL 500.

[00:56:53] Miles Wood.

[00:56:54] This is not a person.

[00:56:56] Oh, yeah.

[00:56:57] This is a year.

[00:56:58] Stop shouting out answers.

[00:57:00] Okay.

[00:57:01] The most assists on the team was 51, and it belonged to a forward, but the second most

[00:57:08] assists on the team, 48, belonged to a defenseman.

[00:57:13] Okay.

[00:57:15] Martin Brodeur had a 43-win season.

[00:57:19] Wow.

[00:57:20] Wow.

[00:57:21] One of our more notable shutdown centers was a negative 7.

[00:57:30] In this year, we were still in the Atlantic Division.

[00:57:39] We ended first in the division with 101 points.

[00:57:43] We were technically tied with the Flyers, but we had one more win at 46-27-9 versus their

[00:57:52] 45-26-11.

[00:57:57] Clue number eight.

[00:57:58] We swept our first round opponent that year.

[00:58:03] I'm guessing.

[00:58:05] Okay.

[00:58:07] And here's the layups.

[00:58:09] Sure you wanted to guess before the layups?

[00:58:11] This is what you got to judge.

[00:58:14] This is the year that Brian Deonta scored 48 goals.

[00:58:20] I don't know the actual year for that.

[00:58:22] This is the year we lost to the eventual cup champs in the second round.

[00:58:30] Four games to one.

[00:58:32] Those champs were the Carolina Hurricanes.

[00:58:38] That is the layup.

[00:58:41] So, Timmy gets it with 2006.

[00:58:45] Yeah, he's right.

[00:58:47] Chris, I love that you're putting 05-06, but again, you can only answer once.

[00:58:52] I answered three times.

[00:58:53] You answered like 15 times.

[00:58:54] And if you count miles what I answered four times.

[00:58:57] Which has no bearing.

[00:58:58] I cannot believe Bredor had that many wins in fucking 2006.

[00:59:03] How many starts did he have?

[00:59:04] 70?

[00:59:05] Probably.

[00:59:06] There's a great clip from these guys that do a lot of hockey content that just listed

[00:59:11] the amount of starts that Bredor had over his career.

[00:59:14] And it's just, we'll never see anything like that again.

[00:59:18] It's insane.

[00:59:18] But it was like 70, 72, 72, 73, 75, 72, 71.

[00:59:22] Being his backup must have been the fucking weirdest job in the world.

[00:59:26] I don't remember half of his backups.

[00:59:29] Like, we talked about this.

[00:59:31] Like, we used to go probably to about 20 games a year back in the heyday.

[00:59:36] Like, I can count on one hand how many times I didn't see Bredor in net.

[00:59:42] Like, seriously.

[00:59:42] I think I saw, I think we saw like Corey Schwab once.

[00:59:46] Don Oum, I remember seeing.

[00:59:48] Don Oum, yeah.

[00:59:49] I remember seeing the fucking, the guy from Manitoba Moose, Pittsburgh.

[00:59:57] He was a Pittsburgh goalie.

[00:59:59] Had the record for like most wins by a rookie.

[01:00:02] And then he was our backup for a while.

[01:00:04] It's not, starts with a J, I think.

[01:00:07] I don't remember.

[01:00:08] Jim Carrey, right?

[01:00:09] No, we never had Jim Carrey.

[01:00:11] This was, uh, ah, damn it.

[01:00:15] Now I can't remember.

[01:00:18] I would like to see all Marty Brodeur's backups.

[01:00:22] Let's see if we can find that before we wrap this up.

[01:00:34] Let's see.

[01:00:37] So, we have Chris Terreri, Corey Schwab, Scott Clemonson.

[01:00:42] Did you say slob?

[01:00:44] Corey slob.

[01:00:46] Slob.

[01:00:47] Scott Clemonson.

[01:00:50] Johan Hedberg.

[01:00:51] That's who I was thinking of.

[01:00:52] Hedberg.

[01:00:53] Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[01:00:55] John Van Beesbrook, Keith Kincaid.

[01:00:57] I think that might be all of his backups.

[01:01:00] Or at least all the ones that are listed here.

[01:01:04] Yeah, pretty cool.

[01:01:05] It's boring probably from a hockey player's standpoint, but from like a regular Joe, if

[01:01:09] that's your job, and you like know you don't even have to go to work.

[01:01:12] That's kind of cool.

[01:01:14] Yeah.

[01:01:14] Not only that.

[01:01:15] I'm making league minimum.

[01:01:16] Like if you didn't show up, no one would probably even notice.

[01:01:21] You know?

[01:01:22] Right.

[01:01:22] It's like a backup quarterback to like, you know, Aaron Rodgers and the Packers.

[01:01:26] Like, you know you're carrying a clipboard and that's your job.

[01:01:30] All right.

[01:01:31] Anything else you guys want to jump in with tonight before we wrap it up?

[01:01:35] You know, predictions of the Penguin game tomorrow.

[01:01:37] And we should be on after the Ranger game on Monday.

[01:01:40] So hopefully that'll work out and we can get that done.

[01:01:44] So any predictions for the Pittsburgh game?

[01:01:47] Six three devils with that Mercer Hattie in there.

[01:01:52] All right.

[01:01:53] I'm going five one.

[01:01:54] I think we get back to that, get back to that sort of better defense.

[01:02:00] You know, we actually have gone five straight games with allowing 20 shots or less, which

[01:02:05] this team has done.

[01:02:06] Even losing that game last night, they still, what was 19 of the day.

[01:02:10] Yeah.

[01:02:10] That is a good fact.

[01:02:12] And they're going to do it again tomorrow.

[01:02:13] They will win.

[01:02:15] It'll be, I'm going to go, I'm going to go six to one.

[01:02:18] I'm just thinking this is going to be a complete and total beat down.

[01:02:21] It's not going to be, but I'm just going to go, you know, and, and let's see.

[01:02:25] And Jack, Jack's getting on the board first.

[01:02:28] Jack, Jack's going to have a four point night.

[01:02:30] I'm calling that four points or better.

[01:02:32] Four points or better for Mercer Jack.

[01:02:34] I want to see Hala or Cotter pop one.

[01:02:37] And I'd like to see Bashan put one in.

[01:02:39] Like, you know, I've been really liking the playoff is Dowling.

[01:02:43] You know, he got the old, you know, Grandpa Simpson walking in and out of the bar treatment

[01:02:47] to Utica with Lazar getting shut down.

[01:02:53] Yeah, he's been a good, solid surprise.

[01:02:57] And he's going to get some, I mean, you can tell he, it's just going to happen for his line

[01:03:01] soon.

[01:03:02] He can generate some offense.

[01:03:04] That line was really good.

[01:03:07] When he's centering that, they spend more of their shifts in the offensive zone than they

[01:03:11] do defending, which is really impressive for a fourth line.

[01:03:14] So I like him a lot, too.

[01:03:16] But we are going to wrap this thing up.

[01:03:18] We will be back after the Ranger game.

[01:03:20] Everybody, if you're going away, have safe travels.

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[01:03:36] That's like really Grinchy.

[01:03:39] Fucking bad stand over here.

[01:03:41] I'm sorry.

[01:03:42] Merry Christmas, everyone.

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