Who Are The 26-27 Devils?

[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 NJD Podcast. Let's go Devils! And we just can't leave these guys alone too long in the comment thread. Seriously, I just made a comment there like, make me a bicycle clown.

[00:00:30] Yeah, I had written, we're coming, blame Tim, and of course it turned into, I spelled coming wrong. Wait, Tim, I'm coming. You see how those jokes happen. Because just like us, our audience has the, I would say, maturity of a 12-year-old. Oh yeah, well I got told that I talk about dicks too much. Oh yeah, you definitely do.

[00:01:00] What are you gonna do? Yeah, you definitely do. So, alright, what's up guys? Where are the Uncle Puckers? Chris and Tim, Tone. Hopefully we'll be joining us soon. He has had a schedule from hell over the last few weeks. So we're hoping he can get on. And right now it's six hours. What is this? So it's 1 and 2 a.m. in the morning. So Tone's not coming. So. Unfortunately, I have a hard stop at 745. So I can't get out of here. It's cool.

[00:01:28] I mean, really, like it's the same thing, right? It's this on again, off again, start, stop. One step forward, two steps back. Any other way I can say that. With this team. Like we, like we, our, our three years of frustration with this team was just encapsulated into the last two games. And that was it exactly, right?

[00:01:52] When they play as a team and the defense shows up, they don't have the meltdowns. They get scoring up and down their lineup. They're able to take a decent team like the Rangers and take them out to the woodshed, beat them 7-1. And then you go to Washington and the same stupid, and I'm going to just fucking call them stupid mistakes, keep happening. And when they do, they always end up in the back of our net. I have a huge love, absolutely love the way they played on Thursday against the Rangers.

[00:02:22] Can't say enough good things about that game. And I can't say enough bad things about the breakdowns and bullshit that we saw on Saturday. And this team is perplexing, and every single loss makes me rethink everything about this team. Is it the coach? Is it the core? Is it this? Is it that? And it's like, I just want to follow a good hockey team. I just want the Devils to be good. I understand.

[00:02:52] I'm not jumping off a bridge just yet. People need to fucking relax. I mean, just like I just said, after every loss, you're right back at it, right? After every loss, I'm not willing to say that these guys are done, but it's like, it's just the bad. We've seen the bad now for so long. Like, it's just, it gets to a point where you just doubt if they're ever going to be able to fix it. Yeah, I have no idea. I mean, you know, if one thing's not broken, another thing is, you know?

[00:03:21] And it's just like, I'm still somewhat encouraged by some things that I've seen this year. I just don't think it has, just hasn't fully materialized. And I am concerned about some things never fully materializing. You know, like, I was willing to give this little goaltending experiment some rope.

[00:03:45] Although, Akeem made some comments today about, I'm going to call him Poirot because that's just funnier to me. Just call him Eddie. Yeah. About, like, they're doing, it's Dawes and Allen and this fucking kid's just in purgatory. I don't, I don't understand that move. I don't know why they would have even bothered claiming him just to like, I don't know. So what exactly did he say? Do they need like an extra concession guy? Like, what exactly did they say?

[00:04:11] He said Dawes and Allen are tandem and that's it. And it's an, that's an organizational decision, not a coaching decision. So I don't know. I feel like there may be a little bit of trouble in paradise there between Keith and Sonny, not to like suppose things and kind of try to extrapolate too much out of that. But whatever, honestly, I, so, and just fair to everybody, like I was playing golf on Saturday,

[00:04:40] Greg completely missed the game. Didn't watch anything. I saw the one highlight of Ryan Leonard's coast to coast goal. I did hear one thing and I forgot to watch it. So I'm going to watch the goal really quickly right here. Ryan Leonard's goal. Oh yeah. Oh, you didn't. So you said, yeah, that goal. I saw the goal. I heard someone made a comment about this. So hang on. Okay. So here's the thing.

[00:05:13] Yeah. So if you watch this goal back, and look, I'm not making excuses for Luke. You know, you gotta, you gotta stop him there, but it's just a beautiful play. And the other end, like I just, it was a beautiful play by Ryan Leonard. What'd you say? He's cut out. Anything about that on the broadcast? E-Rod gets clearly picked by Jacob, Jacob Chikrin. No, they didn't talk about any kind of interference. I didn't even notice it.

[00:05:42] That is very clear interference because so, so Leonard's coming on to Luke, right? And E-Rod is coming this way to, to kind of close off the middle and, and Luke is sort of over here. So E-Rod is going to close off this lane and Chikrin just picks E-Rod right here, giving Leonard the clear lane to go and split the D. Yeah. I didn't even notice that. I recommend everybody watch that back because that's bullshit because like that fucking ridiculous

[00:06:09] interference penalty that Luke got on the power play when he wasn't even looking at the guy. So, yeah. Look, I, but here's the thing, like that all happened. Missed call. Luke got cooked. But like not once I think has like a goalie made a save in a situation where we've had a breakdown. And that's the difference between good teams and bad teams. I did watch some things from that third period in Washington because I was kind of curious

[00:06:37] because the one thing they have been doing is, is they haven't been. And, and I get there, it's four one and they're probably not coming back, but they haven't just been laying down, which is something that, that they've done historically so far. And, and I think that the, you know, I totally forgot what I was going to say. Sorry.

[00:07:01] That, um, um, so a lot of analytics guys are looking at like our overall expected goal stuff. We're like first in the league across the board on a lot of things. But if you really kind of break down what those numbers are, it's like we kicked the shit out of like three really bad teams and, um, you know, had like tried to make our furious

[00:07:27] comeback in third periods on like the team, unlike team games that were, were out of reach. Sorry. I'm like stumbling over my words right now. No, but your, your, your point. Yeah. So we haven't really made a hat names. There's been nothing of like the, you can put a stamp on so far early through two weeks and three weeks into the season that you can say like, that is like, um, that's who they are. This is, you know, the, uh, just a, a beat a dominant team. Like the wins came against Detroit and Philly. Yeah.

[00:07:54] And you know, I think we kind of showed who the NHL team is competitive. But when you have the expectations that the devil, but like, but like Calgary, Calgary beat Carolina. I get that. Any team can beat any team on any given night, but like, you know, it's not the devil's fault that they had to, that they had these teams just, you know, I don't know. It's like, they would have taken three in a row and played better in Washington.

[00:08:22] This is a completely different mind. I have a completely different attitude right now. Like it's okay. Three in a row, two divisional wins this week. And now your third place in the Metro, that's exactly where you want to be. And I hate that every chance. And I get it. It's only eight or nine games in whatever the hell it is. It's, it's, this is nowhere near panic desperation point. We've only played eight teams. So it's kind of like, right. Like, like this will be tomorrow night will be a very good indicator of this rest of this month.

[00:08:53] This team's actual capabilities. Yes. The rest of this month is going to show who we really are. I hope, I mean, we can end up just 500 and mystery middle again, you know? Um, but you know, tomorrow night, if they don't, I mean, here's the thing, right? You could absolutely see a world where the abs just cave us in and knock our dicks in the dirt and we lose five to one. I also see a world where we win that game. So it's like, I don't know, like, look at their, look at their bottom, bottom pair and their bottom two lines.

[00:09:22] Like, I think our depth can feast on that. My biggest problem right now is, is our depth was, was what our biggest problem was the past couple of years. Right. And now our depth is actually fucking delivering. Yeah. Like, and our main guys are, and our main guys are not, I think what, like between Nico, Brad, Jack and Timo, I think they have two five on five goals between the four of them. Like that's fucking unacceptable. Jack has got to get going. Um, and they need to take Brad off power play one. I don't know what the fuck's going on with that guy.

[00:09:52] And he actually was off the ice for practice today with like something nagging him. So it's just like, stop. Like he, Brad needs to come off power play one, put Gritzik there, put Brad Jack back on his strong side. Like, I don't know. They get a shooter on that fucking power play. Yeah. But it's somebody, it's not even the shooters. It's like they, they, they completely flipped the flip Jack and Brad for no apparent fucking reason. No, they, they need to get, like, give, give Gritz a try. Um, Brad has had a horrible start to the year. How many, you know, wide open nets.

[00:10:22] So far already this year has he banned on. Yeah. I'm getting sick and tired of this shit. And like, I'm tired of like, you know, like why, why defend it? Right. It's just like, same with Timo. It's time to wake up. And you saw who they can be against the Rangers. That's who they can be. They play that way against Colorado. They're winning tomorrow night, but it's like the fucking defensive lapses. And the fact that our core guys have not shown up yet is holding this team back.

[00:10:48] Um, like marginally, not, I wouldn't say encouraged, but like, I'm not jumping off a bridge yet because there is a level that our good guys can get to and still need to. And maybe they just, maybe they just have those seasons where it just kind of doesn't come together for them. I don't know, but I just don't, I just don't think that's, that's going to happen. I think the rest of this month is going to tell a lot about where this team's headed.

[00:11:13] You know, these next games, Colorado, Anaheim Kings stars, Colorado. That's a rough end of the month. Oh wait. And Vegas. I forgot. Vegas is the 30th. So yeah, you have Vegas. And like, you know, look, LA sucks, but like, I don't want them to be still winless when they come in to play the devils. That wouldn't be great. Um, and, um, Anaheim.

[00:11:42] That should be a fun game. That is going to be a track meet, but I could see their forward group just absolutely picking us apart. Like I've seen just clips, some clips of their offensive plays and just like, Holy shit. Yeah. That game could look a lot like the Utah game. Yeah. I'm kind of with you on that, but we need to, we need to just push it the other way. And we need our goalies to make a save and just stop with these stupid fucking, um, just stupid.

[00:12:06] We need to have catastrophic breakdowns.

[00:12:36] I'm talking about it. It's like, just get that one extra save that one or two extra saves, you know, like Luke gets cooked, you know, Leonard, like in Leonard comes in. You know, it's like, make that save. You know, that's that was a two to one that made it two to one. Yep. Which then, you know, the protist goal, like make that made it three to one. It's like, you know, that's from long range. Like maybe you got to stop that. There's yeah. Just everybody, uh, you know, our core guys in general, haven't been showing up and goaltending has been piss poor to start the season. And I wouldn't say it's been piss poor.

[00:13:06] No, it has been a lot of that. It's just, it's not a lot. None of it. Sorry. I'm interrupting. I apologize. I'm coming in hot. Like I get it, but the goaltending has been bad and I don't care about the metrics because it comes down to exactly what you just said. Make the big save when the team needs you to make the big save and we haven't had it. And that's, that's really what I do want to bring this up to you though, off the subject of who we're going to shit on. But what is going on with Brendan Dillon? I don't know.

[00:13:36] I read today that he exercised some trade protection last year. Also, um, yeah, I don't know when, but you know, like there's thing about Dougie, but I, I, I think right now he's, he's sort of the odd man out on the defense. You're like our, our big, um, our big thing, you know, had been that we have just had too many kind of grenade launcher defensemen.

[00:14:02] And look, I love Dylan and what he brings, but, but he's hasn't been good. He has not been a good hockey player. Nope. You know, I think right now, I think, you know, Chisholm is a better, a better option for us. You know, like I said this before, like the, it seems like the defense's whole job, just like get the puck to the forwards and let them, let them play with it. And Dylan sucks at that. And Chisholm doesn't. You know, I mean, he definitely holds some value if you were to move them.

[00:14:31] You know, there are a lot of teams that would like that veteran defenseman, that third parent back there. Um, do you move them or do you just hold onto them right now? And if he's cool with just being the seventh D man. I mean, I don't think anybody, particularly a guy like him is cool being a seventh D man. You know what I'm saying? He's not going to, I'm saying by being, by, by saying be cool. I mean, is he going to ask for a fucking trade or is he going to deal with it? That's what I mean? I don't know. I don't know.

[00:14:57] You know, you need to kind of window into him, but he, I think he realizes on the last year of his deal, sort of things are winded down. He's already, you know, kind of set himself up for a, for a post career media media career. So like, but like, I don't know. Has Segenthaler been any good? What if we sat Segenthaler down for a little bit and pop Dylan in there? Well, you definitely have been a decent pair. What's that? You're definitely going to need Dylan before it's all said and done. Yeah. You're going to need him again. Yeah.

[00:15:26] And guys get hurt all the time and Declan Chisholm gets fucking killed. Like once a game that like our two fights have actually been because sticking up for him. Chisholm is, yeah. Chisholm has gotten murdered. So Nico over time is asking if is Brown back tomorrow? I think he is. I saw they've been skating. I would hope so at this point. I think Evangelista and Brown should be ready to go tomorrow. I would think Evangelista definitely. Like, cause he was just sick.

[00:15:55] Brown's been kind of dealing with something and you know, it's, we, we still haven't. It's another thing. It's like, we still haven't been in full health yet. Yeah. We haven't had our full compliment of players. I'm especially like Brown's a big piece, you know, that, that's a, that's a big piece to be missing. So Brown, I guess had, had a second kid. There's a picture floating around of him. Um, yeah. And everybody does that. So I wonder if like he was about ready to come back and like, they're like, Hey, you

[00:16:24] know, why don't you just wait a couple more days, you know, have your kids settle in with them and stuff like that before you then come back and, and then save us with your, um, save us with your new dad strength, please. For the love of God. Now, yeah. Manta, there's something going through the team. Cause Manta now has explosive diarrhea. I know a few people that have, that have been pretty sick. So in diary lettuce, really gonna, uh, really excited to see Brownie back in the lineup.

[00:16:52] I think this team absolutely needs him and what he can bring to this team. So yeah. It's yeah. It's, it's composure and professionalism. And I feel like we just lose composure way too fucking easily, particularly defensively and, and, and against us on the, on the rush. We just get picked apart. So yeah, I can't figure it out. I really can't like, they just, just put it together, whatever. I'm not calling for heads right now.

[00:17:19] I know, I know that I should be, I'm big on the, you know, not everyone knows I'm not a fan of Sheldon Keefe, but whatever, let's just get through this month and see where we are. That's where I'm, I'm willing to like suffer through these next two weeks with this tough ass schedule. Cause I'm with you. I think that they could get better, but, and that's the thing. That frustrates me the most is like, if they would just weren't a good team say, all right, they're, they got to grow into this. You know, it's going to be a process. They're not that good.

[00:17:48] But when you see him play games like you do against the Rangers and we've saw it so many times throughout the course of three years, these little, you know, beating Florida back to back, you know, all this shit that we've done. And you've shown that you are a really good team when you play within structure, but then they're like these little mental midgets on the ice and they forget how to fucking play. Like that's the most frustrating thing. But it's also like, there's a whole shitload of new guys all over the place.

[00:18:16] I, one guy I continue to look at and I've been on his ass since, I don't know, probably year one is Bradshaw. It's like, what the fuck? Like everything has gotten noticeably worse. And just all of the breakdowns that we have are, are just noticeably more catastrophic than they, than they were under the previous regime. Like, I don't, I don't understand that. And our penalty kill is fucking terrible too. Special teams in general. I've just been awful this year.

[00:18:45] The power play is just, you know, obviously that's a bit of a, or expertise for it, but it's just like, it's so frustrating to watch like that five on three against the Rangers. Like, it's just like Jack playing hero ball the whole time. And it's like, what are you doing? Like the way you break a five on three apart is move the puck, you know, like move the puck around, make the, that's, that's the thing. It's like, make the, make the puck do the work for you. I didn't understand what that was, what was going on with that.

[00:19:15] You know, Wayne, Wayne, what is it? Wayne matter eight five five two asks it has the losing culture under Fitzgerald affected the core. And that's an interesting question. I mean, I don't know. It's just something like we've never thought about. Like, is this team, like, have they just gotten to like, I don't think so. They're pros and Nico signing, I think really brings that into, you know, fold. If there was really a losing culture in the stressing room, I don't know if he resigns.

[00:19:44] But the fact that like the changes that maybe there absolutely was, and maybe they're still trying to shake a little bit of that off. But I think these guys want to win as badly as anybody. I kind of think that's a little bit of an overused cliche is like this losing culture, winning culture. It's like, well, like locker rooms are locker rooms. Like you're going to play hard for the guys that are, that are in there. You know, I don't, I think we would have probably heard right now.

[00:20:13] It's definitely a real thing. Yeah. But losing, but winning, no, but like, but there isn't some like aura of just losing around people that like affects everybody. But mostly when you're talking about. Winning changes everything and losing changes everything. I don't know if we're saying the same thing. It's just a semantic argument. But mostly like when you talk, like when I think of a losing culture, I think of franchises that are terribly run, bad ownership, years and years and years of bad management.

[00:20:42] And they produce that losing culture. You know, you know, if you're drafted by the Arizona Cardinals, you're going to suck. Like, you know that like there's, it's just, it's a terrible run organization. We've seen so many of them in the NHL as well. And like, that is where like the losing and this core though, like, yeah, I'm sure they were super frustrated with the, maybe definitely last year with fits, maybe the last couple of seasons with fits.

[00:21:09] Like they, they, they didn't really hide it, but I think that the fact that everybody's back this year and I especially again, go to grit signing and Nico signing. And that is showing like, no, we can win here. We want to win here. And that's why we're going to sign these extensions. Go ahead. What were you saying? Sorry. I'm, I'm a little out of sorts. Yeah. It's fine. Jumpy. There's something to be said for. Yeah.

[00:21:38] The Arizona Cardinals. I was talking about franchises. Hang on one second. Franchises. I was using them as an example. I'm not high as fuck. I know that they're a football team, bro. Yeah. I'm sorry. Yeah. Chris isn't talking about football. No, I, I get what you're saying. You know, Pittsburgh pirates. Same thing. Yes. You know, you get drafted by them. You know, you're going to, if you're good, you're going to be on the Yankees and Phoenix Coyotes. If you want to keep it in the NHL. Sure.

[00:22:06] Um, there is also something to be said, like within a season, just, you know, these kinds of things that just keep happening to your team. You do kind of look around and you're like, what the fuck? You know? And, and once the stone starts rolling downhill or you'd have to start pushing it uphill, like it's, it gets harder, you know? And it's, and it's hard to make a points in the NHL.

[00:22:32] And that's why, you know, you point to American Thanksgiving and the beginning of November as real demarcation points for whether you're actually a real team or not. So like you said, this is, this is an important team. Yeah. And, you know, I do think, fuck off. I do think it's real of like that stigma of when you see games and us kind of losing games

[00:23:00] in the same sort of fashion that we have over the course, you know, just the bad defensive breakdowns, like the mental mistakes and all that. I do think that wears on them. I think the core, a lot of times goes back to the bench. Like, you know, why, why are we still fucking doing this? And, you know, I do think that last year, like when, when Markstrom would let in a fucking a terrible goal. Exactly. Like I don't see them. I don't see them that happening to them this year.

[00:23:28] And I think that's what I was trying to say about the third period. It's like, I don't really see a lot of deflation in them. I think I see that them, they get scored on. There's like, all right, fuck that sucked. Like, let's go back and try and get it. You know, I don't see a lot of lulls or, or what did we call it? Sagging really going on this year. You know, like they're, they're kind of continued to keep coming after and keep coming after it. Which, which is encouraging, but it's like, you know, the other side of the coin on that is score some fucking goals.

[00:23:58] You know, like I realized they put up 12 against Detroit and, and the Rangers, but you know, they, that was effectively a four, one game against the caps. It was four, one against Ottawa. Like you're not winning anything. If you only score one goal. Nope. No, you're a thousand percent right. The, the, and it comes from the, this is the core. And this is where, you know, maybe some more lineup shakes, you know, shakeups in the lines. I don't know. I mean, if you have everybody coming ready and healthy tomorrow, there's a forward out.

[00:24:27] I don't know who Keith would decide to sit. I would go. I've been thinking about this. I was thinking about this as I was sitting on 695 and traffic fucking wanted to murder someone. What'd you come up with? I think first things first, you need to split up Jack and Brad. Brad. I, I completely agree. You know, put Brad with Nico and I would maybe try mantha up there. So Brad, Nico, mantha. Okay. All right.

[00:24:57] Then I'm keeping Jack and Gritzak together and I'm trying to evangelista there. I prefer Timo, but I'm fine with evangelista. So then I'm going Timo, Erod and Mercer. I do like that line though. I think that, that could be a very good line. Timo. The only line I'm keeping together right now is his fourth line. Yeah. And, but that, but go ahead. Yeah. And, and Mercer wasn't playing well when he was originally on that third line.

[00:25:26] Cause there was no one that was really truly puck dominant amongst them. And, you know, Jack is a very puck dominant person. Brad is pretty puck dominant. Nico can be puck dominant and evangelista can be puck dominant, particularly in transition. And Timo can be puck dominant. So you put Timo on his own puck dominant line. And I think that helps elevate Mercer a little bit. And, and Erod is kind of a glue guy that can fucking play with anybody. I'm evangelista can feed.

[00:25:56] Yeah. Evangelista can feed Gritzak and Jack. And then you leave that fourth line where it is. You know, I think Nason, Nason is the odd guy out for now. But who else is the odd guy out now? Brownie's back. I continue to think, you know, you do some sort of rotation, you know, Brown's coming back from an injury. So. So who's sitting tomorrow? Ease him in. I mean, it's probably going to be Boquist, but I think we should really start to consider

[00:26:24] giving Lombardi a day off here or there, because by the end of the season, he's going to be out of gas. I think it's a really tough call. I thought maybe Manta. And then, you know, can't sit Mercer just because of the, if Mercer had missed a bunch of games already, maybe you can sit him, but I'm not breaking that streak just to get Connor Brown in the lineup. I kind of agree with that. Like, and Mercer's been, Mercer's been productive.

[00:26:54] And I hate to, I hate no Nason to be the odd man out because he's productive too. He's played great. And again, now you think like, that's a guy we might want to hold on to. That's a dude that we're going to need throughout the season. And, uh, you know, the way Nason plays, I want to keep him on the team. Oh, I wanted to look something up. Hang on. Keep talking. Talk to yourself. I got nothing else to say. I'm just going to sit here and count. Honestly, like, I think we're both the same way. It's like, I'm tired, man. Like, I'm so tired of this. Yeah.

[00:27:23] So tired of these fucking guys. Like, honestly, at this point, all the doomers are right. Get the, get the fucking, get Nico out of here. Get Brad out of here. Get Tima out of here. I don't give a fuck. Like, look at, look at what Colorado did. You know, like their core was rent in Landis, you know, McKinnon, McCarr. It's like traded, traded, uh, rent in Landis. God got hurt. They kept bringing in new guys. Brock Nelson. I can in nature's like.

[00:27:51] If they don't make the playoffs this year, or even if it's like they, like it was two years ago, like an easy first round loss for us. And we're bounced in a five or six or four or whatever. Um, I wouldn't be shocked if Sonny Mata does go that route and, and say, okay, I, I put together pretty much the bones. I have a few of my guys, but this is Fitz is the bones of this team or Tom Fitzgerald's.

[00:28:21] I don't think we can win. And I got to make some moves and starts to own away. Some big dudes. Like this could be, is it? I think a much bigger season for that reason too, for a lot of these guys, like, but yeah, but I also, and, and Mike Ruffman is not going to shop Timo Meyer. If he doesn't perform this year. Absolutely. He's got a fucking, but like, it's, it's not that he's not a bad player and is not valuable. She's just not working out. Yeah, exactly.

[00:28:51] So Mike Ruffman, I've been talking about this a little bit too, and he calls it a transition year. And I kind of had always said this from the start. It's like, I think this is going to be a two year process to kind of get to like, and by two years, I meant two off seasons because he made, did a lot of work in the forward group. And I think kind of bolstered that pretty well, but the problems that we're seeing are kind of on the, on the defensive side of the puck, you know, and look, forwards are forwards are part of the defensive group too.

[00:29:20] It's not just a defenseman with these either. Like I put a lot of the goals that we've been getting scored on like Jack on Jack and Nico and some of the forwards, not really picking up guys. And that's also on Brad Shaw, not really helping instill whatever their system is supposed to be defensively for those guys. However, I was, I just, I did also think of another thing. Sorry. I'm very random. I apologize. I'm all over the place. So Connor Hellbach makes $8.5 million, right? Yes, he does for five more years.

[00:29:49] So there's a guy that makes 4.75 on our team and a guy that makes 4 million on our team that I would. Okay. So you're the start of a package. Are you talking Mercer and Mason? Man, we talking Mercer and Manta. Yeah. Go to them. Probably throwing Dawes as a backup goalie. You know, in a fucking heartbeat. Well, yeah. I mean, it's got to be more than that too.

[00:30:18] I probably have to throw in like a couple of firsts or whatever. Give them all the firsts. Goalie practices. But if we take his full salary, that's the thing. Like I said, I'd give this goalie experiment some rope. I don't think it's working. And we need a guy that can fill out these mistakes. And the fucked up thing is it's not working. It's pretty obvious it's not working. And why not get a look at this kid for one game? Throw his ass in there.

[00:30:45] You know, he played against Colorado all the time in preseason and shit. Throw him in there. Throw his ass in there against the abs. Throw him against Dallas. Throw him against Dallas. Absolutely. It doesn't matter. Get him a game. Yeah. I don't care if it's a dick move. He sucks. He's not working out. Slow, fat, lazy, bored. But also, you know, Sonny, it's Sonny's guy. Sonny signed him. I know. But again, like, you know, yes, that's probably not going to happen.

[00:31:14] But is it time to actually start looking for a goaltender? I don't think that is at all a reasonable means at all. We need one. Like, who's out there? Who, you know, Sam Montembeau? Do you trust him? Do you, like you say, try to make a play for Connor Hollabuck? Do you know what? Who's out there? Devin Cooley. Devin Cooley? It's an insane postgame interview with Cooley. He's fucking, this dude cracks me up.

[00:31:42] You know, I mean, there's, you gotta, we've said since Sonny Medo was hired that we honestly believe that if there were issues that were glaring during the season and absolutely needed to be done, unlike Tom Fitzgerald, excuse me, my sexy voice, that unlike Fitzgerald, he would go out and do it. Well, we'll see. We'll see if need be because. That would be a ballsy fucking move. Just be like, you know what? This guy's not working. The guy that I signed. Whoops.

[00:32:12] That's why I'm going to give me a ballsy move. I'm going to send him off. Mantha's still making almost $5 million a year. I think he'll be fine. I don't give, enough, but I don't give a shit about the name on the back. I don't. I want this fucking team to win. I don't care who you are. So anyways, I do have to start. You got to bounce. Yeah. I have my couch potatoes game three tonight starting at 915. All right. I got my foam finger and my air horn. I'll fucking be there, dude. I'm all over.

[00:32:42] We're looking to go 3-0. Big time. Congrats. Very, very, very important stuff. Are you leading the league in scoring? No. I missed the first game. So I'm only, I only have two points. Get your shit together. All right. Yeah. I haven't scored a goal yet. I will. I did get my new stick though. I'm very excited about this. Nice. Finally. Yeah. So actually. Thank you. It took six months to get a stick from Canada. I use the podcast as a, as my final weapon. Good for you. Well, I fudged some numbers,

[00:33:11] but I sent them our, our simple cast dashboard and was like, like, are you serious? Yeah. That's fucking awesome. Yeah. I was like, I was like, I will fucking shit all over your company to the thousands of people that listen to us. Don't tell us. Don't tell them that you already did like a month and a half ago. I added a zero to that. So they gave me half off. Nice, dude. Yeah. So it's all three sticks. We'll see. And I also fucking saw something on Twitter the other day.

[00:33:41] It is absolutely serial killer behavior. If you take your stick toe to heel, I don't care. People were chiming in. I said that. And people were like, I always tape a toe to heel. I was like, all right, I found the serial killer. Like, what the fuck are you talking about? We never go toe to heel. No, no, no, never go full retard. Never go full retard. All right. So we are actually debating, Bob and Tim and I about doing a live, a live stream during a game. So let us know like let's drop us a line or whatever. Let us know in the comment section,

[00:34:11] if you guys would actually jump on to watch us idiots, watch a hockey game. It sounds so fucking dumb when you really put it that way, but we're debating it. See if we, we don't even know if we can actually sync all the games up in time. Actually, that might make it more fun. My, my Alex, Alex said, I saw that. I, I do actually take a lot of lessons from the devils. My course, he is through the roof. Great. A transition graded zone entries, but my shot is like a fucking muffin. All right. You can throw that into the self suck. Fine bin a couple of dollars,

[00:34:40] at least for that one. All right, guys, we're going to get out of here. So can go show everybody how great he is at hockey. Hit the like, subscribe. Sorry. I was a little scatterbrained tonight. Shut the fuck up. All right, guys, thanks for hanging out with us. We'll talk to you later. For him. I'm Chris. We're the uncle fuckers. We'll see you when we see you. Fuck you.

[00:35:11] All right. I was all over the place. I apologize.