Transcript of The Hockey Show: The Exiled Senators Fan (feat. Greg Wyshynski)

Dave Damashek is sad because his team is about to be swept, but he's not joining us today. Who is joining us is Greg Roschinski of ESPN. This is The Hockey Show.

Matthew, what's up?

David Deroica of The Hockey News is right there. Ethan is in that other studio. Rose is in Pittsburgh. My name is Roy Bellamy. This is The Hockey Show. I was informed by Rose, by the way, before she left this week to the NFL Draft, that we missed out on a bit that we were supposed to do.

Why is she out of town?

The NFL Draft.

Well, no, but if we're missing out on bits, shouldn't she be here to enforce said bits?

Yeah, you would think that she would.

But wait, I thought she was supposed to be on the show today. No, she was supposed to be back in time.

Dude, how?

She said that her flight landed at 8:00 in the morning and she was going to be back in time.

Well, she's not here. You happen to be in her seat right now.

I know, but I— she told me she was going to be— she didn't have any flights. Yeah, she okay?

She here?

Did she— her flight get in okay?

I assume that she's fine.

I hope so.

I would hope so.

We probably would have heard something.

I, I imagine she's okay. I just mean, is she still in Pittsburgh? Is she back in Miami? Where is she?

Maybe she's in the air. She said maybe she's over, uh, over North Carolina or something. You never know. But, uh, the bit that she wanted us to do was, uh, we would gather the, uh, you know, the many, uh, hockey helmets that she pulls out for her minute. Well, we got the 16 playoff teams in a little bag, and I guess the 3 of us are going to pull— Ethan's going to—

it's going to be really funny when we pull the Kings, the Penguins, and the Senators.

Well, I hope that—

down 3-0.

I really do hope that works out for you. But, uh, we are going to pick these helmets, and that's the teams that we are going to unfortunately root for, uh, in, in the playoffs. Uh, Ethan's gonna pick—

I know I'm gonna pick the Tampa Bay Lightning.

You're saying root for, and I'm thinking, okay, so So this is the team I'm going to have to bet on until they're out of the playoffs.

No, because I already decided. We're 3 games into the playoffs. I've already picked which playoff teams I'm rooting for. One of them is on my cap.

So, so did I. I picked the Sabers, but this is what Rose wants us to do.

I really hope that the Lightning is not in my hand right now.

All right.

Oh, I got the Habs. Let's go. Perfect. I'm wearing their cap and they're playing the Lightning. That's exactly what I wanted. Let's go.

The thing that I really didn't think about here is that is a Ziploc bag. He can see what's in there.

No, I was looking at the camera the entire time. My eyes were locked up. The bag's down here. Look, look at my shot. The bag's down here and my eyes are up here.

This sounds so wrong.

Who's, who's, who's going— look, see, the bag is down here.

Can we stop talking?

And I'm looking over here. Am I picking for you guys or am I bringing you in?

No, you're picking for Rose. You're definitely not picking for me.

Rose is— so I'm picking for Rose now. Look, I'm looking at the camera, Roy. The bag is down here. I can't see anything.

He doesn't care now.

I'm sure he doesn't.

Rose got the Philadelphia Flyers, who are going to win their first round series.

Good pick. Wow. Okay. Bring it back on in here. All right. So David and I are going to pick the teams to represent us on the show.

I got a bad feeling about this.

I'm not— I bet you I'm going to get Pittsburgh because that's how things work around here. Okay. Go ahead, Dave. You are—

I'm looking at the camera.

I'm looking at the camera. This is what I was saying.

Who is it?

Oh, it was the Kings.

Kings.

The Kings. Ah, all right, here we go. I am, uh, I'm going to pull, and the one that I pulled out is the Ducks.

Quack!

The Anaheim Ducks.

Hey, yeah, they got a shot.

They got— yeah, they got a shot.

So better than the poor Kings.

All right, so Ethan has Montreal.

I got a team to root for for another 2 days.

Rose has, uh, who again?

Philly.

The Philadelphia Flyers. Um, and you have—

I got the Kings. I got 3 days. The Kings don't play again till Sunday.

And I have the Ducks, so, uh, yeah.

Oh, those Duckies, man. Those are my boys. That's one of the teams I was rooting for pre-playoffs, them and the Minnesota Wild.

Those are your boys indeed.

So the shipping container get the East, we get the West.

Yeah, that just works out that way. That's pretty funny.

How are we feeling about the Duckies so far, Roy?

Well, all right. I mean, that seems to be a series.

Yeah, I was— I picked the Oilers in 5, but I'm not going to lie to you guys. I did not think the— I thought the Ducks were coming back to Anaheim down 2-0. Yes, they've got a game in hand.

So did I. But I don't know what the— I mean, there was a bit of a scare with Connor McDavid. He left Game 2 a bit early with injury. He came back.

Yeah.

So all of Edmonton is— Take a deep breath.

He still doesn't seem right, though. He's not playing very well. He had a bad turnover, shorthand, on a power play the other night that led to a shorthanded goal. Doesn't have a point. We'll talk more about that coming up a little later in my stat of the week.

Foreshadowing.

But man, and Draisaitl's been great. Look, you're only going to keep McDavid down for so long. I still think the Oilers are going to win this series.

You did mention Draisaitl.

So yeah, he's been fantastic.

Good.

Yeah, but I still think the Oilers are well in position to win this series. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Anaheim takes the game tonight or at least one game in Anaheim. That crowd's going to be fired up. But I, I don't know how much I love their long-term prospects. I didn't before coming into the playoffs, but especially seeing the way they're playing right now, like, I'm not crazy about it. Say again?

How many games did you—

I had the Oilers in 5, and I did say it would be one of the most exciting 5-game series you'll ever see because there will be plenty of goals, and it has not disappointed so far. 6-3 in the first game, and what was it, 5-4, uh, 6-4 last game, I think, something like that. So yeah, ton of goals already. But not a lot of points for the top guys except for Drysidle.

How do you feel about that?

I'm kind of enjoying watching the Ducks fly, for lack of a better term.

Quack, quack.

No, I mean, what, Troy Terry's been great. Surprised— I mean, not semi-surprisingly, but I mean, you know, 4 points in 2 games is really good for him. We've yet to see Beckett Seneca kind of light up this series yet. Same with Chris Kreider. So I feel like the Ducks still have a little bit to prove. But on the other hand, as Ethan was saying, No, Connor McDavid does not look right. Like, he's had his flashes of McDavid-ness, but if there's something that's hindering his play, that's a huge weight that the Edmonton Oilers are going to have to carry over.

Well, him being hindered is still him being better than I would probably say 80% of the league.

So of course, but they're counting on him at 100%. Yeah, the Oilers are built to perform with McDavid at his best, not McDavid at 80%. Yep.

All right, so the Ottawa Senators have banned a fan to Taiwan.

What?

I mean, what does that even mean?

Teams have that kind of power? Apparently they do.

Deport people? What happened?

They didn't deport him. He didn't get deported.

He was allowed back.

I guess you could say they exiled him, but they sent him— they more so said— I would say they sent him away.

Isn't exile like the old-timey version of saying deported?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They didn't excommunicate. Yeah, they sent him away.

So this guy's name is Kyle Ivan. He did a parody song last year for the Senators when they were playing the Maple Leafs in the first round, and it went horribly wrong. The song was whatever. They're supposed to be kind of terrible, but considering how the team played to match the song, it didn't work out at all. Fast forward to this year, he did it again, and this one was arguably worse. Ethan, do we have—

Yeah, we have a bit of this song for the guys in the back. It is video. 1.5, if we can roll that.

That's a video.

That is a video of him, but okay, he made a really bad song and it's a remake of Guess Who's Back by Slim Shady, right?

Which is like on its own, like a bad choice, because that's another team's goal song in the NHL. That's Detroit's goal song.

So that is a bad choice.

Yeah, off the bat, it's like, yeah, that's not even your team.

So the video that, uh, that was about to be played was him in Taiwan.

All right, now we have pulled up, we have the song. So let's run the song here.

Okay.

Hurricanes fans go round the outside, round the outside, round the outside.

Oh, this is terrible.

Guess who's back, back again?

Sens are back.

No, they're not.

Pesky Sens.

Yeah, I don't want this song to be back again.

No, like, the original is great, but the original is— got to change that, man.

Of course.

So after that and Ottawa's pretty, you know, not great start against Carolina.

Yeah, they I thought they played really— let's be clear, let's— we can talk about the series a little bit. I thought they played really well in Game 2, and I thought they probably should have won Game 2. They missed a ton of chances. Like, Tim Stutzle could have scored like 5 or 6 goals in that game.

I thought they were going to take it when the overtime goal got taken away.

Yeah, you're like, okay, here they are. But Timmy Stutzle, like, missed— he missed a wide-open net on the first shift of the game.

And didn't Tkachuk get robbed by Andersen during overtime?

Freddie made a couple great saves, but also, like, they were just missing open chances. Like just straight up, like the net was open there for them. There seemed to be like a force field around the net kind of, and pucks were bouncing. Anderson was good, don't get me wrong, but kind of got a little lucky. He gave up a softie for the second goal of the game. I thought they played pretty well. And I actually was going back to Ottawa saying, if I'm the Canes, don't let them get game 3, which they didn't. But before they went back to Ottawa, Dave, they had some business to handle. If you want to talk about this.

What, sending the guy to Taiwan? As if that— made any difference whatsoever because they were back on home ice last night anyway. And they looked bad last night. Like they just didn't look like they're a 2-1 snooze fest of a game. They, they just— excuse me, they struggled to generate much offense. Like, I feel like Anderson had a pretty easy game in goal. Yeah, I just— I had such higher expectations. I feel like I'm like a little heartbroken.

Yeah, I just want to play this video real quick so everybody knows what we're talking about. So let's find the video.

You got him in Taiwan? Yes. Hello, Sens fans.

Kyle Ivan here. As you can see, I am in Asia. This is not AI. I am actually here. I have been sent here by the Ottawa Senators organization because they wanted me as far away from the Canadian Tire Center as possible before Game 3 tonight.

I mean, that's kind of hilarious.

I've got a question.

They sent him to the other side of the world doing sweeps now.

I've got a— I've got an important question. Okay, so did the Ottawa Senators like in their front office, in their— I imagine their social media department executed this bit, which great job by the way, like this is hilarious. I feel bad for the kid, but this is a great bit. Did they go on Google and look up what is the furthest point in the world from the Canadian Tire Center? Because if they did, props to you, like good on them, like that is great social media work. But if they were just like, what's a country that's really far away?

Thank you, Dr. Google, because the answer is at our fingertips. The furthest point on Earth from Ottawa, Canada is located in the Indian Ocean off the southwest coast of Australia.

Yeah, can't have it in the ocean.

Okay, so they could have sent them to Australia.

It sounds like— I'm not a globe expert, but I feel like north-southwise it's not kind of maybe lining up. I don't know if I'm making sense.

I imagine what they maybe did is they were like, what is the furthest— what is the furthest flight we can get out of the Ottawa airport?

Yeah.

But still, I feel terrible for this kid. This poor kid. Like, he puts out a song and granted, after last year, you can't run it back. Like, that's just a bad idea after you get swept or they lost in 6 to the Maple Leafs last year.

I mean, this man is no Steve Bartman.

Ottawa to Spokane.

No.

Approximately 7,460 miles or 12,010 kilometers. Oof.

I think the—

23-hour flight.

I think the prime example of Jesus.

And not only that, not only did he have to do a 23-hour flight, but then he had to stay up till probably what, 6 in the morning? Yeah, 6 in the morning, 7 in the morning or something like that. I guess that's probably 12 hours. So he was probably like waking up to watch the game, but he had to watch that game. Like he had to watch that game in Taiwan.

Where do you watch that? Where's it?

Where's that?

That's a great question.

That's a great question. On your laptop.

Is there, is there a, is there an Ottawa Senators bar in Taiwan?

Is there an NHL bar? Like if they're having as niche as like individual teams, there's got to be a Canadian bar somewhere over there. Like, are there bars here in the States where they're watching like the KBL?

It's also possible that like just the Sens like set up—

Are you kidding me? Like, go Samsung? Let's go Lions?

Like the—

Well, I'm just saying, like if there's an NHL bar over there, there's got to be, you know—

No, no, no, no.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Sens like set him up with a television or something and were like, here, we're going to—

Well, I would kind of make that a provision.

He has a tablet.

Yeah.

If you're like a diehard, I'm like, all right, you're going to send me across the globe instead of going to a home playoff game for my favorite team.

Okay.

I need some things.

You know about that VPN?

He better know about that.

He better know about that VPN.

I know you know about that VPN, Dave.

Prime example, by the way, of this series going drastically wrong for the Senators is that breakaway that Brady Tkachuk had in Game 3 that he did not finish on, and then him almost breaking a stick on the bench because he failed.

Yeah, this series has been— I picked Ottawa before the series, as you guys famously know.

Yeah, I forgot already.

I took it. I was hand up, bad pick, bad pick. Like, I expected better, dude. No, I definitely expected better. Like, much like, they're probably going to get swept. Let's be realistic. The vibes are terrible there. Maybe they go— they, they look, they salvaged 2 games last year when they were down 3-0 last year. So maybe they go and do that. But I've been very disappointed with Ottawa. I had really high hopes for them. I really thought they could be a lot more competitive in this series. Clearly I picked them to win the series. It feels like the dam needed to break and they get that first one to tie the game last night and you're like, all right, like the dam's breaking, like here they go. And it just hasn't happened.

Like they just have a goal like 2 minutes later.

The vibes are bad and, and fans are frustrated. And I wouldn't be surprised if this is it for Brady Tkachuk.

Minute 23 later.

Yeah.

Like, what is that?

I know that's just bad vibes.

That's finally got your fans going. Like, I was just—

Yeah. And you give it right back. Yeah. Yeah. So I, I've been very disappointed in them. Stunned by what's happening in Pittsburgh. Cannot believe it. But the more I watch this, the more I watch these— yeah, Roy, go ahead.

Yeah, sorry, Dave. Sorry, David Sheck.

Yeah, no, I, I, you don't care. Been stunned by what's going on there. Like, but the more I watch the Flyers, the more I'm like, what were we missing with this team? Just, they're really good. Like, they're, they're a good team. They play really sound defensively. They have young talent that I think is going to be exciting and around for a long time. So I like what the Flyers are showing.

Expected the defense. Yeah, we didn't expect them to play this well.

Yeah, I'm very surprised with what's happened.

Ladar's been awesome. Yeah, Skinner's been fine.

Like, you know, he's been Stuart Skinner, dude. Like, he's been— he's had really great moments and then he's let in a couple leaky ones. Like, where has been exactly what he is?

Firepower. Like, I don't understand. I feel like I've noticed Karlsson more than anybody else on that team, forwards included. And that's a problem. Nothing on Karlsson. He's been amazing this year. But where is their firepower?

The guy I've noticed the most has maybe been Chris Letang derogatory. No, he's been terrible in this series, and they only have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 point scorers in this series. Evgeni Malkin leads the way with 3. Sidney Crosby has 1 point in this series. Erik Karlsson has 2. Letang has none.

I mean, I love how as soon as Crosby gets the point, the NHL sends out another tweet right away.

You know how much I hate this.

Oh, as soon as I saw it, I was like, 'Ah, Roy loves this shit.' One guy I've been really disappointed in is Igor Chinnikov.

Like, he was really solid for them.

He was great down the stretch, regular season, especially down the, down the stretch. Had a couple of shot props with him.

Done nothing. He's a -3 in the series. Ben Kindl, their young stud, is a -3 in the series as well, has 0 points. So really disappointed with the Penguins. I mean, I'm not disappointed with the Penguins because I'm happy they're losing, I would say. But I'm very surprised by what's happening there. In the other 3-0 series, not very surprised at all what's happening with Colorado. I'm more surprised that Colorado hasn't scored more. I think that would be, you know, for me. I—

they did not cover games 1 and 2. I'm really surprised that they did not cover the puck line in games 1 and 2.

Not only that, Roy, it was 2-1 filthy both games.

Yeah.

Like, who could have expected that the Avs would win? I know they've been great defensively, but 2-1 filthy. Like, yeah. Chris, you have something to say or you just—

No, he's, he's drinking a margarita.

Oh, he's just drinking a margarita.

Anyway, Chris, a fan of The Hockey Show.

I appreciate it.

I like to— I tell people, like, I get to listen to it live.

You have any thoughts on the playoffs?

Oh, I got a lot of them, Roy.

All right, one, one of them is I miss playoff hockey.

Okay, uh, my second thought would be that I don't know what dork tried to do earlier in this show.

Oh, uh, Dirty Dancing.

I mean, geez, just bombarded us.

I got a little heated.

Yeah, I mean, he did rivalry. All right, have a good show, guys.

All right, see you later.

Perfect appearance from Chris Cody.

Time for Puck Luck. It's sponsored by DraftKings. DraftKings The crown is yours, David.

All right, Ethan, do you have one? All right, Ethan, we're dueling again because nobody won last time.

We're dueling until somebody wins.

I mean, technically.

Okay, mine, pretty simple, pretty standard. We got Montreal on the money line tonight against Tampa. I think that big picture, they've played like the better team. Now they're going to be on home ice. I'm going to give them that bump. Vegas-Utah, I'm going to take under 6.5 goals. Since Tortz took over Vegas, they have been a defensive juggernaut. They've been great on defense. So I think even if both teams score a couple, I think it still stays under the 6.5. And then in the Edmonton Ducks game, I'm going to take Lucas Dostal over 25.5 saves. It hasn't even been close this series. He's made saves in the 30s each game. So I feel like that's kind of an easy one. Parlay odds 487. So let's hope we can beat Ethan this week. Ethan.

All right. I'm going to go with— I'm going to pick the games here. So I'm going to pick all 3 games from tonight's slate. I'm going to go with the Canadiens at home on the money line. That is +102. They are an underdog at home in this game. Center Bell, as you guys know, I love that barn so much. It's going to be absolutely rocking as the Habs come home tonight. And just, except for game, except for the third period and overtime of game two, the Habs have been the better team in this series, in my opinion. And it really hasn't been close, like up until that third, in between the second and third period. I'm saying to my friends, I'm saying, what am I missing here? Like the Habs are clearly the better team, right? Obviously the Lightning kind of took over after that, dominated the third period, dominated overtime, ended up winning the game. But I still think the Habs have the inside, the upper hand in this series because I do think they've been the better team for the majority.

I love you, but you're still on leg 1.

I'm going to take the Mammoth in Utah. I'm going to take the Mammoth at home. I think that crowd is going to be rocking as well for the first game in that franchise's playoff history. That's -108. And then I'm going to take the Ducks as an underdog at home as well. Like I said, yes, the Mammoth are technically an underdog.

Yes, the other one's like -112.

Yep. I'm going to take the Ducks at +110 at home. Another crowd that I think is going to be rocking. And like I said, I didn't expect the Ducks to get a game in overtime. I did expect them to get one— or in Edmonton, excuse me. I did expect them to get one in Anaheim. I think they'll take the game tonight.

What about leg 3?

+716. That was the third leg. That was the third leg. Montreal on the money line. Montreal on the money line. Utah on the money line. Anaheim on the money line. +716.

That's crazy that you got all home teams. They're all underdogs. And then you got +716 odds. I might, I might tail you just for the hell of it.

Okay. If you want to lose your money, you can go ahead and do that. All right. It is time for the hockey stat of the week. Stat of the week.

I forgot to pull up the sounder here. So the hockey stat of the week.

Come on.

We got to, we got to move quick anyway. All right. So my hockey stat of the week so far in these playoffs.

Shit up.

I mean, what do you want?

It was moving quickly.

So far in these playoffs, Evan Bouchard.

This is good.

Hold on.

I want to hear this. I want to hear this.

Oh, Bouchard. This is a great stat of the week actually.

Evan Bouchard.

Connor McDavid, Nathan McKinnon, Tim Stutzla, and Brady Tkachuk have combined for 1 point.

That's insane.

It's an assist by Nathan McKinnon. Nathan McKinnon is the only player with a point.

And, and if you add Sidney Crosby, you double it.

Yep.

That's, that's, that's—

they have the same amount of points as Sidney Crosby, same amount of points as Sebastian Aho.

That's what happens when the Panthers are out of the playoffs.

Yeah, all of a sudden.

But the ratings—

all of a sudden you have blowouts in all these series.

It's like, yeah, Panthers too.

They've given everybody such exciting, amazing, fun hockey the last few years that everybody, oh, I gotta get back to the playoffs.

It's finally wide open. This—

no, that's— I love the fact that just mentioning the, the ratings, I think we might get to that later, but that's awesome. I love that. I think it's been really like people are watching hockey. It's the best.

Yeah, for a sport like baseball, pay attention to what's going on with hockey because there's no doubt the Olympics are helping. Uh, we'll talk about it later.

So you believe that because baseball is back when the Olympics go to Los Angeles, that ratings will—

I think what I'm saying is, what I'm saying is Major League Baseball should let their players play in the Olympics because I think it'll do a number for their ratings if they see—

yeah, look how popular the WBC is.

Yep.

Yeah, now imagine on the Olympics.

Yeah, it'd be crazy. And I'm sure the players would go crazy.

Yeah, I think they were into the World Baseball Classic. Rob, man, put a gold medal on the line.

Big Hockey Show fan. Get on this, buddy.

Play Major League Baseball players and go ahead and do that. That's a good idea. All right. Wins and fails. David, what is your win?

My win came during Game 2 between the Stars and the Wild. Dallas's Collin Blackwell caught Jakub Tranen of the Wild with a huge hit at center ice. Awesome big hit. We have the video of it.

There's a size difference there.

There's a big size difference there. Uh, Blackwell's only 5'8" and he stepped right into the 6'2" Jakub Trenin.

Oof.

But it was a clean hit, huge hit, fans were going crazy, and guess what? Nothing happened. There was no line brawl. Players didn't freak out. No penalties. No, it was just good, clean, old-time hockey. Everybody reacted proper to it. Props to the Stars. Props to the Wild. Yes, Roy, we've reached the point where we need to celebrate when we see a great example of some old-time hockey. But props to them, that's definitely my win of the week.

How fun has that series been?

A lot, a lot more exciting than maybe I gave it credit for compared to some of the other ones. I've really enjoyed that series so far.

Kind of expected that it was, it's a close series.

I don't know, I, I, I guess both of them have just kind of had these like disappointing playoff endings, so I wasn't sure what to expect. But to see them going toe-to-toe like this has been fun.

My win of the week goes all the way back to the beginning, beginning of the playoffs. Brady Tkachuk was on the bench and he had a little bit of an assist on the smelling salts situation. He had that administered to him by one of his teammates. And there was a reason for that, because right off the very first faceoff on the very first game of the Stanley Cup playoffs, Brady Tkachuk dropped the gloves with Jordan Staal and the two captains went toe to toe on the very first piece of action in this year's playoffs. Talk about setting the tone.

That's kind of funny though, because you know what Brady was trying to do, but he kind of got ragdolled a little bit at the end of that fight, but then he's like so anxious to get up and like do the "yeah!" and just the whole thing just felt kind of like missed the landing a little bit on that, but you know, A for effort.

He tried to repeat on the Four Nations.

That's the thing, like you gotta, you need a new move. You need a new move.

How about score a goal?

Yeah, or an assist. Jeez, get a point, register a point, win a game.

Ethan, what's your win?

Uh, we just talked about it, boys. The ratings in the NHL have been fantastic. This was the highest-rated first weekend, I believe, ever on cable, ever, excluding Game 7s. Uh, 2.1 million viewers for the Battle of Pennsylvania, 1.9 for the Stars and Wild, 1.7 for the Sabers and The Bruins, look at those percentages up 173%. These in, in, in, uh, based off the time slot last year, huge ratings for the NHL. The NHL is on the rise. Our beautiful game is on the rise, and it continues to be because the Stanley Cup playoffs are the best. And like I said, the NHL and the Olympics, I think, did a lot of good for this. People realize how awesome hockey is. They hear a lot about the buzz of the NHL playoffs, how incredible the Stanley Cup playoffs are. And we're seeing it. They've been incredible so far, and the ratings are bearing that out to be.

Quick thought before we get to our fails. Do you think that Olympic hockey is so amazing because they limit the physicality? Like, I'm just kind of working this in my head.

I think it's the intensity. It's, it's what's on the line.

IIHF rules are completely different.

With everything that's on the line, do you think maybe it does a good job of holding players in and not letting them kind of that they're in a must-win situation.

That might be. Those games don't turn into slopfests the way that sometimes playoff games will.

They have to stay in the game.

They don't turn into parades to the penalty box.

They have to play hard.

No, that's not a bad point.

Yeah.

Uh, fail. Go ahead, David.

Uh, my fail of the week as I scroll my page here, uh, it happened in game 2 of the Bruins, uh, Bruins-Sabres series. Ukko-Pekka Lukkonen allowed an ugly goal, a backhand scoop from the center ice red line by Morgan Geekie. That's, I guess it bounced in front of him. I don't know. But they were already bad to start that game. That just made it worse. Boston ended up going up 3-0, maybe even 4-0. I remember they had a big lead. They scored early in the third period of that game. And the good thing is it gave way to Alex Lyon, who's been great for them since. He didn't give up a goal that game. He was great in Game 3 in Boston. Something about Alex Lyon playing well in Boston in the playoffs, Ethan. Yeah, but yeah, that goal by Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen and just— ugh, Ukko-Pekka, yucky.

Backhand, it's so nice.

Ukko-Pekka, yucky.

Not great. Not great. My fail of the week might be the failure of the season. This happened during Penguins-Flyers as both teams got set for a faceoff. Garnett Hathaway glided by Sidney Crosby. He bent down for the faceoff.

He got shot.

He got shot. What was that? Garnett Hathaway stick clipped Sidney Crosby's face. Face, uh, as he's turning over, I guess.

Oh my God.

Crosby flopped like a fish. It was bad. It was bad. Play it again. Play it again, please. Because it was— it— he deserves an Oscar for what happened here. I mean, so Crosby's gliding into the faceoff dot. There's the stick. And then boom.

Good God.

Like a sniper got him.

My favorite—

The entire city of Philadelphia booed. Booed. Completely booed. Especially when they gave a high-sticking penalty to Hathaway. But then the refs got together, discussed it, and gave an embellishment penalty to Crosby. And the city of Philadelphia booed louder as he went to the penalty box.

Nice.

The best part of this was Dan Muse after the game saying that Sidney Crosby does not embellish. That was a great fail as well.

What the fuck are you talking about?

Don't believe your eyes.

My fail of the week, guys, comes from Detroit exit meeting time, breakup day, as the guys on What Chaos like to call it. This quote from Steve Yzerman, if we could put this up here: "We need better players." Isn't that his job? You think?

That's like me coming home from Publix saying, "I need better groceries." You think? What are we doing?

Go to Trader Joe's if that's the case.

Not only— it's not only that, like, okay, buddy, it's up to you. We're all the hot dog meme. We're all trying to figure out who did this. You think you've missed the playoffs 10 years in a row in Detroit, in hockey town, after 26 years in a row in the playoffs? What are you doing?

Well, Steve Eisenman, go get better players. Get on that.

Go get better players.

It's on you, brother.

It's time. It's the offseason.

But those—

go get Robert Thomas.

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Greg Rosinski is a patient man, and that's proven because we've had some technical difficulties, but he's here now and, uh, we are about ready to talk some hockey. We got 3 series that are at 3-0 right now, and none of them are necessarily close. Carolina's up on Ottawa, the Flyers are leading the Penguins, and the Avalanche are ahead of the Kings. Will any of these series get past Game 4?

The possibility is that the Penguins series could, um, for a couple reasons. First is that it's hard to believe that Sidney Crosby's waited this long to get back in the playoffs and then will meekly go out in 4 games to, uh, his most hated rival outside of the Washington Capitals. But the other thing that's interesting about the series too is that like Listen, Dan Vladar is not a name that a lot of people know, but you should know it because he was outstanding as the goaltender for the Philadelphia Flyers this season, to the point where I had him 5th on my MVP ballot, much to the chagrin of everyone I've told that to because they all think that I'm a moron.

No, I love it.

I love it.

That's awesome.

Yeah, it makes total sense. Their goaltending is a pile of dog crap last year. Everyone that played goal beyond Dan Vladar, pile of dog crap this year. If it's not for him, they don't make the playoffs. But point being is that he got injured in the third period of Game 3 against the Penguins, and so they've given him a couple, couple maintenance days now in practice ahead of Saturday's Game 4. So if this guy's not 100% or if he doesn't play, um, it could be the door creaking open for the Penguins to at least, uh, maybe make this thing interesting, because otherwise they've just been outmatched. It's like the Flyers were created in a lab to beat the Penguins. They just do everything that the Penguins are bad at, to whether it's being fast or, you know, physical or annoying them. The Flyers seem like they're really built to beat this team. But if the goaltending isn't there for them, this could be different, a different series.

So that leads into my next question. Who's been more disappointing in your eyes, Ottawa or Pittsburgh?

Oh man, that's a good question. I would say Pittsburgh, to be honest with you. Like, I thought the Flyers would win the series. I got them and I picked them in 6. Um, but 6 ain't 4, you know. It's like the idea that they, they haven't been able to take care of the Flyers in any of these games is, is a real shock. Um, you know, and, and I think that's sort of me underestimating how good the Flyers were going to be in this series, um, not only with the depth of their offense now that Porter Martone, the big NCAA star that joined their team, has made a difference. Like, they've got at least 3 good decent scoring lines now on top of the goaltending. And then, like I said, just their propensity for being able to, you know, goon it up against the Penguins, who aren't a team that plays that kind of game, and relying on the Travis Connecties of the world to just piss off the opposition to the point where his face gets mushed into the ice by Brian Rust and the, uh, the Penguins end up shorthanded because of it.

Um, in Ottawa's case, like, listen, man, you guys know I'm a Devils fan. I've seen my share of Carolina Hurricanes playoff series. This is what they do. They bore you to tears. They don't allow you to do anything offensively when they're on their game. They're extremely tough to beat. And, you know, Ottawa was kind of almost like a glamor pick coming into the playoffs because there was a lot of people that liked their underlying numbers and they were like, you know, if Linus Ullmark plays well, they could maybe win the series. Well, he has played well and they're not winning the series because Carolina is just doing what the Hurricanes do.

The other 3-0 series is Avalanche-Kings, and scores aside, It still hasn't been really a close series. I mean, the Avalanche has been— they have been better than the Kings. So I expected— I expected—

no, Kings have been better than I thought they were going to be.

Yeah. So I didn't expect it to be that close, but still, there's a good chance that this series might be over.

When you say that they've been better than you thought they were going to be, is that because of their competition or like the way that you thought that the Kings would play?

Oh yeah. Are you saying the Avalanche are playing down to the Kings?

I think it's The thing— the Kings are playing really solid defensively, the way that they're limiting Colorado's chances more than I thought they would. I didn't think that the first 2 games of the series would have 3 goals scored in each of them. So in that way, I've been surprised. The way the series has played out and it's 3-0 Colorado doesn't surprise me. I just thought the Kings would look worse.

Yeah, I— they're kind of doing what I thought they'd do. Like, they're just a good, stout defensive team. They've always been that way. You know, I think it's a good first opening challenge for this Colorado team that everybody expects is going to maybe challenge for the Cup this year to have to sort of fight through that. But they're just not like a threat, you know? It's like, it's like when you, when you used to play Princeton in the NCAA tournament, like, you know, the scores are going to be low. You know, they ain't going to be trying to play up like the Globetrotters or something. They're just going to play solid fundamental basketball and the scores are going to be low. And that's kind of how I felt about this series. But we just got to, we just got to kind of like stop letting them in, I think, until they can figure this thing out. Like, the Kings are now going to have lost in the first round. In 5 consecutive playoffs. They haven't won in the first round, I believe, since they won the Cup for the second time. And so, you know, maybe, maybe we give them a break until they can kind of reload and be more of a serious contender, because as of right now, they're kind of just like hockey's most preeminent first-round bye.

Before we move on from the 3-0 series, I did want to ask you, we didn't mention—

Sirai, thank you.

We didn't mention like the X factor from the from the Ottawa-Carolina series, and that's Kyle Ivan, uh, the Senators fan who's been shipped across the globe to Taiwan, uh, which apparently didn't make a difference anyway. But I just wanted to get your take on his musical prowess and whether you think Ottawa did the right thing by shipping him to Japan, or whether maybe they should have kept him closer to home.

I just think it's kind of amazing when you think about how many terrible playoff anthems we've heard through the years, mostly through morning zoo radio shows. You know, the amount of money that, uh, teams could have spent on travel to make the authors of those songs disappear is kind of staggering. Um, again, the Carolina Hurricanes are one of our greatest, um, official Twitter feed comedians. This has gone back for many years. And, uh, putting out last night after winning Game 3 that they should have sent them to the moon was really, really kind of fantastic.

Yeah.

I thought it was Bush League.

I thought—

no, I didn't think it was Bush League at all. I, I, I, I— listen, the, the Senators were asking for it, right? And, and I think the Carolina Hurricanes are more than happy to deliver. Um, but, uh, but yeah, it's—

well, who thought it was okay for him to use another team's goal song as this year's playoff anthem? Like that, right? I couldn't get past that.

You know, I, I think in the grand scheme of things, Brady Tkachuk not having a point in the series might be the bigger reason they're in the pickle that they're in. But, you know, I guess, I guess we can, we can also chalk it up to some sort of karmic clapback for the musical prowess or lack thereof of one annoying fan.

Wish you brought up Brady Kachuck.

You just said Greg there too.

I stumbled over. Wish I wanted to ask you, Brady Kachuck is a perfect segue for something I wanted to ask you about, which is I saw you on Merrick's show recently talking about the Devils, your team, the Devils. And, uh, and how you kind of think they need like a Matthew Kachuk trade type switch in identity, right? Like, they're—

they're—

this core has not worked. They've missed the playoffs the last 2 years when they should— they have no reason to have missed the playoffs except for injuries maybe last season. Um, is Brady Kachuk that guy? Who would be that guy that you would say like, let's go get this person to kind of change the identity of this team?

Injuries and also like their, their Jacob Markstrom was an absolute sieve for about 4 months. And good thing that they, they signed him to a new contract before the season started. Yeah, no, I think Sonny Maida, who's their new general manager, and again, like, I still can't wrap my brain around the fact that there is now a guy who is the general manager of the Devils who— it could have been me, basically. Like, he— we're around the same age, like, We both attended Stanley Cup wins. You know, we both had Devils starter jackets. Outside of Kyle Dubas, there's the best chance that this is the first general manager I've argued with on a message board and not known who each other was. Like, it's possible. But, you know, I think he knows from his time in Florida that the core of the team needs to change for this team to succeed. You know, the Jonathan Huberdeau-Mackenzie Weger deal for Matthew Tkachuk, I think predated him in Florida. But whether the timing is there or not, I mean, he knows what kind of transformative effect that trade had, where you trade a guy in Huberto who plays a style that you don't believe will ultimately lead to you winning in this league for a guy in Kachuk who does.

And, you know, he joined a team that they kind of adopted his attitude. There were already some good pieces in place. I'm just interested to see what his level of boldness is going to be in trying to acquire players that maybe have more of a, of a physicality to them, more of a playoff DNA to them to kind of augment the Jack Hughes and the Jesper Bratz and, and, and also whether that ends up being Nico Hischer. I don't— I think he's got a good relationship with Nico. Nico's at UFA next summer and there's some speculation that he might not want to be there anymore. But, um, he's gonna have to do something to this core to kind of augment it. Maybe they go spend a bunch of money for Alex Tuch, I don't know. But you got, you got to get a few more guys in there that are of the, uh, the Matthew Kachuk, uh, ilk than, than what they've got currently.

Sonny was actually one of Bill Zito's first hires, Greg. I just looked it up there, 2020. So right after Zito got hired, so he pre—

he predated the, the Kachuk trade. Yeah, well, there you go. I mean, um, but, but again, like, he was there to watch them make all of these calls for players that and when I say physicality, like, part of that's also just being a son of a bitch, right? Like, you need more of those guys on the roster, and you need more of those guys to be in the core of your roster. Like, you can go out and farm a bunch of, you know, 33-year-olds that are going to be free agents that'll play that style of hockey. Like, there's always going to be a Nick Cousins available to you, but like, what you need is for the core of your team to kind of embody that, and that's going to take some digging into the players that are currently there and flipping them for, for different guys.

Right. You're talking like Matthew Tkachuk, like Sam Bennett, like the guys that like they'll put up the numbers, they'll do everything that you would expect like a quote unquote star player to do. But they're just as prone to getting into the dirty areas and doing all those things that players hate to play. Yeah.

And that's, and that's the Panthers secret of going to the Cup Final 3 straight years and winning twice is while other teams are constantly looking for that type of player to add to their core, or add to their roster, the heart of the Florida roster is that. I mean, even like Barkov's not Bennett and he's not like Kachuk, but he certainly plays with a level of physicality that you're not getting out of like Nico Hischer, right? So like the secret to the Panthers' success was always that they never had to go looking for the thing that other teams had to try to like graft onto what was already there because the core of the team was that. And that's just like, there's nobody else in hockey that has that.

You mentioned guys who are sons of bitches, uh, in the Canadiens-Lightning series. Like in many of the other series in these, uh, playoffs, these year playoffs, uh, there are— there were hijinks, okay? Uh, playing games, uh, had full penalty boxes. And Game 2 of Montreal-Tampa was— it's one of them. Uh, Corey Perry, and aforementioned, uh, it was in the penalty box. He was wasting oxygen. Trying to yell at the other penalty box, which is full of Canadians actively ignoring him. Literally actively ignoring them. I mean, if we had a video, we would play it there. Uh, but, uh, yeah, the series now switches to Montreal. Where do you see this one going?

First off, I just assume it's because he wasn't speaking French. Like, yeah, yeah, wasting your breath against Montreal. But, uh, tell him, no, man, like But like, first of all, Brandon Hagel, who you see there, is, you know, every, every Panthers fan knows this guy by now. And many Americans know this guy, dude. Yeah, but he's awesome for that. Like, he's awesome. He scores goals. He's, he's kind of the, he's kind of the Salieri to Matthew Tkachuk's Amadeus, you know, like reference, you know, he's, he's not, he's never really climbed the mountain in the same way that Matthew Tkachuk has, but there's a similarity in style. The Lightning are an interesting team. Like, I had them going to the Cup—

the—

I'm sorry, the Conference Final. There have been times in the first two games when I felt confident about that pick, and there have been times when I'm like, oh, they are one of those old guard teams that's about to get passed by by the young bucks on Montreal. And, you know, they came through with a win in Game 2 that they had to have, which was kind of like, okay, we're still here. It might still be okay. But like, the Victor Hedman situation is bizarre, and no one knows when he's coming back. They are missing some other bodies. I think overall, a lot of these guys are still banged up from, you know, when they didn't end up playing in the Olympics because of injury— guys like, you know, the Cirelli, for example. So we'll see where it all ends up. But, you know, this series is definitely entertaining, and the bile levels have risen in the first two games pretty significantly.

You mentioned the conference final. That's actually where I have the Sabers going. They are my dark horse in these playoffs. And if they are to get there, they're going to have to get through either the Canadiens or the Lightning. They won last night. They have a 2-1 lead over Boston. Where do you see that series going?

That was a really important win. Like, because Game 1 was this like shot of adrenaline to their heart. You know, when they rally in the third period and the arena explodes and you got people outside in 30-degree weather doffing their tops and the snow is falling and it's just like Yes, this is exactly what we've been waiting for, uh, for Buffalo to get back in the playoffs, minus maybe a flaming table. And then, and, and then they blow it. Like, then, then, you know, Ukkapekka Lukkonen has a just a terrible Game 2. They don't know how to handle the adversity of their goaltending failing them, so they make the big change to Alex Lyon. He plays great, uh, and then, you know, they, they managed to kind of like grit out a victory in Boston in Game 3. Big proof of concept win, uh, for the Sabers. And so I assume that's going to make them okay. You know, like there was certainly a bit of danger if Boston could have ended up winning that game and they did have the lead in that game for a while. But, you know, we'll see where it all goes.

I think, I think, you know, much like how Buffalo kind of found themselves during the regular season, this is an ongoing education for a young team on how to like manage your emotions and understand what the journey is like in the playoffs. And I thought Game 3 was a really positive sign that they're on their way to doing that.

Now, in referencing what Roy was asking you about earlier with the, the penalty— full penalty boxes in the Tampa-Montréal series, I wanted to ask you about another full penalty box situation that I think you were in person for. Were you at the Flyers?

I was, yeah.

Oh, this was so good. This was so good.

So your thoughts then when you see Trevor Zidane score, the arena explode, and he goes immediately to the penalty boxes, not to the bench to celebrate, to the penalty boxes where they did it right in front of the box full of Penguins players. I thought that was the best Philly thing I'd seen in a long time. You were there. What was it like?

It was incredible. I mean, first of all, it was probably the longest delay I can remember for like matching minors outside of like one extra penalty. Like it took like 20 minutes, it felt like. And I know why the Penguins were upset because it really kind of screwed with the momentum in the game. But yeah, 5 Flyers in the penalty box. Zegers scores in the power play. And then, you know, in this, this clown car situation in the Sinbin, these guys all kind of like make a little circle together and start like jumping around and being happy and stuff. And then Zgris comes, skates over and, and like bangs on the glass with his glove after he scores. And he said after the game, he knew that if he scored, he was going right to the penalty box to kind of celebrate with the guys that were stuck in there and couldn't celebrate otherwise. But, you know, it, it, it, it was the— it was, by the way, it was 8 years to the day since the last Philly home playoff game. A lot of people probably don't know this. Gritty had never appeared in a Flyers home playoff game before.

Yeah, that's right.

Because of the pandemic and because of them just like sucking for 8 years. So, you know, the vibe the entire night was the celebration of Flyers hockey being back, the way they beat up the Penguins, the penalties, all that stuff. But also the moment— and I'm sure you guys saw it— where Gritty pretended to beat up a Penguins mascot and then did that, did that thing that you do on SNL where you, you know, throw somebody off set and then bring back a dummy dressed like them so you can like really beat them up. So he takes this dummy dressed like a Penguins mascot, throws it off the balcony of the second level of the arena into the stands below. And then the fans in the lower bowl start passing this lifeless penguin around like it's an American flag at a Boston Bruins Bruins game. And, uh, and while whenever anybody gets their hands on this thing, they just start punching it in the face until the ushers took it away. And I'm like, this is Philly, man. Just like Buffalo, we've waited so long to see this, to see this back in our lives and in the playoffs.

And it was just— it brought a tear to my eye.

There have been some great mascot and fan moments in these playoffs. Obviously the fans outside of the Buffalo game skating around beating the crap out of a Boston Bruins dummy. There was also Sabertooth. I don't know if you guys saw this, but at one random point in the Sabers' first game, just kind of like bombed down a row of stairs and crashed into the boards. It was so great. But I love teams that like that when a city has an identity and those teams live up to the identity and the Flyers haven't been in the playoffs, like you said, which for 8 years and it's a completely different roster and yet they still embody that like Broad Street bully thing like they have. That badass thing to them. And I think it's a huge reason why they're up 3-0 right now.

It's easily the biggest reason. I mean, like outside of the goaltending and like I mentioned, that Porter Martone kid who came up from the NCAA, like, I mean, not only is he being effective offensively, but he's like sticking his tongue at the Penguins bench and stuff too. Like he's adopted all of, all of the mannerisms that he's, you know, someone's shared the ancient scrolls with him written by Bobby Clarke. To understand what it's like to be a Flyer. And, and it's great to see. My favorite thing in that, by the way, you mentioned that Bruins dummy in Buffalo, like, you know, we didn't get flaming tables, but we did get a series of Sabers fans delivering RKOs on the, on the, on the Bruins dummy, which is like, that's a good, that's a good, that's a good consolation prize that we didn't get flaming tables yet.

Buffalo fans are crazy. Like Roy and I are gonna be going up for the draft in a couple months and I'm curious, like they get so amped up for everything they do in Buffalo. Are they going to be breaking tables before the draft? Like, is it?

Yes. Yes. Because they're going to be drunk. They're always drunk. So if they're drunk, they're going to be breaking tables.

And, and that's what makes me so sad that they've decentralized the draft is like, imagine how many tables are there usually at the draft. Like, there's so many tables you could light on fire and break. And now that it's decentralized, like, no one's got tables there.

That would have been a great bit. Like, when the draft is over, you get a fan that just, oh, here's our lucky table breaker. You go to the Senators table, you go to the Carolina table, and everybody gets to break a table. That'd be such a great—

everybody flip, flip to page 22 in your program. If there's an Alex Tuch autograph, you get to be the table breaker at the draft, right?

Yeah. Finally, all of the city of Edmonton and maybe all of Western Canada except for the city of Calgary held their collective breath when Connor McDavid went to the locker room in Game 2. But he came back out and everybody breathed a sigh of relief. I'm sure Calgary cursed themselves, even though they're not in the playoffs. The Oilers are tied with the Ducks right now at 1-1. How do you feel about this series right here?

You know, you asked me a question before we hopped on, like, what's got me fired up? And I'm like, nothing really, because it's still early in the playoffs and whatever. But like, you just mentioned something that really does have me fired up, which is and it has nothing to do with the playoffs, so I'm going to share it anyway, which is that I find it to be abhorrent that the National Hockey League retired Wayne Gretzky's 99 across the league, which means the Calgary Flames had to retire Wayne Gretzky's number.

What are we—

what are we doing? Like, can you imagine if, if the NBA retired Larry Bird's number and the Knicks had to never give out Larry Bird's number? Like, what are we doing? Anyways, so McDavid and the Oilers are in an interesting spot because he's clearly not himself. Like, he went— he didn't score a point in the first two games against the Ducks, which is amazing because the Ducks don't play defense. Um, and then he didn't have a point in the last game against the Panthers either. And so McDavid in a playoff season has never gone three straight games without a point, so you assume he's going to be all right. Um, and, uh, you know, and again, playing against the Ducks who have given up four goals to the Oilers in each of the first two games, you figure he's going to be all right. But I don't know, there's just something a little bit off about this Edmonton team. You know, Draisaitl came back from injury. Who knows if he's 100%. They've gotten decent goaltending out of Connor Ingram, the latest, you know, solution to their goaltending problems. And in theory, they should beat the Ducks because, again, the Ducks, I don't think, are ready to be a contender.

But it's 1-1 going back to Anaheim. And I'll say this, like, as much as I think that McDavid's lack of production is probably because he's not 100%. The Ducks have hit on one thing, which is the combination of Jackson Lacombe and Jacob Trouba have been on the ice with McDavid more than any other defensive pairing. And the Ducks have actually had, I think, a better puck possession percentage with them on the ice against McDavid than the Oilers have, which is, you know, pretty significant. So I think the oil— the oil are fine. But, but McDavid's lack of being McDavid is kind of a concern right now.

All right.

So that's the first round so far in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Greg Rosinski, senior NHL writer for ESPN, thank you for joining us.

It's always my pleasure to join you and, and talk, talk hockey.

Yes.

And other stuff.

And other stuff.

All right.

So that's the end of this hockey show for this week. The first round of the playoffs is still ongoing. We are in the middle of it. And we took a look at it with Greg Rosinski. That was a great interview. So we appreciate him joining joining us. So, uh, any last words, fellas?

Uh, hope I win putt-putt tonight.

It would be great if I win and I just get to keep doing putt-putt. I would have a lot of fun with that. No, I'm not gonna lie to you.

No, I think you'd have more fun just making fun of me than actually doing it.

Yeah.

Yeah, it was really funny. Like, I don't think we've really talked about it. It was really funny that you had not hit yet and I did it one time because you weren't here and I threw a 4-leg, like flyer at the window and it hit. Like, that was, that was perfect hockey show comedy in my opinion.

That's, that's how things work apparently. That's how, that's life.

Which game are we most excited for tonight, boys? I'm really juiced up about Montreal-Tampa. I have loved this series so far.

I think so too. I feel like my oldness gets the better of me because I want to say Edmonton-Angeles because those games are fun and there's a lot of goal scoring, but I see a 10 o'clock start time. I'm like, yeah, will I be awake for the third period?

It's a Saturday. It's Friday going into Saturday, man. I'll finally be able to watch the game tonight. Yeah. Now.

Uh, this is always tired. The first playoff game in Utah tonight.

So, uh, yeah, very exciting stuff.

That should be— that should be good.

Damn it, the Zamath.

The Zamath.

You did it.

You got it. You nailed it.

I almost said Manzamboni or something again. I'm like, stop myself.

Congratulations, Dave.

Yes.

All right, for Gino and Jason, um, for Dave and Ethan, and we miss you, Rosie, my name is Roy Bellamy. We will talk to you next week, and hopefully, hopefully, maybe Probably not. Start of round 2.

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