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Speaking of Leafs bullshit, I missed the game on Saturday, so did you, but apparently the Leafs blew a 3-0 lead. We did, I was out at an expensive dinner in wine country and me and my friend were hand signaling the whole dinner and we had just, when it got right to the end, it got very solemn for both of us. Reminds me of you and I on set while we're rolling just... Let's go, let's do it. Hehehe That's exactly what it was. Yeah, yeah. Game was over, like, two double whiskies over here, please.
I was I was in Toronto actually at a show that a friend of ours was in and It was three nothing while I was in line or maybe for one or something and then I Went in finished the show was like 90 minutes and they were doing a Q&A period after so a couple people were you know?
checking their phones during the little in between and Like I heard a couple people mention the same thing and I went they lost in a shootout I'm gonna see someone go right what the fuck Yeah, that's not even like the gist of it. 90 seconds left, they were up by two goals. So they went in with 90 seconds left and then with six seconds left. And then they lost in the shootout. Yeah, I saw the... But the only replay I saw was that Carolina pulled the goalie and scored right at the end.
I wanted nothing to do with that game, I was having a great weekend, and yeah, I did eat that on my conscience. It's funny, I didn't actually see the replay of the goal. I saw the replay of the bench, because what was going around was the reaction from the Hurricanes bench when they scored. They were all, ah, and then... Yeah, I had to watch it back a second time, because the first time I was watching Carolina, because I didn't know what was going on, because I didn't see the game.
The second time I'm like, I want to see how the Leafs reacted, and it's just a bunch of heads just... Jesus Christ. Ugh, at least you're angry. But then... like two teams, like Carolina and not someone like Buffalo or fucking Ottawa. Yeah, I mean, Carolina, we've all been kind of scared. They loaded up and they're looking dangerous.
I mean, Jay. day and they came to Ottawa and they were tied like 2-2 going into the third and then they just pumped five goals into Ottawa and just kicked the shit out of them. So that seems to be their little back pocket plays. In the third, just let go. I mean, adding Gensel and Khrushnetsov, like, oh, get out of here. Such an annoying team. Yeah. But alas, moving on, the Flyers get a rematch against the Leafs. Another one in Philly. I don't understand the scheduling, but whatever.
Not a great puck luck game for the Leafs. As one goes in, right off the start of the game and then right off the start of the second. It's like, it's just, when you know it's a game of momentum, how do you recover from those, man? I mean, you have to, but. first minute of the period or the last minute of the period, that's always really tough to swallow. It's huge for the team who can do it. But Flyers are playing for their lives right now. They bench their captain in that game.
So, you know, like players got a message. It's do or die type of thing. They had to come out and they really answered the bell. And to your point, the Leafs hit what, five or six posts? Full disclosure, I really didn't see too much of this game, but it sounds like the Flyers did what they had to do. There were a lot of posts on both sides. I think it ended up being like six to four or something for both teams. Like I've never seen, it was insane. Like they were just running the count up.
Like I've never seen this many posts hit. And there was another one that just like literally stopped on the line after a post and nobody could find it. Like, oh, it was brutal. But. like just like off the side of the post. Like when Nylander was in, like he had an open net, he just clearly hit the post dead on, on his backhand. Matthew's hit the post just clean dead on too.
It wasn't like, you know, sometimes he hit the post on the side and it'll go off, but these were like very, very good chances. Oh yeah, it was like beat the goalie and the post saved the day. Like a couple inches in and yeah. Oh man, but there was a lot of talk around the benching of the Capitano of the Flyers there, back to back games now towards his benched couturier.
And some players have spoken out saying that, you know, it's old dinosaur shit to bench your coach, like, or your captain like this. But to a lot of people's response and credit, uh, Torrance is doing what he does and squeezing victories out of nothing, and this team should be nowhere near the playoffs. So look, actually came out this. He's like, he was calling Torz out about this, but this is what Torz does. These guys are in the middle, in like the heat dead of a playoff race right now.
And they bench their captain two games in a row. Worked once, didn't work the other time, but that's what he's gonna do. And if you're not playing the way he wants you to play, everyone's up for it. Like he doesn't play favorites. Well, and especially when you've got kind of an older and younger guard with the team, and it's putting the pressure on to show that like, look, there's guys that are coming for your job. Don't make them, don't make them give me a reason to give it to them earlier.
Like, don't play yourself out of your own job. Like, I'm reminding you that there's people waiting for this.
I can kind of get behind it maybe like for one game but for two in a row that's a tough sell to everybody in the room as well like I'd rather you pull them aside and practice and be like hey man I'm gonna play you 20 minutes no matter what the fuck happens here you're my guy I'm gonna run with you and maybe that's more of like a motivator than actually pulling the guy for two games one I can understand but two that's tough Yeah, I can see that.
Like, too, you get into the space of sending a message to the rest of the team that it doesn't really matter. What? Are you seeing this thumbs down thing? thumbs down me? I didn't do that. I don't know how this is happening. There's a reaction thing on that's with the new Apple update. down my take? No, I don't know how I'm doing these. If it's like a, yeah. Can I make it do a thumbs up? I don't know, dude. like that.
I don't know, if it's listening to me and doing it off that, that's fucking scary. This is so scary. Anyway, what I was saying is, like you could figure that out. The message you send is that it doesn't matter who you are, no one's job is safe, and if you play off for one night, you're going to be... It doesn't matter, right? Like you can't win any favor. What you did two weeks ago doesn't matter. What you did last night's the only thing that matters. And, you know, I can see both sides of that.
It's not a great message to send to your young guys though. No, it's really not. And it's not a great message to send to your vets either too. Like if you have one bad game, like, am I going to be sad for this all of a sudden? Like that's going to weigh on me for the next game. Like I said, one game, I get it. You're sending the message to your team, but two games, especially for your captain. Like that's just a bit excessive. So how you said they lost? How did the game, the next game turn out?
Okay, well over time against the hurricanes. So, I mean, still like they're clawing at this spot. Just pull up. right on the cusp. Standings real quick. Where are they at? I was looking at this earlier and I can't remember wildcard philly is currently Their philly is currently third in the metropolitan Oh. They are a point up on Detroit and they have both played 70 games. So that point they got. they're in seventh right now.
That point they got from that game against the Hurricanes put them out of wild card and into third place in the Metro. So that was actually important for them. So, I mean, yeah, it's not a win, but the torts is still like, you got to give them a bit of credit. What if you pull Sean back in the lineup and like he has a mediocre game? What would you do after that? Like, it's, you know, it just opens a lot of what-ifs.
I mean, I think at a certain point management steps in and is like, look, you can't just not play your captain. If there's a problem, we can talk about it, but. I feel like he's scared to death of Tortorello. Hahaha I mean somebody's gotta say something, but I don't know what we'll have to see who do they play What are the fires play next? they got 79 points. So they're one point between Washington, Detroit. That's a pretty good race. That's a nice race.
Bro, their next three games are Boston, Florida, and the Rangers. That sucks. Shouse, you're playing Katori for those for sure. They do have, okay, so here's the thing. The rest of their season, Montreal, Chicago, Islanders, Sabres, Blue Jackets, Montreal, Rangers, New Jersey, Washington. So I would say they've got about a 50-50, if not maybe 60-40 split of like bad teams to good teams. So they have a shot, man, of holding onto this. And look, I would be interested to see.
here's an interesting thing. Little lightning, their schedule going forward is not... Actually it is pretty easy, I lied. Well, they got the kings, they got the ducks, but they got the Bruins and Islanders as well too. Oh, they've got a pretty easy schedule though. Sends, sabers, blue jackets. not make it. Ah, yeah, it's, it's- three points and like four points on Detroit, so that's quite a bit. Game in hand, maybe, I'm just talking out my ass actually.
and see, it's crazy when I look at the standings and see where Tampa and Vegas are, because I just kind of assume without watching every day that they're doing okay, but every time I see that they're in a wild card spot, I'm like, oh, oh. like, cause you like, you immediately fall back to like Vasilevsky's, the best goaltender in the world. Kuch is having a heart type season. But yeah, they're, yeah, they're three points out of a wild card right now.
Vaslavsky's been mediocre this year and I've had him in fantasy. Yeah, average, not mediocre. Mediocre for his standards though. They're an old team though, they're an old tired team. they are. Like the Washington Capitals, but my God, there's still a couple little fucking shots left in the tank there. Look at Ovechkin. He looked like for the first 60% of this year, he looked old, weathered, and then he's come alive since then. Yeah, it was funny.
I see him standing in his spot, you know, like he always does. And it's like, it's 2024, it's March. Are we? like 17 years. 10 seconds goes by, I'm like, is this actually gonna happen? Pass it to him, clean, it's fucking in. I'm like, what? How? How do we keep letting him get away with it? It's unbelievable. And like to his credit, the one he blasted by wall, it just went right over his shoulder.
Like he tried to lift his shoulder up, but like his accuracy, it's not like even the hardest one time ever. It's pretty hard. But this is the way he puts it in. He does a full breath hall. It goes down on one knee. It's incredible. Incredible. It's honestly, I mean, to make it about the Leafs, it's what Matthews has been trying to pick up this season. He's been taking notes and that's the shot. He's been picking up that spot finally.
Speaking of the Caps and Hurricanes though, did you see the score today? Caps just beat them 7-6 in a shootout. Oh, I saw it was 6-5 with like a couple minutes left in the third. The cast won? Caps 176, shootout. because of this fucking podcast, I have not been able to check on my parlay's For which I've got a great deal of them going right now Cool buddy. Sebastian Ajo and Sonny Milano on each side with a hat-trick, by the way. March Madness, buddy.
I'm gonna have to start to go find me pretty soon. It's been a rough two days. and if all goes south, you just blame your interpreter. Would you like to be my interpreter? I will toss you a small amount. you don't speak French we can go to some QMJHL games Oh, yes, that's it.
Man the reason I was pulling up the caps though real quick is Connor McMichael who I have never heard of and is all of a sudden surging on this team and Look, we've been talking about the Penguins and Capitals as being teams that don't prepare for the future and have just had to ride Out what they've got because you cry Yeah, so I have always just kind of operated on not paying attention to any of the where's this thumbs up coming from This is crazy, man
I've just not paid attention to any prospects on the Washington Capitals, but my god, he's 23, but Connor McMichael This guy last season was with The Caps and had nine goals in 68 games 18 points this year 16 goals 14 assists 30 points Nice, what a jump up. Dude was with the Hershey Bears, like, for most of last year. He only played six, sorry, last year, he only played six games with the Caps. It was two years ago he had 18 points.
It's funny, because if you're to look at both lineups of Tui in the caps and the pens, I would probably take the pens just on paper. But the way the caps have been playing, infinitely better than the penguins. Yeah, it's pretty impressive. I mean, yeah, to talk about the Leaf game, they kind of ran away with that one in the third period. But, uh... kicked the shit out of that game. Like, the caps were on a huge road swing before that. I think this was the first home game in like...
It was a lot of games anyways. So maybe they, I don't know if they had the home nerds or whatever, but the Leafs just beat the shit out of them. Yeah, and I mean Lindgren's been good this season and they made him look baaaaaad. Holy. Yeah, they had no like... they were not pulling that guy no matter if they scored 10 goals. Not many of them were his fault. Matthews gets the deuce. We had a hat trick for a split second, but. deuce.
His first goal is important, I think, because of what happened against the Flyers. They reversed the roles there, right? He scored in the first 15 seconds, which was what happened the previous game against the Leafs. You're right, thank you, I missed that. Perfect. Flipping the script, of course. What I was gonna say was that fuckin' Bertuzzi on his... like, doing Pilates on the ice there. was on... There was a shot of Matthews on the bench and he was like looking up at the jumbotron.
He's like, for fuck's sake, it's like... Take a stride or something like... He was so pissed. Without being super pissed. That's just- Yeah, exactly. That's just a- Dude. Pay attention. All you had to do was pay attention. You would've seen the Domi and Matthews have to slow up. Just take- Everyone said it! Just like, just ride the line for a sec! Just slow up a sec! Like- hockey player knows that, but like you can't really get mad at Pertuzzi, just the way he's been playing lately.
It's the one little fault in his game. Yeah, yeah. Super sick too, apparently he's not playing tomorrow, so. Yeah, this whole like every day I get an update. I have him and Marner in two different leagues and I get updates first shift until like 10 minutes into the game. Yeah, and they had an ice time tracker going and it was at like three minutes, halfway through the second period. Like he was really just getting out there and then hopping back on the bench.
So the fact that he was even on for two of those goals, it's like, good for him. Actually, I- you're saying about Matthews, though. No, I was just, I wanna now bring up Leaf's Ice Time from that game. Because I wanna see what Pertuzzi ended up actually playing. like, he was just like, he wasn't himself. He wasn't like as chippy in the quarters. He was between shifts. You could tell he was stretching out a lot. Like he would, something was going on with him for sure.
Which begs the question, like, why are you playing it right now? We're fairly locked in the third. Just give him a fucking rest. You could have rested until Saturday. Yeah. Well, from the sound of it, it seems like for the last couple, I'd say like three, four weeks, like everybody's just been playing at 80 percent at the most. Like it's whoever isn't throwing up is on the ice. Whoever can get out of bed is on the ice.
So it seems like if they could give any of these guys a break, there's nobody to tap in. Fair enough. I mean, obviously I'm just pulling from what we've been led to believe, but... Where is this? Why am I... Here, capitals. They changed... and stuff too, so yeah. Speaking of Gregor, missing a couple teeth now. Oh yeah. a dummy play by Wills. He was super heated earlier in the game. You can tell he was just starting to boil over. And then that play happened and he just snapped for a second.
Let his stick go. Took out a couple inches of Gregor's teeth. And as soon as it happened, give him a nice hug from behind. He's like, I'm sorry, buddy. I had a mental lapse. I blacked out. And apparently Gregor said he's lost those teeth already, so he doesn't feel anything. He's like they're dead anyway. Don't worry like oh Buddy that sucks even more sport? So Bertuzzi clocked in at 14 minutes 19 seconds. So only more than like Homburg and Robertson.
How does Robertson come out with like less minutes? Whatever Because they don't play them. They just, they don't play them. For better or worse, some games, like they still play them. But yeah, I loved all the memes that came out of like, you know, Pertuzzi being the older sibling, that's like, no, don't tell mom, shh, quiet, don't cry, don't cry, don't cry. Just immediate regret, like punched his little brother and then was like, oh fuck, I heard him. I didn't mean to do that.
Like he's, it's Tom Wilson, we know what he's capable of, but that was, like, I've never seen a more, He just he just lost it for a second. And that's his nature is to be a piece of shit. So he let his arm go. And once it hit his teeth, he's like, oh, fuck. Like, I honestly didn't mean to do that. And six games, he's going to sit for a long time for that, man. That's no joke. It's the most dangerous, careless, stupid, like accidental play of scene.
Like just somebody who is showing that they have no regard for the stick they're holding and their body and their strength and just like, ugh. Yeah, just somebody who, when they get mad, they'll just like flip a table, just like, ugh. someone like hit like a shin pads or even an ankle or something, but to go right for the mouth, that's... Yeah, and it's like he saw blood and just kind of threw his arm. My God. Oh. oh, what have I done?
So I think if anyone else had done that, considering like Gregor didn't go down, there was no real injury, I would say one to three games maybe. But since he has such a track record, like six games actually seems appropriate for him. And like, and let's not kid ourselves right now. Six games is extremely important to the Cavs right now. They are in a vicious fight for a playoff spot. Yeah, I mean, when you only have 12 games left, that's literally half the rest of the season, so.
He's a hugely important player for them. Where are the caps sitting? I should just keep the standings open. They're right in there. Gotta go wild card caps are Yeah, 77 78 and then 79 for the flyers shit by else they've got 13 both of them. Fuck. Yeah, this is tweet. that's like that's a that's a big sussy man. That's a that's half the games they have left almost Yep. And it's, oh man.
Can you imagine being the Bruins and literally not knowing who you're gonna play in the playoffs until like the last game? How interesting would that be? I mean, I feel like this is how it used to always be, but yeah. Yeah, now we're, we know we're playing the Panthers, I think, at this point. We've known for quite a while outside of Zemmler, Boston, depending if we go out on a massive heater or something.
Yeah, because it's seven points between Florida and Toronto and seven points between Toronto and Oh, Tampa just won. So it's five points between Toronto and Tampa. Yeah, let's keep them behind us. Yeah, still have a game in hand on them too. to. So the leaves. think. Oh, one, sorry. Yeah, like I thought the same, but I think their game just ended, so everything updated. So we got Oilers, Hurricanes, Devils, Capitals again, fucking Panthers. It's a hard schedule for the rest of the year.
Like I'm kind of glad that it's not a coasty coast, like because it seems like there's no way that the Leafs can lose their playoff spot, I guess. I'd rather them be ready, but. Oilers, hurricanes, devils, capitals, sabers. I mean, Oilers, Hurricanes, they're locked in playoffs, they're not playing for their lives. Devils, I think they're out of it, so they might not be either. Capitals will be a very tough game. Anytime you play the Sabres, they're fucking so annoying to play against.
You've got two games against Tampa, two games against Florida, one against Detroit. The two games against Florida is very interesting because especially if you're going to run into them in the first round, like you're very like, you're very familiar with each other at this point. Yeah, and I know there's a lot of benching of players at that point, but there's still gonna be messages sent, right, you're still gonna be starting fights that are going to be followed up on in two weeks, right?
Like, even if it's just a bunch of third and fourth line guys out there. Yeah, easy. They're not gonna bench everybody. Yeah. Yeah, they're going to play a nasty game for sure. Those games are going to be like, yeah, they're going to be messy. I totally forgot, speaking of sending messages, Wayne Simmons retired officially. Yeah, I think it was just yesterday or the day before. He will not be signing for the playoffs. Uh, four days ago. Yeah. So I think he signed with the Flyers for the day.
Yeah. hear that. That was my favorite scene when he was with the suppliers. So I guess it was right before the game against the Leafs then. Cool, he was on the panel at TSN I think, I was watching one game not too long ago. Nice. Yeah, I mean, look, I'm- deadline actually. Something like that anyways. How old's this guy? 35? Yeah. You know what? Take your money. Go. yeah for sure man. Good career. Yeah, kudos. I wanna talk some proposed rules. Let's do it.
So I've got both from nhl.com and from Elliot Friedman's tweet thread here. So I'm gonna go through Friedman's tweets because they're a little more, they explain things better, I'll say. The wording is for people instead of lawyers. Okay, I'm going to let you talk for one minute. I got to check some quick scores. Okay, so first up we've got 63.A4. Adding goalie to the list of players who can get a penalty for intentionally dislodging the net. I feel like this one is gonna be unanimous.
I thought this would already be a penalty. Hasn't already been a penalty for a delay game in very obvious cases? Yeah, there's because we've seen there was that goalie who threw the net off. Oh, they I think it was like an automatic penalty shot or something. If you throw it off. But yeah, if you're if you're pulling a Matt Murray, like he used to do where he'd kick the net off. I think they're going to start getting called for that. So that's interesting.
Speaking of Matt Murray's taking the ice again practice. Yeah. Unreal. Tell us. Wisconsin, a minus 250 favorite is down 14 points right now in the first quarter. Just just blowing up my parlay, costing me hundreds of dollars. Grrrrah, no. Let me get that out of my system. I have them on two parley's of course, because I'm a fucking idiot and degenerate, so let's continue. Super, super fun for Sothe.
Okay, on a face-off after an icing On a face-off after an icing right now the defensive center gets a warning for a violation, but the offensive center gets tossed So when you see them get tossed from the face-off after an icing The offensive team does not get a warning before getting tossed. They would like to add a warning for them. I Think you get enough of a penalty in not not switching your line, I think that like, that's the penalty for icing. There shouldn't be other little things.
If there's other little shit that like the fans don't even know about are going on, like that's one that no one's aware of, I'm sure. Yeah, completely agree there. If a goalie is pulled Yeah, if a goalie is pulled by concussion spotter is shitty on dropping the puck, so it's not always on the players. Sometimes it's actually on the refs too, so... Oh my God, in the amount of times that I see Tavarez get tossed from the playoff circle on icings, now it makes sense. It's like what? all different.
It's like you really think this dude is, Taveras of all people is gonna have a violation of the playoff dot or the faceoff dot. Um, but, but if Goldie is pulled by concussion spotter slash injury, replacement gets a warmup. I think it's like 45 to 60 seconds. So you, they want to warm up for the goalies before tossing them in. Okay. Like a minute, whatever. Like they usually just stretch around anyways.
If it's, yeah, if your goalie's getting pulled not by your own call as the coach, then yeah, you should be able to. So wait, like they get to have a player go like shoot on them or something? I don't know, it doesn't really specify what a warmup is. Let me see if there's more on. stretching round is adequate, but uh... Shooting would be a bit ridiculous. Yeah, no. Oh here.
Oh, so when a net has been accidentally dislodged, disallowing a team to make changes and giving the attacking team the right to choose which side of the ice it wants the face off to take place after the defending goalie or skater accidentally causes the net to be dislodged. That's gimmicky. Whatever side the pockets on, that's like, it's the same thing. Like just keep it regular. Don't make things more complicated.
Like adding all these meta game plays where it's like, oh, let's do this and then we move it to the other side. And it's like, don't, whenever you do these things, you give people dumb galaxy brain ideas. Yeah. These guys can barely keep up with the rule book we have. Don't make it more complicated. enough. This game is so fast to referee like it's hard enough What else we got? Face-offs after stoppages when goalie's mask comes off.
When a stoppage is necessary because a goalie's mask falls off or he takes it off for whatever reason, the face-off should take place in the goalie's defensive zone. His team will not be permitted a line change and the attacking team will be allowed to choose where they want the face-off. Tough one because I agree that it should be in that team's defensive end, but no line change. If the guy takes a slap shot and his mask goes off, why should one team be penalized for that?
Yeah, because it's so arbitrary, the wording too, because it's like, if or he takes it off for whatever reason or if it falls off. Like. seen like a goalie just pull their mask off to end play? That doesn't happen like almost ever. It's like, I don't like when they try to make a rule because one guy did one thing once. It happened one time exactly, yeah. Um, like I said, I completely agree with the being in their own zone, but, uh, the no line change that seems a little harsh.
New coaches challenge if the penalty is called for puck over glass they can ask for a video review to prove It did hit something This is only for when a penalty is called cannot be used to call a penalty on another team if you're wrong on this challenge It's a five on three A five on three, whoa, steep. Yeah. So I guess when they call the penalty, you can say, hey, like if you know for sure, your video guys catch, hey, that hit one of their sticks. That wasn't just us shooting it over.
so you can only challenge if a penalty has been called, right? Yeah. Yeah, I kind of like that. Because those are really bullshit penalties that like if we're going to start reviewing some of them, review all of them. Like there's the next one falls into this category, too. If we're going to start reviewing a lot of stuff and slowing this game down, there has to be legitimate consequences for it. So a five on four, I agreed a hundred percent. A five on three, like that'll make you think twice.
Yeah, I like it. And the next one here in the same category same for a what is with these thumbs up same for a Minor penalty for high stick can challenge to show that it was a teammate stick or own stick Again five on three if wrong Hate that, because you're taking out the human element of refing. What are you gonna start doing that for tripping and slashing to like, where do we draw the line? These are just suggestions, they have to go through a bunch of rounds. But, yeah.
a human element into refing. And for the most part, as much as we shit on these guys, they do get it right. So let's leave it at that, I think for the most part. Yeah, where it gets tough is like you can't put video reviews back in the box, right? So when we start reviewing some things and you show everybody, oh, this is what happened. You show all the fans, hey, this is how they made the wrong call and there's nothing we can do about it. It's just either we accept that's part of it or it's not.
is. You accept it. That's the human element of it. then we should review less things, if that's the case in my opinion. Like, it should just be more on the human element. I like the goalie review, and if I'm perfectly honest, I wouldn't review more than that. Those are the two things that's it. Yeah, I'm okay with that. The offside one, I think there needs to be an asterisk on it where like, you can't wait two minutes for the team to score a goal before you challenge if it's offside.
Like there's gotta be a statute of limitations. the play? If the one team is controlling the puck for two minutes and the other team can't stop it, like what do you do? Do you like toss a flag like football or like? Well, I think the idea is that the play's gone on long enough that like, just... Ah, no, you're right. and then bury a goal. Like, so how are you supposed to stop that? But I agree with you. How do you reverse a minute and a half of play? That's a very tough thing.
Yeah, and we've seen it happen. We've seen entire minutes come back on the clock challenge to be quite honest with you. I'm a big proponent of refs make mistakes and that's, you live with it. It's sometimes it goes your way. Sometimes it doesn't. Okay, next one. If a player refuses to play the puck off a high stick or hand pass, the non-offending team, you could say the defending team, will get a face-off one zone better than where the play occurs.
If it happens in the defensive zone, then the play will be in the neutral zone. So... it, hate it, hate it. What? So no, just the whole point is that the play got, it's called Dead, just reset. It's not like you gain yardage. Or if like you high stick it and it comes straight to me and I wait and then another player comes and he touches it first. It's always like an interesting play that happens right there. So you're taking that away. I don't like that one very much at all.
A lot of these things seem like they're gonna slow the game down. I don't like that. like that either. I mean, Goalie's getting a penalty for dislodging the net, sure. If we're gonna, if it's blatant, but if we're gonna start splitting hairs and reviewing and challenging, oh, was this a kicking motion? Did he mean, was he just pushing off of the post or did he mean to dislodge it?
Like, it's one thing, it's one thing when they turn and push it off and you're Jordan Bennington and you're like, fuck this. It's another one, you're Matt Murray and you're like making a play and you, do a little, oh, oops, like, oh, that's gonna get messy as much as I do think it's, it should be there to discourage people from doing it, but it's just gonna get messy with how you call it. hmm.
I feel like a lot of this stuff is just taking away from what's happening on the ice and who's actually like officiating and playing on the ice. It is a very slippery slope. If you start doing high sticks, goalies knocking over pucks, you're going to start doing tripping or you start to do slashing. Like where does it end?
So just by going off of likes on each of Elliot's tweets, the ones that had the most likes are the goalie getting a warmup if they're replaced, and the review on the puck over glass penalty. Because I think a lot of people since that, I think since that's a newer penalty, a lot of... I mean, I'm not trying to make a stereotype, but a lot of people that have been watching the game for a long time before that rule came in hate it. My dad especially hates that rule.
So whenever it's called badly, it just is kind of insult to injury, where it's like, if you're going to have this rule, call it properly. And it's... yeah. me a little while to get used to as well, but I totally get it. Like, as someone who played hockey for a long time, you're dead-ass tired. You know your boys are tired. You flip it out, out of the rink, and you just get a whistle, you get a line change. So I really, really get this rule.
I actually quite agree with it at this point, but for, like you said, if it's off somebody, then it should be reviewed. Because the amount of times you see like, you're behind your own net, you try to throw it along the glass and there's another guy in front of you and his stick hits yours and it goes up and over and they're like, oh, that's delayed game. It's like, you really think he was trying to put that over the glass? Like... But imagine if that wasn't a penalty.
These guys would be flipping it over the glass all the time. It would happen several times a game. For sure, I don't think it shouldn't be a penalty. I just, I'm saying I agree that we should be able to review it because there's a couple times that this gets called where it's like, come on. Like, don't start, I like that they added the caveat, like you can't use this to call a penalty that's not there. Like you can't ask for a review on a whistle to say, hey, that, no, that was delay a game.
Yeah, and again, it's a five, it's a. Yeah, and again, it's a five on three if you get it wrong. So that's like, you better be right if you're gonna go for this. Yeah, that's like a steep concept. I wish they would do that for off-sides or any other review you do. Well, I was actually going to ask that, like, do you think they should do five on three for all of these Goja's challenges? I really do.
You have like Charle, for example, like the guys who are on the review team, they're so fucking good. So if you get these wrong, I think there should be a consequence for it. Yeah, I guess the cases, there's not many times now where you can review a penalty, right? Like, I don't think there are any. No, but like even like goaltender challenges are like the rare offside one. This should be heavier. is, if it's a major, you can review it, or a double minor, I think.
Or if it's a major, you can review it to reduce it. I think what they added last year or the year before was, if you call a major penalty, you can, the refs are allowed to review it to reduce it, but they can't increase one from a review. It only goes down. So that way, sometimes they'll call the major just to be safe and then go to the review.
But otherwise, if a goal happens, Yeah, like other leagues, if you're in the last like three minutes or something, it's an automatic review for a certain place like that. So that I can understand as well. But if you're like the top of your period or like even halfway through, then tough shit.
Yeah, I mean, it's like we talked about on the last one with the missed stoppage on that goal with the hand pass from Matthews where it's like you know, some things are reviewable to overturn a goal, but some aren't and so I think never have been reviewable. The colony ice is made. Let's leave it up to the refs. For better or worse. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. 100%. What was the other, there was something, oh yeah, kinda hinted at it earlier, but if anyone isn't following. Baseball got interesting.
Oh my God. So the Dodgers spent a billion whole US dollars on two players. um, one of whom who has never pitched a game in the mlb and tried to and Had five earned runs in one inning and got pulled like You don't need to watch a lot of baseball to know that's bad That's pretty hard to do, yeah. That's horrible. I mean, obviously it's an adjustment, but like, it's just fun making fun of the team that spent a lot of money. I mean, we're talking about our $700 million player, his interpreter.
Well, and then there's that whole thing. So if you missed it, Shohei Otani's interpreter was fired and accused of stealing $4.5 million from Shohei to cover his gambling debts. So many things have come out since that initial headline dropped. of twists and turns in this story. Like ESPN went through and found bank transactions, like wire transfers that are public record that have Shohei Otani's name on it transferring $500,000 twice to this guy's account.
So like, I mean, you can say it's theft, but there's, he signs off on wire. Like there's ways that could be theft, but it looks pretty bad. Even like one of the original stories was that like he was just giving him money to pay off his debt. Like this guy's a degenerate gambler, Shohei's such a good dude, he wired him 4.5 million or whatever it was, and that quickly they disavowed that story. Lawyers said it was a massive theft. And here we are now.
Yeah, and of course, the problem with any story like this where we don't get all the facts is people start to speculate. I mean, I'm not going to get into it a ton, but there was a time earlier this year in hockey where you don't give people all the facts, they start speculating. And now it's, hey, did Shohei get this guy to cover for his own gambling? Like, people are going to run with this. I feel like this is a really, really big story. Like he's entered his Pete Rose era so early.
Um, that's a, that's a lot of money. Like he's got a lot of accountants. How does this chunk of change not get noticed up until this point? Like, Oh, I had no idea this was happening. Like, are you for real? Like, and like you said, like the signing off on small amounts, it's. Like you don't steal four and a half million dollars in $500,000 chunks.
Like to do that unnoticeably, like the only time I can think of is like Dane Cook talked about how his brother who was his manager was like siphoning money off of him for years. And over like a decade took like a couple million dollars. Like it takes, it's a long con to steal that money without somebody noticing. played a game a day or two before they were like, where they were both into dugout and they were best friends. They were interacting super happy. It's just a super weird story.
I'm not saying one thing or another because we don't know, but... I just think it looks really bad for the major sports and being so close to the all these betting companies because like what happened with Shane Pinto there was so much that didn't become public no one really knows what happened it's someone was using his account to play some bets so we're gonna suspend it for 41 games okay that's a very weird in from it is such a massive revenue right now.
So if you're actually have an infraction, especially with a player like on Shohei's level, that's the biggest story you can have. Yeah, I mean look Shane Pinto is one thing. Shohei Otani is literally like the biggest name baseball has had since like Babe Ruth. Yeah, so they've really got to figure out the lines here.
You know, if you're going to be pushing this so much and it's going to be so much a part of day-to-day lottery gambling as it's become, like, yeah, they got to figure out how it affects the players. I mean, they know what they can do and what they can't, for this stuff. You got to find out how to properly monitor this. They have to like have their accounts go through something.
I don't know what it is, but they need to tighten up on this quick because we've seen a lot of industries be too slow to catch up on the tech. This is one they got to get now, or it's going to be trouble. Yeah, you got to really get in front of it. And like, it doesn't seem like they've done a great job of that. What I mean, look, I'm thinking all the way back to, uh, what was that operation? Slapshot or whatever, or the. Phil.hu thing with the NBA. Now, that wasn't like Redskies.
Oh, Janet had a big thing too when he was in Arizona. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, there was that big hockey. It wasn't like people betting on hockey. It was hockey people betting on football. Like, but it becomes a whole problem because it's people that are involved in sports betting on other sports because it's then that's all you need, like...
It's almost like the insider trading of gambling because sports is one of those weird ones where it's almost chance, but it's kind of not because it's people's efforts individually involved. And if you are in that industry, you have information, even if you play a different sport, your agent manages people in that sport. Like you have information that other people don't and you can make more educated bets than the general public can. So. I like even embedding on other sports gets complicated.
And this is getting far away from the Shohei thing, but like this is the point, is like when you mix these things this closely, this is what happens. Yeah, there was like two NFL players a year or two ago who got suspended for a whole year for betting on something outside of NFL. So like, this has to be taken very seriously.
Yeah, I mean, look, you got to give kudos to these people that manage the leagues because they are, I mean, we'll see what happens with Otani, but at least we've seen suspensions that are substantial for these things, like they're not taking it lightly because they understand it, the gravity of it, but they're not there. It's been a reactionary, right? Like they're not putting the safeguards in place to prevent these kinds of things from happening.
They're just catching it afterwards and laying suspensions down. So now the next step is You know, what are we doing here? I mean, like, they're saying they're doing an investigation. I mean, like, this guy is the face of MLB. What are they really going to do here? They don't have a smoking gun or anything. I think it's probably going to get swept under the rug. Yeah, like. if it was some like, Roger's employee, he was like, hey, I'm gonna fucking dig deep into this guy and...
Spurn you for not signing with the Blue Jays, but... Wouldn't that be sweet? But no, I think it's really suspicious that right off the bat, he came forward and like approached, I don't know how to, I'm sorry. I'm not even gonna attempt to say the guy's name, but the interpreter approached the team and said, you know, I take full responsibility for this. Like he, it almost seemed a little like, you know, you're gonna do this.
had a full interview that it was supposed to be released before all this happened and they just canned it. They blacked it out and the lawyers are like, he was a massive thief. That's all it was. So he'd actually never got to say his piece before it actually came out. Yeah, this is all so fishy. really big thing.
So it seems like they're trying to get a lock on this and control the story because if people knew that they're just kind of giving a pass to their biggest star, like, fuck, what do you do if Connor McDavid gets caught up in this? Like, you can't, like, how? even really compare it. Like you're talking like 16 million compared to almost a billion dollars. The amount of money that has evolved is insane.
But if you're talking like greatest players of league for sure, but this is like, unlike anything that's ever hit the sports. Well, yeah, I mean, money aside, it's like the person that you're trying to make the star of your, the face of your sport, the person who's in commercials for bedding companies. like in talks of being the best most like best baseball player of all time Oh lord, I am so interested to follow this. So how do you see this actually playing out?
I think it's just gonna be that this interpreter, the MLB cuts him some deal behind the scenes that like they'll give him some cash and he's gonna take the fall publicly for it. They'll make sure he's taken care of, but we can't have Shohei take any heat for this. Like you're gonna say that, like that's why you- heat for this. I think that he just comes out and says that he tried to, he was aware of the guy's gambling problems, but it was, you know, late.
Yeah, like tried to help him out, didn't realize how deep he was. And then I don't know how they're gonna try to finagle the stolen money. Like they came out and said that he stole it. So like, I don't know how you backtrack that or. thing is just like a side thing like that's not on the front burner for MLB. I actually think that they're gonna show hey, we'll probably get off with nothing. Maybe they paid this guy off on the side who actually knows.
But he's 100% going to take the fall for what happened whether he was in the wrong or he was I don't think we'll ever know that. Yeah, I don't think this one's gonna ever be unsealed. Oh. I think he knew a little bit of what was going on. Whether like he just wanted to cover his gambling debts or like he was trying to be a good friend or something, but like he knew some shit was going on. Look, Shohei seems like a genuine nice guy and he just signed an absolutely ludicrous contract.
So, look, if one of your friends is like, hey, I made some mistakes in the whole four million, it's like, hey, I make that when I walk up to the plate every time. Yeah, like, here you go. Like, I get it. I'm going through March madness right now. I'm not doing too good, buddy. How can you help me out? Uh, do... what do you do when... What do you do when you hit on one? What's your go-to? What's my go-to? Withdraw, baby. I leave a little bit of money in the float and that's all I do.
I'm trying to figure out like we feel like pre celebrate as though you've won Oh no no, I don't do that. I do pretty good though, I'm not gonna lie. I usually win a lot more than I lose. Although, March Madness? Hardest sporting event of all time to bet on. Well, I was just saying today, I don't watch it, but for some reason I get, I don't have basketball notifications turned on from TSN, but they send me March Madness every year.
And all day it's just this seed upset, this seed upset, that seed upset. Like, I feel like all of March Madness, I mean, it's madness for a reason, is just top seeds losing a lot. A lot of top seeds fucking losing and not in a great way. Like Auburn today, fourth seed compared to Yale, 13th seed lost. Kentucky was the third seed yesterday, they lost. A couple of other ones just fucked me. I have never bettied on this goddamn event again. Hey, they're children. What do you expect? You can't win.
I can't pay rent this month. You know, when you're talking, oh no, I was gonna make a high school musical reference, but this is college, it's a little different. I was gonna say with, when they have to choose between the practice for the musical and basketball practice, sometimes things change for the championship games.
I feel like I my first introduction into gambling was March Madness probably when I was like 18 years old hang out the homies on March break doing a little gambling on proline or whatever. But the first the first round the second round was always a lock and it's just flipped upside down right now you don't know what's going to happen no one is safe. Yeah, my advice to gamblers out there is don't do it. You're not gonna win. Don't just don't like.
I learned early from playing the slot machines and Pokemon games as a child that like, oh, this is addicting. I have to cash out so quick the few times that I do go to the casino because I know I'm so bad for like, what if I just, no, just leave, just leave. I know you've been here for 20 minutes, but you won, leave. It's not about sticking around at this point. I'm a pretty good gambler, but yeah. In the words of Nancy Reagan, just say no. Do I? Exactly.
I learned after the first time, I think it was like 300 or something I won. And I was like, well, what if I just like put some of it aside and I keep playing with this? And then I keep doing that. And then I'm like, how did I lose money? Oh, it happened so quickly too. Yeah. Yeah, well. So all this to be said, anybody who's out there listening, let's send out a little prayer to Wisconsin right now, especially to Beaner. You're in the home state, buddy. You did not come on the podcast tonight.
You owe me this. A little prayer tonight. We're down 15. We've got 20 minutes left to go. 15 and oh my god Yeah Being a graphic we need you to sneak in and give a pep talk, please Yeah. Give one of your famous pump-up speeches. next time. Oh man. Okay. Other than, you know, go all of your teams you've put on anything you want to say before we head out.
Uh, no. Um, let's just hope none of the boys get injured towards the end of the season because we're locked into our positioning and Yeah, it's just gonna be a slog the rest of the year. That's all it is. We're waiting for playoffs. Who designed this lovely Beavis and Butt-Head, Bert and Domi shirt you're wearing? FlowBuds, check him out on Twitter. He's on Etsy. He's got some great stuff. Couldn't recommend him higher. Love the shirt. FlowBuds? Okay, I will post... Oh, yeah, Joey Ferguson.
I didn't... Yeah, FlowBuds. Domi looked at it and he loved it too. Hell yeah, I love that this stuff is taken off. Got the Poppy 34. Island shirt he had the other day, the same guy. Yeah, Brick Wall, the Mountcore 4. Yeah. So many styles. Yep. It's like I was saying, the Leafs need to start reaching out to people that do fun things like this and do some real collabs instead of having everyone ride the line of copyright. Ha ha. Ugh. Cool. we love the shirts. We do. And it's all within fair use.
So it's just, you know, make it, let people make more money, you know? in the realm of legality. Yep. Oh, uh, tomorrow I'm going to PWHL Ottawa versus Toronto here in Ottawa. Yeah, one o'clock. at what time? Oh, it's at 1pm. I thought you said 11 o'clock. I was like, Jesus Christ. One, okay, that's fine. At Lensdown? Yeah, they're super good. I've been making a ton of money off that team. Nice Like a lot.
See, this is where I'm like, I started, I watched the first couple of games of Toronto season and I lost the first two and I was like, oh, you know what, I think I'm gonna go with Ottawa. And then it went like, wow, like straight, straight match of the NHL Ottawa just went bang. was the stat? They have like the longest winning streak in Toronto history right now, I think. Toronto hockey, the Raptors have a 15 game I think from 2020 Oh, yeah, that's true, they do.
Yeah. It's. We got life here, buddy. My favorite is people were commenting saying that like, oh, you can't really compare this to the Leafs because the Leafs play against 30 teams. It's like, I'm sorry, were they not in the original six for an extremely long period of time and that's when they won their cup? Like, don't even start. you play against a team that's in front of you. Let's not belittle what these fucking great hockey players are doing.
Also, when you only have to play five other teams, that means you're playing the team in first place a lot more often than when you play against 31 other teams. too. Like that's a tough matchup. Yeah, it's like, yeah, exactly. You're playing series at that point. we've been going out lately and at the bars there's always a women's game playing too. We love seeing this. Yeah, I'm excited to see one in person for the first time.
I've, I mean, some of the, some of the reels that I've seen going around of like, you know, they, like in Colorado, how they do all the small things. I saw they were doing Taylor Swift at one of the games. They stopped the music like, cause the game started again and the whole crowd just continues singing Taylor Swift. So we're probably going to podcast tomorrow. So I definitely want to like have a recap about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll let you know what it's like.
Alright, I gotta go back to my degenerate gambling tin. Have fun and good luck. Thank you, thank you. come back soon. We'll be here. We're just late night. We out. Where's the thumbs up or thumbs down here? This fucking thing doesn't know what it's doing. Hahaha That's so goddamn weird, man.