Episode Transcript
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[00:00:48] Speaker C: have Jordan Trudeau coming on for some
[00:00:50] Speaker B: Chuck Epoch action, touching on Major Junior in particular when some local love for the Sioux State Bre Greyhounds. Before we wrap up, no baseball news. Yes, I know spring training started. No basketball news. Not looking at any other sports today. We just have time for hockey. So for any other sports we will touch on that next week. You could check out the Game sports podcast, Tik Tok, Instagram, Facebook, all audio platforms, Spotify. The list goes on. It's at the Game Sports podcast. Let me tell you, we're loving the interaction online now. Everyone's loving our recent TikToks and we love the comments, we love the feedback and we absolutely love the the follows. It definitely motivates us even more each week to do this knowing that everyone
[00:01:30] Speaker C: is enjoying the content that we are
[00:01:32] Speaker B: putting out and we are going to be sure you're going to love what we're talking about today. Now, without further ado, last little shout out. I want to give a special shout out to a happy belated birthday to one of my close friends, Anthony Greco. And friend and follower of the show,
[00:01:45] Speaker C: of course, comes with being friends.
[00:01:47] Speaker B: Okay now, Brennan, let's bring you in, my friend. Top shelf. We're, we're gonna go, we're gonna, we're gonna shoot the puck right away. We won the draw. We dumped and we're dumped it in. We' and chasing and we're talking National Hockey League kind of level hockey per se, but the Olympics is what we're going to be talking about as we get ready for the NHL to resume. How you doing, my friend?
[00:02:08] Speaker D: I'm great, man. I just got to say that if I ever lose a big game in whatever sport I'm playing, I just want to receive a doll because that's going to make everything so much better reacted.
[00:02:20] Speaker B: Tell me about it.
[00:02:22] Speaker D: So, so this is what, this is what pisses me off. The biggest thing here is you're going to waste time handing out dolls after handing out silver medals to the loser and you don't use that time to do Stanley cup playoff hockey overtime style. That is just baloney to me. I don't know. I don't know what you think, Dave, but I'm sitting there, I had to turn off tv. It's hard enough to say here's your participation trophy because that's what it is for Canada.
It's gold or bust. And then you get this doll and you just alluded to it. McKinnon's reaction. It's as if someone just shat in his scrambled eggs. Honestly, it was. It was so cringe worthy, I gotta say. And you just think that time would. Would be perfectly allotted to, you know, even 4v4. That's how it was in 2010, right in overtime. And people will say oh Canada, you weren't or Canadian fans, you weren't complaining when Marner scored a dandy. And in the three on three quarterfinal against Czechia, I'm like this is for gold. This is for the gold medal game. And you're going to decide it via 3 on 3 skills competition. It might as well be the all star weekend again. So that's just, that's just utter lunacy. That's all I'll say.
[00:03:33] Speaker C: I'm a firm believer of this deciding game. The game should remain with the normal amount of players. If you're on the ice, field, courts, wherever you're looking, that's what should remain.
[00:03:45] Speaker B: Someone told me that may or not
[00:03:47] Speaker C: be close to Olympic sports said that the Olympics runs on time.
[00:03:52] Speaker B: Opening the runs on strict times despite
[00:03:54] Speaker C: hockey being the last event.
[00:03:56] Speaker B: Closing ceremonies at 2.
[00:03:58] Speaker C: People have to prep to be there.
[00:04:00] Speaker B: But look, yes, I will say it. I'm not using it as an excuse.
[00:04:02] Speaker C: I want everyone to know that in
[00:04:03] Speaker B: the United States that are waiting for these Canadian podcasts to come out and
[00:04:08] Speaker C: to comment and just roast.
[00:04:09] Speaker B: Let me tell you something though. You got your own problems in your backyard.
[00:04:12] Speaker C: That's the only thing I'll say.
[00:04:13] Speaker B: Maybe so, maybe stick over on that sides, but nonetheless. I know we got a lot of
[00:04:18] Speaker C: followers on this show that are American. So I feel comfortable saying that.
[00:04:21] Speaker B: The show was dual with Sioux S.A. michigan and Sioux Ontario. So I'm just going to say I say that comfortably. Don't be chirping Canadians. We're not making excuses. The point is yes, it should have
[00:04:31] Speaker C: been 5 on 5 at a deciding game. I will 100% agree to that.
[00:04:35] Speaker B: Does it change the outcome?
[00:04:36] Speaker C: No.
[00:04:37] Speaker B: Am I making an excuse? No. But I definitely think that was an
[00:04:40] Speaker C: opportunity that was missed that could have made that a little bit more of a.
[00:04:45] Speaker B: A stronger victory for either side.
[00:04:47] Speaker A: Brett.
[00:04:47] Speaker D: 100, man. A hundred thousand percent. And it was such a good game too. Start to finish. What a memory. Getting up 7:30 people, heading to bars, you know, drinking beer. Almost like it was a university feel again for some people, I'm sure like a St. Patty's Day vibe where you just start drinking in the morning.
[00:05:06] Speaker B: And that's exactly what I was just thinking.
[00:05:08] Speaker D: Right.
[00:05:09] Speaker B: That's exactly what I was just about to say.
[00:05:10] Speaker D: Yeah, that's. That, that's exactly what I thought. Getting up. It was awesome. It was still a late night Saturday. I was not, I was not tired to take a nap later, later in the day. But I, I was fired up in the morning and just, just a great hockey game. And it just really sucks how it has to end with a skills competition.
[00:05:28] Speaker B: And you know what, what I'll say is I'm really torn because I always say the best team, good teams find ways to win.
That's the analogy I always use. Okay. But I also are on the other side where it's from a statistics perspective.
[00:05:44] Speaker C: I know Evan would like this.
[00:05:47] Speaker B: Canada wins that game over 90% of
[00:05:49] Speaker C: the time if you're a stats.
[00:05:51] Speaker B: But on the other side that I'm really facing is I will say I.
[00:05:55] Speaker C: The better team did not win that hockey game.
[00:05:59] Speaker B: Doesn't change the outcome.
[00:06:00] Speaker C: USA is still gold medalist and congratulations to United States. They.
[00:06:04] Speaker B: They won that game, you can say fair and square. Despite the many men, too many men on the ice being missed.
[00:06:10] Speaker C: That seemed to be a common trend in the tournament. Like I said, no excuses are going to be said here because that's the human element of the game.
[00:06:16] Speaker B: You can't rewrite that.
[00:06:18] Speaker C: When it's missed, it's missed.
[00:06:19] Speaker B: Congratulations to the States. I'll be the first one to say it. It was one of the best hockey games that I've watched in a. In a long time. I. I remember the Salt City. I remember Vancouver 2010 was just like some of this Olympic action we've been getting.
[00:06:32] Speaker C: We've been spoiled.
[00:06:33] Speaker B: And so congratulations to the States. That's the third time I'm saying. Okay, I'll try not to say it anymore. So I will stress though, the better
[00:06:39] Speaker C: team did not win this hockey game. Okay. And that is meant from the heart
[00:06:44] Speaker B: when you outplay a game, I'll play a team from the. From not the first. It was kind of even that first.
[00:06:50] Speaker C: Right.
[00:06:50] Speaker B: Second period on where Canada was just dominant. But you know who matched the task? Connor Hallibuck. And he's a player on that ice just like everyone else, and he stepped up. But the main thing. And I wanted to highlight this. I. I had these as notes, and it was very important for me that I mentioned these. So you got. You got Canada right now. Who didn't score him. Four key moments that. That's a three. Four key moments in McDavid breakaway, Celebrini breakaway. T's open that. McKinnon open that. I bet you McKinnon doesn't miss that ever again. And it's hard to win a game without killer instinct.
[00:07:23] Speaker D: Okay, can I interrupt? You're missing Tom Wilson in front of the net.
[00:07:27] Speaker B: Tom Wilson missing one. Celebrini shot too early. McDavid overthought. What was McCarr doing in overtime? Daves just needs to bury. Look, there's a lot of things you could say that would have. Could have. What should have happened. The States had some good chances too. Benner played extremely well. But in summary, the better team did not win. But good teams find ways to win, and that's the way it goes. And I know that's a lame way to put it.
[00:07:49] Speaker C: It's a hard to swallow when you
[00:07:51] Speaker B: lose three on three in a gold medal game. But you can say back in 2010, losing 4 on 4 is the same 5 on 5. If would have lost, it would have
[00:07:57] Speaker C: been the same at the end of the day.
[00:07:58] Speaker B: And I lost.
[00:07:59] Speaker C: And it was a fantastic hockey game.
[00:08:01] Speaker D: It was a fantastic hockey game. I want to ask you this because I was thinking about McDavid and Matthews and their legacy going into the Olympics and completing the Olympics and where they are and what their status is after the Olympics. So with. With this United States victory is what outweighs the other. Like what. What is. What's the bigger story that McDavid loses again or the narrative perhaps changes for Matthews that he's a winner and he can actually guide a team to a. To a championship.
[00:08:36] Speaker C: That's such a good question. Guide. As a captain, he was credited for his leadership by. I believe the Hughes brothers were the ones that had.
[00:08:43] Speaker D: That.
[00:08:44] Speaker C: Had that quote.
[00:08:45] Speaker B: When I think of that game that
[00:08:47] Speaker C: led them to that gold medal, it was the guy in between the pipes. That was their guy, their soldier that led them there. But Matthews was a part of that. They won the Gold medal. They look at McDavid. Game seven twice, no points. Gold medal game, no points. But player of the tournament, right. He also won the Con Smythe. Not last year, the year prior. Sam Bennett won last year.
[00:09:08] Speaker B: The conversation that somebody that we both
[00:09:11] Speaker C: know, his name is Alex Parr, said,
[00:09:13] Speaker B: can we start Talking about how McDavid
[00:09:15] Speaker C: can't win the big game? And my first thought was four nations, right? He got the winning goal. Mitch Marner made a nice pass in front.
[00:09:23] Speaker B: So it's hard to say that he doesn't step up because I don't weigh
[00:09:27] Speaker C: the loss on Connor McDavid. I mentioned that point about Matthews not being the main factor, but he captained that team. And the captain is looked at from a highlight perspective of when success occurs. McDavid, how his performance was in the finals. Sorry, the finals and the gold medal. The legacy that was cemented shows that Matthew's got a taste of winning and that he could help guide and lead a team, like you said. McDavid, on the other hand, is somebody who has been to the dances and has been unable to walk away as the prom king, if you know what I'm saying.
[00:10:07] Speaker B: He's been unable to walk with the
[00:10:09] Speaker C: prom king, so it's hard to answer
[00:10:11] Speaker B: that, but it definitely puts a step forward. Not Matthews, on McDavid. McDavid is the best player in the world.
[00:10:18] Speaker C: But Matthews having that gold medal, I would say is more impressive than being a Four nations champion.
[00:10:24] Speaker D: Absolutely. The Olympics is the war. Four nations was a battle this time last year. It was. It was all we had, right? We said fit to the All Star weekend. We got, you know, nation versus nation. This is it right now. But then the Olympics comes and anyone who uses four nations, well, he has four. No know, I don't even think he. He's kept that MVP trophy or whatever. Whatever. You got a doll. I don't know. It doesn't even matter.
[00:10:49] Speaker B: It doesn't. But to answer your question, the.
[00:10:52] Speaker C: The legacy piece, man, it's hard to
[00:10:54] Speaker B: say because of it being different on different stages.
[00:10:57] Speaker C: Stanley cup final and Olympics and the way the teams have been so different. I still place McDavid ahead from. From a legacy perspective based on how far he's went.
But Matthews has the gold medal.
[00:11:10] Speaker D: He ultimately does. He ultimately has that. And until 2030, Matthews says haha to McDavid, right. Going into the Olympics, I said the pressure is on McDavid more because he's reached. He's reached Stanley cup final, obviously. But like going in, it's like he. He is not even the same stratosphere as. As Matthews.
[00:11:30] Speaker A: Right.
[00:11:31] Speaker D: And the heights. That's what I was trying to say. The heights he's reached already versus Matthews was, okay, I've been to back to back cup finals. I've lost, but, you know, I. I've willed my team. I'm the better captain. It just hasn't gone my way. This is it. Whereas Matthews, you can make the argument of, hey, if. If he loses, people will say, well, of course. I mean, yeah, same. Same situation in Toronto and McDavid's a king. And if he wins that, the narrative is, oh, well, you know what? It's easy when he gets to play with a bunch of studs and he just blended into that tournament. But if. If you want to do glass half full, you hope Matthews is feeling like, you know, a dump truck has been lifted off his shoulders and he can, you know, maybe. Maybe bring that to Toronto and have a little bit more mojo. And again, that might be glass half full, but for McDavid, I think this will haunt him for a while because you mentioned the amount of teams he's, you know, willed to. To the top, and he ends up winning a individual prize, but not the team prize. He did it in Erie as well, right? Didn't he win MVP for Erie? And in a losing effort with the team.
It's really, really frustrating, I feel, for 97, 20, 24, I think, was the year when they. When they came back from a 3,0 hole. And now, Dave, it's like there's no guarantees going back. You know how hard it is. And they're running out of gas, no doubt, because it's a lot of hockey. A lot of these guys who are going back to the playoffs, they won't have a breather now and that we're in the Olympics, they won't have a breather now till July.
[00:13:05] Speaker B: Right?
[00:13:06] Speaker D: So you got to think that, you know, the wheels slow down a bit.
[00:13:09] Speaker C: It's hard because I will say, and Wayne Gretzky might have something to say about this perhaps a bit, but it's hard to argue it. Sidney Crosby is arguably the best Canadian NHL Olympic athlete because of what he's won. Olympic hockey athletes, let me emphasize, obviously,
[00:13:27] Speaker B: there's a lot of athletics athleticism going around in Canada for sports, okay?
[00:13:32] Speaker C: But Canada, okay, That's where my heart goes to.
[00:13:36] Speaker B: And Sydney Cross wasn't in the lineup. Does he make a difference?
[00:13:39] Speaker C: Absolutely.
[00:13:41] Speaker B: Difference in a positive, negative, we don't know. Does he give the puck away in the neutral zone? It causes a breakaway or does he. Is he out there in that last and that three on three setting up McDavid or setting up Marner again or, or whatever. Is it a different magic? It absolutely is. Okay, but you can say, oh, what
[00:13:58] Speaker C: if Josh Morrissey played?
[00:13:59] Speaker B: Or you can say, what if I believe it was Quinn Hughes that was
[00:14:02] Speaker C: out in the four nations, if I remember correctly.
[00:14:04] Speaker B: So like, like you can go by all this. What if could have it. You can't use excuses. And for the Canadians that are using
[00:14:10] Speaker C: excuses about ways that they lost.
[00:14:12] Speaker B: I know it sucks. We gotta stop that. We lost the game. We can have our opinions on what could be better, but to make excuses. The team didn't win the game and there was a lot of opportunity where
[00:14:25] Speaker C: they had the chances to win and they didn't.
[00:14:28] Speaker B: It sucks at 87.
[00:14:29] Speaker D: That's the counter. That's the counter. If you're an American fan, you say, okay, you had a lot of chances. Well, you didn't ultimately convert.
[00:14:34] Speaker B: Oh, hey, I almost.
[00:14:35] Speaker D: If you want to piss and moan about it, then almost won the lottery. Brett.
[00:14:38] Speaker B: I was three numbers off and I won 100 bucks. But hey, I was close. Like I, you know, I've played hockey. You know, I had that breakaway. I hit the post. I was co.
[00:14:47] Speaker D: I was close.
[00:14:48] Speaker B: You were there board. They went the other way and scored and won the game and we lost the, the junior championship. Like, like at the end of the day, not a full true story. But that's the point. It, it doesn't matter. It's not the result.
[00:15:00] Speaker D: And here's the other thing. Four nations. The US Dominated US especially in overtime. Matthews had two big chances. Could chuck on the doorstep. Bennington played out of his mind. So the deserve the win meter in the four nations, you could argue goes to the US And Canada comes out on top. And then for the Olympics, it's. It's flipped. So that's hockey, man. Shout out to Gina Retta. That's hockey right there.
[00:15:22] Speaker B: So I, I know you wanted to touch on. I want to give you the, the
[00:15:26] Speaker C: last reaction before we kind of before we wrap. Top shelf.
[00:15:30] Speaker B: But I do want to say something. I told you and I've said this on the show, so I'm gonna tippy
[00:15:34] Speaker C: toe on this sort of. We're not a political show, we're a sports show.
[00:15:37] Speaker B: Despite even that, some sports shows like to dive into politics, but obviously there's a hot topic going on out there with somebody who's the president of the United States.
[00:15:47] Speaker C: I don't even want to say his name. So you can obviously see how my opinion is about that person.
[00:15:51] Speaker B: And he made a phone call to
[00:15:53] Speaker C: the United States men's team when they won the gold medal.
[00:15:56] Speaker B: Rightfully so I'm sure Carney would have called us or advised anywhere. Right?
[00:15:59] Speaker C: That's, that's normal.
[00:16:01] Speaker B: His comments were not normal nor appropriate.
Mentioning that, that he's going to invite
[00:16:07] Speaker C: the team to the White House and
[00:16:08] Speaker B: that, oh, he had or has to invite the women's team.
[00:16:12] Speaker C: Of course I don't have the exact
[00:16:14] Speaker B: quote, but I'm not even going to
[00:16:15] Speaker C: pull it up to discuss it and look at it. But you pick it up, what I'm putting down.
[00:16:18] Speaker D: He said, I remember he said, and I won't say his name. He said he would be impeached if he didn't invite the women's team. Causing a snarky laugh from the American men's. American team.
[00:16:30] Speaker B: Yeah, a lot of laughs from the American team and the girls team. You can look at the John Travolta meme.
[00:16:35] Speaker C: They were nowhere to be found at the White House.
[00:16:37] Speaker B: But you know who was there?
[00:16:38] Speaker C: The American men's team. And they were getting questioned about it.
[00:16:41] Speaker B: And people try to dodge the question, use his interview.
[00:16:44] Speaker C: You could tell he was really tippy toe. I tried.
[00:16:47] Speaker B: He was really nervous to answer and Chuck was pulling him away, laughing in the background. Anyone who was laughing in the background, you could say how your friends are
[00:16:54] Speaker C: in the village or whatever it is.
[00:16:56] Speaker B: The men's hockey team should be ashamed of themselves. Everyone that was laughing. It's a very sensitive, sensitive topic. So I'm not diving into that. But I'm going to tell you the world is at a very unique spot. Look what's going around in it. I say unique very lightly.
[00:17:09] Speaker C: And of course the person at the
[00:17:10] Speaker B: front is that guy who is that person in the United States. And I would have loved if there was a few players that stood their ground and didn't go. If I, I think Rock Nelson, as you said, was one, there was a few others. And so there's a few that didn't
[00:17:24] Speaker C: go and I commend them for that.
[00:17:26] Speaker B: I ultimately there's, there's. I love the American women for, for not going. I think USA Hockey has to, has to get something going with this. Something has to be said, something has to be shared and something has to be taken to stand up. Because those comments, yeah, obviously nobody's going to fight him because everyone's scared of him to fight back. But something needs to be educated to those hot to the men's hockey team in the United States that, that comment wasn't funny. Okay. And don't be afraid to stand your ground and not go to saying how refreshing that.
[00:18:00] Speaker D: That's, that's perfectly said, Dave. How refreshing would it be if Matthew, we were talking about this before we started recording, if he said, I'm not going, I'm, I'm, I'm going right to Tampa. Thanks, guys. It's been fun in Miami. I'm close enough to Tampa. I'm just going to hop on a bird and head to Tampa and be with the guys. It's been a while.
[00:18:17] Speaker B: I'd kiss his.
[00:18:17] Speaker D: He's got the. He's got the. He's got the power. He's the captain. You know what? I think a lot of other guys would have been like, yeah, you're right. You're captain of the American team, Captain America Auston Matthews, and you're. You're playing for a Canadian club in Toronto.
I think, I think people would have bowed down and would have been super, super impressed and I think a lot of respect would, would go his way. Now they're. They're home. Funnily enough, he has to play Brady on Saturday in Toronto. Do you think he gets booed?
[00:18:49] Speaker B: I'll say no. No. I think Brady's the only one that gets booed. There's something.
[00:18:53] Speaker D: I think Matthews might hear some booze.
[00:18:56] Speaker C: I wouldn't be.
[00:18:57] Speaker D: I wouldn't be surprised, Manobi, but I
[00:19:00] Speaker B: wouldn't be surprised and I'm not surprised. Brady Kachuk was at the forefront of that laughter.
[00:19:05] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:19:05] Speaker B: A captain of a Canadian hockey team to, to boot. And I can't. I can go on with this. It was disgusting what he said from the leader. You're. You're a big leader across the border.
And the reaction from the men's team was unreal in terms of a bad way. And it's good for the women not showing up. Good for the people in the comments that are like, this isn't. This is outrageous. Shame on the people who comment the negative. Just to get a. Just to get a reaction. And for those who didn't go on the United States team, good on you. The men's team and the ones that did. I think you really got to evaluate. But listen to political. I'm not going to get a political standpoint. Just how this whole situation in general paid out is really takes away from your win. A win that took 46 years for you guys in the America to achieve. And you know, one's even talking about the win Anymore, they're talking about something else.
[00:20:00] Speaker D: Well, let's, let's wrap top shelf on a high and focus on the women's American team.
[00:20:05] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:20:05] Speaker D: Play of the Olympics. Eagan Keller, golden goal. Not enough people are talking about it. She walked that defenseman and buried for the golden goal. Unbelievable goal. I know it was against Poulin and the Canadians and were Canadian fans, but unbelievable goal by Megan Keller. That's the play of the Olympics for me. SOUNDBITE OF the olympics, Dave. Fortunately, it is coming from Matthew Tkachuk, but it's to Leon. Dry saddle. You kind of alluded to prom king reference, so I'll play off of that. He said, always the bridesmaid, Leon, never the bride. Yikes. Blooper of the Olympics, the buddy admitting to the world he cheated on his girlfriend after winning a medal. That's just.
[00:20:43] Speaker B: No, I forgot. About three months ago, he said he cheated on his wife.
[00:20:47] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[00:20:48] Speaker D: Yeah, that was.
[00:20:50] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:20:51] Speaker D: Then surprising moment of the Olympics. I'll go with Mark Kennedy, your boy, telling Sweden to F off for supposedly cheating. And then Brad Jacobs, also your boy from the sue stand up winning gold.
[00:21:03] Speaker B: That's right. Thank you for saying that. Thumbs up, fan of the show, friend of mine. Brad and the whole team. Jacob.
[00:21:09] Speaker D: Got to have him back on. Dave.
[00:21:11] Speaker B: That's in the works. It's in the works. And, and Mark Kennedy did not cheat.
[00:21:15] Speaker C: But you know what?
[00:21:16] Speaker B: I will say the memes are. I'll give credit to some of the memes. Good job. There's not memes related to just kind of a lot of little memes.
[00:21:22] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:21:23] Speaker B: It led for a good meme, but the whole overall story, besides the comedic value of the memes. Attaboy, Mark. You tell them how it's done because there was none of that going around.
[00:21:32] Speaker D: Can we get Mark on, too? Let's get Mark on.
[00:21:34] Speaker A: Whole team.
[00:21:35] Speaker B: Want the whole team.
[00:21:36] Speaker D: Whole team. Let's just do an eight person podcast.
[00:21:39] Speaker B: I've had Brad on six times on this show. I told him I'm getting sick of just him. I need, I need the squad. It isn't just, I know it's called teams Jacobs, okay? But it's, it's a, it's a, it's a crew.
[00:21:51] Speaker C: Okay?
[00:21:51] Speaker B: It's a crew. And they're a good crew. And they win the gold and they get to bring it back to Sue St. Marie. And you know what? We, my wife and I put on,
[00:21:59] Speaker C: I put on that medal multiple times when he won it.
[00:22:01] Speaker B: And so she, But I told him because the funny story and I got. I know we're waiting for Trudeau to come on, but I got to say this story. My wife, we were at Brad Jacobs's house for a gathering and having a. Having a gathering, per se, and my wife jumps on the show, or jumps on the show. Sorry, Jumps up. Like. Jumps up. And remembering that he has the medal at home and asks him if she can put on the medal, we go up to the lion's den. Sorry, Brad.
[00:22:24] Speaker D: That's.
[00:22:25] Speaker B: I know it's what you called that room was the lion's den. Opens up a drawer and there it is. There's the gold medal, and Hannah put on the Sochi one. But now we get to put on a 20.
Italy gold medal, and we're very much excited to do that. So thanks for that shuttle for Brad and very excited to have more in
[00:22:41] Speaker C: the future, Brennan, to chat a little bit about that victory and how he didn't cheat. Unbelievable.
[00:22:47] Speaker D: Can't wait. Can't wait to chat with him, man.
[00:22:49] Speaker B: Good way to end that on a high, Brennan. Okay, so, Brennan, any final thoughts? I know the NHL is just around the corner. Season's resuming. What are we looking at right out of the gate? Are. Are we gonna. What is your. What's your hot take going into the back half of the season now? I guess you can call this the second half, per se. A bit over that, but what's your. What's your hot take? Putting you on the spot. You got a hot take?
[00:23:11] Speaker D: Hot take.
Geez.
[00:23:13] Speaker B: Matthew's maybe getting booed on Saturday.
[00:23:16] Speaker D: Is that a hot take? I think that. I think that's going to happen, man. I think that's definitely going to happen.
[00:23:21] Speaker B: Want a hot take? I'll give you one.
[00:23:22] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:23:23] Speaker B: I'll say Jordan Bennington getting traded to the Edmonton Oilers. That's my hot take. That's my hot take. And not saying the Oilers are going to win or do anything, but I got a random hot take. It's Bennington, and I can't believe I'm saying this. I can't believe I'm saying this. I don't think they should. The Leafs squeak in to the playoffs. They find it happens to much the dismay of Leaf fans. Those are my hot takes. Because, you know, I wouldn't mind a little surgery to Matthews and the Lander and a little relaxation. Getting the first overall pick and drafting the knockout king, Gavin McKenna, to come join the team would love that. But my hot take is Bennington getting traded and the Leafs squeaking into the playoffs. And I'm not saying how far they're
[00:24:03] Speaker C: going to make it because we all know if they do how far they're
[00:24:05] Speaker D: going to make it. Hot take Leafs trade Matthews before the
[00:24:09] Speaker B: deadline because he gets booed this weekend.
That's wild.
[00:24:16] Speaker D: I love might be a scorching hot take, but if you've heard Trudeau is about to enter the chat and he didn't seem fazed by that.
[00:24:23] Speaker B: So he's a Vancouver fan? I think so. There's not too much he's phased by, I think.
[00:24:27] Speaker C: Nah, poor guy.
[00:24:29] Speaker B: Poor guy. All right, Brennan. Thanks, my friend. We will. We'll talk soon.
[00:24:33] Speaker D: Okay. Thanks guys. See you.
[00:24:34] Speaker B: Jordan Trudeau, the one the only getting ready for some Chucka puck action. Trude's my friend. How you doing?
[00:24:40] Speaker A: Oh, I'm very good. How are you? I'm good.
[00:24:42] Speaker B: I had to pour beverage. As everyone know that tradition on this show. I do have a beverage. A show when we first launched the show when it was coffee with the coach.
[00:24:50] Speaker C: If you know, you know before we
[00:24:52] Speaker B: switched to the game sports show at the time I used to have a Shamrock Shake at McDonald's. We used to record live at McDonald's when they live across the river in the United States, Sioux City, Michigan. When they launched their all day breakfast in Sioux, Michigan, I went it's. We started recording on location. We were doing some in January, but
[00:25:10] Speaker C: before we went live on location where
[00:25:12] Speaker B: I got the Mr. Electric Avenue nickname,
[00:25:13] Speaker C: I always had a green shamrock shake
[00:25:15] Speaker B: and they actually kept the ingredients for
[00:25:17] Speaker C: me even after so I can have it each week. Fun fact from McDonald's in Sault S.A. marie, Michigan.
[00:25:23] Speaker B: So it became a thing that I
[00:25:24] Speaker C: need to have a beverage.
[00:25:25] Speaker B: And as we trended towards recording at the Twisted Sister and live in studio, I would end up evolving a milkshake
[00:25:33] Speaker C: to a adult beverage. Fun fact of the day for you. But let's talk Chuck a puck Croods.
[00:25:39] Speaker B: Missed you. I didn't have. We didn't have a show last week. We've had a.
I want to say a very stale last couple days here
[00:25:46] Speaker C: in Canada, to be honest with you, feels very weird. And then of course we just talked about this with Brennan. The victory of the United States now being overshadowed by controversy. Rightfully so. It was disgusting to hear, of course, but I'm not surprised by who it came from. We might lose followers off some of these comments I made this week, but that's your choice.
[00:26:07] Speaker B: A ultimately still recovery. But Brandon brought up a very good
[00:26:11] Speaker C: point that I think you can confirm. McDavid didn't win in junior hasn't won the cup. He's won the Four Nations, a tournament that was put together by Barry Gary Bettman. By the Gary Bettman and now hasn't won gold.
[00:26:23] Speaker B: But he's won obviously on the international stage.
[00:26:25] Speaker C: We can't forget that he's had success on the international stage with the World Juniors. But every, everybody did for about a
[00:26:31] Speaker B: decade in Canada and we're sitting here
[00:26:34] Speaker C: talking about Major Junior and there was people that were concerned about the future of Canadian goaltending and there's some good goaltending right now in Canada and one of them is just on the world Junior team and plays for the Sault St. Marie Greyhounds and is looking pretty solid because goalies develop in very unique ways. And if he keeps developing the way that he is, I don't think we have anything to worry about when it comes to goaltending in Canada.
[00:26:56] Speaker B: But Trudes, we got a lot to
[00:26:58] Speaker C: get to with Major Junior. So I want to give you the floor with the floor of Major Junior, Ohl and the Sioux Sami Greyhounds. And I'm going to go off you, buddy.
[00:27:06] Speaker A: Yeah, sounds like it. That goalie you mentioned, Carter George, I didn't even have him in my notes tonight, but like you said. Yeah, I mean he's had a really, really positive impact on this Greyhounds team as we knew he would. You know, he's anybody who watches him, who comes to the games watches him play net. Like you can see why the LA Kings drafted him and you can see why he's been one of the best goalies in the league ever since he was 17.
So like just his presence in the net, the way he plays the puck, his calmness, his steadiness, his position wise, he's, he's lights out, he's on the ball. You know, he just his ultra focused. I mean he's a treat to watch, a pleasure to watch. And he's his mom. Fun fact. His mom is actually from two teams and he's actually the grandson of Tom Colterman, the curling legend obviously. So like ties to Brad Jacobs.
Huge congrats to Brad and his team. Really enjoyed watching them. They were kind of the second most sport that I watched. Obviously hockey taking the precedence, but I obviously enjoy watching the sport of curling. Very, very much watched it like growing up in my house all the times like that was awesome to see Brad get another gold and what a great game that was that, that gold medal. I mean Great Britain was also curling very well until that unfortunate end that they had. But I mean props to Brad and Mark and the rest of the team, you know, just to capitalize on a couple little mistakes here and there. And that just goes to show you how good you have to be in that at that stage and at that moment to win. Yeah. Moving over to the 08 now that we got the congratulations in order, a little bit of around the league. The Barrie Colts, hottest team in the league. 10 game winning streak they got going into their contest in Sarnia on Friday. That's very good, Very, very good. They're, they're climbing the ranks over in the Eastern Conference. One point away from Brantford. They have a new franchise, all time leader in points by a defenseman in Ka Thon Ethison and the Greyhounds will meet up with them for their final meeting of the regular season on March 6th in Kitchener. As well as Kitchener, the Guelph Storm, the future Memorial cup hosts in 2027. They're developing nicely as they're having a nice little recognition this week among the ohl. Tyler Hopkins got some points there. I think he had a four goal game. The Maple Leafs prospect who was. Which is a really, really good pick. I remember telling Connor Henderson about that pick because he's asking me who is this Tyler Hopkins? And I know that I think the Greyhounds were really close in acquiring him last year so I was pulling for that one but obviously it didn't work out. And then they got a, they got a couple solid players in Quinn Beaucheen, oh Cojugal player of the Week and Zach Jovanoski who some Greyhound fans just witnessed. I personally wasn't at the game last Saturday but Jovanovsky got a shout out here in Sault Ste. Marie. He shut the Greyhounds out on home ice which doesn't happen very often. I, I think it's only happened about three times in the past, however many years, five, seven or eight years. So you know, props to them. And now the season's going to turn over to March and obviously the home stretch before the playoffs. Some huge weeks coming up determining where the chips are going to fall. So.
[00:30:23] Speaker B: And I believe their last game this
[00:30:24] Speaker C: season is the March 22 against Windsor. If I know. Yeah, I think that's their last game and they got some big matchups coming there, some good measuring stick games to talk about. Brantford, good little road trip in there and obviously getting right down to the end where you're playing in a Windsor. You they got a tough schedule the Hounds here.
[00:30:42] Speaker B: It's really going to be a test
[00:30:43] Speaker C: to be where if they're going to Gain ground where, where they're, where they're going to go when it comes to the standings overall, where are they going to place? Are they going to be able to pass Windsor? Are they going to be able to be a little bit challenging to catch up the Flint but it's not impossible. It's not, it's not impossible to do but certainly not going to be one easy task. And if you can have a goal to try to accomplish getting into second place in the West Div, I think that would be. That'd be huge. And if you can try to keep climbing the standings a little bit, get a nice little tear, I think that'd be good. Realistically, they're not going to go on a perfect run for this next call it month. But if they can win about 75% I think the exact stat is 82% of their games was actually number that I looked up which I thought was quite high. They could, they could pass Windsor. But when I look and obviously a 79, 74 points. Those are five points. Okay, that's just three. Three wins and the Hounds have a month to go here. So I thought that the 80% that I had research quite high. But obviously Windsor is not a bad team and that can go on the same kind of stretch. Maybe it isn't a stretch.
[00:31:45] Speaker B: You can let me know what you
[00:31:46] Speaker C: think below about the Sioux Greyhounds in particular. If they have a chance to get second or even first overall by catching up to Flint. But getting that home ice in a way that you can try to find it in that first round or any way that you can the playoffs, I think that would be huge in any way shape or form if you're not going to get first conference moving up to. Moving up as much as you can because there could be upsets, you know, Flint could lose if they finish first or you know if there could be upsets where you're getting some of that whole mice.
[00:32:12] Speaker B: So you want to move up the
[00:32:12] Speaker C: stadium as quickly as you can and you got to get into that playoff mentality. You know these, these games going forward aren't games for you to kind of rest and be okay. I'm going to get ready for playoffs. I'm going to be healthy. I'm going to take some time off. I know they battled some injuries this year and some challenges. Brady Martin was, is one of them. You know you want to make sure your team gets healthy but at the same time you want to go into these rest of these games for the rest of the season and you're focusing on playing these games like they're playoff hockey. Setting the tone early, getting pucks in deep, battling hard, scoring the first goal, getting into the minds of the opponents, crashing the net. Just playoff mentality is what you need to focus on right now to get prepared for the dance. Because when you get into the dance this year, I feel like despite how everyone wants to look at Bradford being the team that they are, I got to say from the east, if you're a team from over in the west, don't be scared of teams over in the East. I think that the west is a. Is a challenging conference in its entirety and I think it has arguably it's. I think it's a stronger conference in terms of depth of players and the challenges per game. I don't. That might be a hot take for some.
[00:33:14] Speaker A: You can make that argument. You could. Well, you can always kind of make that argument. But like even the Greyhouse perspective, like having the. Pretty much the top division in the league, right? The Firebirds and the Spitfires are in their division. So in order to get to second or first place, they had to jump both of those teams, which you know is going to be a hurdle in itself. And they, they left some points on the table these past few games that I think obviously were what's super disappointing to the coaching staff and the players, you know, to come in against teams that are lower than you in the standings and then to give up one and then even two points to Guelph, you know, it really hurts because like you mentioned, you're only five points back of Windsor and those are some key points that you could have turned into victories that were left on the table. I know it's a bit shocking, but you know, they're battling right now. It's been a tough stretch. They've lost some points over the past couple games. They're not seem to be playing to their full potential.
Had some close games not go their way and you know, so what is the reason for that? Is it the injuries?
Obviously missing Brady Martin and Chase? The Reed has taken its toll and it's going to continue to take its toll until they return.
And I think just some of the top guys are probably getting a little burnt out, a little fatigued. So, you know, just being able to rest, get healthy is probably pretty important and on their minds right now. Hopefully we see Brady and Chase back pretty soon, maybe even this weekend. That would be. That would be great. But you don't want to rush them back. But at the same time, like we're getting into March and it'd be nice to get them in some. Some games and some reps, some meaningful reps and some game situations because I think it'd be better than just kind of throwing them in there for the playoffs. Especially a player like Martin who hasn't. Didn't really play for the Hounds all season and then he went to Team Canada and then he got hurt there. So he's a played since that. Just since the New year basically since
[00:35:12] Speaker C: January and the Vegas Golden Knights. You need to get some games.
[00:35:15] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:35:16] Speaker C: Get to that mentality. Okay. You gotta. You gotta play. You gotta play.
[00:35:19] Speaker A: Yeah. So I mean that's.
[00:35:21] Speaker B: And I wrote huge.
[00:35:22] Speaker C: I wrote like before. I kind of looked at ways what they can look up from the standings and. And go up and key things that I put out was one obvious. Is Carter George needs to be the X factor. He's fantastic. Okay. I think they gotta tighten up on those extra point games. I was doing some research and the Hounds have five shootout losses this year.
[00:35:40] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:35:40] Speaker C: And that's the most out of any top tier top team in the Western Conference.
[00:35:45] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:35:46] Speaker B: Third one.
[00:35:46] Speaker C: I like the production that you see. Obviously Chase Reed is. You don't need to go any further. Lucas Fisher has been a great compliment.
[00:35:54] Speaker A: Outstanding.
[00:35:55] Speaker C: Great compliment. I think.
[00:35:56] Speaker A: Amazing addition to the blue line. You're right.
[00:35:59] Speaker C: Overall I think that that has to continue. Just those two. Keep doing what you're doing. You set the tone for that back end basketball team's consistency was another point that kind of touches on that.
[00:36:09] Speaker B: Their.
[00:36:09] Speaker C: Their power play percentage hovering from what I researched 19.4% as what we're recording today.
[00:36:15] Speaker B: It is solid, which is pretty solid.
[00:36:17] Speaker C: But it's behind leaders like Kitchener I believe which is in the mid-20s almost is I think if I saw correctly. So they really successful.
[00:36:26] Speaker B: So you have such.
[00:36:27] Speaker C: These guys that can score goals. Marco Christopher Brown, you're missing. You're missing Mackenzie. Right. But the power play needs. And the words that I use to myself needs to become more lethal. And I think they need to try
[00:36:42] Speaker B: to play a bit more physical in those.
[00:36:45] Speaker C: On the power play. But those are my four takeaways. So I had Carter George at the extra point game capitalized maintaining defensive production from the two studs back there and special team consistency. Those are the four that I wanted to highlight just for Hounds fans and OHL fans to comment below on and chirp us on. But true.
[00:37:04] Speaker B: It's. What do you. What do you think?
[00:37:05] Speaker A: Well, I got one, two face offs. They like if you look back over Their past recent games I only looked at about 5 or 6, but they're not winning the face off battle. They're close. They're close, but they're varying between 40 to 48% on draws. So I know they're like, they're a really solid team, five on five. And you brought up special teams being like a different animal. Seems as though the power play struggles a little bit, you know, but at the same time, like your first power play is basically out, right? Like Reed and Martin are both.
That's your first power play line right there and then Mignosa and then you just slot guys in from here and then out. So with those guys playing regular power play minutes, you never know what the power play would be like. But yeah, the 5 on 5 play for the Hounds is genuinely pretty strong. Like, especially with George back there. Now, like you're looking at puck possession and defensive structure is a really big strength for this team. But being able to win those draws, win those key face offs, get control of the puck is a big part of the battle too. And I think we kind of saw Team Canada at the Olympics struggle with that at times when they were, you know, just in my buddy's group chat, anyway, we noticed like loss of draw, loss of draw, loss of draw. And you look at Team Canada, such a skilled. The best, best team on earth. They were the best team at the tournament. They're the best team on earth. There's no. They lost the gold medal game, but there's no question. Yeah, but they struggled. When you're looking at like a team like Finland, Czechia, like those teams really impressed me on after winning the draw, keeping the puck away from Canada. So winning the draw is huge. You mentioned Marco. I had it in my notes. He was on a, like he's been on a tear. 12 points in three games before the Guelph game. Tied for third in the league in points. He's four back, so it'd be really cool to see him get that. Obviously it's, it's an individual accolade, but still really nice, really cool of him to get that league leader in points to win that award. And he's also the new shorthanded goal leader in franchise history with 14. Yes, he passed Steve Gatsos and Boris Kachuk who retired at 13. And he scored a short handed goal, scored a shorty on Friday against Sarnia. So he, he's the new. He etched his name in the record books there with the most organic goals by one player in his career. For in Sugreon's history. So, like, huge congrats to him. He's kind of like a shark out there. Like, you don't really notice him. He's like a type of player that like, you could kind of forget about. And then that's a big problem because he'll like capitalize on your mistakes. Like you don't notice him. And then all of a sudden, boom, he's there to capitalize and put the puck in the back of your net.
[00:39:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:39:44] Speaker A: So like, he's quiet, but like, I had to. Hopefully he's peeking. Yeah.
[00:39:51] Speaker B: I love this.
[00:39:51] Speaker C: I, I love that. The stat. I love, I love the stat of the shorthanded goals. I think that's. Man, that's kind of, that's right now.
[00:39:59] Speaker A: It's a, It's a really cool skill. It just gives the, the other team something to think about when they're on the power play, which is big, which is a nice little advantage for him. But you could see him just see the play. Like the vision is outstanding for him on the pk. Like even that goal on Friday, like, you could see him anticipate the puck being turned over and the second he even thought of it being a chance, he sprung up the middle and then all of a sudden up flips the puck and then it's a two on one and then he, he snipes one glove sides like, yeah, huge congrats to him. He's. He's had a strong second half of the season and hopefully that continues into the playoffs, especially when Martin gets back to centering him.
[00:40:41] Speaker C: You want Martin healthy, you want Reed healthy, you want all the boys healthy, but you want them playing some games before the puck drops in the playoffs. That's get a game or two. Not even if they play a full 20 minutes in that game. In terms of average top line minutes, get them at least four or five shifts a period just to get them some ice, some crash hit, some guys, get into the momentum, some power play time, get back into that feel. Special team, some five on five. You can really be strategic, especially when you clinch a playoff spot. And you'll know by then where you kind of fall in the standings potentially. Or maybe if it's deciding important game where you get home ice, sometimes you got to be a little bit different. You got to take that approach different. But if you know where you're at and given what the Hounds are in the standings, they would need Windsor to have some struggles and maybe Flint to really start diving up and gain that ground that they want, which Again, could happen.
So you want to have that element the next month that you're focusing on winning games. But you got to use this time. By the time you, you know, you get to that point of. All right, this is where we're going to be. This is where we're situated. All right, that's not injured some guys, but let's get them some. Okay, they're healthy. Doctor, they're ready to play. Great. All right, let's get them some time on the ice to get back into that rhythm. So when they come on the ice for that first sh. They're not cold because of hockey. Doesn't matter what level you're at is a different animal.
[00:41:56] Speaker A: Yeah. And especially if you're playing London, like that's not an easy team to play in the first round. So best case scenario, you know, you want to move up a little. Like you want to move up at least one, one slot to get the third place, second place, even greater. Like you can have home ice for as long as possible in the playoffs. It's an advantage, but I mean it is doable. They have four games left. Two like against the top team, two against Windsor, two against Flint. So you know, those are in fact eight point games. Like those are four point games. Each one of those games. Right. Because you're gaining two points and you're taking two points away from them. So key, key games coming up this Friday, the only action they have. Well, story there, we're recording on Tuesday. So they play tomorrow night in Sudbury, 25th, Wednesday the 25th, and then they're at home Friday the 27th against Kingston. Two bottom Eastern Conference teams. You need to come out with victories. You need to win these games. And maybe it's a little bit of a, like a pressure situation.
I don't think it's going into the game like, like the Guelph game and even the Sarnia game last, like on Family Day. I don't think they're going into the game taking this team lightly. I think maybe it's just now realizing that this is a game we have to win.
And so then the. Like that can pressure you as well. Like pressure gets to you, especially when the game gets. Stays closer to the, to the end of the third period. Right. As the game gets closer, I always find the less lesser team if they keep the game close, I find it's easier for them to overtake it and win it. I don't know if that's like a hockey thing, like, you know, because if you're going into it Thinking that, okay, this team's. You know, they've got stuff on us. They've. They've got NHL picks. They're. They're. They're better than us or they're. You don't want to go into thinking like that. But they're a bit of a heavier team than us. Yeah, they got some skill. If we can keep it close, maybe they'll break at the end. So, you know, the Hounds have to stay, stick to their structure and yeah, they got to come out flying and win two games this week, get the confidence back and then that'll prepare them for the tough marks that they got going on. They got Windsor, they got Flint and Kitchener to start March. So that's. That's gonna be two huge games there. And they're on the road, Matt. Hopefully Taste and Brady are back for those. That would be really nice. Time for them to suit back up. So.
[00:44:19] Speaker C: Massive game. Exciting, Massive games.
[00:44:21] Speaker B: Exciting times overall, the Hounds.
[00:44:23] Speaker C: And when it comes to the. The major junior scene, playoffs are shaping up and very exciting times for sure. Connor, before we let you go, any final thoughts for chock a puck before.
[00:44:34] Speaker A: I know I'm handsome, but like, I don't. I don't know. Connor might take offense to you calling me Connor.
[00:44:39] Speaker B: Did I say.
[00:44:40] Speaker A: I said you did. Yeah. So thank you for that.
[00:44:43] Speaker B: I was Connor, honest. Let me be honest with you.
[00:44:46] Speaker C: I just read a Connor McDavid post,
[00:44:48] Speaker B: so I am so. My mind.
[00:44:50] Speaker A: Your mind.
[00:44:51] Speaker B: I read a conflict David thing that I'm gonna have to touch on maybe
[00:44:55] Speaker C: this week or next week. It's.
[00:44:56] Speaker B: But it might. Might not even be worthy of me
[00:44:58] Speaker C: before I wrap up the show to talk about because I have other things I wanted to do before we wrap up. So true.
[00:45:03] Speaker A: Can I just say. Can I just say for the people that are saying Connor McDavid is a loser and this and that and he can't win and that's what I just read.
[00:45:13] Speaker B: Somebody was saying, like, I know we talked the can't win piece, but somebody
[00:45:17] Speaker C: absolutely heckling them online here. Just saying Connor McDavid is a no show. Connor McDavid is why he seems to break down a big moment. He thinks he can take the team on his shoulders and choose his team more.
[00:45:31] Speaker A: I'm choosing McD. Like, I want the puck on McD 97. Stick as much as possible.
[00:45:36] Speaker B: That's why.
Thanks for saying that because that's what I just read.
[00:45:39] Speaker C: I want to talk about it, but like, I wanted just to say this guy had a record breaking 13 points which is an Olympic record for the NHL era peeps. Okay.
He's an undeniable inclusion on any team that you create. Okay.
[00:45:56] Speaker B: And when maybe I'll have to.
[00:45:58] Speaker C: If I have time because I'm going to do the 2030 prediction after truits gets off. I might do Canada's all time Olympic hockey line. And people are wondering if McDavid would be on that line. And it's hard. There is people that. That have McDavid in over Gretzky, which is wild.
[00:46:15] Speaker B: Wild.
[00:46:16] Speaker C: I'm sorry, I still think that's wild. But I mean you have. If you have to choose three forwards, you can't go wrong with whoever the
[00:46:24] Speaker B: heck you choose out of the options.
[00:46:26] Speaker C: Okay, Maybe you're not choosing them over Gretzky. Okay, all right. But McDavid, let me tell you, in 2030 Olympics is gonna.
[00:46:33] Speaker B: He's not gonna be able to staple
[00:46:35] Speaker C: himself as better at Crosby at Olympics. Maybe because Crosby has multiple gold medals. Okay, so enough with the McDavid hate. Okay, like, yeah.
[00:46:44] Speaker B: Can you say maybe he can't win?
[00:46:46] Speaker C: Yeah, he hasn't won the big game.
[00:46:48] Speaker B: Except for Nation.
[00:46:48] Speaker C: I get it, all right?
[00:46:49] Speaker A: But the. The comments here, well, oh, that's getting to win.
[00:46:53] Speaker B: Until like come on, this guy didn't
[00:46:54] Speaker A: win for a long time and he passed Gretzky in points.
[00:46:57] Speaker B: Like it just him on his shoulders
[00:46:59] Speaker C: and thinks he can carry the team.
[00:47:01] Speaker B: But you know what? He can.
[00:47:03] Speaker C: Number one.
[00:47:04] Speaker B: Number two.
[00:47:05] Speaker C: I'm sure he doesn't think that way, okay?
[00:47:07] Speaker B: I'm sure when he was on the
[00:47:09] Speaker C: overtime, he was looking for McKinnon. He was looking for the lads. Okay. Because he had the lads. It's not like he was looking down the left side. He had Andrew Mangia Pani coming down the freaking right left side. No offense to Mangio Panty. He's still NHL player.
[00:47:23] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:47:23] Speaker B: But a little bit different if you
[00:47:25] Speaker C: got the Nate Dog or Angie Manjupani.
[00:47:27] Speaker A: Okay. Celebrini or celebrity.
[00:47:30] Speaker C: Sorry.
[00:47:30] Speaker B: Right.
[00:47:30] Speaker C: That was his main.
[00:47:31] Speaker A: That kid is. He is outstanding.
[00:47:33] Speaker C: Connor Bedard is outstanding.
[00:47:36] Speaker B: Fired up for the 2030 Olympics watching
[00:47:39] Speaker C: what Baselabri just did.
[00:47:41] Speaker B: I'm telling you.
[00:47:42] Speaker A: Watch.
[00:47:43] Speaker B: Watch for number 98 next.
[00:47:44] Speaker A: I. Yeah.
[00:47:45] Speaker B: Who is the leading score of all
[00:47:47] Speaker C: time at the world Juniors?
[00:47:49] Speaker A: Isn't it Bernard For Canada or for the whole.
[00:47:51] Speaker C: I think.
[00:47:53] Speaker B: I don't whole tournament. I'm not 100% sure.
[00:47:55] Speaker C: I think it is.
[00:47:56] Speaker B: But Canada.
[00:47:57] Speaker A: Yes, it's Bedard. Right? And he did it as a 17 year old. Like he. He was an underager for that term. Yeah, I know.
[00:48:05] Speaker C: And I'm putting him in the move.
[00:48:07] Speaker B: That's Jarvis.
[00:48:07] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:48:08] Speaker C: I'm putting him in the lineup before. Okay. I mean, yeah, go down this path,
[00:48:15] Speaker B: but any final thoughts? I know I called.
[00:48:18] Speaker A: No, no, no, no. I did it, too. It's okay.
[00:48:21] Speaker C: Jordan Trudeau.
[00:48:22] Speaker B: True.
[00:48:23] Speaker A: Yes, that's me.
[00:48:24] Speaker C: Choco Puck.
[00:48:26] Speaker A: Yeah. Like, let's see a greyhound lineup with Carter, George, Brady Martin and Chase Reed. All the lineup at one time. It's like, come on, let's do it.
[00:48:36] Speaker B: That's.
[00:48:37] Speaker A: I'm ready for it. I've been waiting since January. I think we've all been waiting since January. We want to see this. I honestly, if this team can get healthy and they can come together in a short period of time, I do think that there's something here.
And I wouldn't count them out. They battled, they battled. They're continuing to battle, and I just think that they just need something to go right for them at some point. I haven't seen a team so injury prone in my life, so they've had a lot of adversity to get through. They've had a lot of guys step up. But when you look at how much you get Brady Martin back, you get Jeremy Martin back, you get Chase Reed back, how deep this roster gets quick is a big deal. And you want to see them do well. You want to see them have success, and I like them. I think this is a fantastic hockey team, and I think that they can do some damage. They just have to put the pieces together. So hopefully they get healthy, and hopefully that happens.
[00:49:41] Speaker C: I, for Hounds fans are waiting for it, and the OHL fans should be waiting for it, too, because it's better when you have all the players playing. It makes for a competitive game, and that's what we had some luxury to, especially from the Olympics this past few weeks.
[00:49:53] Speaker B: So, Trude, this has been Chakapuck.
[00:49:56] Speaker C: This is another edition of Chaka Buck. I want to say thank you, my friend, and we'll see you next week.
[00:50:01] Speaker A: Yep, see you next week. Sounds good.
[00:50:03] Speaker C: Have a good one, my friend.
[00:50:04] Speaker A: You too.
[00:50:06] Speaker C: All right, Jordan Trudeau. And I already mistaken Tim for Connor today because these comments, I gotta stay off. Off the Internet sometimes. Some comments that people make are just absolutely unbelievable. As I sit here and I want to promote the Game Sports podcast, Tick Tock channel, which you, again, you can follow at the Game Sports Podcast, Tick Tock, and Instagram. So I wanted to take these last few minutes kind of do an outro myself to have a little bit of a Prediction floor to myself, to be honest with you, given the contents of the show with Brandon and Trudes and the agenda that we have that you can already see that we're hitting hour of course. So I'm not going to dive into too much here and I won't be talking about any baseball or any other sports news. It is purely hockey today in its entirety.
So what I wanted to spend these last few minutes doing is kind of giving you a treat, kind of an interaction wrap up, let's call it. And in light of the Olympics completing, I want to give a very much a hot take. Friend of the show, friend of mine, Brad Jacobs winning his second gold medal and one of the only, the only to do it as a back to back winner, skipping of two different teams and winning as a skip for Canada for two years. Two, two appearances at the Olympics. Absolutely unbelievable. Okay, so he is someone that when you think of the Winter Olympics when it comes to Canada and when it comes to curling, he has stapled himself to being the legend on the Canadian curling front along with some other names as well. But you now can put Brad Jacobs up there and his team was great to watch, it was exciting and it's certainly going to be a party here in Sault Ste. Marie when it's all set and done and I'm going to put on that medal for you viewers and listeners and I'm going to upload a picture of it and you know, I'm going to pretend that I won it because that he won that out of hard work. There was somebody that was one of the most sought after free agents in curling and it was absolutely wild to not see him on a team that he gets his team and the different team than he won in 2014. But a team that has was just so successful and driven to win and you knew, I knew from when he won the briar that this was somebody that was just on a different level again.
[00:52:09] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:52:09] Speaker C: And to give you a little funny story at my wedding, he did that serious curling face on the dance floor.
[00:52:14] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:52:14] Speaker C: Just want to make sure I tap. I give you a little bit of fun story there.
[00:52:18] Speaker B: But I didn't want to use this
[00:52:19] Speaker C: in terms of just shouting out Brad Jacobs, which of course well deserved his Overall, the Olympics was very much enjoyable to watch when I was able to watch it after work or just on highlights. But I want to devote these last couple minutes to something with Canadian hockey. Obviously with Canadian hockey there was a loss in terms of the gold medal game. It's sad. I've still heartbroken about it. I obviously just very much heartbroken. But when the Blue Jays lost the World Series in spring train is to start it and I'm still not over it. It's something that you will always remember. Okay. And it's unfortunate what's been happening post of that and we've already talked about this on on the show, but I think we should talk about a little something positive when it comes to Canadian hockey.
[00:53:03] Speaker A: All right.
[00:53:03] Speaker C: And shout out to the girls team who battled and made that last game was great, great hockey to watch. Tough goal at the end there. It was very nice goal to get the win for the for the United States girls team. But I wanted to do a Canada Olympic hockey lineup and I wanted to do it from a perspective of predicting the 2030 Men's Olympic Team and I wanted to look at spinning off into an all time Canadian men's and also a women's lineup. So predicting the 2030 men's team and then getting into a legacy lineup for Canada per se. So I'm going to give you that as a treat. So I wanted to touch on the lineup first. We're going to talk about the 2030 Olympics nice and early and I am going to have some honorable mentions on there for you to enjoy as well.
[00:53:59] Speaker B: And it's going to be a little
[00:54:02] Speaker C: bit of a different team, but there is going to be some returning players. Okay. You have, you have a lot of options when it comes to the 2030 team. From up front you always go with Canada and the back end is going to be a little bit different. But I want to give you from the forwards to the defenseman to the goaltending, then some honorable mentions of course. And it's just going to be the players that I am going to be predicting. I won't be predicting the coaching staff or the management by any means. But I will say one thing. I think Joel Thornton is going to be a part of that management team and of course Kyle Dubas will be back in there.
[00:54:37] Speaker B: But I'm going to give you the
[00:54:38] Speaker C: forwards, the defense and the goaltending and honorable mentions. Then I'm going to get into the lineups that I had for the women's and the men's from a legacy perspective. So Starting with the 2030 Men's Olympic Hockey team prediction early advance. Starting with the forwards, I got Braden Point, Connor McDavid, Mitch Marner, Macklin Celebrini, Nathan McKinnon, Connor Bedard, Brandon Hagel, Nick Suzuki, Seth Jarvis, Adam Fantilli, Robert Thomas Wyatt Johnson, Gavin McKenna and the Wicked wrister Dylan Gunther. On defense, Thomas Harley, Kale McCarr, Matthew Schaefer, Owen Power, Josh Morrissey, Evan Bouc are Jake Chickren and Shea Fedor. Annette I have Mackenzie Blackwood, Logan Thompson and hot take Jet Greaves. From an honorable mentions perspective, Quinton Byfield, Mason McTavish, Noah Thompson and Bowen Byram. Those are four players that I'm going to have as an honorable mention for the 2030 team. But that is my prediction. The way too early Olympic hockey team roster. Now from a legacy lineup prediction. Look, this is a very much you can go in any way shape here and to be honest with you, from a forward perspective, this is the men's all time Olympic starting six. Sidney Crosby, Mario Lemieux, Wayne Gretzky. On defense I got Scott Neidermeyer and Chris Pronger and that I got Martin Broder. I'm going to tell you something that it was very hard to not put Connor McDavid in place of Wayne Gretzky on this and I know that is a hot take. Almost, almost challenging to put Connor McDavid there instead of Mario Lemieux. Either one because Crosby has the golden goal and is the obvious multiple goal time winner in the Olympics. I'm talking about the Olympics success, not player success.
Connor McDavid, despite not winning gold has had 13 points which is an Olympic record. Yeah, I had Crosby, Lemieux and Gretzky from an all time legacy Canadian Olympic lineup for the men's team. But honestly you could put Connor McDavid there in place of Gretzky and or Lemieux. Very hot take for you. Last hot take for that you can arguably put Carey Price in front of Martin Broder. There's no right or wrong when it comes to that. For the women's team I got Marie Philippe Poulet, Haley Wickenheiser, Jayna Hefford. Those are the forwards. Geraldine Henney on defense with Jocelyn the Rock on defense and Annette Kim St. Pierre being the all time women's. So that's the men's and then that is the women's all time Olympic legacy legend lineup that I would be choosing to put on the ice. Let me know what you think below. There's no right or wrong. You can chirp as much you want to but when it comes to Canada there's so many options and that's what makes me proud to be a Canadian. So many strong athletes and when it comes to world of Hockey, so many options. From a men's side you can look at Joe Sakic you can look at. As I mentioned on defense, you can even still pick Cale Makar, being literally the modern prototype defenseman of the modern era. Despite the success from this Olympics. There's so much that you can station when it comes from Olympic hockey or even from a full Canadian perspective. But if I'm putting six guys on the ice, Crosby, Lemieux and Gretzky, it's pretty Great. Take out McDavid for any of those for Lemieux or Gretzky can't go wrong either. Joe Sakic can't go wrong either. Lots of options. Let me know what you think below for the men's and women's all time starting sixth when it comes to the Canadian hockey and even including the Olympic era.
[00:58:32] Speaker B: Now this has been the Game Sports
[00:58:34] Speaker C: Podcast absolutely Hockey Dominant edition and it's been our first episode in the last couple weeks. Our previous edition that you can check out that is still very relevant to check out. Andrew Palaya stopped by the show to talk about the recent NOJHL incident to AS from the ref's perspective where he was verbally and not just verbally harassed, he was threatened from as a fan and from a fan and ultimately there's an investigation going on and the NOHA ranks and there's no news for me to share forward from that. I've been keeping close tabs on that but nothing to share at this time. But you can check out that edition to speak your thoughts in the comment section and also hear Andrew Pillaia's breaking of silence in our most recent edition. Also make sure you check out all social media channels, TikTok, Instagram at the Game Sports Podcast. Facebook as well as 91 Network can also check out Spaces where the Game Sports Podcast is featured on the sports and the hockey section of Sault Ste Marie Spaces. I want to say thank you to Brendan McCarthy, I want to say thank you to Jordan Trudeau and I want to say thank you to Jerry. He also likes to be called Bryce Rowlandson for doing the editing in the background for here on the Game Sports Podcast. We hope that you enjoyed this edition. If you loved it like follow and subscribe and make sure you interact. Make sure that you're following especially from the Sault Ste Marie area. Support local as we like to say around here. But if you are ever questioning if you should comment, do it. We will respond. We will touch base here. We have a big family here on the game that want to like and interact with your comments. It does not go to, I guess you can say deaf ears or blind eyes if you're looking on your phone. So make sure that you are interacting with us and you might get it featured on here. And keep an eye on some great future editions coming up as we are going to get back to the special edition shows as I previously mentioned when we had Ryan's Prolon, which is another recent special edition and show that you can check out on any audio platform on also 91N as well.
[01:00:34] Speaker B: Well, we will be back next week
[01:00:35] Speaker C: and until next week I'm here to remind you to keep your stick on the ice. Swing your bats, catch your touchdowns, drain your and shoot your shots. Booyah.
