Porter Martone owns Penguins in Game 1 | BSH Podcast | A Philadelphia Flyers Show

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Hello and welcome to the Broad Street
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Hockey Podcast. I am your host Ryan
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Gilbert. Joining me is Joe Dearini and
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we got Jacob Russell here. We got the
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full house here on a Sunday afternoon
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after a Flyers 32 victory in game one
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over the Pittsburgh Penguins. Uh we we
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still partying hard here, boys.
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>> Yes. Uh I am hurting a little bit as
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I've previously expressed before we
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started, but uh yeah, great night. Uh
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I'm on a I've been on a high for since I
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woke up. You know, it's just one of
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those days. The the air is is is
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crisper. The sun feels warmer. Um, it's
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like 7 degrees here. It might as well be
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15. Uh, yeah, it's it's a day.
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>> I have learned that playoff hockey
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rules. This is awesome. This is so fun.
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>> Yeah,
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>> we should do this more often.
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>> No bubble. No bubble. We got we got we
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got the a real game in Pittsburgh. Big
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big win. I mean, everyone up and down
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the lineup contributing there. We will
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get into all of that, of course, but uh
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thanks to our sponsors at FanDuel for
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sponsoring the show. Flyers and to win
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this series now down to minus 178. Uh
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rather decent favorites there to win
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this series. And also uh this is episode
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100 of the Broad Street Hockey Podcast.
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I was I wanted to do something special.
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>> I wanted to do something special for
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episode 100. You know, might still do
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something special, have some uh special
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guests on from for the OG uh BSH radio
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listeners there. But um what better way
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for episode 100 and to have that win,
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that Porter Martone goal, Travis Sanheim
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just showing what he does. Sean Couttori
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just like the the young guys, the old
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guys, everyone in between. Dan Vadar, a
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fi the heartstoppping save in the final
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>> save at the end. Oh my god.
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>> Yeah, that's it's just just a Where do
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you guys want to start? Like should we
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just start with Martone? Just like
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Martone showing up and just dunking on
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the Penguins in his first game. You kind
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of have to, right?
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>> Yeah.
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>> Well, I was gonna say he was a little
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rough earlier in the game. He looked
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like a kid in his first playoffs, but
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>> he figured it out as he went along. And
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we saw that in the regular season. A
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couple of the like his second or maybe
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third game, he looked like a rookie. And
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then outside of that, he figured it out
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was fine. And I think we saw yesterday.
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>> This is what I'm saying though, Joe.
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He's he does this thing where like he
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you see the initial growing pains, but
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by the time you get to the third period,
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they're all gone and he looks like an
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NHL player. It takes him like a period
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and a half to grow into the game to
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figure out, oh, this is what playoff
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hockey is, okay? And by the third
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period, he looks like a top six winger
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again. And it's like he scores just a
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goal that there's just not that many
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players who can do that in the NHL. It
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just I like I don't know if another guy
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on the team I don't know if Tippet even
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one of those guys like that like I've
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you've seen Kenkne maybe in in his prime
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when he's when he's really playing well
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do something like that but that just
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stop up little button hook Achari is at
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the red line by the time he even gets to
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like slow down and then that shot is
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just inch perfect. I mean there might as
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well not have been a goalie in the net.
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That's
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one of the best goals I've ever seen a
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flyer score in my life. Yeah, it was
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like it was like he was shooting on that
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that homemade goalie thing he had in
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that in that pre-draft video where he
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was talking with his family. He just
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made Stu Skinner I forget what he called
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his his home his homemade goalie, but he
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made Stu Skinner look like that. And an
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underrated part of that goal that I
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enjoyed is that, you know, Travis Kknney
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kind of handed it off to Porter Martone
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there and then, you know, collided with
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Chris Latang at the bench. Chris Latang
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decides to, you know, go for an extra
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shot in there on uh Travis Kenkne rather
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than backing to potentially get to
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Porter Martone and rush him there. So
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just a a banner night for Chris Latang
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as well. Just Chris Leang, you hate to
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see it him going out like this.
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>> Minus three, I think he was or at least
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he was on the ice for all three goals
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against.
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>> Yeah, I think the NHL the NHL.com gives
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him a minus two right now. But
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>> yeah, 21 minutes all of them were bad.
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He was terrible. He did nothing good um
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the entire game. Him and Sam Gerard is
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maybe the stupidest pairing I've ever
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seen in my life. Uh so hopefully they
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stick with that and continue to play.
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Chris Leang 21 minutes a night.
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>> Yeah, I saw someone posted on social
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media like looking at the the highest
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time on ice for for both teams. You see
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the Flyers all all these young guys and
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the Penguins all these 35 36 37 38 year
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old and like yeah Malcin had the goal.
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Um,
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>> I thought Carlson was I thought Carlson
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was okay. Malcolin again, he he he had a
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typical of Guinea. It's so funny and I
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want to get into this later. Crosby and
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Malcolin looked so young, not in their
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play, but in like their mentality. Like
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he had the typical of Guinea Malcin. I'm
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going to freak the We haven't gotten
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outside of five minutes yet, so I'm
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going to I'm going to
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>> not swear yet. Um, but the he he freaked
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the [ __ ] out and and scores a goal, a
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big goal, and then he's behind the net,
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you know, fighting with Nick Cer. Like,
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why are you doing that? It's Nick Cer.
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Like,
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you can't pick anybody besides Nick Cer.
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He's the fifth defenseman.
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>> He was such a baby when Cer whacked his
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arm, too. Like, oh, oh, oh, I'm broken.
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It's broken.
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>> Yeah. like dislocation shoulder thing
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where you just like wave your arm
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around.
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>> Yeah.
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>> And and Cindy Crosby too. Let's just
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touch on that right now. Like that that
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that first uh offsetting penalty with
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Jamie Dale just tearing his tearing his
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helmet off. I was worried
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>> that shouldn't have been off setting
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either.
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>> No, they should have just called Crosby
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right away. But I was worried they were
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just going to call Dale for not getting
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to the bench right away. But Dale's like
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he he tore my tore my helmet off. What
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do you want to see?
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>> We don't we don't have time for that
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rant, but I have a rant on that. That
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should not be a rule during the
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playoffs.
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>> No, it No, it it it should continue.
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>> Yeah, but the the bigger thing was late
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in the game, final two minutes down by
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two goals, I think, by that point,
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taking off setting miners with Travis
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Sanheim. Like the Travis Sanheim goating
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connect or Crosby into those offsetting
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penalties, which did benefit the
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Penguins because they got a five on four
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instead of a six on five. You got Crosby
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off the ice. Like you have the the guy
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that could maybe kill you got off the
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ice. If that's Crosby instead of Mantha
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in the final five seconds there in front
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of the net, that's probably in the net.
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So yeah, just Yeah, Crosby showing Yeah,
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he was playing young. He was playing
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young. He was playing scared and the
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Flyers had no fear really at all. Like
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Martone Mechov had some, you know, some
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young moments early on, even in the
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second period, but by the third period,
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they were making all the right plays.
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>> Yeah. and and like you said the minute
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nine left him and Sanheim go off
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>> and obviously Sanheim they looked like
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an absolute horse out there was
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fantastic the entirety of the game but
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you're taking that trade 10 times out of
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10 right like Sydney Crosby not being on
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the ice for you know an empty net
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situation for the Penguins um
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>> that's about as good as you can hope for
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um and and even on the broadcast they
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were trying to say like when he got I
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don't know if it was on that particular
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penalty But they were talking about like
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Ferraro and and whoever the playby-play
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guy is. Um
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>> I was watching Embassy Sports Philly.
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I'm assuming Joe was
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>> Okay. I don't get that feed. I don't get
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that. Yeah, I don't get that feed. So on
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the broadcast, yeah, on the broadcast
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they're talking about
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>> Well, it's a five on four situation.
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There's a bit more space for guys to
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skate. Maybe it's better if you don't
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have Crosby out there and you can like I
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don't even know what they're trying to
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justify. That is the worst case scenario
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if you're a Penguins fan. And I'm
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surprised they even got the one to be
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honest. was like a a weird bounce just
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falls on Brian Rust stick his horseshoe
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is still firmly implanted up his ass for
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the last 10 years of his NHL career
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following the Connor Sheeri uh Pascal
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Dewei Chris Kunit's bloodline of riding
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the coattails of the best player since
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1999
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um
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>> Don and Buzz Flip it.
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>> Yeah. Yeah. The boys were out in full
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force but you kept him quiet. Kept him
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quiet. It's normally somebody random.
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You thought Blake Lazot was going to get
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one for a minute there. I got kind of
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felt like that was coming. But
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>> yeah, Blake Laz was out there. Yeah,
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>> just random dudes.
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>> Throw Tyler Kennedy in there. I love how
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much Steve Jako hates Tyler Kennedy. I
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love that. Abs. Absolutely. That was a a
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great listen flyer. It was before game
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one, but Ryan Quidley just hating on
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Chris Latang and Evani Malin. Uh Steve
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hating on everybody. You love to see it
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uh there. But yeah, we were talking
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about before we came on and that Martone
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goal like that's the biggest best Flyers
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playoff goal possibly since Claude Daru
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the shift. I mean sure you could say
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maybe one of the the Scott Laden
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overtime winner in the bubble was bigger
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because it was it was later in the
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playoffs but like that Martone goal it
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really put an exclamation mark on on
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this win.
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>> Yeah, he's he's a player. He's legit.
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He's up to 11 points in 10 games. I I
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know the playoffs are a separate beast,
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a separate animal, but if we're going to
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call this a four-ame win streak because
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they did win four in a row finally, we
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can say that Marton has uh is over a
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point a game so far. Um it's I just I
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can't believe we get to have hopefully a
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Kale Mar experience in Philadelphia.
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Like best case scenario, how awesome
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would that be?
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>> Yeah. like coming out of the He means
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coming out of
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>> Oh, coming out of college.
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>> Yeah, Gil Gil looked like he had no idea
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what was going on.
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>> I was confused a little bit. I'm looking
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up Gil thought it was a Nolan and
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Patrick joke.
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>> No, no, no.
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>> I I was like, wait, we talking we
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talking about Daryl or something now?
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Cuz Dale had had the first goal. No,
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coming out of college coming into into
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the playoffs. Yeah, that's
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>> I guess what you brought up.
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>> That's a good poll there, Jill. It's a
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good poll.
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>> That is a good poll. That's ball
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knowledge. Um the the the since you
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brought it up, the Ddale goal, I mean,
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you just see those guys celebrate after
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that goal. They were just
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>> I mean, you know, they you can just tell
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they were just ready to run. They were
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just like chomping at the bit.
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>> Every single one of them their first
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playoff game. Every single one of them
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their first playoff point. Uh over at
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BSH, I don't know if it has gone up on
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the website, but a bunch of us made
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predictions about the Pens matchup. And
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one of the questions we were asked is
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name one Flyers player that might
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surprise. You know who I picked? Jim
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Jam. Jamie Dale, baby. I was like, I
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think this kid's going to do something
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crazy. And he really followed. He really
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came through for me. So, thank you,
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Jamie Dale. I've been a dry guy for a
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while and you're really vindicating me.
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>> The Dale stock has never been higher.
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Um, there were some there's some bumps,
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there were some lulls in the bare
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markets along the way, as it were. Um
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but
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>> you know now it's it seems like you know
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you look at it and it's hard to imagine
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this decor existing without you know
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>> Dale in it. He's he's just looks so good
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and in a game where you know there's
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like 81 hits between both team two
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teams, right? It's a physical game and
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you don't notice him looking small. You
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don't notice him not going to the
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corner. He's making the right plays.
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Emil Andre the same thing. You know, not
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the biggest guy in the world, but he's
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in the fight and he's he's trying his
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best and he did a great job. I think the
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the entirety of the defensive structure
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was what really stuck out to me. Um more
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than just the the moments where they
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scored. They they just looked there's a
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stretch before the the Penguins score
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their second goal late in the third
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where from like I'd say probably the
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7minute mark to a 3minute mark. It was a
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one basically a 131 something like that.
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I think they were clogging the neutral
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zone. I think it was a 1 131. Their
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Flyers playing a 1-31 and the Penguins
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just can't skate the puck through the
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neutral zone for four minutes and you
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just see like there's no whistles. the
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puck just keeps getting turned over and
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the the clock keeps running down and
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that if you can get those sorts of
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periods if you can hold a team to 17
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shots on the road in their barn that's
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you know really rocking. It was it was
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loud in there for the entirety of the
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game. They were into the the fans were
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into it. Um I'm sure it's no surprise to
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anybody that that's the case in Battle
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Pennsylvania, but um the crowds are in
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it. you know, there was an out to say,
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you know, you you don't necessarily
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expect to win this one. And they go out
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there and just, you know, play a
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fantastic uh defensive performance um
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top to bottom.
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>> You could tell that that defense was
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frustrating the Penguins, too. And I I
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can't remember which period it was, but
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they kept the Penguins kept going
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offside. They just kept
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>> there was a power play. I think they
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went outside
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in in the third period. I think I think
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they had a chance to tie the game. I was
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like, "All right, here's the Penguins
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power play." Or maybe the second period
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to take a 2-1 lead, but it was like
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>> I think it was the second.
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>> Yeah,
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>> that is a frustrated team that is out of
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sorts and can't get any kind of jam or
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any kind of juice going. The Flyers got
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to them. Um I don't know if they'll get
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to them in game two. I imagine the
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Penguins, a veteran team, are going to
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come out like swinging, but uh
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the Flyers made it work this time.
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>> Yeah. I mean, well, we'll see cuz it was
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very physical game, but like I can't
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remember a time where a Flyers player
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like like like you remember Connor Der
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was hunched over, had to go to the
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bench.
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>> He got he got blown up a couple
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different times.
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>> Yeah. Like Sean Couttoriier, we'll get
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into him. He was he is fantastic. Like I
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think him embracing that fourthline
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center role has kind of been a turning
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point in the season. coincided with
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Zegris at center. Also got Marone and
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Forester back. But having that fourth
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line, Rick Tockett starting the fourth
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line. Penguins go with Crosby against
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him head-to-head. And the Flyers just
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they won every matchup they had. Like
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there was no there's no matchup you're
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worried about. Talked about it with
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Jacob in the series preview. Uh looking
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at the third period at five on five in
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1443, the Penguins had four shot
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attempts according here to Natural
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Statrick. even at at all all strengths.
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Uh 10 shot attempts. Uh four high danger
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chances. So there were some some chances
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there for the Penguins, especially in
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front late. But
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>> yeah, that that seven minute mark to the
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three to the Marone goal in the third
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period. I went on blue sky to tweet out
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how sexy neutral zone defense is and I I
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was spoiled for the Martone goal by a
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Charlie Oconor SK about okay snipe
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coming up. Going to be going to be a
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good goal. Let me see. But and that that
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that even surprised me like I was
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spoiled and I was still shocked by that
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goal. But yeah, it was just like all
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right, eight minutes left now. Every
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every shift, you know, win a shift, get
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pucks in deep, make the Penguins go 200
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feet. And that's what they were doing.
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If that if that happens in South
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Philadelphia, it's just getting louder
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and louder with each stop. And in in
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Pittsburgh, it got quieter and quieter.
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In Pittsburgh, shut the [ __ ] up with
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your stew chance whenever the puff goes
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anywhere near him. Like, what are you
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doing? What? What are you doing?
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>> It's so
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>> Yeah.
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>> So, so bad. Like the what it reminded me
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of is the Phillies fans applauding Trey
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Turner because they felt like he gotten
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such a bad rap. And you know, Stu
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Skinner's been all right for the
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Penguins this season. And uh I just was
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like, are they chanting his name to gas
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him up the way the Phillies fans were
15:37
like giving Trey Turner standing
15:38
ovations to get him acclimated to
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Philadelphia was weird.
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>> The he he was good for a lot of the
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game. Um
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>> yeah, three goals on 20 shots. Three
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goals on 20 shots doesn't really tell
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the story. He like had a pretty decent
15:51
game and I'm expecting Stu Skinner to
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give up six pretty much every time he's
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in the net. Um so that anytime he
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doesn't I'm I'm kind of shocked. Uh but
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yeah, they're normally you're supposed
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to do it when like it's a good save.
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When you're doing it when he's touching
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the puck behind the net, it starts to
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like it will legitimately give him
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probably flashbacks. Um it's honestly
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not a good thing to do. Um if you're the
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Penguins fans, I honestly don't think
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it's going to be positive for his mental
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state. Uh but good game from from
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Skinner. The goalies were both pretty
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good. Two five hole goals that aren't
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necessarily great ones, but
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>> yeah.
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>> Um not the worst in the world either if
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you're going to let one in. Um, also I I
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I did since we're just ragging on the
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fans for a quick second. If you're up if
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you're down 3-1 in a playoff game
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against the Flyers and you leave the
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building
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>> with like
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over five minutes left. I You're insane.
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You You did How did you buy tickets and
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you leave the building? Have you not
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seen any of the games that they've
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played
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>> for the entirety of time?
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>> That's it.
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>> And then they scored and made it 3-2.
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And I'm like, imagine you left the
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building and now you're sitting there
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like, there's a minute left. They're
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gonna pull the goalie again. It's 3-2.
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>> Yeah.
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>> I think Gilbs and I separately skied it
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out. Oh, this feels like an overtime
17:05
game. This feels like we're going to
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overtime.
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>> In the third period, it really was like,
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all right, 1-1. Neither team's going to
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let much up. But going back to the, you
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know, the the shot the shots on goal,
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the saves for Skinner, not necessarily
17:18
looking for as good as he played. The
17:20
Flyers had like what, two or three
17:22
breakaways, some of them semi-
17:24
breakaways, a few oddman rushes. Like I
17:26
was I was on the edge of my seat a few
17:28
different times with these chances. And
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you know, the Flyers don't score on
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really any of them. Marton kind of a
17:33
rush chance. But if the Flyers are able
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to get one or two of those in on
17:37
Skinner, it's a completely different
17:40
game. I think that that can change here
17:42
at home cuz the Penguins, they didn't
17:45
really seem to have anything to stop the
17:47
Flyers. The flyer is just stopping him
17:49
in the neutral neutral zone, stopping
17:51
them at the blue line. Get the
17:52
counterattack going. Use your youthful
17:54
speed to get past the tank, get past all
17:57
these guys. And I think that can only
17:59
continue as as the series goes along.
18:02
>> And like as you're saying, right, with
18:05
the the defense, you know, there's not
18:08
really necessarily
18:11
a way for the Penguins to like they
18:13
switch up the lines. It's not like a
18:15
thing you can game plan around if you
18:17
just can't get the puck through the
18:18
neutral zone. Um, you're gonna have to
18:20
dump it in, chase it. Penguins don't
18:22
really have a dump and chase team
18:23
really. I mean, you can bring Brazo into
18:25
the lineup. He's big. He can go bang and
18:27
crash, but he's not going to play all
18:29
the time, right? And
18:30
>> unless you're talking about Lazot and
18:32
Derer and guys like that, Malcolin's not
18:34
going in and chasing the puck unless
18:36
he's pissed off.
18:37
>> Crosby's not really going to do it
18:39
either. Guys like Brian Rust on the for
18:41
check, like they're they're smart
18:42
players. They're they're good. Um, but
18:44
even Mantha, you know, not necessarily
18:48
um the sorts of guys that you're even
18:50
though they're big that you're afraid of
18:52
running running you down in in the in
18:55
the defensive zone, right? So, it's it's
18:58
interesting to see how how the coaching
19:00
matchup will will bore out the rest of
19:03
the way, too, because it's going to have
19:04
to be a lot of changes here. I think
19:06
it's kind of found a pretty good little
19:08
exploit here. And if he can get these
19:10
guys to play that sort of defense, that
19:12
committed defense, um it'll it'll be a
19:16
big change to how we view the series.
19:18
And
19:19
>> like just to touch on like the uh oddman
19:23
rushes and stuff, it's that and the
19:24
power play. I mean, if you get a a
19:25
couple breakaways and a couple power
19:27
plays, you got to put it in. I mean,
19:29
D'vorak scores. If he touches that puck
19:31
before running into Skinner, it's
19:33
probably, you know,
19:35
>> an actual goal. I mean, he puts it in
19:36
the net, but he does completely bowl him
19:39
over as the puck's going in. So,
19:41
>> it is what it is with that. I'm not
19:43
surprised that they called that goal
19:44
interference, but you got to deposit
19:46
some of these chances when when they get
19:48
them.
19:49
>> At least the penalty kill looked good
19:50
last night, which was a nice a nice
19:53
change. Um, you brought up Anthony
19:54
Mantha and he was really undisiplined
19:57
last night. He took two stupid penalties
19:59
that game.
20:00
>> I also think um the Flyers are targeting
20:03
Igor Chinoikov in a way. Oh, he got hit
20:06
up a lot.
20:07
>> They blew him up a couple times. I think
20:10
that like
20:11
>> maybe maybe they found the pressure
20:13
points. They found the pressure points
20:15
in the lineup really early and they're
20:17
just bearing down on them. Um we'll see
20:21
how Dan Muse responds if he shuffles up
20:22
his lines so that those guys are more
20:24
insulated and don't get like wrecked or
20:26
put into positions where they're going
20:27
to make a stupid decision. Um, but uh
20:31
it's it's gonna you've said it, it's
20:33
gonna come down to coaching and Dan Muse
20:36
is a rookie coach, right? This is his
20:38
first NHL head coaching gig. Um,
20:41
>> we'll see we'll see what he can come up
20:43
with.
20:44
>> Yeah, I mean the but let's just stay on
20:45
the power play here because 0 for three,
20:47
a few a few big chances there.
20:50
>> Can't can't even win a faceoff. And
20:51
something I I posted on Blue Sky during
20:53
the game was like just get Sean like if
20:56
you watch if you watch the Hurricanes
20:57
game, they get Jordan Stall out there
20:59
for the faceoff. He stays out there if
21:00
he has to, otherwise he goes for a
21:02
change.
21:03
>> Coots Coots was 62% too. Like
21:06
>> coach Coot's uh five uh five for eight.
21:09
Uh D'vorak 5 for 12. Kate's four for 11.
21:12
Glen Denning 3 for9. Ziggler's three for
21:14
eight. Like you're not winning you're
21:16
not winning a faceoff. Sean Couttori is
21:18
your only guy who can win a faceoff.
21:20
Like and what what does Noah Kates bring
21:22
on the power play that Sean Couttoriier
21:24
can't do? What does even Christian
21:26
D'vorak kind of like have Couttoriier
21:28
win the faceoff? Either go to the front
21:30
of the net or go to the bench if it's
21:33
the second period and your your
21:34
offensive bench is right there. Like
21:36
that's so important to to win the
21:38
faceoff. And also when they were set up
21:41
in the offensive zone, I forget which
21:43
power play it was. Exactly. But the
21:46
Mechov thing dancing at the top of the
21:48
blue line that was
21:50
>> I thought I thought he was going to get
21:52
>> stapled to the bench after that to be
21:54
honest.
21:54
>> So So did I cuz that that Mechov had a
21:56
few plays where like him and I think
21:59
someone else where they like circled
22:00
back and got got checked and stuff. It's
22:02
like especially in the playoffs you have
22:05
to make the right play every time.
22:07
Everything is so magnified
22:09
>> and you can't tangle your way through
22:10
it. You can't dangle your way out of it.
22:12
>> When you make that play at the blue
22:13
line, too, you back up the defenseman
22:15
and if you lose the puck
22:18
>> going back towards your end, it's
22:20
probably a breakaway, right? So, that's
22:22
>> that's one of those plays you just can't
22:23
make. And they they do look a little out
22:25
of sorts on the power play, but there
22:27
was I think I think there was some
22:30
opportunities for maybe even Dale get
22:32
the puck on net and he didn't. Maybe
22:34
maybe now that he's scored, he's going
22:36
to start, you know, firing away. But I I
22:38
thought there were some lanes that they
22:39
gave him to try and get the puck
22:41
through. And
22:42
>> again, if we want Couturier out there,
22:43
which I think it makes sense at this
22:45
point to get the draws, like just stick
22:46
Coots in front of the net
22:48
>> and see what happens, right? I I think
22:50
>> he had a couple fine. He's Yeah, he had
22:52
he had a couple net front drives. He
22:54
tried to score. He got there.
22:55
>> I thought I thought one of them went in,
22:56
but it went over the net. I was
22:58
>> Yeah.
22:59
>> Yeah. Yeah. And like the power play
23:01
units right now, top unit is Kknney,
23:03
D'vorak, Mechov, Tippet, Risto. Second
23:06
unit, Martone, Kates, Forester, Dedale,
23:09
Zerris. Like I almost want them to just
23:11
load up one of the units with with your
23:14
five with your five best guys. You know,
23:16
maybe keep D'vorak there. He can win a
23:17
faceoff, but get Kknne, get Martone in
23:20
there, get Ziggress on that unit. I'd
23:23
prefer Drydale to Risto, but with the
23:26
way the Flyers are going, maybe you do
23:27
have to have two units and hope that one
23:29
of them can can find something.
23:31
>> And they're different constructions,
23:33
too. Like Jamie Dale doesn't have the
23:35
booming point shot. Risto does. They
23:37
seem to think that they need that kind
23:38
of like a cannon on the blue line. Maybe
23:42
they're just going to ride this until
23:44
one works in this series and they're
23:46
like, "Ah, that's going to be the way
23:47
we're going to get through on this power
23:49
play against the Penguins."
23:50
They they had some opportunities. I
23:53
don't know if it was Coots or if it was
23:56
D'vorak, but um they they had some
23:59
opportunities for high tips. Um I think
24:01
the the the high deflection, you know,
24:03
at the hash marks, maybe even above it,
24:05
that might be what they need to exploit
24:07
like things like that because I don't
24:08
think, like you said, Joe, that Dil
24:10
shots necessarily one that's going to
24:13
frighten shot blockers. you know,
24:15
everyone's just going to stand in front
24:16
of it and uh it's not, you know, Evan
24:19
Bushard back there, right? Just bombing
24:22
away every 15 seconds, right? So,
24:25
>> that's that's the issue with that. But,
24:26
I think you start to use use some high
24:28
tips, work in the out, working the
24:31
bumper maybe even. I don't know.
24:35
>> Yeah, it's gonna have to be a lot of
24:36
different things.
24:37
>> Yeah, they had like a tic-tac-toe play
24:39
as well that D'vorak just missed in
24:41
front on one of those power plays. So
24:43
like they're they're I mean hopefully
24:45
they they they see what the Penguins
24:47
did. Penguins very aggressive in the
24:49
zone and as you know shout out everyone
24:51
here joining us here in the chat on a
24:53
Sunday afternoon. David Cross saying on
24:56
the Mitchk Mitchkov play at the blue
24:57
line. No one else moved to get open. You
24:59
should have dumped it deep on that play.
25:01
Yeah. Like you just have to get it in
25:03
deep. Out outman them down low if
25:05
they're pressuring you up high. Get the
25:06
puck down low. Work from below the red
25:08
line. let Mitchkov quarterback the power
25:11
play or Zris quarterback it from that
25:13
corner. Like let him let them use their
25:15
vision. Like they have to change
25:16
something. And I think they will. I
25:18
think they will for for Monday night in
25:20
game two. Uh they practiced today. I
25:22
don't know if they worked on much of the
25:24
power play, but I think that's their m
25:26
that should be their main focus. Like
25:27
the power play is so important in the
25:28
playoffs.
25:30
>> But what can you do at this point in the
25:31
year? Like you have the you have the
25:33
personnel, you have you have the
25:35
coaching staff. like you just got to
25:37
kind of go we're going to keep trying
25:40
and hope it works but this summer and
25:42
next year we really got to figure this
25:44
out.
25:44
>> Yeah. Set up some plays.
25:47
>> Yeah.
25:47
>> Yeah.
25:47
>> Basically that much. So
25:50
>> but I mean what would you do? What would
25:52
you guys do? What would you change like
25:53
maybe you change the the units a little
25:55
bit but systematically? What what do you
25:58
what do you do different?
26:00
>> I I I don't I think you just drop some
26:01
plays when once you're in the zone,
26:04
entry entry plays, faceoff plays, like
26:07
even draw up a play for a faceoff loss.
26:10
Like have Forester Tippet prepared to go
26:12
into the corner, win a battle, you know,
26:15
use use the ice, you're out manning
26:17
them. You're you're you're we've talked
26:19
about it all season long, all decade
26:20
long. Like you're five on four. You're
26:22
five on four, five against four. Like
26:24
it's it's simple math. Everyone can do
26:26
that math. You should be able to control
26:28
the puck in the offensive zone. And I
26:30
think it's like at a certain point, you
26:32
got a guy like Tippet, you got a guy
26:34
like Zegris, you got a guy like Martone,
26:37
just fan it out wide and let them rip
26:40
far side. And if you get a rebound,
26:43
>> so be it. If they miss the net,
26:45
>> that sucks. But, you know, just be
26:47
prepared for that because, you know,
26:48
that's what they're trying to do. It's
26:51
not like these guys, I think, can really
26:54
at this point at least can really play
26:56
it around and dish it around with
26:57
confidence. We've seen it, you know,
26:59
time and time again. It might just need
27:01
to be quick strike, hope you get a
27:03
rebound, crash back uh the back post
27:05
and, you know, see what happen. Almost
27:07
treat it like a corner kick, you know,
27:09
like just just get it in there and
27:11
somebody get a stick on it, you know, at
27:13
a certain point because it's not the the
27:16
more manicured, you know, plays that are
27:19
drawn up are just not really connecting
27:21
at this point in time.
27:22
>> And and that's what burned the Penguins
27:24
last night. They kept going for pretty
27:25
passes. They kept going for the pretty
27:27
play. and the Flyers just waited them
27:28
out, got sticks in lanes, and that was
27:30
that.
27:31
>> Yeah. Yeah. Uh, we've waited a long time
27:34
for Flyers playoff hockey. We've waited
27:36
a long time for a Flyers playoff win.
27:39
We've also waited a long time for
27:41
playoff ris. What were your guys' uh
27:44
first impressions of Rasmus Ralign in
27:46
the playoffs? Well, I think what was the
27:49
better question is what is Elmer Soder
27:51
Bloom's first impression of Rasmus
27:53
Wristal line and as he absolutely pasted
27:56
him about 3 seconds after the whistle uh
28:00
the guy who has like a foot a literal
28:02
foot on Denver Barky um out there just
28:06
gets absolutely steamrololled by by
28:08
wrist the line and then that you know
28:10
bad penalty obviously not good don't
28:13
want to do that early on in Pittsburgh
28:14
give him a power play but
28:16
>> y
28:16
>> god that That was that was awesome. That
28:18
was awesome. That was worth the price of
28:20
admission for Risto at this point, man.
28:22
Like that's one of those plays you're
28:23
like, I kind of want to keep him now.
28:25
>> So, I don't know what they would have
28:26
said on the national broadcast, but on
28:28
the Philly broadcast, they're like, I
28:29
don't think we don't think he heard the
28:31
whistle. Like, it's allowed in here this
28:33
early in the game. The the crowd's going
28:36
crazy. He's never been in an environment
28:38
like that. And there's a whistle behind
28:40
the play and he just didn't hear it, so
28:42
he kept playing.
28:44
>> Yeah, that's
28:45
>> I believe it. Did the Astro broadcast
28:47
mention that, Jacob?
28:48
>> Risto. Risto. Uh, they mentioned later
28:49
that Risto told the bench um that he
28:52
didn't hear the whistle. Like Risto
28:54
specifically told the bench that. And
28:56
then Yeah, I think I think they
28:58
>> kind of alluded to it, but it wasn't as
29:01
you know, you still can't do that
29:02
unfortunately, right? So, it's kind of
29:04
it's kind of what it is. If you don't
29:06
hear it, it's kind of a moot point. But,
29:08
>> you know, that's the sort of things that
29:09
you can put in the bank for the rest of
29:10
the series. You know, like that's
29:13
>> keep it. It's almost how you have to
29:15
play playoff hockey, right? You have to
29:18
do things that are outside of the rules
29:19
a lot of the time.
29:21
>> Yeah, everyone everyone seems to like
29:23
play off Russ, but like watching him
29:25
like shift by shift there there were
29:26
some moments where I was I was
29:28
questioning what exactly he was doing.
29:30
If you go back and watch the the last
29:32
Mantha shot on Larave, Risto kind of
29:36
gets walked there a little bit. He had a
29:38
few other plays that I was like that
29:40
doesn't look very playoff experience.
29:42
his playoff experience was showing. So
29:45
hopefully he he got the jitters out
29:46
there. Um Sanheim had a fantastic game.
29:49
So
29:50
>> Oh, Sanheim Sanheim 10 out of 10.
29:51
Sanheim look like the best defenseman in
29:53
the league. That's what Zach Rinsky
29:54
looks like.
29:56
>> Yeah.
29:56
>> When when he's playing well. He's It was
29:59
unbelievable. He looked the move on that
30:01
goal. The move on that goal was
30:03
absolutely.
30:03
>> It's not even that. He just relieves so
30:05
much pressure in his own zone. Like I I
30:08
even thought Risto did a pretty good
30:09
job. It's a really hard assignment for
30:11
him. We know he's playing above his
30:12
skis. He's not a top pair guy and he's
30:14
playing the top pair. He's got to play
30:17
with Sanheim. And Sanheim, you know,
30:18
he's he just looked like a horse. I
30:21
can't say enough about his performance.
30:22
I don't know what the fancy stats say. I
30:24
don't know. But like he just looked
30:26
absolutely unbelievable. But there's
30:27
good and bad with Risto. I mean,
30:30
obviously you hope the bad is not give
30:32
away, you know, the puck at the new uh
30:35
at the faceoff dot and, you know, give
30:37
up a free breakaway bad and just like,
30:40
you know, he gets
30:41
>> he he doesn't clear the puck once or
30:43
twice or he ices it when he's wide open.
30:46
That sort of bad is is manageable with
30:48
him. And there are he is the
30:49
archetypical playoff defenseman, you
30:51
know. Um, it's funny that him and
30:53
Couturier in the playoffs have started
30:56
to look like fierce, like they they they
30:59
look like they're three inches taller
31:01
than they were during the regular
31:02
season, right? Like they're they're
31:03
playing a very playoff brand of hockey.
31:06
And I think Risto does help with that.
31:09
And yeah, he will get walked here and
31:11
there, but he's playing he's playing a
31:14
difficult role. He's not playing, you
31:16
know, necessarily where he should be.
31:18
And you know, 25 minutes is a lot of
31:22
time on ice for Ras Wristine and he
31:24
didn't lose you the game.
31:25
>> He led the team on ice. Uh mostly
31:27
because Travis Sanheim took two
31:29
penalties. So spent four minutes in the
31:31
box. So that affects it. But I feel like
31:34
Sanheim did not leave the ice for the
31:36
final five or so minutes of the game
31:38
until he took that penalty. Like every
31:41
time I the puck went back into the Flyer
31:43
zone, I'm like, "Oh, there's Travis. I'm
31:45
clearing it out." They clear it out. And
31:47
then like 30 seconds later, puck comes
31:49
back in. I'm like, "Oh, Sanheim's still
31:51
out. What's he still doing there?" Puck
31:53
goes out. And then I see Stan again. I'm
31:55
like, "Is he just not going to the
31:57
bench? What is going on here?" But
31:59
>> and that's what I'm saying, too. He has
32:01
to like retrieve the puck in the corner
32:03
and make either make an outlet pass or
32:06
clear it out like five times on every
32:08
shift because the Penguins are just
32:10
dumping it in and chasing it. And the
32:12
Flyers are playing this this neutral
32:14
zone kind of clog it up sort of style.
32:16
and Sanheim's just turning and
32:19
relocating, going behind the net, going
32:22
into the corner, and he he just he
32:25
looked fantastic. I This is his best
32:27
game I've seen him play in so in so so
32:29
long.
32:30
>> Maybe ever.
32:31
>> I like for the stakes, it it has to be
32:34
ever, right? But like again, we're not
32:37
even talking I haven't even processed
32:39
the goal yet. Like the goal is top tier
32:43
NHL anybody to get around there. And
32:46
then know to shoot it back the other
32:49
way. Glove side low. Perfect placement.
32:52
Not too high. So where it's right into
32:54
his glove, but not too low where it's
32:57
not low enough where it's hitting the
32:58
pad. Uh it, you know, he he was just
33:00
can't say enough.
33:01
>> Hey, this one might go down as the
33:03
Sanheim game if the series goes well
33:05
enough. You know,
33:07
>> it's
33:07
>> there's a lot of the games going on.
33:09
>> Yeah. the Porter Marone game, the Travis
33:12
game,
33:12
>> the Coots, the the Prime Coots revival
33:15
game.
33:15
>> Yeah. Yeah. Couttori just sees the
33:17
Penguins in the playoffs and he he is
33:19
just he he's just ready to go.
33:23
It's the laser eye meme like like sees
33:26
the penguins like
33:28
>> I think I wrote today in my article
33:30
talking about on bsh.com
33:32
uh in my article talking about like the
33:34
Flyers physicality that like Couturier
33:36
seeing the Penguins is like a sleeper
33:38
agent getting activated.
33:40
>> It's like Jason Bourne kind of
33:43
>> he just he just absolutely locks in no
33:45
matter how old he'd be 50 just lock in.
33:48
>> Yeah. Looking at the fancy stats for the
33:50
game. Nashville statick doesn't have
33:51
player stats up, but Money Puck does. Uh
33:54
Sanheim 76.61%
33:57
expected goals for on ice. Risto 61.23
34:02
there or no 57.44. And yeah, the Flyers,
34:05
you know, their coursey coursey shot
34:07
attempt numbers don't look as good, but
34:09
as we were talking about before, like a
34:11
lot of the Flyers chances were high
34:14
danger. There were great chances. They
34:15
had uh 32 shot attempts at five on five.
34:18
14 of them were scoring chances. So
34:20
almost half of their shot attempts were
34:21
scoring chances. Six high danger
34:23
chances. Um yeah, they they were just
34:26
getting getting pucks to the slot,
34:27
getting pucks on net. Marton and Dale's
34:30
goals both came from that that circle
34:32
there. Maybe they can maybe they found
34:34
something on Skinner where he loses his
34:36
uh his net there a little bit. But just
34:38
like there there's no one you even point
34:40
at and is like, "Oh man, he had a bad
34:42
game. He has to improve." like me
34:43
Mitchkov had had a few bad plays, but
34:45
like there was no one that had horrific
34:48
mistakes or anything where you're like,
34:49
"Okay, maybe this guy comes out of the
34:51
lineup." Because I think that's one
34:52
advant advantage the Flyers do have in
34:54
the in this series is the physicality as
34:57
it wears on. If someone does get banged
34:59
up, you can bring in Bump, you can bring
35:02
in Grundstrom, you can bring in um who
35:05
am I missing?
35:06
>> Kbankin if he's healthy. I don't
35:08
>> not healthy. There's one more guy. Is
35:09
there not? Is it just Is it just those
35:10
two? might just be those two. But
35:13
>> Kbankin and Ables, but everybody else is
35:15
just kind of banged up.
35:16
>> I want Rodriguez to come back that. But
35:19
yeah, like you have you have Grundstrom
35:20
can fill in if if if he has to if you
35:22
want to get fresh legs in there. You can
35:24
get bump if you want a little bit more
35:25
offense. Like I don't know. Like you get
35:27
Brazo in there for the Penguins, but the
35:29
Penguins are just the Penguins are so
35:31
topheavy and the Flyers showed that they
35:33
can use really any matchup they want
35:35
against Crosby and they'll win it.
35:38
>> I'd assume the Brazil comes in at this
35:39
point. um for for the Penguins. Uh but
35:43
yeah, like you said, it's not like
35:46
there's going to be like you put in
35:48
Brazil, you take out Soder Bloom, it's
35:49
kind of the same, you know, size guy.
35:52
They're both massive individuals. I
35:54
think Brazil's a little better at the
35:55
hockey thing, but um they're both the
35:58
same big guys. You're not like you're
36:00
adding more size. I mean, you take Der
36:01
out, but I thought like the the Ders and
36:03
the Laz and the Achar of the world do
36:05
have a place in in these playoff games,
36:07
right?
36:08
>> Their fourth line pretty good.
36:10
Yeah. So, I I don't think you need to
36:11
take him out. It was Are you going to
36:13
put um Justin Brazo in for Sydney
36:16
Crosby? Because
36:18
>> that's the guy who should come out.
36:20
Okay, I'm going a little too far. But um
36:23
the Yeah, like that's the thing. You got
36:24
to you got to hope that Sid can score or
36:27
else it's kind of what it's kind of
36:29
wraps. It's kind of is what it is for
36:31
you.
36:32
>> Ben Kindle for as good as a season he
36:34
had. He looks
36:34
>> No, we're not doing Ben Kle. I'm not
36:36
doing the Ben Kindle. Ben Kle's very
36:38
good. Ben Kendall. It It is crazy that
36:39
Porter Marone is not the youngest player
36:41
in this series out there. That is
36:44
>> so funny.
36:45
>> Yeah,
36:45
>> he is a little boy,
36:47
>> but he looked overmatched last night. I
36:49
like I He'll Maybe he'll figure it out,
36:51
but he probably will. He's a good
36:53
player. But Kendall looked way out of
36:54
his depth last night.
36:55
>> Yeah, the Flyers were burning that
36:57
Kendall last night in Pittsburgh.
36:59
>> Oh,
37:02
>> yeah. Kindle surprise egg.
37:05
>> That's good.
37:07
>> Was a dud last night. Yeah. But yeah,
37:09
we're talking like all the skaters
37:10
played well and like we're 40 minutes
37:12
into this podcast. Give it up for Dan
37:14
Lador. How it's so crazy having a goalie
37:18
you can rely on in the playoffs. Like
37:20
the the one goal he allowed short. You'd
37:22
love to see him stop that. But like the
37:24
Flyers were running around with their
37:26
like chickens with their head heads cut
37:27
off trying to trying to find the defense
37:29
there. Um, that was something I was
37:31
worried about was that that third line
37:33
with Mitchkov getting hemmed in
37:36
>> and the Flyers not killing plays early,
37:38
but you know, you got to give it to the
37:39
Penguins. You know, they they they
37:40
passed it around. Malcolm coming off the
37:42
bench. Good shot by him. But like
37:45
besides that, like there weren't many, I
37:47
don't think, long cycles by the
37:49
Penguins. The Flyers also capitalized on
37:52
one of those on their first goal. Um, I
37:55
think the Flyers may have been a little
37:56
bit too too conservative and you know in
37:59
the second period at times, but it
38:00
worked out for him. Like they're playing
38:01
Rick Tocket hockey. They're clogging up
38:03
the neutral zone and they're not
38:05
allowing many chances at all.
38:08
>> No, they figured it out real quick. They
38:11
>> We were wondering like how are these
38:13
young players going to figure out the
38:15
playoffs? And then the Flyers are the
38:17
ones that came out swinging from the
38:18
start. It wasn't It wasn't the Penguins
38:20
setting the tone. it was the Flyers and
38:22
specifically Couturier. Um, so I'm I'm I
38:28
can't complain. Like there's there's not
38:30
enough for me to be upset about with how
38:32
this game went, you know?
38:34
>> And and going back to Ladar um briefly,
38:39
he he's just one of those guys who you
38:41
feel like it's it's going to be okay.
38:44
Like he's not going to maybe he won't
38:45
even win you the game like every night.
38:48
He has done that on on specific
38:50
occasions for the Flyers where
38:52
throughout the regular season where he
38:53
was the difference, but it's more so
38:56
like the variance of outcomes is not too
39:01
far. Like he's not going to have a
39:03
stinker. You don't think you don't go
39:05
into the game thinking, "Oh man, I don't
39:07
know. Dan Larars is going to come out
39:09
and be solid." Um it's just not a thing
39:12
that we've had to worry about basically
39:13
the entire entirety of the season. There
39:15
were a couple of games, I think, where
39:17
people were talking about, is he getting
39:20
tired? Uh, did he look a little sluggish
39:22
tonight? But it was literally just a
39:24
couple of games. Every other one he was
39:27
good or at least decent or you know, the
39:29
Flyers didn't have a good game in front
39:31
of him, right? So, at this point in
39:33
time, you you have to just
39:35
>> factor that in that I don't know how
39:38
good if they bring COVIDs in, if Cavs is
39:40
ready for this moment. Steuart Stewart
39:43
Skinner has rolled the dice every night.
39:46
Every night he could come out and look
39:47
terrible next game. He was very good
39:49
today. Um or yesterday. Um so yeah, that
39:54
like the LAR thing it makes the Flyers
39:58
just infinitely more difficult to beat,
40:00
especially four times in a row.
40:03
>> Yeah. Well, not even in a row, in seven.
40:06
>> Yeah. Yeah.
40:07
>> Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think only ESPN was
40:11
have having the Penguins to sweep their
40:12
hand like ESPN Well, no, I'm not saying
40:15
they were going to
40:16
>> sweep them. God willing. Geez.
40:18
>> No, but but ESPN's coverage of of hockey
40:21
in general.
40:22
>> It sucks. It's terrible. They throw it
40:24
>> they throw it back to the studio and
40:26
it's PK Suban and Mark Messier and I
40:28
just go in the house.
40:29
>> Yeah. It's like it's like it's like what
40:31
it's like what are we doing? Like Yeah.
40:32
Luckily, we have JJ and Bouch for these
40:35
uh these early games on NBC Sports
40:37
Philly. if the Flyers make the second
40:38
round. Not sure if that will change, but
40:41
like watching ESPN watching ESPN for
40:43
these other other games, like I I mute
40:46
it half the time. I'm like I like I like
40:49
it's like they're recording a podcast
40:50
while while watching the game. Like
40:52
there's no playbyplay. There's no
40:53
nothing going on. It's just just the the
40:56
same. They're having having a chat. It's
40:57
like it's like us if we were doing doing
40:59
playbyplay. I I've seen like people say
41:02
do yourself a favor, mute the ESPN
41:04
broadcast and throw on the radio
41:06
broadcast so that you have them simal
41:08
cast and you get Cozy and uh Fedoric
41:12
doing the doing the playbyplays and
41:14
still get to watch it, but you don't
41:16
have to deal with the ESPN commentator
41:18
commentators.
41:19
>> Yeah, if you can do that, if you can
41:20
sync that up, that that's a that's
41:22
always a good move as well to get the
41:23
radio on. But back back to Lard. Okay.
41:26
In the regular season, he allowed two
41:27
goals or fewer in 35 of 52 appearances.
41:31
One of them was a relief appearance or
41:33
two of them were relief appearances um
41:35
in Sam Harrison. But like he rarely
41:37
allows more than four four or more in um
41:41
what's that 10 of his 52 starts. Like
41:44
you you can like if you're the first to
41:46
three goals in in the playoffs with Dan
41:47
Vladar, you're probably going to win
41:49
these games. And like it didn't look
41:50
like it was going to be that high
41:52
scoring through two periods. 1-1. I
41:55
thought it could go to overtime 1-1. But
41:58
for the guard, he's he's just solid. And
42:00
what I like the most about him is like
42:02
he's a leader. You can tell he's a
42:03
leader. He's not one of these goalies
42:04
where he's by himself. You let him do
42:06
his thing, whatever. He's in the fight
42:08
with everybody. And yeah. Yeah. He's in
42:10
the fight.
42:11
>> I I I love Dan Bolar. And like David
42:14
says in the comments too, like just as
42:16
you were saying that, um David Cross is
42:19
very mentally strong. And I think that
42:21
is that is the uh thing that I am so
42:25
impressed by uh by Var.
42:28
>> He doesn't really have a reason to have
42:31
this much confidence in his abilities as
42:34
a starter. Like he he he really doesn't.
42:36
And even when he's given, you know,
42:37
fringe starter opportunities throughout
42:39
his career, he necessarily wasn't great.
42:41
>> But you can tell these guys rally around
42:44
him. the skaters rally around him and
42:46
they believe in him and and he believes
42:48
in them to, you know, only give up a
42:52
certain amount of chances and he knows
42:53
he has to stop. Maybe that's the best
42:55
thing for him. He knows he has to stop
42:57
the five or so good chances that are
42:59
going to, you know, uh, come his way and
43:01
if he does, they win the hockey game,
43:03
you know.
43:03
>> Yeah. I I think you mentioned the number
43:05
of times he's allowed four goals or
43:07
something. And I saw earlier the Flyers
43:10
are I believe it was 38 and6 when they
43:14
score three goals in the regular season.
43:17
So that's kind of their magic number to
43:19
win a game and that's what they did last
43:21
night. And if Lar who very rarely allows
43:24
more than two goals can keep that up,
43:27
but they're sitting pretty. What what a
43:29
what a signing. I wish they'd signed him
43:31
to like a four-year deal, but I know why
43:33
you can't take that kind of risk. I
43:36
mean,
43:36
>> it's hard for goalies now, too.
43:38
>> Yes. Yeah. Anyone getting over like four
43:40
years, like the Stolarts contract I
43:41
thought was a great idea and now you
43:43
look at it and it's like
43:45
>> Yeah. Give him the two years. Give him
43:46
two more years after this if he keeps it
43:48
up and to be the be the veteran starter
43:50
1A, 1B backup, whatever to the young
43:52
guys. But, but yeah, focused on right
43:54
now. Dadar is just huge difference maker
43:56
in in this series. Goalending is a is
43:59
been a huge difference maker. And
44:02
yeah, I I don't know. I don't know. I
44:04
don't just don't know what else to say.
44:05
Like it's just a was it was so
44:07
refreshing having playoff hockey back
44:09
especially against the Penguins having
44:11
the hate and it like I wasn't even
44:13
necessarily nervous too much going into
44:15
that game
44:17
but it was excitement and that's exactly
44:19
what it is now as well. Like you're up
44:20
one nothing if you go Monday night all
44:23
of the pressure is on the Penguins. All
44:25
of the pressure is in Pittsburgh.
44:27
>> There's like four careers on the line.
44:30
>> Like they could all be retired after
44:31
this game.
44:33
Yeah,
44:34
>> he's got he's on the last year of his
44:36
contract. This could be it for him. You
44:37
know,
44:37
>> Chris Tank should retire.
44:39
>> He should retire. He
44:40
>> He should retire.
44:42
>> I think he has one more year on his
44:43
contract though, doesn't he?
44:44
>> He should retire.
44:46
>> Oh, yeah.
44:46
>> Two, I think.
44:48
>> Yeah.
44:48
>> But like you you saw even Crosby
44:51
Malcolin after the game. I was it was
44:53
crazy. I was listening to Malcolin's
44:54
interview after the game and he's like I
44:56
don't know if we were just nervous or we
44:58
were just not there, but he looks like
45:00
distraught. He looks actually very upset
45:02
about this. And I know it is a playoff
45:04
game one. You want to win it. But I feel
45:06
like in the past those guys have been
45:08
really even Malcolin over the years has
45:11
gotten really like stonefaced,
45:14
stone cold killer. We've been here
45:15
before. We can do it again. It's just
45:17
something about that that orange jersey.
45:21
It's just something about it. They just
45:23
don't like it. Like the Penguins fans
45:25
were irate at that after that game. Like
45:28
you see the Martone goal. see people
45:30
getting up and leaving as he's
45:32
celebrating. And by the way, I did want
45:33
to bring it up because I noticed the
45:35
Martone uh copies the Briier celebration
45:39
from the 2012 playoffs. I didn't notice
45:42
that until today when I woke up and I
45:43
was like, "Oh my god."
45:45
>> Did you see
45:46
>> Did you see him wave at the Penguins
45:48
bench as he was skating by?
45:50
>> He's just perfect. He's so
45:52
>> I Yeah, I want to shout out I think Pat
45:54
Pat makes art did a nice drawing of that
45:56
where he put he put skulls on the
45:58
penguins on the bed. It was a just a
46:00
great great picture there.
46:01
>> Called them called them the retirement
46:03
home and like
46:05
>> they hey we've we've got our AARP line
46:07
on the fourth line. You know the
46:09
Penguins are the retirement home.
46:11
>> Yeah. It's nice having a fourth line.
46:12
You you could trust like it's not you
46:14
have one they how much did they play
46:16
last night? Do you guys know?
46:17
>> I think Coots is the fifth most played.
46:19
>> I have I have the box score up. Couttori
46:21
played 1547. Haway 1207. Lindenning
46:24
1317. Barky only played 1126. He didn't
46:28
play he wasn't relied on too much there
46:30
in the third.
46:30
>> It kind of makes sense late in the game.
46:32
Yeah.
46:32
>> Like Barky I think himself would even
46:34
admit like anyone who plays in that spot
46:36
whether it's Barky or Bump or even
46:38
probably Grundstrom like they're not
46:39
going to play a lot down the stretch. I
46:41
think that just kind of makes especially
46:42
when you're you're killing penalties too
46:44
late as well. There's a lot of four on
46:45
four and
46:46
>> yeah's
46:48
ice time was down to like they're on the
46:50
line together so
46:51
>> Oh yeah Meov played 11:25 as well. We'll
46:54
see. He saw his minutes there. But I I'd
46:56
rather have Barky out there with an
46:57
empty net than Carnett Hathaway. I'm I'm
46:59
I'm sorry. We We can't have We can't
47:01
have another one of those one of those
47:03
in the playoffs there. Uses
47:07
down.
47:07
>> Yeah. Sorry. I appreciate you guys in
47:08
the chat. If you guys have any questions
47:10
we can touch on here late in the uh the
47:12
show, we do appreciate that. We will uh
47:13
get into them. But the one bad thing the
47:16
one bad thing about about winning game
47:17
one is how expensive tickets are going
47:20
to be for game three. Joe, you're going
47:22
with Quigley. Do you already have your
47:23
tickets or are you guys waiting to
47:25
purchase them?
47:26
>> We bought them. Um, we were texting
47:29
about buying them. He's like, I found
47:30
two tickets for 263 a piece. I'm like,
47:33
sure, let's do it. He gets back to me an
47:35
hour later. He's like, I was in a
47:36
meeting and they're gone. Now we're up
47:37
to 282. And I was like, okay, two
47:40
tickets for 282 a piece. We can do this.
47:42
I checked today and they're up to like
47:44
340 minimum. So, I'm glad we I'm glad we
47:47
did it when we did. And um I I was even
47:50
like sneaking glances at what game four
47:52
would cost just in case like maybe I
47:54
could sneak into that one too and have a
47:56
backto back. Mm- Those ones are also
47:59
very expensive right now.
48:00
>> Oh, might as well look at game six right
48:02
now. Could very well be be flyers in
48:04
six. Penguins are going to win one or
48:05
two. We know that the Flyers aren't
48:07
sweeping them. But
48:08
>> Flyers and six, baby.
48:09
>> Yeah. Feels like even even despite how
48:12
the team plays and making it very
48:14
unlikely this happens, there's always
48:16
got to be like a seven to four game
48:18
somewhere right in there.
48:19
>> Penguins get a few power play goals,
48:22
maybe maybe even a short-hander like
48:23
like we saw with the Red Wings. Like
48:25
they they'll get one game. Maybe it will
48:26
be game two at home to
48:28
>> with all the pressure on there. But but
48:30
yeah, I I I'm hoping the the tickets
48:32
come down for game three or game four.
48:34
Um, I'm probably going to wait for day
48:35
of to see if anyone sells them off
48:37
cheap. But the everyone that that
48:40
watched every Flyers game in January
48:42
should have priority for playoff
48:43
tickets. Yeah, that's
48:45
that's what I'm pushing here.
48:46
>> If you watch the Utah game, if you were
48:49
excited after they beat Colorado, but
48:52
very confused.
48:53
>> Yeah.
48:54
>> Um, if you watch that c that Rangers
48:56
game after they had the they gave out
48:58
the letter to their fan base and then
48:59
the Flyers lost immediately to them and
49:01
gave I think they might have gave up
49:02
seven. Um, you should have priority
49:06
access and maybe get 5% off.
49:08
>> I would also like to I would also like
49:10
to put in that I was personally and
49:12
emotionally victimized by the 202122
49:15
Flyers and that anyone who watched more
49:18
than 50 games of that season should have
49:20
also had priority access to playoff
49:22
tickets. But, you know,
49:25
>> Yeah.
49:25
>> Well, it's it's it's a new it's a new
49:28
day. It does feel different. And I
49:30
remember I was talking to my, you know,
49:32
I was talking to my dad during the game.
49:35
Um, and
49:38
I'm, I think it was 1-1 at that point
49:40
because in the second period and you're
49:42
watching them and
49:44
you get this feeling like you can't be
49:46
upset if they lose. You really can't be
49:48
upset. You can't quibble with how they
49:50
played. They played some really good
49:53
hockey from start to finish. And it felt
49:55
like they were in it the entire way. in
49:57
in a game where let's be honest I don't
50:00
think anyone expected if the Flyers were
50:02
going to win I think a lot of people if
50:03
you would have pulled them they would
50:04
have thought you know maybe the Flyers
50:06
get game three at home um maybe game
50:09
four no I don't think anyone was
50:11
thinking was picking the Flyers to win
50:13
game one in Pittsburgh um with 10 guys
50:17
making their playoff debut with Denver
50:19
Barky and Mishkoff and and Zegris and
50:22
all these guys who aren't necessarily
50:24
physical um they They outshined every
50:28
expectation you could have for them. I
50:30
mean, you can't you can't be negative
50:32
about it. It's it's it feels like
50:35
something shifted um last night a little
50:38
bit. It feels like a confirmation of
50:40
like the ch the the the moves that were
50:43
made throughout the year. Forester
50:45
coming back, Marton arriving, you know,
50:47
and when I say moves, I mean like Zegris
50:50
going back to center and Mishkov going
50:52
back to the right, etc., you know, stuff
50:54
like that. Andre coming in. Jules, you
50:56
know, didn't play. Um me and Gilbs were
50:59
talking about that last week. Um whether
51:01
or not the Juul was gonna get in and
51:02
Andre Andre stays in.
51:04
>> There's still a chance. There's still a
51:05
chance.
51:05
>> Still there still chance. There still is
51:07
a chance. You're not out of the woods
51:08
yet. But like those decisions, that sort
51:11
of mindset shift, you know, it did bear
51:14
fruit, right? It feels like that
51:17
happened. So that it's a great feeling.
51:19
>> Yeah. And I I love all all the hype
51:21
videos the Flyers are putting out on
51:23
those their social media. Kyle for
51:25
Brster Street hockey did a great one to
51:26
Dreams and Nightmares, but the
51:28
specifically the Jason Martis one they
51:30
put out on Saturday. That that one I had
51:32
chills the whole time. But like they're
51:34
their big thing this year is No, they we
51:36
did it the hard way. Did it the hard
51:37
way. They had the 3.8% on their uh on
51:40
their playoff t-shirts with the believe
51:42
with the with the Bernie mask on their
51:44
uh their locker room t-shirts there. I
51:47
wonder what the game game three game
51:49
four t-shirts are gonna be. Hopefully
51:50
not just Ignite the Orange, but it
51:52
probably will be.
51:52
>> I do not like Ignite the Orange, by the
51:54
way.
51:56
>> I don't understand igniting a color.
51:58
>> I'm working on I'm working on making a
52:00
cocktail called Ignite the Orange where
52:03
you flame an orange peel over the drink
52:05
when it's done. So, you know, give me a
52:07
couple more days and I'll have a Flyers
52:09
themed playoff cocktail ready to go.
52:12
>> Nice. Yeah, I I I I forgot. But I meant
52:14
to have like an orange or something and
52:15
a lighter and I could open the podcast
52:16
lighting lighting the orange or ding the
52:18
orange. But they they're doing they did
52:20
it the hard way and they're rebuilding
52:22
their right way. It seems like Marton
52:24
somehow fell to six. That's been crazy.
52:27
Mechov is looking good. You got Barky,
52:29
you got these guys that have one
52:31
Forester all coming up. And Joe, I know
52:33
that's something you wanted to you you
52:35
really been stressing. I mean, a couple
52:38
years ago, I wrote an article about uh
52:40
how the Dallas Stars were the model to
52:42
look at for a rebuild. They drafted in
52:45
the top five once, one time. It was Mero
52:47
Heiskin. Um but they developed their
52:51
players from later in the system. We we
52:53
we didn't even talk since the Montreal
52:55
game where we got to see Oliver Bong. He
52:58
got a goal and an assist. Hunter
53:00
McDonald put up an assist. They
53:02
basically called up the kids from Lehigh
53:04
Valley Phantoms and all of them looked
53:06
>> and that was against Levski, Cawfield,
53:09
Suzuki. They had the lineup in the boys.
53:12
>> They had something to play for too. They
53:14
had home ice to play for
53:15
>> home ice.
53:16
>> So I I'm wondering if the Flyers succeed
53:19
in this playoff series, and I don't even
53:21
necessarily mean win it, but maybe take
53:23
the Penguins to seven, maybe it kind of
53:26
starts to rewrite the script of how
53:27
you're quote unquote supposed to
53:29
rebuild. like they didn't tank. They've
53:32
developed their players really well,
53:34
struck well on trades. I I mean, we
53:38
won't know until everything's done said
53:40
and done, but I wonder if other teams
53:42
that are embarking on retools or
53:44
rebuilds look at what the Flyers have
53:46
done this season and are doing in the
53:47
playoffs now and think, hm, maybe we
53:50
shouldn't do what the Chicago Blackhawks
53:51
did cuz they still suck. The Anaheim
53:54
Ducks, well, they're in the playoffs,
53:56
but they're not very good. So, I don't
53:58
know. We'll we'll see what happens.
54:00
>> It's interesting, too, because like we
54:02
talk about the Vegas Golden Knights not
54:04
really having anything and they can
54:06
just, you know, be a business, trade
54:08
guys, cut guys, whatever. I don't know
54:10
if other teams can build the way the
54:12
Flyers have because like the Flyers do
54:13
have that instilled culture. They wanted
54:16
to build around Connectney, wanted to
54:17
stay here. Ctorian
54:20
Sheim, but he he's proved he's proved
54:21
them wrong. So, but like yeah, the
54:23
flyers are definitely showing that you
54:26
can have a a rebuild retool as long as
54:30
you you get the right pieces.
54:32
>> Yeah. And and and it never really went
54:35
according to plan. Um but if Martone is
54:38
as good as Martone seems to be into the
54:42
future. Yeah. like that you you've
54:45
accumulated enough pieces around him
54:46
with the tippet deal that necessarily
54:48
didn't look great at the start with
54:50
getting Dale back for you know cutter
54:52
when he said he didn't want to play
54:53
here.
54:54
>> Um
54:56
>> even the Glen Denny like [ __ ] like the
54:58
Glen Denning waiver pickup. I mean it's
55:01
been a good move. I I we I remember me
55:04
and Gilbs talking about it on the trade
55:05
deadline show about two hours in. We're
55:08
like, "All right." Yeah. Wins face off.
55:11
Whatever. I mean,
55:12
>> cool.
55:13
>> I guess Rodrigo is not coming back for
55:15
the playoffs. Uh, but you know, and the
55:18
Barky thing, the drafting later on, even
55:21
the guys they drafted uh this past year,
55:23
I I I look at them and I see the path of
55:26
why that would be a good idea and why
55:28
they take the the chances that they do.
55:30
It's starting to look a bit more It
55:32
makes It makes sense. Um, and I think
55:35
they've got enough here internally to
55:37
where even if they didn't get, you know,
55:39
that that crown jewel of a 1C, they'll
55:42
be a good hockey team. I don't know if
55:44
they'll win a cup. They probably won't
55:45
win a cup without, you know, another
55:47
infusion of talent, which they have the
55:49
assets to get. Of course, they're there.
55:51
They're all there. They got picks. They
55:52
got prospects that are going to have to
55:54
move or, you know, there's too many
55:56
wingers to play in the NHL,
55:57
unfortunately. That's why Bobby Brink
55:59
had to go um to get scratched in
56:01
Minnesota. Rest in Bobby. Free Bobby
56:03
Brink. Come on.
56:04
>> Free Bobby again. I I did not expect it
56:07
to go this poorly um for him.
56:09
>> Something I because you mentioned at the
56:12
other draft picks something I thought
56:14
while I was watching the game last night
56:16
and I might get flamed for this. How
56:18
good would Jet Luchenko look in a game
56:20
like that? Like he would be pretty damn
56:23
good matched up in that sort of
56:26
>> Listen, I'm I'm with you on that. I I am
56:28
with you on that. I am with you on that.
56:31
He's not big is the issue. But again,
56:33
you see a guy like Barky out there and
56:34
he did fine
56:35
>> eating soda bloom. Like
56:39
>> he he's literally giving up a foot. It
56:41
is a listed foot of difference in
56:43
height. It is actually unbelievable. I
56:45
don't know what the weight is. It's
56:46
probably 100 pounds.
56:49
>> Like a foot 12 inches and 100 pounds.
56:51
Like it's unbelievable that those two
56:53
guys are on the same playing surface.
56:55
But yeah, you look at all those guys and
56:59
like
57:01
Luchenko, we'll have to see how he fares
57:03
in pro hockey, but like those types of
57:05
guys, they do fit that sort of play
57:08
style. It it is true like speed, uh
57:11
defensive responsibility, you can go
57:13
quick on the counter and and and make
57:15
your offense that way. Yeah, like it
57:17
seems like they're building towards
57:18
something with a bit of a plan of like a
57:20
quick strike kind of offense um that
57:24
surrounds a team that plays a very very
57:26
solid defensive style at least right
57:28
now. I mean, maybe it was just
57:30
Vancouver. Maybe they did just quit on
57:32
him. I mean, it's not gotten better
57:33
after he left. So,
57:35
>> yeah, I don't know.
57:37
>> They won 10 games on home ice last year.
57:40
I think that was how many home games the
57:42
Vancouver Conucks won.
57:43
>> Pretty good.
57:44
>> That's crazy. Yeah. I was thinking last
57:45
night watching
57:46
>> 41.
57:47
>> Yeah. Yeah. Do play 41. Like the Flyers
57:50
like they're kind of showing that they
57:51
can win without a onesie. Like they
57:53
they're gonna need a top line a top good
57:55
top six center to be a true contender
57:58
year after year, but like you see
58:00
Martone doing his thing. Tippet had a
58:02
great move and and a great chance on
58:04
Skinner. Forester is probably one of the
58:06
most important players on the team.
58:08
Connect me flying under the radar as the
58:10
leading point scorer this season.
58:12
Mechov, not to mention Barky. Like the
58:14
Flyers are showing that, you know, depth
58:16
with wingers can win. Um, defenseman
58:20
defense by committee here a little bit,
58:22
not having Travis Sanheim is a 1D. I
58:25
feel like he Travis Sanheim, he's not
58:26
like a one trophy winner, but he's a 1D.
58:29
And
58:30
>> yeah, we have to remember here uh ported
58:32
from uh MOT MOTU uh CTR in the chat.
58:35
Don't forget one battle doesn't win a
58:37
war. We still have a ways to go. We do.
58:39
We do. But winning the first battle
58:41
helps a lot in winning a war, especially
58:44
when there's only potentially seven
58:46
battles to go. And the Penguins did not
58:48
look very good in that battle
58:49
whatsoever.
58:50
>> I think they played the picture.
58:54
Flyers are at 64.2%.
58:58
>> Yeah. I mean, the Flyers are now at
58:59
64.2% to go to the second round on Money
59:01
Puck. Like they were probably at like 45
59:04
earlier. It's a big flip. That's a It is
59:07
one battle. We've got three more wins to
59:09
go.
59:10
>> They put so much pressure on the
59:12
Penguins, though.
59:13
>> And they start on such a such the right
59:15
foot to to like kick it all off.
59:17
>> I'm stoked. I'm stoked, Steve. I'm
59:19
stoked.
59:20
>> Yeah. And the the odds out of FanDuel
59:22
was our sponsor minus 178 implies a
59:25
64.03%
59:27
chance of advancing. So, you get that
59:29
game one win on the road and everything
59:31
changes. Everything changes.
59:35
>> It's gonna be tough. It's going to be
59:36
tough for the Penguins now. Um it's if
59:39
if they do win, it feels like they're
59:42
going to have to dig deep and find
59:44
something, you know, they're going to
59:45
have to find something in the reservoir
59:47
left over because I don't think they
59:49
even thought that they were going to
59:50
drop this one. Um especially with how
59:53
they come out, they came out and play.
59:54
They didn't play a horrible hockey game.
59:56
It just didn't click and they weren't
59:57
able to like break the Flyers down. And
1:00:01
I don't think they as you know being
1:00:03
Crosby, Latang, Malin, Brian Rust has
1:00:06
been around forever. You know, Mantha's
1:00:07
been around forever. He scored in this
1:00:09
league a lot a lot of goals.
1:00:11
>> They didn't expect like a team with, you
1:00:14
know, a bunch of little guys who are all
1:00:16
young and Zegris at center like they I
1:00:18
assume they expected to just bowl them
1:00:21
over in a matchup like that, right? They
1:00:22
don't know who how good, you know,
1:00:24
necessarily Tippets's been to our, you
1:00:28
know, exact specifications, right? how
1:00:30
much we've watched these guys and how
1:00:32
much they've improved. They still think,
1:00:34
you know, these are this is a young
1:00:35
team. They're coming in. They're they're
1:00:36
going to have the pressure on them. And
1:00:38
they got it completely wrong. They just
1:00:40
got completely turned over. And I never
1:00:43
expected them necessarily to win this
1:00:44
game. You you almost in a game one on
1:00:46
the road as as this type of Flyers team,
1:00:48
you want to like take it to overtime,
1:00:50
make them sweat, you know. This was, you
1:00:53
know, it could have been they could have
1:00:55
scored six very easily. Very easily.
1:00:58
>> Yeah. had those breakaways, had a pass,
1:01:00
>> and that's that's still with going over
1:01:01
for over for on the power play. You
1:01:03
still could have had six.
1:01:04
>> Yeah. And yeah, this all you want in in
1:01:07
a road game one is to show that you have
1:01:08
a chance. It's to show that you're going
1:01:10
to put up a good fight. And like you
1:01:11
said before, Jason,
1:01:12
>> and get physically involved.
1:01:13
>> Yeah. In the middle of second period,
1:01:14
like, all right, no matter what happens,
1:01:16
we're happy with this game. A a win is
1:01:18
obviously going to be fantastic, but
1:01:19
even this effort in a loss is is is
1:01:22
perfectly fine. and they just built on
1:01:24
that in the third period playing such
1:01:26
great team defense. All all five guys
1:01:29
guys on the ice has been been fantastic.
1:01:31
Like I I know people don't like like see
1:01:33
lows scoring games. They call it boring
1:01:35
but like that that was that was some
1:01:36
sexy defense there in the third period.
1:01:39
That was
1:01:39
>> that's just good fundamental hockey.
1:01:42
That's just good funies. Good funies.
1:01:44
>> A bunch of guys who are bought in and
1:01:46
they really want to work for each other.
1:01:47
Nobody wants to be the weak link
1:01:50
>> uh in in the chain there and
1:01:52
>> that's all you can ask um of a team like
1:01:55
this and it's it's great to see. So it's
1:01:57
not necessarily like you think that this
1:02:00
>> is is what wins the series, right? It's
1:02:02
that like I don't think any of us or any
1:02:06
of the people in the comments even
1:02:07
thought that they'd be this far along in
1:02:09
the process at the end of this year in
1:02:11
like January, February. Like if we were
1:02:13
watching the Olympics, when we're
1:02:15
watching uh Risto in the bronze medal
1:02:17
game, you you didn't think he would be
1:02:20
here or like the team itself would be
1:02:22
here. Like he has a two-point night in
1:02:24
his first playoff game. It's two points
1:02:26
right now.
1:02:27
>> They gave him an assist. Yeah, they gave
1:02:29
him a
1:02:30
>> He's got a two-point night. Like what?
1:02:31
>> Amazing.
1:02:32
>> You know, it's it's coming up roses
1:02:33
right now. You just got to you got to
1:02:35
acknowledge it sometimes.
1:02:36
>> Hey, patience. It's what they said from
1:02:38
the beginning. Patience, patience,
1:02:40
patience. And man oh man, has it paid
1:02:42
off. Uh, Gilbs, before we start wrapping
1:02:44
up, you said at the top you wanted us to
1:02:46
guess your jersey.
1:02:47
>> I I did. I I have a uh a Winter Classic
1:02:50
style jersey on um right here. 2012
1:02:52
Winter Classic. Um do we do you have any
1:02:54
guesses as to as to who is on it?
1:02:57
>> What year What year? Winter Classic.
1:02:58
>> Well, 20 This is 20 2012 Winter Classic.
1:03:01
2012 Winter Classic. I would say I will
1:03:02
say Joe has a uh has a step up because
1:03:04
he has seen me in person wearing a few
1:03:07
of my jerseys.
1:03:08
>> Uh but so we'll give Jacob the first
1:03:10
guess. Let's give Jacob the first guess
1:03:11
here. Um, I'm gonna go because I don't
1:03:14
see a letter.
1:03:16
>> Um,
1:03:16
>> there's no letter. There is a hint
1:03:18
there. There is a hint.
1:03:19
>> So, I I want to say it's Jiru because
1:03:21
it's early and he didn't have a letter
1:03:23
yet.
1:03:24
>> Did he not have the A there? I I thought
1:03:26
there's some
1:03:26
>> 2012
1:03:27
>> or was he the he might have been the
1:03:28
captain? But
1:03:29
>> there's one there's one year where I I
1:03:33
got a this might actually be the same
1:03:35
year. So I might be actually showing why
1:03:37
I'm wrong, but I got a Giru jersey with
1:03:39
an A on it and then midway through the
1:03:41
year he got the C and then I had the
1:03:43
jersey with the A on it and I was like
1:03:44
what? Okay.
1:03:45
>> Damn. So I'm seeing some on online
1:03:48
without the A but he did wear the A in
1:03:51
the game. He did wear the A in the game
1:03:52
but no it is it is not Claude Drew. It's
1:03:54
not true. Um, boy, 2012, I don't know
1:04:00
many, you guys all know I'm new to the
1:04:02
Flyers. Uh,
1:04:03
>> any anyone that follows me on social
1:04:04
media might also any long time followers
1:04:07
on social media will definitely know
1:04:08
this one.
1:04:09
>> Is it Vorheek?
1:04:10
>> I do have a Vorich Winter Classic. It's
1:04:13
hanging up somewhere over there.
1:04:14
>> Is it Cheotin?
1:04:16
>> It's not Keotein. It's not Kimotin. No,
1:04:18
>> Bob.
1:04:20
>> It's not Bob. It's not Bob, but
1:04:24
It better not be brisglycolof.
1:04:28
Joe has seen me wearing to a draft
1:04:30
party. I did a Bris Bris costume, posted
1:04:33
it on all my socials uh for Halloween
1:04:36
two years ago. Ilia Brisgallof, it was
1:04:39
2012 Winter Classic. I waited too long.
1:04:42
My two options, I was like, I want a
1:04:43
Winter Classic jersey. My options were
1:04:45
Brisgalof or I think maybe JVR. And I
1:04:49
was like, you know what? And and
1:04:50
everyone knows how much I love a bit.
1:04:52
And like early on, this was early Flyers
1:04:55
Twitter.
1:04:56
>> My first bit was loving Briscolaf. My
1:04:58
first Twitter handle was Risky Bris. I
1:05:01
loved Oya Brisgolof. Um my profile
1:05:04
picture in the breree hockey slack is
1:05:06
still Bri in his little hat there. So I
1:05:08
I I I love Bri. Have always loved Bri.
1:05:11
He's such a fun character. U so yeah, it
1:05:14
it is a brisster jersey.
1:05:15
>> Incredible. No heartsy or nothing like
1:05:18
you couldn't even go with like Matt
1:05:19
Reed.
1:05:20
>> Oh, I love I love It wasn't available. I
1:05:22
I had
1:05:23
>> Yeah, I I had
1:05:24
>> the only two options were the goalie and
1:05:27
JVR. I like
1:05:28
>> Well, it was like
1:05:29
>> take the goalie.
1:05:30
>> It was like late January after the
1:05:32
Winter Classics. Like they stopped
1:05:33
making them
1:05:34
>> and I had like NHL.com gift cards. I was
1:05:36
like, "All right, I gota get something
1:05:37
there." But I I'm debating what I wear
1:05:39
if I do go to uh a game. If I if I if I
1:05:42
throw it back with this, if I wear my my
1:05:45
highlighter orange connect New Jersey
1:05:47
that I wore to the the clincher game, if
1:05:49
I wear my Mitchkoff New Jersey, I'm uh I
1:05:52
I don't know. I don't know.
1:05:54
>> So, on that subject, I have just a
1:05:56
generic Flyers hoodie and one jersey.
1:05:59
>> Yes.
1:06:00
>> Should I wear the hoodie or should I
1:06:01
wear the jersey, which is Shane Gossar?
1:06:04
>> Yes. I know. Uh Steve Jako gifted you
1:06:08
the the Shane Gossar.
1:06:11
uh years older, a fresh-faced teenager
1:06:13
there, uh Jacob Russell. But while we
1:06:16
wrap it up here at the end, I just want
1:06:18
to look across the Flyers look across
1:06:19
the building to the Sixers who who did
1:06:22
tank. Uh just lost 123 to 91 to the
1:06:26
Celtics in game one. No, Joel Embiid
1:06:28
obviously had the appendecttomy and all
1:06:30
that stuff, but the Flyers right now are
1:06:32
on top of the Philadelphia Sports World
1:06:34
for the first time in probably forever.
1:06:36
Like luckily, it's the dead of the NFL
1:06:38
offseason. We have the drafts coming up,
1:06:40
so there'll be some be some coverage.
1:06:42
Sixers are going to probably get swept
1:06:44
by the Celtics. The Phillies are 8 and
1:06:46
12. People are starting to talk about,
1:06:48
you know, should they start a rebuild or
1:06:50
whatever. The Flyers right now have a
1:06:52
chance to take over the city and and
1:06:54
game one definitely started it. And they
1:06:56
have the perfect mix. They have they
1:06:59
have Couttoriier, KKnne, and Sanheim
1:07:01
still for the fans who were fans like 10
1:07:04
years ago. They still have those guys.
1:07:05
>> The bubble
1:07:08
run. Yeah, the 2021 they they have
1:07:10
Tippet, they have Cam York for people
1:07:11
that have checked in and out over the
1:07:12
past few years. And they have these
1:07:14
young exciting guys you can be like,
1:07:16
"All right, I'm hopping on the
1:07:17
bandwagon. What jersey should I get?"
1:07:19
You got Martell, you got you got Tippet,
1:07:22
you got Forester. Like you have
1:07:24
>> the young female demographic loves
1:07:26
Trevor Zris and who doesn't who doesn't
1:07:32
Jimbo and Ziggy are the best pairing on
1:07:38
When I was driving back, you performed
1:07:40
very well.
1:07:41
>> When I was driving back into the city
1:07:42
today, there were a bunch of billboards
1:07:44
like advertising Flyers playoffs. Flyers
1:07:46
playoffs. And I'm like, this [ __ ]
1:07:48
rules. It is so fun to like see this
1:07:50
around the city. The two players were
1:07:52
Zegris front and center and Tyson
1:07:54
Forester. Those were the two guys they
1:07:56
were leading the advertising with.
1:07:59
>> Like like you can you can pick five,
1:08:01
six, seven, eight guys to get a jersey
1:08:02
of and it's it's they'll age a lot
1:08:04
better than this I Priscal jersey. Well,
1:08:07
well, yeah, you would hope so. Yeah.
1:08:09
Sorry, my chair just like collapsed on
1:08:11
me. That was fun. We're good.
1:08:13
>> All right. What are your final thoughts
1:08:15
here before before we wrap this thing
1:08:16
up? Um hope hope maybe we'll go live
1:08:19
postgame on Monday, but um I know PHY is
1:08:22
doing their thing. Don't want to We love
1:08:23
the guys over there, so I don't want to
1:08:24
take away from that. So, maybe maybe
1:08:25
another Tuesday afternoon stream uh for
1:08:28
for recapping um game two and preing
1:08:31
game three. But what what are some final
1:08:33
thoughts you guys here have here before
1:08:35
we wrap it up? I'm stoked. This is fun.
1:08:37
This has been worth I joined this team
1:08:40
when they were at their lowest and I
1:08:42
wrote it out and I'm finally getting to
1:08:43
see some playoff hockey and it's fun to
1:08:45
go around the city and see people
1:08:47
wearing Flyers gear and like hear people
1:08:50
saying go Flyers to each other. Like
1:08:53
I've only ever heard Go Birds, so this
1:08:55
is this is a crazy experience and I'm
1:08:58
loving it and I can't wait to get in the
1:09:00
building on Wednesday. Um, I'm gonna be
1:09:04
absolutely feral and
1:09:07
>> have to be
1:09:08
>> I'll be like I think I'm in like the
1:09:09
second to last row in one of the
1:09:11
sections and boy, that's where the real
1:09:13
like the real diehard truthers are going
1:09:15
to be hanging out. So, I can't wait.
1:09:18
>> Yeah, funnily enough, the one of the two
1:09:20
games I saw in Philly um was in the
1:09:23
second to last row.
1:09:24
>> Um, it's it's a good time and yeah, like
1:09:27
you I think back at all those memories.
1:09:29
I have a lot of memories with the team
1:09:30
despite not, you know, living in in
1:09:32
Philly or being there very often to be
1:09:34
quite honest. But it is just great to
1:09:38
see the the guys.
1:09:40
It's great to see how connected they've
1:09:43
become in such a short time. It seems
1:09:46
like a team it it's a a team that's easy
1:09:49
to root for. It's a team that plays the
1:09:51
right way. Um, and that's a cliche, but
1:09:54
they really do play the right way. They
1:09:56
play very good, smart hockey at a a lot
1:09:59
of different important junctures. And I
1:10:01
can't I just can't wait to see what the
1:10:02
building will be like when when in game
1:10:04
three, even if they lose, you know,
1:10:05
tomorrow. Um game three is going to be
1:10:08
an absolute mad house. And I'm just
1:10:11
Yeah, I'm so excited to hear what you
1:10:13
guys say. And like, man, it's awesome to
1:10:16
see him back. It's awesome to see him
1:10:17
back. It's awesome. Like that Martone
1:10:19
goal, I'll watch that for the next two
1:10:21
weeks probably on repeat. I I'll put it
1:10:23
I'm gonna get a I'm gonna get a digital
1:10:25
picture frame and just have it play.
1:10:27
>> Wow. Remember those? Remember those
1:10:28
thing? Digital picture frames were were
1:10:30
all the years. The Russell household.
1:10:32
The Russell like the like the moving
1:10:34
picture frame for a time.
1:10:35
>> Just uh yeah, get get those back. Get
1:10:37
the Martone hat picture in there. Get
1:10:40
get some stuff other stuff in there.
1:10:42
>> But uh yeah, I'm hoping I can be in the
1:10:44
building for for one of these games this
1:10:45
week, especially game four Saturday
1:10:48
night. That's going to be that's going
1:10:50
to be bonkers.
1:10:51
>> Yeah. I Oh, that's probably why the
1:10:53
tickets are so expensive because it's a
1:10:55
Saturday. Also, one one last thing
1:10:57
before we wrap. I want to say go Sabres
1:11:00
just because that fan base has been
1:11:02
suffering for so long and I can't wait
1:11:04
to watch a home game in Buffalo tonight.
1:11:06
That is going to be a really fun thing
1:11:08
on TV to watch and that would be an
1:11:10
incredible Eastern Conference final.
1:11:12
Flyer Sabres would be lit. It
1:11:15
>> It's always [ __ ] Boston. So, I I I do do
1:11:17
fully support that show. Always [ __ ]
1:11:18
Boston.
1:11:20
>> Uh and [ __ ] Dallas, too. They they lost
1:11:21
lost the wild who I still think.
1:11:24
>> Embarrassing.
1:11:25
>> Yeah,
1:11:25
>> they got dumped. It's those white
1:11:26
jerseys, man. The green and white. They
1:11:28
look stupid. Just use green, white, and
1:11:30
uh green, black, and gold. You can't put
1:11:32
the white in there. Don't do it.
1:11:34
>> I had
1:11:35
>> I have Dallas winning the cup in my
1:11:37
brackets, so hopefully they figure it
1:11:38
out.
1:11:39
>> Well, brackets don't lock till tomorrow,
1:11:40
so you can change you can change it if
1:11:41
you want. I think
1:11:42
>> that's so stupid. It is stupid. Uh once
1:11:45
again, thanks to our sponsors at FanDuel
1:11:47
Flyers are plus 126 to uh to win game
1:11:51
two in Pittsburgh on Monday night. Um
1:11:54
follow us on the socials. Follow Broad
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1:11:58
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1:12:00
on there. Do some stories and whatnot.
1:12:02
So check that out there. Um follow Jacob
1:12:06
and Joe on the socials. They're tagged
1:12:08
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1:12:10
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1:12:13
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1:12:19
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1:12:20
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