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are right on cue a lot of times. He understands, you know, where the puck's gotta go. I think

sometimes it's a safe place, sometimes it's a real option to get the puck into the middle and

make a nice play up the middle, but yeah, I'm well aware of all of the stats. We've coaches,

if you didn't talk about it, we have discussions on our group and can we change a piece

with all the demand we have, but some of his stats are just incredible.

Lindy Ruff talking about Bulldog. Back in his playing days. He had a good year,

he had a good coursey. Yeah. Lindy recognized it and the staff is talking about it.

Zach Mezza. Lindy Ruff, by the way, the Sabers leader in penalty minutes in the 83 series with the

Bruins. 47. If you're wondering, you weren't wondering how many it was, it was 47.

Gord Clujack, led Boston, 33. There's a name. Number six. Remembering some still see

83 Bruins today. Mark Howell. Really 83 Bruins. Marty, sorry, Marty Howell. Okay. Same reaction.

Yeah, right? Mark Howell was not a Bruin. Whalers, Flyers, mostly Flyers, Detroit.

Right. Yeah, all three of them fought Utah. Father and the two boys were on Hartford at one point

because there's a famous photo of Gordy taking the face off with the boys on his wings.

That is a hilarious team. That's a period where I have lots of cards, like 78 through 84.

And the 79, can you picture the Gretzky rookie, the blue outline on the famous Gretzky card?

Maybe not. Not exactly. 79 80 is the set. And the Whalers, it's the first year of the expansion

teams coming in from the WHA. And Hartford, so there's a Gordy Howe card. And there's Dave Keon.

Okay. That might be a peachy only. But still, like there's Dave Keon. That had to be a hilarious team.

The guys are either, did they have anybody between the ages of like 22 and 15?

I don't know. I don't remember the rest of that lineup at all. It's too early for like,

for beak and Francis and those guys, I think. Oh, yeah. So, yeah, I don't recall what the rest

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Metsa is somebody that I'm not sure if he's a fan's favorite guy, but he has worked his way

into a regular role. I was talking about Benson yesterday in the same sort of way, how just like

I can't get enough of that guy watching him just take on big guys and replace.

The cool thing about Metsa I think back to him for a moment is I want to give the coaching staff

like whoever's, you know, as soon as the coaching staff, credit for keeping the door open for him.

I mean, the GM's a new GM, a lot of new parts there, Mark Berger van, and they made their moves

at the deadline and brought, and Stanley is in the lineup. And, you know, I believe at the time,

they made the deals like Shen was a depth, you know, a depth piece. We want another guy's got Stanley

Cup winning experience twice. You know, so if we need him, it'll be good to have him around anyway,

if he's not playing, yada, yada, yada, right? But it might have been pretty tempting. I mean,

Kesselring was an offseason acquisition that was supposed to matter here. Like the idea was,

he was going to be own powers partner. That never got off the ground. But organizationally,

he easily outranked Zach Metsa, you know, even after the trade deadline. And they are seeing fit

to keep Metsa's earned his spot. So credit to Metsa, but also credit to them for not just deferring to

whatever the contract, the trade piece with Kesselring, they've, they've realized that they,

I think the light started going on for them. I know I referenced this numerous times leading up

to that trade deadline. How Metsa seemingly was getting a bit of a tryout with the other big three

or big four defenseman. He was getting just shifts here and there within games with all of those

guys. And I mean, it had to be with a big, the big picture in mind here. Like, can we count on this

guy? If he's got to play up in the lineup at any point. And I'm guessing he passed the test

because he's still there now. And he's paired with the, with, you know, one of the other new guys.

And I think a timman's coming back from injury, Kesselring, any of these guys have got to,

they've got their work cut out for them to get back in the lineup because he's played so well.

So obviously the player deserves credit for doing that and impressing. But in a situation like

this, it's not always easy to defer to the low guy on the totem pole. He's a little guy that

had to work his way, you know, into the AHL to begin with. And for him to be holding down a spot

on one of the best teams in the league. This isn't just like tryout because we're washing,

you know, we're circling the drain time. This is, how can we be our very best? And he is still a piece

of that, which I think they deserve some credit for. You know, that's kind of where, what Lindy's

quote was about just, he almost sounds like he's saying, we've tried to take him out. Right?

Like we look at this, we're looking at the stats, we're trying to figure out,

how to move the pieces around and really can't do it. Right. That's pretty good.

Explain Carrick to me as somebody that watches the whole league over the last decade or so

as opposed to myself where I think maybe that's the first I heard of him when the Sabers got him.

Yeah, I heard of him, but I mean, it didn't really, I didn't feel like, oh God, they got to,

you know, I liked on paper and what little I knew of them, like, okay, face-offs, defensive

centerman, you need, you wanted to upgrade there and not have to count on Tyson Kozak, say,

or even Krebs, who's maybe a little miscast in that kind of role if he ends up there,

which is often what happens. I mean, if Benson goes back up top, eventually the Krebs is usually

the one that slides back down. So they really didn't have a guy that was known for that.

So at first blush, I liked it. I just certainly didn't expect this much impact. You know,

I mean, the offense has been, I'd say unexpected five goals in nine games. Right.

Not exactly his pace. I mean, I just don't, you know, I don't know how much you want to count on

that lasting. It's kind of crazy, but he's been a fantastic ad. I think more impactful than even

Stanley, because it's given them someone that, you know, I think has been kind of through it

as that in that role playing, you know, is comfortable doing that. And I think that's, again,

they didn't really have a guy for it. Kozak might become that in an, you know, eventually,

I only Krebs ever really will be. He's just sort of, he's just sort of a stick him where you need

to stick him guy. And if you're getting ready for the playoffs, I think you want to have a guy

that you feel like I can put out there against, you know, the other team's best guys. And he's,

he's going to, he's going to do it for you. Makes a lot of sense. So you'll be busy tonight,

15 games, a lot of hockey, while mixing in some ADP chasing there in the middle of course.

That'll be on. You'll have the sound on the hockey on, but you'll have the sound down.

You're talking to me. Sure. Yeah. Jacob and Patrick and the Davis. Just like, yeah, we,

we have taken to really, I gather the whole family around the iPad where we stream the ADP

ship, ADP chasing chasing. Yeah. An offshoot of ship chasing. Oh, you're right there. I didn't,

sorry. Oh, but I didn't just tell on myself. You guys make s'mores and watch the show every Tuesday

night. It's, I mean, that's what we do. Yes.

S'mores. It's a national cheese steak day today. Oh, national cheese steak day. Why am I having

so much trouble saying a simple thing because it's a stupid thing to have a national day for.

Just like everything is mostly, but that's not why. No, I just couldn't say it, you know, but

cheese steaks. So I go to Philadelphia every March. I was there two weekends ago and there's a section

of the weekend. It runs very much the same way every year. Everybody gets there on Friday or

Friday night. There's a pub night. Saturday morning is the NL draft. Saturday afternoon is

cheese steak. Saturday night for some of us is kind of a nice dinner while the other guys go up to

Jersey Sunday morning. The rest of us go up to Jersey and then we have the AL draft and then it's

over. So it runs the same way pretty much every year and for no social reasons that cheese steak

section of the weekend is my least favorite. Because I just, I'm not that excited about it. Yeah.

I'm the guy who goes to the cheese steak place and gets like spaghetti or something.

Ribs, I don't know. It's also that we have the dinner at night that I get very excited for.

Yeah. But I've just never really connected with cheese steaks. Yeah. You know, they seem good.

Yeah, they're fine. They're fine. Yeah. Red peppers. Yeah. I don't really have a, I don't have

a much. I like to be smirching the cheese today. I'm a banana pepper guy myself. But I, okay.

I've never had a real Philly. I've never had a cheese steak in Philadelphia. It's all I need to say

here. I'm sure the places that make cheese steaks around here would say they're real cheese steaks.

So I've had a real, it's never been the Philly and had a cheese steak. It's the wings equivalent.

I guess. Yeah. I mean, I'm not against it, but it's not, I don't know, wings in Philadelphia

cannot be as good as ours. Is that how this works? Cheese steaks can only top out like here

in Buffalo. Sure. Yeah. That's how it's supposed to work. Yeah. It seems like it shouldn't be like

that. Pretty simple construct. Yeah. And easily easy to duplicate. We think like, you know,

I like the people are hiding the ingredients of these things. So like you, you know,

when are the ingredients? I mean, we get cheese steaks, cheese whiz steak, onions,

some peppers, a fresh roll. You're done. So done. Yeah. That's how that complicated. Yeah. I don't

know. Well, how do you mess it up then? I don't think you really can. So I just can't speak

from experience that it's so much better, but I would be surprised if it's that much better.

Mm hmm. But you make the bucket list. So I don't know. Not on your bucket list. No,

to go get it. No, I couldn't. No. No. I mean, you're an age now. We're care. That would have

happened by now. It's pretty easy trip. Yeah. Well, Philly for a weekend, grab a cheese steak.

I've never had any. I went to Philadelphia once a very, very, very, very in college. Still,

we went to do a buff state football playoff game at Rowan, which was just over the border from Philly

in New Jersey. Mm hmm. And we stayed, well, we stayed in New Jersey, but we were in Philly for

like the Friday night. The game was a Saturday afternoon, and we did not go get cheese steaks. We

got into town and went to the spectrum and bought tickets at the window for Sixers Jazz. Let's go.

That night, like we went across the river, checked into the hotel, and then came back, had dinner.

It's some, you know, Italian really charming white, you know, just classic Italian joint in Philly

near the arena, and then went to a basketball game, and then that was it. Was it Ralph's?

I don't remember the name of the place. I don't. And this is not like I could take a photo,

because it showed me it was 1993 or something. Yeah, you have to bring in your photo album. Yeah,

I wouldn't, I wouldn't have a cell phone to take a picture of it. But so I didn't have time for

Chi, I had I had a nice dinner. Yeah, I don't know if it rates with whatever you're going on these

annual trips, but there was no cheese steak time. Well, and my friend and I by broadcast partner,

Andy Heyman, neither of us were like, oh, we're in Philly. We got to go get cheese steaks. We,

we were too excited about going to the basketball game. We're going to see Stockton and Malone. So like,

we, that was it. Dr. Jay. No, no, no, Dr. Jay Sean Bradley. That's not that far off. Sean Bradley

was on the 93. That's I guess five years a little, that's a little off. Yeah, Sean Bradley was

on the 76ers then. This is I think pre-Iverson. And and he was, he was on, he was like a, he came

off the bench for them, but he was the only guy on the 76ers whose name I knew. Sean Bradley,

like seven, seven, six, seven, six on the 76ers that they had to get him. Right. No six, seven, seven,

six. Julius Irving retired in 87. All right, five years. You're right. Five years.

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