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Rich eyes

Well, it's our final hour of our final show of the week before we get to the women's final for tonight in Arizona

the

National semifinal

Being a repeat of last year's championship game South Carolina and Yukon before UCLA and Texas take on one another and

Watch the Michigan women

Get absolutely dismantled by Texas the other night. So UCLA has its hands full this evening

And then tomorrow night. It's gonna be Yukon on the men's side of things and the fighting align

I for the right to take on the winner of Michigan, Arizona

Jalen rose was on last hour he like our guest yesterday Chris Webber

Me part of the fab five alt cast during that mission in Arizona game

Our our number one. We had Jane Kismaric of Malcolm in the middle reboot

coming back for four shows

on Hulu starting on April 10th

And then two Hall of Famers landed Donovan in studio and in support of his book called Landon

In our green room right now is a very tall hockey Hall of Famer named Chris pronger his book is named earned

There he is is a member of the ducks

Down the road here in Southern California hoisting the cup

And Chris will be joining us and we'll talk a little bit of pucks with him in his book and his

Career there's you at 844 204 rich being the number to dial here on the program

We're about to get to what's more likely our usual Friday staple table to set though

to

Take a look at my favorite new April pastime

Which is the major league baseball standings, but just three teams in particular

The Yankees the Mets and the Red Sox Yankees and Red Sox off last night

But the Mets lost we were off to no you weren't no we were you were you were off rather than being on we were definitely

We were on for like two innings and then we were off for the yeah, what was it

Two touchdowns in a field gorge and it's a safety and that's now three and four

The Yankees are after going five and one sweeping the Giants and taking a series in Seattle

Home now for their home opener

Will Warren gave up a solo shot in the first but all rise

Aaron judge does what all the fans came to see in the Bronx, New York a two-run shot to put them up two to one

After one

Um in the Yankees now eight innings away from being six and one

I can't get my three hours back are the Red Sox um are the Red Sox having their home opener? Yeah home opener

In about uh seven minutes who were they playing who we have San Diego Padre? Okay, sonny gray against Michael King ah

Okay, Daniel Jeremiah will be on the other side of the aisle for that one go

Okay Dodgers in Washington right now Otoni hit his first home run of the year seven four

That guys what is that uh what is that hat?

Oh, this is uh her most a beach little league. Okay, neighbor coaches a team you see a rep answer on the rich eyes and show

I just didn't know if the Dodgers had come up with some new

fangled hat like they were wearing

For their first homestan

Didn't know if that was unit clothes uh logo or

Didn't know

Let's wrap in the city her most a beach most a beat. Ah look at you very good

Mike Del Tufo hasn't been here except for a brief bit on Monday to work on a couple things

He's Verdondo Beach. Uh-huh. Does he have an RB hat?

Probably does on his boat. The only hat that we do know that he has is that Kaka-Mami Yankee Dodger

Split hat bandwagon that is the officially been termed the bandwagon hat by lids and an outstanding

April Fool's Day meme that's our baseball coverage by the way, you know I hear I'll give you one prediction though

Of ABS, okay? We're going to see a

Player get ejected

For showing up the umpire

By running off to first and then tapping it while we're tapping a helmet and saying I know that's ball four. I'm going to first

I don't know who did it last night somebody did it tapping helmet and was halfway up the line continuing walk to first was it as the ABS

Hawkeye

Reenactment was being put on the screen. I was out. It was out. Yeah. Yeah

As the braves dismantled the diamondbacks last night

Yeah, it was albies. That's what I saw

32 pitch strike three taps the helmet

Undo's the equipment and makes his way up to first. They're going to come up with a rule that batteries must stay in the area

Whatever that is in the batters box area in the dirt circle area that in that uh

Or the area that of the dirt that encircles the batters box and home plate they're going to make that rule some watching

It's a so the pitch comes in he immediately throws a comment to the dugout because he knew it was ball four right

It's punched out turns and looks at the umpire then taps starts taking all of his gear off and walks the first somebody's going to get ejected

And then because it was because you're you're you're disrespectful of the umpire like the umpires

I think are going to at some point begin to chase enough at this ABS system

Where they feel like I've been great all night, but now I'm being clowned by this guy

Or just do us a favor baseball can you just have the players wait until

the ABS

reenactment

Is complete before they're taking off for first base

right

Like because umpires on a called strike three that they know is strike three

Are not sending the batter back to the dugout while

The pitch is coming in right on the ABS reenactment. They're not like ejecting the player from the batter's box

They should that's saying I know this is strike three you're out of here

There's nothing for you to stay in around here and wait. Yeah, it's the same thing

They're not allowed to do that. So players should not be allowed to

basically

Disrobe of all of their armor and gear

While going up to first base knowing that they're right

So what's more likely a rule change or an injection first ejection first

And then it'll be like what the hell why am I being ejected you showed me up you you said something to me

An ejection first and then baseball is gonna have to figure something out because if players now start like

You know and then coming up like celebrating or whatever or

Being somewhat disrespectful going I know you're wrong and I'll show the entire stadium. I know you're wrong

I'll show the entire stadium that you're wrong before the entire stadium sees that you're wrong. I'm off to first

I'm predicting that

I appreciate that what's more likely set up you're welcome. What's more likely presented by pillow windows and doors hit it, please

What what's more likely never say never but never

What do you have over there Chris what's more likely presented by pillow windows and doors here on this Friday

What are you going over there? All right guys happy Friday. Let's get right to it

NFL story of the week

Kirk cousins to the Raiders

So what's more likely the quarterback to throw more touchdown passes for the Raiders this year

Kirk cousins or Fernando and then does um uncle cousins

How about that?

Uncle cousins

I think cousins is going to come out of the gate and they're going to look good and

He's going to look good

And at the end of the day um

I'll give it a Kirk right now

I think he was throwing the pillow ball in that dude. What what do you think?

I think for Adam and doses starts all 17 gate. What do you think?

Suggestionate for months everyone's telling me this guy's the number one pick. Yeah start from day one

And now the sun he's not like uh make it make sense, bro

Please it's got to beat me. What are we doing? Okay. What are we doing?

He's going to have the number one selling jersey in the NFL

Raider nations. You have billboards all over town. Okay, and then he's not going to start

And don't forget a sweet song by the sweetest supergroup

Abba

That what?

Dude I didn't get that right. Abba. They say Fernando

Abba sings a song called Fernando that got very popular when Fernando

Valenzuela was pitching and it was popular then because Abba was still basically alive

They're not now and more relevant that song came out in 19. By the way that song has been every time

I'm here. I got Fernando. Those are the only place. All right

All right guys, we can't stop talking about these two individuals. Let's get right to it

More likely occasionally moody receiver to have more yards and touchdowns this year

George Pickens or AJ Brown

I'll go Pickens

I'll go Pickens. You're correct. We're chisin is right. Is Brown an eagle?

No, okay. I'll go Brown. Hit it, Jay. We're chisin is right

Wait a minute. What? You said Pickens first. I mean

Then I then I then I'm like the Eric DeCosta this. It's not over until it's official

I haven't asked you to move on playing chess in the right piece. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Until I ask you to move on

I can change my mind. Right. Right

This is like jeopardy. There's no CDLM on the Patriots. I'm just saying

That's a fact

You know

Go with your first. Go with you. You got you got an earth wind and fire joke you want to throw in here before you move on

Yeah, what? What? A moody blues? You got a moody blues get even to this TJ

Talking about moody receiver. I'm doing a moody blues reference good one

What is there famous famous song? I have no idea. I can't force these things guys

They're gonna come organic. It's at nights and white satin nights. Is that moody blues? No

There's that deep purple. They always got them mixed up. Oh, they are nights and white satin moody blues. Look at you look at me

Pull the things out of my office. Tell me. I can't get a point off of Alcarez. You can't get a point

I know those are two different endeavors. Are we doing a? I'm just talking about I I surprise

1968 I come at you. Nice. You think I'm gonna go here? I go there because I love you. You think I'm over here. Okay. I go there

See what else

Let's forget how I know where I'm going

So there's something about Dan Campbell in the news. I saw

How about this one more likely uh disappointing 2025 team a.k.a. Riches Super Bowl pick. Oh god

Win their division this year chiefs are lions

Hmm

Man, where are you asking? Wow more likely to win an alcoe my homes. Come on. Oh, jeez shocker. Yeah

I mean, he's a guy

He could barely walk right now, but I think the miles when you put out that video him throwing and looking great because he's patching my homes

That's the guy

Ha

Come on now

I'm gonna go to the chiefs

Coming back

Like they never left right they never left the enemies there probably MF and everybody up and down and they're like we're back Eric

Sleeping with the enemy. This is this is why I brought it up Dan Campbell wants the lions to be more salty get their edge back

Okay, I like it

I take it

Jamir get okay

Bejon or Jamir Gibbs first overall pick and fantasy. Oh, I think people are gonna go be John which means John people be John I think they're gonna do I'm going Gibbs Gibbs is

Gibbs is basically gonna get the ball

Like he's not coming on money. I like one of those guys gonna go for in your auction look as the

Raving defending champion. I'm gonna try to run my team back. So I'll spend top dollar on jamir gives

Runs like smoke on the water. Oh, okay. Are you googling it now? No. Okay. Okay

What else? All right little final four action. We know a one seed is gonna win the women's

Tournament. That's a fact all four number ones are the final four by the way I picked up more likely a number one wins

The men's side or either Yukon or Illinois cut the next down. Are you asking him this?

Who got asked what's more likely on the men's side of things? Oh the number one seed's gonna win

That's more likely. I'm not but I'm not sitting here saying whoever wins Yukon versus

Illinois is like the Washington General's speed bump

No way

No way

No way

But I thought you were gonna go on the women's side of things. What's more likely Yukon to the field

Wow, I think Connecticut

They look like a wagon. Yeah, but there's South Carolina. You can never count don't steal you know

Our friends are friends in Westwood have got our really talented team in Texas. Also my god

They looked incredible off one number against my alma mater

What else you got all right a few more here basketball again

I'm not saying who actually wins the trophy tj

But who is actually more likely the MVP of the NBA season SGA joker Wembee Luca or Jalen Brown

Who actually is the MVP not who's gonna win the trophy? You know, I was gonna be

Yeah, but that's not no, no, I'm saying not who wins. Oh, who's the who is actually the MVP of this whole business

Who's the most valuable play like this is not a what's more likely a construct at all

You want it just to say Jalen Brown and move on so I'll just do that

I don't mind. I mean he's been incredibly valuable without without without any of these guys the teams aren't as good

Yeah, and I understand that they'll take that guy off the team

But but Jalen Brown what he has done this year with Tatum out

But also that team has played incredibly well. I mean

Rich joker is having his best. It's that is true. I know that ever and he's already won a bunch

But you want to say Jalen Brown

That's not why I did that. Okay. I'm gonna keep what you want though in this case. What about Wembee? Save Jalen. Yeah

I weirdly want to make the case for Luca

Well, you can't averaging 34-8-8 in any other season. He runs away with this award certainly with being a Los Angeles Laker

But he doesn't have enough games Chris sorry because the teams can't be trusted enough to not tank

You can't be trusted enough to to not load manage. So let's come up with some crazy-esque collective bargaining

You know frankenstein my type of rules the spirit of that rule. I do I kind of am behind well just to try and force you to play

Yeah play your game

Forcing basketball man is starting to aggravate me. Why are you gonna force somebody to go out there and do this thing

I should do this in the snow in the heat and the rain uphill both ways uphill both ways like you said like after work

I used to wear shorts under my foot locker pants every single day. We'd hit the court. How are you going to like have them?

I don't know somebody play basketball. That's so annoying. Wait a minute. You didn't have somebody making smoothies for you

I wasn't that good. Okay. Well, that's why you're not in the NBA

I'm already behind on this one, but more like would it be the higher total this weekend? Aaron judge homeruns or Red Sox wins

Aaron judge homeruns already up one

And the red socks have no wins. So

Aaron judge homerun

When's football? I'll go Aaron judge homeruns. Yeah, bud

Yeah, Padres in town. I got the Marlins you got the Padres

What's more likely? What's more what's what's what's more likely? Um

Let me see this here

the

combination of seed numbers

Okay, okay, you got the two and the three against a one and a one

And number of games the Red Sox will be trailing the Yankees on Monday

So the like add up the seed numbers of who's in the national championship game

So it's either three or four right right right right and the number of games the Red Sox will trail

The Yankees by the end of the week. It's four right now

When we come on the air Monday. What's the larger number? What's more likely? Sox trail

From

All right two more fun ones. Uh, it's the Phil michael's I love it announced yesterday if I'm right and Michigan's one of those teams

Yeah, I mean honestly

But how much better can it get than Michigan making the final four and Duke getting late in front of the whole country

That's pretty good. It's what a freeze drive that moment. I don't think it was that great. Oh, it's amazing pretty good

Uh first master since 1994 without Phil or Tiger. Yeah with Phil announcing yesterday that he's got some personal issues

That he's not going to play do we get a first time master's champion or a previous winner. I'll go previous winner

To take the I'll go previous winner for the green jacket

Hey Brock my boy Colin hasn't won the master's it right. He is questionable the back injury. Okay. Yeah

And lastly tj. Uh, it's Eddie Murphy 65th birthday

More likely to be your favorite Eddie Murphy movie character Axel Foley Billy Ray Valentine prince a keem or

donkey

There's two of those I can't choose between you got to choose one

Then now I'm gonna go with Billy Ray Valentine. Capricorn. Oh my god. Gotta be gotta be you gotta be Axel Foley not

It's Axel Foley. I will you also didn't include his character from 48 hours

I know how many I even rank them

Um, I go Axel Foley in the order that you have him Axel Foley Billy Ray prince a keem and then donkey

donkey. I just wanted to you. I'm putting Billy Ray first because trading places is like my favorite movie

Yeah, but Beverly Hills cop is

As great as it gets isn't it? I love trading places. I do love Beverly Hills cop

But I'd love trading places and coming to America more than I love Beverly Hills. Okay. Very good fun

donkey

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Go and pre-order the book wherever you can get them chris pronger is here on the show and we're here in southern california all the fans are

All the duck fans there in southern california orange county and a high place dude

You you probably don't buy a meal anywhere in that part of the country. I did last night

I did he did salani steak tavern. So salad helped

Teemu team who picked it up. No, the ducks actually did. Okay. I think they were supporting Teemu's

Steakhouse right

While I did a book event for them last night. Well, that's awesome. Some of their premium seat holders and dude was a great night

And you know, by the way, he did the forward of the book. He did indeed came into the forward in the book

It's in English

And I most people do not realize this I am 50% Finn my mom is from Finland. Hey go figure that

So we have that connection all be it we used to but heads a lot prior to us playing together in anhyde

Well, you and I both got our career starts in Connecticut

You know professional career starts

And I will never forget you started as a member of the Hartford Whalers. Thank you

I will never forget when my

ESPN colleagues after I first arrived there in 1996 said let's go to a whalers game and I'm like sure

And they took me to a mall

And I'm like is this where we're going to eat first like is this we're gonna

You know, we're gonna go get like thank god. It's Friday is this really happening. I know I couldn't like no

That's where this that's where the arena is

Yeah, I couldn't believe that you know

Um, and that's where you got things start at all. Yeah, you know, guess who I ran into a couple months ago in St. Louis

Who's that Chris Burman came up to the booth

Came to say hi Bernie was there they were telling old war stories from way back in the day

So Burman probably was he telling the heart whale was telling a lot of whalers stories

I remember that back in the day man

And that was when you know, obviously

Yager and Lemieux were killing it. Yes. Yeah, they they they whipped in 90 you were gone in 96

96 I had just left you just left to go to St. Louis start that big part of your career

I just remember I went that night it was the the penguins in

Against the whale and the mall seven one both of them had both of them had

Hatrix unfortunately

When I was with the whalers we had a few of those nights too

I was not wearing a gray jacket. I was wearing a green jacket nice

Because I led the tour that day and I was minus five

Whatever I was

The the best player you ever played with I think I I know who it might be

But I'll I'll give you that on the floor. I've been fortunate enough to play with a lot of gray players

Obviously

For a period of time 99 the great one right in St. Louis and actually at that part of my career

He was instrumental in us getting him. He kind of took the focus off of me and the booze right

And everybody as should be all eyes on him and

You know what he brought to our team and it kind of gave me that

Quiet time to get away to kind of find my game and and really

Find myself and no kidding. Yeah, so he well just the notoriety like the scrutiny of everybody

The attention was on me and it went to him rightly so yes

And you know just to watch him how he handled the the media scrutiny and the fan attention and

How we practice how we you know how he came to play every night and just

Being able to watch somebody of that caliber every single day

You if you're a sponge you can take a lot of that. What was the best piece of advice he gave you do you recall that?

I think just

I don't know if I ever asked him that. I think it was did he ever

In part any parts of wisdom not really not really

No, I think I think he was more in in awe of what was going on around him with my keen and

Yeah

Yeah, he was coach jam at the time and

I will I will say

The second game of our second round playoff series against the Detroit Red Wings was on an afternoon game on Fox

If you remember they had the the laser yeah, yeah the glowing puck the glowing puck

And we lost I believe it was eight one don't quote me on that little foggy, but eight one I think

And Mike came in a locker room and

Be rated every single person and then he got to grats

And I don't know if you'd ever been talked like that before he

Absolutely late into him and to Wayne Gretzky. Yeah, and I think that was about it. He had seen enough. He's like

I don't think I'm gonna be signing here

No kidding because I know you know Kenan was no wallflower, but he he laid into Wayne Gretzky. Yes

Uh

Very intently

He did not pull any punches. Let's just say that. That's something was uh, that's something you won't forget

No, you know, and I get it. You know my first my third year pro my first year there

I get I was kind of the whipping boy. So if he's gonna lay into me, I get it right

But at that stage so to him probably not the best idea. Huh

I've got Chris pronger here on the rich eyes and show why'd you write the book? What about it?

Uh, it was probably time, you know

I've been doing building on a speaking platform and uh, you know kind of thinking about

As a building out these speeches kind of a lot of life experiences and things that I've been fortunate enough to be a part of

Good and bad sure and I think just showcasing the journey that I was on and the decisions that I was forced to make

some good some bad

And then living with them and taking ownership of them and then learning from them and so

The book is kind of part memoir part life lessons gleam from

My life and career and kind of a playbook of sorts to how to level up and in terms of your career

Where do you keep your met your gold medals that

They are currently hanging in my wall. I have a little basement area uh, walking towards my man cave area

And I have trophies on the left and my medals on the right. So I got a box. I don't know if you could rank them

Because gold medals are gold medals

But I imagine winning in Vancouver in over time

Would cross be light in the lamp. Is does that one or the first one in Salt Lake?

Why? Well the first the first one's always the best. Yes

But winning on home soil

In that manner. Yes

With that kid at the time

The golden goal

I don't think the NHL could have scripted that any better. Mm-hmm

But that Olympics in particular Vancouver Vancouver showed so well

That we're such a great host and then for us to be the 25th gold medal

The most in Canadian history in the winter Olympics

And I think we won the most

Metals period of in winter Olympics for Canada. So just everything surrounding that

Was awesome and then to win in that fashion against the US

Who had beat us earlier in the tournament five two and then a pounded us

uh, you know to get our

Come back game or

Come up and see if you will. Yes, sir. Are revenge. Yes in that fashion. I think was fitting. Yes, of course

Well, you also don't want to win a silver medal because you get a stuffy with that correct correct

Thank god they weren't giving those up

We're we're we're is that rank on my list. Yeah, not very high

I don't understand where the stuffies come. Yeah, um now like that one

I'm not sure they I'm not sure they thought that one through quite well

As you're getting a silver medal and you're doing that

I could tell you right now he's looking at that going

Which garbage can't can I throw this in when I get in the locker room

Don't it that's a uh Nate dog right there. Not happy right at that stuffy

I mean think about the idea of um

Somebody coming up here's what we need to do

Let's soften the blow of a silver medal

By giving them a stuff time. I know your heart just got ripped out of your chest

Here's the stuff for you to make you feel better

What what do you think of the um the four nations when there was a throwdown

You know all those fights in the first few seconds. I know I'm going further back. Yeah, obviously the most

recent USA and Canada moment

From the Olympics, but that one. I mean

True bad blood right yes real like throwdown. I think it just showcased

Our game in the greatest light just from an energy the you know I talked a bunch of players and former teammates that had

There were in the building that night and just the electricity in the air

To start a game like that just to everybody was on the edge of their seats and right you know from this first fight with Hagel and Kachak to then

Bennett and the other Kachak and then for preko and Miller to kind of finish it off and then all of a sudden were

35 seconds into the game without three fights and yeah now we can get into playing right

Got this part out of the way

This part of the rivalry is now set

Now let's go play hockey and and just the the level of play in the caliber play these players leaving it all out in the line

Was awesome. Who's the guy in the NHL right now and I know you're in the media

You know doing hockey night in Canada and all the other things that you're doing

But if you're just a paying customer

You're gonna you're gonna put down harder and

Pronger dollars to see this player who is it

There's a few

The kid up the road here in San Jose is pretty special Maclin celebry. Mm-hmm. He comes he comes every single night

He's got a motor on him. You know Nathan McKinnon's must watch TV

Conor McDavid and Edmonton obviously

Uh, and you know, I think said the kids still like just

How he shows up and how he prepares and how he meticulously is with his game

At his will say it is advanced the age. He's I believe 38. Mm-hmm

Um, it's it's not easy to do and so and and how consistent he's been

Year in year out you expect to drop off at some point

Father time is undefeated as you know. Yes, sir, and at some point you have to think but just

Still clipping along at that exam

consistent

Sydney Crosby like effort every single time he steps on the ice. What was your first impression of Ovechkin when you saw him for the first time on the ice?

just his

speed power and

Level of passion for the game you can see how much

Funny has playing the game

And and I think when when you're in that locker room and you have some you know, Tami was like that not quite to the physical level

But just the the joy they get from strapping on their skates and going out and playing the game

Um, it's infectious and you know, just you know, here's here is beaten Gretzky's record

And doing that slide and all the rest of it right is great TV

Yeah, the fact that he beat Gretzky's record which is something that I think when it happened you're like

Will it ever have will this will we ever see this again? Right? I mean, and he's the one to do it and you know, Gretzky be in there and I think we're about to

Is it the final two weeks of seeing it? Yeah, potentially

Yeah, and and the level of consistency. Yeah, that that took to beat that record. I don't think people realize any

With how physically plays. Yeah, and his style of play

To not miss very many games, you know, I think that year he broke his leg

Missed three weeks or four weeks outside of that. I think he'd only missed like 13 or 14 games

Who's a guy that could take Ovechkin's record down if you had a peg one right now?

It's gonna take a lot of longevity. You could say nobody

I don't right now. I don't think to to have that

Level of consistency and longevity

You know, he's again, he's in the same as Crosby the same year. Yes

That that that that's 20 plus years of 40 plus goals a year. Can you believe you played 18 when you're you're sitting here now in one piece

Yeah, kind of one piece. I mean, I have had 16 surgeries. I got a new knee and

A bunch of things I get I mean, I can rattle them all off

But she's like the operation three wrist three hand five right knee one left knee

foot back jaw

Kind of I kind of you're the operations. Yeah

Who hit you the hardest. Yeah, who what who's the hardest that hit you the hardest hit ever

Uh, I got hit one night in Edmonton. Yes, Ethan morose. So this is all you know like right before the lockout

Pierter John was standing right in front of me. What a name as I was coming up

And all of a sudden he just got out of the way and I think the pot kind of flipped on me a little bit

So I put my head down to kind of flatten it thinking turgis in front of me

And all of a sudden the train was coming right at me and I picked my head up. I was like oh boy

This is gonna hurt

Steam hold me. Yeah, and I popped right up. It's fine. Yeah, you're you're a hockey player um how about this one

The time you drop your gloves

And you thought to yourself what did I get myself into

Is there a moment like that? I dropped my no drop your gloves against another dude and you're just like what am I thinking uh what's happening

No, it's you're normally you're seeing red if you're gonna you're not if you're gonna get rid of them

You better either remat or having an intent or purpose that what you're doing right otherwise you're gonna get into trouble

So let me ask you this question because my my youngest son asks me this frequently

Why does hockey let people fight and stay in the game

Where any other sport if you fight you're thrown out

Now we're going back in history

I don't I don't really know you know the rule why there's five minutes for fighting or whatever. I just think

Because they didn't use the wear helmets and you have a stick in your hands. Yes, they would prefer you fight then

chop you over the head and

Various other places on the body

I'm gonna guess going way back. We're going back little shunnies thirties, etc

But what about now like we're we're more in the rulebook. It's five minutes for fighting in the rulebook

And I could be honest with you it

relieves a lot of tension in the game and relieves

You know things can be boiling over and there's a fight and it just it's like a pressure valve

things can either go off the rails or they can

Be tightened up real quick with a fight or a quick conversation of

We can always handle it right here if you have a problem

And you can send a message to the other team. You can send a message

You know to star players. It's always like people think

You know, we'll go back to the situation Toronto

Awesome. Athos gets hit. It's not you're not going after goodness. You're going after the star on anhyde right

You want to do that to him? Well, I'm gonna do it to him and things get handled

Quick when that happens right away

Similar to what we just said. Holly you know with the four nations like Holly just told a story the other the other day on the ice garden's podcast

He's like I would

Kelly Chase would not go at the guy at me that was hacking me

He'd go over to Steve Eisner and be like you tell probi to leave me it leave him alone or I'm gonna beat you up

And things you know then it's a quick conversation of well, I don't want that so

Can you just comment down a little bit? So Eisner and we'll go up to Bob Probert and say

Well, it's your loud probably not, but you might you might have to

Probert man, I was you know your name nothing the game. Well now you're naming wings when I was in school there

You know when Bowman was you know and jock them airs was the yeah was that was a coach

You know now your name and names from back in my very kosher Bob Probert the let's just give the fans who were listening locally here in Los Angeles

Yani on ESPN radio

Where Anaheim fans something. Yeah, um, I mean if I told a kid from Canada growing up in Canada

That you're gonna win your cup in Anaheim, California. You'd have said what you know

In the 80s, uh, they have a team what they didn't have a team you know, right? So right

Their first year was actually my

Draft year. Mm-hmm. So they came into the league and uh, no, it it's funny. I came to Anaheim

My draft year. It was me

Rob Needemire and Chris gratin and we went to Disneyland and kind of they were promoting the the game and the team and yeah

And to think now that was 14 years later. I would then win a Stanley Cup there

Uh, it was pretty special and

You know for that to be the first in their franchise history first at the time in California

Uh, to be able to do that and celebrate that with the great group of guys. We had this

Incredible. I bet so what uh, what'd you do with the cup in the day you had it?

Uh, I got it a couple times. I had a couple pretty nice parties

I had so I had a party at my house in California. I lived in what's called shady canyon. Yeah, yeah and uh

And so I did McWire lived in there. So he just lived up top of the hill where I was okay. That's situated right and uh, sugar ray came to play my party

Because they're from you know, Newport Beach. Yeah, yeah, and uh, so I had them set up up by my pool and then I had a subterranean garage

So I set up a I blacked it out and set up a club down there and I did DJ set up kind of pump and tunes in

And uh, you know things may have gotten a little crazy at times

And the band came down. We're all partying down there. It's about two o'clock in the morning

And I oh happen to go upstairs because somebody wanted to bottle a wine or something

And I'm farting around in my wine cellar and all of a sudden my party planner comes running up and she's like oh my god

Chris the cops are here and I'm like

Bring him in

Let's get a and I go down. I grab him. I'm like hey guys. Let's go get a picture with the cop

Go downstairs of the the party room and everybody's like oh my god the cops are here

Take some pictures do whatever and then they're like hey, can you turn the music down? I'm like oh yeah

I got you no problem. No problem. Moment. They leave

crank it back up

But the funniest part of the story is it took them about three hours to find my house

Because I lived in that canyon. Yeah

The music was pounding into my garage and then reverberating all over the canyon. Oh my god

I lived right off the 405. They were across the five looking for this house

Because it was echoing all through the canyon

So they were like oh my god we finally found your house. Oh my god

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Chris Pronger

Here on the rich island show

Dude what a blast seeing you. It's been it's been too long. It has been too long. Don't be a stranger you too

Oh my god around here. Let me know when you're around here. I don't

It's about you know Joe's been married. What like seven eight years now something like that probably six

Six years. Whatever. It's been a while. You really want me to tell you you how long has been 12 years? No

It was 2014

Wow

Joe and Michelle have been married 12 years already. Oh, I think they officially got married then yeah

Yeah

Unless that was all staged

I mean we are in Hollywood right

Okay 14 oh my god

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You know, I'm not giving up on stuff um, I'm constantly

Returning to a take or an opinion or a moment from the week

You guys sitting here thinking

Indiana's just gonna fall off not go anywhere

You guys think they're not gonna win the big tanning and are you maybe not make the cops football

Playoff again, and I'm like Google their coach

Now sunny dikes the head coach at TCU

Uh, they're quarterback Josh Hoover's transfer to indiana

Okay, and sunny who by the way you got a new contract today. I believe congratulations to him

Had this to say about the new offensive coordinator and obviously old quarterback there hit it

Look numbers or numbers and stats or stats, and I think you know you look for us and

I think Josh started 31 games here as a quarterback and we turned them all over 40

He turned them all over 42 times and those 31 starts

And you go and you look at Gordy was the office of coordinator last year at that Connecticut and their quarterback turned it over twice

So Gordon

Samus is the new offensive coordinator, but at TCU, but what about the kid Hoover in Indianapolis

Um or Indiana pardon me in Bloomington

Well coach signati you have the floor on that and this comment

as well

I think the great thing is

Excited about Josh first of all

Be clear about that

Uh, and he's got a body of work in terms of a winning football games

Passing yards touch down passes

Uh

Gotta clean up some of the turnovers obviously which uh coach dikes

Made light of

But you know when Josh got here

He met his two new best friends

Great defense and a really good run game

And he was never the same after that

Uh

Radio audience there was a wink at the end of that he was never the same after that

Lincoln his two best new he's new two best friends a great defense and a running game

And he's also siden with his new guy

Final dark in the direction of TCU coach dikes made light of

Oh

He's motivating in april

I'll take signati you you go ahead and you go you go ahead and bet against him

Go ahead that's not what we were saying uh-huh

We said not making it

Not the same no no

It started off. They were prime time right Chris. We were watching them a prime time do the the pro day uh

Uh-huh, and we said that you like what do you say

I've never seen it before

You said he's not gonna make the playoffs

I'm just doing the thing. Oh, you're doing the thing. No, I'm I'm being serious. We're all your break. We'll chat again Monday

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