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What a match-up, it is bracket season, what a match-up, your favorite team playing a game
in Tampa, or Bob Ross painting a lake at a mountain, give me the lake all day long.
Now WGR sports radio 550, give me the lake, what if it's opening day, give me the lake,
you still want the lake on opening day, I think opening day I might make an exception,
if the red socks were in Tampa and I could find my way to the game somehow, it's on
a channel that I'm aware of and don't have to get a code sent to my phone, then it's
a big F. I would make an exception for opening, first game of the year, sure, I'll hang
out and watch your game in your crappy, lousy, don't ballpark with the walkways.
I'm driving home from the Sabers game and turn on Yankees Giants on MLB radio, because
I'm that cool.
It's John Miller, which was great, I haven't heard him in a long time.
I didn't know that I'd ever hear John Miller again, I wasn't sure if he was still working,
two different guys, at least two different times, very carefully to pimp tickets for their
next game, I think they're reading from the same scripts, right?
I mean, these are team employees, as much as I like John Miller, he's a team employee,
it's opening day tomorrow.
This was not opening, the seven nothing loss we all just endured for the Giants was
not opening day, Friday, they don't play today.
Friday is opening day, because that was opening night, and I don't think you can get away
with that.
Oh good, they did that thing where they played a game and then you're all excited for
the season to begin and there's 162 games that they take the next day off.
Yes, the Yankees and Giants are not playing today, but they insistently called tomorrow's
game numerous times opening day, and I don't think you can do that.
I think there's one opening day, and if it's at night, it's at night, that's opening
day.
I mean, they tried opening week, right?
The NFL did that, kick off week, or kick off weekend, maybe they still do that.
I don't know, I don't think, I don't think that's, that's good enough.
No, it's not opening day.
I think you can say this is lame for opening day, there should be more than one game on opening
day, opening day should still be in Cincinnati at 1 p.m. or whatever, whatever old guy yells
at cloud thing you want to attach to this and keep going if you want, but I don't think
you can say this is an opening day.
It's the first game of the season, even if it's being played when it's dark out, it's
opening day.
It's the first game of the year.
I myself only consider it opening day if John Kibbler is the home played umpire.
Otherwise, it's not, it's not enough, not, not good enough.
It's not legitimate enough Bob Ross died 31 years ago.
You know, it's funny.
That's an old clip, but it's not that old.
No, it's not.
He was long dead before we met.
Sure.
So the painting guy.
Yeah.
Right.
Right.
Well, it was in the ground at the time of that little conversation.
I didn't, uh, you know, I didn't, uh, 1995, I really didn't know, yeah, but he has
transcendent.
Sure.
Everybody knows who you know.
Well, he's a live and kids know who you mean.
He's a live in my heart.
I'm saying.
Yeah.
Bob Ross.
Um, well, let's talk about with baseball starting and everything else.
When we do the Sabers game up top here, though, uh, I was at the game, which is different
than watching it because you don't really have somebody telling you what maybe you missed.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
The time goal.
The winning goal.
Talk to me.
Uh, I think there's definitely room to criticize the goalie on the winning goal.
One right through him.
Yeah.
From the circle.
Yeah.
I mean, the guy was in his way.
He was in all alone.
That's what I thought.
He was in all alone, but it went, he was, well, he wasn't, you know, it was on a break
away.
No, that's, well, right.
But he was, I mean, he was, that no one was going to check him.
The guy could have, I mean, don't, could have come right to the net.
The kind of like, um, who had this chance, a Saber had a chance to walk right in and
he tried to pass and Paul cut off one.
I think maybe could have walked, anyway, doesn't it last night?
No, no, in a game.
Okay.
It's the same kind of thing where it's not a break away.
But there's nobody, you could just go anyway, but he shoots it probably because he sees
how Luke and his coming over, I think he's late coming over.
It's Posternak, which you got to respect on the other side, on the other side, Posternak's
got the puck.
So Luke and he cannot cheat, right?
But everybody is convert, you know, he's got two, tuck his cheating leaves Zaka wide open.
But his legs are, he's just, he just, the five hole is wide open on the play.
And I can't speak to directly how much it is to ask the goalie to move over that quickly
and be sealed up there.
But I feel like you see guys do it.
He just, he just left the guy too much, too much to, it was like you just squeak through.
Like there was a huge hole there.
The way he came over is, it was not fundamentally sound coming over, I would say.
I just want to ask this about three on three, possession being everything in three on
three is Luke and in maybe thinking about what to do with the puck after the shot.
I mean, he's, he's a pretty good example for this to my eyes, just during the course of
regular play.
And maybe this is all goldies now.
He's putting the puck where he wants to put it.
If he can on a rebound, you know, on a safe, he often he'll put the puck in the corner.
I thought last night, a few times, he was really good at how to play the puck, a puck
came in to the left of the net and instead of just sort of like leaving it or bumping it
to the corner, he made the decision to come out of his crease and play it and clear it.
And that looked like the right decision.
He was successful in that.
There were a few of those in this game.
I think it's a maybe a strong area for him.
Check the box score, but didn't, if he didn't get an assist, I'm not sure why, maybe
because a Boston player ended up with the puck, but he, the Benson goal is him.
Okay.
I don't know.
He throws that puck right up the wall.
I don't think it touches another saber, but again, maybe a boo and defender gets it
and then Benson struts him and whatever anyway, he made it, he made the play to break
Benson.
Fine.
Yeah, I thought he had a, yeah, he was impressive in that area.
When it's three on three and it's not a super high danger shot.
You know, like, okay, well, he's late, if he's late, five hole, then okay.
What does he want to do with the puck on that?
If assume, he's assuming he's going to be able to stop it from there, I mean, that's,
I don't know.
Does he want it?
He doesn't want to freeze it, right?
I think probably not because you would have a chance to swing back the other way pretty
quickly, maybe with a two on one or even a three on one.
That's what I'm saying.
It's already, I think this is my, my position here that he's somebody, he's confident in
himself.
Do you think he made this area?
He hasn't training enough on making the save because he's thinking about, it's like running
before he caught the ball kind of thing, but maybe he's, he's thinking he's going to
make the save.
Right.
It's going to be a bad goal from there.
Am I overstating that?
I think a little.
I mean, it's, it's, you know, mid point of the face off circle, open look with a lot
of time.
Like, there's nobody checking the guy.
So he has time to sort of, you know, I mean, in hockey terms, I mean, he didn't take
all day, but he's got time to choose where to go.
But I think he chooses to go five all because he could see Luke and in was not, he was
all kind of broken pieces coming across.
I'm, so I'm in one 18, pretty low last night.
I'm as far, almost as far away.
Yeah.
I had a terrible view of it.
You hear the puck go in, I can't wait to tell you about the guy I was sitting next
to.
Oh my God.
This guy was such a beauty.
I just have, just like a little bit of a, you know, footnote, listen to an audio book
and then you sort of stop the story like footnote, I'm going to revisit this guy was
at like picture, Matt Foley from SNL, but a Sabers fan and hammered like that, that's
who I was sitting next to for this game.
And he was so far gone that when Boston scored, he got up and screened Sabers fan Toyota
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He just didn't know which team he was rooting for at that moment, I guess.
He didn't know it would score the goal.
Anyway, that's not the point.
I just didn't really see when I realized that this was a goal.
My thought is, well, he must have sniped it.
I mean, the goal he has to know that that's always possible.
He could just pick the corner and your beat.
But Luke and his not expecting to get beat the way he got beat.
I just wonder what, like I've already said, what does he want to do with the puck after
he makes the save?
He probably is assuming he's going to make.
Yeah.
I did not hear if he talked and if he was asked about it, so I don't know if he offered
any explanation on the play.
It's possible he was so maybe because the pasta not being the guy with the puck, he waited.
So he's late.
And maybe all he tried to do was make himself as big as he could.
Because he didn't move the way goal he's moved on the play.
Like his legs are apart and he's sort of like up in his stance.
He might have just tried to gobble up space because he knew he wasn't going to be in
good position.
I don't know.
Well, that's the other part of it is what what he knows about his situation as the shot
is being taken.
Yeah.
Maybe he knows he's in trouble.
It definitely was a play.
I think you'd like a save on, you know, it's it's an open, clean look in three on three,
but it is not he just he just he just was not sound coming across.
So I didn't like that.
The play off the boards.
I don't know.
I also didn't like it mostly because I think I heard all in talking about this.
Wait, this is three three.
This is three three.
Okay, good.
The middle set goal.
I'm asking.
Maybe the big play on that goal is middle set winning a battle with Josh Don below the
goal line, which is what started the whole thing to begin with.
Um, that's just not something I you tell me Josh Don in case you middle set are going
into a corner to battle for a puck and I'm going to expect Josh Don to win that
battle.
In the Boston end.
No.
In the safe behind the saber net middle set takes the puck off of the okay, okay or wins
a battle for a loose puck and gets it out to the point and then the shot comes in
and middle stat from there has gone to the front of the net smartly.
But it looked like looking in.
He didn't know I think he didn't know I don't like neither he nor do elite dolly knew
where the puck was exactly.
It did take a weird bounce.
It deflected.
It was screened and I think he got his blocker on it, but didn't think about what you want
to do with it on that play what he probably if he sees it cleanly, what you'd want to
do with it is blocker it into the netting or off the glass like just boof out of here.
But he only got a piece of it and then it bounced weirdly and they didn't know where it was.
But even with that said, it just felt like looking in did not do a good job of protecting
his net there.
He just he got all turned around that happens and it was just messy.
So he just wasn't prepared for that at all, but it you do I think I have room for like
some forgiveness on because it's just a weird bounce, you know, that the shot off his blockers
a weird bounce off the walls, a knuckleball coming back and it's a strange and so, but
he didn't do a great job there either, but the winning goal I thought was pretty bad overall
on his night.
I guess that's where I was then already like just watching it live from basically ice
level was well, that was strange, but did they just get a bad bounce there and then yikes,
you know, but yeah, I still like to know what he wants to do with the save in the overtime
and it would vary on the same shot would be different answers for different situations.
It was 40 seconds or so into overtime, the Sabers never touched the puck or had possession
and overtime, which I was super bummed about whether they win or lose, I'm down there,
like I'm getting a three on three, give me like one chance, right at least or a shootout
even.
Yeah.
No, they never did anything.
I don't know.
I'm not sure what their numbers are three on three, but I'm kind of glad that the playoff
don't have it.
Oh, they're bad.
They might be three and eight.
There've been Thompson disaster moments and I don't I'm kind of thinking it's good that
they don't play three on three.
Yeah, they don't say I think three and eight, they got eight overtime losses, 40 regulation
or overtime wins and they've got 44, so they're four and eight, I guess an overtime.
So not great, no, and you know, it's two ones, two in a row that, you know, I mean, they
they had the puck on on Sunday in Anaheim, but what lost it pretty quickly.
That was a pretty quick goal too on it, minute, minute 10.
So yeah, not, not great.
The whole night was just Boston's game.
Yeah.
Yeah, they were, except for when they took the lead.
Yeah, did Lindy say after like the first 40 minutes were the worst two periods we've
played in three months or something, which, you know, that might be an exaggeration,
but it was, it was not good.
It might not be.
I know that, like watching the game, I was, you know, I was texting friends and Owen was
in the press box.
I'm like, they don't have it tonight.
This is not something I, but yeah, then they managed to, you know, Benson makes a great
individual play.
They get the other power play goal.
And okay, we got the lead again.
And then you get that, that bad, you know, that bad bounce.
I already have been saying I can't get enough of Benson and just last night was, right,
even adding to that.
I was thinking of you when he made that, made that play and absolutely just wrecked into
the net.
Yep.
And the penalty is called, which kind of shocked me.
Yeah.
Me too.
They would just let that go.
It's, you know, it's on the score on it, and it's almost April, right, right.
So good.
Yep.
I was feeling 20 years ago in those moments.
I mean, I was jumping up and just super fired up for those two goals.
It never felt like their game, but you never know, right?
And they got, they got burned, they still got a point.
And Tampa has a chance to get within one tonight.
I mean, we both kind of said yesterday, and maybe throughout Tampa is probably the better
team.
So it isn't, well, the end of the world, if they can't hold Tampa off, it doesn't taint
the amazing.
Right.
I don't think anything crumbles here, but, you know, they've lost two in a row now, neither
in regulation.
So they've still got that going for them, but two in a row and regulate are in overtime.
So, you know, Friday, Friday probably is going to, a lot of people are going to pour
a lot into Friday.
Like, okay, let's end this now.
All right.
It's another team in the race.
Can we just look good tonight, please?
Like this looks look good, because it's not that many games ago, I mean, the LA game,
right, was they were, they were the better team clearly.
The game before that was San Jose, and that was a game that was maybe not as bad as last
night.
You know, watching it was sort of like, oh, they don't have it, and then it was three
nothing.
Right.
And then they just, they just coasted home, basically, the game in San Jose last Thursday.
So it's, you know, it's a, it's three out of four here that they maybe haven't been
in great form.
I would say if you, if you accept that San Jose was, you know, they, they weren't real
good in the game, but they still won.
So let's, you know, get it back on track.
Even Los Angeles, I'm happy if you are as well to offer any sort of therapy.
We do not want to be losing our minds with 10 games left.
So before the first playoff season in 15 years, okay, right?
Everybody?
Do we, do we know that?
We know that, right?
I mean, the fun is getting into the, the roller coaster and riding the ride.
But yeah, I don't want to, like last night, okay, I mean, even LA, all these games, your
expectation should be, all right, this probably will be close.
Right.
It's a hockey game.
Right.
I thought about betting the Bruins last night, just objectively, because Buffalo was
minus 210 or something, like really, they're that much better than Boston.
If we're sitting down for these games, thinking like the Sabers are just better than Boston,
be careful.
That's how much better, a little bit, maybe Boston played the night before, okay?
That doesn't have to, like it's just, the margins are very, very thin.
Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
And to me, they still are.
I still, they still are.
Like, I don't come out of last night, like, oh, I don't want any part of them.
No, it's fine.
I didn't have their best goalie in, and I thought Corpus Sallow had a pretty lucky night.
There were a lot of saves.
You might have noticed watching in person on TV, there were, there were saves where he's
looking the wrong way after the puck hits him.
Thompson from the high slot, like, he's has no idea where that puck is.
Dalline hits him in kind of the same spot on a play where he came in from the blue line
off the right side and got a nice shot off, and it just, but Corpus Sallow, like just
in between the arm, like in the arm shoulder, like below the shoulder area, but he looked
around after that shot, like, all right, I think he got away with one.
Maybe, but they have a better, well, boy, better goalie, I think, in Swaman.
So they didn't have him, but that team doesn't, you know, it's funny to me, I was, I think
I said something about Casey Middleston the other day, like, I'm not losing, not losing.
And, you know, it was nice for him to get that goal, just to make me feel like a jerk
for saying that about him.
But I think I still believe that.
I'm not, I'm not, I'm not losing, I'm not losing to you.
That game doesn't change.
No, I don't think so.
Sure.
No.
Okay.
I'm lost.
Who would say that?
Let's go to Jeremy here.
Hi.
How are you guys doing?
Good.
Thank you.
Just a couple of points, um, or questions, Mike, I know you said you were at the game.
What was your, were you behind with the nets?
No.
No, because I was wondering what the heck the defense was doing.
I don't know, three or four times when Patrick Neck was getting behind them for break
ways, after break ways, I'm just wondering what the defense was or were they sleeping
because they he had like three or four break ways almost and then, okay, go ahead, go
ahead.
I was going to say on that, like on the goal, he didn't score on a break way on the goal,
but he's in a loan on a play where Tuck does not get the puck out of the zone, even
though he's like a foot from the blue line with it.
And I also fell on one.
Right.
On that.
That's right.
On that play, power is, you know, this is, this is their thing.
Power is ready to go up the ice with Tuck.
Tuck's about to get the puck out of the zone and power is blowing the zone.
He doesn't leave the zone, but he's go, he's headed up and the play suddenly turns around
on a dime.
Now that doesn't excuse him and McLeod and another forward, I think, for coasting back on
that play, which they all did and allowed for, I think it was Arvetson to get that rebound
after Luke and it made the nice poke check on Posternock.
But that play, the reason Posternock is all alone is because Tuck doesn't get the puck
out.
You can say be more careful, but their whole thing with the D is like getting in the
play.
And so they're ready to go and they got burned.
Yeah.
And what was your guys' opinion on the tying goal from Middlestead was, I mean, I came
in late to the conversation, but it seemed like UPL was sideways.
Yeah.
Yeah, we did just talk about it.
He got lost there.
I mean, he didn't know where the puck was, which is a problem, but he didn't do a very
good job of protecting his net.
He just sort of got all spun around and off balance and it was a tough play for him.
Dan is next.
Hi, Dan.
Hey, thanks for taking my call.
Yeah.
So the reason I think they brought in Logan Stanley was to kind of ramp up the physicality,
but I haven't really noticed, I haven't noticed like a physical presence very much up to
this point.
I feel like we may have better defense than him just exclusively as defense men, but I
was just curious to see what you thought about this kind of physical play after this
point.
I realized why they would use him in a playoff situation, but right now, are they trying
to just get him acclimated the system?
Right.
And that's just kind of my thoughts at this point.
I agree.
He fought in the San Jose home game, but it was one of those stills like a guy he's got
a history with and it was not like a defend the team kind of thing.
It was just like the puck dropped and like, okay, these guys have fought before they're
going to fight the game that defines the season or the Sabers season is the Tampa game
and he's not on the ice in the press box doing interviews like he's not with them yet.
I don't know.
I think toughness is one thing.
To me, this Sabers team does not appear to be lacking.
They're big enough and they're scrappy.
I don't think I have a problem.
I don't mind this for depth and not against.
I wasn't against what they did.
You want to push an ad when you're trying to win, but I'm not sure he's one of their
six best guys like I feel like the rest of his game is not it.
So if I have a team, this will be an interesting decision.
If I have a team where I think I need somebody that big to save me, then okay, I don't think
they do.
I think they're sort of showing that they can hold up and we've still got 10 games.
There probably will be injuries, you know, that's why you'd make that's one reason why
you make that trade, but I don't feel like I'm getting what I was told to expect from
Stanley, which is like, well, he's big.
If that's what you want, but the rest of it.
Last night could have been a spot.
Zedorov got after a couple guys, like a couple of hard hits, McLeod, and I think Tuck.
And you could have like sent Stanley out there to challenge him and think about that is
I'm not sure.
I don't want Zedorov run around trying to injure people.
I also kind of want him on the ice if I'm playing them.
He's not that good.
He's big and he moves and he's mean, but there was a shift in the second, no, the first
period of this game, one of the best shifts the Sabers had, he gave the puck away like two
or three times in the span of a minute and a half.
They couldn't get out of their end.
So I don't know, I don't want to excuse it.
If you have that guy in the lineup, Stanley, he could have challenged Zedorov last night.
There was cause to, I think, nothing that he did was cheap.
He didn't get penalized for any of it, I don't think.
But you still could have gone and tried to like, if the idea is deter him from doing that,
which I don't really believe in, like I think if Zedorov wants to run you, he's going
to run you.
And then if the organ Stanley wants to fight him for it, he'll fight him and then he'll
run some more guys.
I don't want the Sabers tilting like that.
I mean, that's just been no part of their story and I know how the playoffs can be described
as different.
I think I want Stanley to protect my net and okay, but I'm doing fine with a guy who's
like five, eight, like I just, I took him out.
So I don't know.
I wonder if this is, you know, kind of an audition, like we've been talking, but the Sabers
have that luxury if you, you know, are on board with that sort of thinking and they're
also trying to win their division and conference.
He is the only guy they really have.
Samuelson throws the body, but he's not, you know, he's not intimidating.
He's not a fighter.
Stanley is.
So I think, you know, they got him for that.
I would anticipate him being in the lineup for the playoffs, but Timon's playing pretty
well last night might be a wrinkle, like he had a good night, not surprising to me.
I think, you know, he had two penalty kills, but you know, he played it on the penalty
kill and they killed both of the penalty.
I think they're going to want that and he moved, like he moved the puck effectively.
You know, he was with Stanley, like I didn't have a problem with Stanley last night either,
really.
I don't know what they're going to end up doing there.
And there's Kessel Ring.
Right.
All right.
Here we go.
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Puck decisions weren't very good.
You're playing a team that's battling as hard as a kin to stay in a playoff pitcher.
They won more battles.
I don't think head that has anything to do with being sluggish.
That has a lot to do with willpower.
To get over the puck and make sure you win your battle.
And we didn't win enough of them.
It's hard of the game and then you watch some of our puck play in the second period
that we just gave them opportunities.
The third period we got back to playing our game.
Lindy Ruff, the Sabers lose in overtime to Boston.
Next up Detroit here tomorrow night at a much more well appreciated start time of seven.
Thank you for seven.
TNT has to be like all sort of the bully.
Oh, so we're going to 730.
What happened on TNT about coach of the year?
By the way, did I get for me?
I'm only going on second hand information.
I saw some of their studio stuff, but not not not a lot and not this specific conversation.
I heard Jeremy and Joe on our morning show here on WGR today say that at some point,
whether it was, I don't know, it could have been pre intermittent, whatever.
Everyone knows when they're there.
I'm before and during and then after the game.
There was a discussion about coach of the year.
And there were, there was Darren paying and Anson Carter.
Bisonat and Liam McHugh.
Bisonat, thank you.
And everyone said, or at least the former players all talked about John Cooper.
And their analysis was basically, I can't believe there's never won it.
Can you believe it?
How in the world does he never won it?
And they all said that they would vote for him, which, and I think broadcasters are voting for that award.
I don't know.
They're broadcasters.
They are broadcasters.
I don't know if they are broadcasters who are voting for the award, but it would make sense if they are.
Unless it's maybe the broadcast teams from all 30, I don't, I don't know who it is.
It'd be a mix, probably.
Anyway, so I didn't see or hear it.
But Jerren Joe said that, you know, they just sort of like matter exactly said.
It's going to be John Cooper, which, you know, I didn't like hearing.
I'll say three things.
One, you and I have a bet on Lindy.
So full disclosure, inherent bias.
I don't need Lindy rough to win.
I'd like to win $350.
Sure.
So that has, that's out there.
That's one.
Two, I think, I mean, Tampa is probably the better team and could still very well beat out the Sabers for first place.
In which case, you know, voting Lindy is tougher.
But of course, as we all know, the Sabers are coming from a darker place.
So you could still consider it a better coaching job.
Three is really, for me, I have to admit number one.
If instead of Lindy Roth, we're talking about the coach of the ducks or somebody.
Which is, I have made fun of this award for at least 15 years.
For it always, almost always going to the king of PDO, which is the king of your team had the best shooting percentage and safe percentage in the league, which is hardly at all about coaching.
It's mostly about luck.
You could have the very best players and the very best goalie and Lord over those stats and like, okay.
But often it goes to teams that that's that's inherent in the consideration for this award.
And I was like, wow, I didn't expect that.
And a lot of people in hockey don't even are sort of blind to.
Well, what you think you don't need to care about is luck because you're supposed to be better than that.
You think you're better than that.
You think you know the game so well that there probably isn't any luck in it for you.
And so that can't be anything.
So all right.
Well, this team was supposed to have 75 points and it has 90.
There's your coach of the year.
And then they're fired in two years because they actually weren't that good in the first place.
So far I can go with this Lindy Ruff case because the sabers are a little bit that team.
You know, they they're they're good, but they're they're not like the kind of team where you can't deny anything about them.
They're they're winning like crazy.
A lot of these games are on the edge.
You know, and yeah, sometimes you know like the last couple they lose those.
I like hearing it all, you know, when when Greg Wysinski references the shooting percentage and the save percentage, which is what PDO is.
But it's true.
Like they are the goal saved above expected lion is among the league leaders.
And that's not something you would have seen coming.
So it's kind of like a bolt of lightning.
Sorry.
In into your team, you know, for a season and Luke and in has, you know, had a couple of games here that have hurt those numbers.
But he's been in the top 10 in that metric all year too.
Right.
So their tandem has been excellent at saving more goals than they should.
That that's what that is.
So tell me how that has anything to do with coaching.
Right.
Maybe a little.
They're shooting percentage to me.
Like they're not a team that just shoots pucks to them.
They're not a pucks to the net team.
So they're selective.
And they are they do have a good shooting percentage, but they're also selective.
And I think that that might that might mitigate that being a fluke.
We'll see.
I guess maybe the playoffs will tell us whether or not, you know, last night.
You know, I heard Paul this morning say, you know, I had a couple of posts.
Well, yeah.
I mean, teams hit posts.
You know, like that's that is puck luck to an extent.
Right.
I mean, a half an inch or whatever the other way and you've got a bar down and in on talks.
Short handed try early in the game.
Same for Krebs.
But you know, I can't you can't to me go there.
Like if you're going to accept that there is some luck involved.
Like that's just that's going to happen to you.
So the thing about the Cooper thing mostly to me is.
I think when you don't have there's not someone else presenting themselves.
As like one of the stories of the year in the league, which I think is what the sabers have been here easily.
Right.
If if that isn't happening.
And so you're like, well, could I give it to the team that has the best record?
Colorado or they look around to find a guy that's doing a good job, a division leading type team,
which, you know, Tampa is close enough for this.
They still could win the division.
They still have two games in hand and are only three points back now.
Then I think you can get to like, yeah, you know, we should appreciate John Cooper and the job he's done all these years.
Because we don't have a better idea to me.
Wendy is clearly whether it's a flawed process or not because it does always go the way you're describing.
But that doesn't mean it shouldn't this year.
Right.
Just because John Cooper like someone decided before the sabers got out that maybe it's time for John Cooper to win the Jack Adams.
That's not a good process either.
So well, he might be this is what I sort of get mad at.
And I don't even know if I'm if I'm right here if this is fair, but he's been around for so long.
That's the point.
Canadian Olympic team, you know, maybe he's everybody's friend in the media.
You know, and I don't know if Lindy isn't.
Yeah.
But Cooper might have this sort of personality that he might have a machine working for him that gets the work.
Why do we keep hearing this point?
It works on me.
I like him.
I've liked him for years.
It's, you know, news conferences, the even during in-game interviews, like I feel like he's he's as personable as I had coach in any sport really can be.
Good face, good name.
I think that helps.
Sure.
Good face, good name.
Good team.
Good team, but good face, good name.
And by the way, the team that leads the NHL this year in PDO is Tampa Bay.
They're tops in shooting percentage and close enough and save percentage very close to the Sabers.
Sabers are fifth.
All right.
But that's not fluky because they have Vaseleski.
Well, right.
And a great, you know, bunch of players.
Right.
At least more well-known players.
They really, it's Kudroff, largely.
I don't know who should win, really.
I mean, Ruff's a fine choice.
Maybe Cooper is okay.
I don't know.
Is there a team?
There's not a team so down.
I mean, some of the teams in the Pacific division are so low on this list.
But even though they're in playoff positions, they don't have the points.
They're just sort of right in playoff spots.
So I wouldn't want to do that.
We, I mean, I'm not sure if Sam Penny out of it is necessarily the authority on who wins the Jack Adams.
But he did say a couple of weeks ago it's one of the other.
Ruff or Cooper.
Yeah.
I think I'd probably agree with that.
Tampa home to Seattle tonight.
Probably a pretty good favorite.
I would expect I've not looked yet, but yeah, they probably really healthy.
Yeah.
Red Sox Reds coming up.
You got to be pumped.
Oh, yeah.
Half an hour.
Yeah, you asked me who's starting the opener and I didn't even know.
That's how dialed in I am.
You would have gotten there.
No.
Shays you're number one.
He's your opening day.
Easily opening day guy.
Yeah.
Watching the meds today on what is this?
Peacock.
I guess.
It's on NBC.
The net pirate baseball opener is on NBC right now.
I miss that news.
Get me to NBC getting back in the baseball business.
I'm here for it.
I sure.
Even though Fubo doesn't have NBC.
Why do I have Fubo?
Just for the sabers.
For the sabers.
How did I get trapped into that?
I don't know.
I can't watch the food network and I can't watch NBC programming.
I can't watch the Premier League.
There are like six things I like to watch.
Yeah.
And they have half of them at least.
I agree.
And I'm dead on all of it.
That's never changing.
And the.
I said why I wanted.
That's not there.
The video.
It's a terrible.
The picture.
I have it only for the sabers games.
Right.
That aren't on TNT.
You know which picture looks the worst.
Like if I'm watching.
If I got hockey on three different things.
Right.
TNT ESPN plus.
And and Fubo.
Guess where the worst picture is going to be.
Fubo.
A hundred times out of a hundred.
It's not even close.
I get it.
I get an Amazon Prime feed on ESPN plus.
Like Monday night Canadian special.
And it looks like.
I mean, it looks like it's fake.
It's so bright.
I can't even believe it.
And I'm watching this game on on a service that I hate.
The picture's terrible.
And the only reason I have the service is for that picture.
It's so worst.
Well.
Peacock is pretty.
Yes.
The video is.
Fantastic on people.
Games been something.
Paul Schienz didn't get out of the first inning.
Carson Bench.
Was on our show.
Well, not really.
He was mentioned.
On our show earlier this week.
Has just homered in his major league debut.
So it's Mets over the pirates 10 to 5 in the sixth.
This is not going to set the land speed record for a baseball game.
But that's okay.
Lots.
Lots has happened in this game.
10-5 Mets in the sixth.
I don't think we'll need the bottom of the ninth.
So that'll truncate the game a little bit.
Let's say a nice, really nice day and a healthy crowd at Cityfield.
Oh my gosh.
It looks packed.
Where would you rather be than there right now?
I don't know.
It's beautiful.
I was jealous watching this game.
The set up, the lineups, introductions and everything.
I was, I made a note of it to mention.
I have never been to an opener.
A major league opener.
And I kind of wish I had done that.
And I think the Mets are as good a choice as anybody.
They kill it on opening day.
They have easily the best record in baseball in openers.
And when I was a Mets fan, I was always a thing that I walked around knowing.
Like the Mets never lose the opener.
And so far that looks like that's going to happen today too.
Big lead on the pirates.
And it does look like it's a great day there.
Yeah.
Sunny.
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