Hour Two- Sal Capaccio on the Bills newest signings and Zach Metsa being sent down to Rochester

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Just scrolling through Sal's Twitter, which I'll sometimes do.

If I'm worried about, like, is there something obvious

that I've missed?

Some big story.

I don't want to go like 20 minutes with Sal

and not bring up something huge, right?

That I didn't hear about.

And he has a tweet from yesterday about how the Seahawks

are offering fans, season ticket holders,

who went to their games as opposed to selling tickets.

More often than not, I guess.

They're offering not just season ticket holders at all,

but season ticket holders who went to games,

a chance to move to better seats.

Something.

All right, we're giving you this

because you actually showed up.

I don't know what I think about that.

I guess I like it, but what part of the pact

is that you have to go to the game.

If I invest, I see why the Seahawks want their fans,

like there's a better chance, not necessarily,

but because that's become a thing there,

like that stadium has become less and less intimidating

over the years.

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Sal is with us.

You shared this story yesterday.

Sal, what do you think about this?

So at first blush, I thought this is a pretty cool concept

because I'm thinking about the Sabers here

and how other fans come in and Sabers fans sell their tickets.

We have this debate all the time

and they're probably going to geofence the ticketing

and some capacity for the playoffs and whatever.

So I ran across this and the person who put it out

is actually, does a really good job.

He's actually one of these independent type of,

he created his own content creator, right,

for the Saddle Seahawks.

And I met him out at the, at the, the combine

when I was out there.

And he writes that he shares the email basically.

This is Brian Nemhouser, his name, I'm sorry, Brian Nemhouser.

And it says, thanks for your attendance,

thanks for your high attendance during the 25 season.

We're excited to offer you a special 2026

seat relocation opportunity with early access.

And the concept is because you didn't sell your tickets

a lot or at all, you get this.

The issue is, how do they know?

So like, what if I transfer my ticket?

I know that they can track, they can track tickets,

like the Sabers, the Bill, the Seahawks, whoever,

can track tickets online, who's selling, who is transferring.

What if I just transfer my ticket to my wife?

Like, we're, we're season ticket holders, right?

Like, I don't know, like that,

I just think it brings in a whole set of,

how is this happening?

If you look at the replies to his tweet,

there are people going, dude, I went to every game,

I didn't act at this email.

So I don't know what's, what, what happens here?

I want to know upfront, like if,

if there's a standard where I have to go to six games

or something myself with my name on it,

then okay, tell me.

There's that aspect of it.

I don't know.

Who's to say that people who own season tickets,

you don't really own them anymore.

They never call you a season ticket holder.

They always call you a season ticket member now.

It's their stuff.

They want you, they don't want you to notice,

but the, the, the, the verbiage has changed.

But say a broker buys season, owns or has

season tickets to the Seahawks or the Bill's

and they never go to games,

because their businesses reselling them.

I mean, that doesn't mean that they're a fan

in the first place or not one or anything like that.

I mean, I was a Sabre season ticket holder

for almost 20 years and I sold seats.

I don't know, just tell me upfront.

I guess that's all, that's all I really want to,

I don't want to complain about this too much.

It just feels a little bit not transparent enough.

Part of the responsibility of having season tickets

is that you actually have to go in this modern world.

I don't know, I don't like how it tastes this one.

But interesting to find out about it.

Yeah, me too.

You've got some, is it news?

Do you want to call it news?

Like sort of a new detail on what might be a topic next week?

Yeah, I mean, there's just all these little things

that are happening with the NFL owners meetings

as of every year and what happened was the NFL,

a few things happened.

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Over the last few days, that will be discussed

and expanded upon next week, obviously, out in Phoenix.

And what happened is there was a video conference

and I was actually was doing extra point shows

so I can join, so I went back and re-watched it.

Excuse me.

And I learned through the NFL and the people talking,

Rich McKay and competition committee,

a couple little things.

So they really, really, really track my new details,

like scoring per game.

Like scoring per game points per game this year.

If I remember the numbers, up like a half a point

than normal, and they're good with that.

They're like, yep, 46 points a game maybe.

It was normally 45 or 45 and a half, like totally good.

There's questions about the kickoff returns

and that's still obviously an evolving play

and the number of yards.

What's interesting was only one kick return

for a touchdown last year or maybe a couple, very few,

but a lot more punt returns for touchdowns last year.

And there's questions about, okay, what do we like?

What do we not like?

And they like the big plays and things like that.

One of them is Rich McKay said,

and I know it sounds super like my newt,

but he said plays were down like three or four plays

in a game or something like that, like the numbers.

Total overall offensive plays.

And one of the ways they want to get the number back,

just those few plays is when a guy goes out of bounds,

they're going to make sure like in a normal situation,

the clock restarts, right?

Unless you're under four minutes in this to have,

you know, of the game or two minutes of the first half.

Guy goes out of bounds.

The play clock starts immediately.

The game clock doesn't start immediately.

They're supposed to wait seven seconds.

And apparently that hasn't been happening.

So they want to make sure kind of enforce

and be more diligent about, hey, guy goes out of bounds,

play clock starts at 45 or 40,

excuse me, do not start the game clock

until there's 33 seconds left on that.

So like they think this is a third clock.

Right, right.

So they, exactly.

So they think that they will get like,

I'm not kidding you guys.

He said like two or three more plays in a game.

And like that could matter.

I need a third clock for the seven seconds.

Yes.

At least at the clock operator.

And of course, there would never in an NFL game be,

you didn't start, you didn't wait seven seconds.

There would never be that, right?

That's some, you know, team employees managing that.

I can get SkyRef to rule on that.

That would be pretty ideal.

I'm just drowning over here.

You know, my first thought sale,

I didn't know this little nuance like you're saying

about the, you know, waiting until the clock,

you know, restarts, the game clock restarts.

My first thought was, is that because there's teams

are running more, because running does, you know,

that that slows the game down.

There's just, it's, you know, runs clock more.

And I wonder if there's been any study on that.

Like, and I'm not even sure, you know,

we live here in a place where the bills have run the ball

more the last few years.

And I believe that that's a league wide trend.

But I don't, I haven't seen numbers, you know, that it's,

right, but, you know, that could be a way that you lose

some plays is if teams are running it more.

It's also kickoffs, I think, because you're starting

from farther up the field, most of the time,

right on average.

So, and you know, you have kickers who can hit from 60.

So you don't have to, and, and it's also,

it's also the number, kickoffs might,

because it takes longer for a kick return now, right?

You're getting the ball, you're getting more kick returns.

The clock starts when the guy gets the ball.

So therefore, there's more time running off the clock

when there's actually kick returns as opposed to touchbacks

where there isn't as much time running off the clock.

So that's part of it as well.

Yeah, in fact, he'd also said there were 73 games last year

that were decided by three or fewer points,

which the league loves because they said that's high to record.

Now, there was an acknowledgement that there's an extra game

now compared to years past, right?

We've been playing the 17th game for, you know,

five years or so, I think.

But 73 games decided by three points or less.

And the league is loving that, right?

That's the ultimate parody of what they're looking for.

So there's this.

We have a couple of also less exciting,

much less exciting rules stuff to figure out next week,

how far in advance you can trade your draft picks,

how many phone calls you're allowed to make to UFA's.

I mean, these are the headliners, right?

I mean, we've done enough sale, you think?

I mean, do you think this is the case and do you agree?

We've done enough with the kickoff changes

that we're kind of going to stay in that for a little bit for now?

Well, there was something that was going to be tweaked, right?

Yeah, the set-up zone, I forgot.

Remember I read that tweet from Shepter

and they were like, just I didn't know what any of it really meant,

but I read it.

Oh my gosh.

I mean, yeah, the set-up zone is a big deal

because it's basically, you guys see sometimes

there's a flag and they go illegal formation on the kickoff team,

right?

Something like that, the kick return team.

Like, there are only certain number of players

that can be in certain spots on the kickoff

and they're going to kind of massage that a little bit for,

you know, I guess both for safety

and how many players are on one side of the hash

versus the other things like that.

So yes, they are going to go through that.

I suspect over the next several years

we're going to get a lot of this stuff

with the special teams because everything's evolving.

The other one is, remember guys,

teams took advantage of that loophole last year of,

oh, if I just kick it out of bounds, it's not a big deal, right?

Like, I don't, I can just kick the ball out of bounds now

and the other team starts, you know,

now you can't do that now.

So now I think eliminate the incentive

to intentionally kick the ball out of bounds

when kicking off from the 50 yard line

because if you have a penalty that puts the ball

at the 50 yard line, I think I have to read through this

now where the other teams start it.

Thank you.

Yes, 25 yards.

The bills did it in a game.

I don't remember which game, but it happened

in a bills game this year.

That's right.

So they're going to try and kind of take care of that

a little bit, touches the ground.

It says the dead ball spot is the 35 yard line

if without first touching the landing zone to kick off.

So 35 yard line, it looks like

where they would start off in that situation.

So that's another thing.

Yeah, so the, the, the, the draft pick stuff is interesting

because who proposed it, Cleveland, right?

And you guys saw what happened today with Cleveland, right?

The report that they, they adjusted miles

to Garrett's contract a little bit.

Yeah.

And this was some sort of a deal where

this is not like a typical restructure

that teams always do just to kind of, you know,

help out the cap.

This was more of a, hey, let's just kind of push

a little money later in the year

to make it more manageable to trade him.

And now there's a lot of scott of us today

that like, oh, and Adam Shepter said,

I've talked, they're not trading him,

but it certainly is interesting to me.

Yeah, that the team that proposed this rule

to trade draft picks five years in the future,

the best player in the league that plays, you know,

depends on man.

They suddenly made it more palatable to trade him.

Yeah, the way I read that story is

Garrett doesn't get any more money any sooner

and the team doesn't benefit at all.

Salary cap wise, which leaves you at, well, then why do it?

Like what's the, what's the point?

The player had to be agreeable to it,

but he doesn't gain anything from it,

nor does the team, other than this caveat,

they're like, well, we're gonna load him now

and this really buffers the dead money.

Yeah, that's right.

So I wonder what there is,

and what's interesting to me about this proposal is,

I like, I like look at it from, you know,

the league, what they think and Rich McKay

was specifically asked on this conference call.

Like what is the competition committee's stance?

And he is always, I don't give the stance of the committee.

The committee has a stance, we don't give it,

but you'll kind of find out next week what our stance is.

And they said they looked at other leagues,

and he said, well, you know, we'll go through it

and you'll know like where we stand.

And I kind of get that feeling, like they don't like it.

Like just kind of the way he was talking,

that the competition committee doesn't like this,

particular stance or rules for both of them.

The five years of draft picks.

That's five years, yeah, but it's not up to them.

Every year when I go to the owner's meetings,

we hear from Rich McKay and the competition committee,

we hear from Roger Goodell,

and I try to think of something like,

what's something that, okay, this is my one chance, right?

To ask something that I'm thinking about a couple of years ago,

I asked Roger Goodell at the owner's meetings,

like, have you, there's some rumors

that you could move championship games to neutral sites.

Remember that whole thing with the bills and the bangles

and that one year and everything was going on?

And there was a, well, maybe they could move it

into a neutral site this year and somebody said,

well, I think they could actually do that in the future.

So I asked Roger Goodell that question.

I'm like, hey, like what is this something you would consider?

And he's like, that's not something

we've ever really talked about to be honest with you.

We don't want neutral site championship games.

The one for me for this year,

as I listen to Rich McKay talk about this,

I'm reading this story about Adam Silver

and the NBA in tanking.

I want to ask them what they think about it.

Like, is this a problem in the NFL?

Do you think you need to go to a draft lottery?

It's not as pervasive, it's not as easy.

We know that, but it is kind of a bit of a trend here

to start thinking about now, you know what I mean?

Well, I mean, with these kickoffs too,

like have they ever considered 40 foot bumpers,

like bowling has for the sidelines

and the ball kicked off the bumper

and then you have to return, there's probably not,

but yeah, all right, sorry.

Are you relieved to have the opportunity

to come up for air after arguing with people

for two or three all seasons about the push push?

So, oh.

Yeah, kind of, sort of.

I'm actually really intrigued that there's nothing

at all on the proposals about it this year.

Right, because everything did.

I still am reading, like, it's not on the agenda,

but there are teams that have very strong feelings

about it still, which is just kind of weird to me.

Right, and McCay touched on this on the conference call.

And what he said was, he still kind of left it

in the window for the pushing the runner

in the open field and, you know, where that could go

and there are some thoughts about that.

And I feel strongly about that.

Like, I just don't think that you should be able

to push runners forward.

I just, you know, when you're out in the open field

at 30 yard line, I'm basically against the push push.

I am because I just think part of the spirit of football

for me has always been aiding the runner.

That's an aiding the runner penalty.

You shouldn't be able to do it.

Pulling the runner forward is even worse.

And that's kind of been a little bit of dress,

but now it's not anymore.

And I don't know.

So he was asked specifically by Ian Rappaport.

Ian Rapport's on this call and he says,

do you think that that's kind of ended to the bait now?

Is this the end of the debate?

There's nothing on the push this year.

And McCay's response was, no, I wouldn't say that.

It's just not on.

He goes, but let's remember,

it actually never came up for rule vote last year.

And I'm like, I guess that's right.

Like, there was talk about it,

but I don't think they ever voted on it last year.

It's not on the table this year

because Philadelphia wasn't that good at it.

And they didn't the Super Bowl.

And they didn't beat a Green Bay team in the playoffs

using it to have Green Bay propose it

at the rules meetings like the Browns and the Draft thing.

So, you know, it's got to be a,

has to have been a problem for us.

For our, you know, to, for us to nominate and propose it.

And maybe the bills aren't all that fired up about anymore

because that was Sean McDermott's thing, maybe, right?

Like he was one of the faces of that debate.

And he's obviously no longer employed by the board.

And he had a tough time figuring out how to sell it

because he talked about injuries

and then nobody sort of noticed

there being any injuries on the plate, right?

All right.

Real quick, and the other thing they'll talk about,

a lot of I'm sure is just this, you know,

how the, a little bit of the scheduling stuff.

And you guys saw the news.

The Melbourne game will be played at 10.15 AM in Melbourne

on a Friday morning when they play there next year

on a Friday morning on what,

so it should be a Thursday night here.

Yeah. So it'll be Thursday night our time, 8.15.

Thursday, 5.15 in the two teams cities who are playing,

which are LA Rams in San Francisco, 10.35 AM,

or 15.35, sorry, I keep saying that.

10.35 and 5.35 and 8.35.

10.35 AM Friday in Melbourne is when they're going to play.

Think first match of the morning,

which here is the night in the Australian open.

You turn on ESPN for the Australian open at like 8.30

or 9 o'clock, they're playing.

Same kind of time situation there.

And the, and the Seahawks will open the season

the night before that Wednesday, right?

And we, well, against right, who knows?

And I think we've talked about it just so people understand

what's going on.

There was a broadcasting act back in the 1960s

that was enacted by federal law that says the NFL cannot play

on Friday nights starting the second Friday of September.

Well, this year week one falls on the second week of September.

And the reason the law exists is to give high school football

that night so the NFL doesn't overshadow it

and people can go to games and support their local communities.

So the NFL has to adhere to this rule and say,

we can't play on Friday night week one

because that's actually the second Friday of September this year.

Who do you want in Seattle?

Since we're here, that opener, Dallas, Chicago or New England.

I think that's probably it.

I doubt it begins the city or the chargers.

I mean, that's not bad.

Not the giants, not the Cardinals

and the Rams and 49ers are already booked.

I prefer the Chicago Bears out of that list.

I've seen Dallas play like early games, prime time games a lot.

It's just it's Dallas.

I don't know.

I don't need to see that all the time.

I'm interested in Chicago, the season they had, the bounce back

and I have no interest at all in seeing a rematch

of the Super Bowl on opening night.

Same, totally.

I don't have a real strong opinion about what I would rather see

but I would bet on it being New England.

That's my prediction is that it will be New England.

And I don't, you know, I know the Super Bowl was gross

but I don't know, give them another chance.

It's New England.

Like they've had enough season.

They've got a famous quarterback.

They're expected to be good.

Like I think they meet the criteria just because they lost

the Super Bowl badly.

I don't feel like it eliminates them.

But don't the Bears check as you would put it all the boxes.

Yeah, they do.

They do, yeah.

Big market, fun team, wanna play off game themselves.

There's a lot about them.

For once, they're the Bears.

Yeah, no, they're fine.

They're fine.

All three of those teams are, you know, Dallas for their reasons.

Chicago certainly meets the criteria.

I just, I don't know, I'm bad, I would bet on New England.

We have news on the bills as I'm talking with you guys.

So, you know, the bills have signed three players,

including a wide receiver who had been on the team before.

Trent Sherfield.

So Trent Sherfield has returned to the bills.

Lloyd Kushenberry, the third, a center, they've signed

and the interior swing man, Austin Corbett,

who came in for a visit this past week.

They've all signed with the bills.

This is just happening within the past couple of minutes

while I've been on with you guys.

Sherfield is back, the return.

Was he on one of, was he on Jeremy's roster of bills

that left and have returned?

I don't know if he gets the points.

I don't know if anyone had him.

Yeah, no, the morning show has this thing.

That's gettable.

Yeah, that was gettable it is.

And he was tweeting about that today, I think,

because or somebody was already tweeted at him

because all the defensive guy, all credit Samuel too,

a bunch of free agents that have left the bills.

I've not signed it.

Right, last week we were talking, maybe Sal was with us.

I think he was and we counted like 13 defensive alone.

I think maybe defensive players that were still UFA's

that were on last year's bills, so Sherfield.

So the two linemen, do you think are just,

what, competition for Alec Anderson, depth,

that kind of thing, just to not just assume we've got a guy

that's been a backup and a, you know, a bit player

is going to win the job.

Let's make sure he has to actually win the job.

Yeah, agreed.

And 100%.

I look at the future of what's happening.

Do they have plans?

Like, if you're going to try to recoup a drapick,

could you do that with Cedric Van Prang Ranger?

You know, he has two years left at his deal.

There's no path for him to start.

He doesn't play guard.

Right, so like, what do you do there?

They've offloaded and they've traded linemen before.

These are veteran players who you bring in

for competition.

Corvette can play center and guard.

He did both last year in Carolina.

Cushion Berry.

Yeah, veteran center, like, absolutely, I think.

And that's where it gets me to SVPG,

because now does that mean, like, what does that mean

for him, right?

Look, they're going to have to keep adding bodies.

This time of year, as I always say,

you've got to bring 90 to camp.

You know, currently on their roster,

they only have 10 offensive linemen, I believe it is.

So they're going to keep adding offensive linemen

to the roster.

So a couple more come in now.

This also, in a way, you don't have to force your hand

a little bit in the draft.

Sure, if there's a guy there you love,

but if you can sign a few free agents, you know,

before the draft, you kind of feel a little bit better

about your depth and then you don't feel like you're in a position

where you have to make a move in the draft to get a guy

because you're depleted at that spot.

You kind of let the draft come to you

so to speak if you do that.

Cushion Berry started 15 games last year for Tennessee.

Started all 17 games two years prior at center for Denver,

Corbett, 11 starts last year for Carolina.

And Surefield is 6-1-2-0-6, I see.

Is he, did he play special teams when he was here before?

So I'm wondering if he could be like Ty,

DiRoll Shavers and Shrums.

I'm going to look at that for you right now.

Actually, if I can do that, I can try and figure that out

for you right now because he, I don't have that.

I don't know.

I don't think he played a ton of special teams.

Let's go. Oh, here we go.

Snap counts.

Yeah, I guess he did.

When he was in Buffalo, 35% special teams.

So he did, yeah, he was up there.

35% special teams.

So I think that could be a replacement in that regard, yes.

All right.

So I don't have to necessarily ask you

what is next for the bills as I was planning to do

because this is next for the bills.

Right. As we speak here, very good.

That's something else will now be next.

That's right.

Next will be the next.

Yeah, yeah.

So next week, if we don't talk tomorrow

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They have the, they use it.

I don't know why they changed it up this year,

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I think I got that right this year.

And the coaches breakfast where there's 16 tables

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What a cool moment for a first time head coach

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Oh, yeah, the annual picture

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Dead silence on the bumpers.

Does it have to be 40 feet?

Just like, I'm embarrassed for you

that you're even revisiting it.

After how it went over.

I had to, I mean, it was too dead.

Certainly, I need to be able to know it.

I'm impressed in a certain way that you put it.

What it completely bombs, you gotta go back to it.

Yeah.

Not a noise, almost like maybe I wasn't being heard.

So I had to just, you know, look how stupid that was.

I'm gonna repeat it.

Bumpers.

Bumpers, you're a bumpers guy ever?

Your parents are bowlers.

I bet never ever with the bumpers.

No.

You were probably never allowed to have the bumpers.

They, when I'm bold with my parents,

the bumpers weren't invented.

Okay, well, then there was no decision to mind.

I don't think, but no, they would not have that.

No, no, no, we will not, I respect that.

Yeah.

I think, now, you know, I don't know,

I got, I have like adult nieces and my kids are adults too.

We've all been bowling with them.

I'm sure I wonder if when my kids were little,

my parents might have let them use the bumpers.

Oh, well.

It's possible.

It's possible.

That's grandparents for you.

My dad would have hated it.

Whatever you want.

He would have been muttering the whole time

under the bumpers.

You're out there trying to teach what everyone's gonna learn.

Mom and dad are out there just fighting against you.

You don't even know it.

Giving the kids anything they want.

They're in their early nineties

and they will be bowling tomorrow.

We've got a lot of it.

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Loaning is the official word for it.

We'll talk about that.

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You know, watching this game,

his breakout plays are right on few a lot of times.

He understands where the puck's got to go.

I think sometimes it's the same for play 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 haven't talked about it,

we have discussions on our group

and can we change a piece with all the D-man we have.

But some of his stats are just incredible.

When he roughed the other day on Zach Mezza,

first prize, a Cadillac, El Dorado,

second prize, a set of steak knives.

Third prize is, you're going to Rochester, sorry, kid.

You have a theory?

I, my guess would be that there's news today

about Osland being injured.

We don't know how seriously,

but he missed practice and was being evaluated

for an upper body injury.

I didn't see, and I haven't seen any footage of like,

you know, where we think it happened,

what it might be, that kind of thing

that often does happen, but I haven't seen any of that.

So I don't know what we're talking,

a head injury shoulder, whatever, with Osland.

But if that is gonna be a little,

even a little bit of time, a week,

maybe they want to make room for somebody,

greenway, seems like he might be ready to go.

So they might have needed a roster spot

and Mezza is still someone who can go freely up and down.

So from a convenience standpoint,

but I'm totally cool with like, you know,

slow playing him, we gotta see what Timon's gives us.

Everything we talked about yesterday,

like they've got, I think Mezza is in the lineup

for game one of the playoffs, myself.

Still, this sort of gets in the way of that.

I want to say, I hope so,

that this is just for the time being,

because they needed a spot.

I want to say that, but I don't know.

The everything we talked about yesterday was just,

they're gonna try Timon's.

I think they know what they have in Mezza.

He can play with the big four if they need him.

He can stabilize Stanley and be a good third pair guy,

and I think he's in the lineup when they get to the playoffs.

And now 24 hours later, he's sent down.

I hope it's just, yeah, it's, you know, convenient.

You can go up and down freely,

so we're going to use that on you.

I didn't notice an Osland injury,

but I did, I think I noticed, at least one,

even two Sabers players in the course of last night's game

leave because they were cut on their face.

I don't know exactly what happened to Byram.

There was no penalty on either one.

Byram left the ice, spiked his helmet down

and went down the tunnel in the first period,

came back at the end of the first period.

Okay.

You know that one?

I did not.

Okay.

I think they mentioned on the broadcast

that he had left for some time, but was back.

Something went wrong there.

I think maybe he was clipped,

but I don't know.

Yeah, I don't know.

And then Carrick got clipped.

Why didn't catch that?

Oh, yeah, his mouth was cut.

Like it might have lost a tooth, I don't know.

Oh, jeez.

In the second or third that was,

and he would not, he did not go down the tunnel.

He took the back up goalie's seat

and sat sort of like facing the other players

on the bench and they worked on him.

And then he was right back out there.

I thought I watched every second of this game.

I don't know how I would have missed it.

Maybe they didn't mention it.

It's possible that they didn't.

I don't know.

It's TNT.

If they don't tell you, it's hard to know that it happened.

You kind of need to see somebody needs to show you

on things like that.

There's no penalty on either one.

Right.

Yeah, I didn't see anything with Carrick

and it's possible that I should give myself a pass

because maybe it wasn't shown.

I don't know.

I would if I were you.

I wouldn't beat myself up over it.

I'm here.

I was there.

I saw it.

I tried to be the person in my section

that was paying attention.

That could be a challenge.

That's how I am.

I'd like to be the one to pay attention.

My daughter wasn't really watching too closely

and a lot of noise around me.

So boy, can I bring this up again?

Unbelievable character.

There's no, I don't want to sound like a snob here

because I feel like if you are at a game

and you're super into it, there are boundaries,

but that's fine.

Like hockey sports needs fans like that.

And so bring the energy, bring all of it,

bring your voice, I know that's not me.

When Benson scored, it was me.

When Zucker made it three, too, it was me.

You heard me then.

But really, most of the time, it's sort of just watching it.

And I'm not telling anybody that that's how it has to be.

But you be you as a fan.

I find with people being boisterous, right?

I'm very rarely going to be that person, but yeah,

yeah, I want that.

I want the same.

I endorse everything you just said.

Yes, I do think maybe this is just getting older.

There should be language, common sense language limits

that aren't really followed, especially when like

a kid is sitting right in front of you or next to you.

Yeah.

But anyway, I mean, I'm not the cops.

This guy I drew last night next to me was unbelievable.

I mean, he did get there with the language.

He got, he had enough that by the end of the night,

he was rolling.

He's also one of these guys.

He was a big guy.

I never saw the arm rest on my left the whole night.

I'm very careful about my space.

I want to make sure I'm in my space.

This guy was not into that at all.

He was into my space too.

I didn't take it as a compliment.

And just, I mean, he was, I tried to describe it to my wife.

He was awesome, aggressive, super high energy,

loud, un-missable, and okay, I mean, you get who you get?

Yep, I mean, it's just fine because I, good, that's not me.

So okay, but there were definitely times,

I thought maybe he was pretty far gone

when the Bruins scored an overtime.

He got up and screamed, thinking it was the sabers

in the score.

Yeah, I was gonna say, that was the best side.

You mentioned this earlier that the gentleman near you

did not know that the sabers had just lost the game.

I for a split second, I thought maybe I was mistaken

that there was a save.

Why are the Bruins pouring out out of the ice

if that happened?

I was confused for like a half second.

So anyway, fun night, it's great in there now.

It is great in there now.

You all know it if you're going at all

or just watching, even you can tell.

It is like, my son sat on the other side of the building

we were talking in the car about just like,

this is new to you guys.

And dad is getting up and whooping after goals.

All right, you don't know this dad.

Right, there's juice here that you just have not squeezed ever.

Like it's not in their lifetimes.

Right, right, so that's awesome.

I didn't notice that you could tell

there were some Bruins fans in the building on TV,

I would say, but not over, not annoyingly so, right?

But I did notice, you know, I guess I would say more

than I guess I was expecting.

At least maybe they were just in the right spots

for the TV cameras.

I don't know, but I noticed them a couple of times

during the game.

Again, that's one where in our defense,

we're selling those tickets a long time ago, maybe.

Yeah, just to save ourselves,

because for so many years in a row,

the end of the season is like negative EV.

It's not even that the games don't matter.

It's just that the feeling of misery compounds that

and it's just like, I don't even want to go.

And you can't sell tickets those years

for the end of the season, right?

So I think when it's Boston or Montreal,

and that's kind of it, well Detroit could be this

a little bit tomorrow too,

but these are games when I had tickets

that I could have sold in November.

And this year would have still been,

yeah, it would have felt like another one of those years.

It did, didn't it? Yeah.

Let me just try to salvage this,

and if people want to plan out for months ahead

and buy tickets, then okay, I'm fine with that.

So I think maybe it would be different

if two months went by,

and then you were faced with the same sort of decision.

Maybe now you hold onto them.

Detroit tomorrow, and then, I don't know,

we talked about it, we ran it down yesterday.

No one else on the home schedule is like a rival team

that you expect to be.

I understand you're not traveling.

Islanders, Columbus.

That's something you would really be thinking about.

Dallas is the last game, right?

Couple others in there. Who else is it?

Do you know, I don't have a doubt about that.

Well, that Tampa game, obviously, of course.

That's right, but the rest, I'm not positive.

There's one more that we didn't mention

and that is Seattle on Saturday.

Right, 530, I think.

530 on Saturday, different time.

Yep, yep.

Paul will join us at five.

What does the Metsa move mean?

Heading to Rochester, interesting.

Sabers have all this depth on the blue line

and they're looks like trying to figure out

the optimal set of combinations last night with timons

and maybe your theory holds water,

adding a spot for greenway, maybe needing a forward.

Because there are three defensemen,

is there already an update?

Well, my theory takes a hit.

Chad Dean of Ministers sent me a DM

and I appreciate this from Chad.

There's no roster limits anymore

so they don't need to open up roster spots.

So, I don't know, maybe that's just,

we want you to keep playing

and we're gonna try these other guys out

for the time being.

Yep.

And boy, I hope they sent him down there with,

don't worry, you'll be back

because he should be in the lineup.

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