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We'll go to the youth centers of Calgary.

We'll put your silly comments on the show, I would imagine.

Probably near the end.

It's probably how that works.

And we are mostly here in the McLeod Law LLP studios.

Everybody from McLeod Law, they were worried yesterday.

It's like, no.

You know, because they check in every day.

But like, was there an incident?

Do you need any legal help?

Yeah, do you need us to come by?

Is there any litigation that needs to be done?

Because we love to litigate.

We said, no, we don't think so anyway.

There was real concern.

These guys, they didn't really care.

They like to start the show, whatever.

And I was like, guys, this is very unlike rad.

I think maybe we should check in

for his about his well-being.

So I thought it was Jack and I and you were the guy that didn't.

Oh, yeah, that's what's how it was.

Right.

Well, I appreciate the gift basket you guys said.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Well, that was wonderful.

The rest of you always thinking of me.

Should we contact the shoveler to see if everything's?

Jack was wondering if he'd come over and help with laundry, given how...

Jack wanted to give you mouth to mouth.

I don't know what that was about.

Odd.

Weird.

Weird, Jack.

Jack's been that one lately.

Yeah, been a little throughout the time.

Cleaned up, Jack.

How are you feeling?

What's...

Give us the update.

Because it's weird.

You are a you're a crazy person and you're in all the...

The voodoo shit.

So that I didn't think you...

I didn't think you would get sick anymore.

No, you're still exposed to it.

The double goose cook gets you sometimes.

It's 100%.

My kid asked me,

cook the goose, hammered.

That's what I was thinking.

Okay, thanks.

That's the way to, yeah.

Yeah, so the double goose cook.

And then...

Could just kind of...

I had a little...

Coffee thing on Monday, doing...

I'm like, that's not normal for me.

And Tuesday morning, I'm like,

woof, there's fatigues sitting in here.

Something's going on.

Left the show.

And called the doc.

I'm like, I'm going to need some fancy voodoo stuff.

Light newt, tongue of bad.

That's where I went.

When got some injections done.

Went home.

I'm grateful to have done it,

because I think it would have been even worse.

But then I got about 14 to 16 hours of sleep on Tuesday night.

It was wonderful.

It's so out.

Didn't even realize that it like woke up.

I'm like, oh, oh shit.

I didn't tell those guys.

When the body shuts down like that,

it's like, oh, I guess I needed that, huh?

You just bend the space-time continuum.

You're like, oh, a day passed and what felt like 10 minutes.

I'm gonna get all press it.

I don't know too bad, then the body's like,

oh, you're actually not...

You're done.

Lay down.

Better today?

Even yesterday, because it was 24 hours after the drugs kick in.

I started to think it knocked the top off the illness.

If you know what I mean, like I got sick,

but it kind of put a...

the brakes on it a little bit.

I think I would have had another day.

But yeah, I'm, but even yet last night,

it was like, okay, I'm a functioning human again.

Yeah.

I can move about to the world.

So...

So...

What happened to hear that?

Better again today.

Yeah.

Did the shoveler take good care of you?

Well, average.

Very average.

It wasn't...

It wasn't.

I wasn't a lost cause, but it was very left to my own.

Yeah.

I'm just looking like a rock.

What are you gonna do?

Yeah, she said that the...

Missed your face or something while you're sleeping?

I go to bed.

The big glute went downstairs and could hear me

snoring a...

Yes, wow.

It seemed to be okay, yeah.

When you can hear the snoring on a different level of the home.

Beautiful.

It's like, wow.

He said, really, really?

Yeah.

See, that's like, my Commodore gets in one.

That's my kind of in one.

When you can sleep for that many hours, oh man.

How was it?

It was so good.

It was so good.

I got right out of it.

Past right out.

Awesome.

Well, we're glad you're feeling better.

Well, thank you.

Thank you.

How was your feeling better?

How was the show yesterday?

Sure, it was great.

Electric.

Yeah, it was just concerned too,

but luckily we broke the news that you were still alive.

Jack was

efforting a bouquet ascend to the front door,

but once we knew you were alive,

we all settled down.

Jack probably wanted to deliver it himself.

He was insistent on it.

It was weird.

Yeah.

Probably did, and I don't even know.

Jack?

I was snoring.

We had creep.

Just stop.

Let's please.

Cabby said,

Cabby, of course, down the hall,

shares our studio here.

Jack walked in today.

He's like, hey,

it's going to be some hot boy summer for you.

Hot Jack summer.

It's going to be

signing up.

You should have saw what I walked into this morning, Rhett.

Yeah, it was a parenting seminar today.

What?

Boys are at how easy parenting is.

Yeah, we were having a chat, and I said to Mr. Richard,

so I said, how was the family life?

Which he either, that was the worst thing to ask,

or it was something you needed to get on with your stuff out there.

He made the lay down on the couch,

and we just played psychologists for half an hour.

So yeah, there was a mild ranting.

Yeah, there's some good rants and rafes.

But it was a little shodden Freud,

right?

Because you've gone through it,

you've gone through it.

It's like, oh, really?

So kids are hard, is it?

It's weird.

Two young kids at the same time.

They're hand full, and they can...

He's hard-core though.

They don't put them in daycare.

They're at home.

There's a parent at all times.

That's, you need a breather from that.

But yes, that was,

so, so, so,

so, so, Cabby was kind of getting things off of his chest.

The Jack is going to get through it.

Is he going to get through it?

So there's eye opening for Jack and therapeutic for Cabby.

That's what I think we agree with you.

That really is what it was, yeah.

Jack's just quit on dating, and we're like,

yeah, no.

You're heading into the summer here.

It's hot Jack summer.

Get ready.

It's been in the gym.

All right.

We're all on with Jack.

Yeah, summer.

I can't wait.

It's tucked right under a red sarm there.

He'll, he'll, he'll, he'll walk the menu around stampede.

Well, we were...

I'm going to crush stampede with Jack.

We were saying that, uh, Jack,

maybe needs to make good on the 999.

Mm-hmm.

We're kind of mapping on the Jack.

Make good on a lot of things.

Yeah, that's true.

I don't think this would help a cool count for you.

Zanya, pizza days.

I'm going to say this also just before I forget.

St. Paddy's Day can f the off.

Really?

Oh, geez.

What happened?

I went back because I was down and out.

I went back through the history of St. Paddy's Days.

Nothing good has ever come about for the retro on St. Paddy's Day.

Other than the,

the one day in Buffalo,

where the parade was going on,

and there was the fight in the streets,

so that was a wonderful day.

Other than that, it's all been bad.

We had a double, we had the double-down illness.

Yeah.

I had a return from Kelly Chase's

guitar picks and sticks for this Nashville,

which, and that one buried me for a couple days.

I had yesterday or a couple days ago,

and then I had the Chicago experience.

Yeah.

Foot, they're way more negatives and positives for St. Paddy's Day.

Well, whatever it takes to drive the sneaks at Ireland or whatever it's all about.

You got to.

Yeah, I don't even know.

No, no.

It's a bullshit holiday for alcoholics.

I love it.

So the one in Buffalo in the fighting in the street, you weren't fighting.

Oh, I wouldn't do that, Dean.

No, no, no, no.

Great.

Were there some of your brethren who were fighting?

Yeah, some of the brethren that had a bell go, so it was good.

Yeah.

Was it quite like a...

Why is Chase?

Oh, you feel like that might have hit the, uh, the socials.

The news, why, uh, if, uh, nowadays, it would have happened then.

Was this more of like a royal rumble or a feature match?

This was a, uh, this was a, this was a, this was a real shit-kicking, uh, the wrong way.

This man had had too much to drink and too strong an opinion,

and he got served up a bottle of whoop-ass.

What time of day does this parade take place?

It was before noon, Dean.

Yeah.

Because if I recall, we don't need to necessarily name names,

but I, if I recall the story correctly, uh, that gentleman had already kind of been

taken home because his day was done.

Already?

Preparate?

It had been a, I believe it was a Sunday with St. Paddy's Day.

We'd gone out after a game Saturday night.

Bar's closed at four in Buffalo in case you were wondering.

I was, yeah, thank you.

Get home fairly late by 9.30.

People were kicking my bed.

Let's go.

It's St. Paddy's Day.

Okay.

Go to a house party.

Prior to the parade, this man is d-u-n done.

Get your ass home.

Send him home in a camp.

You can't team me on that.

Yeah.

Head down, walk down to the parade.

Look over and said, man, it's getting an ass whippin.

Oh, the street.

So not only has he been taken home, he's since left home,

gone to the parade and now is he's gonna prefer like he's

commented the cabbie and convinced him to drop him off for the parade as well.

Yeah.

Well, I don't know who we need to talk to about getting this

the St. Paddy's thing.

They kind of,

mothballed, but we'll try our best.

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Last night, there was a hockey game retro involving the St. Louis Blas and the Calgary flame.

So I don't know if you...

Oh, is this a scoop?

Scoop job.

Here it comes.

Good boy.

He is not your boy.

Look at this.

What a stud.

You're not good.

We don't need a dog.

Stupid dogs.

Sometimes they're a shoe dog.

They're cats.

Dogs suck.

Yeah, sometimes you got to shoot your dog.

There were two hockey games last night.

One that I was interested in.

And one that I turned on to watch.

It was so...

Yeah, okay.

So you saw that Carolina Penguins game, obviously.

That was electric.

Jack Boomer and I were buzzing.

You guys were buzzing on the...

It was unbelievable.

There's been some really good games coming to the Olympics.

I've not seen any of it.

I've not seen any of it.

I was certainly upset to see Jack's penguins come out on the bottom, but...

They got their point.

And they've struggled beyond regulation.

They're the worst team in NHL history in the shootout at 1 in 10, I believe.

This one and the prior to the shootout.

But honestly, before the Olympics, there was so much slop.

There's been some really good games the last little while.

Like I think of...

You know, that Colorado Edmonton one grabbed me.

There's been some...

Like Buffalo Tampa for many reasons.

Buffalo Tampa was incredible.

But I think what it is now is,

you're out of this.

We got 30 some...

How many...

Oh, the middle...

Yeah, you can wrap it around.

Now it's like, okay, we're into the playoff push here.

Like 15, 12, that sort of number.

We're now into seeding and like, okay,

this team's got a tie break.

Like the battles are clearly drawn at this point.

Flames and blues last night.

The Flames get away.

Guys, we're also commenting on this game.

That your dreams came true.

Yeah, Jack was kind of...

Jack's fears were actual.

Yes, they were not dreams coming true.

The 730 midweek game that goes to a shootout

when you're working the afterburner is always awesome.

He called it a second, I think.

Yeah, this has got overtime written all over it.

Why you got to go personally?

And it was a long game,

because they kept disallowing goals.

It's a Zidia drafts, Jack.

It's a Zidia drafts.

It's just ruined my life.

Even though they got it right each time.

Eventually, yeah.

Very easily could have been a game

that didn't have to go.

The exact opposite of the pinder man at the UMPS

or we should have the computer doing it all.

Yeah.

This is the opposite.

It's like, no, don't go back.

Don't slow this shit down.

Let's just carry on.

This is like run clock when you do it.

I know, yeah, I don't care.

Let's try it wrong.

It's irrelevant.

These teams are out of it just around the clock.

Yeah, the high stick

negates the corners.

Erie high stick negates a goal.

Toaza high stick.

Farabie was offside.

Toaza offside.

Before he scored and Kevin Ball,

the puck did come out at the line.

Not by a ton, but it was offside.

It's why we have rules, Rhett.

Otherwise, he is accept.

They don't count.

Husker said something really interesting,

which was I didn't think of.

It makes a lot of sense.

He's like, if it's really, really close,

I'd rather have the officials keep things on side

and let the play continue

because you can always go back and fix it

where if you blow it dead on a potential two on one,

if you get that one wrong,

you can't go back and fix it.

Wow.

And thought about that way.

That's a good point by him.

Another good point is

that's how close winning and losing is in the interest.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Kind of let's the refs off the hook a little bit too.

It's like, if I'm wrong, they'll

I hadn't thought about it.

I do like what he's saying, but you're right.

They should just try to get the calls right

rather than they'll get me something.

We know refs are idiots.

I saw it in the game last night.

There was hometown.

We have one on this.

The referee union is not a fan of this show.

Just takes a beating every single day.

Come on, refs.

Compires, refs.

NFL officials with Paddy Maholms and Gaines.

I'm taking some bullets.

So three disallowed goals.

It remains one one.

They go to extra time.

There is nothing to be decided.

They go to a shootout.

And I mean, we can double back on the other stuff,

but we may as well go to the one that has...

I was watching.

My kid was downstairs.

It grit.

I just feel like this is going in.

There's just nothing.

This guy is, he's got a tremendous shot.

He's a scorer.

And he's just something about his demeanor.

Did he look nervous?

Zero.

I mean, he looks like he's 12.

But he is calm.

And it just...

Can I just look at it for this?

You know what that looked like?

Patrick Effing can.

Yes, I wanted to say it.

And that's the highest of compliments.

But like, it had the same vibes.

It doesn't mean he's going to be Patrick's game.

Okay, here's a spot.

I'll just put it there.

That's fine.

I know where I'm putting it.

I know it's going in.

I just have to go do it.

And it's done.

And I expected it to go in and game over.

What are we worried about?

Let's go.

I like how Fairby's coming along too.

Where in the A?

It looks like a guy up like...

Yeah, like, he gets the goal.

It doesn't count, but it's a hell of a play.

No, it's way more involved.

Well, and also clearly he's having impact in the room.

I didn't pay any attention to Fairby as far as, you know,

expecting him to be a leader, right?

I just hadn't heard anything about it.

It's fine.

Not that I should have, but it clearly he's having an impact

in the room and he's playing well.

We talked in here.

Early in the year, there was lots of games where he was the best player.

The driver's life in October.

He might have had like five to six expected goals

and he was stuck at like one.

You're like, this guy cannot buy a balance post all over.

Wiffing on empty nets in tights.

Like, he plays a mucky brand and he works his tail off

and it's good to see him get rewarded

because October was the exact opposite.

I don't know if Francis was talking about it on the one broadcast

that after the trades are done and they bring the leadership group

and everyone to call it and Zary is in there and ball is in there

and Fairby's in this group.

It's like, well, we're going to hear this while

letters are going to go for alternate captains.

You're going to wear the A at home.

And for Fairby, it was maybe caught him a little bit off guard.

Super, like it was took a photo, sent it to his folks kind of thing.

I was like, never really had a letter.

We think about it.

Anderson, Coddry, Weeger, Huerto hurt.

Like, you did kind of need to reload the letters and the leadership.

Yeah.

It's funny because it almost it felt like that was a bit of

it's not like he's playing through the roof

but there's been a noticeable difference in his level of play

maybe before that.

But what was it like for you?

You've worn the A.

When did you get your first A?

Aside from math and high school.

My first A?

Oh, in junior.

Like going to the NHL, right?

It's my float 2000.

Yeah.

Do you remember the day to the situation that guys

been moved or how did that go?

I don't really.

You would have arrived what the year might think of British A's

and C's at all that BS.

It's not BS.

But it isn't it isn't BS because there's there's

there's guys on teams that have leadership letters

and they're not clearly not leaders.

And my thoughts for always you play the same way no matter what.

Like so you were already a leader on the ice.

Sounds a hole.

You're the hole.

Yeah.

But everyone is different.

But there would be some guys I maybe wouldn't even see

themselves in that light.

It's like, oh, okay, okay.

Well, that's that that I appreciate.

You know, I wonder if that does, you know, strike a bit of a court.

Husker post game.

Obviously they win this hockey game.

They get two points and we know whatever.

They're going to win some games.

Yeah, that's the third March.

They're going to fall as just so you know, you hit it.

We'll get to some of the other contestants

in combatants in the game.

But we talk about the calm demeanor of gridden.

And Husker talk post game about not just the calm demeanor,

but there's maybe a little bit of dog in there too.

You know, we talk a lot about players on the bench, you know,

and you know, the next one counts or it's on the line.

A lot of guys won't turn around and look at you.

He did tonight.

So to me, that shows a lot of boat.

I want to go put me out there type thing where, you know,

that's something that now is used to do a lot of Joel Farib.

He does a lot of that right now.

So he's moved himself up because he's scoring.

But for a young 20 year old to look and say,

Hey, I'm the guy that can finish this.

That's that's a pretty impressive thing.

And I think that goes to your kind of cool in his veins.

Or I don't know what I would call it.

Just pretty relaxed when he goes in there.

It's funny because you see that play.

And I thought they were awesome against Detroit.

The Frost him in Coronado line.

He played Clapka minutes last night and so did Frost.

They were under 13 minutes and you're not seeing him in overtime.

Husk is talking about as the shoot out.

It's like, it feels a career short lease for a guy

that might be your most talented player right now.

I know people.

12 minutes.

I know.

I'm having I'm having faith in the coach here that he knows what he's doing.

And that it's it's not that he's limiting his minutes.

It's this is what right now is best for the player to succeed.

That individual.

It's not everybody kind of like we just talked with letters.

Because I was looking at that this morning and just watching.

Huska I remember it was a year ago after training camp.

He talked about grid and great camp next year.

I want you to come here in the mindset and be ready to make this club.

It's seven at the time.

It's like, well, that's cute to say.

Yeah, he's just playing the US.

To the 18 year old like that's that's very nice of a coach.

And a year later, the guy comes to camp and is ready to win a job on

the National Hockey League team.

So I can you give him more minutes?

You can, but maybe that's not the best because what you're seeing from him

is all good.

Yeah, it might have been a night where the coach didn't like his five-on-five game.

I just thought when you have a four-on-three power play, like he's your best shooter.

He's probably got your highest hockey IQ right now.

Like he's should have been out there instead of maybe

appending you if a you're not going to sign that's looked really stale.

And it was all over the all of some played a lot of the the overtime.

Huska knows what he's like, he's seeing what we're seeing.

It does seem weird.

I don't know if is it a last ditch effort?

I've got to manage the room a little bit too.

Totally.

He's part of it, right?

We're only seeing what we want to happen.

I'm kind of trying to the exact, I like Huska.

I like how he's coached.

You can't question what he's done.

So I have to have some, if I've got connyphidence,

I've got to let Huska do his thing too.

He's not done anything wrong with any of these kids.

And teaching them to earn it isn't the end of the world.

And there's days where you're not sharp.

Are there situations where you might think do things differently?

Maybe, but he's got a better grasp of the whole picture.

We do.

We're looking at it.

Play the kids.

Well, I got to manage the room too.

Yeah, I think we all look at it from the gridden perspective.

We want more.

That's great.

That means it's a great story.

Like this is a late first round.

Or you're probably hitting there's less than 5050.

And he's already looking like a very, very good player in the NHL

in his 19 year old season.

But Huska has to manage a room with a veteran and Victor Olipson

who's heading into UFA.

And it's like, if I lose this guy now, how does that affect the room?

We're not thinking about it from the Olipson perspective, right?

And he has to look great.

But there's a reason that he's putting him out there.

Or any perspective, right?

Because my reaction to him, I care more about what gridden

is thinking than Olipson is thinking.

But to your point, retro, it's the guy.

If we're going to sit and applaud the team for effort and try

and being in hockey games, despite having the lowest number

of goals scored.

And it's got to be seller in terms of overall skill in the team.

You have to give the credit to some of the credit to the coach

there and then just kind of have faith in what he's doing.

To that end, because we all see it.

I get texts from people saying, what the hell is there?

They're lined up with this and that.

Here was asked about post game, the roster construction

on a nightly basis, because we know there's a lot of guys

and we'll play line combos and this and that.

Are you seeing the competition?

Well, you didn't play last game, so now you're in,

so now you've got to step up.

Are you seeing that competition?

Or how is the evaluation process in a way going right now?

Sometimes you're putting player in that,

you know, you didn't work.

You're taking someone out, I should say,

that didn't necessarily deserve to be taken out.

So I don't know if you're creating the right type of competition

with that, but that's the environment that we're in right now

because of where we're sitting in the standings.

There's more bodies around.

People are going to get themselves in the lineup.

I don't want a lot of people sitting forever.

Old young, it doesn't matter.

But it's hard when there's certain nights,

when a guy plays well and he finds himself out of the line

up the next night.

Too many bodies.

And that's, you just signed a college reagent.

You got to take some money back on deals.

You've gridden.

Last night, 1249,

Olivesson 1434.

So just a little bit under two.

Over time.

That's probably the difference really.

254 in power play time for gridden,

325 for Olivesson.

Over a 60 minute game.

It was just so obvious at that point.

This is maybe when you put the kid.

Everyone has got also the other part of it is too.

Do you have an agent in your ear?

This guy's going to be a free agent.

It's like, all right, we're going to play him.

And then when he doesn't do anything,

it's like, well, now you can get out of my friggin' office.

I think that's exactly what's happening.

It's like, you're doing a veteran of solid.

He's a UFA.

He's a guy fighting.

I don't think just for a contract,

but stay in this league.

Could be.

Like, when you watch him,

are you like, oh, he's going to be a July 1 pickup?

I don't.

That looks like PTO Villa right now.

And at this point, it's like, am I going to Europe?

Am I going to take a two-aid deal?

Am I a PTO?

Am I playing a league?

Men, you're doing them a solid,

but he's running out of runway to impress.

I'll say that.

Yeah, because it's not like they haven't given them.

They have given it to him.

What have you seen?

Maybe a play, but most nights invisible.

On the flip side,

Brestevich last night,

20 minutes and 33 seconds of ice,

played 18 and a half against Troy.

So the coach has no problem.

Now, loading some minutes on Young Brestevich,

who has handled him anywhere last night.

Yeah.

And that seems like a nice security blanket for a young kid.

Kind of like a matter.

Nice kid.

It's kind of like White Cloud.

You're like, better than I thought.

And certainly not sexy,

but very capable.

And 2343 to lead all players last night.

For exactly what you want out of a guy

in that situation, play solid.

But he's not,

he's not a true number one,

but he's playing as a number one minutes

and it can handle and it gives you solid minutes.

I think they're absolutely going to,

if they aren't already fall in love with Brestevich,

I think he's going to be.

I think they are.

I think they are.

Excellent player for the Calgary players.

Yeah.

On the flip side,

Marty Posposal team low 10

and you have Klapka out.

You've got Tyson Gross waiting in the wings

for his NHL debut.

You've got Lambert.

You've got all like,

it is feels like a lost year.

We talked about yesterday when you weren't here.

But Posposal's three year extension kicks in next year.

Three at two and a half.

Is it at two and a half?

And they got it done very early in the fall with.

Well, he was a bit of a unicorn at the time.

It's not the time to sign his first year, yeah.

You know, the guy's big in these.

He's a skater server and he did score last night

and got this allowed.

Maybe it's, maybe it's still there.

But it's, that's going, we talked about yesterday.

It's going to be a weird,

interesting project moving forward.

Can he get back to what he was?

Does he want to get back to what he was?

Do they want him to get back to what he was?

Yes, I think want them to.

Well, they do.

But I also think that when he had George Paros

in his year as much as he did two seasons ago,

it changed the way he played,

whether he wants to mid-not.

Never mind the concussions,

but those two things,

I think have affected his play.

Yeah, don't forget Husker random

into the ground that one day,

which I thought was bullshit at the time.

But it's the one time where I was like,

Husker, completely off base,

you're giving him shit for trying to do what he does.

I don't think that was fair.

And they got too many wingers.

Like, we're looking at this team with Odhanzak,

who is going to be a top nine guy with this team next year.

We saw him make some good strides this year on a checking.

I'm not worried about that.

But just hanging with me, hanging with me,

and Hubert O, and who are the expiring wingers?

Like, everyone wants to bring back Lomburg.

I don't know where you put him in.

I feel like Lomburg now is almost impossible to resign

if you're locked into POSPISL.

Like, you can't have,

like, you got four lines, eight wingers,

even if one guy started,

it feels like they got 12 guys,

and aren't you planning on graduating a guy

at some point in the season?

I would let the off-season play itself out.

Yeah, off-season.

So to make my point,

I think when this team goes to the draft,

and they've got all this draft capital,

and maybe they're trying to move up,

or they're packaged this for that,

or we'll use one of these picks to get a player,

don't be surprised there's a winger stapled

to one of these deals just to make some room,

because they have too many.

Whatever. Put them in the biners.

Could a Coleman deal happen?

I don't, I think it's lower probability,

but it could.

I think they want him as a leader next year,

in the movement of the deadly.

Yeah, I do too, but also I mean,

maybe Lomburg doesn't come back,

and I'll be honest, until Sam Hansick shows me

that he can be there and deserves a spot.

When he deserved it this year, he's gonna hurt.

He was playing well.

Yeah, but what happened to POSPISL?

POSPISL has gotten less effective three years in a row.

It was also hurt.

So, you know, but it's not like what he's healthy.

He looks, if injury is okay for Hansick to be let off the hook,

then why is an injury for POSPISL?

I'm not saying it's off the hook.

What I'm saying is he's already a better player

than POSPISL and play bigger minds.

I, I think POSPISL, we showed it yesterday,

his foot speed's way down this year.

I'm not, I'm not a proponent for POSPISL,

but I just think we're making a mountain out of a mohal.

Who the fuck cares?

Put him in the minors.

If he clears waivers, who cares?

Like, we're so concerned about POSPISL making two and a half.

He can make two and a half in the minors.

Sorry.

Yeah, yeah.

Like, and I still, that's where they,

if that's where the ball has ended up rolling too.

And I'm not saying you're wrong, Ryan,

because I actually don't like how he's playing.

And I, but I think it's worse than that.

I think that there's a little,

Ferland is the perfect example of POSPISL.

Michael Ferland, you can't pull back

the reins that much.

So, yeah.

And have a bunch of concussions and not connect the two.

He's, I agree.

And they both got contracts,

and they both had major concussion issues.

And they both probably got,

you can't do that.

That's bad for the game.

Have a seat.

You're getting fined.

All those things add up to a guy that doesn't look like

the shit district two years ago when he came in to the league.

Yeah, and I think you can go to POSPISL

so POSPISL and say,

I don't care what George Parros tells you.

He can, that's his hat.

You play the way you're supposed to.

So, I don't think you can do that when he's been concussed.

And you have to tell him,

run through guys and crush guys and fight to do.

Wow.

You be flocking the other day and you're all,

you're kind of grimacing a bit.

You're like, dude, who thought that he was going to play?

I was watching that.

I'm like, he got punched.

He might be done because he got hurt early in the year.

And look, we didn't even notice it.

Fairly interesting.

It's not, it's not a criticism.

It's just, no, you can't operate without that in your back.

Your mind, can you?

I don't think can.

The number of concussions he's had.

Yeah.

But it's, and we'll move on.

I just, in terms of the winger situation for next season,

it's not an issue, but I think in Craig's office on the whiteboard,

they're trying to find ways to make room.

Because what you'd love to see is what Pittsburgh did.

And what Connie did two years ago,

which is, let's roll the dice on a one-year mat for thing.

And if he pops, we can turn him into assets or sign him.

When you've got more wingers than you can hold on an NHL roster,

that card's taken right on your hand.

It's a nice thing to be able to do.

Someone's on a wave of shit.

We'll take a gamble on Ely Tolvenin, like Seattle did,

or whatever the case may be.

That card, you can't play when you're flooded with wingers.

And I think they will sort it out.

But they didn't move a winger to the deadline this year.

And wingers aren't going for prices.

Like, centers got paid.

I would much rather have Connor Garland on my team than Nick Waw.

One got a first and a third.

The other got a second and a third.

I'm with you.

And we can move on, absolutely.

I think your bigger concern as an organization

isn't trying to bring in a free agent.

You can flip for more assets.

I think you've got a ton of assets.

And you've got a lot of stock into your drafts already.

Your focus should be on what you have and bringing them along.

And if you're limiting a spot for one of those players,

as you could try and bring a guy in and turn him into something to flip him,

I think you're doing a disservice to your squad.

I think they are a year away from someone graduating from the air.

Like, if SUNY is going to happen,

it's probably going to be late next year,

if it all next year.

Basha went back to junior this year.

They've got some other guys that'll come into the pro ranks at a college,

potentially, but like, I don't think you have someone

knocking on the door playing wing.

Yeah, but I mean, gridden has arrived.

Well, if he wasn't, yeah, yeah, he's arrived.

If Hanzek, if you're saying we've got too many wingers already,

I don't give a shit who's a free agent that I might be able to turn into an asset.

No, you're that that means things are going well.

And they have enough picks and assets now, right?

If you're going to go into the free agent,

it's going to be it's better be for something

that you think is going to help this team.

Center, I hear some shut D.

Yeah, yeah, just back to Prestevich.

He made it there again.

I think Robert Munich on his ex-account.

He's like, you watch these plays and he's already making very calm and poised

under pressure plays.

Do you see, because in junior retro, he had big numbers in junior.

It hasn't so far translated in the NHL.

Is he a guy that's going to get points

to go with the poise or is this most?

Don't know, don't care.

I think he's just going to be one of those.

Like is Anderson a point getter?

Was but no.

Not so the not so the.

Yeah, if a lot of years, he's not.

Do you, if you'd say Rasmus Anderson,

are you saying point getter?

He's not like, I think he's that similar style,

where he's going to do everything for you to play his ass off.

And if you need him to run a power play, he can.

Oh, and Rasmus played a top pair role for a while.

And he isn't that right now.

He's having a miserable going to Vegas.

On this team, though, in fairness.

Yeah. And so just let me finish the point.

I don't think Perstevich's ceiling is that high,

but I think you've got a really good puck mover

that on a contender is a 4-5.

I think if he's better than that.

I do too.

I think he'll end up.

Either way, it's a lovely asset.

Like that, that felt almost like that.

That Linholm deal, man, I'm telling you.

For two months of male Linholm and Vancouver,

that's gridden, that's Perstevich.

That's how you got Frost and Fariby

once you threw him, Teltchay was in the minors.

Like it is remarkable how two month rentals

of Linholm is, you got two core pieces that looks like that.

Here's why I think Perstevich should be more

because he wants to be more and he'll push himself to be more

and he's got the right approach to the game.

21, he'll be 22 in November of this year.

Yeah, it's time.

But so yeah, that's the score from last night.

They did get a win, damn it.

But they are a lot more.

Well, Joel Holfer couldn't actually hold was at the game.

Did you catch up with him?

Are you sick obviously?

We were going to go over him and Reggie and Sean O'Brien.

We were going to go for supper, but I was clearly comatose.

You're out.

Brought the RV out.

What's Leo up to these days and how often is he getting back?

Because he was saying there was on socials like this would be

my last trip to the dome it sounded like.

So soak it in because he's not here all the time apparently.

Well, no, he lives in Minnesota.

Yeah, the dome's coming down soon.

And I think that's the only reason he came up here.

I believe if I'm not mistaken that they run a a a a wedding venue.

I had mentioned that.

I'm not.

I'm hazy on details, but I do believe that's what he's.

What's Jack meets a sweetheart at Stampede?

You can be best man.

Yeah, Jack.

It's going to be awesome.

That ever cross your mind post career do kind of like a chapel.

I'm still thinking about it.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, yeah.

He's just amassing land.

He doesn't know which property he's going to put the chapel on.

Yeah, because if there's if there's somebody that kind of leans to the sentimental.

It's our buddy Rex, the honeydewer problem.

Yeah, I could absolutely.

Do you guys want some tooling to go with the the twinkle lights over here

over the arch when you come in?

I can see you doing that.

That was that take to get your license like a hundred bucks.

You can marry people.

Oh, yeah.

Love the rest details.

That's what those things are all about.

Yeah, details.

That's what I do.

River never.

Amen till you're dead.

Kiss the look.

Kiss their now.

Just the woman.

Shot of crown.

It's right.

Ah, Vena Nova.

It's big and a love.

Yeah, back in love right there.

Vena Nova Stampede.

Then you go to Vena Nova.

Ret your best man.

Go to Leo's wedding.

But we got to assert it for you, Jack.

I can.

Ret your vows.

You want to give us a couple of now?

No, I'm not.

To the vows, yeah.

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Yes, I do.

Yeah, you do.

And they're anywhere from 50 to 70% less expensive than earth-mind.

And it's, you know, I'm very happy talking to a lot of people.

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Just because we've been talking about Vena Nova for a number of years.

And maybe when it starts like, oh, the lab-grown is that kind of a new thing?

Oh, yeah.

Why?

It's new.

It's better.

It's new. It's better.

And it's way.

Yeah.

Like, let's take advantage of this loophole

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Tell him the Barnburner guys are talking about him.

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We can go straight to the Pender Report,

or we can...

Oh, we got a little something starting next week

that we're pretty excited about, so...

I can't contain my excitement.

Is it our March Madness Basketball bracket?

Kind of.

Kind of.

Jack, let's take a look at what we're having.

Hooper's Dymors.

It's all I love.

I love Duke this year.

Yeah.

There it is.

It is the...

It was very quick.

Hopefully you caught it.

Barnburner Chocolate Championship 2026.

We did...

Let me just do these on the old show

back in the old radio days.

This radio is still going on.

I guess it was kind of a COVID thing.

And we started...

Yes, we were supposed to do a bracket,

it's March, March Madness, this sort of thing.

And it was...

People got to really enjoy it.

And I think people got very invested in it.

Yes, so...

Wait a minute.

No, that's bullshit.

That can't be...

And there were some surprises along the way.

There's always some bracket busters or upsets.

Yeah, there's always...

Cinderella's.

You love to see it.

That's what makes a bracket special.

So, this is a...

We're going straight to the sweet 16 here.

I had actually started cobbling together.

G32 is a lot, but we would have been able to do it.

Oh, yeah.

But it's a 16 team tournament.

And I just get a brace, everybody.

Not everybody's going to like this.

It's much like with March Madness.

How is this...

College football...

How is this team?

Seems undefeated.

This seems got two losses.

How's it ranked lower?

So, I understand.

But I...

I included some very powerful and knowledgeable people.

We...

People that I trust with the...

The sweets of my life, yeah.

I noticed you didn't reach out, which was the right move.

Yeah, because I said to Jack,

because I can't have Pinter coming in with...

We'll just leave that.

One of these in high school.

These aren't allowed in the house.

Get out of here.

Yeah, I need to ask the shoveler,

because the shoveler is a fanatic.

Yeah, Jack had been doing shovel correspondence.

You've compiled the data for the pola.

Yeah.

She's...

Got together for a coffee to this one.

Thought.

What?

We're experts.

Let's take a look at the bracket

for the 2026 Barnburner Chocolate Championship.

Oh, goodness.

Can we take down the top right?

Yeah, let's get the Barmer Bug Offener.

Wow.

Here are the...

Here's...

It's going to be a banger, boys and girls.

Oh.

Are you...

Going back to the...

Chocolate Championship we did on the radio.

The Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

Were the champions.

They've held the number one seed.

Until to be the man, you got to beat the man.

At the belt.

They got the strap.

Reese's in the one spot will face

a opponent to be determined,

which we'll discuss in a moment.

The number two seed, the Caramelk Bar.

Do you have the Caramelk secret?

How do they get the Caramel inside the Caramelk Bar?

Still haven't figured it out.

They are the number two seed.

They will face a play-in opponent to be, again, we will.

Lay that out in a moment.

The number three seed,

on the right side of your screen,

the Mars Bar.

A classic.

It's actually...

Like the parent company is the Mars Chocolate.

It's their Cornerstone product.

Mars will face the 14th ranked M&Ms.

Oh.

Not a chocolate bar,

but a very popular chocolate treat.

This was kind of based on...

If you go to a convenience store, you're going to...

No, no, no.

You're going to get some M&Ms.

You're going to get some M&Ms.

It's a mainstream chocolate product,

even though it's not a chocolate bar.

And can we see clarification on the M&Ms here?

We're just talking about the chocolate ones,

with the entire brand,

because the peanut, the peanut...

Whatever people want to do on their vote.

When you think M&Ms, this is what you think of.

That's what you think of, then you can go ahead.

Number four,

the Nestle Kit Kat.

Oh.

The Kit Kat.

The four seed.

We'll take on one the bar,

which is kind of a...

Is there some peanut butter in there?

There's kind of...

There's a bit of wafer in there.

We'll deal with it as we get into it.

It's a rich, great texture.

Yeah, we'll get into these contestants as we go.

But I think the Vunderbar has got its German hands full

with the Kit Kat.

It's four.

Snickers at five,

very much like the Mars bar,

but just a little different.

They were...

That was the...

Are you hungry?

Snickers really satisfies.

They do a lot of...

There's a lot of promotion, a lot of big money.

Oh, yeah.

Big chocolate bar money behind...

Big snack, yeah.

Behind the Snickers bar.

The 12-seated arrow bar.

Also light.

So light and airy.

Delicious.

The texture.

Two very different bars there.

One is very dense and packed with peanuts.

Good point.

And those are the exact opposite.

Yeah.

Styles make fights.

I don't mind that one.

Is that some nuget

that we would find in the Snickers bar?

I'm not sure if that's nuget or what they've got going on there.

I don't even know what the hell nuget is.

We're gonna have to do some research.

Number six.

Oh Henry.

A classic.

Definitely.

I mean...

Remember what movie was it

where they threw the Oh Henry bar in the pool?

Everybody had to get out.

Caddyshack.

Is that what it was, yeah?

I believe.

In addition to that,

a very popular chocolate bar.

Kind of a staple.

Middle of the road?

I think there's some nuget in there.

Or a toffee kind of a...

Kind of an innard surrounded by chocolate and peanuts.

Taking on crunchy.

The Cadbury Crunchy Bar.

Which is like a...

It's a toffee.

A hard toffee that's wrapped in chocolate

which you wouldn't think would be any good.

I don't know that you would eat the toffee without the chocolate on it,

but you put the two together and...

God, it's a dance.

Yeah, it sings those two.

Pretty good.

Where are we going now?

The seventh spot on the right side.

The Canadian classic coffee crisps.

You're not getting this in the US?

No, you're not.

And if the Americans could have it,

or they want it,

I know a lot of Americans.

Do you bring me down some damn coffee crisps

by the time you come here?

Well, it's a staple.

See, it's a good point you bring up, Rachel.

I was wondering is this...

Is the coffee crisps at...

Because I mean, we're on YouTube now.

It's not a radio show.

We're not limited by some weird AM signal.

We're global.

Oh, big time, yeah.

We got people around the globe taking part in this thing.

Are they going to suffer

because they're only really available in Canada?

But you say that's not the case, Rachel.

Wow, they will suffer

because not everyone can have access to them.

But if they've tasted one and come to enjoy,

wonderful country and our chocolate bars,

then they'll know.

The coffee crisps is an absolute stud.

I think this could be a rallying cry

in these tense geopolitical times

for Canadians to get behind the coffee crisps.

I feel some sender elevators here.

We'll get Rhett to ask the Trumpster

what he's thinking about the coffee crisps.

Talked about it, Rachel.

What's the important?

Trumpster would...

The Trumpster would crush the coffee crisps.

Oh, yeah.

Mr. Bigot 10, a 710 battle.

Mr. Bigot got some wafery kind of thing going there.

It's like your old Henry, but it's just different enough.

Less nuts, more wafering.

Yeah, something...

It'd be lighter for sure than the old Henry.

I like it.

Is that where are we now?

Is that it?

Oh, the eight nine.

Eight nine.

Absolute battle.

This is my favorite.

This is like Minnesota and Dallas

going head to head and round one day.

It's tough to lose one of these.

It's so tough to lose one of these.

God, Gary's saying we love our first round.

It's one of the best.

Yeah.

I believe this would be one of the retro...

Rich's not a big sweet sky.

But I know if he's going for an ice cream, maybe it's a...

Oh, maybe it's one of those early deals.

And you know, he's getting some double score put into his bliss.

All right, it's a tough match up for the first round.

I love the score.

But the hard toffee covered in chocolate.

I went back, I was looking at some of the videos online.

When they launched, I think it was very coming out on the silver platter.

Like it was a very upper...

Oh, that's right.

Fantasy.

Would you like a score?

It's like the grape upon marketing.

That's right.

Limos, yeah.

Big in the pinderhouse.

Taking on the ninth seed, Twix.

You get two of them.

Kitkat, you're getting four.

It depends how you eat it, I suppose.

If you want to just eat the Kitkat as a one, you can't...

So there's two separate pieces coming.

Is that an advantage?

Is it a two on one?

Don't even know if it needs that for an advantage.

I like when I have a Twix that...

I'm not quite committed.

I could put it down for a while.

I still got another finger there for later.

Yeah.

I think it helps.

Wafers.

It's light.

Yeah.

Oh, you can crack that one.

So that is our bracket.

Well done.

It's hard to debate anybody that's in there.

I get that, again, if you're going to be upset about your chocolate not being there,

I get it.

But this is the...

We can't trust a lot of people.

We went far and wide and this is the consensus top of the bracket.

We will need some opponents for Reese and Caramel, however.

I was going to say, if your chocolate's not here, it doesn't mean it's dead yet.

Let's take a look at our first of two wild card play-in match-ups to start things off.

You don't have it?

I thought we were doing that tomorrow, you said.

Well, I guess we could do it tomorrow.

All right.

Let people stew for 24 hours on this.

Yeah, I guess we can do it tomorrow.

I'm kind of excited.

Have you already decided who it's going to be or is this a...

The announcements tomorrow.

We have the final four...

There's four that will fight down for it.

It's going to be two spots.

Selection committee is...

Now, they'll be in out.

They've...

We'll do it tomorrow.

All right.

We'll do it tomorrow.

That's probably right there, Jack.

I could see how excited I got.

Oh, once we get started.

Yeah.

So anyone should take it down.

I just want to look at that gaze and it's beauty.

That eight-nine is special.

We will have details.

People are...

How do you vote?

The tournament starts next week.

We will have the play-in games starting on Monday.

But think it probably a quick 24, 48 hour turn.

And then a Wednesday to Friday, around one.

I can't believe eight-nine fell into the eight-nine slot

and have to go against each other.

It's a banger of a matchup.

Yeah.

Jack, we look...

We can do it tomorrow, I guess.

What do you want to do?

I just want to look at the bracket again.

I think so.

It's curious, but if we're going to pick an upset.

I already got my surgery done.

Did we talk to bet 3-6-5 or are they on...

Are they...

If you look on the 3-6-5 app,

they got Mark Chawse a championship up there.

I would have put it past them.

I mean, if a nine beats and eight, it's an upset, I suppose, but...

I'll tell you what, the upset might be the next round.

Because if Reese moves on and either the eight or the nine move on,

well, one of them...

They aren't...

We're going to have their F and hands full.

I feel the same way about if we get coffee, Chris.

I'm just going to say...

What...

I mean, Caramelc...

They'll be up...

Well, you think...

You think Billy Garen's upset with Betman?

Yeah.

I'm going to have Caramelc coming right at.

Settle down, Caramelc.

What a bracket.

What a bracket.

Well done.

Are there any immediately omissions that come to mind as...

I wonder about the M&Ms moving on through the first round as a 14-seed?

Okay.

They are highly popular around my house.

The M&Ms would kick the shit out of the Mars.

Interesting.

I, yeah, wouldn't be so...

For volume of consumption?

100%.

I wonder about...

There's some weirdos out there that, like, they're weird chocolate bars

and there's some weirdos that have been omitted.

But they're just dangerous enough that I think we might see one or two in the playing rounds.

And I haven't seen, but I'm guessing you've got the coconut lobby.

They're not being represented anywhere here.

And I know the smarties who are saying, well,

the M&Ms are in.

Maybe we'll see them.

Jack, how hard would it be to get the play in?

I can do that.

Because I know what they're a video file.

Which may take a little bit longer.

I can have them ready.

So is there an omission though?

Right? Is there one that you're thinking, oh, boy,

that's one of our favorites that isn't there?

You know me.

I love sweets.

Yeah, I do.

I do know that.

The chat is alive.

Yeah.

The chat is alive.

Coconut sucks.

It does, but it's the people that like it.

And then what's the one with the purple strip in it?

That lunatic one?

Tercus, tercus.

Well, it's a light kind of thing, yeah.

That was weirdos out there.

When we did this the first time, it was an eye opener.

There's some that's like, well, they don't even.

They should not be here.

And then it's like, oh, that's one of my favorites.

So that's an absolute, that's an absolute favorite.

And then it, not even an upset.

Just like cruise through rounds.

Want to?

Yeah.

Who knew?

Well, and I think you go into your convenience store

or whatever you're looking, you're like,

how are these selling?

Like who's buying these?

But clearly someone is.

So the people that love some of these weird ones,

they're cleaning out the joint.

There are days here in some of those stores

and you walk by and you see the carton of that.

And you're like, these are still being consumed by people.

I'm like, yeah, exactly.

Okay.

But obviously it is.

So they wouldn't keep stocking the shelf.

Let's take a look at the first of two play in battles

for the final two spots of the chocolate championship.

Oh, the Rolos.

I forgot.

Wow.

There is the one you were discussing.

The Turkish Delight, the big Turk taking on

Nestle, Venusle, the Rolo.

Again, not a bar.

No, but a popular caramel chocolate treat

against the big Turk.

This was a shocker for us, the first time through.

I've never had a big Turk in my life.

Mm-hmm.

And I heard about your living.

He's like, oh, big Turk for me.

Jack, are you a big Turk guy?

I've never had a big Turk, boys.

I was telling you that I remember

I was texting somebody that was in this,

oh, big Turk is, how is it going to be?

The big Turk, I think, is going to be sneaky.

I don't get it.

No, do we know if this is going to feed

the 16 or the 15 hole?

Yeah, we don't know.

So maybe we'll get some most votes

we'll go 15 and at least.

That's kind of what we're thinking.

I like that.

So big one of the two play-ins.

Or have you done a big Turk, retro?

I bought a big Turk because the Turkish Delight,

because of the prince, what is it, the princess of Narnia

or what of that Narnia problem?

Wow.

The queen's wardrobe.

Yeah, the queen drugs up the kids with the big Turks.

Delights, so that's, yeah.

I had a baseball coach that would buy the,

by the box.

Only chalk party.

And he'd leave them for a year.

He wanted that, really?

That purple stuff to almost snap it got so hard.

I'm like, this, whoo, we.

And then the other final bracket.

The wild card, too.

We'll see.

Oh, smarties.

Yes, I knew they were there.

Taking on dairy milk.

Oh, this is another one of those ones.

I think you can get the dairy milk now.

They've got mini eggs in them.

They've got fruit and nut.

Yeah, they got a lot different.

That sort of thing.

That's the benefit they're going to have

against the smarties.

Because the smarties are what they are.

And they're unapologetic about it.

They're not a chocolate bar.

They're not M&Ms.

They're smarties.

And they are.

It's not your hand, Dean.

I don't know if you need that.

That's what they say.

This is a great wild card game.

Give us your thoughts, Jack.

I mean, I love both of these.

These are two of my favorites.

I know.

I love dairy milk.

It would have been way higher for me.

Yes.

These would both be in my 16.

You know what, dairy milk is?

It's unapologetically just good chocolate.

It's, it's all we are.

Mix it in a mash and a thousand things.

And I'll put it in a weird shape.

It's just good chocolate.

But we're so much better than Cadbury.

We're so much better than Nestle.

Because there's the nest, what is the Nestle one?

That's just the chocolate.

I forget that Jersey milk.

Right.

Yeah.

Where are you on Smarties, Rhett?

If I know it is Cadbury.

I don't where Pinder is on it.

He's a Smarties guy.

Wow.

I mean, you got kids.

They're a hit.

What do I mean?

No dairy milk.

I'm my personal opinion in this matchup specifically

is I lean more towards the traditional chocolate.

Smarties are fine,

but it feels like a childish approach to it.

It really does.

It feels like youth against experience here.

If only you look at the,

you know, look at the branding.

Yeah.

The fonts that are used.

The color.

As opposed to the class, the gold.

And it's too very different.

It's just like Saber's Lightning.

You got the young upstart.

Very different demos.

And then the guys that have been there before.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think that will be very valuable.

Wild code.

And by may we start to vote on this?

Yes.

Oh, yes.

So where it'll be on FlamesNation.ca,

we'll have all kinds of links in the show descriptions on YouTube

and socials and all that,

but the voting for the wild cards will begin on Monday.

And then the bracket.

The chocolate championship itself will start midweek next week.

If I may.

The selection committee.

The selection committee did a great job somewhere.

I was a little apprehensive.

I thought I'd maybe have heard about it already.

And I know it will come up.

But I don't know if any of you guys really care.

It's not for me.

But I will let the eat more crowd.

Oh, they're pissed.

It's very loud.

But did not make it in here.

I feel like they in the big Turks are similar.

It's like, I don't want links our bar.

We're very defensive about it.

And we believe it's the best and the hard course.

Can I make a stipulation?

And I am not a snackie guy.

But I've eaten all these things at one time or other.

I don't believe the eat more is chocolate.

I believe the eat more is molasses.

Wow.

It is darker and way chewier and you're right.

It's not.

It's.

Yeah, it's.

It's an excellent point, Rhett.

Not eligible for this tournament.

They're playing the NIA this year.

Yeah, you're not what it is.

Yeah, they're over there with Jersey milk in the NIA.

Hey, there's a lot of food.

Boomer, I think Jersey milk is discontinued.

Yeah, I don't know.

See, this is what it is.

This is why we do these things.

The franchise might get rebooted next year.

Yeah.

Eat more toffee and nuts perhaps.

Suck the fee.

Okay, that's it.

I do not believe eat more is chocolate.

Wow.

What a controversy.

We've avoided that.

We got some fancy pants.

It's mad that Ferrero Rocher isn't not in there.

Come on, now people like Ferrero Rocher.

Take off your white gloves and grab a chocolate.

Yes.

Like, uh, you know, have you fallen and can't get up?

Put your depends back on and relax.

Like when you're eating those at Christmas, maybe it's the

yeah, are you grabbing those for a road trip?

Or you'd grab like, you're not?

And there's only.

There's 16 spots.

Like you said, we could have gone 32, but you've you've created a great

field of 18 potential winners.

Okay, central back to you.

There is some chocolate in the eat more,

but mostly it's based around dark toffee, peanuts,

and a little bit of unsweetened chocolate.

Can you imagine the outcry if we would have included

and then we find out later?

Oh, there's no chalk.

It's the chocolate championship.

How can you have this huge controversy?

That would be that would be CFLE.

Yeah, do we have two rough riders on this break up off to be very tough?

Watch for it.

We appreciate all that, uh, you know,

everybody jumping in being a part of it.

We got a couple great sponsors.

We're all on veil for the bracket as well.

And that's absolutely correct.

Absolutely correct.

Well, yeah, we'll do we'll do the unveil on mine.

Oh, we got to get the voting started.

This little sneak sneak peak.

There you go.

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We start at Flames Nation where we always do.

One of the writers writing about today are at probably, uh,

something we haven't seen in ages in the NHL.

Uh, the Flamesquared several times against the St. Louis Blues.

And some of them even counted.

Yes, that is right, Pike.

Uh, three dis allowed calls to the Calgary Flames.

I love that guy in the Blues jacket.

Look at that outfit.

Mike, you got a blue blazer over the blue note.

That's gorgeous.

Plus the tooke.

Well done.

It's a great photo.

It is a great photo.

Wow.

Right on the glass.

Back ahead night.

Tough outcome.

But yeah, he was fist pumping all those dis allowed goals.

Those were his goals.

The dis allowed goals.

That was his victories.

Right.

Yeah.

Fair enough.

Uh, also on, uh, Flamesy type news.

Look at this.

These are walk.

Oh my god.

The Flames put out a video.

They've been doing this a lot.

Updates on Scotia Place, which is on schedule, on budget.

And whoo, looking gorgeous.

You can see some of the roof infrastructure in the top right there.

Uh, that's important because of course one of the shortcomings of the building

designed and crafted in the 80s that is the saddle dome.

Because of its roof, you can't hang gear for certain concerts

in certain times of year to hang on.

It's not up and up and up and up and up.

Away we go.

It's going to be gorgeous.

And the flames have a lovely minute and a half tour.

One part of a series where the continued update.

The progress of the building.

What's happening in March, right?