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I can't wait for that event but that means the seasons over so i'm not too excited about that

i'm excited for the event yes the event will be great the end of the season is such a weird

time as it's been for the last few years with with chto um because it's just like

it's like oh man the season's over like no more hockey but then i'm also kind of like i do like

the off season and like being able to like be home at a reasonable hour and like you know

having weekends be weekend yeah it's it's a it's a give and take but um yeah i soak up the hockey

as much as uh we can uh and especially in these last this last month and change soak up as much

black hawks hockey as as as we can and as much as it might be frustrating i think there's going to be

a lot of things that are going to make make it exciting uh down the stretch here all right well you

gotta open two packs of cards okay do we want to do the two football ones yeah let's do a football

okay so two football ones uh at leaders uh for the free agent company was selling the

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what a great magazine all right let's see how many of these players oh my we know

all right super bowl five uh card Baltimore colts top Dallas 16 to 13

so that happened uh 1990 NFL head coach of the

Baltimore Colts it would have been at that time Ron Meyer

Ron Meyer another coach of the new England Patriots Raymond Barry there you go you

have the coach pack huh by the way they were the Indianapolis Colts at that point were they

yeah 1984 they moved okay well i was months old in 1990 uh steve young

San Francisco 49 for the back that was pre-suitable steve young

ah there's all head coach Jimmy Johnson Dallas Cowboys air has not changed in shape it's it

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Jesus another coach George Seifert 49ers uh coach I never seen this many coaches in a pack

in my life Dallas Cowboys running back her shoulder walker pretty good running was pretty good after

that that's okay Denver Broncos coach Dan Reeves he's one of super bowl uh Arizona how many

coaches are we getting Arizona Cardinals coach Gene Stallings that's a sick jacket though

that is cool that'd be the St. Louis Cardinals by the way in 1990 yeah they were in wait

you sir yeah they what when did they go to Arizona this is a history lesson from me uh 88 you're

right okay they were Arizona Arizona Cardinals defensive end Freddie Joe Nunn

in the crowd goes silent uh Cincinnati Bengals knows tackle Tim Crumbrey Crumbrey

Crumbrey number 69 nice uh Seattle Seahawks defensive end Jacob Green that's an easy one to say

uh New Orleans Saints linebacker Ricky Jackson and that's it for that pack all right so yeah

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very Sanders is on the cover you can win a trip to Super Bowl 25 with Hall of Famer Franco Harris

that'd be fun that would be a lot of fun back in 1990 when both of those things were still around

if that's a winner you should cash it in be like find a way make it happen sure all right

Franco Harris died in 2022 but make it happen gonna sort of Vikings wide receiver Anthony Carter

pretty good uh New England Patriots wide receiver Stanley Morgan before he went into insurance

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outside landbacker Andre Tippett ah here we go here's a Chicago bear James Thornton tight end

Robocop number 84 80 damn uh Tampa Bay Buccaneers offensive lineman Randy Grimes here's a Hall of Famer

Jack Lambert it's a cool card look that to the side oh Mike single Terry of the Crunch Crew

yeah that's a keeper uh New York Giants running back Otis Anderson

49ers offensive lineman Jesse Sapo- uh Zappaloo

uh oh a rookie card for free safety Mark Carrier Mark Carrier bear bear uh running back Harold

Greene rookie card keep that one let's see tight end rookie card for Eric Greene I don't know

that's a green it's the green pack the green uh hey here's someone from Denver tight end clearance K

probably played behind Sianich uh Shannon Sharp for a lot of years uh New England Patriots defensive

lineman Ed Reynolds and finally New England Patriots quarterback Doug Flutey oh that's a good one

legend a couple keepers in there all right all right that was fun yeah we're gonna hit the

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all right we're back on CHCO black hawks reminder the trade deadline is Friday at two o'clock

we're going to be on the air live from one to three so the hour before sent in the hour after

yes central time as we are in Chicago we'll be on as the deadline passes we do that every year

it's kind of a fun watch-along style show so as things break we'll get to react to them in real

time a couple things today Tyler Myers traded to the Dallas stars they got two picks for them one was

I think 27 27 second-round pick and a 2029 fourth yeah yeah and they're retaining half of Tyler

Myers salary so Dallas gets a big defenseman Tyler Myers is an interesting player I feel like he's

got great years and not so great years and great years and not so great years I really don't know

what to make of him good I know he's a good player he's a I just don't know how good he is I don't

he's he's a big rangey yeah right-handed shot six eight yeah big big fricking guy

big boy right-handed shot he's I mean he's not a big-point producer he's not a flashy player I

mean he kind of feels a lot like Connor Murphy and the return was similar Myers is a bit cheaper

yeah I mean he's a serviceable depth you know third pair second pair in a pinch defenseman

um so yeah that and that was on Dallas's radar Murphy had kind of been talked about with Dallas

but yeah not going in division is something that I think uh behooves the black hawks as they're

you know trying to make the most out of their value and you know working with teams in your

division you might have teams say like well if we're gonna give give you xyz you know it's

gonna come at a higher price or the black hawks would ask for a higher thing because it's an

indivision so um yeah Dallas so Dallas gets Myers and key for sure would it's an extension with

the sharks the sharks you have like five like five and a half million ish in the ballpark there

over five years or six yeah I think it's five years five years uh and then the other thing too

is now the uh Maple Leafs are holding out Oliver Ekman Larson Scott Lawton and Bobby McMahon

so probably because they're about to be moved all of them they are asked and they're they're in a

bad situation the Leafs because they're they don't have their own first round pick this year

they don't have a great prospect pool they're not in a playoff position and they're not in a

position to like sell they're really valuable pieces like McMahon's pretty good Lawton's okay

Ekman Larson's a good player but you're not you know you're not really moving like

knives you would you wouldn't move Matthews or Neelander or anything like that I don't think so

but like they're in a spot where it's just like what what do you do is it rebuild or you

trying to try and stand Bowman retool this on the fly kind of thing that always works you right

so it's it's crazy uh where where the Leafs are at right now um not contending and also not

in a position to fix it very fast uh oh yeah and the other thing the Florida Panthers who now look

like they're going to be sellers have signed away Louis Domingue to a two-way contract uh he was with

the Charlotte checkers after starting this year in Russia so could that mean Sergei Burbrowski's

going to get traded a lot of people speculating his deal is to be the case yeah that is an

expiring deal I'm going to go to cap wages here and see his uh cap hit it is a 10 yeah he's 10

yeah 10 million bucks for the rest of this year um I'm trying to see if they have an ever

attention spot Florida think they do I think Florida does have a retention spot available at least

one yeah so they could make that work somehow um I saw some speculating that he could go to San Jose

Sergei Burbrowski okay I mean the sharks are doing what a lot of people want the hawks to do

they're they're going to make those next level moves and they're trying to you know take that

next step I don't know if I'm the sharks if I'm giving up a lot for Sergei Burbrowski right now

though well like you're not winning the cup this year and you're probably not bringing them back

right you just traded for Yaroslav Askarov right he's your goalie of the future right so you're

going to give up I mean sure maybe they give up a late round pick but San Jose currently three

points out of a playoffs and you would imagine like I saw like Carolina that makes a lot more sense

to me um for a contender to go get him but the cheapest he can be for them is five million so

right how does that work well money in money out you got to you got to get creative with uh with

a deal there it says right now according to cap wages that uh the hurricanes have nine point eight

million dollars in cap space so they they could theoretically uh bring him in and make it work

yeah I mean it's uh it's that's that's an interesting um I mean that would make a lot of sense

from like a need perspective um Burbrowski has a 16 team no trade list so half the league he can't

go to um a lot of guys do it they just want to play in the east like I think that's Vincent

Tro check is like I'm not going west yeah every way he I think he said the words everyone knows I'm

not going west so that could be something he's doing right he could could say the same thing he's

only played in the east uh it's my understanding uh I'd like to see him go yes Montreal

hmm okay it's a good team I don't know if they're sold on motembo or dobesh yet and if they're

thinking they can make some noise in the east I wouldn't count them out mm-hmm no one in the east

is really you've got your the lightning are really good obviously mm-hmm but I think it's kind of

the lightning and everybody else and Carolinas two points ahead of them in the standings in a

weaker division but um I don't know I think Montreal adding Sergei Burbrowski at the deadline could be

a huge boost for them players seem to like uh go into Montreal so

that yeah that could be that could be in play for sure that's a place I'd like to play when I get

drafted they would not be on my uh no trade list Montreal no I would play in Montreal that is uh by

the top destination for me in terms of hockey road trip I want to take yeah right I would love to go

to Montreal we need something to happen in Montreal the draft is it not in Montreal is it this year

let me double check we're going and or no I think the no the draft is in Buffalo I believe

okay we get stick combines in Buffalo I know that means it's always in Buffalo it is in Buffalo yeah

yeah and then I mean I'm sure that they'll send it to Montreal I think it is happening soon

yeah there's always there's always events in Montreal hockey wise I'll go for anything just just

tell me when tell me why and I'll be there yeah if it's a Canadians and Sabre's game on a Wednesday I'll

go this is a place I want to go as for the Hawks nothing terribly new we know that Kyle Davidson has

been extensively scouting the Kings he was actually in LA the other night for that game um

but Scott Powers wrote his update today on what he's hearing and it's the same names it is Jason

Dickinson it is Ilya McKayev that's really the only names we're seeing so I think one of those

two goes I don't think both go I still think that Dickinson is probably the most likely candidate

I think the Hawks still want to try I think the Hawks are going to do the Donato thing with McKayev

they're going to keep them around unless they're unless their doors get blown off by an offer

but now you've got some teams like Florida and like Toronto that are suddenly out so a couple

players you weren't expecting to be available are now available so it sort of saturates the

market a little bit for something that was already a buyer's market I think they hold on to McKayev

and try to negotiate with him or they let him go test the waters of free agency and say okay

let us know what you get let us know the offers and come back to us and we'll see if it's something

we can do for you right and I think what McKayev is looking for at this point is term which makes

a ton of sense because what is he 31 years old this will probably be the last long term deal he signs

yeah I mean the way he's playing this year his value is is very evident on penalty kill and

and and he's having a really good year even though you know last year you can say oh he had 20 goals

well this year I think he's become more of that like niche player that if you're trying to move

him at the deadline a team would be like this is the exact thing he's going to do on our team

for the Hawks and you can maximize trade value there he can also say I've had a 20 goal season

and I've also demonstrated that I'm really good at five on five defensively and on the PK I can

do whatever you need me to do kind of thing um yeah I mean I I with McKayev like I I feel like

if I'm the black Hawks I really I really wouldn't want to go longer term uh with him max I go

is three I give him three I would go to I would go to at max that'd be ideal to he probably doesn't

want to do that because then that means he'll be he'll be 32 basically at the beginning of next season

you don't as a player in that scenario you don't want to be up for a contract at 34 because at

that point in the NHL you're on the older side of things um so he might look for for for longer term

if I know he's said that he really likes Chicago and all that and and I think black Hawks fans

like him and if they brought him back it would be it would be well received I just think

you especially with Kyle Davidson's track record of going through this rebuild and everything

I think he's really just banking on a lot of these guys that he's brought in stepping in and

taking over the team and McKayev can can be valuable to this team but I think beyond two years

you're talking about a guy who might be taking spots or time away from those young guys that you

want to take those next steps um and if he's dead set I'm like I don't want to do two years

I want to do four or whatever if that's not going to be the case then you move him for something rather

than he walks in free agency for nothing I would I would settle on if he is hell bent on it and says

I want four but I like it here and I'll sign for three okay I can live with that and figure out

what to do with him in the final year of that deal maybe you give that extra year and you don't

give him a no movement clause or you give him a limited no movement clause or whatever it might be

and figure it out down the road um because I do think he brings a lot of value to this team and

we all saw the Frank Servali projection of the Hawks lineup next year and a lot of people

pandered but he's right he that could very much be the Hawks lineup next year of I don't have this

in order but it was like Bidard green the Rikovsky Nazar Frandel Kansarov Denato Bertuzzi

Bertuzzi Tevo and then more more and Mr. Artis mystery center Doc Slagert uh yeah up front

that's what it would look like so that's that is all kids aside from Bertuzzi Terevin and then

pretend potentially mystery center and mystery center however that might be yeah so I'm not

opposed to having a reliable veteran guy taking play up and down the lineup also what's

remember you're bringing Roman Kansarov in you still have an election off here having a Russian

speaking native even though he's not the terpious guy in the world by any means uh Ilya McKayev he

can help those guys transition to the United States and you know communicate with them on the ice

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cards we have a breaking trade oh we do believed Colton Perrico to Buffalo is going to happen

oh that's interesting. This is according to Darren Drager who's actually been on it so far with the

he's pretty good. Darren Drager is a guy. He's really pretty good. Everyone gets one wrong now

and again. Let's all remember when Ilio Sirokin was a black hawk for 12 minutes. That was a fun

that was Darren Drager. That was a really we have basketball cards we'll go rip through these fast

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a good pack. All right. 25 more likes. We get to 100 and we open the hockey pack. Yes. By the way

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cool to see the sabers. The sabers going turned this season on its head. Yeah. Good for them, man.

All they needed to do is fire their GM. Damn you black hawks legend Kevin Adams. Good

remember 17. All right. Sasha Blavare according to Ben Pope wrote it this morning. I'm not going to

read the whole thing. But here is the beginning says the black hawks want to open up forward spots

before Friday's trade deadline to make room for prospects Anton Frontel and Sasha Blavare.

He quotes Mark Eaton later in the story. Mark Eaton, as you know, is the assistant GM

to the black hawks. He says it's a cliche. I've never been a fan of. But I think in ring

ring true for Sasha. He has the style of game that could make him a better pro than actual

college player. I do think that he's ready for pro and pro is the best next step for him.

He's had a down year at BU from transferring from North Dakota to BU dealt with the shoulder

injury early in the season and never really found the the kind of mojo we are all sort of

expecting him to find. Yeah. And putting up the big numbers. I've heard this before that some

guys are just better suited for the pro game than the college game. I've heard some players are

more suited for the NHL game than the AHL game. So it very much feels like Sasha Blavare of

all at least put a couple games to the black hawks here this year. Yeah. I think this season for

him, you know, it was it was a change. It was an injury. Seems like pretty much most guys at BU

are having a bit of a down season. So they're in a bit of a transition here. It seems. So yeah,

there's a couple of different factors playing in there. But kind of like AJ Spellis where, you

know, he's not putting up monster numbers. But like everyone looks at him and says like that's

a guy that has an NHL game. I feel like Blavare has that that factor to him as well. Yes, of course,

you want to see him be able to put up better numbers than he has. But I think, you know, first round

pick expectations are that he's going to play center in the NHL and kind of figure out where he's

going to fit in. You have Bidard, you have Nasar, you have Oliver Moore, you know, you throw

Boatfair into the mix. I think you have a lot of options. That's, you know, how your top three

centers could could play out guys could move to wing, see how it goes. But his physical stature,

his style of play is a bit more physical than most of the other guys that they have in the

playing professionally right now in the forwards group. His game is predicated to be a bit more

physical. Yeah, we've seen him in college on the ice and, yes, and allegedly off,

willing to, willing to drop the gloves, willing to drop the gloves and like play physical and we

know that's got, you know, he's got a background in his family of boxing and stuff. And like,

I think that is an element to his game that this group is, this young group is missing. And that

could be something that he taps into. Now, I'm not saying you draft a first round pick to be an

enforcer. No. But it's just, it's that added edge to the game. And he has skill and he has

size. So I think I'm very interested to see once he does turn pro, how many, you know, we'll see how

many games he gets by the end of this season. If at all, who knows, but you could go on a long run.

And then next year, like, we'll see where he's at in playing in the Tom Kervers pretty likely.

See where he's at in training camp. If he goes to Rockford, it's not the end of the world.

And yeah, like, I'm excited to see this is again, another one of these guys that we've kind of

been excited about and following and, you know, feel like the part, this part of the rebuild is like

getting these guys here, getting them playing pro. Like, that's exciting. Like, let's see what the

guy can be playing professionally before we even write them off or crown him. Like, let's see him

play a few games in the pro game and see where he's at. He is six three one ninety two. As

everyone knows from the draft, he is a fan and a practitioner of boxing. And as Ben points out

here, you'll want to be you would have to sweep their conference tournament to qualify for the

NCAA tournament, which it is like you said, a down year for BU. So that seems unlikely. And if

you want to see him, you want to be you out quickly. So it's not about American getting here and

play, same with Anton Frontel. And I think Scott Powers wrote about Frontel today too and said

somewhere around March 22nd would be kind of when you can expect if it's your guy.

The playoffs goes the way everyone kind of expects it to lose their playoff play in series.

It would be yeah, around the end of March and you'll be able to see him at our takeover.

Yeah, if he's in Chicago by then, even more so reason to grab one of those final tickets for

our takeover. Yeah. And as Michael Evans points out Blover is 19 turns 20 in August. So a couple

games in Chicago with then a rock for treatment. Yeah, you see what kind of what they did with

green and more where you might have them end the year here. Play whatever many are left of the season.

You burn that first contract here. So you get the free agency more quickly and theoretically

more cheaply and then see how they do in camp. And yeah, Nazar did that. Yeah, he worked for him,

worked for him. He showed up in the he showed up at the end of his season, played a handful of

games, went to rockford for just about half a season and then moved up. Oliver Moore did that.

Ryan Green was supposed to go to rockford and then Landon Slager got the sniffles.

So they brought Ryan Green up and lo and behold, he's been probably one of the better linemates

that kind of radar has had at least this season and has played really well as a as a true rookie.

And Nick Lardis too, like this is this is his rookie year and he's started in rockford and he

did exactly what he was supposed to got an opportunity to come up to Chicago and we're all excited

to see him get back here in Chicago. Like the playing in rockford is not a it's not a bad thing.

Big return for Colton Paraco per Darren Dregor. They're getting a first round pick and

redeem Merca who is the ninth overall pick in last year's draft. Wow. So two first round pick.

Six six two eighteen defenseman, redeem Merca going to Buffalo or to St. Louis reportedly from Darren

Dregor and a first round pick. So that is a massive return. Look, Colton Paraco is worth it.

A good player. That's the Sabers going for it. What is Paraco a free agent?

Paraco. No, he's got term left, I believe. Yeah, I thought so too. Let me see here.

Oh, yeah. Paraco is signed through 29 30. Yeah, it's so you point five. I mean, that's a really

good deal on cost controlled. He's only 32. I feel like Colton Paraco has been playing for 20 years.

I mean, yeah, he's probably played 12 or 13 thousands. Like he was a really a guy that I think

if I remember correctly, was early early NHL player. Yeah. So yeah, this year and four more

for the Sabers though, that makes sense. Like that kind of return for a guy like that with that term,

like and Buffalo, like they're going all in because they're in a spot that a couple months ago,

they didn't think they'd be in and they've been waiting. They have been waiting so long to get this

to get the. They have the longest active playoff drought, right? Of at least the NHL, if not most

major sports. So this is an opportunity for them to break that and yeah, I mean, go for it.

It's really good to see. I'm excited for the Sabers. They're just kind of a team I've always

kind of enjoyed. They always seem to have a guy that I really like on their team. It was, you know,

it was when I started watching the game. It was like Pat LaFontaine, Alex McGilney. And then I

really liked Matthew Barnaby when he was a Saber. Did you like him as a blackout? He was fine

as a hawk. It was just it was your classic like let's try to get this thing going kind of a move.

And you expected more from him than he's probably able to give. But man, that's a that's a big

return. It's good to see man. We're starting to see some bigger names moved and we are a little

bit afraid that this deadline was going to be a bit of a dud because of, you know, caps going up

and everything. But the other reason with this with the Sabers is it doesn't feel like Alex

Tuck is kind of an unoffence about like, do I want to sign here long term? Every year Alex Tuck's

name comes up in trade rumors like every single year. Yeah, but it's crazy. Well, they they

haven't signed them yet. And I think part of his hesitance to sign is what's this going to look

like? Right? Like, am I going to am I going to sign eight year deal to stay here? If we're just

going to be the same old Sabers year after year after year. So a move like this sends a message

to him of saying, Hey man, look, we're serious. We're not we're not messing around here. We're trying

to we're trying to win. We're trying to be good. He makes 4.75 million now. He's a UFA after the

season. Alex Tuck if he hits for agency is going to make a fortune. But hopefully the Sabers can

find a way to keep them and make them happy. But this is a this is a good move for them. I'm happy

to see kind of different teams getting active and going for it. Mm hmm. I think I think it's good

for the game to have some different instead of the Panthers again and the same old same old. Speaking

of you've got some new teams in the in the mix. Speaking of the Panthers, I know you mentioned that

they were kind of tanking it. That first round pick top 10 protective. Right now they'd be picking

9th. Yeah. So I would I would start if we're rooting for the Panthers to get a couple wins that

they're not supposed to. Yeah, I that's going to be rough. But hey, who knows what they're going to look

like next year? It depends on how much they're selling off. But we'll see. Are they just on the

downs? Like this one thing I was thinking about this walking over to leaders today. They invested

a lot in Martian and then it and they got Jones and they who else did they bring back Ecclid?

Ecclid too. And you know, you got Kachuk there and Brian Hart like you've you've locked in that

core of your team. I don't really think there's any rebuild on the horizon. Like that team is

they got to figure it out. And and not have I will say if they had barcov all year, they wouldn't

be in the spot. Of course, but that's a big off ski. What are they doing in goal? Maybe they'll

sign one in the off season? No, it gives these back. He's on Spencer night. Yeah, I don't know.

They'll figure it out. They'll they'll have yeah, they'll somehow figure it out. They'll trade for

somebody and then they'll be really good. They'll get your chest turken somehow.

Well, you can't watch it be a little run for swap. And he be and he be and he be he leads them

back to the playoffs. Yeah, you watch. We'll see. All right, we got about 13 minutes going to show.

Hit that like button. If you're not done yet, we've got over 100. We're doing the hockey cards here

before we get to hockey cards. The black hockey locker room pole, which was delightful for all of us.

Get that sound effect. All right, this is also from 1990. Score hockey cards.

Two years before my peak. Patrick Wa of the Montreal Canadians on the cover of this pack.

All right, first up, Brian Bellows. I'm Brian Bellows.

You're an all-star Bellows.

Esa Teaconin. Here you go.

Boiler Teaconin or is it Ranger? Boiler. Boiler Esa Teaconin.

It's Ronald Maybelief, Goldtender, Ellen Bester, good, better Bester, Mike Ridley.

Believe it or not. Oh, here you go. First round draft pick, 1990, Chicago Blackhawks.

Can you guess who it is? Oh, 1990, 1990. First round draft pick,

defenseman. This guy, you say his last name, I'm not going to say Carl Dijkhaus.

Carl Dijkhaus, there you go. I was not sure how to say that.

It's like it's spelled. First round pick, 1990, Drake Berahowski of the Montreal or

Toronto Maple Leafs. I wonder if he's related to Andre Berahowski. It's

Berahowski. It's spelled in French names differently. First round draft pick of the Hartford

Whalers, Mark Gregg. There you go, Mark Gregg. Steve Iserman of the,

yes, Steve Iserman of the Detroit Red Wings, aforementioned Pat Lafontaine of the New York

Islanders. Who's this? Bob Erie of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Good player, long time.

That's a landscape card. Brian Trottier of the New York Islanders, 1990.

Grant Führer of the Edmonton Oilers. Jeff Kortnall of the Washington Capitals, who could

forget? Pud. Randy Carlisle of the Winnipeg Jets and NHL Coach. And finally, Neil Rotten of

the Minnesota North Star. He hated Minnesota North Star. So not a great Black Hawks

representation in this pack, but some good names, some old famous in here.

I do have some breaking sports news and it's not hockey related, but I do feel like it will

apply to some of our listeners and the Xfinity a big takeaway. I guess we'll make this the

Xfinity a big takeaway because I don't really have anything else that would fit in that in that

hole right now. So we're going to tell you about that. In a second, as I pull the read up,

sorry, Chloe. Xfinity and I wasn't ready. Get their Wi-Fi for five years at the same price.

Oh, it's easy. This is the big takeaway. There you go. Presented by Xfinity. Imagine that.

Legendary Notre Dame head coach Lou Holtz has died. Oh, for me, for those that don't know

why I'm a Notre Dame fan, I grew up watching Notre Dame football with my grandfather,

who was my absolute hero. And my grandfather's absolute hero was Lou Holtz. That was his favorite guy

all the time. And when I grew up watching Notre Dame football, Lou Holtz was at the very

heart of it. So that's a massive loss to Notre Dame fans, a huge name, an icon in South Bend and

in college football, really. I know he'd been ill recently, but Lou Holtz has passed away.

At the age of 89 in Orlando. I'm bummer. I'm sad. Yeah. Yeah, Lou Holtz was a guy that when I

was coming up through liking sports as a kid and watching sports on TV, he was one of the college

football analysts. That was like the guy that I was watching and got to learn then more as I

learned more about sports, learned about him being a coach and coaching at Notre Dame and the

success and respect that he had gained there. And yeah, there's definitely a figure within the

football community that if you are even in there just casually, you've probably seen or heard of

Lou Holtz at some point. And he was a huge, huge help for Marcus Freeman. When he made the

jump to head coach, he was right there by a side to sort of help him through it. And, you know,

because I was unexpected when Brian Kelly was like, see ya, I'm leaving for LSU and everyone's

like, okay, see you later, but worked out for Notre Dame, not so much for LSU.

No, but Lou Holtz was a guiding hand for Marcus Freeman in his early time in Notre Dame. So

rest in peace to a legend. That was the Xfinity big takeaway. I didn't know what the news was.

That's okay. You know, Lou Holtz has been over my Xfinity subscription for years and years and

years. Yeah, it's always during your foot. Oh, yeah, you stepped in some silly string.

It's a way better area. We're good. Yeah. All right. So we get to this list here.

The black hole. Let's bring the vibes back upwards. Yes. This is kind of funny. And if you want

to read the whole, we're not going to do the whole thing. We'll do some select ones.

Scott Powers and Mark Lazarus collaborated on this for the athletic, going through a list of

pulling locker-room players. Not everybody was pulled in every category. So it's not even numbers

in all these, but I found this funny. Most superstitious Ryan Denado by a mile, 17 votes.

Counter-bredard got two Spencer and I got one. And Denado a little bit salty about it.

Says, I'm going to guess and say 99% of the guy says me said me. Sorry, I like to say a couple

prayers before games. I'm sure there's more to it than him just saying prayers. Yes. Probably. Yeah.

It's funny. So I'll do the last off the ice from warm-ups. Yeah. It's usually counter-bredard,

but when counter-bredard's not there and Ryan Denado is, it's Ryan Denado. And a couple of times,

Denado has been off after Bredard when they've both been on the ice. I talked to both of them

earlier this season about it. And Bredard was just like, yeah, I try. I try not. Everyone thinks

I'm really superstitious. So I really try not to worry about things like that anymore because it

kind of feels like I'm taking myself out of games if something's not going well. So I feel like

I'm doing less before games. When he's gotten to the league, it was like, oh, no one can touch

kind of Bredard's stick and all this stuff. So it feels like over the three seasons, he's kind of

gotten that rep less about being superstitious. But I asked, I was just like, do either of you care

who's last off the ice? And Bredard's like, I don't really care. Ryan probably does care, but I don't

care. So yeah, it's, it was interesting to see that result then in the player pool.

I think Bredard downplays it a little bit too.

Every, I feel like every high player is a little bit like no, no, it's not a big deal to me,

but hang on, let me throw my stick to the trainer, spin three times, get my stick back and then

make a circle and go back on the bench. Sydney Crosby has to stick handle on the McDonald's logo.

What do they lose that sponsorship? I think they've kept it because of Crosby.

Keep that you get like the hood. There's like a guy that's got to like go around the o's.

Yes, the owl eyes, the allies. Yes, that's what they are. Best dressed, this one was interesting to me.

Grizzly can night get four votes each. Felino gets three. Then Crosbyard gets two and Tyler

Bertuzzi gets two. Tyler Bertuzzi looks to me as if he just got done fishing. Well, you'll scroll

down and see worst dressed. Eight votes is Tyler Bertuzzi. Look, since they lifted the dress code,

some guys have still like going out with their suits. It's nice to look like you're going to

business in a nice suit and you got the money for it. Some guys like to do that. Some guys just like

wear sweatpants in a t-shirt, show up with their beanie and just walk in and play hockey. Yeah,

Tyler Bertuzzi likes to walk in with his half-buttoned-up flannel, his bush-late hat,

his work boots, and I'm sure a tin of skull or something in his back pocket.

Zinn, those are called Zinn's. Those are things too, yeah. He is definitely

taken advantage of the NHL laxine their dress code. Here's why he gets my vote because he is being

himself as best. He's just like, hmm, it's great. This is who I am. This is what I wear.

Love me or hate me. I like that. I like that about him. He's not trying to be something he's not.

So good for him. Nick Felino said it's just ugly. I don't want to say what I want to say because

it will probably be offensive, but it's just ugly regarding Bertuzzi's rugged casual dress.

Rugged casual. I like that. Frank Nasar was second in votes for worst dressed. That's interesting.

That is interesting. Elliott Friedman, by the way, hearing Utah and Calgary are closing in,

I know Mackenzie Weyardeele, that awaits his approval. And Frank Servali is saying that

Paraco has to decide whether or not to wave his no-movement clause before he goes to Buffalo. So

that is not done yet. It's up to Paraco to say, yes, I want to go. Okay. So there's that. All

right. Next we have most likely to be a future coach. No surprise here whatsoever. Nick Felino

with 12 votes. Conor Murphy got three. Slager got two. Dickinson Moore and Vlasik all with one.

Felino also was most likely to be a future GM with eight votes. Conor Bedard tied with Jason Dickinson

for four. I could see both those guys in management roles for sure. I think Felino,

Felino to me is more coachy, more hands-on, more, you know, more verbal, more involved in a day

today. I think that stuff energizes him. I think Dickinson and Bedard would do well behind the scenes.

They're both very analytical. Bedard in its mentionist article was like kind of like just a

huge hockey dork kind of knows all the stats knows everything going on. Aren't we all? No, I mean,

I mean, that in a good way though. Like he's just Patrick came was the same way. And I

a lot of people think Patrick came when he retired. We'll have a front office role somewhere

because he's just so up on the league. And you know, as we were telling you last season before,

you know, Bedard made this big turn in his crew. He stopped worrying about him because his whole

life is hockey. That's all he cares about. Yeah, that's it. That's all he cares about is hockey. And

you see it there. So I could definitely see him and Dickinson as GM's. But Felino to me is

more of a coach than a GM. Felino also most likely to be a future broadcaster. The top two votes,

friends of the program, you're well, you know, and Alex Flasser. Yes, you guys are welcome.

That's a good one. This one, this one made me laugh. Who doesn't get enough credit for their

role on this team? The far and away winner was Ilya McKayev. But all the way down with one vote,

Sam Lafferty. People love Sam Lafferty, man. He does not get enough credit for how much popcorn he

is eating in the press box that he is. He is he's helping the stock. Sam Lafferty is. I mean,

like, like, I will say jokes aside. He played 19 games with the hocks this year. That seems really

high this year. Yes. That seems really high. I was going to get single digits. Yeah, you could have

fooled me. I mean, look, jokes aside, though, to be a guy who, you know, has played upwards of 60,

70, 80 games in seasons the last few years to come here, be on a team that's in the lottery,

and you're not ever in the lineup, except for 19 times, apparently. Like, he could easily, you know,

complain and grumble and be upset about it. But he, by all accounts, he hasn't done that. So,

yeah, credit for him being able to kind of like swallow that role and, you know, move forward with

it. Yeah. And he also got best pure athlete on the team. And they always talk about how tremendous

of a golfer he is. He could play defenseman, too. We've seen it apparently. Yeah. Let's do one more

before we go. Most obnoxious in the group chat. Nick Filino gets 14 votes. Bertuzzi Burikowski,

Murphy and A's are each get one. I can see like, is Filino like the dad in the group like

sending holdings? Yeah. Using too many emojis. He's got to be. What is he? What emoji did you tell me

that only old people use yesterday, Chloe? The Sunglasses guy? That's one of my favorites. So

confirmed. Yeah, the Sunglasses emoji is very versatile. That means I'm cool and fun. Cool or

it's sunny out or I'm, you know, at a funeral, wearing sunglasses. You do a lot with it. Yeah.

We are in overtime. If you want to switch over to lchio.com for the last few minutes here.

But yeah, make sure you check out the entire article. We don't want to give away their great work

over at the athletic. So check that out. Scott Powers and Mark Lazarus collabed on that.

Really good stuff. Always funny. Always creative. Looking for more moves here before we move on.

Looks like that's about it. Nothing yet. Yes. We waiting for Perrico to agree to go to Buffalo and

waiting for. We're we're to approve the trade to Utah. I would imagine these both go through.

Yeah, probably. Anything. Yeah. I think so. All right, want to remind you one more time.

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