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"For $20 off your first purchase. In terms of play, and now enjoy the great one, number 99, mister Wayne Gretzky. Guys, we did it. We got the white whale. We gonna be tied them down, we have them hostage here at the four seasons in our room, but on a serious note when you're so generous with your time, it's been a pleasure working with you at TNT. And obviously I also got to thank these guys because without the spit and checklist podcast, I probably don't even get the chance to get to meet you and now work with you. Folks, the great one. And normally we start outweighing by listing all the accomplishments, but I think that would waste about half of our time here. We get to we only got an hour. The way it's going will be one lesson about a year and a half. We could. So thank you so much for joining us. And the way we do it here on the spit and chick was podcasts is we usually start out all the way at the beginning and how this wonderful career of yours started out and came to be. Oh my gosh, well, first of all, it's a pleasure to be here. I'm not great in social media, I'm just sort of finding my way, but my kids have been watching you guys forever. So that's all I hear at home is the spitting chick clit. So from their point of view, this is a great honor for all of us to be part of it. So I'm excited. For me, you know, I was like, everybody else in Canada, you know? It's one of those things we all started to grow up with a hockey stick in her hand and a pair of skates and, you know, you start playing because you love it and that was no different than any other kid that was in Canada who loved the game. And I started playing a young age, I got a pair of skates from my uncle that were hand me downs and didn't look back and the greatest game in the world and I was lucky enough to have a great passion for it. At what age were you on the pond in the backyard? Was that the first time you ever skate out? Two and a half, but it wasn't in my backyard. It was actually, there was a river that went through my grand folks house in just outside of brantford air Ontario, and it went through their backyard, the nith river, and it would freeze, and that's where I first started skating, but we only went there on weekends because my dad worked at bell telephone 8 to 5. So it was Saturday, Sundays I would skate all day. And then my dad started taking him to these local parks that had outside rings. And then as my dad says out of necessity, he built a rink in the backyard so he could stay inside the house and watch me through the kitchen window so he wouldn't freeze at the time. So both the age of four, four and a half, 5, my dad started building a rink in the backyard. I always get a kick because my mom used to say the early December and my dad would say, Phyllis, you got to go over to wilco. You got to go get me a sprinkler head, and my mom would say, you're going to go get your own sprinkler head. They're going to think I'm a complete idiot. Asking for a sprinkler head in the middle of the winter. So they used to wait for my dad and December they'd always hold one back for him because he knew he was coming in around early December so at night he would just turn the sprinkler on and go back and forth and that's how he built the ice rink. And I got one quote here. It's not God given its Wally given. I'm sure, without your old man, none of this came off. No. It was so special. Loved hockey, loved kids. He had two minor hockey tournaments in my hometown, boys and girls. And there would be three days long, I guess, and he would go there, and he would sit in the arena from 8 o'clock in the morning till 8 o'clock at night. I went home a few years ago when he was sick, and I went to see him, and it was just after Christmas. And I said, look, I'll go to the rink today. I'll go handle your chores. And he just, he was so sick, he couldn't leave the house. And so I went over the arena and oh my goodness, they said to my brothers, they said, dad did this ten hours a day. I said, I'm here an hour. I've had enough. It was so funny because as I walked into the arena, this coach, like a 7 year old team, he goes, hey, mister Gretzky, you talked to my team before the game. I said, no, I'm the wrong guy. He goes, no, no, no, just go in there and say whatever you want. And I said, trust me, I'm the wrong guy for you to speak to your 7 year olds. I'll get a picture. Say a few words, whatever you want, and I said, okay, so I went in there and I said, welcome to brantford and it's a great city. You're going to love this tournament. And I said, and remember, you're 7. It doesn't matter if you win or lose it's how many goals you get. It's like a coach looked at me and I said, I told you. I'm the wrong guy. It's 7 years old. Just go have fun who cares if you win or lose and I remember we always we had good teams in Bradford. We had guys that Greg Stefan who played in the NHL, Jimmy Burton was up and down, land hack born, for a little town of 60,000 people and we'd always play oshawa in the finals of tournaments and voluntarios. And we could never beat them. They were a better team. They were bigger, they had more kids to draw from. I think Australia was like 250,000 people. I remember one day it was like 11 years old was driving home after a game and we lost game 5 and in the finals and I said to my dad, I said, I just don't understand it. We can't beat that team. He goes, that's the best coach hockey team I've ever seen for 11. They play their positions well. And he said, I'll never forget. He said, but there won't be one kid on that team that ever makes junior a hockey, let alone the NHL, because they have no imagination and no creativity. And years later, 5 of us were playing major a and I remember looking at my dad going, how would he know that when we were all 11 years old? But he had a feel for the game and he just said, you got to be creative. You got to go out there and be your own person, especially ten, 11, 12. So they were playing systems instead of just going out there and having fun. And the thing I read about your dad is just how important he was in terms of you learning the skill of thinking the game. Like the old story of he threw it in the corner and he'd show you where to go where it was going to end up being. Is that kind of how you remember it? Yeah, and he'd say it's like a pool table, you know, when you hit the white ball and you know the angles and you got to play angles and be creative and get ahead of where the puck's going to be, not where it's been..
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"mister gretzky" Discussed on Spittin' Chiclets
"Yeah. It's sniper. It was amazing. We used to call them teen wolf. Teen wolf would get mad and they would just dominate the basketball game? Like someone here take the puck from Thomas? And it was game over. You're not touching that puck again. I remember the because Brian yandere one of my closest friends was on UNH. I think you beat him in the finals or the vanic put on a clinic. Yeah. That whole frozen four was the Thomas vanish show. I think it was amazing. It was Sean Collins on that UNH team. He was one of the best. I don't know what you wrote called chalky, but he said when Thomas fanning turned it on, it was just it was not even close. I think he had 30 one goals that year as a freshman. And that's just unheard of in college hockey. Yes. Maybe Paul Korea and him. Well, and then Michael now too. Michael had a crazy freshman year. Yeah, it's not overly common. No. No, Thomas was outstanding. 60 some points as a freshman. So the next year I can call it. So obviously you guys went that first year. How many guys you lose and then you guys are still able to repeat, we lost our leading scorer Johnny poll. We lost Leopold. We lost a ton of good seniors. Jeff taif signed early, ended up getting Thomas van aek and I was just kind of next guy up. Great leadership still with Paul Martin. Grandpa told me those type of guys, Troy riddle, who's merle's on the whole, one of the most underrated college hockey players of all time. Yeah, a little just waterbug flying around at all times. Yeah. Well, other than the leadership, was there like one guy in particular that really took you under his wing when you got there to make you more comfortable and that step? No, I think it was all by a committee. It was committee. Yeah. Yeah. I think for me, I always liked when I first got there, just watching Jordan and Paul, because they knew how good they were. And I kind of want to be like those guys. So what do they do? How do they practice? That type of thing. Just good habits. Yep. Nonstop every day. Yep. Like, what persuaded you to go pro is of the U.S.? I want to take that one over all right. Try to get a try again. What persuaded you to go pro is the yosh talking to you was a time like did you have any consideration notes were gradually? They needed something. How did you end up end up? I thought you were drafted by the buffalo. What was that trade? Yeah, there was a few pit stops before that. I went from buffalo, get traded to Colorado. And then I got traded to Phoenix, where these are the drafts. You were still I was the draft. I want to say or just after the draft at one point, you're like calling out deadline trade, like the and a prospect guy. You're like, why do I keep getting traded? I've won two national 10 million shares. I'm not sure what an NHL team to keep me at Fox. I'm not sure if I'm wrong yet, but it worked out well. No, I think going to world championships after my junior year of college, I went there and there was guys like Chris drury Mike grier, those type of guys. There I played a bit. I played some games I played very little. Some games I played more, whatever. But I felt like I'm not that far off. I can play this game at this speed. And the lockout was coming, so nobody knew what was going to happen with the entry level deals, and if we're going to get rolled back and any of that, so I thought I'd give it a run. So I guess skipping over kind of an unmemorable year in Utah, right? You said the team was brutal. The next year you get to the end. It was great for those memories. They're awesome guys there. A lot of HL legends. Terry virtue. Terry voice. Oh my God. No, so a lot of really awesome, really awesome experiences. Just not. You come from winning cultures, and then that, and it's just like, get me out of here. I gotta get to the NHL. I just want to yeah, I just felt like I needed something different. I got to bring it up now. So we're freshman in college together. We're rookies in the NHL together. We pretty much followed the same path. And then I remember rookie year watching one of the greatest goals ever scored. By alexandro Ovechkin, you were on the ice for that, weren't you? No. Those Palmyra. I'm sorry. Those Boston calls. I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah. Now, Rick Nash, that one. I was on the ice for that one. That was me and Derek Morris. Oh no. The highland really were a part of. We had just tied it right before that goal too. Those next shift. Yeah. So when you stepped in the league, was weighing your first NHL head coach? Yeah. I mean, yeah, I guess go into it. Tell them the story. You just showed us that picture. Oh, yes. But I'll touch on biz real quick first. It took a long time to just get comfortable talking to him. I mean, it's hard enough as a rookie to talk to your coach, right? But then your coach is the greatest hockey player of all time. So it was always like coach or mister Gretzky or it took a couple of years just to get over the point that get over the fact that Wayne Gretzky was around every single day and he's coaching you. So no other picture I just showed wit and merle's..
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"mister gretzky" Discussed on Spittin' Chiclets
"With all the jewelry talk, I thought you were going to mention Tampa Bay in their new rings. They get the rings. We'll get to them a little bit later though. You got my hopes up to talk about fallout boy who had that concert that they had little private concert. But let's talk about the leaps. Before we get to mister negative wit, two, three and one out of the gate outs good 19 to 12 Mitch mono just one system in the first 6 games, lost the Matthews no points in the first three games. I know we obviously fixed that in the fourth game, but that first game versus the rangers when he came back, I know that was an insane game. The range is one two one Panera's own T go. I know mister Gretzky himself had an OT proposal you wanted to mention on the show. Yeah, unreal three on three. Matthews actually had almost ended up scoring. Was it sherkin in that when he ended up coming out and challenged him and true what made a great play on the puck, but those are the types of three on threes that you want the last ten minutes long. And I still think that the league should consider extending the three on three over time to ten minutes. I think David amber mentioned it online. As of right now, they say the PA just based on the safety of the players. Because usually the guy's playing three and three are the guys who have already lugged 22 minutes of ice time. And then as far as some D, maybe in the 28 minute range, so you don't want to play an even longer getting into different cities later. But I digress, what Wayne was saying is a lot of the times of these three on three is you're getting teams, even if they have possession in the offensive zone. Sometimes they'll bring the puck back to ragged. In order to reset, maybe get a few fresh players off. He said, once you cross center with it, you shouldn't be able to bring it back outside center ice. You could bring it back outside the zone, but not go past center. So you're not having these guys rag the puck and kill a lot of the three on three time. And he thinks that it'll increase the place the pace kind of like in basketball where you can't go over and back. I thought it was a nice little small proposal in order to make the pace pick up and not waste as much of the minimal three on three time that we have. Do you agree with that? Would you like to see the fact that you can't bring it back across center ice? Maybe let's say this when you get it full possession in the offensive zone. I'm trying to picture what it would look like. I don't know. I understand how when they do throw it back to the goal to really take it out of the office of zone to reset, maybe get some new guys in there and hopefully catch the other three tired, not allow them to change. But a lot of times they're going back and they kind of wheel it right back up. I think what ends up being an issue sometimes is when it's three on three and it's man on man in the office of zone that's just really nothing going on. That's when it's like most boring. I feel like because once you start getting the rushes back and forth, it's great. That over time was one of the best three on three over times I've ever seen. The other night rangers Toronto. I actually thought that game, it was Matthew's first game back. He could have had 8 goals. He was a force. But I guess I see what the great ones talking about. It's more about like it would just be weird off the hop seeing how it would go 'cause guys would still taking out of the zone but it would be harder to get the change. You couldn't throw it back to the goalie. I don't know. I don't know how I feel about that. I gotta think about it a little bit longer. Okay, so going back to the leaf, as far as they're playing, they're two, three and one. No need to. They just always a game over now. Well, three minutes after down through one, they stink. I guess I'm not wearing that puck line bet for fuck's sake. Shannon, I want my hundred bucks back. Before this game, they were leading the league in scoring chances, slot shots, cycle chances and rebound chances. And this comes from Mike Kelly, who's a big analytic guy. They're getting the cracks. Mariner is in a massive rut. I was listening to the 32 thoughts podcast and Elliott seemed to think that the noise, especially in the playoff time, definitely affects marner and it build it up. Especially through the run as game 7, like the series prolonged and went the game 7 excuse me. I don't know if that's carried over, but you listen to Morgan Morgan Riley speak or anyone that locker room, they say, despite the struggles that these guys have offensively, the attitude that they bring to the rink every day and their desire to get better and to want to win, that doesn't change. They don't shrug their shoulders or whatever it may be. That's why I have confidence in this team. We knew there was going to be some question marks coming in with the fact that they had to replace hymen. They did so by doing it with cheaper players like bunting. I don't know if necessarily the Richie experiments worked out. That was your boy though. Listen, I said he had a good preseason and the fact that he looked like he could step into that role. Do I put a lot of stock and preseason? No, but I was fucking hopeful. Because I'm a pessimist or no an optic. What is it? Shut up, wit, optimist. I'm not thank you, granelli. I'm an optimist. And I still think this team could fucking figure it out. They're going to make playoffs. I know that. I bet my dick on it. They're gonna figure out the offense. I just showed you all those analytical things that they've been doing properly. The puck's gonna find the back of the net. Mitch marner's still gonna end up getting, you know, 60, 70 points, and he's gonna heat up once he gets out of this rut. Everybody goes through it at some point in their career. Austin Matthews, we know he's going to get his scoring chances. He just potted his first this season. He's gonna get going. Everybody's bitching about Tavares looks slow to theirs look so you think he fucking cares about the first ten, 15 games this season, knowing this is a playoff team? No, he's gonna get the bus warmed up. He's gonna find his hot streak. The D's gonna get rolling. They're gonna get the goaltending they need for a fan to throw a Jersey on the ice when your team is two, three and one. You need a fucking brain transplant. Someone's trying to go viral or something because like come on. Two, three and one getting a.