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WGN Radio
"thatcher demko" Discussed on WGN Radio
"Jason Dickinson 58% from the face off circle tonight and yet it's been such an interesting ride with Jason Dickinson's entire NHL career because he did so well in Dallas didn't do so well in Vancouver and then comes over here to the hawks and his fit in very well, and I think that's another nod to Luke Richardson's ability. He can take these guys that need a scene change the need to be implemented a little bit differently and he pulls out the best in them. You know, that's kind of an actually, it's an interesting topic. Because so often we've praised Kyle Davidson for that who does still deserve a lot of the credit for guys like Sam lafferty, Jason Dickinson, Jared to norty, is pulling these guys out of situations that they weren't the situations that weren't favorable for them. And it's almost like a diamond in the rough type situation, even though it's not that rare. But they come over here and all of a sudden there are these very valuable players. Now, is that more of a Kyle Davidson scouting eye or is that a Luke Richardson ability to pull out the best in these players? I know lafferty was here last year. And he got off to a great start the moment he became a Black Hawk under Derek king. But that's interesting. I'd like to see more examples of it because I guess you won't know, you won't know the answer to that until you pull out one of the variables, but as of right now, I don't think there's any reason to doubt Kyle Davidson scouting ability, or Luke Richardson's coaching ability, with the small sample size that we've received, I don't see any reason to doubt that just yet. Let's hear how it sounded from Rogers arena. Again, the Blackhawks are the very good first period one. I think they outplayed the Vancouver Canucks with. There was a power play opportunity for the hawks. That's when boriska chuck got denied by Thatcher demko, a huge left leg pad save denying the Blackhawks have taken the lead and then later on, Vancouver was able to score the first goal. This deflects
WGN Radio
"thatcher demko" Discussed on WGN Radio
"At all in the Blackhawks, postgame show. The business is done with the Vancouver Canucks. They sweep the season series winning all three games the last one by shutout. Thatcher demko stopping all 33 Blackhawk shots for the win. For everybody I mentioned I'm John whiteman from the Rogers arena here in Dan Cooper. Thanks for tuning in. This has been Blackhawks hockey on 7 20 WGN. Joe's got your postgame show. Let's get it to him right now. It's time for the Chicago Blackhawks postgame show on the Blackhawks radio network. Here's Joe brand. Not the result that the black clocks deserved. But it is a three zero shutout victory for the Vancouver Canucks Vancouver ends up sweeping the Blackhawks in the season series and taking this one from Rogers arena with the loss. The locks now fall to 25 47 and 6 on the year Vancouver improves to 35 36 and 7. I'm Joe brand this is the Blackhawks postgame show we're taking you up till 1230 tonight or tomorrow morning however you want to look at it and I say welcome in night owls. If you'd like to join us three one two 91 7200 give us a call, give us a text, but first we're gonna head back over to Vancouver and bring in Troy Murray briefly to break down this game a little bit more. Troy, this was another solid third period played by this hawks team. Another good effort towards the final horn, but none showing it offensively tonight, but definitely not because of the Blackhawks lack of effort
The Ray & Dregs Hockey Podcast
"thatcher demko" Discussed on The Ray & Dregs Hockey Podcast
"And all that stuff. And then Carlyle's coaching, he probably knew at that time something was going to happen. And he gets fired and Bruce comes in the next day. So I thought, honestly, I thought Bruce did the best he could with was a crappy spot. It really was. I wish it would have been cleaner. I think a lot of people wish it would have been quicker and cleaner, but that was explained as best as possible or as best as they wanted to explain it. And Bruce is going to do the interviews. He's going to do. And explain what he's going to explain. And I heard his interview yesterday and he was with Mike, who is a terrific reporter. And he's like, look, I'm not going to talk about what happened. I'm not going to throw stones anywhere. Like he walks away and we'll see Bruce on TV near us soon. I mean, whether wherever it's going to be, whoever it's going to be with, he will stay in the game he loves. Well, again, I want your thoughts on talking on foot on gone char and what you see moving forward as a coaching staff there. But one more on boudreaux because the article that I read this morning NHL dot com. You know, he identifies goaltending in this piece as their biggest issue. It says, look, Thatcher demko in his own recollection would say that early on, he struggled. And then he got hurt. And Bruce isn't wrong. You know, normally when you see good teams and the coach is getting a ton of credit. Well, there's a lot of things that factor into that and almost always a higher level of goaltending. Sure. It's part of that winning formula. So I think he's fair. And I think he's accurate in saying that. Wouldn't you agree? Yes. But last year when they went on that run after Bruce was hired, demko was stopping the puck. I think 94% of the time. If that's the goaltending you need to win, then there's other problems. Right? Because it's just not, it's not a sustainable sustainable. And Andre vasilevskiy or two of the very best. Was 93 and a half .935 last year. And he's not this year. Because you just can't. It's too hard. If I'm looking at that team, clearly Thatcher demko start and injury is not been a good thing. Their goaltending plummeted, the quality to Spencer Martin and Colin Delia, but Spencer Martin was signed as a backup. Now you've got to play all the time and it never works. It just doesn't. The way they defend is about personnel, which isn't good enough, and they know it's not. And they're going to have to try and change it in the next 8 weeks, right? I think that's pretty clear. The second part is, man, they give up chances from dead center way too much. And some of that goes to the way they structure their diesel or don't structure it. And so there's two sides to this. There's the human side, which I think everybody agrees should have been handled maybe a little cleaner, a little quicker. And then there's the hockey side. Which, from the red line back, is a mass. And I think both are fair. So that's the part that he's got to wear a little bit. It can't always be somebody else's fault. All right, so when we, when we look at the coaching staff, Rick talk and obviously head coach, you've got Adam foot, you've got Sergey gonchar coming in. I know two of these three guys, very, very well. I don't know gone char as well. Communication is never going to be an issue with this trio. But I'm not sure what to expect. Again, the low hanging fruit from some was to go after pockets, coaching record to this point. You know what I mean? NHL head coaching career. Well. Sure. You know, I'm sure you'll support this. You didn't have a whole lot of help when Arizona and probably at less help in Tampa Bay when he was there because the taffy lightning were going through some ownership issues and that's putting it mildly. So I mean, I'm curious to see how this all comes together. You know, just based on the personalities, right? But talk it has had a long time to have his conversations with gonchar who you know well from the Pittsburgh days. Likely Adam foote as well. So he obviously feels a connection and a comfort level to bring those two guys along with them to try and get the retool started in Vancouver. Well, for sure. I mean, what coach brings in a guy he doesn't know, or doesn't feel comfortable with. I mean, every coach that is allowed to pick his staff is going to go to people that he knows Pete Deborah has brought Steve spot with them everywhere they go. You get one, you get the other. And that's because Pete's comfortable with Steve's knowledge and with Steve's support and knowing that his message is going to be supported. So I mean, I don't know this, but I'm just assuming that Rick talk has that comfort with Sergei gonchar and Adam foote. If people want a little bit of a window into what both target and foot or like, I didn't even know how long ago he was the coach in Tampa Rick. I mean, 15 years or 12 years, whatever it was 12 years, I guess. Stamkos was just a kid, as I recall, and then Adam foote. The point is both of them have been on our podcast. And so if you listen, go back in the archives, you'll get a little bit of a window in what those guys are like in their view of coaching. And both of them, I know, you know them better than me. I was surprised with both when we hung up about how much they talked about communication about getting your message clearly to the players. So I read an article on the report yesterday reporting on the practice yesterday the first one. And so they've got on the ice there was talk it gone char foot Jason king and Mike yo. And Ian Clark, the goalie coach, but I never count the goalie coaches because they only talked to two players anyway. Then with 15 minutes left in practice, the sedans came on the ice for development work after practice with the players. So if you're wondering if there's going to be a staff that touches touch points, each of the players that will that will be the case. It was not the case. No. Prior. So this will be a different staff and a different approach. Will it make them better? I don't know. I mean, there's still the same personnel that they've talked about not being good enough that gets them into the retool. And so until that personnel changes, you can only get so much better. I'll be shocked if they don't become a tighter team. Like I'll be really surprised. If they don't become a tighter defensive team. Well, and look, we'll move on to Daryl Sutter and the Calgary flames here momentarily, but I again like the honesty from talking in his media availability, even to the point of openly discussing conversation, he quickly had with GT Miller. And how JT Miller expressed to him. I know there are areas that I've got to get better. And that's not just as a hockey player. You know, JT Miller owns his abrasiveness and the emotional side of his approach. And without saying so, that was my read from talking. But in a positive way, right? Here's a guy I can work with because we can see that he's a hell of a hockey player, but he's also expressed, there's some parts of how I approach the game. Maybe how I deal with my teammates, that definitely needs some Polish. And he was asking for help. That was my
Spittin' Chiclets
"thatcher demko" Discussed on Spittin' Chiclets
"All right, boys, we got some other notes here too. The Chicago Blackhawks announced that Bobby hell will no longer be a team ambassador for the team. They said they were redefining the role and it was a mutual agreement earlier in the season between the player and them. He had been named back to the post in 2008 along with Stan Mikita and Tony esposito, both of those guys have since passed away. You know, the team had been frequently criticized during that time for having them on his history of the ugly domestic violence allegations as well as him being attributed to making some pretty awful statements, but I think after what's gone in Chicago lately, it was the obvious move to just not bring this guy back. Also, great news though. We heard avalanche TV in a list and one of my favorite plays is a little kid Peter McNabb. He said his cancer is in remission. One of the well liked guys in the league, everybody raves about them and so PETA so happy to hear that happy to hear you well and he didn't even leave the booth he was still working while he was getting treatment so kudos to him for grinding out and gritting it out, but great news to hear about Peter McNabb. We got a what do we call him GM Michigan? When a guy finished a song, merrimac's Ben braff, it was on Apollo play, too, so it was obviously a set play. Fake the Michigan talk about taking a play to make I'm taking a hit to make a play got absolutely buried Liam Walsh was the one who got buried, but also played. You guys seen it, and any chime in here. It was a great set play. Oh, you've seen it before. Well, I don't know if it's been not that style, right? Well, sort of. I mean, basically, I mean, I've seen the setup of where everyone thinks that Michigan goal is going to happen. And now you have so many different options coming out of it. That one was sick, but I mean, more than anything, everyone's trying, all right, well, teams are kind of looking out for the Michigan. Let's now get a guy flying in front of them, pick the puck up and it is certainly changed the way teams are playing down low and you have a guy that's that good with his hands and able to do it. You open up different options. So team's got to figure out how to defend against it. I mean, I'm sure the NHL teams are talking about making sure it doesn't happen again because it's embarrassing when a goal gets scored like that too. Yeah, they were getting a little Jersey pop tools. It was a pretty good clip there. All these kids are doing these crazy. We're going to start seeing people doing that. What's the one that chef there was doing? The Gritty? The Gritty. Yeah. Oh man, the old man yelling at clouds are going to come out when guys start doing like dance cellies in hockey. We've been getting a lot of clips of the Gritty. We've actually posted a few of them, but the kids are all doing the Gritty. You think in the next two years we see somebody dancing after a goal in the NHL. That's two months, dude. One of these. I mean, I'm sure somebody is dance before like one time, but doing it on a regular basis to coin an on ice dance. Yeah, I'm sure, like I said, biz, old men yelling at clouds would be going crazy about it. Oh yeah. A couple of notes here. Suspended Andre Dennis skin of the UHL, the Ukrainian Hockey League for a year for his racist actions toward jail and smear it back in September. He can not play an II HF events or international competition in that time. The reason it took so long, I guess they had a disciplinary board being waved in or signed in or all that shit, so that's why it took several months to make this decision. But either way, they tossed them for a year for being a fucking idiot and doing what he did, which I guess is some good news this week. Earlier, we did mention G the Chick-fil-A cup. We got Patrick chop on the YouTube. We're going to be dropping that later. I just want to remind you about that as well. And also the other day boys was the 45th anniversary of slap shot, was Friday. I wrote a blog celebrating it on Boston sports. And that was my grind my gears. It's kind of a weird obscure one for this week, but I'm sure we've all been a hockey games and you look out and you see guys with the child style chiefs jerseys on, you know, there's usually three of them, 16, 17, and 18. Grinds my gears is when they put the name Hanson on the back of the Jersey because in the movie, there's no names in the Jersey. So like anybody who knows the joke like what you get the Jersey flawed that you don't need to put in. It's like explaining a joke after you tell it. All right, actually agree with this guy right now. For a long time, I've seen people with Red Sox home white jerseys where they do not have names on the back with names on the back for the fans and I think it's ridiculous. I'm with you. It's an absolute foolish look. And it kind of goes along with when people have current bruins jerseys with or on the back. It's like, no, no, no, he didn't wear that Jersey. It's kind of all the same thing, but I'm with you on this one, buddy. Wow, a little backing from the boys and the old GG. I don't know if I agree with wet of not having a current Jersey with or on it. I think you're being like, you should be at the games handing out tickets to all these Jersey fouls to people. Maybe do a little piece on it. But I 100% agree with the Hanson one, because if you know the Jersey, you know the Jersey. Exactly. People aren't gonna be like, oh, oh, the Hanson, you know what I mean? If I want you to see the Jersey, you get it. It's redundant to put hands on the back and it's also inaccurate because like I said, they didn't have it on the back of the fucking movie. And wait, I think they're actually was one season with the bruins did have the name on the back. They might have been one season, oh, I had it on the back, but if it's not that season, then the Jersey's inaccurate. You gotta keep it correct. No, I was just saying now how they have like the current bruins Jersey, but oral. I get not even the one he wore, which he didn't have his name on the back either. The one that he wore is like 60 pounds and he'd be sweat your ball bag off 'cause it's made of a 100% wool. Well, if you want to be authentic, you can fucking be authentic for a big deal if you sweat a little bit. Look at you on TNT. And if anybody else that has that ugly ass fucking yellow poop. Wait, if anybody else has one of those ugly ass yellow poo jerseys that pussy fucking beer in the front with or on the back, I don't think they should be in the garden with a gun. It's a long shed that's the worst Jersey ever. It looks like the bear is taking a shit. Marina, Marina are the big time brewing to the bus so she loves that Jersey. I constantly see her saying on Twitter and what she loves that Jersey. I'm sorry, Marina, you're wrong. You're wrong. I mean, we're team meth beer here. Crazy fucking wolf that beer from the 70s and 80s with shoulder patch. That's the only bit we want to fucking see. That's like a bear from Florida. Well, Charleston. Boys, you've been raving about this tender swan lit dock. What made me what was my assignment with this week, make sure I watched it. I watched it, boys. Listen, it didn't blow me away. It was just another con artist documentary. This guy puts, I'm a son of a billionaire and these woman glom onto that. And then they get taken for a ride. I mean, guys a billionaire. He's actually even 25 grand after you banging him for a month. Is that 17 fucking red flags right there, first off, and they could hook mine at sick a man. I didn't feel bad for anybody. I just walked away like, that was the first time. The 9 different wire one with a girl who lost the two 50. I know. He must have ate her pussy good. He must have been throwing some tongue darts down that badge. 9 different wires. She was taking a credit card loans, you name it. My enemies,.
Spittin' Chiclets
"thatcher demko" Discussed on Spittin' Chiclets
"The trip. Probably, I mean, even just being in our rooms, like we didn't go to watch lots of sports, but we got to see speed skating and watching the guys win the short track and the girls win. Their relay, like the night before and the night before we were about to play in our finals, was pretty cool. And super inspiring for us. And then just I guess getting to meet all the other Canadian athletes, you know, getting to celebrate for a few days after and getting to hang out with some of the hockey guys, the speed skaters, that was really fun, even though we had to stay. I guess like Pyeongchang, we went to all the karaoke bars. So too, we were partying, you know, with all of our families. So it was a little bit different this time, but still super, super fun. And really cool we need to get to hang out with the best athletes in Canada who have won so many medals and it's pretty amazing. Did you get a chance to check out the power plants? Near the ski jumps. I didn't go to big air, but some of the girls went to bigger. They said it was kind of a cool atmosphere, like this really like misplaced, but like pretty cool that it's just there. Yeah, 'cause they were high from the fumes from the nuclear plant next to the skin. And look like The Simpsons like Springfield. Were families not allowed. Was that the case this year? Yeah, so that's China was even letting in any families. So yeah, like I have three older brothers and they have a blast every Olympics they go to. So they had like a little screen set up, so sometimes after the game, you could talk virtually to your family, but most of the time it was just FaceTime and so my whole family got together for the gold medal game. And my one brother drank a little too much and he has two twin babies that are two years old, so the next morning we had to get up and it was still nighttime for us, so I was FaceTiming with the babies. And he was like, can you just babysit them over FaceTime quick? Like I gotta go to the bathroom. So I was like, okay, what am I doing? Like, singing songs to them from zero. If they do something, I can't stop them, but okay. That's the way to go. I think I'm gonna take a quick nap. Yeah, yeah, just watch them on FaceTime. And I'm in the middle of the party like watching them. We really appreciate you coming on and congratulations. I mean, what a career you've had. It's gonna continue and an awesome run for your team. So thanks for joining the show and congrats on another gold. Yeah, thanks so much for having me. I mean, it was great to meet you guys in the All-Star Game and the support that you've shown us as players and helping grow the women's game. So we appreciate it a lot and thanks for helping spread the word. And make sure I'll make sure we get you on Dancing with the Stars. Yeah. Perfect. I'll be tweeting about nonstop. Ballerina shoulders. That was something I had to learn for figure skating ballerina arms. How do you get shoulders this big to be ballerina arms? I'm not sure. I have no clue what that even means. I know that Kobe Armstrong did the battle of the blades and didn't mess up his knee. He was actually so good. You think I'm the biggest skated. He figures gamers little. Well, I mean, you said ballerina shoulders, he had him his whole career. So I mean, he had the advantage going in. I was like, thank God he got hurt. Yeah, you pull this quad. I can't remember what he pulled now. He pulled online. He was in awful pain, but his mother teaches figure skate, and he started off skating that way. That was my season. So I would have to compete against him. So I was like, thank God he got hurt because it gave me a second place finish. Wow, maybe there was a little tomfoolery behind the scenes. Maybe you were messing with his blades. No. Maybe you are prime for big brother. Yeah. Only figure scaling big brother. Sports. If I had to do a sports. Done, done. We'll create our own. Well, Matt, thanks so much and congratulations again. What a great run and I'm looking forward to the next one now in Italy. Yeah. Are you coming? If they allow people to show up and the food's not like it was in China for sure. They will. They'll be fans in Italy. We'll be through this by then. All right, maybe we'll see in Buffalo the summer for a little while of street hockey hopefully. Yeah. That too. All right, see you now. Thank you so much. Thanks so much. We want to send a huge thanks to Natalie for making time for us during a very hectic few days for us. She needs to come back from China. She's got all these media obligations, so we really appreciate her making a few times for us. It's here on Chick-fil-A. Also want to let you know that her interview was also brought to you by cross country mortgage. When you're buying a home, it can feel like you're skating on thin ice. There's a thousand things that can go wrong so you need a team that will help you navigate the home.
Spittin' Chiclets
"thatcher demko" Discussed on Spittin' Chiclets
"They all play exactly how they need to play to win. So I think that there's a lot still developing. We're pretty lucky that in Canada and USB get to play best on best all the time. And I think if we do get a pro league here, it'll attract a lot of those players from other countries that will then help develop them and be able to then bring that back to their countries and it's going to level up the playing field a lot. But I mean, I can't believe in 2022 we're even talking about taking women's hockey out of the Olympics because the game has come so far. And it's only the beginning for our game. It's only going to keep improving when women don't have to have jobs and play at the same time when they can just focus solely on training, like the guys get to do. The level is just going to take off. As a player, do you get to round table with people and maybe power positions about your ideas and the other girl's ideas in order to how to grow the game? Yeah, for sure. Obviously with the PWA, it's a Players Association. So kind of putting on the table while each of us think we need to be at our best and to be able to play in a pro league and then it's finding the funding and the sponsors. And just keep showcasing our sport. You know, we had the dream gap tour, where we got to go around to a lot of different places. And just show our sport and see all the little fans in the stands and even their parents and everyone cheering. I think it just shows that there is a market for this game and people do want to watch it and we just need to get, you know, whether it's on TV, we need to be on TV, we need to get the sponsors we need to get following. And people just need to know where we're playing other than every four years. People watch us, obviously they want to see us in the Olympics. But I mean, people too want to watch Mary Philly play all four years along. So it's about, you know, making sure they know where we're playing and how to find us. Yeah, Jeff Merrick mentioned him and Elliott do the 32 thoughts podcast how he was thinking it'd be a great idea to get some sort of like a Netflix documentary following a bunch of you girls throw to season. And I was listening. It's a pretty good idea. I don't know if he's chatted with it with other people, but that would be cool to just see what goes into it and how much preparation and how professional you guys are in a sense of like people don't know, they just see every four years, but to get to see the day today, I think it could be huge. I mean, I think I agree too. I don't know how that would happen, but our team also has some pretty good personalities that I think just like letting the fans meet the players, right? Like normally we're behind these cages. No one really gets to see us, gets to meet us. So having that and them getting to meet all the different characters we have on our team, like I always say like what made this team so special is that everyone was different and that they embraced all the differences and we had a blast because everyone was just wild. So I think that it would be really cool for the world to meet the girls on the team and get to see their personalities and what makes them tick and how they are on a day to day. I always like to ask, who was the court jester in the locker room? Let's say when things were maybe a little bit chill. Somebody would come in and crack a joke or I mean, maybe not in the ladies case, like rip a big fart or whatever it may be. Well, that one didn't happen. Oh boy. We had a lot. We had a lot of good. I mean, I'm a multi. She's a young one. She's just a little firecracker who's always dancing. But soupy, she's our third goalie, so she didn't dress a lot of the games. She is like, she would come up with songs for us. She'd be singing class, like, I mean, she brought energy and was always so positive and just like a light every time she walked in the room. You also mentioned about like getting more in the spotlight and being on TV more. Obviously, you're not shy of that type of stuff. You mentioned the battle of blades and you're also on the amazing race. I don't know if it was the North American one or just the catalog one. So you've done a massive amount of stuff just away from the rink. Yeah, I mean, I like challenges, I guess, something new. And I just kind of go for it. I mean, I think our goal going on amazing race was like, don't get kicked off first. And we ended up making it to the finals. We came second, but we made it there. We ran the whole race. We had a blast doing it. I skydived, which I never thought I would skydive, like puked in the plane, and I puked in the air, and I puked on the ground, but I did it. If you watch it back, like my guy is wearing a full ski helmet and everyone else dies just like wearing a little hat because I was like, buddy, you have to lean to the left because I'm probably gonna shoot on the right. It was not great. That episode, but that was episode one, and it was, you know, great after that. And then bow the blades, I mean, I got to skate with an amazing skater who, you know, Olympian Andrew poge and definitely not a little bit nervous 'cause I'm much bigger than figure skaters, like probably double the size of figure skaters, but we did it. We danced. I was thinking we would just be doing spirit fingers the whole time, but we didn't. We actually did some lifts and some choreography and had a blast. Were you somebody who ever figure skated growing up or was that your first time in battle of the blades? That was my first time with the children. So how crazy is it? Sell a lot. It's crazy. It's crazy. You can not go, you can not lean forward. Like half the time I was skating too, they're like, I don't know how you're not face planning. I'm like, this is how I would like skate. But yeah, I face planted a lot. Probably the first like two weeks of skating. I was just like bruised all up and down my arms, my whole knees were bruised. It was just, it was not good, but we did it. We did it. Luckily I didn't toe pick in a performance. Who was your partner again in the amazing race? Was it Megan Mickelson? Yeah, Megan Mickelson. And she's a flame with her brother, Brendan. Yeah. Yeah, great guy. So she's a former player. She had a tough injury and wasn't able to end up cracking the lineup. This time, but she's done a wonderful, wonderful job transitioning into broadcasting. Now, like what were some of the wild stories along the way through this amazing race? What's the day to today like on a competition like that?.
Spittin' Chiclets
"thatcher demko" Discussed on Spittin' Chiclets
"Running. Well, that and getting their own Tim Hortons dolls. That's pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, 'cause MPP in both Sarah nurse had a special edition doll come out through Tim Hortons and obviously more brand deals to come. I want to talk about a few of those girls pushing the pace for women's hockey. Aside from yourself, MPP, is she is she like the goat of all female hockey players? For sure. I mean, it's almost comical. We have to laugh about it with how many overtime goal she scored for us. You know, we call her captain clutch for a reason, but I mean, even in the rivalry series against the U.S. leading up, like she scored two games in a row in three on three overtime. And we went and we were like, how? There's not even an answer, but it's just so funny, because she's that good, that it's like, okay, put her out for throughout the day, like she'll go score. And then, you know, in these big gold medal games, like she's the only player that's ever scored a goal in the final game and all four Olympics. So it's kind of mind-blowing how good she is. And that she does that. What's her demeanor off the ice? She seems super chill. She has super chill. She's super nice. Works so hard. It's just like a great human being so kind. I got to room with her at the Olympics. Like we're a really good friends like we go on some vacations and stuff together. She's just awesome. What did you what did you make of her kind of turning down and all kind of, but turning down the opportunity to maybe join that east coast Hockey League team? Like, did you talk to her about it? Or was it easy decision for? What went through her mind on that? If you don't mind sharing. Yeah, we actually been here about it. Obviously we were enjoying ourselves with the Olympics. So I didn't even know it happened until I got back, but I mean, kudos to her to throw it back to them and say, help grow the women's game. It's true, like our games are not the same game. It's different, but they're different in great ways, right? And they both deserve to have that same platform and they both deserve to be watched. So big ups for her just to say help us grow our game, right? Absolutely. We got to show your goalie to Henry David. I mean, that first game versus the Americans, the preliminary incredible. She was like a cat like out there. I won't even play with her for 'cause I know the last time you was the goalie last time. How long have you been playing with mRNA for? So Ann played in 2018 also. And then after that, she took a few years off she was an accountant for a while. And then decided to come back. I mean, it is and what you guys got to see her firsthand at the All-Star Game. Just like her lateral movement, her, you know, she makes those huge saves like, it's pretty crazy how good she is, but also like nothing phases her. Like she's the most relaxed person that you could do anything to her and she'll just she's fine. It's pretty crazy and really cool to see because I guess as a goalie, that's pretty good. But she's, I mean, she's amazing. And she held us in a lot of games and I mean, we need her. You mentioned she took some time off and became an accountant who were some of the girls who have the wackiest jobs on the team. Because I don't know if a lot of people know this listening, you guys have to balance it where maybe the amount of money you guys are making playing hockey, you can't help pay for your living. So you guys got to figure out side jobs. Oh man, I'm trying to think, oh, like the girls on a team now, I mean, the past year, we obviously have no one's really been working, but I mean, there's some in broadcasting. There's been some in like kind of media communication roles before. Probably accounting would probably be the best one. Trying to think. Maybe the most boring job in the world that doesn't surprise me a goalie did it. They're a little odd usually. Yeah. For sure. Maybe she'll go back to accounting later on in life, who knows? I had a backup goalie when I was in the EIL who worked at a rental car place. So we would always give them a little bit of a hard time. But not in a bad way, but just, you know, it was just kind of a random job to have when you're a backup goaltender playing pro hockey. For sure. All the rental cars you needed though. Yeah, exactly. We know they hate with the Americans Israel. I mean, you teams play each other all the time when you do like the bond storm and toys and stuff. How bad is the shit talking on the ice cap? Does it get pretty nasty the chirps? You know what? It doesn't get too bad. We used to have a player Haley Irwin who was like great at chirping. They've got a few like they used to have the Lamar root twins who two are pretty rugged around the edges. Like maybe I just don't hear it because I'm a terrible Trevor. I can't think of anything like that quick. I don't even know. Maybe like a girl tells me I'm heavy if I follow them or something like I have nothing to say. But yeah, no, I don't know. It does get heated, obviously. And it's rough, but no, I think one of my teammates when we were playing the Swiss, she, she had a funny story and I wish she could tell it because the way she tells it hilarious. So there's one shift like this girl was following her all around the ice. And she looks at the Swiss girl and goes like kind of trying to trip her, like, are you going to do this the whole game? And the cis girl looks at him and goes the plan. And then she was like, so you are and she goes, because that's just the green plan. She told the story, we're like, oh my gosh. How do you not just start laughing like you didn't interpret anymore? It's just like, it's just like you have to start laughing. Man on man. Exactly. We're going to do that by the D zone. It was a liability back there so they couldn't do man on man. Does that hate going back to the Americans? Come off the ISO. Does it always get left in the eyes? Just because you always play each other so often. Does it ever with a cafeteria or dirty look something like that? No, no. I mean, I got to play together a lot too. Obviously, we came together with the PWA. So I think, you know, obviously when you put that Jersey on and you're on the ice, it's like nothing matters, but off the ice like you for sure say hi and how's your day? And, you know, we obviously felt for decker. She's an amazing player and having that happen so early on a tournament. I mean, I think most of us reached out and just made sure that she was doing okay. Hanging in there. I mean, you never want to see anything like that happen. So we definitely are, you know, a lot of the girls are friends with players are played with them in university or played with them in the CWL. So there is that mutual friendship and respect. But obviously when you hit the ice, it's do or die. We've obviously had all those big games against them. I'm sure we're going to get back to the Olympics. I was just going to go back a little bit. You ended up going to Ohio State. For the ladies in hockey, how do you guys, I know you play minor hockey. How does the recruiting process work? Is it different than the men? How did you personally end up at Ohio State?.
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"He just goes, he goes dry and all of a sudden you're like two hour and 30 minute roll. Let's go. Yo, you're fucking buying, you know, putting a mortgage down on a house because of it. Yeah, he's a holy shit, does he get hot? His pregame outfits, man. They've been a lot of chat online, but I know we've been sharing them too. He's got a unique, a unique style. It's pretty funny. We love to see these guys showing their personality. A few other play notes here. Island is Dana Chara, future Hall of Famer. He passed Chris chelios for the most games played by an NHL defenseman, when he played in his 1652nd game Thursday in San Jose. I thought it was really cool the shocks honored him on the jumbotron. They had a clip from Patrick Milo, you know, praising chai. I was just, you know, pretty cool to see the opposition, give him a little doubt like that. He also had a scrap as well in that game with Jeffrey ville and he became the oldest fighter in NHL history as well, at least the oldest play to get a fighting major. His 77th regular season fight and to give a little nice pat in the head after so congrats big Zeke, keep getting a gun out there and his teammate Zach parisi on the same game squad his 400th goal at the tenth act of guy to do so in the 5th from that famous O three draft, Eric stahl, Joel pavelski, Jeff Carter and Corey Perry, I have also done the same. Edmondson Ford Derek Ryan notched his first hat trick of his career Saturday at 35 years old, becoming the 8th oldest play to do so in league history, Nick lidstrom requested the oldest at 40 years old and a defenseman to boot. Let's see, rattling right along here. Boston's Brad my shine, my boy. Said he's not going to peel the NHL. I pulled in the 6 game suspension. I know you had already served it, but this is more about getting I would say money back right biz if you're on it's more about getting your dough back. And Brad said, I think I'm just going to move past it. It is what it is what it is at this point. I miss being around the guys. I miss being part of the group. He did return to action Thursday night. I also want to congratulate the May shines on the birth of their baby daughter this week. So congrats to Brad, and I gave a little tweet, he was on the back. I was like, oh, this is what the media doesn't want you to show. Clearly a troll clearly a joke 'cause some people didn't like it. Dude, it's hilarious. Twitter used to be a place you can joke ten years ago and people got it. Now it's like either people don't get it or they try to correct you. It's like people are a little wound up. Clearly. I have a snapshot every now and then on there. I used to snap a lot more, but I've had some written out response tweets and I'm like, oh, don't send that. And then Twitter's like, are you sure you want to threaten this person? I said meet the media doesn't want to say 14 F bombs in this tweet, sir. Utilizing three different funds of media, but say in the media don't want you to see it. Like, that's the joke. In fact, it just fucking seals over everybody's head, but once again, congrats to the last one. We got that little lady coming to you. We got to talk about your boys sandbagger. Participant cult caulfield absolutely on fire since mighty San Luis took over 6 goals for assist in the first 7 games out of Marty St. Louis. He had just 8 points and 30 games under DOM Duchamp. They put him on a line with Nick Suzuki and Josh Anderson. They won 5 straight and they've combined 19 points. Mighty similar you said, I can see this line being together for a long time. It's like, yeah, the combinations they have out there right now, you know, Canadians, the seasons, probably lost, but they're building for the future. Have you seen them play much at all? I know the Canadians are probably on number one you read her. No, no, I haven't, but I'm really happy for him and it just shows that the ups and downs of professional hockey doesn't matter how long you play or how short you've been in the league. They're always there. It doesn't matter if your Sidney Crosby or a young rookie. There's times when it's really hard, you're struggling a little bit, you're squeezing the stick tight and you can maybe have a coach and I don't know the relationship between coffee and Duchamp, but maybe the trust wasn't necessarily there and obviously the ice time I don't think that it was what caulfield had hoped for and you get a new coach in and not only is it a new coach, it's a guy you probably idolized as a player and undersized forward or went on to be a Hall of Famer who no doubt had a talk with caulfield about how much you believed in him and now you just you're seeing what's going on with a little belief for a player and there's not anything that's changed is skating stride hasn't changed his release is still the same. It's mental. It's your mind and in terms of looking at situations at different way while also getting a chance to play on a better line. So Suzuki and caulfield's games have both exploded since St. Louis takes over and the problem is if you're a Canadian fan, you really want that first overall pick. It's almost like, wow, wow, wow, wow. Hold on, hold on. I love caulfield scoring. You better break up that fucking line. Yeah, so you don't want them winning the fucking door and break up that line, man. But I'm happy for him because, you know, before the season, the expectations were sky high and that team has just been such a, it's been such a struggle this year that now you're looking for at least positivity for certain players. And I think caulfield has proven not only to the fans and to the coaching staff of St. Louis, but himself like, all right, I am still the player I know I was and know I am and I'm going to be able to score at this level where maybe some people question that. Sandler was like, dude, this season's over. Go out there and get your fucking cookies, buddy. I'd be hanging out with that fucking far blue line. All night, brother. Get over there, fuck the rest of these guys, man. Get your skrill a dog? One for the little guys, man. Come on. Fuck these big mother fuckers back here with those long legs, man. You get your breath. A couple injuries to note here. Carolina defenseman, Tony Deangelo, like I said before, he's been a huge part of that D, they haven't missed dougie all that much after signing him. He's going to be able for at least a month because of a midsection injury. His 40 points, a third on the team 16 power play points and plus 19 lead the team, the team did recall Jalen chatfield from HL Chicago. Vegas gully Robin lenna in Ford Nolan Patrick both placed on Aya. The Lena injury doesn't seem to be too serious. He should be back soon. Obviously we mentioned Patrick before we wish him the best. Hopefully we can get back out there soon..
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"You had those appearances or was it just kind of business as usual at that point? I mean, going into the game, it didn't feel different. I felt nervous as shit. I hadn't played a game since the shutdown. So my last game was March 10th and fast forward like three months or whatever it was and we're down three, one and they're like, all right, let's go. And I was just like, Jesus Christ. I don't even know how to handle this situation. I was like, you know what? I kind of had that fucking whatever. Mindset going into the first game and we ended up winning that game. I can't remember the score, but after that, I was, I was like, hey, I can't be a one off. I gotta do it again. You know, I don't want it to just be like, oh, you had one good game and then you shit the bed. Like I gotta do it again, and then we end up winning the game 6 there. And then I was like, fuck, I gotta do it again. I don't want it to be just two games. So I kind of just kept rolling and unfortunately we didn't get it done in game 7, but I think it definitely kind of, it made the decision hard for the organization, Mark, he was going into free agency. Had I not played those three games, who knows what the situation might look like right now. And it's crazy, you know, like I said, when I was talking about being a kid and just waiting for that one opportunity and taking advantage of it, like it's as simple as that. You know, I got lucky with an opportunity and I took the most of it. So I mean, all goes back to the shit sandwich that benning gave you. It all goes back to the fucking car service from Syracuse shit sandwich special. Yeah, that's right. It's almost similar in a way. Vancouver got lucky that you were able to kind of show them how good you were, whereas Florida, they hadn't really seen Spencer night yet and they give this monster deal to the Broadsky, and now it's kind of like, even though he's been great this year, it's tough. Mark Schumer got a huge deal from Vancouver, and then it would have been like, oh, we got this young stud. So lucky for them, you were able to show yourself and kind of light it up those three games would probably change the course of the organization in a way. Yeah, I mean, it was just, it's one of those things where I feel like this game is just all about opportunity and it's so unpredictable with how things are going to play out. So it's definitely, you know, the nickname bubble dump goes getting a little old for me. But, you know, it was definitely a huge, huge point in my career for sure. And wet. I mean, talking about the goalie situation. I think they kind of dealt with it with the longer and Schneider. They already fumbled fucked that one a little bit. Two really good goalie is tough to cut the handle. Exactly. Anything else RA? This has been awesome, dude. This has been awesome. But one of the best stories is you get robbed at gunpoint. It's all time, man. All the time. I want to go back to Kirk McLean. You were recently sporting the old retrograde of the skate logo from the 80s. I guess you guys are going to wear those jerseys soon. Whether that idea come from and also, that was a backplate on your mask too. You have the clip from the painting from him from the 94 series, right? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it was, again, just trying to be unique and, you know, I'm a big history guy. You know, I love to pay homage to guys that have come before me and I have a huge respect for that type of thing. I always take pride in that kind of stuff and pay my respects. So I figure, you know, what's the best way I could do that with the skate Jersey and so I went on Google and you know I did the 1994 cup run when they ended up losing to New York there and it's literally a head to toe replica set. So the stick, the pads gloves, helmet, everything. And then yeah, I got the picture of him in London. On the back plate, which is a cool little touch too. Before we let you go, I see you got some mug shot to some artwork there. Frank Sinatra, you got up there. So we got on the bottom guy there is Elvis. And you got Jimi Hendrix. Sinatra and then park there on the top. Nice, nice. I love that. So wide range of kind of hit every genre there. Biz will have a mug shot at some point. You can frame that way. Come on. You mentioned you're a big hip hop fan. Have you seen the new Kanye documentary? Yeah, I saw the first epi. I watched it pretty much right when it came out. So I'm looking forward to the next couple that are going to be released here. I'm obsessed. I'm dialed in. All right, we're going to talk plenty about our next podcast. So I love it. I got to catch up. Well, Thatcher, such a humble guy. We really appreciate you coming on. It's awesome to see the success, a California goalie that's lighting up. And we really appreciate you taking the time to join the show. You got fans here now for the rest of your career. So thank you. Yeah, thanks for having me guys. Pleasure. Keep killing it, brother. All right, see you guys. Man, big thanks to DACA. Great kid, we enjoyed the hell out of talking to that. That story about his time in Utica absolutely bananas. Just some good stuff. Hopefully y'all enjoyed it. We do want to let you know that his interview is also brought to you by our friends at Roman swipes, guys..
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"thatcher demko" Discussed on Spittin' Chiclets
"School teammate, an amazing college goaltender at UNH. He told me, interestingly enough, that's where you met your fiance, right? Yeah, we met at one of the USA camps when we were like, I think 15 we were we just say good friends. We didn't really I mean, we kind of hit it off as friends at the time, but she was dating Mike Babcock junior when I met her. Which is funny. He was coaching the wings and they were at the same high school together. So I was trying to, you know, we were a little bit and she's shut me down pretty quick, which, you know, looking back was a good thing, but yeah, we just stayed close friends and sophomore year of college. We ended up starting date and so we always say that Mike ayers kind of got us together. Did she play at BC as well? No, she actually ended up going to nodak. She played there at the same time with like Brock fester and Troy stature. So they were there kind of all at the same time. Would you like Brock? You never met my girlfriend, did you? I'm like, please tell me you don't know who this is. Dancing demko, I heard about. I couldn't find any clips online. What did you used to do a little jig on the ice? They told you to knock it off. What was that all about? He worked at brandy's in Vancouver. No, this is dancing. For a while, it was just when I was in college, it was something that I used to do just to kind of keep myself in a good frame of mind during the game. I used to be pretty hard on myself. You know, so the dancing thing in between whistles or whatever, you know, they play tunes and just dancing kind of kept it light for me and I was actually at the combine and I go to meet in with Colorado and Patti was there at the time and he fucking laid into me for this dance and damn cool thing and you know it's one of those situations where you kind of go in and you're like, how do you want me? I grew up idolizing this guy. Like I can't wait to see what this guy is like and the first thing that comes out of his mouth he goes, what the fuck is wrong with you? And I was like God, this is not going how it would go and I was like what do you mean? Like I'm just young, scared kid and he's like I see you out there dancing around like you don't give a shit. It's like how are we supposed to draft you? It seems like you're out there just having a good time. Like we need a guy that's willing to do whatever it takes to win and just go like laying into me and I was just like from that day forward I was like, you know what? To a certain extent he's right and college you can kind of get away with it. But if you see a guy walking out in the national dance around in between whistle like it's not the best. It does. Yeah, that's flour. Yeah, true. He's going to the Hall of Fame. I mean, he was doing it in junior two. He always had the smile. You could see the chick ups from the top bowl for crying out loud. As far as as far as patty was concerned, he's got to hit the fucking Stevie weiser. Eyes are kind of program at these fucking combines. Yeah, like why'd you bring me into interview me if you hate me that much, Patrick? Yeah, I mean, as a kid, I was just, I didn't really understand what I was walking into, but yeah, I was just kind of a bummer, having to meet and go that way. Well, a lot of kids, airs. Also mentioned to me, like, you know, a lot of kids, people think maybe they got their athleticism from their father, but he tells me your mother and your aunt were unbelievable high level volleyball players. So they were pretty athletic themselves, huh? Yeah, studs, man. Still are honestly. Not as much as they'd like to. But I mean, my dad wasn't athlete. He played rugby and in college at Arizona, he ended up breaking his back, so we had to hang them up, but yeah, my mom played at the university of Florida and then transferred to San Diego state volleyball and then my aunt was in all American at USC, she ended up playing pro in Chicago for a bit. And, you know, their friends with all the volleyball legends and, you know, the people that kind of reinvented the sport back in those days and my mom actually ended up coaching college for a good amount of time when I was growing up. So I was just kind of always around it and it's definitely something that was fun growing up just to be around a different sport and just kind of developing that athleticism I guess a little bit. But yeah, they're it's competitive man, whatever we're doing as a family, like they still kind of got that fire in them, which is pretty funny. Where are you boys hanging out in Vancouver? Is the Roxy even still a thing right now? Do you guys still go there? Roxy, not too much to be honest. I think the organization kind of has tried to steer guys away from the Roxy a little bit. Or at least I think it was my second. I don't know if Z packs floating around for the guys. Yeah, we're short on Z packs right now, but I think it was like my second development camp, I came in and I was hurt for my hipster agree. And so the team had to work out the next day and there was like three or four of the injured guys that the team knew that we didn't have to work out the next day and they could kind of feel we were probably going to go out on the town or whatever and I remember Stan Schmidt called me aside and he was like, hey, whatever you do, do not go to the rocks. And like, of course, the second bar we go to is the fucking Roxy, like both our feet and for the night and that's a death goes back, baby. I appreciate it. What's your move on the dance floor? What do you got for us? I like to drop it low, man. I got the new hits. He learned it on the public transportation in LA. You got to pop it locket hips. Once I get a couple cocktails, I mean, you get a good baseline there. I'm trying to dance for real quick. That's unreal. What was I what was your favorite things about living in Boston for three years? It was just, it was so different from what I was used to. And it was such an awesome city to go to school in with all the schools kind of right there. You know, you run into BU and northeastern Harvard at the bars out at dinners, like things like that. It's so cool, you know. I grew up in San Diego, and then I was in Omaha, and then Ann Arbor, and then it was kind of like my first time I would eat experiencing that whole thing and it's definitely a different type of people out there for sure. You know, it kind of makes you a little bit more well rounded just being around. The preppy preppy kids out east and it was cool. You know, my first year, I had Kevin Hayes and Jimmy was around a little bit in the locker room here and there when he could be, you know, those are some big time Boston guys and just kind of looking up to them as a young kid and kind of seeing the type of people that Boston can produce was pretty awesome. Well, your freshman year, you saw one of the greatest college hockey performances of all time and Johnny hockey. You must have just been blown away because the best part is everyone knows this is no secret. He'll go out and get after it. And then the next game he still gets four points after being just waffled. Yeah, I mean, that was the biggest eye opening thing for me. I was 17. I had just started drinking figuring it out, you know? And here I come into college and I got Kevin Johnny and Billy Arnold leading the charge on a Thursday night. Just fucking mangled. And then I'm like, these guys are gonna shock today. We're gonna get pumped. And then they have 5 points each and I'm just like, all right, I gotta figure this shit out because that looked really fun. I think we can agree on music tastes. Two of your favorite artists Led Zeppelin and also rapper J. Cole. Have you ever been to a live show of J. Cole's? No, it's bucket list, for sure. He's definitely a guy. I like a lot. I'm big hip hop guy. So I grew up on the classic rock stuff, my dad got me into Led Zeppelin, Leonard Skynyrd, those type of guys. So I got a pretty wide variety of music tastes, but J. Cole's definitely out there for me. So I definitely want to see him live on time. Fuji's yeah. What you go to zep album. Tough one, I know. That's tough for me. I kind of like their slower stuff sometimes, you know?.
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"thatcher demko" Discussed on Spittin' Chiclets
"Have played a lot better. It really don't matter what who the start and Peterson are. The kings of playing outstanding right now. And my last thing on them is I don't think they're really going to go anywhere. I'm not a 100% sure they get in the playoffs. There's a lot of hockey to be played, but they get edler back. I think mid to end a march, right? That's kind of like, that's a trade deadline move, just getting him healthy again. He was playing solid hockey, I think he broke his ankle. So yeah, I think it's no surprise. Because you look at or it is a surprise because of what everyone thought before the season, but the guys they have there and the success they've had with that core, I think they're going to be right there and probably get into the playoffs and be a tough out for anyone. And the fact that and the fact that Tempe is pretty much joined that core. And sometimes it comes down to patience too, right? Like I play with them in the AHL and he came in and he lit it up when he was 18 when we ended up winning that caller cup, not a big deal. But then there was like a little bit of regression in the miners when we moved over to Ontario. And then when he finally got up there, you know, he still wasn't having that impact. Sometimes he would disappear for a few games, but this year, man, he's finally came out of his shell and he's figured it out, and you know, sometimes teams give up on these guys at a young age. Yeah, it's, like I said, it's 25 goals lead the team and I'm rooting for the man. I have an 85 to one ticket on the kings I put in at the beginning of the effort. You know, hey guys, this is the time of year when we get RA's got futures on 24 of the 32 teams. So everyone needs money. He bets everyone, guys. So don't let him fool you. I bet the long shots baby because you hit one wet, it pays for the last 20 years, so that's all I'm hoping for on the AV. Keeping with the theme of teams on the West Coast on the Pacific Thursday night, we had some serious uniform porn when the Calgary flames visited the Vancouver Canucks that connects the dusted off those old funky black jerseys with the skate on them from the 80s and 90s. And thatch of dem go man, he had an awesome tribute to Kirk McLean, of course he was a legendary goaltender for the franchise. We've seen some awesome goal where they come kit, setups, whatever this year, do it. His might have been the best, the black pads, and I send you guys the picture. He made a save that looked exactly like mcclain, like the legs were spread the scene, the glove up in the air, and he even said dump go, I don't really make saves like that. I don't know where that game from. There's almost like McLean was kind of getting into his body or something that night, also you mentioned Michael buble was in the house and chase claypool wide receiver. I guess he's from the area. He got on the mic said the flames sucked up the crowd going so. Kind of a lame chirp. Let's roll it. This is a bit weak. Oh, he's a lame ass dude, buddy. Remember the fucking move he did with that cost of steelers that game? I celebrate in his first down and they got like a delay a game over. Do you remember that goon? Claypool fuck off. I don't even, I don't even like the flames and I'm like, who's this guy chirping the flames?.
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"Wrench are going to be smelling like a million bucks. All right, Saturday night, the wildest game wasn't in Nashville. Toronto at Detroit, the leafs won ten to 7. They almost blew a 7 to two lead in true leafs fashion. Mitch Mina four goals to assist, but ya boy, Mike button, one goal for assist. Now second in rookie points with 40, he's two behind Lucas Raymond, ty for goals with 18 with Tana janot, so I mean this kid's rocking biz, I don't know if I don't know if this is you manifest them when on the call, there are a lot, but the kid's been getting in the race now. Oh my God. I want to know what wit thinks of it. He has been lighting the lamp since you doubted him and said that you would put your cock on the line just like I did last year. Hey, all right. You're a typical Munson and biz. You're the biggest idiot out there because you guys haven't mentioned. Lucas Raymond had a hat trick in the game. He's 7 years younger than bunting you idiots. And you know who else is better than bunting? Is the monster defenseman the next Victor headman on the back end, Maurice cider. He's about 19. He's about 9 years younger than bunting. And I actually hate how it's come out where I'm against and don't like bunting. I love this guy. He is one hell of a player, and he's made that line really tick. I mean, they are monsters together. It's marner Matthews, also biz shout out you. I'm actually on board Matthews is the greatest leaf of all time. I switch my opinion in one direction. Welcome aboard. He's got 77 goals in his last hundred games. He's going to be the, I think the second leaf ever to have four 40 goal seasons when he gets 40 this year. He is at another level and marner looks awesome and bunting is a great player, but you can not compare him and you know why I'll say it to Lucas Raymond or Maurice cider and rookie of the year. You know why? Ask 31 GMs. And they'd rather Raymond over bunting. So in talking about rookie the year as great as bunting's been while being 26 years old, he's not going to win the Calder. It's great year for him. He comes over from Phoenix. He gets to be a big part of an original 6 franchise while playing on the top line and he has 5 points and also the assist to get marner, the fourth goal was so sick. It was a modern type of system behind the back no look. I'm a big bunting fan, but keep talking about him for the call to trophy and you prove how stupid you really are. I don't think I've ever really said that he's been ahead of cider or Raymond once. You've been yelling bunting's gonna win the colder. What are you talking about? Because there's still one third of the season left and I think that they have a lot of important games coming up and he's playing with a couple special players. I said that he has the possibility to lap those guys and get past them. To lap him. Well, I meant to say pass, I'm not lap. Come on, you know what the fuck I'm saying? Hey. Hey, sometimes he's a great player. He's also been playing pro for, you know, 5 years or whatever it may be. So he's used to this pro schedule. Sometimes these young guys who step in, they tend to fade out on the back half of the season in their rookie year. And I'm not saying that I think Maurice sir is a clear number one right now. I think me too. Raymond's right underneath them. I think that bunting has to do something pretty special in this last 30 games or whatever it may be in order to even give it a chance, especially given his age. But I'm all on the fucking train, dude. Why wouldn't I be years old? If one thinks 20 years old, boom, he's right there. But I also, but you are going nuts about you're not just talking about how he's a good player. You've been yelling about bunting for call, they're bunting for call. You can't know because he's the 26 year old guy who was playing in the coast a couple of years ago who's all of a sudden put his name in the top three. And I think that we still got some games left here to play. He won't even be top three. Okay, so okay, so what would be the criteria given the fact that you've thrown in the age factor and you're saying he's 26. How much how many more points or intangibles does he have to bring in order for him to be able to win it? Or are you telling me there's just not a possibility, I think another season, he probably could have win it. Maybe he'd actually be screwed no matter what because of the age and the professional games argument with Capri saw last year, he might be screwed no matter what. It's more about who he's going against this season for the Calder and even said that. I guess if he had, if he had 30 goals, 80 points at his age and with who's there with him as rookies, that's probably his only chance. And even then, Raymond's going to end up with 70 points and he's 19. So it's just like, it's more about the age. I love buns. So I guess what if these scores ate more goals than them? And get 16 more points. I don't think so if you were to win the scoring, The Rookie scoring race by 16 points you're saying. I'm just wondering what consideration would you give him at what point as far as how much his play has to be better, given his age. And part of it is biz, I think part of it is voters will look at the fact he's playing with two of the best players in the world. And that's a big factor, dude. It really is. You need to have a big piece of a big back half here and he's off through a hell of a start. A let me ask you this. Does the fact that he put up a 5 piece against Detroit not make your fucking dick move just a little bit? I was like, this is amazing that this is happening in his just keeps talking about it. And like Ari said, he's legit like making it, what's the word already? You said he manifested. I didn't have that one in my bag. Thanks. But let's put the bunting with an amazing season. Great job on thing. Let's put that discussion in the Calder trophy aside with Z gris Raymond site or all these studs. Let's talk about what's really going on in Toronto. So biz has what's your okay, you have two Western Conference teams. Yeah, Toronto's your Eastern Conference team. So that's your third favorite team. And they've looked great. Their goalie soft now. They have no goal tending. I think Campbell's one of the worst goalies in the league since January 1st and maras, your backup, and this is the year we're getting out of the first round, not much cap room, muzzin, who knows if he's coming back, and now what do you do about the goaltending boys? What are you doing leaf land? You guys can't stop the puck now. What are you gonna do, is you don't go. I'm not concerned at all..
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"thatcher demko" Discussed on Spittin' Chiclets
"To set up the league did in terms of getting to hear some real audio from download of the ice, especially when you're in a stadium holding 70,000 people, but in terms of also the game, I want to show Cal foot, dude. What a pass he gave to stamkos on that one goal. And I got to meet Adam for the day before I recognized him. He said we'd love to have it in the show. One of the friendliest guys for Matty said we can make that work, no doubt. So pretty cool he's there watching his son play. He goes, ah, it's a tough city to go home at night and so I'm sure he knew from playing that Nashville. They bring the thunder, but other than that, the game just showed that vasilevsky is like why I'll never really pick against the lightning. I think because I made the islanders my preseason pick. That's gone real well. They've looked real good to win the Stanley Cup. I'm going back to the lightning. They're my pick again. I'm done fucking around with anyone else. I'm on Tampa again, I picked him last year and this team is built to win any way you play, just like you said, but so I think that that game showed even with Nashville playing a big, not slow style hockey, but not really offensive and not run and gun. Tampa says no problem. Also a couple of fights, man, buddy, the big rig pat maroon, I saw him afterwards in tootsies, and I was like, dude, what was it like fighting in front of 68,000 people? He's like, it was unreal. Him and Mike mccarran at it, nice little tilt. And then Joe Hanson, you know, basically how to answer the Santino in the second period PE I went right at him off the face off my room actually gave him a little shot. So we had a couple of scraps in the game. But yeah, very entertaining game. Also, we gotta shout out the worm. Prior to what the classic squid is 400th career goal in his 14th of the season business, guys playing a bottom 6 role. He's kind of signed for veteran leadership and depth. 14 goals, I'm not sure if people expect that at him. He said, he said team rubbed off on him, all the stretching. I created the longevity wit was he a big stretcher when you were there? Yeah, he was. I actually got to run into Perry. We were staying at the Joseph, so where Tampa was also staying. I saw, I saw a big rig tonight before I saw the worm. And it was funny. I hadn't seen Perry in so long. You forget he's such a nice guy. He's quiet guy, too. But we got to catch up just quickly before he was heading to dinner in the lobby, but I said, congratulations on your 400th. I said, buddy. You're still getting it done out there. He goes to these guys are so fast. They're so fucking fast. But you know, he does his thing in front of the net and I do remember, he was super into like stretching. I mean, he's a driven guy. That's why he's been playing this long, but I didn't know that he was saying that something that he's really jumped into lately, maybe. Is that what you're saying from your interview with him? Well, just like, I think more so later in his career, guys like really emphasize it when he was in Montreal. So he really rubbed off the young guys in like a positive way about how to prep and take care of yourself, post practice, pre practice, postgame, whatever it may be, but so I used to play against some growing up. He played for the peterborough team and fuck dude. He was sick when we were playing minor hockey. They beat us in the OHA final. Then they ended up beating us in the OHL cup, like the year of our draft. And I think he ended up going fourth overall to the London knights, but just a guy who has a knack for around the net always. It was always like that, always was able to step up in big moments to throw at his entire career and I'll be honest, right? I wasn't watching him that closely when he was finishing off an Anaheim and how kind of maybe ugly things had gotten and really negative and to see how he's able to kind of push through that and continue to do it and now I think it's a 16th season. I believe and I think he's got 14 goals right now and he's playing in a limited role and when he ended up scoring the 400th. Did you see when he went by the bench? Like it's not easy to get that type of love and emotion from teammates when you've been hopping around and you haven't really spent much time there and you could just kind of sense like he's fit in like a fucking glove and it's just like he's just kind of like an unbelievable teammate guy and I'm really happy for the guy like this to see the fact that he's still getting it done. Yeah, that was a pretty cool scene. I think he actually did like a 360 during the tap line because they were all grabbing at him stuff. It was a cool scene, but what you were talking about the music on Broadway earlier. I don't know the big rig might be get recruited. That could be his second career, 'cause afterwards I went to tootsies after the game late night. I think the whole Tampa Bay staff and players were in there. The big rig was up on stage, singing his hot dog, when he was up there for like an hour, had his tab open at the it was awesome stuff, but the highlight of the night, Paul biz nasty bissett, did you take tap and jazz as a kid? Where did that footwork come from? You look like river dance out there. Me and watched it in the box and we would fucking incredibly we feel fucking dying when we saw that. I don't know. They said, let's see your two step and I don't really know how to two step and like a couple times I've done that stupid river dance thing, but boys, I'm telling you what, my fucking I had to go. The reason I sound so tired is I just came out of a two and a half hour massage. My legs were killing me the next day after that. I thought I popped my ACL out again. My fucking Achilles were bug me, but yeah, I just kind of like figured it out and then that towards the end I did the old the old dumb and dumber. Off the set and fucking Wayne always belly laugh and so anytime you can get Wayne having a good time, I'm down for it. The scene was so good, but I laughed even harder watching Gretzky like die laughing and I was I was impressed bro that was that was legit footwork. I think you could skate too..
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"thatcher demko" Discussed on Spittin' Chiclets
"So they started chatting it up and boom. Now they're dating going on road trips to Nashville, just smashing each other the whole three nights I'm sure. So they tagged in. I'm gonna lay my mom. I put calling in. I tagged calling in for me. When it's got the gag ball in his mouth and these people's room. Hey, what a great one. I dressed up as a giant bottle of pink Whitney, but one of those things outside the goal. I don't know how to say it. Come on, Ari, you got to know that. Wiggle. Man, they have to use Kyle lazy. It's like not for sure you'd be able to rattle that off. I know. I think it might be an old Family Guy joke, but either way, man, listen, first off, I gotta show what the lighting fans like, they were so many Tampa Bay fans. I know these fans travel every trip and people still kind of a stigma with the state of Florida fans about Florida panther fans, but do you have a bay man? They showed out big time. Tons of fans was great to talk to a lot of them interact with them. The game itself actually before we get to the game. We gotta congratulate congratulate peco Rene, his number 35 get retired first, predator ever to have his number retired. He's actually getting a statue as well. So a big shout out to pecker and a huge part of that franchise, but the game itself man. Tampa won three tool very, very chippy affair biz for two teams, but really no history. They're in different conferences. Of course, early in the game, Ryan johansen, he catches Eric churn with a shoulder to the head. It was initially called a major. They reviewed it. They put it down to two minutes for an illegal check to the head. Chernock tried to get back on the game, couldn't and that kind of set the tone for the game. Were you surprised biz that it got overruled from a 5 minute to a two minute why do you think so? Yeah, so I think my initial opinion was and I thought cernak was going to come back. It looked harmless. I like the fact that he was able to keep playing. I don't think it was malicious at all. And I understand the rule is if you make head contact, but in my opinion, he didn't target it. What happens sometimes is guys towards the end of their shift, and you can correct me if I'm wrong. When they go in to just put an easy body check on a defender, like CERN X trying to kind of Dodge them a little bit and then also make the play. But he comes up, it looks as if though he jumped, but it wasn't a jump, and I don't even think he was off the ice by the time he made contact. He just kind of came up on the hit and when you do that sometimes you do run the risk now to make head contact and head contact first. So the Samantha semantics of it did not look good. I was happy that the ref decided to take away the 5 and just make it a two, but then to see that he didn't come back. It's like fuck I'm more of an eye for an eye guy. I don't think he should get games for it, but he should have probably left the game. And then I guess you could say, when you talk about eye for an eye, later in the game, I think Johansson got hooked on a breakaway and it probably should have been a penalty shot. Maybe they didn't call because he got the shot off eventually, but they just ruled that a penalty. So I thought that I just felt that the game was well officiated, given the circumstances of, as you mentioned, RA, that hit, the chippiness went off the rails, but I will say, I guess I underestimated Nashville's size. They got some really big guys in the lineup and the camera angle they had on for the TV. It was a little bit lower, so you kind of had a closer angle to the ice. You really saw the size of how big they are and how physical they like to play. But as we know about Tampa Bay, man, they can play any way you want because they're just as big. We talk about the big guys on the back end and they can match that physicality and a big reason why patty maroon so fucking valuable. And I should mention, I'd say half the people going through the meet and greet prior to the game, we're also showed up and only I wrote this down. I just checked my notes. A minimum of 15 shots of pink Whitney did. I don't even know how you were standing up after that meet and greet. You were like fine by the end of the game too, but you were in one. I respected the hell out of it. You know why? 'cause it was the second night that I think the day before he had a couple too, so you know the second day of vacation, you always get that I thought it was because you weren't there to yell at him. So I was maybe on the stage. Oh my God. About what? Not fucking around, but listen, so half the people, they said to me, like, who are you betting on who you bet? And I said, guys, no offense, and I don't mind at all if Nashville wins, but Tampa Bay lightning, they are the Alabama and football. You just don't make money betting against them. I said, I'm on Tampa. It's just the way that team plays and I know you were just talking about size and I think besides having the best goalie in the world, they're de so big I've talked about it. But when you talk about size on Nashville, that Tanner general is one hell of a fucking hockey player. He's out there running, I don't know if it was us. I don't know if it was McDonough. It was one of the big defense in the Tampa has basically all of them are. He trucked them. You could tell he was kind of like taking aback and maybe it was headman and I don't know, but he's just out there like he plays citizens as the center and then they got that trend in that monster on the other wing. It's like that team is legit and I don't know what's going to happen we can get into the whole forestburg rumors later in the show but you're right baz. I was impressed by Nashville size and in terms of the game the other thing for viewers at the stadium, which I'm guessing also people watching at home got to experience was the microphones were the best I've ever heard for a game. They must have had 50 of them down near the ice you could hear every single skate blade. Every pass, every check you could hear the ref's talking to each other. It was unreal to set up the league did in terms of getting to hear some real audio from download of the ice, especially when you're in a stadium holding 70,000 people, but in terms of.
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"thatcher demko" Discussed on Spittin' Chiclets
"To get a lesson like, oh, we're fucked. I'm more clapping because I've been asking you to get a couple lessons for a couple of years. So I'm fired up. Well, hey, sometimes things happen for a reason. I know there was a reason I waited and wait till you see folks who I got helping me with my swing. I might even wind up three quarters now. I might get rid of the jovanovski special with the short backswing with the stiff shaft. So I'm excited to see what I can do. I boys before we get to the game, I do want to mention the two guests I alluded to earlier. We have Vancouver connections goalie Thatcher demko, who's been absolutely killing it lately, got the Canucks I think three points out of the playoffs right now and Canadian women's Olympic gold medal winner, Natalie spooner joined us for a nice chat. So we got a couple of great interviews coming later. Also, I saw you boys with fuel up pretty good with the old pink Whitney this weekend. There was lots of it in Nashville and Atlanta and you too can enjoy the fine taste of pink Whitney at your local package store. Or you can belly up to your favorite local joint in order to. Either way, be sure to get your hands on some pink Whitney. Speaking of pink Whitney, sorry. At one of the watering holes that Colin and I jumped into on Friday night, I could tell the guy he heard me say something to my brother and the guy there's a guy near me with a woman and he kind of like snapped his head. I think he's like, oh, I recognize that voice. And so he's kind of like looking, and he said, hey, are you Ryan Whitney? I said, yeah, what's going on man? So we're just shooting. She's like, oh, big fan of the show. And actually, I got to tell you, this is my girlfriend here. And we met through pink Whitney. We met because of pink Whitney. I had a pink Whitney drink in a bar in Toronto. He's actually from a town. He said he's from like 45 minutes from well and I don't remember the name of the town, but then he saw this girl who is now dating. She ordered a shot of pink Whitney. And he's like, hey, is that penguin? And she's like, yeah, I love it, so they started chatting it up and boom. Now they're dating going on road trips to Nashville, just smashing each other the whole three nights I'm sure. So they tagged in. I'm gonna lay my mom. I put calling in. I tagged calling in for me. When it's got the gag ball in his mouth and these.
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"thatcher demko" Discussed on Spittin' Chiclets
"Spitting checklists presented by pink Whitney. For my Friends at New Amsterdam vodka, here in the past little sports podcast family. Lots to get to this week boys. We got a pair of awesome interviews coming up, but we would down south, Atlanta for bus and grinnell, then the rest of us were natural for the big game at the stadium series. It looks like you boys are still recovering from a long weekend. Let's check and see how we're feeling. Mikey G, you did a lot of traveling. How you doing, buddy? I feel great. Great weekend in Atlanta, me and Baez got to hit the Jell-O Jell-O dunk tank, so that was awesome. And then I headed over to Nashville, which was a gang, great time, pink Whitney party, RAM. Unfortunately, you couldn't be there. I'm sure you'll get into that. But a big week of content ahead, tons of barstool content for the Barcelona hockey team from Chick-fil-A cup is dropping. So I'm pretty excited. I feel good, all right? Yeah, we've got some good stuff coming on YouTube, but our buddy Patrick shop a little later this week, but Paul biz nasty bissett, your feet must be tired from tap dance and we'll get to that shortly, but how you feeling brother? Is RA on fast forward right now? Did you do death wish coffee before you hopped on? No, just two cops, but I should probably stick to one. I think I'll be a little too revved up. I can't even keep up right now. If I can brain scrambling, yeah, no, it was a great week a hockey guys. It was fun not gee mentioned. We got to get down south for the ECHL game with Derek nesbitt. He played it, or he already played in his thousand, but we did the celebration game. Gee, there must have been what, 6000 people there. Of course, everything went as scripted. It's like we were The Wizard of Oz kind of orchestrating everything. He ended up with a goal in assist, turned out to be first star, incredible pre game speech, postgame speech, the sky was meant for the mic, so we're excited, man. We got two really, really fun videos for the ECHL jungle series coming out. That's all brought to you by laundry sauce, as you can see on my shirt, but going back to that dunk tank, though, G like if you want to touch that thing before we hopped in it before the game, it started. I think we'd both have third degree burns because they had to make the Jell-O with the warm water warm water that they use for the zamboni wit. So this thing was like scalding hot. I can't feel my feet. So when we got dunked it because they put so much ice in it, they thought it was now at that point like room temperature. Well, we get dunked and at the bottom, it took a second for me to kick in and then I'm like, oh shit, it's still hot at the bottom, so I'm trying to get my feet up because I was filming. I had them filming on the phone and I'm like ripping on them. I'm like, ha ha, babe. You got dunked and he's looking at me like help. Help and then finally he looked at me like fucking help me now or I'm gonna kill you. And I'm like, you know what? There's something wrong here. Hey, it's kinda like it's kinda like the east coast league, dude. That's the coast, right there. You go down there, you get third degree burn if it was an NHL dunk tank you'd probably have a foot massage down at the bottom of it. That's true. It shows what that league's all about. With the elements. Get the Manny petty at the bottom of the NHL dunk tank. Plus a tug. That's a voice of the width dog of course. Wait, I probably heard the most of us. I mean, two nights in Nashville, that's like a couple nights in Vegas boy. That town fucking rocks. Yeah, boys. I mean, listen, I would possibly say I'm blessed with one of those sweetest pro job jobs post career. You could ever have, but it's slowly killing me. We've been able to go to Vegas. We go on all these trips and every single time I'm completely waffled the whole time. I don't really know what to do. I don't really know how to approach the next trip, but I'll say this. Nashville is one of the best cities in the country, and I forgot about how cool it was. It is actually a time from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to sleep. And in a way, it's so different than Vegas. There's no casinos and that ruckus and that bullshit to deal with. It's just people having a good old grand time listening to some phenomenal music, having drinks early, often and going up and down Broadway. And I know that's a little bit for the touristy. I guess there's other sections of Nashville that maybe people are who live there more familiar with, a little more chill, but if you're going to chill on Broadway, like we did, you're getting after it. And I love that city. It was the best outdoor game I've ever been to or ever seen. We can go into that, but I had a hell of a weekend. And biz, I actually talked to grinnell. I'm not going to spoil how the whole game went, but wow, what a storyline for that Atlanta gladiators game and the way it all went down. I can't wait to see the video. It's going to be good. As far as the game, it looked awesome on television, like perfect skyline, perfect night to have the game, like as far as temperature and they said it was drizzling a little bit. Did you guys feel it? No. Not sweet. Let's be a dick, but no. I didn't even notice it though. Walking over there. It must have happened during the game. I didn't see it even falling during the game at all. We didn't get to mention Jason aldean. What is showing we had? There was like a three hour line just to come take a picture with wit and it was unbelievable. Shout out to Jason aldean, and everyone that came out there. That place is great. So my brother came with me on the trip. Colin went and he got the call. I need to have somebody with me. And so we got in on Friday, and I went over and I did busting with the boys. So for people who aren't aware, check that podcast out. It's under the barstool sports podcast network. It's will Compton and Taylor luwan, both NFL guys, Taylor's actually signed like an $80 million contract a few years ago. This guy's a stud offensive lineman. 50 million guaranteed. We talked about that. But I think my episode with them.
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"thatcher demko" Discussed on Bruins Beat
"It's hard to completely Bank on him for season. You can say, is to go to the future, but to actually have him be the starter on a team that is looking to go to the Stanley Cup is tough, that's just how it works is dead. But there are some interesting older free-agent options in that. I mean again, halak is officially gone. That is not, he's not returning, he's not coming back. That has been announced crunch. Alan Walsh Meadow for not making a big deal out of it. You know, you just kind of, I think you tweeted it. You said it to someone so not not a huge, you know, picture of Sweeney putting a sword in the bath. La creditas crazy like that. Um, but what is interesting what is interesting is there's one named. That's right, he's not even a free agent he's it's Braden. Holtby out in Vancouver you know Vancouver wants to buy them out and that's one name that's been kicked around. Is may be a guy who come in and no absolutely not. No you don't want Braden holtby near your team. And we said this last offseason we this was people were saying this last offseason in Vancouver went and signed up to 2 years 4 million per awful. And I was looking at the stats last night every single month, Vance, even worse than you think it's worse than you think. It's like I thought he was like bottom climbing. Yeah, yeah, I think he was this horrible and I'm not going to go step-by-step because it's hard to podcast people off. This is is boring. But you can go down the line and he's bottom five in every stat, every single stat. He's bottom five in high danger. Say percentage. Granted yet he was behind a shity Canucks. Defense took. I'll give him that crappy connects defense but hellebuyck's behind a horrible or behind a bad defense in Winnipeg Thatcher. Demko wasn't terrible in Vancouver. Hope he was terrible. Hope he was so awful like the numbers if you want to go check them out. Go to Natural stat trick and look at them yourself. They're terrible. This is not a guy. You want even at a million? A million-and-a-half. I don't care that. You want a cup. A few years ago I don't care that he used to kill you whenever he play you play the Bruins, I don't care. He's not good. Stop with the whole. You know, do the Brewers are going to, you know, sweep in and get Opie on the cheek wage. No let another team. Make a stupid decision like that. Like, like they can ice skating Oliver ekman-larsson, which is also the dump and now having to dump all these hundred. Yeah no. I I was thinking about this yesterday, the Bruins being interested in that and just program to a cold sweat cuz I know the arguments going to be is that he's one. So he's better than Rask when he's been a below below replacement. Level player for eight years now like he's been dogshit. So I know that arguments coming the Bruins somehow get in the mix or there's rumors about it so whether you don't get it, he's a winner. Yeah he has a hidden 897 say percentage, his last two capitals and that's why they replaced him with uh feet Advantage. Check and Sandstone off and all those guys have the Bruins roasted in the offs, that that was a better option on it. And he'll be brought them. But Yeah, if that's a guy that's very concerning whether even if they're eating some of the cap, the Vancouver Canucks and it's a one-year deal. I don't know how you go into it cuz then you go back into the mix of is Braden..