The Florida Panthers wrapped up the preseason with a 7-0 chaotic win over the Lightning... Niko Mikkola is being called to be suspended for 10 games for being on the ice when the Cats scored their 8th point!
00:00I told you about all the fighting that happened during the Panthers game this week.
00:05The craziest thing that happened in this game was not the dirty, big baby, stupid Tampa Bay Lightning.
00:13Nico Mikula, who, of course, is a monster.
00:17Now, I didn't see this.
00:19I was confused, but I went back and I looked to see what's going on here.
00:23But the Panthers are just lighting up the lightning in what was basically a street hockey game.
00:28Right.
00:28And they were up 7-0.
00:30They take an 8-0 lead.
00:32And then all of a sudden, they have to come back and they're like, Florida goal disallowed.
00:40Disqualified player was on the ice.
00:44Nico Mikula was kicked out of the game.
00:47Right.
00:48But they didn't tell him or he didn't listen.
00:53I think I saw where they announced the wrong player.
00:56I think they announced Sam Eskevich, which is ridiculous.
00:59I mean, he's not fighting anybody.
01:01No.
01:02Sam did not fight nobody.
01:04Let me tell you something.
01:04He's got a little kachuk in him because he was talking a lot of smack to Katie Engelson on the bench.
01:10But they kicked out Nico Mikula.
01:13He kept playing.
01:15They scored a goal.
01:16And then they're just like, that goal doesn't count anymore.
01:19It's now 7-0 again.
01:21Because he was supposed to be playing on the ice.
01:23He didn't even do anything.
01:25He was just there.
01:26But they're just like, yeah, he's not allowed to be on the ice.
01:28That goal doesn't count.
01:29But the game was so wacky.
01:32And this is, can I tell you something?
01:37This is why the Tampa Bay Lightning fans are sad losers.
01:41And it's really a tough look, you know, because for years we looked at you guys as the juggernaut, the big bully, the big brother.
01:48And it's a shame to see you guys go down bad like this.
01:51You know, it's like you guys are, you know, divorced gambling addicts that can just never get your life together.
01:57You are on your high horse and you'll never get back to what you were.
02:01And it's sad.
02:02It's sad because you guys are now calling for Nico Mikula to be suspended for 10 games, which apparently is a rule.
02:11I didn't know about this, but that's what nerds do.
02:13They bring out the rule book.
02:14And they're like heels on the ice and rule 42.2-3 says a disqualified player on the ice results in an automatic 10 game suspension.
02:27And let me tell you something, dude.
02:30If you think that the polar bear being on the ice for an inconsequential goal, that a game you were losing seven to nothing in the preseason.
02:43Should result in Nico Mikula being suspended for 10 games.
02:50You all really, I mean this Tampa Bay lightning fan.
02:54I know you're big time in your feelings and bitter because the Panthers have taken everything you worked for and there was no time.
03:02Look, you guys were the standard, not anymore, but you were at one time the standard.
03:06Okay.
03:08It's over.
03:09It's been over and it's going to be over.
03:13You really need to take a look at yourself to try and get poor Nico Mikula suspended for 10 games for merely existing because somebody said the wrong number on the PA system.
03:27And you're going through the NHL rule book.
03:30Do you want to know how many times in my life as a fan I have looked at the official rule book of any sport?
03:370.0, dude.
03:38We know.
03:400.0.
03:41Don't say that because it makes me feel like I'm uninformed.
03:43I know what I'm talking about.
03:45Every time I ask you a question, you want to fight me.
03:48Well, I mean you ask ridiculous questions.
03:49So, here's the crazy thing about all this.
03:56Tampa Bay has the audacity to complain about Nico or Miko, right?
04:10While hiring a goon squad to come in and fight the whole game.
04:17It's crazy.
04:17So, if he's going to get suspended, then you need all the coaches, staff, and all the organizations suspended for 10 games for setting it up.
04:28Oh, I hate that John Cooper so much.
04:30I hate his face.
04:32I hate his existence.
04:33He used to be the coach for the Buckeyes.
04:35He's got the smug look on the bench.
04:39I just, oh, I hate his face.
04:42He has the punting.
04:45Yes, he does.
04:46He's, let's hear from only a reasonable man in a time like this, Sergei Bobrovsky.
04:53Yeah, it's, you know, one of those nights.
04:55Just fights, you know, stuff like that.
04:57I thought guys handled it well.
04:59You know, we had that in the, pretty much in each round of playoffs last year.
05:04So, we were fine with that.
05:06But, I think in the preseason, it's better to play hockey.
05:10Wow.
05:11Hey, you know what he was thinking?
05:14More break time for me.
05:15He goes standing in the corner with his little, he was so bored.
05:19He was so, he was doing the stretching.
05:21He was so bored.
05:23Poor Sergei Bobrovsky.
05:24But, I can't stand these guys.
05:26I really, like, they really are.
05:28It's really hard to be a sore loser.
05:31Right?
05:31And, and not care that you look like a sore loser.
05:34Uh-huh.
05:35Yeah, it is.
05:36I mean, like, but they, look, I understand.
05:39AJ Greer is, is a Tasmanian devil.
05:42And, and he took liberties in the game before.
05:45And, they wanted some get back.
05:46I don't, I, but I'm not even mad about that.
05:49Like, I, I get it.
05:50I'm not here to say, oh, you guys took a run at Aaron Ekblad.
05:52Like, Aaron Ekblad could handle himself.
05:54Trust me when I tell you when the season starts, he's going to get his get back.
05:56Like, okay, and by the way, I saw you all scurrying away for Jonah Gajevich because he looked at you guys.
06:03You know, it's crazy.
06:04I saw at one point, like, they got the jump on the Panthers, but there was one Panther they didn't get a jump on.
06:09It was Nico Mikula, who just had guy in a headlock like this while eating a fish with the other hand.
06:15You know, it was, it was crazy.
06:19Hockey and baseball carry petty for years.
06:24Yeah.
06:24That doesn't happen in football.
06:27Goldie was saying this on the broadcast.
06:28He's like, I think it's probably time we don't play the lightning as much in the preseason.
06:32He goes, I know it's convenient.
06:34He goes, but the problem is a lot of it.
06:36Like the Carolina hurricane, same thing might happen, but, but there's a, there's a particular bitterness between these two franchises and the coaches.
06:44And he may be right.
06:45Goldie may be right.
06:46Like three straight lightning game too much.
06:50It may be too much.
06:50We may need to like, I don't know.
06:52Especially when hockey carries over.
06:53Like hockey is the only sport where you could play somebody two months ago.
06:58You remember it.
06:59And right before the, the puck is dropped, you drop gloves.
07:03Like only in hockey does that happen.
07:06Why would you keep playing this team?
07:08You know what I love too is Paul Maurice.
07:10He just like, you can tell he's seething when he's asked about it, but he's, he's just, it's hockey code.
07:15So he won't whine about it.
07:17Kevin Rodriguez just said, I don't know what that was, but it wasn't hockey.
07:21What was it?
07:22The legal look at it.
07:24I'll handle that the same way you handle the playoffs.
07:27They'll, they'll look at it.
07:27I'll leave it at that.
07:29Have you ever, I'm sure you have, but a game like that, 250 minutes, whatever.
07:36Yeah.
07:3712, 13 ejections.
07:39Yeah.
07:4017 power plays.
07:42Yeah.
07:42That would be the first 17 power plays.
07:45Absolutely.
07:45First, the rest of it, I can't say for sure that hasn't happened before.
07:48Do these things kind of happen in a, in it just because it was a preseason game.
07:51I mean, I don't think you see it very often.
07:53Yeah.
07:54He's seething.
07:55He's like, he just wants this guy.
07:57Will you stop it with the questions about like, yeah, do we have more penalty minutes than game?
08:03Like, yeah, we know.
08:04I was waiting for him.
08:05I was waiting for him to say, this isn't accomplishing anything.
08:08We're not getting anything done.
08:10No, it wasn't.
08:11It was, it was, it was terrible.
08:13But here's the other thing.
08:14The other thing is, you better match that intensity.
08:19If it means we not hockey in tonight, we just fighting.
08:22So be it.
08:23But you can't like back down.
08:26No, for sure.
08:27No, definitely.
08:28So it's like, look, I didn't start the fight, but I'll finish it.
08:32And look, that's exactly what happened with Carter Verhage.
08:34And that's another thing they're upset about is because they, they took, they, they, they
08:38knocked out Aaron Eckblad, took him out, which fine.
08:41Okay.
08:42And then they took immediately, the next guy they came after was Carter Verhage.
08:46And then Carter Verhage is like, no, dude, F that.
08:48And Carter Verhage is coming.
08:50Like the next play, Carter Verhage, who's not, not a fighter.
08:53Right.
08:53He's like, I'm coming right after you.
08:56And, and, and all hell broke loose.
08:58Carter Verhage.
09:00But you had to think, you had to think this was gonna, I mean, it's almost like if the
09:07league want to look into something, look at all the call-ups and see, oh, we called up
09:12all these guys to play the Panthers in a preseason game.
09:16What did you think was going to happen?
09:18Man.
09:19When is the first game they play?
09:20I think their first game's in November 15th, I think.
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