00:00You know, when I saw this headline the other day, I had to look twice, and Kurtz, I was thinking of you because you don't often get, I don't know what, the best defenseman in the NHL switching uniforms at this point, but that's exactly what happened with Quinn Hughes heading to the wild from the Canucks.
00:19Did you see this coming?
00:21Was there any rumors about this happening here with Minnesota?
00:25Well, that's the key there.
00:28We knew he was going to get traded.
00:29I don't think we thought it would be Minnesota.
00:31You know, the Devils, everyone wanted him to go to the Devils, go play with his brothers, Jack and Luke.
00:35Jack's still on the IL, apparently not close to returning either, and he still might do that.
00:39He has a year and a half left on his contract, so there's still a chance he does that at some point here.
00:44Listen, I like to deal with both teams, all right?
00:47Minnesota, you get, you said it, Joe, if not the best defenseman in the NHL, top three at worst, all right?
00:52So you get a great defenseman there.
00:53Fine.
00:53You gave up Marco Rossi, a good young center, man, good young player here.
00:57Like him a lot.
00:58You give up the defenseman, who I don't think, he's already a good player.
01:02I don't think he'll beat Quinn Hughes in the future, but I think he'll be 85, 90% of them.
01:06So you combine that with Rossi, with the number one pick, and you get a prospect there.
01:12Like I said, I think this is a win-win for both teams.
01:14My only issue is this.
01:16Guys, you got Quinn.
01:18Are you really as good as Colorado?
01:21How about Dallas?
01:22And they're in your division.
01:23I mean, so that's my only issue.
01:25If I'm Minnesota, as if you're a poker player, which I am, you're all in now.
01:29This can't be your last move.
01:30You're all in.
01:31You've got to make more moves now to be up there with, I guess, the bigger boys.
01:34They're close, but they're not quite there yet.
01:37Fashion show, sometimes, Joe, I call, or George, sometimes I call it.
01:40And we start to head down and say, okay, who's coming into an NFL game?
01:43What are they wearing?
01:43A WNBA game?
01:44Do you get the picture?
01:45But in the NHL, the fashion is sometimes what they're going to wear on the ice.
01:48The stadium sweaters for 2026 have been released.
01:52Tampa Bay Lightning and the Boston Bruins.
01:53I don't know how much money we spent on actually designing these uniforms, George.
01:57How are we feeling about these TBLs and the Boston Bruins with a, I guess, a Bruin on there?
02:02Tough scene.
02:04You know, for the most part, you're talking about one of my pet peeves.
02:08I hate all this stuff.
02:10I mean, this stuff they show on TV, the color rush uniforms or whatever.
02:14I mean, there's a reason the old uniforms work, right?
02:17This is all a money grab.
02:18I mean, let's get people to buy jerseys and all this stuff.
02:21I mean, it's every sport, right?
02:22The NFL makes it in baseball, does the all-star uniforms.
02:25It's just gross.
02:26What the hell are we doing here?
02:27For the most part, I don't mind with Tampa Bay Lightning.
02:29There's a TBL.
02:31It's a cool combination.
02:32I don't hate the Bruins, but what's wrong with the traditional uniforms?
02:35Why do we need to do this?
02:37There's nothing wrong with the Boston Bruins road or home sweater.
02:41They're an original six team.
02:42It's been around for over 100 years.
02:43I think it works.
02:44I think it works, boys.
02:45So I don't hate them, which I usually do.
02:47I guess if you can answer which one I prefer, I like the Lightning sweater more than the Bruins.
02:51There you go.
02:53Oh, look at that.
02:54Well, I won't be wearing any sweaters in Florida anytime soon here, but they are home,
02:59taking on the Kings tonight.
03:01Five and a half, I think, is the total.
03:04It's a short number for Florida here.
03:06What are you thinking?
03:08Don't dodge your camper, right?
03:09He's on the IL, starting goaltender for LA.
03:11He was, I don't know if I want to call it run, but he was bumped into by Mikko Rantan,
03:15who's now done this a few times, right?
03:17Put out Romanoff at the Islanders, hit the other player as well, and now he puts out Kemper.
03:22I think it's a concussion.
03:23They won't say it, but I think it was a concussion.
03:24Took a forearm elbow right to the head there.
03:27So Kemper's out.
03:28They'll go with the backup goaltender tonight.
03:29I assume it'll be Forsberg there.
03:31Hard not to like the Panthers.
03:32All right, the only question I'm thinking here, do I want to go with the under?
03:35You know, five and a half, you're getting minus 102 right now.
03:38That's my only question here.
03:39Florida's definitely, I think they'll win the game, and I kind of like the under as well here.
03:44How about this next game, George?
03:47We take a look at this.
03:48Carolina and Nashville tonight.
03:49Now, also, sometimes you take a look at the X's and O's on the ice here.
03:52How about off the ice?
03:53It's the Nick Saban effect as he buys into the Nashville program.
03:57Minus 184 prices a favor for Carolina.
03:59Saban buys into the Preds.
04:01Does that give you any juice on the ice, George?
04:03First of all, this is a great thing, right?
04:05Maybe it'll help out, you know, down south there with the NHL.
04:08Great.
04:09Good.
04:09Nick and Joy.
04:09Apparently he wants to buy into some other professional teams in Tennessee as well.
04:13So we'll see how that works out there.
04:15Nashville's playing better.
04:17Now, that being said, they couldn't really play any worse.
04:19You're looking for a team that's going to make some trades.
04:21It's going to be Nashville.
04:23Stan Coase is on the block.
04:24Martins O's on the block here.
04:26I do wonder if they would move Roman Yossi at some point here.
04:29But they have a team that everyone's going to be coming to, right?
04:31They're the shopping center.
04:33Let's go to Nashville.
04:34See what we can get prying out of them.
04:36Carolina, one of the best teams in the East here.
04:39Once again, hard, not like the Carolina Panthers, but you're not laying minus 184.
04:42So either you're parlaying it.
04:44This is not a great parlaying night, but maybe you want to go to Vegas later on here.
04:47I can sort of see that.
04:48So give me Carolina, but you've got to find a partner.
04:51Any other games on the ice tonight that you like, George?
04:53Because we can't take the Flyers because they win every night.
04:55So who else do you like tonight, George?
04:56Come on now.
04:58Vegas against the Devils.
04:59A struggling team here.
05:00A lot of injuries.
05:01They just put Simon Nemec on the I.O.
05:04I'm going to check a couple things with Vegas.
05:06Jack Eichel and Shea Thaydo have mispracticed yesterday.
05:09A little illness there, right?
05:11It's going around, really, for everybody right now.
05:12Assuming those guys play tonight, or at least one of them, I'm going to like the Golden Knights over the New Jersey Devils here.
05:17As I mentioned, that could be your parlay partner with the Carolina Hurricanes.
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