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00:02I'm proud to present the 25-26 Mr. TNT award to my fellow Eric Carlson, aka Carlito.
00:13Thank you, thank you, thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you to the entire TNT panel for voting for
00:21me. I appreciate it. Don't really know what this means, but it means a lot to me. It's something I
00:28will remember forever. I will put it amongst the very few other trophies that I have. I
00:36hope that this solidifies the bandwagon support we're going to get from Biz, that he has now
00:43finally moved over to our team forever. That's what I take this award as, and that's what it
00:50means to me, so I hope that that comes true.
00:55Oh, wow. And joining us now, there he is.
00:59Unbelievable.
01:00Mr. TNT himself, Eric Carlson, thanks for joining us. Biggest night of your life. Appreciate
01:06you coming on. And you got right into it.
01:09Huge night.
01:10Biz bandwagon, I was, listen, I was kind of shocked when you offered it in the first place.
01:16He's been a mush in the past. Is it still on the table?
01:22I mean, I think it has to be. I don't know if you want to, but I think it has
01:26to be on
01:27the table.
01:27I've been a pretty big mush lately, Eric, and I don't think I'm going to be accepting
01:33the olive branch that you sent out. I even told Kyle Dubas when we interviewed him on
01:37Spittin' Chicklets, I will not be jumping on the bandwagon. And it's for your safety. And I
01:42just wanted to say that with Mr. TNT, you know, it can be a bit of a shallow award and
01:47we do base it sometimes on looks. You know, your hockey hair is incredible, also known
01:53as flow. So that was part of the reason I voted for you. So I just wanted to ask you,
01:58what's your secret?
01:59To my hair?
02:00Yes.
02:02Good genes, I guess. And I still have it all. And it's still not great. So it's great.
02:11I mean, I think that I spent like, you know, 99% less time on my hair than Hank would
02:18on
02:19his.
02:20And they kind of look the same. So I think like I'm just genetics.
02:25All right. That's why you have that trophy and he doesn't. Yeah, maybe, maybe. Carlito,
02:31congratulations. I clearly don't spend a lot of time on my hair as well either. But I
02:36want to talk about your regular season. Last year, you guys missed the playoffs. Your PP
02:39was awful. This year, your power play is seventh overall and 2,666 points came on the power
02:45play. What changed for you personally? What changed for your power play this season?
02:50I mean, it's hard to pinpoint exactly what, but I think obviously overall, I think we
02:55played better as a team throughout the year, which makes you feel a little bit better about
03:01yourself. You know, we were leading a lot more games than we did probably the past couple
03:06of years, which also takes a little bit of the pressure off. And then just in general,
03:11I mean, you look at the guys that we have in our lineup, you know, it's a pretty decent
03:16five man unit, you know, so we found a way to make it all work. And I think, you know,
03:21we were
03:22very opportunistic and, you know, just found ways to score goals when we needed it the most. And I think
03:28that's what would the thing that we're the most proud of. I think that it's, you know, it won us
03:33a lot
03:33of games this year. And that's just, you know, timing on when we scored those goals. And that just shows
03:38that the guys that we have on there are big time players. And, you know, that's the reason why.
03:43E.K., back to Mr. TNT. You've won multiple trophies, some medals in your career.
03:49Where does this rank in your category of trophies? Because it looks pretty cool to me.
03:52I know. It's a beautiful trophy. Beautiful. I think it's actually like very stunning and it will go
04:00really nice with some of the other stuff that I have. But my son claimed it and he said, Dad,
04:08did everyone
04:09win this trophy? He said, I said, no, this is just for me. And he said, good.
04:14There you go. Because I've been trying
04:15to teach him about the participation trophies that we don't like.
04:19Yeah.
04:21He got the concept. He said, okay,
04:23that's a good trophy. I'll take it.
04:26There you go.
04:27Chris Chalios here, you already answered my questions for your
04:30acceptance speech, but
04:31you had no idea what the award was.
04:33But, I mean, back in the day they'd hand out
04:35the Molson award and you get to be on TV and do the interview. It was a big deal.
04:39But, so, I guess what I'm going to ask you is, you know, did you ever change for a TNT
04:46game
04:46knowing it was national? I highly doubt it, but is there something that, you know,
04:52because it was a national game you got excited for since you lit it up on all the telecasts?
04:57Yeah, I mean, I mean, listen, like I'm very fortunate to be here in Pittsburgh.
05:02You know, we get a lot of national TV games.
05:06Obviously, it hasn't gone as well as we wanted to in the previous years.
05:09And somehow we still get on there.
05:12I guess I have to thank Sid for that.
05:16So, I just think that, you know, I enjoy the TNT games.
05:20You know it's going to be a big game. It's usually against a good opponent.
05:23A lot of people are going to be watching. And, you know, if you're lucky enough,
05:27you get to talk to you guys. And that's always a pleasure.
05:30Can we ask about Carlito and who gave you that nickname?
05:34Carlito?
05:36Yeah. I mean, that's, that's, that's, that's LeTang.
05:40Tanger. LeTang.
05:43We have a lot of nicknames for each other.
05:45His English is a little bit broken.
05:48And, uh, apparently he's a French Canadian, but also speaks Spanish.
05:52So, I guess I'm going to.
05:54Oh, it's called first.
05:55We are going to do a re-vote.
05:57French Canadian. He speaks Spanish.
05:59Uh, we have someone that wanted to.
06:01Yeah, he does it all.
06:01We have someone that wanted to congratulate you in Swedish.
06:04Henrik Lundqvist, who's not here.
06:06He's out probably at a party with a lot of really good looking people right now.
06:10Yeah, he's probably in south of France.
06:11Yeah.
06:12Living the rough life that he lives.
06:14Uh, but here it goes. Here's what Hank had to say.
06:19Eric.
06:21I'm so sorry I can't be there celebrating this big moment with you.
06:25I just want to tell you congratulations on this extremely important award.
06:31Well deserved.
06:32Och som vi brukar säga i Sverige.
06:36Du är en stjärna.
06:37Och du förtjänar det här. Till hundra procent.
06:41Stort grattis.
06:46What did he say?
06:49He said you're a big star and you deserve this a hundred percent, which I appreciate.
06:55I thought he said his hair was better than yours.
06:58That's what I thought.
07:00Yeah.
07:00Yeah.
07:01I mean, he looked way better than I do right now.
07:04I just played a quick nine and I just rushed home and talked to you guys.
07:08Well, listen, Eric, congratulations.
07:11Thanks so much for coming on.
07:13Congrats, buddy.
07:14Congrats.
07:15Good luck.
07:15Chris Chelios is here.
07:17He won three Norris trophies too.
07:18He doesn't have that.
07:19Yeah.
07:19He's got that.
07:21Hopefully I can play as long as he did.
07:23Keep it going.
07:24Yep.
07:25Yeah.
07:27Congratulations.
07:27Thanks so much.
07:28Congrats.
07:29Congrats.
07:29Good luck.
07:29Thank you guys.
07:30I appreciate it.
07:32Yes.
07:34Hopefully we'll see you again.