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00:01This is like when Tom Brady said something that you liked, you're like, oh no, my Tom
00:08Brady armor is cracking, I might have to like him.
00:14I mean, Kachuk is saying, I think, a mostly obvious thing here.
00:18Yeah.
00:19Yeah.
00:20At the risk of being so biased.
00:22He's acknowledging something that, you know, honestly, I wouldn't have been surprised if
00:29he had no opinion about Buffalo.
00:32Because when he's been here, I mean, I think it's mostly been like since his career, it's
00:38been a dead zone.
00:40I would say that maybe except for one thing, his father.
00:45Right.
00:46Not that he played against the Sabres very often, Keith Kachuk.
00:50Yeah.
00:50But he did, I mean, I'm stereotyping, I'm guessing, he did grow up in a house.
00:56Sure.
00:56Where you would have known the NHL and been to cities and had, had a lay of the land.
01:02Yeah.
01:03But, you know, that's not to, I'm not trying to, you know, contradict your point.
01:06Kachuk is also, for me, not a Tom level, Tom Brady level villain.
01:11Even his brother?
01:13Even his brother.
01:14I, I, I, I have a hard time with hockey players sometimes because sometimes the most boisterous
01:23opinionated ones, like that's their style and they kind of play that way.
01:27And I like guys who play that way.
01:29Like, I like both of those guys as players a lot.
01:32They're, they're gross.
01:33Like if we were in a playoff series with either of them, it would be really annoying.
01:39But I, I just, I, I appreciate the way they go about it.
01:44I know.
01:45I know you're right.
01:47Ugh.
01:47And, and, and look, not that I couldn't have.
01:50Can't root for that guy in life.
01:51No, I know.
01:51No.
01:52I'm going to talk this through because like none of it has really mattered until now.
01:58Like next year, this could all change.
02:00Like Brady was ruining our lives by beating us all the time.
02:04And, you know, yeah, the bills never got anywhere.
02:07Just like the Sabres haven't gotten anywhere since either Kachuk brothers long before they
02:11were in the league.
02:12And now that they're in the league for what are they seven, eight years into their careers.
02:16So they, they were around for half of this drought that we've experienced.
02:19They've never been a problem to me because I didn't really care who was, you know, in my
02:24way and who was being dirty or cheap or whatever.
02:27Cause I'm watching the league and I can see the impact you're having on your team.
02:33And I respect it.
02:35Now it'll change.
02:36Like next year playing Florida and playing Ottawa, maybe even playing Ottawa this year.
02:41Who knows?
02:41They're down to nothing, but they don't have to, you know, roll over here.
02:44They're going home.
02:45Close games.
02:46Close games.
02:47Um, but those two guys, I don't know.
02:51I, I, and this isn't like the Olympics or things.
02:54I'm not that guy.
02:55Like, Oh, USA, USA paint, you know.
02:57Paint my face or anything.
02:58I like both of those players.
03:00So who do you not like in hockey?
03:02Who's the, who's the prototype of a player that you don't like big, but soft or, um, French
03:10Canadian.
03:10French Canadian.
03:12Yes.
03:13Yeah.
03:15Start right there.
03:16Yes.
03:16Anybody that's French.
03:17Anybody from Saskatoon.
03:18Yeah.
03:19Um, I'm not sure.
03:25I, I'm not sure I'm prepared to give you a good answer to your question.
03:28It's a good question.
03:29Normally it could be a Sabres player when they're bad.
03:32Yeah.
03:32That would come to mind.
03:34I also have not been in shape rooting against the, uh, so-called bad guys of the, the rest
03:42of the league because I've been too mad at my own team.
03:44Right, right.
03:45That's, that's really the point I'm trying to make.
03:47The thing is I differ, I'm trying to differentiate Brady and Brady, Tom Brady, Tom Brady.
03:52And it's the same thing.
03:53The bills were not relevant, but yet he still stands out in a way that these guys don't
04:00yet.
04:01And I'm not sure why that is exactly, uh, might be the supermodel wife.
04:04Just NFL is just such a higher plateau of, of stardom that it's harder to avoid the, I
04:13don't know.
04:13These guys aren't in my hair, I guess yet.
04:16They, they probably will be.
04:17Who do I not like?
04:19I'll tell you what else makes this maybe a challenging.
04:22I thought in game one, Boston was a bunch of sweethearts.
04:26Really?
04:27There was no Brady Kachuk fighting on the opening face-off moment.
04:31Right.
04:31Anything close to that.
04:32Agree?
04:33I mean, what was it?
04:34The Sabres were the more physical team.
04:37They won the game.
04:38I didn't have anything where I thought that I can remember right now.
04:42There's like anyone where I felt like taken advantage of, or we didn't have the right
04:46response to, yeah, no, there was really nothing.
04:49Marco Sturm, their coach had that comment before the series about how the Bruins were bigger
04:54and more physical.
04:55I never believed him.
04:56Like that's provably wrong.
04:58I think you're trying to sell something here that maybe people will listen to, but I never,
05:04wanted it for like a narrative because it's not true.
05:07I thought in some way he's trying to just plant a seed with the refs.
05:10Like, you know, we're going to be, you know.
05:13Or his own team.
05:14Yeah.
05:14We're going to hit them.
05:15We're going to be on them.
05:16Really, we're going to grab them.
05:18And like, because we're big and physical, don't assume that we're committing penalties.
05:22That's all I thought that that was myself.
05:24I don't know that I'm right about that, but that's what I thought.
05:27Because yeah, I mean, the stats, whatever.
05:29It's not a true statement.
05:31No, right.
05:31When Philadelphia did it with Hitchcock, I'm sorry, again, ancient history, but like, well,
05:36he's right.
05:37Can I win anyway?
05:39Right.
05:40And this was like, well, that's not even really true.
05:43I mean, I don't know.
05:45The Sabres were great Sunday.
05:48And good thing that they got there, which was an amazing experience for the fans and
05:54the players, too.
05:55I love how Paul mentioned yesterday the celebration on the glass after the Samuelson goal.
06:02And like, Darlene and McLeod are off their feet jumping in there.
06:05And he says he used a Getty Images picture where McLeod is off his feet in the shot.
06:10Like, you can't deny the excitement of the players there.
06:15And, you know, good for them.
06:16I mean, how could you not be caught up in it, I guess?
06:18But yeah, Boston didn't really, to put it another way, bother us, me, in the opener.
06:27It really wasn't that much to deal with.
06:29They scored a couple.
06:30Couldn't score on them until pretty late.
06:32But otherwise, was not a stupid game.
06:35Ever.
06:38Maybe Boston doubles down and tries to do that.
06:42That's the 06 Flyers.
06:43Go for it.
06:44Right.
06:44Yeah, that's how you lose 8-0.
06:48If you get there.
06:50I mean, I don't think they're, I don't sense the separation between these teams as much
06:55as Buffalo, I think, really, you know, it was their game.
07:00Boston just happened to have the lead for most of it.
07:03But, which can happen in hockey, I don't think there's a separation between Buffalo and Boston
07:08like there was then with Buffalo and Philly.
07:11Like, I don't think Boston is a bunch of aircraft carriers.
07:14There's no Kevin Hatcher playing here.
07:17Darian Hatcher.
07:17Darian Hatcher, thank you.
07:19Younger brother of Kevin Hatcher.
07:22Rathje.
07:23Rathje, right.
07:25Holy cow.
07:27Bring it on.
07:28Amazing.
07:28Well, I would say, you might be right.
07:31There was a comment from Sturm after the game, though, about something like, this is how
07:36we have to play them.
07:39So, maybe they push the, you know, the envelope on dirty.
07:45Mm-hmm.
07:46The Sabres' power play is bad.
07:49That's right.
07:50So, you could do that.
07:50If you want to deter them from taking penalties, you're going to have to actually score.
07:55Yeah.
07:56That's right.
07:58We didn't have that problem in 06.
08:00No.
08:00They win the net.
08:01And the Bruins' goalie is much better than the Flyers' goalie in that series.
08:06So, I mean, it's a playable strategy.
08:09You see it in hockey all the time.
08:11If they wanted to get stupid in this game and take their chances on PK and with Swayman,
08:17they could.
08:18And hopefully, in my opinion, the Sabres don't get tilted by it.
08:24Overreact.
08:25Overreact.
08:25Right.
08:26And, well, we got Logan Stanley, you know, so, I mean, hopefully, Josh Dunn, even.
08:34Right.
08:34I would not want to see them fall for that.
08:38Take their chances on the power play.
08:41I say that now.
08:43I mean, is bad too strong?
08:46They're riding like an 0 for 20-something streak, right, that goes back into the regular season.
08:51I think, where they 0 and 6.
08:53I mean, they might be 0 for the last 20.
08:54At least.
08:55I think I saw 0 for 16 to close the season and then 0 for 4 on Sunday night.
09:00Okay.
09:02So, yeah, bad is not too strong.
09:07It's definitely something that's ebbed and flowed as the year has gone, which is good.
09:11Ebb or flow.
09:12It's up and down, and right now it's down.
09:16Which is good?
09:16Which is the good one?
09:17The ebb or the flow.
09:18I don't know.
09:18The ebb or the flow.
09:19I think they're equals.
09:19I think they're kind of just the same.
09:21Only one is out, one is in.
09:22Right.
09:23But maybe not up and down.
09:25Just in and out.
09:26Right.
09:27Ebb and flow.
09:28So, it doesn't really fit.
09:29No, it's fine.
09:31The highs and lows make it easier to understand.
09:35The highs are the good.
09:37The lows are the bad.
09:38That's how I usually do it.
09:39Ebbs and flows.
09:41Flows are not lows.
09:44And ebbs are not...
09:45Lebs.
09:46Debs.
09:47Let's take a break.
09:49Montreal-Tampa tonight, Game 2.
09:51Then, Game 3 is Friday, I think, in that one.
09:55Isn't it?
09:56It's not Thursday.
09:57I have not gone hard on the schedule from here on out.
10:01Game 3 is Friday night in that series.
10:05So, on Thursday, we line up with Ottawa and Carolina.
10:11And Montreal goes to Friday.
10:13Oh, okay.
10:14Because they got an extra day.
10:15Because they would be when if they were going every...
10:17They'd be tomorrow, but they're not.
10:18They're not.
10:19So, Game 3 in Ottawa is Thursday.
10:21Game 3 in Boston is Thursday.
10:23Game 3 in Montreal is...
10:26Friday.
10:27Is Friday.
10:27Game 3 in Pittsburgh is tomorrow.
10:31Philadelphia.
10:32Right.
10:33That's tomorrow.
10:33Going home up 2-0.
10:34That's pretty tasty.
10:36Yeah.
10:36And that looks legit, I think.
10:38They are just smothering the Penguins.
10:41I saw most of the front...
10:44Not really, the front...
10:45I really just didn't see the third period of this game.
10:47And I think midway through the second, Pittsburgh literally had three shots on goal.
10:53So, the only hockey I watched last night was most of the first period of that game before
10:57I didn't feel well.
11:00And Pittsburgh, like, kind of like the Sabres a little bit on Sunday, got chances.
11:05There was one Thompson chance on Sunday where it looked like Swayman saved it off the shaft
11:11of his stick.
11:12Like, he was going top corner, but it hit the stick.
11:15The Penguins were just missing.
11:18And I was thinking that watching the game.
11:19Like, they're getting...
11:21Then the game got kind of dumb with high-sticking penalties.
11:23But before that, the Penguins had a few good looks and just could not hit the net.
11:30And late in the first period, they showed a graphic close to this, if not exactly this.
11:3419 shot attempts, two shots on goal.
11:36That was...
11:37Yeah.
11:38I think when I saw three shots close to halfway through, I think it was like that number was
11:4326.
11:44Wow.
11:4426 shot attempts, three shots on goal.
11:46They ended up with 27 shots on goal.
11:48So, they got some pucks at Vladar.
11:51Is that...
11:51You know, once I left the game, they got some action.
11:55But they got shut out.
11:57Risto.
11:57See Risto and Crosby?
11:59Yes.
11:59Kind of cool.
12:00Risto punched him right in the head.
12:02And then he's like, what?
12:03Well, let me tell you what.
12:04You punched him literally in the head.
12:06Probably wanted Crosby to go with him.
12:07I was just complaining there.
12:09Probably hoping.
12:09He wasn't...
12:09Hopefully he wasn't...
12:10I didn't do anything.
12:11Right.
12:12Because you did sort of right to the head.
12:14Crosby definitely did not punch him in the head.
12:16No.
12:17That I can be sure of.
12:19Yep.
12:19But Flyers got away with it.
12:20Shut out win.
12:21Mike Schopen, the Bulldog, here at 803-0550.
12:24Your calls are welcome.
12:25This is WGR.
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