00:00roll in a car but i wasn't going very fast obviously it was icy and i was going too fast
00:04uh it was minimal damage but i was pretty shook up it's the one and only time i showed up
00:09before a show and went i'm gonna have a beer that's only happened once only happened once
00:17i mean i think today is probably a little bit safe to make that two times
00:24not you know 100 the nfl draft game three what i have a number in mind for your answer
00:35what percent is on the hockey game
00:42somewhere between 88 and 95 okay my number was 93 so we're good friends nailed it we are good
00:49friends yeah i don't remember the salad bar i am 93 almost all game three yeah yeah i mean i
00:58and look
00:59i know what football is and what the bills are but it's it just gets it really is i think
01:06um
01:07i mean it can be informative about where your priorities i don't want to say should be because
01:13i'm sure there are plenty of people that are listening to us right now that have the exact
01:18opposite proportions because they're not that into hockey and the bills are the bigger deal to them
01:24and that's the bigger stage even internationally let alone nationally and like that's your ticket to
01:30the big time and that's the allure and so you're way more interested in what the bills are going to
01:34do at i don't know 11 o'clock or so tonight um is when i think you might estimate that
01:39pick comes in
01:40and i i'm not saying i don't care about it but on this day at this moment it's way in
01:44the back seat
01:45because it's just there's it's just gonna it's gonna be announced at night you know whatever
01:50it's gonna be announced we're gonna know and like okay and i love the draft and every year there's
01:56hockey playoff action against the draft it's a little bit sad right yeah this is your favorite day
02:01yeah maybe your favorite day of the year in sports it's one of them and um i always think oh
02:08i'll just
02:08keep track of the draft and i'll watch a hockey game and then that lasts until about eight o'clock
02:15or even quarter to eight by quarter to eight it's just like oh the draft is coming i want to
02:19i gotta
02:20i need to go see you know who i don't even know it's not chris berman anymore i just need
02:25to get
02:25the tv i need mike greenberg on my tv i need lewis riddick i don't know it just feels right
02:30and today i
02:32don't feel any of that and i don't think i'll feel any of that at 7 45 tonight when the
02:36sabers are
02:36hopefully handling business in the first period against boston in game three but i'm i'm overwhelmingly
02:43game three uh for me uh how about you i'd say like 70 percent i'm doing a podcast tonight on
02:53the bills
02:53pick which is some part of the 30 percent i guess um i i think maybe you and i are
03:04different in a
03:05certain other way which is let me ask find out i'm one for one with the percentages
03:12would you take two two through four games
03:25no okay we're the same then i wouldn't either no i i trust it i i i think they're the
03:30better team
03:31i i think they did not have a very good game too um and you know the the goalie the
03:37the the 100 foot
03:38goal had a lot i think a big impact on that um no i think they're the better team and
03:46if they if they
03:47get this one tonight you will not hear me talking about house money on sunday because i and i won't
03:54be
03:54thinking about house money i'll be thinking about you've got this an opportunity to go stranglehold here
03:58and let's go so that's my yeah i think if i if i were an underdog if the sabers had
04:05squeezed in
04:06somehow and we're playing carolina uh or tampa or you know somebody else that was up top um somebody
04:13good somebody good yeah somebody that i really believe in i'm not like two games does not change
04:18my position good on the bruins the quality of the bruins i don't think they're that good they're not
04:23that deep they've got some good players they've managed to sting them i mean this arvidson is
04:28scoring two goals in game two um that's not a guy that would have been at the tip of anyone's
04:33tongue going into this series i don't think um outside of bruins fans so yeah i think still i'm
04:40still status quo and if i'm status quo i think i've got the better team i don't want to assume
04:43i
04:44have to lose one of these next two games just because they're in boston so um yeah that's that's
04:48that's where that's where i'm at i mean i completely agree paul was right on this point i thought
04:54yesterday with us which is like and i i probably tossed him something intentionally vague just to
05:04see where he would go the first question i asked him was about how they played and he got into
05:09swayman stats or something i don't you just sort of kind of want to tee him up and he was
05:15like you
05:16know i don't really don't care about home and road too much sabers were an excellent road team all
05:20season the bruins are an excellent home team like i'm right there like home teams win 54 percent of
05:28the games what do i do with that i mean they win what not even 11 out of 20 games
05:35in the nhl at home
05:36so i i just choose not to care i don't want to do that too many times i did that
05:41about goaltending i
05:42do that about face-offs i mean something's going to make the difference in this series you know but
05:47i just don't mind that they have to go to boston i've been to boston it's lovely i don't mind
05:52like
05:52the puck's the same size the nets it's hoosiers everything's the same it's just like it's different
05:58noises and i just don't really care that much so i'm not phased by where we're at in this and
06:06i would
06:06also not sign up for 2-2 i mean 3-1 is pretty bad but not even the end right
06:14um and we'll see we've
06:17got lion now in goal um and that will be a big talking point it has been already you were
06:24on that
06:25yesterday you talked me into it we really never i never really took a turn at getting into sort of
06:31the analysis of it but i like the long game point and sort of what you where you could be
06:36after
06:36tonight win or lose yeah goal you know no lukinin isn't on the hellebuck or shisterkin level where he
06:46just has to play and you're going to die with your boots on if you lose with that being your
06:52goalie
06:52uh then you did and nobody's going to blame you right if that's unquestionably your best guy
06:57nobody blames the coach right if he sticks with connor hellebuck in a playoff series and they
07:02lose it's happened like it's never the coach's fault right for bouncing around but even with
07:08what has happened in the last three weeks or so mostly this team was predicated on this amazing run
07:16they've been on was the back and forth it was the duo and i think like that's your advantage you
07:23can
07:23look at it in a positive way boston does not have this issue if you will they do not have
07:30this
07:30question about their goalie they have one of the other guys who's just never going to come out no
07:34matter what maybe late in the game he comes out but he goes back in the next game right yeah
07:39if he
07:39gives up they're down five nothing after two they'll pull them out and rest them for game five game
07:43four but he's never not going to start right right and part of the sabers story is the two if
07:51not
07:51three goaltenders so i don't want to be afraid of that right and the team shouldn't be like that
07:58that's another part of it to me that i don't think i ever articulated exactly this way but you sort
08:04of
08:04tripped a wire in talking like you're talking here because i did mention like you know a part of this
08:10that i can't know well i'm you know saying yesterday i would pivot the lion i i'm predicting
08:15rough will pivot the lion sounds like it i wonder how the team is going to react like will it
08:22seem
08:22panicky to them and i think that's where and i did mention this a few times like yeah this is
08:28not
08:28this is not ottinger this is not swayman this is not an established number one kingpin goalie
08:33they decided three weeks ago that if one guy was going to play to start the playoffs it's going to
08:38be
08:38looking in i mean the team should not feel like this is jarring it's not like it hasn't been who
08:45they've been all year long so it's another reason to me that the door opens for rough to make the
08:50pivot if he so chooses because you don't you shouldn't have to worry too much about how the
08:57majority of the guys are going to take the news like wait we're doing what now wait what are you
09:00doing like all right dallas last year when deborre treated ottinger the way he did that was tough for
09:07the team because like ottinger is like their guy and wait what are we doing here what and that should
09:15not happen i'm not you know i'm not i can't be sure that it wouldn't uh even with just a
09:20few guys
09:20but i think mostly it should just be yeah all right this is how we do it and that's another
09:25reason to
09:26make the change um so and i and i by far to me i don't feel like it has to
09:32mean you're done with
09:33lukinin uh at all i i would bet the door will open again for him uh to play again maybe
09:39even in
09:39this series we'll see how it goes but i like i like putting lion in tonight because of what happened
09:47in game two and if it if if i if i wait and lukinin is shook i'm i'm i'm i'm
09:55not down so bad it's still
09:56just game three but then i'm i maybe want to put lion in game four staring at three one if
10:03i don't
10:04get it i just think that ratchets the pressure up a little bit more than i'd like i think this
10:10feels more like a choice whereas game four if lukinin is shaky i mean i know there's a possibility
10:16that he could play the game tonight and be great and that would be wonderful um but i was spooked
10:21by how he played on on uh on tuesday and i think it's a good move to put lion in
10:28and you can go
10:28right back to lukinin you know whenever you want probably depending on how it goes yeah i don't
10:33think i just to say the same thing again maybe there's just not really any important reason
10:39to not be willing to do this not even to mention what's happened in the series already or what happened
10:46on tuesday like what you had on tuesday was your goalie cracked some and so like this is now on
10:54the
10:54table and that's why we have it because if that doesn't happen then lukinin plays tonight no doubt
10:59right but it did and i mean there really should i haven't plugged into the nhl playoffs in a long
11:07time
11:07but i just know that the way it works now is you can if not even want to be willing
11:14to dabble with
11:16different goaltenders and like all right well why should i be afraid of that are the playoffs really
11:21different i don't think so i mean maybe you get away with more and teams are more willing to
11:27take liberties physically uh so there is that but in terms of goaltending i don't know that that has to
11:34matter
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