00:00The NHL playoffs last night, the Canadiens beat the Lightning 2-1 filthy
00:04and advance in seven games.
00:09John Pooper, this was him after the game.
00:12He did his thing, which he loves to do, which is say,
00:16you don't really lose when you lose sometimes.
00:20As soon as that last buzzer went, that's the feeling I had.
00:23I've seen this movie before, and it happened in Milan in February.
00:28All you can ask for your team, whether it was the Olympic tournament
00:32or best-of-seven playoff, is get better as you go.
00:37I thought we got better as we went, and I thought tonight we played
00:40our best game of the series.
00:46Sometimes you win the game and not the score.
00:49When it's game seven, there's no moral victory in that.
00:57Sometimes you lose the game, but the score.
01:01Minus one, minus one, for propaganda, for deception, for lying, for confusion.
01:12That's his move, huh?
01:13This is an all-time great coach, and his favorite thing is,
01:16sometimes you lose the score, but not the game.
01:20Huh?
01:20No, I actually.
01:22You lose the score, you lost the game.
01:23Yeah, sometimes, John Pooper, when you lose, you just lose.
01:28You loser?
01:30That's what happened.
01:31The same thing happened when you were coaching Canada,
01:32and it should have been Paul Maurice.
01:35You know, sometimes Paul Maurice would be like,
01:37hey, I liked our game.
01:39But I, you know, that's right up there with Ron Brindamore,
01:42who's also in my Rat Bastard rankings for the playoffs,
01:46where he's like, it was a sweep.
01:48The Panthers swept us, but it wasn't a sweep.
01:50No, it was a sweep.
01:524-0, that's a sweep.
01:53It doesn't get more sweep than that, Brindamore.
01:57So, I don't know what the hell he's talking about,
02:00but that's his move.
02:03Sometimes you lose by on the scoreboard,
02:07but that's not really a loss if you think about it.
02:10It's not?
02:12Sounds like a guy who's going to be ripped all summer
02:16for failing to win a gold medal in Italy.
02:19Well, not in his mind, though, Vlad.
02:21And for having a loaded team in the NHL playoffs
02:25and getting ousted in the first round.
02:27Who started this whole theatric?
02:30Was it Giannis?
02:31I remember Giannis.
02:33Giannis tried this nonsense when he lost to the Heat,
02:35when he was, there's no such thing as failure.
02:37There's steps to success.
02:38I'm like, disagree, sir.
02:41It's this era, man, era.
02:43It started ever since parents wanted their kids to get an award
02:48for being in 10th place because they spent money for their kid just to fail.
02:52I mean, I guess, but this is like, I feel like this is a new thing
02:56where we're just like, yeah, winning's not that cool.
02:58It's if you did all the things of process to win.
03:01Right.
03:01It's like, no, no.
03:04Sometimes winning still matters.
03:06I don't know what to tell you guys.
03:08Like, I don't know who, what, I don't know what fairytale you were told
03:11if Mother Goose came in here, but.
03:14It's a new fairytale.
03:15That's what I'm telling you.
03:15This is crazy.
03:16It started from the participation awards.
03:18Everybody, now it's okay.
03:20Well, even though we made it to the postseason
03:23and we didn't accomplish our goal,
03:25but we took steps in trying to accomplish our goal.
03:28So it was really a successful, no, it isn't.
03:31No, you won two Stanley Cups.
03:34You've been to the postseason the last six, seven years.
03:36You're expected to win a Stanley Cup.
03:39You're a favorite.
03:40Like Matthew Kuchuk is sitting here afterwards
03:42and he's like, I am sick watching hockey right now.
03:45Because they're not involved.
03:47Being home, I am sick right now.
03:49Not being in the postseason.
03:51And you got Pooper up here and he's just like,
03:55well, you know, you just got to ride with the losses sometimes, man.
03:59What are you, a hippie?
04:01You're McConaughey.
04:02Yeah, look, sometimes, you know, you look at the score
04:06and that doesn't bear the results.
04:08No, it does.
04:09Actually, it does.
04:10That's the point of a seven-game series.
04:12Dude, he is.
04:13He's head coach McConaughey.
04:14When McConaughey said, as I get older,
04:16yeah, they say the same.
04:17Right?
04:17That was basically him right there.
04:19It's like, yeah, man, you know, I don't.
04:22And Mizzoula's up there, too, but he's more on the psychos.
04:25I feel just as empty losing today as I did when we won the championship.
04:30Okay, dude.
04:30Yeah, sure you do.
04:31Coop, you know what?
04:32Pooper did sound like he hit a joint right before you went to hit the presser.
04:35Hey, man, you know.
04:37Like that old school weed.
04:38Like he's got to listen to the Beatles after that.
04:40A joint.
04:42He's got a doobie.
04:44Man, you know, we got to just look at the big picture of life.
04:48And, you know, it's hockey.
04:50I mean, LeBron did that, too.
04:51He was like, it's just basketball at the end of the day.
04:53Like, what?
04:54It is?
04:55Doesn't anybody care about this stuff anymore?
04:58Or we're all just making too much money?
04:59Is that what it is?
05:00Like, are we all just good?
05:02Everybody's just making generational television wealth now.
05:05And it's just like, yeah, whatever happens, happens, dude.
05:07I don't know what to tell you.
05:09It's the new generation, man.
05:11Or this current generation.
05:12It wasn't like that when we were growing up.
05:14I don't know, man.
05:15Yeah, it wasn't.
05:16It wasn't.
05:17Like, you lost.
05:18It hurt.
05:19Like, guys cried.
05:20You liked seeing that.
05:21You wanted to see them.
05:22You wanted to see that it hurt.
05:25You wanted to see that, you know, they felt the same pain and sorrow.
05:29Now, it's just.
05:30I get that guys have to protect their mental health a little bit because you're getting it from all angles.
05:35You know, that's why Augustine Ramirez has to shut down his Instagram after getting sent down.
05:41But, yeah.
05:42Like, what do you mean?
05:43No, you didn't play better and you didn't win.
05:46You lost.
05:47You lost.
05:49You've lost in the first round for four straight years, pooper.
05:52And you took a generational Canadian team and you lost to America for the first time in 45 years.
05:59That's losing.
06:01There's no dialing it up in some different way.
06:04This guy is such a hack and a bum.
06:07And you want to tell me something about, oh, I don't feel that way.
06:10Oh, really?
06:10You don't care about.
06:11Why are you bringing up goons in preseason?
06:14Don't try and philosophy my ass now because you're on the outs.
06:19You hack.
06:22Oh, now it doesn't matter?
06:23Now it's all.
06:24We played our best.
06:27But you were acting like a jealous baby in the preseason when you're calling up dudes who don't belong in
06:32the NHL to beat up Panthers.
06:36Great.
06:36Hey, where to go, Tampa?
06:39Zero.
06:39Same amount of series wins as the Cats this year.
06:42And all the Cats were in the infirmary.
06:45And Vasilevsky, I can't believe I was ever scared of you.
06:49Oh, he's no longer Andre the Giant.
06:52No, he's not.
06:53No.
06:54He's a Disney goalie.
06:55That's what he is.
06:56A Mickey Mouse champion.
06:58He's no Sergey Bobrovsky.
07:01John Pooper.
07:04Sometimes you win in life but not on the scoreboard.
07:09What are you, a fortune cookie?
07:12What the hell kind of saying is that?
07:15What kind of coach is this?
07:17Who will allow that guy to coach?
07:19Point for Tobin!
07:24Then we get a fortune cookie and then you read it and it's like, nah, that's not what I wanted.
07:27Not what I wanted.
07:29Not very helpful here, fortune cookie.
07:31Thanks for listening.
07:31Oh, oh.
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