00:00The other big story in the NHL is Conor Hellebuck.
00:05I think that this is such a bogus thing that the Devils are doing and that Hellebuck is doing.
00:11And we all in the hockey world can see White right through what's happening right now.
00:21So yes, for those living under a rock, the New Jersey Devils released a statement over the weekend
00:26that Conor Hellebuck was not going to be playing in the game against the Winnipeg Jets tonight.
00:30And I just like, oh, it just, it gives us the best chance of winning.
00:34Win probability.
00:35He's just played da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
00:37And it's all bullshit, right?
00:38Like there's no way it's not bullshit.
00:42I, you cannot tell me.
00:44And Hellebuck being like, oh, I am so disappointed.
00:47Like there's no world where Conor Hellebuck says, I'm playing in this game and he's not playing, right?
00:52Like this is credit to Keefe and to Sonny Mehta and the Devils for like trying to cover for their
00:59guy
01:00and be like, no, no, no, no, no, no.
01:00This is our analytics thing.
01:02That's telling everybody that we can do this, that, and the other thing.
01:05And that this gives us the best chance of winning.
01:07Well, then you should have altered things a little bit differently to get him in this spot against Winnipeg.
01:12And look, like I don't, part of me doesn't blame Hellebuck for not wanting to go through with this whole
01:17song and dance, right?
01:19Like I've, I've never been in a building with 13,000 people booing me.
01:23I can't imagine it's the best experience.
01:25So yeah, like if I could avoid it, I would.
01:27But I'm also not part of a sport where we talk about these guys as gladiators and the hockey culture
01:32and the hockey mentality that these guys are just,
01:35they're just a cut different from us.
01:38Like spare me that now.
01:39Spare me that.
01:40Like this is some absolute chicken shit stuff from Conor Hellebuck.
01:44And the devil's allowing him to go through with it because he's their guy.
01:47And it's just like, okay, well, I guess, I guess we're going to make him happy because we don't want
01:51him asking for a trade from another place.
01:54It's just, it's so dumb.
01:56And it's, it's also like, it's incredibly short-sighted.
01:59To me, I feel like this is the good time to just rip the Band-Aid off.
02:03Like you have, how many times have we seen a player is kind of struggling in a new place when
02:13he's going to be playing his former team on the horizon?
02:15Like not immediately, but kind of on the horizon.
02:18And then once they get through that game, all of a sudden things take off for them a little bit.
02:22Like this is something, they're humans.
02:24It has to be wearing, wearing on them a little bit that this date is coming.
02:28This thing is coming.
02:29And it just, it gives you a little bit of that closure.
02:31So yeah, for three hours tonight, it probably wouldn't have been a good hang.
02:36And it might've even affected his play.
02:38But you can't tell me that this isn't going to be a thing that's just like,
02:43I'm not going to say hanging in the back of his mind because they only play the Jets a couple
02:47times a year.
02:48He only goes to Winnipeg once a year with the New Jersey Devils.
02:51But it just feels like this could have just put the whole entire thing behind him instead of just like,
02:56oh, well, I'm going to talk to the media and I'm going to write a letter and everything's going to
02:59be fine.
02:59Like this is, this is the final thing.
03:01Like even Brady Kachuk, who we all know, I don't have a super high opinion of Brady Kachuk,
03:05but even he answered all the questions, listened to all the boos, scored a goal, did a lot of chirping,
03:12but even he like sat through it and kind of ate his medicine or took his medicine on this.
03:16Like I just, it is such, pardon the language here.
03:22It's such a little bitch move.
03:23It's such a little bitch move to not play in this game.
03:27And for the Devils to be, honestly, like if I'm the Devils today and throughout this process,
03:34unless I'm reading this wrong, like we could all be wrong.
03:37What the Devils are saying could be the truth.
03:39It's like Connor Hellebuck has been day and night knocking on their door like Rudy and been trying to like,
03:45coach, just let me play.
03:46Coach, just let me play.
03:47Let me play.
03:47And he's doing all these things.
03:49And the organization is just saying, no, it's our analytics.
03:51Our analytics told us that you had to play on Saturday against these guys.
03:55And now you mustn't play on Tuesday against these fellows because the wear on you is too much after missing
04:01a month of the season.
04:02Like maybe that is all true.
04:04I, again, firmly of the belief that it's bullshit.
04:08And I don't, if, if that's not happening and if that's not the case,
04:14and if Connor Hellebuck is actually like, look guys, could we just kind of protect this whole thing and just
04:18like let it blow over?
04:20I'm worried because I want my, and this, this gets into like real bro-y stuff and I don't tend
04:27to like to do this,
04:28but there is an aspect of it, right?
04:29I want my guy who I'm paying $8 million for, who I gave up, depending on your views of the
04:36trade hall.
04:36I gave up a bunch of stuff, at least some stuff that I like, some stuff that I don't like,
04:41but I gave up a lot of stuff to bring you in, to be a leader, to be the guy
04:44who takes us across that finish line.
04:46And now you don't want to play on Winnipeg on a Tuesday in November because it might be a little
04:51uncomfy.
04:52Like that concerns me because if you're not, if you're going to be so rattled by that,
04:58then all of a sudden those playoff performances where you doo-dooed in your pants over and over again,
05:05all that stuff starts to make a little bit more sense, doesn't it?
05:08When you see this whole thing play out. And so if I'm the Devils, I'm like, oh, this, this guy
05:14might be,
05:14this is, this might be the Dennis Green thing, but in a bad way, he might be what we thought
05:18he is.
05:18And now we're letting him off the hook. And so if I'm the Devils, I'm concerned that the guy who's
05:22supposed to be like my alpha male takeover games, whatever, my leader of men is cowering in the
05:29corner because some folks in Winnipeg might call him names for a couple of hours like that.
05:35It would concern me if I'm running a hockey team. I'm just putting that out there, but
05:38where are you guys at on this? There's been a lot of reaction to the Connor Hellebuck thing.
05:42Where are you guys at on it? Let me know in the comment or in the, yeah, let me know
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