Tage Thompson talks 4 nations snub, Buffalo struggles and trade from STL

Tage Thompson talks 4 nations snub, Buffalo struggles and trade from STL

y let’s go [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] cam’s a [ __ ] kicker threw bombs in the lead told there’s no time for fatigue and he’s a [ __ ] talk welcome in to the Camero podcast episode number 347 baby let’s go let’s go let’s go i got 500 550 no no i’m trying to I’m trying to tell that I’m an auctioneer you’re not so if you need anybody out there needs to hire an auctioneer you let me know cam and I will even actually come together and do it together if necessary but if it came down to me or Cam then you’re going to have to make a decision i used to watch Chaser do it back in the day chaser and then Loie does them and Lozi hires me when he overbooks which he does all the time so I started doing being an auctioneer for a while now and I’m pretty goddamn good i don’t do the I just call people that’s what you’re supposed to do no I call people i just I go up there i have to get their attention first that’s number one and we all know that you got to get their attention they’re all talking after it’s after this it’s after that they’re Tell them to shut up mhm and then you start kind of you got to know your list man and I put on a comedy show come on now you’re back there hey get off your wallet you call all these guys act like they’re wealthy i got 10 i give 10 give me 20 give me 20 give me 30 give me 40 i got 40 i got 40 i got 50 that’s how you have to do it dude well you can’t do that i do get confus you have to have a guy around you though man like if you’re going to do you get confused like how much how much money i’m like what is it for so you got to have a guy spotting and all that stuff but it’s a good way to make money i I told you me and you could be hilarious doing these after big events golf tournaments we could do [ __ ] put on It’s all about putting on a show i’m available and getting everybody laughing and drunk and then they’re like “I’m a big dick i’m the big dick.” And it’s good to have good auction items sometimes I had to [ __ ] have shitty auction items and you’re just trying to get stuff out of the Okay we’ve got a $20 gift card to Golf Galaxy yeah you know and we’ll start here in the front 30ucks who’s going to start the bidding at $20 who’s got 20 hey he’s got 20 to Andy by the way thank you happy Father’s Day Andy cute pictures of you and the kids and you guys have been on a lot of like trips together and stuff like that and it’s just cute man so happy Father’s Day lori did mk i know everything about your life Andy because of Lori everything no you don’t yeah I do yes I do i give me something that I like it i like when she posts mhm i know exactly what happened on your Chicago trip i know exactly what happened on this i know exactly okay the other one then wherever you guys were boom boom boom boom boom boom boom blah blah i’m like I know you know there are people I will say this so funny if I want to reach out to them or if I haven’t heard back I’ll just go to their Instagram to see where they’re at because they do post so much or they’re on Instagram because you could tell if you’re on Facebook and Instagram yes you can it shows you like a green thing pops up on your name if you’re on i know somebody watch that homie who’s on Instagram he’s a very kind of a quiet person but I swear he’s on Instagram more than anybody I’ve ever met like every video I look at or watch he’s already liked it or they send you videos all day long do you ever know those people who don’t talk in public but they’re super loud on social media or they they send me like clips of [ __ ] i’m like clips nonstop but it’s not loud in terms of opinion i’m just saying they’re just loud like all of a sudden they become like a different person like they’re funny they’re uh creative yeah and they’re and they’re boring to talk to and then but [ __ ] that they could they could tweet something out and be funny with it it’s really weird but in person completely they’ve got no personality no personality at all and they’re nervous and then Yeah and then they’ll tweet things out and be really confident in their tweets i got to give a shout out to Max Patrick already had met him this weekend i mean I had talked to him in the past but um really cool man he came up to me one time on a face and goes “Hey man i’m friends with Travis Turble.” I go “What’s up baby?” Dude you know what he said to me he goes “Paul Stie is my best buddy.” Like that’s what he said i think he puts all the connection with different like St louis people and whatever he’s just cool he was coaching his kid his kid was playing pretty good with the Leafs in the playoffs yeah i don’t know if he’s going back there he looked good dude he was crushing guys you know he was crushing guys had never really done throughout the course of his career i was texting you i go “Dude Max Pedro is rocking dudes.” I know but that’s that’s um veteran guys who who want to find a role and find a way to stick around in the NHL man that’s what I know but that’s what they do he’s done really well for himself i hear Jamie Ben’s going back to Dallas really wants to still I thought you said that they wanted to change the scenery and you’d think that Jamie Ben’s the guy the [ __ ] cuz he’s running the show in the locker room you know Jim Nil he made a comment i remember that that as long as he’s there Jaime Ben will always be there and I kind of wanted to be like “Yeah but no one’s going to hold that against you if all of a sudden you let Jaime Ben walk at some point you got to turn it over.” So I thought after they lost and how they lost and then firing Pete and all of that that maybe they would like move on from a couple of veteran guys but I hear he’s going back there interesting he might you know he’s been there a long time he took over Madano like you know he Madonna was a guy then Jaime Ben became so popular there what do you mean took over Madonna well like Madonna was the guy brendan Mororrow was like Yeah okay but I think Jamie was more I mean I remember Brendon Mororrow saying something like uh when he was playing he’s like my kids don’t care about me they don’t care about they love Jamie Ben like he just came on the scene and he was a rock star with the look tough fighting scoring goals like a fifth round pick or whatever yeah i like him you know all that Chaser and those guys [ __ ] love Jamie Ben talk about him all the time i know so I don’t know a lot of weird things going on though Andy weird things god dang yes you’ve been watching the news at all i’ve been traveling you see the [ __ ] plane crash did you see the plane crash you know what jeez Louise what is going on around here [ __ ] i’d like to talk to the guy who survived i don’t believe that he’s an Indian national did you see him walk away from the wreckage i don’t believe that it’s registered that he had a ticket on a plane his brother died i just don’t believe it i don’t know he was in India visiting family he left in London and he was he was going back to London he’s an Indian national i don’t I just don’t believe it that plane blew up like you can’t goddamn believe that he walked away yes i can’t believe it although that’s happened before in plane crashes and crazy stuff no he wasn’t he was walking away yeah but he’s in the hospital you see his interview from the hospital the only way he survived that damn crash is if he jumped out of the [ __ ] emergency exit or somehow he got [ __ ] hit something hit and his seat left the [ __ ] plane before the engines hit and blew up so the plane blew up do you realize that’s how everyone died is it Is it from the impact or is it from the blowing right what no how do they die because of jet fuel what do you mean they weren’t even going that fast probably 100 miles how they died jet fuel they accerated what does that mean means like you you accelerate like all a sudden you go and you’re dead that’s how much fire and fuel hit these people it just the fire just comes through the plane god yeah it explodes look at the video here’s what’s weird they think it’s pilot error we don’t know yet they’re going to get the black box we’re going to know way more details but if you watch it I have I watched all these guys these pilots they saw the takeoff and the flaps didn’t go up oh really and the [ __ ] landing gear stayed down so they have all this force and they couldn’t have didn’t have any more energy they had so much drag and it wouldn’t go up and it goes bam into a [ __ ] apartment complex but if you watch it it was a doctor or a doctor yeah i mean there’s so much [ __ ] around i say hostiles all over the don’t care world this is very important but if you watch the video of the takeoff and have some of these pilots experienced pilots break it down for you it’s very interesting either the co-pilot didn’t press the wrong button and had the flaps go down instead of the engine gear coming up because it it didn’t or the or the plane malfunction but it’s usually pilot error if you watch all these plane crashes it’s usually pilot error okay i don’t like son of a [ __ ] i don’t like you i texted Andy right away i go “Did you see it?” 5:30 in the goddamn morning i woke up and it’s I’m like “Oh my god.” And then what did I say oh my god how many people died i go “Shit everybody.” No I at that time they were saying there were no fatalities counted how stupid yeah exactly i mean god I don’t like I don’t like the finger i don’t like the finger pointing at where at the pilot like no you don’t even know it could have been mechanical error where they did hit the button and why are we having to hit buttons anyway in 2025 it should just automatically just flap up okay i mean it’s probably You know how old that plane is do you know how old most commercial jets are they’re [ __ ] old they’re old look sometimes when you’re flying you’ll have a little cigarette thing no not anymore yeah I’ve seen it i don’t see that you don’t smoke but it’s still there because they’re old i haven’t seen one of those open your eyes up you’re on your damn phone and he’s like this open your eyes i mean that cam acts like he’s flying on a roll in the 1980s no they are do you think these commercial jets are old you don’t get that let me ask you a question do you think rocks though do you think um like Spirit Airline Planes or Frontier Airline Planes Do you think you’re rolling the dice more hell yeah rolling the dice more you think you’re you’re at risk to fly on those flights versus a Delta flight or Boeing boeing has a bad reputation right now i don’t look Southwest Airlines have exploded in midair and the the [ __ ] the engine falls off and remember the the top part of the plane opened up and the emergency exit fell out and all these weird things happened with Southwest Airlines jesus walking away from that i don’t believe it don’t believe it conspiracy thirst i just don’t believe it yet i I need proof believe him i I don’t know cuz it’s impossible unless he because he said he just woke up and he walked away there’s no way the amount of fuel the amount of fuel on that monster 787 you know how [ __ ] big that damn thing is you think he just showed up there and I don’t know or he he was he was on the ground and the plane blew up and he’s like “Holy shit.” And he walked away i don’t know and I could be injured i could be he walked away i could be wrong you see any burn marks on him i didn’t he’s had a little cut on his head i don’t know significant injuries so this other guy you haven’t dealt with he was an 11A I believe well not cuz I don’t go to your neighborhood that much here’s the deal uh another passenger in one of the same planes I think that that flew into the Everglades like 20 years ago oh my god one of those That’s horrific in so many ways into the Everglades where the alligators are god damn right and they ate everybody they started to did you see a video of that lion who broke into that grocery store and he looked like AI dude you got You think that was AI yes it was AI people were saying that in the comments but that’s what it No [ __ ] meaning like Tomahawk steak don’t get It was like he was at a buffet don’t get got there’s so much AI out there incredible i used to go to those like what buffet restaurants like I used to love Gangas Grill baby no no no not the Asian ones i want the Asian ones baby you know the best buffets are the Indian buffets speaking of they’re damn good we have an Indian a lot of Indian restaurants out in Wild you know that I cook as well as the Indians do with Indian food disrespectful that is so goddamn disrespectful that’s so goddamn disrespectful you don’t know [ __ ] about their culture you don’t know just cuz your neighbors are Indian doesn’t mean you know anything about them how dare you say that no no how dare you say that you’re better than them at cooking curry you’re out of your goddamn life i wouldn’t eat Indian food from you i’d be pissing out of my ass for weeks oh my god holy Andy’s cook kate let’s go to Andy’s house what’s he making indian curry chicken curry he doesn’t even cook chicken or eat chicken i’d make you some tand I’d make you some tandoori chicken i’m not eating your food yet and I’d make you some Bombay Aloo i’m not eating your food yet i’m not doing it my stomach cannot handle that i almost brought you some That’s a 45minut drive home i’ll be And I’d have to go to the goddamn gas station i don’t like doing some um Giri’s pizza from Chicago the thick crust oh god yeah dude i have three pieces left dude [ __ ] food if it’s frozen I’ll put it in the oven but you probably ate it 3 days ago and then you’re going to keep it it’s from Friday night i’ll eat deep dish pizza god dang it’s from Friday night i’ll I’ll bring it to you i’ll bring it to you next week oh you next week yeah oh Maddie hey listen it’s It’s always good man i’ve had it in the refrigerator the entire time and now it’s still in the fridge so I’m at Girardanos disgusting with a couple of other hockey dads great families we met uh from like the West Coast you know like last summer we played with a bunch of families from the East Coast this summer from the West Coast good hockey players in the West Coast dude god dang really good hockey players lot of hockey players everywhere retire out there and they just There it is you know what I mean kind of like what they did here so anyway um we’re at the pizza place Girardano’s and this guy is just berating this poor uh manager waitress manager she was like everything there i think she was cooking too cleaning did you say something what do you look like she look like He was He was Give me a description he was Give me a description he was boulder a little heavy no african-american i don’t know don’t lie it’s African no I don’t know if he was no no no you can’t tell the difference no he I think he was like he may have had some Indian in him he may have had some Pakistanian in So another an Indian person he could have had Pakistani a goddamn plane crash could have been Middle Eastern you say you’re better at cooking than the Indian people now another Indian started berating somebody at a restaurant really weird what with the Indian spices it He wasn’t Indian he wasn’t Indian so he’s black he may have been Middle Eastern or Pakistanian he was pissed he calls the police cuz his pizza wasn’t well done enough you psychos is there anything that would make you that mad to call the police well if somebody owed me money or if somebody robbed me or I didn’t but even if they didn’t cook my food right I’d just leave like get out of Are you calling the police over there god no no what do you think the cop is thinking go [ __ ] yourself i got [ __ ] to do on the [ __ ] west side of Chicago where gangs are out of [ __ ] control i got [ __ ] I got to do and you’re calling me in for this [ __ ] that’s where I’d be hanging out in the west side probably southside west side it’s always by the airport oh really chicago’s hardcore i love Chicago dude i don’t think I don’t think the hardcore part of Chicago is by the airport at all i think that’s it’s right by the United Center uh yeah down in those parts i’ve walked by myself at night well you’re stupid down in those parts that’s a what a stupid person would do back in the day in hardcore Chicago covering Blues Blackhawks like 2001 and playoffs blue swept him brent Johnson had like three shut outs in a row he kept like this little voodoo doll in his uh locker and didn’t want anyone to know but it was like this little thing he took it everywhere he went and um so here we had three shutouts in a row Cam as I was saying and uh so keep breaking it down okay so anyway after the game I’m like sending a bunch of sound back to KMOX radio who I was working for at the time and I just had to go out and find a cab dude it wasn’t Uber back then so I’m walking around like looking for a cab i’m like “Hey like every time a car would drive by like thinking it’s a cab.” Eventually a cab picked me up and and drove me but yeah that was hardcore but that wasn’t that big of a deal i was going through some of the worst i was going through some of the worst neighborhoods in the country you don’t You just don’t know how to tell a story without overexaggerating everything and then and still in the end of the story it doesn’t even among the worst among the worst neighborhoods in the country not right there walking through not right there dude not right there you would not have been able to walk through that i wouldn’t want to do it mhm unarmed oh hell no you know what I mean mhm no but Chicago’s [ __ ] awesome and I’d love to play for the Blackhawks and be a superstar and live in one of those penthouse suites looking over the [ __ ] water i dare you godamn right i would the Blues fans are not they’re fine about it no they’re not having that i love playing for the Blues too i’d love to play anywhere and be a superstar don’t get me wrong but Chicago would be really cool it’s a huge market i love that scene name a US city where it’d be more fun to be an absolute superstar celebrity as an athlete than Chicago name your top three um as far as like your popularity and stuff cuz obviously if you’re a basketball I mean New York New York would be pretty cool man if you’re a big dick in New York you’re you know you’re on the Empire State Building and you know your pictures everywhere next to that supermodel and that’s pretty cool you know you can still hide in New York but you’re still the big dog hell yeah okay like Aaron Judge he walks around like my god i didn’t say I I’m talking hockey player mark Messier okay we’re going back a long ways well he was a [ __ ] pimp you think Lquist had the same Oh god yeah god yeah same life as a Yeah mhm oh my god everywhere he went to like He’s hanging out with beautiful people everywhere madonna when you’re Madonna’s still doing her thing apparently you know she’s whatever she got I mean she’s in her 60s i always think of Nor McDonald what Norm say about her on [ __ ] Weekend Update before he got fired what do you say he got fired by Saturday Night Live because he was talking OJ baby what do you mean he was chirping OJ like no other then they they Why would they fire him for that because I think Lauren Michaels liked OJ and they were friends that’s what Nor was back in like back in the day yeah when OJ was going through the trial like mid 90s I think later later in the in the in the 90s well you know he worked for NBC too oj yeah yeah i mean he had connections and stuff like that but Norm would be relentless on him it was hilarious look it up and Norm brings it and then and then they fire him and then they bring him back like a year later to host and he [ __ ] bashes everybody in the monologue at SNL hilarious he’s the [ __ ] best of the best you think he’s the funniest ever one of them in a unique way mhm he could do anything and he was hardcore then he can make a he could tell a story and then it ends in something like you’re in a 1930s joke but it’s hilarious and then he he’s you know what he says about what he says about oh god deeply closeted gay man and they’re like so you’re gay he’s like no I’m deeply closeted like well that means that you’re no he’s like that means I’m not going to admit that I’m gay so there you go I’m not gay he was willing to go go places back then that others just weren’t willing to go dang that’s why I love how he died cancer didn’t tell anybody body didn’t tell anybody and he just died didn’t tell yep didn’t tell anybody didn’t say didn’t rate like his best friends didn’t know probably best friends knew I would say mhm but you talked to all these comedians that he was close with they had no idea he was one of the best dude hardcore hilarious very very intelligent oh my god unlike Bill Burr right now who’s become a pessimist is he i thought he was pretty hardcore no he’s just goofy now man you got to just watch it a couple hey I’ll pay attention to that you don’t pay attention to anything i’ll watch that i’ll watch that andy had a good tweet andy was on Cloud9 no I wasn’t andy was on Cloud9 in Chicago he tweeted out “Mitchy Marne ain’t going back to [ __ ] Toronto.” And that goddang thing blew up because Andy knows people and he talks to people and it was legit and that’s why you’re the first one to [ __ ] throw that out there and it blew up it blew up and I know that made you feel good do you know that um made you feel good did it of course like you because that means that’s still your job your endorphins there it is you looked at that tweet probably a million times seeing it climb up and your endorphins is like doing a line of coke you felt like doing a gangster line of coke you think I just did a gangster line of coke by tweeting that your endorphins were moving so much to where is probably the equivalent of doing a fatty line of coke i didn’t I didn’t ate it i didn’t no I didn’t so good you the tweet dude that’s not a random tweet you worked for that you talked to the right people you know the right people and they gave you the right answer on what’s going on and you tweeted before anybody you were on cloud n and but I will say and it blew up and I thought it would get some attention i didn’t think it would blow up that much cuz listen I’m not I don’t scroll scroll through Twitter every day i don’t study Kim Maddie i don’t study everybody’s timelines i don’t know what’s what has been reported and what hasn’t been so there’s did ask a few people is this already out there and they had said no not officially some people are saying hey well everyone kind of already knew that i apparently not i mean the way that it that it blew up i think a lot of people were assuming that maybe a contract extension wouldn’t get done between Marner and Toronto by July 1 he field offers and then come back to Toronto and see but to me let me just say this about Mitch Mner i don’t think his decision is based solely on money i really don’t and I think it’s a it’s a lifestyle man it’s a way of life i hear he’s got police presence cam outside of his house on a daily basis because of the threats and some of the other stuff that he’s been dealing with like who wants to live like that i’m not saying that every athlete who plays in Toronto is going to have to deal with that but when you’re a superstar player as popular as he is and you’ve been as popular as he’s been for as long as he’s been popular and like I feel this about Mitch Mark man i watch him play and I know he takes a lot of heat in Toronto and he’s made some costly turnovers and he’s maybe shied away a little bit in the corners stuff like that but I feel like you put him on Vegas you put him on a different team because it’s not just Mner in Toronto it’s a collection of the entire team it’s all the other superstars they have as well you can have a Marner but you can’t have him surrounded by three other star players who are also soft you know what I’m saying yeah you can have one of them in the corner who don’t you know who doesn’t go in the corner who’s not winning battles and all that but still making great plays and contributing offensively and stuff like that even though maybe you would have liked to see that a little bit more from him in the playoffs oh yeah but it’s one thing to blame Marner or to blame Matthews but it’s not about them individually i’m convinced when you watch them play in the playoffs i just think it’s the way the entire team has been built so then you collectively put all these guys together and they’re all kind of soft then the finished product is what it is you put them on a different team i think Vegas would be a great spot for him i just feel like that’s where he’s going to end up going because it’s just like a Vegas thing to do you know what I mean yeah it’s so Vegas to go out and get a Mitch Mner and you know they’re going to have some extra money to play with now with Pro situation if in fact he goes a long-term injury and doesn’t play do we know what’s I don’t know listen he’s got the knee situation that’s been going on from what I understand but I don’t know if I said this last week or not like were we cryptic about it were you Well it I got the text remember during the recording when we were recording someone texted me yeah and knowing Pro like he’s not like chasing anything like he’s won a couple of cups he’s had the international success I do think family life is important to him I think like just as important if not maybe even more important than playing hockey at this stage so as much as injury as I I think is a part of it and injury weighed into his decision to not play in the four nations I also don’t think he cared to go like leave his family for a few weeks and go do was his kids were obligated he’s had issues with that in the past i just don’t feel like he wanted to fulfill the obligations required to go play in that tournament in the middle of the season he’s like “No I’m just not going to go.” So injury was probably a part of that just like injury is probably a part of his decision to not play next year if it’s not all of the decision I don’t know but at the same time if you know Pro he’s just not chasing some type of long legacy maybe the way a lot of other He’s done a lot man he’s been involved in a lot of different things i do think that you know like what I’m saying like Cory Perry still like Yeah he’s got some proof it’s not him yeah it’s not pro and maybe Cory Perry doesn’t have the family issue with the kids like who knows what’s going on with that he’s still keep playing cory Perry wants to keep playing no doubt he loves he and he wants to win another cup can you imagine going to five I know Stanley Cup finals but I bet you I bet you pro though was like “No I don’t want to go to Four Nations i’m [ __ ] beat up like it’s been long i’ve been playing so many playoff games and regular season games.” But then he watched it and he’s probably like “hm okay so that’s a different story.” He’s probably like “God damn it.” But I also think some of these guys who have made so much money are like “How much are we getting paid to do it?” I agree is it is it worth it to go make a handful of money when you don’t need the money it’s not enough money i think they get paid a little bit or whatever that’s not it no for foreign nations but when you’re watching that’s an NHL event those guys did get paid some money and I’m sure you got paid some money to win the tournament i hope so but so listen what you’re saying I agree with for a normal person who would be watching that maybe have that that that FOMO kind of creep in and be like damn I should have gone with all your buddies there all your Canadian buddies and they’re fighting and they’re getting 10 million people all his buddies does he I don’t Well he probably has a couple of them you’ve been in the game a long time that’s what I mean like I think he’d rather go hang out with his wife and kids than go hang out with his hockey buddies we weren’t even that pumped up for the damn four nations me and you were chirping like what’s going to happen i think I think I don’t want to speak for him but he he may have felt the same way that a lot of other people on the outside were thinking like what is this madeup tournament but until you watched it and it got so many [ __ ] views so that and you’re like I could be so we didn’t see that coming and then you win the reason why it became so exciting and so popular was because USA was like fighting everybody at the beginning of the game you know if they weren’t fighting Cam would we still be saying the same thing i think people would still love it and love the hockey part of it but it was the intensity that came with the political dynamic was a huge factor too whether they fought or not like we wanted us to win they wanted like there was a lot more to it so and it been a while since we’ve seen the I know the two countries go if you’re a player though and you if you’ve worked so hard man and you’re so competitive and you won yeah I get it man you want to Sometimes you’re like I want I need my family yeah there’s things going down but then you sit back and you’re chilling and the kids are screaming over here and this is going on over there and me me and you’re like watching the four nations like “Oh my god I know.” But do you think listen I’ve talked to veteran players in the past who retired at like 37 38 like kind of your typical age for a star player to retire you know and one player prominent player said to me a long time ago he goes “You know I I just aged out like I was I looked around the plane and I’m hanging out with a bunch of 23 24 year olds we have we have nothing in common nothing and it’s just not you know some guys Cory Perry’s just a little bit different we’ve seen other players do that you know Chris Chelio stuck around for forever brett Favre did it in football fra Farra they just don’t know how to get away from it but then you’re so old to where your coaches are your age and they’re kind of like talking to you talking down to you because they’re and you’re like 41 who ran the D for the Blues this past season was younger than Ryan Sudter you know awesome guy by the way who ryan Sudter weber weber webbber’s the best the [ __ ] awesome guy so is Ryan Sudter they’re all awesome you know I changed my opinion but you’re right though with that because I didn’t really know him but like you’re hanging out with younger kids you’re not really I mean you’re you’re around like even on the road like Suit’s doing his own thing like he’s not No exactly all the young kids hang they do stuff he’s got family places they probably follow him around do his stuff he’s probably on the computer working business who knows you know you’re missing your kids that’s the thing your kids grow up and playing hockey and all that stuff i don’t Let’s look at your phone is there You could look at Twitter I think and know how much you spend on Twitter really i’m Maddie can I break down how Andy How much time Andy spends on Twitter i probably spend more time I bet you he spends more time on Twitter than [ __ ] 99.99999% of the people i probably 999 I probably spend more time on Instagram you stared at that tweet that you posted for 5 hours straight he’s like doing a bunch of [ __ ] blow god dang good for you though you deserve that seriously cuz you worked hard to get that information it’s not a random something funny at your house that you’re like you worked for that baby you know it’s all good what are you doing right now you I had to get back to one of our sponsors okay my boy David Novak from Blue No Roofing hell yeah 3149205713 give him a call today god dang um I tell you what the Edmonton Orio look like dogs so can I just say this what mitchie Marne I know some people are like tweeting out the Carolina Hurricanes are prepared to offer him more than 14 million i don’t I saw that think he’s leaving Toronto because they’re not paying him enough is my point i don’t think it’s about I need to go make the most money now he may end up being the highest paid player in the game i don’t know he shouldn’t get paid more than Dry Cidle who’s at 14 million whose contract kicks in next year he’s a better hockey player yeah he shouldn’t make more than a better hockey player and I He shouldn’t expect to make more just because you’re a free agent this year at this time and you’re the top free agent available doesn’t mean you should become the highest paid player in the game he shouldn’t make more than Leon Dryidle i don’t think they’re trying to look for like an unrealist unrealistic situation he’s just been highly paid for several years in a row in Toronto where they haven’t won and he’s been criticized i think he does care about winning and he wants to go to a team and to a situation that’s going to put him in the best spot to win because no matter where he signs Cam you know he’s going to make a [ __ ] ton of money it’s not like somebody’s going to get him for like 9 million bucks a year or 10 million bucks he’s going to make a lot of money i I just don’t think it’s about oh well this team’s willing to go north of 14 he’s not Chicago could pay him north of 14 but I don’t think he goes there where he doesn’t have a chance to win right now i think he wants to go somewhere where he has a chance to win and he’s going to get paid but he doesn’t have to be the highest paid player in the game is the way I Well what what team has a chance to win that’s going to spend 14 i don’t think they have 14 or Okay 13 whatever they spend i don’t Vegas has won i think Vegas la well LA is a pretty good team man i mean some people are talking Philadelphia um I mean Carolina’s going to make an offer i mean Rob Brendmore basically told us he’s going to make they’re going to go after him exactly yeah if he becomes available right we’ve got players that we can surround Mitch Mner where and you know guess what he’s not going to be under the microscope every damn shift no he’s not at all in fact he’s going to walk around and be like “Wow this is quite nice.” There’s an issue like I don’t want to put a blanket statement on Maple Leaf fans because they’re not all like that the the the Maple Leaf fans across the board are not threatening Mitch Mner if he leaves or if he turns the puck over or you know requiring him to have a police presence outside of his house that’s weird that’s a weird one okay you know but he’s not having police presence outside of his house if it unless it’s necessary to have police presence outside of his house you know what I’m saying so I think the overwhelming majority of Maple Leaf fans are really good people and good fans and they’re not crazy like that but if you’re a superstar fan or super superstar player are you just not even considering signing in Toronto especially if you’re not from there okay so please presence like what does that mean security i know but what does it how’d that go come about was it somebody on Twitter that said I’m going to kill you and your family i don’t know what is it i’d like to know what what do you mean who’s threatening you how’d they threaten you was it on social media was it somewhere at the gas station was it Where was it i’m curious could is some [ __ ] nine-year-old kid in his basement with Cheetos in his damn belly button saying “Fuck you i hope your house burns down now you got to get police presence.” I think that’s that’s ridiculous you’re making ridiculous assumptions why cuz I’m asking we don’t know well I mean police presence like something What happened you have a police presence in your [ __ ] neighborhood in your driveway you’re feeling the You’re feeling the temperature from several hundred miles away i went through that with them dude what are you talking about no in Toronto yeah I went through that too they’re telling me I want to kill my family and my puppies yeah Andy when remember I was number one villain in Toronto get out of here in Toronto yes when I knocked out Thomas Cyber what are you talking about okay but they wanted to kill me i had had to get a separate room all this stuff when I went to Toronto yeah they threatened my parents they’d have letters i still have them in my house i told you that before i’m like “What the [ __ ] are you going to do?” So if you’re receiving those then serious no but imagine what Mitch Marner is is maybe dealing with and and in Toronto like we’re seeing the Twitter you’re on Twitter all day long you’re scrolling on Twitter all day i’m on YouTube okay you’re seeing it on Instagram what if you’re in Toronto where every television and radio station this is all they’re talking about non-stop dude yeah it’s a lot non-stop it’s a lot they’re doing the same thing in Edmonton right they’re doing the same thing in Vancouver and Montreal and Ottawa guess what they’re doing the same [ __ ] And Stewart said he’s got death threats too right didn’t you read that too stewart Skinner oh maybe yeah evan’s a joke with their goalending situation it’s a joke it’s embarrassing oh at the beginning of the game you know who is the best analyst in the game like uh it’s not even close who wayne Gretzky oh god yeah he says everything so perfect so eloquent just a man without any emotion or any like nothing just chills baby he’s like not angry he’s not attacking i like that panel oh they’re so good so goddamn good tnt even when they Oh Ace is is is got better he’s damn good um when they have them all together they’re so good right now the crew they have when Wayne and Lungquist are both there they’re so interesting everything they goddamn say and Wayne is like he doesn’t sit back dude he’s like “No I’ve got something to say and I’m going to say it in the most eloquent confident credible way chill way.” He’s just like “This is what I see.” Blah blah blah and it all comes together and he’s like “Yeah you know if you’re in the Stanley Cup final and you got Sergey Babroski on the other side and then on your team we’re going into game six and we’re worried about who’s going to be the starting goalie.” That’s a problem i’m like “No shit.” Like I totally agree like you have an issue you’ve got a $14 million player in Leon Dryaddle you’ve got the best player in the game in Conor McDavid nobody else really scores on the team they don’t have Heyman right now evander Kane I tried to pump his tires last week i know and we tweeted it late too and he’s gone quiet he doesn’t do anything if you look at the leading scorers in the playoffs it’s all Florida Panthers forwards all the way down the line all the way down and then maybe then you get to Cory Perry who’s got like a handful of goals and whatever who’s 40 years old like where’s the rest of Edmonton are they going to build like a a Stanley Cup winning team or just have a couple of Stanley Cup caliber players on their roster without a team that can get it done that’s why it was killing me when all the media was like “Oh Caspberry Captain he’s unbelievable.” They sat him which was stupid i thought I know but it’s like you need him settle down with Caspberry Kapp he had a couple good games he’s done this everywhere he’s gone like he’ll come back down to earth which is exactly what he did and I like Kaan but to think that he can sustain that level of play or any type of production and be a top six forward on a team in a Stanley Cup final is like unfair to him even like Yeah but don’t don’t be a Yeah you’re in those situations but you’re a hitter now dude you’re a you you bring energy and you hit you disrupt in the fore that’s what you need when you put them in that situation he doesn’t know what to do what am I supposed He’s like “Yeah I got to make plays i got to get the puck i got to get the puck to Leon i got to make plays what do I do?” But I want to go out of my way to like make a hit and to like stay in the lineup so they pump they bump him up the lineup they put him in a top six role and then and then now he’s a healthy scratch a couple games later skinner what do you what do you again and and I know that we all took a little bit of shots at Edmonton during the year for letting Broberg and Holloway go and boy then I was saying you know what I maybe it wasn’t fair because here they are in the Stanley Cup final so I got to give Edmonton credit but I said at the beginning of the year they let this guy go and they brought in Jeff Skinner who had never played in a playoff game ever in his career and Victor Arbertson who had you know some injuries in LA he’s been a good player for a long time but like you’re letting 22year-old with upside leave your organization to bring in these guys and then I felt like okay maybe it was the right decision because now here they are maybe the veteran players are going to shine as you get into the Stanley Cup final arverson can’t even play now he’s playing like 10 minutes a game in and out of the lineup skinner in and out of the lineup these guys don’t notice him for Edmonton they better get some players and if I’m Conor McDavid and his contract is coming up it’s like yeah I want to win a Stanley Cup in Edmonton but can I win a Stanley Cup in Edmonton when when we don’t have all the pieces he can’t do it on his own i don’t care how great you are you can’t just do it on your own they don’t even have a goalie that they can settle in on i mean Campbell was supposed to be their goalie that’s who they’re paying big time they’re still two games away they are and he’s not even scoring but they’re still trying to decide like they’re flip-flopping goalies they don’t know which goalie to go in the Stanley Cup final listen the Panthers are one of the best assembled teams probably we’ve seen in a long long time like let’s be completely honest here no holes i mean there is none they are so damn deep everybody knows exactly what they’re doing there’s no Paul Maurice this is what you need to do no everybody knows Lindell to every Marant gets to jump on you twice on the face off dude that’s a goal that you score in eight you okay he gets a jump on you like that no no you don’t even like bump him up are you out of your That’s a goal in 8 years when you’re 8 years old where you just jump the face off and you go and all of a sudden you take it in and score when you when you went through puberty before everybody else did that’s what you’re doing the 8-year-old scores that 37 years old in the Stanley Cup final he jumps by you so [ __ ] fast are you out of your mind i tell you what I was watching that and I’m I’m thinking of Adam Oats he was so hardcore about faceoffs and being a winger and bumping and getting in ways if he would have saw that dude he would have lost his damn mind if I did that i’d sit games out like how does that happen he dangles your whole [ __ ] team he dangles your whole team his next goal his next goal was unbelievable it’s unbelievable and this is where this what I was trying to say last week when I say like I’ve just never appreciated Brad Marsham before i always knew he was a great player so awesome but uh like Ryan Whitney said it on Twitter I totally agree like this is the best I’ve ever seen him play i’ve never seen Marian play like I do you remember him like dangling guys and going end to end like that like I you’ve seen him score a lot of big goals he dis he’s a disruptor he’s put up a lot of points over the course of his career he’s been a great player look at his linemates dude they get back he’s been a great player forever this guy is a Hall of Fame player okay been a great player for for a long time but I just don’t remember him having these type of highlight reel goals all the time he just has good linemates man they put him in a good great position to succeed a lot of stuff on his own too did it Jake Walman who’s squirting a water bottle on the other team’s bench a couple of games ago actually didn’t even hit the bench it hit like uh hit Brian Buché yeah bush’s like “What are you doing?” What are you doing and then Jake Wman also remember when they took a penalty a couple games ago laughing yeah cuz he threw it over you’re in the Stanley Cup final don’t jinx yourself Jakey boy when you do that stuff man who squirts a water bottle in the Stanley Cup final yeah what are you doing getting me wet i’m soaked already you You’re not even the Stanley Cup final dude you’re squirting your water if I’m McDavid I’m telling sit the [ __ ] down dude where is Cory Perry and McDavid and dry side will be like “Shut the shut the [ __ ] up godamn.” But but to be fair the Oilers are two games away i know they are like they could still turn this around and if McDavid gets to psycho mode which we haven’t seen in a while and he takes a game over now he’s going to game seven yelling he’s a psych he gets a psycho mode game over what does he do with his arms he kind of goes i like his hands kind of went like a penguin cuz having a seizure no no no seriously i know no he is it’s emotion man like god damn i know well they’re going to need some of that damn go to game seven make it interesting they did it last year florida may be a better road team than they are home team they just play dude they get on the They get right off the bat they’re hot right as Marandanda is playing if Florida wins I I still got to give Sam Bennett he could have had another cut he he still has five goals in the final andy he almost scores every shift and he’ll [ __ ] run you over it’s really And never smile and he’s not big no he he doesn’t smile and I love that but he’s not big but he’s so powerful when he skates he’s in the right position he’s getting these one-times off and [ __ ] they’re robbing him or he’s hitting the post like he could have had a lot more goals what does he look like without a beard like you he’s not big he’s not i bet you he’s not even hits hard he hits like a truck dude it’s like Dallas Drake he Yeah it’s like a truck clean in your sternum doesn’t elbow guys he’ll elbow the goalie he goes right through you he has a football background like I have back in the day you guys might be related maybe it’s unbelievable cuz I would I’d go through you right handy you got to post that picture of you when you were young were your shoulder pads on this you know I haven’t I haven’t looked at my tweet in a while though but um you haven’t no I haven’t gone back on you look one more time it’s like doing a line of coke baby but uh they didn’t those endorphins in your head wow you probably did a workout afterwards you probably should have did you have sex do you have make love to Lori she wasn’t with me oh if she Oh my god if she was Whoa damn boy you don’t even know that’s happening to you but it does i haven’t looked at it in a while but it does pronger chimed in prongs chimed in on the Oh did he it seemed like when Prongs chimed in on that that he was chirping you to be honest and he said he wasn’t cuz I texted him did you text him yeah because he’s like “Thanks for the update Andrew.” And you act like “Thanks for confirming.” Thanks meaning that it’s already confirmed he said “People love it when I call you Andrew.” I said “I know.” Yeah but just making sure you weren’t chirping and being sarcastic because like dude like this was not No he was chirping he said he wasn’t yeah but it seemed like he was mhm it seemed like he was for sure you need to start bringing some napkins or towels or something it’s all good though i love prongs man of course and he can chirp he’s been chirping me for over 20 years yep it’s a different type of chirp though he was chirping me on the ice too that [ __ ] it’s in love no he was chirping me hardcore on the ice he’d be like “What are you doing out here?” Like “What are you doing out here?” That’s a great question to ask like you’re out here too are you defending my line hey Lindwood University is having a press conference today big shout out Keith Fischer welcome to St louis welcome baby i think it’s a good hire to bring in a guy like we said before from a uh big time program um what about uh another D1 uh Mville yeah they want to tweet you know the Twitter i get everything i mean it’s just Andy’s tweet this thing’s going down and you’re tweeting about it you know and then it makes you horny probably too oh my god isn’t that weird why would you say that because your endorphins if you’re It’s like doing like you’re horny when you [ __ ] It’s like eating protein yes it makes you horny like when you’re happy make you more sexual oh yeah big time yeah okay for sure yeah that makes sense yeah I know mhm so I’m just saying take advantage of that loriy’s going to be like “What’s going on here?” Like “My [ __ ] tweet baby 3 million [ __ ] views you’re getting it girl so what?” Wow i know so we lost in the championship game though in Chicago it’s fine no it’s it’s fine i not It’s okay you need to lose sometimes because I feel like he’s been winning a lot tie that and I didn’t like the way he acted on the ice when they lost oh what do you do like slammed his stick down and stuff like that okay don’t wait don’t you break a [ __ ] stick don’t you break that stick and I said I said you go through the line and you shake hands you tell everyone Oh yeah he didn’t do that no he did they went through the line but I go you tell everyone good game good game shake look him in the eye shake their hand don’t be unless Paul Maurice is out there i go you got to win with class you got to lose with class okay and and losing is a part of the game man you’re not gonna win all the time no you need to learn how to lose too baby cuz I again you guys post so much stuff and he’s got trophies here and he’s winning this tournament sometimes you got to get smacked in the face a little bit yeah sometimes you got to lose you know or you have to go against a kid that shuts you down he’s not dangling Marion style where he gets hit a couple times like “Whoa what is this?” Marand you know what’ you think of um Connor Hellabuk winning the heart trophy as the league MVP i don’t know he’s the heart trophy winner best player in the game yeah i don’t know over like Cooer off or That’s a solid team up in Winnipeg if they had a different Very good defensively very good i just wonder how weird like when you get presented trophies at this time of year after you didn’t play well in the playoffs i don’t like it again again it’s been like year after year and now you’re winning the heart like we got a goalie trophy it go it’s the Vzna i’m not saying they can’t win the heart but they got to really separate themselves from the pack i mean there’s other goalies that had great save percentages and great goals against average the teams maybe didn’t win the division and stuff like that but I like this video though oh it was his fishing yes he’s got a badass lake house his family looks fantastic awesome family looks great we chirp but I I saw them and if I’m I look at him differently now i like I know I need I need I need to see like videos like that of around your family or a motion something that’s and I look at you a little different dude he’s chilling in his backyard beautiful place looking over like the mountains and a lake i’m thinking God if I had that money that’s exactly what I would do his beautiful wife his kids the trophies are coming he’s just chilling they’re partying they’re having a barbecue god damn people do say like damn cool coo the way his relationship with the media at the All-Star game does that hurt him does that cost him some votes I I don’t think it’s that as much as he’s just not in Canada i think a lot of the Canadian voters or he’s Russian do you know the Russians or he’s Russian the Russian prospects had to pay their own way to get to the NHL combine did they really like Okay does that is that abnormal okay so I was told this by somebody by agent pay in hockey no the team well if you’re invited to the combine by the league the league pays for it okay sweden Finland USA Canada Czech Russia they don’t pay those guys had to pay their own way they’re with Putin we’re just getting a little They’re bombing how we’re like you know treating these kid hockey players that have nothing to do with political landscape they’re from small towns in the middle of [ __ ] afford to get to the damn a lot of them aren’t from Moscow and St petersburg the most beautiful one of the most beautiful cities in the world they’re from little hardcore industrial towns like [ __ ] Chernobyl like like something like that where it’s just industrial [ __ ] everywhere like a [ __ ] freezing cold hardcore life you know your your dad and mom are doing so much for your hockey career probably traveling so far to even get to somewhere and now they have to pay for [ __ ] they got to pay or their a You think they’re hanging out with [ __ ] their agent has to pay for it jeez Louise funny how they don’t talk about Ukraine and Russia that much anymore dan Milstein I think he’s like a Russian agent he’s a hockey agent and he is uh I think holding like his own combine and like inviting teams to come and he’s like having all these Russian kids come to a combine what’s the latest on um the kids up in London with a girl i think they’re going to announce the verdict on July 24th how long has it been have they been on hockey they’re like they’re done with the trial now i think now you wait for the judge to come out with his verdict wow what’s going to happen if they’re found not guilty there’s going to be some angry media people up at Canada i know if they’re not guilty but they’re not guilty then she wanted to get banged out by a bunch of guys it is what it But I’m just saying you know if they’re found not guilty cuz there’s certain media people well do they get reimbured for who have already made them guilty oh yeah they’ve been guilty since by association he’s like I don’t agree with this verdict i don’t believe the verdict it just shows you though do not do that don’t go in that room do not [ __ ] go watch your buddy bang a girl don’t even [ __ ] be around any of that stuff no if you want to wheelgrow yourself be careful with it but don’t you let your buddies come in can’t do that [ __ ] it’s weird anyway I know when you’re young you do crazy stuff trust me I get it don’t [ __ ] do that kevin Durant um he’s never been married and uh he plays basketball i don’t know yeah I know okay he’s banging porn stars dude okay so but he makes like 50 a year no he has to he gives like an agreement like Oh he women like Yep like he’s not here for them to come take his money you gotta be like you gotta have your own money you gotta do they sign off like a waiver before you bang you can’t bother him during the season like he won’t text you back and stuff that’s why he’s smashing some of them pine stars baby them pirate direction to go in if you’re that wealthy these girls are [ __ ] They have meetups in every city he goes to you know I would wear a condom with it which you know but uh but yeah like porn stars like that’s what you do parn pir stars but they’re dirty you know you better watch what you got going down there you better you better use a condom which only I thought sailors use condoms going port to part oh do they there’s a lot of times I didn’t and I was rolling the dice so goddang bad but it feels completely different condoms suck i mean who’s like I like wearing hell no it’s a big difference and when you’re [ __ ] horny it’s like hard give me that thing like anyway but do it can’t get pregnant man can’t get a girl pregnant sasha Bararkov wins another he’s a good player do you know some media people I’m hearing saying what that he’s just winning it’s like based on reputation a lot of it it’s like they always say that with the Selki with Bersron and all that well maybe but who do you want to win it i mean what he’s doing against McDavid in the Stanley Cup final it is do you know McDavid has one goal in the Stanley Cup final and Barov wasn’t even on the ice it was Lundell yeah the he Lindell is Barkoff but yes they’re all Barkov they are listen all they’re all they’re all so good it’s unbelievable but when you have a guy like Barkoff who just he’s supposed to be the funniest guy on that team you watch some of the guys that interview like who’s the funniest guy like Bark Barky Barky Barky Barky Barky everybody you think they were staged no you don’t think you think they all said Barky why would you fake that there’s certain things that you will fake but Barky’s the funniest guy he’s funny because he’s a kind of like the stoic because he’s the big dick on the team and he probably chirps so much little chirps when you which is like he doesn’t speak great English so it whenever whenever you don’t speak great English you’re the big guy and you’re chirping like Yags used to do and so it’s it makes it even funnier okay he might say the word wrong he does this like it’s funny he’s supposed to be hilarious thoughts are out are with the uh Indian people though man because that is a God a plane crash horrific plane crash i was seeing Indian people in Chicago son of a [ __ ] i was seeing Indian people in Chicago oh yeahay and they’re walking through the park and I just wondered what was going through the park there’s some [ __ ] weird [ __ ] going on dudes do I know Do I know every internal thing about Israel and god dang Iran but it’s scary and the Iron Dome ain’t really doming it too much can we talk about the Minnesota political shooter oh my god that was horrific they found him they No I know did you see the video with his friend the pizza man his roommate how weird is that interesting you have five kids so upset you have five kids oh yeah he has five kids yeah the dude has five kids he does yes is he married and he has a roommate what do you mean the roommate lives with him and his wife don’t know that’s the roommate did you see how distraught the friend was like I think that’s fake as a son of a [ __ ] you think his crying was fake [ __ ] yeah why who is this guy he’s your roommate you have five kids psychotic who’s got five kids the [ __ ] murderer yes don’t ever answer your goddamn door at 3:00 in the morning with a goddamn mask on that looks like the pizza the the Six Flags guy back in the 90s in that commercial the old man that does all the stuff with that nasty looking mask on you’re going to answer that door at 3 in the morning he was impersonating a police officer he had a goo the ugliest mask it looked he looked like it was Halloween oh really you’re Yes and who answered it the wife and the husband I guess so because the wife and the husband Are you crazy were they shot down in like a park or something no I think they he he kicked the door down and then he went to the next house yeah and they tried and then the police come there how the hell did he get away don’t know like how’s he getting away like he didn’t look like a very athletic like guy to be able to like sneak away especially with sonar like you you could see Well with so much so many police yeah and then you have a helicopter that could literally see your breathing like they a helicopter come by with whatever sonar or whatever it were just like they did with the Boston bombers where they could see all red even if you’re hiding under a boat like they see your body temperature and they’ll find you before they found uh those kids in the Boston yeah do you watch that actually I watched if you guys are listen there’s a couple things to watch ocean Gate I watched that this Stockton Rush [ __ ] weirdo oh my god watch that it’s only an hour and a half long it’s really good really good she was watching I think she was working on the team in like she goes “What happened?” Yeah she didn’t even get any emotional they listen all that when they made that out of carbon fiber it was cracking so much and he didn’t tell anybody about it like the carbon fiber is made of all these little things like and it’s cheaper that way so he was going to like rent out these things and make a bunch of them and make a ton of money but it started cracking and cracking he didn’t tell anybody he didn’t fix it so what happened i saw the clip then how did the wife react once she found out it was Did she get emotional yeah i don’t think they showed her right when they knew that but they heard when she heard the first noise she’s like this that was odd or something like that god I want to watch he’s a weirdo stock rush here’s another one here’s another one bin Laden the new one the raid of bin Laden how they caught him it’s phenomenal it’s phenomenal how they put this together and you’re like I’ve seen all that so have I i’ve seen every single [ __ ] documentary this one on Netflix is fantastic check it out do you know Max Patrick already very good friend of mine um we met at the rink this past weekend had a great Was he a big fan of yours i used to watch you play i love you on Twitter i’m a big fan of you on Twitter do you know that your endorphins were high all weekend you were peacocking it around in front of everybody i’m a big fan of you you know that he What was I going to say what were you saying before that uh what I was talking about Stockton [ __ ] Rush baby oh and Bin Laden hardcore awesome awesome the timeline that they [ __ ] it took forever to find this guy he was hiding all over the place he tells me what that Bobby Gasoff came and spoke to the Maple Leafs and it was one of the most unbelievable Bobby Gassoff Junior Junior yes bobby Gasov died a long time ago i know bobby Gasoff Junior we all know that story gasser Junior junior who played at Michigan did he really he’s super tight with Mike Van Ryan you know Gasoff yes right they lived together when Yep yep yep when Van Ryan was a coach coach here he lived with Gasser when his family love you van Ryan’s family moved back to Florida during school and stuff he’s got kids and whatever great family rhino i love Rhino too man so do I i like their whole coaching stuff oh yeah i know hell yeah and including our boy Derek Loland who’s now there i know i love Derek he texted us after the interview he’s like “That was great.” He goes “You guys are awesome you guys are awesome that’s a good feel i like that my endor because I don’t I don’t Oh my god li is just being beat that up that’s healthy that’s good it is just don’t have another child no god can you Did you get your little wee oh dude i am like And I I hate saying this you can’t have I wasn’t eligible cuz the doctor said “Ask me if I work if I work out a lot.” And he said “You said no.” He’s like he’d been lifting a lot of weights i swear to God when I went to go get such a lot Cam true story i go to get my basectomy the guy does the check and he’s like “You’ve been working out a lot.” He’s making fun of you that’s [ __ ] i swear to God i go I go “Will you say this on video?” Cuz he said “I would.” He’s like “No I won’t.” But he dry he draws a picture of like a penis and everything on this paper explaining how just snip the [ __ ] no it’s like it would be like I’d risk I’d be risking my life if I would have it done why because it something was blocked and so he thought he goes too big he goes “Have you been?” He goes “Were you recently did you suffer any trauma?” No with an impact to your no testicles did somebody kick you in the testicles somebody punch you in the testicles did Tai punch you in a weird that son of a [ __ ] he did that to me at Norand and put me downtown [ __ ] Chinatown i know so he would you’re going to get control of that so he would not I wasn’t eligible to have the vasectomy you might have another child coming and jeez Lou especially after you might know one more tweet you’re going to have twins i hate Oh my god i hate saying this because I know a lot of people have trouble getting pregnant hi and uh and I know it’s an emotional time for a lot of people and they got to spend a lot it is what it is but yeah 50 grand probably you know I I could have had 10 kids if I wanted to i mean it was We wanted to have a baby bang and we had a couple of We lost a few really yeah two you [ __ ] she had two uh miscarriages yes i did not know that is that private to say uh it’s okay okay you know well we just relate to a lot of people out there i did not know that homie very [ __ ] 10 kids emotional for my wife you would be so [ __ ] panic mode right now if you had three more [ __ ] kids hey but let me explain both of them were before Ty oh okay you wanted a boy well I didn’t like make that decision no I’m just saying like you were like “We want more kids.” Actually I’m sorry one of them was after Tai and Tai’s the youngest yeah damn i remember telling you you were [ __ ] fertile i remember telling I was so rattled why are you so fertile do you know it’s amazing is it because of the lack of blowing your load back in the day to where now it’s just like [ __ ] No you know what I mean it’s like a fire hose like [ __ ] like this you have a lot of options seriously so I feel like I masturbated way too much or something and then that’s why you got rid of all your and maybe maybe the drugs i don’t know okay so but I never got I remember being Yeah we were having we had three ty was young he was maybe a year and a half and she got pregnant again and I was kind of rattled by it four kids and so I remember telling my crew I’m like “Oh we’re having another one.” He’s like “That’s great if you have money I’m like dude I don’t know how we’re going to.” And then if you got coin it’s good i’ve always carried this guilt because I was a little rattled by being my wife being pregnant again and then we lost the baby oh how long in like nine 10 weeks okay 10 weeks but she wasn’t like this no like you go to your Yeah and then like it’s not moving to the ultrasound and then she’s got and then she’s got to go in and uh have like a surgery and stuff like that and get a Yep a little C-section or something twice dude I didn’t know that interesting yeah very hard that’s [ __ ] That’s That’s You have three beautiful kids who Anybody who’s ever been through that Yeah and knows how it impact you know it’s really hard on the wife dude no [ __ ] it is that’s your That’s your That’s your bae that’s your That’s you you created that little thing you know what I mean well you got three beautiful kids so don’t even don’t worry about that [ __ ] but if you keep tweeting [ __ ] out boy you better snip that [ __ ] little dingy of yours cuz you’re going to have three more and then it’s going to annoy me because you you’re going to be out of control like how do you keep getting her pregnant oh my god it’s from my It’s from tweeting you know it’s from tweeting i got the endorphins going like an animal sexual tyrannosaurus mara wasn’t going back to Toronto when Lori got pregnant lori sees a tweet she’s like “Oh I’m getting it tonight.” She does she’s not on Twitter it’s for the best she has no idea it’s for the best you know she dropped off if she was on Twitter she’d be [ __ ] blah blah blah blah blah oh my god we’re just not on top of it like that as much doesn’t study like the hockey schedules like the other wives probably know everything like she’s like she’s like what do you she’s like she dropped my um daughter off at field hockey camp this morning and she saw a couple of the other hockey moms there and they were like hey they’re getting their plane tickets for Boston cuz they’re on sale she’s like when are we going to Boston i didn’t know we were going to Boston i’m like I haven’t She needs to calm down with that i haven’t like You guys been going on a lot of vacations it’s not a vacation ty’s got to be He’s got a tournament in Boston in like September or something oh okay like to kick off the season type thing okay we just haven’t gotten into that till like a Yeah okay so the longer you wait the more it’s expensive it’s going to be i know but sometimes it’s easier to wait and get a what a good deal on something you know what I mean you don’t ever really get much of a good deal i tell you what I do like watching the [ __ ] I watched that PGA US Open it’s badass at Oakmont this this course in Oakmont where they took down all the trees in Pennsylvania it was like one of the hardest courses going dude really oh my me and you would be out there still be out there still to the US Open on the drive home from Chicago you ever heard golf on the radio it’s the most comfortable soothing [ __ ] thing ever i love it let’s go back out to Shannon and she’s like she’s like this she’s like she’s like 180 it’s a light breeze oh look at this oh the back she’s like he’s got good on it she’s got good Oh Mrs high Mrs highole i want that after watching hockey and it’s like blah blah blah blah like watching they’re going from one person to the next i’m like they are talented broadcasters i’ll tell you that there listen when you’re a golf broadcaster you have talented you have to be like it’s like you have to have so many different rules on what you could say you can’t get emotional you can’t say this you can’t say that you can’t do this it’s really really interesting look that up man these guys have to be like Jim Nance those guys have to be focused you can’t say wild things you can’t say you’re you it’s unbelievable like you’re a robot but I like it i like to chill man and watch that it’s really interesting that’s a bogey for Simpson he’s now three over john I want to be good at golf so [ __ ] and now John takes over and he starts like he’s got this raspy like quiet like whispering voice like I did play good down in [ __ ] Scottsdale did you in front of like people that are supposed to be good and I think they use my ball more than anybody get out of here swear to God was it a scramble i wasn’t even drinking that much that’s probably what Yeah was it a scramble yeah and we we eventually won but like I I was pretty [ __ ] good and I’m like and I got horny from playing golf your endorphins my endorphins cuz I [ __ ] did down the pipe i’m like “Son of a [ __ ] i should have played golf.” I’m like “Where’s Kate?” After I Where’s Kate tweeted she got it you should have See when you’re high stay high like you’re hitting the ball 250 yards how’d you do that stay high baby oh that would have crashed you down so goddamn fast you would have lost your boner cuz you’re not good at golfing you’re not good at golf at all you’re actually horrific at golf but I’m But I’m better than you no you’re not is that bad oh 100% i would play i’ve never You want to [ __ ] do it i’ve never counted you want to tell the people and we could go we can do Instagram live fine you want to do that you got to count every shot i know it’s going to take us forever for 18 holes i would play you we’ll do nine fine we have to go we can’t i’d play you in a match we cannot annoy people match play we can’t annoy people match play you can’t be on the phone waiting to [ __ ] do [ __ ] i need you focused dude you don’t worry about me because we’re confused i got thing no no no there’s people behind us and they’re watching us so you need to be Do you mind if I do this interview real quick no yeah I do i do mind you’re not supposed to talk on the phone like that who’s having us out of their course and we are playing match play i’m getting back in St you are yep when probably pretty soon okay well I’ll meet you out there oh you will yeah i’m going to tell you a different time so you get there early fine that’s what I do to my wife whenever we have plans to go eat somewhere she’s worse than you oh yeah oh wow that would drive me [ __ ] berserk so if we have seven berserk if we have 7:30 reservations holy cow she’s worse than I tell her I tell her it’s 7 oh yeah every time kate’s right on time really she’s not early she’s right on time i’m early and I get frustrated with her being right on time I can only imagine i know a couple of Kate’s friends that are so [ __ ] late for everything one girl up in Jersey I know my boys listen right now Ryan what’s up baby you know your wife Julie we love her lovely woman from Brazil Brazil she’s a badass [ __ ] love her but she’s late and Ryan has to put his goddamn foot late to the games like they take Kate to the Devil’s games and she is late late and Ryan would lose his [ __ ] mind and rightfully so because Ryan’s like a disciplined police like I don’t like late well she is late i’m on time no you’re not yeah you’re you’re [ __ ] 5 10 minutes late every everywhere yeah you are yeah you are i’m here on time every You cut it so close dude i don’t know how you do that it makes more stress on It takes way more stress on time no you have You’re stressed out and when I have to take my kids to games and stuff like You were two minutes late today you’re two minutes late today and so that’s not on time but I was on Doesn’t matter that’s late you’re still late you know what I mean you’re still late is everybody Is everybody safe in LA with the riots is there anything that you would go protest no well sure um Um You know if we dismantled our military I’d be like although we spend so much money on military it goes to these big funds and companies and they have to keep funding that’s why there’s wars proxy wars and we’re always involved and sending you know different kind of artillery and whatnot and they’re making so much to where the military at this point’s like “We don’t need that it’s going to get old soon we don’t need it.” But they they but there’s contracts involved okay lockheed Martin all those [ __ ] companies okay i wasn’t expecting like a boring answer like that no that’s a legit answer and the real people understand what the [ __ ] I’m talking about you lost me there i know I did no [ __ ] I did but yeah I I’m not a protest kind of guy i feel like the No Kings protest is all like older white liberal women just walking around like “What are you mad about?” It’s funny when you when you interview some of these cats they don’t know what the [ __ ] to say well why you here we don’t need kings well what do you mean by that well he’s a he’s a he’s a dictator he’s a dictator oh is he if he’s a dictator you wouldn’t be able to [ __ ] do this right just so you know okay it’s so odd and if you ask them questions about why they don’t even have an answer for you so um I got a great uh review on my last What do they say in the creak last cameo great review this video turned out incredible and my husband absolutely loved it andy went above and beyond to make a personal and included a great chat about hockey i truly appreciate the thoughtfulness and quick turnaround that’s five stars yeah that’s five stars i know well you should get five yeah if somebody’s going to pay you money to do that [ __ ] put your five put some time into it yeah I agree and be you know energetic and whatnot five stars yeah yeah i got those too lord you I don’t You don’t have too many five stars i got a lot of five stars there you want to bet you want to throw money down on things did you bring your wallet no i want to play golf against you for money [ __ ] yeah man i want to play golf every damn day okay well we’re going to start every single day i’ll play we’ll start k and I played every [ __ ] day okay i was drinking a little too I was spending a little too much money you know [ __ ] you’re then Then my buddy’s like “Let’s go to the Kobos you know so I got to chill.” That’s what I did i got They’re like “Cam come up here come up here.” And I’m like “I’m busy.” Like “No you’re not cuz I see your truck in your driveway and you’re right there.” Like so the guy I love it though if I had made more money guys who worked at he like knew who I was and came over and said hello and like you guys got so you got so upset about I so out of touch i don’t want to call him out for what he did it was very nice gesture but I don’t want to get him in trouble for what at the club he gave me like a free drink or something no he didn’t no he didn’t he did he’s just he’s just saying hi to No he gave me a free He listened to a podcast and No you’re part of it no he remembers from like the radio it wasn’t your other hockey podcast it was this one the same exact podcast the same one no it’s not yes it is it’s the exact same thing way different conversation it’s just more just hockey specifically we talked hockey for 45 minutes maddie is it the exact same show [Laughter] imagine I did that you would lose lose my mind but I already had a show for 20 years the radio station closed down no it’s it’s back up well now it is and they asked me to bring it back but I just don’t feel like telling going back to everybody i understand i understand i’m just giving you And I like how they put it on YouTube and everything and I like it here at Half Coast competing podcast that’s awful we do it on Monday and he does another one on Friday with Jamal Mayor’s but I put like big time guests on this show yeah it’s all good and I’ll get big time guests on that show too just had Brad Shaw on there great conversation did you listen to that um no you’d like it i will i’ll listen he was cool because he was Did you listen to my radio show coach when in your era yeah he coached me he bagged me too when I was sitting out well good and he’d skate with us firstform.com/camestrick use our link today and only our link look at these new beautiful form energy baby who they team up with was it Dana White annheiser Bush and Dana White yeah hell yeah annheiser Bush now owns like 49% of it yeah and these energy drinks are fantastic just so you know they really are they’ve got four new flavors but this is the screaming freedom which they had before but this a beautiful can it’s awesome and when you drink those energy drinks like they get you up i drink one a day they get you up which I think you don’t really crash from it you can have You can have 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House walking and grinding scoring goals oh my god luno roofing call David Novak today 3149205713 a lot of roofs are kind of [ __ ] up from those storms if you had storm damage from what I understand when I was out of town tweeting it was very rainy here in town the boner you don’t even know you i didn’t even look at it honestly like oh yeah no i swear man i wasn’t i was busy oh yeah we went four and0 and then lost in the championship how did we lose in the championship who cares learn from it don’t ever have him break his goddamn stick don’t be [ __ ] doing that [ __ ] but I was not happy about [ __ ] Lamaro would [ __ ] pissed at him yeah he would you don’t break your stick in practice those things are 200 goddamn bucks don’t do that okay well he didn’t he did get slashed by a kid I saw that he showed me that video of I didn’t like that can I say it i don’t care andy showed me a clip of Ty in practice and I know a lot of you guys have kids in practice but this kid came up behind Tai and goes two hand right in the back like bam like they were like they’re chirping each other and I just said like don’t take that don’t be crazy break your stick after games not shake hands but if somebody two hands you in the back of the goddamn legs in line I don’t care if you’re nine or 10 or whatever you got to stick up for yourself on that and then you that’s that’s a green light to do that and then he’ll never godamn do it again don’t take that from anybody slash you’ll [ __ ] leg are you kidding two hand i go He showed me the video i go Jesus he’s got to stick up for himself on that one that’s all good no big deal and then and then apologize later and then you guys are be burned i dealt with that [ __ ] too man where guys and I’m like “What are you doing?” And then you stick up for yourself and then all of a sudden you become friends me and Jordy Fox went at it a lot more than you think did you god yeah dude god he was the only one that could could do things to me to piss me the [ __ ] off and I know he’s listening he would dust you he’s a damn good player he would dust he could have gone to [ __ ] He got drafted by Kingston when I was drafted with Windsor and he didn’t go st louis kid Jordy Fox who I love probably should have gone yeah you’re a captain of that team you know poio [ __ ] so anyway Jersey Generator form Energy first.com/camestrick always use our link blue roofing gutter sophet fascia um fascia roofing siding whatever it is you need blue roofing 314 9205713 some [ __ ] cam Illinois Recovery Center right there in Swansea Illinois baby let’s go chrissy Jacob Eric love all you guys they love you and they want to help you they do there’s a lot of [ __ ] going down lots of stuff going down they did shut the border down a little bit so the fentanol’s kind of died off a little bit there’s a lot of protests there’s a lot of [ __ ] going on man with drugs and and it’s everywhere it’s everywhere they will help you alcohol all that there’s a warm bed waiting for you warm nice beds dude nice bed and you got people that understand what’s going on they’ve been through it before they care about you i’m telling you that right now that’s the Illinois Recovery Center right there in recovery center why do you need to do I need to do it holy [ __ ] get I mean you’re just like you got to hit the heart you got to sell it you got to sell it you got to let them know you need to calm down you got to let him know what you need to do jesus you got to let him know go on Twitter go on Twitter i’ll take care of this text me if you want to get [Laughter] text me if you want to get so true oh Dante Fabro by the way I mentioned that oh that was another good one he’s uh agreed to a contract extension with Columbus that should get announced very soon i’m here it’s a fouryear deal totaling somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 million bucks columbus might be something i’m rooting for Columbus so am I i like Columbus because they went through so much weird stuff they’re just a fun team to watch i like these young kids i like these young kids they got good players you know my boy Jared was assistant coach do you know Chris Bart just got hired as head coach with uh Missaga niagara missaga niagara niagara i think so bartie wanted to come on the podcast he called me he did let’s go i know okay cool jesus remember this is like months ago he’s like I want to come on i go okay and then I told him and he didn’t get back to London don’t they yeah yeah i think his kids a draft pick okay let’s go okay i just can’t count on camera to I gota like I gotta nudge them sometimes mhm it’s all good so Illinois Recovery Center man call Chrissy today great person man i love his Instagram too he’s got a lot of funny [ __ ] i saw him at the ball game oh did you see him i saw at the experience at the baseball game lovely okay here’s a funny thing though like I’m at the I’m at the Let’s talk about it in the close okay okay just save that thought all right okay well we’ll get back to that okay we’ll get back to that go true float baby oh it’s summer time alberta tough man it’s hot as [ __ ] i’m getting on that river this weekend i need to get on some water i’m getting on i’m craving the water i’m craving the water i need to go to Hellabox Lake i want to pack that Sombitch killer up which I know if it fell out of my truck 55 miles an hour that I could still drink a beer and it won’t explode in my face won’t even open won’t even open i want to go in the water so bad and I’m going to pack all this cooler full of all kinds of stuff they have little packages in there too you can put food you put your beer you got this you got your vodka whatever you want they got damn good coolers and then I might take one of my uh our uh our little chair too that’s heated yeah the heated chairs dude they come in all different colors some of the coolers have wheels on them you can put your logo on the cooler so if you have a Let’s go in Andy’s basement look around and see how many coolers he has he only gave me I put one on my Instagram you can check that out so check out True Float tru Float out of Alberta shitkicking Alberta baby what’s Yeti then bunch of [ __ ] okay [ __ ] not true float they’re [ __ ] kicking [ __ ] kicking Canadians we love you guys man oh yeah hat launch baby let’s go i need a couple more hats you can put So do I i need some i know so do I you can put your logo on a hat you can put your logo on a hat too you know we had a good time with those guys too they’re the best they’re so fun danny and everybody they’re so fun um Hat Launch is America’s number one source for customized hats entrepreneurs yeah they are god dang awesome so I know some hockey people that I’ve gotten them in touch with um hat launch and they they’re happy with everything quick turnaround within two weeks great quality hats but you can put your business logo and if you don’t know what you want your logo they’ll hook you up they’ll like create a logo for 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it there is no competition when it comes to Shil no they’re the best in the business you got to check them out ryan love you buddy love your daddy too data too what’s up Tanya what’s up girl yeah yeah yeah hell yeah ryan if Andy and I keep doing well I’m telling you I’m going to get one i got a badass backyard for that and so do you i want to get one too i’m fun to get one they’re expensive though cam Bellman you get swinging dicks told you that a million times but you do get sushi and flavored water you know no swinging dicks in Troy Missouri god I need a new truck too there’s a lot of things I need yeah buick GMC on one side of the street on the other side you have Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram cam’s looking at that Jeep two doors soft top funny small wheels pink flames on the side nothing wrong with that got to work on your thing got to work on your game when it has nothing wrong with that no no there’s nothing to do with hockey he’s got to work on being a little bit more creative oh okay not very creative say hi to Hey Danny what’s up baby dale where the [ __ ] Kenny at i told you get back to [ __ ] work boy love you guys man what’s up say hell yeah hell yeah let’s go you got to work on things it’s all good you know how about Tae Thompson great guy he’s next on the Camtas baby the Cammonstrip podcast is brought to you by First Form baby use our link and do it today www.firstform.com/cam and strick get jacked now they are the real deal get that protein check out the apparel eat those bars and drink those energy drinks firstform.com/cammanstrick now on to the interview we were just talking about if we were playing in the league and we had our summers off where would we live yeah because I’m like this guy here you’re in Arizona but did you pick Arizona or are you in Arizona because you live there and your mom’s from there so it’s like more like home for you yeah it’s a little bit of a combo i mean uh all my mom’s side of the family’s from here but um it really started like during COVID when there was like nowhere to go train except for Florida and Arizona those are like the only two spots so we came down here and there’s like a really good group of guys um like working out and skating and obviously I just like to golf and the lifestyle down here is really nice but it’s hot as balls um in the summer but kind of get used to it so so hot hey we just hit record and we just go where’s Keller’s house did he sell his house with that golf course in the backyard he’s in Scottdale still um he’s actually here right now but I’m in Poria which is like 40 minutes west of Scottsdale so I’m in the uh the lower uh tax bracket little Yeah baby little little more blue collar out here can you hit the ball 300 yards i mean you got that body for it yeah 300 to 330 probably right about 150 yards into the desert so dude you’re hitting at 350 330 i don’t Doesn’t matter where it goes straight it’s usually in someone’s house yeah that means he’s hitting it like 380 damn you do look like a golfer i I figured you’d be really good at it i’m not i’m okay i’m very volatile i have good days and I have really bad days so I get that man how old are your kids man you got two kids now yeah two and a half he’ll actually he’ll be three in uh in July and then I got a one and a halfyear-old and then I got a third on the way wow look at you keep reading where’s your wife from is she from Arizona too or No no she’s from Connecticut we met at uh at Yukon she grew up there lived there her whole life and then uh trying to get her to uh switch and come out out to Arizona full-time in the summers we’re slowly making that transition so she play she play basketball there no she’s actually a dance oh my god her basketball team is amazing breed yeah yeah she’s tall though she’s like 5’9 our big Our oldest boy is huge he’s like 90th percentile for height and weight he’s a monster oh my god connecticut’s beautiful though man like it it was really nice you could find a badass house ideally it would be like nice we We got a place in u in Milford it’s like near Bridgeport like kind of near the water so like that’d be ideally like a good spot to go to in August when it’s like 120 here you know yeah dude so is that how you split the time up you go to you go to uh Connecticut when it gets really hot you use your lakehouse there or what we’ve actually been doing it the opposite like we’ve been going like June May end of May June in Connecticut and then July and August out here just cuz that’s like usually when I’m skating so there’s not there’s not a ton of guys skating out in Connecticut right now so better group to work out and skate with out here they’re all down there baby yeah but you’re used they’re all down there man everyone Everyone’s coming down here it’s the best ever who’s all down there besides Keller and Matthews a lot of guys those those two guys are like the only guys that are here like I would say probably the whole summer obviously Austin pops in and out he has he goes places but is Bieber there is he bringing Bieber with him or what i’ve never seen him here i’m sure he comes down every I got questions for him but um like Mark Castellic is here um N is usually here i think he’s in Minnesota now but um there’s a pretty solid group especially when like the Yachts were still here there was there was a lot of guys i think uh Jonathan Taves is out here working out and skating right now have you seen him skate what’s the scouting report i haven’t seen him yet but my brother’s been skating saw him out here a couple times said he looks really good so how’s your brother doing he’s good he’s coming back from surgery um he had kind of a that the that year in Bridgeport was a mess so Oh god yeah didn’t win that many games at home he was Yeah he was just trying to grind through that season get out of there but um he’s doing good now he’s just rehabbing his he I think he tore something in his thumb fighting his like last game of the season so he’s uh he’s better now he’s starting to work out fully he’s golfing a little bit now so um I think he’s doing good he’s just looking for a place to sign now yeah I saw he put up some penalty minutes and stuff man so he’s Where’d you get your height cuz your dad’s around the same height as your brother right he’s uh a little taller than my brother and then I’m a little taller than him he’s like 6’3 my brother’s 6’1 and I’m 66 or so my mom’s side of the family is all really big she’s one of um four sisters and they’re all like 5’9 plus oh god way bigger than Andy way bigger than me you and your dad don’t look alike just so you know i know i’m I look more like my mom thank goodness you look like your brother too yeah you do yeah me and my brother look very similar god you grew up and like you’re just going you’re just like tra like you play you stay somewhere for a couple years you leave like were you ever like dad I got a girlfriend I really like her and he’s like nope we got to go and you’re like god damn it just the gypsy lifestyle we were just every two to three years we just pick up and move everything got used to it I actually liked it you know you just kind of by year two or three you’re just like ready to move on you know sucks obviously you meet you meet friends and like you got to leave them and you know you’ll probably never see them again but um most of my friends were in the hockey world anyways so you run run into him like down the road like Swayman for example like I played with him when I was 12 in Alaska and then we played together again in like worlds and play against him all the time so it’s just funny like stuff like that but yeah school friends you kind of just get used to like packing up and moving what was the worst place you played though you bring up Alaska not that that would be a bad place but that’s hardcore up there like was there any place where you’re like “Dad can you sign somewhere else can you sign in San Diego can you get the hell out of here honestly Alaska was probably my favorite outside of Arizona Alaska is probably the f my favorite place I’ve ever lived just cuz like it was the perfect age for me and my brother we were both like 13 14 snowboarded got into all the hiking fishing hunting all that stuff out there um Poria was kind of a there’s not much out there when we were in in Illinois for four years poria Illinois poria baby not not much out there dude i just uh took my kid god he had we played team Illinois but like they met us in Peoria we came from St louis and we actually played games there and I was like what is and I had been to Peoria a couple times to watch the Rivermen play and whatnot but I didn’t remember it being that isolated of a town i’m like there is nothing going on here in Poria but but there’s tough neighborhoods there man tough neighborhoods the the hockey there too like once we got to like uh me and my brother we played for the Junior Riverman and then got like too good to play for them and then the only other like good team around the area was in Chicago so my mom was driving us three plus hours every every weekend to go play up there so it just became like a little bit too much so luckily we got uh my dad got a job in Alaska we moved out of there but um I mean it’s not like I hated my time there i met some good people out there but um yeah I say that’s probably like the most It was god awful it’s all good the junior riverman i never even heard that’s amazing that you played in Poria i forgot that you lived there cuz I remember seeing your dad around like main camp and got to know your dad a little bit when he was working in the blues organization did you ever run into any grizzlies in Alaska like any bear encounters i personally didn’t my brother did a few times actually um I I played little league there too so in the summers my brother like if he wasn’t playing would just come and there was like a trail behind one of the the diamonds we would play at and uh he was like riding his bike with his buddy and they came up on a black bear like a mom and its cubs like probably like he said probably 20 to 25 ft from it and him and his buddy just panicked like dropped their bikes and started running the other way which is not what you’re supposed to do so but that’s I think the closest encounter he’s ever had to one when I’ve gone fishing I’ve seen them like across the river but like they just kind of mind their own business but that’s that’s about it mostly moose encounters like you get those all the time they’re just wandering the streets there they’ll mess you up too they can be dangerous you got to keep your distance away from the moose they have more from those than than bears up there really yeah driving your car into They’ll just They’ll just trample people like if you go up and like you get these idiot teenagers that’ll like throw stuff at them and they’ll just trample them so listen i went to college in Arizona and I was working on the student uh broadcast it wasn’t even the student run it was like a real station and I went to the great Alaska shootout for like 10 days dude it was like a huge basketball tournament up there and there was a couple moose and like I remember getting up close to the moose to take a picture and people screaming at me like “Don’t get too close to the moose.” You’re that guy i didn’t I didn’t know they could like dumb tourist oh my god i’m I’m thankful that it didn’t alaska is an amazing state dude i would live there full time if I could yeah it’s the best in the summer too the sun never goes down it’s like you’ll be sitting around a campfire at like 3:00 a.m and you’re like “Why am I so tired?” And it’s just like It looks like it’s noon sun’s just It’s the best in the summer and the worst in the winter when I was there Thanksgiving and it’s expensive as hell up there too man like there’s a lot of people it’s It’s tough up there eddie thinks he’s going to go up there and be Macyver i’d live off the land is what I do it was so dark dude it was dark all day long in no Thanksgiving time school and it’d be pitch black you’d leave school and it was pitch black god awful dude depressing i didn’t care because I was 13 and I would just play out every school had an outdoor rink so I just go play hockey as soon I was done at school you go play with your buddies and then go to practice so it didn’t bother me but I’m sure like my mom and dad it was probably like “That sucks you better have a rifle bears.” I didn’t have one you can’t just kill a bear okay you can’t just kill a bear like that you go to jail for No the real estate the real estate agents when they show you houses dude they carry rifles i’ve seen it on You’ll go to jail if you kill one what’s the worst winter alaska or Buffalo buffalo by far really it’s it’s just like Alaska to be honest with you the winters are not very like where I was in Anchorage wasn’t like crazy cold but when I’ve been in Buffalo like the first is is the last year wasn’t as bad but the first like four or five years when I lived like down by the lake oh oh freezing the wind and like the ice chill you would get down there is is insane and it’s on top of it it’s just gray all the time so you know the lake effects yeah were you there for those a couple of those horrific lake effect snows were you you were probably out of town you came in and your your your car has 5 ft of snow on it no I was I was there for Christmas like when they had the worst one they’ve had in a long time we lost power at our place and we went to the hotel that’s attached to the rink and my dad was driving in and he actually got stuck in the storm there’s like a driving van in Buffalo they weren’t supposed to be on the roads and uh you like legit couldn’t see outside your windshield it was like just a white blanket in front of your windshield my dad got stuck we had to go get a cop that would pick him up on a uh what’s it a snowmobile cuz he couldn’t get to him in a in a car and he was like stuck out in the hood in Buffalo for like 25 or for like what was it he got there like 3:00 we didn’t see him till 9:00 p.m he was stuck out there for like 5 hours oh my god dude that’s what it’s like dude my whole family’s from Buffalo too Ta just so you know like my Williamsville baby that’s where I’m from yeah so I just moved out to Clarence it’s a little better out there like especially being out there in the summer too like I’ve been there like in and out for the summer it’s It’s pretty nice out there i like it a lot you get recognized everywhere you go there i mean you stand out like a sore thumb man yeah i mean Yeah but I feel like everyone there is pretty good about it it’s like it’s a pretty like quiet town so like they don’t really bother you they just kind of say what’s up you know i know yeah you’re just getting started man and like I feel like COVID kind of happened and kind of set everything back you know like the whole CO thing right when you get in the league you got to deal with that was that was that god awful or or do you just not know any better for me like I don’t know if it affected me at time because I had the year before like when co the first season of COVID I actually blew out my shoulder and I was done for the whole season i played one game in uh in Buffalo blew out my shoulder i was done for the rest of the season and then the season shut down short um and then I basically had like a lengthened summer to rehab which actually benefited me and then we went into the next year uh which was like no fans and that was a gong show but I think it actually like kind of benefited me in a sense that I had like a longer summer to train and get bigger and like rehab my shoulder and going into that next season where we had no fans because of COVID was like probably the best I felt going into a season um which kind of just kind of kickstarted my career I guess just playing and obviously I had Donnie and he gave me a big opportunity there to play in a bunch of situations but I just felt good so benefited me more than it hurt me for sure donniey’s the best man i talked to him this morning doing my world class research on you yeah great dude oh yeah he loved he loved you man he puncture tires cuz I’ll say this about you dude like cuz you got you were caught up in that trade you go to Buffalo from St louis ryan O’Reilly comes here they win the cup he wins the consm and everyone’s like “Ah the Blues fleeced Buffalo they just crushed Buffalo in the deal.” And now you look at it it’s like you know both sides got a lot out of it and obviously you could make the case both sides won the trade how’d you deal with that pressure man early on of trying to live up to what O’Reilly did here not what he did in Buffalo like did that did that creep into your mind at all or were you able just to kind of put that aside and just focus on your own game it definitely did i mean not at first cuz I didn’t realize I think how big of a how big of a deal it was at first and then I think after they won the cup and you know he wins the Kon Smith it kind of sinks in a little bit like oh like that was a you know a big piece for them that helped them win the cup which you know obviously that’s why you make the trade is to win and then you start hearing all the all the stuff around town but um fortunate for me like I had my dad so I just kind of was talking to him all the time and you know just the old school like you can’t controll any of the out outside noise just put your nose to the grindstoneone like do what you can do every day to get better and help the team win and the chips will kind of fall where they do and that’s pretty much the approach I took I mean obviously it’s tough especially in Buffalo you hear you hear a lot of the noise but you just got to try your best to just focus on what you can do and that’s pretty much all I had so you know what man it’s amazing like you look at some of the players who you play with in Buffalo like who are no longer there I mean I’m just reminding myself even was there and Brandon Mour and Sam Reinhardt who’s like about to you know win another Stanley Cup potentially we’ll see what happens in the series but Jack Eel dude you had so many great superstars that like no wonder you guys have kind of had to rebuild and like you know you had some great players there i could only imagine how good you guys would be considering where you’re at now in your career how good you are if you had a chance to play with those guys so what’d you learn from those guys like which of those guys who I just mentioned did you were you closest with that you really kind of connected with the most yeah I mean I was always great to me um you know I lived my first year I lived like couple of doors down from him um you know I always remember like hearing like you know he had a bad rap right around Buffalo just like kind of around like you know he’s kind of a [ __ ] or whatever and to me he was always great and I never got that from him um you know I think you just see that he’s just a competitor he wanted to win he’s been in Buffalo for so long and kind of the same thing that’s going on now you know just weren’t winning and he was doing everything he could to help the team and the organization and just didn’t work out but I I just like the way that he approached the game how how hungry he was to win how hungry he was to be the best on the ice every single time um so just like learning from from him not even just um talking to him but just more kind of from afar just watching him you know in games and in those situations wanting to be the guy that demanded the puck the guy that made a difference in the game um always just kind of made me respect him and um want to be like him as a player too um I like that energy that passion the emotion he shows um so so for me that was someone that I really look looked up to and and tried to emulate my game after as far as being a leader and um just kind of a guy that can try to take games over are you surprised Reinhardt has turned into the goal scorer he like did you think he had that in him i mean this year he scored 39 he didn’t score 57 like he did last year so he’s probably closer to the 35 goal score than he is to the 55 goal score but 40 goal score whatever whatever it is i mean the guy obviously is a great player did you see that in his game like that he could just take off like that he can He’s a pure goal scorer like he’s one of the smarter players I think I’ve ever seen play the game just his ability to find those like little pockets and especially on the power play him and the bumper is just he’s unbelievable there but his ability to find those little soft spots on the ice to to get open and I think he’s one of those guys that just plays the game so like just the right way that the puck seems to always find him in the right spots which I think it’s not an accident you’re doing something right when that happens um so I’m not shocked i mean he’s just has a natural ability to just put the puck in the back of the net um I mean he did it in Buffalo for a number of years and on a losing team and now he goes to Florida and that’s why I think you see the numbers just skyrocket so um I think this year obviously what did he put up like 30 something 39 39 I think this year I would say is probably like a a more of a down year i think he’s 40 plus every year especially playing on that team with those players like he’s he’s going to score a ton of goals there yeah he’s so damn good yeah and and Florida’s damn good too yeah you got to look at you got to look at that team and and and as a player curtain player playing against them like Yeah they they’re pretty [ __ ] loaded they are but they’re also it’s the fact they got all those star players but they all play the team game like they all they all play the system like the way it’s supposed to be played and they’re all bought in like you you can look down their roster like Reinhardt Barov they’re all blocking shots finishing hits like they’re doing everything the right way and that’s I think why they get rewarded and then when you play against them they just give you no room like you have no time or space with the puck they just suffocate you it’s it’s frustrating to play against bennett staring at you not giving you any facial expressions falling on the other goalie he’s falling on your goalie hitting you and scoring a break they’ve got their game down to a science they know it works for them i think like like you said they frustrate teams and frustrate the skill guys and get them out of their head and play a game that’s not theirs and then soon as they do that they know they got you hey man how how much do you hate losing like how tough is that cuz a couple years ago man you almost won or you almost got to the playoffs you guys missed the playoffs by like a point yeah it’s kind of crazy too like Pittsburgh was like losing to like terrible teams down the stretch or whatever was it Pittsburgh who was it man i think it was Pittsburgh right who lost you know down the stretch to Chicago and Columbus i think Pit Yeah Pittsburgh just couldn’t lose like I think two out of three games or something they did to like bad teams at the time whatever it was but at the same time you don’t want to put yourself in a position where you got to rely on other teams to win games for you to get in but I think having a taste of like being that close like makes it even that much worse not winning in the following season the season after that it’s been uh yeah it’s been pretty rough um definitely weighs on you especially like as you get to to where I’m at now in my my career where um the years go by quicker you know and you still haven’t had a playoff game and it just eats at you so it’s been uh for sure difficult last four or five years but the last two have been been real tough your time’s coming man jeff Skinner’s you know he just got in the playoffs for the first time he played over a thousand games and whatever doubt is he a good teammate best teammate one of my best friends uh love it best locker room guy um he’s one of those guys he’s real quiet takes him a while to to open up to guys um I remember my first year he like didn’t say a word to anybody um and then you know he slowly started opening up and he’s one of the low-key funniest guys ever i don’t know if you’ve seen that stuff they put together um between two stalls you’ve seen that stuff on YouTube like it’s all him he writes all of this stuff it’s kind of spin-off of uh Between Two Ferns with Zack Gelf and Ais oh yeah so he he came up with that idea and was was doing but just a great guy great human being um obviously a good player as well can score and um I love playing with him uh one of my favorite linemates I’ve ever played with um yeah I hope he wins it i would love to see him win a cup and it’d be pretty special hey do you got the hardest shot in the league and what kind of stick do you use a short I’ve used a bunch of different I like to mix it up i I usually fall back to the CCM every time um feel like that’s kind of what I go back to i like trying new stuff though um I don’t know i I feel like for a one-timer maybe it’s up there um I feel like my just like taking a slap shot I’m not great at just like wind like skiing into a slap shot like if I was a defenseman probably not i’d say like cool there’s there’s a lot of guys that can pound a puck but probably up there dude you had a one-time that was like at 103 miles per hour or something crazy just say you do i thought you were a Bower guy didn’t you have a deal with Bower i thought you were a Bower guy uh my entry level I did and then I switched to CCM for two years and now I just uh I didn’t like being like basically tied down because I like during the year to switch things up if I get cold just to mix things up so now I have the the freedom to just try whatever can I ask you this what do players make on the like when they sign a deal with Bower or CCM i’m sure it changes depending on how big of a superstar you are but like how much money are guys bringing in by signing with Buffalo Pro in Buffalo probably not a whole lot probably other markets are making a lot more but um I think for CCM I was getting 25 grand cash and then like merchandise as well for three years um and then I backed out of the the last year of my deal just cuz I wanted to be able to use more stuff i felt like the money that I was getting just wasn’t worth it for me to be locked into using their their stuff not that I don’t like their stuff but just to have that freedom if I hey maybe I’m in a rut here i want to try a Bower stick or a True Stick for a few games just for 25 grand dude when you’re making seven plus like they better pay some real money what What about in Buffalo though like are you doing commercials are you driving a free car do you care about any of that stuff are they asking you all are you driving a free Tahoe because Andy just so you know will hook you up with the people in Buffalo if you want a free Tahoe no I don’t have any of that stuff so if you got hookups for me let me know yeah but really though you should though come on Tate i I mean like we do you would think but we’ve also we’ve also been losing every year so like well we’re going to change that deals with guys that are losers so you got we got to start winning then maybe the deals will come are you rolling with Josh Allen you met him yet or no i’ve met him i wouldn’t say I’m rolling with them at all but um you guys definitely He’d rather hang out with you he’d rather hang out with you like I think I would love to get on the golf course with him i think uh I mean I heard he loves golfing and I don’t know if he’s around Buffalo too much in the summertime but um yeah I’ve met him a few times actually we went to a Bills game and went down on the field and saw him there he’s been in our locker room a couple times so pretty cool i mean he’s like a god around there so that’s pretty sick yeah no he I I could see him being cool as [ __ ] yeah absolutely he’s coming from Wyoming man he’s just a different animal you know great player though listen man give me your honest answer how upset were you that you didn’t make the four nations like were you surprised did you think you were going to make it we were upset for you cuz like Yeah because I I thought I was going to be on it and I I mean you hear rumors and like those mock teams that they make and um felt like my name was on a bunch of them so I felt like I had a pretty good shot and then I had a pretty solid start to the season so um I thought I was going to be there and then when it didn’t happen I was pretty pretty rattled to be honest with you but nothing nothing you can do they’re not going to change their mind or whatever so um yeah I think it just defin I think it honestly might have helped me the the last half of the season just kind of playing with a bit of a a spur in my side um it’s kind of proven that I can kind of hang with the big boys and um I think I did a pretty good job of that so we’ll see what happens next you’ll be you’ll be on that Olympic team you will be come on now so listen and we we’ll get into the world championships and whatnot but did they call you do they does like Billy G call you and say “Hey we’re not going to pick you for the for nations but but stay ready because we may need you.” Cuz they called you towards the end of the tournament when they were having injuries right yeah that’s exactly what happened um he called me and just said “Hey like you know it was a tough discussion we had uh you know a lot of guys obviously a lot of good USA players that they got to go through and put together what they thought was the the best team.” and um he said obviously this is this I think was in like November when I got the call maybe uh maybe a little later than that and he’s like obviously a lot can happen from now the tournament so just you know stay ready um and then I actually got the call like they had injury problems and I went there um as like a backup in case anything happened um which was cool to kind of just even be in that environment watch the game live was pretty cool um but yeah that’s that’s basically how the conversation went which which I respect at least you know like called me and gave me their side of it and um said I had a chance so hey man you’ll be you’ll be you’ll be all good now and they probably recognized that even during the tournament they’re probably like “We should have brought Tade.” No doubt but uh that won’t be an issue so going to the World Championships was that a no-brainer or was that to kind of further put your stamp on things and prove that you belong on that team next year yeah I so I wanted to go the season before um for the for nations to kind of get my name in there but I hurt myself like the last game of the season and um just figured it was not worth it to go grind through a tournament and make it worse or just I felt like I should just use the summer to get 100% so I could help Buffalo next year and um I think this this time around you know I was healthy and felt good and I was like well it’s a no-brainer now right olympics coming up good time to make a name for myself and especially with not being selected for the four nations I kind of wanted to prove some stuff so um yeah it was it was a no-brainer to go this year were you still rooting for USA in the games against Canada yeah yeah of course not going to root for Canada oh man there you go T come on hey but like were you surprised that Canada lost to Denmark were you guys were you guys watching a game like oh my god i was actually beyond shocked we were so there’s like uh maybe four or five of us we went to the movies and uh we were like watching the movie and like halfway through I think it was like Vastic like showed me his phone he’s like “Dude Canada’s losing right now.” And if they lost we had to like pack all of our stuff and fly out the next morning like first thing in the morning to go to Sweden if if Canada won we were staying in Denmark so after the movie we sprinted home and like packed all of our stuff up and uh that was wild i couldn’t I couldn’t believe it do you guys all see each other like what’s it like at the World Championships is everyone just like having a good time like because you know USA first time you guys have won the gold medal in 90 years or whatever so like what is the approach i mean how serious do you guys take the tournament i think um I mean I’ve been to three of them like the first two are just like a huge party you know just go experience Europe play some hockey games um obviously want to win but I feel like it’s more of like time to just hang out and just drink and and party or whatever and this one like right from day one like when we got there it was like just a different feel it was like we’re here to win um not that we didn’t go out but like it was just a it had a different feel to it this time around um a lot more serious more of like a what I would imagine a playoff would feel like um as far as just the approach to the games and stuff um which is why I wanted to go too like I wanted to be in important games like haven’t been playing meaningful games in Buffalo so I wanted to go play for something and and try to win and especially going over there and being like a big piece of the team um felt like there was more of that responsibility um to actually get the job done so um that was something that excited me about going over there did you uh what did you guys do afterwards sit in the locker room for a while then what yeah we were in the locker room for I think like two or three hours after after we won and then we met back up at the hotel with like all the families and people that we had coming over uh to watch us and I think we had you know party there for a little bit with with all the families and then um I think the team went out like after to the wall which was like right across the street in Sweden went out there for a bit brought the cup over had some fun and then everyone parted ways at different times um we had like bus schedules that left at like 3:15 3:45 5:30 6 just kind of throughout the the morning um yeah it was great it was a great time had a blast listen I got to ask you like a little like hockey nerdy question though like the game-winning goal like when a defenseman’s playing you like that like Jamal Mayor’s former blue doing a camp right now he’s always telling the kids to shoot through the stick of the defenseman whatever i And the kids having a hard time kind of understanding exactly what he’s saying but I showed my kid the highlight this morning of your goal being like I think that’s what Coach Mayers is talking about shooting through the stick what’s your approach when the defenseman kind of plays you like that where he’s got a gap on you but he kind of goes down to one knee like what are you looking at in that specific play there Ta I think like anytime in general I come down on a on a defenseman if I can get to like within a few feet of the top of the circle like I’m thinking shot um and I feel like for me it’s just kind of putting a puck in a spot where I want them to reach for so I can pull it and use them as a screen whether I’m shooting through their legs or off the side of them um so I think just in that situation like I was trying to just position the puck where I felt like he would kind of reach for it or go down on a knee and then just pull it in and I feel like with my reach I can pull it a lot farther than most people and especially I I use a a really short stick too so like I can get it into my feet more to to shoot it from there and um just changing the angle i think especially you use a defenseman as a screen like most of the times you’re not going to beat a high level goalie with you know no screen from the top of the circle he’s if he’s going to see it he’s going to save it so I think just not being able to see the release of it coming off your blade is a lot tougher for them um so anytime you can use that D as a screen and just shoot by him like whether it’s through his legs through his feet um it’s got a better chance so that’s all I was thinking on that especially with Kulie driving the net like that taking that other D like I knew there was going to be other traffic going to the net so he’s worried about that as well so I was just thinking shoot it get it on net and make him make a save have you always shot the puck like that like who did Matthew shoot like that when you were at the US program like how you kind of got pulled into your feet like you’re saying you know like and then you know snap it that way like you and him have kind of like both mastered that that kind of you know pull it in and drag the puck to your feet and release it that way yeah I feel like Austin’s always shot like that um it’s something like I always worked on with my dad in the summers um just like working on different releases getting the puck on and off your stick um not necessarily like that has to be the hardest shot but just like getting it on and off quick or if you have it changing the angle because you know you get the goalie set on on the puck and you can change it um just little skill stuff in the summers that you work on and um I feel like doing it repetitively you get better at it and some things you feel like work better for you and um I felt like at a young age I always knew I had a pretty good shot and that’s kind of something I’ve continued to develop and as I’ve gotten older and work on different things did you did you do that as a kid like uh in in the garage like did you just have every day you went out there and just started ripping pucks tow drag rip tow drag started it started in uh Alaska for us actually my dad built a little like shooting room in our garage um we would shoot every day hundreds of pucks me and my brother um and then we moved uh later on to Oyster Bay New York and we would shoot in the driveway same thing um so just always shooting pucks in the driveway which I feel like most kids do nowadays anyways um but I feel like where it really took off is when I’d get on the ice with my dad and um like work on actual like skills stuff like the techn like technical stuff of like transferring your weight like pointing to your target like little things you get taught as a kid right but you still need those reminders as as you you get older and I feel like um for me like once I was big enough to actually like use the technology of the stick is kind of where those fundamentals that I learned at a young age kind of made it even better for me where like a lot of kids now don’t really know how to shoot a puck they just kind of flick it and then use the stick and the stick kind of shoots the puck for them whereas if you know what you’re doing like I used 120 flex two-piece when I was 12 so what are you using now oh wow uh right now 95 95 flex CCM um and I have a huge toe curve dude it’s like you sound like Mike Hoff like when Mike Hoffman played here for a year during co he would always talk about understanding how to use his stick like he had an unbelievable shot this guy could like just absolutely rip the puck and he just knew how to use a stick how to use the flex and like understood the mechanics of the of the stick so it’s kind of interesting hear you hear you say that your hands are unbelievable though man like your ability to handle the puck is is is unbelievable were you always the biggest guy on the team or did you hit a growth spurt like when you were a teenager yeah no I was always one of the like smaller guys is I wouldn’t say like smallest but I was definitely like middle of the pack to smaller growing up and I was always like really skilled like just good hands um good pretty pretty good one-on-one skill and then I just hit a huge growth spurt um kind of when I went to the program I went from like 6 foot to 6’4 in that season so I grew four inches in one season gained 25 pounds and then continued to grow a little bit more once I was at Yukon which was kind of a little bit of a setback for me because had to relearn how to do everything skating and um stuff like that just getting used to my body but I feel like my hands were kind of just the one thing that stuck with me and had always felt just comfortable um so I think it was just the fact that I was one of the smaller guys and relied on my skill to make plays at a young age and then once I hit the gross sphere I was just a big guy with good hands it’s an interesting story how you made it to the program too because you didn’t make it you didn’t even go to the camp right and then you go to the USA national like festival that they have whatever and and I think that’s where they saw you and they were like damn we already picked the team like this guy’s unbelievable and then a couple kids left the following year and they were like we need to replace him with two other players i think Donnie Granado said he knew who those two players were going to be it was going to be you and Tro Troy Terry so he went back to the US festival that year just to confirm it watched you guys play one day and and then I guess the rest is history so when they when they made that call to you to invite give you the invite to go to the US program was it a no-brainer did you want to go like was it like right off the bat you were like “Yeah I’m going.” And what did that mean for the future of your career to go there yeah it was actually so I was driving in the car on the way back with my dad from that national camp um and we were already set to go to Salisbury i was going to go play prep school um at Salisbury and um got a phone call on the drive back from Donnie and he was like “Hey like we want your kid to to come be you know part of our team at the program i didn’t even know what that was.” And uh you know hang up the phone or whatever me and my dad were talking about and he’s like “You’re going like this is a no-brainer you’re going to play for USA you’re going to get exposure play with all the best guys in the country and I was like super nervous like I had no clue what I was walking into um and then when I got there you know like was one of the the last guys like 13th forward fourth line so um didn’t play a whole lot but the exposure like just getting my name out there and playing with these guys playing against college players as a 17-year-old practicing against guys like Matthews Kachchuck every day just made me a way better hockey player um so I feel like it didn’t even really matter that I wasn’t playing a ton just the fact that I was there getting that experience and and kind of developing it on the ice um you know in practices would have Would I have loved to play in games more and and develop that way yeah but obviously you’re also playing with the best kids in the country at your age and um but that that’s kind of what kickstarted it and then got my name out there i went to Yukon a year early and that’s where I got an opportunity to actually play in games and situations play first line power play and got to play and had that confidence coming from the program that you know I could hang with all these guys so must be pretty good um and that just kind of gave me that confidence that I can produce and score and make plays and be a guy that the the team needs and leans on so I think it was great for me um obviously met a lot of good guys and um continue to play against and with them so it’s been it’s been fun it’s been a crucial piece of my career but everyone’s path is different so um that’s always something you got to remember too right like would I have been fine if I went to Salisbury probably but um that’s kind of what what led me to the NHL and um that was it was a good time and you’re growing four inches in six months i mean it’s interesting you’re saying you’re not even playing you know what I Like but you appreciate the opportunity of being able to go headto-head against these guys in practice cuz I know some people who have like left the program because they weren’t playing you know what I mean it’s like they rather just go play in the USHL somewhere else and be a firstline player what why’ you pick Yukon like because they were a relatively new program right you led the nation in power play goals your your freshman season yeah they were they were pretty much brand new i think they weren’t even really on my radar to be honest i knew I wanted to play hockey east um I toured most of the hockey schools but I knew I wanted to go somewhere um where I was going to get an opportunity to actually play and show what I was capable of and obviously that didn’t happen at the program you know I was just kind of you know third fourth line in and out of the lineup whatever so I didn’t really get to showcase that skill or what I thought I had um to offer and I knew if I went to like a a BC or a BEu I might have gotten you know buried there um or not been able to to show what I’m capable of so I figured if if I’m going to go somewhere go somewhere you’re going to play and get an opportunity and for me it was Yukon if fell in love with the campus um I really liked Kavanaaugh as a coach it just kind of seemed like a good fit for me and um obviously worked out well hey I gotta ask you about that that Nason hit and we’ve had Rob Ray who else do we have on barney uh Andrew Peters and how dirty was that hit to you and and were you surprised by the feedback of the fans getting pissed off no one jumped in like was that surprising to you um it was a it was a weird situation to be honest with you cuz when the h when the hit happened I didn’t even know what happened like I didn’t see him i didn’t know what was going on i just like kind of blacked out came too and then was kind of helped off the ice and then I was sitting in the locker room doing the concussion test or whatever and then after afterwards I like watched the video of it and then I saw the hit from that perspective so I never really saw the hit live obviously like didn’t see it um but watching it on replay yeah I thought it was a little dirty i would have liked someone to step in for sure i was a little little shocked by that um but yeah it was just a all around kind of weird weird situation to be a part of so um yeah I don’t really know how to answer that one well did didn’t Lindy Ruff didn’t he like address the team about it the next day like what was said internally i mean because listen if I was in your shoes and somebody because Cam has had some cheap shots on me and the alumni game I hit him one time i didn’t mean to do it he elbowed me in the head like I’m still dealing with some hearing loss and whatnot but like I wanted Nobody stepped in on cam either like after I got hit so I would want someone to step in but like did your teammates apologize to you did they come up to you and be like “Dude we didn’t know it was you.” Like cuz we’ve had we’ve had Jason Zucker on the podcast and some of these guys I feel like I know they’re they’re all you know our team is great guys and they all they all said sorry and like should have done something like even if we didn’t see it or knew what happened like we should have stepped in and at least done something which Yeah I get it like the game happens fast maybe you didn’t know what to do in the situation or how to react i don’t know because I wasn’t in that situation or I was the one laying on the ice but um like Lindy came in and just said like that can’t happen again and if you see someone laying on the ice or someone gets hit like that like you better step in and do something i think after that there was a great response and I don’t think we had another problem like that the rest of the season which which is good hey who was the poor soul that got called up and had to fight Olivier the next game who was that Tate that poor kid’s like I wasn’t even a part of this i was like I wouldn’t even hear now I got to come up and fight the biggest toughest guy in the league who was that dude dennis Gilbert shout out Shout out to Dennis Gilbert great teammate and uh he’s tough like props to him for doing that not that that really had an impact on the last game but I mean it sent the message and um I respected it a lot i was watching that press box fired up so um yeah how long are you out for i probably owe him a couple dinners you didn’t miss that many games no I uh I actually passed the concussion test so I was good to go i think um I had like whiplash too like my neck was pretty tight and um I think I only missed maybe like two or three games okay that happened years ago with Ryan Miller too he got rammed by Luch nobody Nobody did anything to Luch we had him we’ve had both of them like I don’t know nobody did anything to me you know little different little different animal i know well it all it also it also happened it also happened in St louis with David Pon and Joe Thornton and Chaser came out and called the guys out one time and it was a whole thing so listen that’s it’s not unique by any stretch of the imagination i know hey but that shouldn’t happen hopefully it doesn’t happen again you want to see Exactly you’re the prince they shouldn’t even have to see what happens it’s like Tage is on the ice that’s like alert alert are you So are you a devout Christian do you cuss on the ice i I do i mean I shouldn’t but it’s you know the game the nature of the game you get into it you get heated and I I play the game with a lot of emotion and and get pretty pretty fired up so um yeah i mean it’s it’s hard not to can I tell you what to say to people slavven doesn’t Can I tell you what to say to people just go up to him and be like “The Lord is watching you.” If you would say that to me I’d be like “Oh God.” I’d really I’m telling you yeah it would scare me it’s a reminder it’s a reminder hey your five goal game dude like that was I mean listen that may never happen again right i mean it it hardly ever happens as it is no are you just feeling that game like are you surprised yourself you’re like what is going on here and they were all beautiful goals by the way i was watching that on television i was like damn you’re so good cuz I’ll go back to when you came into St louis we’ll talk about that after you answer this question though but like that specific game is that just one of those man just perfect games for you or what because you had six points in the game yeah I mean that’s probably about as good as you can feel in a game i I think I would imagine it’s probably what McDavid feels like every game but it was like we had two power plays I think pretty early that we capitalized on right away um I had points on both of them had a goal and assist on them and then I think uh got another one five on five right after that and they were just you could tell they were defeated like if we scored three on them quick and they you could just tell we had them um and I was just kind of feeling it um it felt like everything I was shooting was going in so I just kept I just kept firing um it just kept going in so I was like just give me the puck and let me keep ripping it so we did and then um yeah hit five and then I think I kind of got shut down by Donnie in the third he didn’t play you yeah I think I like I had five maybe through like halfway through the second and then I think I only had like three shifts in the third or something like that so I was like I was kind of rattled but like not really you know what’s the record in Buffalo i don’t even know actually i think the league record’s seven though is it no I thought it was way i thought it was six yeah yeah baron seven brett Baronson scored six years ago hey do you watch Oie on that one slot just like what you’re doing and you’re like how the hell does he do that stand too right shots like you watching them like I’m just they find a way they know where the puck’s going that you know like the the opposing team and he still finds a way to score these goals i can’t comprehend how Obie can still stand in the same spot and no one just goes and stands next to him but it’s because their their power play is so dangerous they got other other weapons they can hit the bumper and they can attack low like but I mean he’s just it’s insane to watch there’s not even words just the the fact that he can still produce at this this rate at at the age he is is insane has he ever told you you have an amazing shot is he like does he ever tell you on the ice i love watching you play T no no but I would that would get me off my game big time i’d be I’d be in Cloud9 was he your favorite player growing up or No uh believe it or not Malin um was my favorite i always just liked the the similarities between you know tall lanky guy good hands can shoot it loved watching his game and just try to kind of em emulate him and play the way he played he’s not He’s not coming up to you saying “Hey Ta good job.” He doesn’t even know your name no I don’t even know if he speaks English yet he doesn’t want to crosby mike Crosby he asked Kyu for a stick he said like Kyro like Kyro’s like yeah Crosby asked me for my stick during the game whatever for like a charity event or something so Crosby he may ask you for your stick you know he did he did he asked me for it yeah actually uh I think it was two years ago he asked me for one and I was like you want one of my sticks like what the what’s going on here you should have said no to see what his reaction was said [ __ ] you i got one back which is sick oh you got one back from him too yeah of course he better give me one back i don’t really ask I don’t really ask for sticks i wish I did more but um I felt like that was a perfect opportunity to ask him for one i got one of Obies too those are like the two guys that I like had to have when did you when did Crosby or did he ask you during the game or like does the equipment guy come over and ask or how’s that work he actually asked me i went to that um like Vegas um media thing like the media thing yeah and I was like getting dressed to do like one of the on ice shoots or whatever he was in the locker room he’s like “Hey like during the season is it cool if I grab one of your sticks?” I was like “Yeah of course.” And then I thought he forgot about it and then we played a preseason game and he’s like “Hey like do you mind if I grab that stick?” And I was like “Yeah can I get one of yours?” And he was like “No I’m actually like low right now um I’ll get you during the like middle of the season.” I was like “Okay sweet.” So I gave our trainer one to give to him after the game or after the game and then like played regular season against him and he came up to me like tabbed me on a TV timeout he’s like I got a twig for you after the game i was like this is so sick dude he’s the best yeah but he he was running out i love how he said no he was running out of sticks that’s that’s weird to me he just said not right now he’s like on a road trip whatever but he got for me oh it’s sick yeah exactly i get you hey did you ever get talk to Patrick Berglin did you ever get to know him that well when I was in St not really i mean I was only up and down I was 40 games or whatever and then when we got traded together he only played like half the season then he like left so it was like kind of a weird situation there but yeah I was never really close with him yeah he like We love him he left he did that’s why I’m asking like you know you got to get a Dry Cidle stick man like his stick’s the weirdest stick in the league but is is he similar to Obie but on the other side of the ice where he just kind of and again it’s a similar situation where they’ve got so many weapons on the power play that that’s what leads to him being open all the time because I I don’t understand why they can’t defend him either on the other side of the ice i mean they got so many they got him Hopkins McDavid like who you gonna cover exactly one of them’s going to score but yeah Bard at top just rip bombs so they got they got too many threats too and also he’s just even when you’re he’s like it’s like Obie one of those guys like even when you’re on him he’s still going to score like it’s like Backstrom back in the day like you’re looking at him and he’s just going to sauce it over here anyway like you know exactly where he’s passing he’s passing Oie he’s just going to sauce it right through everybody yep he was so good god hey man I got to ask you about your time here in St louis though obviously it was short it would have been great to see you here a lot longer man i know Blues fans would love to have you in a Blues uniform now putting up 47 and 44 you’re going to score 50 one of these years too man that’s got to be on your bucket list right you know you want to get to 50 right yeah of course okay you may even get to 60 i know the way you score but how do you reflect on your time here in St louis man you made a lot of close buddy a lot of lot of good friends i mean your Traverse City team was one of the best most stacked teams of all time city team with you and Thomas and Kyru and Wman who else was on the team yeah me thomas Kyru Wall-E uh Nolan Stevens who was nasty um we had some really good players we I think we torched that tournament too yeah you guys were so damn good man we were We were really good that was a lot of fun too it’s a great tournament like I had a lot of fun doing those um I enjoyed my time in St louis a ton um you know I think I was probably not ready for the NHL probably came in a little earlier than I should have but um you know all the older guys were great to me um probably had a lot of patience with me um but it was fun i I really liked the city um the fans were great i enjoyed my time there it was kind of one of those things where I was bittersweet when I was traded i would have liked to you know try to evolve my career there but um I was also excited about a fresh start somewhere else but um yeah you never know never know what happens right could end up back there someday but No exactly it all works out i like that thought process dude they And trust me the the organiz they didn’t want to trade you you know what I mean like they’re Rhino like you said earlier it worked out right they got their they got their guy they got the cup so you can’t can’t look back that’s That’s what you That’s why you play the game so how was Mike Yo with you um it was all right he was hard on you wasn’t he i mean not so much that it was hard on me it was just kind of I didn’t really know kind of what my role was like I figured I was not there to score goals right i just was trying to be a good defensive player and I get that we were we were not winning a ton when I was there so if they had to make changes to lineup I was probably the guy was coming out as a young guy which I get it just tell me how it is though you know so no I I I hear you on that man hey before we let you go and you’ve been great man we appreciate it we got to pump your dad’s tires a little bit here man so he’s in Anaheim now right he’s going to be coaching with Q this year is that the plan no I think Q’s bringing on his own guys so he’s right now he’s out there looking for for a job I think um doesn’t know where he’s going to go but he’s he’s looking for a spot okay well he’ll land on his feet somewhere man what’s it like playing against him though like when he’s on the bench in an NHL game do you peek over do you look at him does he look at you like I mean that’s got to be so hard for him to focus on what he’s got to do on the bench when you’re on the ice i don’t know for you how he’s not watching you the whole time you know i mean I don’t I don’t know i for me it’s easy i just play i kind of I see him on warm-ups and look at him make make a face at him or whatever but um once the game starts I kind of I feel like both of us just kind of get into that that zone where you’re not really paying attention to each other um anything like that i will say when I do score on their power play though I I make sure I skate past him and give him a look but there it is let him know that probably fires he’s one of those guys you probably don’t want to fire up though just let him sleep although he can’t do anything to me now so probably saves that’s funny man you’re too big for him man i know but he’s been a great coach give me the one piece of advice the best advice he’s given to you a lot of a lot of parents listen a lot of you know people have kids that are playing no the one thing that he’s told me that’s stuck with me and kind of I try to approach every day with is treat every day like a try out someone’s always trying to take your job so I mean it’s especially relevant for me now where I’m at you know kind of made my way um solidified my spot but there’s always younger talented players coming in that are hungry for that spot and I feel like as soon as you lose that edge it’s when you’re you’re dead so that’s kind of the the way I have to try to approach the game and just every single day try to treat it as a trial like someone’s trying to take your job and just get better every day and luckily it’s worked out for me so it pretty solid piece of advice did you buy him a boat or anything with that big old contract no d golf membership’s good enough for me but that’s good that’s good don’t waste your money that’s all he needs you moved a lot when you were young that’s all he gets plus you’re an America you’re an American hero man damn right you are you know you’re the man Ta i appreciate it dude did Did Trump call you or anything did he say “Hey congratulations good job.” Nothing like that oh we’re we’re supposed to go to the White House though really are you really oh yeah oh dude i don’t know when but we’re supposed to go so Oh hell yeah just waiting on that date the World Championship team is going i didn’t know that hey can I ask you one last thing cuz you mentioned Swayman man i don’t want to people are probably listening like “Wait what’s going on?” So were you guys good buddies then you played together in the World Championships too cuz I’ve been pumping his tires cuz everyone forgets about him in this whole goalending competition for the for the Olympics man don’t forget about Swayman i love what he did in that tournament and how he like was able to you know raise you know his game obviously and played great so yeah he’s a he’s a stud um we he was my goalie when I was in Alaska we played for the the Allstars together when I was 13 12 and 13 we were playing on the same team and then fast forward till now we’re playing on the same team again uh for USA which is pretty wild we talked about it at the tournament it’s just hockey is such a small world you run into the same guys and play either with or against them and it’s it’s pretty I think that’s what makes the game so special if somebody asked you where you’re from what’s your answer right here arizona arizona baby all right man right all the best have a have a have a great rest man enjoy yourself we’ll see you during the season tell your dad we said hey too yep i will all right thanks t boy see you buddy good luck take care homie the Chemistry podcast is brought to you by Bellman b E H L M A N bellman Automotive located where troy troy Missouri buick GMC on one side of the street right on the other side Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram get yourself some new wheels in time for the winter all right that was Tage Thompson i like the name Tage it’s a great name yeah that’s cool you know what I mean big boy could you imagine growing like five six inches in one summer i was like does your wee grow too okay no you didn’t even ask him that and like that’s not what we’re even referring to i was thinking about it like when you’re 511 and then you grow to 6’5 does everything else grow does your wiener get big probably so God and you’re just watching yourself grow every day and all of a sudden your dingling’s getting bigger like that’s the the best thing ever are your pants like just coming up to your calf like is that like you got to get new clothes every day like you’re walking around like I grew last night 4 in my jeans are coming up to my knees he said 5 ines in a year right that’s amazing no in like a summer or something oh yeah in a summer imagine in the summertime you’re just every time you you’re hanging out like convinced sometimes I’m not done growing you’ve been done growing since you were six years old i was short i know and then I kind of had a little I had a little bit of a grocery store in like high school I think so now I’m like normal size you were 100 pounds in high school that sucks i I would stick up for you sucks what why would it suck cuz you look like a child at 100 pounds they all do they all do you ever seen high schoolers yeah i was 171 wrestling 171 wrestling what’s your record in wrestling i got beat twice in I almost lost to a one-armed kid oh my god Cam nothing wrong with that dude not judging it’s so [ __ ] stressful wrestling in front of people with your wee wee sticking out in these goddamn singlets and then I’m wrestling a one- arm [ __ ] and he almost beats good thing there’s no girls there there were their cheerleaders are right there on the They’re hanging out like this and my and I’m like this and like ah [ __ ] and then I get pinned and my and I’m trying to like lift up it just I’m not trying to sound rude i don’t want I don’t want to I don’t want to get cancelled the most unattractive women in our school were the wrestling they’re the same as They’re the same no they’re not they’re not the football is different than your school they didn’t do that at our school they They did it at our school they call them ratmats or Matt rats they didn’t talk to you those girls were you the only girls in high school oh they love me oh yeah they love me they liked you cuz you were probably one of them funny you’re one of them kind of like you could they could probably talk to you oh god about like serious matters yeah but now that I think about it no they couldn’t because I can’t even talk to you about serious matters but you probably did talk to women about that but not men you know what I mean it’s all good but they probably Oh yeah they like the 100 pounders i like 105 115 they like the 100 pounders they like when guys are the same size as I remember Mr rhinish in science class he was my freshman football coach the whole team how aggressive I was oh god yeah reminds me of the Sopranos when AJ becomes captain of the football team and he has a panic attack and falls down remember that no sopranos but um No he was an athlete had three interceptions dude i don’t believe that you got to prove it to me man really you know what I mean everything that I did was pretty much documented yours is not how dare you but yet you talk about it more than mine it’s really weird i scored a two-point conversion too playing wing back you were tiny you were tiny i used to run that hot route matty maddie matty imagine you playing football in this motherfucker’s garden like you would be like “Get out of here get out of here.” I used to run that hot route baby matty would smack you like this and you’d be like this you weren’t a good football player it’s all good who cares you’re good at what you do now you tweet you don’t know you’re a damn good tweeter damn good you’re damn good at that football i would say no some people I look at on Instagram god you’re good at tweeting these women they’ll have like 150,000 followers i’m like because they’re good-looking they’re they don’t even show themselves they’re like I’m like what are they buying they got to be They You got to buy your Yeah you can buy it can you buy followers i think so yeah I think so can you There’s no question there what does it cost yeah well but you could tell because when they post something I might buy some today and just see what happens you don’t need to you have enough well Instagram followers yeah you might need to buy some of those because you’re not very interesting on Instagram no I have way more remember when I started I had less than Kate yeah that’s right oh you said I did i don’t think I remember i don’t think you might still be like the same no cuz Kate Kate posts a lot of pictures up and stuff yeah no you’re good at Twitter you’re good at Twitter i’m pretty good at Instagram too you know I am say it’s all kids are you being the narcissist again it’s all you not complimenting anything you just said that you were really good at Instagram that’s what narcissists oh god the guy called you and Ty the guy called you it’s you and Ty it’s you and Lori it’s you and Ty it’s you and Lori in the and the kids so Ty has creative ty has his own account we haven’t announced it yet don’t How about you don’t announce it i’m not announcing it yet but Well you just said we haven’t announced it yet so don’t do it he has one so we could just secure the name but secure the name well cuz there was somebody took Ty Strickland so I’m like “Oh we better just create one.” So just you have it when you’re older ty’s trick i just mean like there’s no number there’s no like it’s not he’s not putting anything up or anything on there i put a few things up but yeah put his hockey stuff on it’s Parent Ran that’s fine you know what I mean it’s not about him it’s not about Tai on Instagram it’s about the girls that’s what you have to watch out for ty’s gonna [ __ ] show P so what if Ty when he gets cut up takes a picture of him with no [ __ ] shirt on in the locker room goddamn right baby the girls though you have to watch that’s a different animal what do you mean my girls your girls no [ __ ] you have two ty’s got to watch it for the girls no no no no no ty could do what he wants if he wants to stick handle and do and show that fine he wants to [ __ ] flex who cares but the girls keep that you got to watch that i know well I can go I can go into like a rage do I have to tell you this and bees very defensive of my family well like they’re going to get older okay settle down i’m just telling you who are you kidding they will because everybody else is doing it and they want to keep up with the Joneses okay so kind of like you do um you know probably going to make some Bombay Aloo tonight oh god what’s some naan bread food poisoning he’s making food poisoning what’s naan bread is Ty eating a lot is he eating a lot no no no no no getting him the Well I’m getting him the protein what’s he eating today so far uh he camp he had I made him an egg uh sandwich you did i made him an egg sandwich on sourdough all right yeah baby egg sandwich with what like what nothing just a little bit a little bit of cheese in the eggs and that’s it on toast put cottage cheese in the eggs too oh really yes scrambled eggs but cottage cheese cottage cheese keep Yeah damn good for you cheese cottage cheese blueberries avocado good avocado every morning I tie these power plates and I’ll cut up some strawberries blueberries kiwi turkey eat it munch it munch that some raw almonds yeah that’s fine yogurt yep totally cool so ham maybe i don’t know i don’t We don’t have ham at the house oh very often but turkey and turkeyy’s good he you know steaks he had a little bit of steak last night i hope he’s eating you know got to have that got to eat man he’s growing dude he’s not you i know you eat like a goddamn bird no he is working out every [ __ ] day multiple times a day he doesn’t have your stupid [ __ ] diet always remember that well Ryan O’Reilly what paul St paulander get the [ __ ] out of here jonathan Taves he’s growing would you sign Taves no you wouldn’t what’s he been doing everybody hasn’t [ __ ] moved in there’s the teams that are interested in TAS and it’s like all the big dog teams of course Toronto’s going to get him jesus Christ where’s Tarz what was he signing for was Tavvar let me say this about Tavvarz cuz from what I understand Tree Living and the staff have made the decision they weren’t going to keep him entering the season but now with Marner leaving I think it’s changed things you know he’s a no maintenance player who’s still good i’ve had no problem he plays I don’t have a problem with him he shows up and plays hockey he did get overpaid yeah you know he did but now he won’t be no although it depends i mean I don’t know what he’s going to take to stay there point per game but I I said this last week about Brock Nelson signing that three-year deal at 7.5 i mean like Tvaris to me is better than Brock Nelson i agree with that and he’s one year older so if you’re paying this potential UFA 7.5 I you got to pay him eight or or 75 what’s Brad Marsh going to get i don’t know dude would you pay him 8 million a year at his age i don’t know man for the Panthers no but the Panthers you got to take a deal i’m sorry he’s a He’s a six million guard take a deal let me just say this to you he He is what he is he’s 37 you’re not going to change that father Time let me tell you this about Father Time and my experience about Father Time there’s no warning somebody could be great today and all of a sudden they just fall off tomorrow when did you fall off um at like Maddie no honestly 13 41 13 40 got a little too old i think at like 41 you know when I stopped playing I felt it man pick up basketball i think I could have played a couple more years for sure when I was 32 33 god yeah but then I I retired and I just God you just get into a funk man you stopped working out you got time on your hands you’re drinking too much i can’t i felt bad this guy got back to me he’s He’s writing a podcast he’s from the Czech Republic but he is a big fan of yours no he asked me some questions he said “Can I ask you some questions you can answer for a story I’m writing Kim?” I swear to God it was like 150 questions it would always do that for the I know so I got to get back i’m like I’ve answered the first like 20 i got to write them so I’ve got I’ve got like 90 No he’s a journalist i’ve got 90 more to go well don’t do all of them he’s got to calm down a little bit i mean Jesus like I just thought I thought it was going to be like five questions what’s he asking you can you ask make it in the NHL what’s he Does he think you played seriously when did you fall off uh I mean if uh uh probably two years after I retired when I started drinking way too much can we get Tage Thompson maybe out of Buffalo eventually too yeah I agree with that although Buffalo might be good too okay well if they are then it’s all good it’s a badass place to play if you’re good baby bow and Byron i need to get him out you know he’ll sign a one or two-year deal probably although he did say how hardcore it is in the winter time like son of a [ __ ] they won’t sign a long-term deal you’re not getting Byron in a long term just so all you guys know like hockey players are still like normal people like they’re like they know when it’s freezing [ __ ] cold every day and he’s in Arizona right now i know but he’s not when he’s playing in the winter time i know like that’s a big It’s a big difference when you’re playing in a mild city what do you consider like raising your family it’s it’s probably in Buffalo versus in Arizona right you’re there during the school year and stuff what if you’re raising a family you have to consider where you’re living during the season versus where you’re living during the off season yeah they’re going to school during like you’re there longer than that’s where you’re raising i know you’re in and Buffalo’s tough it’s a tough place to play like I don’t care what anybody It’s it’s a great organ okay fine it’s [ __ ] hardcore you get 13 feet of goddamn snow i’ve I’ve lived it you don’t whatever i’m talking about like if you have options like and you’re making millions of dollars it’s tough to live don’t care it’s tough to live in that [ __ ] city it’s tough to live in Montreal in the winter time it’s tough to live in Ottawa in the winter time it’s tough to live in Detroit in the winter time it’s just tough it’s tough you know who’s tough huh you want to know who’s tough who you tage for how he handled getting hit like that yeah dude and the rest of the team saying “We didn’t know what happened what’s going on around here what do you mean he’s [ __ ] choking on his tongue do something.” And I I I love hearing that like the head coach Lindy Ruff like really addressed it the next day because at the press conference he kind of defended his team was a big deal that’s why don’t ever assume what a player or a coach is saying when the microphones and cameras are on is exactly how he feels or what he’s saying behind closed doors i think people know that okay do Yeah andy no [ __ ] you got to play the You got to play the game you know what I mean so he didn’t want to call out the team it was embarrassing and that’s the bottom line behind closed doors he was probably like “Are you this better?” They were losing their [ __ ] mind they call up that guy from the miners and he had to fight Olivier olivia are you out of your [ __ ] god stage i go Jesus he’s like yeah he’s a good I’m like well all because nobody would step up at the moment he gets called up and has a fight and gets [ __ ] [ __ ] they probably would take it though the kid got called up yeah he make some money but he got to play in the show he got beat up got to play in the show i don’t think I think he got sent back down do you play anymore whatever you know what I mean fight Olivier matthew’s like “Let’s go.” How nice is that too i like I’m Olivia i’m like “What’s up man?” Look for the blues like what’s something look for the Blues to uh do what make a strong run at at uh Michael Granlin oh I like Granlin damn right if he doesn’t stay in Dallas Dallas is trying to move Dumba they’re trying to lose i think Dumba too um how old is Dumba be in his low 30s now i like him he hits yeah he does like a truck right-handed defenseman he’s hardcore um uh they’re trying to move maybe Marchman Mason damn all right robertson possibly saw that um that’s a lot going on down there another defenseman i got to look at uh their roster because I’m I always mispronounce his name so I want to make sure labushkin labushkin i love Ta though man he is a unbelievable sniper first time I saw him shoot the puck I knew right away cam of course you did i knew right i was such a fan of his when he came into the organization no nobody really was oh go back nope nope hey he didn’t do much my name Okay taage Thompson yeah but I think and you’ll find stuff from like 2018 19 when he was traded were you like “Holy mother of God what’s going on around here?” Were you no because No let me say this though like okay we have Let me say this i don’t feel like cuz I kind of asked Tage about his relationship with Mike Yo i didn’t want to press him anymore on it cuz I like Mike yeah but I did not feel like Mike Yo handled him the right way the right way okay and I don’t think he was handled the right way internally i would talk to Mike and there were veteran players on the team obviously that team ended up winning the Stanley Cup that year and he would always blame Taage Thompson it’s weird how coaches do that with young guys sometimes it was always TA’s fault and I was always like what this kid he’s like Carly even playing like he’s like a teenager or maybe he’s 20 at the time i don’t even know who’s young and it’s his fault it’s his fault that you lost that you’re losing and what what about the veteran guy who’s making money who is expected to lead the team who’s not you know playing well or doing the same thing so I he he was always hesitant to call out a I’m talking privately that’s a young head coach i’m talking even privately yeah but he had experience he had coached Minnesota for several years he’s still a young guy that I don’t know he had coached the Minnesota Wild this guy so he was hard he was all over Tage it was always Tage’s fault but I don’t think too many people were like “Fucking you traded Tage.” And then he goes up there and starts dominating right after co starts dominating dude I knew he had it in him i don’t think he did i did i don’t think he did i swear to God see you narcissists would think that way no I didn’t think he’d score 48 or seven whatever he had well then what the [ __ ] like as quickly as he did he did it pretty quick but Cam his hands were so good and his shot was as good as I’ve ever seen there’s a lot of guys with good hands that are big they have a good shot they all do he just was It was him yeah but you don’t don’t act like you thought he was going to score [ __ ] 45 50 goals show me that tweet show me that tweet talking to Clayton Keller after the Blues drafted Tage he’s like “Dude we played together in the U8s and then they like split us up.” He goes “He’s sick.” Yeah and and right then and there once he told me that because usually I go to the Hall of Famers for my opinions and stuff like that but I went to Clayton and the Crecore Racket Club and a Crecore Raet Club for political views you know he’s a big kid that that had potential but I don’t think people were going crazy with the trade because of what he didn’t do much here because they got Ryan O’Reilly and they won the cup that year and he was a great Do too many people really know Ryan O’Reilly in St louis oh yeah at that time played in Colorado all those years okay he was up there and he was miserable when he came here people were still like “Okay he’s good.” But we don’t they didn’t know too much until they saw him everyone knew he was good everybody I don’t think you did i played against him okay should you match up against him a couple times I did just like I did with Prongs you’d be like “What the [ __ ] you doing out here?” I’m like “Huh?” O’Reilly would never say that no it’s probably nice me hey Cam how are you hey how are you how you doing i’m like “I’m good homie what’s up baby?” Yeah but did really the St louis fans really know everything about Ryan O’Reilly and what he was gonna bring absolutely not riley was a he came in here and did everything right they didn’t know he was like that but I remember no one did you did army did probably the big boys we’re we’re talking about the fans not the big guys it’s not all about them he always had that reputation of being it was enhanced when he got here because more people made a big deal out of it but nobody had ever seen a player work like that in practice and stuff like that stay on the ice as long as they but no one knew that coming in and all a sudden you got him and they’re like [ __ ] a firstwarmm.com/cam they didn’t know Patty either when he came in i love how Crosby was asking like all these guys for their stick and stuff like that crosby is cool as [ __ ] i like Crosby a lot jesus is he on your Mount Rushmore yeah cam took Bobby or off of his Mount Rushmore to put Crosby on okay okay no you didn’t and then eventually I’m gonna take one of those guys off to put Obie on okay to Yeah you took Bobby or off 3,000 hits [ __ ] yeah oh that’s why not not the 900 goals it separates them it separates them you’re taking 900 goals would never talk to you if he knew that you said that the greatest the greatest analyst in the game yeah he would he’d understand the best analyst in the game am I wrong about that no no no no no does he not break it down he’s [ __ ] Everything he does is awesome but does he not break it down so concise he’s the best dude he reminds me of John Davidson john Davidson had a way to break down games in the most layman terms so everyone could understand what he was saying yeah no and and he would make the most obvious seem very important or like seem like the most maybe it’s the other way around like the most important stuff seem like really obvious like the way he would like describe it just Wayne has that in him wayne says something and it happens you know he’s like they need to do this and all of a sudden they didn’t do it and it didn’t work or they did do it breaking down how they’re defending the PK like I’ve never seen a team do that before like he’s he’s the best wonder he’s what what’s he making cuz he’s probably he looks tired like six mill or something it’s tiring for him he’s probably like like six mil he’s probably having a couple cocktails in between [ __ ] doing his thing that’s a good salary for him six mill [ __ ] yeah what’s he worth 100 200 probably 200 over over that yeah with all the it’s just a name i follow Janet too on uh Instagram too she does she’s a great follow also yeah yeah you probably watch andy likes to follow everybody’s wives on Instagram i’d like to see what your Instagram screen screen time is cam’s on there all day long i don’t have kids oh that’s your excuse it’s a pretty good excuse i’m at the rink all [ __ ] day i saw a woman today the thing is you [ __ ] I was going to send you tweet and drive i was going to send you the home this woman was like being she’s like people try to flex on me because I don’t have kids she’s like she’s like eating a sandwich like in your face while she’s talking i know who that girl is yeah like it’s best to not have that’s not the case you want to have kids i’m just a an anomaly like we just didn’t have it but I want people I want good people to have kids not to [ __ ] i don’t want people to have kids when the daddy’s not going to be around or you don’t financially [ __ ] stable at all then then your kids are gonna be a motherfucked up and [ __ ] rob people and [ __ ] like that so I want good people to have kids for sure and the [ __ ] not to 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