According to a new anonymous NHL player poll put together by The Athletic, Chicago Blackhawks Taylor Raddysh and MacKenzie Entwistle found their way on a not-very-nice list. However, the Blackhawks did get some love when it came to the list of best and worst jerseys. Mario Tirabassi and Greg Boysen are joined by Pete Blackburn of What Chaos! ahead of the NHL All-Star weekend to discuss the best and worst of the NHL season so far on the CHGO Blackhawks Podcast.
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[Applause] [Applause] Yeah Welcome in to the chjo Blackhawks podcast powered by comed it’s getting easier for your business to switch to electric vehicles learn more at comed.com clean hey clean it’s Wednesday clean we’re almost through our week of no Blackhawks hockey the work week yes it’s uh it’s Greg Boyce and it’s Mario trasi J still
Enjoying his time uh in Disney World probably do we know that for a fact do we know if he’s actually enjoying himself he’s smiling in his pictures he’s posting pictures okay there are tweets and I hav’t I’m sorry jay I haven’t been following your tweets my bad usually usually when people uh post
Pictures from vacation they’re in Good Moods usually usually yeah I mean he is in the happiest place on Earth so sure supposed it’s in Florida but still so yeah we’re uh making it through this no Blackhawks hockey week it’s actually been nice yeah it’s kind of nice to get
In a little of a routine feels like the off season i’ like the set schedule yeah yes and it’s also nice to not have to watch the Blackhawks not score a goal um that’s nice to have a reprieve from that hey dry January ends today that’s great
I mean yeah you can’t can’t can’t not score goals if you’re not playing games this is true um they did not get shut out this week we yet so uh congratulations to everyone involved uh so today we’re going to have our guy our pal Pete Blackburn from the what chaos
Show he’s going to join us in for the second half of the show him and DJ Bean are heading to Toronto yeah for the All-Star festivity so we’ll chat about that preview the big weekend ahead and I’m sure he’ll have some good little tidbits for us but until he calls in uh
The athletic released their annual players uh an anous players players cowards bunch of cowards put your name on it exactly um lots of cool questions they ask a bunch of different players who don’t want to be identified uh in some fun categories uh and we’ll start with there was actual
Actually some Blackhawks representation in these po which I was not expecting what some good some not so good yeah I mean sure but me we got a we got to start with the obvious one uh it’s the title of the show so who is the player
Who who’s the player in the league with the mo whose face you want to punch the most most punchable face that was easy for me to read That’s badly worded uh so yeah who do you want to punch the most in the league uh overall winner was Nick cousins at
28.5% I mean he’s been doing some packery in the last couple weeks so he should be looking for property in the on the uh suburbs of Pakistan he’s going to be a resident there very soon uh he seems to be the guy that causes some crap and then doesn’t want to answer the
Bell for his crap goes hide behind other people so uh that that would make you uh be punchable yes um the other category finished second with 1633 so I don’t know if it was just basically oneoff votes add yeah so it says here at the bottom the other uh is basically all
Players that got like one vote each right and there’s a lot of others and that is where the Blackhawks land find uh Taylor radish Taylor radish surprising for some reason our guy Mackenzie and whistle now we have to defend our guy look how can you PCH why
Would you want to punch a guy that they call twisty I mean when you when you don’t have a family and you don’t have you know loved ones to turn to and then someone wants to go and punch you in the face I mean it’s just it’s just mean
It’s just rude that’s school that’s schoolyard bullying right there it’s bad spirits and whoever the one person that says it is I hope Karma comes knocking on now what if it was uh what if an whistle chose radish and radish chose an whistle that is what someone uh someone
On the Twitter suggested that it was a possibility they they want to punch each other it an inside job and the the anonymity allowed them to you know air out their grievance I mean I that was one of my first thoughts was like it had to be another Blackhawk that said they
Wanted to punch one of those guys yeah um and I’m trying to think of like does an whistle have or maybe it’s a former teammate of his from uh Juniors he well he and Alex du brinka used to fight in practice this is true too so it could
Have been uh Alex De Brink that got the uh that vote in yeah so um or is as our guy Charlie the bacon guy uh that says is it just their their face or their game style that’s most punchable and it just could be like you know Mackenzie
Entwistle’s got the baby face and and no scars he needs he needs a punch maybe knock a tooth out make him look like a hockey player could be I mean the the question was posed who’s the player in the league whose face you want to punch so I mean
It is focused on the face that is where where most punches land in hockey fights I think uh I would say it’s the helmet well that’s the T the target is the face Target is the face yeah back the helmet off then go go to town be a real man
Take your helmet off so I think our goal Monday when we get back to Blackhawks practice oh this is the first question these guys like yeah so who voted to punch you in the face do you know who it is I bet you you do think SP beans yeah
Someone was saying it was probably Taylor radish uh or um Darren radish that voted for Taylor I could bu or maybe it was the other Taylor radish Mrs Taylor radish maybe yeah they sent the email to the wrong person um yeah I had to look I had to make sure
That Darren radish was still in the NHL to vote for this poll but he is he I saw something he has the hardest shot in the NHL these days I think it was the athletic out a thing of like tracking all the stats and on average Darren
Radish has the hardest shot in the NHL this season good for him is he in the hardest shot competition he’s not because he’s not he he won’t be able to prove it then no exactly unfortunately uh others on Legend radish by the way yeah ice Hog’s legend for sure uh so so
Let’s say second place then uh is is other quot you know quote unquote but uh out of individual players behind Nick cousins is Brad Marian no surprise there uh Matthew kachuck is third and then a tie between Michael Bunting and Conor Garland I kind of surprised to see Conor
G on I didn’t he play he plays that way though like he I don’t watch enough of him to he plays the way that like like a bunting like he’ll probably he’ll get under your skin he’ll probably give you a couple extra Jabs um so I can I can
See why people would would want to take a swing at Conor Garland after a while uh also on the list the other kachuck Brady kachuck is on there uh the spitter Garnett hathway is on there uh nasm cadri he’s definitely that kind of player that gets under your skin makes
You want to punch Jeff Skinner I’m surprised by because he seems like a really nice guy Jeff Skinner seems like a really nice guy probably I get you he’s the guy that like is the lowkey Mega chirper he’ll throw the butt end of his stick in in your ribs you’re not
He’ll skate by and like just say something completely like you son of a like he also seems like really nice and smiley and personable and I could see other players in the NHL being like I just want to punch that guy yeah because he’s nice and smiley and and and
Charming might be why Mackenzie anzle got the vote that could be same reasons we just like oh that guy’s so fake not the Mackenzie Mackenzie an whistle confirmed fake he’s not real uh he was actually on that plane yeah I mean that I found that to be interesting
To to see an whist and radish in there surprised Jacob trouba didn’t make that list yeah not even in the uh in the mentionable this is the guy that’s going out there like trying to decapitate your teammates and no one wants to punch them in the face I think you don’t want to
Punch Jacob trouba because you know an elbow to the head is coming your way so maybe if you get a if you get like one free punch maybe but if you’re going to have to you know take a proactive shot get him before he gets you that’s true
Cuz maybe if you punch him hard enough he won’t come after you cuz he’s like that guy’s going to kick my ass could be I’m good I’m going to go after after somebody like Andreas anthon who see you CU I’m a tough guy uh former Blackhawk
Nikita zadorov also on this list yeah I mean i’ I applaud the athletic for putting the the the question out there because obviously hockey is fighting is part of the game um but to to pose it as like who would you want to fight like there obviously there’s guys that are
Just like I don’t want to fight anybody but being like who would you just want to punch in the face that’s that’s that’s a different being because around this office there are people that I would punch in the face but not fight let’s talk about it yeah we’re gonna do
Our own ranking um move my chair top 10 slly out of Arms Reach top 10 punchable faces in the chgo sports office 10 tie for first I’m just kidding we love everybody they’re all Karm he’s not wrong um I’m just kiding I’m kidding that’s two shows in a row
That km’s gotten a stray bullet well he should start listening more and then uh he could call us out on it that’s true um all right so let’s go with another kind of negative connotated C who’s the most overrated player in the league 101 votes the other category was first with
26.7 three but the player man other is yeah that guy is a jerk people hate other yeah wait what does that mean other it’s the it’s the collaborative or the collective group of people who got like a single Vote or or not enough to be like a high enough percentage got one
Vote exactly so 26 so 101 votes essentially 26 players got one vote and that’s the category but as far as singled out players topped one Mr cover boy himself Trevor zis almost 133% of the votes for most overrated and I to tell you the truth that does not surprise me I think
A lot of people uh a lot of the veterans in the league and then more of the grindy kind of guys see his you know flashiness and say like yeah he also landed on the punchable face list probably for the same reasons he landed on this list I’m
Sure there I’m sure there is uh some around the league animosity towards Trevor zis because like I I like Trevor Trevor zis I think he’s a very skilled fun player um but I I think since he’s gotten into the league um you know he’s he’s pulled the Michigan off on the same
Night that Conor Bard did selfish prick um but he’s Al you know he also did the the alley pass so like his notoriety has come from like the flashy plays um but outside of of one season like he’s been hurt a lot his production’s been down um so I can see
Why people around the league are just like this kid’s like he’s he’s just like a like a what’s the term I’m looking for not one trick pony but um like a like some sort of like specialist like he’s he’s a fancy play specialist like I believe a term used by
Uh one of my favorite uh podcasters out there good old Jr Jim Ross from the pro wrestling world he likes to use the term B God all Sizzle no steak H yeah say it like Jr I can’t I’m not even going to do it any Sizzle no steak no that’s Trevor
Z’s music God there that man has a family so Trevor zigis then Darnell nurse Matthew kachuck Jason Robertson Jonathan hubero uh that and then we got to scroll down Blackhawk made the list with 1.98% out of 101 votes to me that means two people vot V yeah uh Seth Jones but
If you listen to uh our chat a lot he’s how can you be overrated when you’re garbage that’s true yeah I all I mean man if Seth Jones made $7 million you think anyone would care about him no like like not to say that you you don’t care about Seth Jones but
Like would anyone give him the grief that he receives from from the NHL fan base and the Blackhawks fan base like if he was making $7 million you’d be like hey man I’m glad we have Seth Jones like it’s it’s the contract that that no athlete is going to turn down and say
You’re paying me too much his his downfall is accepting too much money that someone else gave him like that’s it’s it’s just so I feel bad for him because he is he is a very skilled player who is being paid uh to be the most skilled player at his position
Which he’s not but he’s being paid like it yeah I I would imagine that the two guys that voted for him their combined salaries don’t equal what he’s making this year so there might be a little jealousy there um so on the other side of that coin what’s all what’s
Interesting to me about this poll is that not every category has the same amount of votes cuz punchable face had 147 votes but this one only has 101 so people were people were omitting right uh answers here they scared they turtled cowards that’s the hockey term they
Turtled uh on the flip side of overrated we have underrated which got 168 votes a lot of people able to to get Brave when they’re talking about guys not getting enough credit you want to you want to stick up for your underrated teammate that’s for sure um we have uh the other category
How can you be the most overrated and most underrated player I mean when your last name is other you’re going to cause a lot of disc a lot of lot of uh confusion I would love to get just a plain like black jersey with the NHL
Logo and just have other on the back get the New Jersey Devil Jersey that just says Jersey on it there you other on the back uh as far as actual players uh no no surprise here this guy always seems to be at the top of this he’s not underrated he’s not underrated everyone
Knows about him everyone knows about Alex barov he’s not underrated I hate I [ __ ] hate this take you cannot be the most underrated player for your entire [ __ ] career like everyone knows how good he is I agree stop saying Alex barov is underrated pick especially when
You you know you were in the Stanley Cup Final last year like I think you got a little like if correct me if I’m wrong multi-time All-Star uh like this guy’s not underrated people know how [ __ ] good he is they also have Sam Reinhard braen point I I don’t buy that either M
Ranton I agree with Kyle Connor that’s your top five uh you scroll down a little bit and you’re going to see Jason Dickinson made this list uh see okay 1.19% so that’s probably two or three votes based on the the category of excuse me the category of underrated
Player [ __ ] barov won the [ __ ] sky in in 20 in 2021 like you you cannot win Awards and be an Allstar and be near a Point perame player in this league and be like ah he’s underrated Jason Dickinson a player like him being on on this list uh rupe
Hints I’ll agree with Matias melli I’ll agree with Jacob slaven like those kinds of players uh not getting the notoriety um that they probably deserve that’s that’s being underrated winning Awards and going to All-Star games you’re not underrated so I I get Sam R like Braden Point underrated are you
[ __ ] kidding me that’s like so I wonder if these guys when they’re placing their votes if their mindset is are they underrated by hockey fans and hockey Media or underrated by other hockey players like maybe I don’t give them enough like players don’t give this guy enough respect on the ice that they
Should who’s not giving moo Ranon enough respect on the ice all the teams that allow him to score 50 of his goals apparently all it takes is him to just put his these are all stars on this list Sebastian AO it’s like it seems like
Maybe some of those guys on the list on these two lists should have been switched yeah um Travis conne I should have more votes he’s a he is a great all-around player I don’t I just I this category always myths me Nate Nate has a suggestion maybe in for for the poll
Maybe it should have been under promoted by the league might be a better term sure sure but that’s not but they shouldn’t yeah I mean I don’t think that barov is should be on that list either but I’m just you know he might be that
List cuz I think I think he is under promoted like a lot of fans he’s not a household name he should be I mean um that’s I mean you’re casual hockey fan you know you tell them to name the top 10 players in the league how many of
Them are going to have barkoff on their list no that’s I I agree that is true uh but yeah it’s it all depends on you know when you get how are they voting for these players coocher you [ __ ] kidding me well that’s somebody that’s butt hurt that’s that’s somebody from uh
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Good one what’s the best jersey in the league assigned for your own teams of course Chicago Blackhawks it’s the Blackhawks 21 over 21% of the 146 votes I find it funny that the original six finished one through six in this polling I mean you can’t argue with the classics
Yeah a a a classic design uh will go a lot further than uh trying to be all Loosey Goosey and trendy and all that leave that for your alternates and your third jerseys uh the seventh team so the first team not an or original six is the
Uh newest team the Seattle Kraken so that’s kind of I like I do like the kraing especi white jerseys I don’t those pop those are those look really good yeah and their winter Classics were good too I did like those as once I saw them on the ice I liked them a lot
Better when they were first released uh then you have the coyotes Sharks Kings Avalanche coyotes um so yeah that uh the king something I don’t like the king the kings just doesn’t do it for me the black and the gray right they don’t pop they’re kind of me they’re there there’s
Not enough color they don’t they don’t nothing gravitates my eyeballs on that jersey in the early gravitates my eyeballs yeah in the early 2000s uh when they had the uh it was still the black and silver but they had the purple in it too I liked that I wish they would
Incorporate that more often yeah were cool um yeah there some there’s some good jerseys out there yeah the Flames jersey is way too low yeah that’s I didn’t like the one they wore against the Hawks no those are no that’s their like reverse retro Al they wore those
Like in the ’90s early 2000s but the the classic red with the yellow trim Swit back to those are no pun intended those are fire they are fire those are good they’re flame uh another quick couple we go to favorite road City to play uh Chicago appeared on that list with 2.73
Of the votes uh that’s fair yeah Las Vegas weird first 2 5.14% really uh New York was second then we have Montreal and Nashville Vancouver uh and all their gentleman’s clubs finished fifth uh again weird uh so there you go uh the cities where you can go out and find some vibrant
Nightlife are the top of your list uh the worst city this was probably the most predictable the least favorite not worst least favorite road City to play can I guess you can go for it St Louis no no no close uh St Louis of Canada Winnipeg there you go
41.24 almost half the players said I mean I can imagine that Winnipeg when play there in February can’t be funas when your season includes potentially having to go to Winnipeg during November December January March or January February and March yeah that’s that’s going to suck yeah they so top five or I
Should say bottom five Winnipeg Ottawa Buffalo Raleigh and then uh Tempe Phoenix a that’s interesting I guess players probably don’t like hanging out on a college campus at least some of them some of them probably don’t yeah I guys said hate Trevor zis yeah that that
That makes sense yeah I mean I I would think going to Arizona would be like a nice break like the opposite of going to winipeg but yeah going to Arizona to then go play in a college Arena I’m sure there would be some nhlers that are like what the f is
This yeah for sure um but again like a lot of these cities probably have to do maybe with like airports and like convenience of getting around CU how often do these guys uh get time in these cities when they’re it’s usually if you fly in the night before
You play the game you leave right after the game right sometimes you show up the morning of the game depending on travel so it’s not like these guys are hanging out for a while that’s true um but you know I I bet the a lot of these teams
Probably make sure they figure out an off day when they go to Vegas just because it’s it’s it’s Vegas yeah an extra day so the only other kind of fun ones that surprisingly no Blackhawks made the list uh who’s the best player in the league wait no Blackhawk made
That list surprisingly darn uh but underrated Nikita kucherov did yes he’s third best did underrated Alexander barov they uh totally underrated but no cannot be underrated and the best player in the league at the same time come on yeah apparently Nikita CRA voted for himself he proba did him and Braden
Point SWA vot I’ll vote for you if you vote for me 181 votes for best player in the league and Conor McDavid with 69.0 6 nice per of the of the vote uh hard to argue with that Nathan McKinnon second kucherov Crosby kale marcar top five
Others getting more than a vote here or just a vote uh Kel capris off Austin Matthews barkov Philip forsberg way to vote for yourself dude and ouri paner apparently Patrick Kane got a vote sure yeah Philip forsberg that’s somebody on Nashville voting for that was Philip
Forsberg voting for it had to be it’s best player not creepiest mustache this is anonymous right yeah yeah right come on oh yeah ballot signed bip borberg that’s like writing in Mickey Mouse for like a presidential just don’t vote a waste of vote just don’t vote all
Right best goalie in the league 183 votes getting 44.2 six% Andre vasileski despite barely playing this season so far still the best goalie yeah hard argue with that Conor huk second I think that’s about right Halu might I don’t know I mean I wouldn’t I’d take either one on my team
Uh I would too thater Demco up to number three imagine that wouldn’t been the same yeah last year then you have elas sokin he’s good eigor curkin he good and Jeremy SW Wayman he sucks he’s terrible he’s a fraud he’s horrible probably the worst goalie in the league and I’m not
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Biggest Boston Homer that you ever know Pete welcome to the show wow you’re really you’re infringing on DJ’s territory with this nickname Bonanza you know I’m I’m trying to you know just trying to be appreciative of you guys and your time and you know get in on the
Bit we gave you the we gave you the Jeremy Swan shot cuz we saw your your t-shirtt there and we’re just like screw this gu who who is lurking behind you that would be one David Bean okay see he’s got the right as soon as he heard nicknames start getting thrown out he
Was like excuse me and made his way over here but he is wearing Blackhawk sweater so yeah that is that is good to see that he’s got the uh the League’s best uh Jersey on there according to Anonymous NHL players it’s a good Jersey I don’t
Know if it’s the best it is a good one is it a Nick Felino one no it’s actually a hit him oh it’s it’s Blackhawks Legend DJ Bean honestly he would be like the third best player on that team no argument here um yeah you’re you’re probably right you’re
Probably right uh can he score yeah all right I think so he’s hired on the ice I don’t know it’s none of my business all right so anyway you guys uh you’re heading to Toronto tomorrow I believe to uh take on take in all the festivities of the
Glorious uh NHL Allstar Weekend so you guys are going to be there doing your thing you don’t have to reveal too much of your your your plans but who is the person you really hope to get you know an interview with for the show the most and why is it Tate
McCrae it is Tate McCrae yeah I mean Tate McCrae has been the biggest pillar of the show probably more than the NHL itself uh since its Inception so like we’re probably not gonna get tapate McCrae because Tate McCrae is the world’s biggest superstar and the growth
Of Tate McCrae just in the lifespan of this podcast has been unbelievable when we met her on like episode one or two everybody was like who and now she’s basically the commer of the NHL so good for her I’ll be honest I never heard of her until you
Guys started talking about her and now she’s seems to be in my feed all the time so you it’s the what chaos bump it’s work that’s right that is the most effective what chaos bump that has ever existed and now it seems like there’s like a what chaos curse where everybody
That we’ve had on the show is either like going through some [ __ ] or like is hurt and stuff like that so uh it’s it’s tough we’re gonna have to bounce back in the second half I think with our guests yeah so you’re saying everybody at the
All-Star game is just going to avoid you guys like no baby too busy too busy can’t do it we’ve sent out media requests and everybody has been like absolutely not this is essentially the Madden cover no thank you yeah we are we’re we’ve ordered industrial size bubble wrap for uh Kevin kinsky because
He’s the only one of the four Blackhawks that you guys uh interviewed that hasn’t been hurt at some point this season so uh yeah that’s we we we appreciate all all that you were doing uh to get the show started but that’s that’s coming out of price for us over here he did
Kind of get hurt by a stray from David year Che this week so that is true he was he’s he was basically that that mean of meme of the guy that’s just like pointing at himself like me me or the 50 Cent me like what me for yeah oh those
Blue Jackets man you just we just can’t go through a week without them doing something but um uh what are you looking forward to the most out of this NHL Allstar is it the draft is it the skills competi ition the game itself seeing the uh quote piss
Jerseys in person like what what are you most looking forward to uh it’s definitely not the game itself I think the game itself is probably the least interesting part of NHL all-star weekend every year honestly I think Pro Shop Wars is going to be the highlight of my
Weekend the jerseys are incredible I want to see what the rest of the merch looks like I’m very excited to get my hands on the Nathan McKinnon piss Jersey which has been at the top of my shopping list since those were even debuted so uh yeah I’m I’m very excited for the piss
Jersey and everything around it I was kind of bum that they release the full uniforms and the blue and the red teams have blue and red uh I’m going to show my Midwestern is here Breezers and uh the white and black or the white and yellow went with black like I was kind
Of hoping for all yellow uniform there’s never enough piss when it comes to NH damn it I I uh I do like that the piss Jersey which I declared as my favorite right off the bat the piss Jersey I think has become like the symbolic Jersey of this
Year’s All-Star game it’s the one that they hung off this the CN Tower and the augmented reality clip that they posted I think Bieber’s been in that piss Jersey more than any of the other ones the piss Jersey I think is the iconic of
The bunch yeah I I I would I would have to agree I think if they’re looking to uh make the most out of the piss Jersey Tate McCrae is probably going to have to wear one at some point during during the weekend right she she she is she’s the
Captain of the piss team oh that’s true very cool you’re right yeah her and Nath McKinnon captaining the piss team captain of the piss team that’s true it’s I mean it’s the honor you have to give to the biggest star that’s going to be there this weekend so it makes
Perfect sense they finally did it right at the NHL offices uh in all honesty though like when these jerseys first came out I was kind of like okay I don’t mind them but the more I see them I’m going to have to get one I’m
Kind of bummed that is not going to wear one yeah but I still I still I think I’m going to get one I don’t know what color yet I haven’t you know you know what color I I haven’t you can’t you can’t say like I gotta get a piss Jersey I
Don’t know which one I’m gonna get I mean oh DJ wants his mic live embrace the piss embrace the piss I’m on my third cup of coffee so can we stop talking about piss right now I might not make it to the end of the show
I uh I was we were talking about this before a show this week like everybody made a big deal about like H this jersey stinks it looks so goofy or whatever look at the the uh the jerseys from the All-Star games from like the past 10 15 years we have like a
Skewed skewed thought towards All-Star jerseys because last year was by far the best jerseys that they’ve had at the All-Star game for a long time the other jerseys like they’re not even interesting they suck they’re not even interesting some of them have looked okay and inoffensive but that’s like the
Best you’ve gotten from allar jerseys I think this year’s jerseys they may be ridiculous they may be outrageous they may be you can even say that they’re awful they’re at least fun and they took a swing and I think that they’re going to be remembered and I don’t think that
Any of the other ones for most of like the last 10 years are going to be remembered the ones that stick out to me were the the Mountain Dew ones where they were the the the neon yellow or neon green and like it was just like it’s just bad like it’s it’s not
Appealing at all it was during that craze where like if you had a white jersey you had to also have white gloves like it just all that was the uh that was the Columbus uh that was I think that was AUM versus Taves game um so we
Apologized to Nick that he had to endure that but yeah I mean if if you’re going to have bad jerseys at least make them fun in in a way that you’re just like well like you get to a point where you’re just like I kind of have to get
That Jersey just because of how bad it is they got exactly what they wanted out of it people we’re still talking about them here like we’re we’re they’re getting the engagement they they I think they did a good job um and I I love the ridiculous like uh lowercase name on the
Bottom of the Jersey I think that’s fantastic uh it just make them as ridiculous and stupid as you want because it’s just a refreshing change MH yeah yeah they’re leaning into it and I give him credit for it especially with the game being in Toronto like I was so
Afraid that that it being in Toronto they were going to be super like traditional and have these sort of Retro esque Jerseys and be really like up their own ass about the history uh with the game being in Toronto but it it has gone completely the other way where
They’re like let’s just make this the biggest party you’ve ever seen yeah no I I think that’s I think that’s the right way to go and you have a team in the Maple Leafs that has well you have Toronto so you have the connection with Bieber they’ve they’ve done uh alternate
Jerseys with Bieber before the Maple Leafs have and you have like those exciting players that like the younger generation of hockey fan like glob on to with like Marner and neander and Matthews and guys like that so why not lean into that rather than just being you know oh the prestigious Shield of
The NHL and all that stuff cuz that no one cares about that anymore like the original six is like cool but like also no one cares about the history all that much especially the section of fans and the generation of fans that the NHL needs to Loop in which is the younger
Demographic yeah and that’s not the demographic of the All-Star Game the All-Star game is for young people so they’re kind of doing it right yeah you can’t uh say that the NHL needs to grow the game and then the next breath say these jerseys stink like these jerseys
Are trying to get they’re not made for guys of my demographic they’re made for a much younger demographic and I get that I’m all for it bring bring on more Ridiculousness that’s what I say don’t take yourself so seriously yeah that’s right Al is Drake dead we haven’t heard
Drake’s name like once in in re in relation to this All-Star game I was surprised by that you hard it is to go like months of talk about Toronto and a sports thing and not be like Drake’s involved yeah I’m I’m surprised that stupid a logo isn’t on the Jersey does
The uh does the NBA have him sign a some sort of like exclusive contract he’s not allowed to to venture in the other sports no he’s everywhere I he’s he’s he’s been all over the place before shows you how much I pay attention yeah no I I I have been
He still on to grassy Junior High that’s that’s where he might I think he made a cameo in the uh in the reboot but yeah I was surprised that Drake wasn’t involved at all uh or maybe they’re maybe this is the best kept secret the NHL has ever had is he’s
Going to come out zero chance zero chance right no I know I’m just you you think if the NHL got Drake to to do something with the All-Star game they wouldn’t be shoving it so far up our ass for like the last month and a half they
Would for sure be letting us know yeah no that’s true yeah it’s it is it is surprising but I guess like you do you still you do still have a lot of that Toronto connection and it it is still the NHL like you you’re working with the
Budget here that’s all right we got a few uh a few minutes left before we wrap things up we’re at the All-Star break just past the halfway point uh what would you say is your biggest surprise in the NHL and your biggest disappointment so far around the league uh
Surprise um like the Oilers being the greatest team that has graced the NHL’s ice surface immediately after being the worst immediately after being the worst and most embarrassing both in the same season is truly incredible and uh a real gift to a neutral fan like what what a
Joy that experience has been in Edmonton this year uh disappointment like there’s a lot of there’s some disappointing teams like the New Jersey Devils have been super disappointing for me um just I don’t know like the kings are right there alongside him right now I don’t
Know if they snap out of it at this point but like we actually just had this conversation for uh for tomorrow’s episode like DJ made the point that like the most disappointing thing that has happened for him this season is Conor Bard getting hurt and that is a that’s a
Fair answer and I think especially considering like the one silver lining for me for Connor Bard getting hurt was maybe the maybe the cder discussion would get interesting and it hasn’t it’s still Connor Bard are bust basically and uh and so like that’s been a real kind
Of knock on like one thing that Chicago had going for it this year yeah uh losing losing Bard uh awful for the Blackhawks awful for the league and now you got Adam fantelli also out for a couple weeks too after getting his uh his leg cut so yeah I mean the the
Rookies the rookie class that it was supposed to be uh has has definitely taken some uh some hits so that’s that’s been super disappointing I do like though this opens up the opportunity for people to have some takes like both both guys are missing eight weeks it seems
And uh Conor Bard broke his face and Adam fantelli got a boooo on his calf so takes there is he not tough enough to play in the NHL yeah he’s not durable enough yeah right I kind of have to agree with you Pete it’s hard to argue that the
Worst thing to come out of this is now we have to actually give some Credence to both Brock Faber and Marco Rossy in the discussion as cder well there the only two left so yeah we have to talk about them hey that’s Joel Hofer slander Joel huler is leading leading the charge
For the second half if I’ve seen anything like this story before we will be talking about Joel hoer at the end of the year yeah we uh I hope not we we had to take the bombardment of the Brock Faber stuff from Minnesota Wild fan and nobody here thinks Brock Faber is not
Worthy of of being in the discussion but I mean he’s not Conor Bard like plays 30 minutes has a good plus minus well so what all due respect to Brock Faber like still like not really sniffing the Connor Bard thing especially when you talk about like almost a point per game
On an AHL team in his 18-year-old season like crazy crazy that he’s doing what he’s doing and living up to the hype he’s GNA miss his entire six to8 weeks he left as the team’s leading Point scorer he’s going to return and still be the team’s leading Point scorer nobody’s going to
Pass him I don’t see Jason Dickson getting nine points over the next four weeks I don’t see that happening no I don’t see I don’t see I don’t see the teams getting nine points it like that alone is so depressing he’s GNA have to either score all nine goals or get an
Assist all nine goals four weeks it is that’s where we are we’re in hockey hell it’s life in Chicago right now hey we got Conor bad we’re playing the long game yeah is we Tak our lumps now so that when we’re when we’re you know celebrating at
The parad the the documentary is going to be great just it’ll be it’ll be all right we have a file we have a Google doc that we started last year is our remember when file so when you know this team gets back to being a playoff team
And a contender we can be like hey remember that time ju jera was on our second power play unit like things like that and this is going to be remember when Boris kachuk had six breakaways and two games and didn’t have any goals that’s that’s where we are Zack Sanford
Remember Boris kachuk yeah just in general yeah period remember when the Blackhawks like claimed every available player on waivers just so that they could have bodies that like somewhat represented an NHL roster yeah the Remington pitlick era that’s uh that’s it’s not his full name but we’ve we’ve
We’ve no it is it is now for us his full name is Remington so we only call him Remington pitlick um because you know there’s really not much else to talk about when it comes to you got to get you got to get creative that’s for sure
Pete I did want to ask you about the All-Star uh weekend festivities um the skills challenge that is uh changing this year instead of having guys just specifically in the different categories 12 guys uh competing against each other for a million dollars in quotation marks um why in quotation marks because half
Of it goes to charity oh I didn’t even know yeah from what I yeah from what I heard it they’re playing for a charity so half goes to charity half goes to them um I could be wrong on that now you you’ve you’ve planted that seed of doubt in
That information um I do like though that like if it’s wrong that now whoever wins has to feel bad because you were like hey give half of it to charity that’s true yeah and and if I know anything about this show it is it is well uh listened to among NHL players um
But I did want to get one of the the the final uh event of the skills challenge is the top six uh Point Getters going through the NHL skills obstacle course I have done as much extensive research as I could I don’t think we know much about
This obstacle course what would you like to see the NHL obstacle course uh involve uh a ring of fire uh a goalie race a spiked pit uh in like the ground maybe like the center ice just opens up and there’s a spiked pit there uh DJ says a trampoline
That would be really interesting and then somehow mascots involved as well oh you know the mascots are going to be involved oh how about the whoever the the top six have to get in their team’s respective mascot costume and do the obstacle course in the mascot costume
Yes well they’re going to have to bring like multiple Maple Leaf and and kuck mascots cuz half the field are from those two teams so well yeah you could just get you can get uh the Carlton the bear well if we know anything about we know anything about the Leafs they’re
Not going to make the final that’s true they’re not getting out of the first round yeah good point shame on me for not recognizing that um I’m going to be disappointed if the final obstacle course is not hosted by gouche from Most Extreme Elimination Challenge and just
Have like Boulders and things rolling at them like that like who cares about injuries just go for it that should be what what the injured players who couldn’t make the All-Star game uh should do you should have Bard and Jack Hughes just chalking chucking foam Boulders down no not foam Boulders real
Boulders okay well go big or go home it’s it’s a million dollars on the line that’s true that’s right I I I let’s throw tasers in there as well let’s uh let’s taser gu up in the North Woods actual tasers make them go faster yeah yeah why not chariot races let’s
Get weird um all right well that’s going to wrap up our time here with Pete thanks for being generous with your time have safe travels to and from Toronto enjoy uh enjoy all the grab ass and whatnot you guys are going to do at the All-Star Game weekend we’re looking
Forward to all the content you guys are going to provide uh of total serious no s satire whatsoever nature that’s right and then we’re going straight from there to the to the Super bowl next week see you there Pete going to be a wild time
You are living the dream uh say hello to all those New Jersey Devil fans you just acquired over the past few days oh no all right be good Pete uh and we’ll see you next week if if we don’t lose you in Vegas we’ll see all right thanks
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1 Comment
Vintage All-Star games should only be played. Everything else can drop & stop wasting time.
Western vs. Eastern format, or Stanley Cup champs vs. NHL All Stars format is what this league should "stick" with.