Boys have been humming and this episode is another BANGER:
– 00:00:00 – 00:06:53 Intro
– 00:06:54 – 00:11:33 Tristan Ritchie at Lake City Realty’s Performers of the Week
– 00:11:34 – 00:25:33 Querney’s Bulletin Board
– 00:25:33 – 01:06:19 Interview with Andre Anania
– 01:06:20 – 01:22:29 BTB 4-Pack: Things to Pack on a Road Trip
– 01:22:30 – 01:23:47 We Mssd It brought to you by Just Mssn
My life my life my life my life my life what is going on everybody Welcome to week 150 of behind the bench it’s officially we we’re past 150 episodes but we are in to week 50 ever since we changed up the uh names of the episodes and uh
Structure of them for a little bit but we are on week 150 the boys coming off a heater of a week last week like a heater of a week last week um and we’re just going to keep riding that wave boys the sun is shining weather’s getting warm you know
Cedar green may be open like in a week like tomorrow it is looking very promising uh very excited to get going uh you know this is where the itch starts uh for the boys but uh again you can find behind the bench podcast on Apple podcast Spotify we are also on
YouTube now full episodes on YouTube um you could find us all at behind thebench podcast and on Instagram Twitter at btb podcast Dore and Tik Tok at behind the bench we got mace we got Tommy we have no Roberto today but we got two we got
Three of four so not too bad we’re swinging at 75% so Mason B Savage how you doing buddy uh great it’s March break and I got a new pickle ball racket paddle no what’s it called what’s the right lingo it’s a vatic pro it’s like sandpaper yeah yeah but what’ you
Say racket or oh paddle I’d call it a paddle paddle I think he when when’s a Savage Dome opening ma the Jordan do oh well if the golf courses are opening soon that means the lakes are going to be thought out soon that means the boats
Are in that means the pickle ball court will open I would say I would say before before the golf course is open I bet you we’re playing pickle ball before the eyal’s open now I think the idwal is going to open I’m targeting April 20th okay so I wanted to ask uh starting
Dates what it’s a month away month and a bit away I’ll agree to that do you think top I’ll agree to that I not to I guess this is part of my intro Chim really appreciate you um battling right now I know you’ve been under the weather first
Of all um I have to say it you’ve say it to me did you take your vitamins lately I mean I don’t think you did this is a perfect it’s a perfect DF second I was at the ell today my new irons came in
Not my full set but my irons are in boys they’re crisp looking fine but that’s not what everyone wants to hear the ow green Chim mace telling you it was really hard not to take these irons grab a ball and go out there on whole one it
April 20th around that range I’d give it a month from you know this episode I’ll go 27th I’ll go 27th I don’t think they’ll do two weeks before their usual nor normal starting date which is first week in the may drive and range within the next three weeks though like we
Might be playing I think they open it all at once or no or like any driving range any other range like in the North well Cedar I is going to be open like in a week yeah yeah you know what it’s uh it’s exciting though it was what 15 16
Degrees today you can call it golf season you can call it patio season everyone is just in such a better mood like it’s ridiculous it’s the best it’s the best time of year and NHL playoffs are coming up where’re to have great content with the Leaf’s first round
Watch parties that’s all that jazz is coming up again so I am licking my chops boys I can’t wait and it’s obviously good to talk to you guys we had a great weekend we’ll get into all that jazz I’m saying Jazz twice now but anyways Jim
How you doing buddy I know you’ve had a sluggish week I got the uh I got the Tommy flu I got the Tommy flu uh right after the weekend I am pain for it uh I guess it’s good that that is happening during March break but didn’t want I did
Want to do some stuff but I guess uh it’s time to to recharge here uh uh for for the week and then uh we’re hopping back uh into uh into placement mace you’ll be proud of me so I don’t really watch a lot of TV or movies when I’m uh
Healthy when I’m kicking when I’m healthy but yeah I got nothing to do I’m what have you been watching dude what have you been watching I started Entourage I started Entourage me I can’t stop watching it I can’t stop watching C right I no I think it’s on HBO I yeah C
Did you yeah there we go did you buy crave no Tom we got the the you know the Apollo okay all right under the radar stuff yeah out Chuck but but HBO yeah um good for you D it’s great Ma it’s great I get what you’re talking phenomenal and it’s
Perfect length of an episode yes 30 what is it 30 30 done 30 flat done special guests every episode Tom yes would I like it you two both know me love it Tom you would love it it is um yeah they got some Heavy Hitters uh Mark Wahlberg
Produces it right right that’s I don’t know what you meant by Heavy Hitters there but I’m happy you went that way um mace nice Heavy Hitters like big celebrities yeah like Tom Brady has an episode yeah my M was going elsewhere mace nice haircut nice haircut Ma look
Great buddy and uh I’ll have to tune in entourage all right I’ll add it to the list yeah no h it was very good I was gonna ask what you’ve been doing but I mean Entourage Guitar Hero not even guitar you don’t answer your phone anymore I’ve been trying to text you how
You’ve been feeling nothing you don’t care about me anymore I don’t even look at my phone right now yeah buddy I could tell you’re battling we’ll keep this one short for you Al yeah yeah um but boys we had a hell of a weekend uh we had the
Wolves Friday which is awesome and then Saturday uh shout out Andrew zulich uh and WC we got a box for uh the sub5 uh well not the sub5 the BSL basketball Super League allstar game and skills Club Edition that was phenomenal we had
A night we had a night and it was uh it was awesome to see so great weekend for the boys um and let’s uh let’s keep it rolling here into our Tristan Richie at Lake City realy performers of the week are you ready to make your real estate
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Your dream home is just a phone call away contact him today at 75920 6109 you can find them everywhere on socials at real Richie and let’s make your dream real estate dreams come true what do the boys have for performers I’ll start Chim you’re killing me right
Now buddy you you are dialed I know you’re sick Bing that was a great ad read my performer you mentioned it uh just previously we’re at the um the All-Star Game this weekend in the skills comp the BSL skills comp I’m giving it to my boy Brandon balotti okay 130k
Followers on Instagram you guys got me going cuz I he was kind of roaming around the courts after the duck comp um to go down and meet him so I went with matd Masson the nicest guy like I think I dabbed him up about five six times MADD
Did it about 20 we told him about the Pod he was loving it followed the Pod back got a nice picture with him I posted on socials but yeah he won the dunk comp the sickest dunk Jim like he might have competed this is some High Praise right
Now with the NBA guys like that the last dunk for him to win it in the finals over four people was like got us off our seats no he posted a video of with killan too right yeah yeah so he’s my performer man it was uh it was cool to
Meet him and like he was asking about the show and stuff like nice guy obviously plays in the league but uh yeah he loved what we do for the North and obviously I told him thanks for coming to sub he’s like I love it here
So it was it maybe the five will sign him you never know never know okay mine is going to go uh to to the volleyball court here shout out to the Horizon senior girls volleyball team they were finalists at Offa um so big uh congrats to them that is no joke um no
Matter if you lose uh in the finals just to make it to the finals it’s huge so uh big congrats to them uh you know showing up on a provincial level so big congrats to them Ma what do you got my performer of the week is going to
An employee at the subb arena Ryan Guthrie he operates the spotlight so when the Wolves score Place goes black he’s running the light okay nine times he had to turn it on yeah I was gonna say we saw that a lot Friday nine times I that’s the third time at home
The wolves have scored nine goals one time they scored 10 so for him this season I think this is one of the highest scoring seasons for the wolves they’re a lock to score seven goals a game any given Friday any given Friday Wednesday’s not so much Friday
You know what I think our our Mist at segment should be what the Wolves record is with us in the building like I think it’s like up there like we should have been keeping track all year obviously it is the year where they’re really really good I
Think we’re 10 15 games above 500 when we’re in the building for sure in my opinion like when I’m there I don’t think they lose but last year we had some losses though yeah yeah yeah I’m I’m saying this year this year I think I’ve probably only saw three
Losses yeah Max I haven’t been to as many as you guys though lot of lot of tuo like you actually Tom and I went to a lot more before Chim came back yeah now that chim’s home we don’t want to go with as much anymore yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Um okay boys well let’s get it going into our walls OHL recap obviously the biggest news coming out is uh Evan Conan and Nathan Vos uh suspensions were reduced uh they uh appealed it and uh won so vov will be good to go uh game one of playoffs and Conan is
Good to come back March 22nd yep so yeah here’s my thought sorry vov sorry vov is suspended until the playoffs he will uh carry over games his remaining six games in uh the 2024 25 regular season so I think I think it makes sense I think it makes sense in my in my
Opinion I mean here’s the thing from when the incident happened to when they made the decision they could have served 10 to 15 games and not miss playoffs I think the old the only thing the old did wrong was maybe Mis value uh playoff games a little bit I mean you’re talking V
Missing seven playoff games that’s a lot so here’s what I here’s what I like I’m trying to understand I was talking to Ben about it as well so vov more than likely NHL draft pick probably will be at the NHL Camp come September time so do those games that he is missing when
The Wolves start if he’s still at the NHL Camp count towards the suspension because he might just like I’ll stay with the AHL team I’ll stay with the NHL team until my five six games are done and then I’ll come back like do you know
What I mean by that I I yeah I don’t know how how that works I really don’t because like he’s on the team now and it counts when he’s not playing but like if he’s on yeah drafted team and he’s still at the camp or development Camp of you
Know the AG Hill team NH H Team wherever he’s at he’s like like okay I’ll just come back after my suspension’s done in the play I Can See happening right I I don’t know if if you previously scratched if it I I have no idea yeah I
Know we’d have to ask Jeff Merck on that one but uh yeah dude it’s like you said it’s huge for the Wolves I mean we’re biased because we love them it’s a huge boost for the playoffs I think it’s perfect timing for their little sluggish play lately but the team playing them
Must be just like hating their life right now they almost thought they wouldn’t have two top six forwards for the first you know four or five games and can make a series out of it but now that these two are ready for game one I think the Wolves uh roll in round one
Yeah and I think it’s also worth noting that you know this situation is still not a joke like uh for sure for sure I think I think Theo you know when they drop down you know double digit suspensions that’s like it’s legit um but I think they did get it right in
Terms of of how they valued playoff games um and uh and the Wolves catch a break on this one so uh we’ll we’ll see what happens um going into the standings here we have uh oshaa in first wolves right now in second and I believe that’s
Only because they’re a top of their uh division uh because the Brandford Bulldogs do have more uh points than them so the division is huge for the Wolves win um and obviously Asha is ah head of Branford uh in in their division so um that’s how that works there North Bay in
Fourth they picked up some big points over the Wolves again that’s divisional that’s huge um Missy in fifth Ottawa in six Kingston in seventh their clinch uh fighting for uh the eighth spot is Barry and Peter bro and they’re 10 points ahead of Peter bro so
It looks like it’s going to be Barry for sure mhm in the west uh the top six are clinched we have uh Saga and first Londo is in second they’re both tied for 94 points and London clinch their division the Sue uh obviously in third kit in fourth as uh ens sound in
Fifth Erie in Sixth and then uh gu and Flint uh rounding out seven and eight so uh that’s kind of what the playoff picture looks like if the playoffs were to start today uh the Wolves would be played Jacob Holmes and the King s contracts that’s who it
Was that would be wild but the division is massive the wolves are only a point ahead of the division against uh North Bay as well as uh msaga so uh it’s definitely not over yet they play uh ashaa this Friday uh which is a massive game that that’s uh could help
Them Reach up the the points here uh for the conference they play Barry uh on Saturday in Barry and then head to ow and sound uh on Sunday so so they a three and three big three and three back to back three and threes yeah yes and
Then they follow that up the next year playing Barry at home they only have two home games left then they go play Niagra and oshaa so I mean those two oshaa games are massive you got to beat you got to beat Barry at least once and
Niagara I think you got bu twice and Niagara I think that’s six points right there go I mean four five ass six they could go that’d be huge yep it’d be nice momentum right into the playoffs but again you never know you never know where you’re going to get with the
Wolfers you really don’t and and the OHL in general and the oh in general that’s true and so that leads into last weekend you want to talk about it 98 overtime we saw 17 goals uh against Windsor which is one of the worst teams in the league
Also shout out Jael T he was not playing but got a nice oion it was nice to see yeah de back in the building but uh 98 was wild and I think it’s again it’s one of those games where you’re playing the worst team in the league you get they
Know they’re good team and maybe they just I feel like that’s just the O in general like it’s just it’s hard to get up for a team that you know that you won’t see in the playoffs and that’s way below you in the standings in my opinion
But Chim but those are the game and I mean they did get two points but yeah I know but win yeah you can’t give up eight I mean here here’s my thoughts and I know we’ve harped a lot the last couple weeks on the goal tening what I
Saw Friday and you can blame it on what we just mentioned lower team WIS are not going to make the playoffs their team defense was like non-existent guys weren’t backchecking guys weren’t really buying in you can it’s easy for us to say goalie goalie goalie like got to stop a puck I mean
Eventually you have to yes but when you’re out there and basically you just don’t even care about the dzone all you care about is getting cookies I call them or points it’s like it’s not going to fly in the playoffs man yeah and it’s a hard
It’s a hard flip to switch flip to switch to flip when you come playoff time just to be be like I’m going to be a defensive hockey team when you have bad habits all year in my opinion right yeah you’re not wrong I don’t know unless it’s really easy for these guys
To switch it but no and then and then that’s just my thoughts dude not a good time to to have this and you watched that game in the bay right they want went to the Bay was also Memorial Gardens was sold out was okay on they lost they lost uh anania answered the
Bell right away right away so I mean that’s just hockey like he knew he was going to answer the Bell first 30 seconds of the game he fought arnsby um I like that guy is he way uh not sure not too sure I think he is I’ll check that I’ll check that when
You talk talk but uh but yeah they go play The Bait um and Ania actually saw a few uh few shifts on the top line uh I’m not sure how that worked but uh he was playing with the top line for a few shifts D was out uh early in that game
So hopefully he’ll uh he’ll be okay maybe they’ll just shut him down into the playoffs but um yeah big stretch of games here for the wolfers uh two games left at home that means two more chances for Chim to get in the room and read the lineup card so uh we’re still
Manifesting that and we’ll see what happens here coming in the next two games uh anything on the arnsby is an 03 and he is a Florida panther draft pick that is the most perfect player for Florida so nice yeah nice uh ma you got anything on the Wolves yeah stat
Correction I said three times they’d scored nine or more goals four times they’ve scored nine or more goals at home and they’re averaging o just over five goals a game at home and 3.7 against at home but how many on the road uh I haven’t crunched those numbers
Myself yet the over always hits mace I got to ask you just quickly before we move on how awesome would it be to see Chim in the room doing a lineup card read M me and you just like filming watching this guy going berserk like the the
Mount Rushmore of btb moments at the subur arena would be Tom I think on the I no I think CH like this the peak and me catching a shirt oh yeah we got to talk you want to talk about that pick that Andrea sent us
Of Mace catching a shirt all time I saw that a day later but um Jim this might be the biggest moment for the pod in my opinion this and well when the Leafs dm’d us for the watch party that to me was like that’s up there that electric clip you
Guys edited um at Dawn’s never saw it again yeah I mean hopefully this year if they play the Bruins could you guys imagine that oh Dawns would be insane there might be a fight me and Max full on Wrestle match all the time um David Goyette still leading the league he’s at 101
Points have a year have a year can I say quietly again I said that from his year last year he just finds a way to get points man he’s so good though but it’s like 100 is is insane it feels like he’s got 50 but he’s got 100 is that me make
Any sense to me no but anyways he’s played 62 games I believe he’s played all the games he’s got a 100 he’s yeah in 62 games yeah he’s he’s not coming back the woles he’s not in the O next year games so I want to shout
Him out for not missing a game he has not missed a game Iron Man Iron Man where I’m looking to light here Quinton M’s played 47 and he’s got 84 points oh my God that’s dude if you’re the opposing team how do you like decide one he’s one goal
Shy go at imagine deciding if he played 62 games he’d be right up there yeah but imagine deciding for line matching gim especially because now they’re on different lines for the most part they should be playing on different lines I don’t like just defensively I think yeah
Like how do you match that up I know but I think they’re just a little more of a liability they do Dori and musty play together and then goad’s playing with yeah or Lando had a few shifts with them yeah we’ll see I’m excited to see game
One lineup when they had that full lineup when it was delic vov Goyette uh maum Fon and jeru you couldn’t beat that you could be that playing up with the big boys like should we do a little segment for what game one playoffs would look like like lines
Well we’ll pick uh we’ll pick uh series again I we did series and then we we’ll talk about the Wolves lines because I think they’re going to go back to Landon Zack and Fon as like a shut down line they I mean they better they better yeah
Yeah okay um let’s move it on to the noge uh four teams have clinched playoffs uh here uh in the East Timmons Hurst Posas and iqua four teams have clinched in the west we have uh Blind River the Cubs Sue t- birds and espola how many
Teams make the playoffs Tom in a no oh you putting me on the spot I have no idea you can’t be doing that I think I don’t know either look at this bad radio this bad radio no four teams four teams to make the playoffs okay then no’s going to
Hate us um yeah four all right all right well eight but yeah four side so sue Eagles Miss Su Eagles right now for a side Chim for a conference yeah okay okay all right all right we’ll be in attendance for at least one playoff game
For the Cubs for sure oh yeah for sure for sure um okay now we are going uh to move it on to our interview portion of the podcast and boy another good one for the people uh grind grind is just the word to describe this person uh Andre and from
The serby Wolves o defenseman came on the chat with the boys and we’ll send it off to him right okay ladies and gentlemen we are joined by another member of the pack this overage defenseman from Richmond Hill Ontario was drafted 71st overall in the fourth round of the 2019 ell priority selection
By the suby Wolves this year he’s tallied five goals 26 assists for 31 points and a million block shots they got to add that to the elite Prospect St and uh but yeah please welcome Andre and Ania to the BTV podcast how we doing good how are you boys thanks for having
Me on here yeah we’re good bud we’re good bud excited to to chat here Tom yeah first question I gotta ask you obviously we were going back and forth on uh on socials the other day when we saw you in the we like to call it the paps press conference how are those
Stairs going up that because I think Chim we went up the gondola the Gonda went up yeah Chim actually called the game earlier in the year and went up to that how are the stairs going up and going down I I almost have to hold chim’s hand because I don’t want those
Are brutal I hate it I like walking up those stairs and my hands are all sweaty like I’m not even afraid of heights but it’s weird it’s weird going up there it’s it’s nice to watch theame straight gra it’s good yeah gra yeah it’s yeah it’s really nice to watch the game and
Then you get to see the boys on the bench too which is nice yeah at them they’re always giggling up us up there but yeah oh that’s jokes that’s jokes um burning question we’ve always wanted to ask you because you know you and Tom I swear I could pass as brothers especially
Especially when when you trim when you trim the beard here but uh what nationality are you are you Italian or Greek yeah full Italian full Italian that’s what I’m talking about that’s what I’m talking about another Pyon I love it I love it full-blown I love it good
Stuff and um yeah no the last one before we just get into General hockey stuff I got to ask if the boys did talk about my intermission performance last uh I think it was Friday yeah last Friday did you guys see me out there I mean you weren’t
Playing I see you no I I had to do um what was it musical tube so it was uh musical chairs but I was out there with tubes anyways I ended up Mak it into the finals great content ends but uh I couldn’t get the dub for us but oh I
Wish I saw that chicken fingers in the the the guys who AR playing he always get us some so that’s all time that’s all time hey what did you think of uh of Price’s uh price beway go and Sally that was the best man I’ve never
Seen our bench like I’ve never seen a that of that trick like that was Unreal it was also a huge goal huge but to see him do that he’s such a good guy in the locker room and to see him SC like that like all the
Boys love it yeah no he absolutely very bad yeah it was sick it was sick he always gives us like my love wearing I don’t know he yeah yeah yeah yeah he always gives a [ __ ] when he scores because we just lose it and like it’s just like a everyone
Thinks it’s his first goal even though it’s not not his first goal but he’s always giving a [ __ ] for that but I don’t know I just we just get so fired up to see him score we love it yeah oh that’s awesome um and let’s go back to
The start like what age did you get into hockey and you know kind of who brought you into the to the sport I don’t know I always saw my my older brother he he played he’s four years older than me so from like the first memories I have of
Hockey was watching him play and then I wanted to be kind of be like him so I started skating a bit I skated with my my older sister it was me and her she’ always she’ always RI me for being a better skater and how always get so mad at her
But I don’t know I would say it was probably around three I actually started like skating and then I started actual hockey games probably around six or seven but yeah gotcha whether were there any other sports I mean you mentioned you’re Italian I think soccer soccer had to be in the picture
No I was I was just year up house leag in soccer okay stay at home what I think they call it sweeper Center back yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah exactly exactly down back there like a little Cen but I don’t know in high school I
Was I got into rugby I was pretty good at rugby but I don’t know I had to stay away from that after after sign with the OHL yeah no doubt well that that was probably that’s one of the best Rugby’s huge down south yeah it’s big yeah our
School my high school was really well known for being good rugby so gotcha okay well I think uh being you know so tough and and rugby I mean Chim you mentioned the gazillion block shots it feels like every Friday night we’re in the building you’re fighting someone
Eight fights Chim this year not this year Tom that’s total I know there a r career imagine there was no rule oh my God going to customer sometimes but I don’t know I don’t really go out there looking for it too much no no no you’re protecting teammates yeah I like to take
Care of business but I don’t know I was pretty my first year I was pretty I was a loose cannon out there you’re looking for it yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah think I had five my first year but what what’s the one that comes to to I guess how did
The first one go actually let’s go there how did the first fight go my first fight was really early in my first year I I don’t know it was kind of a suy pass some guy gave and then I just destroyed him and then I ended up getting jumped
Kind of got I think I got beat up pretty good but I don’t know learn like I learned how to take a punch which which helped me later on but I don’t know after that I realized I learned how to fight a bit how to grab
Guys yeah how to like just kind of throw punches too but I don’t know alltime favorite was probably the one against yie that was a good it was a packed building I think there was seven 8,000 fans in eie that game yeah and uh I don’t know the K kulakov hit musty
Pretty good so I go ask him off a draw I’m like let’s go here you want to go here and he’s like sure and like heavy Russian accent here we go it was in the dzone so he’s at the point I’m kind of in front
Of the nap by the hash marks and then we just kind of like I don’t think anyone expected it like it kind of like I didn’t tell anyone I was going to do it yeah and then just see us drop and then he’s kind of squared off center ice and
A Pack building so that was pretty sick I think I got a couple well he got me with a couple punches early and then I kind of just fed him dropped him that’s probably my favorite favorite fight there you go and when you’re in it like
Do you just block out like do you remember most of the fights or what no it just like it just seems so quick like the adrenaline rush is prob like it’s insane there’s nothing that compares to that you don’t feel a thing by the time
Like I don’t by the time you get back to the locker room or the Box you’re looking at your hand then you to feel it and you’re like oh this is not going to be good like this is gonna be sore for couple weeks that’s what I think it restarts in
The playoffs though for how many fights you can do right man you guys got a couple C need him on got to need him on the ice all time got take care of business on the I McCoy McCoy can run the 30 plus minutes shot and I think all our deer really
Good so yeah man you might not get play you played like 40 minutes last year in the playoffs it was ridiculous yeah there was one game I played actually all of them played a lot but we were also short stop there yeah which is tough but yeah Big Time Yeah well hopefully uh
Hopefully everyone’s healthy to go here for uh for this run it should be uh should be a fun one for sure um but uh but getting back here into uh into the career was there like a moment for you where you’re like yeah I could take
Hockey to the next level or um kind of just figured out as as you went it was kind of weird I I I remember going to O Chell game as a kid and I thought it was like the NHL I’m like oh there’s no chance like this is way above like what
I’m capable of or like what I know how to do and then kind of like Bantam comes around like grade nine I started seeing like these mock draft things and I’m like oh like my buddy penelli is ranked like first round and then I’m like I
Kept going I’m like oh like I’m ranked and like that’s when I’m like oh okay like this is like achievable so I kept working working at him and I don’t know I was lucky enough to be taken by subb so that was pretty that was a really
Cool experience though yeah no doubt and uh and minor hockey obviously you know GTHL is like the the mecca of minor hockey uh here in Canada what was it like uh playing for the Red Wings like what was your who was your biggest rival I guess when you guys played in the
G ah that was a tough one we we were kind of like a little chippy team there was like I don’t know like our team was probably 70% Italian we had a lot of Italians on the team I love it like lot lots of aggression anger but uh I don’t
Know we’d always get into it with uh with the gats but every every team would get into it with the gats and the G but probably our big rival in minor [ __ ] was the rebels I think we played them like probably 20 22 times that’s crazy yeah like we played them like seven
Times during the regular season we played them a couple times in tournaments then we played a seven game series with them in the playoffs and then in OHL cup they were in our like group yeah so we played them there so we saw them a lot but those were always
Good games against them they they were like a team too yeah no doubt what would you say your favorite uh GTHL rink was growing up like me and Jim being from sub I I kind of remember Westwood Chesswood the pass those two are identical ranks those two we our home
Rink was Chesswood okay uh we had our own dressing room which was sick too that’s yeah that’s right that was really cool but I know I always love playing at Scotia Bank yeah that’s where the O cup was and I remember playing in the regular season
Against like JC who wasn’t too good the building would be kind of empty and then when we got to OHL cup and we played I don’t know who we were playing in the semifinals but I’ve never seen that rink that packed like oh so you
Guys made it all the way to the semis for we made it all the way to the finals yeah wow you had a little bit of TV yeah you that game we were playing Don Mills oh okay so that was that was a tough game to
Think about looking back on but yeah who was on that Don Mills team that year they had everyone they had uh they had the one two and four in the draft so they had Shane Wright aan oh that year oh yeah I do remember that yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah that te was stacked like2 who was oh my God Schmid uh I don’t know they had a whole bunch of guys like yeah yeah there was like one guy that didn’t get drafted from that team I that year yeah it was ridiculous I think it
Was the trainer yeah the trainer didn’t go yeah yeah yeah I got you though we’re up 51 in the the finals 51 going into the third period they end up scoring four straight takes us into overtime and then Clark to right to Offman to win it so that’s got wrenching that for that
Guy to win it too that I mean that’s that’s some nightmares right there it’s okay and it’s all good buddy yeah um moving on now to uh Draft Day OHL draft day you know uh take us through today we always like hearing everyone’s Day on on o draft day so take
Us through it yeah that was it was a really cool experience looking back I wish I would have been a little more relaxed I was I was very nervous but uh I don’t know I talked to a bunch of HL teams before and I don’t I talked to
Subb uh which was funny I talked to them the most I talked to them I think two or three times three times four but uh I’m like I still wasn’t sure if they they take me or not and then uh I don’t know we’re going through draft day I thought
I was going to go to Missy around 50 60 but they they ended up taking Del mhro first round so they didn’t need another Lefty yeah yeah so they ended up taking H sharp there he turned out to be a great player too but uh and then uh Owen
Sound I thought I was going to go there at 70 and then when I saw they didn’t take me I’m like I was just sitting there like a [ __ ] like yeah what’s gonna happen now because then Barry called my dad and they said if he’s still there I
Think they had picked 80 or 90 they said if he’s still there like we’re gonna take him and then like literally the next pick was me so yeah wild kind of laughing about that but I don’t know I just saw my I didn’t even see my name
Pop up my sister came running downstairs and I was like oh my God oh my God yeah and then I’m like what what and then it finally popped up on her screen I don’t know I was with my whole family we were just all to the screen yeah yeah yeah that’s awesome
Non noo again right in there yeah yeah they weren’t at the house they ended up coming later but yeah yeah yeah myo was all fired up he’s probably my biggest fan so love yeah that’s amazing that’s amazing yeah so and what were your first impressions on the uh on the old barn
When you got here I I’ve never I didn’t I don’t know what like any other O Rank like kind of looked like the only one I knew was like Miss sagas a Paramount and I’m like ah just thought it was whatever like looked like an NHL ring to me yeah then I then
I came to Sudbury and then I’m like oh like I could see this place getting like a little Rowdy like oh yeah oldfashioned like I don’t know I I didn’t I didn’t really mind it but uh my first like I came like my our rookie Camp my first year we were at
Countryside oh yeah yeah like skate on it or I didn’t really see the the rink really until training camp later but I don’t know my first uh my first preseason game in the barn was like I was just like shocked yeah just it just looked unreal like I don’t know it was
Sick I loved it yeah love it soaked it all in yeah yeah what uh what was your take when uh when you saw the wolf on the wire for the first time I was I don’t know my mom when she uh when I got drafted she did all her
Research on St was funny she gave me the rundown of everything like the The Big Nickel all the Smoke Stacks like just like stuff like that but uh The Wolf on the wire was one thing she mentioned and I don’t like I didn’t really like think
About it like I just thought like when I walked in and then like when we’d score or whatever like I wouldn’t really like think of it until couple years ago when I’m like oh like I’d stare up there like I catch myself staring at it but I don’t
Know I think it’s I think it’s a say I think it’s sick yeah no it’s uh it’s Unique no one else yeah no one else does it uh does it yeah it’s uh it’s fun to see especially when the boys especially this you’ve been the Pucket in that
Quite a bit it’s it’s coming across it’s coming across there’s a few years itd get stuck because there wasn’t a lot of goals uh in the in the dog days here the wolfers but uh but yeah no that’s uh that’s unreal um and you go back to to
Stui for for a year so how was that season and and how did it help uh your development going back there that was great uh I don’t know I was going to be like a a six seventh defenseman which would have been tough my 16 year so
Corey being the great coach he is he said you know what it’s probably best for your development if you you go to stov bille for the year just improve get used to the bigger stronger faster guys so I ended up going down there and uh I
Don’t know I kind of worked my way to get the power play stuff the PK stuff the top minutes but uh I don’t know I ended up fitting in well there ended up doing pretty good I don’t know I ended up being like a goal scorer down there
Which was kind of funny but come here stay at home but uh no it was it was huge for my development especially playing against bigger bigger and stronger guys that kind of prepar me for like the physicality of the OHL which was which was great for me especially
With the way I play now it’s it was huge for my development yeah no doubt no doubt and then um obviously covid and then you know your full first rookie year was uh was 2021 so I guess take us through uh through that obviously was a
Bit weird for the boys all the boys getting their first taste of the OHL but really you’re you’re second year guy in the league so yeah take us uh take us through that yeah that was a weird year especially for all like it was almost like a completely new team
Yeah there’s only a couple returning guys uh especially after the trade deadline when some of those guys got traded away unloaded yeah it was a lot of fresh faces but uh no that that was a that was a fun year we we found we weren’t that that good but we always
Worked hard we always had had fun which was which was huge for us yeah and uh I I really enjoyed that year too for sure it just kind of weird with all the breaks with the co yeah the month of December I think we played one game and
It was after Christmas break insane yeah it was weird it was a weird year yeah and I I think it was that year and I’m not sure you guys had that National TV game TSN it was right after the deadline it was against Shane wri and yeah and
Goyette poed for because I remember it was like the Shane wri show they couldn’t stopped talking about him then the wolfers coming and put Aiden uh Aiden on Kingston I remember that and that was after Trey deadline too where he lost everybody yeah yeah no that game
Was that game was electric we were all fired up for go there yeah it was like a little silent competition like they were Shane R and gise both being 04s and it was I think it was their draft year that year so there was that little little
Cold blood but I don’t know showed well and Sher I think was Dash four I can’t remember all the bo were fired up so yeah that was pretty sweet for us yeah no doubt no doubt um and last year you know was kind of an interesting
Start for you to kind of in and out of the lineup and then he ended up you know proving yourself and obviously staying here as a as an always so I guess you know what was that process for you and I guess staying patient and and uh and obviously ending up cracking cracking
The lineup here and being an important part of the team I don’t know I try not to focus on the next year too much like the OA year and this year I just tried to like work hard and show what I can do for this team and what I bring to this
Team and Y ended up showing very well and it was a tough it was tough for us because all of us whole threes were really close um like it was tough saying goodbye to some of those guys but I don’t know we we enjoyed our last year together we all
Had our fun we all worked hard we were Bitter Sweet about the way it ended but uh I don’t know my message to the 04s this year is to just work hard have fun and focus on that when it comes just oh yeah show well show what you can do best
And try not to think about it too much because it can get stressful No Doubt like yeah no doubt and um look at the words of wisdom from and tell you got you gotta you got to learn some of these words Chim because you get stressed thinking about next year’s Wolf
Season I’m like buddy calm it down a not fall in on this year yeah yeah let’s worry about this year right now this is the year exactly yeah yeah this is the year I gotta ask we got ask about this year obviously Lots went on you get
Arguably the best player in the OHL I’m going to say for free CHL comes over dorski comes over obviously you guys do a lot of Trades at the deadline um how good is this squad and what are your thoughts about this team this year I I’ve never seen a team
Like I’ve never been a part of a team like this skilled like we can go into some games and just like I don’t know some games there was like a a stretch of home games we had where we were just scoring at least eight goals oh yeah it
Was insane I think there was three or four games in a row we had at least eight like I don’t know it fires all of us up when we hear the the fans chanting we want 10 we’re on the bench we’re like we gotta get it schol give the fans what they want
But yeah on the ice we’re we’re a great team but even on the locker room the buses the hotels outside the rink like we’re all such a tight-knit group like it’s just great to be a part of we’re all we’re all Brothers which just sick
Yeah no doubt no doubt um and you know you’ve been through now there three four coaches uh like it’s wild Sly dunks dmac and obviously Kenny was there for a bit um and now here this year so I guess how was it like adapting to each coaches
Style obviously it’s it’s a big jump um for for a bunch of them but uh but yeah how was it adop Ann’s fought first game of a new coach just every game every game game a new coach came in just to let him know who he was yeah I don’t
Know that part wasn’t too tough for me just because of the way I play yeah yeah simple game yeah yeah just a very simple game but uh I don’t know the system stuff was it took some games to kind of adjust because each coach has their own type of system but
Uh I don’t know with with losing dmac we kind of kept the same same kind of system around so it was kind of an easy adjustment uh with with Kenny coming in here but uh I don’t know they were all great coaches they were all great guys
They all helped us so much but uh there was nothing like dmax energy with us everyone yeah I’m sure everyone was a little bit tight when he when he uh when he came around for sure yeah yeah big time um and I got to ask about Pittsburgh Camp how was that experience
For you that that was Unreal that was I wasn’t sure if I was going to get an invite or not I didn’t really hear much but uh yeah when I got the call I was going to Pittsburgh I was that’s my sister’s favorite team she’s been Sydney
Crosby like die hard fan since she was a kid so to to be there and actually get to meet him that was oh you ended up meeting him wow it was kind of funny like I was kind of just walking in the kitchen in their ring going for
Breakfast like kind of half half sleep and he’s coming around the corner and like he’s like oh Sydney like nice to meet you I’m like great to meet you too like kind of like stuttering like oh [ __ ] like nby like I know who you are like you
Don’t to explain but yeah like he he’s like he’s he’s an amazing guy I’ve never met anyone like that humble he you’re trying to find the uh the black sharp you’re like wait my sister’s a Die Hard can you sign for me yeah she was bugging
Me she was texting me she’s like oh like going have to sign something like get something of I’m like a man like I can’t like it’s tough yeah that’s a tough spot but uh yeah I don’t know even looking at all those guys like Carlson lat Tang like we were doing Bay skates
And I’ll never forget it like we were doing this like these laps three hard laps you have to get it under like 30 seconds or 28 seconds whatever it was and you see like all these guys like they’re going like they they’re working their bags off like NHL guys like then
You see them like dying like hunched over and then you see leango he’s like just floating around like miles ahead of everyone gets back to line he’s not even tired I’m sitting there like I’m gonna die here like sucking wind I’m sucking wind but those guys are those guys are
True professionals you see it the way they they take care of themselves on and off the ice but yeah that that was a great experience for me yeah no no doubt W wall deser of too that’s uh that’s sick um couple uh couple uh questions
Now around the I guess uh I guess the the Wolves here and uh we always like to to hear about the game day routine are you big superstitious guy Superstition Guy what’s a game day take us through a game day crushing pasta some sort of pasta spaghetti
I like to say I’m more routine based than superstitious but we little stuff but game days I I’d go to the rink I I like to morning skap personally I get there and make my little coffee get dress go on the ice get off usually I
Stretch or get treatment if I need it and then usually grab a little snack on the way home and then eat it and then I’m taking my nap wake up wash my face kind of wake up a little us out of it and then my Bild
Is great she makes me my pregame meal I’m a big keep it simple past the chicken in a salad and there you go simple and then head to the ring stop at Tim’s and you my double double yeah and uh get to the ring take my stick do my
Little stretches we have our meetings play a little sewer with the boys yeah and then uh I always do like this little stretch in the hallway before the game just kind of like my own time kind of diala in a little but uh I don’t know
That’s where it can kind of get a little superstitious with what kind of stretches I do depending how I did the game before got it yeah yeah yeah and then when I get dressed I have to do everything a certain way got it meticulous yeah yeah yeah yeah I like it
I like it precise who’s uh who’s rocking Ox right now I know earlier in the Orlando said it was uh villy I don’t know if he’s Still rocking yeah Vil’s usually he he’s I like him on Ox just because he he takes request I like it Connie Connie sometimes on Ax but oh
Boy he’s usually on Ax when we play sewer he I actually he gets some good Tunes going I don’t mind his and then uh sometimes we get pricer on the tunes but his music’s a little uh I don’t know it’s all over the place SAU yeah yeah yeah yeah little sa little
Guess little fug G yeah I like I like it and what’s what’s the wind song in the room I’m sure you guys I hope you probably had the same one but you might have changed throughout the year I don’t know what it’s called it’s like a it’s
Like a Pitbull song usually play that yeah I can’t remember the name of it I I Could Sing It Off by heart once it starts going but I could tell you the name of it no P he’s got B get that a bit okay so the boy the
Boys know that song oh yeah okay okay so this and ands this is my request if Chim somehow gets in the room to do a lineup card I know there’s been rumors I’m not sure if you’ve heard any of this we’re trying we’re ANS I hope you can be the
Guy that get us in there if Chim does the lineup card to ski that would be my life would I put OGG Lottery aside that would be my life yeah yeah my life would be goals in that game for sure oh and chim’s throwing money on the board for
You guys for sure 100% and away we go away we go yeah we got that in the bag for sure yeah we got to try and set that up that’d be electric oh yeah yeah yeah hey say the word I’m I’m ready to rock he might have a Jammer though we’re
Don’t have to Havey and the boys on standby rer yeah we’ll need that defibrillator ready but just in case but but uh we’ll be ready to rock um get the boys ready to run through a brick wall I love it that’s it yeah that’s it you
Know what you know what um where are we going here let’s go uh we always talk talk about this as we always talk about three and threes here in in Neo I always call it the silver stick tournament because I think it’s a joke uh minor hockey uh joke three and threes but
Anyways what I guess what would you say like the worst three and three is for is there one are they all the same um bad or yeah take us to that’s kind of funny my brother calls it the exact same thing he says we go to a silver stick tournament every weekend pretty
Much by far for me the worst one is the Peter bro Kingston Ottawa one oh yeah that one’s always tough especially the past couple years those teams been they’ve been pretty good yeah and like we we go to Peter bro first usually and that’s still like five and a bit away
Yeah and then we stay there the next night we we we go to Kingston we play there and then sometimes we have the two o’ game the next day yeah yeah that’s and like a it’s just that last game in Ottawa is just through it that’s a battle because it’s
Three games in two and a half days like it’s not even a three and three like it’s just yeah that’s probably the worst one by far but I don’t know I guess we can’t really complain too much because teams this year that are going on the Northern road trip to North Bay Sudbury
Sue that’s got to be a tough one because all three of us are doing all three of our teams are doing pretty good yeah play a pretty tough style of hockey too so yeah big and all the barns are a little Rowdy yeah they get Rowdy which
Is good for us but gritty that’s gotta be a tough one for the other guys but yeah no doubt um ands what’s your go-to bus snack are you guy that crushes a lot of food on the bus ah I my bellet always packs me some little snacks I usually get my lately
I’ve been getting my fruit rollups oh man nice or the little uh they’re not they’re not gusher but they’re like the little fruit snacks yeah yeah so I’ve been getting my fruit in with those uh I don’t know my mom is she’s an angel she’s always giving me little care
Packages when when we’re on the road a little pjo sandwich for after the game J thisy and is he’s upgraded to number one guest of the show just you you can relate to him finally it’s so relatable it’s so relatable yeah she’s always G me that or sometimes she’ll
Give me like Pell my makes they’re so good yeah so I’m usually like crushing those on the bus ride home but I don’t know I’m not the I’m not the biggest snacker I usually just hang out yeah yeah lot lot of cards on the bus what or
What do you do listen to music yeah yeah this year we kind of got a goal and we got poker going on the bus fary fary actually made this like nice little table so it’s perfect yeah sits right in the middle of like seats yeah so we can
Get probably about eight guys eight 10 eight guys going in the the poker game which gets sometimes it gets a little intense but I don’t know these guys aren’t too good at poker not good at Bluffin yeah yeah but I’m not a good poker player either so it’s tough t f
Here just just just helps the pass time the next one uh an I got to ask you obviously home games were in the building it’s electric like do the boys ever just glance over at the Jumbotron and see what’s going on like it the entertainment Factor like I’m I always
Like to see if some of the guys get into it like please tell me you’ve T you’ve taken a look at the Jumbotron H I don’t know about most guys but I don’t know if this will get me in trouble I’m always staring at that thing I’m always staring
Off to just to see what’s going on yeah but I don’t know I look like I laugh every time I think it’s like the first like when they do the first little little little sweep like halfway through the first yeah and they always play like that Italian song I’m just sitting on
The bench like fired up like even those dance cams like I get the floss all of them oh yeah all yeah the KE Dent tot I don’t know what it is but I’m just likeing it in my head like all fired up before that guy when he’s doing his
Little he’s always on the Jumbotron that one fan who’s doing his like little dance yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I don’t know what his name is but uh I always see that that makes me that makes me laugh we’ll have to get Chim on the Jumbotron after you guys
Score his reaction going nuts yeah yeah yeah I don’t know I’m always staring at that thing yeah that’s even the wave the wave I’m always it’s been good this year been good this yeah last game was last game was sick like I was so like I almost missed my shift because I
Was see my head like going around like let’s go keep going yeah yeah that is sick uh one one more uh well a couple more before we get in uh into our Fast Five here um Mark stall came last year to get his uh his jersey retired and uh
Obviously he’s been a part of he was part of probably the most historic run in wolves history but uh how was he around room did he talk much with the boys or did he give like a little pregame speech yeah he gave us like a little he
Talked to us a little bit before the game but uh he was mainly talking to like the Thunder Bay boys oh yeah yeah yeah degrass and Chuck there but uh ah we were kind of bummed out he didn’t put any any money on the board on Brutal his
Pregame speech like if it wasn’t him it wouldn’t be electric but I thought he’d get a little more like into it a little more Rowdy with it but uh I don’t know yeah oh that’s jokes that’s jokes uh so uh heading on uh here into next year obviously I don’t know if you’ve
Thought much about it you know I know you’re pretty in in the moment uh in the moment guy here but uh yeah if you if you thought about it what uh what’s it looking like for you next year well for me there’s Pro like there’s two kind of directions to go
There’s like the pro route to the coast or the AHL depending how I do or there’s the University hockey Ro and I don’t know I try not to think about it too much because I I’m sure it might affect my play so I I would just me like me and
My agent and my family we all kind of talked about we just said we’ll kind of make the decision at the end of the year just kind of depending how the the season goes but uh I don’t know there’s pros and cons for for there’s pros and
Cons for either or but uh I don’t know either either one would be pretty sick yeah sure yeah well hopefully at the end of the year either way wherever you’re going you G have a ring on your finger uh that’s that would be that would be
Nasty yeah yeah that would be sick um so uh going on here let’s go to our Fast Five here Tom and then we’ll wrap it up here so n to wrap it up we always do five rapid fire questions so uh I’ll send it off to Tom here whatever comes
To the top of your head let it rip so go ahead yeah okay uh what’s your favorite thing about being a hockey player Ah that’s a tough one actually oh [ __ ] yeah I know it’s okay first question too I body checking probably little rough stuff that’s good
Uh your favorite o Chell way rank to play in the odd oh hey okay uh your go-to karaoke song yeah Mr bright side W yeah great um if you were to be professional in any other sport other than hockey what would it be probably rugby yeah yeah there you go yeah and
Your favorite sub restaurant probably Lot 88 oh there you go bougie cook cook your own steak on the rock yeah yeah I like it I’ve only been there twice but both times been been electric so yeah it’s well it’s hard to be uh Mama’s cooking that’s uh that’s for sure that’s for
Sure especially when you get in the care packages too um I love it I love it yeah exactly I love it um well listen n thanks a lot for uh for coming here uh on the podcast and chopping it chopping it up with us obviously best of luck
Throughout the rest of the year hopefully it’s a a Deep Run and we’re going to be here for it so we’re uh we’re excited but uh yeah best of luck and uh we’ll keep in touch thanks yeah thank thanks for having me boys and yeah I’m sure I’ll be seeing you guys around
The rink and stuff so yeah Beauty see you boys there that was the interview with Andre an Ania Tom thoughts um can we talk about his mom doing the lineup card read first of all though like that that was phenomenal she killed it yeah
Man he was uh he was great I love just having like wolves guys on I know that’s so easy for us to say we we’re at a lot of games but we’re connected to the team in some way now dude the players love us ANS was all time it’s just going to be
Sad when um you know he’s not here next year he’s an over Ager hopefully we can still keep in contact with him but he was a great interview and man we me and him have the same nose Okay like you’re on Chim you said in the
Interview I believe we can be brothers I think you guys can be brothers seriously 100% but he’s Italian so I don’t want him you can have him no he was a he was a beauty he was a beauty it was great to chat uh with him and yeah a lot of guys
Are going to miss next year but uh and he will definitely be one of them he was uh he was an awesome uh awesome guest so we thank him again for coming on um okay let’s move it on now to our four pack episode 154 pack of behind the bench we
Have a new Champion Chim it’s not you it’s not me it’s not Roberto it’s Tommy vlos back in the wind column disrupting back yeah sorry boys sorry boys I think and I this is totally off topic remember that one story when themus and the cousins locked the bathroom downstairs
And I had the whole Lock Locksmith thing s just sent me a video just now of the door locked so I don’t know if he’s messing with me but he might have locked it again so like that was distracting but I did hear everything I am a champ I
Am a champ so we might have to pick lock the the door when I get home tonight but anyways you guys have a spare key you know what we do Paulie has it in the shed thanks for that actually I’ll have to text my dad but dude you guys
Were scared of asking for the spare key so you guys yeah yeah yeah yeah sorry no yeah yeah yeah for reminding me this is why you’re my friend not only my friend my best friend um guys it’s not like I just won though I won by a landslide I don’t get
It I checked I checked it earlier today it wasn’t even cool I mean that dude I know I know it was given I mean I mean not given about time okay but Chim this counts as like three wins because it wasn’t even that close B if you think
About if you think about the people like he picked like perfect for our demographic trffic you know what I mean yes 100% that’s all I did that’s all I did yeah I mean other than Stone Cold like John Cena that’s a lock Rey Mysterio Randy Orton
Yeah anyways um I get to set the order I’m giving myself uh number one Chim 2 mace three and four and did we talk about the topic when I was the topic yeah this this one can go in many directions I’m excited this there’s not just a one- one in this kind of
Topic so last week was wrestlers this week we are drafting things you would want to bring on a road trip on a road trip so not an airplane but just on a short road trip maybe think of it like driving to Toronto okay things you want like to be
With you or like you need you need like it’s got to be bring okay things to bring the best things the pack and is it only for but it’s all for the trip yes like it doesn’t need to be for the car the trip like when you leave the house to go
When you yes it is when you leave the house like Mason said to go to Toronto to go to the Sue to go I’m thinking of things you would want in your bag for the road trip think about you’re getting on a bus okay you’re going on a hockey
Road trip and things you want in the car things you want in the car I got I got it out and out one you don’t think that is a great one you don’t think there’s an out and out number one whenever this happens to me it is the worst feeling in the world
Okay give me phone charger out and out number one for me when I don’t have a phone charger and I’m like you know Ma you mentioned a bus or like airplane you’re like excuse me do you have a phone charger mine’s about to die I mean luckily
Trips I’ve been no like just a cord cord like box too like yeah phone charger just a generic phone charger it’s my pick we like the pick yeah that’s pretty good I it’s gonna look good Tom it’s hard to argue that you need it yeah who’s next Tom uh yeah M goes
Three and four see man I don’t know I don’t know what you guys are going to think about this one but I think it’s essential but it depends like nowadays it should be on your phone but in the old days you may have needed another whole device for it and it’s a
GPS so I think you either need a GPS or you need directions via your phone like you using Google Maps you need a GPS application on your phone yeah I’ll take it Tom I don’t know how you think that’s a bad pick you don’t use a GPS when you go to
Toronto you use a map Jimmy you you you could have just said like phone well then put phone then I don’t know GPS app on phone I was specific I’ve seen people leave like to go to like Europe without their phone and like they suffer it’s
Like this would have been a good pick like a phone cuz then you can use it for the map phone’s given everyone has a phone yeah okay who goes to Europe without a phone maybe uh my parents my parents exactly I just feel like a reach I won in the
First Jimmy you would have got GPS where me where then where do you like you just have it on the top of your head but yeah I’m going to go back to back headphones and pillow yeah lock lock if I would have got headphones coming back I would have been like what
Static I I see for me I don’t uh I don’t use a pillow and I don’t uh on a road trip and uh headphones I like to chat with people in the car Z M look how look how mad he is though because we ripped up for the
GPS I just think you guys are being a little ridiculous you might get one vote for that pick okay okay fair enough you guys you guys get lost I’ll have my GPS okay okay is it me it is me no it’s not you oh it’s not um all right let’s go
With uh give me comfy clothes you want to travel you travel comfy you know travel in a suit yep yeah that you want to go comfy clothes SL underwear cuz like losing like not packing underwear I mean that’s up there too but I’m not going to take it in my draft but all
Right back to back to back to back um I know I don’t even Chim as long as I’ve known you I don’t think I’ve ever seen you on a road trip wearing this but I think it’s essential for like everybody and I know Mason has a pair give me
Sunglasses great pick wear them at times but sunglasses wintertime vacay summertime vacay you need them traveling driving you’re at the beach whatever it is golfing I don’t I don’t wear sunglasses you wore them you wore sunglasses at the invite and you love them and you got so many compliments
About ma please agree that’s a high pick yeah that’s like one’s on a blue moona I don’t wear them often though no um but you could I could yeah you could also get GPS where you know need to know where I actually just have a great sense of direction internal Compass oh yeah
Okay back to back for me I went phone charger I went sunglasses another thing that is a must that I have forgotten it before one trip to Toronto maybe two not a good feeling your wallet boys I just feel like such a given like
Like but dude I people know me I I I forgetful I’m like my Dad you need it though Chim you need it credit cards ID like you need it you almost don’t need it anymore other than the driver’s license part bear ID kills me cuz I was
Like going out and now yeah I I just wanted to take it cuz I don’t know if it would have came back to me probably would have but I was the D the back toback picks always freak me out because I don’t get enough time to think of the
Next one but I’ll take wallet uh I’m gonna take snacks oh yeah that’s need snacks on a road trip are you talking about yeah that’s a great pick Chim thanks me that M Chim that that is I was going to go a specific snack myself but what
What’s your specific snack beef jerky oh yeah guy on the road though okay I’m going to take let me go with a a drink slw waterer bottle yeah yeah yep well you purposely put the drink in there right like the drink SL I don’t know like maybe you want a
Gatorade I’m thinking something else like a no a Java a Java a coffee oh maybe a coffee maybe a tea like you think I went that way no Java but yeah we’ll give you that as part of the drink category and then I will close this off
I might be dating myself a little bit but a Nintendo I don’t want to say like Game Boy or DS or switch cuz it’s but a Nintendo is essential for a road trip it was it really was back in the day you guys don’t have a Nintendo anymore I know I haven’t had
One no no I I used to rock Pokemon FIFA all those games but not anymore not anymore that might have lost me the draft then no it’s a good pick well if we were drafting when we were like 10 yeah it’s a great pick but
Is Tom you do it on purpose it’s me man I know go ahead don’t take this one though okay so take it don’t take it don’t take it it’s not uh it’s maybe not something that you pack but it’s necessary is a full tank of gas
Oh that wasn’t might pick but that’s a good one Chim you know I like a good full tank of gas before leaving that’s got to load up you got to load up and what you what else you loading up washer fluid load it up load it up load it up
Chim you’re the best dude that’s a good pick thank you the Chim Flu Game here’s my last pick um it is me now right yes just because again I’m like a forgetful guy this all I always forget to pack these you’re in and around the hotel you
You’re out at the beach slippers you need slippers for around the room room to room you’re going from the four yeah you’re not going Barefoot you’re not going I’ve done it I’ve done it I’ve done it I’ve done Barefoot B Burks slippers whatever you want to put on the graphic thank you
Yeah great um honorable mentions sunscreen for me I hate forgetting sunscreen if I’m going somewhere or hot that is an L that’s an L for me that was probably my only one I don’t know if you guys got any uh the one I was thinking about was Um just because we live in Sub in both ways when if you leave to Ottawa or you leave to Toronto especially if you’re traveling in a group there’s a Timmy’s on both ways out always stop at T you want a coffee you want a bag before we
Go that’s Jim this is another good one cuz I’ve Ru with you before um toilet tree bag oh like yeah that’s a Miss yeah like late at night you want to brush the jibs and you have no toothpaste like not even like your roommates got it like and
Then then you’re going down to the lobby and yeah what a great gum gum mint mints yeah I don’t know why I said that’s better than Nintendo m and my wallet pick but hey I got a few the sunglasses and charger my uh get me a lot of vs so good one
Yeah yeah well that’s going to do it eh is that it pillow is such a nice road trip yes it is that’s a great pick mace unless you’re in twers car you’re right Chim for sure I don’t really F even just to put your head up against
The and you can still snap it you can still snap it yeah maybe yeah bu trips back to cap back in the day and my Tellis cup run it was nice no for sure Tom um oh a lip chop yep see I’m not a lip chop guy but if
You’re lip I think the biggest hot take is you not being a sunglasses guy have you ever had a nice pair of sunglasses CH like I drive sometimes in like ones I never wear them I just I don’t like it I don’t like I I don’t I never worn like you have
Really good eyes then dude cuz like I’ll drive I’ll drive sometimes with sunglasses like when it’s foggy yeah no it’s just not my m is giving me the yes I think he’s the same as me yeah what about a golf bag that’s good you’re going somewhere
Golf a uh wintertime item the brush and scraper oh yeah that’s and gloves winter gloves gloves are a huge thing a spare tire washer flu on the side look at us is ripping off four pack uh portable air pump I don’t know if you guys have one of those in your
Car I do yeah yeah huge um okay well uh Tom went with phone chargers sunglasses wallet slippers I went with GPS app on phone uh comy cloth snacks and a full tank of gas me some went with headphones pillow drink drink slw waterer bottle and Nintendo game and
That is the four pack on to we miss it uh this is back a couple episodes now uh we said that Danny cck was our first guest from Timmons and we absolutely blew it JP Reigns was our first guest from Timmons Ontario the guy that literally helped us start the
Podcast and we did all remember that so that was a huge huge Miss on uh on our part so um a lot of NFL signings lately mace you’re the NFL Insider here everyone’s going everywhere Barkley going to the Eagles that’s scary that is scary and and the NCAA March Madness selection Sunday it’s
Coming yes yes so excited yes me electric night Friday at the Den wolves asosa I can’t wait huge must win someone say massive you come in no all right folks well uh that’ll do it right there for uh week 150 of behind the bench thanks to Andre and and again
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