The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: We NEVER Doubted The Panthers

Episode Date: May 25, 2023

2023 IS NOW 1996! THE FLORIDA PANTHERS ARE GOING TO THE STANLEY CUP! We're doing THAT show today as we explore Roy's Joy. Mike tells us about stepping away from the bar to soak in the moment, and Chris Cote takes off his pants. BROWARD COUNTY, STAND UP! Can Matthew Tkachuk be THE face of the NHL? Plus, David Samson tries to break onto the show and bribe everyone in the Shipping Container. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Dunlabel Tarshall with the Stugat's Podcast. We won't be in the playoffs! This is an empty-stats-math you can't draw. What happened was playoffs for the flames of empty stats Matthew could jump What happened was they hired the murder of fun and the murder of fun is palm trees That's what happened. He's the murder of fun. We were the most fun team last year The coach came in is like over the style is gonna change We're gonna play playoff hockey in the regular season listen pal if you're if you're six points

You're six points out of the final playoffs, but you're not playing playoff hockey in the playoffs I'm gonna play a more playoff style type of hockey Playoff style you're gonna play off style from home I'm still offended at the opening night broadcast from the Florida Panthers when they came out and said here's We got to sell what we did in this offseason to the fans And so we're gonna do is we're gonna tell everyone we're gonna play playoff style hockey in the regular season To get you ready and then to go right back to being outside of the final play. I'm offended. I'm still offended It's it's so arrogant. There's so much hubris in you guys were playing that little tippy-tappy fun stuff in the regular stuff is we're gonna play we're gonna play we're gonna play man hockey now

The team up you and who know you just over this Matter it doesn't matter. So aerosol has as many goals as John of in who knows it doesn't matter Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. Error guy. You won the Biden for last year now, what? You guys are yelling at each other about one trade and I do believe the macro is holy They had the most fun team in hockey. They tore apart a team that was amazing after that unprecedented success We're done with it murder a fun word suit every night. Yeah, well, they wouldn't be trusted either because I think the problem Still is do we have faith in in our netminder, Sergey Babrovsky? They're still gonna miss the playoffs. They're not fun to watch. They don't have any discernible style.

They play like all the other hockey teams. And in the middle of it, there is a very standout individual who is getting his stats, but it's very clearly not helping the team win with those stats. Give me a few years in a row in the postseason. And instead, they just blew it up. The bigger conversation to have here is, do we owe Maurice an apology? Not yet, because it seems like they're coming into form. A lot of criticism.

These group chats were filled with firing the coach early in the evening. One of the most annoying things about Mike Ryan, right, is right there. Do we owe him an apology? He is going to be stubborn about giving that apology. I would place a lot of that blame on installing this new system. But if it pans out into a deep run of the playoffs, we all have to take care of it. All right, easy with it.

Painting out. We all need that. We all need that. Here's why painting out is a bit of a stretch because if they get into the playoffs, what in all likelihood is going to be waiting for them, is the top seed boss and Bruins who are practically done best team ever.

I'd have no feeling towards this team. None. They ripped the soul out of it. This has been every hockey season. We check in at about now, which is it to it. Does that look like exactly right? Conversation ridiculous that they broke the team. Yeah, you know what would have been okay with me being the most fun team for maybe several seasons in a row.

Get into the playoffs. God forbid back toto-back seasons and Maybe maybe when a couple playoff series instead of setting fire to it and trying to do something completely the opposite and now they're gonna miss the playoffs Oh my god Chris Cody Panther fan galore, Stugots is so excited, he is texting me somewhere from the beyond, saying, Roy is the only person in this studio who should be allowed at a microphone today. Got them right. But Mike Ryan is here and I have to explain to the audience before we get going on this.

And God, do I want to dissect the sheer arrogant ferocity in Chris Whittingham hitting you with a listen pal and just wrong on everything loud wrong aggressively loud wrong but Mike Brian feels like he's been aggressively loud right about this panthers team. Nobody has been more right than Chris Cody. Got everything right in defense of the panthers. What? What? You'll just heard it Roy.

You just, I didn't hear your voice in there getting everything aggressively right? I don't have to apologize to Paul Maries. I don't. Wait, aggressively right is just merely asking a question. That's right. Do we have to apologize to Paul Maries? Let, aggressively right is just merely asking the question. That's right. Do we have to apologize to Paul Maries? Let's aggressively right.

Yes. I'm with Roy. I'm with Roy. Aggressively right was when you don't even have to ask the question. Like there's a lot of gas backing that has happened over the course of this season in previous seasons. I defy you to find a single Panther fan. That was like around December. Yeah. but Brodsky and Paul Maurice got this

Totally trust me. I was telling him last night. I was literally yelling to him never down in you I love you Bob. I have people like fishing for Bob tweets. I'm like really like you you were Bob guy the entire time Nobody nobody the entire city. Nobody. Bob's guy. Nobody. Nobody. The entire city wandered over the playoff everybody was everybody the panthers were Get him off the ice it's Alex lion started the first couple of games of this post season. I'm glad we have basketball expert I mean here today because I do feel Mike part of our responsibility now after 27 years of this is

Explain to the Cuban people in town including the ones on our show who are explained to the Cuban people in town, including the ones on our show who are because they didn't grow up 27 years ago with what this was as a childhood excitement that made Roy and Mike lifelong Panther fans because very early in the proceedings, holy shit, we got an underdog. Oh my God, Van Beadsbrook and Bill Lindsay. Bill Lindsay is weeping at the game yesterday. Nobody's thought around about Bill Lindsay around here for 15 years except in this little pocket of land Roy where he produced one of the greatest goals any of us have ever seen and made us made you a fan at what age? Uh, when he began, that's a 93. That would be nine years old. So yeah. One of the greatest goals in Panther history. It was arguably the greatest Panther goal in in in franchise history until this playoff

one and now it's like six. Oh no. Yeah. It's not only six. I everybody's talking about Gretski himself says of the barcoff goal. One of the greatest I've ever seen. I'm like the next one was better. The way they ended them at the end of that game with three guys passing the puck around

So Kachuck could do what he's doing last night skating on a knee Empty stats winning him has never been more wrong and the airing out of our Wrong Kachuck in this series in a four game sweep that was really close all the games were decided by one goal Kachuck had three of the game winning goals and assisted on the other one. Doesn't help team win. Can I ask a question? Has this now replaced me as the worst of like gas baggary before the opposite happening in sports history? We've got a couple of them. He also said Yannis is a two. Yeah, but that one wasn't. The honest one wasn't as long and loud as this is a great this is aggressively loud wrong. Look, there's a lot happening around here. I want to read something

because there's a lot happening at Madalark around the show and in this playoff run that is made Mike party so hard with Brooks Keppga last night dude that he's totally unhinged here. He's crazed. He wants more mic time. Yesterday was international mic day and he thinks every day is international mic day just yammer yammer yammer yammer he is bump david samson popular local hour david samson bump that's usually where we are and worse offensively run McGill of zoom Miami has a key we international controversy wants to talk about it and mike's like nope the only animal I'm talking about today is panther fruit

no there's a bird and there's video on it and look I apologize to New Zealand and anyone that is coming to this show today to hear Ron McGill talk about this key weed international incident but there's comments out there on the internet tweet me I'll send it to you there's comments out there on the internet, tweet me, I'll send it to you. There's no shortage of Romney Guild talking about this. Today is not the day for Kiwis.

We're talking about another endangered animal, the Florida Panther. God, then, right? There's nothing Mike won't bump right now. Wait, you don't wanna say, yeah. Well, this is what he was doing last night. Mike's moving a shaker now. Literally, he's trying to make deals.

He's wearing a Panther jersey. He used to be a Panther intern. He wants to be banging on that drum. Why McDaniels? Do gots wants dangle for it? And Mike McDaniels and Nuggets fan. Keep an eye on that one. Oh, what?

You want to be banging on that drum. You're partying with the people. I don't want to be banging on the drum. You know when the NHL finals start, no one else does. You're in secret meeting meetings in the the club it's a Stanley Cup finals get it by Navy federal credit union. You last night, laid into the night are celebrating in a way you haven't been allowed to celebrate 27 years.

I should have been there with you should have I told you what you know by now. You should know by now. What is the club's name? Who were you with? What was happening? What information was longered? A little private speak easy at the Panthers Arena. And it was cool, not to get too sappy with this.

I almost posted a photo that was a candid photo of me literally stepping away from the party and taking it in and I was like, no, this is too corny, but. Stepping away from the party. No, I swear to God. No, no, no, no, you, you, you, we need to do this today.

I want to do the exact same thing as Mike. Last night was so freaking cool. Like that's it, I don't need any more. We're good. I mean, I obviously I want to win, but the feeling I got last night in that arena afterwards with my friends celebrating, like, I don't know man

It's it he's going with three seconds left This he was down three one to Boston Roy We're gonna go with a minute left in game seven at Boston Monty tied it and they walked off They walked off in that series they dragged Toronto. They're not even playing well Christ Please stop that stop that they're not even playing well Christ Please stop that stop that they're not even playing their best You can't blow to the hockey mom burger greed And he scored a beauty he's obviously gonna say yes of course we can go a higher level But dude every line is playing well right now every line here. We're still allowing too many shots in but broski is

Stopped them all but broski is a hot goalie. We were crying. Roy, you cheered in the press box in a minute. That goal went in Roy. Roy has slapped Roy came in here today, dragon. Haven't seen him all week. He's been drinking his legs. It looked like he's preparing for the parade. Said he got home at 230. Yeah. Preparing for the parade. We haven't seen Roy all week is just careening through the streets of sunrise. Dr drunk on winning. He's been waiting for this since he was a young. I mean, you heard the man. He fell in love with hockey. One of the chances that Roy Bellamy, from where Roy Bellamy is from, would fall in love with Panthers hockey at eight years old or nine years old.

The no chair in the press box rule got thrown right out the window. años, años, años, años. El no-cherno, el prensa de la rueda, lo que está haciendo. Ah! Ah! Ah! ¿Dónde está? ¿Dónde está? ¿Dónde está? ¡Pues, chésbump!

¡Pues, chésbump! ¡Pues, chésbump! ¡Pues, chésbump! ¡Pues, chésbump! ¡Pues, chésbump! ¡Pues, chésbump! ¡Pues, chésbump! ¡Pues, chésbump!

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Yo he just heard a song que fue Frank Sinatra singing from the window to the wall to the sweater up off my balls. ¡Tú gats! ¡Tú, window to the wall! ¡Tú, we all heard that right! ¡Tú, the sweat drops down my balls to the sweat drop off my balls. Two cats. So window to the walls. Yeah, we all heard that right? To the sweat drops down my balls.

So what I'm saying here. All these females crossing and all skits, skid god damn. Old blue eyes. Congratulations on your suing nomination. This is the Dan Lebat the show with this two gods. from every angle, Samson. I've listened for 14 years straight, almost every hour. Congratulations. He's terrible for the podcast.

His contributions are beyond awful. I'm still going to listen to every segment like a psychopath, but he is very irritating to listen to. So I hope this sternly worded message leads to change. Is it just me? Am I crazy? Can't imagine working with him and having to interact with him every day. Is this why quitting? Sign Jessica.

Samson, you say this Mike, you're out of control, okay? I need to explain to people that an unhinged Mike Ryan who was a careening train wreck of sports fandom. The last few weeks, he just bounced into sunrise and his team getting to the Stanley Cup final. For the first time, well, I mean, he started working in sports through this team. I can't save my team when he talking about man, when this thing started, he was telling me, I need to lose one team. I can't pour myself into this. And we all saw a new, was the heat he was willing to lose. You asked him directly, who'd he rather win the championship? His answer flatly is panthers. It's not particularly close.

He's seen the heat do it. But he's crazed. McGill wants to talk about the poor, the poor animal. He doesn't want to be in the middle of the controversy. And Samson wants to be on the show and is pissed off that you keep bumping him. I mean, it's, he's on during the local hour and it's an unprecedented time in local sports history. No, no, no, no two teams have done this simultaneously. And they certainly haven't done it for made seeds. And I reserved the right to talk about local sports on a local sports hour. Wait, what do you say about no two teams have done this? No two teams have haven't done it for eight seats and I reserved the right to talk about local sports on a local sports

hour. Wait, what do you talk about? No two teams have done this. No two teams have done this simultaneously in basketball and in hockey as a. As a seats, no team, but you said no team teams have done it. And then you're especially not as an eight seat. I think what was the last time Chicago? Chicago did it. New York did it. I want to say. I'm Chicago Chicago did it New York did it. I want to say One did New York do it 94 94 the mix went to the final but yeah, they didn't win so So you you realize it has like 30 years ago So there's there's a there's a large chunk of our audience that doesn't remember that Mike Licks this is what's happening around here. I do man. This is so interesting

That was all that's a mean thing. That was yesterday, 30 years ago. But this is where a mean fell in love with some of this shit, because this is what makes a generation of sports fans. Mike's the children of Roy, Chris, and Mike. They're still very young, but they will feel some of this. Roy, Mike, and Chris are feeling this today because they grew up fans of this team and it hasn't felt like this in literally 27 years when they became fans of sports. That's what's happening last night.

That and Mike is snorting it literally with Brooks Capka. This was a loser franchise. That was just like, like in danger of moving to Hamilton, it was just one of the more insignificant franchises in all of professional sports. That's a glad you were in the room, huh? Where it happens? Yeah, and I'd like, I'd not to get too sappy, but in high school, like I wanted a chase to dream and my favorite sports, my favorite sport was a professional hockey and I'd love the Florida Panthers because of what happened in 1996. I went to a job fair that the Panthers

were hosting. I got an internship and I worked for two years trying to chase a dream during an NHL lockout. And it just, it taught me valuable lessons about work ethic and sometimes dreams don't come true no matter how hard you work. And I saw a lot of people lose their jobs and I got smacked in the face with the Michael Yormark experience. And it was, how many Yormarks are there?

There are a couple of them. But it feels like there's a wide, wide sea of evil. Feel like there's a lot of corporate schmarming. There's a NASCAR Yormark, there's a Nets Yormark, there's a Hockey Yormark. There's a Rockefeller Yormark. They're awful and they're kind, they're the kind of stuff that succeeds in sports business

because they're awful. It's quite the legacy that Michael Yormark is left behind because people still talk about like what he did and what the franchise had to do. What Vinnie Viola had to do to turn this whole thing around and they started sacking. If I'm Mike, the business of the Panthers has been a disaster almost always. Like, you think about how the Marlins have won championships and then immediately betray those fan bases and it turns into what the Marlins are now Where it's just like a bunch of fracture generations of sports emotions

I don't care that much over there the panthers have was stood really bad ownership Yeah, he's in go ripping the team away from Miami when it looked like Miami was getting behind this team and We we rep 305 a lot, but this is Browards professional sports franchise and this is got to be a great time for them. This is the greatest run in franchise history. They don't they rarely ever made it to the playoffs and now all of a sudden you have these consecutive years and during this stretch, it never looked darker than it did just before the All Star break.

And probably a couple of games before the regular season finale, keep in mind like, yeah, we had harsh criticisms. Wee was, say in all sorts of ridiculous nonsense that he refuses to capitulate over, but no criticism can be harsher than the head coach himself, calling his team on the bench a bunch of F and B's, but with a season on the line. So you could do

your freezing cold takes, but it looked like everybody damn near gave up on this team. And they find themselves after sweeping the Eastern Conference finals, Prince of Wales trophy champions, and headed to Lord Stanley Cup. Any win last night would have been amazing, but to do it, buzzer beater. Are you dude, are you kidding me? That moment, I would pay thousands of dollars to go back to that moment right now. Like that moment, it was insane dude. I mean, it's laughing at you guys.

Is someone who wept in the stands because of how much he loves soccer, he's making fun, he's looking over here, I feel it off of him. He's like, guys, come on. Stop with the fan syrup. Stop with it. Mike, Mike. He's been a season ticket holder for several years.

Roy, do you know how many David Booth games Roy had to sit through over there? That's right. Like, come on. Like, we love this team. We've seen a lot of bad insignificant hockey. It was a meme. There were five points out of the playoffs

every year and it looked like we were gonna lose the team. And now they're Eastern Conference champions. It's, it's wild. And could Chuck did it. Could Chuck did it? It was just a random guy at the end. It's our best player behind the net where we start every goal.

Anytime the puck goes behind the net on the offensive side, I'm like, that's where we want it. That's where we do all of our damage. It get, how do you leave him alone? How do you, how is he alone right there? How hard it is in hockey to just be isolated on one player and be like, this guy's going to have this moment right now. And there was a single person in that arena that wasn't fixated on Matthew Kitchuk as that clock ticked down. Because they wanted the puck on that stick.

Think about this. Matthew Kitchuck as that clock ticked down because they wanted the puck on that stick. Think about this. They were the 17th best team in the national hockey league this year going into playoffs. There was a team in the Western Conference that didn't make the playoffs that had a better season than a Florida Panthers. And you know when a champion lifts the trophy and says nobody believed in us. Everyone doubted us. And most of the time in talk wash, like there was a Georgia bulldog that said,

nobody believed us, nobody picked us. This is the one time that I think everyone would agree. Nobody believed in Bob. Nobody believed in Paul Maries. Nobody believed in this loser franchise. Nobody thought they had a chance against Boston, except this very room by the time. Oh, yeah, that didn't work.

Cox and balls and blenders, that's what we do. I wanted the smoke. I don't want to let Woody off the hook here, and accept this very room by the box and balls and blenders. That's what we did. One of the smoke. I don't want to let Whitty off the hook here. But there is an element of like, I can't understand when a team is so bad that nobody believed in them.

And then they do the unthinkable. Why do we go seek out the people who say that? Well, this happened to you and we'll get to this in a second because somehow, somehow Amin is now in beef with Will will man so we don't have enough going on around here never had that on my bingo Okay, will man so is will everyone loves will man so will man so in peace who I want to be in probably will man So weirdly close friends with David Samson who again Micrion bumped because Mic Mike Ryan's bump in these days.

There's a whole lot of bumping going on with Brooks Capka, your send him a text, what's the photo that you wouldn't put out there? Cause you didn't wanna be obnoxious without cool you are. Oh, no, I don't wanna be obnoxious period on social media. I took that photo that I didn't take that photo. A friend of mine took a photo

as I was literally drinking everything in. No, there was a party rager. Look at everything in. Look at me. I got my hands in my pockets. I'm stailing up at where the banner's gonna be. He's trying to give you an authentic loving sports moment and you're urinating on it.

I mean, he's so far accurately described what this photo is. I'm remembering like maybe as an intern and like, would we ever get here now here we are? Just yeah, just get in there. I was looking at the box that I would have lunch in during an NHL lockout where I expected to see ice and instead I just saw a poured concrete as Monster James coming to town for the twelfth time and in five months because we have hockey It's a light reflected off the tier like didn't get I need the did you catch it? Yeah, yeah, okay? Let me get let me get what let me get my compact, hold on, hold on.

Oh, okay, now it has a sign that. Let me check it, now do it again, do it again. Look, all of this is fair, and I understand. Is that the one, is it the one, is it? Oh, this is the worst. What you guys are doing? Like, what we're talking about. I mean, Dayton just wants to go sappy the entire time

and this photo plays up to it, but it is also mad corny, which is why I didn't put it out there. I've had incredible time, and thankfully, the Panthers have been really great to this show and been putting on gas We're gonna have I think either brain and more Montor or Carter Veregi both of them at the exact same time. I want everybody on That luckily like they've invited me into some of these celebrations and it's just a dream come true Like what okay? No, but I

What? Okay, no, but I'm with the look of me. Yeah, but I really, I can think of me being cynical about this. Assistant here. I've had two experiences in my life. This is Look of Me, Louis. We're teams that I work for ended up like lifting hardware and it was special with Chelsea. And the, I used to sleep in sheets.

I wore Florida Panther sheets and Pavel Burrey was like my favorite athlete ever. And it's just years old. I was 32 years old, yeah. It's just, it's just really cool. Yours is really cool. This is the thing though that I mean is losing side out. I'm going to Vegas.

Okay. So am I. Me too. I'm going to. I'm going to. Yeah. I'm going to stay. Stay.

Stay. We're going to do it. I'm not going to be here next week. So figure that out. I'm going to be in either bottle. I'm I'm going you know what let's take the entire show Let's go that will be fun. We should be a part of this you shouldn't be No, no you shouldn't be because every time we tried talking pantherpahaki over the last decade It always went back to 1996. That's right. I'm not doing that anymore. That's where you're okay

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He just did. Here's the great sports question. Who's better? Matthew Kitchuk? Or Keith Kitchuk? We debate next on the Dan Levitard show. You're so cynical, man. It's a nice time.

Don't shit on it. No, I have to down lebertard. Mino Hasson. Stugats. Yeah, Mino Hasson. This is the down lebertar show with the Stugats. Draft King Sportsbook, an official sports betting partner of the NBA has a limited time offer for new customers Use code Dan when you sign up on the draft King Sportsbook app to check it out. I mean he's the guy He's a he's a marquee guy. He's with this run. He's probably the second most famous player in the league outside of the crossbeo Vechkin realm Yeah, he's a con he's in terms of active guys doing the thing right now. He's right behind Conner McDavid. Is he, so he's not, not forget about active or not active.

Is he a face of the league? Yeah. I think so. I think he's marketable. He's good. He's a good talker. I want to, like, we should play that sound. Yeah. He just hits every note.

Perfect. What's, what's the, what's the comp like from football or basketball that I can, the look, so Conner McDavid is obviously, there's a golf even between what Conor McDavid is, we're doing show now, roll with it. Conor McDavid is this incredible superstar that we've had the cast from too many men on, like they should maybe for the next few years just get a separate MVP award because this dude's got a hoggit. He's that brilliant. But he's not super marketable. It's kind of like the Mike Trout thing. Wow, sir.

He's not as bad as Trout is. Okay. But it's tough. He plays an Edmonton. He doesn't necessarily shy away from it, but he's not this super affable guy. Kitchuck is welcoming of all of this. I mean, historically, Dan, you've had difficulty talking

to hockey players. Matthew Kitchuck is not difficult to talk to. He's a good quote, and I wanna play this sound right now. There's a reason why the media loves him. This guy is a face of the sport in a state. Are we gonna get a stadium series? We're gonna get a winner classic somewhere where it's gotta happen.

No, it's gotta happen. Here's Matthew Kitchuk talking about what this ride has been like the last few weeks. Oh, we have tons of support now, but I still think not many people believe. I mean, like the people in this area support and believe in us, but at the time of the truth, there's not many people out there that deal is still. And we know that we've played some really good teams so far in this playoffs, and we know that the next team is going to be unbelievable as well.

Kind of that similar feel of being the underdog and trying to prove people wrong again. And we know what we have in there. We know how to play. We know the right way to play. We know it makes us successful. And being in it with the guys and seeing the belief and seeing just the calmness to us is really something special.

Like, nothing rattles us. And I mean, they score with three minutes left. You'd think that, you know, oh, here we go like what's what's gonna happen But it's like the opposite. It's it's so fun to be around and like it's just so fun being at the ring right now It's you know, we got a few weeks left of this and it's gonna be we talked about the room gonna be the best few weeks of our lives Hopefully so something that we're all really excited for they beat three of the best five teams in this league this season, including the best regular season team in the history of this league. And if Vegas wins tonight, it'll be four out of five, three upsets over teams with over

a hundred points on the season. That gets a superstar. Sorry. Did you guys say that was like a great, quote, great sound for hockey? That's a lesson. I mean, it's right about this. Hockey player stink as talkers, and that was a burst of raging emotion

from a hockey player, because they have to be all teeth and wires and all the shit that they are, because that sport is insane. Like what? Like Markable, he's feisty, he's welcoming of the limelight, he's American, and he's making hockey matter in a market where it mattered just once Dan Don't say those years that it mattered

He's incredible and in one year he's made everybody forget about the previous greatest player in franchise history He took that challenge on two. He didn't shy away from those comparisons We talked to him before the season and he didn't deflect any of those questions. Normally you'd get like, don't ask him about Hubert O. He's just a great kid and a great leader in the team second on his identity. And he's absolutely right. This team is completely relaxed.

So Paul Marisa is doing a stand up routines at the press conferences now. I mean, it's not very funny. And he is what Zazlow called him, the Joy Killer, the Fun Killer. No, Roy's totally right though. In press conferences, the joy killer, the fun killer. No, Roy's totally right though. Impress conferences, he's really got a good personality. Yeah, it's weird.

It's a bit of a swearing. All right, but I mean, I mean, that I have a problem here with what's happening with the show, okay? Because I've got a mean over here, and a mean is cold business guy who it thinks almost everything you guys are saying is laughable in therapy even though you're saying it

from a genuine sports emotional place that doesn't get touched all that often around here anymore. Because the town's got a lot of losers in it. And last year was the first off in season matter than 20 years and they've been seeing a lot of badge like really shitty hockey. Are we getting a mean home? I'm front office guy.

I don't see it through this lens, like we get it. I just don't understand like the, you got it with the heat, which is weird. Like you're, you, you got it. Okay, not a hockey guy, it's fine. I get it with the heat because I see the sustained success and I know how hard that is to be good.

Not necessarily great, but good every year is hard as hell in professional sports, particularly with a salary cap. And it's not like they've had a lot of cap flexibility. They've made things happen again and again. That's what I see. But like when you're talking about, I don't know, it just, it feels very hollow. Like I can see 18 months from now. None of you guys caring about the Panthers again, other than Roy.

Thanks, I mean, season ticket all the three seasons. Yeah,'s typical my any bandwagon stuff, but also what we are not bandwagon guys No, we were like I said we we've seen a lot of bad I'm you turn there 30 years. No, it's not just in turning there though You make fun of this I mean, but I I think this is genuine trading St. As oslyn's before he's like you're you have an all-star game and he's your lone all-star Mike it's it's just like pain pain-saking season after paints. What is this guy doing here? What the hell is going on? No get out of here. What is taking a He's in here. What's in here? No, this is the murderer of fun. What is today Thursday? Get out of here, man No, he I have a my calendar that I'm here on Thursdays murder of fun. What is today Thursday? Get out of here, man!

No, he- I have a my calendar that I'm here on Thursdays. I don't understand what's happening with you and my Samson. How many times now have you been bumped? And it's been since we gave America too much Samson, and then all of a sudden, Mike's like, whoa, gotta dilute this a little bit. Really bothers people. It certainly seems that that's the case, or maybe it's that he doesn't think that I can talk

about anything other than Marlins or heater panthers. But at the end of the day, if you ask me to do contractually every Thursday, I'm gonna be here and ready, and then I get a text in the middle of the night, no, you're bumped, you're bumped, but I'm still gonna keep the time open because eventually you're gonna realize that it's only like eight people in South Florida

who would rather not hear from me, but you have an entire audience who's okay with me being on the show. In my defense, I was just texting Bump, Bump. And I thought you could come through. It was four o'clock in the morning. He was with Brooks Capka, partying in the Bals of the arena, but I don't know why Samsung. It was a sweep. I don't know why Samsung is here.

Well, you said it was a speak easy before. Yeah, it was a speak easy sweet. Sweetie. Samson is the guy who said the teams don't like each other. The teams pretend to root for each other locally that he's getting killed for this. The Marlins have been very flattering on social media. I bet they have.

What do you expect them to be? Of course they're gonna be flattering. What are you talking about? Why is this is exactly why they want this guy on? Unbelievable. What does he do not say that it this is exactly why I didn't want this guy on? What is he doing? I'm saying that it's not great that Can you just say go cats go and leave like it just say Vamo's got those go great. Let's go. Yeah, see ya By date. Oh Nothing personal

Just business everything's perish egg wait to see You know, just business. Everything's perfect. Cash tag, wait to see. Ha ha ha. Give me my fringes. No, get him out of here. He's bad, not personal. How does he keep getting through?

How does he keep popping up? You tell me that I have control. Get Franky to secrete. I'm just gonna get, I'm turning the pot off. How does he keep messing? I'm gonna say the F word again. I'm gonna say one of the things that we're gonna do better at MetalArc

is better security because anyone can get on these shows. Anybody. Okay, you're telling me. security because anyone can get on these shows. Anybody. Okay. You're telling me, Samson, please get out of here. You did say that the teams don't like each other and don't root for each other. You're gonna say in how bad my lunch have been since you came here.

I didn't say that I'm like each other. That is mistating what I said. I said the Marlins would prefer the Panthers and the Heat to be eliminated and they can deny it all they want, but trust me, they prefer it. Cry shut up, get them out of here. What are we doing? You ruined lunch. You ruined everything. We were cooking.

David, there's feet are up. You understand how hard it is to get Roy this relaxed? I've never seen this man this happy. They're about to be down in a second because of this guy. Yeah, man. See ya. I want the Panthers to win the cup now because I'm not with the Marlins. Yeah!

Okay, cool! You're back, man. You're back, man. Maybe you can celebrate with us. To God says he's working on it. He's working metal-ark executives on getting funding. What are your thoughts on Goose Off forcelling? Oh!

I'd like to know if we can all do a live show from Vegas. There it is! There it is! Well, but we're cutting back costs! You cut off the lunches around here. People are stealing snacks. Yes, but I've done that in order to reallocate budget to things that are actually more fun for me to do. Yeah. Now everyone is with Sandy because they want to go to Vegas. Hey, he's paying. I'm, I love. Hey, Mike, I'm not going to be contrived to Vegas. Mike. I told you last night that I got to go to Denver next week

I might change that I'm gonna go to Vegas too Yes, it'll be a cop you said we could get that comp to you a Vegas whale It's got to both Samson yeah saying that I've got enough connections and your Dan Levitard And we're metal arc that if we bring up do we will get everything comped. Oh he's come on Come on, we got to do this okay, but now look at you guys are all Against party with Mike. I want to party do both. Yes, you can do both. You have That's not trust me. Three hours of work 21 hours a party. I don't want to shoe there. They don't deserve it. They don't deserve it. They don't deserve it. Okay, that's spoken as the heat fan

who least deserves to be on this fan. What are you talking about? I'm an emotional fan. You call me annoying every time I come to a microphone. You turn the audience against me. You say I'm cocainey. All of these things are true by the way, but it's besides the point.

Let me have some fun. Let me enjoy it. You're being a joy sucker. And then you get David Samson in this company just to do this. It's one of the happiest moments of my life. This is tickets to Vegas. We've got it. Yes.

Yeah. This is the call. I can get us to Vegas and to Denver. No. Four of us can go. We need one producer, two talent, one camera, and we can do a trip to Denver and Vegas for Stanley Cup and NBA finals.

Dibbs, who's with me? I'm in, I'm in, I'm in, yo, I'm in. I'm the already guy credentialed, I'm in. I'm one of the Samson's friends. Now everyone loves Samson, because you pay the bill. You pay the bill. That is gross. If you can add a stop in Omaha, I'm in.

You guys are so want and purchase Samsonchez making your lunges shitty their finger sandwiches out there, but he pays for one Vegas trip and you're all he buys all of you that Quickly. Yeah, it's so easy to hand. I can't even believe it Embarrassing look at a mean a mean right here. Yes, please let me get to Vegas I want to have a drink on the company dime. I'll sell my entire soul for NHL insider. I mean, it'll happen. What's up guys? Oh my God. The other good tell you the Json Tatum of hockey. How about this turn around for more salt? Can you play the Lindsey sound please? Bill Lindsey, emotion. We have so much to get to still in this game. We will. We're gonna the the local hours gonna spill into the national stuff again

Let's just play Bill Lindsey get an emotional Billy Lindsey. We pick the perfect time to have you in studio What is that moment feel like? Emotional they should be it's a big deal for you and all the a deal for you with all the other companies. A lot of companies. Oh, man. He looks good on you, buddy. Congratulations.

Yeah, this is thanks. Congratulations. Wow, I should tell him it's been a long time. It's been a long time, long journey. Man, am I proud of this team?

You want to watch the highlights? Yeah, let's get some highlights here. Gooseies. Yes. Like, I listen to a lot of Billy Lindsay on the radio. Do you know how hard it is to get a motion out of that, man? You feel like it. I like it here. Goosey. Yes. Like I listen to a lot of Billy Lindsay on the radio. Do you know how hard it is to get a motion out of that man? You know, it was hard.

That guy's been boring for 30 years. I mean, that's hockey, baby. He sounds like Chris Cody's skip carry. I mean, it's the least in the country. This entire time, a man is making fun of everything here. He thinks your emotion is funny. David, we're gonna let you go. No review.

We'll be in touch about Vegas, but I just got one thing left to say before this. Brent Burns, if your teeth weren't already out of your mouth and knock them out myself, God damn you for doing that to Matthew could chuck. How dare you, I'm so happy you got sweat, you little loser. Wow.

Wow. Gee. You're quite a loser. Wow. Wow. Cheek.