Full Transcript for Episode 116: Chilly Willy

especially in the Midwest, you're gonna get their best game. 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:24.319 Um, but I see no problem for North Dakota. 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:38.959 For me, Ozzo, I think that's a game that's you know, maybe fairly close for the first two periods or the first half of the game, and then the latter half of the game is is when UND can can really you know drive home the skill and and um you know kind of create separation, if you will. 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:44.959 You never know how these games are gonna go because it's one fucking game, but that's the way I see it, at least in my head. 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:48.480 Um, I don't think there's a problem there for the Sue Boys in that first game. 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:51.439 There shouldn't be, but yeah, you you never know. 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:52.879 It's it's one game shots. 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:58.480 I mean, Merrimack just beat Providence, who won hockey east this year the regular season. 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:04.000 Um they just beat them what March 14th, is what it's saying. 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:07.759 So yeah, I mean, you just gotta weather their storm. 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:09.199 You know they're gonna be coming out hot. 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:18.240 You you're gonna want a couple saves from the goaltender, um Spooner, and hopefully the the skill does take over. 00:05:18.319 --> 00:05:20.639 Like you need a goal from Will Zellers, yeah. 00:05:20.879 --> 00:05:23.600 You you hopefully get a goal from Ben Strindon. 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:27.839 Um, maybe Reshne has a couple apples, you know, that's what you need to happen. 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:35.519 And they always ask me, Jordo, they always ask me, you know, how how did you guys win that national championship? 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:40.079 Like, what would you say to people like how to win a national championship? 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:42.000 And my answer is always the same. 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:46.800 It's you know, it's it's always pretty beneficial to have a CBS line, yeah. 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:48.079 You know, that's what I would say. 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:52.240 If you really want to win one, go out there and find yourself a CBS line. 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:57.839 100%, yeah, because it's one thing to get to the frozen four, and then it's one thing to have the game breakers that you guys had. 00:05:57.920 --> 00:06:07.040 And you know, obviously that goal that Nikki scored late in the game against Denver, that's where your big time players and big time moments shine through, which I do think North Dakota has some of those guys. 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:16.480 I mean, Will Zellers has proven that to the point of the world juniors, he had a really good world juniors, he came in as a guy on the fourth line, and you know, ultimately was one of their game breakers. 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:20.079 So I do think um that game's not going to be an issue. 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:25.120 Now, if you're going to the next game in that same regional, which is gonna be played at 5 p.m. 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:32.319 local standard, you got Providence in Quinnipiac, you got the battle of an ECAC team that's always pesky, always good. 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:38.480 They're well coached by Rand Pecknell, and as well as you know, Providence, who you know always plays a tight-checking game. 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:39.759 They're greasy. 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:45.519 When I think about Providence hockey, I just think about that year that they won it, um, the year prior in Boston. 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:51.920 Also, your sophomore year, my junior year, when they somehow stunned the world, and they had guys like Nola Charlie. 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:59.600 And we they had a good team, but we kind of took them, we kind of took them to the woodshed in uh when they came to Grand Forks. 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:00.879 Yeah, yeah, we did. 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:04.800 I think we we swept them or we tied. 00:07:04.959 --> 00:07:05.839 We we won and tied. 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:07.040 Yeah, we won and tied. 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:10.000 So, but they were they were just like a scrappy team, you know. 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:13.199 I I I think they're always the friars are always built like that. 00:07:13.279 --> 00:07:15.199 They're a little bit older, usually, too. 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:21.360 Uh, a lot of a lot of times they're kind of rejects, if you will, of the BCs or the B Us of the world, right? 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:27.759 You're not necessarily getting the higher end guys from the Boston area, but you get good players similar to UMass or some of those schools. 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:30.959 So that game, also I got QPAC winning that game. 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:35.680 I I don't know a ton about uh both those teams, I'll be honest. 00:07:35.839 --> 00:07:42.079 But I just for me, it screams Nodak, QPAC, and the Sioux Boys just kicking the shit out of them coming out of that regional. 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:42.639 I don't know why. 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:44.959 That's just that's how I haven't I envision it. 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:47.439 That's certainly what we're hoping for. 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:52.560 Um, and and that's the way it probably should pan out. 00:07:52.800 --> 00:08:01.040 But yeah, I mean, you got you got I think what is it, Nate Lehman and Ren Pecknold coaching Providence and Quinnipiac. 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:08.480 Sorry, Merrimack, I don't know your head coach's name, but those two coaches they know what they're doing. 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:11.759 Now, Quinnipiac has this kid, Ethan Witt. 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:12.959 What's his name again? 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:17.199 He's he's what he's leading the league in in points. 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:19.040 Um, but he's a freshman. 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:27.199 But those players, like, I feel like when you have one of those players on your team, Jordo, you typically always win these, you have an upper hand in

these big games. 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:35.759 Um, and I think like when you look at Quinnipiack and Providence, they're probably two of the same team, but one of them has the leading score in the country. 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:37.919 And sorry, you know, Ethan Wittenbach. 00:08:38.240 --> 00:08:39.200 Yeah, Wittenbach. 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:40.159 Yeah, I'm looking right now. 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:42.080 He's a Calgary draft pick. 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:43.039 Freshman. 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:44.159 Right shot. 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:49.519 Yeah, he's a fifth rounder, so he he kind of slid, but he's he's got 58 points. 00:08:49.679 --> 00:08:54.480 Um, you know, he's even got better numbers than he had when he was playing at Sioux Falls just a year prior. 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:56.639 Uh, 24 goals in 38 games. 00:08:56.799 --> 00:08:59.440 I mean, that's no slouch himself. 00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:07.200 He looks like he's from the the New York area, Rosalind, New York, uh, played for the Long Island Gulls, so it seems like he's a he's a Long Island kid. 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:16.240 Um, yeah, those, I mean, those those are certainly those are even especially in that conference when you know it's those goals are tough to come by, you know. 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:20.639 Oh, yeah, it's it's I don't think it's very easy to score goals against Cornell. 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:24.960 They've usually got eight six foot five guys skating around as forwards. 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:25.600 Yep. 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:29.840 Yeah, and this this Christopher Pelosi, no relation to Nancy. 00:09:29.919 --> 00:09:31.360 Uh, he was a third-round pick. 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:33.440 Um, you know, he's got 38 points. 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:35.519 He's had a solid campaign. 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:36.480 I remember his name, yes. 00:09:36.559 --> 00:09:37.919 That's where he was playing in Sioux Falls. 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:39.519 He was he was a solid player there. 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:42.399 Uh, but you know, he's got 17 tucks, 33 points. 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:44.720 So they they got some good players. 00:09:44.879 --> 00:09:47.679 Um, you know, they're they're always good, Quinn at Piac. 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:49.200 They they recruit well. 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:57.759 Um, they get those, I don't know, not later draft picks, but just guys that kind of just find a niche and and yeah, I don't know what it is about them, Jordo. 00:09:57.919 --> 00:10:01.519 I mean, they made the tournament seven years in a row now, it's pretty impressive. 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:04.320 Um, and like high seeds usually, too, you know. 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:10.000 Yeah, and they've they're all they're never a four-seed in the tournament, they're always uh either a one, two, or three seed. 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:11.679 I don't know how they keep doing it. 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:14.879 I've I have heard from guys who have played there, Thomas Shutt. 00:10:14.960 --> 00:10:16.480 I'll

I'll shout out Thomas Shutt. 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:21.200 Um, he the way he talks about it, it does sound pretty cool. 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:32.320 It's a it's almost like a little North Dakota in a sense, where it's kind of a smaller school, um, and you kind of build that camaraderie going to the same bars and and doing that type of stuff. 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:37.919 So it does sound like and and they've got a lot of school pride, and and hockey is the main sport there. 00:10:38.080 --> 00:10:43.759 Like everyone who goes to Quinnipiac, they know the hockey team's good, so it's a little bit like that. 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:52.720 It sounds like a special place to play, but like you said, they never really get first rounders and they're like studs coming in, they're just always solid, yeah. 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:56.559 Um, and when you're playing a one-game shot, that's that's scary. 00:10:56.720 --> 00:11:05.200 But I'm looking at their point to the their leading point getters, and they're it's three freshmen, so I don't really love that if I'm Quinnipiac either, though. 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:13.600 I I mean everything's lining up for the Sioux to be in in Vegas, and I hate to say it and I don't want to jinx them, but that's what it is, yeah. 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:20.559 And that Quinna Piac too, it's literally right around the corner from Yale, and as well as Trinity College. 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:30.080 So you have like all these schools right in New Haven, Connecticut, and it's kind of like a just a battle, like there's a sneaky rivalry between Quinna Piac and Yale. 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:35.679 Um there's you know, some bad blood there and um good rivalry, and they have a great barn too. 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:38.960 So so secret why they're good, but I I agree with you, Azo. 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:55.679 I I got the suit coming out of that one, and then if you're looking just to the just I guess we're gonna go back east and look at the bracket that would match up, eventually gonna meet the UND boys, hopefully at Team Mobile Arena in a couple weeks, is is we got Michigan State and Yukon. 00:11:56.000 --> 00:12:00.000 Now, again, don't know a ton about Yukon. 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:04.799 I know the coach Nightingale, Adam Nightingale, there with the Michigan State Spartans. 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:05.759 They've had a great year. 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:07.840 I believe they won the Big Ten, correct? 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:08.799 The regular season. 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:13.360 Um they're the third overall seed, coming in at 25-8-2. 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:14.720 Uh playing Yukon. 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:21.279 Yukon now, Yukon showed a decent chinazo over at the TD Bank Garden a couple weeks ago or a week ago. 00:12:21.360 --> 00:12:26.080 Um, I believe they won one game at the TD Bank Guard at the Hockey East tournament. 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:30.960 So um, you know, they played decent ball all year, they're coming in at 20 and 12. 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:35.360 Um now Michigan State, they got some higher end guys on that squad, no? 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:37.360 Oh, Michigan State's loaded. 00:12:37.519 --> 00:12:41.759 They got uh that kid who transferred Charlie Stromel. 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:46.320 He he he transferred from Wisconsin, he wasn't really playing much there, Jordo. 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:50.559 And now he's at Michigan State with Nightingale. 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:57.279 And I think I want to check his points, but I think he's got like I want to say over a point per game. 00:12:57.360 --> 00:12:58.240 He's just unbelievable. 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:03.039 And then they got that Porter Mortone kid from Team Canada and the World Juniors, yep. 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:05.360 Um, really good player as well. 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:24.639 They're they're loaded, like Nightingale's been able to take a lot of those NTDP kids and get them out of Michigan and come to Michigan State, which you know, when I was growing up, Jordo, and when we were playing Michigan State, like when we went to Michigan State, we were like, All right, here's two wins. 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:28.720 Yep, you know, and now I wouldn't want to go there and play them. 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:34.480 You know, they're they they've been really good for the past I don't know how many years, three, four, five years. 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:35.279 100%. 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:43.360 Ever since you know the Big Ten was kind of formulated, and they've got acclimated into a winning hockey again since you know the Ron Mason days. 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:48.720 Honestly, I remember in 2006 when Justin Applicator scored that game-winning goal at the frozen four. 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:49.279 It was in St. 00:13:49.360 --> 00:13:49.679 Louis. 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:51.120 UND was there as well. 00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:55.039 But you mentioned this kid, Chucky Strobel is his name, I believe. 00:13:55.120 --> 00:13:56.799 You just said it right, or Strubble, what's his name? 00:13:56.960 --> 00:13:57.440 Stramel. 00:13:57.600 --> 00:14:01.759 Stramel, okay, Stramel, Strudel, Stramel, Turducken, Turkey. 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:03.840 First round pick by the wild, by the way. 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:04.240 Right. 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:06.559 And just what an interesting career he's had. 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:21.519 I mean, the trajectory he's had, a first-round pick, Gaza puts up 12 points his first year at Wisco, then eight, and then goes to Michigan State, has a respectable year, 27 points in 37 games, and now has 19 goals and 25 assists for this Sparty team. 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:25.759 What a weird, what a weird just trajectory of a career. 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:31.679 And and who knows if he even signs with the wild because he's played four years now, he could elect to ultimately go to free agency. 00:14:31.759 --> 00:14:32.720 That's crazy to me. 00:14:32.879 --> 00:14:36.720 It it's it's crazy, and it's also

crazy looking. 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:39.759 If you I've never really watched this kid play, I'll be honest. 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:45.600 I've watched uh little some of Michigan State's games this year, but I've never watched him play before that. 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:46.799 It's a little interesting. 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:48.879 How did this kid go first round? 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:51.440 I think it was just based on potential and potential. 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:53.600 He's a potential of three, yeah. 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:55.679 Potential's a scary word, yeah. 00:14:55.919 --> 00:14:58.720 Yeah, it's like I'm looking at his stats here. 00:14:59.120 --> 00:15:04.879 He gets U18 year, he's got seven points. 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:09.840 And then I mean not great, 22 points, I guess. 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:11.360 He had 22 points, is what I'm seeing. 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:12.320 I was seeing something else. 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:16.960 Well, I mean, you know, you see he was 6'3, 200 odd pounds, right? 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:19.519 So he was a late first round pick. 00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:25.440 So I don't know if he could actually technically go to free agency because I think it has to be for for four years, right? 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:27.759 So he got drafted after his freshman year. 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:28.559 Is that correct? 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:29.679 Yep, yeah. 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:34.320 He was a or after NTDP before he went to Wisconsin. 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:38.639 He was a drafted in 2023, so that was after his freshman year. 00:15:38.879 --> 00:15:47.440 So he had 12 points that year, and the year before, he had played world juniors, so he played as an underager for the world junior team. 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:54.000 Wow, and then played the following year world juniors, and then didn't make it when he was a 20-year-old. 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:57.279 So, what just an interesting career that kid's had. 00:15:57.519 --> 00:16:01.120 Um, yeah, that's what an unbelievable season. 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:04.799 He's got 44 points, 35 games, 19 tucks. 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:07.679 I mean, good for him was for sticking with it too. 00:16:07.759 --> 00:16:11.039 And then you mentioned this part this Porter Matone or Martone. 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:15.360 I mean, you know, six overall pick, he's having a hell of a season. 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:18.480 He's got 47 points, uh, 24 tucks. 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:23.440 So, yeah, I I I think I got Sparty rolling through that one against UConn. 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:26.720 And then on the other side, Dartmouth, who's back in the mix. 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:34.720 Dartmouth's one of those teams that, you know, typically, prototypically, not an elite program by any means. 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:45.120 Um, I think they're on the little bit of a come up over there in Hanover, New Hampshire, but they've put together a solid season in the ECAC 23-7 and 4. 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:47.840 Uh, but I just think Wisco is gonna roll over them. 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:49.519 Um, you'd think, right? 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:51.840 Like, you know, they got a good Dartmouth. 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:53.360 I I know they had a good season. 00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:54.559 Congrats, Dartmouth. 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:55.600 You had a great season. 00:16:55.679 --> 00:17:03.200 I'm happy for you guys, but you're really gonna beat Mike Hastings and in Wisco, the Badgers coming in. 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:04.240 I I don't see it. 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:08.079 I think we'll see Michigan State playing Wisco to go to the frozen four. 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:12.000 Yep, yeah, I think you're right there, just with Hastings, the prep work there. 00:17:12.160 --> 00:17:20.640 Wisco's had a solid season, a little bit up and down, if you will, but you know, nonetheless, they had had finished at 21, 12, and two. 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:26.000 So that I see as as Michigan State, Tish State as I call me Wisco. 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:31.279 And I got I got Michigan State winning that one also in a Big Ten showdown over there in Worcester. 00:17:31.359 --> 00:17:33.680 I don't know what you have, who's coming out of that regional for you. 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:35.279 I got Michigan State as well. 00:17:35.359 --> 00:17:37.119 I think they're gonna pull it off. 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:46.880 Um, I like their coach, they've been at the top all year, and I I do think they have the second, maybe even the first easiest regional. 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:51.680 This might even be easier than Nodac's, but I do like Nodak's pull. 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:56.480 Yeah, I would say this regional, especially with Dartmouth there, a little weak. 00:17:56.559 --> 00:18:07.839 I would say UConn a little weak as well, but it just sets up for a Big Ten showdown Saturday night in Worcester at the DCU arena. 00:18:08.079 --> 00:18:11.599 So yeah, I uh I got Michigan State as well. 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:20.079 And then you slide up to Loveland, Colorado, and we got our boy David Carl facing off against Cornell. 00:18:20.160 --> 00:18:22.799 Now, Cornell, those guys are built like football players. 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:28.240 I mean, that's one of those teams where, you know, I don't know if I'd really want to play game one. 00:18:28.319 --> 00:18:37.599 They're gonna hit hard, they're always big, they play a greasy style, they're gonna sit back, they're gonna wait for power play opportunities, they're gonna go to the net hard, they're gonna forecheck you hard. 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:41.440 Like, I would much rather be playing Dartmouth than Cornell Azzo. 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:42.559 Oh, 100%. 00:18:43.119 --> 00:18:46.079 I always I always love looking at Cornell's. 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:47.119 I don't know what it is. 00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:49.519 Is it been the same coach the whole time? 00:18:49.680 --> 00:19:03.039 I don't know what it is, but they always their roster is always

hilarious to look at because there's so many big guys listening to 616461 6265 6265 6364 6262. 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:04.960 That's their forward group. 00:19:05.359 --> 00:19:08.559 It's insane, and it's it's like clockwork every year, you know. 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:10.319 You you think about every year. 00:19:10.720 --> 00:19:22.480 I always think about like the prototypical Cornell hockey player was like Johnny McCarron, who which is Mike McCarron's older brother, and he's 6'4, 230, and he's just a freight train on skates. 00:19:23.039 --> 00:19:25.680 Exactly, and that's a that's their whole team. 00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:34.480 So yeah, that that's not a fun game for David Carl and his and his Denver Piles, but I do have them playing in that regional championship. 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:37.759 Yep, I I I got them greasing their way through that one. 00:19:37.920 --> 00:19:48.799 Um, on the other side of things, now Minnesota State, I would say is arguably the best coach team in this tournament. 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:51.680 Uh, just in from an entire staff arguably, yes. 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:56.799 From an entire staff, X's and O's, little nuances of the game, preparation work. 00:19:56.880 --> 00:19:57.440 Troy G. 00:19:57.599 --> 00:20:02.480 Ward, the associate head coach there, is gonna have them absolutely dialed in, Ozzo. 00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:10.240 Uh, you pair that with Luke Strand, as well as Keith Paulson, aka Uncle Pauley, and as well as I believe, what's his name? 00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:13.359 McKraken from Green Bay. 00:20:13.519 --> 00:20:17.119 So you got those guys all with whisco ties, all basically. 00:20:17.200 --> 00:20:23.279 I mean, I've played for three or three out of four of those guys, and they're all beauties, it's a hell of a staff. 00:20:23.519 --> 00:20:32.480 This is gonna be a tall task for Western, and they faced off against I believe Western and Mankato played, was it last year? 00:20:32.640 --> 00:20:35.839 Um, that was a really tight match in the first game of a regional. 00:20:35.920 --> 00:20:40.640 I don't know if that was in Fargo or somewhere, but um, they've played in the last two years, I know that. 00:20:40.960 --> 00:20:50.799 And for Western Michigan, I know they're a wagon and they got a great coach there, Patty Furta, but Minnesota State is one of those four seeds I do not want to see. 00:20:51.039 --> 00:20:53.359 That's the one four seed I don't want to play. 00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:57.359 I also, yeah, it's the it's them and Merrimack who are hot right now. 00:20:57.599 --> 00:21:01.279 Um, yeah, I I would not want to play Mankato. 00:21:01.440 --> 00:21:05.200 I actually have Minnesota State, the Mavericks coming out of this one, Chordo. 00:21:05.359 --> 00:21:05.839 Wow. 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:18.559 Um, I just I was just thinking, you know, like yes, Western is good, they they probably have the better team, but are these guys that hungry to go back to back? 00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:19.759 I I don't know. 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:25.839 Yeah, and they're running into a tough team in in Mancato, as and as you said, great coaching. 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:31.119 Um, I there's usually always one upset, and that was my one I picked. 00:21:31.359 --> 00:21:32.000 I like that. 00:21:32.079 --> 00:21:36.319 I know I was going back and forth, and I ultimately picked Western. 00:21:36.480 --> 00:21:38.480 Um, I think it's gonna be an overtime game. 00:21:38.559 --> 00:21:41.119 I I certainly hope Mankato wins. 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:50.319 Like that's my heart, but my chin and my gut was telling me Western's just gonna just gonna get it done at tournament time with um you know their experience. 00:21:50.400 --> 00:21:53.039 And I just think you know it's it's tough to bet against them. 00:21:53.119 --> 00:24:45.839 But I do really hope selfishly that Man Cato does prove me wrong and and gets a win there because I love all those guys there at you know also so we will monitor that um so in that next game do you do you have denver uh clipping mancado i do i do yeah i got i got denver just they just find a way to be there man like i didn't they're in colorado in the in the altitude they just they find a way man and i even tweeted out i i have them losing jump ahead i have them losing in the semifinal but they're gonna be playing on april 11th in the nan each ship aren't they i i i mean i they just it just seems like they do every year i got them there i mean that's just kind of that's baseball and that's david carried baseball i to tell you the truth i didn't think they were gonna win the conference tournament i didn't i didn't really like the games i even watched them throughout the year they didn't excite me um they didn't really have they just maybe some pieces in the past that i thought even their style looked a little bit different at times throughout the year especially in the early months of december and a little bit in january to be honest i didn't really like their brand of hockey and then i started watching a little bit more tape on them just because i was trying to study their game and they started coming on a little bit and i watched a little bit of film of that game the n channel and they look pretty good they're they're playing they're playing they're playing in straight lines they're playing in straight lines they're getting timely scoring they have the timely saves uh and david carrell is a tough man to bet against and especially at this time of year yeah i just i just hope we see them in the national championship against und and you know what how that's gonna go so uh i got i got du as well in that one i want to set it to mvp arena uh we got michigan and bentley i don't think we need to say anything about that that tj hughes kid is he's the real deal huh this kid he's good i mean even you know the other Michael that that haze kid is good our boy jaden perron who left nodak he's pretty damn good too yeah I mean Perron

had that nifty tuck the other week off the face off where he came downhill and and just put on an absolute turcot stick handling clinic and then you got like a guy like Will Horkoff who's got 24 bingos um you know they got four players over a point per game this is a this is a solid solid squad here fella um and they got a nice draw to start let's be honest they got they got Bentley as they should as the number one overall seed but they're gonna they're gonna kick the shit out of them and then is that one Jordo six six seven nothing yeah I think Bentley maybe gets one six one yeah to a period for Michigan and Bentley cheeks one in maybe late in the game. 00:24:46.160 --> 00:26:34.079 This Duluth Penn State matchup though now for views and just college hockey you want Penn State to go as far as possible you want them playing in Nevada let's be honest you want them in you want them in sin city you want the potential first overall pick there but I got our boy Beach Scotty Sandalin getting it done I got them beating Penn State fella I don't know about you yeah I uh I think I think I have them as well I just I watched them play North Dakota and and I know how good North Dakota is Jordo and I always thought Duluth was a one one line team but they're really good they're unbelievable they have some really good defensemen they have a really good goaltender they they have possibly the best player in the country at the time right now Max Plant if you've watched him play he's and his brother Sam Plant's not far behind him and then they got that shogabay kid I mean yeah I it's it's tough to bet against Penn State because I know all these things go with whenever you got a guy like Gavin McKenna on your squad you know like somehow you just find a way to make it to the next round and you gotta get a couple more power plays probably yeah like you you'll you'll get the draw because like you said you want Penn State to go on if you're probably the NCAA because you got the first round the first overall pick on the squad um and also I'll go on a little tangent about that it's hilarious seeing these people from all these small schools watching the selection show and they're just mad they're talking about Gavin McKenna it's like do you do you think we're not gonna talk about the first overall pick playing college hockey that that's what the whole show is going to be about and that's what it should be about. 00:26:34.240 --> 00:27:24.000 He's the best player in the world in his draft class right now I mean it's it's a no brainer but yeah we need to we need to monetize this brand as is no one we need more people watching college hockey in the grand in the grand scheme of things nobody's watching college hockey they should be but no one is and this is one way to get people to watch it is we have the fucking first overall pick that came from Canada and was playing in major juniors to come down to the states and play in the college circuit 100% that's what that's what it is

I mean you could yes we want people to watch college hockey no they do not I don't care if all you fans think people watch college hockey they don't I mean that's why it's on espn two the national championship game and they've got a volleyball or wrestling tournament on ESPN one. 00:27:24.240 --> 00:27:37.440 I mean it's just people don't watch college hockey I don't know why but we want them to get them watch it the way to get them to watch it is watching Gavin McKenna because he's unbelievable but Duluth is coming out of that game Journal I I just don't see him losing to Penn State. 00:27:37.599 --> 00:27:49.519 Yeah I I'm I'm with you um I just think they're I watched Penn State earlier in the year I I have not watched them really since and I I I watched him literally the first weekend of the year at ASU. 00:27:49.759 --> 00:27:57.279 You know they they have talent they you know that JJ Wee Bush aka we wrench who's a Wisconsin product is is a great player. 00:27:57.359 --> 00:28:00.960 He's got a little bit of Brad Marshawn to him where he's a little bit of a rat. 00:28:01.440 --> 00:28:05.680 You know even the coach's kid uh is a solid defenseman back there. 00:28:05.920 --> 00:28:22.880 He's a big big tall tree you know tall drink of water he's a draft back there then obviously McKenna and they got some other pieces in there too but I just think you know unless Penn State gets four or five power plays I I just think Duluth is going to clip them. 00:28:23.039 --> 00:28:27.279 I got Duluth coming out of that regional to be honest I got them beat Michigan. 00:28:27.519 --> 00:33:57.680 Yeah I thought about going that route too it was tough for me not to pick them because for some reason these Big 10 teams man I just don't trust them when it comes March and April I know I I did have Michigan coming out though I've watched them play that's gonna be a tough game for Duluth I mean that is a tough team to beat I don't want to see Michigan if we were to see them in the championship game I'd be scared shitless of both Michael Hage Perron and Hughes but I could easily see Duluth beating them easily I would not be shocked Michigan was just a never never a team that scared me to be honest like when BC was in their heyday you know with the late Johnny Goodreau gotta rest his soul hazy they were they were terrifying those guys scared me I don't know what it was about Michigan that never really scared me I don't and they're always pretty good too you know I was just like ah it's Michigan you know they'll lose one game in Cincinnati and they'll go home they'll be fine like Michigan you know and they have a lot of national championships too they're a hell of a program I mean a top three program of all time it's just they never really scare me Minnesota always gave me the ooh okay you know because we didn't have much success against them at least in my time but Michigan never really Michigan Wisco those teams boys just you know we're we're gonna take care of you'll be all right so yeah I felt that way against Wisco too for some reason whenever we'd play him I'm just like yeah we're gonna beat these guys yeah I remember in uh in Cincinnati we're the four seed we were getting dressed in the referee locker room my sophomore year and we had just snuck into the tournament a week before because we won a third place game against Western Michigan and we found out that we were whisco had won in the big 10 whisco got us in Wisco got us in and I just remember going into that game I was like these guys are a one seed we're gonna fucking whack them like we and we did the score the score was tight I think it was four one or two two empty netters but we fucking dummed them oh yeah it was it will that was one of the most shocking games I've ever seen actually because Wisco is supposed to be this unbelievable team we just sneak into the tournament and it wasn't even close I mean it was dummy these guys suck what do they have Jake McCabe and then uh what was the forward Zang it wasn't Zangerly was they had Zangerly yep Zangerly and then and then the late Nick Cordillis yeah wait curdy's curdy's not not alive anymore no Jesus I didn't know that motor motorcycle accident maybe a year ago two wow yeah yep yeah I mean they rest in peace curdy I guess but yeah yeah they had him they had uh Zang's they had uh McCabe was nasty they Tyler Tyler Barnes was pretty good who was the big uh who was the big forward merch merch merch is good they had frank we took it to him we took it to him gior and and and you know it's funny is the next game we played fair state yes who took it to us absolutely that was the hardest game I've still ever played in any level of hockey I think I it was double OT I I think I played 40 close to 40 minutes over 40 I think and uh it would every shift was just miserable just hemmed in the entire time couldn't wingers couldn't get the puck out yes that's when that's what jax always tells a story in double OT when I come down or is in it was in single OT when I come down to the forward end we get hemmed in so it's a long shift I'm out there for like a minute at this point maybe a minute probably a minute and a half to be honest and Rocco gets the puck finally we we get a breakout Rocco gets the puck skates it up gets a in between our own blue line and red line turnover right back down our throat we go back get hemmed in for another 15 30 seconds now okay now we get possession on the wall give it to O'Donnell O'Donnell has a little bit of a break skates it tries to make some slip play turnover right at our blue line right back down our throat rocky gets another he gets it again blows a tire right at our blue line again right down our throat we're hemmed in for like it was like a legitimate three minute shift maybe even a little bit longer at least that's what it felt like but it was for sure three and I get back to the bench and I'm huffing and puffing I need the fucking oxygen tank because I'm just bang I

had my boy Simmer just sitting in front of the net and I his job was in front of the net mine was the corner so I'm just you know all over the place I get back on the bench and I immediately go down like to the halfway point where the grocery stick who the guys aren't playing on the forward end in between the D and the forward and I just ream them out I just like if you fucking assholes don't get the puck out I'm gonna come down there and kick the shit out of you and Jackson just like looks at me like oh shit and then he always tells a story but it was just like I was seeing red bro I I remember that I was so pissed off at those dipshits they just chip it out let me get off yeah yeah there so many turnovers so many giveaways the forwards just weren't getting it out and it was funny because like you if you get hemmed in by you know let's just say uh this Michigan team or Penn State you're probably getting scored on but we're playing Fair State so they're just whipping pucks from corners and shit like and just retrieving them and whipping it again and retrieving it I think they had like 50 shots at the end of the game because they're just ripping the puck at the net from any angle. 00:33:57.839 --> 00:35:41.679 Yeah um that was a hilarious game one of the funniest games we got out of there just somehow some way it wasn't pretty too like we we we show up to Cincinnati at the US Bank Arena at the time the fucking busy hits a curb we're stuck the bus is broke we got an Uber to the hotel like we're in this shitty locker room that's like a makeshift referee locker when we win the first game they're like you guys want to you know take out one of the teams that just lost room like we can go to the one seed Wisconsin we're like nope we'll keep it in here we got these carabiners to hang our jock straps up so that was it was just everything a four seed had written all over it but yeah that was that was a fucking hell of a dub we we snuck out of it but Ozzo I got so you got Michigan you got Denver you got Mich State and the Sioux who do you got winning that game between Michigan and Denver you got Michigan I got Michigan okay yeah I got du there and then I got the Sioux obviously over Michigan State um what's your final score in that game Michigan Nodak Michigan Nodak um yeah I was gonna go 4-2 yeah I got four two but they're playing Denver empty netter up three two empty netter um maybe even five two i maybe there's some time to change that because sometimes in these games there's sometimes there's two empty netters um but yeah yeah I I I I just think and I I'm not even being that biased when I'm when I'm picking my winners here this year Jordo like I actually do think North Dakota has a good path to that national championship game and it's very realistic for them to win that game. 00:35:41.920 --> 00:35:56.559 No I'm 100% with you I I like their mojo um and I'm gonna be tuned in especially um as we get going here I mean I think they're playing what tomorrow

night already uh playing tomorrow night where are you gonna watch on Saturday if they win that game? 00:35:56.800 --> 00:36:24.559 I'm gonna watch it back here in AZ because I'm sliding to Vegas uh tomorrow morning just in and out we're doing the it's hilarious celebrities of the game just a bunch of Z listers but we're doing the pregame siren at the game it's pretty sick unreal one by three yeah so that'll be great that'll be pretty cool usually it's like fucking little John or Steve Aoki and now they got a bunch of Z listers people are gonna be like huh who the fuck is they get the Bronx cheers you know so it'll be pretty sick though. 00:36:24.639 --> 00:36:37.199 Good on uh shout out to the Vegas Knights man for yeah their uh PR team and their social media team for putting the boys on that was cool um they're good people there and they're like legitimately fans of the show so it's it's oh that's huge they're letting us do this. 00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:50.000 Yeah it's it's I mean last year we did that podcast outside of the arena and the homeless guy came by I don't know if you remember that it was just like this dude all jacked up on Mount Have you have you been to a game at Vegas? 00:36:50.079 --> 00:40:44.559 I've heard it's sick too those games are nasty yeah yeah I actually I played there back in the day the first year of the league really yeah yeah I played would you would you have that up there as like one of your best experiences like fan experiences arena experiences playing in a hockey game because that's what I for that's what hackstall told me yeah for sure and that was year one too when they had the go-go dancers on the glass and warm-ups on the visiting side so you they literally had strippers on the glass and they had to mix that um because the league you know they'd rather have pride tape but yeah that was uh that was pretty sweet um and it was i mean going to that arena that first year I was like what the fuck is this you know like there's no hockey fans here these people are basically just coming from the clubs you know Vegas the hockey scene like the fans like they don't really know what's going on but they're here just to party uh you know the the fortress the DJs it was just a whole show man I was like what what is this this is I wanna I want to play here this is pretty sad yeah you can imagine how the uh the knights get a little advantage playing the away team there yeah and I just think like you know if we got some guys listening to the show that play for North Dakota or any other college that are in the tournament like boys get your ass like do and I know you're gonna do everything you can but get your fucking ass in gear here because to play in that arena for the frozen four is gonna be oh that's gonna be all time yeah imagine winning it there oh my god I mean hold the bird let's uh hopefully yeah hopefully a couple guys don't end up in prison or jail there but fuck that would be unbelievable yeah any college players listening to this probably not if there are do whatever you fucking can to get to the frozen four yeah like if you're William Shaves the AD at UND and and the boys win it all in Vegas like you gotta go up to the captain and just be like you know strings or even liver here's the you know here's a company card a take it to Hawkison oh yeah you're you're going out with the donors for sure they they've got a place rented out for you don't worry there there'll be chicks in there for you yeah that's my god yeah if you can't get laid there after that turn your wrench in if you're a single guy oh my god that is gonna be incredible so I can't wait to watch I will be tuned in Oswald this is kind of the time of year obviously um you know my school spirit and in in UND pride really rises to the occasion it's always there you know we we do our one trip a year in in October November for usually it's the Minnesota series um but this is the the real time of year with a play as play so can't wait it is I'm happy to I'm I'm so excited to watch him play in this tournament again it feels like I hope it's every year for now for a while yep that we're playing in this tournament but I'm so pumped to watch it man it's imagine those jitters those those boys have tonight too fuck I know yeah you're in sitting there in Sioux Falls you're just like holy it's gonna be painted green you're gonna have that rink looks thick too I don't know why they've got such a big rink in Sioux Falls but that place looks snails it's massive it's like 12 000 maybe what are they what do they have that that's not where the Stampede play is it yeah it is yep so they just box off the upstairs for the Stampede games and sell at the bowl or what yeah I would say the odd teddy bear toss or dollar beer night they could maybe sell it out but it's probably more so based for concerts that come into Sioux Falls because they do they do get a lot of big acts there um in Sioux Falls especially country yeah so yeah I think it's just a it's a multipurpose facility there and then Augustana has their own rink you remember that old you remember that old Sioux Falls Stampede rink did you play in it? 00:40:44.719 --> 00:44:00.639 Oh yeah yeah it was like it was the size of a shoebox it was tiny you could score from your own blue line that was a good shot the the ice was tiny yeah that's what I'm saying it's crazy yeah it was nuts that's kind of where I thought they were playing initially you know I didn't even know they got a new rink I was like fuck they're they're heading to the stampede yeah that's like an old auditorium that place that place was Jesus yeah that wasn't that was not perfect there but so they probably bust down to Sioux Falls because it's not that far right yeah I was wondering that they probably got it it's like four hours yeah four and a hook Sioux Falls yeah this place looks hilarious I'm looking at pictures oh my god of the old barn yeah oh god that's like that's like semi pro shit it was

yeah it was um I remember I played a playoff there and it was the only time I've ever been on the ice where we got scored on three on five I don't know if that's ever happened to me we did the we did the double drop and I realized the guy was not Herbie my boy Caleb Herbert was not behind me wasn't there we did why are we doing a double drop on a five on three I don't know but it was a breakway either Christian Isaacson tucked or it was someone one of those guys yeah it was that was the only time I ever got scored on a three on five but hilarious yeah that was classic bro yeah it's gonna be a good weekend Azzo it's uh we got this we got opening day in baseball I was looking at that baseball schedule these fucking assholes like how do you even do that man you play every goddamn day i never i know your heart rate never gets above 62 beats per minute but that's like fuck that even standing on the in the outfield for that many that many days out of a month they play like 20 games a month you're standing in the outfield 20 nights out of the month just standing it's more than that yeah it was I was it's crazy they get they get one to two days off a month like that's days off of not playing that let let alone like away from the park and those guys they go to the facility on a game day at like noon and they just sit there and just chew and tug their wrench and take Adderall and drink a raid and that's baseball that is that's the definition of ball I I can't imagine I you like think of how long a hockey season gets when you're you the college hockey season is a joke but think of how long a pro season gets when you're playing 70 80 games that's insane now now try doubling that yeah it's it's fucking nuts are you you're not gonna slide to Sioux Falls are you no I I I'm gonna watch from my house to uh tomorrow night and then I'm actually flying to the Bahamas on Saturday so I can't go oh no way a little vacay yeah a little vacay a little seven day or in the Bahamas nice be a good time swing swing the sticks a couple times just more so relax eat good food yeah that's nice it'll be nice get out of the fucking cold for a bit is it still cold there or is it it was actually it was actually I saw my truck it got to 80 degrees here today it's gotta be hot down in Arizona eh oh it's an absolute oven dude it's a hundred already already yeah it's not perfect I know. 00:44:01.440 --> 00:44:03.920 Those snowbirds gotta be coming back soon, then. 00:44:04.159 --> 00:44:10.639 Yeah, it's gonna cool off this weekend, but the last week has just been it's it's been just downright, just rude, you know. 00:44:10.800 --> 00:44:13.760 Like yeah, you don't need 105 and in March. 00:44:13.920 --> 00:44:15.519 Like that's just that should be illegal. 00:44:15.679 --> 00:44:16.719 Yeah, that's tough. 00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:18.880 So that's that's way too early. 00:44:19.119 --> 00:44:22.239 Yeah, it's um I got some buddies going down there on a batcher party. 00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:24.880 I was supposed to go, but I gotta go on this trip instead. 00:44:25.039 --> 00:44:27.920 Uh you are you you're going with the missus, or are you going with anyone else? 00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:28.800 Just you two, yeah. 00:44:28.880 --> 00:44:31.039 I'm going with the missus and their and her parents. 00:44:31.280 --> 00:44:32.159 Oh, nice. 00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:35.679 At least you don't gotta entertain anyone else, then really you can just chill. 00:44:35.920 --> 00:44:38.880 Oh, yeah, just just chill, like do what we want. 00:44:39.039 --> 00:44:39.360 Yeah. 00:44:39.440 --> 00:44:42.800 Um, obviously, you know, I'm just kind of a mooch on these trips. 00:44:42.880 --> 00:44:48.400 Like, parents kind of pay for you know our room and all that shit, which is unbelievable. 00:44:48.480 --> 00:44:50.719 They're great, but yeah, it'll be awesome. 00:44:50.800 --> 00:44:52.480 I'm excited to go down there with us. 00:44:52.559 --> 00:45:00.400 Like, you're kind of comfortable with everyone, you know, you're not going with rant, like just friends and stuff, so you don't have to ask people like what to do, like what should we do today? 00:45:00.639 --> 00:45:01.920 Kind of just make your own decision. 00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:03.760 Yeah, you don't have to, it's always the worst. 00:45:03.840 --> 00:45:08.239 And I look, I like uh we we've talked about group trips on this before, and they're fine if you do them right. 00:45:08.320 --> 00:45:16.159 But sometimes if you're going on those where you know, you're just you're you're waking up and you're getting a text at like nine in the morning, and where's breakfast? 00:45:16.320 --> 00:45:31.679 Dude, I'll let me get to noon before we reconvene, you know, especially if we're not like you know, don't have a tea time, yeah, we're not playing tennis, we're not going on a boat, or we're just hanging out, just give me till like noon, dog, you know, like for sure. 00:45:31.840 --> 00:45:35.199 Or you get that text at like eight, twelve in the morning, got you a spot at the pool. 00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:37.280 It's like, dude, I don't want to see you yet, you know. 00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:40.159 Like that makes me want to go work out right now. 00:45:41.679 --> 00:45:43.039 Oh, it's hilarious. 00:45:43.199 --> 00:45:46.639 Yeah, I was thinking I and what I gotta ask your thoughts, Troto. 00:45:46.800 --> 00:45:53.840 Do you think the other boys at the uh on the Sioux trip do you think they're hoping to go golfing? 00:45:54.079 --> 00:45:56.480 Or do you think they're hoping to do what we're doing? 00:45:56.719 --> 00:46:00.719 Well, obviously, the cats out of the bag, we're not gonna be golfing this year on the Sioux golf. 00:46:01.039 --> 00:46:03.920 Yeah, I mean, we might be, but which is in Chicago. 00:46:04.079 --> 00:46:06.800 Um, yeah, we're we're probably not gonna golf. 00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:11.119 Um, we're probably gonna still a golf trip, but still a golf trip at the end of the day.

00:46:11.199 --> 00:46:15.119 I mean, we've golfed more years than we haven't, you know. 00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:17.920 If there's been 10 trips, we've golfed six. 00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:21.360 At least once, too. 00:46:21.679 --> 00:46:27.920 You know, but you know, like guys always finish the 18, but guys, guys have played holes, you know. 00:46:28.079 --> 00:46:32.960 The best was in Nashville, and I'm not gonna name names here because that's not what we do at live and five. 00:46:33.199 --> 00:46:49.360 But the best was in Nashville three years ago when we all decided before the trip leave the wrenches at home, and guys shamelessly brought their wrenches because they had to tell their significant other, hey, we're we're we're playing, so you know it's a golf trip. 00:46:49.440 --> 00:46:58.320 That's because that's the only way that they get to come, is if it's like why do we have to golf in order for you know all of our wives to say yes, you can go? 00:46:58.559 --> 00:47:01.599 I I don't know, so it's like they want they want you to be golfing. 00:47:01.679 --> 00:47:06.480 It's like, dude, we're not gonna I'll bring my sticks, but we're not gonna golf. 00:47:06.800 --> 00:47:09.440 Why does why does golf validate the trip? 00:47:09.599 --> 00:47:11.920 Yeah, like we're going to war with each other. 00:47:12.159 --> 00:47:14.480 Either way, we're getting shit faced, you know. 00:47:14.719 --> 00:47:15.920 We're getting really drunk. 00:47:16.079 --> 00:47:21.519 I know you don't want me coming home hung over, but I'm coming home hung over, and that's just the way it's gonna be. 00:47:21.760 --> 00:47:24.320 Yes, yeah, it's gonna be funny, man. 00:47:24.400 --> 00:47:31.760 Um, I'm working on the the cubby's group tickets right now, and then I'm gonna uh we're gonna get the the boat dialed in. 00:47:31.840 --> 00:47:34.800 And I mean, I mean, I think this sounds unbelievable. 00:47:35.039 --> 00:47:40.960 And then the um yeah, the golf is uh I think it's an afterthought, but well, we don't you never know. 00:47:41.440 --> 00:47:42.159 We might golf. 00:47:42.239 --> 00:47:50.400 We might yeah, I mean we might hit a mini putt, or we might get one of those you know, little putting greens in the house so guys can roll some nuggets if they need to. 00:47:51.840 --> 00:47:54.159 That's always fun to do, like when you get home from the bar. 00:47:54.559 --> 00:47:57.360 Yeah, yeah, no, it's uh I can't wait though, fella. 00:47:57.519 --> 00:48:02.800 Just being in Chicago a couple weeks ago, obviously talking about the runner that I went on, don't need to address it again. 00:48:02.880 --> 00:48:05.039 But my god, does that city fuck? 00:48:05.119 --> 00:48:06.400 Uh I can't wait, dude. 00:48:06.480 --> 00:48:08.320 We we haven't we've never been there as a group. 00:48:08.719 --> 00:48:12.480 Chicago is a city kind of made for our group a little bit. 00:48:12.559 --> 00:48:13.360 I mean 100%. 00:48:13.679 --> 00:48:15.360 We're gonna tear that place up. 00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:21.360 Yeah, it's it's you don't need the clubs to to get the sparklers out to get real estate. 00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:23.519 You don't need to spend ten thousand dollars a night. 00:48:23.679 --> 00:48:27.760 You have unbelievable bars you can go in and acquire and acquire real estate. 00:48:27.920 --> 00:48:29.519 You could have a good dinner if you want to. 00:48:29.599 --> 00:48:31.920 You can go to a Cubs game and bop around Brigleyville. 00:48:32.079 --> 00:48:35.039 You can go on the lake and enjoy the river and the lake. 00:48:35.119 --> 00:48:40.800 Um, and it's a walkable city where you don't really have to get an Uber, you can just walk to a bar and then there's another bar. 00:48:40.880 --> 00:48:42.239 Oh, and then there's another bar. 00:48:42.480 --> 00:48:45.599 So yeah, it's uh I can't wait, man. 00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:48.400 Um, we'll see who's on the roster this year. 00:48:48.559 --> 00:48:49.360 Uh we'll see. 00:48:49.760 --> 00:48:52.000 Couple guys, couple guys dragging their feet. 00:48:52.159 --> 00:48:54.079 Yep, that's how it's happens every year. 00:48:54.320 --> 00:48:56.239 Couple guys having kids, that happens. 00:48:56.320 --> 00:48:57.039 That's baseball. 00:48:57.199 --> 00:49:01.360 Couple guys have work obligations, and some guys, frankly, just get scared. 00:49:01.519 --> 00:49:04.480 So uh it'll be good to have Troy Stetcher back in the mix. 00:49:04.559 --> 00:49:05.679 Hopefully, he makes it. 00:49:05.920 --> 00:49:10.400 And um and Brock Besser is gonna be bullied into another trip. 00:49:10.480 --> 00:49:11.599 I'm sure he'll leave early. 00:49:11.679 --> 00:49:13.599 Um, it's a classic play from Bess. 00:49:14.000 --> 00:49:15.760 He's a guy that can't go three or four. 00:49:15.840 --> 00:49:19.280 So if you're listening, Brock, you know that I would tell that to your face. 00:49:19.679 --> 00:49:20.239 Oh, yeah. 00:49:20.320 --> 00:49:21.679 Yeah, there's no way he can handle it. 00:49:21.760 --> 00:49:25.760 He'll be in, he'll come in maybe Wednesday night, fly out Friday afternoon. 00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:26.559 Yep, yep. 00:49:26.719 --> 00:49:30.000 Come in the day before where it's a little bit more tame. 00:49:30.159 --> 00:49:32.960 Uh, I hope we get jacks and and hack back in the mix. 00:49:33.440 --> 00:49:35.599 Those are great ads, great ads last year. 00:49:35.679 --> 00:49:36.880 But yeah, it's getting to that time. 00:49:36.960 --> 00:49:37.599 It was so funny. 00:49:37.679 --> 00:49:48.239 I was texting with Rico on the side, and you know, our buddy Colton Sanderson, that is, and he's he was like legitimately like worried or sad that there's not enough buzz around year 10. 00:49:49.599 --> 00:50:00.960 I'm like Rico, like I think everyone's just you know, we're kind of older now, like we we know everyone's excited, it's not like yeah, we're just not gonna we're not gonna express it right like we did when we were 23. 00:50:01.199 --> 00:50:01.440 Right.

00:50:01.599 --> 00:50:03.280 I mean, people are just busier. 00:50:03.440 --> 00:50:04.719 There's that shit that comes up. 00:50:04.800 --> 00:50:05.679 People have kids now. 00:50:06.079 --> 00:50:08.719 He's he's sad there's not more buzz around here, Ted. 00:50:08.960 --> 00:50:09.440 Oh, yeah, yeah. 00:50:09.519 --> 00:50:10.480 He's like, what's going on? 00:50:10.559 --> 00:50:13.599 Like, are we is this like the last he's like, is this gonna be like the last year of it? 00:50:13.679 --> 00:50:14.719 Like, he's getting like nervous. 00:50:14.880 --> 00:50:17.519 Like, I'm like, dude, I think we're all right, man. 00:50:17.599 --> 00:50:19.119 It's you know, we got we got good mojo. 00:50:19.280 --> 00:50:21.119 So it always works out, trust me. 00:50:21.199 --> 00:50:25.039 Yeah, I mean, that's the way this group is, that's the way we've been trending. 00:50:25.199 --> 00:50:30.480 Yeah, and we've we've given it our all every all all nine years. 00:50:30.719 --> 00:50:31.360 Damn, dude. 00:50:31.519 --> 00:50:32.480 Yeah, we really have. 00:50:32.639 --> 00:50:41.199 So 10 years on the slate on the docket Chicago IEL will not release the dates for that because that stays internal over here. 00:50:41.760 --> 00:50:45.760 Ozzo, this week's People's Insider term of the week is here. 00:50:46.239 --> 00:50:52.960 And this week's People's Insider Term of the Week is a Chili Willy. 00:50:53.519 --> 00:50:57.599 Now, a chili willy, let me back it up for some context here. 00:50:58.000 --> 00:51:07.360 Ozzo, I'm gonna take you back to 2008, my first time ever on the campus of the University of Madison, uh, Wisconsin. 00:51:07.679 --> 00:51:11.360 It was Halloween weekend, and I was playing for the Chicago mission at the time. 00:51:11.599 --> 00:51:16.480 We had a showcase at Madison Ice Arena, aka Cap Ice. 00:51:17.360 --> 00:51:25.199 And prior to one of these games, the Saturday night in Madison, arguably the biggest night on the college was Halloween. 00:51:25.679 --> 00:51:26.559 So, what did we do? 00:51:26.719 --> 00:51:33.119 Well, I was 15 and I went out with some older teammates that night, and we put on an absolute clinic on State Street. 00:51:33.440 --> 00:51:39.760 I had never seen women with less clothing, I had never seen the amount of piss being funneled. 00:51:39.840 --> 00:51:46.159 I was wide-eyed, I had drank a few times in my life, but I had never played a college-like big league effort. 00:51:46.880 --> 00:51:54.000 So I'm on State Street, and we end up in this basement just off of Langdon Street on Frat Row at the University of Madison. 00:51:54.079 --> 00:51:55.599 And we're in a basement, it's low lit. 00:51:55.679 --> 00:52:01.760 There's people grinding, juking, smoking, drinking, having a good time, anywhere from 18 to 22 years old. 00:52:01.920 --> 00:52:06.559 And there's a young Jay Swish, 15 at the time, my friend didn't even have my license. 00:52:06.719 --> 00:52:13.119 And I'm down in this basement, and this guy comes up to me and he offers me what is called a chili willy. 00:52:13.280 --> 00:52:15.679 And he's like, Do you want a chili willy, young fella? 00:52:16.159 --> 00:52:18.800 And I go, sure, what is it? 00:52:19.840 --> 00:52:28.159 He puts a shot of vodka on a bottle cap, on an upside-down bottle cap of the vodka, and he goes, snort this. 00:52:28.719 --> 00:52:29.519 So what did I do? 00:52:29.599 --> 00:52:33.039 I oblige, I snorted that, and I had my first ever chili willy. 00:52:33.119 --> 00:52:36.000 Now, I don't recommend this to anyone, a chili willy. 00:52:36.079 --> 00:52:44.480 I took that to the University of North Dakota, and I may or may not have made a guy like Gay Josmis, a class below me, do a chili willy. 00:52:44.559 --> 00:52:49.199 So we brought that tradition from 2008 to 2012. 00:52:49.840 --> 00:52:58.400 And for anyone in college right now, I don't recommend a chili willy, but my god, snorting a shot is called a chili willy, often referred to. 00:52:58.639 --> 00:53:00.239 And what a buzz that is, fella. 00:53:00.400 --> 00:53:01.599 Don't do too many of them. 00:53:01.679 --> 00:53:06.719 But you know who loved a good chili willy was my roommate Zane McIntyre. 00:53:06.880 --> 00:53:09.760 So that's this week's People's Insider Tribe of the Week. 00:53:10.159 --> 00:53:14.400 Zayno used to do them without even being asked or forced. 00:53:14.639 --> 00:53:16.639 He just do them because he liked them. 00:53:19.679 --> 00:53:22.159 Dude, those things used to fuck you up, man. 00:53:22.239 --> 00:53:25.599 Oh those chili willies, those were dangerous, dude. 00:53:25.920 --> 00:53:26.320 Bad. 00:53:26.480 --> 00:53:27.760 Yeah, that's they work. 00:53:28.159 --> 00:53:30.000 They work, they do work. 00:53:30.239 --> 00:53:33.599 That might be worse than snorting, you know, some some other stuff. 00:53:34.159 --> 00:53:39.920 Um, but yeah, those those hit like those hit like Joe Frazier, brother. 00:53:40.559 --> 00:53:41.119 They do. 00:53:41.199 --> 00:53:42.880 That's a that's a hell of a call. 00:53:43.039 --> 00:53:44.400 Thanks for bringing that up again. 00:53:44.559 --> 00:53:45.360 God damn, dude. 00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:46.320 The chili wheelie. 00:53:46.400 --> 00:53:48.159 So Ozzo, I gotta run. 00:53:48.239 --> 00:53:50.960 I'm meeting Mikey Schmaltz for dinner right now. 00:53:51.119 --> 00:53:52.960 Um, I'm gonna go see the old man. 00:53:53.199 --> 00:53:53.840 Unreal. 00:53:54.000 --> 00:53:56.320 So, yeah, he's obviously lives down here now. 00:53:56.400 --> 00:54:00.800 Um, he's a snowbird himself, but uh the amount I'm on the road and shit like that. 00:54:00.880 --> 00:54:01.840 Don't get to see him a ton. 00:54:01.920 --> 00:54:03.920 So gonna go meet Mikey Schmaltz for dinner. 00:54:04.000 --> 00:54:06.000 I'll tell him the captain says what's up. 00:54:06.239 --> 00:54:07.280 Tell him I saw it up. 00:54:07.599 --> 00:54:08.320 I will, brother. 00:54:08.480 --> 00:54:13.039 Um, and yeah, that was Live and Five, episode 116. 00:54:13.199 --> 00:54:14.559 Folks, thanks for tuning in. 00:54:14.639 --> 00:54:16.800 It was the college hockey preview. 00:54:17.039 --> 00:54:22.320 Um, Ozzo, we might have to do a chili wheelie uh for old time's sake in in Chicago, maybe. 00:54:22.400 --> 00:54:23.519 I'm kind of scared to be honest. 00:54:23.599 --> 00:54:25.280 I'm I don't know if I got that in me anymore. 00:54:25.519 --> 00:54:26.400 I think we gotta do it now. 00:54:27.840 --> 00:54:30.880 Ooh, that's a lot of vodka right to the dome. 00:54:30.960 --> 00:54:34.239 But Ozzo, always good snapping it with you, brother. 00:54:34.400 --> 00:54:35.679 I appreciate your time. 00:54:35.840 --> 00:54:38.159 Um, and we'll talk after the weekend, brother. 00:54:38.320 --> 00:54:39.360 Folks, stay safe out there. 00:54:39.519 --> 00:54:40.800 Go sue, baby. 00:54:41.039 --> 00:54:42.480 Let's go sue. 00:54:42.639 --> 00:54:43.199 Woo!