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You're real good. You're real good. You're real good I'm so tired, but I can't sleep Ladies and gentlemen, hello and welcome Yeah, just do another edition of Nick's Best Worst Canadian Sports Podcast That's right real good show is back with you again for a real sad show Oh, is that just like a shitty pun because it was I will remember you? I know.
I guess that was uh, yeah, we're gonna remember him forever. We're technically named after him true Well named after one of his nervous ticks. Yeah, um, I mean Benning still says it too though Yeah, real good episode 86 just more set with you again with me as always is step and hack John Cullen This episode brought to you by Ernest ice cream the importance of being earnest Well, that was a real wild pun Ernest ice cream is good. It is brought to us technically by well Because the importance of being earnest was written by Oscar Wilde.
Yes, I know you understand But we have a lot of dumb stupid ass listeners that be like, well, I don't get it. Well, so there you go Oscar Wilde notorious I'm sure he's probably knew that I would uh, I would uh, I would uh, I would hope so I would put all their money into that knowing that and not our pod if we want to go local I'm down to talk to Ernest ice cream about getting sponsored by them. Yeah, like they're great Oh, absolutely best ice cream if we can sparring or shine as much better We can I do like a really team then an ice cream company can sponsor a podcast. I think we yeah, we do whatever we want Um, I think we've certainly proved that over 85 Absolutely our little league team they love us and I don't know why they destroyed the tournament too Yeah, they went five and oh undefeated in the tournament hoist of the trophy I think they won their first exhibition game the regular season opener was canceled, but then they played on sunday They did but that was an exhibition.
Oh, another one that one and Ryan. Uh, how do you do? I don't know they didn't give me an update. Although we did get an update that Ryan has listened to the show So it's kind of a miracle that we're still sponsoring the right if you're listening now.
Make sure your homework's done Yep, uh brush your teeth and also remember you could kill Stefan with your bare hands. No question. You could kill John too. Maybe No, there's not this bare hands.
Yeah, yeah, but yeah for sure you could Be with a pitch that if you are listening whenever you hit a home run, you know what that means that girls in the stands Will want to kiss you? Happen when I hit home runs and feel free blocks of ladies feel free to like Run away from them at the end of every car this night. Absolutely. I don't know if we can happen once if we Did he do any bad flips when no, no kids bad flip It was a triple so I'm excited to see if he does throw down any bad flips for us That's gonna be one of the storylines of the season.
I think but enough about our Our vanity project Bless their souls though and they've got more games coming up. I think every saturday basically we're hoping to be out there Yeah, at hillcrest didn't happen this week because of probably weather. I believe we never got a reason for why the game was quite wise pouring right now Yeah, that's why I was slightly misting. I thought I was surprised it was pouring pretty good.
Oh, it'd be in your neck of the woods So it's fine where I was okay. We're talking about the weather from last Saturday. Yeah, this is real hot content We live like 10 minutes apart. I can't remember being hot content.
Okay. What was the weather like in Vancouver this week? You know what that would be awesome. That would be pretty awesome if there was like someone that tuned in just for like god I wish they talk about the weather already.
What's it like out there? I live in Buffalo and it's snowing here. What's going on over there? No, I don't know.
I don't know. I just did all the way off. The season is over for Vancouver. Oh, the shardom is fired Yeah, we got a lot of weather.
It was down pouring or just lightly misting. I was just I don't know any reasons why our little league team may have had their game to cancel I don't think it was a downpour. I was a downpour for sure. It was a downpour for sure.
You were in the middle of the flu You had no idea what's sleeping on the couch. I woke up at like 7 a.m. So it's harder to tell your higher up in a building. It's harder to tell them because like for me You can look down at like the puddles and get a better sense of like how hard it's raining.
It's true It is hard to see what's happening to all the little people exactly. It's great. It's great. Um, okay.
Well, let's just take a quick look here in a seven day forecast You have some people to thank? It's tomorrow. It's supposed to be partly cloudy. No, no, no, partly cloudy plus 12 low of seven on Wednesday The rain will return following up for four day Saturday what Saturday look like Saturday is supposed to be great.
We do have a game on Wednesday as well Really? We do. Yeah, it's supposed to rain on Wednesday and Saturday. Top start to the season for the real good jokers Absolutely.
Uh, top start to the show. The rain is no joke. Um, where should we begin things there? Well, we got to take care of business first and then we will and then we'll get into it.
It's playoff time, John. It is playoff time for my team. That's for sure It's a time for five of seven teams in Canada. It's probably a number of our American listeners.
It's playoff time for them as well. Absolutely Uh, whether you're of course a fan of basketball or hockey, uh, the playoffs are here. Yeah, baseball season's also started. Yeah, I'll have to get you off the playoff track.
But I mean, there's playoffs and baseball. I'm completely derailed at this point. They're they're a good ways away, but they have them. Well, what relevance does that have?
Well, if you wanted to get tickets for that, I'm just saying if you want to get tickets for a baseball game, you can also do that now. Like, siki is hopping right now. That's true. That's true.
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It's probably got that. Who is that? Everything but the girl? Oh, that's the band.
Yeah. That was the song. That's Joe. This song is missing.
She's gonna live there anymore. Let's just do this. Hot show. Hot.
They're probably touring. They're coming to your town. They're from some weird. They're like from the Czech Republic or some shit.
They're not touring. They might be dead. Everything. I miss them.
And I miss you. Like the deserts missed the rain. They were formed in 1982. Not downpour.
Probably just like a light mist. They're from England. They're from England. They are still to.
Oh, no, they're currently inactive though. Vocalist, Tracy Thorn, hinted they may perform again someday if the demand is there, but they have not performed publicly since 2000. Well, I feel like we are sparking the demand right now. No matter what is going on sports wise music wise, the best place to buy and sell tickets to any upcoming event is of course the seat.
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This is like such a dedicated wiki entirely for them or is it just like a separate article? No, it's a separate everything but the wiki and it is a it's dedicated. So this is such a 90s music quote. Even though she said it in 2012, it's very funny.
Or no, sorry, this is the guy member of the band. Yeah, it's Tracy Thorne and Ben Watt. So Ben Watt says, In 2012, Watt recalled a lackluster feeling from the late 1990s during the latter years of everything but the girl. Self-awareness is a dangerous thing.
By about the third or fourth record, people were throwing comparisons at us and you have to be very tough to withstand it. And by the end of the 90s, we were playing to 5,000 people at night. I'd stand on stage looking out thinking, I don't want to be this big. Well, you're wish was granted.
Absolutely. The one finger on the monkey's paw retracted. So funny, like I just that's such a 90s thing. Yeah, we just didn't really want to be.
You know what though? I can kind of relate. Like I'm kind of happy that our podcast is like where it's at right now. I feel like we're like successful but not successful enough that there's people who dedicate like huge chunks of their lives to policing our every word.
We're like Canada's ex problematic. We're like Canada's ex problematic. As far as podcasts go. Yeah, I mean we weren't nominated for a Canadian comedy award.
We should talk about that more often. Yeah, I know right. It's big swing and dicks around here. I don't know what big.
Well, yeah, your foreskin swings from the end of your day. That should be. It's like a double pendulum. It's like a Newton's cradle.
Oh, those are really cool. Yeah, they're the hinge on the end. No, no, the Newton's cradle is the one with the five balls or goes like, Oh, okay. I'm talking about the one where it's like, it's like got the hinge sort of and it's like moving.
You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's more like what you have a hinged dick. Well, the foreskin is.
I thought there's a little team out there that's sponsored by Dick's lumber. Yeah, absolutely hinged dick. That's come the big swing and dicks. That would be dope.
That'd be awesome. I saw there was a thing. Oh, but it was a big sponsor by the Illuminati. Did you see that?
Oh, that was really funny. And also someone reported that they were speaking of our show in Abby's Sports Shop, one of our rival little mountain sponsors. And they referred to us as a real big show. Yes.
Oh, thank you. Well, it's the real big show. And to you at Abby's, I say, fuck you, we're coming for your trophy. We only get one team.
Yeah, we got one team. You got like 10 at least. Yeah, fuck. Come on.
Just pick one and stick with it. Exactly. Yeah, we're never cheating on our boys. We could have sponsored 100 teams.
Yeah, exactly. We're coming to Vegas. Big swing and big. Yeah, what kind of message would that send?
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I would send hey, guess what? We don't give a shit about you, you know? Yeah, we do give a shit about these children now.
Yeah, yeah, we do. So much sons. They're all of our teammates sons, except they're not teenagers. Last week on the show, we got to thank some donors.
Yes, we've already interrupted. That's fine. That's fine. Yeah, we're on the official standings page now.
Two boys. I don't know if you saw that real good show. Big bang down there. Bottom.
Down at the bottom. Yeah, well, because I don't play a game yet. That will change. Oh, wow.
Main Street Physio, the team they're supposed to open the season against, won their first game 10 to 2. Yeah. So I don't have a type of tough. Oh, Abby's.
Look at that. Oh, and 2. 3 runs, 4, 16 against. No surprise.
So you'll have like 10 teams. Sealing their focus on. Yeah. They got another team in Majors B that also is 0 and 1.
And in the minors, no games are even scheduled. So thanks a lot. Abby's or should I call you? Tabby's.
You don't even know what the fuck our show is called. So guess what? Burn. Oh, thank our sponsor.
Yes, our donors. Let's play a song. You got zing. You just got Colin.
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Thank you for donating to the show. To the show. You work hard for your money that we know. That we know.
The segments where we read out all your names. All your names. If we say it wrong, your parents are to blame. Fuck your parents.
Two donors to thank this week. The first one comes in $5 and $1 sent from Tyler McEntee. Thank you, Tyler. Tyler.
Thank you, Tyler. He's a contributor to the Facebook group. Yes, yes. He is.
Absolutely. Seems like a good boy. Happy to welcome him into the donor group. Absolutely.
Thank you, Tyler. We don't actually have a donor group. But thank you for that. And also another.
I'm the group of donors who received the bonus. Yes, of course. And another donor who I believe is a longtime listener. Adam Pied.
Oh, yeah. That's a $5 to the show. So thank you for that, Adam. Thank you very much.
Last week, of course, we did announce that we would be rescinding the trading card segment going. Absolutely rescinded. I feel like that will probably make some people happy. But that might make some people sad also.
Because I feel like a lot of people did really like the Operation Desert Storm trading cards. Well, let's not push it. Let's say they tolerated it. Much like the American people tolerated it.
It doesn't sort as a whole. But to those people, I want you to know that just because you will no longer be treated to an audio unboxing podcast doesn't mean you will never get to see us do anything with those cards again. They will return. We do hope to actually visually open up some packs on YouTube.
Yeah, by packs, I mean Monday. Well, we are going to do it. Yeah, because Doug Lormann just sent us unpacking my day. We kind of have to do something because, yeah, right after we canceled, Doug Lormann just sent us the biggest stack of cards.
Oh, yeah. They're all over there. And they're all over there. Yeah, no, they're wonderful.
So we're going to do a whole bonus episode. They're all over the video on late 80s, early 90s cards from multiple different boards. There's gum in the packs. And I'm going to try and eat some of the gum.
Yeah, that's so nice. Yeah. Well, 25-year-old gum. We're going to bring Elizabeth into the show.
That's the best trading card. OK, Stefan dies from gum. I will probably. I'll try some of that too, Stefan.
Well, thank you, Heather. Thank you. I'd actually kill us. Now, Doug did send along a couple things in that package that were not trading cards.
So I am still going to give those to the two of you. Because it's like a gift. He got three of one thing in particular. So it's like he wanted us each to have one.
All right, sure. I felt like if we weren't going to open all of his cards, we could at least still honor him. When he came with the no way, should we be able to know? Should I read the letter cards?
Yeah, OK, OK. Let me just open this. Very sweet of you to send this. Thank you.
And we still welcome gifts. Ooh, I see Taylor Swift's autograph in the back. It says you are awesome. It's a Taylor Swift card.
Is it Singing Said Singing card? No. It says, Dear Justin, Stefan, and John, I just wanted to say thank you for all the laughs. The past few months have been hard for me.
Depression and stress is a horrible combo. As a thanks, here are a few packs of cards. I hope you enjoy Doug Lorman. What?
I was a sweet man. Thank you, Doug. That was a lot more sincere than I was expecting. I was trying to cry.
I couldn't read his handwriting. That's what he's reading. He is pretty stressed. So handwriting is tough.
I think it's a good combo. It's a hard one to make out of there. Thank you, Doug. Doug, we are happy to help you in any way that we can.
And thank you for being contributed to the Facebook channel. You are in our future YouTube channel. What he sent in that was not cards, but it's mildly card related. They're at fridge magnets.
Oh, my gosh. Of Grant Hill when he was playing for the Detroit Pistons. I think that's one magnet and multiple stickers in each pack. I just want to point out for the folks.
That was pretty great. All of the writing on this pack, even though it came out in 1997, is written in the font that like every old Macintosh computer from like 1989 has. It's like an old hacker font. Yeah.
And the thing is great. Grant Hill magnet. But then for some reason on the back it says with desire and courageous spirit comes results, positive results, reach high, be ambitious and be a winner. That's what we try to do here every week.
Absolutely. With our magnets. Yeah. So I'm going to put this on the fridge.
Yeah, I'm definitely going to put mine on the fridge. Sure. Yeah. I don't think it's really stickers.
It's just, it's just, you know, you just rip out the Grant Hill. Then it just has like a... It is magnetical. So weird.
Well, thank you, Doug. Thank you very much. I have no idea where he's having any of this stuff. I'm going to love having this on the fridge at home.
I'll carry. We'll probably hate it. And we do have a letter here which came from somebody who sent it on behalf of Yerki 21. On behalf of Yerki 21?
Well, he ordered it from somebody. Oh, okay. And I know it was him because he said he ordered two things from the same set and they both arrived in the same case. So we're going to open the big one only because he said that they will have the little one in it already.
And see what we have here. It's a box of M&M. He used as a container of some kind of... God damn it, it's all taped up.
Well, what can you do? We are still in Unboxed. We are still in Unboxed. What's described?
Oh, they are Pogs. They are NHL Pogs. NHL from the back. I can tell from the back there.
These are all Hartford Wailers. I'll give those to you right now. It might be the entire Hartford Wailers. Andrew Castles, Jandri Cass and Black and Darren Turcotte.
All right. These are unbelievable. Oh, and they're like official Pogs. It's got like the Pogs.
Jeff Sanderson and Pat Verbeek. It's more Hartford Wailers. I think they're all going to be Hartford Wailers. It's quite a few Canucks in there too.
It's pretty impressive that some guy on eBay just has NHL Pogs to the point where he can just sell you. And a Hartford Wailers slammer. Oh, no way. So some guy on eBay just has enough NHL Pogs where he's like, yeah, I'll send you out a complete set of Hartford Wailers.
Oh, and they're like Shonk. They're in like mint condition. Yeah, they're Paul Ranheim. He's like Brandon.
Chris Pronger, rookie, just the logo. Oh my God. And Robert Crone. Oh, Crone.
What a view. Well, thank you, Yorkie. Yes, that's awesome. Thank you for all of your gifts.
All right. I know. So when I met Yorkie and I met Yorkie's wife and children, which we have talked about on the show before, his wife told me that she was not surprised that he gave us gifts because he was always like really good at giving her gifts as well. I just wonder now if he doesn't give her gifts anymore.
I'm dedicated to the show. You want Hartford Wailers Pogs? You don't. Jim Sandlack and Jeff Sanderson.
Oh, perfect. It was all Hartford Wailers Pogs that he was interested in. Thank you, Yerke. And speaking of Yorkie and people getting things, Stefan, we have teased this for a very, very long time.
And then we found out, well, we were waiting for Tom to send us something for the fan art contest. And I think it turned out you'd never sent it. Yeah, he was doing a really stupid bit that we hated. Well, but we do that all the time for listening.
Yeah, I know. We're allowed to because it's our show. We're going to see the five winners of the fan art contest that get their own custom DJ draw. So they just, so they just, how are you?
The fan art contest was a car. I would say Tom pooped on it. He did poop on it. Oh, yeah, because he's the, he's just a car.
He's just assumed to be North Carolina pooper. Yeah. Now, they're the Raleigh pooper. I think they're moving around.
I think that's where the actual pooper relocated to. Okay. Because we saw the mystery. Oh, yeah, right.
Okay. So Stefan, so people are just going to email the show real good pot at gmail.com and tell us what they want their DJ drop to be. That works. So you can DM the show on Twitter.
Yeah, perfect. Yeah, but then that would be a little foil. Yeah. Yeah.
So here are the winners. We've got Tyson, Niwah, Niwah, Niwah, Niwah, I think. Yeah. Who did a John Tapper.
And John, John Tapper. Wow. MS paint, John, John Tapper. But he's still hand with his hands.
Oh, yeah. No, it's awesome. So congratulations, Tyson. That's that RGS never shut it down.
Yes, never shut it down. We've got Kaylee Crosby's daughter. Yes. Congratulations to Kaylee Crosby's daughter who did the perfect thing, which was drew myself and Stefan and gave up halfway through Justin.
I thought you didn't draw me. Wasn't that it? No, I'm pretty sure it was just. Okay.
Yeah. Oh, wait, the South Park one, the Street Fighter one. And I think there was one on the other. I don't want to.
Yeah, they were wonderful. So funny. Fantastic. So congratulations.
So that's Yerke. We got Marlin. Marlin Phillips. I don't even saw this.
We can post this. We'll post all the winners on Facebook. Yes. Because Marlin's was the, I don't remember the pornographic avoid the annoyed drawing that I found.
Yes. So we did that before we shot our faces into the Justin with the annoyed. No. Justin was the cool.
I'm like the Tropicana. The Hawaiian punch. Yeah. And then Aaron Warner, Vortobo.
Yes. And also the Darkwing Duck anal beads. Wow. We put our hats on each of the.
No, no, I don't remember that one. That's my choice. I've never actually seen that one. So the winners again, Tyson, Kaylee's daughter, Yerke, Marlin and Aaron.
Aaron also did the friendship ended with RGS. Oh, yeah. That was really good. Yeah, that was very fun.
And I'm just looking at Kaylee Crosby's daughters art right now. Yeah, we're all in there. It was, uh, it was Yerke also tried to get one of his kids into it. And she gave up without even drawing Stefan at all.
And only my head. Oh, okay. Okay. I was conflating the two people who were exploiting their children.
My dad. Oh, but finally announced the winners there. Perfect. Congratulations to all of our winners.
I'm excited to hear the D-D drops too. And, uh, speaking of winners, you guys kind of won today. I mean, a spiritual victory for the. It was a step.
It was a hollow victory. Yeah. I think my favorite thing about really getting fired is all the fans and pundits from like other teams being like, well, the real problem actually is the management. Oh, no shit.
Yeah. Really. I was not aware of that. Yeah, Willie Desardne got fired this morning as you probably know very well by this point.
And, um, yeah, it didn't take long at all for the takes from like even, see, I expect this sort of thing from like Tim and Sid, like somebody in Toronto is going to look at this team from the outside and be like, well, it's no, like, doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that this is a bad team, no matter who's going to be coaching it. Yeah. This is true. Okay.
Uh, but the, the power play, their special teams, the sedines falling off, nothing was helped by coaching at all this year or last year really even, but even more so this year. He didn't change anything about the power play all year long, loyal to a fall. Like how do you not make a single change when you're not scoring, you're not generating anything? God fucking Brandon Sutter soaking up every single like golden opportunity.
I don't know if you saw the report, but that just came out, but Jim Benning still considers Brandon Sutter a foundational player. Jesus Christ. Yeah. That quote was from today.
Jesus. Oh my God. So that's, I mean, again, I think my favorite Willie anecdote was when he was coaching with like Saskatchewan or something or, you know, was it, no, University of Regina, not, not, you know, we talked with this one. And he was like, uh, I guess there was like some kinesiology students just something like hooked him up to a heart monitor to see what it was like during the game.
And he's basically just continually having a heart attack in the entire game because he can't focus on anything and you can't, like he doesn't adjust at all. And like, like remember the shift chart from game one of the Calgary Vancouver series where literally one, it was, it was the one, two, three, four, the entire way through. He got out coached by Bob Hartley. Yeah.
He got coached out of the playoffs by Bob fucking Hartley. And like substantial, like badly coached in the playoffs. And like, Batchford reminded me of this in the Provis the other day. Like, this is a guy who last year, said at the end of the year, I have a lot of regrets about some of the decisions that I made.
And if I went back, I would do a lot of things differently. Well, he had the opportunity this year to do a lot of things differently, to make all of the changes that he could possibly ever want to make. And what did he do? He did what he does on the bench when he spoke up to a heart monitor.
He fucking had a freezing heart attack for the entire season. He didn't change anything about their power play. He stuck with guys, Jason fucking Megno with the twins for months on it. Like, I'll say, this is not a playoff team no matter who's coaching, but they could have finished like 21st.
It's funny if you had just played, if you had actually just played the young guys all season, he probably stole the job. Yeah. Because the fans, when it's, it's like a ceremony, like he coached really poorly. This man has the brain of a Golden Retriever.
He's a Golden Retriever. That seems kind of mean to like Golden Retrivers. Well, I mean, I love my Golden Retrivers. But Golden Retrivers can follow orders.
I guess that is true actually. He did not desert. There's no universe in which Willie Desjardins deserves another shot here next year. So the people who are saying, oh, what a sacrificial lamb.
He's totally not the guy who deserves to lose his job. He's not the only guy who deserves to lose his job, but he's definitely a guy who deserves to lose his job. I mean, the big thing is that it's, I'll just say one thing on this is that it's like the buffer zone thing. And you can already see it happening even on like on Twitter and on the Canucks subreddit.
People are like, yeah, you know, you know, when Willie's gone, like it's all on Benning. It's like, well, it was on Benning. It doesn't have to just be on one person. It was on Benning last year too.
Anyway, can I just give an outsider's perspective of the situation? Yes. The Toronto Maple Leafs are in the playoffs. They are.
I'm excited. I was really hoping for Auto-Waterano. I know. The first, the first round match ups fucking suck.
Yeah, I think it could have been so bad. It could have been so bad. It could have been so bad. It could have been so bad.
I agree on a high and we'll probably still be good. That'll be good. But obviously Calgary Edmonton would have been insane. Edmonton, San Jose is going to be good too.
That should have been good. But then like St. Louis, Minnesota. Nashville, Chicago, Toronto, Washington.
That'll be great. Well, Toronto, Ottawa would have been great because if it would have been pretty even. Yeah. I think Washington's going to win but I think Toronto is going to give them some trouble.
I think they'll steal a couple. I think they'll win a game or two. Would you have been upset? Although speaking of Tim and Sid, Sid's predicted today that the Leafs are going to win.
I mean, stranger things have happened. For sure. But I don't have a question. How would you be on the show today if they had not made the playoffs?
Oh well. It was, so people kept saying because the Micah McCurdy does the playoff odds. And at one, so after they won last Sunday, going into their game against Washington on Tuesday, or no, sorry on Monday, so they won last Monday against Buffalo. And then that gave them a 96% chance of making the playoffs.
So they had six days where they had to. They had six days and all they needed was two points in any combination of the Islanders and Tampa losing and Toronto winning and it took them until Saturday. It took five of those six days. If they had lost to Pittsburgh in regulation.
Yes. And they did lose the next day to Columbia. Would they have missed the playoffs? Because the Islanders won the last day.
And if Tampa won. Did Tampa not win? I don't know. I can't remember.
It was closer than it should have been. Yeah, way closer. But that would have been upsetting. Yeah.
Why? Well, okay. It would have been because- You're playing with found money right now. True.
It was a great chance to make the playoffs to six days to go. You're going to be disappointed. Okay. For sure.
It's not a matter what. Even though you weren't expecting necessarily a mess. It's kind of like the same thing where you guys are like 2011 was the worst. And I'm sitting here saying, well, you know, at least your team, you know, like the last time my team made the playoffs in an 82 game season, I was in first year university.
Yeah. And I'm now eight years into my career. And now we're at the beginning of that. Yeah, exactly.
But that's what I'm saying. So like, you know, because you guys were like, oh, 2011 was actually like part of the memories of that. Of course. But I'm just saying like, and that would have been the same as me.
I'm just saying, like I would have had a lot of positive memories. Obviously we had three rookies that went over 60 points. Austin Matthews looks like looted the bay and got a nice new tuxedo. That was your high point.
Yeah. Absolutely. The, the, I'm glad you liked your own joke. It's like, yeah, that was pretty great when I did that thing that I didn't actually do.
And I'm just making up. And I've already said on this podcast, I was too high and I was passed out of the carpet, which is true and great also. But I, but that would have been the thing. So I would have been happy because obviously our team looks set up really great.
Like I honestly think we are possibly like one or two good moves this summer away from being like a legit contender. Oh, you have a lot of caps based on it. Yeah. So it's kind of crazy.
So it would have been that whole thing of like, yeah, a lot of positive memories this season, but that end of the season was pretty crushing like to go through. So that, so in that time span, the Leafs played four games, Tampa played three games and the Islanders played three games. So they had to lose all their, they needed the outcome of 10 games to go exactly correct to miss the playoffs and they came within two games of that. But like on the flip side, you were like chewing your nails until the game was great.
Oh, I knew the season was over at the end of like game two. Guy, you're talking to the Leafs fan here. You don't think I know about lost seasons? We just finished one.
It was last season. We had the same point that you had this year. But also that was a lost season on purpose. Oh, of course, of course.
You guys, step up. And the thing is too that what I think is a bit lost in this as well is just like again, going back to your point about Willie is like the Leafs were tanking on purpose, but still like doing everything right. Like they kept me Lander in the AHL until he was like just too good and they had to bring him up. They kept Marner in junior even though he had a really, really good preseason.
They did a lot of those correct things where you're like, yeah, we're tanking on purpose, we're also giving rookies important. Nice time. They brought in veterans to mentor some of the rookies. That's the next season when you levy is playing for the Canucks.
But that's what I mean is like, so you guys didn't do any of that. You know, like betting makes these so-called good moves. We're keeping Jake Vertevin on the farm for now. Fair, fair.
He has to lose more weight still. So that's the thing though, and that's where I would be very frustrated if I was a Canucks fan is just that, yeah, betting finally does something positive that the trade deadline makes moves that you would hope a team in the Canucks position would make acquiring Gold Dovin and who else? Dolly, for Berber. Oh yeah, Dolly.
That's right. So, you know, he's making those moves. They're an investor basically. And besser too.
No, no, I was thinking of Dolan because I was thinking of the trade deadline. They still in Europe though, like it wasn't a possibility. Oh yeah, no, I know. In terms of acquiring, he makes actual good moves, but then they don't play good old and they don't, they don't put him in the AHL.
They don't really play him. I mean, I know he's sick. I mean, that was on Willie. Exactly.
I mean, and they don't start Markstrom. They don't like it just was so, it was just such a weird year in that day. But they're not as bad as they showed this season. They were never allowed to play with somebody who actually could play with them.
And they also, they hated it. Yeah, for sure. You could tell they hated it. But maybe with Magna, they played with Shapu.
Like, almost the entire season was just garbage. Yeah. And like next year's probably going to be worse. The final trio of players on the ice at the end of Willie's final game.
Oh, which I loved. Magna, Shapu. Yeah. And that's what I mean is it's just like, so all that stuff would have pissed me off.
Like last year, knee landers lighting up the AHL and they go by the trade deadline. They're like, okay, we're going to miss the playoffs for sure. We're probably going to come in the last for sure. Let's bring this guy up and we'll play him for the rest of the year.
And they did. And I think that was good for him this year. You know, having that development and they just, you know, they made all the right moves you would want from a team that's tanking, which the Canucks have done like none of that. Well, we're just kidding.
Cause I was a Canucks fan. I would be fucking livid. We're getting crazy revisionist history at this point. Oh, yeah.
Look at how they brought along Horvat and. Well, no, the finalist was in a session. And it was Sessier and Trampkin saying, oh, we let, you know, they made the team. They earned their right to make the team at the beginning of the year.
And it's like, you remember what happened? Yeah. And they tried to send back to Russia and. Yeah.
And when he was clearly their best player in the preseason. Yeah. Yeah. Not player.
Yeah. I know. I know. I know you said that.