Cup Check

In this episode the boys discuss the latest in the NHL playoff race! Including clinching scenario for the Sabres, what teams are in the wild card, and the major point differential in the Eastern and Western conferences. Along with March madness, chipotle orders, and a very personal sharing session at the end.

Transcript

SPEAKER_07 0:00

All right, boys. Welcome back. A little bit of a different crew today. Still the same number of people because the other guy maybe or may not can't get out of bed. But I'm sitting here on Discord with uh Colton and Tyler. Boys, how are we doing today?

SPEAKER_04 0:14

Good afternoon, gentlemen.

SPEAKER_07 0:16

Uh Tyler, good to have you back. Couple week hiatus from work.

SPEAKER_00 0:21

Yeah, dude. Work's been uh pretty busy the last couple of weeks with uh you know hockey teams every night, every Monday almost, it seems like there's a hockey game every Tuesday here in Buffalo. But yeah, hockey March Mannis was here in Buffalo, so that was that was interesting. So yeah, I've been uh riding like three weeks in a row, like 60 hours a week. So pretty tired.

SPEAKER_07 0:42

Yeah, man, in a week or two, that paycheck's gonna be great, though, taking a vacation, just going out to yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:47

Every Friday I kind of look forward to uh you know the paycheck, but I'm usually broke by Saturday or Sunday morning anyway. Nah, it happens. You know, everybody all my money goes to like our mortgage or um my car. Everything forever broke. Forever broke. But it's good to see you guys. I missed you guys. I haven't seen you guys in so long.

SPEAKER_07 1:07

Miss you too. You popped in here. Miss you too, man. You popped in here the one time on uh definitely not driving, but in the car the one time, and uh it was do you have uh kind of we usually start off talking about weekends and I guess now the past two weeks, anyways, but uh any fun stories from uh your work with the teams? They see anybody cool, see anybody interesting?

SPEAKER_00 1:26

Uh I mean I think you know, from a couple weeks ago, like Celebrini, you know, I said what up to him. Uh nothing too crazy. Uh Saturday I worked like a 14-hour shift. I worked the Kraken uh Levin. Uh Kraken Departure. Uh they're pretty cool. Their aircraft mechanic is sweet. Uh he's a super cool dude.

SPEAKER_07 1:44

Did you tell Group Hour he stood on his fucking head?

SPEAKER_00 1:47

Dude, I thought he was like primetime Dominicashik.

SPEAKER_07 1:50

That was insane.

SPEAKER_00 1:51

He was unbelievable.

SPEAKER_07 1:52

The fact we won that game is crazy.

SPEAKER_00 1:54

It really is, yeah. And uh I know we'll get into hockey later, but yeah, like most of the we don't really interact with a lot of the players. I mean, if unless they have like a bag or two and they'll give it to you, but we really deal with like a lot of the like mechanics, and Seattle's got probably one of the best mechanics. Aircraft mechanics, he's pretty sick, he's a cool dude. Wow. Well yeah. I was uh Sunday I really didn't do much, I think. Uh I took a nap. Needed that. Needed that big time.

SPEAKER_07 2:29

Yeah, it was a uh I was uh I was out of town for the past basically what two weeks, week and a half, I guess. Yeah with work. The first weekend I was in uh Pennsylvania. Wasn't anything too crazy, just outside of Philly, but we never we didn't stay there, so we didn't go in the city or anything. And then I was just over at my coworkers basically for the rest of the week, week and a half. And uh it was interesting because whenever I'm going out of town and stay with them, it's like I'm working, but I don't have to run my ass around everywhere like I do at home where I have a million other things going on.

SPEAKER_00 3:04

Um but it was good.

SPEAKER_07 3:10

I got back last night and stayed up way too late, but I knew I could sleep in.

SPEAKER_00 3:14

Yeah, and uh before we get into everything, thanks for doing Discord today because I was I was all over Western New York today. I had a dentist appointment, a doctor's appointment, and then I went to the gym, went to the Chipotle or Chipotle, whatever how you however you say it. And then I forgot my laptop, and then I would have to go all the way home, go to your house, go all the way home. I was just like, boys, I can't put more miles on this lease.

SPEAKER_07 3:37

Oh, it's at least too? Yeah, no, you can't do that.

SPEAKER_00 3:39

Yeah, it's at least. I was like, uh, I hope the boys are okay with Discord because man, I once I'm like in the house, I'm cooked. Like, I'm not I don't want to go back out. I'm like, ah fuck.

SPEAKER_04 3:49

Yeah. Oh good, man. Dude, let me do that Chipotle order. We get a we talking bowl or burrito or thinking.

SPEAKER_00 3:56

No, we gotta go a bowl. So I get in this new thing now. Um, so I mean it's it's like the chicken, beef, rice, lettuce, light sour cream. I got it. What's up?

SPEAKER_07 4:07

You get the chicken and beef.

SPEAKER_00 4:09

Yeah, yeah. And then a little bit light on the sour cream, and then obviously cheese, and then uh I usually get on the side is like that new thing, that cup of like the protein uh it's like 50 grams of chicken, little like a little uh bowl of chicken. I've just been mucking that down, so yeah, it was good.

SPEAKER_04 4:29

Nice, dude. Nice. That sounds great.

SPEAKER_00 4:31

I love it there. I mean, I think I've always been like a Moe's guy, but now really, yeah, I've always been a Moe's guy, but now it's like Is it like uh the Moe's hot player?

SPEAKER_04 4:42

Is that what got you there?

SPEAKER_00 4:44

Well, you know, are you guys like like Moe's guys or not really?

SPEAKER_07 4:49

I never I do like Moe's over Chipotle.

SPEAKER_00 4:51

Um okay, you too? Okay, yeah. So I'm in the same boat, but like Chipotle is like right there, like it's not in the mix.

SPEAKER_04 4:58

Hmm.

unknown 4:58

Cool.

SPEAKER_07 4:58

What's your preference?

SPEAKER_04 4:59

Never even eating Moe's. No? And and the only time I've eaten Chipotle was my friend bought a burrito and he got it delivered to the house we were chilling at, and I ate it.

SPEAKER_07 5:08

That's the only time I had Chipotle.

SPEAKER_04 5:10

I never gone in by myself to eat Chipotle.

SPEAKER_07 5:14

Is there a like you got a vendetta against Mexican food or no, no, no, it just it's always busy as fuck and a little, you know, I a little overwhelming maybe with the options.

SPEAKER_04 5:25

Like you go in there and there's just like where do I start? You know, I could get carried away pretty quickly, and there's a lot of a lot of uh nice looking women usually chilling there.

SPEAKER_00 5:37

I never, you know, I'll be I'll be honest with you. Like my first time ever going there, I went with a couple buddies, and I've like I said, like I've been always a Moe's guy, so like I know everything from Mo's, I know the menu like the back of my head, but we walked in there for the first time, and I've never felt so much anxiety in my life. Like I was at the point where I was sweating, I'm like, I don't even know what half this shit is. Like the person behind me was so close, I'm like, yo, back the fuck up.

SPEAKER_04 6:00

Like, yeah, dude, I don't know. Back up, there's a real there's a real life anxiety that goes through when you're trying to order something new, like literally.

SPEAKER_00 6:08

Like, yeah, like I like I feel like it's a cult too. Like like Chipotle people will only strictly eat Chipotle, and like Moes will only eat Moes. Yeah, like I was kind of like crossing over and I was like really like in enemy territory and I was nervous.

SPEAKER_04 6:22

You can feel people looking at you because like you know, every everyone's usually like on their laptop or doing their college work or something or just having a having a meal or whatever. And then like you're going through the line. If you're like if you put one wrong ingredient on like a normal bowl, dude, you you you see everyone's like yeah, yeah, this loser out of here. You tell me this guy doesn't want the pico to guy on the bowl? What?

SPEAKER_00 6:46

No, I can't even spell that. Like, what am I doing here? Right. That's what I mean. Like, even like Starbucks too. Like even Starbucks too. Like, I remember um when Lexi and I started first dating. She told me to go to Starbucks for her, and I ordered like a large, large something. And like the person behind yeah, I knew it immediately. And like she was like looking at me, and I'm like, Yeah, I'll do like a large strawberry, whatever the fuck she orders. And I'm like, there was like a good five-second pause. I'm like looking at her. I'm like, did I just speak in Spanish?

SPEAKER_07 7:22

Yeah, I haven't moved.

SPEAKER_00 7:23

Yeah, I haven't moved. I'm like, is it a large? And she's like, no, it's a venti or a vente, or I'm like, okay, yeah, sure. I'm like, yeah, do that.

SPEAKER_07 7:32

Yeah, whatever the just give me the big cup.

SPEAKER_00 7:35

Yeah, you know what a large is. I should have just pointed at it like I was deaf or something, you know.

SPEAKER_04 7:42

I feel like I got pranked. See, Starbucks is a restaurant that I went into, or if you can call it a restaurant or whatever the hell you call it. But I think the first time I went in there, I got pranked because my buddy he said they Starbucks is a secret menu, right? Oh no. So so he's so he's like, go in, go in, I'm gonna find us parking because we were gonna go to a Game Stop, and there's one in the Boulevard Mall near a Game Stop. So, like, uh, you know, he's like, I'm gonna drop you off here, and then I'm gonna go get some parking, and we're gonna go over to Game Stop. So he's like, just go in there and get me an uh cookies and cream milkshake. So like I I go in there, I'm like, can I get two large cookies and cream milkshakes? They're like, we sell coffee here.

SPEAKER_00 8:28

It is it's a very clean.

SPEAKER_04 8:30

I'm like, I'm like, okay, I just left. I didn't even get anything. So like uh I've been there like a thousand over there at those restaurants.

SPEAKER_07 8:44

He wants, he goes, Okay, I'll have one too. Can I make it too?

SPEAKER_04 8:47

Oh, all right. Well, it's on he's like secret menu items, so like people don't even know about it.

SPEAKER_00 8:52

You get to you get to feel like I don't know, like you Yeah, you feel like you know a secret service type thing.

SPEAKER_04 8:57

Yeah, dude.

SPEAKER_00 8:58

Dude, I remember like one time I was going to I think I've told this story before. I think it was like McDonald's Burger King, but I get kind of nervous in the drive-thru. Like I don't even order food on like the phone. Like if it doesn't have order online, I'm not ordering.

SPEAKER_02 9:12

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:12

I don't know why. But I mean we could do this podcast every week and I can do like talk to people, which makes no sense. You know, I have to talk to people at work, I have to make phone calls. I'm in Zoom meetings, but I can't order a fucking piece of pizza.

SPEAKER_04 9:24

Dude, ordering it on mobile though is like something like that too. Yeah, but dude, like rewards points and shit.

SPEAKER_00 9:30

Yeah, exactly. And like that's what my people don't understand is like you need the rewards. But one time I was going through the drive-through and I voice cracked so hard, and I usually never do yeah, and I just drove right through. I didn't even order.

SPEAKER_02 9:42

I'm like, nope, it was so sad.

SPEAKER_00 9:47

It was so tough.

SPEAKER_04 9:50

That's tough. You can't show your face.

SPEAKER_07 9:55

Nah, I was like, no.

SPEAKER_04 9:57

Oh, that's funny.

SPEAKER_07 9:58

Chipotle is definitely a go-to, like uh on the road meal if I want something quick and I know it's like safe and like it's been a long day. I'm like, yeah, this is gonna this is gonna be good. I I don't have to worry about anything. Then uh just go down there.

SPEAKER_04 10:13

I don't know if this is like a chain thing or if there's just one restaurant around here, but burrito bay. That's like a taco joint that I've won into. They have a similar situation with Chipotle, where it's like subway almost where you just build your own burrito. Holy shit, they got some bangers in there, man.

SPEAKER_07 10:30

I I think I've had it like that once or twice, but it was good, and I want to do it. I want to have it again.

SPEAKER_04 10:35

Our buddy Scal lived out there. Uh it's like near UB and whatnot. So um I know I was always visiting his house and shit when I was going to college um on the way home from college or whatever. So yeah, that that's my little it's like discount Chipotle, but it dude, it was so good. My gosh. My gosh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 10:56

The more I look around.

SPEAKER_04 10:57

What were we talking about before? Food?

SPEAKER_07 10:58

We were talking about honestly, it was just food. It was our weekend and then food.

SPEAKER_03 11:02

Oh, okay. Oh bet.

SPEAKER_07 11:03

Um, me and my girlfriend have been we keep finding these like dessert places that keep popping up now. Like there's this one by me called like the golden waffle or something, and they have like waffles and grapes with ice cream and and desserts and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_00 11:16

Like it's tough. Dude, I got such a sweet tooth too, man. It's so bad. I know so bad as my weakness, dude.

SPEAKER_07 11:26

She told me a couple weeks ago, she goes, usually they had this like big meat for gymnastics that she she coaches, obviously. She goes, usually between now and like her birthday, she usually like takes it easy on the desserts. I was like, Do we have to?

SPEAKER_02 11:38

Like yeah, like why? Not this week.

SPEAKER_07 11:43

Uh but yeah, so alright, cool. So instead of talking about our weekends, we just talked about food. So it sounds like we didn't do anything crazy for the past two weeks.

SPEAKER_00 11:51

Nothing too crazy. I mean, it's just big punching the clock and coming home and sleep, and that's really about it.

SPEAKER_07 11:58

Honestly, honestly, same. Yeah. Um with that being said, let's jump into the uh first category. Uh March Madness. I know we were talking about a little bit uh little bit before the stream, but I can't remember what my bracket was for our group. Like Tyler, like you said, if it was Florida, yeah, I'm cooked.

SPEAKER_00 12:18

Yeah, we both had Florida win and they lost to Iowa, Iowa.

SPEAKER_07 12:23

I would say. Yeah, which I was happy for. Like I I love I I don't care enough about March Madness for like certain teams unless it's like Michigan State, where I just want the underdogs.

SPEAKER_00 12:33

I hear you too. Yeah, I like the I like the schools that are like no one ever like heard of before, like High Point. I've never heard of them, and they go and they beat a big ten school Wisconsin, you know. Like I I like that.

SPEAKER_07 12:45

I love it. Um, but I I mean I don't know how much uh you guys have been watching the games, but I've been I've been trying to watch it, at least it wouldn't at least the last five minutes, you know, the time that matters. But dude, some of those games have been awesome to watch. Uh obviously we record this on again, we mentioned this before we got uh before we went live, but uh today after the Yukon Duke. Yeah, UConn Duke game. Holy cow, what a finish there.

SPEAKER_00 13:15

I was I didn't watch the game, but I seen it on Twitter and I was like, wow. That's unbelievable. I was actually watching uh Michigan hockey game. They were beating uh Minnesota Duluth.

SPEAKER_07 13:26

I was watching that instead, but I know the spot Michigan State just blew it. We were we were number one, Michigan State was number one in in the oh my gosh. It it was the uh it was the Elite Eight, right? For hockey? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:41

Yeah, Elite Eight, yeah, and then now it's the frozen four. Yeah, in Vegas too, by the way.

SPEAKER_07 13:46

Oh well, I guess if we have to go.

SPEAKER_00 13:49

I mean it's uh I've been there once, I'd love it.

SPEAKER_07 13:52

It's a good time. Vegas is a good time for honestly not too expensive. The only time it gets expensive is when you gamble.

SPEAKER_00 13:58

It's not too yeah, it's not too crazy. I mean, like if you stay on the strip, which we didn't, I guess a little pricey, but like for me, like I don't really gamble a lot or drink, so I was kind of like more of like sightseeing. Well not sightseeing, but well definitely sightseeing and people seeing. I mean, there's some fucking creatures out there. Holy shit in Vegas. Dude, I kind of but like it would kind of look me like I look normal.

SPEAKER_07 14:20

Bam.

unknown 14:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 14:22

The good news about the strip though is that at least like if you do because obviously I played when I when I was there. Um now I'll just get emails like for like three free nights at whatever this hotel is on the strip. So at least find a cheap flight and find a cheap room. And I was like, if I don't want to gamble, I don't have to gamble now. I will end up Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:47

Yeah, yeah, it was like 120 outside. I'm like, yeah, I'm out. There's no way.

SPEAKER_07 14:52

See, it was the opposite. The one time I was there and uh it was still it was like early spring, so like it was like seven, okay, like on the strip, but like where we golfed, it was in a valley, so it was like 40s. Terrible, terrible.

SPEAKER_00 15:07

Yeah, it seems like it, yeah. I went in the summer, a great idea, huh?

SPEAKER_07 15:14

Um yeah, so so for March Madness we got a uh holy cow, who's left? Michigan, Arizona, Yukon, and Illinois.

SPEAKER_00 15:25

Illinois? Illinois.

SPEAKER_07 15:27

So who uh out of those four, who uh who we who we looking at? Who do we want to bring it home? Shut up, Tyler. Colton, who are you bring who who's bringing it home for you?

SPEAKER_04 15:40

We can't see it, but I'm doing them, I'm doing them uh the Wolverine claws. Um holy fuck, that was cringe. Um my camera needs to pick that up. Yeah, I'd like to see Michigan just because I love the way Port Noy like clowns everyone else when they win. So yeah. I don't know jack shit about football. Or yeah. Basketball. Tennis. Final four, you're talking about the Wendy's deal, right?

SPEAKER_00 16:09

Yeah, the four before, yeah. Yeah, that's an I dude.

SPEAKER_04 16:13

Yeah, I'm just gonna go back to I'm gonna sit here and smile. You guys got it.

SPEAKER_07 16:18

Well, I'm I'm just I'm honestly hoping for I guess I'm hoping for Illinois, just kind of the lower seed. Illinois or you kinda, I'd be fine with either of them. Just so it's not a uh just so it's not a one seed, but I don't want to see Michigan win at all. That's all. That's all that we don't we're not even gonna ask you. We're just gonna topic. But uh I am excited. When are the when is the games? Because the championship's on Sunday, isn't it? Is it just Saturday and Sunday?

SPEAKER_00 16:46

I don't know, because it's Easter on Sunday, right? I don't know if they would do it.

unknown 16:49

That is true.

SPEAKER_00 16:50

I don't know. I have no idea. No idea. Maybe Monday? It could be way wrong. No we mean it's way wrong.

SPEAKER_03 16:58

You guys have off Friday?

SPEAKER_00 17:01

I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 17:02

But I get out at 5 30. Oh yeah, you say we got some hoopla going on?

SPEAKER_04 17:09

I might be leaving the cave this weekend, I suppose.

SPEAKER_07 17:12

So you started telling me.

SPEAKER_04 17:15

Down at the casino. Yeah, I think uh I think it actually enjoys.

SPEAKER_07 17:22

Tyler, what time do you work?

SPEAKER_00 17:24

Uh I get out at 5 30, so I can be down there at 6.

SPEAKER_07 17:27

6? It's early for the casino. Let's calm down here.

SPEAKER_04 17:30

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_07 17:33

I was like, I gotta be in bed by 9 30. That is true. That's true.

SPEAKER_04 17:37

Trying to think it's like it's like much old high school, or one of my high school buddies, he moved down to North Carolina when he was, you know, right out of high school. Met a bunch of people, and then now they're all coming up and I'm meeting them for the first time. Hell yeah. So I don't know what time or what they're doing, if they're doing some sightseeing around Buffalo or whatnot. Not many sights. And then we're gone. So no.

unknown 18:01

Nope.

SPEAKER_07 18:03

Um no, I mean I if I'm I remember you mentioning that if uh if I'm free, I'm uh I'm down.

SPEAKER_02 18:09

Yeah, dude.

SPEAKER_07 18:10

So at the very least, like you said, it gets uh it gets me out of the house, gets me stepping. Um yeah, the two games are Saturday, so I don't know if they got the championship Sunday or Monday. I really have no clue. Um it doesn't it doesn't say usually they'll tell us, but they'll probably do it Sunday.

SPEAKER_04 18:32

I mean if they play if they play on Christmas Day and they play on other holidays, you might as well play on Easter.

SPEAKER_07 18:41

Yeah, yeah, true. That's kind of what I'm thinking.

SPEAKER_04 18:43

Um and then Monday I have to stay up late to watch the Natty. Yeah, stinks. Yeah, that would be Oh no, you're saying no, maybe next Sunday. I see. Hold on.

SPEAKER_07 18:57

No, I don't think it was.

SPEAKER_04 18:58

The final four or two games are played I don't think we're gonna wait a week.

SPEAKER_00 19:02

I know what you mean though. Like college football too, they do the same thing. Like the championship game will be on like a Monday at like nine o'clock. It's like, dude, what are we doing? What it is by the most 8 30. 8 30? Yep. Okay. Fuck. Yeah, that's I mean that's not late, but it's yeah, but it's not early.

SPEAKER_04 19:26

Fuck it. I'll just watch a rerun of the game on that work. I got nothing else to do.

SPEAKER_07 19:32

Um, well, there's our uh March Madness talk, I guess. Uh ooh, well, actually that'll be a good segment for next week because it's right before we'll record just before the championship game. So we'll talk about who who we think is gonna who we think is gonna take it all. Uh that being said, we all go to shift gears to something we all know.

SPEAKER_02 19:54

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_07 19:54

Uh let's talk about the NHL. Y'all want to start with the league itself, or you want to talk about the Sabres?

SPEAKER_00 20:00

Let's uh let's talk about the league, because the league right now, like the game of hockey in the NHL is absolutely buzzing. Dude, just I mean, I don't think I've ever like I've loved hockey my entire life, followed it, watched it every single year, but I don't think hockey's in a more better place right now than it is. Like I it's just every night it's a different team moving in the east wildcard position. We got I mean, there's what eight games left, and we got a coach fired in Vegas. Like, what is going on? We had Brother Limpert. Yeah, yeah, Bruce Cassidy's gone.

SPEAKER_04 20:34

Wow, and then guess who guess who got replaced, or guess who got hired there? Torch.

SPEAKER_07 20:41

Really?

SPEAKER_04 20:42

Yeah, wow.

unknown 20:44

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_04 20:46

Eight days before the playoffs.

SPEAKER_07 20:47

That's crazy. And they're in a spot right now, right? Yeah, they're in a wild card.

SPEAKER_00 20:51

Yeah, I think they're in a playoff spot in the Pacific. It's so bad. Oh my gosh. That's so dude.

SPEAKER_04 20:58

Meanwhile, you got three uh a first place tie between three teams in the East. Crazy uh dude, and I feel like every every single game that's on for the past week has just been a banger game.

SPEAKER_07 21:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 21:14

I mean, I haven't watched every single game. Phenomenal. So I mean it's insane, dude.

SPEAKER_07 21:20

Five games tonight. That I mean, everybody is it's really funny too, because people who and obviously this is gonna happen because it's this time of year, but like our buddy, uh our buddy from Canada, who's a big senators fan, he's like, yo, Sabres gotta pull through for me because we were going up against like Detroit, uh Columbus, we face the Islanders uh tomorrow night, and they're fighting for a wild card. They're all fighting for a wild card spot. So that's funny. He'll be like, Sabres blew it. I'm like, what are you talking about? We went to overtime, we got a point. He goes, No, I needed like a regulation loss from the other team.

SPEAKER_00 21:53

Yeah, the Ottawa's like scraping in there, like Ottawa, it's like Ottawa, Detroit, New York, and like Columbus, they're like all beating the shit out of each other for that last spot.

SPEAKER_04 22:05

And we play Ottawa Thursday, I believe. Yes. Uh so like how funny would that be if we beat him? Do I think we go Islanders and then Ottawa?

SPEAKER_07 22:14

Nah, I think I think you're right.

SPEAKER_04 22:17

Yeah. How funny would that be?

SPEAKER_07 22:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:20

And then old Captain Canada. Dude, I hate the Islanders, man.

SPEAKER_07 22:25

What's wrong with the Islanders?

SPEAKER_00 22:27

I just, you know, they're just so boring to watch.

SPEAKER_04 22:30

Sean, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:31

And you know, I like their goalie.

SPEAKER_04 22:33

I like Shirogan. He's the only one.

SPEAKER_00 22:34

Shirogan's really good.

SPEAKER_04 22:36

Back when Tavares was there, he is a fucking clown. Clown boy.

SPEAKER_00 22:41

But then like Matthew Schaefer, he's unbelievable. Like that's the only islanders. But like when I watch the Islanders, it's just like it's dump and chase. They play like that 3-4 system. It's so really slow. They'll go like 2-0. They'll go up in a game like 2-0, and that's it. Like they're not gonna score another goal. They're just gonna shut down defense and it's dump and chase, like I said, and just boring. Just boring to me. Yeah. So like 80s hockey to me. I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 23:11

I could see that. I could see that.

SPEAKER_04 23:13

Um without like crazy hits either.

SPEAKER_00 23:15

It's just yeah, no, they got like no one really physical, but you said you got a boy in Ottawa, huh?

SPEAKER_07 23:20

Yeah, one of our uh one of our buddies or one of our gaming buddies. He'll uh he'll come down a couple times a year for these LAN events that we go to, and uh awesome guy, great guy. And uh but he's uh Ottawa fan. And he's he's I gotta chip funny. It was really funny when we were uh for the Olympics when it was US versus Canada.

SPEAKER_00 23:41

It was just Yeah, tax on a bitch.

SPEAKER_07 23:49

He's gonna call it eastern Alaska. He can dish it and he can take it too, so it's pretty yeah. Um but yeah, I mean the the league the league's just all over the place and everyone's just bouncing around now. And uh I feel like this is one of the first years and we've talked about it past episodes, I'm pretty sure too, where the Eastern Conference is the powerhouse. I feel like for the past five years it's been the Western Conference just torching everybody. Which I mean, Colorado and Dallas are obviously a problem. Minnesota's pretty much a problem, but everybody else is like bottom of the barrel, can barely get in the playoffs. Wouldn't be in the playoffs if they were in the east.

SPEAKER_00 24:30

Yeah, exactly. Like Nashville, like a team like Nashville, if they if they somehow make it and they pull Colorado series one, it's over. It's over. It's over in four.

SPEAKER_07 24:42

No, but that being it it it's it sets it up phenomenally for any sort of upset. Yeah, yeah, I mean it would be awesome.

SPEAKER_00 24:52

If Colorado loses to Nashville, holy shit.

SPEAKER_07 24:55

Colorado loses to anybody first round, everybody's gonna be like, oh, yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_00 25:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 25:01

But uh losing. Speaking of the Western, where is uh your sharks are in trouble.

SPEAKER_00 25:07

Yeah, I think they're officially done.

SPEAKER_07 25:11

I don't know, it's the Western. They're only behind by four.

SPEAKER_00 25:14

Okay. Is Seattle still in the mix? I know they lot they lost the Sabres.

SPEAKER_07 25:17

Seattle should be back by two, and I think Nashville has a last spot. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Nashville has the last spot, they have seventy-seven, Seattle's got seventy-five, the Kings have seventy-six, Winnipeg has 74, San Jose and St. Louis have 73. So honestly, anything could happen in the West still.

SPEAKER_00 25:34

Wow, St. Louis ain't dead yet, huh?

SPEAKER_07 25:36

No.

SPEAKER_00 25:37

No, they're not.

unknown 25:38

Wow.

SPEAKER_07 25:39

Um yeah, dude, I don't know. There's so much bouncing around that could happen in both conferences.

SPEAKER_00 25:47

Well, we know Edmonton ain't winning.

SPEAKER_07 25:51

They they shouldn't. Well, they're in the playoffs.

SPEAKER_00 25:54

They are, but they ain't they ain't winning it. I they got no goalies.

SPEAKER_07 25:58

Yeah, they have no idea. I have no idea what's going on there.

SPEAKER_00 26:02

Do you guys think now I'll be honest before we move on, and do you guys really think Connor McDavid is gonna be like there in the next couple years? I think I I think he's gonna be gone.

SPEAKER_07 26:11

He is gonna be I I I guess he'll be gone.

SPEAKER_04 26:14

You can only take losing so much.

SPEAKER_07 26:16

Yeah, it's I mean it's really tough though when you get to the point that they've gotten to for the past handful of years, like, yeah, they've been losing, but what, they made it to the dance two out of the last three years. Yeah, I think. Yeah. And then what they made it to the playoffs the last what four or five years. So it's not like you're not close. It's not like the team's terrible. It's uh I don't I don't know. I don't know I don't know how well to fix it.

SPEAKER_00 26:46

Yeah, I mean, yeah, kind of McDavid too. I mean, going to the Stanley Club two years in a row and losing to the same team and then going back to the playoffs and losing again. I mean, that's gotta take a toll.

SPEAKER_04 26:56

Yeah, yeah. Plus plus the Olympics.

SPEAKER_00 26:59

Right, yeah. He's playing so much hockey and uh he's losing uh Leon right now, right? Until playoffs. Dry settle's not playing, like he's I heard he's hurt.

SPEAKER_04 27:07

Yeah, yep.

SPEAKER_00 27:08

So that's tough. I mean, who who's this fucking line? Zach Hyman. Come on.

SPEAKER_07 27:14

Um one thing that I hope I hope will stay relatively consistent. I think it should, because it's not like look, as far and it's been a while since we mentioned, but as far as paying players goes, I mean, obviously professional athletes make a lot of money no matter what sport you're in, but it's not like NHL players make as much as honestly any other sport, NBA, MLB, NFL especially. So pe these people who hold out for hold out for bags in the NFL or just request trade and manage the team player-wise, like the NBA does. Uh, we don't see that in hockey, which is awesome. I think that's why this like Tyler, you said there's so much buzz around the NHL right now, is because it really is just a dog fight for the playoffs, and everyone's just pure and genuine with it.

SPEAKER_02 27:58

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 28:00

Yeah. That's why I think like McDavid, he's not gonna go chase, like he's not gonna beg for more money, or he's he's he's like he's just gonna explore when his contract's up. What is that in two years? Is that is that what you're saying? Uh two or three years?

SPEAKER_00 28:15

I think it's up next year. I think he's got one more year left on him and I think then he's a free agent.

SPEAKER_04 28:19

Okay. So then there you go. I think I think at the very least he's gonna explore.

SPEAKER_00 28:25

Yeah, I would. He don't care. I mean, the guy's made a hundred sheets. You don't care.

SPEAKER_04 28:30

Right. I mean, right. So the guy is the greatest hockey player, man. He's he's but without any hardware. He's other than like, you know, your MVPs and shit, but you know, if I were him, you need the trophy.

SPEAKER_00 28:46

If I were him, I'd be like, dude, I'm going to like Colorado or Tampa Bay for like a two-year deal with like 1.8. I don't care. I gotta get a Stanley Cup.

SPEAKER_03 28:59

There you go.

SPEAKER_07 29:02

Like, even in the NFL with these like all-star receivers and all-star quarterbacks, like, look, you're in a terrible situation and you make uh millions upon millions of dollars with these 200 plus million dollar deals. Why, if you want to win so bad, why don't you just take a pay cut like like should like Shohei did? Shohe was gonna get paid a stack, but he said, let's do it in 10 years, and then let's pay everybody else to get a team now. Why why don't we do that?

SPEAKER_04 29:30

It's exactly what Brady did, dude. It's exactly what Brady did. He's got seven rings. You know, you'd take his pay cuts. They could sign, like they could resign good defense. Allen's trying to take pay cuts, you know, trying to get them to sign extra players.

SPEAKER_00 29:43

Plus, like those big dogs, like they're already making endorsement deals with like Nike, New Balance. All of a sudden the money's still there. It's like, oh yeah, I'm going like if I'm McDavid, like I said, I'm going to Colorado, Tampa Bay, Dallas for like four years, 2.2. Give it to me.

SPEAKER_04 29:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:58

Yep. Let's ride.

SPEAKER_04 30:00

Yeah. Or he might do like uh, all right, Edmonton. Like, here's my number. You hit my number. It's not going to be the craziest number. I'm not going to take up all the salary cap, but you have this is my number. Give me my number, and then you give me players to like help this team. Give me a goalie.

SPEAKER_00 30:16

Give me a fucking goalie.

SPEAKER_04 30:17

Yeah, because they haven't, you know, Stuart Skinner is like, okay, now bad the next. Who else was that? Um there's another guy there. Him and Skinner were just flip-flopping in the playoffs because Skinner sucked. Pickered, yes. And then Pickard was playing, he was playing great for the few games, and then he had a bad game. So Inman Skinner, it's like, you can't do that in the playoffs. You need a goalie that's gonna show up every game.

SPEAKER_00 30:42

You just he's in Pittsburgh right now.

SPEAKER_04 30:46

Yeah, yeah, I know he got traded this year.

SPEAKER_00 30:48

So they got Tristian Jari, dude. He's so now they have nobody again. He's so bad. I mean, I'm not shitting on the guy. The guy's in the league, and here I am working at the time. He's so bad. He's ass.

SPEAKER_07 31:00

I'm not shitting.

SPEAKER_00 31:00

He's so fucking bad. But like, I mean, come on.

SPEAKER_07 31:04

You know what I mean, though.

SPEAKER_00 31:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 31:06

That's actually a good question that I was gonna kind of bring up, and it goes it goes hand in hand with the pay thing, I guess. Um I was gonna phrase it differently, but we all may have the same answer. If you in this hypothetical situation, any sport professionally, if you could play any sport professionally, and you would sign with a team, and it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter what team, you don't pick the team, it's just any professional team, and you get paid whatever amount you want to play for an entire year. You're gonna get playing time, but in this case you'll play you play decent, you're not an all-star, but you're you're a team player, you'll actually contribute. Would you play for free in your current state? Like would you would you play for a year and be like, hey, I played in the pros for a year? I'm good.

SPEAKER_03 31:55

Anyway, uh wait.

SPEAKER_04 31:59

Wait, okay. Yeah, I gotta be honest, I I wasn't listening very I forgot the first part of the question. I'm sorry, hold on.

SPEAKER_07 32:07

So the question was if you're face first in a ditch because your podcast mate said fuck you for not listening.

SPEAKER_04 32:15

No, no, no. I don't want to just like give an because I want to answer this, but like the first part was like I had a thought going to my head and then I couldn't hear just go ahead. If you someone in chat needed uh yeah, he's gonna repeat it now. Someone in chat was seeing if you could repeat it.

SPEAKER_07 32:32

Okay, I'll I'll repeat it for them. If any professional sport, if you could play any professional sport on a team for a year, and in this case you're like good at the sport, you're actually gonna like play like every game and participate, okay. Would would you do it for free? Or if not, what is the number that you would pay for you that you would play for?

SPEAKER_04 32:54

Oh, I see. Okay. I think like if they were to cover at least the cost of like traveling with a team, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_07 33:02

Let's say at the end of the year you you you don't lose anything, you don't gain anything. Like everything's just a net even. It's a free year of life on this.

SPEAKER_04 33:09

Okay. Oh yeah, 100% I would.

SPEAKER_07 33:12

Now what sport?

SPEAKER_04 33:14

100%. What sport? I'd probably go to the LA Sparks, the WNBA. How sick would that be?

SPEAKER_00 33:23

Oh, yeah, it's so sick.

SPEAKER_04 33:24

That'd be sick as fuck. I'd probably set the three-point record. For free? Eating dinner with the honeys? Hooping? Come on. Honeys and bunnies.

SPEAKER_00 33:43

Tyler. Yeah, give me hockey. Let me go play for the abs on the fourth line. Ah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 33:50

You'd be the water boy for the abs for all that for all. I can't wait for the wheel.

SPEAKER_00 33:54

I asked Brandon Bean when he flew out uh on Thursday. Or Friday, I'm sorry. Flew out to Phoenix with uh Joe Brady. I said if you guys need a water boy, you know where to find me.

SPEAKER_07 34:02

Oh my gosh. That's um yeah, no, I'd I'd like you, Spez. Yeah, for like I'd play any sport, I feel like professionally for free. Just to say I was WWE.

SPEAKER_04 34:13

Yo, if I could be if I could just like top three in the rumble or something.

SPEAKER_07 34:20

Oh yeah, just like like not win anything. Like, I don't need any titles, but like I'm always like mid-card to high card, and everyone's like, oh, that's it. That'd be kind of sick. Yeah, top three in the rumble, like third one out. Not final two, because people remember like final four, like everyone always says.

SPEAKER_04 34:36

The final two are like are like legends of the game, and they like team up for a second just to beat your ass and throw you over the ropes.

SPEAKER_07 34:42

I get that shit moment, like maybe I'm like getting up on them and then all of a sudden, aww.

SPEAKER_00 34:47

Yeah. Bro, I'd honestly even be like a DH for the Dodgers or something.

SPEAKER_04 34:52

Yeah, someone just said uh they'd be Vlad Jr.'s backup first base. There we go. Yeah, it's a good one. It's a perfect one.

SPEAKER_07 35:00

I low-key if I didn't do like hockey or WWE, I would like I would consider NFL over like baseball or something like that. Just I I I do I am curious on like never having played it myself, I want to know how how a skill position maneuvers in a game. I think I'd rather be running back than wide receiver, though.

SPEAKER_00 35:18

How is offensive line in the club? Title Geek. Yeah, yeah, I have the right guard. As you can tell. Yeah, pretty skinny.

SPEAKER_06 35:32

We in the trenches, son. We in the trenches, son. Let's go. We in the trenches, nose tackle.

SPEAKER_07 35:38

Y'all clear y'all clear. Pancake box. Oh man. Well so yeah, so as far as uh how do we get there? Oh, from NHL talk to McDavid to contracts to stuff like that. But yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 35:53

Yeah, I think I think any I think you ask any sports fan if they would play for free for a professional team, their answer should be yes. Uh yeah, I'd be so good.

SPEAKER_04 36:02

Yeah, it should be.

SPEAKER_07 36:04

But so uh shall we move on? We got anything else about the NHL?

SPEAKER_00 36:11

Uh let's just do like a quick oh sorry, cool. Go ahead, buddy.

SPEAKER_04 36:15

No, no, go I was gonna say like just like a quick like sabres thing, because we we kind of didn't we didn't say anything. Actually, yeah specifically about the point.

SPEAKER_07 36:21

We just went over the NHL, not about the sabres themselves.

SPEAKER_04 36:24

I did I did just want to say one thing about the sabres specifically for anyone wondering, is the Sabres need seven points total of like a combined people chasing us losing and us winning games to clinch the playoffs essentially. Which it there's a scenario where it could happen by Thursday, where if we win if we win Tuesday and we win Thursday this week, and then the Red Wings lose, Tampa loses, someone else has to lose. I was I saw this earlier. Probably Ottawa.

SPEAKER_07 36:55

So uh maybe not Ottawa, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 36:59

I don't think I I don't think actually I think it might have been Ottawa. No, no, I don't think it was Carolina. It was like one what are the teams chasing us? Columbus. Sounds familiar.

SPEAKER_07 37:12

Is Columbus, Ottawa, Detroit chasing and Philly?

SPEAKER_04 37:16

I've got the memory of a goldfish, so I'm a horrible like reporter. So like and I did see this right before I left work too, if only.

SPEAKER_07 37:25

Um yeah, that didn't.

SPEAKER_04 37:28

It looks like the Sabres recalled Zach Metzah today as well. Good. Recall means he's back up to the team, right? I would imagine.

SPEAKER_00 37:39

Yeah, he's coming back in the squad, yep.

SPEAKER_04 37:41

So it should be. I liked Metsa and Stanley or Metsa and Kessel. One of those two. One of those two pairs I liked.

SPEAKER_07 37:49

I'm not gonna lie, and I did I don't know if you played before. Um the last game. What was the last game that we that we played? Saturday, Saturday's game?

unknown 37:58

So yeah.

SPEAKER_07 37:58

Saturday's game I was able to watch. Uh Timmons didn't impress me.

SPEAKER_00 38:02

He sucks. No. Yeah, I don't think.

SPEAKER_07 38:05

I can't say that too much because literally everybody's we've gotten has been okay at best at this point.

SPEAKER_00 38:10

I bet you tend to want less, you know, for me, every time I shit on somebody, they'll score. So take any Connor Timmins, any time score tomorrow night against the Islanders. I've said that so many times when Victor Oldson was here. I mean, Carl and I would talk so many times, be like, dude, if Victor Oldson scores on him jumping off the Peace Bridge, and boom, he nets one. And you know, so Connor Timmins, like, I know, oh, there he is, sleeping beauty, buddy.

unknown 38:37

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_07 38:38

All right, guys, that's our episode for the week.

SPEAKER_00 38:40

So yeah, that's it, boys. Have a good one. I'm so sorry.

SPEAKER_07 38:45

Wake up, hurry up, get up, turn the camera on.

SPEAKER_00 38:48

Um Buddy yells every week, where is everybody and where is he?

SPEAKER_07 38:52

I should have known something was up when he didn't text at 4 30. Hey, I'm hopping to the Discord.

SPEAKER_00 38:56

Yeah, muscle down here. Yeah, I am.

SPEAKER_05 39:04

Truly, are you okay? Yeah, no, I'm fine. Uh yeah, can you hear me?

SPEAKER_00 39:16

Yeah, we got you now.

SPEAKER_05 39:17

Alright, yeah, sorry. Um no, I I haven't been sleeping because my neck and I just passed out.

SPEAKER_07 39:26

And your procedure is when?

SPEAKER_05 39:29

Uh Monday. Uh Thursday.

SPEAKER_07 39:32

Thursday. She just rolled out of bed.

SPEAKER_03 39:35

You excited? You excited, nervous, a little bit about it.

SPEAKER_05 39:37

No, I I'm shitting my pants.

SPEAKER_07 39:40

You never have a procedure?

SPEAKER_05 39:45

Literally and figuratively. Oh Lord.

SPEAKER_04 39:49

Oh fucking lord.

SPEAKER_07 39:51

Ever went through something. I've taken a project or nah.

SPEAKER_05 39:54

What's up?

SPEAKER_07 39:54

You ever went through a procedure or anything, or no?

SPEAKER_05 39:56

Yeah, I'd like to have my tonsils taken out, my knees done, my hips done.

SPEAKER_07 40:01

Oh, you're a professional.

SPEAKER_05 40:03

Yeah, but this one like going on your neck, that's yeah, it's it's a little different. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 40:10

At least the actual process, you're not a stranger to.

SPEAKER_05 40:13

Right. That's what I said. So I can't believe I rolled out of bed that quick. I thought it was four o'clock. I set an alarm and I forgot I set my phone over on my desk.

unknown 40:24

Oh no.

SPEAKER_07 40:24

It's been going on an hour and a half.

SPEAKER_05 40:27

What's up?

SPEAKER_04 40:27

Do you do you have like a cool collection of cups at all?

SPEAKER_07 40:31

Souvenir cups.

SPEAKER_04 40:35

Not the cup you wear for hockey.

SPEAKER_07 40:36

There it is! Yeah!

SPEAKER_04 40:40

We're doing like a show like any cool little souvenir cup. We're just talking about it before the pot.

SPEAKER_05 40:47

So I have like you remember those cups they used to sell, like uh with the pods and everything?

SPEAKER_04 40:53

Don't spoil it. Do you have them? Like the Shrek one?

SPEAKER_05 40:57

Yeah, I just don't know if I have them, so I think they're at my dad's house.

SPEAKER_07 41:04

I'm trying to think. No, okay. Oh, I got some really bad pubs that I don't have at my house or at my parents' house.

SPEAKER_04 41:10

I'll tell you what, Carl. I'll tell you what, Carl. Don't say anything episode. Yes, we've been we are literally 40 minutes in.

SPEAKER_00 41:18

40 minutes in.

SPEAKER_04 41:20

Okay. If you have like any random souvenir collecting thing, just grab it and show us. Like, not right now. And don't say what it is. Or like, just find fucking anything in your room to show the camera, all right?

SPEAKER_07 41:37

And then when we do the tip, go grab something cool.

SPEAKER_04 41:41

Just grab something cool. We're doing this instead of a draft today.

SPEAKER_05 41:48

I got I got showing toe, pretty much. Yeah, but yeah, potentially. I can't. It was a theme.

SPEAKER_07 41:56

Um my god. The ball gang. While Carl gathers his thoughts here, uh back to the Sabres talk. Um, yeah, I don't know. As far as our defensive situation goes, I feel like it didn't get too much better as of now up front. Um, we added a bunch of names and nothing crazy has really come of it. Stanley, I think, has gotten a little bit better. At least we have a true enforcer. Um, Shen scratched.

SPEAKER_05 42:27

Shen will not play a game. Shen is yeah, Shen is one of those guys where in case of emergency, it's like sending me and Tyler out to play goalie. If they really needed a goalie, we're the two going out there. Oh, one of us are going out there.

SPEAKER_07 42:45

I thought Shen was a good defenseman. Uh about 10 years ago. Oh, okay. Maybe that's what I'm thinking of.

SPEAKER_05 42:53

Um, yeah, no, they picked him up playoff death buys. Um, I I got one for you guys. Think about real quick. Do you think Yarmo panicked and got those two? Now looking at it, now going back after you went a little swinging.

SPEAKER_03 43:11

You know, he really wanted Pranko. He really wanted Pranko.

SPEAKER_05 43:16

So that's what we wanted. That's what I was thinking too, is like you swing for the big fish and then lost it.

SPEAKER_04 43:23

Yeah, and he pressured him into, and Pranko didn't want to leave, so now he's like, fuck. You know, we gotta do something. And then that was the next best thing.

SPEAKER_05 43:32

That's it's gonna be the most hated edit guy in Buffalo next to ICO. What the Armo or Pranko?

SPEAKER_04 43:41

Oh, nah, I think the hate was for like a week and then it died off.

SPEAKER_07 43:44

It died up, but we're still doing well. We're still cooking.

SPEAKER_04 43:51

But the guy said he's like he's like, I got nothing against Buffalo. It was just like, you know, imagine like you spent your whole life or your whole career in one space. spot and then all of a sudden it's like they're giving you like ten hours to decide if you want to pick up and leave. That's something that I didn't have the you know something along those lines paraphrase.

SPEAKER_07 44:09

That's fair. I guess I'd better say the media stuff.

SPEAKER_00 44:12

He also said that he was open to go to LA or Edmonton. He was open to go to a different spot, just not Buffalo.

SPEAKER_03 44:21

Oh that's what he said?

SPEAKER_00 44:22

Yeah he he he didn't want to go to Buffalo. He was like open to go to like LA or somewhere out west.

SPEAKER_05 44:28

Oh what the hell man's trying to retire somewhere tonight somewhere nice it was like Darius Slay the Darius situation. Two cold bro you play in Pittsburgh and Philly Darius.

SPEAKER_07 44:43

That was so bad bro we gave up uh what's his face for him we went to the Texans Ingram yeah Ingram oh that was so stupid Darius Slay well uh tomorrow's matchup for Buffalo Islanders uh obviously the Islanders are fighting for uh for their playoff birth as well should be every every game from now for the rest of the season is gonna be a good game Islanders Ottawa next Monday is a Tampa game uh Columbus at Thursday dude the slate coming up is gonna be crazy that Tampa game's gonna be awesome yeah it's gonna be I I keep looking at tickets and there's still like 150 I'm like I'm I can't go for 150. Nah my brother's going but I am not shit I'm I'm eyeing up the Thursday game in Columbus it's like 50 or 60 bucks just because I gotta go to a game.

SPEAKER_04 45:40

There you go. Thanks buddy instead of spending 150 on the Tampa game which is going to be a great game you gotta think there's a real possibility we'll play them in the playoffs I'd rather just save it for then yeah I'll pay it I'll pay in the play I'd rather spend 300 to go see in the playoffs.

SPEAKER_05 45:59

Tickets are outrageous for that right now I was looking at prices because I want to go to a game yeah it's 390 maybe I think I saw the I saw the the least so far the playoffs uh yeah I think there are more um what could that yeah they're gonna go up I got I got a qu I got a question for you guys a hypothetical how much are season tickets for the Sabres we looked into this tie didn't we a couple years ago uh well the my coworker has had them since the team was founded so he gets them for like I think I think it comes out to like 30 bucks a game him and he base two so well I'm talking about overall because because if you get two season tickets for okay wait five grand I think he told me five grand and he gets he gets two tickets and it's like five grand total five and some change and you get first dibs on playoffs and then the playoffs it's like playoffs he says for the first round it's 60 and then second round is go it it jumps up to like 120 third round jumps up to like 180.

SPEAKER_07 47:18

Well that's what I'm saying is it would it be worth it to get a group of like eight to ten of us and then get season tickets for season tickets for next year so we can get the cheap prices for the playoffs this year.

SPEAKER_04 47:35

And we'd have yeah I mean I would but I just don't I don't go out that much though is a thing. It's like I wouldn't want to like stick like or join a group and like not go out as much and stick that responsibility with other people.

SPEAKER_07 47:51

You don't want to wear an ice cream with me at the game here's the thing I don't but like season ticket means like no but we're I love the savers like we would split them like like I don't like we're not each buying no I I know what you're saying.

SPEAKER_04 48:06

It'd be like you get two tickets or something with like a group of eight people and you just rotate games you go to yeah that's exactly what my coworker does so I understand what you're saying.

SPEAKER_07 48:16

I also like I'm there for a game for it is being for the playoffs this year. Right I'd do it I I would do it.

SPEAKER_05 48:24

I and I think uh consider it heavily I think when me and Ty were looking at them uh our seats would have been right in the 100s uh four rows from the ice I think they were I think they were like 3500 apiece I I I think but that was also when they were terrible so they're playing good now so knowing Terry he's like oh I'm capitalizing on this I think it's still I think it's still around that price because it has a lot of a uh it would it would be tough for me because working with all the team flights yeah it'd be tough I gotta add this to the list can just look at the freaking we catch a game I mean you usually catch a game every year. Yeah we usually do yeah until we have that guy that's behind us screaming in your ear guy absolutely has nothing to know about hockey huh? Oh wait a minute we can get the value seats for a thousand bucks that's the three hour wait now hang on if it's a thousand bucks for a seat for the three for the nosebleeds who gives a fuck would you guys be more interested if it was three thousand or less total and we split between like ten people I'd be down could be could be less obviously but I I only have five teams I want to see on my bucket list for uh I've seen every NHL team.

SPEAKER_07 49:53

Yeah but we're again we're here for the playoffs. Ideally there's what a guaranteed two playoff games guaranteed yes so there's four they make it again yeah this could be a one trick pony this could be yeah well that's what I'm saying we have a guarantee so there's four seats for the playoffs oh you get four seats for the playoffs no like total two for each game for a guaranteed two games possibly a third game and then the second round hopefully I think it's something to consider if the seats are that cheap for the th for like I didn't think I'd see any price under$2,000 per seat and according to Sabres.com the cheapest there is is$1,014 for the package. But you have to also think that's also they charge you a seat licensing fee too and they don't say that on the website oh yeah they said I I don't know but I know someone that had to pay a seat license fee through yeah through uh Ticketmaster yeah and parking too because I think is there like a parking pass in there and I wouldn't even buy the parking pass I'd just go downtown uh go right to the casino and walk over free parking man best life hack in the world uh something to look into maybe we'll see okay yeah I mean I yeah I mean I yeah Carl let's hit a parlay uh not right now later yeah I'd be interested in that little three dollar parlay to win three grand season takes I I put a hundred bucks on my shit well let's calm down here we got some time I'm just not going to you know I torched through some money this weekend on the sports books I gotta I gotta bring the bet back down a bit oh dude I've been waiting for my checks since the third of March so I just got it today time to double it up yeah yeah right um well anyways uh I think we're into that time where we're ready for the fun segment are we ready to wants to lead us off you guys do your thing I gotta grab it all right Carl's going to do his thing uh Colt while you introduce uh what the segment is all right we were talking a little bit before the show um Tyler was sipping from a Falcon's cup okay oh spoiler alert and Spats was asking him and uh one thing led to another and now we're gonna flex our uh Carl Carl you a plumber what's up Carl oh I thought you guys were saying something to me no no no no no i'm I'm explaining what we're about to the the the segment we're about to do all right I'm looking for it so have fun okay uh don't bend over um yeah anyway um yeah souvenir cups where the fuck was I holy shit I got you riled yeah uh Lord Lord have mercy uh yeah so who wants to start us off while Carl looks for his uh well are we doing one cup or are we doing the collection?

SPEAKER_04 53:24

I have a collection of cups that is one like theme it's like one complete so it's like four cups total.

SPEAKER_07 53:31

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 53:32

But it's like it would go quick. I'm looking at my cup I know you got a shit ton of cups but you could just kind of be like here's uh the basis of this collection and then quickly show some of your your cooler ones you know you can show them all if you want I don't give a f well don't have me go first so okay all right I think we're gonna have Carl go last because it's gonna be funny seeing like theme of cup cup cup and then whatever the yeah I'm I'm actually excited for this uh you want to go first Ty yeah I can show my Atlanta one real quick I mean you guys saw a little bit but yeah flip the camera on here bang hell yeah spending the dishwasher a couple times trying to lose your uh yeah because you're not supposed to put him in the dishwasher dipshit yeah I know tough one that's right hey where did the one cup go that I wanted to show but I have four cups I guess yeah I do yeah show them yeah let me show you what's going on show it show it this is when I was in Baltimore so when it's coke is that just like you get them at the stadium and it's usually how usually like um everywhere I go I usually get like a chicken finger basket with a souvenir cup which is how I roll okay that's how you roll sounds delicious I can show you all that I got tomorrow.

SPEAKER_00 55:10

Yeah yeah go ahead okay um just go one person at a time oh the dog pound dog pound yeah this one was cool sick cup yeah it was pretty cool it was either this one or Miles Garrett on it but I don't want to be sipping for Miles Garrett's corn you know every time I look up the cup I got the sweet one this one's probably my favorite one as the Seattle Mariners whoa that one is sick yeah that's pretty cool that's pretty sick oh also dishwasher uh scars see there he goes but that's really about it I really want like the sabers really don't have one downtown they don't have like a legit souvenir cup they don't which is upsetting because I don't have beer saber which is sold out and probably not I feel like they should have like an all black cup with like the red and black goatheads you know how cool I mean yeah they would sell out they would sell out you know just do like a fucking souvenir cup night like how they do the bobblehead night yeah like cups they would sell out and I don't even think the Bills have one either I have no idea I could be totally wrong no I don't see it as it's like even if people that don't get even if they somehow don't sell out you can just throw them in the saber store for the week and then they would sell out so unless uh you have any objection I'm gonna go next Ty's taking a fucking piss no you go you go ahead let me hear the screen oh man okay so uh I was gonna put my camera on but it might show my horn uh yeah no souvenir toilet bowl or it's gonna be hard nothing really much to talk about either so tough uh what do you got Cole so yeah yeah so a couple months ago when um actually might be approaching a year now but the uh the Happy Gilmore 2 movie came out and Subway was doing a thing where you could get the special like uh you know character themed cups from the movie um because you know Subway was sponsoring and on the movie and all that he had like a Subway golf bag at the end the whole thing you know branding so I was able to get three of the cups of the four and the fourth I had a I had a guy who's gonna give me one but his dog ate the cup.

SPEAKER_04 57:35

So it's like fuck I can't complete the collection until today came the email so these cups are see if my camera will yeah right okay we gotta figure out a way to not show the bunk bed um we're gonna yeah because we always release the video of these yeah well it's live so like bunk bed got somebody yeah uh Instagram model huh it's me oh god my light fell off the desk hey okay hold on hi alright all right we're gonna hold the camera like this before I leave my desk don't worry this is gonna get exciting soon it'll be over soon all right here they are first one we got Hal L you know nothing special little little subway cup here Oscar or fucking bad bunny he was a caddy in the second movie naturally this is my favorite cup shooter shooter it's so good and then this was the one that I couldn't get out my hands on naturally holy crap that is thinking of that one so only on Netflix that's so cool damn those are nice I didn't know like that was a thing so you are gonna see it on the my stream wall collections yeah that's sick that's such a nice that a serial collection too the uh Dragon Ball yeah Dra um when Akira Toriyama died he was oh fuck bunk bed jump scare fuck I can't hold fuck no fuck yeah uh Dragon Ball came about the box dude the bunk bed what's up with it it's not even legal to tell you holy shit someone changes shit no there's just a bunch of fucking clothes on there it's a fucking it's a mess it's like the catch all in like the entire upstairs history of the house everyone throws their shit up on there it's the catch all but man cream no I'd say that's a good that's a good pull of souvenir cups for sure that uh thank you dude that that reminds me the I have a collection at a parent's house a little you know mini set of do you guys I don't know if you guys remember years ago it was a 7-Eleven cup but it was the uh WWE cups like Slurpee Cups souvenir cups for 7-11 is that when Sam Punk was fighting for his own souvenir cup in the ice cream bar I don't know maybe but I got like four or five of them maybe three or four maybe five maybe four is too many um but I got a bunch of them that I wish I had but so I I I grab because I got I've been to a handful of stadiums so I got a lot of uh a lot of the typical ones like you guys know the style like here's a Pittsburgh Pirates one like this is the typical like souvenir cup style I'll turn my background actually no it's pretty good like this is typically like that's similar to the Atlanta one it has a style on that so when I was in Maryland I went obviously went to some caps games some wizards games and everything and I got those cups um they have a little bit of a different style oh it's a cup I was looking for hell yeah their style's a little bit different where rather than like the black Ram souvenir cups they kind of have like a thicker plastic and it's white and it's like it still has a typical Coca-Cola thing on it but that one's not bad but I really like the caps one the caps one here is sick.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:29

But they also they gave out a uh oh caps there was two uh two instances where there was uh like anniversary cups or actually I guess there was one instance and this one was just kind of a I don't know what this one was from this I think this was just they were handing out at the Wizards game because nobody goes to the games so this is more like like Tumblr oh that's like a whole ass coffee cup yeah like this one's sick and I I I swear I didn't pay for I don't think I paid for this.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:58

That's pretty rough I got a Bill's themed one like that. Just like the same little plastic lid and shit.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:03

Yeah like this one's like I kind of wish I used this one more just for like coffee or hot chocolate or something like that in general. But uh like it's thick too. But they also had a for at the caps game the 50th anniversary cup ooh that's clean. Yeah this one this one I like a lot it also comes with a lid I don't know what their infatuation with lids are they had that eagle logo somewhere on there. Yeah yeah that also would be cool if we had like the throw the throwback logo oh and then this one from the Bill Stadium it's kind of similar style the 2024 cup Ave Cenies uh champions yeah yeah yeah cup yeah that one was sick but uh but yeah then I got uh like a bunch of different other ones just from the other stadiums and everything that I've been to but this is the only other one that I thought was uh noteworthy just because it was the uh 20th uh championship 20th anniversary of the championship is that glass no it's uh clear plastic so but it was uh was it slavin no who was this again you guys goaltenders can't Frederick Anderson can't Ward it was was it Word yeah that's Word yep yeah that was the only other like unique one that I thought was noteworthy but I like those ones those are kind of like my top ones in the collection I'd say and then I just got the uh when I went to the Flyers game I got a new souvenir cup for the Flyers holy cow I thought it was peeing again no sorry get some iced tea last but not least uh bring us home Carl hi Carl these are my favorites I got these from my grandfather they're shot glasses I just never open them it says let's get blasted on it was like I was like ah you know what like I'll hold on these that goes with that dude and you kept the cup theme yeah yeah um I also uh a Josh Allen cup is that one of those cups from the Deltasonic cups uh yeah is is it is it glass or is it plastic? It's glass it's glass yeah I got the I got the uh Deion Dawkins one I have that I have that one and I think I have a Milano one in the uh in the cabinet downstairs yeah yeah I got that I got that for Christmas I think I don't even know when I got that and then this is my soup cup when I'm sick what is it's a some good soup nice that's all I really got well done Carl on short notice yeah it's pretty done yeah and then I got a kind of regard rookie card mad money hey taste that thing man gosh I just got it today it just came in the map um with a bunch of other ones yeah I kind of like the whole like the cup collection like section I feel like not a ton of people have it a couple of people have like the souvenir cups but uh people like one of my friends come over they'll be like oh like I got like a one of the my corner cabinets are like glass doors so like I actually just put them in there and it looks real nice.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:22

Is that JD Vance?

SPEAKER_07 1:05:23

Yeah no no it's um Mario uh Ferraro from the Sharks George Bush rookie card George Bush I had that um I got I gotta throw back one for you right here canvas fucking opposite damn toque well boys coming in on uh on an hour oh five do we got anything else we want to touch on anything we want to discuss I'm good I feel like I'm just We'll talk about that all stream. Let's actually let's cook that off. Um yeah, the uh the season ticket, the season ticket parlay. If if we win, what is okay, let's let's let's set the record straight here for uh for everybody who's listening. We'll get this episode out immediately. Um will we? Immediately yes before I got I got nothing going on for the next like ten minutes. I can download the bod and actually put it up. Um how much money now, Tyler and Colt, you guys don't gamble or don't gamble too much, so if you do or don't want to bet, that's up to you guys. Um but how much money would we have to win on this wager for us to say, yep, we're getting the tickets? Just the cost of the tickets, most of the cost of the tickets, most and then that's per seat. I think it was a thousand per seat.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:59

If you're looking for a sponsor, that's that's a different thing. But like I myself don't go to the games a whole lot. Alright, that's fine.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:07

We'll leave it.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:07

So like I'm good for I'm good, okay. Alright, then that's good. I'm good for like a one game a year. I know like the playoffs would be electric, but like, you know, I'm a superstitious guy too, so like I don't like leaving for the playoffs. I've been to one building.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:21

This is the Buffalo Sabres playoff game. Nobody knows what happens in the playoffs.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:29

Fair enough. Fair enough. Just buy me Macy's dinner box or something. I'll chip in like a hundred bucks.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:39

Carl, I think we cover the price of it. If we get uh five dollars to a thousand dollar parlay, I think uh I think we can pull the trigger.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:46

You've been down this road with me before with that whole like that three-point Christmas Day Hail Mary parlay, and you're like Colt, Colt, Colt, put like ten bucks on a Hail Mary parlay, win six hundred bucks, we'll go to the Pro Bowl games in Vegas.

SPEAKER_07 1:08:01

And it hit. You made all that.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:04

Yeah, and guess what?

SPEAKER_07 1:08:05

You didn't go.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:07

Social anxiety gets the better of me. I like going anywhere. I don't know. It's just like going anywhere.

SPEAKER_07 1:08:13

That brings up an interesting point because last time we did something like this, I shouldn't say last time, because I'm sure we've done it once before, but we have a good history of it where we've made you 500, 600 bucks. Why don't you just place the bet and then don't go?

SPEAKER_04 1:08:27

I'm cursed, Spats. I'm cursed. Everyone's cursed when they're betting. I mean, everyone's got like the oh, I can't believe this happened. I'm fucking cursed at betting. Pardon my French.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:37

I won a hundred dollars. I am cursed.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:40

Based on my last like major bets, like the stories, it's bad. Like, I don't bet a whole lot. I don't bet every weekend and a couple bad beats here and there. It's like my last three or four bets have been bad beats, and I wait like however long until I'm emotionally stable again to bet, and then it's another bad beat. Sounds like it's like this past weekend. I was gonna bet on EJ Tackett winning the Masters, okay? Bowler, by the way. Alright. And like the Masters was going on. He's won every other major tournament in this sport. He needs the Masters for the Grand Slam. What does he do? What does he do? He steps up at the 10th frame. He needs two strikes and a pin to win. So he just does strikes. First ball buries it. Second ball, ringing 10 pin. Can you imagine if I had money to lose my pin, by the way? So the guy had 196. If if can you imagine if I had money on that and I had to watch a ringing 10 pin, like nope, nope, that's what I mean. It's like a sign. It's like a it's like a it's like a physical, real life sign that I have taken a mental note of and I'm done betting.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:44

Well, Tyler, we'll let you know when we hit on that parlay so we can get these season ticket things. I am going to the casino Friday.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:49

It's different. Oh, it's different. You're gonna go play blackjack instead of uh it's different.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:55

Um there's sportsmen there, Colton. Same thing.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:01

Yeah, yeah, whatever. I'm just going for the vending machine in the corner. Oh, oh. That's my favorite machine in the casino. There's a vending machine in there. I don't fucking know.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:12

He'll find one.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:13

Hi, dog.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:15

I got the bet. You got it? Send it over.

unknown 1:10:18

All right.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:19

What do you got? Any closing remarks?

SPEAKER_00 1:10:22

Uh, it's good to see you boys. Like I said in the beginning of the show, you know, it's been a couple weeks, it's been a long couple of rough weeks at work, but uh that's good to you know talking for you guys again, it makes people laugh. I've never seen that dog before.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:36

This is my brother's dog. He's out of town. He's in he's in Colorado.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:41

This is Dominic, we we we miss you too, but there's a dog.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:45

It's all good, but I actually gotta cut it short because I gotta go to the pharmacy and they close at seven.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:50

Oh, you better hide over there. All right, get out of here, Tyler.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:53

Tyler. All right, boys. I will talk to you guys later. Carl, I'll see you Thursday, buddy.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:57

I'll see you Thursday. Uh good seeing you, Ty. He's bringing me to my surgery. Oh.

unknown 1:11:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:03

I hope that goes well, Ty. Uh Carl.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:07

No, God bless Ty taking him.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:09

Yeah. Yeah. I told Ty No, he's gonna stay with me, and I told them, like, I give him a rundown on everything. It's like, if they tell you to pull the plug, blow it. You can do it. No, no, I made a joke. I made a joke to him, and uh, I said, Yeah, I'm gonna wake up and he's gonna unplug the one monitor, and he's like, I had to charge my phone.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:32

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:34

Yeah, sorry about that, guys. I I really haven't been sleeping, so no, you good.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:38

I mean hey, it's okay. He's you got a lot of stress under your belly. So you got a reasonable excuse. So oh you an NHL, that's crazy. Yeah, is it just is it just those four?

SPEAKER_05 1:11:49

Yeah, just four goal scorers, anytime goals. Um, I've put in 40 bucks on it to win 8,000.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:56

I was gonna put five to win eight grand, but okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:02

Watch it all hits. I'm telling you, I have a commitment. I might have a problem. I might have a problem.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:09

I if it hits, I hope you have that problem. I hope we have that problem.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:14

I'm going, I'm gonna buy the tickets and I'm gonna pay off my uh Bill's tickets for both uh both seats.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:20

Hell yeah, hell yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:21

And then I'm gonna restart. That's what I'm waiting for.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:26

I'm waiting for I'm waiting for a big sports hit, and I'm like, resetting everything, I'm betting five dollars at most, and that's a big spend. Well, the only bad thing is New York State taxes that though. Yeah, true, but and still it's gonna be nice to win a couple thousand. Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:43

And that was just a uh throw just throw it together. How's the dog? You're muted. Yeah, you're headed.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:04

Yeah, yeah. That sucks. Yeah, that's annoying. It's been happening all week. So unlucky. What the fuck are you talking about? I gotta go.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:13

We're about to wrap it up. Uh okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:16

Yeah, dog got into some of course.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:19

On a serious note, uh, Carl, honestly, good luck uh on Thursday. Keep us posted on uh when you get in, when you get out, or I guess we'll have Ty keep us posted because you'll be high. Uh make sure Ty takes a lot of videos.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:28

I'll be uh Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Take the videos, huh?

SPEAKER_07 1:13:32

Gotta take the videos.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:33

We need content. Yeah. I know Monday, I have to actually I have to set that off stream.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:40

So yeah. Yeah. Uh best of luck. Uh with that being said, guys, you know the deal. Uh Buffalo Bites Podcast on uh Instagram, on TikTok, Buffalo Bites on X and Facebook. Uh if you've got any questions, uh questions, comments, anything you want us to talk about. You got any votes for any of our picks, any of our drafts that we've had that will eventually be released. Uh BuffaloBitesPodcast at gmail.com is our email that you can reach out to us at and with that being said, everybody enjoy yourselves. Enjoy the rest of the week. Root for the Sabres. Hopefully by next week we're in the playoffs already. If not, it'll be a very exciting uh Monday night episode. Be with the uh March Madness Championship and the Buffalo Sabres against Tampa, probably for a playoff clinch. Um and yeah. That's all. All right, friends. As usual, well, and for now. Go Sabers. Go Sabers.