Throwing Walleye and Dented Jock Straps

The pod is back! The hockey world has been all a tizzy the past 24 hours, so Mikki is back to discuss. From the fish-tossing debate with the Seattle Kraken and Auston Matthews's mysterious trip to Germany to Nashville's bench minor and Zuccarello's unfortunate injury, there is plenty to talk about.

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HockeySheWrote

Wild Hockey Fan | Cozy Mystery Writer | Mom of 2 | MN Raised | She/Her | Hockey Takes that No One Asked For

What is Her Wild Side Hockey Podcast?

Her Wild Side combines hockey knowledge with a side of vibe checks. The weekly show will have game breakdowns, any topical news about the MN Wild, and fun things going on surrounding Wild's social media. This show aims to be informative while also sparking good conversation about the Wild and hockey in general without having to keep everything serious.

Hello,

welcome to Her Wild Side Hockey Podcast.

This is your hostess, Miki,

aka Hockey She Wrote.

And things are a little different.

It's been a while.

It's been three months.

Kind of an unexpected hiatus, I guess, or,

you know, a longer hiatus than I thought.

As you will notice, I am in a new place.

This is not going to be my

permanent podcasting spot,

but it's just what I have right now.

I'm actually sitting on the

floor and I'm using like a

tote for my computer

because I have moved into

my own apartment.

So part of the hiatus was

that I have separated from my husband.

And so I have been busy kind

of rebuilding my life.

And while I have been doing that,

the Wild have actually been winning.

They've played eighteen

games and they're tied for

third in the league right now.

At the beginning of the year,

it kind of seemed like

maybe this was a little fluke, you know,

like a little fluky.

But it's not.

Like, they are doing the damn thing.

Tonight they play Edmonton Oilers,

which will be an

interesting game because

the Oilers have been meh.

So we'll see.

It's always fun to watch

Brodine take on Connor McDavid.

So I do have a few things

that we are going to discuss today.

Now this first one is

actually what brought me

back to the podcast because

I was just so like, not mad.

I was just so like heated

about this that I have to,

I have to speak my piece.

The other day,

the Minnesota wild after

their game tossed out

stuffed plush walleyes from

into the crowd from the three stars.

Right.

And.

Oh, did Seattle fans go crazy?

Because throwing stuff, fish,

throwing fish in general is their thing.

You know,

don't think about the catfish

that Nashville throws or the squid,

the octopus that gets

thrown on the ice in Detroit.

Like, nope, this is just Seattle.

And here's the thing.

You know, okay, first of all,

let me just say,

In general, in life,

I try to look on the

positive and I try to spin

things in a positive way

because that makes you so much happier.

Don't you want to be happy in your life?

You should want to be happy.

So I was like,

you need to see this and you

should be flattered that

like your marketing

department came up with such a cool idea,

but other teams see it and

want to try it with their

own spin on it because

Minnesota did put their own spin on it.

is a walleye which is the

minnesota state fish it's

not like they took it's not

like they snuck into

climate pledge arena stole

all the plush fish and then

threw them into the

minnesota crowd like no and

people were like well why

does minnesota do it you

know what we're the land of

ten thousand lakes people

fish all the time fishing

is a big thing here you

know so it's not like we're

some landlocked state who

doesn't people won't fish you know

Anyway,

it caused like twenty four hours of

Seattle fans complaining

about copycats like elementary students.

And everyone in Minnesota just being like,

it's not that big of a deal.

Interestingly enough,

the video of the wild

players tossing the fish

was labeled something about

these are the only stars that matter.

And so, of course, the Dallas fans

also stuck their nose into

this whole debacle because

they saw that as a slight to them,

which is funny because it's

not like they even played

the Stars that game.

This was a completely different game.

But because they used the word Star,

I mean,

the Wild live rent-free in Stars

fans' heads, unfortunately.

So between Seattle and Dallas,

it was just like,

My favorite part though,

was a few of the fans were

trying to do this whole, like most,

most teams just do a stick salute.

Like they even stole the

idea of tossing things into the crowd.

Are you kidding me?

Okay.

First of all,

plenty of teams toss things

into the crowd.

Not all plenty of them do.

And Minnesota has done it for a long time.

Usually it's pucks.

They've also done t-shirts and.

Two years ago at Christmas,

the game where Ryan

Williams and Kirill

Kaprizov came dressed as Santa and an elf,

they had a whole bag of

like mini sticks and pucks

and they threw them out to

all the kids in the crowd.

Like this is,

throwing stuff is not a new thing.

But, you know,

if you want to try and claim

that that technique is yours, good luck.

There are a few important

players around the league.

that are out right now.

The big one is Ovechkin.

He is out with a lower body injury.

Of course,

he's chasing Wayne Gretzky's

most goals record.

But also, Auston Matthews has been out.

And then yesterday,

so we had this whole kind of like,

twenty four hours of very

strange hockey news and

very strange goings on.

We found out that Auston

Matthews is in Germany.

getting a second opinion.

Apparently he had to go all

the way to Europe to get a

second opinion.

Most people,

we're just going to speculate

here and you know what?

It's all in fun, right?

We're speculating in fun.

Um,

when Austin Matthews comes back with a

hairline that's been lowered a few inches,

everyone just telling me it looks good.

Okay.

Don't mention it.

Don't talk about his trip.

Don't ask how he's doing.

Like just

Tell him he looks good and move on.

Although I do wonder,

so another big Maple Leafs

story from a few weeks ago

was Tavares' amulet.

And like,

why didn't he just get one for Austin?

And Austin could use that to

like lower his hairline

because it does a bunch of other things.

It protects you from five G wifi.

And like, I don't know,

I'm sure the amulet could

help in some way.

Now,

Let's move on to Nashville.

Nashville, Smashville,

they are having a rough go of things.

Over the last summer, they signed three,

four big name players.

And yes,

these players are a little on the

older side, but still, I mean,

Stephen Stamkos, Ryan O'Reilly, I mean,

just good players.

And then proceeded to lose

like the first eight games of the season.

And it's like,

they just can't quite get

things together.

I'm not going to feel bad for them.

I'm not going to feel bad for them.

But last night in their game,

they had a penalty less

than a minute into the game

because they put out the wrong lineup.

They wrote down whatever the lineup,

you know, that they submitted.

They wrote it down wrong,

sent the wrong person onto the ice and

One of the Seattle coaches

noticed and called the penalty,

like had the officials come

over and told them.

I was reading today that

this penalty is so like

rarely used that there's

not even like a record of

how many times it has been used.

But like every once in a while,

it happens.

I just...

It's one of those bench

miners that I just don't

quite understand.

Too many men.

Okay, I get it.

Like hockey players have a

hard time counting.

Sometimes they go over the

boards at the wrong time.

Whatever.

I understand.

The wrong lineup?

Like my dude, you only need,

like you only have to

remember six players,

like five and a goalie to put on the ice.

You really like forgot which one?

I don't know.

But so Nashville's problems just keep,

piling up.

I mean,

we've suggested that perhaps they

go to watch a U-Two concert this time.

Maybe that will kind of reverse the trend.

Who knows?

Not my deal.

And now the biggest Minnesota Wild news.

So a couple games ago,

Matt Zuccarello is in front of the net.

Brock Faber takes a slap shot,

hits him in the torso.

Zuccarello doubles over and

can't even stand up, like skates,

goes off the ice, does not come back.

Now, everyone was speculating,

like what could possibly happen?

Especially because the next

day they announced that he

had had surgery that night,

like successful surgery.

And he'll be out for a few weeks.

Now, of course, everyone was making jokes.

They're like,

I bet it hit him in the balls.

And like, I bet it ruptured.

And we're all like, oh my God,

can you even imagine like

that would be so terrible.

Okay, well, guess what?

We found out yesterday from Marcus Foligno,

of course,

that that is exactly what happened.

Everyone's favorite, Mama Moose, you know,

loves the gossip.

He, in a radio interview, now, hold on,

I'm gonna get,

let me pull up the exact

quote because like Marcus,

He said,

we thought he was going to lose one nut,

but it actually survived

and he's got them both still.

Felino said,

poor guy got hit where the sun

don't shine and it ruptured his testicle.

He can't even lift anything.

And then said that his

jockstrap had a massive

dent in it and that it was hilarious.

It's funny after now that he's okay.

Do you think...

Foligno was supposed to talk about that?

Do you think,

is Zuki going to be mad that

this has now all been confirmed?

Or will he not care?

I don't know.

I can't read him on that.

I mean, not that we're ever going to know.

I also wonder,

how do you think Brock Faber

apologized for that?

Because I mean,

of course it was poor Faber,

the most innocent,

caring guy on the team.

I just know that he feels awful.

I mean, anyone would,

but I feel like Faber would

feel like three times as

awful as anybody else.

So I would love to know, like,

what is he doing to like

try and apologize and say he's sorry?

I don't even know, like,

what can you even do in that situation?

Because that's like, man, that's tough.

Now I'm going to move on a

little bit here and just

say that I have been to

four wild games so far this year,

and they have been so much fun.

And one of my favorite

things that has been

happening is meeting some

of my online friends.

So I know most of you follow

me on Twitter.

If you ever see that I'm

going to a game and you are

also at the game,

message me and I would love

to meet up with you.

It's really fun.

especially because then I

can put a name and a face

to an account because

sometimes it's kind of like, um,

I don't know what, I don't know, you know,

I know your name isn't

dorky doodoo and that you're,

you don't actually look like, um,

SpongeBob, your profile picture.

So it's really fun to be

able to just actually meet people.

And I've met quite a few now.

I'm trying to think, you know, a good five,

six, at least this year.

So let me know.

Um,

This pod's a little on the short side.

I'm just going to roll with

it because you know what?

I'm just glad I got something out there.

So if there is anything that

you would like me to talk

about or discuss or anything else,

please let me know.

You can message me, again, on Twitter,

comment, whatever.

And I will discuss.

All right.

Until next time, enjoy.

Let's watch the wild.

Keep rolling.

All right, I'll see you later.