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We are the Hughes Sports Pod (HSP), and we are Irrational Fans covering our favorite sports teams, The Canucks, The BC Lions, Seahawks, And More! Hosted by Jake Hughes & Kevin Hughes
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the May 11 edition of the Hughes Sports Podcast. I am your host, Jake. He is across from me, the old man. Old man, how the h*** are you?
Kevin Hughes
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00:20
I'm good. How are you?
Jake Hughes
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00:21
I'm I'm great. I don't know what you were doing over there, but he was under.
Kevin Hughes
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00:26
I was trying to mess with you before went live, and it worked.
Jake Hughes
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00:31
I think it messed with you more than anything.
Kevin Hughes
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00:33
Hey, it's May 11, so I just want to go back. I believe your uncle, my brother, Uncle Jack, or Brother Jack, is watching. So let's say happy birthday to Brother Jack.
Jake Hughes
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00:45
Happy birthday, Uncle Jack.
Kevin Hughes
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00:46
Uncle Brother Jack.
Jake Hughes
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00:51
If you don't know who we are the Esports Podcast. We cover Vancouver, Canax, BC lines, CFL in general, breaking news as it happens.
Kevin Hughes
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01:00
And all kinds of other s***.
Jake Hughes
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01:02
All sorts of other things. We got things to talk about today, I guess.
Kevin Hughes
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01:06
What you want to talk about?
Jake Hughes
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01:11
Do you want to talk about the news that just broke a couple of hours ago or do we want to talk about let's do the breaking news.
Kevin Hughes
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01:18
Breaking news.
Jake Hughes
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01:19
Ryan Reynolds and the Remington Group have announced that they are dropping their bid for the Senators, meaning Ryan Reynolds will not be the owner of the Senators. Now, when I was looking into this a couple of hours ago, there's not a lot of information as to why, but just that it was happening.
Kevin Hughes
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01:38
Probably because Snoop Dogg put his name behind another group.
Jake Hughes
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01:43
Yeah, snoop Dogg.
Kevin Hughes
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01:44
That group is and I don't want to get myself in trouble by saying anything about a group of investors putting a bid in on a team. But I believe did we not hear last week, late last week, or was it early this week that Snoop Dogg has put his name into a group to buy the Senators?
Jake Hughes
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02:02
I think it was a couple of weeks ago.
Kevin Hughes
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02:04
Google it.
Jake Hughes
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02:07
Led by Los Angeles based businessman Necko Sparks.
Kevin Hughes
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02:10
Yes, that's a guy.
Jake Hughes
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02:12
And the weekend I don't know if you know who that is, the very famous Canadian rapper is also part of another bid with Toronto billionaires Jeffrey and Michael Kimmel, according to the Ottawa Sun. Yeah, apparently. Okay, sorry. I'm reading breaking news as we're on air here. According to sources as per ESPN.com, according to sources, ryan Reynolds's request for an exclusive window to complete the deal was denied, which led Reynolds to pull out of the process. The deadline for interested groups submit final non binding offers is May 15. So four days away.
Kevin Hughes
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02:50
So I wonder if the rentals group might go somewhere else.
Jake Hughes
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02:59
It also could.
Kevin Hughes
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03:00
In other words, there are other teams in the NHL that could be up for sale if the price is right.
Jake Hughes
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03:07
I think Arizona has got to fit that bill. If the Tempeh Arena deal does not.
Kevin Hughes
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03:12
Come through, which sounds like it's not going to, it sounds really bad for them.
Jake Hughes
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03:17
I was speaking with someone who lives in the Phoenix area, and it's very split. There's lots of news going both ways. It's like a full on election campaign down there. Just for this? Yes. It's going to be pretty big numbers of turnout. They're expecting high numbers of turnout for this.
Kevin Hughes
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03:35
Oh, really? Oh, wow. Yeah, which is good. It's good to be engaged as a voter, obviously, but a lot of times when they have that many people engaged, it's usually not a good thing, because usually that means it's not going to happen. People don't get engaged unless they're worried. That it's.
Jake Hughes
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03:55
But there's a lot of business that's riding on this development.
Kevin Hughes
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04:00
Huge thousands of dollars. Are there going to be lawsuits? Because it's the States, and people in the States love to sue for money. Go ahead.
Jake Hughes
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04:11
Have already countersued the city of Phoenix for the city of Phoenix suing tempeh. Yeah.
Kevin Hughes
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04:26
Sometimes you just got to bring the mic a little closer. You got to pick up your water and yes, it's just water today.
Jake Hughes
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04:37
Thank God. Last week was a good week of.
Kevin Hughes
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04:40
A sip, and you got no, it wasn't last Monday. It was last Thursday. I was drinking.
Jake Hughes
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04:46
Yeah, I said Monday. Then I meant last week.
Kevin Hughes
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04:48
Yes. And you just got to go. People need to calm down. This whole I'm suing you. Oh, shut up. Let people be.
Jake Hughes
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05:04
It's part of the American culture, though.
Kevin Hughes
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05:09
Oh, it is. America is very sue heavy.
Jake Hughes
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05:12
It's a very different culture than up here in Canada, where it is we hold it, and it's little things that I've noticed going down to the States a handful of times that I have quite a few times for my age. But it's holding the door open for someone. It's saying thank you after you buy a coffee.
Kevin Hughes
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05:30
Coleman courtesy.
Jake Hughes
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05:34
That name is dead, though.
Kevin Hughes
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05:35
That name is dead. What were you saying? Sorry, I went blank.
Jake Hughes
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05:43
No, it's just a very different culture down in the States when it comes to that sort of stuff with suing people. And it's a much more combative. There's too many people. There's too many people in their cities going to Phoenix in early January. Too many people.
Kevin Hughes
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05:59
Too many people, g****** it.
Jake Hughes
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06:01
And too g****** hot. It's like 38 degrees Celsius.
Kevin Hughes
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06:04
I'll never forget that Jake's going to Phoenix, and I'm like, Jake, get ready. It's hot. Like, it's going to be really hot. And he goes, yeah, I've been in hot before. We've been down in Vegas. And I'm like, okay.
Jake Hughes
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06:15
Now, to be clear, I have been to Vegas with July in other groups in the middle of July, where it's 50,000 degrees Celsius. This was in May. Yeah. This was in May. This is spring weather. This was last year.
Kevin Hughes
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06:34
And he sends me a message, and it's like, oh, my God, I feel like a turkey being cooked.
Jake Hughes
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06:42
The only way I can describe it is the sun tries to kill you. And you have to pollute because you have to turn on your air conditioner. If you're not running your lose situation, who wants to live there? Give me the warm weather during the wintertime. Just give me mild weather. Give me, like, 18 degrees all year round. That's all I need. I don't need anything crazy.
Kevin Hughes
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07:05
Give me above 30 all year round. I'll be happy, man.
Jake Hughes
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07:08
Well, you're in luck because we're getting that this week here in California.
Kevin Hughes
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07:11
Yeah, that's what they keep telling me.
Jake Hughes
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07:13
I'm waiting, but back to sports. I just want to get this through. Still in the ESPN article, a recent Forbes valuation, but the sender is at $800 million. The Remington Group's bid was believed to be worth more than $1 billion, according to sources.
Kevin Hughes
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07:34
Interesting.
Jake Hughes
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07:41
Where do you go next here, if you're the Remington Group with Reynolds? Because Reynolds just joined the group financially, of course, but mainly as a figurehead.
Kevin Hughes
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07:51
Oh, for sure.
Jake Hughes
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07:53
I mean, if you look at their.
Kevin Hughes
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07:54
Success, this is a serious group that wants to own a team. This isn't just a bunch of people in Alberta putting together a bid to attempt to buy, let's just say, the Calgary Flames. This is a group of people that have a billion dollars liquid cash that they can go bloop. Give me a team.
Jake Hughes
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08:22
I don't think they're going to go away, but I don't know if they'll have the media attention in bringing in Ryan Reynolds. Unless it's a Canadian team. That's just how I feel about it.
Kevin Hughes
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08:35
You're not going to buy Edmonton?
Jake Hughes
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08:37
No.
Kevin Hughes
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08:38
Vancouver. Can you buy Vancouver for it would probably be closer to the 2 billion if Ottawa's one vancouver, you would think would have to be higher. Maybe.
Jake Hughes
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08:47
I'm just saying that Edmonton calgary. But Edmonton is higher. Calgary, with their new arena deal, would be higher. Winnipeg would be the only one that I could see being on par.
Kevin Hughes
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08:58
It's not going anywhere. I can't see it. The only team I could see being sold right now is maybe the Canucks and Ryan Reynolds being a West Coaster.
Jake Hughes
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09:14
The only reason I say I can't see it is because Luigi, the patriarch of the Aqualini family, is still alive. And Francesco has mentioned it in passing. And it's been rumored by people who are close with Francesco that they want to win one for Luigi. That's the push. That's why they keep pushing to try to win.
Kevin Hughes
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09:40
But what about me?
Jake Hughes
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09:43
Until the until that until he passes? I can't see the Aqualini family wanting to part with it. And even after that, I can't see them parting with it.
Kevin Hughes
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09:57
Probably could be. It'll be interesting to watch over the next X amount of months to see if anything comes to fruition in a couple of different places that we know about. I know one person that if it happens, they will lose their f****** oh, I can't swear they will lose their d*** mind. You want to see a podcast. You want to see someone come completely unglued? The guy sitting on my well, I guess you're on my left. Is everybody else or is it you on my right?
Jake Hughes
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10:39
I'm on your left, but you point with your right. No, you point with your right hand and say left. Welcome to broadcast TV, sir.
Kevin Hughes
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10:50
Anyway, it just opens up so much interesting chat. And I'm choosing my words carefully, folks, for a reason. But it does open up a real can of worms in a lot of different markets and even down in the States. Like what team is available in the States, or is there going to be a CFL team now?
Jake Hughes
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11:20
Well, and there's so many things. I mean, Ryan Reynolds loves sports. I doubt you've watched it. But his Rex MFC Show on Disney Plus and candidate Hulu, down in the States, him and another actor named Rob Mecklehiney, they bought a, I think it was fifth tier soccer team.
Kevin Hughes
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11:43
Yeah.
Jake Hughes
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11:43
Now that team is now in the second top league. And I honestly believe and they talk about in the show, and I haven't watched past season one, I don't think, or partway through season one. They don't talk about money all that much. When they do talk about money, we're losing money. We're investing in the future, we're investing in a new field, we're investing in this. Honestly, so many people are like, oh, now Ryan Reynolds doesn't need the group. They've got money because they're in whatever, the first Nation League or whatever it is. No, he's probably just barely breaking even.
Kevin Hughes
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12:20
Yeah, there's a ton of money to.
Jake Hughes
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12:22
Get there just to buy the team and then get it up to par. I mean, don't get me wrong, they're making money off of the Rex MFC Show.
Kevin Hughes
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12:30
Yes.
Jake Hughes
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12:31
They're not idiots. They're very smart, intelligent business people. Look at Ryan Reynolds's history.
Kevin Hughes
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12:36
Well, that's where I'm like, do they give up on an NHL team and do they try buying because they love teams, they love sports, obviously. And I'm saying they the Ryan Reynolds brand because I'm sure there's more than just Ryan involved in the Ryan Reynolds brand. Are they the team that Ambrosi should be freaking picking up his phone, ambrose being the commissioner of the CFL and saying, yo Ryan, what do you think about the Atlantic?
Jake Hughes
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13:06
Yeah, honestly, if you're going to expand, are you expanding Quebec or I mean, does Edmonton need new owners?
Kevin Hughes
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13:19
Well, again, Edmonton is Edmonton not community owned along with Saskatchewan.
Jake Hughes
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13:25
I thought Saskatchewan was the only community owned. I could be wrong on that.
Kevin Hughes
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13:27
I could be wrong too. Mr. Google.
Jake Hughes
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13:30
Google, you talk about Google machine. Yeah. I'd be shocked if he was to come to football, CFL and own a CFL team. But I mean, who would have thought he had he would go in it with another actor to buy a footy team.
Kevin Hughes
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13:49
Yeah, right, exactly.
Jake Hughes
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13:51
So never say never.
Kevin Hughes
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13:54
Yeah. So Winnipeg, Saskatchewan, and edmonton are still community.
Jake Hughes
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13:58
Okay, cool. That would leave Vancouver or BC Lions, which was just purchased a couple of years ago by Mark Domen, the Calgary Stampeders, who are owned by Calgary. Sports and entertainment.
Kevin Hughes
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14:11
Possibility.
Jake Hughes
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14:14
Montreal was just sold this year.
Kevin Hughes
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14:17
Out of the question.
Jake Hughes
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14:18
Toronto is owned by MLSE.
Kevin Hughes
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14:20
That's not happening.
Jake Hughes
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14:21
Sports? I shouldn't say not, but I wouldn't say never. But it wouldn't surprise me. But it would still be shocking.
Kevin Hughes
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14:29
Yes.
Jake Hughes
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14:32
Hamilton, ottawa.
Kevin Hughes
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14:34
Yeah. I just think any team right now isn't going to be they're not going to give up right now because they're that close to actually making good money. I'll say if we can get a 10th team in balance, a schedule, start earlier, as Ambrosei said, he wants the season to be starting now, like in May. I'd love for that. Be finished in October.
Jake Hughes
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15:07
Honestly, I'd love for that for a multitude of reasons. But one, you're playing most of your games during the sunniest months. You're not playing into the winter. That is Canada. And limited weeks up against the NFL. If you can limit the number of weeks you're up against the NFL, that's wiki.
Kevin Hughes
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15:27
Right? Because you figure, when does the NFL start?
Jake Hughes
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15:31
That's a very good question. Let me Google that.
Kevin Hughes
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15:34
September. October.
Jake Hughes
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15:37
This year, it starts August 3. Is their preseason.
Kevin Hughes
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15:43
August what?
Jake Hughes
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15:44
August 3 is the first preseason game.
Kevin Hughes
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15:46
And when does their season start?
Jake Hughes
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15:48
September 7.
Kevin Hughes
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15:49
Yeah. So if you can end by the end of September, early October, have the.
Jake Hughes
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15:56
Great Cup in October. Perfect.
Kevin Hughes
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15:59
Yes.
Jake Hughes
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16:00
And to everyone listening right now, I love the winter snowy bowls. I love the terrible weather and the it's part of the game. No, it shouldn't because it's sloppy, terrible football.
Kevin Hughes
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16:12
Yes. It's tradition. You can't break tradition.
Jake Hughes
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16:16
Well, let's go back a little bit here. Let's go back to history, into the history books. The Grey Cup used to be a best of three series. Why did we break tradition then?
Kevin Hughes
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16:25
Exactly. It wasn't best of three. It was two games and the scores combined. Because you remember I had the 1964 Gray Cup thing and the first one was played in Calgary, the second one was played in BC.
Jake Hughes
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16:44
I thought it was a third.
Kevin Hughes
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16:45
I thought there was no, it was two. Definitely 100% two. I tell you, the commitment to what.
Jake Hughes
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16:53
You'Re just saying right now, I'll trust you, but I don't believe you. Now, something that I think you said, something along those lines of I trust you, but I don't believe you. JT. Miller has decided when you told me.
Kevin Hughes
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17:10
This today, I blew a cork. But go ahead, JT.
Jake Hughes
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17:14
Miller. It's been announced, I guess, that JT. Miller is attempting to qualify for the US open. The US open website says it is rare when a current professional athlete seeks to qualify for the US open. National Hockey League standout. JT. Miller is such a competitor. I am paraphrasing because you guys know that he plays for the Vancouver Canox while he shoots left hand on the ice, miller swings his golf club from the right side, which is quite weird. That is something that makes no sense to me.
Kevin Hughes
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17:46
It makes sense to me.
Jake Hughes
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17:51
To be able to join the US. Open, you have to have a handicap below 1.4.
Kevin Hughes
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17:58
Wow.
Jake Hughes
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17:59
I don't know what that means.
Kevin Hughes
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18:01
So let's say par. I think if par is 72, you have to be shooting 73s. Is that right? I don't know. That sounds right to me. That sounds good. We got a couple of people listening. If you're a golf fan, what is a handicap? I believe that's what a handicap is.
Jake Hughes
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18:22
To quickly figure out your handicap should be, you need to subtract your number of strokes with the overall course rating. For example, on an average par 72 course, if you were to finish with 100 strokes, you would subtract 72 from 100 and receive a handicap of 28. No, you said it the other way around.
Kevin Hughes
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18:41
No, you have a handicap of 1.4. You're shooting 1.4. You have to be able to be shooting 73.
Jake Hughes
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18:53
Yeah. The biggest you said it backwards originally.
Kevin Hughes
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18:58
No. Yeah.
Jake Hughes
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19:01
So he's shooting a 73 and has records of that. Clearly. He will be playing at the Club of Nevillood in Presto, Pennsylvania, on May 15.
Kevin Hughes
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19:16
He's going to quit playing hockey and go play.
Jake Hughes
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19:20
He's going to make way too much money. He's not even guaranteed to make it to the US. Open. Miller will be battling 77 other golfers on May 15 for just four qualifying spots. So not even 5% make it through.
Kevin Hughes
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19:42
Yeah.
Jake Hughes
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19:43
If he qualifies the qualifying move on to the final qualifying, which runs between May 16 and June 5. The US. Open runs from June 15 to June 18. If he makes a run at anything's possible. It's golf. You could have a great day on the golf course and shoot he could shoot par under par two under par on a course and make it.
Kevin Hughes
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20:16
Yes.
Jake Hughes
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20:17
Then he then has to qualify again with more golf. So people looking at it, and I've seen a lot of comments online being like, he should be putting his training first. You know what I think about this? Because what's our biggest complaint about JT. Miller this year? His frustration and his anger. Yeah. Golf is a mental game.
Kevin Hughes
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20:39
Yes.
Jake Hughes
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20:40
Golf is a game where you that.
Kevin Hughes
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20:44
Was Jake telling me to move the mic closer to my mouth, folks. Just anybody that's watching. That's what that movement was. Thank you, Jake.
Jake Hughes
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20:51
Golf is a game that you are competing against yourself every single time.
Kevin Hughes
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20:57
Yes.
Jake Hughes
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20:58
So maybe this is just what the doctor ordered, for him to be able to control his anger and his mental game.
Kevin Hughes
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21:05
And I mean, can you play golf and be out of shape? Yeah, you can. I mean, look at what's his face.
Jake Hughes
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21:12
Yeah.
Kevin Hughes
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21:13
What's his face? That one fancy closed guy. Way kind of large. Anyway, can you play golf when you're overweight? Not a shape. Yes, but you look at the top pros, they're in freaking shape. You look at Tiger Woods. I mean, that kid's ripped. Yeah. It's going to be good for him. It's not affecting the hockey. If anything, it's just weird. It was one of those when you said it, I was like, well, that's weird. Why? I don't understand. But sure.
Jake Hughes
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21:50
You also got to look at it. For the last three seasons, you've been eliminated early. We know JT. Miller based off of his reactions and everything, he is a very competitive human being.
Kevin Hughes
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22:03
Yes.
Jake Hughes
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22:04
It would be hard to see someone like JT. Miller not be competitive at every single turn in his life. So during the offseason when everyone and having a good time, I guarantee you he wants to be there. Being number one. There's a reason he's in the NHL and is as good as he is in the NHL.
Kevin Hughes
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22:22
Yeah.
Jake Hughes
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22:23
He has that drive in him. And it might be just one of those things where someone said it, oh, you can't do that.
Kevin Hughes
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22:30
Make a bet. Watch.
Jake Hughes
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22:33
Let's go. Yeah. I'm a competitive person. I'm nowhere near as competitive as NHL athletes are. Any athlete is.
Kevin Hughes
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22:41
Well, yeah.
Jake Hughes
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22:41
If someone tells me I can't do.
Kevin Hughes
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22:43
Something, you're going to try.
Jake Hughes
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22:46
Watch me. Watch me do this.
Kevin Hughes
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22:47
Just because. Yeah, just because. Good for him. I mean, at first I was like, that's weird. But now I'm more leaning towards good on you, buddy. Good on you. That's a hand clap. That's a Kevin hand clap.
Jake Hughes
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23:01
Golf clap. Might as well try, right? I mean, he's 30 years old, so he's like over the hill in hockey age nowadays.
Kevin Hughes
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23:10
Yeah.
Jake Hughes
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23:11
Makes me sick to think that me and JT. Miller are the same age. It just freaks me out. Think about that. I am the same age as JT. Miller.
Kevin Hughes
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23:22
Why can't you be making money like JT. Miller let me finish. And looking after your old man.
Jake Hughes
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23:28
Well, time out. First off, we don't know that JT. Miller looks after his old man.
Kevin Hughes
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23:32
But you would because you're a good kid.
Jake Hughes
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23:38
Secondly, no one taught me how to golf. I could have been a world class golfer. It's not true. I went golfing for the first time last year. It's not true, folks. I'll just leave it at that. Golfing is not golfing is not my strong suit.
Kevin Hughes
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23:58
You said anything about golfing. I wanted you to play hockey or football.
Jake Hughes
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24:02
Timeout, timeout. I would have loved to play hockey. I would have loved to play hockey.
Kevin Hughes
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24:07
Girls, no. Can you imagine your hockey mum?
Jake Hughes
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24:18
Well, I'm having you'd be like a.
Kevin Hughes
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24:20
Dance mom on steroids.
Jake Hughes
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24:25
And while I'm having traumatic flashbacks here, do check info, hughessports, CA. There's going to be all sorts of post articles, episodes of the show, including our Hughesports Bracket Challenge, which as I'm talking, I'm pulling up the scores for because I believe. Because I don't think much has changed standings wise and he's just well, they.
Kevin Hughes
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24:50
Can'T because we're still in round two.
Jake Hughes
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24:54
Haven't teams moved on yet? No one's moved on yet, have they?
Kevin Hughes
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24:57
No one's won yet.
Jake Hughes
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24:58
So we still have the old man in number one, DJ number two. Weggy 18, p Golden Bros before a hose. Bender all tied for three, cam tied for seven, hard to Yandel tied for eight, or at eight, and me, myself at the bottom of the twelve member scoreboard, but in 9th, with 23 sad points out of a maximum of 23.
Kevin Hughes
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25:22
Sad points, you literally got zero out of the first round.
Jake Hughes
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25:28
I got two people in the first round and I don't have them moving on.
Kevin Hughes
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25:32
No, because we picked teams. Yeah.
Jake Hughes
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25:36
I had two teams move into the second round. Correct. And I had them being eliminated this round in round two. So there's no points I can hear no. Yeah. No, because I went with the upset in the Edmonton La series, which was almost right. That, I think was probably the best of my underdog.
Kevin Hughes
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25:55
Hold on, how do you almost get something right?
Jake Hughes
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25:59
I mean, it was down to a game seven, but that's like saying we.
Kevin Hughes
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26:03
Almost won a cup. We didn't win a f****** cup.
Jake Hughes
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26:05
But we did almost win a cup. We did almost win a cup. We did almost win a cup.
Kevin Hughes
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26:10
We didn't.
Jake Hughes
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26:10
We have twice as a franchise been one game away from winning a Stanley Cup.
Kevin Hughes
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26:15
And both times well, we've.
Jake Hughes
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26:19
Been in no, two times. Yeah, two times we have been one game away from winning Stanley Cup. Both times we have rioted after those sets of games, actually onto happier. Yeah, you're in the middle of a thought process. There no onto happier tones.
Kevin Hughes
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26:39
Before you get to that, can we go to the NHL update? Because it's something you and I didn't talk about this afternoon when were texting. Did you hear or see the Slash in the Edmonton game on what's his name? Dry Cital?
Jake Hughes
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26:58
Yes, I did see it and I saw that he somehow got the instigator in that brawl.
Kevin Hughes
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27:05
See, I didn't watch any of it and I was so busy today I didn't get a chance to even look it up. I was literally listening to Fan 960 here in Calgary and they were saying, like, he skated across the ice, readjusted his hands and took a chop.
Jake Hughes
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27:29
Here, let me let us get in trouble.
Kevin Hughes
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27:32
Are we going to get in trouble?
Jake Hughes
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27:33
Why not? It's fine.
Kevin Hughes
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27:38
It's bizarre. And now the question is, has there been.
Jake Hughes
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27:47
Sounds off. So we're not going to be able to listen to sound. Let's go back here a little bit as it loads a little bit further back. Again, this was not planned, so I was not prepared to have this clip up.
Kevin Hughes
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28:00
Sorry, guys. Yeah, this is my fault. I kind of dropped this on Jake at the last minute.
Jake Hughes
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28:04
There goes we'll see the replay here?
Kevin Hughes
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28:06
Yeah.
Jake Hughes
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28:08
Two handed slacks and he came from the center of the ice to do it.
Kevin Hughes
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28:13
And he did. He readjusted his hands to chop him. Watch him. He readjust his head.
Jake Hughes
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28:25
And then McDavid gets McDavid.
Kevin Hughes
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28:28
David goes after him.
Jake Hughes
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28:30
Goes after I love it. On Twitter, there's a content creator that I follow named Sin. And Sin commented he's had a love hate relationship with the Vegas Golden Knights. As in he loves to hate them. But he pointed out something that I think a lot of people are realizing. The honeymoon period for the NHL and standard fans, casual viewers is over for the Vegas Golden Knights. Because, yes, there's been some questionable, at best hits and plays that the Golden Knights have happened, have had to happen, were the cause of especially in this series against Edmonton where you have no excuse for it's, not hockey plays it's straight up. You're gooning.
Kevin Hughes
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29:30
Horrible gooning.
Jake Hughes
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29:34
Vegas Gold Knights. I expect nothing less.
Kevin Hughes
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29:36
But you look at someone like Petro Angelo, he doesn't have a history of doing this kind of stuff, does he? This is like a Marshant freaking kind of thing. This is that big, tall Boston guy, Charlie Lurch.
Jake Hughes
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29:56
Chara.
Kevin Hughes
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29:57
Chara. His kind of move, I was like shocked when I heard it.
Jake Hughes
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30:03
So talking about player safety and a decision so Edmonton's Darnell Nurse has been automatically suspended for one game and coach Jay Woodcroft has been fined $10,000 for instigating in the final five minutes of regulation. That's a bug standard rule. If you instigate a fight in the last five minutes of a game and you get an instigator, a penalty, you miss a game.
Kevin Hughes
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30:27
And nurse did that.
Jake Hughes
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30:29
Nurse did that. I don't blame him.
Kevin Hughes
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30:31
But where's the suspension for, oh, 1 hour ago.
Jake Hughes
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30:35
So, brand new, fresh off the press, basically 20 minutes breaking news 20 minutes before we started the podcast. Vegas says Alex Petrangelo has been suspended for one playoff game for slashing against Edmonton's. Leon, what? One game. So you have again going it's a joke of a system. To be completely honest, we all know that it's a joke of a system. Fire safety, in my opinion, is there to make a mockery of the league because that's what they do. They allow people like Brad Marshant they allow people like Brad Marshant to get away with things because he's viewed as a superstar. They view certain people in a certain light. But Raffy Torres need to be taken out of the league.
Jake Hughes
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31:20
Yeah, that's still one thing that bugs me because some of the s*** I've seen brent Seabrook, Patrick Kane, I mean, the entire Blackhawks organization, brad Marshant. Did I mention Brad Marshant? Do was minimal in comparison to Raffy Torres who all he had to do was because he was a smaller guy to hit people the way he did he'd leave his feets when he did it. He wasn't jumping he wasn't jumping at people's heads like the league tried to portray it as he jumped and hit people in the shoulders or pulled them up in the chest. Nowadays we look at that and that's a clean good hit. As long as you don't leave the feet. But when you're shorter than everyone else, how do you blow people up? You have to leave your feet. It's insane. But in the playoffs there is a.
Kevin Hughes
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32:08
Good question for an old time hockey player. Maybe one time when I have access to them like Theo Flurry is did you leave your feet a lot when you hit?
Jake Hughes
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32:21
Yeah. Just ask.
Kevin Hughes
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32:24
Yeah, because it's true. Like if not you're going to hit me in the belly.
Jake Hughes
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32:28
Yeah. Which if I'm hitting someone, like if I'm trying to hit a player like not JT. Miller, like Tyler Myers who.
Kevin Hughes
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32:38
Have to leave your feet.
Jake Hughes
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32:40
Not just that, but if I'm going to try to knock him over or affect him in any way, there has to be a full momentum of my body.
Kevin Hughes
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32:47
Yes. We don't skate. We're not professionals whatsoever, so we could be totally wrong. But how that hit and I heard about it and now I've seen it. Intent to injure is the only purpose of that hit. That wasn't his man. He wasn't trying to take him out of the play. He wasn't rubbing him out on the boards.
Jake Hughes
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33:13
He wasn't.
Kevin Hughes
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33:14
He had his head down and he hit him.
Jake Hughes
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33:16
He wasn't trying to whack a puck out of the air and accidentally slashed him. Those are acceptable excuses.
Kevin Hughes
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33:22
This was total intent to injure. There was no other purpose in that slash across his hands than intent. What other purpose could there be? Send a message. He meant to do it. Let me finish. If I come up and punch you in the face, the only reason my only intent is to hurt you.
Jake Hughes
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33:46
Yes.
Kevin Hughes
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33:48
Same thing. This wasn't in the game of play. This was not part of hockey. This had nothing to do with the game except you have a guy who lost it who literally went and hacked at somebody. It's not hockey. Get them the out of the game.
Jake Hughes
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34:09
It's not hockey. I don't know when it was in the game. I believe it was in the third period and the game was already put.
Kevin Hughes
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34:16
Away in the last few minutes of the game. It was like way in the last.
Jake Hughes
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34:20
I think that's what's the ensuing incident to start Darnell to fight. Yes. However, I'm not saying it's a good hockey tactic.
Kevin Hughes
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34:33
What are you saying?
Jake Hughes
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34:36
One game, which the way player safety looks at it, usually is one playoff game is worth two regular season games. However, is Edmonton now going to go look to try to take someone out? Is Edmonton going to try to look for retaliation and come off their with.
Kevin Hughes
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34:56
The series tied to they go back to Edmonton for game five.
Jake Hughes
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35:07
No, they go to Vegas.
Kevin Hughes
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35:09
Oh, sorry. They go to Vegas for game. Five game six back in Edmonton and he gets to play. They're going to play a game six. There's going to be a game six.
Jake Hughes
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35:22
Yeah. No matter what.
Kevin Hughes
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35:26
This has been one of the freaking chip chirpiest. I don't want to say old style. There you go. Old style hockey there's ever been that I've seen in years. Like I'm going back. This is old time hockey. This is Hackam wackam hack and whack them.
Jake Hughes
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35:49
I was talking with a friend today about it and it's an entertaining series. It's not good hockey. That's the best way to describe the series. It's dramatic. There's things going on, there's storylines coming out of everything but it's not good hockey.
Kevin Hughes
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36:07
It's not. Your buddy Dom is asking a question. Is BETMAN in their ear, the disciplinary board ear saying take it easy. Knowing dirty plays and big hits make the news and therefore bring in viewership?
Jake Hughes
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36:28
It could. I also think that the NHL has a certain amount of stars because the NHL only allows so many big name stars to be around and I always try to compare apples to apples. If you look at the NBA there are names. You have a bunch of different players who have personality and have flair. You get an interview from one of them there's going to be juice out of it because they're going to say something that a PR expert would be like, oh you shouldn't have said that.
Kevin Hughes
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37:01
Yes.
Jake Hughes
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37:02
Now cut to an NHL interview. Yeah, we tried real hard out there but their game was a bit better than ours. We'd need to get the pocket deep and d*** hard out. We're going to regroup and we're going to come back next game and we're going to really put things together. And yeah it's frustrating when you don't get the win but I believe we have the team in the locker room that's really going to pull together. The MLB is the same way. You have very few stars in the MLB who aren't afraid to revolt against the norm.
Kevin Hughes
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37:46
Well you don't have the personalities like you do in the NBA. The NBA is full of personality because.
Jake Hughes
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37:56
You'Re not allowed to look at PK suban now that he's not in the league. Look at him. Even when he was in the league he was still the most personable personality and he used to get s*** constantly. And you know who used to give him the most s*** and it blows my mind? Don Cherry used to give him the most s*** because the guy used to wear crazy suits, have opinions on things.
Kevin Hughes
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38:20
God forbid someone else wears crazy suits and has opinions. But if you look at the CFL I looked my buddy Arlene Bruce III, he was outspoken. He was controversial. I can remember scoring touchdowns in 2011, putting the Spidey man mask on. He got fined. He made a phone call in the end zone, he got fined.
Jake Hughes
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38:50
But football has that sometimes.
Kevin Hughes
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38:52
But you need to have that. In my opinion, that is what is going to attract viewers, have that personality. Why do we watch wrestling?
Jake Hughes
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39:06
You know what? It's very entertaining. The athleticism is great. The storytelling is sometimes very iffy, but it's the characters. It's the way they draw you in. If I'm the Canucks, which clearly I have no relation to anyone in the Canucks, even though I share the last name of a group of very successful brothers, one that plays on the Vancouver, we share a last name with, like Greece. I'm just saying. I'm just making it very clear there's no association to anyone in the NHL. If I'm the Vancouver Canucks, when the Islanders in Bo Horvat come town, I'm replaying Bo's comments constantly. I'm building it up. I'm putting it in the ear of the reporters, hey, we want you to ask these questions. Not that organizations do that, but organizations.
Kevin Hughes
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39:57
Do that because now you can make him out. Bow out to be wrestling. Term the heel and the Canucks are the baby face.
Jake Hughes
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40:10
Go onto the Canucks, reddit subreddit. Go on to any Facebook group. Go on to any Twitter. We never liked both bull was a terrible captain and we didn't like him because he said it was fun to.
Kevin Hughes
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40:23
Be in a playoff chase a lot better than Vancouver.
Jake Hughes
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40:30
It's true.
Kevin Hughes
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40:31
He didn't need to say that part. I liked it, but he didn't need to say that part. It was kind of one of those.
Jake Hughes
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40:37
Oops, yeah, when you go to someone but it was effective and you criminally underpay them or offer them a deal and get upset that they don't take $3 million under what he signed for.
Kevin Hughes
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40:49
We're going to rehash this again.
Jake Hughes
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40:51
No, we're moving on.
Kevin Hughes
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40:52
Okay. Thank you.
Jake Hughes
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40:55
Have you watched much of the NHL playoffs?
Kevin Hughes
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41:00
Little bits here and there. I kind of pay attention to it just because I have to, because it's part of my job now and people expect me to know because they talk to me and I'm like, I'm a salesperson. Do I have to know this ship? So I have been paying attention. It's been fun so far. It's been very unpredictable. You don't know who's going to win from night to night.
Jake Hughes
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41:26
Well, looking at it, you've got the two west series, both tied it to east where you have storylines of the teams that like you got the Toronto Maple Leaf story of, okay, they finally won, got into the second round, but can they do anything?
Kevin Hughes
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41:43
Oh, my God. I watched the greatest clip today. No, we won't play it. But it was basically a guy in a Toronto uniform and he's like, I thought were in Florida to golf. Is there really a second round? No way. Second round.
Jake Hughes
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42:01
I shared that with you, right? The TikTok?
Kevin Hughes
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42:04
Yes. That was you. Yes. I didn't know who I got it from.
Jake Hughes
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42:07
Yes.
Kevin Hughes
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42:08
That was hilarious.
Jake Hughes
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42:10
I want to come back to the toronto Mae Police. I'm just literally going in order of how I see them. Yeah. Carolina, new Jersey. I can honestly say I've watched 0 second of the game, I've watched highlights, and it looks like Carolina is just a better team all around. Then you've got the series we just talked about the insane Vegas Golden Knights Oilers, and as I said, I was talking about with a friend today, and both teams have a style. Vegas, they push. They push. They push and they don't stop. If they're up five, they're still pushing. The Oilers rely on a long stretch pass with a shell of a defense. Neither team is backing down on the style. They play both teams.
Kevin Hughes
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42:56
I always like when a guest when someone watching comments, so dumb comment says, Devil's losing so bad it makes the Rangers look even worse.
Jake Hughes
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43:12
I wouldn't say that.
Kevin Hughes
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43:14
They're in overtime.
Jake Hughes
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43:16
Who?
Kevin Hughes
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43:17
Devils. Hurricanes.
Jake Hughes
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43:20
What's the score?
Kevin Hughes
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43:21
Two two. End of regulations. So they're going into overtime.
Jake Hughes
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43:25
Nice. So, I mean, by the time this podcast is over in the next 15 minutes, we could have our first team moving on.
Kevin Hughes
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43:32
We could. And then tomorrow in the first round, how many games were tied at two. Two. How many series?
Jake Hughes
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43:45
In the first round? Yeah, in the first round, I think it was a lot.
Kevin Hughes
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43:50
Yeah, it was a lot of teams. And that became the best of three, right?
Jake Hughes
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43:55
Yeah.
Kevin Hughes
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43:55
Because there was a lot of game sevens.
Jake Hughes
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43:59
Yeah. You had Seattle Kraken, there was only two game seven. Three game sevens. But all the other ones were in six. Yeah, there was five game sixes. No, four game sixes. One game five, because Vegas won four to one.
Kevin Hughes
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44:18
But it's been an interesting playoff for a fan of hockey and being able to sit back and actually just kind of watch. And like I said, I haven't watched a whole lot of games, but I've watched the last third period of games. When we get finished watching a show, I'll fire it on. And it's interesting to listen to the fans, and I listen to a lot of fans nowadays, obviously, with this show and paying attention to the Rod Peterson show. Sorry, I'm just going to try to finish my thought here, because it's hard to get this out. It's interesting to see how one sided fans really are, and as a biased guy, I'm watching it and I'm like, well, that was a penalty. Like yeah, you're unbiased. Yeah, sorry. An unbiased fan. And I'm like, yeah, that was a penalty.
Kevin Hughes
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45:18
It had to be called. And fans losing it. And then I laugh at myself and I'm like, oh, my God, my memories come up right now in Facebook. I'm losing my mind every other day on the Canuck Refs. Right. So when you're a fan of a team, you lose perspective 100%. Always the rest fault. If you lose, it's always the rest fault.
Jake Hughes
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45:42
Or one player. You focus your energy one player like goaltender who's now in the hall of Fame.
Kevin Hughes
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45:51
We almost got big Effing whale.
Jake Hughes
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45:54
Sorry. Before you move on and start ranting about the best goalie we've ever had is Vancouver Connects team. We almost want a full episode without you mentioning your friend Rod Peterson.
Kevin Hughes
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46:06
I pointed to my hat.
Jake Hughes
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46:07
I know I said we almost made it through a full episode until you mentioned it there. The last series is the are you.
Kevin Hughes
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46:13
Going to be like that?
Jake Hughes
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46:14
Seattle Kraken and the Dallas Stars tied at two. I've been keeping a closer eye on this one. Again, in passing, coach, my roommate, also known as Dom, has decided he's also a Kraken fan because he can have a team in the east and the team in the west. Oh, yeah. I think maybe a discussion for another day, but I think the both organizations should make it special when they play each other. Find out how many times you play each other a year and make it a hit. Canucks and crack.
Kevin Hughes
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46:52
Oh, yes.
Jake Hughes
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46:54
It's what battle? The I 35. Is that what it is? The road?
Kevin Hughes
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46:58
The I five.
Jake Hughes
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46:59
I Five. The Battle of the I Five. Where's 35?
Kevin Hughes
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47:05
I have no idea.
Jake Hughes
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47:10
There's at least 30 of those interstates that go north south. So sue me for not knowing them.
Kevin Hughes
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47:15
Hey, there's an interstate in Hawaii.
Jake Hughes
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47:19
There is. Which makes no sense because it's outer states, but is there one in Alaska?
Kevin Hughes
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47:27
I'm sure there is. State has one, but those ones should.
Jake Hughes
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47:32
Be called outer states and not inner states.
Kevin Hughes
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47:34
The reason they call them interstates is the federal government will pay for them that way.
Jake Hughes
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47:39
Yes.
Kevin Hughes
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47:39
Learned that when I was in a way.
Jake Hughes
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47:41
And odd numbers go north south. Even numbers go east west.
Kevin Hughes
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47:46
That is correct.
Jake Hughes
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47:47
Or west east, depending on which way you're driving. I want to wrap around back to the Toronto Maple Leafs because right, this is the story. I mean, the Oilers are in the playoffs, and I feel like a lot of Canadian media forgets that every now and again and a lot of Canadian attention forgets that every now and again. And I feel bad for the Oilers because the Maple East have finally made it into the second round. And that's big for me to say. I feel bad for the Oilers, but they didn't get swept. The Mouple apps did not get swept. But if they only win one game, can you really call that a success with this group?
Kevin Hughes
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48:28
I say if they do not come out of the at least the second round, they don't have to win the third. But if they don't come out of the second round, there's going to be changes made in Toronto. And I mean big a** changes made.
Jake Hughes
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48:41
Does kyle Dubis.
Kevin Hughes
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48:42
Yes.
Jake Hughes
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48:43
The GM loses his job. Chubbin Keef is gone. I think you're also looking to trade a Marner. You're looking to trade a big name player yeah.
Kevin Hughes
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48:51
There's going to be shake ups like they haven't seen before because they're expected. They rebuilt. They've already gone through what the Canucks are going through, the retooling. Now it's time to shake it all up.
Jake Hughes
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49:14
Well, and bring it up. I made a comparison to the Toronto Maple Leafs in round one to the Canucks, because in 2011, the year went on the run in the first round, we beat the Chicago Blackhawks. And that celebration, I can feel it right now, just talking about it, the relief and that feeling of we slayed them, we defeated them, we finally after the extension goal. No. The Stanchion goal was against San Jose or Nashville. Alex Burrows So if you don't remember 2011 going into the playoffs, the Canucks had been eliminated by the Blackhawks like three years in a row. And it wasn't always the first round, it was sometimes the second, sometimes always. One time it was a third round.
Kevin Hughes
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50:06
Hated them.
Jake Hughes
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50:08
There's not a lot of rivalries that I can say the Canucks have had. That was a true rivalry where the players clearly hated each other on the ice.
Kevin Hughes
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50:17
Yeah.
Jake Hughes
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50:20
Going into game seven, because, of course, we couldn't do anything the easy way going into game seven. The Canucks were up in the third period. They were up, I believe they were up going into the third period. And Patrick Kane ties the game shorthanded to push the game to overtime. Into overtime. Alex Burroughs picks off a play where it was just a sloppy pass by I don't know who on Chicago, and just snipes it past Corey Crawford. And celebration from that team was as if they won the Stanley Cup. There was a monumental weight lifted off the team. They finally beat their arch rivals, and Toronto didn't really have a team, even though I'm sure they would have loved to have done it against Boston. Their rival was the first round and they celebrated like they won. The look at the way they celebrated.
Jake Hughes
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51:24
It felt like it was a big event. The connection capitalized on that energy. The connection.
Kevin Hughes
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51:30
The Stanchion goals just I had to Google it was when that made them go into the finals.
Jake Hughes
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51:37
Yes. So I was thinking when Toronto scored that goal, put themselves into the second round, that they'd capitalize off of that momentum like the Canucks did. Because I truly believe that win really catapulted the Canucks into the second round.
Kevin Hughes
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51:56
Yes. Well, I think it set the stage for the whole 2011 run, and that's.
Jake Hughes
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52:03
What I thought Toronto was going to do here. And instead, they have looked out of sorts. They've looked like the pressure has gotten to them again. It looks like last year's, round one, Toronto Maples.
Kevin Hughes
·
52:15
Yes. It was funny because I watched game three. Yeah, it was game three. I watched the first that was last Thursday. I watched the first period with Rod Peterson and Darren Dupont.
Jake Hughes
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52:35
Rod, that was game two. Was that game because they've been down in Florida for game three and four.
Kevin Hughes
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52:43
That's right. Yes. So it was game two. And anyway, Toronto came out in the first period on fire. They were knocking people. I think there was 40 hits. Remember, we talked about it on the podcast. 40 hits in the first period. And in the first five minutes of the game, it looked like Toronto was going to get 96 shots on net. It was insane. And then I was driving home and the second period happened. Giveaway Boom goal. Giveaway Boom goal. It was a tie game.
Jake Hughes
·
53:17
Yeah. And it happens like that with Toronto. Same with Edmonton. These teams that have really high end potent offense from a couple of big name players, if they're not feeling it or something happens, boom. It crumbles.
Kevin Hughes
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53:31
Yes. And that's why Edmonton has never gone that far, because they are that high potent offense. And if it's not firing, you don't have a lot to back it up. Isn't that great? Your goalie isn't that great this year?
Jake Hughes
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53:46
I disagree with Edmonton on that one. Toronto 100% this year. Edmonton this year. The trade they made to get at home and the signing of the emergence of Stuart Skinner and having Matt Murray as a one two combo. I think they have a chance to beat the King. The Kings. They already beat the Kings. The Golden Knights. I would love it and have a chance to go into the Western Conference final as a heavy favorite against either Dallas or the Kraken.
Kevin Hughes
·
54:21
It's going to be an interesting week.
Jake Hughes
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54:23
It will be. Sure.
Kevin Hughes
·
54:24
I love it. I love playoff hockey, even though I don't watch it a lot. I love hearing the updates and just the excitement around a game and you can feel it. I would love to have Calgary if it wasn't I obviously want Vancouver first, but I'd love to have Calgary in the playoffs because we live here and the excitement in a city when you've got a team in the playoffs is second to none. And I like watching it. It's fun to see. And I'm such a people watcher and I love watching people's reactions and how they react to things. So it's been cool.
Jake Hughes
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55:04
How is it already? Almost 08:00. Run out of time here. And I know you wanted to discuss an update to the SFU situation yet again.
Kevin Hughes
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55:13
Yes, I got an email. I meant to mention this to you. I get email updates on the SFU situation. I got an email at 02:00 this afternoon. The injunction was denied, which everyone expected. They didn't expect it to go through. It was more of a symbolic, we have to do something. But the SFU Football Alumni Society had a 30 minutes meeting on the evening of May 10. That was yesterday with President Joy Johnson. We believe SFU will work with us on a path forward to reinstate football program for 2023. However, we need to keep up the polite. I love the way they do that. Every email says a polite. Public dialogue and pressure to ensure the process continues.
Kevin Hughes
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56:06
So, next steps evaluate support for competitive exhibition game opportunities for the SFU student athletes in 2023 and the potential for new operating models and league in 2024. So finally, some good news out of that idiotic situation. Looks like SFU is going to be playing football this year.
Jake Hughes
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56:32
And on Thursday, which is today, SFU appointed Bob Copeland, Senior VP of McLaren Global Sports Solutions, to serve as special advisor to explore future football options. Not only was this signed off by SFU, clearly it was also run by the SFU Alumni Association, which is what I thought you were actually going to talk about in that email, is that they now have their special Advisor. The Special Advisor themselves has said it's hard to evaluate things when there's not things happening.
Kevin Hughes
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57:05
Well, it's impossible. How can you evaluate anything when there's nothing to evaluate? It's like, go find a needle in a haystack. But there's no haystack.
Jake Hughes
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57:16
Well, I mean, that's easy to find the needles then, right?
Kevin Hughes
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57:21
It doesn't make sense, but golf clap. I'm happy it's something.
Jake Hughes
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57:26
It's moving forward.
Kevin Hughes
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57:27
First positive step forward in this impossible situation. We've had so good on them.
Jake Hughes
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57:35
Big thing.
Kevin Hughes
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57:37
Oh, yes.
Jake Hughes
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57:38
Monday, May 22, there's going to be some changes to the podcast. Good changes, though, because for the CFL season, recording on a Thursday is not always feasible as there are games going on and we want to be able to give you guys the best coverage possible. So starting Monday, May 22, we will be recording this podcast just like we do right now on Mondays, seven to 08:00 p.m. On YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Social media is not yet invented. We will be there when they go live because we want to give you, everyone who is a CFL fan, the best experience, the best way to do that is to talk after every single game is played. Now, there are going to be occasions where, like Labor Day games are on a Monday.
Jake Hughes
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58:23
In those situations, we will push the podcast either back a few hours until the games are completed or we will move to a Tuesday. That's something that I just came to a decision by myself right this second.
Kevin Hughes
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58:34
Well, I think most games that are on the holiday Monday are in the afternoon, so it shouldn't be like pushing it to 10:00. But I want to make a statement and I have to make it because when there's a game on a Monday and we do the podcast after the game, I cannot be held responsible for what I say.
Jake Hughes
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58:59
For things you say.
Kevin Hughes
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59:01
Pardon me?
Jake Hughes
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59:02
You heard me.
Kevin Hughes
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59:03
No, I didn't. That's why I said, pardon me.
Jake Hughes
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59:06
I can hold you responsible for things you say.
Kevin Hughes
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59:09
I will be drinking at the game. So if I'm doing a podcast in the evening, I'm just saying I can't.
Jake Hughes
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59:21
Well, there might be guarantee. I'm not going to be a little bit grumpy. There might be. I'm not trying to think because Labor Day is the first one I can think of.
Kevin Hughes
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59:31
July 1 is or Monday, the May 22 game.
Jake Hughes
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59:35
Well, that's a preseason game. Don't be drinking. No, I'm thinking july 3. I don't know what the schedule looks like. I will have to take a look at the schedule. The BC Lions are playing a game on July 3. The Monday. Maybe we'll do a live in the same room podcast.
Kevin Hughes
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59:57
Oh, wouldn't that be something?
Little idea I'm throwing together.
Wouldn't it be a Monday? Take the show on the road.
I think it'd be great to take the show on the road.
Yeah. We could be in Vancouver for a game.
Or we could go to Edmonton for a game.
We can go to Edmonton for a game.
With Edmonton.
Are we going to be in Edmonton in.
July?
That would be interesting.
July we will be up in hey, I just realized that's going to be a super short work week that week.
Why did I give it July 15? I keep thinking July 15, but it's July 5.
July 15 is the Calgary date.
Okay, but everyone, we've gone very Saturday now. We're just gobbing next week.
We will not be live anywhere. There will be no show put out. We are taking one week break. We're doing this to basically reset ourselves. The old man has decided that football games are more important than doing anything else. Wow. So we will be live Monday, May 22 for what I'm calling season two. No, we're redoing this. We're keeping that part in. We're calling this part season one. The bit before this was like preseason. We got our training wheels off. We're feeling comfortable. So let's change everything.
How many downloads of our podcast have we had, Jake?
We have had over 50,000 of you beautiful human beings listening to this. Listen to the podcast. Not just live viewers, not 50,000 50,000. That's more people that lived in Erdri when we moved to it. Think about that for a second.
Wow. That's double that's more than double the amount because it was 22,000 when we moved here.
Yeah.
Wow.
So we're going to keep things rolling. We're going to keep things going. And it's because of you beautiful human beings who support us.
And you can support our hockey coverage was cool. You ain't seen nothing yet. When we get into our football coverage.
Well and support us by going info, Hughessports, CA going to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, every other platform that we have at HSP underscore Pod. You can follow me. This is new. This is the first time I've said this. It's at Jstreams on Twitter, spelled J-E-H streams. That's my official J apostrophe.
Eh, is it not?
There's no apostrophe. No. You can't have special characters in your Twitter handle.
No.
You can also find me on Twitch at that exact same name, j Streams. J-E-H because they call me Jay and I'm Canadian.
A oh, man.
Where can we find you?
You can find me posting things on HSP, podcasts, Facebook. You can find me at just kevin Hughes. And yeah, keep paying attention, guys. We're going to be turning the corner here. This has gone way bigger. Sorry, isn't it? J stream now.
No, it's J streams here because J streams was already taken. So J streams. Here is a twitch channel. Thank you, Dom.
Wow. He doesn't even know where he's streaming or peeing or anything.
I don't have to go to Twitch and look it up. I just hit this go live button.
No wonder you're not getting that much. What was they saying?
They can find you on social medias.
Oh, yeah, I said it already.
If you are listening, tell a friend, tell a neighbor, tell the mailman, tell your Uber driver, tell somebody. If you're listening in an Uber right now, I want you and I want Twitter results. You can tag it at hspod uber. Tap your Uber driver on the shoulder and say, hey, do you like sports? If they say yes or if they say no, you should say, should check out Hughesports podcast. And I just want to know what the response is from your Uber driver, because I think it would entertain me. And that's all that really matters about this. If you are listening again on podcast, give us a five star rating. Leave a comment, do whatever you want. We will be here not next week, we will be here Monday, may discuss, I guess, a preseason football game.
And I'm going to give Jake a script so he doesn't go off the rails.
You should read me reading scripts. You beautiful people. Have a wonderful night. We will see you may, 20 seconds.
See everybody.