52: Avry “The Artist” Anstis

0:00Justin: Hey, Andrew.

0:00Andrew: Hey, Justin.

0:02Justin: The Rangers are apparently good. They are because they're going. They're all going to different places and doing different things. And specifically, Cameron Reid is going to World Juniors Canada training camp.

0:14Andrew: Yes, he is.

0:15Justin: Which is very exciting.

0:16Andrew: It's extremely exciting.

0:18Justin: Zubielecki and the Juice Box squad all got picked to go to the Connor McDavid prospect tournament, which is great. The Juice, the. The whole coaching staff.

0:29Andrew: Whole coaching staff, equipment, trainer, everybody. Everyone's going.

0:33Justin: Everyone's going.

0:34Andrew: And Mike McKenzie.

0:35Clip: Yeah.

0:36Justin: The only one that was a little. I thought Shabble might get taken in the. As a goalie, but that was the only one that I was like, yeah, okay.

0:42Andrew: Sam O'Reilly know what, though, is Kirsch is. Is going to Switzerland.

0:47Justin: Yes.

0:48Andrew: For the World Juniors.

0:49Justin: Oh, yeah.

0:50Andrew: So we need somebody to stick around.

0:51Justin: Yeah, true. Maybe they were like, please keep him here.

0:55Andrew: Do we know who's going to be coaching the Rangers while they're away?

0:59Justin: I'm just kidding. It's only one night, one game. But still.

1:02Andrew: Is there an opportunity for a crossover episode?

1:05Justin: Yeah. I am prepared to slick my hair back and shave to a goatee if I can stand behind the bench. Perfect. And pretend to be. I do not want the responsibility of actually coaching, but pretending to be the Juice for a night.

1:22Andrew: Yeah, for sure.

1:23Justin: I'm super in.

1:24Andrew: Listen, I'm already bald.

1:26Clip: Yeah.

1:26Justin: Yeah.

1:27Andrew: Okay.

1:27Justin: And you can get heated and that's exactly it.

1:30Andrew: I know. I can get thrown out.

1:32Justin: I can get you. You can get tossed out of a game yourself. Yeah. Yes. Especially if. Especially if a review happens because I'm screaming at the tv. I'm getting ejected from my own house at this point.

1:44Andrew: That's true.

1:44Justin: Well, it's just. Get out.

1:46Andrew: We both have small children sleeping.

1:48Justin: Yeah. Well, yeah, that's also true. Yeah.

1:50Andrew: Yeah. That's why we get ejected.

1:57Justin: Welcome to the AudPod, where we're talking Kitchener Rangers hockey with the AudBalls themselves, Andrew and Justin. Take it away, fellas. Cameron Reid going to training camp this week, so we'll know more hopefully next week about if he's going to be there or not. The tournament is always a blast. I love watching it.

2:19Andrew: It usually starts Boxing Day, so I have. I assume that's when usually there's a

2:24Justin: pre tournament game on Festivus.

2:26Andrew: In fact, there is one in Kitchener December 17th. Yeah, the pre tournament game.

2:32Justin: Okay.

2:33Andrew: And then there's another one at the Aud Right. We did not get tickets.

2:36Justin: We did not.

2:37Andrew: Hey, you know who.

2:38Justin: You know who keeps reminding us that we didn't get tickets, Gord.

2:41Andrew: Loyal listener Gord.

2:43Justin: Yes.

2:44Andrew: Every time we see him, he says to us, did you guys get tickets yet? The answer is still no.

2:48Justin: Still no.

2:49Andrew: Hey, you know what, AudPod listeners, there's

2:52Justin: anybody with two extra tickets, you let us know.

2:55Andrew: You let us know.

2:55Justin: We. We will happily.

2:57Andrew: You want to go with the Aud part? We will reimburse you for them.

3:01Justin: Yeah, of course. But probably buy popcorn if you're there with us.

3:04Andrew: That's true. That's true. Or a beverage. We'll see. Yeah.

3:07Justin: Whatever you're into.

3:08Andrew: Whatever you're into.

3:09Justin: Yeah, yeah. So it'd be sweet to go manifesting,

3:13Andrew: just throwing it out there.

3:14Justin: Yeah.

3:17Andrew: And if you know the director of at Hockey Canada, you know the email, just drop it in the comments and we'll email it.

3:24Justin: We can be media.

3:24Andrew: We can be.

3:25Justin: We can pretend to be media.

3:27Andrew: Exactly. We do it all the time.

3:29Justin: It's one of our best farces right now. Okay. We do have a slate of games to. To talk about this week. So we are going to recap the London game that happened on Wednesday last week because we recorded that night. So we didn't have a chance to do it.

3:44Andrew: It's true.

3:44Justin: And again, the Soo game has that. When you're listening to this on Friday will have happened. But that is for us tomorrow. So. Yeah, we don't know what's going.

3:53Andrew: We won't be able to recap that one, but we'll look forward to that one tomorrow.

3:57Justin: I. AudPod this week the week of puck luck regression for the Kitchener Rangers. Feel like we got. I think we ended last week's episode by being like, the Rangers just need a greasy goal.

4:08Andrew: Yeah.

4:08Justin: And then literally first goal against London was a greasy goal. Like 10 minutes after you said that it was.

4:16Andrew: Yeah, yeah.

4:16Clip: Because we.

4:17Andrew: Because we had. Yeah. Because we virtually recorded and then we went and watched the game. Yeah. And it was the greasiest goal I think they've scored all year.

4:25Justin: I was like, thank God.

4:26Andrew: It was just a massive bodies.

4:28Justin: Yeah.

4:28Andrew: And it just ended up in the net.

4:29Justin: Yeah.

4:30Andrew: And it was attributed to Tanner Lam Yeah. Unassisted. So that'll tell you. We don't really know how many bodies it had. It just went in. Which is all you need against London in their barn on a Wednesday night.

4:42Justin: Teddy bear toss for their teddy bus. Teddy bear toss. Which the Rangers got to do back to back teddy bear games on a weekday.

4:49Andrew: Two, tossing.

4:50Justin: They were tossing everywhere.

4:52Andrew: They were straight tossers this past week.

4:53Justin: I should say that they were in London that's why the teddy bear toss was happening there. Because the Rangers one happened on Tuesday night.

4:59Andrew: That's true.

5:00Justin: And they won four to three.

5:01Andrew: There was also 20,000 teddies thrown in.

5:04Justin: Yeah.

5:04Andrew: Which was pretty awesome.

5:05Justin: It was. Yeah. I felt like it was a little dig at Kitchener, but

5:11Andrew: even in charity,

5:12Justin: I took it first.

5:12Andrew: I was like, yeah, all right.

5:15Justin: Okay. All right. I'm all. You're the audit on this one.

5:17Andrew: I'm already on TEMU looking at bulk teddy bear orders for next year.

5:22Justin: Oh. Oh, okay. You are of the suspicion that they juiced by bringing.

5:27Andrew: No, I know what you're saying. I'm saying, oh, yeah, I'm bringing the difference next to 10,000. Yeah.

5:33Justin: You're going to bring 10,000.

5:34Andrew: I will pick them up at the airport.

5:37Justin: We'll fill Mike Farwell's booth with teddy bears.

5:40Andrew: We got to get the. We got to get the Rangers bus filled with teddy bears.

5:43Justin: Okay, I'm in. Yeah, I'm in.

5:45Andrew: Okay.

5:45Justin: We should probably start that charity drive now.

5:48Andrew: We should.

5:48Justin: Yeah.

5:48Andrew: Yeah.

5:49Justin: It's like when Newman collects all the bottles on Seinfeld.

5:52Andrew: Speaking of drives, Cameron Reid drove one into the net, his seventh of the year, to make it two to nothing from Jack Pridham and Christian Humphreys on the power play. It's two to nothing. It's the beginning of the second period. The first period ended one nothing.

6:08Justin: We should also mention Kirsch started this game. We speculated last week, we didn't know how this was going to go.

6:13Andrew: I thought this was a huge vote of confidence, for sure. I thought this was great. And it's funny because we were sitting up in the press box the night before against Erie, and he played well in the third period of that game. And I turned to you and I said, I think they got a start. Kirsch tomorrow night now. And you said, do you think. And I'm like, I don't know. Because I just think that if you don't start him, it's sending the wrong message. It's sending the wrong message. And sure enough, broken clock right twice a day. It turned out to be Kirsch. And he played really well.

6:42Justin: He played really well, especially in that first period. That's why I brought it up, because I. Yeah, like, he was light out in that first period.

6:47Andrew: Yeah, he just picked up where he left off in that. From that eerie game he didn't play. He wasn't great in the beginning of that eerie game, but he got stronger as it went along and the Aud was just. He just had a good Game against Lunda.

6:58Justin: Yeah.

6:59Andrew: Which you have to have.

7:00Justin: You always have to be good against.

7:02Andrew: Because suddenly it's three to two for the Knights within two minutes. Actually within one minute of the Cameron Reid power play.

7:11Justin: Goal.

7:12Andrew: Linus Funk. Don't want to get saying that one wrong. Linus Funk gets his third of the year, which is the teddy bear toss goal. Y minute and a half later, Evan Van Gorp scores his sixth. And it's two to two. That quick. And I thought, oh, no.

7:28Justin: A minute and a half of game time.

7:30Andrew: Yes. Oh, yeah.

7:32Justin: Like 38 minutes of real lifetime.

7:34Andrew: 38. It's true.

7:35Justin: It's true.

7:36Andrew: 38 minutes of the London broadcast going through every single teddy bear toss goal that they've ever had. Do they do that every year?

7:44Justin: I have no idea. I don't. I've never watched their Teddy Beyer.

7:48Andrew: Because if they do that every year, you must know them all. That's got to be like London Knights trivia now is, how many can you name in a row? Because the broadcast goes through every single one. It was the first one that they have footage of. Is Rob Shrimp. Shout out Rob Shrimp.

8:02Justin: There you go. Friend of a friend of the friend.

8:05Andrew: The friend of the pod. Yes.

8:07Justin: Yeah. Did we also mention that they. For the teddy bear toss goal song they used, always use that goal song, the Chelsea Dagger.

8:15Andrew: That's what they always use. I used it last year.

8:17Justin: Why do they use Chicago's goal song?

8:19Andrew: That's what I'm saying is they use Chelsea Dagger as their goal song. They. That's what I said to you. I said, do they win? Do they use labomba or Gloria as their wind song?

8:27Justin: Yeah.

8:27Andrew: Like, I'm trying to think of other classic wind songs, but they're not coming to me.

8:30Justin: But, like, get your own song.

8:31Andrew: Get your own song. Start your own tradition.

8:34Justin: Yeah. Why?

8:34Andrew: Okay.

8:35Justin: Got a coffee cat? Yeah. And then they were up three to two and.

8:38Andrew: And then there's. Yeah, suddenly they're up three to two.

8:40Justin: But.

8:40Andrew: But now this one comes in at 30, 41 seconds later, Jack Pridham shorthanded. This had to be a set play, right?

8:51Justin: Yeah, I think so.

8:52Andrew: Because it looked like they won the face off and then rimmed it around the glass. Luca Romano wins the face off. Jakub Chromiak rims it around and he's gone. Yeah. And there was some poor SAP that had to try and defend against him. He got turned inside out.

9:06Justin: Yeah.

9:07Andrew: And then Pridham just went backhand and that was it.

9:09Justin: Yeah.

9:10Andrew: It was filthy. And then the best part was Pridham Turned to the crowd and did.

9:16Justin: Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? Yes.

9:20Andrew: Had a moment and I tried to freeze frame it. Posted it on our Instagram story. I tried to freeze frame it where he was looking directly at a child

9:28Justin: in a London jersey,

9:33Andrew: which again, probably was not his intention. But in the screenshot, that's definitely what was happening right there. Which I loved.

9:39Justin: I love that. Stolia Teddies in.

9:41Andrew: Yes. Not like Michael Misa. Not like Michael Misa. Shooting.

9:47Justin: Shooting back kids. Yeah. Yeah.

9:50Andrew: We're keeping them or whatever.

9:52Justin: Yeah.

9:52Andrew: Jack PR's keeping the teddy bears.

9:54Justin: Your charity appreciated. He is a thief of joy. Mr. Grinch himself.

10:04Andrew: Shorthanded Grinch. Okay. And then back on Hockey Talk here. Cameron Arquette scores unassisted for the game winner. Five minutes later. Four and a half minutes later.

10:16Justin: Weirdest bounce.

10:17Andrew: Weirdest bounce.

10:18Justin: Definitely.

10:19Andrew: Yes.

10:20Justin: However. Puck. Puck.

10:21Andrew: I was going to Sam O'Reilly have to get that puck luck in order. You gotta be lucky to be good.

10:25Justin: Yeah.

10:25Andrew: Yeah.

10:26Justin: For sure. And the Rangers have been bitten by puck luck lately. So it's like this.

10:30Andrew: Even. Even in this slate of games. Like, I saw Prids hit the post a couple times. Yeah.

10:35Justin: Hits the post. He's got a. Like, who's tracking this? Nobody, but nobody.

10:40Andrew: He's gotta count his shots.

10:42Justin: No, I know. He's gotta have the most post hits of the season on.

10:45Andrew: It's a lot of post hits. It's. I do seem to remember that Elenis had a bunch of post his last year.

10:51Justin: Right.

10:52Andrew: And I said it's kind of regressed.

10:53Justin: They're going to start going. They'll go in.

10:55Andrew: Yeah.

10:55Justin: Frailing as they did.

10:56Andrew: Yeah. But yeah, there was no scoring in the third period. So we went into the. To the break up four to three and that was that. Actually it was very low shot AudPod in the third period.

11:09Justin: Totally. Yeah. Only seven shots in the third period.

11:11Andrew: Four to three. The Rangers had the advantage.

11:14Justin: Yes. Seven. Seven shots total.

11:16Andrew: Period. Yeah, total.

11:18Justin: Interestingly, the Kitchener only had one penalty kill which they scored a shorthanded goal on.

11:24Andrew: Yeah.

11:25Justin: So very disciplined game. We talked about this last week too. Is like the Rangers really needed to. It felt like they were getting some weird calls against. But you still can't put yourself in a position where you're getting even. Not great calls called against you. So they cleaned up from literally the night before to the next night. They cleaned themselves up and dusted themselves off and came out and just played an amazing game.

11:48Andrew: I think it's evidence that we're echoing the things that is probably Being said to them.

11:53Justin: Yeah.

11:53Andrew: In the Hlacar room.

11:54Justin: Oh, so they're not listening to the.

11:56Andrew: No, I think I. I don't think we say it scary enough for them. I think the 6 foot 4 Finnish guy who has no emotion unless it's anger.

12:08Justin: Yeah. I suspect it would be terrible on a podcast because it's probably just him just staring.

12:13Andrew: He does podcasts. I've seen it now. Yeah, he's done a couple of them.

12:16Justin: I know. So he's gearing up for us.

12:17Andrew: That's exactly. He's practicing.

12:20Justin: He's practicing.

12:20Andrew: He's getting those podcasts. Chops.

12:22Justin: Doing some of them in Finnish, which is great because that I can imagine. It's probably pretty overwhelming to have to do a podcast with you and I and also have to do it in English.

12:32Andrew: Do you think he's ever been to the Kitchener Public Library?

12:38Justin: Yes. Yes.

12:39Andrew: Kids, there's got to be somebody that's a birdie in the air saying those two jerks on the Aud pot are talking about chicken.

12:47Justin: You think he has a Google notification for our podcast mentioning him?

12:51Andrew: No, I think he has it blocked, actually. No, that's not true.

12:56Justin: One. Okay, I know I don't want to get into this, but one. One bad part of this game.

13:01Andrew: Yes.

13:02Justin: Face offs.

13:03Andrew: Yeah. Oh, yeah.

13:04Justin: Really atrocious.

13:05Andrew: Yeah. And the Rangers, what I will say

13:08Justin: is 18 to 36 face off wins.

13:12Andrew: Haven't been winning the Face off battles in most games.

13:15Justin: No.

13:15Andrew: But they seem to be able to recoup possession fairly quickly in some of these games. Like, it's weird. It'd be a lot easier if you just won more face offs.

13:28Justin: Correct.

13:28Andrew: But that doesn't seem to be a area of strength for the team this year for sure.

13:34Justin: Except in the next game. I'm not really going to talk about it in the next game, but Evan Headrick won a lot of face offs in the next game. Yes, he did.

13:41Andrew: They will absolutely have guys who perform well in the Face off circle, but I think as a team they're below.500.

13:50Justin: Oh, yeah, they are for sure.

13:51Andrew: I don't have that right in front of me. I just generally, from the top of my head, remember that most of the time it's more losses than wins in the Face off circle. But it's okay because I don't think they're losing possession wise. If you had the advanced athletics.

14:06Justin: Yeah, I think, yeah. Puck possession times probably favor Kitchener in most games.

14:10Andrew: And I think that they just need to keep improving in the circle and that'll actually be something easily identifiable. If we want a few more draws, you probably have a few less goals against.

14:23Justin: Get Sidney Crosby in for a workshop.

14:25Andrew: Exactly. Yeah. Get Yannick Perot. I remember seeing. I'll age myself. Sidney Crosby at his first All Star game was learning. Was taking notes from Yannick Perot.

14:37Justin: Oh, really?

14:37Andrew: In the face Off? Sort of, yeah. Cause Yannick Perot had the highest percentage in the league.

14:41Justin: I remember he worked. That was like. He spent like a whole summer working on his face offs and then he came back and was just dominant.

14:48Andrew: Yep.

14:49Justin: All right. So then Friday night we were at home against the Peterborough Petes.

14:54Andrew: Yes.

14:54Justin: For a 6, 3 win in a very opposite way where the London game. I think there were under 50 shots total. Kitchener almost got 50 shots in this Peterborough game themselves and also let up 36 shots.

15:10Andrew: Yeah. 77 shots in this game.

15:12Justin: It was insane.

15:12Andrew: A lot. It was very high event hockey. Very high event as we will come to know the term.

15:18Justin: Yeah. Kirsch got a third straight game.

15:20Andrew: Yes. As he's rolling.

15:22Justin: Yeah.

15:22Andrew: And you gotta ride the hot hand. And I guess. Is there some whispers that Shovel's gonna get a chance because Kirsch is probably going to team Switzerland. Yeah, there's probably.

15:33Justin: I can't imagine that he won't, but.

15:34Clip: Yeah.

15:35Andrew: Yeah, yeah. I would be lying if I could tell you the state of junior Swiss goaltending besides Christian Kirsch.

15:42Clip: Yep.

15:43Andrew: Yeah. Jakub Chromiak on the power play. One minute and four seconds in. They didn't have to wait long for this one. Jakub Chromiak it's his fourth of the year. It was absolute laser beam one timer. His D partner, Cameron Reid and Christian Humphreys, who seems to always have a hand in power play goals.

16:00Justin: That was on a power play that happened 10 seconds into the game.

16:05Andrew: Yes. That's the thing though, right, is we've. I've seen this team a lot like. I've seen this Tommy Kut a quick power play many times over the past two years. Oh, yeah. And it has amounted to absolutely nothing. Yeah.

16:19Justin: I remember we the Brampton game from like three, four weeks ago when they got a five on three in the first five minutes.

16:26Andrew: Exactly.

16:26Justin: Yeah.

16:26Andrew: But that was great. That was really positive. They made them pay and didn't really look back. Jack LaBrash went to the net and got his fourth goal on a rebound from Matthew Hlacar and Evan Headrick Yep. Is on the score sheet again with a secondary assist.

16:41Justin: Looking good, Looking good.

16:42Andrew: We'll take it. Yeah. Jack LaBrash he's a big body. We said last Week. He needs to be engaged to be effective. And I think that you're seeing more engagement. He's going to the spots where he needs to go.

16:55Justin: Yeah.

16:55Andrew: Follow the puck. That's. It's. He's bigger and stronger than everybody.

16:59Justin: Yes.

16:59Andrew: Follow the puck. Now there was a. There was a cool off period. Now there was eight, nine minutes without any scoring. Oh, lots of shots, the Soo tiring. Lots of chances.

17:08Justin: Yes.

17:09Andrew: Adam Levesque scored for Peterborough, his 11th. He's having a good season. But that's as close as they would get because Weston Cameron scores in the second period. Thirteen minutes into the second period from Avry Anstis on what was a really fun mistake play. That was.

17:30Justin: No, I'm fighting you.

17:33Andrew: No.

17:34Justin: And Avry Anstis is a genius. This is his Kucherov goal.

17:39Andrew: Oh, yeah.

17:39Justin: This is for sure. This one.

17:41Andrew: He was a. He put his own twist on it was Kucherov assist.

17:44Justin: No, this. This will be forever known as the Anstice. This is. He pump faked that shot. Fluked out the goalie, passed it went around behind the net.

17:54Andrew: It was all on purpose.

17:55Justin: It was all on purpose. And then he looked like he was going for the wraparound. Didn't got it back to us. And Cameron, he's an artist.

18:03Andrew: It was Avry Anstis the artist.

18:05Justin: Because Pablo Picasso doesn't have anything on Anstice.

18:09Andrew: There's no mistakes in art.

18:10Justin: No, this was pure perfection. It was strategically planned. We have a mastermind on our.

18:15Andrew: We should do this all the time. We should miss our shots on purpose and then go behind the nets and pass to the open guy because the goalie's like, what just happened? It's called a fake, Western.

18:27Justin: Yeah.

18:28Andrew: There are fakes and then there are fans.

18:31Justin: And Cameron wouldn't have been in that right place if it wouldn't have been real.

18:36Andrew: It's true. Western Cameron gets his second goal and it's the two rookies connecting, which is awesome. Well, that's a fun line, by the way.

18:43Justin: Oh, I love it. Yeah, I love it. Because he was back in London or. Sorry for the London game.

18:48Andrew: Western Cameron came back.

18:49Justin: Yeah. And. And easing them back in. Of course. Like, I felt like he. He didn't. He wasn't super out there a lot in that.

18:55Andrew: No, he didn't play a ton of.

18:56Justin: And then all of a sudden, he was everywhere in this game. It was true. It was great to see him back.

19:00Andrew: Yeah. But this stark Anstice Cameron line was a blast.

19:06Justin: Literally.

19:07Andrew: Yeah, literally, figuratively. Then five minutes later, Cameron Reid scores his Eighth on the power play.

19:13Justin: Oh, yeah.

19:13Andrew: Which is another power.

19:15Justin: What a bomb.

19:15Andrew: Another power play point, I should say for Cameron Reid which was.

19:18Justin: Yeah.

19:19Andrew: A laser beam from Alexander Bi, who just is filling the stat sheet almost seems every game. And Tanner Lam So now it is four to one, if you're counting. And that was with a. This was 1854 into the period. So we've only got a minute six left on the clock. That's got to be it.

19:38Justin: Right?

19:39Andrew: That's got to be it for the second period.

19:40Clip: Wrong.

19:42Justin: You'd be wrong. So wrong.

19:43Andrew: You'd be so wrong. Because Luca Romano says, no, I'm going to score my eighth as well. From Cameron Arquette and Tanner Lam The patented insurance goal.

19:53Justin: Yes.

19:53Andrew: One day we'll have an insurance company sponsor us and we'll be able to Sam O'Reilly yeah, yeah. So that was with 20 seconds left in the period. It's getting out of hand now. It's five to one.

20:03Justin: Did it, Was it just me or did it feel Luca Romano needed that goal? Like the way he, his body language after it. It just felt like he, he was like a little relieved. I don't think it'd been that long since he had scored.

20:15Andrew: I don't think so either. But he's not. Nobody's really scoring.

20:19Justin: Yeah.

20:19Andrew: At the rate that I think. I think we think we got a

20:22Justin: little monkey off our back in this game in general. Just with like lots of goals from lots of lines.

20:27Andrew: Exactly. I think they needed to. And don't get me wrong here, like we're recapping this. They blew the Aud They did. But this is a good team.

20:34Justin: Yeah.

20:34Andrew: This isn't, this isn't a joke team. They came in with.

20:36Justin: They tried to come back.

20:37Andrew: They came in with nearly identical records.

20:39Justin: Yeah.

20:39Andrew: Yeah. The Pete's had one more loss. At the time that they played they were like 16, 10 and 2 and the Rangers were like 16, 9 and 2. It's. It was basically a mirror image kind of team coming in. And you look into the in depth stats. Maybe not, but the record is.

20:53Justin: The record and we talked about in the preview is that the Pete's are also playing in the toughest division in the ohl.

21:00Andrew: Yeah, for sure.

21:00Justin: So they, the fact that they have a decent record.

21:02Andrew: Yeah.

21:03Justin: And they also have to play Brantford and Ottawa multiple like eight times or whatever it is.

21:10Andrew: You get to host the. Oh, brutal. Yeah. A handful of times. And then just about eight minutes into the third, Avry Anstis Totally, definitely on purpose this time. Scores his fourth of the season.

21:23Justin: His second. Definitely. Maybe definitely on purpose.

21:25Andrew: Well, he only does intentional things. He's an intentional man.

21:28Justin: He's a very intentional man.

21:30Andrew: Yeah. From Christian Humphreys and Cameron Reid who was all over the stat sheet in this game. That's six to one. Now Peterborough did score about. Yeah. A minute later. A minute and one second later they get a goal and then they'll score another one with about a minute 55 left in the game. But it was out of reach.

21:50Justin: It was totally out of reach. But it also felt like the Rangers led up a little bit. They did.

21:54Andrew: Peterborough out. Shot them, doubled their shots. 14, 7.

21:56Justin: Yeah. In the third period.

21:57Andrew: But it's one of those things. It was 6 to 1. I think it's also kind of like you're also. Do you want to keep pouring it on and get into fights and get somebody into.

22:08Justin: Yeah, we don't got that.

22:10Andrew: We don't know what the directions are. Yeah, we don't know. I just know that if you got a five goal lead, you probably can put it in cruise control.

22:16Justin: Yeah, ideally. Yeah. And then the next game we went to Guelph where we won five to four. This was a shoble game and this

22:26Andrew: was a really wacky game. It was especially the second period was a. A strange one.

22:33Justin: You know what I really liked about this game? The Guelph announcing team.

22:36Andrew: Yeah, they were great.

22:37Justin: Their broadcast team is terrific. Yeah.

22:39Andrew: They're very unbiased.

22:40Justin: This is a. Yeah. This is a take note. Broadcasting teams of the OHL like, this is a great way to enjoy an OHL hockey game. And when you're the only TV broadcast not alienating your other audience, who is most definitely tuning in because it's an away game.

23:00Andrew: Exactly.

23:00Justin: Exactly.

23:01Andrew: I think there's some broadcasters who maybe could take a note that there's only one broadcast. There's only one broadcast team.

23:08Justin: Yeah.

23:09Andrew: On video, anyway. Radio is a different.

23:12Justin: Is different. They each get their own broadcast. But you can, you can do a good game unbiased and like you can still be supporting your team. Like they were obviously still the Guelph announcing Tommy Kut they, the Aud least said nice things about the Rangers at different points and also just called out things that were happening in the game that were legitimate for both sides. Yeah.

23:33Andrew: There was a couple times where they just, you know, they maybe commented on a lack of a call which we're going to talk about late. Late in the game.

23:41Justin: Yeah.

23:41Andrew: But I have noted.

23:43Justin: But it was good.

23:44Andrew: Yeah. So. Holy goalie.

23:45Justin: Okay.

23:46Andrew: Holy goalie. Let's get it started. Matthew La char scores his fourth of the season to open this one. 3 minutes 42 seconds in. Again, another quick start from the Rangers. Jack LaBrash and Cameron Reid set that one up. Matthew Hlacar We didn't mention it.

24:01Justin: Yeah, we forgot to talk about in the last game.

24:03Andrew: Yeah, he had a yawning cage in the last one and everyone in the

24:08Justin: building thought it went in. Yes.

24:10Andrew: Jason on. On the broadcast was like, he scores. No, he. Wait, he does. I don't think he did. And it's. Yeah, don't worry, man. You can. You didn't make a mistake there.

24:21Justin: Yeah.

24:21Andrew: I don't know how it stayed out.

24:23Justin: I don't know how he hit the post. He just hit the post.

24:25Andrew: I have no idea how it stayed out because you would even think hitting the post, it would have hit like it was wide open. There was bodies everywhere.

24:33Justin: I know.

24:33Andrew: I thought it would just ricochet in.

24:35Justin: I felt so bad for. He was so mad at himself and I felt so bad for him.

24:39Andrew: But it was a big deal because he scored right away.

24:41Justin: Yeah, he came back and scored the

24:42Andrew: next game and this one was. Was even more important at this stage. And then piling on in Peterborough.

24:48Justin: Yeah.

24:48Andrew: Yeah. Gets him on the square sheet. Well, answers back really quickly. Yeah. So a minute and a half later, Charlie paquette has his 13th. He's been playing really well for Guelph, a team that definitely does not roll over. It hasn't rolled over since Jet Lachenko was traded to Brantford. This is a team that very much says we might not be the best Tommy Kut we are going to give it our best.

25:11Justin: We are juiced up on cinnamon buns.

25:13Andrew: Exactly. From the mall that they play in.

25:15Justin: Yep.

25:15Andrew: Weston. Cameron gets his third to round out the first period scoring. Yeah, this was a funny goal from Avery Ansys and Cameron Reid Yeah.

25:26Justin: It was just like Guelph. They said it right on the broadcast. They got too cutesy with the passing.

25:31Andrew: Yeah.

25:32Justin: And Wes and Cameron, I think just got annoyed at how they were being too cute. And he literally just skated in, took the puck and put it in the net. It was just like there were three Storm players just like passing it like they were doing like warm ups or something. And Cameron just stole it and put it right in.

25:48Andrew: Yeah, Cameron. Sorry, Weston. Cameron getting another goal. Back to back games. Yeah, you gotta love to see it. You'd love to see that chemistry that he has with Avry Anstis Because listen, these two guys are gonna be relied upon next year big time.

26:00Justin: Oh, yeah.

26:01Andrew: Rylan Singh. Opens up the second period. So it's two to two. Our old nemesis Ethan Meedema set that one up as he does. And there was a goalie assist on that one. Just I love to point out a goalie assist. Good old goalie Zachary Giovanowski.

26:14Justin: Yeah.

26:15Andrew: Who's playing really well for golf. Then three minutes later, Andrew Vermeulen gets his second. Now there's a guy who needed one.

26:23Justin: Yeah.

26:24Andrew: Andrew Vermeer needed to bury.

26:25Justin: It's been a while.

26:26Andrew: Because he has been playing like some prime minutes, prime opportunities.

26:30Justin: Yep.

26:31Andrew: So it was good for him to get a very important goal to take the 3 to 2 lead from Jack Pridham and Jakub Chromiak And then Alexander Bilecki scored one. He now has six. He's doubled his total from last year from Tanner Lam and Jakub Chromiak. Chromiak has been all over these score sheets, by the way.

26:49Justin: And this was another puck luck one where it was like a weird bouncer goalie got it bounced off the goalie into the net. Like maybe more of a pass or just trying to put the puck near the net and it just puts on

27:01Andrew: that good things happen, right?

27:02Justin: Yep.

27:03Andrew: So it's four to two now.

27:04Justin: And at this point, they were also crazy out shooting the storm.

27:07Andrew: Yes, they were.

27:08Justin: It was like. What was it like? You have the stats in front of you after the second.

27:13Andrew: After the second. Yeah. It was 32 to 18. Was the shots on goal.

27:17Justin: Yeah.

27:17Andrew: But we're not done in the second.

27:18Justin: No, no. Yeah.

27:19Andrew: We've actually got two storm goals coming. A certain singer, songwriter from a Canadian band might count this one. Leo Serlin scores his seventh. Oh, his dad is in the Watchman. Oh, yeah, you can.

27:33Justin: The comic book.

27:34Clip: The.

27:34Andrew: Exactly.

27:35Justin: Is he Rorschach?

27:36Andrew: No. God, no. Dude.

27:39Justin: Oh, he's missing.

27:39Andrew: That's the most insulting thing you could

27:41Justin: have said about any Manhattan. He's.

27:43Andrew: Yes. Dr. Manhattan. All right. He earned that degree.

27:47Justin: Did he get up? I forgot.

27:48Andrew: Absolutely.

27:49Justin: I forgot he went to grad school.

27:50Andrew: And then Carter Stevens ties it.

27:53Justin: Okay.

27:53Andrew: With five minutes left.

27:55Justin: No, this one. I was like, how are they? We're tied.

27:58Clip: I know.

27:58Justin: The Rangers were playing so much better.

28:00Andrew: It was a weird one. And I can't even. I definitely cannot blame Shovel in this one. I didn't think he played poorly at all.

28:06Justin: Great.

28:07Andrew: But you'd think. But he only at that point, he led in four on. On 18. You'd think, okay, that's not the greatest effort.

28:13Justin: But I.

28:13Andrew: At no point did I think that Shabble was at fault for some of these goals. It was just a weird game. It was like came in bunches. So it was 14 seconds between 12 Storm goals. Now they did go upstairs on this one and it was.

28:33Justin: This was the one where the ref called it off immediately on the ice,

28:36Andrew: very adamant, no goal. Yeah, vehemently.

28:39Justin: Goaltender interference.

28:40Andrew: And when they went back to the replay, there was definitely.

28:44Justin: They definitely got this call right in the end. I'm glad that they went upstairs because it was. Yeah. Very clearly nobody touched Shabble.

28:50Andrew: Yeah. And the commentary team, they. They said as much, but they also were pretty unbiased the rest of the game. So I was in agreement there, not to worry. With eight seconds left in the period, Cameron Reid Mr. Clutch Captain, Canada Captain Clutch scores his ninth of the year from Cameron Arquette and Tanner Lam And that would eventually be the winner because there's no scoring in the third period.

29:15Justin: Yeah. Which was so weird. And only six shots total in the third.

29:18Andrew: But Shovel stopped them all.

29:20Justin: So that's it. I think only three of them were in Shovel. Yeah.

29:23Andrew: Yeah, exactly. They were. That's all you need. This is a weird game.

29:27Justin: It was a weird game.

29:27Andrew: Yeah. Because it felt like all the air got let out of the balloon after the second period.

29:32Justin: For whatever reason, they put up so many shots in the first two periods. They were like, we're done.

29:37Clip: Yeah.

29:38Justin: Yeah.

29:38Andrew: Now what I will say is late in the third period, Christian Humphreys was called for a trip with a minute and 40 seconds left in the game. And this did not take place not 10, 15, 20 seconds after a Kitchener Rangers was dumped who never had position possession of the puck. And there was no call. And I will say the Guelph Storm commentators did call that out.

30:08Justin: Yes.

30:08Andrew: But I was going ballistic at home,

30:12Justin: as were the Rangers at the refs at the same moment.

30:15Andrew: And I don't know what in the world of game management calling now, don't get me wrong, Humphrey's tripped him. Yeah, clear as day.

30:24Justin: That trip was legit.

30:25Andrew: That's a trip. But you just let go a full on interference, possibly checking from behind. It was right in the numbers.

30:32Justin: Yeah, yeah.

30:33Andrew: And the guy was unsuspecting because he was looking to pick up the puck.

30:36Justin: Yeah.

30:36Andrew: And he. But he didn't have the puck.

30:38Justin: He did not.

30:38Andrew: He did not have. Listen, I know all about puck possession rules, okay? Cale McAr. All right? If you're not touching it, you don't have possession. But seriously, on a serious note, he wasn't in possession of the puck.

30:53Justin: No He.

30:54Andrew: He hadn't received the puck. He hadn't picked up the puck.

30:56Justin: And the ref should have been watching. That happened because the puck was going to him.

31:01Andrew: Yeah. And he just got dumped.

31:03Justin: Yeah.

31:03Andrew: Anyway, it didn't matter because they killed off the penalty.

31:07Justin: But it.

31:07Andrew: But listen, had this gone the other way and then they lose an overtime or whatever in a single point we're already looking at. There's been some weird review issues. Right. There's been some bad. For example, how come they can't review that? How come they've done this? How they've done this twice to us, where they go back and they review a call they didn't make.

31:28Justin: Yes.

31:29Andrew: And significant time has been. Well, like what. When do they pick and choose to do this? If I could listen, that's one of my things is with this league is. I need to know what that's about.

31:38Justin: Yes.

31:39Andrew: Why can they go back? So if we could ever talk to Brian Crawford.

31:42Justin: Yeah.

31:43Andrew: I would have to say, what in the world is this about? Why has that happened? Yeah. Can we. Can we at least get a statement on? Because, you know, the Juice and everyone else affiliated with the team is not going to say anything because they don't want to get fined. They don't want to get in trouble.

31:58Justin: Yeah.

31:58Andrew: Makes the league look bad.

31:59Justin: Yeah.

32:00Andrew: Makes the franchise look bad.

32:02Justin: Heck.

32:02Andrew: The franchise inquired. I think Mike Farwell of the OHL podcast put it perfectly that they inquired about the weird Hockey Canada Sleeman announcement three or four days after the Sleeman center in Guelph and the headquarters of Sleeman gets the Memorial Cup. It was good that they said, hey, can we just have an investigation of. Was there a. Was there a conflict of interest? But how. The amount of hate that I saw. Rangers. The Rangers and Joe Birch and the brass, the executives getting online for asking.

32:37Justin: Yeah.

32:37Andrew: That was like we were sour grapes.

32:39Justin: Yeah.

32:39Andrew: Well, we lost 4 to 1.

32:41Justin: Yeah.

32:42Andrew: We wouldn't have mattered even if his vote was gone.

32:44Justin: Yeah.

32:44Andrew: It wasn't that. It's just. Why wouldn't that guy say anything?

32:47Justin: Yeah. Yeah.

32:48Andrew: That's a weird thing not to say if you don't know what I'm talking about. The director of revenue at Hockey Canada was one of the judges on the bid committee for the Memorial Cup.

32:58Justin: Yeah.

32:59Andrew: A few days after he voted for Guelph and four of the five were not. We're not. We're not sore over this.

33:06Justin: Yeah.

33:07Andrew: It's.

33:07Justin: It wasn't a one vote swing.

33:08Andrew: No. It is what it is. But he reveals or his company revealed that they did a part. They had a partnership with a Guelph based company, the Sleeman Company beer company.

33:19Justin: Not a small company that also is

33:20Andrew: the sponsor, the name sponsor of the Sleeman Center. Yeah. So now if you have a partnership with the Aud does benefit you directly.

33:29Justin: Yes.

33:29Andrew: As a company for them to get the Memorial Cup. I know we've gone on a tangent here but anyway, I would love to ask about that with Brian Crawford if

33:38Justin: we could manifest that they did do an investigation. And also if you want more information about that, Josh Brown wrote a great article about it in the Waterloo Records. Read the article. Yeah, it's good. It's worth.

33:48Andrew: It is really good. Anyway, the Guelph Storm fall in this one five to four. Yeah.

33:54Justin: And that's a clean Soupy for the three games that we are recapping this week.

33:58Andrew: Exactly. So we get to.

33:59Justin: That means we get to go back to three stars.

34:00Andrew: Three stars. Thank goodness.

34:03Justin: I hate doing good, bad and the ugly.

34:04Andrew: My goodness.

34:05Justin: Could we change it? Absolutely we could.

34:07Andrew: But will we? I don't know.

34:09Justin: It does force us to reflect.

34:10Andrew: It's true.

34:11Justin: Andrew, who's your third star?

34:13Andrew: Oh, my third star is Mr. Avry Anstis who was all over the place. He is actually accidentally on purpose. I maestro with puck purpose all the time. Purposefully accidentally doesn't matter. I do not care. People used to say Dominic Hazik was lucky. I don't care. He was still good.

34:34Justin: Pablo. And this is perfect.

34:36Andrew: Pablo, the life. The life of Avery. All right, who was your third?

34:41Justin: He was also Avery.

34:42Andrew: Oh, there you go.

34:43Justin: How could you not. It was so Great. Who's your second star?

34:46Andrew: My second star was Mr. Christian Humphreys who's very quietly doing everything he needs to do. There's things that don't even make the highlight package that he does. He makes unbelievable reads to block passing lanes. He's all over the place as a defensive center. He's. He quietly has two and three point games throughout the season. And even if he's not getting a multi point game, he almost always factors into a power play goal.

35:15Justin: Yeah.

35:15Andrew: He had two assists in the Peterborough game and he had an assist in the London game and he didn't factor in our Guelph Storm game. But I did see him make some incredible reads defensively when that third period, specifically when you needed a shutdown period. So I just. Christian Humphreys I think he's our leading scorer. But it's more so the things he does away from the puck.

35:38Justin: Yeah.

35:39Andrew: That. It's just Sometimes I'm like, man, I'll just watch isocam of humps. And I'm like, man, this guy is just so smart.

35:45Justin: Yeah.

35:46Andrew: Who's your second star?

35:47Justin: My theme really is, like, very specific moments from this week. If you take Christian Humphreys number and divide it in half, it's Mr. Jack Pridham. Perfect.

35:55Andrew: See, Remember we said Jack Pridham could be.

35:57Justin: I know he can always start every week, but I feel like Humphreys lands in that.

36:01Andrew: It's true.

36:02Justin: In the world as well.

36:03Andrew: It's true.

36:03Justin: And probably our collective first star. It probably also deserves that if we have the same player, of course. But, yeah, Mr. Jack Pridham. That shorty like, he. It was not. The one thing I wanted to say about the shorty is that it was not a surprise because he has been creating these opportunities for himself on the penalty kill all season long.

36:22Andrew: Well, he's.

36:22Justin: And we talk about him all the time. He gets these great opportunities to get out. Yes. Sometimes he gets checked, sometimes he doesn't. But this was just like a culmination of the fact that he is just a very skilled penalty killer.

36:33Andrew: It's also, yeah, I think hands down, he's the best defensive forward on the team.

36:37Justin: Yeah.

36:37Andrew: I think, like, even as much as

36:39Justin: I rave about Christian Humphreys, Humphries is He's like the 1B best.

36:42Andrew: Yeah. He's right there with him.

36:43Justin: Yeah.

36:44Andrew: But the thing with Pridham is I find that he's looking to create offense as a good defense. On the shorthanded. Yeah. On the penalty kill. And that's. It's McDavidian of IS. I remember we have this fantasy group chat last. Last year during the playoffs.

37:02Justin: It's a real group chat.

37:03Andrew: It's fantasy hockey. Fantasy hockey.

37:05Justin: Andrew doesn't have fake group chat.

37:07Andrew: No, we have a fantasy hockey group chat sometimes. It feels kind of fake.

37:10Justin: Yeah.

37:11Andrew: But we have a fantasy hockey group chat and somebody in there was like, why is McDavid killing penalties? And I'm like, because he's the best

37:18Justin: player on the team.

37:20Andrew: And it's time for to try and create offense on shorthanded opportunities. And that's what Jack Pridham brings.

37:25Justin: He's awesome.

37:26Andrew: It's unbelievable.

37:27Justin: This is also a way the NHL is going is having a great player on the penalty kill. And so Jack Pridham is just.

37:32Andrew: Well, I've also seen it in Calgary. I know Calgary is not having a great year, but I've seen it with Kadri.

37:36Justin: Yeah, Kadri's always out there, but he's also a Great defensive player as well.

37:39Andrew: Exactly. And you see some of that in Pridm's game of this like really responsible two way player who also just has this unbelievable amount of skill which I would attribute to Nazam Kadri.

37:51Justin: Yeah. And Mitch Marner in Toronto last year being the no defenseman on the PK on the power play because he's going to play the defensive role if they

37:58Andrew: need it on the foul play.

38:01Justin: Yeah. We've just talked about so many great players now.

38:03Andrew: Yeah. The team is full of them.

38:05Clip: Yes.

38:05Justin: And we saw them in full force this week.

38:07Clip: Yeah.

38:08Andrew: I mean there's. I'm going to tell you there's a bunch of guys who could have been on this list on our three stars like Balecki and Chromiak. Tanner Lam Jack LaBrash had a good couple games. So many guys. Christian Kirsch Right. There's so many guys that we could talk about. Unfortunately. Cameron Reid plays for the Kitchener Rangers and is the captain and got seven

38:28Justin: points in three games. Yeah.

38:29Andrew: And he just exploded which he needed to. It's one of those things where it's not that he wasn't performing well because he was so playing so well away from the puck, but the offense had to ramp up a little bit. You knew it was going to.

38:42Justin: Well last week we talked about the team needing intensity. That was my ugly. Was the intens. Intensity of the team. And Cameron Reid came out in the very first minute of that London game and exemplified it like he was intensity this all three of these games.

38:57Andrew: If Cameron Reid is the best player on the ice in any given game, the Rangers win.

39:06Justin: Yes.

39:06Andrew: That's basically it.

39:07Justin: Yeah. Yeah.

39:07Andrew: Is if he is the best player offensively for the Rangers, they'll win. If he's the best player defensively, he'll. They'll get. It's. There's some nights. There's some great players in the ohl.

39:18Justin: Yeah.

39:18Andrew: And the Rangers will lose games for sure. But basically like the captain is the captain for a reason. He is the leader. And if he outworks and AudBalls then the Rangers I would think nine times out of 10 are going to win the game. It's that much of an impact player at this point. That's what I. That's what I saw in these three games. Yes. And outside of the Erie game, it's been like five or six games in a row.

39:39Justin: Yeah. For sure.

39:40Andrew: Where it's just been like a next level.

39:41Justin: Yeah.

39:42Andrew: And he just keeps getting better the more hockey he plays.

39:44Justin: Yeah.

39:45Andrew: So I would expect if he Is perhaps in Nashville next year. I don't know how long he could be. He could be back if we're going to try and make a Memorial Cup run, which we absolutely should be trying to do.

39:56Justin: Yeah.

39:56Andrew: Then I hope he's back. Yeah, But. But if he's there, I hope that they are paying attention to how he operates, which is the more he plays, the better he gets.

40:05Justin: Yes. Yeah. Don't give him the two games and then.

40:08Andrew: Yeah, exactly.

40:08Justin: Don't give up on them. Exactly.

40:10Andrew: Yeah.

40:10Justin: Yeah. Okay. That was our three stars this week coming up. We got three games. So the Soo game is happening Wednesday. We already talked about that last week. Friday night, we're away. We're not at the Aud which is so weird. We are in Flint, facing the Flint Firebirds. Then on Saturday, we are in Saginaw facing the cheerleading squad there.

40:33Andrew: The Spirit.

40:34Justin: The Spirit. And then Wednesday, we are in Sarnia for our first meeting against the Sting.

40:41Andrew: We haven't played the Aud No, not yet.

40:43Justin: So Flint. We've played two games. We were one and one against Flint.

40:48Andrew: And Flint is just like a powerhouse.

40:50Justin: Out of nowhere, out of nowhere, out of nowhere. 2020 wins, seven losses, one overtime loss and two shootout losses. Nathan Aspinall has 42 points in 27 games.

41:03Andrew: Yeah, he's unbelievable. Yeah. Yeah.

41:06Justin: Okay. And then Kostov at 35 points in 27 games and Lombardi at 34 points in 27 games. And all three of them have 18 goals a piece. Yeah, that's a lot of goals.

41:19Andrew: Yeah, it's a lot of goals. They score. They've scored nine more at this point. Time of recording.

41:24Justin: Yep.

41:24Andrew: They've scored nine more than the Rangers.

41:26Justin: Same amount of games and they have.

41:28Andrew: Oh, you're making me do a lot of math. Oh, yeah, yeah. 27, eight. Yeah. One more game.

41:35Justin: And what is the goals per game average?

41:37Andrew: They're totally messing with 108 divided by quick maths.

41:44Justin: And Vikari is stopping a lot of goals.914 save percentage.

41:47Andrew: Like, he's been really good this year. They've let in a few more than the Rangers as well. Yeah, but they can score. They can score.

41:54Justin: Cow.

41:55Andrew: Yeah. And there's. At the time of recording, they're 7:1 and 2 in their last 10 games. So they're just. They're firing on all cylinders. Pardon the pun, but they look really good and they weren't really projected to be this strong. So good for them. Flint. Flints.

42:13Justin: Saginaw, on the very other end of the spectrum. We've played them twice. We beat them Twice they are sitting 9, 14, 3 and 3. And like, basically Klepov and Barabanov are good.

42:28Andrew: And the Aud Jill can. He's pretty strong too, I believe. Is Levi Harper a rookie for them? Yeah, he is. So he's having a good season, too.

42:38Justin: He's a true rookie season.

42:40Andrew: Yeah. But there's not a lot of depth there.

42:42Justin: Yeah.

42:42Andrew: And they let in a lot of goals.

42:45Justin: Yeah.

42:45Andrew: 120 against. You're only 78 against for the Rangers.

42:50Justin: Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah.

42:51Andrew: 120. That is a. That's a lot. Yeah, that's a lot of goals.

42:55Justin: This is. You can see how when you go all in for the Memorial Cup, this is like when you're hosting.

43:02Andrew: Yeah. This is the turnaround year.

43:04Justin: Like, Oshawa's dealing with it, too. They went two years to the. The finals.

43:07Andrew: That's true.

43:08Justin: And this year, Oshawa is like, in the toilet. And it's interesting with this league is the turnaround cycle on building, because it's like you build up. Yeah. And then all your players are gone, and then you basically have to start again. And you don't have that many years to build up again because your players can only really be around for four years.

43:25Andrew: It is wild. And now with NCAA and stuff, they might be around less. It's.

43:29Justin: Yeah, totally.

43:30Andrew: It's wild in this league. Yeah.

43:32Justin: But, yeah, we're seeing it. And then Sarnia first meeting.

43:35Andrew: Spirits are low.

43:36Justin: The Spirit. The Spirit is so low. But not as low as the Sting.

43:40Andrew: No.

43:41Justin: The Sting is tied with Oshawa for the bottom of the league to look at. Here they are 7 wins, 17 losses, overtime losses.

43:49Andrew: They don't even have anybody scoring.

43:50Justin: Yeah. They got five rookies that are playing regular minutes. One of them is Beckham Edwards. So 11 goals and 23 points. He's looking pretty good. On a team with what feels like no support to have a rookie leading your scoring for sure is. That's pretty exciting.

44:04Andrew: It also. It also kind of indicates what's going on there. Yeah. You got a rookie leading the scoring.

44:09Justin: Yes.

44:09Andrew: Yes. And then they're in year one. Yeah, the Rebels.

44:12Justin: Exactly. And then Easton Wallows is also a rookie and got 20 points, so.

44:16Andrew: Yeah, it's true.

44:17Justin: It's like there's a light at the end of the tunnel for Sonia. It's not this year, though.

44:22Andrew: Oh, you know what? Technically, Beckham Edwards is not a rookie.

44:24Justin: Oh, is he not.

44:25Andrew: Is. He had 28 games last year.

44:27Justin: Oh, okay.

44:27Andrew: It's actually, yeah, Wallows is, but it's Beckham Edwards, first full season.

44:32Justin: Yeah, sure. So. But I. Yeah, regardless. Yeah.

44:36Andrew: Young players and they have let in 120, 21 goals.

44:39Justin: Yeah.

44:39Andrew: So even worse. Yeah.

44:40Justin: It's just. It's a bad time.

44:42Andrew: It's a bad time to be a Sting fan. But you know what? It turns around pretty quick because it has to.

44:47Justin: So it's. It'll be interesting to see how the Rangers, we've seen them go into what might be, quote unquote, the easy game.

44:56Andrew: Yep.

44:57Justin: And really struggle. Yeah.

44:59Andrew: And it's also the. They haven't had an easy run of it. They're gonna go and they're gonna play the Soo which has their number.

45:06Justin: Yeah. For some reason the Soo is our immortal enemy.

45:08Andrew: Especially in the Soo like impossible to beat. So we'll. That game will have been played. But then Flint is a buzz saw this year. And then you know what, then you got two games that could be trap games against Saginaw and Sarnia.

45:22Justin: Yep.

45:22Andrew: So don't take those lightly.

45:24Justin: Yeah.

45:24Andrew: Because you know what? Like if you can split those tough away games and then win both these games, that should be winnable. Yeah. I'll take three out of four every time for sure. In that situation.

45:35Clip: Yeah.

45:36Justin: Yeah. So that's our upcoming games. Upcoming. So next week, the December 19th, I believe is the day that episode will come out, will be our second annual holiday extravaganza with the Aud potties.

45:52Andrew: Oh, the Aud potties.

45:53Justin: the Aud potties are back. Annual tradition.

45:56Andrew: Our mid season awards.

45:57Justin: Our mid season awards.

45:58Andrew: Do we have full season awards?

45:59Justin: No, absolutely not.

46:00Andrew: Of course not.

46:00Justin: There's more qualified people for those.

46:02Andrew: Exactly.

46:03Justin: So we do the mid season awards. Yeah. And so we're coming in hot next week. Harder.

46:08Andrew: Mid season award.

46:08Justin: Yeah, for sure. Only half done the job. Totally. And maybe somebody from last season will win it because we haven't done this for a year. So we have a whole year to give away mid season. That's true.

46:21Andrew: I don't remember anything.

46:22Justin: No. Who's on the team last year. Yeah. And then. Yeah. So then that's going to be our last episode for the calendar year. And then we're. Andrew and I are taking a couple weeks off.

46:32Andrew: We are.

46:33Justin: And then we're going to come back and we're going to. We're going to have an onslaught episode where we're going to recap 12 games in 10 minutes.

46:39Andrew: Rapid fire.

46:40Justin: Rapid fire.

46:41Andrew: We certainly won't be going through who scored each goal.

46:44Justin: Yeah. Correct.

46:45Andrew: Yeah.

46:45Justin: Yeah. So January 9th, we'll be back. So next week, holiday Extravaganza break.

46:51Andrew: Yes.

46:52Justin: January 9th. We're back. So don't panic. You might not see an AudPod in your. In your pod catcher or on YouTube for a few weeks. So don't panic. We're coming back.

47:01Andrew: We are coming back. Back.

47:02Justin: Yeah.

47:03Andrew: Do you know who else is coming back right now? You know who it is.

47:07Justin: Do I?

47:07Andrew: We're gonna throw it over to our special AudPod correspondent.

47:12Justin: Yes. No. Long former friend of the pod.

47:15Andrew: Former friend of the pod.

47:16Justin: For our third installment of ODD History.

47:22Clip: Okay, so here we are down between the benches. We're essentially at my workspace now. So I'm walking over to where I work between the benches. Benches. And like I said, I started working at Rogers here a number of years ago. Now, it's not lost on me that this is pretty much the best office you can have. And I don't mean just for Rangers. I mean, look at this. You look out on the ice. I mean, this is your office. This is your workspace. And it's not just Rangers. I'm fortunate enough that I work here in four capacities. I work here for the Kitchener Rangers games. I'm the PA announcer and the in game host for the KW Titans. I work for the Kitchener Panthers. And I work for KW Junior A lacrosse. Now, remember, the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium complex is an Andrew complex. It's not just this arena. This is the Dom Cardillo arena. But there's two other pads down there. There's the basketball field outside Jack Coach Park. I work at all these places. I mean, how cool is it that four different places I get to work here? And let me tell you something else about the number four. There are games here for Titans, games for Rangers, games where I've got my family working here too. There are Rangers games where I'll be doing the TV hosting. My son Lucas will be out on the ice as the on ice cameraman. My other son Declan will be up in the booth up there DJing the game. And my wife will be up in the concourse selling 50, 50 with Rangers Reach. So my son Lucas started playing hockey. He was born in 2001. He wanted to come to Rangers games. We started coming to games. I mean, you've got an arena like this in town, you have to take advantage of it as much as you can. So we came for a number of years.

48:47Andrew: Years.

48:47Clip: I started working with Rogers in 2004, started doing Ranger stuff shortly after. But one of the things that's really cool is in my work. I do a lot of public address work. And Dave Schneider, the PA announcer was a mentor of mine. He was actually a reference for me on my very first job application and helped me get a job actually in radio. So when Dave can't make a game, on the rare occasion that Dave can't make a game, and there's been a handful in the last 15 years right here, this is his seat, and I'm fortunate enough to get the ask to fill in for him. So that's pretty unbelievable to be able to do the PA here. There was a game last year where Dave couldn't be here because he had a council meeting. I couldn't be here. I was in B.C. and they actually asked my son Lucas to do it, who has about 700 games of PA under his belt as well. So pretty cool to have that. This place is an unbelievable historical monument. We call it a cathedral. Not for Not. We don't use that term lightly. It's pretty awesome. It's home. And, man, is this the best office in the world. That's my ODD history.

49:46Justin: Thanks, Sean. That was awesome.

49:47Andrew: Yes, Sean, thank you so much for those memories that you shared with us. And it was really cool that you were in the building doing it. We really appreciate that.

49:54Justin: Now, two of the three of our odd histories have taken place within the confines. The confines of the Aud confines. The hallways.

50:02Andrew: I would love to be confined in there. In a podcast studio.

50:06Justin: We've found several locations where a podcast studio could be built in the Aud

50:09Andrew: Could that be a AudPod Is. Does this area work? Next game. Next game. New new bit for the Aud New

50:18Justin: bit for the AudPod. Does this area work?

50:21Andrew: Is this enough floor space for a podcast?

50:24Justin: If we just take one of these soundproof panels off the wall, we could just start collecting pieces.

50:28Andrew: Absolutely.

50:30Justin: We already have microphones. Does that help? Does that make our case more agreeable?

50:35Andrew: And cameras. Cameras.

50:38Justin: Yes. We could use better cameras.

50:40Andrew: We do. When we have a guest.

50:41Justin: We do. When we have a guest, we get the best camera. Yeah. That's our episode for the week. Andrew, that is want to say congratulations to Lando Norris for his world championship of the formulas of the ones.

50:54Andrew: My favorite driver.

50:55Justin: Your favorite driver. Yeah.

50:57Andrew: Like, it was cool to like Lando.

50:59Justin: Before it was cool to like Lando.

51:00Andrew: It was no longer cool to like Lando.

51:02Justin: Yeah. You went through it this year. Yeah. I like those McLaren boys. And it was a fun. It was really fun to have a final race that meant something.

51:10Andrew: That's true.

51:11Justin: It's been a while since that happened. Yes. Yep. Yeah.

51:14Andrew: Not so good.

51:14Justin: It was the wrong result. It was they went to video review and it was wrong and they got it wrong.

51:21Andrew: Yeah. The referees decided the game.

51:25Justin: Yeah. Yeah. So thank you to Ken Born for our directing and directing, our branding.

51:31Andrew: Directing. This. No, this film.

51:33Justin: It's not going well. I have notes. Oh, Andrew, how did your premiere go in Los Angeles of your film the Witcher?

51:42Andrew: You know what's funny is I don't know really too much about it because the director and the producer is still down there.

51:48Justin: Okay.

51:48Andrew: I guess making moves.

51:50Justin: Yeah.

51:50Andrew: But I did see a little bit of their interviews and stuff and it seemed to go really well.

51:57Justin: It's.

51:57Andrew: I wish that I could have attended a world premiere in Los Angeles, but I am a principal character, a lead character, as you might call it.

52:06Justin: So we posted the. The trailer for the film in our. A couple months ago for sure. But Andrew, give like the 30 second synopsis of what we need to know.

52:15Andrew: The Elevator bitch. Yeah, basically I think the tagline is something like two violent criminals, they harvest exotic meats perhaps for the highest elite out there. So it should. Should resonate with the tinfoil hack crew. But no, I guess I think the tagline something to do with it. They forgot one thing, their brains. Because they're not the brightest pair. But yeah, it's about two violent guys who aren't the brightest that I have no idea what to say because.

52:48Justin: Yeah, that's. That's fine. I don't have that. Yeah, but it's called the Butchers.

52:51Andrew: Yeah, you can find. Anyway you can find the, the trailer on YouTube.

52:55Justin: Yeah.

52:55Andrew: If you just search. The Butchers comes up directed by Chad

52:57Justin: Andrews and Andrew is one of the main characters. So he. His face is all over.

53:01Andrew: There is really only two main characters.

53:03Justin: Characters.

53:04Andrew: So.

53:04Justin: Yeah, exactly. So I.

53:05Andrew: Eventually, yeah, eventually it'll be online and I'm excited to.

53:10Justin: It looks awesome. The trailer is wicked. Yeah, it's.

53:14Andrew: Yeah, I'm excited to see it. I still haven't seen it, so.

53:17Justin: Okay, there you go.

53:18Andrew: Yeah, I'm still waiting.

53:19Justin: Cool.

53:19Andrew: There will be at some point a Toronto premiere and there will be, I'm hoping a Kitchener Waterloo, maybe Cambridge, because that might be the cheaper theater premiere because I do have.

53:32Justin: You mean the Aud seater in the Gaslight district.

53:36Andrew: Co workers who are bugging me about it and I'm assuming we could probably get a few people cool to watch it. So maybe the princess, who knows?

53:44Justin: Yeah, that makes more sense than. I can't remember what the Aud seaters called, but the. The world's smallest theater.

53:50Andrew: I know, you gotta love it.

53:51Clip: Yeah.

53:51Justin: It's awesome.

53:51Andrew: Just Cambridge things. Yeah.

53:53Justin: Okay, back to thank yous. Thank you to Cam Boren, our director of branding and marketing, the Papa Born.

53:59Andrew: Thank you. Yeah.

54:00Justin: Thank you to our product.

54:01Andrew: Oh, by the way, Papa Born. We need to talk about hats. That's all I'm saying. I'm just saying. I'm just saying it. Maybe we'll talk about 20, 26. We need to talk about hats.

54:09Justin: Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

54:10Andrew: I don't know if he listens.

54:11Justin: I have no idea. I think he does.

54:12Andrew: Okay, good.

54:13Justin: Shout out to our prodigal producer, Liam, the phenom. The phenom.

54:17Andrew: Tim, where are you?

54:19Justin: Thank you for writing, arranging, performing, creating, producing, engineering and composing our new theme song. And of course, special shout out to JJ for doing the voiceover.

54:28Andrew: Thanks, jj.

54:29Justin: And thank you to the Kitchener Public Library. You may have noticed we're in person again for the first time in freaking forever.

54:35Andrew: That's true. I'm looking at Justin between two phones.

54:38Justin: I know.

54:38Andrew: Yeah. One's pointed to him.

54:39Justin: One's pointed. It's actually easier if you close one eye. You can see him a little bit easier, but I thought it might look weird.

54:44Andrew: I gotta get my eyes checked out. I think my left one's not good.

54:49Justin: Speaking of glasses. Sorry. Glass adjustment. There we go. And Andrew, how can you find us on social medias?

54:55Andrew: You can find us at the AudPodcast on Instagram and Tick Tock and you can find us on YouTube if you just search the AudPod or the AudPod. Kitchener Rangers Awesome.

55:04Justin: You can send us an email at. Hello@theaudpod.com. perfect.

55:09Andrew: I think you should. You should send us an email. Why not?

55:12Justin: Why? Yeah, why not? Yeah. And Andrew, as always, but not this

55:17Andrew: week, you can find us at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium.