Ethan Podolsky

Is that tweet from like 10 years ago and it just like got caught up in his drafts and just now got sent out? Because I'm pretty sure we've known for a little while that those guys are all going to be first ballot Hall of Famers.

I mean, maybe Chris Letang. I don't know if Chris Letang necessarily is a first ballot Hall of Famer. He's talking about trios. Yeah, well, certainly, you know, the 2.0 of Lemieux and Yager.

That felt like he was trolling me. That would be great. And Commodore took the bait. Yes, absolutely.

Rose is just checking off all these.

This is what happens when we get Roy talking about the Penguins.

Right. Fail of the week. Yes. Segway from the Penguins to my fail of the week. My fail of the week is Zach Hyman's face. That poor man took an Evan Bouchard slap shot right off the kisser.

It was still coming in hot. Yeah. And, you know, credit to him. He's a hockey player. He came back in the game with the fishbowl on his head. He's not going to miss any time because that's hockey. But so the next day, I think it was Mark Spector took a picture of him in the locker room. And we have it to pop up there. I think we do. His face was like, it was like a mean. Yeah.

He looked like a mean, like a much paler, a mean. His nose ballooned. Yeah. His whole face looked like somebody put like a, you know, what you pump up the ball with, an air pump thing. Yeah, air pump, yeah. And just stuck it in his ear. But the point at the end of the day is that he will never miss a game because of this. How many people take a slap shot off the face?

You're not going to see me for a month. Yeah. But yes, there it is. He looks like he just went 10 rounds with Rocky Marciano or something. That's crazy. So yeah, Zach Hyman's face.

No, I mean, that's good on Shusterkin. Making six saves in three seconds is pretty awesome.

That's what the Panthers goalies need for their save percentage is being so bad. They need to make six saves in, like, five seconds to pump it up there. But, yeah, that's bad. Like, how do you let a guy stand at the foot of your crease for more than a second with a puck right, like, whack, whack, whack, whack?

Like 1980s Russia style.

It's crazy. He's been doing it since the 90s. He's coming up on 2,000 games now. And he's only in his 50s. Is he, what, 57 or whatever it is? It's crazy. He could do this for another 15, 20 years if he wants to. I don't know if he would.

This Panthers team's not going anywhere for a little while.

And then I want to talk to you a little bit about the New York Rangers because I just don't know what the hell is going on with the New York Rangers.

Something is amiss at Madison Square Garden, and we don't really kind of smack me in the face this morning. As I looked at the standings, they are 14 points behind the New Jersey Devils. Yeah. And it's December 20th. What the hell is going on with the Rangers? Because I've been hanging my hat on Shesterkin, it's okay, Kreider, Zibanejad. But I don't know.

Like, are they are is this going to be like the biggest disappointment Ranger season we've seen in decades? This is bad, dude, that they can't get their shit together.

Yeah, I'm pretty high. I think Blackwood is a sneaky good goaltender that has not gotten a good run, whether it was on some not great Devils teams. I mean, the Sharks are the Sharks. They're better than they've been, but they're not a grid team. I'm pretty bullish. I think Colorado might be my new Western favorite right now.

How do you go from back-to-back shutouts to 12 goals in two games against two of the best teams in the conference? Very carefully. I don't know.

Yeah, Barkov missed the Edmonton game, then Sam Bennett missed the Minnesota game, and you couldn't tell that they were missing one of their key centers for either of those games. Well, maybe the Edmonton game. Maybe having Barkov there. Yeah, I know you can tell, Rose. Yeah.