Pete Blackburn
Appearances
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
First of all, Rose, we've never met. What up, legend? I think it is so funny that you're a producer of a show and you're like, I will produce the show. That's it. And I will kill producing the show. I will do a great job at that. You talk about whatever you want to talk about. I'll be over here producing the show. Because we bug our producers so much for takes and ideas and everything.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
And like, hey, what do you think of this thing? It would be the best if we were like, yo, Sean, how do you feel about the Sabres? And he was like, Jason Zucker's on that team. Back to you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
That's basically what happened. It's also worth noting, prolific music producer Rick Rubin famously knows absolutely nothing about music, and in fact actually knows nothing about recording music. And... has produced some of the greatest songs ever. So maybe you don't need it. The vibes guy. Winning Grammys, knowing nothing about what you won.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
Dean Everson, who has never laughed once in his life, was laughing. And as Pete said, Voronkov is known as the funniest guy on that team, which is odd because he doesn't speak the primary language of that team, which is English. However... and I'm not trying to like get high on our own supply here.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
We had him on our show and we learned that yes, he could use a translator, but he generally is picking up what's going on and he chimes in when he wants. So I think that that was some selective understanding of English when he was given a gay misconduct and he was like, Awesome. I totally got it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
Yeah, I've been kind of talked out of loving this series. I was really, really excited for it. Outside of Edmonton, I absolutely love the avalanche in the Western Conference, and I've been trying to hype this up, and Pete and Sean have slowly chipped away at, like, you've been watching the stars you know that they are an absolute mess defensively and No Heiskanen?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
They've convinced me it could be a shorter series than I thought.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
There was a really good meme that was going around after Paige Beckers was drafted, and it said they traded Luka because they couldn't handle all that star power. And it was Paige Beckers, it was Luka Doncic, and it was Cody Cece. And someone responded and said, LOL, why did you choose a third pairing defenseman on the stars? And I was that rando stranger that responded to it and was like,
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
what third defenseman Cody CC is like the most important player on your day. Your defense sucks. He's arguably your best right now.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
Yeah, I mean, really everything they did has worked. And Chikrin, I'd say Chikrin is second or third on the list. Thompson has been awesome, but I'm still kind of waiting for Logan Thompson to be what Logan Thompson has been for the balance of his career.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
chicken and pld are the two ones that i look at is like those guys i don't think that chicken needed fixing but i think that he maybe needed like just a full strong year to answer whatever questions existed about him and then pld is the other one where suddenly that's not a bad contract anymore and he looks like he's going to be a star and get selkie votes in the coming years so everything they done they've done has worked and when you ask if chicken's gotten enough credit
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
I feel like the best story about this team other than the Ovechkin chase is that all these guys they got, all these cast-offs have been studs. But when the story is as good as Ovechkin breaking the goals record, it's understandable for everyone to overlook everything else.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
He's also a non asshole version of Aaron Rogers years. We don't know what, if he's going to be like, guys, we should be eating the water bottles actually, and not drinking from them.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
Boo, no, no. Good behavior. Good behavior. It's Sondra Bell. Say it. That's the name of it. We say what the name of it is. It's when people speak other languages. Roy, I know that's you as well, but let's take politics aside of it. You just classic Americans making everything about like, hey, if you don't like the language, please, let's respect everybody, shall we? Sondra Bell.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
Don't you feel like the Caps need to take a 2-0 lead going back there? I mean, I would say the Caps have been playing with their food, but I think they've only had alcohol for the last three weeks. I think that the Capitals, while a great story, and I've loved them all season, if the Capitals... If the Capitals don't watch it, they could be upset.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
And I don't know if it's by the Canadians because the Canadians just aren't that good of a team. But I'm talking second round. Somebody can get them. And maybe, yeah, if they don't take a 2-0 lead, maybe this does become a series.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
I think our producer Sean has nailed it, which is if there were more games in the regular season, it would have been two or three games. But if you go by the one playoff game equals three regular season games, then... If you give him two games into the playoffs, you're giving him a four-game suspension, which is a little much.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
And I think that they just kind of rounded down instead of rounding way up. This would be a much easier call if there were more games left in the regular season.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
I mean, from what the Oilers are saying, I don't know if they're just going to make up and bring back players, like if Oscar Kleffbaum is going to be there or something. But if you listen to what they say, whether it's Conor McDavid or Chris Knobloch, there's been a lot of like, hey, the perception of us health-wise is, is a little off. That's all we'll say.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
And McDavid has said, like, we're seen as the walking wounded, but I think that you guys will find that we're not as banged up as you think. And that tells me that maybe everybody but Matthias Ekholm will be back, including Evander Kane.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
I think that there's two teams that are going to that have the potential to make us feel like such idiots. Maybe three, actually, if you factor in the Panthers. I think it's the Oilers. I think it's the capitals where you ask questions about them going into the playoffs and legitimately after one game of the post season, we might be like, oh my God, that was so stupid. Okay. I'm so sorry.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
Like Leon dry saddle might score five goals in the first game. And you're like, oh, it could be Leon dry. And literally anybody else. And they're just going to win these games. We haven't seen McDavid and dry saddle together since not together, like in the same lineup. I'm not talking playing together since March 18th. It's been a long time. They've also been without. And I agree with Pete.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
Like I like LA's offense, but. We're putting that up against a lineup that we legitimately have never seen before. That is going to have down the middle, Connor McDavid, Leon dry saddle, Ryan Nugent Hopkins, who has been awesome when he's been healthy the last couple of months.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
And what Adam Henrique with, with Trent Frederick and probably Corey Perry on his line offensively, they are going to be freaking loaded, but it doesn't matter if Stu Skinner is horrible. Rosie.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
Are you supposed to have your second round pick when you're in a rebuild or do you not need those? I don't know. I'm not in charge of rebuilds. Right. But I'm saying like they're entering this rebuild and the only thing they have, they have some later picks and everything. They have like second round picks that are later in the round. Like they don't even have their own second round pick.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
They're going to finish. I don't know. That's going to be like the fifth pick of the second round, something like that. And that's gone. Like they've kicked the can down the road so many times. And now that the bill is due. They just don't have the cash. And they don't have the prospects at all. They might stink for a long time. And it stinks because I love the Oilers. They're my favorite team.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
But Bruins are like my family. And it's tough to see your family go through something.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
Yeah, I also lean Panthers, but like I said, they're the other team that we're talking ourselves into why they could lose in the first round. And it makes sense because everybody should respect the lightning. But at the end of the day, if Kachuk is back and you have Kachuk and Marchand and Bennett, they're just going to be such a nightmare to play against. And
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
We're in year two of saying someone who wants to make a playoff run, get Seth Jones because he's not what he once was, but he can eat minutes. And for a team that lost their leader in minutes on the back end, the Panthers were the smartest team to go out and get Seth Jones.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
I don't think he's going to be spectacular, but I think that they will benefit greatly from having another absolute horse back there. Vasilevsky, I would say, wins the goaltending matchup, but Vasilevsky, I think this is going to be close and I would still pick the Panthers to get out of the first round.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
You also have to remember our guy, Brad Marchand, has been hurt for a lot of the last however many months, and he is playing for a contract. And this is going to be a big, big moment for him. He's had massive moments over the years in the postseason. The stage is set for him. I think that if he's healthy and if he's right, he'll go off.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
It's so weird. I know you want to see it. It's so weird that I'm the Panthers, not supporter, but like Panthers. No, we're both Panthers respecters. I want Brad Marchand to have an awesome postseason. I want the Panthers to make a run.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: Playoff Preview (feat. DJ Bean and Pete Blackburn)
We'll see.