Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Let's get them over with. Me and Ryan have been officially welcomed to the jungle that is Barstool Sports.
I brought it towards the Coyotes, and I asked them if it was okay if I joined the Spit and Chicklets podcast full-time. Ryan Whitney's got a pink Whitney out there now.
Get that on camera. It's a full-time member. Marley just got an assist from Chris Bates. Whoa, we're buzzing right now. Sonk. What is up, everyone? Welcome to episode 613 of the Spittin' Chicklets podcast, presented by Pink Whitney. What a weekend it was with myself shredding Stowe Mountain, just peekaboo-streeting it.
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Chapter 2: What updates are shared about the NHL teams?
I probably should have used a male skier as an example, maybe Alberto Tombawiti. And, and, gee, at the Patriots game, and I mention both of us because the amount of Pink Whitney I saw at Stowe, and the amount of Pink Whitney in the pictures he sent me at Gillette,
what a weekend for the brand what a weekend for the pink drink and what a weekend in the NFL and the NHL we got so much to catch up on but shout out pink Whitney and shout out anyone who drank it watching football who drank it skiing down all the different mountains around the world and and who drank it maybe on the beach if you're still in Florida enjoying the
The winter months in the warm weather, right? You know, the people on vacation, they're going to bring some pink with them. They're going to at least buy some down there for the beach. So shout out pink Whitney and shout out everyone who's ever had a sip of the pink drink.
Shout out to the people. Yeah. Shout out for you. I did a lot. Shout out to the people who sneak it in their purses on planes and they do it on the planes, even though they're not supposed to. Right.
Yeah. Yeah. True. And then you, you, you, you may be like sit in your seat over against the wall and pour it in hoping to not get caught by the flight attendant.
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Chapter 3: What insights are provided about the Rangers' retooling?
Those people.
yeah and then she does and then you get in a domestic and then you get tossed off the flight but it was worth it because it's all for very true and shout out the guy who named it i mean there was somebody we don't know who who sent the name pink whitney when i put out vodka and pink lemonade so that guy out there he's probably owed something we don't know who it is well you if if you're not being sarcastic like you realize that you were the one who said it right i did
You said, I like to make the Newman's Own or whatever with the vodka.
And I called the Pink Whitney, and I was like, that's fucking genius. Okay, so I did name it. Thank you, guys. And that rolled right off your tongue. Thank you, guys.
Now, was I saying that so then you would then tell me and pump my tires? Yeah, you actually did. Maybe. You guys will never know. You guys will never know. Keith? You're in London. Incredible, incredible trip so far. I've seen some pictures. Biz, you were back home. Awesome experience, I guess, with the parents. But Keith, let's start with you. How has it been? What is London like as a city?
And what was it like trying to watch NFL football in the land of the Premier League? How many cigarettes have you smoked? A bunch, because cigs don't count on vacation. That's a known fact. It's like food on an airplane. Unbelievable. Didn't have high expectations, I don't think, coming into London, but it has been unbelievable. The city is absolutely beautiful. Watching games is a little tough.
The Buffalo Bills game on Saturday, I had to call like three different bars. I'm like, you guys play the games? They're like, yeah, but there's no games on. I'm like, no, the Buffalo Bills are playing. I got to watch this game, support my friends. So have to go to the bars. They don't have them on the TVs. Have to get the manager out to try to find it. That all worked out.
But then 1230 hits, which over here, it's five hours ahead. That's like the third quarter. They kick you out. You're gone. So you got to go find a... Last night we watched it at a casino, a Patriots game at the casino. The Patriots game we watched at a Patriots by had an Uber drive. The first night here, he was the biggest New England fan. Red Sox, Bruins, everyone. Celtics.
He heard my brother-in-law's accent. He was like, oh, you guys got to go to the box to watch the game. So we go to the box. There's like 300 New England fans. I was getting recognized everywhere. Everyone was like, where's the Pink Whitney? We need it in London. I'm like, oh, but we don't have it. Ran into these lovely girls from Detroit.
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Chapter 4: What are the highlights of the interview with Sergei Fedorov?
They loved it. They loved it. So that was great. Huge win for the Patriots, especially watching it on different soil. It was a lot of fun. But we had a ton of New England fans there together. High five. And it was a blast. Absolute blast this place has been.
You said you watched it at the box. Now that's the one, the place that G went to, to watch like the dildo show. People were shitting all over the place.
And in Nantucket, the box, the chicken box.
That's the bar. But that wasn't the one that you went to in London to watch?
No, this is just a sports bar. Yeah, it was a sports bar called The Box. Maybe The Penalty Box. Maybe it was short for that, but probably not. But yeah, it went to a Chelsea game. Now I'm a huge Chelsea supporter. I'm very jealous of that. I'm very jealous. I've always wanted to go to a game there. Dude, what's it like? It's unbelievable.
We got dropped off maybe like a half a mile away from the stadium. You walk in, I'm like, where is this stadium? It's 60,000 people. It's in the middle of a neighborhood. You don't even see it. You look at our stadiums, they're just big, huge, in the middle of fields or whatever it is. But these are just legit in...
in actual neighborhood with 60 000 people going absolutely bananas one of the coolest experience of my life uh watching got some kid from la was there he was like what the hell are you doing here i pulled a busy i gave him a chicklet hat that i had on uh he was so fired up so shout out to him but yeah everything i just gave away mine on the last trip to a family member this time but like fuck i
Give him away like that. He'll give his shirt right off his back.
I mean, part of it is because he's very generous. Part of it is then he gets to show off the tats and the body that he's worked so hard on.
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Chapter 5: What are the challenges faced by Ottawa's goaltending?
So Ottawa's not getting any saves. If Ottawa had average goaltending, they would be competing for the top spot in the Atlantic. Would you guys agree with that? They had the expected goals saved. This is more under the hood stuff that we're talking about, but Ottawa is 11 goals worse than anyone else in goaltending category for the team. The goals saved above expected.
They're at a minus 34.1 right now. The next team is St. Louis at 23. So, I mean, you can look at like, for instance, a team like Buffalo is, is flat even on that goals expected above average. So that's, that's the type of swing we're talking about as a difference and talk about bad luck for Ottawa when it comes to goaltending. This is a little nugget to, um, that I sent your guys way.
Worst single season NHL team save percentage since 1990. Number one was 92-93 Ottawa Senators. Their team save percentage was 852. The next year after that, their save percentage was 857. And then this year, 25-26, the Ottawa Senators' team save percentage right now is 865 in the modern-day era of NHL. I don't know if these guys are playing with black ice goaltending pads.
What's going on over there?
I don't know, but let's quickly throw it to Jake Sanderson's comments.
Yeah, I think Levy made some good saves, but I think at the end of the day, you've got to make more than 10 saves to win a game.
That's one that's tough, right? If you're the goalie and you see that, like, dude, your confidence is down. Like Biz said, you've played 10 in a row. And he says he made some good saves, but... And that's when you know, uh-oh. And when you have a team that's struggling the way they are, most of it being goaltending, friction starts happening, right?
And I think what hurt Sanderson the most was Brady Kachuk and Tim Stultz was asked about him, and they really pumped his tires. And they really kept it within the locker room and stayed as a group, didn't throw him under the bus. I would guess if you could ask Sanderson if he'd do it again, he'd say no, right? I get the frustration.
Also, I think that game, Sanderson had four points, played over 25 minutes. He's been incredible. Everyone's starting to realize how great of a player he is. And he's disgusted and he's frustrated and I get it. But you look at the captain who then doesn't go that route.
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Chapter 6: How does Sergei Fedorov reflect on his jersey retirement?
Huge honor the club can show to the player, to his accomplishments. And... But eventually I said, if it's happened, I'll be thrilled. I'll be honored. What else? I don't know what to say, right? But if it doesn't happen, it's still there. All the accomplishments as a Red Wing, all the accomplishments as a team, those cups will be there and those goals will be there. It's no problem.
It's been a long time, for sure. But to me, to me, Red Wings, 100 years old. I'm a ninth player. And Arena and the whole LCA is going 150% of everything. So finally, they put together such a great entertainment piece. I'm glad to be part of it. And it did happen. That's awesome. The speech was amazing. A couple different things I want to ask about that. That's awesome.
One of them was... That morning, Steele's speech was not ready. Oh, yeah. That's like a best man speech. Just wait till the last minute. But you could tell you were getting almost a little emotional talking about Steve Eichmann and what he meant to you.
It's funny because when he was first asked about bringing you over, he actually said he's better than I am after you guys played against each other in the world championship. So when you got over, how much did he mean to you? Did you know a lot about him when you came over to be a wing? The honest answer and shortest answer, I did not know anything, honestly.
I remember when I met Steve first time in Detroit, I remember him from World Cup, but I came absolutely from clean sheet. I don't know much about, I don't think much about, I was only 20, guys. It was stressful enough to make that last step Before the tournament, I only played two exhibition games and I decided, listen, nothing holds me.
I already decided probably not a long time ago, but a year or two before that, I'm going to try to find new life, new hockey life for myself. And I left. And it took me a few months to just get used to the idea that I'm in a different country. I'm in Detroit.
But everybody was so nice, so that acclamation, or should I say, get accustomed to the new life, obviously went much smoother than I thought it would be. But I was worried about a lot of things, especially when I
left uh soviet union team i was worried about parents no doubt thank god they were living up north away from moscow and so and so so i don't think so they got bothered too much but till this day did they did not talk about to me about anything uh i don't know maybe they they can't my father already watching over me from the Sky, my mom's still doing well. I don't know, man.
They're still quiet about if they have any sort of problems at the hometown up north where we were living.
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Chapter 7: What was Fedorov's experience like defecting from the USSR?
that was fun experience because soviet union was safe that's the most important thing right now it's not like that and was that right about the time when correct me if i'm wrong you mogilny and beret were a line at the world junior tournament that's correct uh how'd that go uh in the flash We played well together, really. I don't have ice on the back of my head, but I know where they were. Yeah.
Damn. It felt great from the get-go in Red Army. Me and Alex got together. A year later, Pavel came in. We spent... Last season at Red Army, then play in World Juniors. Adirondack, I believe. We won there. And me and Alex went to adult, first national team to Stockholm, and we won there in 89. He left, I stay.
So when you mentioned before that you knew nothing about the NHL, even when you came over, would you say that as a young kid in Russia, is it your dream to play for the Red Army or growing up where you were? You don't even really know about that before the Internet and all this. That's correct. Very limited information.
As you know, I said, we train on the ice twice, 11 months out of the year, with the games going on and stuff. Then we have morning warm-up, which is we run or do something. Then, first two years, we even train with Alex and Pavel eventually at 9 p.m. also, before we go to bed. So it would be like almost three to four practices. But it's only two years, you know.
That's what got us really sort of over the edge. And at such a young age, at 20, Alex maybe, yeah, Alex was 21, he came in, give us that physical conditioning where we look good, okay, we look okay, right from the get-go. So we'll be able to play adult hockey right away. You know, early 90s, it's a cut-throw game. I mean, you were on your own from when you were 13 years old.
Just coming over to the US, you being the only Russian guy on the team, that must have made it a little easier just because you've been doing it on your own since you were so young. I believe so. It's a great experience. I knew where I should stay and sleep and study. I knew bus number, which is number 77. I knew two bus stops, my school and a hockey rink. And on the way back, the same thing.
But Minsk were great. Really, guys, I have a school that starts at 11.40, so I would get up at 7, 7.30 and go to 9... 30, 10 o'clock practice. Practice for one hour with a year younger guys. Then my school until 5 or 6 p.m. And then I practice with three years older guys, two years older guys. And all the coaches gave me really big favor. I saw my Spets class, Spets team, only Saturday, Sunday.
I only play for them, never practice with them. That's how it worked out because their school at eight, but I cannot make it because I live at the school and nobody can provide living, like billets or something like that. So I was five days out of the week on my own, doing my own training with those teens. and then play Saturday to Sunday with my own age team.
Must have been so easy in those games. But getting to Detroit, okay, so you get over immediately over a point per game, 30 goals. The next season is when Konstantinov and I believe Kozlov came. When did you find out they were coming? How happy were you that you had another Russian or two over there? Okay, this is maybe a little bit easier off the ice. Is that true?
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Chapter 8: How did Fedorov adjust to the NHL's playing style?
I was at ease personally, and I knew we're going to play well together. We're going to play well as a unit. But whatever happened afterwards, I had to watch 30 years later when I was the GM here at the Red Army. Because people ask me questions, I don't have a good memory of it. But I watched the whole game and I understood we just kept the puck as much as we could and we never throw it anywhere.
That is so good.
Good for Scotty Bowman for allowing you guys that because back then maybe not a lot of coaches would have allowed that. The thing is what's great for all of us, and obviously, I think Scottie created that idea. He was a big fan of Soviet Union hockey. Tarasov days, that's a famous coach in Russia, 10 world championships in a row.
And I don't know how, if that's the truth, I don't know how he talked to management into it. Because Igor and Slava was on a downhill. And when I can say that, I guess, no problem. When Kenny Holland asked me about, should we get Igor or should we get Slava? I'm like, are you serious? Can we? He goes, yeah, yeah. I said, absolutely. Do it. Do it. Just don't think about it. Just do it.
Whatever it takes. Because Alex McGilley were in the mix. I'm sorry to interrupt, but Alex McGilley were in the mix. But for some reason, did not work out. Okay. That would have been, I mean, that would have been, enough's enough, Detroit. I was a young guy. I have no idea what I'm getting into. But to have those guys again together in the team, I don't know if they can play.
I knew they were much older. Well, much older than me. It's like 10, 11, probably 15. Yeah, 10 years, 10, 11 years. I don't know how they feel about, but boy, what we experienced, I experienced personally was amazing till this day. When you think back to Scotty Bowman, you know, considered the best coach in the history of the NHL.
And then you look at Victor Tikhanov, like anyways, they were similar as coaches. Like how were they different or like looking at the two that coached you? Probably what they achieve, they probably plus minus the same. Different countries differently understand. But as far as coaching, they absolutely, totally plus and minus.
In Soviet Union, coach can raise the boys on the bench, behind the bench, to the ice and so on. After the first or second period, we may get even, you know, some harsh and hard wording, you know. Obviously, NHL not like that. Scottie is not like that. But the team we had, even after... my Russian buddies came in like Slava Kozlov and Vladimir Konstantin. We had Lee Norwood, Dave Barr.
We had experienced him. John Shabbat. We got Glennie Hanlon, Jerry Gallant. They were, you know, we have well-balanced age-wise team. So we had a great team and still coaching, not raising their voice. They absolutely only behind closed doors, one-on-one. Maybe they would say something, not harsh, but strong, you know, so you can get your feet moving and so on.
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