Chapter 1: What updates are shared about the NHL teams at the beginning of the episode?
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It's a full-time member. Marley just got an assist from Chris Bates. Whoa, we're buzzing right now. Sonk. What is up, folks? Welcome to Spittin' Chicklets, episode 614. We got Rob Blake joining the show. Did the interview a while back in L.A., so shout out to legendary defenseman. We'll be getting to him later on, but first we got to get to Pink Whitney.
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Chapter 2: What injuries are impacting USA Hockey and its players?
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Chapter 3: How are the Tampa Bay Lightning performing this season?
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the Pittsburgh Penguins' recent performance?
Thank you so much to anyone who has ever drank it. What's up, guys? It's a pleasure to be in person with you guys again. We haven't done this before. Since L.A. Since the rubber. Since L.A. You're right.
Since L.A.
And Biz is telling you that's what you do. Get your fucking microphone right near your mouth or you get sucker punched by him. You have one of these things on because you didn't last time.
I know. You didn't have the pee protector? No. No, I lost it. I lost it on the road. Yeah, and my pee's popped too. But I wish I had more non-hockey stuff to talk about, but I've been so into the hockey right now. Yeah. The triple header with the broadcast, but... The good news is I'm locked and loaded. Any team player you want to ask me about, I'll fucking fire away.
I'm an expert. I'm an expert right now. No, hey, when you are in studio, and I remember from my years ago at NHL Network, that is one-tenth of TNT in the size and everything. But I'd be like, wow, I think I know everything about every team. So for you just to do six games in three days and still know the rest of the league, that shows maybe you're not as dumb as you look.
Well, and I'm not smoking as much weed and taking as much at all. because I'm on the broadcast as much because I'm on the broadcast. I'm lowering my doses so I'm able to retain a little bit more knowledge.
So if you want to talk about Bussey, you want to talk about Duclair, you want to talk about teams snapping losing streaks like the Vancouver Canucks, you want to talk about teams who are on fire who are maybe struggling a little bit like the Colorado Avalanche, I can go that way. Any way you want to go, I can go, give it to me. Put me in, coach.
He wants it. And you didn't mention maybe talking about the Leafs injury bug that bites again. Oh, shucks. But we'll wait for that.
I just signed on as a team masseuse. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, you're going to tug those guys off? Well, I just, I mean, fuck, man. They got one of the worst schedules in the league. Everyone's schedule stinks. You might as well put them in the Western Conference. That's how much they've been traveling, getting their fucking shit pushed in.
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Chapter 5: What was Rob Blake's experience like going to the draft?
Mine wasn't going to the draft. Okay. Well, yeah.
So the whole, okay. Farming families, the whole family is going to come to the draft, right? Like this is, you know, we had an old, I think it was a Ford LTD, you know, those big cars and So the four, four kids in the back, my mom and dad in the front. And, uh, you know, we're, we're heading there.
They, they're like, well, you got to drive, you know, it's a long drive, eight or nine hours or whatever. So I'm on the 401, but I think it was a 401 heading that way, but the traffic's real bad. Right. So it's like, stop and go, stop and go, stop and go. And I guess it wasn't a good enough driver, but I remember what, you know, the car had to be stopped finally.
And I looked at guys at my window, I roll, it opens the door of my car and he starts yelling at me, little French guy. He's like, you're driving whatever, too slow, too slow. And then he just walks back to the car and I'm like, my dad's like, what are you doing?
Chapter 6: How did Rob Blake adapt to life in the NHL?
I said, I don't know. I'm just normally driving. So we continue, traffic's going, traffic's going. And again, I go to stop. And just as I stop, I can hear our car doors are open and everything. My whole family's filed out and they're, they're fighting the guy behind us in the car. Cause he's coming back after me. So I told this story.
I said, that's probably where I learned that I got teammates that are going to protect me. My family's doing that on the way to the draft. They're rolling around.
on the highway with this guy. Mom said, get out now. Stop fighting.
That is fucking nuts. Yeah, my brother had one of their guys over the guardrail. My dad had another guy and my mom's in the back yelling at the rest of their car and I'm going to the giraffe. I'm the last one getting out of the car. I'm like, oh boy.
I just tried to go to the giraffe. Trying to better myself here, guys. That is an unreal draft story.
You would have gone to the first round had everyone known that story. I know.
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Chapter 7: What insights does Rob Blake share about his time with the Kings?
Oh, my God.
Actually, that draft was Link Gates was the first rounder. He showed up with a black eye. I think he had a fight the night before. I mean, Minnesota had Mike Madonna.
I think they took Link right after that. Oh, his draft photo. Doesn't he have the big black eye?
Yeah, it's a black guy, but the story was that he had a fight the night before. That's amazing. I'm like, at least I didn't get hit. My family did. Was he a first rounder? He was late for it. I think Modano went early, and Mike went first that year. I've got to get this picture now.
It's amazing. When you got to L.A., who kind of took you under their wing? Was there a defenseman? You play with the same guy all year. You're kind of looking around like, I don't know what I'm doing here. Wayne Gretzky's in this room.
No, it was amazing room to walk into. Um, you know, Larry, I played with quite a bit there. Uh, the one guy that, you know, was close to where I grew up was Marty McSorley grew up in Cuga. So once he knew I was from Simcoe and, and Wayne was from Brantford, we're all pretty close. And, you know, Marty was single and he was always good to the young guys.
And, and that's how I kind of ended up in Manhattan beach. So as soon as I got here, he's like, Hey, you gotta, you gotta look down by the beach. Our, our practice rink was a little bit away, but he said, you want to, you want to live down by the beach. And it's been that way forever. So he was, uh, He was a real important figure early on just in helping me understand what the NHL was all about.
Yeah. That's what you need too. I mean, Manhattan beach from what, where it is now to when you got there, it's gotta be so different.
Now all the guys pretty much pulled the trigger on a house there.
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Chapter 8: What reflections does Rob Blake have on his Hall of Fame induction?
It was a double lot and it's probably worth. Oh my God.
Well, what did you buy a double lot or something? I got lucky there. I, yeah, I was living on the strand. I was in a smaller, uh, you know, single little at the time was just beach Tom, you know, it was a little beach homes and everything, you know, with this,
was 30 years ago now and uh yeah i got fortunate got one beside me and yeah good thing i got in then because i wouldn't be getting in now yeah good for you you deserve it when you came in or even in college were you always like because you were known for your hits it wasn't just the offense like was that always a part of your game no not really i think i told this one day um
So in college, I had shoulder surgery, one shoulder surgery. My second or third year of pro in the NHL, I had another one. So I had back, and I had back-to-back surgeries.
Same shoulder?
Two on one, one on the other.
Wow.
So within about four years stretch, I had three surgeries on my shoulders. So I couldn't really hip with my shoulders. That's kind of how I started turning around. And, you know, whatever from that, that was kind of the evolution of that whole process. Well, like the hip check type of thing? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it was all due to shoulder surgeries and they were dislocated shoulders.
So what, what they would do in the old days, they put you in that little harness or whatever, you finish the season, but it would come in and out and everything. So it just, you know, I got used to it, but I, but it wasn't an effective way to hit anymore.
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