Patrice Bergeron talks 4-Nations, Marchand's antics & USA/Canada rivalry

It’s a jam-packed two-guest debut episode of Energy Line with Nate & JSB! Nate Thompson and Julie Stewart-Binks dive right into the J.T. Miller trade and what it means for the Rangers moving forward and the state of the Eastern Conference playoff picture. Bruins legend, Stanley Cup champion and Nate’s former teammate Patrice Bergeron stops by to look back at them coming up together in the NHL, the Canada vs. Team USA rivalry, Four Nations combos, Brad Marchand the teammate and Alex Ovechkin’s quest for the goals record. Three-time Super Bowl champion and Avalanche fan Mark Schlereth joins JSB and his fellow Alaskan Nate Thompson to talk Alaskan life, the Chiefs-Eagles Super Bowl matchup ahead on Sunday and what the Miko Rantanen trade means for the Avs.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Energy Line is a production of the NHL and iHeart podcasts.
Hey everyone, welcome on into Energy Line with Nate and jsb.
This is an NHL and iHeart podcast production and we

(00:25):
are very thrilled to be bringing you our first episode. Here.
I'm Julie Sharp Binks and I'm joined by Nate Thompson,
who was a member of the Anaheim Ducks when I
was covering him back in like one hundred years ago.
Because we you know, we're elder millennials, but we are
dialed into the NHL and Nate, it's so great to
have you on the other side of the mic now

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here in the media.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
I'm excited. Let's get this thing going. I mean, we're here,
We're ready, and it's time to It's time to podcast.
Let's let's do it right.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Nate and I have been really gearing up. Really, we've
been actually podcasting, like without a podcast recording, because we've
had a lot of thoughts on that NHL and life,
which had been great. We really should have just recorded
them this entire time, but Nate got asked you, let's
get into the Let's get into what everyone wants to
talk about. Some of the biggest news in the NHL,
of course, with the New York Rangers acquiring JT. Miller,

(01:19):
Eric Branstrom, Jackson Dorington for Phil Heatel, Victor Mancini and
first round conditional pick that they flipped to Penguins, But
really JT. Miller back running it back with the Rangers.
How do you feel about them really going out there
and solidifying kind of what everyone thought they were going
to do, but like actually doing it.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
I was excited for the trade. I'm glad the Rangers
did it. I'm a big JT. Miller fan. I know
that there was a ton of noise around JT Miller
in the Peterson situation in Vancouver, and you heard Rutherford
come out and talk about it. And I think once
you saw that, you knew that it was kind of
open season. They were obviously making calls about JT. Miller

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with different teams. You know, it was one of the
other I think JT. Miller obviously he's older than Peterson,
but his cap hit is lower, and I think it's
a good reunion. I think it's a fit because JT.
Miller obviously should play for the Rangers, and I think JT.
Miller he is a type of player that you win with.

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He is a player that you win with in the playoffs.
He is a type of player that pulls you into
the fight. He is a type of player that will
run you, will run through you. I mean he had
two goals in his first game as a Rangers, which
was pretty good debut. So I am a huge fan
of the trade. Now what happens from here? Can the
Rangers going to run? Does it spark some magic within

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their lineup? Does he get guys to start playing with
a little bit more ump, a little more passion like
he does. I think every single team in the league
would want JT. Miller on their.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Team, right. It makes so many great points there, and
that just reminds me of like energy line he brings,
as you said, the energy he's crashed in, He's going
hard to net, he is flying high and he as
we know, like he played two games without even practicing
with the Rangers, and it feels as though he kind
of made a lot of guys better. And maybe that's

(03:17):
just as Peter lovey Let said, like drawing guys in
like as he against Vegas on Sunday night. Peter Lovelett said,
like because he was going to the net that really
like strong net front, like gritty presence. It made other
guys kind of do that too. Have you ever played
on a team where you acquire someone and they immediately

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have a positive effect on everyone else.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
I mean, I don't know if it was anybody particular
that was traded to a lineup, but I just remember
guys like playing with guys like a guy like Corey Perry.
You know, he's the same kind of not the same player,
but the same kind of guy that was not afraid
to mix it up, not afraid to get his team going,
you know. I mean even a guy like Ryan gets
left too. Ryan gets left was the same way. You know.

(04:00):
These guys play hard. They're I think what I what
I'm trying to say is they're hard to play against.
When you're hard to play against, I find that as
one of the biggest compliments to have as a player,
if you're hard to play against. But I think that's
the ultimate compliment and JT. Miller is that he is
a guy that's hard to play against, not because and
that doesn't mean because he can run a guy through
the wall, or he can he can fight or whatever

(04:22):
it is. It's it's all encompassing. It's the fact that
he works. He's a dog on that he's a dog
on a bone when it comes to you know, getting
after the pockets, winning face offs, it's killing penalties, I
mean everything, he does everything. And I really hope that
for the Ranger's sake that this trade works out and
that they're able to make the playoffs, because I do

(04:44):
believe that JT. Miller is a guy that he moves
a needle.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Right And we talk about the Rangers right now because
they have been arguably one of the biggest stories of
this entire year, kind of combusting earlier on and then
finding themselves back in it in January and then kind
of falling off, and they've been really like this crazy
roller coaster ride to on, which has been you know,
fun if you like that, but also at the same time,

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you're like, what is the identity of this team? And
just to kind of like, I guess put a bow
on it. We see JT. Miller come in and have
this immediate impact, but we also know that they have
struggled defensively. You know, how much can can you outscore
your issues until you really do need to actually figure

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out your defense.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
You can't. You can't outscore your issues. It's just never
going to happen. You have to play a good team defense.
I still think they can. I believe they've gotten better,
but they can be better. I mean, I still don't
think they're there yet. Are they done making another trade?
I don't know. I mean, maybe they're not done. Maybe
they do go add another d I don't know what

(05:49):
it will be. But that's the one thing I think
for the New York Rangers is if they're going to
be successful and if they're going to make the playoffs,
and then if they're going to be competitive against any
of the teams in the metro especially, they're going to
have to play better team defense because Eyors is striking.
Like I've already talked about it before. You know, he's
not going to fix all your problems, So we'll see.

(06:11):
I mean, I would like to see the Rangers make
the playoffs now, especially after making this trade and seeing
where they're at. It's going to be interesting, to say
the least.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, it's fun to see narratives being switched and changed up.
Especially this kind of reminds you, as everyone likes to
harken back to the twenty nineteen days of the Saint
Louis Blues and how they're able to flip the script
very quickly and then win the Stanley Cup. Holy but
Nana Sandwich. Is that crazy to even think about when
you look at that logjam in the East though, Nates,
who do you think? And we're talking about into the

(06:40):
wild card standings and I mean the Islanders, like what
we're talking we're on Monday right now, so the Islanders
seven game win streak, and also the Senators just like
everyone's just like waking up, like, oh right, we should
probably play some hockey. Who do you like?

Speaker 2 (06:56):
I don't know. It changes every single week. I mean
there's like four or five teams every single week and
it changes. And you look at the Aisles right now
and they're in a flute heater and the way they're playing,
I mean, it's who knows. I mean, don't you think
like that? At the like, at the end of the season,
it's going to come down to probably four or five
teams getting into the playoffs and it's going to be

(07:16):
all coming down to the last game, and it's usually
only comes down to like what two teams usually. But
for me right now, I mean I honestly don't know, Julie.
This is so hard to It changes every single no
with these teams, right, you see, it's like.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
It's musical chairs. Yeah, it really is because it keeps
every fan base really involved. And I remember last year
came down to kind of like that final day where
it was like, okay, who's scoring this and this? And
that was only just a few teams. But this feels
like it's going to be again. We know so much
can happen between now and then, but like so many
different teams and we'll be watching them all and they
do this in soccer, not to like put that in there,

(07:52):
but when they're all playing at the same time and
it's kind of like who goes ahead and whatnot, I
think it'll be just so exciting. And I think Nate,
like we you know, if we're playing the hits right here,
and you know where I'm from, it's not a lot,
by the way, where you're from, which is also wild,
and we're going to get into that, like that's just wild. Okay,
So but Toronto, wait, is it not? Isn't it not crazy?

(08:14):
Being from Alaska?

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, it's awesome. I mean it's I mean, I'm from Alaska. Yeah,
it's badass. I mean when I tell people that, they're like, really,
I'm like, yeah, I'm from Alaska. I wear it. It's
like a badge of monor.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Would you run into many other Alaskans.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
No.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Usually when someone says where are you from and I
say I am from Alaska, I'm usually the first person
to tell them that, and they're always like, oh wow,
I've never met someone from Alaska before. That's all. That's
always the reaction. Yes, ninety nine percent of the.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
Time, very uncommon. But what is common and very interesting
is we do have a guest today on our show
who's from Alaska, Mark Schlareth, three time Super Bowl champion,
wild that we have two Alaskans on the show and
there's literally no one else I know from Alaska at
all ever, And we also have to be Erzon on
the show, who is an absolute legend, and are so

(09:03):
thankful that Nate knows him because that's why we have
him on the show. Nate's contacts, especially now, you played
on how many teams you play on? Nine?

Speaker 2 (09:12):
You said nine, and I played for Philly two separate occasions,
two stints, so you could say ten? Really, yes, nine?

Speaker 1 (09:18):
Ten? When you if you were to like have your
jersey retired. Where where would be the place.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
If I was going to have my jersey retired? She
asked me. I mean I played. I played in Tampa
for five seasons, so that would be the longest.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
But wow, five seasons, Yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Right, Can you imagine I actually played that long there
in one spot?

Speaker 4 (09:38):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (09:39):
So Nate played how many? How many years in Anaheim?

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Three seasons in Anaheim?

Speaker 1 (09:43):
Okay, so I think we both we were both worked
in Anaheim for three seasons. And I actually sent Nate
a vote a video I found the other day that
I took when you guys were playing Calgary in the
playoffs in twenty seventeen, when you swept them, and it
was like, I've always remembered how you guys would walk
out on the ice, but because it was like you

(10:04):
and then gets laugh and then Perry would always do
his thing around the door frame, like hitting it. But
you said, what was it that they called it cold
cuts your nicks?

Speaker 5 (10:14):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah? Because so when I I was number forty four,
and every time before I went out, we would you know,
wait in the tunnel or whatever before you go out,
and and you don't remember that commercial. Remember it was
like the guy was in the you know, he's in
the dnelly or the deli, the deli with is it
a Geico commercial I think, And he's like, forty four,

(10:36):
we need some cold cuts today, gonna get some cold cuts.
I might I'm probably butchering this right now. I'm absolutely
butchering this.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
You know, the commercial, the commercial.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
But any anyways, fast forward gets you would always just
yell forty four, that's me, we get some cold cuts today,
get some cold cuts today. And I would just say, yeah, yeah,
that's me, that's me, and then we would skate down
to the ice.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
So I love that.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
With nicknames, they're just like top story, but that's where
it came from, and that's usually how nicknames started out,
usually anyway.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
So what's been like that? You're the most obscure nickname
you've heard, at least like from from a reference from something.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
When I was playing in Anaheim. My nick name, my name, No,
not that one, my nickname. Do you don't remember they
used to call me ned?

Speaker 1 (11:20):
What Where's where did that come from?

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (11:23):
My okay. So we're in a video session the beginning
of the season. Bruce Boudreau is our coach. Gabby love
it avy, we love him, we love him. And he's
doing a you know, a little presentation of whatever, and
he said, he means to say Nate, and he goes, well,
Ned here, and the whole room starts, the whole room
starts dying, laughing. And from then on, like Cam Fowler, Getsy, Perry,

(11:49):
Ryan Kessler, they would not call me anything but Ned.
Oh and from then on, like like I saw Gets
a year ago and I saw him in the stands
and he first thing he said to me was like Ned.
That one one of the nicknames. Oh yeah, it's just
because of Bruce Boudreau. My nickname was Ned.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
And that's so Bruce love him. We'll have to get
him on the pod. He's just an.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Absolute, yeah, absolute beauty.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
He is just uh, he keeps it one hundred all
the time. I think he's like my favorite person ever
for covering because he just was. He's just just a
lovely person. And I don't know how that translates a coach,
but I mean, you guys did pretty well when he
was there, so I think he's.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
We did we did do really well. We did do well.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah yeah, I mean almost yeah, almost. You almost got
a Patrice Bergern potential opportunity moment to play for a
Stanley Cup too soon.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
That's our that's how we're going to have I know, well,
that's why we're going to have him on and he
can tell us about it and I can just listen.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
And on that note, coming up after this quick break,
we will have Patrice Bergeron joining us to discuss four Nations,
being a Boston Bruin and so much more. Don't go anywhere.
It is the Energy Line with Naton JSB. Well, now
we are so thrilled to be able to have a
man guests join us on our first episode of Energy

(13:07):
Line with Nate and JSB, and that is none other
than Patrese Bergeron, played for Team Canada for many years
when a Stanley Cup was a Bruins legend and also
knows Nate. They apparently grew up together or something like that.
We're gonna find out more. Patrise, thank you so much
for enjoining us today.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
Of course, happy to be here, Thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah, I don't know about grew up together, but we
really yeah, I guess you could say we did grow
up together a little bit. I guess, Patrise and I
were drafted the same year together two thousand and three.
He was forty fifth overall, right, correct, Okay, one eighty three.
So yeah, people that don't know Bergie and I actually
we attended our first NHL training camp together. We were

(13:52):
both eighteen. We also played together during the full lockout
season of two thousand and four two thousand and five
on a playoff run. Both our hair were blonde at
the time to die. Yeah, so tough. Look, yeah, I
mean I kind of want to go back Bergie to
our first training camp really together and being eighteen, and

(14:16):
I remember at the time just meeting you. I mean,
I know you did speak very very good English, but
just that overall, you know, process and the experience. Really, yeah,
it was.

Speaker 6 (14:25):
Pretty surreal, you know, just being drafted and having to
go to that first training camp, lots of nerves and
you know, not knowing what to expect really, you know,
as you said, new language, had to learn.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
I don't know if you remember what Vinoan Mondou was there.

Speaker 6 (14:40):
He's like and also a fellow French Canadian, and we
were roommates.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
In the first week or so.

Speaker 6 (14:44):
We're about kind of like trying to figure it out
as we went right, like with the language and everything.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
But then like that being said, it was it was
pretty surreal, you know, being able to see.

Speaker 6 (14:53):
Joe Thornton and you know, Glennbury and all, you know,
the veterans early on, and it was pretty cool. I remember,
actually I still vividly remember for rookie camp. You know,
in the first few games we played scrimmages. You were
on the ice as well, and I do remember obviously
we're both from the same draft, so it was pretty
you know, interesting, a lot of fun and lots of
learning that he had to kind of go and you know,

(15:15):
learn as you go.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
As I said, pretty quickly.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
Fortrice, I got to jump in here. I mean, you
were with one team your whole life, and Nate was
with like five hundred thousand teams. So what was it?
What what was he like back then when you guys
were in those rookie camps?

Speaker 3 (15:29):
He was great.

Speaker 6 (15:30):
I mean, obviously Tom was the nicest guy, so he
was always very very helpful, actually helping me with the language.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
Obviously we it.

Speaker 6 (15:38):
Was easy to connect because he was a young guy
just like me, and you know, kind of learning as
we went.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
And but also I think it was just fun to
have him, and and you know, it was.

Speaker 6 (15:48):
Hard to see him go when he went to Long Island,
you know, is uh. He was a big part of
I guess our young group coming up. You know, we
played together and in Providence the following year it was
a lockout year.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
We went to Providence and we had the playoff run.

Speaker 6 (16:01):
And you know, I think you played junior right there
that year that he came with us for the run,
I did, and yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
And so it was it was actually.

Speaker 6 (16:08):
A lot of fun to have him around get to
know him, and you could tell right away he was
going to be a great player and you know, be
an impactful player for for any team.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
So it was great to get to know him early on.
And I feel like we've followed each other all the
way through in our career.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
I did a lot of.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
Respect for each other. And it was always fun to
see him every time I bumped into him along the
along the way.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
When I went to Providence, when I got there, they
were playing we were playing Lowell, I think it was
the second round. And when I got there, everyone had
their hair dyed blonde, and so I showed up. I'm
just coming out of Junior. I'm twenty years old and
that afternoon one of the players, I think it was
Colt Moore. Colt Moore was like, hey, you got to
you gotta do so you got to dye your hair

(16:50):
like you have to. So I had to go dive
my hair that afternoon before the game, before my first
game with the Providence Bruins playing in the playoffs. So good,
good times. That was all my die.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
Remember, we need pictures of that, Like, I can't imagine
you guys fun here.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
I could probably surface. I do have some pictures. I'm
actually bergie. I might have a picture of you and me.
I'm serious. I might have one. So yeah, I'll pull
it up. Yeah, I'll send it in. We'll see that. Yeah,
we want to talk about four nations a little bit.
And you know, obviously you have a ton of international experience,
talk about playing for Team Canada and the experience. And

(17:30):
my question is, too, is your overall best experience playing
for Team Canada? What what sticks out to you?

Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (17:37):
I think there's so many great experiences. You know, I
was able to live I guess an experience, so you know,
it's to me. The Olympics was pretty special being part
of it. The one and obviously twenty ten back home
in Vancouver.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
Was yeah, let's go.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
The best.

Speaker 6 (17:54):
Yeah that was fun and yeah it to be to
be in your own country and you know, being able
to be on the Olympics was something only forget and
obviously waiting. But that being said, you know, every experience
has been pretty special.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
They're all kind of unique.

Speaker 6 (18:09):
I think the four nation is something that to me anyways,
was overdue as far as you know, international play and
best on best tournament and you know, some can you know,
debate that it's not totally best on best because there's
some guys that are missing.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
But still, like, you know, it's a pretty cool tournament.
Looking forward to it. I'll definitely tune in and watch
obviously as a as a.

Speaker 6 (18:30):
Canadian, I you know who I'm rooting for and hopeful
for the you know, hope for the best, but it's
going to be hard.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
You know, US is looking good and you can never.

Speaker 6 (18:38):
You know, think that Sweeten or Finn or not in
the mix. You know, they're definitely a great team and
they can do some damage as well.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Is there some line combos that you'd like to see
for Team Canada? Is there is there certain guys that
you'd like to see play together, maybe your former teammate
Marshawn with somebody.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
No, I was gonna say that, I would like to
see the.

Speaker 6 (18:56):
Halifax line together in Crosby and McKinnon and marsha And I.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Feel like that could be a very good line obviously,
you know, I like.

Speaker 6 (19:04):
We all know what Marshawn brings to the table. He's
just you know, he's like a dog on a bone,
you know, with the pucket that.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
He's always finds ways to get it.

Speaker 6 (19:12):
I feel like he could create a lot of turnovers
and space for Crosby and.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
The can introduced magic, so it'd be pretty lethal.

Speaker 6 (19:20):
But then you know, there's so many guys I know, right,
there's so many combinations you can kind of come up with.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
That's pretty crazy.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Brad Marshawn. Obviously, he is one of the most polarizing
players in the NHL. And just for a background, I'm Canadian,
just got my American citizenship and I'm from Toronto, so like,
you know, I kind of have a bit of.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
Like an asterisk a little bit.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
Yeah, And also like talking to Patrice Bergean is like, Okay,
he's won gold medals for Canada, but He also, like
you know, caused me to cry a lot as like
a Leafs fan, which you'll get into in a second.
But but Brad Marshawan is unique. He feels like a
heel in the NHL. Having known him, having been in

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the locker room with him, what's maybe something that would
that would surprise all of us on the outside about
what he's like on the inside with you guys.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
Yeah, we surprised a lot of people. He's a really
good guy. I think a lot of people have.

Speaker 6 (20:19):
A lot of hatred towards him, But you know, it's
obviously I understand that side when you look at him
on the ice and.

Speaker 3 (20:26):
The way that he plays.

Speaker 6 (20:27):
He plays obviously with hard on his sleeve and he
wants to do whatever it takes to get the results.
But if you take it back and really get to
know him as a person, you see him in the
locker room, the leadership and the connections that he does
with with the guys, but also the family man that
he is, and yeah he's and the energy that he
brings every day.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
You know, he's.

Speaker 6 (20:45):
Always lights up the mood and he's got the jokes
always ready. It seems like he's always got something very
witty and with his jokes and he's always got something
for everyone and a.

Speaker 3 (20:54):
Lot of chirps, but also a lot of love. So
he's a special guy.

Speaker 6 (20:59):
To be around as a very good friend of mine,
and you would love to get to know him.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
Obviously, I were going to say he was a good guy,
like just because that feels like what you would expect
from a guy on the outside who's sort of this
like big showman but liked. I mean, he's done so
much stuff on the ice to kind of piss guys
off too. I mean, I respect it, listen, I expected
I respect it all the time.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
I love it. Yeah, we love it. He's good. He's
good for the game. He's good for the game. But like,
didn't he ever do like, like, did he ever just
do stuff that annoyed you? Guys were like, you know what,
maybe man, you're taking it too far.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
Well, there's more than one thing that he took too far.
It'd be the first guy to say that he took
a few things too far. And he's still learning, you know.

Speaker 6 (21:42):
I think it's just sometimes it just gets the best
of them and he can't really control himself.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
But I think he's done a lot of work on that.
I mean, obviously there's there's a few things that you know,
you get back to the locker room, you're like shaking
your head and buddy like.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
But what like what what was something the other day?

Speaker 3 (22:01):
I actually didn't see that.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
He didn't see that. It was it was hilarious. I
actually just started laughing because I was like, yeah, he
took his glove off and literally just put his hand
around his neck. This is amazing and the heat.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
At the moment, Like, that's just who he is, and
that's the type of.

Speaker 6 (22:15):
Guy you want to go and battle with and go
to war with. So and let's be honest, like all
the other teams want him on his on their team,
you know what I mean. Like it's like one of
those one of those guys that you hate him if
he's if you're a Leads fan, Julie or you know,
if you're a Bruins fan, you love him, right, So
it's just one of it's just who he is. But
that being said, like I can't really give you one thing.

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It's just like a lot of things like that.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
There's a long list. Yeah, I can't really remember. There's
just too many things.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
I remember it was one of my last couple of
years in the league, and I think I can't remember
was it was. It was on Philly and I think
somebody was talking trash and I remember was a young
guy and he was losing his mind and and he
said something and I was like, Marshi, you did the
exact same thing when you were young, and he goes, yeah,
you're right, just skated off, you know. So I got

(23:09):
a ton of respect for him. I love the way
he plays. Obviously he's an amazing player. So's yeah, that's great.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yeah, So Patrice, what do you think you think he's
gonna stick around with the Bruins.

Speaker 6 (23:19):
Yeah, I hope So, I mean, I feel like this
is one of those guys that should be a lifer.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
You know, as far as be with the Bruins since
the beginning.

Speaker 6 (23:26):
I think it's it doesn't really happen often, but he's
like the definition of what you know it means to
be a Bruin. I think he's been around, he knows
the culture, he knows the organization.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
He shows the way their leader. So hopefully he stays.

Speaker 6 (23:39):
I mean, you know, obviously I don't make any decisions,
but you know, you guys are I think everyone that
knows me knows how I feel about Marsh. You know
how much, how helpful, how powerful he is for for
for a club.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
So I hope he stays.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
I think he will. He better as as a Bruins
draft pick. I would love for him to stay there too.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
Would be so weird to see him in like another jersey,
would I mean, that's how I felt about Stammer too,
about stamp Sam leaving too.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
So as another former Tampa Bay Lightning, I can go
through a lot of former teams, but uh, my teammate,
it does.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
Feel weird to have Stammer with a jersey, does right?

Speaker 2 (24:20):
It looks really weird? Yeah, I know, yeah, it looks
really weird. So now that we're getting into different teams
and players bringing I'm curious. Uh you know you're watching
you watch the game right now? You see how many
talented players there are? Which player do you really do
you watch? Mostly? Do you really are you a fan
of that you would act you would like to play with? Today?

Speaker 6 (24:41):
Oh my god, I really enjoy Nate McKinnon's game. I
think he's pretty electric to watch, and it's his speed,
it's a stick handling it's everything that he's able to
put together. I think Mitch Marner is also a player
that you know, seems so smart and you know it
never stops on any puck.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
He actually plays well defensively as well. He's a smart player.

Speaker 6 (25:01):
It's there's a lot of guys you know, I love,
I mean, I have a lot of respect for Kope.
I've never had a chance to play with them. I
would have loved to play with them that, you know,
even all Star games. I never got the you know,
they're always at West, so never got a chance to
be on his team at all.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
So PROKOPI would have.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
Been like the one guy you imagine Julie Cope and
Bergie on the stafty.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
I know, I was just literally like having that go
through my mind.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Like no one ever is going to score or win
or win a face off.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
No, never, Definitely not Patrisa. You mentioned obviously Nate McKinnon
and Marner, and those just are some Canadian guys. And
having played fourteen Canada and played in the Canada USA rivalry,
and you mentioned the golden goal, let's just like not
forget the golden goal. That is a defining moment in
Canadian sports history hockey. A lot of people remember it.

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Patresea and I are on the same page here, but
I wonder just having you with with you having lived that,
and again like so many of us have never obviously
we have no idea what it's like to be in
a Canada USA rivalry for hockey, Like how would you
describe it to people that would have absolutely no idea

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what it's like?

Speaker 6 (26:12):
What I remember, like the one thing if I can
maybe sometimes like a picture's worth a thousand words, Like
we had an exhibition game before the World Cup in
twenty sixteen, and we played the US and Columbus and
it was an absolute war. And it was an exhibition
game before the tournament, and there's guys that are like
there's a few we didn't get into any fights, but

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there's a few like brawls that are like after whistles,
there's a few hits from behind, and like guys were
actually like trying to take their each other's head off,
and it was pretty like nasty that game.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
And I still remember, like going back after the game
we finished, like what was going on? Like we have
a tournament to play, you know what I mean? And
we're all talking it's like.

Speaker 6 (26:52):
Oh, I guess we we just hate each other, you know,
like playing and it's just like the rivalry is there,
and it's you know, there's that will to win at
any cost and but yeah, that I mean that's to me,
that was like a perfect example. It's like we're prepping
for for a pretty important tournament and no one wants
to get injured.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
But sure enough we're all on the edge trying to
think each other's head off.

Speaker 6 (27:15):
So it's to me, that's like in a nutshell, it's
pretty much the rivalry and kind of explains what it
means and to.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
Be a part of that and how much guys care
to try to win.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
So there's a lot of hate there.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
Yeah, I mean I think there's a lot of respect.
You know, I shouldn't say, hey, but there's definitely a
lot of respect. But there's also like a lot of
people want to win.

Speaker 6 (27:33):
Let's put that like we want we want to be
the US.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
I think it's vice versa.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yeah, that's that's for sure. I mean, I mean I
would I would imagine that, especially that game, first game
with US and Canada. I mean, what do you, I mean,
what do you think.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
You in Montreal in Montreal.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
I mean you got to think that the first period
there's going to be no puck on the ice and
guys are just going to be trying to run each
other exactly right, like I would think.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
So, and it's been like a you know, like twenty
ten is the same thing. You know, like we at
the Olympics, like they beat us in the in the round,
Robert or whatever. That's you know, that's right.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
I remember that ye.

Speaker 6 (28:07):
Preliminary games and then like we play them in the
finals was a super tight game obviously with the overtime.
So you know, it's been some tight and some good
hockey and some close ones. So and I know that
you know it's it's going to be the same.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
So then you know, bias is a side. Who do
you think is going to win the Foreign Nations?

Speaker 6 (28:27):
Well, hopefully Canada, I mean that's for sure. I mean,
that's that's who I'm rooting for. That's you know, I
But then it's so hard, you know, like it's it's
a winner, like one game, winner takes all, so it's
it's anything can happen.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
But that being said, hopefully Canada all the way.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
What do you think I mean, I mean you know,
I mean, you know where I I mean, obviously I
want I want the US to win, but I think,
I mean, I think no one can even underestimate Swene
in Finland. I mean you look at their rosters too,
and it's like, you know, it's one game, so anything
can happen, and it just shows the importance of like
why these teams have to win so early, Like those

(29:04):
games right away are must wins, right, So, I mean,
I'm so pomped. I mean, I'm I mean, I'm excited.
I'm gonna be there, so I'm gonna I'm gonna be
watching so it'll be awesome.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
Yeah, Nate, you decided to pull the trigger and go.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go witness and be a
fan and watch some good hockey.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
Okay, get I was thinking about heading up there too,
I mean Montreal, and like seeing all this is gonna
be so great to see these guys back in action
playing for their countries. And I know John Cooper had said,
like every game is like a Game seven in this
because as you guys mentioned, like you gotta win really
especially early on and Patresea, as you know, you've been
in a couple game sevens, especially against Toronto. Let's just

(29:45):
roll it back. We got out. We just you know,
this is the best way. The only way to get
through something is no, the only way to get over
something is to go through it. So in your mind,
like what are your favorite memories of, like destroying the
Toronto make beliefs continuously.

Speaker 6 (30:03):
I mean, it's been like we had some big battles
and every time we played Toronto, like whether like a
lot of times it was in the first round and
people like on paper like all, you know, the Bruins
will win easily, but then it was always really hard series.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
Whether we take like a three to.

Speaker 6 (30:21):
One lead and you know they'd come back or make it.
It was always a game seven. It seemed like, you know,
every time we played Toronto, we had to.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
Go to seven.

Speaker 6 (30:29):
But obviously, if you ask me go my best memories,
it's definitely twenty thirteen. You know, being down four to
one in the third and being able to make a
comeback and win that game in overtime was kind of
out of a Disney movie really, So it's pretty special
to be a part of that, witness that and get
on the run after that all the way to the finals.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
That like memory hunts me forever to say, I don't. Yeah,
it's like a bad Disney movie. It's like I guess
like ja'afar, Like I don't know why.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
Not you know.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
No, But I mean that congratulations to you guys. I
mean well deserved. No, I'm obviously over it. I mean,
not only was it beyond a decade ago, no, but
that was an incredible feat and I think that just
I mean, going into Game sevens against the Leafs, you
gotta have felt like, oh, we we got this. We know,

(31:17):
we know because of this entire fan base that's already
kind of crushed them and doesn't have belief, like I
feels the Bruins always knew they were going to win.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
I don't know if we did.

Speaker 6 (31:25):
I mean, I think we had a lot of respect
for for for the Leaves, and we knew it was
going to be like hard. That being said, like obviously
sometimes you use your experience to propel.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
You for you know, for the future type of thing.

Speaker 6 (31:38):
So I think we we we had the experience and
we knew we've been in game seven's many times before.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
We kind of used that to try to use that
for advantage.

Speaker 6 (31:47):
Anyways, And yeah, so I think we had we we
all against that mean, are.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
You are you actually asking that question?

Speaker 2 (31:56):
That is amazing that he asked you that question.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Wow, you played for a team Canada, That's all I
gotta say.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
Oh that was great.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah even last year. Yeah, last right, last year. Yeah, yeah,
it's consistent.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
And that was also an overtime win, right, yeah, it.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Was game so yeah, yeah, just a little reminder, Julie,
So I got to ask. So I'm I just turned
forty in October.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
Congratulations, thank you, Thank you, Julie.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
And I know you're coming up on forty eighty five
birth here right, How are you feeling and what what's
going on these days? Burgie? Like what are you? You know,
what are you up to? Do you have any plans?
Are you going to be are we going to be
seeing you on the media side? You know what's going
on with what's going on with Patrice berger on?

Speaker 6 (32:49):
Yeah, no, I know it's coming up soon. It's kind
of crazy to think that Don turned forty this year.
But yeah, I mean right now, just hanging out and
try to try to somewhat stay in shape and thinking
your family with four kids at home, so definitely busy,
lots of you know, pickups and drop offs from from
school and keep it up with their activities and whatnot.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
I think that was the goal for me when I.

Speaker 6 (33:13):
First retired, was obviously to heal the body, but also
it was to be spend more time at home, even
more involved in their lives. And that's what I'm trying
to do right now.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
So there's no particular plan right now as far as
like a job or what i want to do.

Speaker 6 (33:27):
I'm still thinking about it, still taking the time, taking
that step back, and then eventually I'll get back into
it and.

Speaker 3 (33:33):
Figure it out. But I'm not sure what, you know,
what that is going to be. Like, you know, I'm not.

Speaker 6 (33:39):
Sure what I want to pursue, and I guess it's
going to come to me. I want to let it
kind of organically come to me and and and figure
it out.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
That makes sense, is I mean coaching? Is there anything
that gravitates towards you right now or you're just kind
of like, I'm just not sure right now.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
Yeah, I'm not sure. I think I would like to.

Speaker 6 (33:57):
You know, hockey is you know, as you know, it's
hard to get away from from from the game when't
even been involved in for for so many years, still
a big passion of mine. So I maybe down the road,
I'd like to maybe get involved, but I just don't
know in what capacity.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
And what level. So I'll figure that out.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
Smart so smart, So PATRICEI just quickly like, since you've
been back and like been home and kind of reintegrating
yourself into like normal people's lives instead of being like
on the road as a superstar hockey player, what's been
maybe like the biggest surprise about do it? Like being dad,
being there, being doing all this like normal people stuff

(34:38):
that you're like, oh, wow, this is difficult or this
is interesting, or I had no idea this is how
this thing went.

Speaker 6 (34:43):
It's more like the fact that like I feel like
I'm I'm like my schedule is pretty open, but then
I'm like always doing something.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
I feel like there's always.

Speaker 6 (34:51):
Something coming up, right, Like so like I felt like, I,
you know, obviously, as you're playing your traveling, you're playing
so many games, you're you get a bunch of like
appearances you have to do and all that stuff, and
like you're and you have a schedule, right, there's the
structure to it.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
For me. Now, it's like it's a little less structured.
But then I'm like, I feel busier than I was
when I was playing, you know what I.

Speaker 6 (35:09):
Mean, Like it's just like in a different way, but
still extremely busy. So that's the one thing that's definitely
an eye opener is how much that's going on at
home and you know, and now taxing it is. I
guess on your time and your schedule.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
I want to ask too. So obviously with Alexandro Vtchkin,
he's what is he eighteen goals now away?

Speaker 3 (35:30):
Right? I think so?

Speaker 2 (35:32):
Yeah, yes, So do you think he's going to break
the record this year? And he's another guy that's coming
up on forty as well, So what do you think
about Obe And do you think he's going to break
the record this year? I'm curious.

Speaker 6 (35:44):
So I was asked the question in October and I said, no,
I said, I don't think he's going to get it
this year. I think it's going to get it. Obviously
I want him to break it, and I wanted to
get it, but next year. And then as soon as
I said that, maybe it was a November anyways, that's
when he like gone on a heater and he didn't stop,
and then he got hurt and he got back, and
he's still on that same heater. He's still scoring on

(36:06):
every game, seems like, so I don't want to change
that for him. So I feel like I'm superstitious. I'm
gonna say no just so that he carries on and
he keeps scoring.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
And I hope he gets it this year.

Speaker 6 (36:18):
But that yeah, I'll say no, say he's going to
get it next year, but hopefully he gets it right now.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
See, I picked him to get it this year, Julie,
what did you think he was going to get this year?

Speaker 3 (36:27):
No?

Speaker 1 (36:27):
No chance, really no. And I also think he probably
heard Patris and was like, that's.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
What I mean, prove that guy wrong.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Yes, but that's like, but that's like ov though. I
think like whenever it's like he sees forty something goals,
he's like, I'm breaking that record this year. Yeah, He's
like I'm doing it.

Speaker 6 (36:45):
He's probably like, let's get it over with now, so
I can just you know, put my feet up after that.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
Exactly exactly. But look, but I mean, but look at
their team though, at the same time, like they have
a chance to go on a deep run this year,
isn't it.

Speaker 6 (36:58):
It's crazy? So no, I hope he gets it, honestly.
I mean, it's been impressive that he's still doing us
at that age and it has never slowed down and incredible.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
Good for him.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Yeah, definitely fun to watch. I of course, we like
to see everyone being able to make history here and beyond.
Patrise thank you so much for joining us here today.
It's been a pleasure getting to know you more. And
we wish you the best of luck in whatever you
decide to do next and we know it will be great.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
Thank you. Thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
Guys Bergie, thank you so much. Man, it was this
was awesome.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
Well that was Patrice Bergeron, and what a to light.
He was just an incredible person, obviously an incredible player.
And that kind of brings us to the fact that
there's a NHL Quarter Century team that fans can vote
on between February twelve to twenty six. We assume most
likely Patrise Bergeron will probably be on it. All NHL
teams have already had their quarter century teams. Now there's

(37:56):
an all NHL team. So Nate, after talking with Patrise Bergon,
we talked to USA, we talked Canada, talked a whole
bunch of stuff. But when we look at the four
Nations coming up, Like, who do you think maybe for USA?
Are you looking forward to seeing on a line together?

Speaker 2 (38:11):
I would love to see Austin Matthews in the middle
and both Kachuks on both others sports. Yeah, I think
I think it has to happen. I mean, you look
at you have both kachuks on the same team and
they're both wingers. Why can't you put them on the
same line and see what happens. I mean, you know
it's gonna be an absolute shit show out there if

(38:33):
they're on the same line, So that that's what I
want to see. And at the same time, you know
they could both make plays. So you have a guy
like Austin Matthews, who you know, But the Kachucks are
going to get in the corners, they're going to dig
up pucks, they're going to finish their check, They're going
to create room for a guy like Austin Matthews. And
I don't know, that could be that could be a
line that would be very very interesting to watch.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
Now, I haven't even thought about that line, and that
line screams just like I'm scared of them now, Like
because Austin Matthews gets in the in the corners too.
He goes in the dirty areas.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
He's well, he's not a small guy. He's a big man.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
He's a big man, and he's a bit of a
heel too. I think like that's the heel line in
a way, mostly because people just don't like Toronto as well,
and they don't like his mustache when he had it.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
But like, and everyone doesn't like playing against the kachuck,
so exactly, imagine, imagine, imagine the booze that Canada the
fans give the Kachuks.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
But then they'd also be like a little bit, you know,
It's like Toronto's booing against Austin Matthews feels like, but
Montreal will have no problem doing that when it's up there.
That is going to be great to see. There's so
much talent, I know, I know Patrice said that he
thinks Canada is gonna win it, but man, Usa is
stacked and the goaltending is stacked, so it's sucks. I mean,

(39:48):
I'm saying the USA though.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
You you're saying Usa right now as a Canada yeahs
a Canada fan.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
Well listen, I also am an American, so I can
I can dipsy doodle lacrosse both sides whereever.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
So you have you have your feet on both sides
right now, or you're not you don't have allegiance to one.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
Well what am I? I actually realize I'm wearing a
sweatshirt that has a very faint Canada on it. It's
from the Olympics whatever, But yeah, I just know. I think.
I think based on talent and like how they're built.
I think USA, But I do like the defense pairings
for Canada and how they pick them because they know
each other. Well, that was that was a good move.

(40:28):
And I don't want to bet against John Cooper that guys,
so weir nice.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
He wins.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
He's a winner when it wins at every level. And
we know that we have another winner that's going to
be joining us here on the podcast after we take
a quick timeout, and that is none other than three
times Super Bowl champion Mark Schlaret, who is also a
big hockey guy. So don't go anywhere, all right. We
are so pleased now to be able to tie in

(40:55):
our energy line with Nayton JSB debut with the Super
Bowl week and for that, we are thrilled to be
able to welcome on three times World GPM, two time
pro bowler and also, of course media connoisseur and Alaskan
to Alaska's We've got Mark Shlearet Akay Stink. Thank you
so much for joining us here on the show today.

Speaker 5 (41:14):
Yeah, it's my pleasure going to be with you guys.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
Being a fellow Alaskan, I was very excited to have
you on today. You don't really ever ever meet too
many people from Alaska, so the fact they get you
on here at the same time is awesome.

Speaker 5 (41:26):
Yeah, you don't.

Speaker 7 (41:27):
I hear it all the time, like I've never met
anybody from Alaska.

Speaker 5 (41:30):
And you get all that time.

Speaker 7 (41:32):
It's funny when I first got when I first got
drafted to play for the Washington Redskins, and I went
to the East Coast, and you know, as naive as
people are about Alaska, like you got all the did
you grow up in an Igloo? Did you much dog Gina?
You get all those questions. So I traveled to the
East Coast. I thought the whole East Coast was New
York City. So when I landed in when I landed

(41:53):
Northern Virginia and there were trees and I mean it
was like a jungle.

Speaker 5 (41:57):
I was like, oh, okay, Well.

Speaker 7 (41:59):
I was just as naive about other parts of the
world as people are about Alaska. So it's great to
be on with you guys. It's always good to catch
up with another guy from Alaska.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
Well, okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna push myself in here.
I'm not from Alaska, but I'm from Canada, which is
like beside Alaska. And yeah, it's kind of the same thing.
It's like everyone thinks it's cold and igloos and ice
and stuff up there. But I do have those same
questions about Alaska, and I just want to know what's
one thing about Alaska that like that other people like
don't know that you guys know, like, what's an Alaska thing?

Speaker 5 (42:30):
Oh, that's that's a great question. Nate, we're in Alastin.
Did you grow up?

Speaker 2 (42:34):
I grew up in Anchorage. I grew up on the
south side, just like you. I went to I went
to Diamond High School though, so the people that don't
know Mark went to Service Robert Service High School and
Julie I'm going to Diamond. They're huge rivals.

Speaker 5 (42:48):
Yes, my wife actually went to Diamond High School.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
So nice.

Speaker 5 (42:53):
Yeah, So yeah, you guys are you guys are connected?

Speaker 2 (42:56):
I think.

Speaker 7 (42:57):
I think one of the things that people don't really
understand is the winter time is not nearly as cold,
Like I get far cold colder in New York City
because of the moisture in the air than I do
in Alaska.

Speaker 5 (43:08):
It's very dry climbing, right plain.

Speaker 7 (43:09):
One thing that people don't realize is how unbelievable the
summertimes are in Alaska, with all the nineteen hours.

Speaker 5 (43:15):
Of daylight and the things that you get involved in.
It is one of the most.

Speaker 7 (43:19):
It You know, people know that it's gorgeous, but you
don't really have a sense of how gorgeous Alaska is
until you actually are up there.

Speaker 5 (43:27):
So it is.

Speaker 7 (43:27):
It is one of the most picturesque places you ever
visit in your entire life.

Speaker 5 (43:32):
If you haven't been there, I suggest you go.

Speaker 1 (43:33):
Yeah, I mean I definitely want to go. Say, everyone
seems to be taking like tours there, like cruises and stuff.
That's like the hot thing to do now ironically, Okay,
let's get into some I mean, I would love to
do a whole podcast on Alaska because I also do
wonder if it's just like ice and you know, whatever, Okay,
yeah right, I'll google it. Okay, So we got Chiefs,

(43:57):
we got Eagles, We're running it back. Patrick Mahomes is
back in the Super Bowl. A lot of people have
a lot of feelings about this. What do you think
about him competing for another Super Bowl?

Speaker 3 (44:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (44:09):
I have tried forever to really hate Patrick Mahomes and
I haven't been able to just muster it up my
you know, from my Denver Bronco days. I've really tried
to hate him, but he's just a likable guy and
your reason, one of the most likable people on the planet.
But I have been able to muster up some hate
for them here recently because of, you know, the whole
narrative of you know, how they get all the calls

(44:30):
and everything goes their way. And then I've gotten a
lot of fights in social media with different fan bases,
the Jets and the Giants and Cincinnati over time, and
several other fan bases.

Speaker 5 (44:42):
I've really found.

Speaker 7 (44:43):
It easy to get under the chief skin. They're very
soft as a just a fan base. They're a very
soft fan base because they hate hearing about their team
getting you know, the calls, so that really bothers them.

Speaker 5 (44:55):
They're a damn good football team.

Speaker 7 (44:56):
They are the best critical moment football team that I've
ever witnessed. You know, it's always one of those things,
and it's well coached, it's smart players, it's all those things.

Speaker 5 (45:07):
But in critical moments across the board, their team just
seems to be able to come up with big plays.

Speaker 7 (45:13):
Whether it's offensively making a big play, you know, creating
an opportunity for a player, whether it's defense on a
key pivotal blitz, you know, making a big play toward
the end of the game, or whether it's special teams
blocking a kick.

Speaker 5 (45:26):
They've done that to win a game. They've done it
in a myriad of different ways.

Speaker 7 (45:30):
And you know, when you continue to do it time
in and time out, it's not officials favoring you, it's
your team just out executes your opponent. And they do
that on a consistent basis, which makes me even you know,
hate them more based.

Speaker 5 (45:44):
Upon my Broncos ties.

Speaker 7 (45:46):
So I am rooting with everything I have against the
Kansas City Chiefs. I hope they lose in dramatic fashion.
They're a damn good football team. They're a damn good
football team, and I respect that.

Speaker 5 (45:58):
Aspect of it.

Speaker 2 (45:59):
Oh wow, that gets me going because you know why.
So I played in Philly, Mark, so you know where
my allegians lands. And I'm an Eagles fan, so I
want to know. I mean, I think and and biasedly,
I think the Eagles are the most complete team. I
think on the offensive side and the defensive side of
the ball. I mean, you you're the expert, but this

(46:19):
is what I think. But I want to know how
how do the Eagles beat the Kansas City Chiefs because
we all want that. Everybody wants that. I know I
want that. Go Berts right.

Speaker 7 (46:32):
You know what's crazy too, because I've been in fights
with the Philly fans too.

Speaker 5 (46:36):
And what's crazy is.

Speaker 7 (46:38):
That America America is actually leaning toward Philadelphia Eagle and
Philadelphi Eagle fans, which is unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (46:46):
As a matter of fact, when my son was a rookie.

Speaker 7 (46:48):
Pitching in the big leagues, he was pitching for the
Arizona Diamondbacks, I jumped in the car.

Speaker 5 (46:52):
I was working at ESPN a the time.

Speaker 7 (46:54):
I jump in a car because he's got a seven
thirty game or whatever, seven o'clock game, and we finish
up taping NFL Live at like one o'clock hafternoon. So
jumping a car or my renal are and I roll
up to Philly's like three and a half hour drive
right and get caught up in traffic. Anyhow, roll in
there in time to watch him warming up the bullpen.
So I walk up to the bullpen and there's this

(47:15):
this father and his like eight year old son just
screaming at my son at the topic belongs f you.

Speaker 5 (47:22):
You know, the little eight year old's got to he's
flipping my son the bird.

Speaker 7 (47:25):
And the guy's like, you know, your mom's a whore,
your sisters are a horse.

Speaker 3 (47:29):
You know.

Speaker 4 (47:30):
And I walk up and he sees me and goes, hey, stink,
will you sign my The same guy who's just calling
my there's no shame because we signed my autograph for me, like,
and it was one of the funniest for me.

Speaker 5 (47:43):
It was hilarious, you know, I just thought it was
it was great.

Speaker 7 (47:46):
And that is you know, your prototypical Philly fan, right,
they'll just get after anybody be like, hey man, this
is great.

Speaker 5 (47:51):
We're connecting here. So I feel you.

Speaker 7 (47:54):
You look at the Philadelphia Eagles top the bottom roster,
Why is they're the best roster in football. I mean
they're like if I went like on a confidence stage
and said, okay, what is my confidence roster position by position,
I would tell you that I think Philly has a
better offensive line. I think they are better at the
wide receiver slash tigh end position as a whole in totality,

(48:17):
right because I think, God, it's a great player that
probably doesn't get a lot of credit. Obviously, Kelsey's you know,
going to be a Hall of Famer. I think receiving wise,
when you talk about AJ Brown and DeVante Smith, I
think they're better overall at that receiver connection. They're running back,
there's no question who's best. It's you know, sa Quon Barklay.
And then I would give all three like defensive line, linebackers,

(48:39):
and secondary to the Philadelphia Eagles, even though they're close.
I think they're a better overall group. So with that said,
you know it's going to come down to executing those
critical moments. It's going to come down to sa Quan
Barklay getting his attempts. Because if he gets the attempts,
there's no running back in football this year that has
rushed for one hundred yards on the Kansas City Chiefs

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Now some of that is because guys didn't get opportunities
because Kansas City has a lead, or you know, you
dwindle away and you make the right play at the
right time, that kind of thing. That and to drive
and you go three and out a couple of times,
and so you quit running the football. But I don't
care who you are. If Safquan Barkley gets eighteen to
twenty four attempts, he's going to break one, you know,
for fifty sixty seventy yards whatever it is. And so

(49:23):
you've got to be able to get your attempts. Even
if you get behind in this game, you still have
to find a way to feature Saquon Barkley. If you
do that, I think you've got a great chance. And
then the second part of that is how can you.

Speaker 5 (49:36):
Create a pass rush on Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 7 (49:38):
And you know I've said this, if Jalen Carter can
get twelve one on ones or they can get one
on ones.

Speaker 5 (49:44):
And that's attacking protection, getting him.

Speaker 7 (49:45):
Locked up with their backup left guard, which is Caliendo like,
that's a mismatch.

Speaker 5 (49:52):
So if you can find enough.

Speaker 7 (49:53):
One on ones for your pass rushers, there's an old
saying in the NFL that one great dB can shut
down one wide receiver, but one great pass rush can
shut down all the wide receivers. And that's what the
Eagles have to do, and they've got the guys up
front to get that done.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
We got to get to the hockey side, now, don't we,
Julie a little bit?

Speaker 1 (50:10):
And we know Mark that you are a hockey guy
because you're you're an APS, You're an ABS fan. We
had you on our NHL show before this, absolutely Danley Cup,
which was great. You had your ABS jersey on Did
you have a did you have a player on your
jersey or no?

Speaker 5 (50:25):
I have me.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
I have me.

Speaker 5 (50:26):
When we won our when we won the first.

Speaker 7 (50:29):
Championship in ninety seven, the Avs invited us all to
a game and they gave us all authentic Avs jerseys
with our names and our numbers from the NFL. So
you know, I've had that jersey since nineteen ninety seven,
since we won well actually ninety eight since we won
that championship. So the ABS were the first one to
bring a major championship in ninety six to our city,

(50:51):
and we all just fell in love with them at
that point, and of course they were easy to fall
in love with Sakik and Forrest Burg and Law and
you know, all the guys that they had, and so
that was a really that was a really cool time
to be in AVS man.

Speaker 5 (51:03):
And obviously what they did a couple of.

Speaker 7 (51:05):
Years ago when of the Stanley Cup was awesome and
to you know, to see that Sandley Cup show up
to our radio station and to be you know, to
be there with that, and it just is such Hockey's
got such cool traditions and and I've always admired one.
I think the players that play hockey are crazy, and
so I've always admired just the absolutely insanity that is

(51:28):
playing hockey. And you know, diving in front of a
hundred on our slapshot, taking one of the teeth like
that doesn't resonate with me. But I've always I've always,
I've always had a lot of respect for the way
guys play and the way those guys, you know, we
we watched the NBA now and guys just don't want
to play hard, and you know, guys taking rest days

(51:48):
and got like you would never see a guy just saying, hey,
I'm gonna tap out of this game because I need uh,
you know, I need some me time like that.

Speaker 5 (51:57):
It just doesn't exist in that sport.

Speaker 7 (51:59):
So it's so foreign to me to just say, hey,
I'm just gonna take this one off.

Speaker 5 (52:03):
I don't feel like playing tonight.

Speaker 3 (52:05):
Man.

Speaker 7 (52:05):
You know, I just played with whatever I had to
play with. And so I have a lot of respect
for guys that play in the National Hockey League caause
I think it's one of the toughest sports in all
professional sports.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
Now, being an ass fan, you see, I know you
probably you're up to date with what's going on, and
you see that they have trade. They trade a big guy,
like a big superstar, Miko Ranton, and what are your
thoughts in the trade.

Speaker 7 (52:27):
I was upset, you know, I was disappointed because he's
one of the great offensive players in hockey, and he is,
you know, he's just a he's a great player and
he's been great for us for several years. And with
that said, though, with that said, you know, I think
there's still a solid squad. They upgraded the goaltending, they
moved on and upgraded that and so you know, the

(52:48):
big key.

Speaker 5 (52:48):
For them really the last couple of years has.

Speaker 7 (52:50):
Been Val and when valas on the ice. They went
about seventy percent of their games when Vallas not on
the ice. There are five hundred teams, so you know,
I look at Ranton and as upset as I am
about him moving on, and I understand he wanted one
of the big time contracts, and you know the nature
of the NHL salary cap, and you know, I get

(53:11):
how all that works. But really the key for the
Avalanche to me is if Falcon come back and val
can keep his.

Speaker 5 (53:18):
Nose clean and get through the injury that.

Speaker 7 (53:21):
He has right now. And you know how hockey is,
it's you know, it's it's very traveling secrecy. Some lower
body that what's going on. But if he can come back, man,
I just I really liked them as a hockey club
even without Randon.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
All Right, Mark, before you before we let you go,
I just got to ask you a quick question about
someone playing in the Super Bowl. So football, football, guy,
who you think would make a good hockey player?

Speaker 5 (53:45):
Gosh in the.

Speaker 7 (53:46):
Super Bowl, Because the first guy I was gonna say
was Mac Hollins that shows up to the stadium barefoot
all the.

Speaker 3 (53:51):
Time for the Buffalo Bills.

Speaker 7 (53:53):
Yeah, I feel like I feel like he's touched enough
to be a hockey player. So that dude is so
who plays like who is a rock them sock them
full back that just takes it, you know, takes one
to the chin all the time. That's neither of these
guys really play with fullbacks.

Speaker 1 (54:12):
Okay, so maybe in the league in general. You said
so Collins, but is there anyone else?

Speaker 7 (54:17):
Well, So, the guy one of my favorite players is
Patrick Record, who was a defensive lineman that moved to
fullback that plays for the Baltimore Ravens. And he's three
hundred and thirteen pounds about six foot four and ripped,
and he just absolutely smashes people, like just kills people.
So I'd love to I don't know that he can skate,
but I'd love to see him being enforced in front

(54:39):
of the goaltender, you know, and getting in in the
anybody who tries to get in there and set up
camp and that in the crease there, that he'd just
be knocking the snot out of people, getting him away
from the goaltender. So that that's the guy that I
would like to I'd like to see it in the
National Hockey League.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
Yeah, well, Pat Maroon couldn't really skate. That much and
he won three Cups, so yeah, kind of same. All
respect for Patron. That's some great stuff. Mark. We really
appreciate you coming on to talk all things super Bowl
and have some fun with the Avs. So enjoy the week.
And uh, I guess like, fly Eagles Fly. Is that
what we're doing here on the show?

Speaker 2 (55:15):
Fly Fly Eagles Fly. Thank you go birds, baby, go
birds man. I'm then you guys take care all right?
Thanks Mark?

Speaker 1 (55:27):
Well, going back to energy line with Nate and JSB.
That was Mark Schlair that joined us, who is not
only such an incredible football mind, but boy is he
a great hockey vide He would make a great NHL
coach and also I think I would like to see
him on skates. He could definitely muck it up out there,
I could say. But he also Nate knows a ton.
We talked about the Migo Rantin and trade. I mean,

(55:49):
what do you think about even just stinks thoughts on
that and his overall general analysis of the Avs.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
His point about the rantin In trade. I really like
he talked about the importance of Valerie Nikushkin and how
he is to their team, and he's right, He's one
hundred percent right. I mean them losing Ranton in Nukushkin
has to be an X factor for them with losing Ranton.
And so when he touched on that, I was like,
he's right. I mean, he was spot on and he

(56:19):
knows his stuff, so it was it was cool to
hear from Mark and his thoughts, especially about the Super Bowl.
I mean, come on, I mean and the Eagles. So
it's great.

Speaker 1 (56:28):
Well, I mean if he had been like, I'm team
Kansas City Chiefs, it would have been probably a little
bit different tone.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
I would have jumped off, like.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
All right, I think actually the connection is over here right.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
Now, see Mark.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
But they're kind of becoming like I don't know, it
feels like Kansas City is becoming like the Patriots in
a way. It's like people just don't want to see
them win anymore, like they're just tired of them. And
like that could be for multiple different reasons. Not I mean,
that's Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady very different quarterbacks. But
I mean, like Patrick Mahomes is getting up there. But
maybe you could say it's like even when Tampa was
going back to the to the Stanley Cup so many times,

(57:02):
it was kind of like was it annoying or was
it not? I can't remember.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
I don't think it's anything like the Chiefs because you know,
with the Chiefs you have all the you know, you
have the Kelsey and Taylor Swift and you have the
Mahomes and all. You know. It's just like it's different
than the Tampa thing.

Speaker 1 (57:17):
Yeah, you'd never have Sailor Swift to go to Tampa Bay.
Lightning came date somebody on Tampa Bay.

Speaker 2 (57:24):
It's a totally different dynamic. But the I mean, it's
all about the Eagles, Julie, it's all about the Okay,
let's be honest here. Okay, it's not about the Chiefs's
about the Eagles.

Speaker 1 (57:33):
Right, It's Eagles versus really insert team. We don't know,
we don't care.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
We just want to see Eagles versus everybody.

Speaker 1 (57:40):
Yeah, Eagles versus everybody. Okay, this is going to be
a fun super Bowl in that case. But with hockey,
we know that this has been a fun first episode,
Nate Postgame Analysis. How do you feel your first podcast went?

Speaker 2 (57:55):
It feels pretty good. I mean to have a couple
of guests that we've had and I mean I feel good.
I mean I felt like it was pretty smooth. I
was having fun. I was, you know, chit chatting, snapping
it back and forth like we were so.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
It's yes and forth.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
So it was good. I had fun, and we have
hopefully many more to go.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
Yeah, definitely. It's great to have you on this side
of the mic, and it's awesome to have everyone listening
here with us. We appreciate you joining us, and we
are going to have so many more guests that are
within the hockey world and beyond. As Nate mentioned, because
you know, hope, we obviously know a lot of people.
So yeah, we're we're pretty big deals over here, slash not.

(58:36):
We've played for a lot of team Slash work for
a lot of different networks. All right, Nate, it has
been a pleasure, and thank you guys for listening to
episode one of our new podcast, Energy Line of Nate
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