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April 17, 2025 12 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, So last night the Columbus Blue Jackets eliminated
from the playoffs. It took eighty one games. And by
the way, this is a team that the pundits at
the beginning of this season had in the last five
spots come this time this year for this season. Well,
clearly that was not the case. And so the final

(00:22):
game of the season is tonight at nature Wide Arena
versus the Islanders, and as of yesterday that game for
tonight was sold out. So I exchanged one text with
the radio voice for the Columbus Blue Jackets, Bob mcgalligan
last night, and it was after Montreal slammed the door

(00:43):
and they won four two and overtime, not overtime in regulation,
good lord. And so yeah, I ended up finding the
game on at like, I don't know, halfway through the
second period, so I was watching it. It was tied
for quite a while and so on. So let's bring
him in the radio voice for the Columbus Blue Jackets,

(01:04):
Bob mcgelligan, and h Bob, welcome to the show. Your
thoughts on.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Everything had disappointing my thoughts on everything. Yeah, and this
is what happens when you don't control your own destiny,
and you have to rely on other people in any
facet of life. Don't ever rely upon other people. You
can't do it yourself. Screw them or they'll screw you.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah, that's pretty accurate, I think. I mean a lot
of people now are going, Man, we always say this,
and it seems like it's true and well a lot
of sports, but especially in hockey, you know one or
two games, you know, they win one or two games
along the way, and this is a different outcome given

(01:45):
everything plays out the way that it just played out. So, man,
missed it by that much, as they say, I mean,
so dagon close and correct me if I'm wrong here.
But was it if the Jackets would have pulled this off,
If Montreal would have lost last night and then the
Jackets would have won tonight and they went on into

(02:06):
the playoffs, it would have been the first time in
NHL history to come back from what was it like,
down ten points or twelve point something like that.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah, yeah, it would have been the first time to
erase the deficit that they were in, or for Montreal
to for a team to blow up lead with the
six point leader with three games left or something like that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, you know, when you since you've had a night
to sleep on it, do you feel any better today
than you did last night?

Speaker 3 (02:35):
I can tell you the answer to that is no.
I can hear that. He's Bob. I'm feeling real.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
I had the opportunity to go to work today the
face what is arguably would have been arguably the biggest
game in the history of this franchise in twenty five years. Instead,
I'm going to watch the Blue Jackets play the Islanders
and then it's over for six months. So no, I
don't feel any better about it. I'm you know, there's

(03:02):
not that I could have done to change it. But
you know that's frustrating in its own right. But it's no,
I don't Why would I feel good.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
About it today?

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Oh I didn't say you feel good? I just said
you know better than you did last night?

Speaker 2 (03:13):
And you know no, well, yeah, last night I was
screaming expletives and shutting television off with every Montreal goal.
So yeah, I guess better than that.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, I still hope it's packed in there tomorrow night.
I mean you know this, Yeah, today it was. It
was a disappointing conclusion, but I'm proud of that. I'm
proud of them forgetting this close. I wish there was
one more.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Well, that's where I was going. That's where I was
going with him. I was going to say, you know,
is it too soon? And I know management and the
players and all of that, I don't know. You know
these guys so well, Bob that do they are there?
Moral victories for some yes, for some no? And I
don't know who's who with regard to any kind of

(03:53):
victories or the positivity that you take away from this.
But I think the farther we get from the ending
this eighty seven second game tonight and then we have
some time time heals all wounds, as they say. But
I think what will happen is a lot of positives
will be taken from this season. There's no question about that,
because there's a lot to pull away from this. Just

(04:15):
off the top of my head, and you know, I
have a small brain. The Stadium series this year was
historic for the Jackets, and then to do what they
did as far as you know, beating Detroit like that
twice and you know there and then here, I mean
just stuff like that if you can do and then
I don't know, it's too early to start talking about
who's gonna be back and who's this and who's that.

(04:36):
I just feel like the future is bright for the
Jackets right now, and I love what Dean Evison coach
Everson has done with regard to the the locker room
and everything that the Jackets are Now.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
It'll get better, Yeah, it'll be better tomorrow. Yes, there's
lessons that have been learned, and this is going to
go a long way and that stuff. There's no question
about that. I mean, this is this is an experience
they had to go through. It just I think just
it hurts so much ago to the last day, you know,
a week or so ago, when we were talking and

(05:12):
they were dead in the water, I was ready. I'm like,
you know what I told Zach Wrenski, I said, you
know what, it's been a great season. I love watching
you guys. It just sucks at it's ending this way
where now you just have totally fallen apart, and he goes, yeah,
I agree with you, and then they get back in it.
So you know, it's that's what's hard because you're right there,
You're right there to the very end. And and what's

(05:34):
even worse than that, I think if they get in
they make noise. And I know Montreal feels that way too.
I don't. I don't feel that way about Montreal. I
think Washington beats them, but I think the Blue Jackets
could have taken the capitals. So he you know, but
who knows, and we'll never know. But it's just yeah,
it's the raw motion of the day, and it'll things
will change, and tomorrow they'll have their exit interviews and

(05:56):
Don Woodell will talk and Dan Everson will talk, and
they will talk about all of those things that you
just said about going in the right direction and having
the right personnel and needing to get more personnel and
blah blah blah blah blah. But that's tomorrow. This is today,
and today stinks.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah, Bob, Bob, what do you do with yourself for
the next six months?

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Now?

Speaker 3 (06:14):
I mean you won't be you won't be on doing
your games. What what occupies your life when you're not
doing the Blue Jacket stuff?

Speaker 2 (06:20):
I hibernate for six months.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Really, did you see Vince Vaughn in Wedding and Wedding Crashers?
That's he's Vince vaugh He's eating cereal in a robe
like no, shall oh, whoops, that was Will Ferrell. Sorry,
that's it. Sorry, whoops, I screwed it up. But you
know what, you get the.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
Gest what I was just trying to get. I look
forward to his next six months of doing something that
maybe makes him happy, that he just enjoys doing. So
I feel I'm I'm being sincere with you. I feel
bad for you right now because I hear the disappointment
in your voice, and you're such a lively guy and
I've enjoyed listening to what you do, and it just
it makes me feel bad that you're so down about this.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Well, I'll be at Huntington Park soon Collum baseball at
a much slower pace than than I'm used to going so.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
And I laughed, because slower paces, that's generous. I mean,
it's just like compared to what you do, You're gonna
have to probably have an ivy of coffee, you know,
to stay with it, man, because now.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
That is much.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
I literally one time when I was in Syracuse, we
were playing a series against the Wolkesbury's Grant and Penguins,
and it was Game five. It was a deciding game,
and I knew that we might you know, you could
possibly lose that game. And either way, there was no
game the next day, and I was doing baseball as
well at the time, so this is when they were
crossing over. But I rode the bus with the hockey

(07:50):
team to Wilkesbury because I was afraid if we lose
that game, it'll be the last go around with the boys,
and you want that one last trip home. And unfortunately
that's what happened. We lost, and I drove all the way,
rode the bus all the way back home. Was back
at the baseball stadium the next morning at eight o'clock
to get on a bus and go to Scranton, which
is like fifteen minutes from Wooksburg. So and h and

(08:10):
I remember our head coach, carry Agnew at the time
called me or sent me a text or I don't
know how much were you texting back then, I'm not sure,
but either way the message was not the same as
you are now. Do you go from doing hockey last
night to doing this? Here comes a three to one pitch?

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Yet? All for so, I never heard you do the
Clippers games, but I'm telling you, I've got a picture
of Bob Youuger in my mind right now. Now he
just he's that. That's the the image that you have
created just from the time I've had a chance to.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Talk to you. You know what, Chuck, it's kind of
relaxing to go over there because it's you know, I
work with Ryan Mitchell, who's a good friend, and I
like a lot, and I get to be the number
two guy. I don't have to be the lead guy.
And you know, I'm like you working with Blazer. That's
got to be maddening for you, but for me, it
ye jacket, but uh yeah, I'll do that. There'll be

(09:04):
blue jacket stuf throughout the course of the summer.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
And do you do you do you have any migelegate
for the Clippers like flap tacks on affairs or kJ
all day.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Do you have any of those for the c on
the home run baby?

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Okay, yeah, that's pretty much it. I don't know, it
all depends what you're feeling or whatever.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
I mean.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
I mean, Juan Brito's back this year playing second base.
I like when he hits home runs if it's Miami
because I can say going going wan you know.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
Okay, all right, what's going on? I got you one?

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Uh one last thing about tonight and the Jackets in
the eighty second game and the final one and it's
home ice and all that. Do the gut because this,
to me would be and and you might be completely
obos in the way you think of this. It feels
to me like this would be the hardest for them
to go out and leave it all on the ice tonight.
But do they make an e is it an exclamation point?

(09:58):
And do they send the Island packing with a loss?
And you know, I mean, are there thoughts of are
there conversations about you know, for Johnny and I don't
know any of that stuff.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
No, it's going to be a it's gonna be a
regular game. They're going to go out and try to win.
I know that they know the building is going to
be packed tonight and they want to have a good
showing in front of the home fans one more time.
The Islanders are notoriously horrible team to watch. They're terrible,
boring the way they play, which is always a it's
it's always a challenge to play against them. And they're

(10:32):
still going to be picked off about what happened last
time that the team's played, where that goaltender interference call
took away the goal in the third period with nine
seconds left, which had that, had that remained the Blue Jackets,
we would I would see it's ticking off today. I
would have been over this three days ago.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
If if I remember right, Elvis took a stick to
the face earlier in that game, which basically somewhere like
actually estimating that that might be why there was kind
of a a.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Lot player took a stick in the face and was
broken open and should have been a four minute power
play from Montreal last night, but it wasn't too so
we could have this conversation all day.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Well, no, that's what I'm saying, Like the Islanders can
just they can put that in their pipe and smoke it.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, well they're just again, that's just the way they play.
Look Patrick Laws, their head coach. He's not gonna want
to lose tonight the last game. But there I hate
the Islanders. I just hate the way they play. It's
so boring. It'll get me ready for baseball.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
Actually it'll slowly right down. Well, uh, we'll have a
good have a good game tonight, man final one. Leave
it all on the mic, as they say, or I
don't know if they say that.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
Because then somebody's going to clean that up.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
Now, we got to go to Clippers games to annoy
him sometimes.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Look, there's there's not enough high price club seating there
for Lazers.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Yeah, oh, would you knock it off with that? I'm
I know what's No, we're going to end up up
there with him. Watch, we'll go up. We'll go up
and hang with him up there. He knows, he knows
everybody there's security. I don't stand a chance.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
I'm just telling you, no, we'll see, we'll see Bob
a lot. He's going to be around.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
I'm a bugg him. He's gonna have to come and
hang with us here in the studio just for no
reason whatsoever, just to come in and and shenanigans, because
that's what he's good at.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
So are you going to I am not.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
I was unable to land tickets.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
Do you have any non? God damn all right.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
I came to the game to the manager of the
Louisville Bats. Okay, so there you go there.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
That's good though, That's as good as any I suppose.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
But we'll be we'll be listening and watching man tonight
for sure.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
Everybody.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Bob mcgalligan, who is the radio voice for the Columbis
Blue Jackets. Thanks Bob, appreciate you man. Fantastic season, Thanks.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Brother, Thanks all right, all right, there he goes.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
All right.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
I feel so bad. I know, I know,
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