00:00He got hurt in the playoffs. I had some concern because he was really going good.
00:03He was a big part of our team at the time.
00:05I thought he played a great game again last night.
00:07Was around the net for the goal. I thought on the power play did a great job.
00:10I thought our power play actually really looked good.
00:13Moved the puck really good.
00:15I mean, the goalie made one unbelievable save on Thompson,
00:17and then another tip shot made a great save.
00:19But we broke pressure.
00:21We moved it quick enough to find the right guy at the right time,
00:24and that got us some good opportunities.
00:30Lindy Ruff on Noah Oslin.
00:32Got a tweet from Mike this week that there was a Manning cast this last week,
00:36which must not have been on the original schedule because I put up the original schedule.
00:39It wasn't on the original schedule.
00:41Oh, okay. Sean Payton, Steve Gleeson, and Cooper Manning.
00:43There we go.
00:45For the Katrina anniversary name?
00:47Yes, yeah, the 20th anniversary.
00:48Lindy Ruff there on Noah Oslin.
00:50Oslin, who they gave the umlaut.
00:52Is that an umlaut?
00:53They did, yes.
00:54They're changing jerseys, the names for free, by the way.
00:58You get the umlaut for free?
00:59Well, because I think it's a lot easier than changing a whole nameplate
01:02because they've just got to add two dots above the O.
01:05They don't have to change anything else.
01:07They're doing it right.
01:08And they gave him a new contract.
01:09They did.
01:09I mean, so far, new contract.
01:12Umlaut, he's being treated like a top six center in every game so far.
01:17His line has been the best line since the beginning of training camp,
01:21but really, we care about the regular season here,
01:23and they've been the best line through three regular season games.
01:25So, like, that's going really well.
01:29He's horrible at face-offs, but whatever.
01:32If you're good at everything else, I don't really think this should matter.
01:35He right now is at over 18 minutes a night.
01:38And if you compare that to the other two young guys,
01:41Howlin uses at 14 and Kulik's at 12.
01:43So, Lindy's using him a lot more than the two other young guys.
01:488-0-3-0-5-50.
01:49Dallas tonight.
01:52Remember some stars.
01:53I feel like people could remember some stars.
01:54I don't know.
01:55That game doesn't seem as fun, though, because we're going to start getting into 99.
01:58You're probably right.
01:59You're probably right.
02:01So, you know, get to 3-1.
02:05The division looks good already.
02:08Can we say that?
02:09Is it too early?
02:11No, because we thought it was going to be good going into the season also.
02:15And there's nobody so far that I would say, maybe you would want to say this about Detroit,
02:21that looks like they're just not going to be a player in this.
02:25The other seven teams, I think all of them look like, oh, yeah, they'll be around it.
02:31Montreal's a little bit of a slow start here.
02:33Boston went out to a 2-0 record, and they've lost two straight.
02:37Yep.
02:37You know, the standings.
02:38Florida has a point in every game they've played,
02:41but they obviously lost two guys at the top of their lineup.
02:45So, yeah, I mean, we're three, four games into the season.
02:48Yeah.
02:49The Sabres, you know, one thing that would help me,
02:50I'd mentioned yesterday in the last couple of weeks how I'm going to be nervous.
02:55I just know I'm going to be nervous.
02:57They've only led for 12 minutes.
03:00Yeah.
03:00It was six minutes in Columbus, and then I think six minutes or so –
03:04no, sorry, maybe it was 18 minutes.
03:05I did the math the other day.
03:06But they've not led a lot.
03:07It's been, you know, 180 minutes played,
03:10and they've not had a lead very much at all.
03:14Columbus, they score the first goal.
03:15Then they go down and never see the lead again.
03:18And then against Chicago, it's a come-from-behind win.
03:21And then against Minnesota, it's a come-from-behind win.
03:23They never have the lead until they score the overtime winner.
03:26Right.
03:26So we'd like to see, you know, a nice, fast start,
03:29and let's see how this team plays when defending a lead
03:31because they haven't done that really at all.
03:33Chicago's the only spot, and, you know,
03:35they kind of boat race Chicago like a lot of teams do.
03:38Right.
03:38They should have done that to Chicago.
03:40They didn't have to do that to Minnesota.
03:43Minnesota is a good team.
03:44Like, that's a –
03:45They went as far as you did a year ago.
03:47Like, that's a round-two team with a ton of talent on it.
03:50And I know they were trailing in the game.
03:52Well, that's what I mean.
03:52They're playing from behind the entire –
03:55well, not the entire, but they start the third period in full go mode.
03:59Sure.
04:00And I just wonder –
04:00you know, it's one other thing to scout them on.
04:02What if they're up 2-0?
04:03What do they look like?
04:05Do they go get the third goal, or do they kind of, you know, hang back?
04:08It probably looks different.
04:09But there was a lot of that game that was tied
04:12where Minnesota never really looked like they were that much better than you.
04:14Like, the first period, I wouldn't say that.
04:17You played half the second period pretty much the same way.
04:20And then Tage ties it with 10 minutes to go in the third.
04:24From that point to the end of overtime –
04:26They kept going.
04:27Yeah, they kept going.
04:28So, like, Minnesota had a lot of that game where it was a tied hockey game,
04:32and I wouldn't say they ever really looked better than Buffalo.
04:34So, I do think that's the game, even though they didn't lead at all until the last second,
04:40that's the most impressive one for me so far.
04:42And that's a great goalie in that that you beat, right?
04:44Like, the first two games – Greaves is fine, Soderblom, Chicago, like, whatever.
04:49Like, that's a great goaltender that you just played and were able to beat.
04:57Oh, I had a name I was going to mention right off the top about Dallas tonight.
05:02No, I forget what it was.
05:02For, like, remember some stars?
05:03No, no.
05:05That's on their team?
05:06No.
05:07I'm old now.
05:08This happens.
05:09I told you I hurt myself celebrating the own power goal.
05:13He's forgetting things.
05:14He's injuring himself standing up out of chairs.
05:16It's not a long-term injury, though.
05:18I feel like I'm okay.
05:19Day-to-day?
05:19Yeah.
05:20And pulled, like, a hip flexor jumping out of my seat.
05:22What would your practice designation be?
05:24Limited?
05:24Not even that.
05:26It would say full, but you would be on the report.
05:28Full participant.
05:29No, I received no treatment for this injury.
05:31No, I was good.
05:32I was good to go.
05:33Anyway.
05:34Oh, I know what it was.
05:35It was about Ovechkin.
05:36So he's announced it'll be his final year in the NHL.
05:38Yep.
05:39Which, not a surprise.
05:41He'll get a full-on retirement tour, right?
05:46Now, the night that they are here, that the Capitals are here,
05:49you're going to want them to play, and will there be a tribute and a thank you?
05:52Every building should probably, I mean, the greatest goal scorer of all time is here for
05:58the last time.
05:59Every building should probably play a montage and give them a, hey, how do you do?
06:04I think that's going to happen.
06:05Yeah.
06:06We do that with athletes a lot now, don't we?
06:09Even did Kopitar get that a little bit with the Kings last?
06:13I don't know if they were doing it in every arena.
06:15Maybe.
06:15There were, like, handshakes with him, like, in the last month of the season after every
06:19game, I feel like.
06:20Sure.
06:20Kopitar, due respect to him, is not the figure in the league to an average fan that Ovechkin...
06:26Like, that's what I mean.
06:27Yeah.
06:27If he was getting some of that treatment, and he is not near Ovechkin for star power,
06:32then, yeah, like, so they're here on March 5th.
06:36That's the final time that Washington is in Buffalo.
06:40I don't know, do you do tribute video, or you just put up, like, a congratulations?
06:45Is there, like, a gift from before the, uh...
06:48That's something I've seen, too.
06:50Or, like, they'll give him a gift before, like, a painting, would you do a scoring against
06:56your own team?
06:57Someone gave a painting to somebody at some point.
07:01Who got a painting?
07:01Someone got a painting, and, like, their last trip to a building.
07:04Maybe they could give him the bomber jacket he wore famously, right, way back when, when
07:08he was a kid, because he liked Mulgilney.
07:10That's an unbelievable idea.
07:11Give him that.
07:12They should 100% do that.
07:14Yeah.
07:15Or give him a painting of the picture of him in that bomber jacket as a kid.
07:19A painting of the picture.
07:19Yeah.
07:20This is a painting of you that you could put up in your house and wearing a saber jacket.
07:24They should do something with the saber's jacket picture, though.
07:27That's a great idea.
07:28They should definitely put the picture of him in the saber's jacket on the Jumbotron.
07:31For sure.
07:32And just a thank you of...
07:33Yes.
07:33Yeah, 100%.
07:35You don't even really need to do anything else.
07:37The NHL gave Ovechkin a big painting of him scoring the last goal.
07:41Okay.
07:42That's the painting's origin story.
07:44Okay.
07:45Good, good.
07:45It was a five-by-three-and-a-half-foot oil-on-canvas painting of Ovechkin.
07:51So, that's pretty cool.
07:52Very good.
07:55Have you seen it?
07:55Does it look good?
07:57I should look.
08:00What's the style?
08:01Let's see.
08:02Oil on canvas?
08:03Probably.
08:04That would make sense.
08:04That's what you said on campus.
08:06I don't have art history.
08:08Any sort of chops there.
08:09They're giving him a pretty good shot at winning big his last year.
08:13People really like what they've got.
08:16I see a lot of sneaky, hey, how about the Capitals here?
08:21And they beat the Canes, right?
08:23So.
08:24They beat the Canes, I think, badly, too.
08:27Yeah.
08:27They beat Pittsburgh last night.
08:31Their goalie, they're just kind of good at everything.
08:35And they went and signed.
08:36I mean, they missed the playoffs last year.
08:38Yeah.
08:38And went out in free agency and added really good players.
08:43Did they have the offseason you kind of wish the Sabres had?
08:46They didn't sign the players.
08:48I mean, they signed Tuck.
08:48They didn't sign necessarily the players that I would have loved the Sabres to get,
08:52but the mentality they had in the offseason.
08:56We are just, we missed the playoffs.
08:59We are getting good again this year.
09:01And maybe they did that knowing with Ovechkin's last year,
09:04like, we're going to be willing to overpay on some of this stuff.
09:06They missed the playoffs by four points.
09:08And sure, like, you could say it's Ovechkin won last season.
09:12But, yeah, what is the mindset?
09:14The mindset is, of course, we're going to try to win a lot.
09:17Why wouldn't?
09:18Has anybody told them what their cap situation will look like in six years?
09:22Who cares?
09:23When the cap's $200 million.
09:24It might be by then.
09:26Anyway, 803-0550, your number, if you want to jump in.
09:28Sabres and Stars, tonight at Key Bank Center, Bills and Rams Monday.
09:33No, that's not on WGR, but Sabres and Stars is.
09:35Anyway, we've got one and done.
09:37I also want to talk, we're going to talk conspiracies in our shots of audio.
09:41We've got a good shot of audio, and I've got a follow-up on conspiracies
09:45that I think you're going to enjoy.
09:46And I've found a list of gifts that were given to athletes on their farewell tours.
09:50Love it.
09:51Love it.
09:51We'll get to that here on WGR.
