00:00There's a headline today in The Athletic that says Brady Kachuk turned his back on Ottawa.
00:09How hostile will his Panthers return be?
00:13I think it's going to be bad tonight, to be honest with you.
00:15I feel like they are going to boo the holy hell out of him.
00:19You know what I hate about that comment?
00:21Go ahead.
00:22That if he wasn't playing well and the fans wanted to run him out of town, that's okay.
00:32But if he's good and he wants out, that sucks.
00:37Right?
00:38And so I'm like, whatever.
00:41I've seen both sides of it.
00:43I remember being called a bum.
00:45Like my first year, my rookie year, I was considered a bust.
00:51Right?
00:52We were 3-13, and I guess I was the closest thing to yelling at.
00:57It was my reason.
00:58You know, my fault.
01:01And then the same people, when I went to the Pro Bowl, were like, so, like, yeah, man, you're going
01:07to get it regardless.
01:08You know, you're going to get it regardless.
01:10Very rarely is a guy say, I want out.
01:13And people go, yeah, we didn't really do nothing to help it.
01:17Miles Garrett, the Browns didn't make a big deal about it.
01:20Right?
01:20The fans.
01:21You know, but those are exceptions to the rule.
01:24Peyton Manning, they're like, we don't need Peyton Manning.
01:27We got Drew Luck.
01:28I mean, Andrew Luck, right?
01:31Right.
01:32Man, remember when they booed Andrew Luck for retiring?
01:35Yeah, they booed him for retiring.
01:36Think about it.
01:37It was a health issue.
01:40So, like, yeah, man, like, what they're going to do to Brady Kachuk, they're going to do regardless.
01:46So, just live your best life.
01:49You know, make the decisions you need to make and move on with your life.
01:53Brady said on his Wingmen podcast yesterday with his brother that if anybody throws an old No. 7 Senators sweater
02:02on the ice, that the Panthers equipment staff is going to retrieve it.
02:06But they're going to collect any of them, and they're going to donate it to the Ottawa Boys and Girls
02:10Club.
02:12So, they're going to give away free Kachuk old sweaters.
02:17Hey, I got to tell you, if I paid for that, listen, I bought a sweatshirt.
02:22There ain't nothing in the world that would make me burn that thing.
02:26Nothing.
02:26Nothing?
02:27Nothing.
02:30And the sweaters cost more.
02:32What if it was a Jimmy Butler jersey?
02:34I wouldn't have bought a Jimmy Butler jersey.
02:36I'm saying if you did.
02:38It'd be in my closet.
02:40I'm not burning.
02:40I'm not just, I'm not, like, first of all, if you that wishy-washy with your fandom,
02:46then maybe you ought to be a little bit better with that.
02:52Yeah, I'm true.
02:53I'm telling you, I have one autographed picture in my life.
02:57One.
03:01So, yeah, I don't know.
03:03Like, it doesn't matter.
03:04That's why as a, I've probably learned more being on this side with how I should have handled situations when
03:15I was playing.
03:16Right?
03:18Like, I would have never given 60%, 70%.
03:22Right?
03:23If that's all I could give, then I'm taking another week.
03:28This has been a very drama-filled exit.
03:33You know, it's one of those things, though, that ever since, and a lot of players had been dealing with
03:36this, but he probably has the worst.
03:38Maybe Helibook now.
03:41Because Helibook, they may not let him back in the locker room.
03:46But Kachuk is more public about it because his brother and him talk a lot of bleep.
03:54And then they have their father.
03:56And, you know, so you had the senator's owner come out and basically be like, well, this has been his
04:01brother and his dad got in his ear and that this has all been in motion and that he wasn't
04:06in it last year.
04:07Mind you, this was a guy, they were trying to win a playoff series last year while his brother was
04:11out.
04:11It was the first time Matthew was sitting there watching his brother in the stands.
04:14Right.
04:15And they were basically implying his heart wasn't in it last year as the captain of the team.
04:20And so there's a lot of, you know, there was a lot that a lot of American players dealt with
04:26last year after the Olympics because it was such a heartbreaking loss for Canada.
04:32And, you know, this was one of them.
04:34This was one of them that felt like this was always kind of a thing, you know, that, oh, he
04:38could jump ship.
04:38But I think a lot of people really thought, oh, there's no way the Panthers are ever going to have
04:41enough to get him to make that happen.
04:44And who would, who would, who would do it?
04:45And now he, he quietly said, no, I'm not resigning here after a couple of years.
04:49Like I want out.
04:50And so that's that, you know, we'll, but I think it's going to be a pretty rough environment tonight.
04:56And there's no doubt that his brother is going to get in a fight with somebody.
04:59Right.
05:00There's like, there's no way he's not going to.
05:03I know.
05:04Like be careful fans.
05:08I would just say, be careful.
05:10You think you being a badass in front of your friends.
05:15Don't run up on somebody and get knocked out.
05:17Yep.
05:18You know what I'm saying?
05:21Like the only person to survive that is the guy that punched Miles Garrett.
05:25And Miles Garrett didn't do nothing.
05:27Because I know a bunch of guys that would have choked him out.
05:32It says this writer, what was this guy's name?
05:36Julian McKenzie.
05:37He writes that they do plan, despite a planned video tribute for Kachuk, the fan atmosphere for his return could
05:44prove to be deafeningly hostile.
05:47Yeah.
05:48I mean, it's like when LeBron came to Miami.
05:51Yep.
05:52Like, as a free agent, I might add, right?
05:56They burned his jersey.
05:57Why?
05:59Right?
06:00If LeBron James sucked, y'all would be like, get him out of here.
06:04So, no.
06:07Oof.
06:09Crazy, man.
06:11Going to be interesting to see what that's like tonight.
06:13The rest of the hell, man.
06:14Look, it's going to be absolutely hostile.
06:18But here's the problem, Adel.
06:23Do you understand?
06:25When you get hostile and volatile towards a Kachuk, it's like watering one of the feet.
06:37What did you say?
06:38What's the animal you don't feed after?
06:40A gremlin?
06:41A gremlin.
06:42It's like giving a gremlin.
06:44Yelling at a Kachuk and cussing at him and booing him is like putting water on a gremlin.
06:49It's like putting fertilizer on a weed.
06:51Yes!
06:52It's just going to grow unbelievably even more.
06:57Yes!
06:57Like, it doesn't.
06:58So, first of all, you have to know who you're messing with.
07:02Like, there's a difference in booing Tua and booing a Kachuk.
07:05Right.
07:06Right?
07:07Like, and a lot of times people don't, they think I'm booing, I'm booing too.
07:11He's going to go out there and score five goals and be like, what, what would you say?
07:15What would you say?
07:16I do think this is an atmosphere that like having family there does help.
07:19You know?
07:20I mean, remember, remember we'd watch the Kachuks, you know, the grandmother there.
07:24Like watching it.
07:25She was so upset.
07:26Don't fight.
07:27Don't fight.
07:29And, yeah, it's going to be, it's going to be, but his brother, Matthew, is going to, I feel like,
07:35I don't know.
07:36I look at him as a spark to dynamite tonight.
07:39Well, because, no.
07:41I just do.
07:42I look at Matthew messing with Brady and getting him all riled up, kind of like you do me, right?
07:50And get him all riled up to where Brady might spend the first five minutes of the game in the
07:58penalty box.
07:59Right?
07:59Just because, like.
08:01It could happen.
08:03And you wonder if, like, the, if anybody on the team is going to feel like a need to throw
08:08hands with him or something like that.
08:09We'll see.
08:10Oh, well, listen.
08:12The one thing I will say.
08:13Because that player is going to be a hero.
08:14If, unless he go out there and get his ass kicked.
08:17That's true.
08:18Because your teammates know how well you can fight.
08:21That's fair.
08:21And so you telling somebody to go out there and take one for the team from Matthew Kachuk, from Matthew
08:27Kachuk, and them players are going to be like, no, Duke can fight.
08:31Like, I'm not, no, absolutely not.
08:35Doesn't also help that Matthew's playing, like, the hottest hockey of his career right now.
08:39So, you know, as soon as he gets the first point, he's going to be like.
08:43Would that be the equivalent to Giannis leaving and then averaging, like, 35 this year?
08:50Right?
08:50You know what I'm saying?
08:51Like, as a fan, I understand that, say, your team struggled the last couple years, and then your star player
09:00wants out.
09:01He gets out, and then the team he goes to, now all of a sudden he balling out.
09:07Man, crazy.
