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I hate bullies.

I hate injustice.

You hate bullies? Yeah.

But people thought you were a bully.

Right.

But I think that I can go, you know what? Why was I, why do I hate that? I was always the smallest kid.

I mean, the guys now, they're huge.

Mm-hmm.

He, he...

Now, it's tough to do that for 10, 12 years straight, and obviously Cooch is gonna get old at some point, and Hedman's had b- had some issues and got banged up a little bit.

They're all older, Brayden Point's older.

But like, I want the turnover to happen now, and I need a generational player every four to five years.

If you're not finding that, then what, what are you doing? What are you doing? You're, you're, you're waiting around going, "All right, we got a franchise goalie.

We got, we got nine years." Like, no, you have two years.

Okay

Yeah.

Somebody the other day was telling me, "Oh my God, Will Cooley." I said, "Will Cooley? Will Cooley plays one out of every five games." If I had Will Cooley's size and, and his skill level, I'm not interested in guys that show up every once in a while.

I want you every single night.

I was talking to Brandon Press this morning.

I was watching an old game.

Brandon Press fought twice in Philly in the first period.

Second fight was against Wayne Simmons, and he just beat the brakes off of him.

Hmm

to ask, is there ever a shot, a thought like as an opponent to, uh, I'm going to show this hotshot young kid, like what's it like to be in the pros?

Yeah, I think, uh, I think I can remember.

I took a run at Darren McCarty.

my first training camp.

And I came back to the bench and I remember Joey Kosher saying to me, you better tighten your skates there, kid, because that was probably the dumbest thing you could ever do.

And Mac came back and, you know, he let me have it.

He really let me have it.

What is a day like on the set for that? Because it seems like it potentially could be the longest day ever, but also

you.

I was thinking it's better to ask forgiveness afterwards when you do something that's technically not against the rules.

So going into that, What I did was actually totally legal.

They had to change the rule that night, which is also a crazy thing because really you're not allowed to do that.

You have to go to the board of governors meeting in the summer and everybody has to sign off on it.

I was thinking- First of all, how did you come up with that? Well, it was a split second.

I came off the bench- Brodeur, one of the greatest goalies of all time, so wily, such a goalie that understands feel and everything around him.

bag.

[laughs]

I want all that gambling money.

I want the money.

I want pouches.

I want it all, gentlemen.

Okay? I, I look at the landscape, I see the whole, uh, the whole space.

Everybody's getting rich off the gambling money.

Yeah.

[laughs]

You know? The, the game has become so analytical, right? We all wanna get in these bridge deals before...

I said yesterday, what's wrong with an offer sheet? Why, why? I would welcome an offer sheet.

Four first round picks, five first round picks, and my scouting staff...

See, this is what's wrong with everything, is that the system is broken, and these scouting staffs, it's like the great Moneyball scene when Brad Pitt, Billy Beane's sitting there, and these guys are like, "Well, he's, he's, he...

We're checking the five boxes." No, you need your scouting staff to be your samurai sword, and you need to stop worrying about how to build your teams through either free agency or signing away and locking up guys 22 years old.

You're signing them to an eight-year deal.

Can you try put yourself in the shoes of a, you know, let's call it everyday player in Winnipeg, a guy who's playing in the middle six, and you're sitting here going into camp being like, "Oh, our star goalie wants to stay home"?

Okay.

Uh, I have a neighbor here in Los Angeles, Laurel Canyon.

I am an actor now.

I used to be a hockey player.

And I was on set working on a new show, a Netflix show called The Night Agent.

I'm redoing my deck, okay? And I have a neighbor that I haven't spoken to really ever.

[laughs]

It Wasn't Me.

How'd you get this role? How'd you prepare for this role? Why are you in all of Christopher Nolan's movies and you have speaking lines and you're a big time actor now? How? Well, as of today,

I'm an unemployed actor.

So, you know.

Wait, what? Well, as of today, I'm an unemployed actor.

Like I don't have a job today.

Can you take unemployment? No, no.

I mean, in the sense that I'll have a job by Friday, I hope.

be jacked for the role.

Yeah.

So they're starting to get a little...

But, uh, Bernthal followed me on a take, and my whole thing was, like, I was always on the back.

I would come up on the end, partly 'cause I was, you know, buffering the civilians and the background extras and the stunt guys and, like, that was my own war that I was fighting back there.

So Jon decides to follow me one take, and Chris, at the end of the take's like, uh, uh, "Jon, you can't follow Sean, okay? He's always hiding from the camera.

If you wanna be in the movie, I need you here.

I need you in this area," which was incredible because then Jon's like...

Like, anything else that really sticks out? The different landscapes and places that you got to travel, maybe for the first time.

Oof.

Oh.

[laughs] And let's just talk about an atmosphere, okay? I get to the Kings game, it's like a regular season game.

There's no vibe outside the arena.

There's no activities.

There's nothing.

All right? These Buffalo guys, the, the, the rollerblade crew, they went into Boston, [laughs] enemy territory.

Not on the ice.

Yeah.

Anyways, I thought that I tore my abdominals.

I got a Toradol shot.

Uh, it was my second.

I finished the game, and after the game I got into a cold tub.

And I got into the cold tub, and all of a sudden I felt like I got stabbed in the shoulder.

And shout out Doc Feldman, Andrew Feldman.

This turned out a nice run.

So good.

And I, I said, "Yeah, I'm gonna do it," and I just went directly in front of him.

And I have the luxury of seeing his eyes, that no one else could see.

And this guy, multiple Stanley Cups.

And I just said, "Fuck, if I put my hand in front of his face, and every time he moves somewhere, my hand moves with it [laughs], I've just solved the riddle of 100 years of this game," which is trying to break a goalie's eye line.

Yeah.

Anyways, I thought that I tore my abdominals.

I got a Toradol shot.

Yeah.

Till the start of the puck drop.

And then because my idea was the guys are a little we got to weather the storm in Montreal.

The first five minutes, 10 minutes, they come hard.

got to make sure that bring it all on me yeah bring it all on me and let everybody be comfortable and I want yogs to have space and whoever else so that and then at some point during the game maybe we're gonna be in a tight game maybe we're gonna be losing and we need a little You know what I mean? And then you send me out there and...

So sick.

I'm going to try and change the momentum.

You're writing fucking books.

(laughs)

This is one of the hottest couples in sports right now, okay? Say what you will about Travis and Taylor, but they're on the older side.

We're looking at them walking down the aisle, which is beautiful, but we're about to see two young professionals at the top of their game...

Not even at the top of their game, just coming into, like, super stardom, get to go on a run together, and I just said to Kevin, "I think that I might go full heel and become a New Jersey Devils fan."

Whoa.

Because if, because if Kate ...

I- if Tate McRae is gonna be in the stands watching Jack Hughes, you know, uh, in the Winter Classic or whatever special game I'm sure they're playing in, or just in The Rock in Newark, New Jersey, I'm in.

And not only that, will we see Tate McRae in Milan at the Olympics cheering on Jack Hughes wearing Team USA merch even though she's Canadian and should be cheering for Team Canada? But she gets a pass.

Yes.

It was incredible.

It was incredible.

And one story in particular that stuck with me.

Do you know, Chelly's just sitting beside me in the sauna.

We're in the, uh, Motor City Casino, it's, like, I don't know, it's in the morning, okay? And he's, like, wiping sweat off his forehead and he goes, "You know Gary Bettman got me fired from ESPN." I said, "No.

(laughs) I didn't know that.

Oh.

So do you have any genius ideas, Avs, as to how they can equal this out?

Well yeah, I'll tell you this.

Uh, traditionally, you would say that New York and LA had an advantage, because players wanted to play in those cities.

Both have the s- the highest state tax probably out of all the states.

So, uh, I think it's a seasonal thing.

I think, you know, Florida has been great with two different teams, and I think that that's come up.

Dallas obviously hasn't got over the hump, and they don't have state tax.

What about, what about taking it in the hoop? What about taking it in the hoop with a strap-on? Is, do you think that's coming like the second, third book or something? Or...