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32 Thoughts: The Podcast

Backes to the Future

32 Thoughts: The Podcast

Sportsnet

Hockey, Sports

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

David Backes has played for 3 teams (St. Louis, Boston and Anaheim) during his 15-year NHL career. He joined Jeff and Elliotte on the podcast (52:30) to talk about the celebration that took place on Wednesday night in St. Louis, what it was like to learn from veterans like Bill Guerin, Dallas Drake, Doug Weight and Keith Tkachuk when he joined the league, his rookie dinner, fighting Team Canada players ahead of the 2010 Olympics, being a buffer between the players and Ken Hitchcock, his work with dogs in the St. Louis community, and the player that brought the most out of him. The guys also chat about the changes in the New York with Jeff Gorton and John Davidson being fired (25:20), James Dolan’s involvement in the entire situation, what’s on Chris Drury’s to-do-list this summer, the Tom Wilson fine, and the response by the New York Rangers on Wednesday night (00:10). Music Outro: River Jensen – Passion Ride Listen to the full single here! This podcast is produced and sound designed by Amil Delic, and hosted by Jeff Marek and Elliotte Friedman. Audio Credits: 104.5 The Team ESPN Radio, Bally Sports Midwest, Comcast SportsNet, Fox Sports Midwest and NBC Sports. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Sports & Media or any affiliates.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh, please, no, listen, I'm a long guy too, I understand.

0:04.4

I get it.

0:05.4

I respect the dedication to, uh, to the grass.

0:09.3

Okay, here we go, coming down in three, two, uh, Elliot, I want to get to the entire situation

0:14.9

with the New York Rangers, what happened with John Davidson, what happened with Jeff

0:18.0

Gordon, what's happening now with Chris Jury, what's happening with James Dolan, what's

0:22.0

happening with NHL fines, but first, I want you to put your phone down.

0:29.4

And I want you to close your eyes and just think about this scenario that I'm going to

0:35.6

present to you, okay?

0:38.0

I want you to imagine it's a beautiful afternoon of deep summer, it's lovely day, little

0:44.4

breeze in the air, the sun is out, you're having a nice little sit on a park bench.

0:50.8

And you say to yourself, hmm, I'm thirsty, I'm going to walk over to that water fountain

0:55.7

and have a drink of water.

0:58.4

And as you stand up, you put your wallet and your car keys on the bench and you go

1:04.6

and you have a drink.

1:06.0

Oh, it's refreshing, delightful, it's a hot day, you come back, well, refresh your

1:10.6

boat to sit down and you realize the keys in your wallet are gone.

1:15.9

Now, in this scenario, two things have happened.

1:21.3

One, it's wrong that your keys in wallet were stolen and as a society, we should look

1:28.3

upon that act and say, that's wrong, but I think at the same time, too, as a society,

1:35.5

we should probably look at Elliott Friedman and say, what the hell were you thinking?

1:41.8

Sometimes there are just situations in life and in sports when two things can be right.

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