Hughes & Skinner, why some teams get it and others don't.
Dropping the Gloves
The Nation Network
4.8 • 755 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
I do a dive into the trades this past week and talk about why some GM's understand what it takes and others seem to always miss the mark. I touch on the plight of the Buffalo Sabres and a few other things.
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| 0:00.0 | Good |
| 0:02.0 | Good morning, |
| 0:03.0 | Good morning, everybody, |
| 0:06.0 | Good morning, everybody, welcome to to dropping the gloves with John Scott. |
| 0:23.9 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome to another episode of Dropping the Gloves. |
| 0:27.6 | I am John Scott. |
| 0:30.7 | Host of this show, Dropping the Gloves. |
| 0:35.2 | Thank you for joining us today at December 18th, 2025. |
| 0:37.4 | We are flying towards Christmas. I hope you guys are getting ready for the festive seasons. I know I am getting very excited. The kids are getting super amped up for Christmas. We just had a birthday last week. My other daughter was born December 24th. So we got to get through that, navigate that situation. And then it is on to Christmas. |
| 0:56.5 | Very, very exciting. We just got our tree this past week. As you all know, I just built the new house. |
| 1:03.1 | Well, you might not know, but I did. And we got big ceilings in the living room. Maybe I'll post a |
| 1:07.9 | picture to Instagram. But I kept promising my kids |
| 1:11.8 | for the last three, four, five years because we were living in a small little shack. All 10 of us, |
| 1:19.3 | I should say nine. I don't think we had had Marie just yet. Well, I guess she was there for a little |
| 1:25.2 | bit, but it was about a 1,400 square foot house, which is a good size. |
| 1:29.5 | But when you jam 10 people in there and there was only one shower and two toilets and one toilet I couldn't even use because it was an A frame and the pitch of the roof was just I would have to literally go in on my knees and try to use that toilet. |
| 2:01.3 | It was the trying time for everybody involved. So going into this new house, I would always throw up promises. Like, oh, girls, guess what? I'm going to do this at the new house. You're going to get rollerblades. You're going to get this. We're going to go get a hockey rink. We're going to do this then inevitably it came to christmas time and at the little house we had very short ceiling so the tree heights were |
| 2:06.1 | always six feet tall like i was taller than the tree most years just because our ceiling heights were not |
| 2:11.7 | very grandeur and in the new house we got some vaulted ceilings in the living room and i said we're |
| 2:17.3 | going to go for a big ass tree. And sure enough, this is our first Christmas in the house. And we got a 16 footer in there. And we went to Christmas tree shopping. And we found this nice place up in Northport, Michigan, some great, you know, gentlemanly old guy. He's just selling some trees on his property and out |
| 2:34.6 | a Christmas tree farm. So I went out, chainsaw in hand and cut this bad boy down, threw it on |
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