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Spittin' Chiclets Episode 261: Featuring Brian Burke

Spittin Chiclets

Barstool Sports

Sports, Hockey

4.819.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

On Monday’s episode of Spittin’ Chiclets the guys are joined by Brian Burke. Burkie joined (28:34) the guys while they were in Toronto a few weeks back to discuss his career, the Kevin Lowe fight, the draft process for GMs, and a ton more. Before Burkie joins, the guys open the podcast with some heartbreaking news that Colby Cave of the Edmonton Oilers passed away. The guys also talk about the Easter Bunny, Whit’s first playoff game, SNL, and more.


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0:00.0

Hey, spit and checklets, listeners. You can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube.

0:05.9

Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music.

0:30.0

Hello, everybody. Welcome to episode 261 of spit and checklets, presented by Pink Whitney from our friends over at New

0:40.3

Amsterdam Botter here in the Boston Sports Podcast family. We'll say hi to the boys in a second.

0:46.1

This is a tough episode to start off. This is the awful kind of news we never want to bring to people, but I'm sure

0:53.8

everybody is aware that Colby Cave, a forward in the Edmonds and Oilers organization, passed away Friday night after

1:00.8

suffering a brain bleed earlier in the week. He was then a medically induced coma apparently never woke up Tuesday morning.

1:08.1

Doctors removed a colloid cyst from his brain to reduce swelling and his wife had posted a few Instagram

1:15.3

posts basically asking for prayers and that they needed a miracle. And

1:19.9

unfortunately we all woke up to the new Saturday. Just a gut punch to anybody connected to hockey in any way.

1:27.2

25-year-old guy cut down the prime and then when you learn about his story and undrafted kid who

1:32.0

who everybody loved and he battled and battled and he scored his first goal at the brunes last year.

1:36.1

And you know you watch that clip and you get reduced to tears because no one how to play it out.

1:42.0

We're all in mourning here. I guess I will go to wit first. I don't know if you're reached out to anybody

1:47.4

that talked to anybody who might have known him. Yes, all right. That was very well said. Everyone's just

1:53.0

heartbroken and you wake up and you see that. It's just shocked. So you want to say you know thoughts and

1:59.6

prayers and you're just thinking so much of his wife and his family. And it just makes no sense. That's

2:08.0

right. I mean the guy is a machine. Healthy is healthy is can be fantastic athlete. I talk to who

2:16.4

did I talk to. Wags. Chris Wagner on the brunes. As everyone else is just completely shocked and

2:23.6

heartbroken and then he said he was the best kid. He said he never complained one time.

2:30.0

And so you know like just always had a smile on his face and you think of you know what could

2:37.6

have been. And it's just it's a brutal thing. And hockey is like such a strong community. And it's

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