Good evening. You are listening to a short-handed three moves ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zackney.

Joining me tonight is my regular partner on the penalty kill, Troy Goodfellow. Troy, welcome to the show.

I'm glad to be here. Did you see that injury with a cook, by the way, the Achilles tendon slice?

I did. It looks, oh God. Don't get me started on Matt Cook.

Yeah, it's like the stuff of nightmares.

But, yeah. All right. We're just going to set that aside.

Okay, I've been dying to ask you all day.

Okay.

Do you think it was just hockey as hockey shit happens, or do you think there was intent?

I think it's just cook being. I think it's accidental, but Cook's such a very careless player.

If it was going to happen to anybody, it would be him.

And he's not somebody you tend to give the benefit of the doubt in these situations.

I think it was accidental, but I think the senator's GM is kind of right that people like Matt Cook have had five suspensions, you've got to

wonder why they're still in the league. Yeah, that's, no, I got to agree there. I sort of feel

the same way about a guy like Rafi Torres, right? Yeah. Where it's just like, you know, stuff keeps

happening around these guys because they're kind of reckless and they're edge players. And when

you play on the edge you know something bad's

going to happen uh so tonight we're going to be talking about the cold war and the uh challenges

that poses for game designers uh that's a topic that's been on my mind since uh the paradox con in rakeyuk

where i saw east versus west a hearts of iron game and i had a chance to ask a lot of questions

about its approach to the greatest war

never fought.

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