Welcome everybody to Dap Kopeckhardt Podcast, episode 141 for April 14, 2000s, and 23.

I'm your host, A. Schwartz, alongside producer extraordinaireinaire, Roscoe P. Coulter. Hey there.

Eric Chan in the lovely Colonna BC. Hello, it is lovely here. It's even lovelier now that my

kids aren't sick anymore and I'm not sick. I apologize if I continue to hack up a lung on the show,

I still kind of sound like a pack-a a day smoker coughing at night. But all as well, looking forward to getting out of the winter doldrums. And Daniel Durratton, Daniel Ningrand. Fuck a must. I'm tripping on everything. Daniel DeGran. I win Las Vegas. Home of the Las Vegas Golden Knights, who will be hosting a playoff series. I believe you called this, right? Daniel, I think he's going to win the Pacific. Or no, you said they're going to win the West. You said, well, here's what happened. When they lost their first three goalies and then Mark Stone, I said, ah, ah, now they're going to crush because they have like a really tough schedule in the second half and they're going to win all the games, right? I'm on record. And if anybody comes at you with some tweets that say I, say otherwise, those, I promise you. Those are chat, GPT, deep fake AI generated bullshit. It's not, it's fake news.

It wasn't me. But I saw you on the counter. Wasn't me. And I saw you on the sofa. Wasn't me. I even got it on camera. Wasn't me. No, you know, the new world, AI, fake news. I called it from the start. Vegas win the Western Conference. Book it. you said Aidan Hill was going to be the number one goalie.

It was for a Conference. Book it. You said Aidan Hill was going to be the number one goalie.

It was for a while. Hold on. He was. That part was true. That part was true. He was for a while. He was for L's the hells he got hurt. Are you playing in gold for them? That's the question. Are you playing in gold for them in game what? I'll tell you what, if I played in gold for them, or me or any one of us, we would look better than we would on any other team.

Because Bruce Cassidy, who's the coach, for them in game one? I'll tell you what. If I played in gold for them or me or any one of us,

we would look better than we would on any other team. Because Bruce Cassidy, who's the coach, our biggest gold knights, one of the things he does well is he really protects his goalies, right? So everybody who, you know, plugs into this system looks good, unless you're Jonathan Quick, you know, he did for a couple games, but, you know, couldn't act it.

The concern is when you play a defensive system like that, right?

It comes at the cost of what? Scoring. What is Vegas' problem in the last three, four years in the playoffs? Scoring. The game changes. It slows down. There's less transition. So that'll be the big concern. like to protect bossau wasa-Bausfant, to protect Lauren Boussaint,

how much defense do you have to do to give up and therefore words, you know?

That way.

You got career emergency backup Lauren Bressois starting at, and you're playing probably one of the best three goalies in the NHL in Hellebook.

It'll be interesting series.

We're going to get to some of that later.

Let's skip the hockey.

Let's get rid of some stuff.

First off, sad notes, old school multi-table tournaments, online and live player, Thayer Razmussen passed away.

And Thayer was one of the first guys, if you think back to 2 plus 2 back in the day when 2 plus 2 kicked off and it became sort of the place to go and talk strategy and form a

community.

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