Matvei Michkov's Shape & Travis Konecny's Contract

0:00Welcome back in sports radio 94 WIP. It's the midday show. It's bro to tell more Gany. We're having a good time in for Joe Gileo and Hugh. What do you think so far? Two and a half hours in we make people smile left cry. What do you think? I think it's been pretty good. I mean, I don't have the the Neil sin ratings. I don't have the the the Lure that you know, he does with this new hair. I guess he's growing hair or something. He's trying to I saw I saw him brushing. What do you mean? It's kind of weird. Isn't it? Why? Well, I mean, you've been bald for a long time. So it's time for a change. I had a man bun for a while. I see no I'm going to chop it off and we're just going to do some nice. Oh, Callahan, you team USA hockey flow. Where a hat if you've got a. I see a guy. You thought I'm able to grow real like like a lot of hair, right? So can he go backwards at? No, no, you can't go backwards at. No, no, he can't. Why not? No, I can't that no way. No, it's that's a bad look. No, why disagree? Bad look for him. You want your Mitch cough question? We want to get it. I just want to know if you are believing in the in shape. I'm ready to go. I learned the hard way. All

1:09the Russians in the in the summer when he was back training with all of his gun, the panarens of the world. Maybe they got on them and they were like, yo, dude. Come on, man. Like, are you? Because I'm I'm getting sucked in. I don't know if it's just my flyers optimism. I've seen the pictures. You know, oh, yeah, I'm out there these days. You know, but how do you feel about Mitch cough entering this season? I feel better. The beauty shots didn't impress me. No, much. You didn't like the photos on the beach with the Mrs. He's in shape. But I mean, I don't I mean, I like I'm too old to like social media stuff to like videos and him with the flyers backwards. Hatch shoulder pressing in the gym. That's stuff. I did like the old school running up the stairs thing on one leg. There you go. Like, I remember doing that. That's like that's really that's really bold that that thing. But I don't I don't buy the that as much as I think he knew he had to come back and and have the locker room have no questions about him. I think that that was really important that that it's like, you know, I'm

2:10this I'm serious about this and like God knows he's got enough talent. I don't know what his boots are going to be like. I mean, it's still the biggest issue to me. I mean, you know, the league is built on speed. Unless you're you know, you really think the game at several thousand rpms more than anybody else. I don't know what you can do to to pick up that speed a little bit. But as far as it tells me a lot if you come in and like you're serious that look, I'm I'm committed to this. There's no excuse not to be in any sport anymore. I mean, I can see where, you know, I know it drove the I guess to talk it back to off a little bit on some of the stuff. But when you're a coach or you're a little team leader, you have to have your entire locker room. And if everybody's busting their behind to show up and shape and do this and do that, you got to be there. And I think he's committed to that. I that's what's with a little bit disappointed me because when he first came in, I love rink rats. I love I don't care how old you are. I love

3:12rink rats. And he was a rink rat, which was made me surprised that he wasn't out of shape. I often looked at it like just as a human being. You know, I went to like Catholic school and all that. And the first year I didn't have like, nuns and priests and whatever. I had a rough summer because I was like, I hear you. What? I hear you. I can wake up. I can free. Yeah. What is this? Something. Yeah. You always had Russian coaches and then tourists are like, okay, maybe I can just can I have 10 minutes for myself? Right. Right. That type of thing. I look like whoa, what? Yeah. This is I think you're I think you learned your lessons. It's like, okay, come back and shape and let's just start rolling. My last question and then calls. Yeah. Again on Mitch cough. Yeah. There was a lot of talk before the offseason that maybe he wouldn't spend as much time over. See, maybe he'd spend more time in Voorhees. This that the third, well, it seems as if it was heavy outside Voorhees. Yeah. Recently coming into town, make anything of that or is that just

4:13who blocked? No, I think I think if you train hard over there, it's just a matter because a lot of guys over there. I mean, it's hard to get into different that culture, especially on what goes on. Plus, I think the flyers had a lot of changes in their own conditioning. They actually just announced it. They made changes to their training staff and all that. Yeah. So I'm not so sure. And I don't know what program he was given, but I don't know how much he can even give a program when there's that many changes going on. I think that's all self-driven. You have to to me, you have to rely on the fact that the player's self-driven to do that. And for what it's worth, it certainly looks like. I mean, I'm hoping it's not a Ben Simmons situation where I looked at all the videos and him shooting the, you know, taking shots and then nothing happens when season starts. But I don't think so. I think I think you know what hockey locker rooms are like. I think they're had to be some, I don't know. Embarrassment might be a tough word. It's hard. I can't talk to them so you don't know. But I think you know when people are saying, oh, you're not in shape. If people told you you weren't in shape, what would you do? Would you not want to be the top guy

5:17coming back the most in shape? Absolutely. And I think that's where you're going to be at. Yep. There'll be sense of urgency. So I'm buying into it. I was just curious to your feel on it all. Let's go to Tony and Kennitz Square. What's up, Tony? Hey, guys, what a beautiful day it is when I turn on the radio and hear the voices of two of my favorite hockey nerds on the air. That's right. That means we're getting close to puck drop. That's right. This month, this month, that's right. We're less than 631 hours a week. Oh, you are, you are a nut job. You are psycho. If you forget, Tony's the guy that watches OHL regular season games and watches all dude. He watches the queue. He told me about Simone Gagnese moves as general manager of the Quebec Grandparts. Grabberts. Yeah. But does he watch the coast? Oh, don't do this, he we're not watching. Do you watch the East Coast hockey league, Tony? Well, as a matter of fact, I got a chance to watch Maxime Sokolowski the other night. Yeah. He scored a beautiful goal. Yeah, that's London. I loved it out there.

6:17The Benjamin. That was great. Oh, you're a great pass. But the reason I know that we're 630 hours away from the from puck drop is because my screen saver on one of my tablets is to count down the puck drop. You see what I do? These are the type of people that call me on one. Are you ready for your shift on Wednesday? These are my people. Yeah, these are my they got count down ready for puck drop. You're going to be able to handle this cell. I can handle it. Okay, I know you can. I know you can. I'll be calling you on Wednesday. Yeah, wait a second. Do you have hours to puck drop of Brods' championship mentally game going on that tablet? God. Of course. Okay. But sorry. What are you talking about with the flag? I think they're a playoff team. Again, this season, I'm so impumped. Obviously a lot of things can go wrong, but their division is weak besides Caroline and Washington. So I think they're in there pretty comfortably. But I have a question for the nerds. Connecting has seven years left on that contract that was clearly a mistake by Brear in the last couple years. We've seen Connecting

7:21come out in the first half and light it up and then completely different disappear in the second half and into the playoffs. Now if everybody knows this, their management has to know it too. So with all the deaths they have on wings, wouldn't it make sense to put Connecting on the third line and hopes that he doesn't burn out after 50 games? I don't know about putting him on a third line. I don't know how. So who would be the other left wingers? Tip it. Yeah, I don't know. See, I don't know who Mitch Cobb going to play with. Right. Winged with I don't like I still don't know those combinations even went to think of what's going to happen. A lot of it depends on where how Mitch Cobb plays coming in on March. Oh, I don't. I probably can we go cheek. I see you're one wing. I mean, might be your one wing. Right. Now is that okay. If he is, is that a knock on TK or is that a knock on how good are bet because we have quantity of winners. I think we're good with quantity. A lot. But we don't have outside of Marton the wild player. Is that a knock on roster construction or a knock on

8:28Travis Connect me? I guess is what I'm trying to figure out is this is this a dig at TK that he's not good enough or is this a knock on roster that the quantity of wingers isn't quality of wingers. Is that question even makes sense, Tony? Yeah. I'm just scared that he's going to turn into like Tyler Sagan or Brendan Gallagher the way those guys signed those long term deals and then they're burned out after like three or four years and then a team is stuck with them. Yeah, but I mean, that kind of that mean that number as you look at the numbers now go up. Is it what was it? Eat something where we at point seven. I think yeah, I guess it's actually going to and Tony, we love you. I appreciate it. I think that's going to age pretty decently see what these know. But I do fear about TK sometimes in the playoffs, the numbers aren't there or whatever, but I don't know, like I'm going back and forth with we have a lot of quad quantity of good wingers and we call it depth, but outside of Porter, Marton none of them, none of them wow. Yeah, you know, it's the what the wild guy meech cob is supposed to be a wild guy supposed to be a wild guy. Marton

9:32maybe is a wild guy and Tip it shows flashes of well. He does it. I remember talking to Jillio. And Jillio was watching the flyers playoffs and it might have been that crazy goal where he banked it off the wall. You didn't made the whole play happen and he texted me and goes, I'm a TIPPY guy and that shows you that he pops off the screen where Joe goes, dude, that's my guy. I want to attach myself to TIPPY because he looks like a wild guy. Yeah, but the consistency, I he just he's he does so many good things on the other side's his speed is shot, but it never fully got put together yet, you know, gotta have to do it game after game, but he did that and he was hurt last year and the playoffs and that hurt us because his speed is he was a different maker. Devorek was pretty much banged up in that shoulder was it. Yeah, so it was like, uh, I don't I don't really like TK to me is like, he's guy that really want to be here part of the rebuild if you will. So I I don't know that they're going to be hamstrung with it. It doesn't look like looking back at the number just knowing that McCarr just got 20 mail and these numbers now are getting thrown out

10:35the wazoo. It's probably in two years. We'll be laughing at eights. Yeah, do you know what I mean? Now do I love TK? I used to love it more than I do now. I think he's a good player, not anything special, but you know, I guess there's just so many other things that I'm looking at with this group that TK is sort of just there right now. I don't have any TK discourse currently as I sit here today. We got to figure out me we got to figure out the power play. We got to worry about we got to figure out Marton and how he's going to develop this year, but that power play I do wonder how the hell it's going to get better. It can't just be they're going to slap your check in there and all of a sudden they're going to be a magical power play. So what are they going to change? Well, let's see what if it works. See if you can see if mechkov can run it from down low and that's what I think. Okay. Well, we'll see how many years of Ivan what Roman how many years have we been complaining about that power play about six now? Yeah, it's like each team seems to have when you look at sports, all the teams like, okay, the Phillies chasing they're chasing outside the zone even with this new

11:39electronic system for for balls and strikes or ever. It's like that's a thing that there seems to be up. I don't want to call it a fatal flaw, but an ongoing flaw for certain things with with every team is there is hurt is going to run, but it's going to be under center is you know, the wall the sixers, but then bees injuries there's just like this this thing that to kind of like you can't be the perfect team. But you certainly can have a you don't want to be the worst. It can't be 12. Well, no, that's just it can you can you can be subpar and things, but you can't continue to be the basement. 12% is great. I remember after not last year, the year before last year, we said it can't get any worse right and it did it did Sean and Plymouth meeting. Hey, Sean. What's going on, bro? It's nice to hear you in the afternoon. What's up? Yeah. Well, it's the beautiful day, Sean. That it is. It's going to be a beautiful week and coming up. I'm I think we're all looking forward to this this series. This is like the series I've been looking

12:42forward to since the Astros series in 2022 and they've got to go for the first time. Wow. So you're feeling good about them or are you fearless? Are you fidgety? Where are you at with it all? I'm fearless. I have full confidence in this pitching staff and the bats have really turned it around and that was my biggest concern with them. I feel like I've always been okay with the pitching staff, but I think this is where you're going to see that where they're really bounced back. I'm going to say like seven innings, two hits, nine strikeouts. Seven innings, two hits. Wow. I hope so. I mean, I was asking a france about the matchup when you go head to head, but that's like going in. That would calm a lot of nerves. If Wheeler does that and then you've got the other end of it with with painter and Nola. Man, I know people worry about the offense, but if you know, all of a sudden, it's like, man, don't give me two runs. I got it. I got a shot. Yeah. No. And Sean, I appreciate we just got to run because I got to hit a break here and we

13:44got to do that. So two one five five nine two ninety for ninety for Ruth, you will be first coming up next. We're breaking also coming up next. We'll figure it out. Broch, 94 and WIP. All right. Welcome back to the midday show. Sorry about the break. Yeah. Listen, behind the scenes, we got to hit a couple of different breaks in two and hour, three and hour. I'll put my hand up, you know, spike somewhere, smiling, saying this guy's a fool. I still never get it right. No, we went to the back street boys. He's back there. I'm tricky. I wonder what they were thinking when they were driving in here and us talking about Mitch coughs summer because they're probably going, this is a disaster. He was listening to the back street. This is our lead. Yeah, he was. I was listening. They like to listen. I told you I stay off a week. You're not going to get the FedEx. You can deal with that. You can deal with that. Let's go to Ruth. Hey, Ruth. Hey, good afternoon, right? Good afternoon, Ruth. This is the first time I've talked to you, but I've been talking to Al for a long time. All right. Well, pleasure talking to you, Ruth. Oh, babe, Ruth, how are you doing? Good. How are you? I'm just fine.

14:52I've been calling into the station. Okay. All right. You're talking to me. What do we think? Well, we're talking to the police. I can't say, well, I'm only fidgety after I've drank about three cups of coffee. I'm nervous. I'm a mom. Of course, I'm nervous about everything. It's just a team, you know, I mean, for the last couple of seasons, they'll have a, they'll have this great win streak and then like the wheels fall off and then they start winning again and you just don't know at what point are they really going to have it all running on off four cylinders? Will it be during, you know, right before and during the playoffs or are they peaking too early? So, let's say I'm cautiously optimistic. There you go. Yeah, that's fair. I totally understand. Now, do you have any thoughts just don't it out there on my big playoff championship game on Wednesday? Of course, I do. Okay. What do you think?

15:54I'm on every. Okay. Well, you, you need to understand this. If you don't play and they win, yeah, you're going to, you're going to feel completely ostracized. That's right. You can't be a part of that because you weren't a part of the win. But if they lose and you don't play, you're going to actually be ostracized because it's going to be your fault that they didn't win. They didn't need me. They need me to stay on a loose loose. Yeah, I'm going to lose loose. You're going to lose loose. You have to play. But what about my job? What about my job? Well, you're not that good at it. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. That was this. Clearly, I messed up the brakes this, this hour. Oh, man. So so Ruth, but that means I was going to step in. Do you have faith that when I touch the ice, Owl is actually going to hold up his side of the bargain and be in studio?

16:54I have absolute faith that Owl will find somebody to take me to play. Find someone. I've never missed a shift here. Yeah. I'm, I'm telling you, I never missed a shift here. I continue. I'm not like those guys like I could spike and dig. Didn't, what's his name on my life? Come on. Shit. No going to Canada. And we're in. Thank you. I love you. Thank you for the call. Can you get angelic authority? Maybe to slide in for a little Wednesday night. A little Wednesday at 10 p come out of retirement for a day. Come on. A deep. All right. 215. 592. 90 for 9 for we got one more hour together. We're back on track. So no worries. If you want to jump in now, it's a great time to do it. We ran a lot of your phone calls. Your thoughts on my men's league game. If Owl should take over my Wednesday slot. So I can play your thoughts on the fillies as they gear up. For Atlanta, your thoughts on the greatest quarterback of all time. Jalen Hertz and so much more. 215. 592. 90 for 90 for coming up next. The Merrill moment. Oh, the Merrill moment. I can't wait to hear what's in store. It's Brods and Owl in for the midday show on 94 WIP.