The Kevin Karius Show - Mar. 12th, 2026 - In or Out

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2:171440. I thought you would go, I'm in top. We would have had a really cool moment, but you kind of ruined the whole thing. All right, Duke, let her buck. Game day of the Amazon dollars, they are looking to win a third straight game for just the second time. This season, as they take on the Dallas stars from Texas Nights area of focus for those of us watching the game from our couches and beyond is how the oilers' new look penalty kill holds up to the Dallas stars, NHL number two ranked power play. You want to go first on this one, Larry? Because yeah, I'm out. I'm going to be focusing on diesel coverage for the oilers. Like yeah, yeah, special teams great. They can decide the game, but for me, it's going to be more about how we can, like, Dallas is obviously another team, powerhouse team. They have some very good offensive players. So I want to see oilers tied it up in their zone because it hasn't been good,

3:20even though they won last two games, it needs to be improved in their own zone. They are giving up way too much though, in my opinion. You know, there's nothing wrong with this, Duke, because again, Dallas is number two, and this is without several key guys in the lineup. But and this is sort of a cop out answer. And we're assuming that Tristan Jari's going to play. So I want to see what Tristan Jari does against not a good one. A team like Dallas came on in the second period there, and he had two big saves right off the top. Man, that wasn't easy at all. And it's four on four, and you got your thinking, okay, let's just get to the third period here. Yeah, but he has to make two saves and then he was really good in the third. So for me, there's nothing wrong with this, Duke, but I'm going to go. I want to see. And that's assuming Jari's going. So and we all do. But both very good answers. And Larry, you're in years in particular sticks with me because even in that win earlier this week over the avalanche, like the orders played well, and it was an exciting game, maybe one of the best we saw between two really good teams this season on on a whole, but I definitely

4:23thought, especially in the first half, there were still shifts where they get running around, and we know how high octane the avalanche can be when you throw on a god agnasium. Cadred the mix now, we spent time playing with natus and McKinnon and Brock Nelson's having a great year. So that's all excellent. And when you when you take that to almost another level from four lines rolling that the stars can do, even without ranting and hints, as we've alluded to all morning, I think that's a very good one. But this other penalty kill, which has been had been struggling so much, the Vegas gold knife power play number three in the league. They they went over two on Sunday in the olders win. The the Vegas power play did. But I don't know if we really got a fair look at a fair sample size of it. And I think this stars one once again, reiterated even without these big names. I think it provides another challenge that maybe they haven't yet seen since the new guy's debut and that really bad loss to Carolina, we could go. So I'm I'm really interested to see and I you never want to see games necessarily decided by special teams, but I would love to see the the stars penalty kill get a few cracks that going up against this. Or there's penalty kill tonight.

5:27So I end the goal to anything Kevin. Yeah, 100% how Jari, if you can ride that momentum from such a strong showing take to get them to win. If anyone needs confidence, 100% because we've been talking about the other players that we've been saying all years need this little pick me up. We're seeing Trent Frederick plays best hockey. The blue line is kind of rounding into form a little bit even if it is still fragmented for shifts or periods at a time that the goal tending now remains the big asterisk in question, Mark. If Jari can piece together another good one here, and I think it would go a long way to them going, you know, jumping up the playoffs, standings here a little bit. On the other side of tonight's matchup, the Dallas stars leagues hottest team nine, 111 in their last 10 Jason Robertson lead the team 34 goals 74 points and he is a pending unrestricted free agent to a new contract. And I believe as long as the new deal comes in below a 13 and a half million dollar a av. He'll be back as a Dallas star. Well, I even think 13 five's a little hot. I get where you're coming from with the cap going up. I did. I see him at the same level as ranted in

6:29here. And, you know, he's just coming in in a perfect time. There's certain times where the, you know, we've seen the salary cap state level for several years. And unfortunately, the guys that were signing contracts at that time, it's that's how it is. Yeah. Like it. Yeah. Cap's going up. I get it. I understand all that. You know, he's got a good thing going. I think he's at the same number at ranted and leave him. If he wants to go, he'll say, here's 12 million for whatever the term is. I think you got to take it. Well, it's not going to be better somewhere for you. I totally agree. I have him more around like 11 and a half, 12 maybe. Yeah. Like, the cap is going up, but still like he's gonna be like, you have something good going on. Like, isn't that big of a difference? 500 million. You can talk about state free state tax rate. Right. Right. And where are you going to find a better place to win exactly? Like you have good thing going on. It's a strong team. You can, you can still use that money on other players. Like it's not, you know, like you're signing somewhere as an unrestricted free agent. No,

7:31you have good thing going on. You're, you're in Dallas, like at home. I think fair price around 11 and a half, 12. If I'm him, I would take it. So the reason I look here is the other guys that as of next season, the highest earners in league, we know Capri's I was big new deal 17 Leon at 14. Jack, I don't know. Austin Matthews the next two at 13 and a half and 13 to five. We've seen Austin Matthews offensive production by the own standard. He set a few years ago dry up by a relative Saturday. Jason Robertson. He said 100 points once. He's been a point per game player. Essentially, he's entire career since breaking in. And he's still just 26 years old. Yeah. This is his first crack at the unrestricted market, which is why I do think that we know the cap's going up. And it's seemingly he's only going to continue to go up for the foreseeable future. If he, if the stars want to lock him in and get another really good contract on the books for a long time, seven, eight years, I think 13 at minimum 12, but maybe upwards of that will be the tag that it comes in and the new deal for Harley kicks in. They still got sagging on the books for

8:35another year. And of course, he's injured right now. He's not going to plague in this season. The the Brantanon contract, but you've got some good value deals in Johnston and hints and even he's getting. I think they can still make this work, even if they are going to be up against it here. Pretty tight money wise. Um, if they do, in fact, about obviously back in the fold. Yeah, his nearly first year of his new deal is this season. Um, at what is it eight plus eight to five. Eight to five. Yeah. So, um, and they are like one of the underrated things about Robertson. He didn't make the US Olympic team, despite being the highest scoring American at the time. He's not necessarily regarded as a two way player, but he is a picture of consistency and health. 82 games, 82 games, 82 games, 74, 51 in the lockout, shortened season. You can't ask for much more than that in 64 games this season and leading the way for a team that has been decimated by injuries. That matters. Uh, the best ability, of course, being for sure availability. Western conference playoff picture, a little bit of a dicey one for both the stars and Edmonton if you're trying to figure out maybe how you would prefer things to roll out here. Dallas probably wants to chase down Colorado at the top and get a easier first round matchup

9:39than the Minnesota wild. The oilers, I think they're best suited to finish second inside the Pacific, rather than win it and likely face the, uh, little bit of underrated Utah mammoth as a first round matchup at the wild card one spot. Uh, just before I should mention, the orders are just getting on the ice for the morning skate in Dallas. It looks like, uh, as far as the roster changes, Henry's going to be going in for dock and then Stasney's going to go in for Emerson and Jerry to start and doesn't look like they're calling up anybody. It has Ingram is the backup. That's from Big Bobby in Dallas. The Bob father. Um, so back to the question, Duke, the Bob father. Um, yeah, how do you, we were talking about this in the break. Yeah, I, let's be honest, like, if you want to win it, you got to be whoever is in your way. But preferably. I, yeah, like I, I, you said it underrated Utah. Like Utah is like, I, not that they would make me nervous. Mm-hmm. But if, if I'm looking at

10:44Vegas, how like in past we have been able to play against them, Anaheim, Young team, I think we could do some damage to them. Utah, they have a solid gold ending this year. They have a really good defense and they have really, some really, really good offensive players. Like I, I, I think out of three, those three teams that I just mentioned, I wouldn't want to you tie in the first round. Yeah. Well, I got Jordan Schmaltz Duke. Yeah, of course. He just signed a big deal. Switch. J-Swish. Uh, Keller. Schmaltz. Like, Dylan Gunter. Gunter. Not a great, great man. Coolie, you know, coolie. Yeah. Gunter is good. So I think that they on the back and Sergutchev, they, they just got weaker, you know, Paturk is having, but kind of an off season. But you never know, you can still produce. I like their defense too. Yeah, they got some guys. I think their defense got to be one of the best in the NHL now. One through six. I think that's very fair. Yeah. Yeah. Was it, there's he there? Yeah. There's he's there. He and Cole, you know, Stanley Cup

11:46experience there. Yeah. John, John Marino is playing on your third pairing, who kind of resurrected himself since the kind of got banished out of Jersey in Pittsburgh, essentially. Uh, he's having himself a nice little, you know, the whole team is playing well. Like, I, yeah, they're, they're interesting. So like, I, I think, I think Oilers still, if they want to win, they, they need to be teams like this and nothing to take away from Utah, but it would be a tough opponent. Yeah. Uh, I'm probably going to go in Duke. I think the number two hole is the best. Staying inside the Pacific division bracket seems to be the call it easiest route to find your way back to a conference final night. They, they play the, you got to play the games and you got to win them. Of course, but we, we talk about Vegas looking even as recently as Sunday, kind of like a shell of this, this powerhouse that we've seen in recent seasons. The gold tenning has been suspect for them all year long. They did shore up them things of the deadline, but I don't Rasmus Anderson hasn't exactly gelled, uh, particularly well. There's so far. And then the docs are a team we talk about quite a bit because of their upstart nature.

12:51I, I'm not sure they're necessarily cut out to win a ton of playoff rounds just yet. So it makes a, uh, interesting matchup to say the least against the Oilers. Yeah. You talk kind of of of these options here seems like the, the biggest test. And circuit chaps got to get back. He's been hurt here. So what's the other chance that Duke, if the Anaheim makes it to the playoffs, is Duke go into Anaheim to Honda Center to watch it live. You sponsoring me? I'm not. Wow. But come on, lad, let me look my dream in one. You can go through the game. Yeah. And then you can go hang out with up dog. You poor beef farming for love, farming for love in SoCal. Have you been at Charkeys? I've never been to California. I've been at LLB. Charkeys is a club bar. Yeah. I know. But I assume it's in SoCal. Yeah. It's easy pickups. Yeah. Oh, good. Well, I'll put that on my bucket. I don't know how easy for you. But let's be honest right now when you have saying whatever, like things could flip flop all the way around here. For sure. Orders could still finish first. Yeah. And I could finish through this. How many games?

13:5316. Yeah. 17. Yeah. Easily. Oh, East. Last night's game, proven a little pivotal as the Senators lose to Montreal. It was Jacob Fowler, the rookie goalie with an outstanding performance, lifts the Habs to victory, giving even more separation in the division. Senators still stiffen around the final wildcard spot as of the Columbus Blue Jackets. But I think the eight teams currently in a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference will be the eight in a few weeks time in the season wraps up. I'm going to be out because I think somehow, okay, good. Okay, you go. I think somehow just with Rick bonus here in Columbus. Exactly. Something. I don't know. I just want them to be there. Yeah. But everything that happened. Johnny hockey. Yeah. It would be everything is right. And so is it the struggling Detroit Redwings that fall out? Are you still not a blow up in the penguins, the islanders, the broons all are within a point of each other? It could be anyone. It's too hard to see. Oh, for sure. It's still 16 games. So like, I wouldn't totally count out about out either. Totally. You never know. You get the hot. You put together

14:59five, six games. Boom. You're back in the picture. But for me, the better story would be Columbus. I think Columbus would be a team where people are rooting for from an outside perspective, looking in. Hey, it sends kind of burst that bubble in terms of playoff trail. They got back last year. Gave the Leafs almost something they could handle in the first round. And it's been a step back season. The goal-tending Walmart's playing much better as of late. But it has been another team that has faced that barricade a lot this year, where it's let them down at times. So it's a funny comment from Blake on our text line, saying every cup that the Oilers of One, the Oilers have gone through Winnipeg and Utah's technically old Winnipeg, really, you know. Well, yes and no. Because when they were the. He's just going to Arizona. Yeah, for sure. When they were the coyotes, that was still the original Winnipeg Jets franchise. But as we know, the Utah thing, that is not a relocation. That is an technically an expansion team, just inheriting a roster. They don't have any of the records or anything that the Jets franchise is dormant. It's not a record duke. It's above average. The point is still well taken

16:01and is relevant. Finally, March is caffeine awareness month. Most people, myself included. I just start the day with a coffee. Maybe if you're Donovan Paulson, you prefer an energy drink after you've been working up. Or stop or stop. Stop. Don't just don't stop at once. Speaking of the Bob father, three Bob father, three and then two huge, two huge coffees as well with Baleys. When you're on the go as much as stuff, you got to keep things turning. So all the all the power too. He's like Michael Pholps. Michael Pholps said that he needs like 10,000 calories for breakfast as Bob's offer. But the energy drinks and coffee was there and liquid. However you hit your targets, however you target. But I guess he doesn't spend nine hours in the pool. Well, we don't know that. Sure. But with you talk about coffee and energy drinks less than there, they're filled with sugar, especially when unless you're drinking coffee black, essentially the French vanilla one, I have it on the machine here. I'm sure it's just as bad for

17:02me as anything. But pop soda. It's like totally taboo, at least in my opinion, to drink it before noon. Even though it is like it's caffeine boost, you can have it to start your day, but it just feels like a cardinal sin. No, I drink it before noon. Do you? Because when I get home, I'm so depleted. I am low on sugar. Any old rush. So what is that? I gingerl. Just like few steps. If I really feel low on sugar, I just grab that or whatever is home. Usually I gingerl. But I know at first when I started doing that, I fell off. I was like, I tell kids, not a chance you haven't. You haven't tried to sneak in whenever they are not looking. But I do it. I'm ashamed now. But I just do it because I know it's a big sugar. I don't like energy drinks. I don't know. I've never done it. So you've never in your life had a had a had a yes you did hangover. Come on. I haven't. Like you

18:04go for that 11 o'clock. Okay, seven to seven AM. You just missed the breakfast and Mickey D's. No, dude. You never party all night or what? You had a running coke. So there you go. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Well, that's not what I think I was talking about. See you get up at see your party all night. You get up at 10 or 11. Yeah. Like I would never have a pop. I'd have I have because it in check, again, another remedy for like upset stomach is a Coca-Cola. Yeah. Or gingerl. Or gingerl. Yeah. It cannot be like right. Like you have to like fit it out a little bit. I would have a beer and clamato or something. But that would bring me back on the train. And then three days later, I am getting off the train. But there are people. Hi, this is Pablo Tore from Pablo Tore finds out. And today I want to talk to you about boost mobile because we spent a lot of time analyzing inefficiencies in sports, overvalued contracts, money tied up in the wrong places and so on. But those inefficiencies aren't just on a roster. Sometimes,

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21:12seeing energy drinks either. I don't. And I love pop, like growing up at the farm. I would take a case. What is your favorite pop? A case of Pepsi with me in the tractor cab and I'd crush the thing. Dude, better than Coca-Cola for you. Yeah, I prefer Pepsi. I like Coca-Cola too. Nothing against it. But if I had a chance, I'd take Pepsi. Because it doesn't matter to me. If you just cut up a whisk next to you, which one would you pick? Neither because I, well, whatever, whatever, wherever the closest bottle of whiskey was, like his Duke just said. Okay. And here's the thing with liquor. I actually prefer ginger ale with my whiskey or water. I just like ginger. I never had whiskey in ginger ale. I think I had whiskey. I have whiskey and apple juice. Or is it whiskey at apple juice? Is Jameson? Sure. Yeah. So Jameson and apple juice. And apple juice. Really? There was a guy from the UK. I went to university with. He was doing like whatever, a broad semester here at the U of A. He at the bar would order a rye and cranberry juice.

22:16It had to be one of the most psychotic things I'd ever seen. It's all right. Like I tried it. It's fine. I would never order it myself. I'd never seen somebody drink that combination before. Oh, man. I have a sick video of me during the COVID. I think my wife sent it to me. I cannot probably find it. I need to show it to you guys, though. We had a challenge. We had a, I cannot find it. We had a challenge during the COVID. You know how the challenge was like do 50 push-ups. So the coach, the head coach, that I'm going to be coaching with. Send us this challenge. Like do 50 push-ups, do 50 squats, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, so I do this video. It's a huge shot of Slivo Vitsa. Yeah, okay. I know. Shugging the pint of beer and another huge shot of Slivo Vitsa. I was like, this is this is lot of me challenge and I send it back to him. It's like challenge me with something like it's more serious than 50 push-ups with this squat. Oh my god. Yeah, my wife just sent it to me. I think

23:19I don't know when. It popped with her and we were just laughing. I was like, thank God I'm out of this degenerate stage. We're having the ultimate in next Tuesday. We're seeing Paddy's day to talk a little whiskey. I told Connor Halley. Yeah. And I told Connor. I was like, yeah, when you're coming for your 10-20 hit, we'll have some leftover Irish whiskey here for you to take a couple shots of. I did not look too excited about it. Really? Connor doesn't like doing that. He had a great party phase. He doesn't drink very much anymore. But just to sit here and drink straight whiskey, he'll get some good faces out of him. I'm sure. It was a party face. I had party face since 15 to 37. That's pretty good run. That's what he said. That's a farming for lovely. Yeah. Yeah. Are you going to get after it? That's another opportunity for you, Duke. Yes. There's going to be some desperate ladies down to Burns. All me and Hammer went there several times. One time Hammer left his check stub in there. Did you remember that? No. Yeah,

24:25he left his check stub in. And it was for, well, I think it was $40,000 or something. Jesus. It doesn't surprise me. I went to his kids through school. Dennis will burn. Dennis burn, not old burn. Okay. On one, one, one St. Paddy's day in there, Lattie, we went in about 10 o'clock. 10 o'clock? Yeah. Those are the best days in the world. They drink in. Honestly, if I, we were there till two in the morning. I've done it to you. Yeah. Julio Barrios. I done that at. Yeah. Julio Barrios with Bulldogs. That's an interrupt brought to you by pro solutions. Good job, Duke. We'll wrap the show up. I want to talk to Lattie about this. Check about that. Thanks for talking. Alcohol with recovery. Alcohol is all I guys, by the way. Sorry, buddy. I should joke it up. Testing your metal, Lattie. Testing your metal. We're back to wrap up the show. Kevin Curious, Lattice Lavshmi, Ducat Delburn, Josh Fenwick on sports 1440 presented by Sports Select. We're streaming on YouTube X Facebook Instagram and Twitch.

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