The Tom Gazzola Show - Sept. 9th, 2026 - Hour 1

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2:02Welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Tom Gazaliceau show. Right here on sports 1440. Of course, this fine program brought to you by Bet 365. You got Tom, you got Brandy, you got Fennian studio, Bet 365. Check out Bet 365's early payout for baseball. When your team goes up by five runs, you get paid out immediately. No stress about blowing a big lead. You got to download the app, see what early payout is all about. We've got a fun show for you today. Good lineup, Troy Perlow, it's from hl.com. He takes care of a lot of advanced or some stats. And then the NHL edge website, some cool stuff there. That's the tracking that the league does. Obviously, relatively new around the national hockey league. Mark Specter will join us as usual at 8 a.m. Austin mocked from the athletic, talking NFL as a season kicks off tonight. DVD from NHL.com, Derek Van D. Stanton, Mike Benton from the Seattle Cracken audio network.

3:04Of course, we've got David Schlumco. We'll be stepping into the co host chair at 9 a.m. And to round things out Connor Halley from the frenzy and the Jason Grigger show as well. Text us, join the conversation. 1 8 3 3 4 1114 40. If you're over on YouTube, you can hit that thumbs up button, like share, subscribe, get it to the conversation, fanny monitoring things as per usual. He is the gatekeeper of the YouTube. Don't use explotives because he gets very upset, right, Brando? Yes, indeed. Very, very upset. Then he starts yelling in here and then we get upset. Then we've got a whole fracas on our hands. It's just one day. We try and save our fracases for Fridays. That's right. Fracas Friday, as we call it. It's trying to catch on around here, but sure, sure, sure, sure. Yes. Yesterday, obviously, some good news in Blue Jays land. Another win. That's important as we get closer and closer to the end of the season.

4:07The elx return to the field today for practice. I think it's four o'clock. They get back on there after day of rest after the win on Monday. People will be going to Rogers Place to watch the Oilers practice. Our media will be going down there. It starts at 10 a.m., so if there's any updates, we'll pass those along. To you as the captain skates or informal skates continue. And yeah, it's... And we're... here we go. This is it. This is that time of year where it all ramps up. And we're still finishing up parts of the summer. And then, like last night, I'm waking up at what, 5'30?" And I'm seeing the Shelton Alcaraz match ended at 1.30 hour time, 3.30 in New York. Shelton prevailing my goodness. Has there been complaints about the time of day that these matches are ending? Or is that just a complaint to complain? Well, for the end of the time, they end. Tennis is that where it's for.

5:08There's no clock on it. So we'll go as long as the match dictates. And we've seen some absolute marathons over the year. This match didn't start until 11 o'clock local time. Tom, like that, I think, is where some of the complaints lie. And part of that reason is, for what we just said, they can't start the next match until the previous one ends. Right. And, you know, the time to clean the cord or cycle out the stands. I don't know. I've never been to a live tennis match. But there is obviously some form of turnaround in between each respective match. Like court maintenance, perhaps? Something. Obviously, it's not clay. It's not grass, but you still got to do something. Clean it or dust it up. I don't know. Regardless, even if they turn it around immediately, if there is a marathon match earlier in the day, and stack a couple of those on to each other the last longer than expected, all of a sudden your entire schedule is pushed back by an hour or two. It can go as long as time will, time will dictate. And yeah, didn't get going until 11 last night. The latest time a US Open match has finished was that Al Kressen Shelton match into the

6:12wee hours of last night this morning. 133 AM, our time, 333 AM, Eastern time is when that match ended. I love live sports. I love like on Sunday nights, you catch like a Dodgers game and they're showing it on sports net or whatever. It's kind of nice. That is extreme. I don't know how many people stayed up to watch it, but it looked like the packed house. I considered myself pretty brave for staying up the entirety of the Blue Jays game, which these West Coast starts. That's right. I don't love them. It's kind of like being a mountain time zone occupant. I think it's pretty good, right? We kind of get the best of both worlds in terms of when time, what time things start at least. We were not so late that it is for the West Coast stuff, but with that being said, we stay up so late during the hockey season with the 738 o'clock Euler start times. They play a ton of games in the Pacific time zone. That in the summer, I like my five o'clock Blue Jays first pitches.

7:14I understand that. I totally understand that. Also, we're going to get a bunch of nine o'clock starts this year. Pretty exciting. Yeah. So what did we do in Alberta? We're not doing daylight savings anymore. Well, yeah, we're eliminating daylight savings, but we're staying on daylight time. So there will be no fall back this fall is my understanding. Because right now, right now, we are on mountain daylight time. And we will remain on mountain daylight time. Will that affect our gibbous moons? I don't think so. I know. I'm just teasing. But why did we do this? Is it like scientifically proven to better? What's really interesting about how government works, Tom, is that they held a, I don't know if referendum is an appropriate term here, but like a vote in the province amongst the citizens. Okay. And they said, nah, we prefer to keep daylight savings. And then they said, okay, well, we're going to get rid of it anyway. Nice. Democracy and action hard at work. Wow. This government continues to.

8:14But I believe my understanding is that a lot of other constituencies, particularly stateside, are expected to follow suit in the Olympics. We know that Arizona does not currently observe it. It does not. It's a very particular region, I think, north of Phoenix area. Like it's a Native American reservation, I think, but besides the point, I'm pretty sure California is expected to also do away with daylight savings. And as a result, it will eliminate this little discrepancy in the time zones that force. They always be playing some particularly late games from our viewing perspective here in Edmonton. I'll tell you what, after I've been in the city, I've been in the city for a while. I'll tell you what, after having done oilers pre-imposed game shows for the last eight years, going back to the 1260 days, those 830s start suck. And it's for showing week nights. Like on weekends, they're fine. But we'd be on location for shows and you get out of there, probably like 1, 130.

9:16Got a haul of the equipment out of there. It's a cold January night. It's not the best. Sometimes you've got to be back in studio the next day. It sucks. I'm going through the oilers calendar right now just to give you an idea of how many 9pm starts we're going to see. Nothing in October so far. Nope. That looks good. We go on to November. And the first 9pm Saturday at home against the Vancouver Canucks on the seventh 9pm start. Then a couple weeks later in Seattle 9pm start our time. Let's move to December here real quick. I'm looking. I'm looking. No, December looks pretty good. Actually, a lot of early starts in December. Get into January. January. There is a couple of 9pm all in one week. Actually three of them. They go into Vegas 9 o'clock.

10:16The next night through an L.A. 9 o'clock. And then they wrap up that portion of the trip in California in San Jose. 9pm on the Saturday. And then wrap up the trip for gamer in Colorado. That an 8 o'clock start on the Tuesday. Going into February now. Let's take a look at the 9 o'clock. That's a lot of early. No, that's not funny. That's not funny. Nope, that's nice. So how many of you have counted? Like four or five? I believe you. We've got five, I believe. Now here's the sixth. Saturday March 6th. 9pm against Chicago at home. The following weekend in Seattle 9pm start. So that's now eight, I believe. A couple of eight o'clock starts in Vegas. And Anna, I'm late in the season. In Chicago like this. I guess you're actually started on Wednesday so by the following weekend's tourists,

11:34unbelievable. Now did our government, the provincial government check with the oilers and the flames if it was okay? Yeah, that's a good good question. I'm not sure if they ran that by the respective ownership management groups. The hockey overlord. I can't say for sure. You have to think that it would have been top of mind for them. That's kind of what drives this place, right? That's right. The hockey teams. They're the most important in this province. I've heard you have you say one eight three three four one 14 40. I'm Mac getting in there says the UK got rid of it and reinstated it. There's good reason to have it. There's a science to it, isn't there? And our body clock natural. Yeah, I don't rhythm. There are pros and cons to both sides. That's why it has been debated for as long as it was. If it was simple as one sided, then we would have changed it a long time ago or we never would have entertained the notion of

12:34getting rid of it. But yeah, I think I think it's the body clock thing and I always my pushback on it was always people complained about it with the understanding that people complained about in the winter time, which is the standard time, right? But Alberta, the government remedied that if you want to say by saying no, we're just going to stay on daylight time, which they're now calling Alberta time. Of course, we're on Alberta time, baby. Burda baby. And yeah, the clocks are set to change November first, but we will not be partaking along with our friends to the east Saskatchewan has never done daily six. I'm not for a long time. Right, right, right. I remember that living in Lloyd Minster, it was interesting and unique. Walnuts in the park says, am I out to lunch guys or in midget so back in the day, I'm assuming when you're playing hockey, weren't a lot of our games around 9 p.m. I already talk about the Euler's games being around 9 p.m. There was a time when 830 starts were prevalent back in the day. I think that changed like 20 years ago. So Walnuts in the park,

13:40if you were playing midget hockey, which I believe is now you 17. Yeah. And then when the league says 7 p.m. start 8 p.m. start the puck drops usually 808 708. There's a delay there. So yeah, Kyle asking if the eastern games will start at 4 p.m. I'm looking and every eastern game that would normally have been a five o'clock start looks like there's six o'clock starts now. Yes. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Because it's still seven o'clock. Eastern. Eastern standard. That's right. But now set up being two hours behind, we're only one hour behind because we remain on mountain daily. Yes. And all those one o'clock, one 30 starts in recent years for showing weekends, obviously. Those are now 2 2 30. So that's the biggest adjustment. There's some sevens, there's some seven 30s. There's a seven o'clock out and call or no here against Columbus on the 15th.

14:46That's a Friday, eight o'clock on a Wednesday, January 13th against San Jose. I feel like there might be some empty seats in that one. Yeah. It's going to have to adjust a little bit. But yeah. And final note on that time, just because I looked into it about the California things. I remember this had come up in a previous discussion earlier this year. Yeah. Properly prior to your time on the show. And yeah, California actually 2018 voted like the state voted to eliminate the clock time change. But in the United States, it requires federal approval, approval, which has not happened. So they didn't get to do that. So yeah, they're still doing daily savings, even though that as a state, they voted to get rid of it eight years ago. Interesting. Interesting indeed. And we just said screw it. We're doing it. Even though we voted as a population in Alberta, yeah, no, yeah, pretty much the complete opposite. That's great.

15:47That's awesome. Autonomous. Do what we want. That's not how it's supposed to work. Boys, that's not how it's supposed to work. We got a bunch of tax that came in. We're going to get to those before we get to Troy Perlow. It's in a few minutes here. It's interesting. This has sparked some conversation early in the morning. I appreciate that. Other ball, Jay says, can you explain why the 9 p.m.s at home? I get the ones in California. Why are we having 9 p.m. starts here? How does this help TV? It does not help TV. And the 9 p.m.s starts here, especially weekends, because this goes to the broadcasters. Because we change our time, the broadcasters are continuing to stay on their schedule time. So the regular 7 p.m. Eastern game on a Saturday, for example, double header on Hock and A. Canter, which is no longer in CBC. They're not adjusting their clock.

16:48And when they're starting these games and their broadcasts for Alberta, just because Alberta changed its daylight savings policy, thus the 9 p.m. That's the Coles notes. My understanding of it, other ball, Jay, thank you for that. Kyle says, will they at least drop the puck on time? Or are we seeing the game start at 9 p.m.? Yeah, you're going to see the delayed start. That's not changing. K. R says time changing is bad for health. Standard time is the healthiest via studies. Daylight time is bad. Our government is stupid, as per usual. Do the opposite of what science and their citizens want that one. Signed and sent in by K. R. Yeah, that's, that's a good text. David says, hey guys, I'm boycotting all tourist industries that promoted stay with daylight savings time, rather than stay with standard time. Gordon Hoyle says, I've never complained about daylight savings. I guess I shall begin this year. And then Ben says, wait until those 9 o'clock starts has a pregame ceremony. Yup.

17:51Yup, those can drag on. And then Kyle says, it doesn't help anything TV restaurants. I'm sure there will be empty seats. I don't get it. Kyle, you and me, both brother, you and me both. But thus is our plight. We're in it together. As long as we have one another, we'll survive, right? Lovely. Okay, we're going to talk hockey, not daylight savings time and ditching it and all that stuff with Troy Perluets from HL.com. Coming up right next on the Gizola Show presented by about 3 6 5. Not every sale happens at the register. Before AT&T business wireless, customer checkout would take too long and create awkward delays. At one point, completing a transaction felt less like making a sale and more like a staring contest, no one wanted to win. Now with AT&T business wireless transactions happen fast, helping us to keep things moving. That means less time spent dealing with delays and more time staying focused on the day ahead. When the connection matters,

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19:57Steppenstrike. That's Sunday, September 20th at Rundle Park. It's a 1K 3K or 5K walk with food games and prizes all to raise money for the Parkinson's Association of Alberta. Go to sports1440.com for the registration link and from NHL.com. Troy Perlowitz joins us. We're going to talk NHL edge. That's the stats that have been unveiled, the tracking, all that good stuff. And just about hockey because we're going to be allowed to go to the rink today to watch informal skates with the oilers. That's lovely. People thirsting for that. And we saw some availability yesterday. I know in Ottawa, they were talking about the Brady Kachak situation in Winnipeg. They got to talk about the Connor Hella Buck situation in Detroit. They're going to have to talk about their captain wanting a trade so much going on. And we're finally going to get into the arenas and start having access to the players. Basically, the hockey season will begin. Troy, good morning. Welcome to the show. Hey, first segment. We were talking about the Alberta not following daylight savings time

21:00and the nine o'clock starts. And people had questions. I'm not great with the time zones and all that. But what do you think of that? Is that weird? It's going to throw people off. We're going to get a lot of complaints, aren't we? I'm as a fellow hater of daylight savings time. Yeah, I'm for this move. I've long hated that daylight savings time. They messes with your head and messes with your sleep schedule. So I completely relate. Okay. We'll see how this goes this year. Hockey season, like I said, it's about to kick off here. And what are some of the storylines you're tracking to begin the season? Yeah, several, several new faces and new places. I think that's an easy way to start. I know that's certainly we saw a lot of change over in the league. You know, it kind of began with Brady Kitchucks move from Ottawa to Florida, kind of extended where there was a busy July 1st with Darren Radish going to light or die Radish going from the

22:01lighting to Toronto. So, big moves and new players and new places that should shake up the league a little bit. Are there some guys that you're surprised haven't signed contracts yet, by the way? I think I'm surprised and I'm surprised that Queen Hughes hasn't been extended in Minnesota. I'm surprised that a couple of those RFA's like Cutter Go D.A. and Adam Fantilly haven't resigned with their own teams. That's usually, it's usually happened by now. But, you know, my favorite expression in all sports is that deadlines for actions. So, as you said from the top, you know, as players get to training camp, I think that's, I think these things will kind of, in terms of the contracts, even the trades with Hello Buck and Larkin. I think things will kind of settle and figure themselves out. As soon as we get back to players and buildings and GM's get back from summer vacation, I think that will start to get down to business before all of us streaking towards that September 28th start date. Yeah, isn't that crazy we're starting on the 28th.

23:04That's less than 20 days away and it's very exciting with the 84 game schedule starting. We haven't seen that since the early 90s when there were multiple neutral site games when the league was looking to expand. And here we are 84 games, less preseason. I'm okay with that for sure. Okay. Troy, the NHL edge website is something that we're seeing ads for. I know the league has been promoting it. And it's actually pretty cool. And the tracking chip that sits in the back of players jerseys behind their shoulder has been there for over a decade now, I believe. But they really had to like get it all sorted out and figured out before they unveiled it and made it public. It is cool to see some of the numbers that come from this. So when it comes to the edge website and the stats, what are some of the more popular ones that people when they go onto this site look into we're finding? Yeah, I mean we could start with skating speed that all fans love.

24:06It's not a surprise. We could all look at Conor McDavid and if you just watch an NHL game, you could realize that the sport of hockey is really fast and Conor McDavid plays it at a speed that we've rarely seen before. So Conor McDavid had over 100 more 22 mile per hour speed burst than any other player in the NHL. In fact, if he was his own team, he would have more 22 mile per hour speed burst than 32 of them. And he happens to play for one of the ones that he does. So tracking skating speed, if anyone who's gone to a live NHL game could easily see how fast the sport is and now we could actually tell how fast. The other one that really gets a lot of attention on our website if you go to NHL.com backslash edge would be shot speed. Yes, shot speed as people in Edmonton know, Edvin Bouchard shoots the puck pretty much as hard as anybody. We usually cut that off at around a 90 mile per hour shot is considered a very hard shot for us.

25:09And in fact, Edvin Bouchard does shoot the puck really hard, but Darren Radish, as I mentioned, he had the most 90 mile per hour shots last year moving over from the Tampa Bay Lightning to the Toronto Maple Leafs. So yeah, those two segments really get a lot of attention on our site. You know what's interesting, I'm looking at the front page of the NHL edge website. And Tyler Clevver has the hardest shot last year recorded in a game 103.51 miles per hour. That was on January 31st in a 4-1 win over New Jersey. That kind of surprises me. Max skating speed. So is that like, and Beck Mellonstein is the guy with the max skating speed help me understand some of these Marty natious, most miles skated in a game. I understand that 5.09. That's a lot of skating for natious, but how you guys feature some of these stats on the front page of the site? What goes into that decision? Yeah, so Beck Mellonstein, you know, to measure a speed burst, you need to sustain that level of speed

26:15for at least three seconds. So you're going to get some players who are, you know, you wouldn't think of that would be really fast. Can make you leaderboards like Tyler Clevver, obviously, choose to fuck very hard. And you wouldn't think of him as necessarily a hard shooter just because he doesn't have the volume to back that up. Same thing with Beck Mellonstein, very fast skater, but he doesn't have the volume that economic David would just because he simply gets more ice-time. But these players are, you know, everyone, again, loves the speed. So they are fast skaters and they are hard shooters. They just don't have the volume that a player who gets more ice-time would get on, get on that list. So yeah, if you go to the website, you could, you know, you could filter by a certain amount to kind of take those guys who might just get up to a high speed at one at one point or another, kind of filter out to the guys that skate more. I'm looking at zone time. Zone time is something that I find interesting. I think it's an oversimplification in my view of like how I look at the game, but I remember at an early age,

27:22being at an oilers game and I thought to myself, I'm like, wow, dog weights always in the offensive zone. And then I started watching, you watch the better players and they're like always in the offensive zone. So I find zone time in general is a good indicator who gets hemmed in their own zone and is figuring out the defensive side of the game compared to guys that hang on to the pocket lot. And then I'm looking at it in zone time on the front page has Gostis Bear, 49.6% of his zone time is in the offensive zone. Then 32.6% of his time is in the defensive zone. How does he lead both? So Caroline will be over all over the zone time. Okay. Anyone watch this Carolina game. The Carolina game is very a possession-oriented. So they love to retrieve pox in the offensive zone, which means if you're getting shots on goals, sometimes they miss the net, but they're with their forecheck, they're able to retrieve that puck. Same thing if they dominate possession time that's in the offensive zone. So essentially they

28:25hold on to the puck more than they other team. So they'll dominate possession time in all three zones. But what's great about that time I coach youth hockey and we always talk about with our youth hockey players, the fun zone, right? That's where you want to play hockey. Oh yeah. Yeah, right. So it's like two on the puck and as simple as that is, Caroline does that as well as any other team. Zone time has its flaws like any other stat. I'd like to know more about when the puck is in his zone if you have possession of the puck. Yes. Are all five of your players in the zone or not? But it's a good proxy for a zone for puck possession and for zone time. So if your team's holding the puck into the offensive zone, you know that only good things could happen if your team has it in the offensive zone as opposed to being in the defensive zone. Yeah. So it's like a general indicator, so to speak. Is that fair, Troy? Yeah, very fair. You know, five on five shot of 10s percentage is another. It's a very similar stat to zone time. We would use that as a proxy for

29:30teams that, you know, keep the puck in the offensive zone. And again, that's your probability of scoring might not be a hundred when you're in the offensive zone, but you're probably getting scored against zero. So that's that's kind of what the proxy is for that. Troy Perler with us from hl.com. We're talking the edge stats website. If you haven't checked it out, it's actually pretty neat. And I'm over on the goalies page now. I'm looking at Ilya Sorokin and the high danger, safe percentage and high danger saves. And I have questions about this stuff because we get texts that come in and Edmonton is a market and a fan base that loves to deep dive on the game. We've got a lot of hockey nerds that absolutely love every element of the game. And we get texts about, you know, above expected. Every time I see above expected, I'm just rolling my eyes and like, that's just such a generality. But there's people that love it and live by it. So I go, well, what's the definition of, you know, high danger in this and that. And you guys

30:32have high danger, safe percentage on there, high danger, safe. How is high danger defined for the goalies? So the location for on the ice for goalies has been determined that 29 feet above the goal line in a circular fashion and a cone like shape. Any shot attempt from within that zone would be considered a high danger shot. And therefore, as from a goalies perspective, any high danger shot against would count as in for your high danger, safe percentage. Mid-range safe percentage would be 50 feet and in, out 50 feet to the 29 feet line. So that kind of mid-range shot between the wrap-at-top to the circles until the slot. And then long range would also be from the offensive blue line into that mid-range. So we've broken into three levels, long range shot, mid-range shots and high danger shots. Yeah, I mean, like, again, a little bit of flawed, but from a

31:33shot perspective, frustration for goalies, and you know, better than anyone in Edmonton, you'd like your goalie to make a save for you a couple of times. And that's, it's kind of, we use that that you should have a better high, you should have a better long range save percentage, and you should then you do have a high danger save percentage even. So we're trying to measure if goalies are kind of making that save that you don't really expect them to make because they're coming from a high danger area where a lot of goals are scored. Hey, you just said it whenever I see those those texts that come in be like, yeah, it saves above it because goals above expected all that. I've like, you're telling me this guy is not making the one or two crucial saves a night to get the win as opposed to when he did it, the year prior is essentially what they're telling me. And so it's a good source of information and an indicator. Fair? Very fair, very fair. You know, the most of lead goalies in the league, if you're talking about a counter-hella buck or an Ilius-Sarokin or Egor-Sisterkin, they're probably going to have solid to, you know, above average

32:36high danger save percentage. They're also going to have elite mid-range save percentage and long-range save percentage because those goalies make the saves that you would expect them to make. And sometimes it's sometimes you want to goalie who could make those easy saves, so to speak, then goalies who, you know, everyone's generally going to have a solid high danger save percentage. You need a goal tender who's going to be able to make those mid-range and long-range saves when you need them to make them. Troy, I remember when the league was installing all the hardware into the buildings so they could start tracking and getting more data and numbers and eventually come out with a website specifically for all the stats that it has. Are there some things that don't see the light of day that are tracked and that you could tell us about? Sure. There's, you know, every puck touch in the NHL, every time a player touches the puck,

33:37it's now being tracked with our cameras and sensors. So there is information that is being tracked and that we know about. I think the next frontier in terms of hockey analytics is really passing. There's not a lot of public, youable. Again, for hockey nerds out there, if you ever thought, you know, I think I think we really excel in stretch passes, you know, passes that are 30 feet long or in that information is out there, it's available. It's just not ready to be in the public domain yet. It's got data accuracy issues that we're working through, but it's clear to us, you know, at the NHL now that fans are, again, like you said, they're in love with this. They just want more, a regular box score just doesn't deal with it anymore. We know who has a lot of goals, we know who, we do very well in terms of discovering who scores and who gets a lot of assists and who gets a lot of points, but there's a deeper level of there's an appetite for a deeper level of analysis and

34:37what's going into that. And that's what the edge edge data can do for us. Hey, the science of the game is pretty neat and I appreciate it even though I'm not great with numbers, but it is cool to see. Okay, with all the puck tracking, all the sensors that are in all 32 buildings, are we going to get goal-fine sensors and can we figure that out at some point? Has that been discussed? Are you privy to tell us anything about that? Honestly, I don't know if it's being discussed, but I sure hope it is. As a general fan, you know, I watch other sports, I watch, you know, the NFL this year come out with, you know, they're tracking technology to track first downs and I have to think that that technology is being worked on. I know it's being worked on, I just don't know how an update and how close we are to getting that unloaded and do it. I can confidently say that there are a lot of hardworking people at the NHL though that want to make the game more accessible to fans and make it easier for the fans to digest and make it more of a TV sport.

35:40So I really think that's being worked on each and every day. We're going to task you with fixing it and figuring it out. I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding. Troy, this has been awesome, buddy. We're going to have to do this again and kind of look at some of the numbers as we progress through the season, but totally up to you. Would you be up for that? I'd love to. Thanks so much for having me. Time to really appreciate it. There you go. There's Troy Perlow. It's NHL.com, do an NHL edge and the stats there that are really, really cool if you want to do a deep dive and get into the nerdy stuff of the game. Boys, which I always appreciate. Is that something that might interest you, Tom? It always has. Yeah, it always has. It's just like, I'm not, it's not going to make me base my opinion on things, but it's kind of neat to see and to know. The way I look at it and whether you're talking like advanced analytics or these edge stats, more information is always a good thing. Yes. As you said, I am not a believer in looking at a spreadsheet or looking at a box score of

36:42any variety and entirely basing your opinion on a player or a team on those metrics. You need to watch the game. You need to see it with your own eyes. Then you can take that information that you glean from edge stats, advanced analytics box scores and pair it with what you see with your eyes to support or contradict. Like if you say, it seems like this is happening. Well, the numbers say it's not okay. I need to go back and rewatch that and maybe reassess how I'm viewing this player, reviewing this system team, whatever the case. It's all about everything, not necessarily in moderation, but in tandem and not going just full scale. One of the other where you completely disregard what the numbers are telling you and also the flip side of that saying that the numbers on a page tell the whole story because that's almost never the case. It's a useful tool. It's an excellent tool. The plethora of information that is available to us now is at times almost overwhelming. You talk about some of the stats and wait, I'm with you. I don't know what's half of the mean or how

37:45generated what's the equation, what qualifies as an expected this or you're talking about with how they qualify high danger chances of a trailer. Some of that's lost on me, but I'm glad there's other people doing those numbers so that I can just take the result and use it in my own evaluations and interpretations. Like, and listen, that's why I kind of asked, especially about the goal tenders in the high danger. There's a subjectiveness to it. Absolutely. And that can skew things. Now, I know as we do things more and more in general as people and humans, we tend to figure crap out better and better and improve things. So it's a good tool to use and people say you poop who analytics, no, I don't. There's some good information there. It's just like you outline Brando. You can't base everything off of analytics. Yeah. I remember at one point people were suggesting that yes, it pull you RV because of his advanced metrics made Connor McDavid

38:50better. And he was actually elite. Those texts did happen and they did come in and we did read them and they were crazy. What a time to be alive. What a time to be alive. I like this advanced metric from King of Fort Nasties. He says, Fanny plans to work 20 more minutes today above expected. Is this true? That's great. So he's going to work 20 minutes. Oh, I believe that is a Fenwick analytic joke. Excellent. Just saying that is a good one. I like how we got it in there. And then I like the little shot from Brando. That was a nice touch. Well done mid season form. Scott. It's a great season for everybody, Tom. Not you. Oh, no, I'm just getting started. That was good. I'm just getting warmed up. That was real good. Real good. All right. Great stuff there for Troy Perlow. It's good information. Well, I think we should have him on a bunch more and kind of look at the numbers as the season progresses. It is cool. I do remember when the league was sending their staff around to install the instrumentation. And you would find out about

39:59like the updates and they had to refine it and there was some trial and error. And it's taken a bunch of years. I remember at the 2015 All-Star game in Columbus, they debuted the chips in the jerseys. I remember talking Ryan Newgen Hopkins. I'm like, can you feel it? He's like, no, it's pretty light. Can't tell it's back. There's sits right behind the, I think it's the right shoulder at the back. And they've had that in there. And then the equipment guys have to like recharge them. They have to be obviously the right player has to have the right chip in his jersey to get the proper stance and for things to be accurate. There's been chips in the pucks for a bunch of years now. If you ever catch a puck at a game, you'll see there's like three little circles or dots. And is it true Tom that if you catch a puck at a game that a an of league official will come and ask you to exchange that puck for another authentic one? Because they want that puck because

41:04it has the chip in it and they're probably expensive. I know the price of producing these pucks has gone up quite a bit. But I think that they just let you keep it. I thought I'd heard that. I've never caught a puck at a hockey game. I'm usually sitting up in the nosebleeds. But I thought I'd heard that it's somewhere along the line. But maybe that was just a tall tail. I think that's a tall tail because those pucks get beat up pretty quick. And then the other thing too is like game used pucks. You'll see on team websites and the NHL. They sell them. Well, I learned this when I went to Toronto. Do you really sell the bases? The bait. Oh, yeah. I knew that. I did not buy them on the concourse of the team store. Yes. I did know that. Like memorabilia game used equipment. Yeah, it's all there. I get it. There's tons of balls and the amount of baseballs they go through in a game is just borderline unbelievable. Because what you don't see on the TV broadcast when they rake the field in certain points in the game, like re-rake the

42:06shale. They replaced the bases. Yes. But I thought they would just like have two sets. And they pull one set out, come in. And if it's if it's damaged or replace it or you know extra sc� to but otherwise they just like clean it up a little bit, send it back out there for the next rotation. But it seems like they're pretty much going through like several sets every game. Yeah. And that's like pucks and hockey. It's crazy. I think they use like 20 pucks a game. Oh, I'd believe it. Maybe more. But listen, this is old information. But I think when they rolled out these chipped pucks six years ago, whatever it was, maybe even longer. I think the price to produce them went up to like, they're like 40 bucks each. That is insane. Yeah. But I mean, for the league, the league back in my day back in my day, Tom, I could head to Canadian tire and buy a bucket of pucks. Yes. 12 a dozen doesn't vulcanize rubber to take to the ODR and fire off in a snowbangs

43:07everywhere for like $10. Yep. Now they're like $3.99. Someone's telling me that's ridiculous. Oh, it's great. I went and was living in Fortes of Saskatchewan going to Nate. There was an ODR in the neighborhood and we would go there occasionally. I had to go buy some pucks and this is absolutely preposterous. There's too much. There's too much for pucks. It is. It's insane. But guess what? You pay it. Well, y'all. What's the man pucks? What's the man to do? You need pucks, man. I'm not as out there skating lines at the ODR man. I know my physio or my cardio, excuse me, could use some work. But you're a dangler. Got to get the touches on. You're a dangler. Oh, you'll see once we suit it for the critters, Tom. I, I ain't no dangler. I'm a grinder. You beat that thing into the square. I'm going out. Yeah. Pound it into a square as a, uh, geez. I could never remember who said Kevin used to use this line all the time. It was a quote from someone's like, the safest thing. I think it might have been Greg Pilling actually. He's like the safest thing out there was the puck. Great line from Pilling. He brought me a bucket a couple weeks ago. It's about Albert O'Hocky. I need to read it sitting on my counter ready to go. I just finished

44:12Brand Meyers book. Also a really good book. Very real, very raw. We should have Brandt on soon. He's a great guy is crushing it with his non-alcoholic beer called unhammered if you haven't tried it. And then his book is called Pain Killer. Highly recommend it. Jason, you get the last word in this segment. Jason says all that technology and they still get it wrong. So often. Jason, you nailed it, buddy. You nailed it. Quick breather. We'll be back with more here on the Gazola show right after this on Sports 1440. Hi, I'm Max Ruffton, the host of The Guardian football weekly. Alongside me Barry Glenn, Denning my co-host. Hey, Barry. Hello. Now, although every American founders during the World Cup for the two that didn't, what can they expect? Found us and fell in love with us, Max. They can expect three episodes each week of occasionally insightful analysis, covering the Premier League, Champions League and beyond. Football Weekly is back. Watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts. In a world where AI is changing every role and every

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47:21And I'm coaching the team right now with strutty. And I said, what the hell? He goes, yeah, man. So it went really well, but he's back and he'll be locked and loaded for tomorrow. Shlimmer in today. It's a short week, but a good week. And we're going to have a lot of fun. So by the way, I should add this. The Sports Central bike drive is happening right now. It started on the 7th. It runs to the 26th. And of course, Sports 1440. Proud to partner with Sports Central for their fourth annual bike drive. The September the goal is to get a thousand new or gently use bikes that need at, you know, most minor repairs so that the 25 volunteers over at the Sports Central bike shop can get those puppies up and running and have them ready to go by the spring. If you're wondering, Sports Central donates 350 to 500 bikes every month to deserving kids, ages four to 17, giving them a sense of freedom and independence, nothing like riding bikes, especially this time of year. They're going to be set up at locations throughout the city on Saturdays,

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49:30regard to the over price box over price box. That's right. Matt and LaDuke with the trip says the only time Brando is a dangler is when he fills in as a goalie and wears one on his mask. No, I don't have a dangler on my chin. My chin protector. My goal tenders helmet or mask if you prefer. I don't I had one. We had one on like the team helmet back when we were littler. Yeah, and it was just like, you know, rotating golees. I did not care for it. I was terrible. Plastic thing dangling around. Yeah, I wasn't eager either, but I really liked it. So I always wanted to do it. I think it's you don't see a ton of them anymore. With the goalies. I'm looking at highlights right now. They're showing hella bucky doesn't wear one. That's correct. Yeah, that is correct. Tyler D says dawn will be at 915 a.m. Is that in the winter time? Yeah. Yeah, because rather than we're not falling back, right? Yeah. What was our late eight o'clock-ish sun

50:34rises are now going to be nine o'clock sun rises. So forget about seeing the sun rise creeping over the rise. And as we currently are Tom and our drive in like it's at that point of the year. Yeah, it's it's not daylight when forget when we get up, not even when our drive in now. It's dark. It's you can you can just see the glow on the eastern horizon or west if you're asking spec. He's he's gotten confused about that. Well, at different times of our show's history. He's processing a lot of information all that was very true. Yeah. Josh Texas has BC has also ditched the time change. There are many studies on the negative impacts of the body with time changes and increases in traffic accidents, following a change. I'm all for ending the time change. It is one and only things Saskatchewan did better than Alberta. Interesting. And then Stephen Lenduk says, remember, 49.8% voted to change in 2021. I love all these people quoting reports they've never read or were unaware of until it became known in the news. That's what everyone does.

51:40Stephen Lenduk, that's like when someone says, well, I heard so and so wants a trade. And you go, well, where'd you hear that? Well, my girlfriend's brother's cousin went to so and so's house and the wife was there and he did the plumbing and he overheard her saying something. I was like, you get a lot of that. The hearsay. 1010 Ken says suck it up. It's already dark in the morning. Have an evening commute in daylight is far safer. How about just being a better driver? That's an issue. Tom, don't talk crazy. Yeah, I know. We're trying to keep things realistic here. What we, what we better driver, what we can't do is make everybody a better driver. What we can do is change the clocks or not change the clocks. I guess. And and then say it's going to make things safer. We change the clocks changing. Yes. This is one of those that I feel like

52:46we won't win any argument from any angle. No. It's just a talking point. And apparently a good one for seven o'clock hour on a Wednesday morning. Well, people are invested in this. It's getting a lot of traction. That's what I'm very surprised by this. We're getting a lot of texts about the daylight savings time. I'll peruse them and see if they're worthy of continuing as we move through this show. The first hour is I kept the first hour flew by. We got spec coming up shortly. We do have to step out for a sports 1440 update brought to you by first round. Try their new late night menu at their downtown location every day from 9 pm until close 499 house draft and high balls 399 tacos or sliders and many more great deals first round. Emotions NFL headquarters 399 tacos. The tacos there are big. They're filling and they're delicious. They have a great sauce on those tacos. That is a great deal. I'm going to have to check it out the downtown location. The late night menu. Here's Brando.

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